try to carry the legislation or do something about it and i think that it is important for us as commissioners to do some homework on this with the pros and cons of late night transit with regard to the industry that we regulate. >> thank you. >> i am done. >> great, any other future agenda items? >> you know, ways thinking about the plastic water bottle and no more water bottles and i was just wondering if there was some way that we could get, an idea of how to be a more green industry. i just recently, you know, took an environmental geology course. it has me freaked out. you know, there is just so much plastic in the world and there is so little water left for us to drink and if we could be a more responsible and we could help that i would appreciate that. >> so the big, some of the big festivals are working on that. and since, the plastic water bottle ban is probably not workable. >> for some of the really larger ones? and they are working on seeking combustible items like water bottle and so on and so forth and it is a work in progress. >> when they are finished, do you think that we coul

commissioner engagement through it. that's the trick. as our city attorney would tell us, we can't get in the serial meetings, but there is a certain art and we start learning how they set it up with juvenile probation. i think one of the quick easy ideas was search team can just have individual conversations in a silo with each commissioner and incorporate that into the conversation because they're not sharing, hey, your colleague said this and your colleague said that, so, we're good, right? deputy city attorney owen? >> that is part you have to be very careful about is not accidentally indicating what a colleague had suggested. >> got it. >> there is also the logistical part about how many interviews you want to do at a march 25th meeting even if they were a half hour apiece. you would soon end up with multiple-hour meeting. >> we're going to lose commissioner wald. >> i had the same questions for everyone. i just want to say as someone who participated in the last search that i really appreciate the attention that you have given -- all of you have given so far to enga

us. commissioners, as you recall in december 2012, you approved a sixth amendment to the phase 1 disposition development agreement that allowed for the aggregation of the master developer lennar's 50% area median income eunice. they are so-called developer inclusionary units to be aggregated on one site, block 49. since that time you have taken a number of steps to implement that. by approving the schematic design last summer and now before you are the legal documents, the transaction documents that would effectuate the development of block 49. so, with that, i'd like to ask anna, assistant project manager for hunters point shipyard to present this item. >> thank you, executive director. good afternoon, president johnson and commissioners. my name is [speaker not understood], i'm assistant project manager for the shipyard. today i requested the commission authorize the executive director to enter into a vertical lease disposition development agreement and [speaker not understood] pa tickv point fund, and conveyance agreement with lennar in furtherance of development of 59 units of very low-i

commissioner melgar when has joined us. >> update on tracking systems. >> good morning, commissioners i as project director update on the tracking systems we're getting he ready for the next round of yourself testing starting next week for 4 weeks. we're getting the tests for the interfaces we're having with the i b r we have 6 of them and testing the mobile device inspections and the retrofitting. we will also be testing the prior round we found issued we'll be retesting those. we have a busy schedule for the next 4 weeks. we're going to inviting the stakeholder and give us any tweaks we can do the electrical boiler that takes permits. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item 4 d update on major projects. >> good morning, commissioners. tom director. you see the revenue go up last month because of the code change. lots of people submit the permit for december before the code change that's why you see it barely go up from 6 to 7 period. any questions? >> no. i'm good >> okay. item 4 e i didn't want on code enforcement >> dbi monthly update the building inspector was performed for 5 hundred and 16. complainants received for 2 hundred

allow us to know is this particular operator having an average tenure of 10 months as opposed to the other 6 years. that will be useful information for us to know about those operators >> commissioner white. >> so this is only related to private parking garages. >> right. >> are the public parking garages doing this. >> the mta has contracted with anyone who operates animate mat garage. i don't know that they have - titus it's a case by case business we've been in touch with the mta they don't need legislation to do this. the mta has informed us their fine with those requirements so withhold for them to do it for their operates. the other thing inform keep in mind you have a public agency and employees who's job is to monitor those contracts and operators. private operators you don't have that same level of day to day scrutiny. commissioner dwight >> has there been any objections. >> we've provided information to one of the jar parking lot and offered to meet with them. they ended up not following up with us. i interpreted that as perhaps you know it's not a big deal. i offered to meet with them and he suspect they would have been here today. they economy about it we e-mailed them

interests and in particular the sponsorship of this allocation as i understand commissioner mcdonnell as well as the san francisco recreation staff to userove the campers experience. at the february 5th general manager characterized sf rec and park as the three legs of stolen support the cam. we welcome in this case a certainly amount of hi personally. we're the shorter leg in this met for but whatever volunteers are noted and such as curtains and other things are to be divided and when the camper store is to be operated. we look forward to working with the department for this year and any way that will promote our shared mission. thank you >> thank you. victor >> good morning, commissioners i'm victor. >> victor can i have you - >> i'm vic for for i am fighting for my life i've been a resident directly cross the street from the upper douglas dog park when i moved there it was a baseball stadium and unbe known to me behind the residents i think it was turned into a dog park. eye i have no notes i just learned about this meeting. i'm here fighting for my life some of you have been annoys to me on the phone but i'm not getting unaware. th

perhaps to wean us from this as we receive more revenues from the state and we can then use these funds to give direct relief to our school sites. any comments from staff or commissioners? yes? emily? >> i just wanted to reiterate my strong support of the piece kak recommendation. as part of that i want to be on record as saying i would like to see dedicated funding stream for our world language program. >> any other comments or responses? yes, commissioner mendoza? >> yes, just the a question. did we fund the development, were you the development person person at this point that we didn't utilize. i'm wondering what happened to that position and where it is now because we certainly need it now more than ever. single family --? >> it was staffed . we have filled that position and that person has in place for close to 6 months. >> so, is this ms. howl. that is still being funded? i didn't see that in the budget. >> it's located in the infrastructure budget on page 6 if you are looking at the legal size printout of the budget. the third line of the infrastructure budget has a 1.0 grant writer. >> that's just for the grant writer. but didn't we have, is that what it was a

is used but whether or not it's being misused as we see in the case of new york. >> apart from misused, how do you make sure it's being used correctly in detroit? >> in my role as police commissioner and my colleagues is we have civilian oversight of the policy. we are under federal consent decrease 50 department of justice which en-- by the department of justice, from this data you can articulate the type of disparities that may exist and how these practices are being implementparticularly in communities that are -- implementparticularly in areas o --implemented particularly in individuals of color, where clerl therclearly there is a prt is disproportionate affecting particularly young men of color. >> when you are a community, community leader trying to deal with crime, rising violence, an important value to attack tick like this, where does that line fall for a police officer, in detroit? sure. i think here, joie you find a nexus between safety, not only of law enforcement officials but of the community itself and ultimately the citizen that is being impacted by this policy but also on the other side of this spectrum you have the issue of your constitutional rights as an americ

representatives from or commissioners from i think every port in the state of california, okay land, stockton, and los angeles, and others, and we had the port staff that came and joined us as well, peter daily and jim, maloney and commissioner adams was there as well and included several members of the iowuu at the commission's lunch which was significant for everyone to break bread together. >> it was the best attended ever and had some really terrific presentations throughout the day. one of the keynote addresses was from leslie breakly the executive director from the america gateways and corridors and we had members of the core presenting and right of others and then that evening was when the port of san francisco received our award at a reception and included the members of the state legislature, and many of their staff, so that was exciting and then the port of san francisco, actually gave an award out, as well as being the recipients and given an award to katz who is the founder of the maritime and he is stepping down from that and we were able to honor him on his great work for the ports of california. and so it was wonderful and appreciated that they gave the award

use it as a badge of honor. >> congressman, thank you. always nice to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> now to someone who knows the inner workings of the irs as well. commissioner joins us. >> good evening, greta. >> tell me, you know lois lerner. your thoughts on the fact that she took the fifth last year, some people say that she didn't effectively take the fifth and she also gave a speech so that she sort of waived it. now she is being called back into the hot seat next week. your thoughts, sir? >> first of all, i think it's fine that she took the fifth. when the speaker of the houses i'm looking for who is going to go to jury trial ands a you indicate the attorney general of the united states says i'm opening a criminal investigation, that's serious stuff. so, i would have taken the fifth if i was at the center of this. but i would not have done what she did, which was make the statement professing innocence and making a few statements and then going on. she should have just sat there and quietly took the fifth as you indicateside very common. grant the immunity. go back to the more serious crises of watergate and iran contra. that's what happened. in certa

as well. >> thank you, that takes us to item 11, commissioner reports discussion item? >> do you have any commissioner? >> dooley. >> i also attended the council of district merchant's dinner, but what i really wanted to report on is what i had brought up at our last end of our meeting which about encouraging minority use, especially african americans, to get more involved in different industries, and to that intent i met last week with the folks at the elama hutch community center and starting next week, i am going to be starting a program, that is going to train interested youth there, on how to get involved in the floral industry. we are, aiming to actually create at the center a group of kids that will be well trained enough that they can participate and designing flowers and making some money, in the community, and bidding on different contracts, and i will be there to be the team leader as they do that and our first event will be may 8th, they have an event coming up at the admiral's house and we will be doing the flowers, myself and the kids that i am going to be

customers i don't see that as a negative if people having want to have beverages with their meal >> commissioner sugaya. >> i favor the project i don't think people will use this as a drinking establishment. it's small and family run and i think, you know, they may have an occasional glass of beer or wine but it won't operate the way the neighbors think. i'll go ahead and make a motion to approve with conditions. i think it was 6 to 6 monday through thursday and a 7 to 9 friday and a saturday >> second. >> commissioners, on that motion with conditions. >> commissioner hillis. president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes names. this places you under the budget and workforce program. is an ax >> we're here to ask for your action on the networks two years budgeted. we've had two other hearings and keith last time mentioned the proposed new editions to our budget before keith makes a detailed presentation he'll highlight a few things. just as a reminder we're continuing to see revenues increase due to the development activity we're proposing to use those revenues to hire more staff to support the activities. i might mention a couple of things. y

as the information they provide us. >> thank you very much. and i yield back. >> thank the gentleman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, commissioner. as a congressman, our front line people back home are constituents. >> right. >> and they do not hesitate to share with us the shortcomings and their concerns. and right now they've lost confidence in the impartiality of the irs. and i don't know of any time in my career where they have been more vocal about that. and they're angry about it. so, some of the questions i'll ask are questions that they're asking me. and can you say unequivocally at this time that there is no targeting going on in the irs of any of these groups? >> i can tell you that -- and i ask that question myself somewhat regularly. as far as i know, there is no targeting. one of the things i hope to hear from frontline employees is if anybody out there thinks that they're being asked to do something they shouldn't be doing, they will let me know directly, personally. they know how to reach me. at this point, we are -- i am, every place i go, stressing that the irs needs to be apolitical. it needs to be viewed as an a

will increase, the pedestrian safety, upgrade for 19th avenue and thank you for commissioner yee for guiding us there as well. the balboa park station was another great study that we are bringing forward. and that is wrapping up as well and that is we have the concepts and exciting way to reimagine the interchange there and working with the xhix avalos's office to bring the community into that process with the community advisory commit ti. i encourage you to come out. and moving along we have work at the clints street bridge replacement and i want to appreciate commissioner cohen who has helped us to do the impossible and reach the up, railway to try to negotiate a piece of right-of-way that we need to have access to and it took us months but she was able to pick up the phone, serving in her capacity as the board member as well as the cal train jpb and so i appreciate that hopefully we will be on the site to investigate the soils, these are the neighborhood transportation plans and we completed the solution study that looked at coordinating the community based shuttles. and we are hopefully going to be

as well. >> good afternoon, commissioners. commissioner president adams director dick. thank you for allowing us to be here today. i hope we actually get some good feedback from you. so this is just a quick overview and again a lot of this is presented and beginning in 2014 we've started out outreach to businesses small language those businesses that are small and not english proficient. we've been out there. so a couple of things our outreach plan targeting the internal and external resources. we've have our only website sf workshop organizing and we do monthly workshops that was touched on. the community presentations to merchant and merchant groups. i had the pleasure of presenting to fillmore. media outreach and social media 311, city department and other materials. i want to speak quickly to city reach. we've had a great collaboration with a lot of city departments that have agreed to help us get our information out whether e-mail or facebook or twitter. they have really a lot of departments like the office of labor standards, the kroerlz office have helped us to get information to businesses in a timely fas

commissioners. bill ham ot is the consulting engineering firm with us today on this site as well as the other site. the project coordinator on this is toll lean. the at&t is seeking your approval on this conditional use permit application for a 12 panel antennas on the roof property. for six location under the wireless guidelines and we did conduct a significant alternative site analysis. the at&t held a community forum at the san francisco public library in addition to this community meeting back in october of 2011 to try to identify locations in and around this area because the wireless coverage is so poor in this area. and as you can see we've been working dil gently to try to serve the needs of that area over the last several months. this site is in and of itself related to other areas and nofsz -- in and of itself will address that area. this is why we are seeking your approval of the conditional use permit application as we work to up grade our network in san francisco. thank you. >vice-president cindy wu: opening up for public comment. jacob and singleton. >>> thank you commissioners. commis

inside the eu commission in yourself specifically as the eu commissioner for competition it uses your own blessings that they too often. what new company. why didn't i think it is if you're up my child not busy day on the us. do you stay a baby gate and extensively. he certainly keeps the house too extreme but what you're seeing the european union the problem with reciprocity yourself as associates. when it comes to dealing with its main competitors. extremists on to state the french industry minister has had very tough words for the commission. how do you react to this was my first reaction was who think that someone who needs to use these kind of standing stones capital riyadh. in fact most of their the arguments that he tried to put forward there's a lot. don't represent different position the couple does with that many people representing france and malta will rezone what was that these kind of things. take on the fox. it added. add enough salt going to be shown. we did it i think its use by abnormal double ninety five percent of the state a case is the key in the case of fronts.

see you again, and happy new year to all of you in the audience as well and we are glad that you could join us today. roll call? commissioner renne? >> present. >> commissioner andrews? >> here. >> commissioner hur? >> here. >> commissioner keen, n >> here. >> are there matters that we are going to be discussing or do not appear on the agenda at this time? >> good evening commissioners my name is dr. derek kur a whistle blower, please note bill 496 that took effect this month has expanded protections for whistle blowers and it prohibits anticipation retaliation, whereby the employers retaliate because they believe that an employee may disclose information to authorities. it reminds us that retaliation sometimes proceeds the actual whiesle blowing, the employee finds information, collects it, and then gets a layoff before they can file the complaint. i would also like to acknowledge your unprecedented finding of a conflict of interest by a city official, even though she happens to be a good person. previously, such complaints were routinely dismissed and complainants were thrown under the bus, it took you over two years to a

us as being adequate. i am open, however, to extending the comment period not this particular hearing but a comment hearing it's for another three weeks. i don't know how the other commissioners will feel we can get to that in a motion if there is some agreement >> commissioner moore. >> i believe that all argument which for further clarification have been brought forward respectfully and without having all the sections of the document in front of me to which the comments pertain i feel there's a consensus between a lost people extending the timeframe would be beneficial. i don't think we note to artificially need to extend it further. i ask we consider 45 days many issues are complex i heard thirty, 45 and 60 i think 60 mike might be two long i could settle for 45 but i will be supportive that the composition recommends thirty and the comment period is 45 days from the release so the question is whether how far beyond the foy days our proposing to go >> your commenting open february not the third but 45 days from that particular date to hold it. >> excuse me. sarah jones. i want to raise what chapter 31 of the administrative code around the eir period thatdz up to the discre

see you again, and happy new year to all of you in the audience as well and we are glad that you could join us today. roll call? commissioner renne? >> present. >> commissioner andrews? >> here. >> commissioner hur? >> here. >> commissioner keen, n >> here. >> are there matters that we are going to be discussing or do not appear on the agenda at this time? >> good evening commissioners my name is dr. derek kur a whistle blower, please note bill 496 that took effect this month has expanded protections for whistle blowers

week where we can have someone pointing us on what can be discussed so we can get answers on that as well. city clerk: if there is nothing further commissioners, we can move onto item 11. review of past weeks events at the board of supervisors and board of appeals. >> good afternoon commissioners. in keeping with your short agenda, i also have a short report on the boards activity this week. at the land use committee meeting they considered the property on 4th street commonly known as this land use committee recommended this to the full board. on tuesday at the full board they can considered supervisor wieners's amendment impact on the fee. this commission considered this ordinance last year and you recommended approval. i gave you a summary of the ordinance last week. it's kind of dry. i can give it to you again. that item did pass on first reading this week. there are three new introduced laws that i would like to share with you. two laws and one resolution. first is an ordinance that would create small business month in may of 2014. it's sponsored by supervisor tang. secondly scott wiener presented a right to vote initiative. he's asking f