so we're tracking retail vacancies all around the city. if you go storefrontsf.com, i was able to pop up the site. for each listing we have contact info, we have photos and we have more information. this is a brand-new program. we're really excited about it. we have gotten a lot of positive feedback from brokers, from small business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking for space. and so again, that is part of baseline services. we're trying to is deploy that in all 25 invest in neighborhoods corridors. we have a mini grant program, making small grants to neighborhood-based groups to implement neighborhood improvement projects. we have new loan products and we have community capacity-building projects. with training and workshops for neighborhood advocates, a merchant association leader who really wants to make a change in their neighborhood. i could give you an hour just on this one slide, but i'm not going to. i'm going to keep moving. that is "baseline services." so we're trying to get those is deployed to all of these 25 neighborhoo

we have two vacancies from the expiration of jacqueline sax and another lady. pursuant to the article 3. ms. saxs it seeking reappointment and the other lady is not. with that we can take any questions >> thank you, ms. garko you repeat those two seats specifically what those seats are. >> as i know the assistant advisory seats are not district specific but the two seats in question. i know that commissioner breed who couldn't be here today wants a continuance on the d 5 vacancy but there's not one, however, we have another gentleman who has comments. let me just think about this. we have the recommendations from staff on addressing the term limits and that's coming up after this discussion. generally, we open up to allow any of the candidates to give a short presentation; is that right? >> yes. >> does anyone else have any comments and a oh, and to clarify our regular citizens advisory committee has two terms. >> so this is the advisory committee? >> okay. i see jackie sax here and is there anyone who is a candidate here try to keep your comments within two mi

>> i just wanted the analogy. >> the last word is "no vacancy. " there will be a vacancy your next week. see you next week. >>> from washington, the mclaughlin group. the american original for over three decades, the sharpest minds, best sources, hardest talk. >>> issue one, stand your ground. >> it's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and so dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. these laws try to fix something that was never broken by allowing and perhaps encouraging violent situations to escalate in public. such laws undermind public safety. >> attorney general eric holder this week addressed the naacp. the 104-year-old national association for the advancement of colored people. general

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and occupying those vacancies is a top priority. so, there is a website we developed call store front sf where all the vacancies that are tracked by our job squad members and community members are listed on there free of charge and anybody is free to look at what [speaker not understood] are available. if a business wants to start up, it can look all around san francisco in our neighborhoods and look to potentially relocate in those areas. we also have available grants for local projects that come out of the process that communities prioritize as well as community capacity building is a big part of this program where we want the priorities to come from the neighborhood and we want to engage in the process of implementing these projects. in addition, we are, in coordination with the planning department and with our partners [speaker not understood] and other agencies, we've come up with neighborhood profiles for each of these neighborhoods which includes commercial data, demographic data, and also [speaker not understood] opportuniti

also key leadership vacancies at the department for immigration, border patrol and her deputy. >> thank you. >>> what happens next for a department preparing for changes and challenges over one of the country's most divisive issues. here is chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> reporter: confirmation of a homeland security security will come as congress wrestles with immigration reform. the white house press secretary says he doesn't expect trouble.

>> actually i was going to bring up the long-term vacancies also, because i consider it one of the biggest blight problems in all of our neighborhoods and when we worked on this, there are a lot of them and many them have been closed for 25 years. so i am hoping that you guys start to think about a way to address that long-term blight. my other question is, so have all 25 neighborhoods been contacted by their community outreach person? >> well, when you say "how do you contact a neighborhood?" i think that is a great question. we do have staff, each of the liaisons, if there is a neighborhood association, or a merchants association, or a cbd, they have definitely made that contact. >> you might want to check on that, by the way okay. >> because i am the president of the north beach business association and no contact. so just fyi, you know? maybe it's just us, but you think it's great to let all the merchant associations in on this. >> right. >> and get them involved. >> so we have been working with michelle thomas, who i know sometimes participates in those meetings, but i will make sure

if a san francisco retail needs to fill a vacancy would have an independent store. not a big box store that will drive a way the locals. i know you don't help a business that helped building the area for a hundred years. they promised to meet with me with our coexisting with our store being with the proposed location. i'm concerned that this is a beginning of a terrible relationship where big business trumps little business. i believe it will open the flood gates for big box retail. we want this to be main street san francisco. not main street u.s.a. >> next speaker? >> thank you president fong and commissioners, i'm raymond, manager of sur l.a. table for the last eight years. i hope you let us come to the table at union street. we offer a unique shopping experience in our stores. we have cooking demos, product testing before you buy. we do recommendations for staff and soeshths and associates and customers in our stores. we welcome all to our table from sur l.a. table to cook for the professional chef, homemaker, we are open to all. we welcome everyone and even tho

there are one vacancy downtown tonight and they appoint the seat and given the approval of this item there's an additional 8 seats that are due for new appointments and we'll bring that to the next meeting. for this application we have 3 applications found in our enclosure and a summary matrix. we know this is not mandatory i'll conclude my presentation today to see if there are candidates who have come to speak >> please come forward. thank you >> good morning commissioners i'm richard marshall thank you for your consideration of my application for the advisory committee in the downtown tenderloin seat. i've been in the tenderloin and i'm an active bus recipient. i have been appointed by supervisor kim in the safety meetings. it's a great experience for me. i've made basically decisions that i wanted to get further engaged in future projects and the committee he seems like the logical step. although i have not had a chance to engage in the c ac meetings i've read most of the feasibility reports and i would be honored to advocate for the tenderloin neighborhood. the attained is a ver

there are nine large vacancies along this stretch of market street. and if you approve this one today, we'd be down to . but it's a significant issue i think should be addressed. i'm going to turn the rest of my home over to the designer followed by [speaker not understood].

there are nine large vacancies along this stretch of market street. and if you approve this one today, we'd be down to . but it's a significant issue i think should be addressed. i'm going to turn the rest of my home over to the designer followed by [speaker not understood]. and answer any questions you have at the end of the public hearing. >>> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is chris. i work for [speaker not understood]. before i talk at all about the nature of our business and how we operate, i wanted to address a couple of misperceptions that have swirled throughout this process. the first is that chipotle is owned by mcdonald's. we are not. we've been in business for 20 years. for 7 of those years mcdonald's was an investor in our company, but they've been entirely divested since october of 2006. and the other is that somehow we magically outmaneuvered or outbid local restaurateur for this space. we did not. there was an independent restaurateur interested in the space prior to chipotle and when their negotiations got so far as exploring t

do we have an idea of when we might be able to get the permanent positions in to fill all those vacancies. is everything, the list available. people interviewing now which is good but i was wondering when we might be able to get permanent positions? >> at the current moment we had some prop f's working in housing as soon as we get the housing inspectors done we'll be staffed up and we have several prop f's. the advantage is that they come with so much knowledge that they can impart training so many individuals and that's one of the reasons why we are going to keep some of them. >> yeah. commissioner mar, first of all regarding the prop f, we actually need them to come back to help us. first of all the electrical we hire, the permanent inspectors, they want to go back to their normal life. regarding the inspector there is only one prop f only. he's the chinese speaking only there. probably by the time you interview the housing inspector to be permanent, after a few months training then we may ask him. it's not that easy to ask him to state and another one is like jeff mar he's only working

, i think we have an idea about making sure we, if anything, policy wise, we push ideas into the vacancies. that would be even better than try to operate on that basis. but anyway, we'll pay attention to that as well. again, i'm sorry if there are cards that were submitted that didn't get attention. we meant to get everybody covered. all right. thank you very much, everybody, appreciate it. (applause) everybody, welcome. we have a packed agenda tonight. first we want to thank the southeast community facility commission for opening their doors tonight and their executive director, moses. thank you for opening the doors tonight. we have a very, very tight agenda. the goal here is for the community to be heard. this is not a question and answer time, but the goal is for the community to be heard. when we get to public comment, and you make your statements. remember we want you to be as concise as possible, because the department heads and the mayor are here to hear you. without further ado, i want to introduce mayor lee and he will open us up. thank you. good evening everybody. as stated eloq

, i think we have an idea about making sure we, if anything, policy wise, we push ideas into the vacancies. that would be even better than try to operate on that basis. but anyway, we'll pay attention to that as well. again, i'm sorry if there are cards that were submitted that didn't get attention. we meant to get everybody covered. all right. thank you very much, everybody, appreciate it. (applause) >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. >> everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id. >> we started bank on s.f. six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city, but they're convenient locations come with a hidden price. >> these are big. >> i remember coming in t

if it's a vacancy, i feel interested in vacancy. and when i [speaker not understood] and i'm interested in moving in, i would like to have the rental leasing. we went through this before about planning and zoning. so, this is insignificant, but i want to make sure i put my identification on the record of note. for the oft, i dismiss you -- >> thank you, mary, your time is up. >>> thank you. >> any further general public comment? okay, seeing none, general public comment is closed. >> commissioners, that will place you under your regular calendar. item 10, case no. 2011.0558e - transit effectiveness project (tep) informational presentation. >> good afternoon, president fong and members of the commission. i am deborah dwyer, planning department staff. and this ha previously indicated you would like periodic updates regarding efforts by the sfmta especially given the connection between land use development and transportation planning. this informational presentation is an update regarding the sfmta transit effectiveness project or tep

her second appointment came later when a vacancy on the redevelopment agency commission allowed mayor feinstein to recommend mrs. kennedy for that seat. after the passing of supervisor hutch, mayor feinstein appointed ruby kennedy to that vacancy on the board of supervisors. mrs. kennedy accepted and embarked on her mission for change in the city and county of san francisco, particularly paying attention to bayview hunters point community. supervisor kennedy ran three campaigns for reelection on the board of supervisors and was reelected each time. she spent over 15 years on the board. and while here she left quite a legacy. she authored several pieces of legislation some such as the city's affirmative action programs better known as the minority business enterprises, also affectionally known as mbe as well as wbe, many of which we still continue to used to in determining contracts. ~ and diversity. she also authored the south african apartheid legislation which is i think really telling when you think about the struggle that nelson mandela is going through. and this particular legisl

vacancies were flat nationally but 54 out of 79 markets saw decreases in vacancies and 3.4% is well below the peak of vacancies of 8% in 2009. the decline, largely due to more supply coming on. bottom line is where does demand go? rising rates have robbed poey tension buyers of a lot of purchasing power. are they priced out, or do they just maybe buy something smaller? how much higher will rates go? well, if you think they are going even higher, then apartment rentals are a great investment play. back to you, guys. >> all right. thank you so much, diana. mary thompson is very busy and has another market flash for us. >> you know, we're coming off of what diana was saying. focusing on the home builders because they are higher today, sue. good news from core logic basically saying fewer homes were foreclosed on in the month of may and fewer homes are in the foreclosure process. all of these stocks are up on the heels of that news. 52,000 foreclosures completed in may. that is down from 71,000 in may of last year, but up from the 50,000 in april, but if you look at the total number of homes

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thank you so much for the consideration for the vacancy. i'm interested in applying for the commission or be on the task force because we provided free legal services for low income workers and wage theft is by far the biggest issue we see the workers we serve are ailing that are low income and work here in san francisco. i think it's a challenge what direct services we do it in a strategic way and that's the task force is trying to explore and san francisco is always a leader in this thinking i'm excited about what the task force is doing and could be a great access. my personal conversations i set up a caucus being the director of the workers right project i was an attorney there and have practiced many years at the union side. attorney on behalf of the immigrant workers and more low wage sector unions. so, anyway thank you for considering my application >> there was recently maybe it's not so recent you get old recent seems to be 10 years but you've been there for 3 years. >> that's correct. >> it seems like there was a huge case that wa

. >> the second point is that this is a long-term vacancy, not a necessary position in the department. i know the department things we are double counting in terms of the attrition savings. in fact we are not. when we look at the two numbers combined, we look at the attrition savings we look at the salary component, the mandatory fringe benefits is something that gets calculated as it rolls for the budget system so we look at that separately. both of these are well within the salary budget and within the sort of their experience in the current fiscal year in terms of surplus and selling salaries. no we cannot double count those numbers. >> supervisor farrell: one thing is a policy debate about decisions, and another one not having the right numbers talking to each other. have you provided these numbers to the audit analyst office? >> no. we have been working together; however in the last week we had stalls candidly did not provide those numbers so it is challenging to see the methodology. >> within the disagree with their numbers, that is the difference. we looked at the projected sal

that will be directed during the year, as the people leave when we do not hire people and there are vacancies that remains to be seen. >> okay. >> supervisor weiner? >> i don't think that they will be obligated to do a supplemental and if we think that they are going to need the salary, and we should appropriate it, because what will happen is that in the nine months out or however, they are going to come back and no one is going to remember when and it will look like they want more money and no one did a good job and it was really a board that cut that budget. it is a question if they need the money or not. >> okay, folks, supervisor breed? >> my biggest problem is i just don't understand, i just don't understand what that means. it just does not make any sense to me. and i'm looking at this report, and i have reviewed the report, and i feel like the budget analyst is saying, one thing that i do understand, and the da's office is saying something that i don't understand. and it makes sense in terms of what the projection is, based on the salaries, and based on the full staffing and based on

but imprisoning there are a number of vacancies and they're in the myth of hiring for multiple positions the reduction we have is only .6 of one position. so if you spread that out over several positions that are vacant if they're new positions brought on in august, september, october this would then assume no further vasectomies or turnover but there are likely to be some so we thought that was a reasonable approach >> how much positions are we talking about here? >> i believe there's 3. we have 3 assistant medical examiners and then i'm looking we have 3 medical x arm folks >> this recommendation as i mentioned to you is the attrition savings where we're being extremely conservative in terms of what we're reducing. it was reduced by another 50 percent we're saying this money we're recommending we're providing on awe - this will more than provided the funds for all the needs of medical examiner >> thank you, mr. rose. >> and to be clear right now none of those positions have been filled. >> the work is still going on but we have to use temps but as soon as we fill the positions we can r

. >> this is about a property at 1267 rose island that has been penalized 9 times over from the vacancy fee that was denied in 2012 because a lack of insurance. i am appealing this imposition 9 times over penalty because i feel that it is gross and excessive. i feel that the - while the demand for insurance on the building a valid the insurance companies refused to insure the building because it was vacant so that place is a catch-22 situation which took us months to resolve. we were able to secure an acquaintance so they penaltyized us for that with an excessive fee. i think it sdrimgdz against people who don't have the fund i'm currently employment and my sister is unemployed and on disability. one of the heads stated himself this was a tail of two cities stating that some people in some parts of the town can afford this and - >> thank you are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? come on up >> good afternoon i live in san francisco for 61 years. i'd like to thank the board of supervisors for holding this special hearing. in my opinion many property own

the occ anticipates filling the vacancy as soon as august. i indicated the position would be filled no matter september 12th but the director detective investigator position is critical because it manages the staff and it's been vacant since march filled by an acting position. i ask you restore the critical position >> mr. chair and members of the committee. first of all, we'll work with the department. first of all, on the vehicle our explanation stands this vehicle has less than 50 thousand miles not to be replaced and number 2 i'm glad the department commented open 0 the hiring the deputy director one. if you look on page 60 documents is our remedies is simply to reduce the fte to reflect actual hiring time we're remedying an amount which we do in every department of the recommendations we're making you're considering for reprioritization of our savings this is a fundamental recommendation that you don't - there is no need to leave money in the budget unless the position is going to be hired on a certain date. based on that recommendation