>> you spent more time on the board of supervisorses than i did. you know it how long it may take to get 11 to agree. >> this is all academic unless it can happen by the 22nd and what do you need 48 hours of the public of the special meeting? >> commissioner, i am not certain on this. what i will say with absolute certainty if the measure donor disclosure is here. you have a majority co-sponsoring that and wanting to move on that quickly. there will be a desire to hold that meeting as soon as possible. >> i heard from the deputy city attorney we can't include that tonight. >> what we can do is amend that and continue it. they cannot approve it but they can continue to the next meeting which by the commissioner's motion would be a joint meeting between the ethics commission and board of supervisors for final action on that. >> mr. hepner, what is the support at the board of supervisors for this proposal. why are you rushing to have the commission approve it? >> the support for the account ability other dan nance. >> no, why are you coming here before

there is such a strong impetus at the board. you've got malia cohen talking about more disclosures at the retirement board, and you have jane kim doing on campaign finance, and those are two different parts of the spectrum on city hall, the press conference on behalf of the major donors things that peskin just did had the support of jeef sheehy, ajeff sheehy, and broad group. if the march 5th date is correct, but even if it's not, that you wait until you've had an opportunity, and also, it looks better to the public that you've taken an additional step after the coverage that was in the paper. thank you. >> charles marstellar for the record with foe. i've been counting votes for the record on the board. there are four votes on the peskin proposal as it stands, a likely fifth in the wings. she's reading the bill now. there have been substantial conversations with the mayor, so it certainly looks like, surprisingly, that there's a broad support on both spectrums of the board for the peskin measure, and in a way that i have not seen

the board by 8 out of 11. typically, the way this works is the board will propose something or ethics will propose something and it will go to board committee. the board committee if they do not agree or wants to amend what ethics proposed, the board committee will make amendments and continue it to the call of the chair typically. the clerk will send the ordinants to commission. the ethics commission may pass it. they may offer something else. it will come back to committee. it could be a back and forth. ultimately, both bodies need to pass the same ordinance. >> what would happen if we had a joint meeting of both parties? >> that is an interesting idea. as far as i know, that has never happened. i don't think there would be a legal problem with that happening with each body making its own separate vote on the proposed ordinance. >> we see that. we see joint meetings between the planning commission on shadow issues. the commission secretaries they have and they have the vote and then they raise the shadow limi

if the board cannot overturn the zoning administrator's decision, and then we request that the board recommend that the zoning administrator or planning director use the administrative discretion or by temporary order to allow us to proceed with the conditional use permit for the rh2 portion of the lot. so we can incorporate both parts -- >> i need you to wrap up. >> so we believe this is a unique situation that requires a common sense approach. there needs to be some flexibility in discretion in finding a workable solution. we live in the most innovative city in the world and it is not just the private sector but extends to the public government as well that we urge that the board and planning use some administrative flexibility to proceed with paid parking. without it we can't continue the way it is. and we have had break-ins. thank you for your time. >> commissioner, any comments or questions with ms. hayes? >> i had a question. where we left this is were you able to do any research into any documentation from the city? was there, as an example, the issue for the request of proposa

the next item the board policy for action. i would like to, if it's ok with my colleagues, move up the extracurricular and co-curricular activity item because we have a lot of speakers here that are students. and so if i can please have the superintendent or actually daniel to read the recommendation into the record for just the extracurricular and co-curricular and then we can have public comment and go on. >> so this item seeks the board approval of policy extracurricular and co-curricular activities. it limits them to those that have been central to the success of the activity. the policy also codfys much of the law, you cannot discriminate in allowing them to participate in activity. significantly, the rules committee suggested amendment from the rules committee, you will see in quotes on the page of this item, it is that unless specifically authorized by law, no student shall be charged a fee for his or her participation in educational activities and to ensure that all have access to educational extracurricular and co-curr

my appeal is within the jurisdiction of the board because it falls under the general mission of the board and because the san francisco business and tax regulation provides for such an appeal. my neighbors and i have tried and been did he any idea tenie opportunity -- >> clerk: excuse me. our screen is flickering. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> okay. go ahead. >> my neighbors and i have been denied the opportunity to participate in the public dialogue of a normal application to divide an existing lot. the issue before the board is not about my neighborhood. this is not mr. brown's first violation. he is a serial violator. in 2017, he acquired a home by master architect richard neutra and totally demolished it without a permit. i shudder to think what he has planned for 2017. the issue before the board is developer abuse and weak city enforcement. we all need to do our part to end the abuse. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. is there any other general public comment? seeing none, then, we'll move onto item 2, commissioner items and questions. anything, commissioners? >> no. >> and item th

the board voted unanimously. our charter stated that cac would grow from 256 students to our current enrollment of 440 students. and each year since then using the prop 39 process, creative arts has very clearly communicated to the district that we are simply running out of space. as the district has not offered additional space to us, we have been actively and creatively looking at ways we can stay at the golden gate campus as we are proud to be part of the western addition community. over the last few years we partnered with the district to explore the possibility of expanding our current site. after multiple meetings with various people, we came to the conclusion that expansion would be possible if creative arts could secure the funds, and we have done exactly that. we have applied for and are on the cusp of approving a total of $14 million. we qualify for 7 million in funds from the state, with a matching loan of 7 million that we creative arts would take on. as part of this process, we were assured a commitme

the board. i mean, there's all these different commissions, i was aware there were ongoing deliberations but not until a couple weeks ago, oh, it arrived at the board of supervisors. it didn't get a file number until early last month. i just wanted to put that on the record. i was going back through the conversation we had about you said the million dollar threshold is in there. it's not how i read it. if financial interest modifies the definition of land use matter, the way it reads it says financial interest shall mean an ownership interest of at least 10% or a million dollars. so the way that's written, if i have a financial ownership interest of more than 10% but i do a $5,000 project, it covers me. that's not what you want to do. i mean, i hope that's not what you want to do. i think it's just bad drafting. but -- i don't think you want toi implicate the $5,000 projec. you want to implicate the million dollar project but there is no dollar threshold and i see the deputy city attorney saying

who is also on the retirement board. thank you both. i want to acknowledge sophie maxwell for her long time work to protect at-risk communities from polluting power plants and i want to thank labor. the members of sciu 10-1 and 350.org for your advocacy and staying on top of the issue and members of the commission of the environment for ongoing advocacy on this measure. san francisco has always been a national and global trail blazer for environmental practices. we have reduced greenhouse gas emissions 28% below 1990 levels, cleaning our air while our population was growing and our economy was booming. we have launched our clean power program, clean power sf, the single most important thing we can do to combat climate change and i was proud to lead that initiative here on the board of supervisors. with the enrollment of clean power sf, we're well on our way to achieving the 50% renewable target by 2020 and 100% by 2030. goals that even outpace the ambitious goals set by the state of california. and we're providing reliabl

already before the board. superintendent mr. reid tonight. >> thank you, vice president. and everyone has gathered by now. standing in for dr. matthews on one of the rare occasions he is out of town for an educational conference. with the vice president and myself. good evening, everyone. i would like to begin this evening by acknowledging that it is february, which is black history month. during this month, we celebrate the rich history of african americans in the city and in the country. this month, the students will participate in meeting challenges, they will read as many books by african-american authors as they can. they will create art and host events at their school to honour historical african-american figures. although, we celebrate this month with a host of events and activities, our students don't just learn about the history and contributions of african americans in february. as you may have read in dr. matthews' column, he stated that teachers incorporate african-american history into curriculum a

what the current status of the ordinance is at the board, yesterday, the file was duplicated, so there are now two files that are pending before the budget and finance committee. the first one is being called the ethics version, and that's essentially what is attached here as attachment one. that's the version you approved in november with the amendment. the other version, which is being called the committee version, has certain amendmented that were proposed by supervisor's peskin and tang. some of those overlap with staff's proposed amendments, some are the same. some are different, and they go further, and we can go over that, but not in this presentation. and then, also, the committee version of the acao does have supervisor peskin's major donor financial disclosures piece. that has been amended into the committee version of the acao. so before i go through the changes that are in the new staff's recommended amended version, i'll just mention that our recommendation due today is to accept this amended version, to vote to approve those changes, and additionally, to vote to place thi

so we are back in open session, this is the board of directors meeting of february 8th, 2018. the announcement of closed session, there is nothing to report and that does conclude the agenda for today. >> chair nuru: thank you, our meeting is adjourned. ♪ >> welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. i'm going to first start with a roll call, and commission-- [ roll call. ] >> and so everyone is present, and i'd like to congratulate commissioner lee. she has been reappointed to a full term by mayor farrell. great to have you continuing to be with us. so let ' -- keal ae start with public comment on matte -- we'll start with public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. come up, ma'am. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for serving our city. my name is ellen lee zhou. that's e-l-l-e-n l-e-e z-h-o-u. i represent public workers in seiu. i brought five public workers who experienced retaliation and skram nation to ethics commission between april 2017 to june 2017. we made initial interviews and provide a lot of

breed is committed to this and president of the board. she ought to be able to get enough votes to get it passed. the other matter is a question. why is the controller involved in whistleblower complaints? anybody give me the rationale? >> the charter designates the controller office with the authority to run the whistleblower hot line that is how it is set up. >> what is the rationale? >> i can't speak to that. it is versus 311 or the ethics commission. >> or the ethics commission. or the city attorney. >> my understanding from the whistleblower director because of the controller expertise in financial matters. most complaints allege fraud and waste of city resources in contracts or different financial capacities. their auditors have a special expertise. thathat is the rationale i have been given. >> that is a weak rationale why can't the city attorney do that or the ethics commission do that? >> but does the ethics commission have jurisdiction on those items that the control lawyer is deemed -- controller is deemed to be most knowledgeab

and welcome to the board of supervisors. applause] >> thank you. >> colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from november 6, 2017. 2018 land use and transportation committee -- excuse me, november 6, 2017 land use and transportation committee. is that -- accurate? ok. thank you. there are no minutes today. madame clerk, let's go to the consent agenda. >> thank you, madame president. items one through 12 are on consent. these items are considered to be routine. >> seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk on the item, please call the roll. >> on items one through 12 -- [roll call] there are 11ayes. >> those items are approved unanimously. madame clerk, let's go to the next item. >> item number 13 is a charter amendment first draft to amends the charter of the city and county of san francisco to provide that appointed members of boards and commissions under the charter forfeit their offices upon filing a declaration of candidacy for state or local elective office at an election to be held on june 5, 2018. >> thank you.

to introduce to the board. i would like to clarify that for the record that it's a warm welcome and a duty and a privilege to introduce the incoming executive director. also, as i did review the minutes, i failed to include recognition of the work that had been provided by the department of human resources during the executive director's search. and i particularly call out the fine coop rage we had fro -- cooperation from the director, nicky callahan and two members of her staff that were assigned to work with us. christina brussa and shaunda akita. they provided a lot of staff and meetings and assisting the executive search firm during a various active ways during the process. i do thank them all for their hard work during that process. also in the minutes, there is a section regarding the discussion of the doctors, and i would like to highlight that commissioner fallensby will be talking directly to the medical director of best doctors, and we are hoping that those meetings will happen prior to our march meeti

to try to address that concern that the board has raised, are we at the right mix? we believe we are. now we'll dive deeper. how do we break down the 1.8 million square feet? 55% of it is leased for office uses. 45% is leased for other types of use. that could everything from supportive housing, ground leases and building leases, clinic uses, other special public uses. so less than half of the office use leases lie in the civic center, so we're drilling down from the overall portfolio to the office portfolio. and now we're going to take a deep dive into the civic center where the heart and bulk of our offi office leasing takes place. how do we define civic centre? this is a map we felt best depicted our assets in the civic center that revolve around city hall as the point of government. and those units that need proximity to city hall need to be within this radius. beyond this radius doesn't feel or act like it's in civic center. that's a sense of how we defined it. so now let's take a look at a snapshot today and how we're moving this portfolio in the future. how d

there's no further business for the board tonight. brian larkin. brendan mcnulty alexander tonisson. >> okay. at this point i would like to adjourn this meeting momentarily in observe the service and county that mayor lee gave for the city and council. >> we'll resume the meeting. this meeting is now in session. >> item two, opportunity for the public to comment on any matters

under the board's direction, we came up with a design to expand a ground floor instead. and that's when you rejected the appeal back then. so after 2017 designing the new project, after heavy scrutiny by the building department, they approved it. i feel they vetted out any possible issues. i also contacted the mcateer's numerous times during 2017 and they did not reply. it was very slow reply. i even had harvey go to their house and spend time to review to explain the project which they came to understanding and they still appealed the project. thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> president honda: thank you. >> the original building permit was submitted in 2015. there was neighborhood notice conducted in july. august of 2015, and then the associated rear yard variance was granted in march of 2016. that variance decision was appealed to the board. the board of appeals held a hearing in november of 2016 which was a de nova hearing. you took the appeal and made some amendments to the variance decision. i'll just read those quickly. one is that reconstruction of the exi

. >> the board has held joint meetings with the commission years ago. it is definitely something you could do. >> i would like to put that out there, particularly insofar as there -- i don't mean to point fingers at anybody. there is back sliding with regard to my desire that this not be put on the june ballot by the ethics commission by the vote. we have the negotiation. the last little bit of information i heard in my office with mr. ford was that they wanted to put it on the ballot tomorrow. which means this that they have a handful of dates to take it off. that is the wrong path. i would offer if the president is willing and in the spirit of the amendments that are made by commissioner tang and the ones i am about to make to offer the concept of a joint meeting to see if we can get it done quickly and as i said at the last meeting, get it done right. again, not to sound like i am picking on anybody, but staff at the ethics commission is holding new staff. it is relatively new. you gentlemen are relatively new. the reality is, you guys have been work