. >> so the commission in this instance, the commission is the client. the city attorney is the attorney? >> correct. >> and to the extent we are seeking legal advice -- >> in connection with pending enforcement matters. >> in connection with pending enforcement matters. okay and isn't there a local regulation that we rely upon for keeping these enforcement matters in closed session? >> yeah, the charter section as well is one thing that we do rely on. the charter section c .369 9- 13. >> right. that's what is cited here, and remind me again that charter section requires -- >> yeah, i can pull up the language pretty quickly. so yeah sub a of that section it provides for the investigation shall be conducted in a confidential manner. records of any investigation shall be confidential information as to permitted by state law. the unauthorized release of confidential information is subject to termination of any employee or commissioner responses for any such release and this is from our charter. >> i will move that we meet in closed session. >> could i just

if the commission wanted to redo you want that that is up to the commission. >> we're asking for your advise not have to be done but if it does. >> the executive director is did he say absent tonight. >> i'm asking your advice for a city attorney do we need to do that. >> you can out of caution recast the vote. >> why not make a motion. >> i move we also allow commissioner renne to have to shorten the ballot measure proposal and to respond to any arguments or rebuttal with the city deputy city attorney. >> is there a second. >> second. >> public discussion hearing none i'll call the vote >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? hearing none it carries unanimously all right. turning now to agenda item 3 and the decision and possible action on the recruitment profile for the executive director position again there has been an amended recruitment profile i think you've all received and corrected some of the errors that have been appointed by a number of people and i will call for discussion on that revised draft. >> commissioner keane. >> yes. mr. chair i don't have it in front of the o

the new commission were empowered to designate the exterior of and it was told buildings that were at least 30 and also to designate historic districts that had a sense of place. by september 1960 five, a commission had been established. there was a chair, there were commissioners, and there was a small staff that had been a civil, but now, what would they do? i think this is a question that in hindsight we have ailed to ask -- what did it mean to have a landmarks commission in new york? this was a novel idea. what would they designate? the city's most famous and most well-known buildings? with a dive right in and designate buildings that were endangered, or would they be careful about the fragile legal basis for the new law and only designate safe buildings that have owner support? the first thing was to figure out what constituted a landmark. fortunately, architectural historians had been compiling lists for quite a long time, at least since the late 1940's, so of potentialsts landmarks. these survive, and if you read through them, and they were put together almost entirely by archi

members of the commission, command staff and public. k you for giving me this opportunity to let know what the investigation team and tearival. i have been with the department for 23 years and coming to tearival it is interesting to see the explosion of the technology that happened over the recent years. in my tenure i haveants n't seen such great tools to combat the crimes occurring in tearival and sit a wide. the crime data ware house we use now is a great tool. it gives information that we can actually pull information out of and we construct our officers to target certain areas within the tearival district as it relates to property crimes, robberies and burglaries. so, we also have the use of video now. it has come of age where a lot of private and commercial establishments have video in their works on their perimeters so we are establishing a catalog of these within the district and have over 200 cataloged now. we can access when the crime occurs and go to the sites and ask them if we can utileize their video which led to great arre

if the commission wanted to redo you want that that is up to the commission. >> we're asking for yourise not have to be done but if it does. >> the executive director is did he say absent tonight. >> i'm asking your advice for a city attorney do we need to do that. >> you can out of caution recast the vote. >> why not make a motion. >> i move we also allow commissioner renne to have to shorten the ballot measure proposal and to respond to any arguments or rebuttal with the city deputy city attorney. >> is there a second. >> second. >> public discussion hearing none i'll call the vote >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? hearing none it carries unanimously all right. turning now to agenda item 3 and the decision and possible action on the recruitment profile for the executive director position again there has been an amended recruitment profile i think you've all received and corrected some of the errors that have been appointed by a number of people and i will call for discussion on that revised draft. >> commissioner keane. >> yes. mr. chair i don't have it in front of the of me

but the commission went further than that. it became much more aggressive about combating annexation. the mandatory power made three such moves between 1925 and 1933 and in every case germany tried to block them. first in 1925, belgium passed a law turning rwanda and provinces of the congo to be forced by the commission to back down. in the second case, south africa tried to incorporate the railways and harbors into its own system but the commission forced the revision of that law. finally, germany and the league mobilization helped to destroy the plans to inaugurate. this was impossible, the commission said, for they were not sovereign and could not bring it into its empire. if necessary the government added that it would take the case to the international court. germany took the case for the officers said privately they might when. in 1929 in the most important decision related to the mandates the council ruled ruled that the mandatory powers were not sovereign in territories under the oversight. so the period of the membersh

here are a few highlights of the commission's work over the past year. modernize the e-rate program to increase the presence of wi-fi in classrooms and bolster higher capacity internet connections to the anchor institutions across the country, schools and libraries. raised a record $44.9 billion, with a b, from the aws auction. repeal the outdated and anticonsumer sports blackout rules which for four decades, 40 years, prevented fans from watching games on television when they were not sold out. i think there are a lot of people in the country that are really thrilled about that. launched a new consumer help center to streamline the complaint process and improve how consumers interact with the fcc. at this point, mr. chairman, i would like unanimous consent to place in the record a terrific article from "forbes" entitled how the fcc saved me $1800. if you haven't read it, everyone should. >> without objection. >> thank you. freed up 150 megahertz of spectrum for mobile broadband. established indoor location accuracy rules for wireless calls made to 911.

good evening, everyone and city hall welcome to the wednesday, august 19, 2015, of the police commission sergeant the next latin-american preparation retired police reverse rodney. >> colleagues you have in your packet a note regarding retired police reserve cpr last year to the city we're here to honor him. >> chief and members of the public and i'm officer, i'm the court reporting for the san francisco police department to my left is officer rodney until 2007 worked an details and assignments he got numerous captains accommodates and letters of appreciation from the public. >> oh, yeah. i wanted to say thank you for having me here the last night was 25 or to thirty years ago i was up here debating against the police hike my cousin was a member of the police commission and working in a difference city with people of color changed through the years i was born here in san francisco and raised here in san francisco and the reason he got into the program to marine about the city to note the core of the city they gum the opportunity to do that i've learned about different cultural there was

in the first place, you make a complaint before the police commission. ates it on behalf of the police commissioner? police officers. >> to this repeated complaint of the negro committee, the macomb report responded by saying the police commission be overhauled to strengthen its power over the department. it rejected the idea of a civilian board, but did recommend the creation of a new post of inspector general. outside the regular channels of the department. to investigate citizen complaints of police directlyent and report to the chief. the report also recommends a vastly expanded community relations program to close the admitted breach between negroes and police. robert richardson was a messenger for the "los angeles -- "los angeles times" when the riot began. he got the job as the times' first negro reporter. >> let me clear something up for you. when we say police brutality, we do not mean officers beating people as they do in the south with whips or cattle prods. we mean brutality to a man's dignity. we mean the derogatory terms that are used, direc

oebldz the health commission that the small business in particular are not likely to have the means or on the human resources sign to manage a wellness program they asked you us during the stakeholder process to look at developing a program that smaller employers what participate in collectively rather than having to manage on their own consultation with the population health division identified other opportunities to partner and say they've generally excited about new ways to partner for example, four onsite occupation health and safety training and many clinics for disease testing and they also were excited about the ability to tie those to overall efforts to increase the health literacy and enrollment insurance and addressing building the employer was a critical xhoenlt of chief financial officer the health in san francisco in response to the health commission feedback and the information from the small business commission we've made modifications to the resolution which you have in your form that requests your approval to composer and among the option that have the hun

members of the commission, command staff and public. thank you for giving me this opportunity to let know what the investigation team and tearival. i have been with the department for 23 years and coming to tearival it is interesting to see the explosion of the technology that happened over the recent years. in my tenure i haveants n't seen such great tools to combat the crimes occurring in tearival and sit a wide. the crime data ware house we use now is a great tool. it gives information that we can actually pull information out of and we construct our officers to target certain areas within the tearival district as it relates to property crimes, robberies and burglaries. so, we also have the use of video now. it has come of age where a lot of private and commercial establishments have video in their works on their perimeters so we are establishing a catalog of these within the district and have over 200 cataloged now. we can access when the crime occurs and go to the sites and ask them if we can utileize their video which led to great

we could probably better resource the commission for 100, 200, $250,000. it's not like millions for street repaving or something else, so there maybe other ways and i agree that the new executive director should be a strong advocate for resources to meet your mandate. thank you . >> do i hear a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> any public discussion? >> [inaudible] >> pardon me? >> [inaudible] >> is there discussion on future items? public discussion on adjournment? call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? . hearing none we are adjourned. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect

oebldz the health commission that the small business in particular are not likely to have the means or on the human resources sign to manage a wellness program they asked you us during the stakeholder process to look at developing a program that smaller employers what participate in collectively rather than having to manage on their own consultation with the population health division identified other opportunities to partner and say they've generally excited about new ways to partner for example, four onsite occupation health and safety training and many clinics for disease testing and they also were excited about the ability to tie those to overall efforts to increase the health literacy and enrollment insurance and addressing building the employer was a critical xhoenlt of chief financial officer the health in san francisco in response to the health commission feedback and the information from the small business commission we've made modifications to the resolution which you have in your form that requests your approval to composer and among the option that have the hun

oebldz the health commission that the small business in particular are not likely to have the means or on the human resources sign to manage a wellness program they asked you us during the stakeholder process to look at developing a program that smaller employers what participate in collectively rather than having to manage on their own consultation with the population health division identified other opportunities to partner and say they've generally excited about new ways to partner for example, four onsite occupation health and safety training and many clinics for disease testing and they also were excited about the ability to tie those to overall efforts to increase the health literacy and enrollment insurance and addressing building the employer was a critical xhoenlt of chief financial officer the health in san francisco in response to the health commission feedback and the information from the small business commission we've made modifications to the resolution which you have in your form that requests your approval to composer and among the option that have the hun

each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. and go ahead our welcome >> commissioners. >> good morning general manager. >> my name is leno i'm the president of the united mission sorry for my voice and 15 years ago we created the golden gate park the garden of humanitarians as a fresh and one plays in the united states i'm here for the people for people that risked their lives prosecuted by terrorists and others in this place this area we organized for student and many visitors uses beverages and tables but last time the beverages is broken now our organization can pay and install new beverages in this place but it is an emergency situation if some beverages crash the carpenter from golden gate park never fixes and takes the beverages it is easier my proposal is install new beverages and we pay for everything we never ask some budget from city or grant from supply beautiful but we have a service to pay for this. >> thank you very much thank you, very much. >> richard. >> sorry i meant the other richard. >> i have something to as

who investigates it on behalf of the police commission? repeated complaint, the report was funded by recommending that it be overhauled to strengthen its authority over the department. the report rejected the idea of a civilian review board. it did recommend a new post of inspector general, free of routine duties outside the regular channels of the department to investigation citizen complaints of police mistreatment and report directly to the chief. the report recommends also a vastly expanded community realizes program to close the breach between negroes and police. a messenger for the los angeles times when the riot began. his accounts got him a reporter's rating and the first negro reporter. >> let me clear up something for you. when we speak of police brutality. we don't mean officers beating people as they would do in the south with whips or cattle prods. we mean brutality to a man's dignity. the derogatory terms directed to a person. when you're walking down the street with your girl and a policeman has you stand against the wall wi

here are a few highlights of the commission's work over the past year. modernize the e-rate program to increase the presence of wi-fi in classrooms and bolster higher capacity internet connections to the anchor institutions across the country, schools and libraries. raised a record $44.9 billion, with a b, from the aws auction. repeal the outdated and anticonsumer sports blackout rules which for four decades, 40 years, prevented fans from watching games on television when they were not sold out. i think there are a lot of people in the country that are really thrilled about that. launched a new consumer help center to streamline the complaint process and improve how consumers interact with the fcc. at this point, mr. chairman, i would like unanimous consent to place in the record a terrific article from "forbes" entitled how the fcc saved me $1800. if you haven't read it, everyone should. >> without objection. >> thank you. freed up 150 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 gigahertz brand for mobile broadband. established indoor location accuracy rules for w

the commission put together a competition to select an architect. the unique part about this competition was it was a double-blind competition. so, the competitors did not know who the judges were in the judges did not know who the competitors were. the advantage to this process was the architects could design to the specifications that were put in front of them instead of designing to the known taste of the judges. they were able to come up with solutions they might not have normally. the winning design was very unique. it had a tower instead of the traditional federal capital style building. this shows the process. we have the north and the south parts of the building going up around the previous capital. once the north and south sections were done, they moved the employees out of the building into temporary quarters in the new building, and in 1925 they took down the old building and continued construction of the new building. each competitor was required to submit perspective drawings for what they envisioned their designs to look like. one of th

seeing and hearing none we will bring it back to the commission. motion to continue. >> i move the motion. >> second. >> thank you on the motion to continue item 7 to that date. (calling roll). >> so moved (low audio). places under the regular calendar for item 6 and the urban forestry council nomination process. this is an informational presentation. >> good afternoon commissioners. tim frye. i wanted to mention as president wolfram always mentioned that this item was scheduled at your request to get a better understanding of what the landmark designation process is for nominating a landmark tree within the city and county of san francisco so with they will turn it over to our representative from the urban forestry council. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is [inaudible]. i'm the coordinator for san francisco environment department. i am here to talk about the city's landmark tree program so i will provide some context for the program and then i'm going to go over the tree nomination evaluation process. so what are landmark trees? they're c

tuesday, august 18, 2015, addition of the entertainment commission i'm brian at an the chair of the commission a few housekeeping if you could one please turn off your cell phones not no interrupt our meeting and two a member of the public that wishes to speak on an item we have pink speaker cards fill out with your name and our staff will call you at the time, we call the agendas and thank you to commissioner honda and media services for broadcasting this meeting to the public every time we meet >> sxhat commissioner lee commissioner perez commissioner vice president joseph sxheeg commissioner president tan. >> quorum and commissioner moshoyannis is absent this evening. >> great one edit to the agenda which is in item on the consent calendar item 5 b like to pull that out and put it on the regular agenda for the dublin but all else will remain the same all right. the first item of business is public comment on any business of the entertainment commission you, you does not see currently on the agenda are you coming up for that or is that later okay. any public comment? nope seeing none, public

each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. and go ahead our welcome >> commissioners. >> good morning general manager. >> my name is leno i'm the president of the united mission sorry for my voice and 15 years ago we created the golden gate park the garden of humanitarians as a fresh and one plays in the united states i'm here for the people for people that risked their lives prosecuted by terrorists and others in this place this area we organized for student and many visitors uses beverages and tables but last time the beverages is broken now our organization can pay and install new beverages in this place but it is an emergency situation if some beverages crash the carpenter from golden gate park never fixes and takes the beverages it is easier my proposal is install new beverages and we pay for everything we never ask some budget from city or grant from supply beautiful but we have a service to pay for this. >> thank you very much thank you, very much. >> richard. >> sorry i meant the other richard. >> i have something to as

the commission stands adjourned. thank you ladies and gentlemen . test. >> good afternoon, everyone welcome to the tuesday, july 21 2015 meeting of the taefblgs i'm bryan tan the president of the commission a couple of things please turn off our cell phones not to interrupt the meeting if you are a member of the public to speak on an item that is agendized fill out a card by the sfshgz and finally thank you to sfgovtv and media services for presenting this live every time we meet we'll start with a roll call and i'll move around a couple of agenda items considering our attention because commissioner vice president moshoyannis needs to leave earlier commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner vice president moshoyannis commissioner caminong commissioner president tan we have quorum i'd like to move. >> just ford al peps is absent 2450 we've heard he's planning on attending. >> we'll note that in the interest of time we're going to move item 5 and 6 up so item 6 will now become our second item after public comment this it is el

and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to call roll at this time. is commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner richards we do expect commissioner johnson to arrive latest commissioners, that places you under your is the items proposed for continuance inadvertently the yosemite fish patch is continued was left off the calendar it is being continued indefinitely and will be renoticed for the benefit of the public further on your calendars commissioners item 15 for case on rosie after a discretionary review it has been withdrawn and will not be considered on today's agenda i have nothing further you might want to take public comment. >> on public comment no items proposed for continuance. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. >> commissioners that place us under consideration of the definite minutes for july 16, 2015 i have i have no speaker cards. >> okay. any public comment on draft minutes? seeing none, public comment is

may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. so we have one speaker card so can i please call that emily from y g fund >> good evening, commissioners and members of the public i'm emily i work are for the energy fund the leading finance come we have the clean energy but specifically we provide measures and financing for arrange and commercial properties we also over the charging for this as well ear excited and applaud san francisco for the existing success of their program and expansion of including the private firms in april and looking to enter that marketplace i've been working with the department to help explain and answer questions and go over the muni features goal that we see there is a clear demand for pass in the marketplace and it is suited to meet that in collaboration with the green finance sf and again the newer private partners that were brought on particularly with the strength in the multi family we have 50 percent of housing market in family and number one in the country for multi family pass we believe that ser

the motion carries. any other commission business? moving on to the next item, please. >> item 7 is report of the general manager >> good afternoon commissioners. first would like to start off with the drought update. steve, ritchie >> steve ritchie general manager for water. if we can have the slides. we'll look at where we are in the drought. some are familiar, the first is level of storage in the reservoirs and hetch hetchy is 88 percent full but that is dropping now. water bank is above 100 thousand feed at 18 percent full so we are going through a relatively normal cycle now, hetch hetchy going down. we can't fill water bank as much in the past because there isn't enough water in cherry lake to do that so will look forward to hopefully a well winter. i have-this is state department of water resources puts out all the states reservoirs and major reservoirs and this continues to show. they are quite low, particularly [inaudible] is at 14 percent of capacity and there is controversy about how much water should be retained behind it v

oebldz the health commission that the small business in particular are not likely to have the means or on the human resources sign to manage a wellness program they asked you us during the stakeholder process to look at developing a program that smaller employers what participate in collectively rather than having to manage on their own consultation with the population health division identified other opportunities to partner and say they've generally excited about new ways to partner for example, four onsite occupation health and safety training and many clinics for disease testing and they also were excited about the ability to tie those to overall efforts to increase the health literacy and enrollment insurance and addressing building the employer was a critical xhoenlt of chief financial officer the health in san francisco in response to the health commission feedback and the information from the small business commission we've made modifications to the resolution which you have in your form that requests your approval to composer and among the option that have the hun

>> good afternoon welcome to the san francisco planning commission regular meeting for wednesday, august 12, 2015, i'd like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. speed up and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to call roll at this time. commissioner wu commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards percentage and commissioner president fong is expected to be absent. >> you can leave the door, sir. >> just leave it it will close on its own. >> commissioner antonini and commissioner johnson will be in attendance today commissioners, that places you under your is items proposed for continuance items 1 ab at order cord is proposed for continuance item 2 ab at 24 order court is for september 24th item 3 record at a hundred i didn't street it continuance for october 22, 2015, and commissioners further on our agenda a request if the project sponsor for continuance of 14 ab harrison street

. >> do i have a say the time and commission adjourned at 712. >> going with apple time 712 . >> good afternoon it the one p.m. this is the meeting on the san francisco community investment & infrastructure commission to the redevelopment agree for monday, august 4, 2015, welcome madam secretary call the first item the first order of business is item one roll call. >> commissioners,. please respond when your name is called: commissioner mondejar commissioner singh is absent commissioner bustos madam chair rosales commissioner singh absent and all the other members are present the next order of business is item 2 announcements a the next regularly scheduled meeting of august 18th will be held at one p.m. at city hall in room 416 b announcements of the prohibitions of the sound providing phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. c announcement of time allocate for please be advised a members of the public has up to 3 minu

the motion carries. any other commission business? moving on to the next item, please. >> item 7 is report of the general manager >> good afternoon commissioners. first would like to start off with the drought update. steve, ritchie >> steve ritchie general manager for water. if we can have the slides. we'll look at where we are in the drought. some are familiar, the first is level of storage in the reservoirs and hetch hetchy is 88 percent full but that is dropping now. water bank is above 100 thousand feed at 18 percent full so we are going through a relatively normal cycle now, hetch hetchy going down. we can't fill water bank as much in the past because there isn't enough water in cherry lake to do that so will look forward to hopefully a well winter. i have-this is state department of water resources puts out all the states reservoirs and major reservoirs and this continues to show. they are quite low, particularly [inaudible] is at 14 percent of capacity and there is controversy about how much water should be retained behind it v