yee? >> supervisor yee: aye. >> clerk: yee aye. we have approval. >> supervisor yee: can we call item three? >> clerk: item three is information item. >> supervisor yee: okay. we will have a presentation. >> good morning, commissioners. thank you for having us. i'm hava cronenberg. commissioner yee, i think it's been about nine months since we were here, so i'm going to go through beliefly some of our current statistics about vision zero and the progress we've made on our current action trot gee. very high overview. i know we have a packed agenda, so i'm going to move quickly. we report to you, as well as our committee -- community and committee vision zero task force, which has been meeting quarterly quarterly. i know you've seen this slide, but this is our fatality report from 2017, which was our least deadly year in san francisco recorded history, with 20 fatalities. pedestrians of those fatalities were still overrepresented, so we have a downward trend. motorists still continue to be overrepresented, and bicyclists as well. jus

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. [gavel] >> good evening and welcome to the jewel july 19, 2018 board of appeals. to my left is deputy city attorney brad ru >>> >>> ey. at the controls is the board's legal assistant. we will also be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board this evening. we expect scott sanchez the sceneing administrator

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. >> good evening and welcome to the august 15th, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. the board president will be the presiding officer tonight. he is joined by commissioner lazarus, commissioner honda, vice president swig, and bobby wilson will arrive later this evening. to my left as a deputy city attorney who will provide the board with legal advice this evening. at the controls is our legal assistant. i am julie rosenberg. the board's executive director. will be joined by representatives from that city departments that have cases before the board this evening.

thank you, and thank you, supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: what intersection are we talking about so we have it on record? >> excuse me? >> supervisor yee: what is the intersection? >> oh, 10th avenue and pachecko street. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to come up today and to talk about this. and in addition i'd like to thank the department of public health for giving us the funding for -- to educate seniors on how to cross safely and to talk about pedestrian safety. i would like to introduce myself, i'm danny and born and raised in san francisco. i am part of the c.d.c.'s youth program and i have been working with seniors around ever since i was in sixth grade. and also usually when i talk to them about like crossing, they don't usually have enough time to cross because they don't walk that fast. and then the lights change too quickly. and from campaign academy works on advocating for that. and we also have been working on educating seniors this past two years to also like -- to also like go inside of the community and ask where changes are

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practi

>> supervisor yee: not at this moment. i think this is the end of the presentations and i know that there are some specific public comments or speakers that would like to make some public comments. so before we take questions i'd like to hear what their concerns would be. and there's a person here today from the commission who actually reached out and wanted to hear about this. in fact, we were almost going to have a 4:00 committee meeting but they came to this earlier time. so to open up public comments right now. so to bring up mary clear amable. >> amablay. i am mary clear amablay as a district 6 youth commissioner. i would like to thank supervisor yee for putting this item on the agenda today. pedestrian safety was one of the budget priorities represented to the budget and finance committee this year where we recommended that the board of supervisors have a hearing on this item. so, thank you, you know, for doing so. the youth commission decided to take on pedestrian safety this year after a group of young people from

>> supervisor yee: thank you very much for this. the reason why i wanted this to be shown is i know that when we just talk about it, people don't -- have a hard time visualizing. and as i've mentioned, i've seen car drivers very confused. even when it's flashing, they just sit there, so they don't understand fully how this really functions. so i really appreciate this and hopefully, you'll have opportunities to present the video elsewhere, so people can see it rather than just looking at a piece of paper. so this is something that we just installed -- maybe started up a few years ago on sloat, and we have a few more now. do we have it anywhere else in san francisco? anybody know? >> i think the city has installed some. as a matter of fact, i think there's several on sloat. caltrans installed five, and there's other systems elsewhere. >> supervisor yee: i'm just curious if there's other places in the city where they're installed. i guess not. [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you. i'll make sure that we give you more opportu

thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. could i ask, with the strategy -- not the congestion, but the one before that, with the -- >> yeah, the speed limits? >> supervisor yee: the speed limit. what was the thinking beyond that? >> i -- i think it was -- just from what we heard, being able to reduce speeds across the city, and there's been some state legislation that would look at changing the methodology in terms of how you can set speeds to better reflect safety? that state legislation has changed a bit in terms of the scope, and it's now being proposed as a state task force to sort of explore these issues more? so we don't see the actual legislation moving forward in its original state, but it's an opportunity to really think at a state level of how do we better think about safety in terms of setting speeds. >> supervisor yee: what's -- what are our restrictions for setting speeds in san francisco? i know -- >> [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: i know if it's caltrans or whatever, it's a little more difficult. it took forev

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. >> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. >> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they woul

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. . >> my name is dave, and i play defense. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined stree

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: hi, everybody. i am so excited to be here today to sign my first budget as mayor. thank you all for joining us today. today's budget is really a team effort. it involved so many of you here who made this possible coming together to put together what is going to be, i think, one of the best budgets to implement what we know are our priorities so we can see change on our streets here in san francisco every day. i'd like to thank our board president, malia cohen, who's here today to lead the budget process along with members of the budget and committee, supervisor stefani, supervisor fewer, and supervisor yee. and i'd also like to thank members of the board of supervisors who are here today. supervisor mandelman, supervisor brown, supervisor satisfy tang, a safai, and su

supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: yes. commissioner richards, i'm going to ask these questions of all four. >> sure. >> supervisor yee: people up for appointment. so i think the first question is -- may have been answered for you by the speakers, but i wanted to know your views of -- on neighborhood input when it comes to planning for improvement processes and you probably need to say, yes, i believe in it, because i think i heard everybody else say that you believe in it, community input. [please stand by] think that for me, right away, that's the one thing we should attack. and the housing affordability study that the department's doing is going to look at that, why are we entitling things that aren't getting build. if you want to peel that back, supervisor yee, the next thing, that leaves 81,000 units. why aren't people seeking entitlements on those 81,000 potential units. forget zoning. is it too much of a hassle? is it financing? is it the property's been in the family forever, they just don't care? i think we need to

. >> supervisor yee: okay. and this is an informational item, so let's go onto item -- we might not get through everything, so the next presentation, there's going -- it's going to be fairly short, i assume so, since we've talked about it already, item number five. >> clerk: item number five, community response, priority response, informational item. >> good morning, commissioners. i wanted to talk about the rapid response to fatalities protocol. we did talk about this last week at the board of supervisors, but in the context of senior fatalities, so i'm going to go overall the fatalities briefly that have happened this year. to recap, last year, november , former mayor lee requested our department provide a rapid response team to each fatality that happens in the city. we've done that. now, if there's a fatal collision, the police department will notify our management at the sfmta as soon as possible. we will then assign staff to investigate the site typically within 24 to 48 hours, depending on the -- the cra

supervisor yee, do you have a question? >> supervisor yee: no. i just needed a clarification, and you asked the same clarification, so i'm fine. >> supervisor safai: okay. so why don't we have a motion to sever aimee brown from the proposed -- >> supervisor yee: i'll move it. >> supervisor safai: so moved. without objection, it's ordered. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: and then, may i have a motion to approve -- >> supervisor yee: i make a motion to approve the nomination of ben rosenfield, reeta madhaven, kevin kone, and eric sandler to the full board with a positive recommendation? >> supervisor safai: any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment's closed. and can we take that without objection? okay. great. congratulations. thank you. [ gavel ] plea [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: please call item number six. [agenda item read] >> supervisor safai: i've been informed that one of the applicants withdrew, so we have one applicant. that's commissioner steven lee, unless i'm misinformed.

peskin: supervisor yee? > supervisor n. yee: thank you. i want to also thank commissioner, t.a. commissioner cohen, supervisor cohen, chair cohen, president cohen. i have to also join the chorus of having an open process during the budget process. i think we had very good debates during the process and sometimes we had to give, sometimes we win some. i thought it was well-run. san francisco police budget, one of these things i lost some arguments there. again, it's all about give and take. and the nice thing about the issues i raised with the staffing saying how can we get police officers on the street faster and people didn't buy the argument at the time but the nice thing is we didn't just leave it. we agreed the controller's office should look at the 6-8 officers that could be civilianized which would quickly then have police officers on the street rather than sitting behind a desk. hopefully that study will come soon so we can actually continue having a discussion around that particular issue. i want to thank also ben rosenfield's office, harvey and severin of b.l.a. and jon

yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned. [applause] >> mayor breed: while. what a beautiful group of people. welcome to district five. [cheering] it has been a real honor to serve as a supervisor for the district that i was born and raised in. i am so excited today because this is a special community. it is a community that has had a challenging past. iit is a community that has consistently come together to solve our most challenging issues. it is a community that is such an amazing place, full of people who care about rolling up their sleeves to get the job done. not only to make their neighborhood a better place, but to make san francisco a better place. so when i was thinking about someone who is just really a strong communicate just community advocate, someone who is focused on delivering for the residents of district five, i could think o

and that would be part of the process. >> supervisor yee: yeah. i think that one tool that you could use or somebody could use is -- because you're installing new ones -- maybe just, again, to have the media to cover and for somebody to explain it, at least to get more people -- if it's just on your website or something, no one will look on your website. i'm sorry. just being honest. who will go look at your website and say let me figure out what this means. okay? but thank you for being -- working with the city and sfmta and so forth to install these things. i know that it was a reaction at the time and we celebrated the process and we want to be thankful for that. okay? any questions? i'm sorry. i am pretty passionate. thank you very much. >> (indiscernible) public affairs as well. jeff and i work together and one of the things that we're working on in the ongoing education is that we're getting some flyers and having them sent out to the neighborhoods. what we want to do, which we have done in other locations where we have these fliers is to se

>> supervisor safai: yeah. >> supervisor yee: okay. sorry. >> supervisor safai: it's okay. >> supervisor yee: i'd like to make a motion to appoint steven lee to the entertainment commission and send it out with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> supervisor safai: can we do that without objection? without objection, that item's ordered. thank you, commissioner. congratulations. [applause] >> supervisor safai: please call item number seven. >> clerk: item number seven is a hearing considering appointing two members term ending july 31, 2021, and two members term ending january 1, 2021 to the veteran's affairs commission. >> supervisor safai: so i know we have -- do we have all ten applicants here or just four? four? okay. so why don't we go up one by one. why don't you go first, mathy -- margot. sorry. either one. matthew -- >> good afternoon. my name is matthew brauer. i come to you as a ten-year resident of san francisco district six seeking seat ten on the veteran's affairs commission. i am a disability lgbtq veteran who