Supervisor wiener. Thank you very much madam chair the towing contract expires at the end of this month so the mta has asked us to extend the contract by 8 months until mark of next year before the at a time theyll come to us with a long Term Contract i ask for your support on that extension one change that is an important one in this contract is one that ive cabin furnishing for for quite a few times and i know colleagues you support that is to take a much more fair approach to owners of towed vehicles that have been stolen right now when someone has their car stolen and it is dumped in San Francisco the person has 20 minutes to retrieve the vehicle from the police on site if they dont get there within 20 minutes it is a challenge the vehicle is towed and then the person has a lot of 4 hour window to retrieve the vehicle and after twentyfour hours the storage fees accrues and other fees so as someone that is has been victimized is then effectively victimized again by having to pay hundred or thousands of dollars to retrieve their car from the tow lot even though the person didnt do anything wrong theyre on the hook for hundreds of thoisz thousands ever dollars weve seen situations the thieves amount to a value higher than the value of the car so the person simply bans the vehicle the vehicles a awkward to pay off a portion and the owner is responsible for the rest this is an unfair system last year you recall i relayed e held a hearing and had a lengthy discussion what can be done i introduced a resolution which colleagues you passed unanimously calling on the mta to address this issue of towed stolen vehicles when the contract is up for rebuttal and to treat owners of stolen vehicles more fairly i want to give the mta credit for taking the request from this board seriously and coming back with the contract extension for the long Term Contract with a different approach to the owners of towed stolen vehicles specifically the mtas administered through fee of 266 is waved for only san franciscans can be reduced by 50 percent by nonresidents of San Francisco the mta will wave their storage fee that is a daily fee and also the contract towed fee of 228 will be waived for san franciscans and nonresidents in addition the storage fte fee is 68 plus a day instead of having a 4 hour grass period to retrieve the vehicle San Francisco residents will have a 48 hours grace period and nonresidence twentyfour hours grace period those are all movements in a positive direction which will give the owners of stolen vehicles sixth more time to retrieve their vehicles without having to pay tow fees or reduced so colleagues, i ask for your support and this contract extension thank you. Thank you supervisor wiener for your work on this contract. Supervisor kim. I just wanted to articulate why ill not be supporting in i understand we do need a contractor to provide this type of service over the next 8 months as the mta has rhd out the service but why today two weeks before the contract is set to expire another minimum this should have gone out 8 months ago and so mta knew that that is a 10 year contractor starting in 2005 this should have been done i understand one of the reasons that mta has given the changes in the policies around stolen vehicles they needed additional time for an rfp if it was valid it would have been the appropriate time this one giving the board options whens we have time and also how it impacts the option at this point, i feel that you know the board we have to support this otherwise the service will not continue to be in existence we have to pay one hundred and twentyfour hours thousand dollars because no leverage of this negotiation so again, this happened from time to time with the departments for me it is a philosophy option vote i want to see this come to us sooner and why this cant come to us the does want should let us count i know it is not possible to get out to bid i venture support the polar it was outrage for a person to pay the tow vie fee and the incredible inconvenience of getting their car stolen i think the fees are outrageous for anyone the fees are way too high weve had this conversation both supervisor carmen chu we want to examine the tow fee for any of the residents it is a fixed fee regardless of your income and has extraordinarily problems with the low income walker and the middleincome those fees had should be reexamined and the tia key process our fees compare to other cities our fees are way higher than other cities the example the city find a way to give more warnings to debiting give residents the change awareness this is penalizing way to enforce the parking laws i understand we need to make sure that cars are not in certain lanes during rush hours i would like an overall reconcentration but not supporting this together it should have been brought to us 8 months ago. Thank you, supervisor kim. Supervisor campos. Thank you madam president i do want to thank supervisor wiener for the work i will be voting no on this for the reasons that supervisor kim outlined i do have concerns about the process and the timing of this and i worry that because of that well end up paying more than 400000 more i have to say that i share the concern in terms of the amount of those fees i paid those fees before and i know that was not an easy thing for me, you can imagine how this impacts lowerincome folks that i think will have a tough time so i think that reimplication of the level of fees that should be charged is appropriate so for those reasons ill be voting no day today. Thank you, supervisor wiener. First of all thank supervisor kims and supervisor campos for their remarks i think we all agree tow fees not only in San Francisco but a lot of the cities are excessive in terms of the impact on people weve made improvements around people that trial video no culpability because their cars are stolen and dumped there are also plenty of people their cars are not stolen but they missed a sign or whatever the case and ends up being a problem in a number of areas in the country my understanding is that tow fees are pretty high in the bulk of the bay area not only San Francisco i think that has to do at least in part with land values and labor costs are higher than in the bay area than other parts of country but especially when iuoe i look at our towing lot the rents is steel high this is not to say that the fees couldnt be lower but the partial examination i want to say ive been critical in the citys approach of the towed stolen vehicles not have auto return auto return does what we ask them to do automotive return we have a bad history of tow contracting with rampant corruption in terms of the previous contractor it is a terrible, terrible situation auto cleaned it up and everyones views of the fees the operation has been professional listed and well run in addition the mta drives the revenue from the tow counteracting and to changes to the tow contract have revenue impacts on mta and muni 80 percent of parking revenue goes to the Public Transportation system so what ill say to colleagues now we have actually grate tuesday an 8 month extension over the next 8 medias theyve think finalizing the krashlt with auto return thats an 8 most window for the members of the board to express their views of how the fees should be different and part of that conversation where the money should come from when we had our negotiation is mta around the approach to stolen vehicles part of the conversation if you go with this option we lost one Million Dollars if you go with this well lose 5 hundred and so on and so forth so trade offs for Public Transportation so colleagues ill encourage you to be involved in that conversation and gnaw our views to the mta and be unproductively involved to have the best contract every. Thank you, supervisor wiener madam clerk can you please call the roll arrest commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim no supervisor mar supervisor katie tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 9 ids two nos with supervisor campos and supervisor kim isnt descent okay. This resolution is adapted madam clerk can you please call item 45. Item 45 through 47 were by the audit and Oversight Committee and forwarded item 45 an ordinance to authorize a lawsuit by marshall and swift against the city for 395,000 in august 1st for the district of california. Roll call vote. On item 45 commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 11 is this ordinance is passed unanimously on the First Reading item 6. Was to amend the administrative code to allow the Civic Engagement to provide Interpretation Services at every boards meeting for the board of supervisors for july 2016 and to require the average office of Civic Engagement to reduce the reports at each meeting. Supervisor yee. Thank you supervisor breed that creates a Pilot Program for spanish and tagalog and chinese at youll board of supervisors starting in 2015 currently, we honor the request for the interpretation 48 hours in advance but all requests the staff goefd above and beyond, however, difficult to provide the Services Sometimes were not able to get an interpreter and other times to rely on the staff for their supervisors for support we have come across this a few times just in the past few months with a constituent requiring interpretation and had to find one because an interpreter was not provided we have residents from every corner of the world approximately 36 percent of the citys residents are immigrants and of the total population identified as limit English Speakers we have one of the strongest language assess policies in the nation and this pilot could help us get more people involved in the political process i remember over 10 years ago when i was at a fellowship and Foundation One of their key exponents was a Language Access and i was in baltimore they said well host a meeting on the Language Access and in the bay area they said why the bay area they especially\know where i was they said informs San Francisco has one of the strongest policies around this we should be proud at every supervisors meeting the average office of staff and Civic Affairs will be available to owe offer of the languages in tagalog and chinese and spanish and provide the interpretation of the legislation introduced or the pilot will last until july 2016 to see the results of this if staff at oc m to work with the protocols to see the accessibility i want to make sure we respect the staff time and set reasonable exceptions for that the public implementing some of the meetings are long and we cant expect that someone will be here and need the tagalog Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee translation but i want to acknowledge and thank the office of occ executive director adrian working on this proposed pilot and thank the staff of the clerk of the board of supervisors who worked tirelessly to help and especially hard to accommodate those with language niece and finally after our economy meeting we continue to work with the office of the city clerk to expand this to the interpretation of hearing nos for example the required translation nos under the administrative code chapter 31 regarding Environmental Review depreciation there are additional languages that strengthens the proposal finally i would like to thank the coauthors supervisor president london breed and supervisor mar and supervisor campos and supervisor campos and supervisor christensen and supervisor tang and especially my staff jen who worked hard to put this together to make sure we have the input of all the offices so in in front of you i dont think i have to read it thank you very much. Supervisor yee has proposed amendments that that have been complicate seconded by colleagues colleagues seconded by supervisor mar can we take those amendments well take that without objection. Well take that without objection. Those amendments pass supervisor mar. I wanted to thank supervisor yee for streamlining the city of our language equality policies i wanted to acknowledge that in 2001 which santa fe San Francisco and oakland passed the Language Access ordinances that was updated in 2009 by many of us including assemblyman david chiu but also a number of us in the room because of the strong communitybased last thing access be network and wanted to thank from the chinese action and the others 78 organizations from 2013 we passed the African Advocacy Network and bruno heights and the reach center and the chinese and the filipino Action Center and selfhelp for the elderly i want to acknowledge this is about strengthening the voice of immigrant communities to be present and engaged in our board of supervisors meeting i i know that the various forevers over the years for increasing the Language Access are important for los angeles monitored communities when supervisor yee and i and supervisor kim were on the School District i know that our language and Interpretation Office office of Translation Services was a good model seen by other School Districts seen by large English Limited populations im gladly our city is moving forward i know the translation of documents is expensive i am appreciative of the one of the steps that increases the language for immigrants and limited english populations so i really thank the Language Access network and supervisor yee for moving forward thank you supervisor mar and supervisor cohen. Thank you very much supervisor yee and i also want to acknowledge the staff jan leo for the work i was wondering if theres a representative from occ here today. Definitely not ive been supportive of language assess and taking taken a vote in the past my comments are not critical of pretending Language Access but only questions of evaluation of the Pilot Program im curious of the tools to evaluate and who is which entity going to be evaluating the Pilots Program through the chair to sdmooe im going im not sure i have the answers fully backside but ill be interested in the other fact the office of Civic Engagement is one i use often when it comes to interpretation for the neighborhood members of the committee so i know how theyre very stressed in that capacity so im wondering because i didnt hear in committee and there is not one here today ill entertain a conversation how if theres able to actually perform and execute the Pilot Program to insure that will be successful and to make sure they have the resources staffing budget Equipment Technology i dont know if we need prescriptions to different Translation Software to help to execute the Pilot Program to provide a seamless opportunity for a hundred percent engagement and the other thing what happens if were here and have folks ready to go in terms of translation but no displaced how do we account for this im not longing to allows or lose precious resources so this really stems to my original question how to evaluate the Pilot Program and will there be an opportunity to get february from our end users the people that are coming to utilize the service is there ways to strengthen all four through the chair thank you. Thank you supervisor cohen. Supervisor campos. Thank you madam president colleagues ill respectfully schizophrenia we resend this item to vote for it my apologies. Supervisor campos has made a motion to resend the vote on the amendment is there a second sejtd by supervisor cowen colleagues, can we resend this well take that without objection. Well take that without objection. The vote has been rescinded and supervisor yee would you like to make the motion again. Yes. On the amendment. Like to make the motion to amend the legislation. So supervisor yee has made a motion to amend the motion and seconded by supervisor mar and colleagues can we take that without objection . Without objection the amendment passes supervisor yee. There the president i guess the highlevel sort of we are for the purpose of the evaluation was to make sure that whatever i mean we put affordability a fungal and doable so it is not in stone but wait for a year to see what happens we anticipate in needing more resources but would that anticipation be the right anticipation and not for instance, it took while to get it we talked about staffing a lot because there were other supervisor tangs ordinance also requires some staffing so it was a combination of those two things where we were working in the average office that office to figure out what would be appropriate and so in the budget process that just been taking place we added some fund or the mayor added funding to that office to have more staffer members to hopefully not to cover what is required in to ordinance but supervisor tangs ordinance in the no demand piece you pointed out thats a good question i suggested that the model by the used for the given by the School District that is prettypretty successful but they do they come the translators come at the beginning of the meeting and make their announcements in the appropriate language just to say you need us to translate or interpret please let us know we have translators and wait around for a while and at some point some of the people are a member it to could be of mowers o hours they are not going to stick around for 6 hours that would be the model as whats needed so thats why it is a pilot so if that models works well here. Thank you very much supervisor yee. On item number 46 as amended colleagues can we take that without objection . Same house, same call . Well take that without objection. Item 46 passes on the First Reading unanimously as amended madam clerk call item 47 another motion to retroactively the servicing to sick leave to the healthy work places for the family acts of 2014. Colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . This is approved proved an amazing. 48 considered on july as pursuant to the boards rules of order as this is the proposed Charter Amendments first appearance that shall be continued until july 21st when the board considered it order a chartered amendment to allow the City Employees to take leave of the same child to receive the maximum amount of paid leave for the employees to retain 40 hours of sick leave. Thank you, colleagues ill keep my remarks short and since all 11 cosponsored this i believe you, you all know as madam clerk said the charter is so i want to thank my colleagues and look forward to the yearlong effort ahead of us as we look at other ways to make our paid leave for familyfriendly thank you very much. Thank you supervisor tang colleagues can i entertain a motion to continue this to the meeting of july 21st 2015. Motions by the colleagues can we take that without objection . Well take that without objection. This motion to the meeting of july 21st, 2015, madam clerk can we go to roll call vote for introduction. Commissioner avalos is first up to introduce new business. Supervisor campos. Thank you, very much. Colleagues ill be brief i know it seems odd as were facing