item? seeing none. we'll conduct a vote >> commissioner president adams. commissioner dooley. commissioner dwight. commissioner riley. commissioner white. commissioner president adams is elected open a vote of 5 votes to zero. that brings us to item 9 election of officers small business commission vice president. >> i'd like to animates commissioner white for vice president. >> second. >> any other namgdz seeing none, commissioner white. >> i'd like to thank you for the opportunity serve as president on the commission i've enjoyed the work. >> thank you, commissioner any other commissioners that want to comment. >> seeing none, are there any members of the public that want to comment for commissioner white for the vice president. >> seeing none, we'll conduct a roll call. >> commissioner president adams. sfool. commissioner dwight. commissioner riley. commissioner white. commissioner white is elected on a vote of 5 to zero. congratulations to both commissioners >> mr. president, that is the director's report. >> well, first, i want to say congratulations to commissioner president adams for your third 0 item term as the president and commissioner white for your second term. looking forward to 2014 with you. and so i'll get

to stay taxpayers. we're grateful your heard us. great any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. i'm supportive of the intent of the legislation and it's been thoroughly vetted and the community has been involved and any major concerns are addressed i move we support this amendment >> second. >> i'd like also like to thank into supervisor cowen and supervisor kim for your outreach. you reached it out to the champ and talked to several of the organizations in the city and it's been over a year. so this is a great example on outreach and coming to a conclusion that everybody agreed on. commission - commissioner white >> sorry. i'd like to second with commissioner president adams said i participate in that outreach with supervisor cowen and supervisor kim you guys did a great job. many my business we work a lot with the reentry programs with the skills >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. you want to say one thing as amended in my committee what i have before you in your binder doesn't include the issues in today's amendments s

>> bring us to item three, approval of the december 9, 2013 joint small business submission and san francisco transportation board of directors meeting minutes this is an action itment. >> do have have a motion to approve. >> move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> and any opposed? >> 4, approval of the december 9, 2013, special meeting. >> move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> item five, approval of the december, 20, 2013, special meeting minutes, action item. >> move to approve, >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed, motion passes, next item please. >> item 6, discussion and possible action on overview of the final report of the universal healthcare council and updating reported requirements for the recent healthcare security ordinance or hcso and this is a discussion and possible action item and we have a presentation by the deputy director of health and san francisco department of health and the office of labor standard enforcement. >> we should... yeah. >> all of the lights are on. >> mike, well, any way, i will speak loud. so i just, i want

president, that takes us to item 8, director's report, this is a discussion item. >> so, commissioners, we want to inform you that on july 27th, you will be receiving a presentation on the what we are calling the business tax and because it is not just a gross receipts and the business registration is changing and you will be receiving a presentation on just the reminder of the schedule and the changes and the dates that things were changing and the next business registration, payment, and payments are going to be going up, and then, also including the out reach program, our marketing program, and our marketing and communications program. and as well. so, starting this month, we are going to start slowly inveiling all of the different elements that we have been working on for doing out reach and education to the businesses on the gross receipts and we have developed a new website that will or is a landing page to help to direct people for information, and it is not quite live yet. but it is sfbiz text.org. >> on-line business portal. tomorrow partners has been awarded the contract to b

. >> yeah so i just wanted to say that gets us to the third item which is because of the difficulty we've had with the sfpuc setting rates the idea of trying to join another entity where we have the city attorney saying we still got to go back down the same path we might want to do in the interim try to do some activities that promote our effort but be mindful of the fact we have timing issues in terms of getting the program started and that gets us to the third item on the agenda to develop an rsp to try to do some of the studies on some of the initial programs so what's unique about ours is obviously the local build out so the idea is to concentrate with that so that we are implementation program is even that much farther down the line. >> thank you. commissioner mar. >> i was going to say that before we get into that the local build out and an rsp for that which i strongly support i want to go back to option number 3 the hybrid plan as proposed. it sounds like marin clean energy is interested in allowing us to develop or join into their program but you are saying this option 3 may be e

so not seeing any member of the public commenting this item is closed and i believe that leads us to our next item which is item number 8 but before i do that i want to wish everyone a very happy holiday i hope you have a please ant and safe and joyful holiday season and best wishes for the new year madam clerk you can call item number 8. >> item number 8 adjournment. >> meeting adjourned thank you very muchpresident. >> call that meeting back to order fouling our short recess and take full responsibility we took subsequential more time. ma'am, secretary next item >> item 6 is communications. >> commissioner. >> okay. if you'll divulge me there's a couple of things i want to say. first, we have a any public comment? after each item and i try carefully to make sure that i not only do fail to call for the public opportunity to discuss the items so, you know, we can get a better feel for what's utilizing out there. i want to say again for the record we have a lot of staff i happen to represent myself a number of employees with work $0.40 for the public commission but your management team

so not seeing any member of the public commenting this item is closed and i believe that leads us to our next item which is item number 8 but before i do that i want to wish everyone a very happy holiday i hope you have a please ant and safe and joyful holiday season and best wishes for the new year madam clerk you can call item number 8. >> item number 8 adjournment. >> meeting adjourned thank you very muchpresentation. >> (clapping) welcome to the newly revitalized federal building at the united nations plaza as the new home of the recreational headquarters. it's a great day one we've been waiting for. today's event is the historic corner stone that celebrates the vintage building into a 21st century workplace. we have a number of guests. today's speakers are nancy pelosi congresswoman with the house of representatives (clapping) mrs. van with the fester of the general services administration (clapping.) the honorable mayor ed lee at the san francisco. and from hk architects. (clapping.) and crystal-clear barton artist with the cliff barton studio. thank you all for joining us the g

so not seeing any member of the public commenting this item is closed and i believe that leads us to our next item which is item number 8 but before i do that i want to wish everyone a very happy holiday i hope you have a please ant and safe and joyful holiday season and best wishes for the new year madam clerk you can call item number 8. >> item number 8 adjournment. >> meeting adjourned thank you very much >> pledge of allegiance. of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all >> please be advised that the ripping of and use of cell phone and parnlz and other electronic devices are not presumed to be innocent and a anyone maybe lead-out of this meeting. please be advised the public has up to three minutes unless the port commission adapts other minutes >> public comments not lists on the agenda. >> any public comment? >> item 6 executive directors report. >> good afternoon, everyone thank you for joining us today we're putting out a couple more chairs. thanks for your patience a little bit

this item will be heard by the land use committee and go to the full board the next day. there were no new items but some introductions. the first is the housing code amendment introduced by the supervisor farrell. this will allow apartment building and that was in the paper this week. also a hearing request about our hearing requests for policies and procedures it's directed to the planning department of the dbi. it's directed for the department of public health. the supervisors are asking they report on enforcement of city code violations and they identified 7 topics. the first is internal department preserves and problematic cases ease 3 is reminders for referrals to the city manager's office and four that are referred to the sofas and the number of percentage of cases not referred for enforcement and whether the lack of enforcement such as budget concerns and number 6 a number of yearly specifics and lastly whether legislation is needed to have better code enforcement. that concludes any report for this week >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners it it will place

to proof the changes and hopefully, your support to move forward this item. >> now to city attorney my understanding those amendments would precluded us from sending those forgot. >> that's correct. >> we can't put them out. so supervisor breed we'll continue this item one week >> yes. >> colleagues if there are no questions or comments we'll open this up for public comment any any public comment? >> i'm douglas. >> i would actively speak in favor of this item and put on the record some special considerations to be considered. on ocean avenue there was a special use development where safe way stores antidepressant the main retail and then a above that there's good news condos built brown above that and safe way failed on that location and the location has been on and off antidepressant. i haven't driven by it lately so you might want to consider what happened to safe way and hopefully it won't happen to fulton street and on the record i'd like to make a prediction there's going to be a failure near city college. according to my research the tenant is a miss match for that neighborhood and sufbl that won't work and we'll have two proje

so not seeing any member of the public commenting this item is closed and i believe that leads us to our next item which is item number 8 but before i do that i want to wish everyone a very happy holiday i hope you have a please ant and safe and joyful holiday season and best wishes for the new year madam clerk you can call item number 8. >> item number 8 adjournment. >> meeting adjourned thank you very much >>> good morning, everybody. so happy to have you all here today and to join us for our ground breaking ceremony. i'm going to talk a little bit about what we are doing here and then make a few introductions. box 6 is a multifamily department in the south of market neighborhood. it includes a 32 story 409-unit rental apartment tower which will include luxury and regular apartments. i'm michael newman and president of our company. i'm here to represent the company as well as our partners all of whom are here today. doug shoemaker is here also representing housing which is making affordable housing on block six a possibility. today we'll hear from doug and we'll also welcome to the

number of recommendations by our budget analyst, first to specifically amend items number 2 and number 4 per the legislation we have in front of us as well as kind of an omnibus amendment for all these items. can i have a motion to approve all the budget analyst recommendations? motion by supervisor wiener. we can take those without opposition. [gavel] >> do we have any comments before the -- okay, the underlying items as amended 2 through 12? >> well, first i would make a motion first to table item number 8. that's the 70 carmelita resolution that has been -- the application was withdrawn. so, to table item number 8. >> okay, we have a motion to table item number 8. can we take that without opposition? [gavel] >> so moved. >> and then for the remaining items 2 through 12 minus number 8, to move those forward as amended and as committee reports with positive recommendation. am i correct it's 2 through 12? >> yes, it will be 2 through 7 and 9 through 12. >> okay, that's the motion. >> can we take that without opposition? so moved. [gavel] >> mr. chairman, these items will be recommended as amended as committee reports to the board

you can move on to the next item to respond to something in that item and you could flag it, but that is new from as we were used to in the paper pencil test where we could move on. also this dragging, highlights, these are nuance that will be new and practice is required before students to get to these items. the third kind is the item response items. these are the short answer type responses. and as you can see that within these examples, they would need to be instruction in the curriculum in order for us to be able to answer these. so more explanation clarification, finding, evidence, just to find your choice or finding the evidence for your choice, explaining your answer. those are things that the constructed response does tap upon both in math and in ela. in ela, the others it does ask you to find it will ask you for details within the test requiring closer reading of the text and those are some instructions and shifts in strategies happening in our schools. and this is comments from a 6th grader as well as a middle school english teacher who says though the journey is treacherous, our students have greater

item 4 for case an amendment to the planning code for formula retail use is for february 27th. commissioner we have received a request for item 17 from the promise sponsor to continue the matter inindefinitely because it's listed under the regular calendar and there might be here people that want to speak and mr. the the request for discretionary review. i have no speaker cards >> thank you any public comment on this item? on items proposed for continuance. >> we will tomato take up item 17 when the item is called. to any public comment on items proposed for continuance. >> commissioner borden. commissioner hillis and conspire wu that passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you under our cds. they're considered to be route by the planning commission and maybe acted upon by a single vote no separation unless the staff requests and it will be considered at a future hearing. item 5 case at the 1940 through 42 mason street and item 6 case at the 435 jackson street request for continual authorization and the next case at the 365 jackson street and requests for conditional use authori

clearance from the fda takes time, but the biggest obstacle will be to get doctors to agree to use these items in their practice. >> some say they're going to go to the hospital any way, and those who have experience they're putting a lot of effort being an ambassador for it. >> reporter: one ambassador, a medical student at johns hopkins university. >> oftentimes doctors don't trust patients collecting data. >> reporter: he sees a day when a many people will be able to perform physicals on their smart phone and send the information straight to their doctor. >> we have things as easy as a blood pressure cuff and this is useful for mull monday near to check oxygen saturation. >> reporter: they think that it will reduce healthcare costs over time. analyses agree. >> there have been case studies showing that home monitoring is post acute patients have decreased admission rates by up to a 50% to 75%. >> reporter: even with the reluctance of the medical community to adopt to these new technologies, the message is clear, ready or not, healthcare is evolving. >> the one absolute is that healthcare is

secondly, we've worked very hard to get this budget looking the way it does and it's much more efficient we had line items, however, some of us talking with some people both staff and the commission would liquor to see the line items and i'm sure that's easily done that's how you arrived at the material here. so if we could have a line item report by enterprise as well as the bureaus or is that going to be a hardship >> the line item is this roll up but we can give you a line item. >> thank you and also, if you could talk about the concept of the security at sf o just to elaborate on that. security at the sf 0. not completely just our security >> i'll be happy to do that that's for our counterparts to have a second back up if we have to go off-line at the 524 golden gate. it's for redundant for disaster preparedness we'll prepare a back up system at the 520 at our datacenter. its redundancy planted redundancy >> i had a sort of a followup. this disaster preparedness bucket used to have a lot in it including security and this piece of risk management it seems to be in there too for all the enterprises whatever that looks like

to the board of supervisors. mission bay north redevelopment action resolution 52014. thank you, madam secretary. commissions and members of the public thank you for joining us. this particular item relates to the last remaining development site in mission bay north the last moderate income development site that is remaining all of mission bay north but this site has been finished what you have before us is a proposal to make some minor renovations to move this site forward. with that, i'd like to ask scathing republican to present this item >> okay. there we go. all technical stuff covered. so we're going to do the overhead presentation. good afternoon, commissioners i'm katherine i'll be presenting the next two items the mission bay agenda. so as the director mentioned this is an amendment to the agreement we've done two agreements to the south this is the one to the north. and this will allow the mission bay master development who is the national real estate firm to develop 29 unit. this will have affordable units for the market rate. i'll review the o p m academy and then i'll invite up my colleague as well as her team. we've got a lot of developers here today. so this map sh

monday at the land use committee hearing, this will amend the code to allow the use to residential units and allow the four areas for accessible uses. the commission voted to approve this item on november 21st, and supervisor chiu mentioned that he's interested in sponsoring an ordinance. at the hearing the department expressed support for such an idea that would allow the department to evaluate whether the impact of the waiver are significant or not on our budget. so far this year the department has received 21 food operation referrals for a total amount of $2700. should this number of applications be similar, we believe the impact to our budget will be minimal. that's an ordinance that you will see in the future that will wave that fee for a year. after a full discussion, a recommendation of approval and did pass the full board on tuesday's reading. that would be the first reading. and the third ordinance that relates to the ellis act eviction was heard on tuesday. it would replace an ellis act emergency program. you approved it on november 21st, this would give priority for housing projects to those individuals who received an ellis act eviction. the board did incorporat

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us. that is a great follow up item for us and i want to say while we talk about the master plan being a product of the department of public health and planning department so for example a lot of the data you see there did come from the department of children and youth and their families and aging adult services so we tried to do in this report not to ignore preexisting information that has come out of other agencies but intended to pull all those data sources together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that we've done our best to make this an incl u.s. ive report. >> the impet u.s. is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now it's incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they can be chances are they are because they were involved in this process and participated and shared information with you but i want to make sure that happens. supervisor mar. >> i was going to say the rapidly aging population and how critical long-term care and the planning counsel their work help s us understand for budgets for

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