motion passes. this moves us right where we will ask you to leave. we are going >> the committee voted unanimously to move items 8 and 9 with a full recommendation. >>supervisor norman yee: can i have a motion to not sdoes -- disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> so the motion passes. madam clerk is there anything else? city clerk: that concludes everything for today. >> okay. if there is nothing further, this meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. >> >> >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee. thursday, march 8th, 2014. my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by supervisors eric mar who is the vice chair of the committee and supervisor norman yee, the clerk is derek evanand we want to thank the district attorney, and sfgtv who are covering the meeting today. and that is jim smith, and jessiy larson. >> be sh you are to silence all cell phone and devices and cards should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted

motion passes. this moves us right where we will ask you to leave. we are going >> the committee voted unanimously to move items 8 and 9 with a full recommendation. >>supervisor norman yee: can i have a motion to not sdoes -- disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> so the motion passes. madam clerk is there anything else? city clerk: that concludes everything for today. >> okay. if there is nothing further, this meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. >> >> ?oo hi, i'm holly lee. i love cooking and you are watching quick bites. san francisco is a foodie town. we san franciscoans love our food and desserts are no exceptions. there are places that specialize in any and every dessert your heart desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. anyone out there with a sweet tooth? then i have a great stop for you. i've been searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthony's are those cookies. with rave reviews like this i have to experience these coo

. >> [roll call vote taken] the motion passes. >> okay, the motions passes. thank you madam clerk. city clerk: i would like to motion be sent to us by tomorrow 9:00 a.m.. >> madam clerk go to item 2. city clerk: item 2: 140190: [appropriation - library preservation fund - public library teen center project - $3,243,752 - fy2013-2014]1401902.sponsors: chiu; kimordinance appropriating $3,243,752 of library preservation fund balance to the public library for the teen center city clerk: sf 21234 >> thank you. i appreciate you very much for being here. >> thank you very much. city librarian. we are going to provide background on issues requesting today on making the teen center on the lab. we have a powerpoint presentation we are going to walk through. we have new skills that is going to involve new media. one of the reasons we have received the award is the department of california science, the bay area video coalition to in fact create this planning process that truly engages our young people. i will provide more details on that. it's also linked to other improvements to the entire pr

the minutes? >> do i hear a motion to approve the minutes as corrected by commissioner keane? >> so moved. >> corrections. >> okay. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> and the motion passes. and mr. st. croix will make a note of that correction. >> yes. >> all right. >> and on the report i want to point first two typos on page 2, under section revenue report, where it says 0.65 percent, and it should just be 65 percent. in that paragraph before the xhart and where it says 0.62 percent it should be 62.5 percent. and i apologize for those typos.

the minutes? >> do i hear a motion to approve the minutes as corrected by commissioner keane? >> so moved. >> corrections. >> okay. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> and the motion passes. and mr. st. croix will make a note of that correction. >> yes. >> all right. >> and on the report i want to point first two typos on page 2, under section revenue report, where it says 0.65 percent, and it should just be 65 percent. in that paragraph before the xhart and where it says 0.62 percent it should be 62.5 percent. and i apologize for those typos. and last month, commissioner keane asked about the bdo referrals. and i just want to give you an update on those first one and two have already been litigated. and in favor of the city. and the bdr is conducting collection efforts at this point and the third one, will be, is set for the litigation but has not come to court yet. >> okay. >> and then, i just wanted to make sure that the commission knows because of the comments that have been made, statements of economic interest and the section seven and i don't have a comment on that but under the state law, we are allowed to assess late fines for people who violate, but we have no

staff at the motion passed in july this anchorage until obama extremist groups are active in ukraine. the cd often it takes them anyways the international community can stabilize the situation ukraine's as it has adopted an approach that as a step back into the spotlight. he made his first statement says russian next crimea. he said everything ukrainian region should hold a referendum to determine its state is that in the country it is believed to be sheltering in iraq shall be typed as lucy has he then carried his cross stitch the people of ukraine the use of force or threat to the mosque of crying. in eastern regions of ukraine has demonstrated because they wanted. re unite with one shot. critics said the treatment of his sixteen he claimed sovereignty and territorial integrity. he said a presidential election scheduled for the yankees know that. i took nations human rights council is putting pressure on north korea is demanding officials then paste into natural justice for crimes against humanity. also adopted the resolution by japan and the european union. he says though she didn'

motion to file the item. >> any objections? seeing none, motion passes. [ gavel] >> thank you, colleagues. >> madam clerk, can you please go back and call item number 1? >> yes. item number 1 is a hearing ~ hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending june 5, 2017, to the treasure island oversight committee. there is one vacancy and one applicant. >> okay. so, i believe -- hi. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is greg [speaker not understood], i'm with the office of treasurer and tax collector. before you today is the treasurer's nomination of mr. ronald gerhardt from the city college of san francisco ~. he is the chancellor's designee for a seat on the treasury oversight committee. chairman yee, you will recall last year when we filled some of the other seats that this is a committee that is charged with assisting the treasurer in advising him on the investment of the pool of funds that holds both the city's revenues as well as other bond revenues from both the puc and then the school district's money as well as the city college's money.

motion to waive the residency requirement. is there a motion? >> motion to waive the residency requirement for mr. [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood]. >> without any objection the motion passes. [gavel] >> do i need any public comment on that particular -- no? thank you. madam clerk? >> item number 3 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending january 31, 2016, to the mental health board. there is one vacant seat and three applicants. >> okay. let's see who is here. eugene porfido? >> yes. >> come on up. >> good afternoon. thank you. appreciate you giving me this time to speak in front of you. i've been a resident of the city for over 15 years and i'm extremely concerned with the way mental health is being addressed in san francisco today. it's important to me to not only have a voice, but to share in the responsibility of the efforts of those who are promoting better health care services and to those that are in need in the city. as part of my background, i founded tom wardell center when i got on disability in 2004. and after years of great care, i wanted to give back to the community. i joined the tom wardell community advisory board which i've been on for

the motion passes. great. thank you very much this was a very good investigation. the gary r t project this is a discussion item we have a people here from the san francisco transportation authority >> i'm with the san francisco transportation authority to talk about the gary transit project. i was before the commission in 2012 about this project. so some of you may remind me but i'm here to give an update we have made quite a bit of project progress that we're generating a release this year >> but this is the project that the transportation authority my agency is leading with the isn't it a fair statement, the folks who run muni and i want to recognize a couple that represent the agency. in my presentation i want to give a background on the project we have what we call a staff alternative and i want to share this i believe it is good news from the standpoint of any of the community concerns and wanted to talk about some of the items that have been raised in some of the outreach in the area of small business community and the direct requests from the commissioner fr

the form of a motion. >> so commissioners. >> i have a quick question for staff if the motion passes and goes back to the board of supervisors then do you know what the process they're going to be taking on this? >> supervisor avalos office they want to kickback any kind of more formalized chances to the code back to us which is fine with me but- >> jerry aid to supervisor avalos without consulting the supervisor i think it is great to see the motion giving us direction we want to talk with the health department and school board but it's a great direction our headed in. >> ms. rogers. >> i would add since there was no ordinance signed before the commission and not an ordinance with the zoning but if an ordinance is produced we need to come back here. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> if something was said here by commission that gifts further food to the working group i want them to further discuss and respond because we're here and they're in the trevendz open that i want to take that admonish refined and discussed and move forward. >> commissioners there's a moved and seconded on the floor to adapt the report including t

so the motion passes. [gavel] >> thank you very much, congratulations, and those that did not get a seat, please -- >> come back. congratulations. >> okay, item number 6. >> item number 6 is a hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending march 28, 2016, to the pedestrian safety advisory committee. there are four vacant seats and five applicants. >> okay. is howard bloomberg here? >> hello, my name is howard bloomberg and i'm applying for seat 1 of csac. i've been on the committee one year. i took -- i was approved for unexpired seat last year. so, i've been about one year now in the position. my background is in science and engineering and most of my working career has been spent in the washington, d.c. area working mainly on defense issues. i came to the bay area in 2001 and spent over eight years at lockheed martin in space systems company there. i've been living in san francisco since 2007, so, almost 7 years now. i worked with walk s.f., pedestrian safety organization since i've been here,

>>supervisor norman yee: with no objection, the motion passes. congratulations. okay, moving on. city clerk: item 6. item 5: 140135: [appointment, citizens general obligation bond oversight committee] hearing to consider appointing one member, term expiring november 21, 2014, to the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee. vacant seat 2, succeeding robert muscat, term expired, must be active in labor organizations, for the unexpired portion of a

>> hearing none. >> call the vote. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> the motion passes unanimously. >> commissioner hur, you will rejoin us. >> thank you. >> so, did we just announce? >> yeah. >> yeah, so the commission has announced that it has adopted both settlement agreements. that discussed in the agenda in the attachments. >> very good. >> madam chair, may i say one thing? >> certainly. >> i just want to also add that for the record, that i was walled off from this matter within my firm for the matter. >> thank you, we appreciate that. >> all right. >> minutes? >> from the last meeting? >> if you have reviewed them, are there any changes or corrections that need to be made? >> i have a correction. at page 2, of the minutes, and in regard to the discussions relating to miss ellis, the third full paragraph down, where it states an unidentified member of the public stated that miss ellis caused many problems if her community of bay view hunter's point shs she stated that her community does in the receive any benefit and that mis ellis should not have become an administrator, my correction would

the motion passes with positive recommendation. thank you all for coming today. >> madam clerk call the next item, please. city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use by 20 city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their

. >> so the motion passes to reestablish the standing legislation and policy committee with five votes, no one opposed. >> and then i like commissioner's dwight's idea of expertise and you have expertise in planning and ada and everything has their expertise in different areas. i want to consider it and talk to the director in how to proceed forward. we're all busy and i really appreciate what commissioner dwight said, we don't need to meet three times a month. but as i see what is coming up as far as legislationwise, we may be moving it around. i will work with the director on that and move forward. we should have taken public comment on this. let me really quick take public comment on item no. 8. do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and let's move to the next item. >> that brings us to item 9, director's report, discussion item. >> commissioners, i wanted to bring to your attention small business week is seven weeks away. and i have provided you an initial outline of the week's activities, just to give you a heade

. >> okay, the motion passes 3 to 1. i would strongly urge the librarian to try to figure out some way that this can be resolved. even if it's not a perfect solution, i would try it and at least see what you can do. clearly you heard some significant concern about whether this was appropriate and how the public is reacting to this, so, any other -- >> i would join in that. obvious -- i mean, we all understand that a visual presentation is more persuasive, at least to the publicitying behind where they see it rather than a handout which they may or may not get a copy of. and i don't know, if there's no power to the lecturn and there is no outlet close enough so you can run an extension cord to allow them to have a transparency type and a roll-up screen, not very elaborate, but something that would allow the public speaker if he or she had something that they wanted to show to the commission and to the public put up there to reinforce the argument i think it would be helpful. >> i concur. and i think it would go a long way

item number 5. >> can we get a motion for the consent calendar. >> get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. this motion passes, can you call item number pa. >> state and federal legislative update. this is an action item. >> great, my favorite update, how are you? >> fine, thank you very much. >> we need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. >> we do. >> a lot of the work has been done, so i'll make it as easy as possible. >> february 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. support if amended and we have four that we want to oppose as they are written presently. so if you -- i can walk through the bills that we're recommending. >> sure. >> on page 6 of the matrix, ab 1532 by mr. gato, continues his efforts to address safety of bicycle, pedestrian by making it a crime if you -- if a person -- if a vehicle strikes a pedestrian or bicyclist even if there's no harm, if they don't stop, it's a gap in the law if the person is not ha

the pig.org. >> >> colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation? >> yes, so moved. >> okay. with no objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. there are two vacant seats and two applicants. >> okay. i will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. is sam [speaker not understood] here? come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sam patel. i'm here to apply for seat number 2 on the s-r-o task force. i have 30 years of experience in operating a s-r-o hotel. currently my company manages several s-r-o buildings, including two not for profit. i've been serving on the task force since its inception, back in 1992, i believe, and i would like to continue doing so. thank you. >> okay. any questions? supervisor tang. >> great, thank you, mr. patel. just wanted to -- i mean, given your long experience with the task force, any particular plans that you have moving forward in your continued role? >> just, you know, continue helping e

there's concerned about the issues and there's a lot of change here i'm still of the view i you shouldn't pass 24 motion until the recirculation is in order >> thank you. >> i'm owen i live near the square. i want to address the sfmta has taken on my neighborhood and really done a good job to it. between the bikes lanes on fair and oak street between the changes in the where i believe and planning to what they're planning to do to masonic street and now with the transit we ail feel like terrified rodents in the lab of a crazy insane scientist and we know they're going to do something to us and it's terrifying. you go to a doctor who's cut off your fingers and toes and he says come to the hospital tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock i'm going to tell you what we're going to do 5 minutes before you go into the anesthesia remember a single cut won't kill you but eventually you die under the circumstances without them telling you what they're going to do they should tell you specifically what is being planned before the eir draft is certified

the motion. >> so, i'll move positive recommendation from this committee. >> okay. without any objection? this motion passes. [gavel] >> thank you. (applause) ~ >> so, i'll be continuing the meeting. if you would like to leave quietly, i would appreciate it. madam clerk, can you please call items 5 through 10. excuse me, everybody. i need to clear the room. we still have other items we have to hear. so, can we entertain a motion to convene in closed session. is there any member of the that wishes to speak on items a5 through 10? seeing none public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> colleagues, is there a motion to convene in closed session? >> motion to convene in closed session. >> no objection? closed session. [gavel] >> without any objection, the motion is passed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, are there any other items? >> that concludes our business for today. >> if there is nothing further, this meeting is adjourned. [gavel] >> thank you. morning. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us i know you'd probably like to be at the bay bridge. i want to thank you mayor ed lee for welcoming us as we int

the motion passed on friday instructs the city's attorney to draft new rules that will impose a moratorium on fracking intel environment protections are in place. los angeles would be the first oil-producing city in california to impose a ban on fracking. the powerful pro-israel group aipac is holding its annual conference in washington, d.c. protesters led by codepink added outside the convention hall sunday to protest israel's treatment of palestinians and call for peace and diplomacy with iran. this is codepink's medea benjamin. >> for the american people. the american people want diplomacy to work. the american people don't want war. the american people look at iraq and say, oh! aipac was one of those groups that pushed us into that war. how did that war turnout? >> president obama is due to meet with benjamin netanyahu at the white house today. the meeting comes as israel faces condemnation over the killing of palestinians in the occupied territories. over the weekend, israeli troops shot and killed a palestinian woman in the gaza strip. the military says it fired on a group of people

the practice violates state laws. a new jersey commission has passed a motion to block direct car sales. new jersey commission move would shut its doors. the commissions motion passed unanimously. tesla discovered yesterday that this rule was under review. we will continue to follow this story. shares are dropping, down over 1.5%. u.s. and international regulators are meeting in florida this week to discuss how to coordinate rules in the wake of the 2008 unanswered crisis. delay's aren't place and are 2008 implemented -- financial crisis. mr. children, welcome to "bottom --mr. chilton, welcome to "bottom line." page thatn the same could shape global markets? >> great question. the answer is some of them are more onboard than others. everybody is moving forward tom abuts on that a little -- everyone is moving forward, but some at a slower pace. that is why we have these meetings every year, to ensure harmonizing their rules and regulations so we can avoid a circumstance like we saw in 2008. international resistance to the united states leading this effort? some officials still blame a lax