i understand that the board cannot amend the contract, but the board should be able to amend the resolution authorizing the contract, shouldn't we? >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the resolution effectively is the document that approves the contract. so, the board could amend the resolution to reflect what is in the contract certainly. i don't believe the issues that the board is discussing right now, the wraps, the digital media, are even mentioned in the resolution itself. >> my point is this. could the board amend this resolution to approve the contract with the understanding that the approval is contingent upon certain terms being in there, like including making sure that the number of buses remains at 15? couldn't the board do that? >> the board can only vote up or down on the contract that the mta offers to it. >> the board providing sort of the authority for the mta to enter into a type of contract, right? is there something that prevents the board from doing that? >> if the mta comes to you and says, here's the contract we have with the conditions that you gave, you can approve

i do want to talk about the boards rules in terms of the appellants request for a rehearing. on december 11th this board heard hours and hours of testimony and closed the hearing. in january we were only supposed to have a hearing on the fbltd to match the deliberations. the board came to its decision and that's how the appellants come port themselves they've applied themselves only to the findings that marched the deliberations. instead the project sponsor enrolling submitted new material on the merits claiming under the housing accountability act that some awful error of law was about to be made and the board feel for that. the project sponsor attorney assisting using that look at exhibit a all right. you're going that as marketing material the new hammer for developers that happens to be thirty years old and decided 7 cases none of which are applicable here. it's our opinion this is in excess of the jurisdiction and the denial of the public a fair process under the boards rules when the board accepted this new topic that no one had heard of before or discussed before or saw

good evening and welcome to the wednesday, may 7, 2014, meeting of san francisco board of appeals we have daurl honda and our vice president will be absent this evening to my left is a deputy city attorney and at the controls is the boards legal process clerk. i'm king cynthia goldstein we're joined by representatives scott sanchez is representing the particular time planning department and planning commission and the building inspector representing building inspectors the board where these requests you turn off on prvk. appellants and permit holder each have 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal people must be of must include there's comments within the period and please speak into the end of the microphone to uh-huh. >> the board buried asked but not required to present a speaker card the board welcomes our cards and suggestion there are customer satisfaction forms the boards scheduled if you need to speak to the board or call to find out the scheduled. this meeting is broadcast live observe sfgovtv cable channel 78 and rebroadcasting on xaenl 26 dvds are availa

actually, the board of trustees of the community college board and the school district, the opponents will not be made by the mayor, but they will select their colleague who will serve until the next scheduled election. ~ appointed that will be the only difference between those bodies and the city offices will be that they will be special elections for vacancies to fill vacancies for the city-wide offices. the special election for city osvs will be held within 120 days. in the event that the vacancy occurred within 105 days of our regularly scheduled election, the special election could be consolidated with that election to reduce costs. what happens during a vacancy? for vacancies on the board of supervisors, the clerk of the board would designate staff to keep the district office open and respond to concerns from constituents. staff will be -- would have to keep the office open for at least 20 hours a week. if the mayor's office became vacant, the president of the board would serve as acting mayor until the special election is held. in another city-wide office, if another city-wide

to come back to the board with the same nominee and ask -- urge the board to confirm that nominee, or to come back to the board with a different nominee or a different list of names that the sunshine ordinance suggested is an option. >> my understanding is the intent of the ordinance was to ensure that there were representatives of certain communities and in this case, you know, you're talking about journalist, you're talking about the league of women voters. and since the board is not moving forward on those appointments as has been the case before, could there be a finding of violation of the board for failing to meet that requirement? that's just one question that i had. >> ultimately the board has discretion in its, in its appointment. and as with many different types of advisory bodies in the city, there are various qualifications for different seats. the board sometimes has trouble finding people who meet those qualifications or have [speaker not understood] for a while, and other times the board simply does not choose to confirm or appoint the people who have applied at the rul

i'm the "x" president of the club and now part of the board of directors. the club members are concerned, you know, they oppose the building, of course, but we're just concerned about the historical preservation of the building it's been around a long time nobody's contacted me besides what's happening. the boring or the just a second hammering. you know, we also have a children's music school driver's license and nobody is gotten ahold of them we're concerned about the building and the club itself the building is so large it could be the end of the club. thank you for your time >> you state your name for the record. >> you should be aware in the community they have to provide a liaison. >> dollars activity we have photos of, you know, we're not contacted and, you know, we're just going to - we're being left out. >> did they talk to your orientation of putting a monument on the top of your building to survey. >> we have not heard anything we've not seen anything in writing nobody's contacted this manager i'm not responsible for the day to day activities at t

the agenda, we will ask mr. riskin. >> item 6. new and unfinished business by board members. >> thank you, with the launch of the on-streetcar sharing pilot program, i have heard from people in san francisco interested in one-way car sharing. and we touched on it and i would like with member consent that staff bring us a report for the option of one-car sharing, and the more i have learned about it and have seen it in action in seattle, another way i think it could be possible and i would like this new to san francisco car sharing option. >> thank you, if you come back to the board with the report. >> can we ask for an update from the taxi division on what is going on with the data we are recovering to look at that dispatch? >> okay, thank you. okay. >> item 7, director's report. >> good afternoon mr. chairman and members of the board and staff and the public and is the sea of blue. we will do the special recognition and put off the rest. but welcome to all of you for being here. for special recognition, first from finance and information technology division, i want

my understanding is this would go through the board process. depending how many votes it gets, the mayor's approval or not approval, that would be the [speaker not understood]. it would still have to come bag before any program is launched. [speaker not understood]. it would go through the board and the sfpuc would have to at that point both agree to do -- moving a program forward if we were to go down this model. but the feasibility study would give us an idea of what it would take to actually do that. >> um-hm. and so, then, in terms of the marin side, was there any sort of approval that has to take place on their part for us to be able to do the feasibility study? >> i would yield to the representative from marin to answer that part. >> our board has not yet set policy for how we might expand to community the size of san francisco. we do have policy and a process set for communities that are within 30 miles of our jurisdiction and have a customer base of 40,000 or less. and we have a couple of pending [speaker not understood] from surrounding

thank you to the board of supervisors. thank you, peter lauder born who is legislative aide to eric mar, dear friend, colleague and honorary brother championing the work i've been doing the fast 4-1/2 years in san francisco. youth empowerment family, thank you so much for being here and most, most, most importantly hopefully the hundreds of youth that i've worked with [speaker not understood]. i want to thank them for the opportunity to work with them and for the [speaker not understood] they're doing for our beloved san francisco. so, thank you so much. (applause) >> i have the honor of making the next presentation. colleague, we all have amazing neighborhood activists within our districts who stand out, who are selfless, who serve the community and we all have our favorite neighborhood leaders among that, and at the risk of really single and calling out these two individuals i'd like to invite ron case and carolyn nest up to the podium. ron and carolyn are the founders of royal polk neighbors and these two individuals sha

president, members of the board. ame is margo bradish from [speaker not understood] on behalf of the applicant. i don't want to take up any of your appreciate you time on this item this after. we defer to the very thorough presentation by staff. we concur with their recommendation and are available to answer any questions. ~ precious >> okay. let me ask if there are any members of the public who wish to speak in support of the real party in interest. if you folks could please line up on the right-hand side of the chamber so we don't have two lines. thank you. let's hear from the first speaker. >>> good afternoon, president chiu and distinguished supervisors. my name is a.j. annapolis and we are all here today to urge you to continue to support the mexican museum mixed use residential and museum project. we also urge you to vote down the two appeals that have been brought by the four seasons residential association. the appeals are without merit. the first division map enables the successor agency to transfer a parcel

and by the time that meeting is over, those recommendations will go on to the full board? >> commissioner, my honest answer is we don't completely know, but i suspect that there would at least be some preparation going into the committee meeting or the committee deliberations about these measures. if there's an interest on the part of the board or community members or the mayor, i mean -- i suspect that some work -- it would only behoove the stakeholders who have an interest in seeing some of the language change versus what was introduced on april 29 to go through the task of identifying some specific edits or mark ups to propose at the committee whenever it takes place. >> and then as a part of our preparation process for input, it is along the lines of what you're informing us here and then the possible changes. they are -- this is an ongoing conversation but the last large bull et point regarding withdraws in your presentation, that is on ongoing conversation, or you're here to get the temperature of the board? these are concrete changes we'd like to see and like you to

welcome to the san francisco board of appeals at the control is the boards legal assistant and our legal clerk i'm cynthia gold at the scene we're joined by the representatives for the board corey is the assistant zoning administer and rep the planning commission and planning department he's joined by joseph duffey representing the board of senior inspectors. at this point please go over is board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board requests you turn off all electronic devises the rules the permittees and public has 7 minutes for cases and 7 minutes for reasonable doubt. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have 3 minutes but no rubbles and to sought the board the member of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked not required to submit is a speaker card they're on the left side of the presumed there are customer satisfaction survey forms phenomenon the left side of the podium if you have questions please speak to the board staff during the break or call the board office tomorrow morning it's on mission street room three to four.

any items severed by the board of superintendents for discussion of vote. seeing none, the roll call vote will take place under section o. item 8, it is a recommendation for amending board of education updated current version to include changes and additional language. this is already heard in committee on april 16 and was given a positive recommendation from the committee. reading of the resolution by the superintendent is [inaudible]. >> yes. >> great. >> thank you very much. good evening superintendent and commissioners. i am donna, and it's my pleasure to read this action, this resolution, number 144-22, superintendent's proposal number 1. i want to give a big shout out to the sac for helping to present in april to the rules committee as well as to the board. so thank you very much. this is the recommendation for amending board of education policy on the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs to update its current version to include change and additional language. and the requested action is that the board of education of the san francisco unified schoo

. >>> kerry brockton, member of the board of league of women voters. m speaking now as a citizen of san francisco. i've also spoken quite a bit about maintaining diversity in san francisco and in our city government. the charter also encourages this as well as the best government practices. what i have observed today in sitting through this particular rules committee agenda item is that out of the 13 candidates for the 11 seats you have 10 candidates who are white male. i know diversity is lacking in the city of san francisco now, but i don't think we've come to that. where our task force would be predominantly white men. while there is some representation of the lgbt community and only one candidate who would represent the disabled community, i strongly encourage you to continue outreach for this task force into all the communities so that we have a broad spectrum of asian representatives, of african-american as well as latino participants in the sunshine task force. i think it's essential that we make sure that the beautiful pro sake of our city is re

so, the board can't be amending the contract. i understand from mr. reiskin that he is interested in hearing the will of the board and would come in with potentially some contract amendments that the board could consider and go up or down. >> is that something will reiskin could articulate today and a commitment to the board so we can make a decision on this? is that the process or are you suggesting it needs to be written contract amendments? >> mr. reiskin could come to the board today and say, here is the contract that we have essentially negotiated with the other party that we are proposing to the board to approve, and the board could approve that today. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. mr. reiskin, what would this mean in terms of the difference in what we can potentially walk away with financially from this particular contract if we were to amend it? >> i want to ask gail stein, our contract manager, to give you that detail. >> gail stein from the mta. as long as there are 15 wraps in the contract, the contract will pay us $325,000 for each ye

my items for first responder by the board seeing none. my items severed >> wait, wait, wait. >> we moved the items and oh, i did. >> do we have any other corrections? >> okay. so mr. steely thought deputy superintendant withdraw them. >> i have a correction to the consent calendar. >> all right. so the corrections are two, 145 detach k on page 46 at the top of the page correction the national black anthem amendment to read 14540 and also one hundred 45 on packages 62 and 63 this resolution is being withdrawn. >> thank you, mr. steel i believe that commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i have a couple of items to sever k one, k-12 and k 13 i don't need staff to stay i think it deputy superintendent can answer my question. >> my oh. my items severed by the superintendant is vote that's all great. roll call vote there the section. item h this is been moved and seconded on may 13th may i have a reading of the resolution >> commissioners we have deborah library we have our chief affidavit golden. >> good evening. i'm david golden the chief officer

of the board of education say to us. when your negotiators tell us that there are 179 members of our members deserve a 7 percent raise, but nobody else, what in the hell do your negotiators doing telling us what kind of a raise. do we go into your negotiators should make how much money and why? we may have good thoughts about that and good evidence about it, but we don't go and do that kind of thing to you. today's experience at the board across the table was absolutely insulting, frustrating and it made people angry. and you know when people are angry, they want to lash out and do things. we are trying to live within the constraints of the collective bargaining process. as lock as as long as it is not important to you, it will become less important to us. please consider your priorities and how you want it to go forward. thank you. >> hi, i'm a very strong supporter of public education. not only am i a parent of two children in sfusd for 12 years, i am also a teaching artist and teaches on grants and the sfusd public mid

i wanted to invite the to staff and the director to the board of supervisors budgets committee meeting on thursday at the toujs that is a call to action with disabilities concluding people with hiv and aids we need free muni today, we don't need to wait for a november election before we get justice so thank you >> thank you, mr. gris well. seeing none, public comment is closed ms. chang any other business before us >> no other business. >> thank you, everyone this meeting is >> good afternoon. everyone welcome to the san francisco transportation authority finance committee for tuesday, may 13, 2014. my name is mark farrell i'm joined by supervisor chiu and supervisor tang and we'll be joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen. madam clerk, any announcements?. no amendments okay. would we have roll call >> supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen absent. supervisor farrell. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. absent. we have quorum >> okay could we call item 2. >> the second item is the consent calendar items 2 to 3 are considered routine are considered routine all matters listed hereun

and then finally when the committee work has been done at the board of supervisors, the full board has to submit charter amendments to direction of elections by july 25. that's just the overall process for these three pieces of legislation. and if i can transition to the rainy day reserve and just have three slides about this. i think all the commissioners are familiar with this, that in the course of developing the proposal to extent peef, and the city and district and leaders of the city and the district have been discussing some possible win-win improvements to the rainy day reserve, but those would need to be made through a charter amendment which would require a voter approval. the process for that is because this is not a component that's related to any legislation that's been introduced, then additional legislation would need to be introduced by the mayor or supervisor, and that would need to happen by next tuesday. if it is introduced, then by the city's process, that language could be incorporated into a single ballot measure, along with peef and perhaps children's fund and th

adds and for the bus wraps is going to be inconsequential to the board of supervisors. so me it's going to be a wash i'll vote against send it to the full board but we'll see what happens >> supervisor mar. >> yeah. i thank you. i want to add mr. reiskin i know how difficult it is to balance the budget and i i despise wrap adds i think my predecessor in district one shares some of the similar views is supervisor avalos experienced but like supervisor breed i'm willing to have give and takes. i've appreciative that the digital tufrz will be pulled and from my understanding and i wanted to ask you this 15 adds at any one time increased from 15 to thirty with the director of transportation. are you willing to adjust that back down to 15 like i said the other conversations given me the idea their flexibility can you respond >> thank you supervisor mar. through the chair i guess my preference would be that we advance the contract as currently negotiated whether or not recommendation and if there's a desire from the phone bill to make either one of those changes, you know, ide

the retirement board understands that we are a $19 billion fund. and we always had a model of all of our investment recommendations were consultant driven. and over the years we have had to build staff to support the implementation of certain programs. the retirement board understands now that it's more important for them to invest in a more staff driven. having staff doing the heavy lifting, and have a consultant there in a secondary role. you are absolutely correct. this is not going to happen, there is not a matching offset for the consultant fees until we have the staff to do the heavy lifting. we anticipate over time as staff is built and becomes more engrained in the process. and the model now is that there is a part of the budget that the board of supervisors doesn't see. but we have had increases in our travel expenses. because now staff members are expected to be out of the office. visiting their managers, and doing the due diligence probably 10 days out of every month. that was not the model and relied on consultants do that, and to answer

the district in this district and the board have seriously lost their way. you need to have budget priorities that focus on the classroom. any money spent outside the classroom is misappropriated. the bloat in this building alone is sucking the life blood of this school district, sucking money away from our children, it's the pet projects, the extraneous programs that are frankly prioritized by this board that are parasitic on the schools. we're funded to teach this district, but our schools are closing, our class sizes are high, our educators are leaving. imagine a district with no students or teachers. the governors today said there was more money coming to the schools. the school district should spend it in the schools, in the classrooms, prioritize what we do, pay the educators, pay the teachers. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, my name is darcy, i'm a first grade teacher at share dan elementary school. i'm trained and constantly urged to meet the needs of my students and i try to do that everyday. takes about 12 hours a day to do it. i may be naive