and i think many would do fine on the commission. i think sally has some characteristics that make her even more desirable for the job. her academic training provided her with the skills and the discipline to really research issues and she does. she spends as much time as it takes to really understand all issues and to come up with proactive valuable and effective solutions. the animal welfare community is passionate, sometimes heated in its discussions. we're all speaking for those who can't voice for themselves and sometimes we have different opinions on how to best proceed. i have never -- in 15 years of my own grass roots political advocacy work, i have never seen anyone as effective as sally is at networking with diverse factions dine verse ideas, modifying her own plans as a result of new information and the value of that on a commission where you're representing hundreds of thousands of people, cannot be overstated. to quote another speaker on same lar hearing from a while back, she said, when it comes it these kinds of commiss

so they completely overhauled the commission. can you talk to me for a minute about some of the expanded duties and responsibilities of the chairmen under that reorganization in 1980? >> under section 2, it assigns the chairman responsibility for all functions serving as the spokesman, the principal executive officer, responsible for developing policy planning and guidance. it also assigns some responsibility for the function of the commission, distribution of business and per person -- preparation. and the distribution of funds. on the -- the chairman determines the use of funds in accordance with the distribution of appropriate funds. clearly he has some unique response abilities that are different than those of other commissioners. >> see as additional. -- he has additional duties. and, to say that what may or may not have happened in this situation is illegal, is probably inaccurate. is that correct? >> yes. >> mr. chairman, i would like to make a suggestion. we had a very informative trip last week where we looked at nuclear

staff and the commission to better align the arts dollars. as a staff, we've been working for the past several months to develop guiding principles that would realize how the arts and richmond dollars get better spent. the criteria and principals are listed on this slide. the artwork, would have a nexus to the p.u.c. functions. the second principle is around making in alignment with our community benefits policy. that policy looks for us to be a good neighbor in places. we would love to see the arts in richmond dollars be aligned with that. the third area is we're able to focus in geographic areas where we're having impact. whether it is the southeast waste water treatment facility, or the work happening in alameda, there's a lot of areas we are having an impact. the last two principles -- leveraging and developing partnerships with other city agencies. we've been in conversation with efforts in district 10 around the mayor's office of housing, or the redevelopment agency, to look for opportunities to put arts enrichment dollars in place with

waggoner for the police commission. it was a very difficult decision for me because i'm highly, highly impressed by all of the applicants that we have today. and look forward to working with you in the future. supervisors? >> i would like to echo supervisor kim in saying thank you to everyone. this is one of those commissions where we're blessed with the type of applicants that we get. mr. waggoner, mr. turman, mr. hogan and miss jackson, thank you for coming out and speaking. it also seems to be one of those commissions, bigger ones here, where we have a lot of public comment. i appreciate everyone who came out to speak on behalf of the multiple candidates. i'm impressed with everyone's background. but among all of them, i think specifically the comments that came not only from the candidates but also the people that spoke in favor of them, for me i will be very proudly supporting mr. turman today and would be, you know, would certainly make a motion but if mr. -- supervisor elsbernd wants to speak first, i will be happ

after the commission approved it, we approved the subdivision. the subdivision was appealed to the board of supervisors. the board of supervisors unanimously upheld the subdivision. building permit was subsequently issued an appeal to the board of appeals. it was scheduled at the beginning of january. a few days prior to the appeal, the ceqa appeal was filed and heard by the board of supervisors in march. that was unanimously upheld by the board of supervisors. so we went to the hearing last night at the board of appeals, and they unanimously upheld the commission's decision, said that is where we are with that project. i think most of the appeal options are exhausted at this point, although they can request a re-hearing within five days. the final item is a very it's decision that i heard earlier this year. it was a lot line adjustment, not a subdivision. it is a unique situation where we had two single-family dwellings, and two small lots, and they actually straddle the property line. so what this project did was to make it such that each of th

that is really important in the, -- in the police commission. it is about being able to trust enough to dial the 911 call and to call the people into serving a community. julius knows the intricate intersections between health and public safety. he believes in providing the importance strategies and looking at prevention rather than reactions. [chime] julia's it would definitely take that job seriously. supervisor kim: thank you for being here. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john aitken. i first met julius in 2001, but we have been life partners for the last three years. i am here to talk about what i know of him as a man. he has a kind and generous spirit. he is eager to find solutions to problems. and he does this with care and intelligence. he serves on a host of community organizations, including the human rights organization, as former supervisor dufty had mentioned earlier. i am so proud of his commitment to the community. it inspires me and others to do more for our community and for our civic responsibilities. supervisor kim:

on the library commission, there are questions of the relationship between the library commission and the friends of the san francisco public library. laughter, the friends of the public library took -- last year, the friends of the public library took in $5.1 million, and you cannot get the library commission to say how much of that made it to the library in kind or in cash. basically, they are derelict in their duty to provide oversight to the library, and that results in these hearings were we do not know what is being considered. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, the item is closed. any objections? the motion is for. madam clerk, please call item no. two. >> item two, appointments to consider appointing three members, terms ending april 29, 2015, to the children and families first commission. supervisor kim: i see the applicants in here today. linda asado is on vacation and could not change her plans. first, we have anda kuo, then lynn merz. >> hi. i just want to make sure i understand. to talk about -- supervisor kim: just spent two minute

the subject jurisdiction of the commission. with respect to agenda items, members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes at the time of such item is called. is there anyone in the audience who would like to participate in public comment? seeing none, i will go to item two, approved the minutes of may 24, 2011. >> i move to continue. >> i second. >> i think i have to do a proper vote. commissioner meko: aye. vice chair joseph: aye. commissioner cavellini: aye. commissioner benetti: aye. president newlin: aye. item three, the report of the executive director. ms. king? >> good evening. seems like it has been a long time since we have been together. [laughter] sorry. i am going to get serious now. the report is in your package. it is fairly short. the legislative and policy update for this evening is simply that the limited live performance legislation that i have talked about a couple of times now has been fast track. an update from the last meeting is that due to the board of supervisors recess that will

the building inspection commission. the next regular meeting is on july 1. >> thank you. >> i would like to reach out to planning again. i know we have proposed joint meetings in the past, but we did not hear back from them. maybe we could reach out to the officers in that commission and get the secretary as well. >> following up on that, they communicate. >> i had spoken [unintelligible] -- i had spoken to president [unintelligible] and she is aware that we had been trying for get this done since the beginning of the year. i said that we should try to get it done sooner. >> we will follow up. >> is there any public comment on item 9a or b. seeing no one? adjournment? >> seconded. >> we are now adjourned at 11:00 a.m.. >> the meeting of the entertainment commission. please call the roll. [role being called] we have a quorum. >> members of the public may address the commission on members of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. with respect to agenda items, members of th

president olague: the planning commission is back in session. you're on items 10-a and items 10-b. case number 162-d, 1945 hyde street. commissioners, as you consider the request for a discretionary review, the zoning administrator will hear the variance request. >> good afternoon, president olague. this is conversion of a two story over basement parking garage to a three story over basement seven unit residential project including 17 parking spaces and one commercial unit. the new third floor will be set back from the front and the russell street side of the property to protect the historic integrity of the building. the addition would have a rear yard of only 10 feet or 25 feet are required, necessitating the request for a variance. the building is considered an historic resource, and the property is within nc-140-x districts. the commission considered this request in march and continued the case to allow the sponsor to meet with neighbors and consider revisions to the plan to better protect light and air to an adjacent building to explore parking options and to provide more infor

the jurisdiction of the commission. members of the public might address the commission for up to three minutes at the time such order is called. is there anybody that wishes to make public comment on any issue that is not on the agenda? yes, sir? >> barry toronto. i have not been here in ages. we have had town hall meetings with taxi drivers paying exorbitant fees for credit card charges. i would -- i thought i would come here and catch you up on what is going on with that bill. anyway, i will say two things. first i want to say that i have been really delighted in watching you, president newlin, as chair. i think you have been fair and allowed everyone to speak, and have let everybody have their say. i appreciate your personality as president. i have barely been impressed with how you have progressed as the person who run these meetings. -- i have really been impressed with how you have progressed as the person who runs these meetings. also, i really enjoy hearing officer masius -- matthias give his presentations. unfor

the human rights commission and the police commission held a joint meeting on racial profiling and surveillance family leave for referred to the fbi and the chief when they tell us that adequate measures are taken to protect our arab- americans? what steps are being taken place to make sure the state is in compliance with all federal laws? housing and urban development provides more than $2 billion a year to contract with the police of garmin. crime associated with public housing and assisted housing herds our entire community and it reduces the public's willingness to add more housing. we lose a generation of kids who drop out of school because there's not a good mentoring program. the tracking shows that about 40% of all murders are within bullet range of public and assisted housing. the city has said they lack the money to upgrade housing. what is our plan be? where is the role of the police commission with regard to those issues? almost 10 million in losses came from two cases. that is enough to find it useful police academy classes which will now have to cancel phantom fighter training to

they're regulated by the police commission. so there is no basis to go into closed session. >> commissioners? commissioner marshall: you have the information in front of you. we can have closing arguments from both parties here. president mazzucco: commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i'm hearing the patrol special indicating he's not contesting whether or not he complied with the rules and in terms of uniform training and -- what was the third? i'm escaping it. oh, the insurance, that he's not contesting that. those violations that he's been charge with but rather the constitution, he's bringing in a constitutional issue as to whether or not he needs to comply with that. is that right? >> that is correct. if the police commission, police commission said i'm not a employee of the city, i'm not a member of the police department, how can be charged with violating rules and regulations of a department i'm not a member of and brought up with rules of procedures that don't apply since i'm a private citizen?it'd comment on th

any questions by the commission? yes? >> i wanted to thank the inspector for attending the leadership council last week and commissioner joseph also made an appearance and thank you very much for your remarks. building exppings commissioner deborah walker was also in attendance and we had a good cross section of the community as well. the theme for the event was underground entertainment. the good, the bad and the ugly. the way the meeting turned out, we sort of took that in reverse order and started with the incidents and proceeded to the bad ones and ended really on kind of a good note. i think the most important thing that we accomplished from all of this is folks who are involved in underground entertainment came away from it knowing that they have a seat at the table too. so there is a good, healthy dialogue that started. so thank you all very much. >> thank you, commissioner meko. anybody else? any public comment on the executive director's report? seeing known, we'll go to item number four. regarding proposed action

secondly, i have no objection of a gay person being on the commission. my problem is that the way it's set up now, that spot is always going to be allocated to some gay activist attorney and i don't think we need one. i think if we're going to have a gay person, we need a gay accountant. most of the commission just set up as boards of directors. there's no physical or monetary accountability whatsoever from this board or this commission or most of the other commissions that are picked by both the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. and i've already run up against the san francisco tax commission with the civil service selected me three times in a row as the director's position where i was the only taxi driver in m.a. in accounting and corporate math, only to have gavin newsom bump me for an attorney from his inner office. it happened three times in a row. i think you need more accountants and less attorneys on these commissions or more laymen and less attorneys. and i think we don't need an activist who wants to change the constitution into his o

the appellant is contradicted by the planning commission's motion. the project reached the conclusion that it is on balance, including the urban design development. it's important to understand that consistency with the general plan requires an overview of the whole plan. the general plan provide a number of public policy goals and at any one time they maicon conflict with each other. decision makers should review all the pertinent policies and then decide whether the plan is on balance in whole consistent with the general plan. the planning commission also considered the transportation, the housing, and the community facilities element. it is important to explore the project in relation to immediate neighbors and in relation to urban design, but let's ensure we're using more than a myopic lens. let's review it relative to the larger community and other policy goals. i'd like to draw your attention to some of those neglected by the appellant. transportation objectsive two. the city should use the transportation system to guide development. in this cas

>> it would be a task force made of the police commission, the p.o.a. and the department to discuss a plan for the future and somehow get the point across to the board. i think i got the point across to the board today that this is a real problem and scott weiner was talking about calling for an emergency session to discuss the shortage, the upcoming shortage in the department. but i think it is something that needs to be addressed sooner than later and think we could address it as a group, possibly a representative from the commission department and the p.o.a. and i would be involved in it myself. >> thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. mr. harrison before you once again on the issue of my brother being murdered january 2. . i'm coming forward to say we appreciate every effort that's been made to capture the person responsible for the death of my brother. however, we believe more can be done. i spoke with somebody before the meeting started today, and i was informed that a reward could be offered through the mayor's crimi

anita sanchez for the civil service commission. the budget is a bare bones budget to carry out the merit system provision of the charter to provide qualified individuals for the city and county service in a fair and equitable manner. the commission is appeals and policy-making body. the department handles appeals and requests for hearings, conducts merit system review, inspection services and audits, and performs a limited role in the administration of the employer-employee relations ordinance by conducting wreck -- representation and the certification and legislation of unfair practices charges involving peace officers. as mentioned, there is no report issued for this budget. i would be happy to respond to any questions you may have. i believe the committee wanted some update on the civil service reform issues, and the commission has actually received a number of proposals from the department of human resources. i have convened a committee of departmental representatives from major departments and employee organizations to review p

at the may hearing, the campus request -- the commission requested an analysis. this chart covers the major components of the van ness special use district. the medical center, the height as proposed to be increased by 135 feet, the bulk propose to be modified through the proposed medical subdistrict and conditional use, the proposal to increase the hospital side from seven to 9-1. the required three-one housing requirement to be modified through it conditional use if certain findings are made by the planning commission, as is the case with residential demolition is. cpmc is requesting c.u.'s for both and this will be discussed in this presentation. at the last hearing, the commission asked for a graphic representation of the project, juxtaposed to the code complying project. this slide shows the comparison in the form of massing diagrams. the image on the left is the existing hotel. that is slightly taller than what is a code complying, being approximately 137 feet, and it exceeds bulk limitations. the middle is the hypothetical massing diagram, meeting the code

the police commission appointed myself to that committee, staff members of the human rights commission, other members of the public, and what we did is we looked through at best practices from over cities. we took policy provisions that were already in place and working to protect civil liberties and civil rights. the result was a consensus recommendation that the police commission adopted unanimously. that we were very optimistic about. but of course the work isn't done when you just pass a policy. three years after that event, a major scandal broke out in 1993. which is known as the gerard scandal. and there are lots of elements of that, i won't go into all of the details. but part that have scandal had to do with the failure admitted by the chief of the department to actually implement the prior reforms. so after that, in 1994, the police commission strengthened 8.10 by strengthening the key civilian auditing procedures, to make sure that there is accountability and that they could uncover when there are problems. so, that's how we got here and i would say after 1994 we really haven

welcome to the wednesday, june 22nd, 2011 police commission meeting. the first line item will be general public comment and we will hear a quick briefing about what the comments should be about. >> i will look here. >> use the general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission on items that cannot -- that are not on the agenda. speakers shall address the remarks to the speaker as uphol a whole. now the police or occ were commissioners are required to respond to questions from the public. the commissioners and police should refrain from entering any debates or speakers during public comments. >> thank you very much, lieutenant. >> good evening, commissioners who shall remain nameless. >> i live in south of market. i am here to address two if near and dear to my heart. -- two issues near and dear to my heart. i have lived in oakland, which is where i am from. this really needs to be able to have a police officer that you can contact to tell us about things which are running the miss or amok in your area. i really appreciate the effort

you and alexander are two of three women already on the commission. i know your expertise works making sure that there is a look at the health of our survivors and people coming back making sure that these people are critical to our approach. allowed to make sure that we also have dignified jobs for everyone that wants and can work. what to make sure that we are hooked up with our community colleges when we do that. thank you for agreeing to serve. our goal and a concourse authority. the key for serving again and helping us. certainly with nancy conner, thank you very much for agreeing to work with us. we're going to be working together as well because i am so interested in making sure that the music concourse is activated for the benefit of everyone in the city and to make sure that we have good approaches, to fill that area more as we are in between the two fantastic and wonderful institutions. thank you for serving on and helping me make sure that the golden gate concords gets filled and it's done right. to the housing authority, we are challenged b

we do have a quorum of the police commission and a quorum of the human rights commission. so, ladies and gentlemen, at this time we're going to have some comments from the commissioners regarding the presentation and i just want to start with, i'd like to thank everybody again for their presentations. we did meet with the f.b.i. today and the u.s. attorney's office and there was some clarification of things that were said in the presentation by the aclu and the asian law caucus. we were told something differently. i do want to state for the record that the men and women of the f.b.i. and the men and women of the department of justice prosecute civil rights cases and i can say that being a former u.s. assistant attorney and what we saw today, i can't speak on behalf of those offices, but we saw people interested in the complapets we heard and that they -- complaint wes heard and they prosecute civil rights violations, they want the facts. we were also told today that there are no random assessments, there has to be a predicate of a criminal violation. they need to set the re

>> ultimately that will be a decision for the commission. my personal view, this is an area where i suspect it will have to make some changes, in the area of regulations. i suspect that the task force will have some recommendations. >> you don't see a station blackout as a problem that needs to be fixed at this time? >> there are currently requirements to address the station but gets and i look forward to the adequacy. >> my understanding is that what they deal with are just losing electricity from the grid or from on-site emergency but not both at the same time. >> know. that is incorrect. this means that you lose all power including on-site and there is a role that the commission as promulgated. there are questions coming up as a result the fukushima. for example, in most power plants in the u.s. right now, the batteries which are supposed to provide the power are expected to work somewhere between four and 8 hours. the japanese incident shows that you might have days or even weeks. these are some of the things that we will have to think ab

the law. each commission just came up off the top of their head. for example, the requirement to have insurance for to enter $50,000. the police commission -- $250,000. the police commissioners said $1 million. there is a great gap. this is the state of california telling its security companies they must have this much money. the police commission is telling control specialists say they want $1 million. i have to tell the membership what legal status of this is required under your good >> -- i have to tell the members about what legal status of this is required. >> it sounds like this is a larger case, and you are bringing this to us, but your violations -- that is your way to and during this test case to way to bring this has case to us, and what the commission has to do is decide whether or not there was violations, and where that might lead might be to a superior court or another venue on this, but personally, going back to my fellow commissioners, i would have to say i would sustain an vote in favor of sustaining specifications commonly -- spec

as the commission knows, it can take d.r. for extraordinary circumstances. and according to planning, those circumstances occur as follows -- one, where the commonplace application or adopted design standards do not enhance or conserve neighborhood character. in this case, the existing building use and mask conflict with the surrounding residential and n.c. area. the project creates an oversized out of character residential project by reusing the building for a new residential use. the units described as family units are luxury units. and will be sold at a market rate unaffordable to average san francisco families. two, extraordinary circumstances occur where the design standards do not balance the right to develop the property with the impacts on the neighborhood. absolutely the project sponsor has the right to develop the property. but the planning code provides an equal right for the commission to assess the impacts on the neighborhood. this is not an existing residential building renovated for condos. it's an existing building that's served a mixed use of

i am supportive of the task force the commission chartered back in march. i committed to a systemic and methodical review of the events at fukushima. i know if we need to make changes, and i am sure there are changes that we need to make, that the commission will. the full commission received a public briefing yesterday in rockville on what the task force has learned so far in the near-term review. it informed the commission today including inspections of all 104 reactors and several key themes in the application of our defense and safety philosophy. they encollide protection of equipment. mitigation strategies to prevent core damage or spent fuel damage. emergency preparedness. and lastly, how to apply our regulation ns a consistent and coherent manner. concurrent with our review efforts, resident inspectors have inspected licensing implementation of severe accident management guy lines around the country to ensure our licensies are able to deal with a loss of power or damage to their particular reactor sites. the findings from these insgs speckses will gui

the arts commission is leading the design. the selection on this was very well attended, and the plaza itself will be deemed in honor of george and charles schulz who were present, and everyone has their favorites, but i think any of them would do the city proud. commissioner sugaya: i see on the advanced calendar that there might be an informational presentation on the academy of art university coming up. i think we concluded this week in discussions that we would defer that. >> i was just thinking they either have purchased or are in negotiation for purchase of the cannery, i believe it is. i would be in support of a closed hearing before we move forward in a public hearing. commissioner moore: i have been meeting with the department of informational technology. i realize strong ties for planning as a user group to informational technology. and many exciting projects. at some point, it might be interesting to have someone else from the department -- to have these people talk to us, which comes from the commission to planning

, the police commission directly. in conversations with the fbi, with the attorney, with the sfpd, we have a tentative agreement to move forward in some form with public meetings, a town hall-style meetings, where there is a dialogue between these agencies in the community. hrc will be facilitating these meetings hopefully in communities that are heavily populated by members of the community. the recommendation to the board of supervisors was to create a commission similar to the historic church commission to review potential abuses by government surveillance and first and fourth amendment right. we have not been able to do it yet, but we intend to do so. also to encourage the board to implement the recommendations of the inspector general and appoint a special prosecutor to look into terrorism cases to determine if the prosecution in these cases is valid and fair. we have also asked in these recommendations for the board of supervisors to install a permanent ombudsmen to provide oversight for are arriving travelers an

we brought some of those to the commission for treasure island and parkmerced. i believe there is one other projects -- hunters point. that was the other one. those were done as individual water supply assessments because they were not in the last urban modern management plan. we tried to work through your where we have accommodated all of the projections for san francisco that we have now in this urban water management plan. so we have done that by working with the planning department on projections into the future and the city planning staff have agreed -- projections have taken into account all known and projected development for the city into this time, said the action and the second item, item 10, a test that yes, this item can be used for water supply assessment in the future as well. we have the air and water management plan adoption and the certification that the urban water management plan serves as water supply assessments for ceqa purposes. >> i have a question on that -- the resolution of item 11 seems to address retail demand, so the legal imports of

the commission approved operating this lot an additional two years. the action you might take the day regarding the surface parking lot or the office publication is not related and has no bearing on the previous authorization for extending the parking lot. this concludes my presentation and i am available for questions. thank you. president olague: thank you. project sponsor? is not present. public comment? >> sue hester. i had a case across the street, 543 howard st., about six years ago. you have these long entitlements that are just sitting there. it has an effect on neighbors. because people keep thinking there is going to be something happening. and i also had dealing with 48 tehama, but did not have as big an impact. the 524 howard street is a very visible site as you come off the freeway onto howard street at the transbay terminal. it did have a negative effect on the people across the street and the owners kicked out the entire building. that building has been since changed, 543 howard. but the department's staff has sat on this 22 years. i was

i believe the commission has already seen that bulletin. what that bulletin was, was simply an interim measure until we got the program up and running. chief was concerned there was nothing in place. there wasn't enough in place so he acted immediately as part of that meeting within his first week of the administration to get that bulletin out. so that is out and being implemented at this time. so we have started -- or scheduled ones with 15 members interested. that took place in memphis. members of the working group found that very interesting and very productive. so we started to schedule those and moving those to the process. so that's been done. sergeant laura knight, sergeant jennifer jackson to the academy has been assigned to work through the committee to get that through and post as quickly as possible. also from the academy, officer phil helmer is working on the pt st aspect of it, how to deal with that aspect. we're moving along there. mistakenia lange, our grant manager, is working closely with the subcommittee, trying to reach ou