president, that takes us to item number 6, decision and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisor's file number 1 31207, environment code bottled water this is a discussion and possible action item. and we have with us, cath len from supervisor chiu's office to make a staff presentation. >> good evening, commissioners, from the office of supervisor's david chiu and thanks for having me tonight. and so the ordinance before you this evening, has been in the development for almost a year now. we have worked with the city departments and events and many other stake holders to create a proposal that is fair and also pushes our city to take the steps to begin to address the enormous problem of our addiction to plastic bottled water. i won't take too much of your time explaining the serious environmental damage done by massive over consumption of bottled water because of the facts on this is indisputable and the legislation is enforced by many environmental organizations including the sierra club and the surf

to february 24th? >> i would like a motion that we move this item to the next meeting? >> second. >> so moved. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> next item. >> brings us to item five, discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors, on board of supervisors file number 1 31205 planning code pro-ducks, distribution and repair zoning. this is a discussion and possible action item. we have with us tiffany garcia from the office of economic and workforce development and andrea brus from the office of comen. >> i am the business development manager within the office of economic and workforce development. i have the pleasure of serving businesses that fall into the business sectors of manufacturing and retail. i put together a quick powerpoint presentation, to help you all better understand the planning code legislation that is being proposed in regards to production, distribution and repair to zoning. >> as we can see, the growth of san francisco manufacturing is current data allows us, there is a little over 530 manufacturers in san francisco. this is a 25 percent increase from last year, and a 47 percent increase since t

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

that i have to report. >> thank you. >> item ten, vice president's report. >> nothing to report, i did it also, attend the san francisco council, dinner. 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

item >> approval of the february 13th minutes. >> we have a motion to approve the minutes. all in favor, say i. thank you that takes us to item for a presentation of a certificate of honor for one of our members >> we already miss you luke. so luke it is my honor to distinguish hour honor to present you with an hour from the city of san francisco it says commissioner luke the 134k is honored to recollection commissioner luke o'brien for the small business commission during his tenure on his commission in september 2009 commissioner o'brian weighed in on over 2 hundred policy matters with deliberate and evenhanded demeanor relating in the containment of san francisco for small businesses. with his knowledge of construction and development sectors he identified numerous ways to streamline permitting processes and culminating with the reloiment alignment of the unified school district impact fee payments with the fee collection procures. outside of the commission commissioner o'brian provided expert he assistance to the nova valley business. finally commissioner o'brian served with transmission atkins as commission presi

so that brings us to item no. 4. the clerk: item 4: [appointments, workforce investment community advisory committee] hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending february 19, 2017, to the workforce investment community advisory committee. clerk of the boardd vacant seat 1, succeeding liz jackson-simpson, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. vacant seat 2, succeeding winnie yu, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. vacant seat 4, succeeding dion-jay brookter, term expiring on february 19, 2014,

use. so you want to take a roll call vote >> commissioner president adams. councilmember olson. 1k34g9. commissioner riley. commissioner white. the motion passes 5 votes >> thank you. next item, please. >> that brings us to item 6 for recommendations inform the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file number 131 for the police code for employees even if parking garage and parking lot councilmember price we have supervisor weiner who is here to address the commission on this legislation. >> welcome supervisor and thank you for coming here. >> thank you, commissioners and today is the box day for me, i stepped out of the land use committee and i'll joined by power one of my legislation aids. thank you, supervisors so far hearing that. the legislation is basic and straightforward and is to help us with the private parking destroy how to operates in san francisco. that this is before information not creating owner reduce things for the parking regular lotteries. this is not to tar the industry most people comply with the law and are meticulous and provide an important service to san francisco visitors. there are some minority of parking operators who have not also acted

. >> and that brings us to item 6. >> actually, we have a member of the public we have - >> i want to be brief on the construction update. i was at the cac two days ago i was surprised at the early excavation zone 4 is not as deep as zone 1 because of the 10 foot elevation so the first thing that's strange or weather that introduces an interesting thing the floor height on the east and west is 5 feet higher than the platform level between the east and west the real reason i'm addressing the board we've got to about how to cross the bay. we can e messenger a tube or we can tunnel. and the real question is is that if you're going to e messenger a tube you don't have to go deep you dig the trench and if you want to to your knowledge it will be much deeper the calculations we have based on the 65 foot took us down to 895 feet shows a bear minimum on embarcadero and the eventually the are entire region has to decide whether the issue is if you want to go to treasure island you have to go bart and the only way to go do this is tunnel boring we're going to have to take the scenic route down

president, that brings us to item 7, the director's report this is a discussion item. >> so, commissioners last meeting you received a presentation on the business tax, launch and out reach and we are talking about the business tax that incompasses the increase in the business registration and also then the transition into the gross receipts, and just wanted to, you received some copies of the marketing materials but to let you know that the marketing campaign has officially launched, and i provided you with a picture of the side of one of the muni trains, you know, with the advertising, just to start building the awareness. 95,000 pieces of collateral are being mailed with the 1234 piece of collateral and we had the workshops with the library and that was filled to the capacity. and so again, those are being held monthly the first thursday of every month on bis tax.org and excuse me i put bis tax. dot org and is there a calendar list of any of the presentation and and any of the general presentations such as the first thursday and in case there are questions from the businesses, and from

want to thank you for allowing us to divide the file and make an amendment to add $25 million for street light capital needs into one of the versions and continue the item a week to give us opportunity for dialogue with the mayor's office, the controller, the public utilities commission, about how we can address the very serious deficiencies in our street light system. we have a split street light system. the public utilities commission has nearly 25,000 street lights under its ownership and for which it is responsible. and we know, and anyone who lives in the san francisco neighborhood knows that the condition of our street lights is not acceptable. the system is old. it is deteriorating. it has huge deferred capital needs. these street lights fail all too frequently. although there have been improvements by both the puc and pg&e in addressing failed lights, it still takes longer than we would like. and, frankly, these lights should not be failing in the first place. for many, many years, the city has -- we have neglected our street lights and allowed them to deteriorate to this state. over the last year and a half i have called for two different heari

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

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

. ~ also i would like to just thank andres power in my office who really put a lot of energy into moving us toward this agreement. and then i'd like to move items 16 and 17 and move to table items 18 and 19. >> so, supervisor wiener has made the motion, and i believe that was seconded by supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i just have a brief question for mr. reedstrom. we're talking about new funding for street lights, [speaker not understood] fiscal year after. what is the source for funding? i didn't catch that. >> the proposed sources for those right now are primarily revenues and reserves. and, so, we'll be looking at that over the next several months. we are having some conditions and some concerns about precipitation as we read in the press. but at this point we feel confident that those numbers mentioned by supervisor look good. the needs are greater than that, though. and, so, it will be a balancing act as it always is with that proposed budget. and you'll hear more about that in the may hearing as well. >> great, thank you. could you speak just quickly about what the trade-offs would be in terms of what you perhaps will n

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 report itself. which ever is easiest. but don't give us something you've given to the state that's not that helpful >> okay. any other questioning commissioners. okay. this is not an action item that will be coming back to us for approval in the future. with that, you i'd like to move to the next item >> item 5 c workshop on fiscal 2013 and 2014. madam director >> thank you, madam secretary. commissioners that is standard practice to do a 6 month look back. i know it's good preparation for the budget again we're working with the staff in terms of where the receiveables are and how we balanced them and our director of the finance will walk you through it. it's good forbid the rob's presentation >> thank you director and chairperson johnson. i think you have a memo in your package. but i'm very glad to have an opportunity to look at where we are in the middle of the year and see if there are any problems on the horizon. this year did indeed a lot balanced at this time of the year there's still 5 months to go but we'll be able to make it through with the funds we have on hand. we have using one time limited revenues to balance so in the future we'll have to keep in mind. we'll h

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special orders and go to item 20, madam clerk. >> item 20 was considered by the land use and economic development committee at a regular meeting on monday, february 3rd, and was forwarded to the board as a committee report with the same title. >> colleagues, would anyone like to discuss this item? item 20. >> yes. >> supervisor kim? supervisor cohen. >> well, okay. supervisor kim, would you like me to go first? >> that's okay. i apologize. i thought this was item 29, so, i'll start. >> okay, supervisor kim. >> this is something really exciting for us to celebrate. many of you know that i've been working for the last year and a half -- year with supervisor kim. you heard me speak about the importance of this legislation when we introduced it last week. this legislation supervisor kim and i have been working on is really borne out of our desire to provide real employment opportunities and housing opportunities to individuals that have a conviction history. one in four californianses have a conviction on their record. i represent a district with the highest percentage of individuals who