of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of vehicles that are in this city that come into this city to suggest that these shuttles have bike or pedestrian or pollution impacts that even marginally move the dial beyond the huge amount of traffic that we already have in this city, i just don't think that is a good argument. i also want to know and this did come up earlier in terms of the bike plan in particular. we've seen what i think is a v -- very very unfortunate trend, not just in san francisco but in california but we as a state are growing by 2.1 million people we are going to have to do something about this. we see ceqa impede transit investment and transit advances whether it's a shuttle program or all man or public transportation project. we are seeing the california environmental quality act being used to delay and defeat public transit and transportation projects that will lead to cleaner air and will get cars off the road. we should not contribute to that trend with that appeal. this appeal does not have merit. we should address the problems facing our city without preten

of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of vehicles that are in this city that come into this city to suggest that these shuttles have bike or pedestrian or pollution impacts that even marginally move the dial beyond the huge amount of traffic that we already have in this city, i just don't think that is a good argument. i also want to know and this did come up earlier in terms of the bike plan in particular. we've seen what i think is a v -- very very unfortunate trend, not just in san francisco but in california but we as a state are growing by 2.1 million

and just as important as we have to make an effort in housing in this city needs to be made an effort. i want to applaud all of you and the coalitions let's make a run at this and asking see if we can keep stability and dignity in our housing effort and maybe we'll get global climate change i believe it will be global climate choose we need our stability >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening tv please. keep this up for at least >> is sfgovtv on the projector please. thank you there's a big story i'm not going to have time to get into i have a higher call to preach the word of god

and just as important as we have to make an effort in housing in this city needs to be made an effort. i want to applaud all of you and the coalitions let's make a run at this and asking see if we can keep stability and dignity in our housing effort and maybe we'll get global climate change i believe it will be global climate choose we need our stability >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening tv please. keep this up for at least >> is sfgovtv on the projector please. thank you there's a big story i'm not going to have time to get into i have a higher call to preach the word of god but harry reid is con circulating this. this is two days after palm sunday a historic time for christians i'm a christian. as jesus rode the donkey into jerusalem and if you would this prophesy it said rejoice this and behold this king comes to you he's a just fir and having the salvation and riding upon a colt but the par sees said rebuckeye the disciples if i stop those folks the stones will cry out and he we want. i remember when harrod died i didn't agree with everything but my mom and dad never got

you'll have two minutes each. >>> yes, this is to the city. you know, i have a concern, been having a concern ever since this began where there is not one city department with a state certified compliance officer to make sure that this is done. when will this city hire? i talked to the mayor. i sent compliance officers to him. even to the city administrator's office. it seems as though no one want to do the right thing here. now, i would like to know how are you going to be sure -- how would you be sure that these jobs are being done under the hud guideline section 3? looks like nobody knows about hud guidelines, and it is a shame. and i've been saying it -- and i know you, city attorney, tired of hearing me talk about it. but i just had to come up here right now and state the fact that it's sad, it is sad. the only department in this city, which is the unified school district that has a state federal certified compliance officer. now, they got so-called compliance officer in name, but they are not certified by the state where they can send in

legislation, what this legislation does is it gives san franciscans a fighting chance to stay in this city. it is not a pancita or a silver bullet, about you this provoids working and middle class people in san francisco a fighting chance to afford to stay here if they're evicted. i do think that it's important for us to focus on the work at the state level, but i don't think we can be happier or satisfied until locally we're doing everything we can do because if all we do is wait for the state to change the ellis sack and some of the laws that needs to be changed, by the time those laws changes, it will be thousands of san franciscans who will no longer be living in this city. this helps all those facing eviction today that they have a fighting chance to stay here. i'm proud of this legislation. i want to thank the tenant community which has organized around the issue of displacement in which through a series of conventions identified the issue of relocation costs and increasing the relocation assistance as the top issue in terms of ways in which we can stem the tide against its basement.

regardless, this city is taking this legal action which will have a significant impact. although, the city is also proposing to change the location of many of these stops. that is not just information collection, that's moving the desk chairs around. the court's have construed ceqa exemptions very narrowly which in the cast ak lake got leveled in an earthquake and they said we are going to do a ceqa exemption and build higher and the courts said you can't do a ceqa exemption because you are not building it the way it was. once you go outside the narrow scope of the exemption, the exemption doesn't apply anymore. here the city is changing the law and changing the location of the stops, transit, we've got transit engineer tom bror hard who says those changes alone will increase the number of shuttles, increase amount of traffic, increased amount of pedestrian impacts because many operators don't want to operate illegally. but they will operate once the city makes it legal to do so. >> if i may, when someone is cited, what

i'm with the harvey milk lgbt union, the city tells us this takes time. we neat to -- need to complete an eir. when we are working for working class, the city tells us this takes time. we need complete an eir. when it takes time to build bike lanes. the city tells us this takes time an we need an eir. now we are told that this would employee 200 muni stops and a vehicle that weighs over 31 tons. those of us in the community have come to expect and accept the it takes time answer to many of our most pressing concerns and we are frustrated to learn that this project time is suddenly not an issue. in issuing this categorical exemption in ceqa. a program that has so controversial subject to countless community protest -- ought to score the saechl -- same process. we are asking for fairness to go through same process that all department of transportation. >> good evening, i'm a resident of san francisco. i'm with the pissed off voters. i have to fight with these buses to get my daughter to school. they are almost running me over and take our lives. i have seen

it's the inter city buses causing this ceqa impact. >> if the inter city within san francisco? >> yes. the long distance shuttles are causing the impact of the streets, pedestrian safety that we are talking about. >> even though 80 percent of the rider ship of the intracity shuttles that you have more vehicles some which use white zones and muni stops those are not causing gentrification, not causing noise pollution and not giving people cancerous. in fact, when you look at the gentrification issue, some of those institutions and companies i just read, i'm sure that they rival a lot of these companies in terms of what they are paying a lot of their workers. the health care industry has some very highly compensated people as well as levis and gap and it's your position that only the fact that tech workers living here is causing gentrification and only the tech shuttles that are causing the noise and cancer problems. i don't understand that distinction except under what i talked about before that these are somehow not real san franciscans and we want them out of the city. >> i ne

the enforcement arm of this city has failed to do it's job on this issue and given away public space for private use that somehow that changes the baseline that you should consider for whether and eir is required. that is on offensive argument and they should do this job and enforce this law rather than put it on you and accept their tolerance on our city. i would invite you to have coffee on my corner on steiner. we can watch the buses and see who is winning. i will buy the coffee and tell you that folks like myself are forced to walk around muni. the idea that this does not require environmental review. is laughable. i urge you to vote in favor of this appeal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is melissa gordon. i urge the board of supervisors to conduct an eir. i'm also a district 5 resident. i became an advocate for muni when i was 11 years old and i received my first pass to commute to school. i understand the intent of these shuttles. it's supposed to help with carpooling and eliminating potential leaving cars on the streets but it should better fit into

deputy city attorney can we require the board of supervisors hold a hearing on this topic. >> deputy city attorney, john gibner. the answer is yes, you can make that amendment today and pass the ordinance on first read. generally, the board procedures are, we try not to prescribe board procedures in ordinances because the board's hearing process is generally within the board's authority, but of course it's your policy decision as to whether you want to include that in an ordinance and bind the board i year from now. >> i'm happy to support this legislation. i'm happy to include a hearing requirement in one and 2 years. so happy to make that motion. >> okay, president chiu has made a motion and second by wiener. can we take that without objection? so moved. supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. supervisor farrell, for me this legislation is a long time coming and complete with what we want to do with it. i do appreciate president chiu bringing it forward. i live in a district that has seen it's population grow by 6,000 residents from 2000-2010 census. my area is redis

your heart is as big as this city. it's an honor to be with you. [applause] tom, the boston athletic association, first of all, thank you for having jill and me. what an incredible job you have with the one organization. this is an important day, an important day for the survivors, but i think you bostonians don't understand it's an important day for the nation. it's an port and day for america and the families of martin and link to and crystal an officer is i know from some experience this is a bittersweet moment for all of you. gone throughave your own sorrows and know that this celebration that pays tribute, it brings every memory .ack in such sharp relief in a sense, you would almost rather not have it happen. you in thetalk to back of the auditorium, thank you for your courage. solaceyou take some again from the out pouring of love and affection and all the people of this great city in the country. but it is still difficult. memorial, noo and fully provide the solace your heart and souls yearn to acquire. i hope as you breathe a little bit, it

and for this body in this city which does say that it is a bastian of diversity which we know to not be really true based upon these kinds of investigations and this kind of scrutiny of african americans and other people of color. so, i urge you, one, to reconsider and to vote this a no resolution and not to move forward on this issue because it does call into question your ethics as a commission and the way in which this city in particular treats its african-american community and the way in which it seems to overly penalize african americans. and i really hope that you will look into your hearts. and someone earlier said that you should look at your values. and i have to question where your values lie given the fact we are here tonight? thank you. (applause) >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is dwayne jones. i'm a business owner here in san francisco. i've also had the pleasure of serving as a department head here for this city for the office of community development and also serving as one of the senior advisors for mayor newsome for the 7 years he served as mayor here. th

this room is gang intelligence. there's more information in here than you can imagine. i can solve every murder in the cityf chicago inside this county jail. i can do it very easily because everybody talks. >>s there's a guy in division two. >> i need it done today. not tomorrow, you hear? >> reporter: the steady stream of illegal guns flowing in the chicago remains a major focus of his investigations. >> weapons that you guys were getting, how easy were they? >> it was easy to get like crates of guns. mostly like .380s, .32s,eds, 4-5s. >> what were the guns going for? >> it wasn't that much. a whole crate probably a couple thousand. >> how easy is it to get the bullet? >> people like they would be a gun cart or something, you know, give them a couple here, all type of bullets for you, whatever bullet you need. >> if i was the mayor of chicago, how can i stop it? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: despite the on going gang conflicts, they want their students to enjoy a fun, wholesome homecoming week. >> i'm the principal, by the way. >> are you the principal? >> i'm the principal. today is the paj

this whole city is my city. now, what i have heard and when i found out about this, it hurts because i have been jumped on, beat up and tried to be framed by the police. and my question is to the black, the chinese and any other culture in here, do you remember your history? when you put too much pressure on a twig, it will break. when you put too much pressure on a twig it will break. just like everyone's history in this room. you put pressure, they will fight back. god bless you. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello, my name is shane. we are just moving in to the block on third street and i'm here to speak on the shooting and i would like to extend my condolences to the family of mr. nieto. as to the shooting on sunday night. i'm a new member of the community, a new member and we are committed to the positive am -- acclimation of that block and willing to work with the community and the police to make this a livable neighborhood. i would ask the police commission support all his staff in the engagement work they ar

some day, you might find this parcel map is the one, but tomorrow may city reign, so we'll follow the sun. >> thank you, anyone else for public comment for this item. seeing none, public item is closed. on a motion to continue, can we do -- >> there's no public comment today, but the hearing will remain open until the date of continuance. >> my apologies. so i'm not going to close the hearing. the hearing will remain open. >> that was my motion. my motion was to continue this hearing as open. >> let me rephrase it. we're going to keep this hearing open until the six of may. that should be the case without objection. with that, why don't we go to role call. >> supervisor farrell. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. >> so, with the housing affordability that has become the discussion of the year here in san francisco, how affordable is this city for our existing residents and new residents. we want to introduce legislation today. it's great importance that has taken every week of our woerd discussions as we talk about legislation such as increasing relocation payments, figuring out ways to

is it something about this city divine, and you make it through shine. remember give it the city dime and you're lucky guys and fellows, girls and fellows, and i got to tell you, that you're city's kind of wild and free. because love grows in the city we know and we're going to make it happen wait and see. >> i have a picture for public viewing. sfgtv. >> good afternoon supervisors and president chiu. i'm here on behalf of myself. i'm a resident at 909 gary at the heartland. there's seniors, 70 percent of the building is seniors. they came there broke, hungry and homeless. now they're convenient, the elevator has been down since march 4th. we're into april 8th. i'm here asking for all supervisors to use their powers along with the mayor of the city of san francisco to have these tenants compensated $16.50 per day sense the elevator has been down. the building inspector has stepped in. they have a hearing coming up on april 10th. they have dinged the building unsafe and a public nuisance. they are considering it on april 10th. i don't know which way it's g

monday as runners cross the starting line for the 118th running of the boston marathon, this city crosses, one that connects a future that we embrace with a day and with four neighbors we will always, always remember. next week we will run again, but on this day, in this place, in remembrance and resolve, we gather as citizens of boston, boston strong. [ applause ] >> and that of course is the executive director of the boston athletic association. this man coming to the stage is a man who became a household name and household face in america. boston's former mayor. he like all of us have grown a little grayer over the last year. we mistook him from the distance. erica, he has the cane. that was what struck so many people. >> absolutely. [ applause ] >> after they caught the second bombing suspect he showed up to speak from the hospital to speak to bostonians. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. vice president biden, governor patrick, major walsh. [ laughter ] >> something has changed. [ laughter ] >> good afternoon. i am so glad to see so many people

this group is working on an application to the world health organization's aid friendly city's programrogram is to certify that cities are physically, socially, and economically friendly for people with disabilities and seniors. many aspects of the city are considered before certification can be given, including transportation, housing, and integrated care services. this process will continue over the coming months. the second work group is the housing and services work group which has met twice so far. they are a member of the work group and we have seen a presentation from the mayor's office of housing and i've had discussions about what might be housing priorities for the council to pursue. i will continue to keep you posted on their proceedings. edth long-term care coordinating council meets the second thursday of every month ~. the meeting from may has been canceled. the next meeting will therefore be on thursday, june 12, 2014, at the main public library in the civic center in the latino hispanic conference room at 1:30. members of the public are always welcome to attend any upco

city back. we want to make this the healthiest city we can. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon president chiu, and supervisors. my name is mrs. woods. i share the mission bay committee and has for many years. we have been trying to get this site built for a long time. it's a tough site. i think a lot of these people are going to have people on the freeway looking in their windows as they come off onto the marcadaro. they supported the housing and we supported the 120 percent ami proposal. we weren't given an opportunity to reviews the proposal, but you we understand that it's a compromise and i think what it does reflect is the very great difficulty of building any kind of moderate income housing because there are no subsidies and as you move forward with your policy discussions, low income, very low income, there are places to go for money, and we know we need this moderate level of housing, but it's a balance. how do we get it without the subsidies that are given to the lower income people ask that's how we get all the low income housing built. as you move forward w

they've embarrassed this city and i finding either the city librarian are the library commission in violationf the sunshine ordinances she was recommended by the san francisco ethnics commission to be removed if office. for 8 solid years they perpetuated along with the city people a fraud upon this city they lawed a group of private individuals to spend over $60 million raised in the name of library and the citizens of this city and yet for two years i was unable to find were any of the money went. mr. herrera was violating a law and committed perjury saying he got nothing when he was getting 4 to $500,000 a year and under penalty of perjury claimed he got nothing he's the next one to go. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> secretary of state hillary clinton on a meeting addressed the meeting of armenian genocide it's been viewed and properly so and so so as a matter of historical debate and conclusions and not political it's right for the united states government to try to use government power to resolve historic issues opens a dangerous door i agree hillary clinton whether the armenia

the flexibility needed for effective public/private partnerships to build world class parks that this city deserves. we rehe expectfully suggest that private donations and charitable organizations be exempt from this legislation at the least and that the board of supervisors slightly delay the ordinance to study it further to clearly understand the full impacts. in the past five years the trust for public land has had a strong partnership with the recreation and parks department and together has completed projects such as hayes valley playground and balboa park. for these projects, rec/park has successfully encouraged charitable donations, public private partnerships and a variety of public and private grants. this legislation would strain the flexibility needed to accomplish these projects. we are currently working with a generous donor to explore redoing the playground in front of civic center. the proposed legislation again concerning the budge and schedule of this project and challenge the donor's intent to make this city more livable and have great public parks for all san franciscans

big priority for our office, and, secondly, in changes to our asserting that the city recognized we want to institutional this and as we talk about the tails of two cities we feel this is a strong statement to say that this is a policy that san francisco prioritize and urge you to make that important change to the fair >> thank you. next speaker, please (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello, i'm dan incremental i'm the access arts student. hello director nolan and members of the board i'm proud to be here in front of you. morning to tell you about something important. i'm proud to be a member at the mac community and special education transition student. we think of the students with disabilities in the san francisco unified school district are not able to be benefiting from the free muni program. we don't think those students were left out and proposed but that the community wasn't aware that we are here and we're of the district students that rely on a d pass to have access to our community including united states in our budget will cost so little by enriched the lives of the so many muni have h

this is a great city to live in. i'm hugely proud of the fact i'm born and raised here i want to acknowledge all the men and women who do the work everyday in the federalist and thank you for coming out to celebrate our rich history >> so chief joanne haynes-white let's hear it for her great job. city boy talk all right. another great native please welcome the fabulous greg suhr everyone (clapping.) good morning it's this is so exist to be out here with everyone thank you so much for being here it's critical to be prepared as the chief and the mayor said this year we know it's going to happen even if it's remembering this event the city farthsd who did the planning to have the great water system they score the city of wouldn't be brnd down didn't he have the greater voice in the morning. so, anyway thank you so much for court of law and please continue to help us out when we ask for things to keep even better prepared i know that dp m does a from job we appreciate the support. we were out saturday with a nert trainin

this city was broken for a while. new york was broken. oklahoma city was broken.as been broken by wars, and yet we have emerged stronger from each one of these. >> john tlumacki, again, reflecting on your image that you took, that's the kind of image that stands the test of time, marking a moment in history. what's it going to represent to you and do you think to people who see it in years to come. >> i think it's going to be the reminder of what happened in that terrible marathon. hopefully this year i'll be able to replace that image with something more joyful. survivors crossing the finish line with their family. i'm going to be there, i'm going to be standing on the finish line doing my job, and i want to replace that image. i don't want people to keep coming back and thinking that's the way it was. i want people to come and look -- go online, look at the "boston globe" and say what a beautiful picture. >> well said. we're going to leave it there. thank you very much. thank all of you for being here and thank you all on the panel as well. >> thank you. >> bost

our restrictive housing policies in this city, having the city grown over 75,000 people in this decade and only adding 80,000 units and exploding prices, that is what's causing problems for families. these findings if they had any connection to the facts from the ground in 1984, i don't think they would today. i'm open to supporting the amendment exempting rh 1d districts. but only if those findings are stripped out because i will not support any legislation that reiterates those erroneous findings. >> okay. supervisor wiener has made an amendment to supervisor yee's amendment. can i have a second? we have a full roster here. is there anyone here, supervisor kim? >>supervisor jane kim: i would like to speak on the original amendment but it's fine on the motion as amended. can i speak on that. >> hold on. let's amend it first. can we take supervisor wiener's motion without objection. >> can you ask him to restate his motion. >> can you restate the motion? >>supervisor scott weiner: i'm happy to restate as a motion. this is to label yee as a 1. my motion to strip out from the bottom of p

this isn't a question, but i wanted to let the supervisors know because the city has generously funded summer schools and it has been hard years for us. this year we have dedicated $2 million towards credit recovery and part is to offer summer school at the following high school sites, ball bow y'all high school, george washington high school and galleo and they'll serve high school students throughout the city offering classes to help them graduate to those who are behind and need graduation recovery. thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner fewer. i know that was a priority on the school board, but on the board of supervisor to insure that we fund summer school which is a critical piece of our education system and was sadly cut for one year when we have massive state cuts. it was an unfortunate decision, but i'm glad we were able to fulfill that need. >> commissioner wynns. thank you for the presentation. i'm interested in what students go to these programs that are located at certain schools during the summer, so do we get students from other schools or do they get filled with

city back. we want to make this the healthiest city we can. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon president chiu, and supervisors. my name is mrs. woods. i share the mission bay committee and has for many years. we have been trying to get this site built for a long time. it's a tough site. i think a lot of these people are going to have people on the freeway loo

for too long this burden has fell on the city and property owners. and there is a general feeling that there is too few consequences for graffiti vandals. and this is true for repeat offenders. with the legislation offering new ways for graffiti offenders. all is important as the information streaming and costs, and the ability for the city to seek civil and administrative actions against the offenders. and of course better protection of our parks and public vehicles against graffiti vandals. i hope that you support this effort to hold graffiti offenders for the damage they cause this city. it's a step in the right direction to shift the burden from the victim to the offender. and it sends a message that san francisco is able and willing to take steps to address the offensive and destructive graffiti problem. this is the right thing to do for the city and thank you for your effort and time. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> good morning, madam chair, london breed and board president chiu and board of supervisors tang, thank you for giving me this

as a quick review the city has planned a 3-day exercise for city departments. this is includes city departments but also some outside agencies like the office of emergency services and cal oes and the weather guard and people who bring us reports. this is around earthquakes in alaska. this theoretical earthquake generates a tsunami and gives the city a 5-hour warning to evacuate parts of the western, northern and eastern sections of town. the first day of the exercise will focus on alert, the second on response and the third day on recovery, 5 days after the event. our office will be participating on all 3 days. but one thing that is new to these exercises that we'll be bringing in american sign language interpretation into the emergency operation center as part of our exercise play. and training the communications officer on how to integrate that into their communication reports. i also want to announce that there will be a tsunami watch walk on saturday march 29, 1030, a.m. @ at the marina green and there will be speakers like supervisor farrell and joanne white.

we think this as necessary appetites as we look at working people in the city being able to, you know, support and get a progressive coalition which we hope we can do we've made progress in the exist portion we're not just policy focused but doing the work and those folks the youth from chinatown from cc power and the allies with the positive message has been constructive and this gives a positive look. we want to see the institutional improvements so we can moved with the conversations and looking at the 18 transition that's the varying costs of the program that we shouldn't have to wait until any kind of continuance that is splitting hairs to be moving the goalposts with you we're excited that the affordability conversation the members of the board talked about that we're excited to support what the disability and seniors programs are doing i want you to look at the changing of the fair structures the muni fairs and not to push for more >> thank you. next speaker, please (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon hello. my name is marie i'd like to take this opportunity.