good afternoon, madam chair and members of the board and director. director of enforcement and sustain able streak, and thank you for inviting me and our team. in september of 2012, the enforcement division acquired a mobile command vehicle, through the department of homeland security grant the opportunity, and when emergencies disasters or special events occur, or require on-site incident command, the mobile command vehicle becomes a vital component of our mission. when enforcement received the van it did not come with an operating manual. we had to do the task and it took many hours to complete and performed this after hours, and with our existing tasks on top of that. and the van, currently to date has been deployed to the american cup and fleet vehicle and the chinese parade and most recently the cup series so far too, with 19 more to come. and great success at managing all of the traffic successfully. >> supervisor chin began as a parking control officer in 1994, and his duties now are managing and or overseeing the port property, and supervisor

thank you colleagues. >> thank you madam chiu. madam clerk anything else on the agenda? >> no mr. chair. >> if not the meeting is adjourned. thank you very much. come and experience lafayette park and enjoy the people, picnic and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take an afternoon stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located at got and sacramento street in the middle of pacific heights on top of the city's steep rolling hills, lafayette park offers a great place, peaceful beauty. comfortably spaced tables and benches, a playground, rest rooms and tips at the end of the park. plenty of flat areas for football, frisbee, and picnic. lafayette is very much a couples park. this wonderful hilltop park is the place you can share with someone you cherish. lafayette park is located along the round at the one end campus and also easy >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to s

good afternoon madam chairman and board. i am representing north beach and the city of san francisco, and suggesting that we do not do the pagota dig, originally this is not in the master plan. and they want to spend 80 million dollars to dig two parallel tunnels under stockton street. and it never were planned on and they also do not have plans to put a station there, this is just going to be the (inaudible) left there and in turn, the person that has the right to that property on that, we paid 3 million dollars, and of our tax payer's money, for nothing. and to... they originally planned to stop the boring in china town and it makes much more sense to keep it that way and none of the extensive work on both forest street or on to the procidio will continue for at least 15 years so i strongly suggest not to do the dig of the pagota palace and leave north beach alone for the time being. >> stewart bloom, followed by greg giber and then mark gruberg. >> madam chairman and ladies and gentlemen. i live in north beach and i refle

>> thank you, madam chair. i want to express my gratitude for everyone who came to speak and the correspondence and express my gratitude to everyone who has worked on this, the staff particularly, that helped to put this together and the supervisors that have worked on this, and mr. dufty for his good work in helping to develop a solution and to help us with this transition. and this has been obviously no easy thing for any of us to be able to talk about and to have to address. but at the same time the reason why i am going to be able to support this is because i am striving for a sense of equity with how we are enforcing what we are doing in the city and that the streets are being used to the best possible and to the utmost capacity in different ways. and we can't just do one thing in one neighborhood or one thing in another neighborhood and not expect every other not expect to have biases. so, we are hearing from a number of folks in different ways that the use of the streets needs to change and i think that

madam clerk could you call items four and five together? >> yes mr. chair. item four ordinance amending the municipal elections code to specify that it will not have the legal text that exceeds 100 pages. item five amending the elections code that the voter information pamphlet will not include the legal text of any ballot measure that exceeds 20 pages. >> okay. supervisor -- president chiu is here to join us and he will speak on this item. president chiu. >> thank you mr. chair. thank you colleagues for consideration of this item and let me first thank supervisor wiener for his consideration of a very similar item. turns out great minds were thinking alike dealerring with an issue around a inordinately large handbook this year and we will likely to save the city 1.7 million dollars with the proposals that we have and i would like to recognize supervisor wiener's aid that is here and i recognize our colleague is in budget committee and has a conflict today so colleagues the legislation that i have introduced and the legislation that supervisor wiener introdu

and 80 percent are more libel to get assistance >> madam thank you very much that was appreciated. >> good morning. i'm a staff member at san francisco village. my role is volunteer and i take member requests that come in. because of confidentiality i won't mention the members names. about two years ago i got a call from a man who needed someone to take him grocery shopping as well as take out his garbage. his partner moved out and we were able to match him up with a volunteer to meet those needs but at the same time fulfilling that need of companionship. in addition we also have a member named rose who is a disabled person. she's losing her sight. we have someone going to her >> i live in martin tower. i'll tell you a few things i've done through the village. yesterday, i went although to a presentation on facebook i learned about it and what it's for and what you do with it. presumably if i go home i'll all be my friends. next tuesday i'm going to a lecturer on long term care. it will be at the san francisco village when we do presentations of subjects relevant to us we get to go to

madam clerk -- >> (off mic) would you note my objection in your minutes? >> supervisor cohen: you are on the record. item 3. >> (reading) >> supervisor cohen: we have supervisor mark farrell's aid, -- as well as susanna robbins from film commission. >> good morning catherine stephanie legislative aid two supervisor mark farrell who would be here but he's and budget negotiatio. nsit has been a great success ringing in high-profile films, one of the most recent is woody allen's film blue jasmin. our office 00 added a documentary film to the rebate program. we are here today because we need an amendment to the rebate program again in order to continue the success of it. we have found that although the film rated program is attractive to many producers we are now falling short on city space available for the some production companies. this legislation would allow the executive director on the phone commission to lease space for production companies after determining there is knows city space available. -- maximum of 600,000 dollars. no budget analyst report is

is there anything else madam clerk on the agenda? >> there's nothing further. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much this meeting is closed. (clapping) >> are you a parents that's unemployed and struggling to pay child support we have teamed up and positions ourself to offer an opportunity for permanent employment. for more information >>> >>> i'm audrey joseph. the acting chair of the entertainment commission. july will mark the 10th year of the entertainment commission and we as an industry have come a long way. our venues are safer, we have survived the recession, our city has produced an economic impact report that speaks to our value as an industry, we are looking forward to the next economic impact report on daytime events and festival and we continue to improve our permitting process most recently the help of supervisor scott wiener extending limited live permits to d j's. today we are introducing to the best i am practices manual based in security and we are discussing issues that are veflt relevant to us all. the 90s, san

so, madam clerk, can you please call item number 2, 3, and 4 together? >> item number 2, ordinance amending administrative code, chapter 31, to reflect revisions in the california environmental quality act and to update and clarify certain procedures provided for in chapter 31, including without limitation: codifying procedures for appeals of exemptions and negative declarations; revising noticing procedures for environmental impact reports and negative declarations for plan area projects exceeding 20 acres; expanding noticing requirements for certain exempt projects; clarifying existing noticing requirements for exempt projects; and making environmental findings. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. i'm the author of item number 2. supervisor kim is the lead author of items 3 and 4. ~ back in november last year i introduced legislation to establish for the first time clear statutory procedures, including a clear deadline for appeals to the board of supervisors under the california environmental quality act, ceqa, relating to categorical exemptions and n

>> madam president, i'm thomas reynolds. we met before on this issue. i would infer on you to adopt the findings which i think is important and in recognition of the reality of what's going on with these kind of stores opening in finding as you did last time that the lease should be considered as well. that seems to be a very important step and now with others, with short circuited the process that should be on the record and should be there to guide the planning department and the others. i think you made a very wise decision and is helpful. i do think we'll see legislation coming from the board of supervisors that will include international stores, we know that osca has another 50 stores internationally. we had this before on fillmore street where the gap opened an athletic brand and it was a part of the whole gap process. same with starbucks that opened a new natural food store and so, these are clearly ways around the city's i think very wise attempt to limit the affect of chain stores in small districts such as ours and your finding is a very impor

madam clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is a hearing requesting the municipal transportation agency, department of public works, planning department, and the county transportation authority to provide an update on the better market street project, including schedule and progress on improving interagency coordination, and the proposal to construct a separated bicycle lane on mission street; given that bicycling is an important element of the city's commitment to a revitalized market street and a critical component of the city's transportation network, the departments are requested to discuss how diverting bicycles to mission street is in the best interest of the city and the better market street project. >> thank you very much. instead of market street. ~ first i want to thank everyone for being here for today's hearing. i and supervisor chiu called for the hearing so we could receive an update about the better market street plan. this plan is one of the most important plans that's moving forward in the city

greg burke and other gentleman who make the transcripts available on line >> madam clerk any announcements. >> electronic devises should be silence. >> please call item number one. >> excuse me. would you like to skews supervisor cowen from today's meeting. >> yes. item number won limit the retirees health care to the retirement health care costs allow for payments if the employers retire reare greater than 10 percent of the employees subscribe trust is not fully founded and emphasis recommended by the control and approved by the mayor and make the controller the city director of the retirement system and this is for the health care trust fund board >> and supervisor farrell is here today to speak on this item. item number one i'll have him go ahead and precede >> colleagues i'm here to discuss a chart amendment to solve for our cities unintended health care liability. i want to thank my colleagues as well as supervisor david chiu and scott wiener. as was highlighted sfro san francisco had a significant number of long term pension issues and it continues to cause a drain or on our general

madam president and board members. we would like to take this time to dispute the ruling of the january 28 hearing that allowed the one tree to remain and the other one out. they earmarked the removal and the protest of hearing vowing for one tree to stay. we have dealt with these trees for 25 years. the property we own is on the corner of union street. in the packet you will see pictures of overhanging branches. the one tree is probably 65-75 feet tall. i would like to show you the corner property with the over hang and look down the street you can see the size of the tree and the overhang. it's also interfering with the street light in the corner. the trees are earmarked by the dwp as being unstable and not in good health an that's why they earmarked them for removal. the next slide i have here is the episodes i have here in june of 2010. the majority of the tree fell. you can see the condition of the center core of the tree. this tree really unbalanced itself with the removal of this large portion. >> is that the bi

. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon madam chair and members of the commission. i'm real estate manager for safe way they opened in 1985. i'd like to start by saying we fully respect the legislation and we fully understand and accept our role. the undertaken plan and we also work very colonels with staff and are very sensitive to california and market street which is at capacity and the new target coming up on the hill. our certain about the proposed legislation centers around the 3 hundred foot language due to our size we're 2 hundred and 55 square feet which is always going to push us over the 20 percent threshold. the other mrpts are panned district attorney express and popeye's. so safe way like many of the committals in the last item we're nervous by what this is going to entail in the future how this would play out. we ask for your consideration if we come forward with a remodel i thank you for your consideration and i'm here to answer any questions and a thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, it's closed >> i have one question under exhibit c

it's not just a matter of public sadists there's traffic and public safety issues >> madam if you could contain your comments just to the continuance. >> we have a large community and community members who are here to oppose this project. as i understand now those from the school that opposed to the school and project. thank you >> and as will be explained now by other committee members school is going to be out now and it is important they be allowed to participate. and because school is out it's not feasible for our members to commit. there's no reason for this eleventh hour continuum. our staff will address those points as well >> president and commissioners i'm benjamin i'm the chief administrative officer of the school. our school in the office is closed so we have limited administration until mid-august so we won't have any documents until late in september. so i think i'm willing to add this information to you. thank you >> president fong and commissioner. my name is charles i'm the president of the board of trustees of the school and why we are against the continuance as mention

so i'm asking for your support if funding this and a thank you madam >> 2 minutes goes quick i i know. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm the director for the beau con center. we ask for your support. the first funding to run an after school program. balboa loss their funding this past school year and due to the huge need for the academic services we stepped down in to help it run very limits programs utilizing very the money. however, due to some fund setting grants we're not able to stretch our programs to allow this service to continue. unfortunately, because of the refunding for high school after school programs balboa doesn't receive after school funding which means our communities high school which has a population of over 13 thousand students won't have any services. we'll have a youth who will speak how this has abstracted to their education and learning. so this year we're only able to provided recovery to very limited services at balboa so we want to ask you to keep funding our high school funding. second we want to ask for your support through the city and county s

yes madam? >> are they're going to be any restrictions on backpacks. >> i've found it difficult to not allow the folks to have them. >> is there is special number to call? there's going to be so many cops at the scene just grab someone >> or call 9-1-1. >> or call 9-1-1. >> there's been a lot of questions about the civil liabilities restraints back backs were never ban it was a big discussion about the non registered returners would be prohibited from running. the size of the backpacks have been controlled from the ballparks forever. so going away for two week backpackers arrest the secret isn't in the plan but in the two plan. so we have is a ton of experience i'll bet you there's more people in the room that we've relied on in this room and everything brings the resources. one time there was this great guys at dw p whose done pretty well. but it's really, really important that whoever don't have to control the event it's great to have the resources but i can't even tell you how we appreciate t

madam chair i'm here with the person in charge of this particular establishment. i'd like to first state i've been in talks with southern station and we have - we would request that the after hours portion of this application be continued. until the next meeting. the police feels officer chan feels we have to have more discussed this is 6th street. we would like to have more discussions with the police department. >> our next meeting will not be until the first day of august and you're just like 16 accounting is off-site so i want to tell you that. and so is that okay >> we're fine with that. there's going to be some rehab >> why don't you stop for a second and let's take care of that first. >> okay. so let's move for a continuance of the extended hours permit to the first meeting no august. is there a public comment on that? >> seeing none, can i have a second to my motion somebody. >> second and we have a second. come on up >> good evening. we would like to revisit this 6 months into the operation >> because of the location of the premises and because it's histo

. >> madam chair and commissioners. i'm here with 3 of the partners that will be a recuperate and lodge. this is b.a. luck inc. last known as - this is basically a major amendment that was requested be brought before the commission but i think everyone will agree this is a change for the better. this was a type of 47 it did have food there was a cook back there but if you walked back there you wouldn't see anybody eating. we have - when mike quan owned the majority interest his other partner was bruce and he started the majority partner in a restaurants called foreign cinema. and has been one of the 10 or 15 high grossing restaurants and it's on the top one-hundred list. it's a beautiful restaurants people thought they were crazy to go in there but mr. mcdonald has been a significant owner of this place for a number of years but a silent partner. he is now bringing in a real restaurants into the area. the bar across the street is proven it's ready for a restaurants. a they've hired randy lewis he's a chef and he was vot

opening it up for comments (calling names) >> thank you, madam chair. i am a member of the k ac and the member of the southeast corridor. i've been watching this for two decades and we're at a instantly we need our approval. i see in 1997 you approved it but because of the times we had to come back and ask you for your approval again. i know the people out in the southeast corridor are excited. so thank you very much for your time and opportunity >> any further public comment? >> seeing none, public comment closed. >> yes, i'm in favor of amendment the document. i'm not to make a motion >> i have a question that was stated that we remain with 16 hundred units so someone would say that the units would be less dense to make them workout is that true? >> the increase in density is about a one hundred units no total and the explanation for why this 16 hundred actually are shifted into that site is the small portion of the d area was originally part of the first phase and subsequently moved into the second phase. >> oh. okay. so your unit count is 17 hundred

. >> so let's move on madam clerk item number 2. >> august 2nd to the citizens advisory committee on market street and the tenderloin area peter and another gentleman withdrew their application for consideration. >> before we move on with the discussion can we have a slight pause to get supervisor kim. thank you. at this time i'd like to welcome supervisor kim to the committee today. so develop a citizens committee to advise the city of on policies on mid market tenderloin to land use but to work with our companies and small businesses that move into the area to take advantage of the tax solution. this committee has been in place for the last two years so this is the first time we're sharing on this item. we're got supervisors who are renewing their seat and so we have a number of applicants here today. >> so why don't i go ahead and call the names in the order listed on the agenda (calling names) you can make a brief statement about yourself and why you want to be on there human resources i'm a san francisco resident living in the lower hate. from 2007 to 2009 i was the led person i

>> actually, madame claire, before do you that, just for the record, no member of public has turned into a speaker card and i don't see anyone moving forward. >> moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> anyone against? great, the ayes have it. >> item 14, discussion and vote pursuant to administrative code section whether we conduct a closed session. >> move to close. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> move to closed session.

madame chair, in particular who has done an amazing amount of work for almost five years now and probably longer as part of many of our efforts. thank you. we have a couple of tag team efforts from mhasf today because i have to take off a little early. i am going to give a quick 8-10-minute overview for hoarding and cluttering challenges and joining me is my colleague gillian, who will share some specificks about our peer-based services and i will time myself here. so as chair wilson said, as idell said i'm the deputy director with the mental health association of san francisco and very delighted to be back here today and thank you to joanna for inviting us back today. to start things off, you know, i think just as a point of reference, i have a wealth of materials, we can provide the council members and public afterwards. a quick background on mha, we're a non-profit based in downtown san francisco. we do not provide direct clinical-based services. we are an affiliate of the national mental health association. we provide a lot more services based in education and advocacy, research, trai

madam clerk are there any announcements? >> yes mr. chair. please silent cell phones and. >> can you call item one. >> to amend the charter of the city for retiree health care trust fund for retiree health care cost for employer subtrust are fullied. allow for disbursement are greater than 10% and the payroll cost even if not fully funded. for the guidelines recommended by the controller with the city's governement accounting standards board actuary and by the mayor and to the retiree health care trust fund board permit by a participating employer governing board and make the control of the city treasurer and the executive director of the san francisco employees' retirement system or the designees members of the retiree health care trust fund board. >> thank you. joining us in the rules committee is supervisors farrell and he will be speaking on item one. supervisor farrell. >> thank you chair yee and colleagues. i am back today to discuss the charter amendment i introduced a number of weeks ago to solve the retiree unfunded liability here in

madam secretary if we can move 2 and 3 and go straight to four. if people from 4 are not here, we can go straight to 5. i believe you are here. >> okay. begin with item no. 5. item 5: discussion and possible action regarding proposed ordinance file no. 130369-22 amending the building and health codes to expand the boundaries and types of projects for which soil testing is required and to require testing of groundwater under specified circumstances; amending the public works code to eliminate soil testing provisions; renumbering code sections in the health code; and making environmental findings. continued from the bic hearing of may 15, 20133 >> okay. begin with item no. 5. sf 51234 >> thank you, president mccarthy, members of the commission. we were here last month and here to answer any questions that may have been brought up. i will walk through the points and please interrupt me if you would like any elaboration or clarification. my name is kelly president -- press with

go ahead madam secretary. >> item 7: discussion and possible action to approve and swear in a member of the code advisory committee commercial property owner/manager seat. appointment recommended by the nominations sub-committee is: henry karnilowicz. seat to expire august 18, 2016. additional eligible applicants reviewed by the nominations subcommittee that the bic also may consider include: jacqueline mohanna, roozbeh falahati, and mark lawin. >> item 7: discussion and possible action to approve and swear in a member of the code advisory committee commercial property owner/manager seat. appointment recommended by the nominations sub-committee is: henry karnilowicz. seat to expire august 18, 2016. additional eligible applicants reviewed by the nominations subcommittee that the bic also may consider include: jacqueline mohanna, roozbeh falahati, and mark lawin. #1234 >> i believe we have mr. henry here. >> we need a motion. commissioner? >> i think what's reported last time that we selected a couple people to interview and one of the interviews were henry and the committee recommende

>> madam president, commissioners, my name is mark, i'm and attorney and represent approximately 30 entertainment venues in san francisco. i have been through probably in the last 25 years 20 sound wars and i call them sound wars because they get pretty contentious and crazy. i have been here many years. i have had probably 15 or 20 sound test. these people go out of their way to help venues and ignore the law in order to let this venue survive and do their soundproofing. it's unfortunate that brick and mortars has chosen to cast these issues. i told them they are nice people and just sweet. my child can't sleep, but i don't want any of your employees to lose their jobs. these are great people and they have been wronged, i think. i would really ask this board to uphold the entertainment commission's ruling on this because i think it was fair, i was there and i think the brick and mortar can work with the neighbors, they can soundproof this thing and we need more entertainment venues and especially live entertainment venues and they are great ones. brick and mortar is a great venue. thank you. >>

>> no, madame chair. >> okay. seeing that there is no more public comment, we will move to 4, which is a report from the chair. good afternoon. i am co-chair wilson everyone. happy june, you guys. it's here, june, june, june. i want to say thank you for everyone being here today. i am glad you guys came out. thank you council members. i am glad to see everyone here today and doing well. i would like to say today i am asking roland wong to be co-chair with me, if i am missing from the pulpit, he will co-chair from where he is to be accessible. thank you very much mr. roland wong and i would like to say thank you to everyone who sends invitations for us to go different places in the city. there are different events to go to and wonderful things to do and i can't get to all of them, but thank you for sending them. keep sending them and we'll get out there, other council members, too. i would like to say and remind everyone that we do welcome public comment, but we say if there is a lot of people here who wish to spea

but i need to say something madam president to the people in the audience and the appellant's representative. in the same way that you have made predominantly a procedural and policy base appeal regarding your rights for process at the hearing, in the same way the permit holder has certain rights and by not being here, i'm not comfortable with hearing anything including public testimony related to this case. i don't think it's fair to the process or to the permit holder. >> [inaudible] >> no you may not. i'm sorry you have a representative. excuse me, you are out of order. please sit down. you are not helping yourself right now. you have not been asked to speak either. >> anyone else have anything? >> i would support a continuance. >> okay. >> are you suggesting to revoke the permit? is that a viable option? >> it is. >> there is no permit holder so there is no hearing without a permit holder. >> here is what was suggested by the captain is we can have a hearing based on what they have and we can make a ruling today. i have deep respect for his view here and we could do it the way that we wo

>> madam clerk anything else on the agenda. >> no. if there's nothing else the meat is now adjourned >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor cohen from district 10. she started her first term in january, so she is new to the board. we will get to know her and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about your background, where you grew up, where you went to school, and the jobs you have work. >> i grew up in the porthole and neighborhood. most of my childhood, i went to lakeshore elementary school. i love to talk a bell will -- about lowell high school. i studied political science with a concentration in public administration. i worked eight years, largely in the public sector. then, earned a master's degree from carnegie-mellon in pittsburgh pennsylvaniamy work . i spent time as an executive director for nonprofit on the hill. i was assistant to a wonderful person named julie middleton. the park that worked at was for

>> no, madame chair. >> okay. seeing that there is no one from the public with any more questions, you guys it is exactly 2:00 and we're going to take a 15-minute break right now. 10-minute break. i'm sorry, a 10-minute break right now, and we will be back. thank you very much. thank you for your presentation.

. >> madam, chair and directors, this is an item that we are bringing as a result of an inquiry from our board member heinieke. who had kind of raised some very legitimate and fair questions and concerns about the light rail service, and so we wanted to come and just let you know a little bit about what has been happening, particularly in the subway, but light rail in general but some of the things that we are doing about it. so mr. haily has prepared a presentation to walk through with you and he will enjoy answering all of your questions. >> thank you, mr. haily. >> thank you, and good afternoon. and i will just in terms of introduction, what you will see is essentially a presentation that we are concluding and i think that you will, that we need to improve that this is a system that is going through a lot of transition right now in terms of on time performance, we will talk to it but clearly we are not satisfied with the results and we want to share with you some of the actions and programs that we are taking place to improve but i also want to both acknowledge and express appreci

madam clerk, is there any additional business before the committee? >> there are no further matters. >> okay, we're adjourned. [gavel] [adjourned] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities, including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong, and arts and crafts. >> use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16th, the dedication and ribbon cutting took pl