center, and it's necessary to have a level of position with the skill set to work with department heads at building inspection, the fire department, city planning, the department of public health behavioral -- not behavioral health, environmental health services to make sure we have a true stream lined one stop permit center spot for everyone to go to. we would still like to reject the 18 -- the deletion of the 1822 administrative analyst position. i know this position has been sitting vacant for some while, but it is to work on a mandate for -- that the 14(b) local business enterprise ordinance is asking us to come up with a prompt payment program for our small l.b.e.'s who actually do work, but invoices are submitted two months later in flying to help them float cash flow in order to pay their workers, and it is a program that has been befuddling to us, quite frankly. we're trying to come up with programs -- low interest programs work with our now market tax credit board and in working with our city attorney to find ways where we're not violating the laws but yet supporting our small construction worker who do work on behalf of the c

example for the nation about how cities and city departments should be working together and treating rape. it is very important to me because over the last couple days whether i have heard from the mayor's office or the department on the status of women or police department or colleagues very confused about what sharp is. it is an office designed to get accountability and to change city systems internally in franco we are not anyl no longer doing wrong by women, but we are setting the standard for the country about how we do right by women in al and all sexual assat survivors because it's not not only women but men too. i hope i have made that clear. towards that end i am going to make a few amendments to the legislation today that i want to bring forward. we have talked to all the city departments and we agreen agreea few amendments are warranted a. the first is on page 7, section f. it's introducing language to clarify our intent that the department of human resources continue to address personnel-related managers include sexual harassment cla

the jewel july 19, 2018 board of appeals. to my left is deputy city attorney brad ru >>> >>> ey. at the controls is the board's legal assistant. we will also be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board this evening. we expect scott sanchez the sceneing administrator, the senior building investor, amanda higgins and brett cohen. we ask you to turn off your cell phones. members have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. please speak into the microphon, . the board welcomes your comments and suggestions. if you have questions questions about requesting a board hearing . , please speak to board off after the meeting. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv. any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursue ant oath. [ [reading] ing] do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. we will move on to item 1, which is general public comment. this is an opportunity for anyone who would like to speak on a matter been the board's jurisdiction, but that is not on tonight's calendar. is there any member of the public who wishe

the city, and we raised our kids? ? in san francisco. i met joe duffy a number of the times at the city department.followed through direction from our last meeting and met with joe duffy and mark walls. she is he is the senior plan checker at the building department and, and we reviewed our plans with mark walls and he looked at ab009 application to specific windows, and he looked at the structural planning, the headers, to make sure that the headers are the right size, and then he suggeste d that inspector and engineer to be present when these windows are going to be installed to make sure that they are having the right header size and also the opening, so that is what is required. he agreed with the sprinklers would be additional permit and to be done at the time that we are doing the windows. [bell ringing] basically we followed the meeti ng and updated the plans with accurate scope of work. plans appear to meet building and planning building codes. i have asked the plan checker, and i think they have a lot of knowledge, but unfortunately i don't think that come back [bell ringing] this meet it

the puc. it's not the city department, but it really affects the end users. that was one of the motivating factors to try to come together and work with the solutions. i'm hopeful. i think this hearing and follow-up hearing to make sure that the talks are fruitful would be very appreciative. thank you. >> and now we're going to hear from nick castner from san francisco unified school district. >> good morning. my name is nick castner. we have benefitted from clean power through the puc for a long time now. we also benefit from the fact that the puc provides support for the sustainability office, for the director, for energy audits, efficiency work, panels, and for water bottle filling stations. and the puc also supports our garden education and environmental science efforts. so we've had a long road trip with the puc. that's why we've been troubled by some of the problems that have occurred recently in terms of electrical service upgrades. they cost us delay, space, and cost, as has already been mentioned. as you can image, we allow for school construction to

and the policy and provide greater alignment in the city. and bringing the wide range of department of hazard mitigation and climate adaptation efforts to a city wide umbrella or framework. we are work in close partnership and the department of the planning of the environment. and we consider departments as key partners in the planned update and provided staff with klee knowledge of hazards and with the city services to participate in bimonthly meetings and a community engagement strategy with key stakeholders. we are planning to submit this plan in july of 2018. we are happy to provide future updates at other meetings. >> that is the large effort that we will be understood taking and updating the 10-year plan and 50% have traditionally gone toward earthquakes. that will include another important function in the next year. and finally, a few other things that were listed in the handout here. the soft story program is moving forward very well right now tier three which was the largest of the tiers if you recall the earthquake split into four different categories. and that has about 3

the san francisco police department, as the mayor said, we have a healthy street operation center, better known as hsoc. we use that initiative to collaborate efforts between our various city departments to address the very issues that we have in this bart station. with that we will be increasing our footly presence almost five fold by nearly adding approximately 500 patrol hours a week to this effort. we believe that will make a tremendous impact and enable us to do what we need to do to keep this platform safe, clean and for our residents and our people that use this transportation hub to enjoy it. i'd like to thank keith carlos rojas from the bart pd who has really been a partner in this and we believe jointly that we will really make a difference in terms of realizing mayor farrell's vision to make this the safest transportation hub in this region by working together our officers will be able to respond to immediate concerns and more appropriately proactively work to identify on going behavior that we get calls about all the time that contribute to threats to public safety. additionally, we will work in partnership with all of the city agencies and organizations under

days after the oakland city council decided not to renew their contract with a racial profiling expert, we're learning what she found about the city's police department. jennifer eberhart was hired by the city of oakland to collect study data about pol e ops in ty. atnford univerty and was re in quarter million dollars oakland police department made more than 32,000 stops and 20,000 of those were african- american residents or 61% of all police stops. in 2017, that percentage dropped a point to 60%. oakland police chief kirkpatrick says that's unacceptable. >> our disparity numbers are still high. we need to be a police department that's focused on behavior and behavior-based only. and so, um, that's what my mission is. rye move any sense of racial profiling -- remove any sense of racial profiling. it's not acceptable. >> reporter: a list of 50 recommendations based on the findings was distributed at the meeting, including which items have already been implemented. some community activists want to see more of that implementation and less data collection. they say they know why the problem exists and why continue to waste money on data they already ha

the planning department and the city defines it as the streets, parks, open spaces, tissues that ties the neighborhood together and makes it one, cohesive place. what does a public realm plan do? it has two objectives. one, to reflect local priorities and a sense of the local community's objectives and needs in the neighborhood as well as a practical implementation tool that the city departments can use when deciding where to make investments, how and when in the public commons, as well as to help guide the investment of private funding when that's available towards public realm plan implementation. with that, i will turn it over to sun hahn, who will talk about the development pipeline. >> thank you. why do we need public realm plan for the central waterfront dogpatch neighborhood? this is recognized because the neighborhood is going through a rapid change. in 2008, as part of the eastern neighborhood planning, the plan was adopted. since then, the neighborhood has been growing rapidly and as you see in the chart, about a quadruple increase of housing units is expected. and in the ne

to take the budget analyst recommendations that weren't in kiss prosecute with the fire department and the city administrator's office. apologies. those were the indisputed portions of the budget analyst reports in those cases. >> supervisor cohen: i will make a motion that we take the indisputed portions for the fire department and city administrat administrator's office. seconded by supervisor fewer. and without objection, that passed. okay. mr. rosenfield, you have your orders. you know what you are doing? okay. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> supervisor cohen: no problem. all right, everyone. we're moving forward. we're moving forward. >> last but not least, hopefully -- >> supervisor cohen: you are the main event, one small, tiny thing after you. >> we've painstakingly, i don't think i have any fingernails left, come up with $150,000 in cuts that we're willing to accept. those are mandatory benefits, court reporter transcripts, and reducing f.t.e. for clerk typists. and that will contribute $225,000 over two years. the only issue in contention is whether or not the public def

but we talk very little and do even less about the myriad of ways that city officials, whether bit the planning department, m.t.a. or building department also exercise discretion and the direct and indirect harm causes the communities when that discretion is exercised, negligently or wrecklessly. when the city is in a position to exercise discretion at odds with the community and immediate surrounding neighbors, avenues for community input and review are necessary if we're going to build and maintain trust in our local democracy and ouren mraiing process. -- our planning process. for those reasons, it is incumbent on this body at this time to focus on ways to rebuild the trust in our community. while there is ample room in the agreement of this extensive ordinance, particularly as it relates to affordable housing, many provisions move us in exactly the opposite direction of building that needed trust. so, it is with that preface that i want to propose a number of amendments which we've received lots of e-mails about as well and i referenced them last week for your consideration and i've distributed copies

fifteen people and injured fourteen of us two gunmen special fix potions and storm the department's office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege shot at palace reports from kabul. jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and it opens on. the department of refugee your fears for a conference on how to help displaced afghans they we're talking shit. explosions hit the compounds exterior flowing to government to get past the. will this of others have a hold of him again of i was sitting in my medical store when a gunman entered the refugee department right after that they started shooting and one of them blew himself up at the gate i saw two injured people come out of the building for several hours sporadic gunfire was heard across the neighborhood smoke billowing from the building as afghan special forces hunted the remaining gunman the building is next door to the city's main hospital ten people were treated to with critical injuries. it's also just one hundred meters from a midwife training center that was attacked in the same way on saturday three staff m

said the airport does have a very strong program, i think that it's one of the stronger ones when i think about city departments across the entire city and county spectrum but there's no reason to rest on our laurels when we talk about hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts. i have spoken to him on several occasions and has done a fairly decent job on being responsive and answering my questions. so i just wanted to publicly acknowledge him for his leadership and thank you for i'd say going above and beyond to make sure that i had the answers that i would need to move this item forward and out of committee. so thank you to all of the folks that have come to be with us today. we'll get to public comment. colleagues, before we move any further, is there any other questions? all right, thank you, miss cathy and we'll move to public comment. now i have some cards here, doug parish and i have john nieman, do you want to speak in public comment too? no? and i have patty rodriguez, did you -- no, okay. all right, so if there's any members of the public that would like to come up and you have two minutes for publi

the normal business process for the city. i don't see it as abnormal what the department proposing here. it's part of the flexibility of the board affords departments to manage their budgets and positions. it is a choice though. it is a temporary exchange that's permitted by the board for one year. the department has to seek the board's position to make it permanent. i think that's what the board and departments here doing. thank you. i want to go to the b.l.a. hear if this is customary practice practice in the city and county of san francisco. what reason are you making these recommendations? >> as we identified in the budget. it was a position we had some concern about. only find it was a previously filled position at that level. it is more than the 15% threshold to our understanding. again, because it is a filled position, we understand -- we have made this a policy matter rather than actually recommendations. >> supervisor cohen: one more time. last part drifted off. >> we recognize this as a filled position. this is a long standing practice the city department, sometimes they'll be

allocate so that we can support the continuity of care and coordination for families in our city that would be in partnership with the school district and the department of public-health and other city departments. >> one last question from you. as you know, as part of the reauthorization, there was a decision in the voters supported it for many our children and families council in which the purpose of that is to look at all issues that impact children and family in the city and how we can coordinate better. how is that going or -- is it under your department? i'm a little confused sometimes if it is under your department, can you answer whether or not we're moving anywhere with that? it's been several years now. >> yes, thank you for that question. part of the reauthorization of our department, we created a council called the our children our families council and for the past two and a half years, that council has lived here in city council. it's moving over to our department. so that we can provide that back office support for that council. the council will still be chaired by the mayor and the superintendent. the council will still have senior lead

the m.o.u. between the city, the department and cal d.o.j. i asked the vice president to take that item off the calendar. i had a chance to speak with a representative of the mayor's office, the cal d.o.j., hillard hines which is the consultant that's working on the d.o.j. reforms, and i had a nice conversation with the chief this afternoon, and we discussed basically strengthening the -- some of the language in the addendum, so we are going to put that back on calendar -- or the intention is to put that back on calendar on august 1, so that's why we're removing it from calendar tonight, but it will be addressed at the next meeting. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you for explaining that. commissioners, anything further? okay. it's time for public comment. >> clerk: public comment on items 1(a) through (d). >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, miss letterman. how are you? it's good to see you. >> i'm rachel letterman. i'm representing the national lawyers guild. i have some comments on the operation in which the 39 people were arrested. fi

we're really excite today work with the different city departments in the city to do the work of preserving or neighborhoods and also stablizing our communities that make san francisco really unique. just saw the spending plan and we're glad to see that included in it is funding for the department do have staffing to work with the cultural district, but we'd like to ask that the board of supervisors continue their -- the funding to be able to maintain the operations of the cultural districts, 'cause we are the ones on the ground kind of doing the hard work. for soma filipinas, we're asking that the funding be continued this year and the next fiscal year, and that would really -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. >> we have a powerpoint. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is rich will lasimosa. filipinas are the faster growing population in california yes our numbers are dwindling in san francisco. since the 1900's, we've been fighting displacement. at the epicenter of development and displacement is san francisco, and in the soma district, particularly in the hot bed of the tech

francisco department of public health, in january of 2011 became the executive director of the department of emergency management. and during her time as the e.d. of, i'm going to step into city jargon, she directed upgrades to the 911 dispatch center and also executed major hiring initiatives to increase the 911 dispatchers. anne has also secured funding for city-wide emergency operation watch center. and this center will enhance san francisco's ability to gather situational awareness of evolving incidents and address immediate needs of the community. she spearheaded efforts to redefine emergency preparedness education that in 2014, d.e.m. launched s.f.72.org, not only explains how residents can be prepared for any type of emergency, but also promotes a critical component of emergency preparedness and community connection. are you all prepared to live on your own for 72 hours, that's the critical question that we all need to ask ourselves and it's a life or death question. thank you for bringing it to our attention. under anne's guidance, d.e.m. also expanded alert s.f. and this is the city's only emergency text message alert system that now reaches more than 100,000 people.

there's the lbe community, the local hire community, and then there are a number of city departments who are proving the most difficult. i'm sure we'll resolve this matter in the days ahead. with that, i will turn it over to supervisor fewer. >> thank you, very much, supervisor peskin. i also just want to say that i am so glad that through negotiation conversations, we're seeing progress in coming to a common agreement to make sure this is the strongest possible legislation. this is how pla should be created, making sure that all parts are at the table. while i was a commissioner at the san francisco board of education, i offered the strongest and biggest project labor agreement for the san francisco unified school district, ensuring that prevailing wages are paid to our valued workforce. i want to thank all the parties who have been participating in this process, particularly minority and women-owned businesses and representatives from the city as well as supervisor peskin and supervisor safai. we value contracts. i'm hopeful about the discussions that have taken place and thus far a

. >> commissioner anderson: some of the items are one city department charging another city department, is that right? >> some of them. the design contract is through a private sector -- a joint venture with t.e.f. architecture. but we're using public works for the design team on another pool. so it's case by case. for geotechnical analysis, that was done through public works and hazardous materials testing done through public works. so there are city agencies as well that we're paying. >> so when it's to determine that permit fees are due, is that the rec and park paying another department? >> d.b.i., yeah. >> commissioner anderson: does rec and park pay the same scale as anybody else? >> yeah. >> commissioner anderson: no discounts for being in the same city house? >> they're legally mandated. >> commissioner anderson: this is just for any own edification and anyone interesting. i think it's interesting to civilians how these things work. you kind of think we're under one roof and it's not going to cost everything, but everything has to be charged in some way. >> having done developm

to be fair, the deputy city attorney is listening, and his eyebrows raised. >> supervisor safai: okay. for the department city attorney. sorry i took it that direction. >> supervisor cohen: okay. >> supervisor safai: and i do want to say i agree with the larger argument about wanting additional funding for a two-year cycle for your district request along with additional funding for our citywide based on the priorities that we put forward. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you very much. i want to give supervisor fewer -- oh, excuse me, supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: well, i was just going to make a point. we know that there's 5.3 million in additional revenue that the controller has identified, plus a 1.5 million that we identified in savings from this morning, so that's 6.8. so i guess for me, still, i like the list in front of us. i think it should be funded. i -- if we are going to put forward things that we want to be funded, i would take everything everybody mentioned plus a district wide ask and take it to them, rather than trying to make choices now amongst the various thi

she contacted jane manning in new york city who flew down here to have a meeting with the d.a. gascon, with the police department, to push for reform. wasn't able to go anywhere. she said san francisco is among the worst cities in dealing with rape and sexual assaults. >> supervisor cohen: what is the best city? >> supervisor: i don't know. i didn't ask her that. we started talking to different organizations and i started talking to countless women and you will see 50 women's stories about how they have been treated in pedestrian and we have a serious problem here and the systems that deal with this issue. that i believe's not because we have gotten better at dealing with the system. they don't have enough staff and women are waiting four hours in the women are waiting to see a doctor, but they are finally em boldened to come out and speak out against being sexually assaulted. we need to step up to take this epidemic crime seriously and treat it with the seriousness that it deserves. >> supervisor cohen: let me ask you -- and we are here in the budget committee and just deliberating about budgets and numbers. so

the department's budget. i should also note joined by sheila, our department grant manager should the commissioners have any questions about the department budget relative to the city's approved budget. we were awarded this grant, which we pursued jointly with the municipal transportation agency to study the project area that's here on the screen, and we are working with our port partners and other peer agencies to finalize the grant scope and resubmit that to caltrans for the final description of the statement of work. so -- i'm available if there are any questions about the content of the grant and again, sheila is available if we have any questions about the physical as spent of it. >> president hillis: ok, first see if there is any public comment on this item. seeing none, close public comment. commissioners. commissioner richards. >> commissioner richards: move to approve. >> second. >> preside >> commissioners, a motion and seconded to adopt a resolution authorizing the director, on that -- >> vice president melgar: i wanted to say really great job, staff. almost half a million dollars into our budget, really good job. thank you. >> we have the world's best gra

you have to think the inspection department knew about this, the city departments know about this, but what about the owners of the building? when he spoke he said there was a transformer, they were willing to help to hide it. they are complicit. the question i asked the district attorney's office, you have these two sharing some of the blame, what about the owners of the building? why are you looking at them? why aren't you looking at the city to maybe prosecute them? then you get into a lot of politics, but notwithstanding what about the owners? why have they been ignored? >> that is just one question, if there case fell apart or that to a plea deal could it hold up against the owners? that is the question i had in my mind. if they're going to be enough evidence? >> what you like those two to be witnesses against the owners? those are two great witnesses. we have planned guilty and accepted our responsibility. let us tell you what the building owners did. >> thank you, gentlemen. >>> our coverage does not end here. head over to ktvu.com for continuing coverage and stay with us tonigh

city departments mandate everything compostable and you are not allowed to charge for it. other vendors we charge 25-cents for napkins, cups, plates. the city departments do not allow you to invoice that. people that are vendors with the city are losing the money while they are pending five times more. plastic forks $9 for a thousand. over 40 for compostable. there are huge expenses for stephen tors. if you are going to have an overhead you need to take that into consideration. the city should amend the rule of charges for that. there needs to be more chai clay for zero waste. that is on the books. if you cater for city hall, you have to pack out the trash with you. that is zero waste. you have to pack it out. people are caught off guard with that. if this is going to be an additional requirement for city events, there needs to be clarity on whose responsibility it is for what. i did have another question. i will come back to it. >> thank you for your comments. i think you make very astute points if we make those requirements. we will look into that and provide some response to regimena. >> a lot of what i am reading implies that there