i'll speak after commissioner yee. >> chair peskin: commissioner yee. >> supervisor yee: mr. shaw, can you come up. i have a question. so, this tdm, i guess i'm looking at as a framework and for city college and in particular, balboa reservoir development, did you mention that they are going to also do their own tdm to account for their impacts? >> absolutely. >> supervisor yee: how long are they going to be doing that? some of the things that i heard that were not included from the public today and that's not included, i know i've talked about it. like even though it's not mentioned, for instance, the shuttle, the possible shuttle that the developers may want to implement, is it on their table? >> i believe so. >> supervisor cohen: i'm sorry. you believe so? yes or no? >> i can't speak for the developers, but they're certainly aware of the comments from the public. and i think the recommendation in the report said recommended doing an analysis because for any sort of private form of transportation, there's a rigorous process that has to go through mta to understand the exist

commissioner yee. yee aye. motion is approved. >> chair peskin: all right. thank you again colleagues and with that, item number eight. >> clerk: item eight, update on the caltrain pennisula corridor electric -- electrification project. this is an information item. >> chair peskin: mr. hartnet thank you for your patience. and i want to thank ms. broussard for the meeting we had yesterday in my office. for those who don't know mr. hartnet, he is the general manager and ceo of the san mateo county cta as well as the chief officer of caltrain as well as the head of san trans. with that in his capacity as the head of caltrain. he is hear. welcome and thank you for coming to our chambers here in san francisco county. >> thank you mr. chair and commissioners. it is a pleasure to be here. we are happy to report on the status of our electrification project. i would like to thank you for the great partnership we've had in bringing forward improvements to caltrain. not just with the electrification project, but since its origination. we preserved rail service and deve

per commissioner yee. >> supervisor yee: thank you. my question is around the twin peek tunnel project that has been delayed at least a year. and basically this is -- the tunnel itself is celebrating their 100th year anniversary and from budgeting program my office in partnership with the sfmta is working to put a community event together. i'm wondering, has notice gone out to the community about the delay and -- originally we thought the work was going to be done this summer and second part of that question, what's causing the delay itself? is mta here? >> let's see if dylan young is able to respond. there have been several hiccups with the contract for this process. sfmta has awarded a new contract that would allow for construction to begin soon. i'll let dylan speak. i know there's an abbreviated schedule than what was originally anticipated in the other contracts that have not been executed or were cancelled, one of them was. i'll let dylan elaborate. >> thank you. through the chair, dylan young to commissioner yee, thank you for d

supervisor yee, did you want to ask a question? >> supervisor yee: no. >> supervisor safai: sure. go ahead. thank you. >> supervisor yee: it's great that you're on the small business commission for a while. you know, i held a hearing recently on a commercial vacancy, and i don't know if you followed that or not, and there's some reports on the vacancy that we see on certain corridors. i don't know if you have discussed it in the -- at the commission meetings at all, but do you have any personal thoughts about how to address this? >> you mean of vacancies? >> supervisor yee: yes. >> well, we've gone round and round for years now about the idea of some way to compel landowners to actually rent their businesses. we've done surveys, you know, we've looked for ways, you know, the carrot and the stick, and i have to say we've not yet been very successful. one thing i'm thinking about -- i brought this up before with the commission -- is looking into a program where perhaps some of these small businesses could purchase that retail space. i've seen a few people do this in north beach, the

supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: who is your supervisor, what district are you in? >> district ten. >> supervisor yee: have you spoken to supervisor cohen? >> yes. >> supervisor yee: she supporting you? is there a letter or anything? >> i can give it to you. >> supervisor yee: i don't see it in the package. is it in here? that's ok, i mean, i trust you, as you said you have a letter. >> sorry, i thought they had given all the paperwork. can i just walk up to you? >> i have it, i have it. >> supervisor yee: my fault, i didn't see it. >> i just showed it to him. very direct and to the point. they have the documents. >> and this is from -- sorry, i thought they forwarded it. oh, they have this, ok. >> is this the original? >> you can have it, it's a copy. >> thank you. >> sure. >> supervisor yee: wonderful. and you know, just, i was not picking on you, just more or less, i like to know that you are in a particular district that your district supervisor would be supportive. so, that's why i asked. >> supervisor safai: any other questions from committee members? i don't

>> supervisor yee, i don't know if you heard that. what she was saying is if it goes to -- if it goes to the -- if the item is continued to february 15 and you hear from the department of elections that your item has been certified, would you withdraw it? but that assumes that it is going to be calendared, supervisor stefani. >> i think, in all fairness, i want to support that. that we withdraw once we find out. is that good enough? >> yeah, i think that is good enough. but you have to understand that there -- i mean, deputy city attorney john gibner. >> if the committee continues the item to next week, lit appears on next week's agenda -- >> there is -- i'm sorry. >> if the committee continues it to next week, lit appear on next week's agenda and the committee could then take or file the item. but you would have to have it on the agenda, take public comments and take an action on it. >> mm-hmm. >> and on supervisor yee's note about the ballot deadlines, the last regularly scheduled board meeting where the board could act to place thi

. >> supervisor breed: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: this item is still on. >> clerk: correct. consideration for this item to be tabled. >> supervisor yee: okay. i want to make a few comments. as you know, this is a topic i bring up all the time in need for our working families whether low income or middle income that they need help. and the process of going through this would be a great way to submit to a ballot initiative. unfortunately, we just have no time to complete everything that we wanted to complete this through process. at the same time, we still have 2,500 children 0-5 waiting for childcare slots at this point. this initiative would have served another 2,5 hun h00 chil 0-5 that would be and making up to 200% a.m.i. and in light of the fact that there's a great need and this is going to be one solution that can be met, not over one million years, but once this passes, the solution to serve another 5,000 people that want to go back to work and for our kids to have quality early education and for our professionals in the field to have an increase in their salaries, cou

supervisor norman yee. thank you to our friends at s.f.gov tv for assisting us with today's broadcast. jim smith as well as michael balthazaar and ms. linda wong is our clerk helping us with today's meeting. madame clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. >> could you call item one, please? >> resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of approximately $500,000 to perform energy efz si programme implementation from the term january 1, 2018 to december 31, 2018. >> great. supervisor yee is a sponsor. i'll let him have a chance to speak. we'll hear from peter galota from the department of the environment afterwards. supervisor yee? >> all right. thank you, chair cohen

moved by supervisor yee, seconded by supervisor fewer. colleagues, can we take that without objection? no objection, the motion passes. and since we have no more business before us today, madam clerk, please read the in memoriam. >> today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following victimed, on behalf of supervisor peskin, mr. norm larson, on behalf of supervisor ronen for the late miss alice gonzalez, on behalf of supervisor kim, for the late miss jessica evans, on behalf of supervisor stefani for the late miss ming chapin. on behalf of supervisor cohen for the late mr. howard eugene smith, chiropractic doctor, and on behalf of president breed for the late mr. dennis o'sullivan, mr. theodore cohen, and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late miss sharon hewitt. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> okay. we are adjourned. thank you, everyone. >> the renovation of b

my valentine is for supervisor yee and thank you for being a childcare champion.ldcare help mid family a lot. i met susan and we were residents at a shelter for homeless families. i started working there and i recruited her and i am here to say we have an historic opportunity to pass a measure that will make targeted universal childcare in san francisco. many people were tourists and said wow, san francisco is doing that and we got a lot of signatures. for every child under five in san francisco there's two adults them getting childcare to get all the signatures and we want both housing and childcare to pass please make childcare in june. thank you. >> i'm amanda reme speaking on behalf of childcare united. we represent family childcare providers in san francisco and 38 other counties throughout california and in strong support of the proposal and appreciate the leadership. currently, childhood educators are far from making self-sufficient wages and many fail to meet costs. increasing the raises would support the childcare system. additionally the system will help

supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: thank you, chair tang. i want to thank the oewd for their staff in analysis and reporting here today. i'd like to say that we need to urge dbi to do a better job in just following through with the types of regulations that we have already. i also feel like, when i looked at the report and saw what other locations were doing, other locations were taking it much more seriously, and they're much more aggressive about how they're going to approach the property owners who think that they can just hold on for five years, and hopefully, they'll get 1million for 10,000 square feet or something. i would like to work with anybody that would like to pursue these more aggressive tactics, because that's the only way we're going to get this resolved. once again, i also want to thank the public for coming out and listening to your comments. >> thank you. supervisor

i've seen yee do it with the school board and now, mr.chairman, i'm challenging you do the same with your colleagues. go in a room and don't come out until you bring both worthy, necessary things for our city together. >> thank you, mr. mayor. any other comments? public comment is closed. i see on the second page of the one submitted for signature you have a number of categories, a, b, c, d to be funded in terms of compensation and investment in comprehensive early childhood education and services, support for early childhood education for those living up to 200% of the ami and those under 6 but older than 4 for 85% of varied median income. i understand the board of supervisors will give guidance, but what do you think the things in totality add up to if we're to meet all the categories? how would the office of early childhood education make priority in terms of 85% and 200%, you want to increase wages. >> we have a new system a reimbursement rate for providing high quality education in san francisco. we implemented that we know the rates

committee members kim, safai, yee and stefani. thank you for including oewd about these informational items. we recently completed a study and our strategies for addressing store front and other commercial vacancies in our neighbourhood. today i'll be co-presenting with my colleague amy cohen and with our retail study consultant sarah graham strategic economics. our joint presentation will start with an overview of national retail trends and key findings from our recently completed can study by strategic economics and this information will them city department, policymakers and the public understand the restrictions that we're working within. the retail centre reviews current research and best practice which is will help inform and guide our policies and programmes so we may better support our store front businesses and neighbourhood shopping districts informed by the notable shifts in the national retail sector and local economy. amy and i will also share afterwards oewd's goals, strategies and considerations in support of vibran

so it was transparent, full disclosure, after we saw that come in, supervisor norm an-yee and i came together and we saw a minimum compensation ordinance bep met four to six times in december and came to a compromise on how all three groups would come together for childcare and mcl and supervisor peskin would wait until november for another measure and that did not happen second that is what's dispointing. it's not the cause. no one on this board can challenge my record on affordable housing and the immense amount of force i've provided over the last seven years to win affordable housing. the issue here is the poison pill means there will be negative campaigning against childcare simply because it's in the ordinance. if you vote for the measure, the childcare measure cannot pass. >> thank you. >> we do not allow clapping in the chamber to show your support. we have waving of hand. we can agree to disagree. we have had multiple attorneys look at this conflicting measures clause. there obviously is a disagreement in terms of what you're interpretation is and other attorneys' interpreta

yee aye. breed no. cohen no. fewer no. kim no.there are two ayes and nine nos. >> supervisor breed: the motion to send this item back to committee fails. madame clerk, on the item, please call the role. peskin no. ronen aye. sheehy aye. stephanie aye. tang aye. yee aye. breed aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. kim aye. >> clerk: the ordinance is finally passed. it's past 2:30 and we have a special commendation today. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: my special commendation is the subject of a resoluti resolution is to gum be the first public assistance scheme introduced in 1971. he drew the connection between social welfare policies and field of business and built his civic duties from hong kong housing authority as a social services manager and supervisor at hong kong hospital, as a memberer at windows china hong kong limited, as a controller at hong kong telephone corporation, as an assistant operations manager at merrill lynch, as a welfare supervisor at hong kong social welfare and the list goes on. the man is remarkably quali

. >> thank you to the presentation from our colleagues, and now supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: i have a couple questions. i think one of the things i mentioned here, and there wasn't much of a report on it. in regards to the dbi, identifying vacancy programs, we already have some regulations or some enforcement programs that we supported and it seems like we're having a hard time enforcing it. is there somebody from dbi here? can you respond to that piece because it seems there's a lot more vacancy. i don't quite understand what the problem is in terms of enforcing. >> good afternoon, supervisors. ron tall, assistant director, department of building inspection. to answer your question, supervisor yee, the enforcement of this program, holistically, all vacant buildings, including residential and commercial in our department is complaint driven. we do not have a database, and we do not have a system that is able to capture it beyond the ability in an excel program. having said that, we are in the process of i ever willmentation of a major change in our department with a new permit

supervisor yee? present. madame president, all members are present. >> president breed: please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisiblindivisibl and justice for all. >> any communications? >> none to report. >> president breed: colleagues, today we're approving the minutes from january 29, 2018. are there amendments to those minutes? seeing none, motion to approve? moved by supervisor tang. seconded by supervisor yee. can we take that without observation? those minute meetings approved after public comment. madame clerk please call the first item. >> the first item is the special order at 2 p.m., the appearance by the honorable mayor mark farrell, there being no questions submitted by the districts, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> president breed: the floor is yours. >> good afternoon, i appreciate the opportunity to address the first questi

. >> i forgot to mention, we're joined by fewer, yee, stefani as well.o ask you to call item three out of order because we need to make some amendments. item three, please. >> item number tlaoe. ordinance amending the planning doed accomplish the gear ri-masonic special use district in the area generally bounded by the geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessor's parcel block numbers 1071, lots numbers 1 and to the north and west. >> thank you. supervisor stefani, the new sponsor of this item. >> thank you, chair tang. colleagues, thank you for hearing this item today. i'm thrilled to put the final touches on this project that has taken over two years to get to this stage. i was ah aids when this first came to district two and it is great to see how far this project has come. this s.u.d. allows it to go from 21 ewe it in -- units to 91 units while remaining the same size. it goes from three to 22, that is more affordable units than the total number of units in the original project. these are homes for 95 families to join the ne