Entertainment commissioner. Actually the few times i managed to go out now that im no longer cool shes always there. Shes at music shows and she also is an avid night life participant and so i think she can bring multiple perspectives to the neighborhood seat and finally i just want to say our office is really excited to work with dory and were so glad you applied. Were really glad that you took up this opportunity and i think you will be an amazing voice on the commission. Sounds like shes a party animal. Thank you president breed i really strongly support and i think the letters of support are so broad and deep from different communities and Entertainment Industry folks especially in the nonprofit and Community Sector i wanted to say its really great that we had several other well qualified candidates as well i think nick balogne from the richard district hopefully he is considered in the future at some point and tremendous support from quite a few Department Heads in the city and im looking forward to them continuing to apply to other commissions as well and tremendous thanks to him for his tireless work. He was extremely hardworking and very insightful and ill miss him on the Entertainment Commission but i know hes going to be very active in lifting up communities with his hard work. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor wiener. Thank you madam president and ill be supporting him today. He does amazing work and i know will be an asset to the commission and this appointment is actually yet another reminder to me about why i have never served on the rules committee its unbelievably hard when you have multiple amazing candidates. Just really amazing people who all bring different strengths but are all very passionate and authentically so and i want to thank the rules committee for having to really sometimes make a painful decision to say no to qualified candidates but i know dory is going to do a terrific job and im pleased to see a lot of high caliber interests and we work closely with both the commissioners and staff on a weekly basis. Its so important to have strong commissioners and this is moving that commission in its ongoing positive direction so ill be supporting this appointment today. Thank you. Not seeing any other members on the roster colleagues can we take this item without objection this motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk can you please call the next item . A motion to appoint Utuma Belfrey to the equal pay Advisory Board. Supervisor avalos. Thank you. Just as supervisor wiener said yes its a challenge to be on the rules committee when you have very qualified and talented applicants who are applying for a few number of seats and that was the case with the seats for the equal pay Advisory Board and it was actually kind of nerve racking to actually look at all of these very well qualified candidates i i actually wanted to explain my vote on this one i had wanted to support wendy aragon a Woman Working in the construction field for a number of years and has had firsthand experience of what its like to work in the field and experience what its like to have a different kind of pay than male counter parts in the industry and she would be one that knows the industry very well and can do the investigative work but she didnt pass the committee. The person who did pass in her stead was marisa diaz i will vote in favor of her today i found she had great experience was very compelling and a woman can receive equal pay for equal work and im happy to support her today and i was very impressed with Rachael Langston who has been doing similar work as a lawyer and of course Utuma BelfreyUtuma Belfrey has been practicing as an electrician for 10 years and really doing a lot of work to ensure women are treated well in the industry as well so happy to support all of these 3 woman who are applying for these seats. Thank you. Thank you supervisor. Supervisor mar . Thank you i wanted to echo supervisor wieners comment in looking at so many great applicants to the different commissions. I did want to say also that i hope that wendy aragon continues to apply i think she would be a tremendous asset to the Advisory Board and i want to say to the Advisory Board members being approved today i know that wendy as a leader in the richard district and on pay equality issues she hopefully will continue to apply and i hope the rules Committee Considers her for the future as well. Thank you very much. Supervisor campos . Thank you madam president i want to say im very proud of the incredible people that have come forward to be a part of this. This was created through an ordinance that we passed and the fact that the issue of equal pay for women has garnered the kind of attention it has, its really exciting to see and i look forward to working closely with this incredible board and i do think that hope that people like wendy aragon and others will be continuing to to to be involved and even meryls, st reep stands up at the at the oscars and continues to lead the way. I think that was patricia, ar quette that made the speech. Without objection this motion is adopted nan under unanimously. Item 16 was considered by the land use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on monday march 2nd and and and was forwarded as a committee report. To. Certain Building Permits with some commercial use shall require the posting of a notice and a a 15day delay. Supervisor supervisor kim. Thank you president breed colleagues thank you for your consideration. Again, i do want to acknowledge and thank supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener and their subsequent cosponsorship and for this ordinance i really believe its important to provide as much clarity as possible behind the intent of this ordinance. Many Property Owners throughout the city started marketing their office as office. They were not able to rent out their property in some cases the landlords let the tenants know this was illegal and landlords made tenants obtain Business Licenses and when the office heated up again in 2012 and 13 Property Owners realized they could make more renting and started evicting a resident primarily middle class tenants teachers and grocery story owners who had lived in these units as long as as 18 years. Ive been working with the Planning Department to address the loss of housing due to conversion of residential units to to commercial office space. During. Since the introduction of our interim controls the Planning Department responded to the executive directive by developing policies that required a public hearing and the review however this action did not include residential units that were not permitted and this action, today our interim role addresses that gap. These controls do the following, one, requiring a notice to be posted the day of permit issuance on the ground floor for major structural work and this work cannot begin for another 15 days giving tenants much needed notice that their building may be converted from residential to commercial. Further this ordinance deems any commercial use that has been converted regardless of a permit to be deemed abandoned and finally controls apply to already issued permits. If existing tenants in many of these buildings were evicted it would be difficult for them to find housing in our current rental market. Many would have to leave the city in fact there are many tenants that were scared and are tired and have already moved out of San Francisco and finding squeezed roommate situations or looking for jobs in areas they can afford to live. However, the property that got the most attention primarily because it was the largest was ten 49 market and i want to acknowledge the Mayors Office in particular who worked closely with our office and planning to work to find a resolution to the issues that the Property Owner brought forward that he had to evict the tenants and had profited by accepting their rent check for years and they worked regardless of this work the landlord has decided not to pursue the residential option that the city provided. Rent payments that he actually refuses to accept have been put in he in escrow accounts and i recuse myself. I think he is confused about the work of ee elected representatives and yes i have a clear bias to preserve Affordable Housing in San Francisco. Further i have little sympathy for Property Owners that convict tenants because they can now make more money by doing what is legal and i want to thank the City Attorneys Office for helping to develop legislation that ensured that we as a city are evaluating loss of housing during this time and finally i want to thank the tenants many of whom are actually here today for their courage of coming out to support this legislation which is actually very complicated. It not only affects their lives but the lives of many others and what these tenants are doing today home is often our our sanctuary. I hope that we as a that we as a city that we as a city can play a small role colleagues, i ask for your support of these interim controls today. Is it my understanding that you are not going to be voting on this item . I will be voting on this item. Okay. Can i ask you a question about the legislation . I know that there was some concerns expressed by the by the City Attorneys Office have you addressed those concerns or will you be making any amendments to address those concerns . We did address many issues through amendments. I just want to say the City Attorney has done a really amazing job to ensure we address this is systematic issue and keep tenants in place. Okay with that that can we take this item . Without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, can we go to roll call for introduction . Yes madam president. Supervisor farrell you are first up to introduce new business. Thank you im introducing a resolution urging the National Park service to abandon the diss embarkation project and take it away from the Golden Gate National recreation area. Unfortunately they continued to move ahead despite strong opposition and recently released Environmental Impact information. It will have drastic impacts in the neighborhoods that i represent in district 2 and i believe in the city as well over 1. 4 Million People visit Alcatraz Island and Fishermans Wharf is very well served by Public Transportation and other modes and if you contrast this with fort mason the nps is considering a drastically different landscape than what is currently in place. It would do so by providing a convenient link to hotels shops restaurants and other amenities. If fort mason is not equipped to handle this amount of traffic. This could mean an additional 1. 5 million visitors annually in addition to what exists today. The draft eis alternative makes no sense and thats why im asking our local leaders to give this back to the city of San Francisco with a simple question who is impacted more by the Ferry Service . I would argue that the city is far more impacted than Alcatraz Island. It clearly impacts our city of San Francisco the most the city has to deal with how to prepare for growth. And the nps does not and the city has to provide Transportation Options and the nps does not. I will do everything in my power to transfer this contract i believe it should be managed by local City Government because it directly impacts our city the most. We can send a strong message to fort mason. Thank you supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim. Thank you. Two things first i want to give an update today on the impact of the communities collective support for the five tenderloin families on january 29th only a day after a fire displaced a larger group of residents in the mission district. I just want to recognize actually reaching out to one of our district businesses startup hand up and also project homeless connect to create an Awareness Campaign to get many folks involved and i want to mention this fund has now raised 25 thousand 25,000 and these funds will all go go to the families and they have agreed to split it evenly so theres still time to donate either to my Facebook Page or visit the website where you will find the families. This important dollar will actually go to providing furniture clothes and many of the other things that were completely lost during the fire and i want to recognize Boston Properties who matched their employee donations and they contributed 9, 250 to the campaign and twitter donated 5 thousand 5,000 and and once we hit the 20 the 20,000 mark twitter donated another 5 5,000 to these families. Finally, i wanted to introduce a resolution supporting campus accountability and safety act. My freshman year of college i got the calls that so many young women fear. My best friend called to tell me she lost her virgin ity at a party a boy she barely knew raped her she was devastated and didnt know what to do. She blamed herself for not saying no strongly enough or not knowing what to do when it was happening. No one should ever be put in this position. No one should ever feel guilty or blame themselves she decided not to report this. She continued to see this guy on campus and in classrooms and he would make snide remarks to her about this incident waiving his power over her. I was angry. I wanted to call every physically large person i knew. I already knew at this i young age that she would be victimized over and over again and nothing would come of it and later that year i saw a woman i met she was drinking with her friends when she passed out and a male student found her resting next to a pool of vomit. She came out publicly that she was date raped and accused her perpetrator publicly. I watched as people took her story apart questioning her motives and questioning what the definition of rape is. He was suspended for a semester but allowed to stay on campus. Last fall i attended a let us a lunch eon an American Woman age 18 18 to 24 is at the highest risk of Sexual Victimization compared to woman of other age groups. If you do not attend college a woman is more likely to be assaulted than if she does attend college. 80 80 percent go unreported and Colleges Universities reported over 5000 to the department of education and yet not a single investigation in the last 5 years and only ten to 25 percent of students found responsible not accused but actually found responsible were actually kicked off campus. It is un undeniable that we need to do more. Here in San Francisco our office has been working with senator gilabrand to brainstorm what we can do here locally and weve learned that San Francisco is at the forefront of survivor centered approach in which survivors take priority and campuses such as u. S. F are considered role models yet when we talk to students they still feel with even our model approaches we can do more to encourage more women to come out and report and im kicking off a series of actions by introducing a resolution today. Last year a Bipartisan Group of senators introduced this legislation aiming to turn the tied on how sexual assaults on College Campuses are handled and the legislation failed to pass and the bill has been reintroduced this past month. We cant wait any longer and we can not allow sexual assaults to simply be an accepted part of our Higher Education experience. Students will have a place to confidentially access and work with advisors to have training and. I asked for my colleagues support and i thank the courageous survivors and you can witness some some of the amazing advocates yourself. And i also want to recognize supervisor tang a cosponsor of this resolution and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor kim so now it is time for our 3 00 p. M. Special order so we are going to abandon roll call temporarily in order to honor some Pretty Amazing women in our city today im extremely pleased to welcome you all to the San Francisco board of Supervisors Chamber for our womens History Month celebration which is a time to recognize the efforts of some amazing women in our citys