state legislation committee on the city lobbyist when transmitting the city official policy commissions to external bodies and agencies. >> i would like to pass this to supervisor peskin. >> commissioner peskin: this is a subject of great interest to the public. there are no members of the public here today. by way of background, we had a similar hearing to this in 2016 after we found out that an internal committee to the government here, the state legislation committee had been meeting without public notice or documenting their meetings, and that the member lay i son from the board of supervisors at that time was not representing the views of the entire board of supervisors. interestingly enough at around the same time, the board actually adopted a formal policy position on a budget trailer, the buy right bill, which the mayor, mayor lee at that time ultimately vetoed. it sparked my curiosity on how the city takes positions on state legislation. it reminded me we have a state lobbyist in the state capitol, paul yoder, who is here today. it started an interesting conversation at the boa

simply expelled from the city using. one part august betha they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later probably so that no one would ask what had been there before next . day and on the resulting square they built a church which is the noise. which is why it's called noise or new. plots. above the surface today there's nothing to see of those demolished houses but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at nine five plots took three years during which time archaeologists even found a gold treasure the documentation center doesn't have signs or a big mess on sen the structure can only be accessed on guided visits but don't let that scare you off it's really worth it. time to hop on over to the other side of the pond to meet our globe trotters steve hanus he's been visiting colombia's caribbean coast off we go. to start things off here in qatar you know we take part in a free to work to get an overview of your town and all the things he needs to see your. content was founded in fifteen thirt

one run by the city and the other by st. vincent depaul and if we expand that district, we have the navigation centre at dog patch. so again, i urge you, atonight a principle, acknowledge the burdens and spread those as evenly as you can throughout the city. thank you. >> johanna and i can't read the last name and then linda way. >> my name is johanna -- >> louder. >> i live in portside at 38, right across from the site where new navigation center is proposed. i would like to say that an incident which happened to me when i was coming home, actually going forke toward the bus from costco. i had to walk a block and two homeless people had their camp there. as i walked through the walkway, i huge dog just from nowhere came over, came out and attacked me. luckily i didn't fall down. i don't know what would have happen. i ran and that dog started to follow me, but the owner somehow contained it. i feel going through that incident, i feel -- i'm very concerned about my own safety when this navigation center is opened. not just me

lightfoot: the city of chicago has no risk management systems whatsoever. there's nobody full-time job to look at, mitigate, and identify the risk. things that i talked a lot about. 50-$60 million in police settlements, judgments and attorney's fees for which there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency. we have to do better, over the last seven years alone we've got into the bond market at our terrible credit rating and borrowed almost half a billion dollars. if that debt b isn't restructured, we're going to pay back 2-3 times the amount. that is an area we need to fix and solve. there are other ways i can i think we can make city government run more efficiently. i'm not talking about lay-offs. >> moderator: let's talk about one revenue thing, and ms. preckwinkle where are you going to find the money. >> ms. preckwinkle: i'm a big proponent -- the state shares revenue with cities towns and villages and we want the revenue raised as equitibly as possible. so i'm a big proponent of the graduated income tax. and my opponent would be in the highest category, a

that number yet nine people reportedly killed in christchurch in two when siddons set mosques in the city on the southern island of new zealand this friday during friday prayers as a gunman entering the main mosque in christchurch which was built in one thousand nine hundred eighty five the first mosque in scientific christchurch where hundreds were gathered for friday prayers and just shooting at people the gunman was reportedly and this has been confirmed wearing a helmet that had a camera on it and was streaming the shooting and this has appeared online on social media but we are of course not showing it to you here on al-jazeera the prime minister of new zealand just into our dean held a news conference a short while ago and she has described this as one of her country's daucus days. presently the police do have one suspect in custody however the could be others involved. all sorry there are multiple sings involved in this incident as well police will be giving more details as they can is the situation unfolds whilst i cannot give any confirmation at this stage around fatalities in ca

the city and the school district and the city college. so i've already spoken to the school district and city college. college, their commissioning trustees, and they all agreed they wanted to do this. the idea is we'll have regular meetings scheduled, and that there be to representatives from each of the entities to make up six members. and in addition to that, we have built in an alternative -- alternate -- for each of the entities because in the past there has been issues of getting a quorum if one person doesn't show up. and the purpose of this is to make sure that we have a way to communicate with the entities because, as you know, there is a lot of, i guess, interaction anyways that happens informally. and more recently, there has been exchange of funding for the city's funding certain things. so we want to make sure that there is some vehicle where we could formalize this. and the other piece is just to eliminate basically the federal -- the budget and finance select committee on federal policy changes that was created last year, i

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what about the lawn outside of city hall? there's a hall far larger -- (applause). >> -- then this proposed site. what about the old hospital? the old hospital is not currently in service and there's infrastructure there and currently no infrastructure on the lot. thank you. >> frank goodman and alice rogers. >> my name is frank goodman. i lived in the neighborhood for three years and i'm here today because based on what i've heard about the shelter, if this was there three years ago, i'm not sure i would have picked this neighborhood to live in. i have the same concerns everyone else does and i don't need to repeat those. but i gathered over 100 signatures from members of the greater hill community. neighborhoods take from a city and give to the neighborhood. we've given san francisco the highest concentration of new housing in the entire bay area. all of the us know the bay area needs housing. we've also built hundreds of units of bmr construction. we could walk outside and see the building that was built today with one-thir

as has been reported on april 8th, the city is to have an m.o.u. in place for transitioning the housing authority employees. it's 27 days from now. communication is key during this process. mayor breed's letter of march seventh, says that the city departments are to work closely with not only the municipal executives association but with the other unions as well to mitigate the impacts to the housing authority employees. however, we haven't been contacted by any of the city departments to discuss any transition plans. we need to partner with the city and developing a plan to assure continued employment of our employees of the housing authority. and we need to be able to show our members that the city is committed to their continued employment. the housing authority staff provide the only oversight that the city has to ensuring that public housing recipients continue to have long-term housing stability. our members and the staff at housing authority are dedicated, long-term employees and work with the san franciscoians on a daily basis to serve their

as the publicly owned electric utility in the city, the p.u.c. provides clean energy to city services and property, streetlights, redevelopment areas, waterfront sites and new development projects. the san francisco international airport is one of the power customers. of course, we operate the clean power s.f. program, our community choice aggregation. the slide illustrates those two services. the first are the electric services right now. so the first graphic on the slide shows how it is generated it is delivered to the statewide grid operated by the california system operator over city-owned transition lines. it is then carried into the city and to our customers through pg and the distribution wires and city-owned wires. and ultimately to the end user. the second program illustrated here is a clean power s.f. under the model, the city takes responsibility for sourcing the production of electricity from clean and renewable sources of generation. when this power is produced, it is delivered into the high-voltage grid, and distributed locally by pg

we were the first city to do this, and for many years the only city to do this. and we did it in the face of the federal government failing to do this, which i think speaks to history repeating itself now. but the people of san francisco adopted this, saying to the women and girls in our community, we see you, we respect you, and you deserve dignity. so i'm always proud to be a san franciscan when i think about that, so it is such a privilege to serve on the commission. march is my favorite month because it is women's history month, and it gives us a focus around highlighting women and really honoring these unsung heroins we which in our community every day. speaking of honoring heroines, i have the opportunity to introduce our mayor, mayor london breed. this is our first opportunity to celebrate her during women's history month. i wanted to say a couple of things about her. i've known the mayor for many years. before she became a supervisor, before she answered the call and really led us through a difficult time in this city, before she answered the call to leade

supplemental costs which the city is in litigation over. this chart really is kind of folding together a lot of the factors that ms. kirkpatrick talked about. the bottom line here is the growth in c.p.i. of inflation. it's about 3% a year. it really depends. on top of it, the red line is showing the city's per f.t.e. cost of compensation. it's growing guy as fast as inflation. mainly because of pension and health. also underlying wage increases. it's folding together all the things that the employer pays for. significantly, it's much more than wage increases. pension and health growing faster than inflation that really drives this. not necessarily unfamiliar to other jurisdictions. we've mentioned the city is negotiating with all the miscellaneous labor organizations. that's 28 agreements that will be effective on july 1st. that will depending on the outcome of the negotiations that could change our forecast. we've assumed as discussed just as a placeholder for planning purposes a number forecast c.p.i. for the bay area. any variance from th

we've designated numerous landmarks, in underrepresented parts of the city. we've had a major focus on cultural legacy and cultural history, and the setting up of the legacy business registry, which we feel is very important. one of the major roles of the historic preservation commissioner is a more technical one, and that is we approve alterations to landmarks. how do you balance necessity and historic preservation, because a lot of them have barriers to entry, and we're trying to make the city more accessible to people, and how do you deal with failing building materials? in my professional work -- i've been doing this for the last 30 years, i worked on the san francisco ferry building, the officers' club, and some major important buildings in the city. that experience, understanding how to balance all of these technical problems, is really valuable on the historic preservation committee. i'm very excited about some of the new issues coming up on h.c.v., and it's a really important item, not only in looking to protect landmarks that we don't know about or po

the city needs to put this in affordable homes, and they need to make this a priority for the city. >> okay. >> all right. that's excellent. are there other members of the council would would like to address our presenter? >> yes. the next council member that would like to speak is alex madrid. >> okay. >> thank you for the questions. i have a question about affordable accessible housing for people with disabilities, so my first question is that as you know -- [inaudible] >> -- and when you're talking about accessible access to housing, people with disability has a limited income and right now, we're talking about unaffordable. most people with disabilities cannot afford that. so can you discuss that or not? and second thing is i don't know if you're talking about focus group for people with disabilities, but i would suggest having this group a very diverse community when it comes to disability allies and people with disability. >> all right. go ahead. >> go ahead. >> the gauntlet has been thrown. thank you. so in terms of may i make sure i can reiterate the question. the concerns is

that is to be split between the city and the landlord, with the maximum cost to the city not to exceed $39,500. that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions you may have. >> chairwoman: thank you very much. let's hear from the b.l.a. >> yes. just to sort of to follow up on what mr. pannick had to say, we summarized the terms of this lease on page 20 of our report. the initial term is to 2024, the initial rent at $48 per square foot was considered to be a fair market value. cost to the city over the initial five-year term would be including the city's share of improvement costs would be about $3 million. i do want to clarify our recommendation because it is confusing. we are not recommending any amendments to the resolution itself. we considered the budget in the existing year. the budget for this lease is more than the actual lease cost. we're asking this committee to request the controller to return those funds to the fund balance at the end of the fiscal year. but we're not asking for an amendment. so we are recommending approval of the proposed resolution. >

my wife bikes in the city every day. when i heard the news about tess, my wife bikes that lane every day, and i wondered if it was my wife. and until i found out, i was terrified. we need the bike lanes. and we need enforcement. i biked here from bernell heights today, and there are six cars in the bike lane, two of which were turned off. we see it every day. you'll see photos of this every day. m.t.a. needs to do its job with enforcement. if we need s.f.p.d. to do it as well, please do it. >> chairman: thank you, var powerful. i appreciate you being here. >> laura josie. >> my name is laura josie, and i live in san francisco, and i, like his wife, use that bike lane every day. that is really hard to hear that news about tess. i thank you for your motion, but i urge you to implement a protected bike lane on the entire street, and the same is needed on fulsom, which i take almost every day. we need a network of safe bike lanes and not just patchwork. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> joe gurten, f

a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> the hon. london breed: how exciting is it to be here today? i know many of you are wondering why we chose this location of all locations. it's because this location is the backdrop of what will be future homes -- four to be expect, right, sam? >> yeah. >> the hon. london breed: four new opportunities for accessible homes that will be affordable to folks in san francisco. these garages and hundreds of spaces like them sit often empty and under utilized while our city continues to experience a housing crisis that is pushing low-income families out of our cities. this is why in 2014 we took the first step into converting these spaces into much needed housing. we saw some initial success, but as we all know, our bureaucratic system in san francisco got in the way, and it's often too complex and people find themselves struggling just to get through the initial permit application process, let alone the construction process. since 2014, over the course of around four years, only 377 units were approv

second in the city they are hunters. on the other side of berlin and the tear proxy to leon battle is looking for hedgehog nests he's a biologist at the lightness institute for a zoo and wildlife research. i want to home. when you go to make use of this tree trunk but he's not here at least. not in the third nest. hedgehogs go out at night and sleep all day but as we've just seen not always in the same place. and there are more hedgehogs in cities than in the country that's because our gardens and parks offer great natural habitats. the project he's working on has about how hedgehogs bats wars raccoons and other wild animals live in cities. not the ones in zuma enclosures but those living free. large it's in for one of our aims is to inform the public about the animals that might be living in their gardens and to encourage them to leave the creatures a little space and leave gaps in their fences so animals can come and go. that we can that's important if certain species are to survive what many people don't realize is tha

and the city and county of san francisco. so i would like to -- i don't know if this is a question for the budget analyst, but in many of these instances, we characterize these things as loans, knowing that they will never be paid back. so then, maybe why don't we just call it what it is and say that it's a grant and get rid of the fiction of it being a loan? and then, i'll get to my specifics about this one, which is there's a sea difference between when we do that with a nonprofit like the tenderloin neighborhood development clinic or c.c.d.c. than when we do it with the john stewart company, which is a for-profit company. so if we're giving a loan to a for-profit corporation, shouldn't we call it a loan and say it's not forgivable? those are my thoughts. >> so if i may address the first part of the question, i think it's a good one, and we can policy wonk out on this for quite a bit. in short, you'll probably notice over time when we do look back over those 35 years that the method of sending out the funds has changed over

i understand the city is for these navigation centers. i'm not going to challenge that, but i think when you evaluate the location, i think you have to cross-reference that with what the costs or challenges will be. i've seen nothing in the public record that that analysis has been made or if it were made, this site would be the least problematic site to house one of those locations. thank you. >> hello. my name is jean lions. i've lived in south beach for 20ers i can' 20 years. i want to talk about respect. two weeks ago i myself canvassed 18 businesses, none of them knew about it. i'm talking about safeway to walgreens to the american cheese company. we continue as neighbors to let both our other neighbors know as well as the businesses. to think that a 225 bed homeless shelter is going to be down in the embarcadero area, in the seawall area, that includes drug use, pet, partners, and the fact that it's going to be a magnet for other homeless encampments, to think that would not impact the quality of life for the residents there as well

the embarcadero sea wall, developing a city-wide resilience framework, i look across the many city departments and i'm constantly amazed and inspired by the creativity and intellectual fire power that my fellow city workers all bring to the job every day. and our ability, collectively, to work together to innovate cutting-edge policies and solutions. so especially in these times, when it is so misunderstood or under attack, i also want to express my deep appreciation to spur and their leadership and their celebration of good government. [applause] [cheering] >> and good governance, which means how it is that we all work together because we have a lot to share within our region, our state, our nation. so let's all keep leaning in, show what good governance looks and feels like, and it includes all of the wonderful people here tonight who are behind it, who love public service, and who have a passion for creating strong communities and a better world. thank you so much, spur. let's give it up for spur, too. [applause] [cheering] >> thank you very much, diane. you can tell why these five individu

dogs in the city. just. the last few of them but. she has implied that they can raise the back lunchboxes to the dogs. to be me. a little. but there's a big response of it. all started then we wouldn't stop it we couldn't stop it so. said yes to it. we have not given them. more than that maybe. by good. stead. so there are things that if these dogs are not full. because they are not so they realize that this is the best are we that you know the street dogs and humans can live live in harmony. now experts say that stray dogs try the indian cities because it's become easier to find food it looks like it's not to any different in germany either except it's white boards who wandered into the city's limits and often don't well back into the white german capital but now has a commissioner for wild animals and his primary job is to deescalate conflict between humans and the cities growing up in by life. a wild boar strolling through berlin. is a vice we're not deep in the forest but in a large park where thousands of people are out and abou

the meeting point to st nicholas church. city guide karen choiceless shows tourists the focal points of the events of autumn nine hundred eighty nine she knows what she's talking about because she took part in the monday demonstrations. during the one nine hundred eighty s. the monday prayers drew more and more people who no longer agreed with the social developments in this part of germany the communist east. in order to understand what happened back then the group heads for the form of contemporary history. that provides a comprehensive picture of the division and reunification of germany. the origins of the s.c.d. the ruling east german communist party. daily life and how the state owned enterprises operated. the fall of the berlin wall in one thousand nine hundred nine opened the way to freedom it also meant the loss of a home and earned identity topics the foreign consciously focus upon. it as being the. this is why it isn't called a museum but a forum. we wish to initiate discussion about this it's a great deficit that we d

the west side of the city. of the thousands of applicants from the west side, most were unhoused by the program. those that applied from my district were housed outside of my district. there were zero applicants able to use the neighborhood preference in district four because there was no project in their neighborhood. i wanted to make those points and maybe ask the question that is on a broader topic. if the affordable housing bond that is in the works passes, will money be dedicated to affordable housing projects in neighborhoods that have been under served, for example, in district four? >> i don't have the answer to that question. i am sure i can find out where things are going with the bond. i know that every dollar that we get goes towards serving as many people as we can. i wil will will take that back e information. >> since we are really starting to focus on small sites, buying buildings with small sites, and i am not sure how the money in the mayor's office of housing and community development is going

for cities that don't like the policy, it is not like the bill would impose anything on their city. if it got to governor newsome and governor newsome signed it. >> these are questions for mr. mic caffe, he is not here. the contract between the mayor's office and your company is that an annual contract, is there an r.f.p., is it bid out? >> it was rp originally. we emerged as the chosen firm. it was rped again, i believe. give me a second. i want to say 2017. i don't want to answer incorrectly. 2017. >> it is for a term of years, annual renewal. >> initial term and options to extend. >> who is that worth on an annual basis. >>> we have never changed the price in seven years. i owe it to my partners to note that. maybe i shouldn't have. moving on. it is 2

flow of tourism revenue into the city and confirms that living in venice is becoming increasingly difficult for its residents. oh yes they go there you know they displaced of course the residence of commendation. and there is very profitable to rented to use for the house. is the father know. that the buy a house invest the mean benes as an investment. so they just weren't going to us and this is when they can get an income which is. the perfect fit yeah which for your list. of. and you measure because your way here by car was really believe me you can move it to your preferred. he also tells me that much of the income on private accommodation is on the clad revenue that sorely needed in debt ridden city coffers . while you're just asked people will. give you need why is this so if there is a thing you know we don't need this so i can give you all would be to discount. it just to make sure i'm more than. fifty percent of the present about a year in venice. or ninety percent of the condition. is this the city's fault would

so i want to thank the city attorney for his leadership on this. know we're going to be announcing legislation at this afternoon's meeting. you've heard a lot of the data in terms of the change and shifts from winning people off tobacco to having more and more young people using tobacco and nicotine products. i want to say this, that ecigarettes have been targeting our young people with their colours and their flavours and enticing adolescentses and this is pulling them forked nicotine addiction. we have people addicted to nicotine who would never have smoked a cigarette had it not been for the attractive products that target our young people. so we can see and understand why it's so important to make sure that if things are not approved by the fda, if products have not been given the stamp of approval by the government, then we know they're not safe and until the fda does that, we have to make sure that these products are not sold in our stores here in san francisco. the city has already enacted ordinance 140-117 prohibiting retail establishments

the city moved quickly to protect the bike lanes where tess was killed but the city has all of the data it needs to predict where the next few cyclists would be killed. we aren't moving with that kind of speed because we're afraid taking street parking away from cars pu but cars can be parked n garages. i mentioned my son and i learned the other day that my wife is pregnant with another child. i when they get older, i want to feel safe for riding their bikes into the city. there's no reason the city can't be a safe place of people with all ages and abilities to get around. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> danny, drew and jeremy. >> good afternoon, danny saudr, i'm a resident of district three in north beach. from what we learned withi, tess the model biker and some tell us if we just bike in this lane, bike during this time of the day, if we wear this, then everything will be ok. tess did all of that. she met the impossible, unfair standard that we set for bicyclists in the city and the streets still took her away from us. so when we talk of standards, i ask y

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this would impact the city's ability to enter into such agreements to allow the city to place units under rent control. this is not a large number. i want to bring this to your attention to reduce open space requirements. the hope is with the reduced open space requirements it would encourage more a.d.u.s in single family homes. third recommendation is to historic reservation review in single family homes in historic resources. currencurrently it references te historic review. properties individually or in districts within article 10 and 11 buildings are included when reviewing a.d.u.s in single family homes. we recommend the projects will not be subject to subject of appropriateness or permit to alterren titlements. these should be captured in ordinance to clarify the a.d.u.s are ministerial. the review of a.d.u.s in single family homes in article 10 and 11 buildings will be delegated to family planning staff. they will review with objective architectural review standards. historic preservation commission reviewed and commented on these standards yesterday. staff will revise the standard

the good news is through the work of the city and advocates, s.f. has grown our shelter capacity to 2300 and our supportive housing units to 7700 with more in the pipeline. looking at the city's pipeline and shelter beds for 2020, we know that our bet case scenario is we -- best case scenario is we cut the waiting list in half and still have people waiting on the streets. in december 2018 california permanently adopted building standards for emergency standard response that approved emergency guidelines for emergency tiny home shelter cabins, insulated tents, allowing s.f. to lease public or private land to service organizations with a license agreement, insurance, and baseline state guidelines in order to develop and operate safe organized spaces, which is what was talked about jennifer and the coalition and is included in this definition. they operate in partnership with properties, neighbors and village residents and activate under utilized public and private land with license agreements, baseline health and safety standards, a built in process fo

environment and all the other city departments. we are all aligned with you and fully support this resolution. i think from the very large blue chunk of the pie chart that director raphael pointed out, that's why we're here. many elements of the city's multimodal transportation are vulnerable to sea level rise. we can't allow that to continue. we have to decrease emissions, and we won't be able to keep this city functioning in the future if we don't adapt our transportation system to the physical challenges that are coming with climate change. so thanks to our long-standing transit first policy, what we found as that san francisco reached its mode share goal with more than 52% of all trips to, from, and within san francisco using transit, bicycling, and walking. so this means that over half of the trips in the city are generating less than 2% of the emissions, so a very small piece of that pie chart. the muni system alone which is the greenest fleet in north america carries 26% of trips and is responsible for approximately 1% of our