Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 31516 20160316

Thank you. Mdm. Clerk any communications . Yes that were in receipt of the communication by mayor ed wu lee march 11 26 in communicating his beat out of file number 15 1257 the Transportation Sustainability fee for nonresidential projects. Supervisor john avalos has requested the scheduling of the veto override at the next possible date so supervisor avalos theyll be on march 22 agenda. Peter thank you. Colleagues, either any changes to the feathery 9th 2016 regular Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Collies can we take those Meeting Minutes without objection . Without objection those minutes will pass after Public Comments. [gavel] madam clerk, please read the Consent Agenda items one through 7 are on consent is considered routine. Whenever the object server and item that considered separately seen no names on the roster, adam clark please call the roll on items 17 supervisor avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, the camp absent among mar aye, the peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye, yee aye there are 10 aye these items are fat pass any adopted unanimously [gavel] madam clerk, please will to item number 8 item 8 resolution to approve the agreement doing business as San Francisco auto return for towing storage and disposal of abandon and illegally parked vehicles burn amount not to exceed 65. 4 million to march 31, 2021 with the option to extend for up to 5 additional years. To approve a license proportion of the premises at 2650 bayshore blvd. And longterm vehicle storage and auction facility for fiveyear term in a fiveyear option. Supervisor avalos thank you. Colleagues, im still waiting to hear back from the mta whether they went down this or not get a believe we can actually be referred this to later in the agenda. That week we can do things sequentially. Supervisor avalos, for clarification, im not certain we can make amendment to this particular contract so what are we expecting to happen . I would like to make our vote in sequence the mta board needs to approve the new administrative fee and then we can go pick on it after that get under heavy changes to make. I want to actually do it in the sequence of what would be expected of us in City Government thank you. We will move to our next item and return to this later in our agenda. Mdm. Clerk please call item 9 item 9, 81 look so many ministries of code to update the definition of compensation for purposes of Retirement Benefits under the San Francisco employees retirement system and to include condensation carnival in that definition under the judges retirement system and judges retirement system 2. Rollcall vote because item 9, supervisor avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim, absent mar aye, peskin nay became aye, wiener aye, yee aye, there yee aye, there are 9i. The ordinance is finally past speak [gavel] bedecked item 10 is earth resolution to provide the financing of animal contractor control shelter with the execution delivery of certificates of participation rather forms of indebtedness in accordance with capital plans general fund that kroger. Supervisor tang him and to keep this short because i know you heard me talk about this a lot i just want to say thank you to my colleagues for supporting the rebuild of a new Animal Shelter in San Francisco. Bt see no other names on the roster can you please call the roll on item 10, supervisor avalos, aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, because can aye, tang aye, wiener aye, yee aye. There are 11 aye the resolution is adopted unanimously [gavel] please go to the next item item 11 referred without recognition from the budget and finance subcommittee resolution to authorize immiscible Transportation Agency to execute a Lease Agreement with Industrial Park for approximately 7. 3 acres of space located at 30 avenue in south San Francisco to be used for bus operator training courses for nineyear and fivemonth term through every 28 2026 with initial annual base rent of approximately 2. 5 million and annual 2 rent increases. Supervisor cohen. I like to make a motion to continue this item for 3 weeks that is to the meeting of april 5. Moved and seconded. Collies, take this continuance without objection can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. It passes this item will be continued to the meeting of april 5, 2016 [gavel] next item item 12 is a ordinance to suspend administering code section 21. 1 the competitive solicitation process require meant for a contract for Electronic Health record system that apartment of Public Health San Francisco Health Network and to approve the selection of the regents of the university of california as the preferred contractor. Colleagues, see no names on the roster can we take this itemoh, can we have a rollcall vote for item number 12 item 12, supervisor avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen nay, farrell aye, kim aye nay mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye, yee aye. There are 9 i would to nay. This ordinance is passed on the First Reading [gavel] item 13, a resolution to approve the issuance of taxexempt obligations by the california say White Community Development Authority in an amount not to exceed 60 million to finance and refinance various capital facilities to be owned and or operated by the California College of the arts or its affiliates will call both. Item 13 supervisor avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, [adjournment] aye, fear farrell aye, kim [inaudible] aye, mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye yee aye. There are 11 [inaudible] the resolution is dotted unanimously [gavel] please call item 14 and 15 together item 14 resolution to retroactively authorize that apartment in the status of women to accept and expend a 750,000 grant from the nicest upon the justices office of violence against women for the multidisciplinary investing balance i the saudi risking Pilot Project Program Period of through september 30, 2018. Item 15 is a resolution to authorize the general manager of the Public Utilities commission to accept it 535,000 award from the Alameda County Waste Management authority or implementation of the Regional Water conservation program. Colleagues, take these items same house, same call can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. The resolutions are adopted unanimously to gavel lets go to item 16 item 16 was considered a regular meeting of the rules committee on thursday, march 10 and was forwarded as a Committee Reports item 16 is a motion to appoint Christine Nelson and a straight up right to the appeals board number 3 terms ending september 3, 2018 bedecked colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call with can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Approved unanimously [gavel] lets go to rollcall for introductions. Supervisor avalos youre the first supervisor to introduce new Business Today ill be asking the City Attorney to draft a new version of the Transportation Sustainability feed. More than one thing to raise the funds for the fee i want to have a fee that, revenue, there will actually arrive flexibly for the mta to be able to do budgeting they are doing with a structural deficit, especially affecting the operations and want to craft a new version of the tsf without raising any other fees that would allow some flexibility to move funds for operations. The rest i will submit bedecked thank you. Supervisor campos submit supervisor cohen thank you. Im so excited because today im introducing a resolution urging the California State Assembly to adopt senate bill 1286 of bill is a push for transparency and Law Enforcement and something that we collectively as the body have been advocating for here in San Francisco for some time now. A few weeks ago supervisor breed resident breed, and supervisor peskin and i stood with a center as he announced important piece of legislation thats answering greater conspiracy and accountability within our statewide Law Enforcement agencies. Senate bill 1236 will do a couple things. It will allow the Public Access records of charges of misconduct including use of force, sexual assault, racial or identity profiling. It would also allow people who have files complaint access to basic information related to their complaint. It also allows localities to decide if they will hold public hearings based on officer misconduct. Senate bill 1286 does a few more things. Provides access to data, exposing racial inequalities and gender were identity basis ices in california. In California Police top searches as well as arrested because of access to data we know africanamerican are more likely to be stopped by Police Officers and a also because of access to data we know africanamericans and latinos are general are pulled over and searched 3 times more than whites, but please only recovered drugs and rate of half that of what they find one caucasian individuals. So, if youre refutable with the data has tells us. Its actually not anecdotal. Great benchmark from which we can improve. Which is why earlier last year i was able to pass legislation requires the San Francisco Police Department to collect, analyze and also to make payable to the public data on demographics of individuals they stop detain in or question research. I think its important that if we first note you for not collecting and analyzing data we cannot take advantage the opportunities to identify areas Law Enforcement agencies can try new ways to intervene in approved public safety. If we dont count we cannot make the necessary improvements to move forward and to continue better our Law Enforcement agencies to the residence in San Francisco and all across the state have a paramount interest in transparency and accountability in lawenforcement. In the interest will be perfected in pauls. I hope colleagues to join me today in supporting this policy next week when it comes to us for a vote. I like to think my cosponsor resident breed, became, avalos and peskin also want to recognize and applaud sen. Landovers leadership and effort to meet a climate of transparency in our government in our lawenforcement agency cross the entire state. Thank you. Supervisor same house, same call peter colleagues, today of 2 hearing requests get the first has to do with as a followup tool report i requested from a budget and legislative analyst little over 9 months ago that they actually released just this morning. Regarding options for municipal fiberoptic network here in San Francisco. As we all know is more than anything else the internet in recent memory completely revolutionized the way we communicate or commit our everyday lives and access to fast and affordable internet is no longer a luxury. It is an absolute necessity in our world today. Over time it shifted them useful amenity which he viewed as a court utility necessary to everyday life just like water and power. Just lake water and power are essential infrastructure for our communities internet is a new essential and valuable infrastructure and asset for communities we have to fight to expand and enhance. I firmly believe it should be an economic and social right especially here in San Francisco and it should not cost an arm and a leg. We have over 40 of our Public School students, over 100,000 San Francisco residence that do not have Internet Access at home another 50,000 San Francisco residence was sluggish dialup speeds. The human cost and the toll of the Digital Divide in San Francisco is real and damaging. Without knowledge supervisor mar in this area for his work as well another and how to work with them in these related areas over the past year and more. Residence and needy internet the most especially in the city are being sold short and left behind in the century. As we cause of the Innovation Capital of the world for my perspective is simply acceptable. A little over 9 months ago i asked our pla to create a report to publicly analyze different options including financial estimates to develop a citywide gigabit speed that will connect every single San Francisco resident to the internet every single business in our city. If any city can tackle the Digital Divide and bring gigabit speed to everybody its San Francisco. We have a chance and the ability to embrace the opportunity to read create a replicable model that other cities and municipalities run our country can follow. The report was released earlier today and represents the first time in our history the estimates and costs associated with constructing owning and operating a network will provide lowcost gigabyte speed and internet for everybody. I also announced the beginnings of a municipal fiber working group that is going to be towheaded i need el camino whose our city chief Information Officer and head of our dept. Of technology as well as jane at our chief innovation officer. Ill be working on the committee along the supervisor mar and today im introducing a hearing request on the reports we got substantive discussion about the reports that details the next apps. It is a vision. It is my vision. And the goal to provide lowcost gigabyte speed to internet to every single San Francisco resident i look for to discussion moving forward. The 2nd hearing request comes out of a recent meeting i had in my office regarding Sea Level Rise. How it affects the city of San Francisco. Climate change is happening all over our globe and is very real and the implications are very real for our city as we sit on the pencil of San Francisco. Especially San Francisco 3 sides by water we need to start looking at how we prepare for the changes locally. The effects of Climate Change and many of our beloved shoreline and recreational areas in district 2 in particular, from aquatic park all it to crissy field, the landscape is going to allow different 100 years from now. There has been a Sea Level Rise correlating committee convenes originally by mayor lee was a broad range of each of the mental effort to rectify strategies and plan for how we as a city can leave with water and Sea Level Rise that is coming. Today im card for hearing on this committee to Sea Level Rise action plan to open up the public dialogue. This affects not only the northern part of San Francisco but all along the coast district 6 and 3 and down to 10 as well. Something that everybody in San Francisco should be concerned about and all so as you think about the Pacific Ocean districts of district 1 and 4, 7 and 11 as well. We need to understand all of the risks both of you in action as well as the costs of action going forward. We been remarkably resilient to disasters here in San Francisco. Whether the earthquakes or otherwise we can avoid a disaster moving forward with forward thinking and Action Planning but we simply cant be still get nothing only option thats not acceptable. I look forward to this discussion without communities in developing Solutions Together as all of us in city hall to get the rest i submit thank you. Supervisor kim today i am introducing with supervisor peskin and yee a ordinance that clarifies how the Charter Amendment ballot measure which is on about june 7, 2016 will reshape projects that have already filed environmental evaluation application and begun the planning process prior to the introduction of our charter ballot measure. I first went to recognize and thank our City Attorneys office who has worked diligently and many long nights and Weekend Hours to help us draft this legislation. Along with aprilfrom both my office and supervisor Aaron Peskins office. In a big tent of developers such as Community Housing organization. The Mayors Office, to work with us to ensure that we are maximizing the number of Affordable Housing units being constructed here in the city of making sure that about his continues to be economically feasible. We are standing together to push for more Affordable Housing in the city and while most changes to our housing and land use programs typically means legislation is perspective and impacting the pipeline, we are working with developers to ensure that even projects that have already begun the planning process are pushing the envelope and building more Affordable Housing than was legally intended when they applied to the other housing projects. We are making good on our commitment to the voters in 2014 proposition k to build 33 of all new housing to the be affordable and low and middle income households an additional 70 for middle income as well. Our inclusionary Affordable Housing program is one strategy for increasing afford housing here in San Francisco. It is critical in an era of declining state and federal funds for Affordable Housing. The reason why this program is so important is that it does not require public funds. To build Affordable Housing. And yet provide working families an opportunity to live in mixed income developments. We know that working families are increasingly facing and vulnerable to eviction and they are the Fastest Growing demographic in our homeless in San Francisco and cities across the nation. We all need to do more to build more Affordable Housing. So, the city and our private developers who continue to deliver Record Number of Housing Units here in San Francisco today get the legislation being introduced with provide a level of balance and fairness to projects that have current applications pending. Its forwardlooking allows the board to act to make changes on our inclusionary requirement as is appropriate for the legislative branch of the city and county of San Francisco. We also are working to make up for and solve the roughly 200 units of housing that would have been bills is affordable if proposition c the Housing Trust fund and not passed in 2012. I just want to appreciate of Development Committee for working with us and being proactive in creating creative and figuring out how we can build more Affordable Housing in the pipeline that currently exists and how to push the numbers upwards and also for some of the Creative Ideas that our colleagues will see that is in the legislation being introduced today. One of which is to allow developers to purchase offsites rentcontrolled units honorable to evictions and other types of addictions and taking that off of the market and putting it as part of their inclusionary housing requirements prior to certificate or prior to building occupancy. This legislation is a combination of a commitment that supervisor peskin made with the Mayors Office and the board of supervisors to make sure that we are maximizing again the number of affordable units we can be building both in the future and also in the pipeline is currently arty begun this planning prosecute all balancing what is economically feasible. The rest i submit thank you. Supervisor mar colleagues, one of things supervisor farrell for his ongoing efforts to really create a giga city for here in San Francisco to address the Digital Divide and inclusion in terms of highspeed internet for everyone from students and families to seniors. I want to also thank him for shining a light on the accountability of the Technology System in our city as well. I want to also acknowledge that number of local Community Activists from marie jopling on the people lists disabilities to bruce wilson looking at the issue of Digital Inclusion over the years. David worked with my office and my hope to tie them into the efforts going on on the city level as well. I supervisor farrell mentioned, the divide of people who dont have access to highspeed internet is huge as we found out from a budget Analyst Report from last year. Digital Inclusion Task force need in the city involves parents and families and seniors and people with disabilities as well. I look forward to the ongoing efforts to create a true fiber 2 on fiber to all Businesses Network and are secured not just looking at the private sector but also invisible Fiber Network innercity like chattanooga tennessee some other cities have developed over time. Also today cawleys, i majored using a hearing today employees from Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco have been raising concerns over operations and management over the years. Thats the young museum in Golden Gate Park and the legion of honor in lincoln park. These institution received direct and indirect support from the city through the use of our general fund Hotel Tax Revenues and also inkind support as well. The citys oversight is critical in maintaining our obligation to the administrative and fiscal commitments it makes as well as the publics benefit. The city owns the museum sites and facilities as well as pays for the Museum Security and maintenance. Im concerned that a number of issues. Number one, fine arts using them Security Guard staffing and also issues of the asian art using them as well. The Fine Arts Museums have a unique situation in terms of security staff work hours. There are what seems to be 2 tiers of hours for the guards, a 35 hour workgroup and a fulltime for your workgroup week iv has created concerns about security and safety of the Art Collection sure extremely bible especially the Asian Art Museum and also is created and apparent twotier system within the workforce that negatively impacts their compensation of the support Staff Members of the museums. Number 2, fine arts staff abuses. Routers have been raising issues over the years. Ill just say that the Fine Arts Museum staff from the dm and the legion of honor are within my district, but the workers have complained over the years and they are underthere where this Nonprofit Corporation of Fine Arts Museums are under an umbrella that so doing work at city workers used to do. Those remaining tenant city workers are now under the supervision and not under the cities management supervision and the management tactic of is also a huge concern and numerous training obligations apparently have not been met or been allegations that training obligations of not been met by the Fine Arts Museums. Lastly, safety issues at the Asian Art Museum have been raised to my office. I think theres a limit to the role Security Guards in the need for lawenforcement at that particular site the line is blurry according to the reports at this location it is reasonable to monitor to watch in the ground and force lowlevel issues. However, the issues at the Asian Art Museum become increasingly hard to manage and seems to be wanting some special attention to ensure their safety art and security at the site. The city has an obligation to address the governance and oversight of the workers at all of our museums on city property. Also, look at the use of funds and management approaches to these sites. Im confident hearing on these various issues. The rest i will submit thank you. Supervisor peskin colleagues, today im going to introduce the citywide accessory dwelling unit ordinance announced we were drafting last week. Im also calling for a hearing with regard to the disposition of surplus parts by the Public Utilities commission, which im concerned about relative to the cities auxiliary water supply system and finally, colleagues, id like to adjourn todays meeting in the memory of one of my constituents who was tragically killed in a hit and run accident friday morning at 5 50 am in the morning on the corner of broadway and how wall streets. A gentleman named mr. Who passed away at the age of 63 leaving behind his wife now widow, adult daughter, and son. Our hearts go out to them and today the Transportation Authority commission at its plans and Programs Committee for to the full funding to do Pedestrian Safety improvements ironically on that parts of broadway so we look forward to those improvements coming too late for mr. Law, and also i been in touch with the mta about daylighting backwater which needs to be delighted and hopefully the sfpd which has an active investigation will apprehend the driver of that vehicle. Finally, thank you to the many people who responded to our goal fund me campaign 2 okay for mr. Abbas burial expenses. That concludes my rollcall thank you. Supervisor wiener submit supervisor yee on thursday i held a hearing to i like the serious issue of chronic as an season at our schools. Chronic absenteeism, when schools miss more than 10 of their school year, with regardless whether its excuse or not excused, is really impacting our students and going down to the preschool level at this point. Right now, currently, when you look at it this 40 of our own metro schools and 67 of high schools have issues with chronic absenteeism to the point where over 10 of the student body are identified as chronically absent. Its something that is an issue thats been important to me for a long time. In 2010, when actually found out about this issue and looked at the numbers, why was on the school board, i realized that princess, one school alone has 40 of their students that were labeled as chronically absent. That means the students were missing at least a month or 2 months of school every year. When you look at the schools identified to have high numbers of chronically absent students, they were actually the schools that were failing. So, when i have a hearing on thursday, i realize that weve had some improvements, but not good enough. In his 6 years, we have not seen much of an improvement in the nice thing is that at least with the School District has developed a database so we can actually really pinpoint specifically which students are chronically absent on realtime. Now, the children and students missing more than 10 of the School Impacts their ability to be on grade level and increases the chance of dropping out by fourfold. The data from the San Francisco unified School District also illustrated that are africanamerican Pacific Islanders and latino children are disproportionately impacted. Reducing the rates of chronic absenteeism aye priority and chronic absenteeism can only be addressed with a wraparound approach, meaning we have to Work Together. There are some good work done by the San Francisco unified School District could first 5 and hope sf in attendance works. But we need to Work Together because what is happening we are working in silos. City promised need to work with the School District family organizations serving children to reduce the rate of chronic absenteeism. That we are seeing. Reducing the rate of chronic absenteeism requires systematic coordinated approach to support Services Including Education System the legal system, communities, parents and social services. For this reason, today im introducing a resolution urging theour children, our families counsel to form a working group to sign to online efforts across the city and county, the School District, the community, with the aim of improving outcomes for children and reducing the rate of chronic absenteeism at our Public Schools. I am calling on the working group to develop a conference of plan, of strategies and policy recommendations to the city and San Francisco unified School District to reduce this issue. In Public Schools and to report back to the board 6 months from their recommendation. I also want to make a comment about supervisor kim and supervisor depressants ordinance run the issue of inclusionary housing. I am really happy that when we pass a resolution a few weeks ago i realized that the timeline mentioned in the resolution to get these things done was very aggressive. I was keeping my fingers crossed that it could be done. It looks like its getting done so its really important as we move forward we the board of supervisors with the Mayors Office, Work Together a strong front to get the ordinance past mean get the Charter Amendment passed and the rest i submit thank you. Better president that concludes the introduction of new business thank you. Can you please callread Public Comment at this time the public address the entire board of supervisors for up to 2 min. On items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the minutes and items on the without reference to Committee Calendar items 1924. Public comment is not allowed when an item is been previous been subject to a Public Comment at a Board Committee pursuant to rules director mark remarks to the board as a whole not to individual supervisors were to the audience. Speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time and if you would like to display a document on the overhead projector fees clearly states such then remove the document when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. First speaker, please. The great career of [inaudible] of a new of achieving the perfect wellness [inaudible] should rain gauge success in understanding of the true way and maintain people with public virtues. This influence of wellness for the true way of heaven. It will establish [inaudible] holiness personal elevation with good teachers by the people. Our people shall enjoy [inaudible] engage in actualizing true principles of absolute oneness combining political Economics Technology and religious education in terms of spiritual principles as well as the natural coloration of creative nourishment in the true way. [inaudible] for the future of all our people. Our prosperity or to passion of true wisdom and of having a destiny for all. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon my name is Sally Stevens good im the chair of sf. Did we wholeheartedly support item 19 enters you to do so. Thewas to protect land from development was now done and to establish a new National Urban Recreation Area which will concentrate on serving the Outdoor Recreation needs of the people the metropolitan area. It was never intended to be managed like a remote wilderness or Traditional National park. This draft rules is the result of a highly flawed public process that was rigged from the start. Per 10,000 comments were submitted in 2011 and 2013 on the proposed dog plan. Most overwhelmingly opposed to it. Get the park service made no significant changes to the original version of the plan. It insisted on cutting taxes for people with dogs by 90 . They dont stay, this plan is about restricting access for people not just dogs. People enjoy walking the dog from 99. 6 of the land. That is not a balanced plan. In 2011 you the board as the park service to radically study the impacts of thousands of people with dogs move into city park. 5 years later theyve not done the only thing you asked of them. If you think a dog plan should be based on actual scientific Site Specific evidence of impacts and notches anecdotes and prejudice support this resolution. Theyve not done any of those. If you think this urban Recreation Area should not be managed but remote wilderness of people can have a experience and test their outdoor skills which is what the park service once for most of the area even those located when the city of 800,000 people. Support recreation and please vote yes on item 19. I also urge you to sport item 20. So dogs have become therapy dogs to visit Sick Children in hospital. They were definitely not listed please vote yes on items 19 and 20 bt want to let this next speaker come up and speak that after the next speaker i will be interrupting Public Comment to do a 2 30 pm commendation. Next her, please and will resume the public after the 2 30 pm commendation. My name isa must in the supervisors to support 19th, tech entrepreneur and 20 year resident of San Francisco command district a good i chose that over the world i chose San Francisco is the only us city i want to live in large part because its forward thinking and no small part around animals and dogs. I would ask its true that 50 of the households of dogs and San Francisco know that of course those that dont does a lot of dog lovers. Arrest the supervisors not treat this as a political opportunity to really consider the short and longterm impacts if his current plan were to go forward. In short term, a dog owners are than to get rid of their dogs he becomes inconvenienced. Psychotropic that wont happen. City parks will get overrun. Rules perhaps will be broken. Will they leave sf longterm . Will not come here potentially what are the impacts about . Parents are good people. I would argue there empathetic, good stewards of the parks. I would suggest that the process is suspect and theyre not necessarily able, unwilling, and perhaps too easily influenced to be good stewards of a National Recreational area. So please ask you to do what you can and what you cant to influence and stop this support 19. Thank you. For the members of the public, if you want to sit down you can come back to line in your same order there will be about 5 min. For a commendation and at this time i like to turn the meeting over to supervisor yee from district 7 thank you. Today i am introducing a special commendation for the garden for the environment. Would you please come up . A special gem in district 7. Father did in 1990 garden for the environment began on the San Francisco pc empty undeveloped halfacre lot on 7th avenue. I remember going by there all the time wishing something would happen there during the 80s and 70s and so forth. Magically, something happened. Now this empty lot is transformed into the incredible vibrant garden it is today that is the only site that is solely dedicated to offering education on sustainable urban gardening and composting. In fact, we have an inhouse supervisor aid, janet lowe, whose a certified composter. If you need help with composting you can ask her. The guardian the environment is a teaching garden that serves over 500 adults and 900 use each year. To its training and programs. When i was on the school board and particularly when i went to many of the schools we had gardens, they are all in your district, the schools, almost every sickle person i spoke to cut the training through this organization. They provide handson activities for youth and classrooms across the San Francisco allowing them to have access to fresh food and encouraging them to become better stewards of the environment. In sustainable agriculture. The guardian is also open to the public and offers free resources for residents that want to learn more about drought resistant plants. Edibles that grow in our climate and how to create their own compost. This work is so appreciated especially given our cities dedication to sustainability. The work of the guardian is truly inspirational. Either several times now and it sounds like, where am i. Youre in the middle of a garden in the middle of an urban area and you would never know you are in the urban area. I want to extend this commendation to the board members, staff, and countless volunteers who are dedicated to the mission and the message of guardian for the environment. We wish you a very happy 25th anniversary and hope that your legacy continues. So, this is mr. Blair randall, executive director and Maggie Barrera am a program manager. I would love to give you a few moments to say a few words do a presentation. Before they speak could i say a couple of . Supervisor avalos just good to see you, where, here and its great to see gardens from the environment celebrating its 25th anniversary. I just want to say that you guys than just instrumental being an incubator for agriculture in San Francisco. If 2 projects in my district that are moving forward and getting the Committee Supports for 2 urban agriculture and we came and visited karting in the moments we still see it as an important resource for community members, for schoolchildren, its really great we Work Together to make sure that consistent project the Public Utilities commission it so i want to thank you for your Great Service and for keeping it going in its grant incredible asset we have here in San Francisco. Thank you very much. Good afternoon board of supervisors. I have a video and i like to take you to district 7 just for a minute so you can get a sense of what it is we do there. In case you have not been yet. [video] thank you very much supervisors for permitting me to take you to the garden for the environment. My name is Blair Randall on the 2nd director. I like to share a few words thanking you in so maggie grayer our Program Director. On behalf of of thousands of san franciscans young and old who find the garden environment to be an invaluable resource there honored to receive this commendation from the board of supervisors. In our work we need adults every week who dont know how to garden but knew in 2016 on to learn how to garden. They want to learn how to garden because they want to teach their children how to garden. They want to learn because they want to grow some of their own food. Because they want to begin composting at home or start saving rainwater. They are compelled to make individual choices to better their health and the health of the environment but we find they often need help making that choice their reality. Thats our job. Helping san franciscans become stewards of the environment with successful workshops teaching practical handson skills. Who among us does not harbor a longstanding gratitude from that one teacher who taught us the lessons that we needed to learn. This is as true in the classroom as it is in the garden. We are honored to accept this commendation on behalf of our many talented instructors who have inspired and taught to many. 25 years ago we were founded with a question. How much change can you make if you teach residents to make change themselves . Today we know the answer. A lot. Today youll find our students at a majority of urban agriculture sites and San Francisco. Accepting this commendation i would like to thank the board of supervisors and supervisor yee for recognizing the simple and lifechanging practice of gardening and for recognizing that the betterment of the environment rests with all of us in our own 2 hands. Thank you. A Program Director maggie grayer good afternoon. Thank you so much supervisor yee for honoring garden for the environment today. Another 25 years of sustainable gardening in education. When he was maggie marx, the garden Program Director. For our quartercentury garden for the environment has trained the leaders of a sustainable and urban average Voter Movement return to change the bay area. In the last 2 years have graduated over 500 students from our awardwinning program. Education outside our farm and San Francisco urban Agriculture Alliance are organizational leaders innercity youth under skies rated from our program. People walk through our open gates daily innovation at future for our city retains our limited water and were plumes in foliage line our sidewalks from our window boxes, and fill our backyards. At a weekly public workshops adults explore consulting rainwater systems to irrigate dry summer gardens and on how to remove wasteful bond. The 900 the 904th and 5th grade at the visit annually are exposed to the National World within their very own city. We hope that the all of once correct the site of a hot, big flower in full bloom lead to a lifetime of love and respect for the environment. Everyone on saturday on sears was together together a box for the homeless shelters. Guys for the moment connects people to the urban Natural World and creates local advocates see nature and urban faces living symbiotically. Citizens who believe that not only can these are bugs and beings live amongst us but that our city is better when they do. We thank you for honoring the volunteers from the use, the teachers, the students and the staff that stewarded this garden for the last 25 years. Thank you. Give them a hand. [applause] thank you for your work and again, congratulations. We will resume Public Comment and can we also respect the previous order of individuals who were in line for Public Comment good in the same order that was before we went to our commendation. Thank you. Thank you for your patience. I Martha Walters cofounder of the chairman creasy feel dr. The crossfield. Group has been working to attain and protect recreation including dog walking in the for the past 15 years. I was created this is an urban Recreation Area not as a National Park or National Monument displays for people to recreate a growing metropolitan area since the 1970s. This is a qualityoflife issue. Not dogs vs. The environment issue. We need to protect recreation as a core resource and value a fundamental guiding principle that has been lost in this land use process. The National Park service gallipoli made a decision general pension plan process that recreation is not subject to protect as a legal matter and that error is distorting his dog management process. Dispersion of Recreational Use and city manager parts will be a direct consequence of the postrestrictions from the proposed rule. For example, closing east beach at crissy field will impact thousands of users on a weekly and monthly basis. People with her dogs will naturally gravitate to the already overcrowded city parks. Over the past several years, the gg and array has issued to incremental review documents and actually right now the proposed rule is much stricter than those documents. More poorly, did not take your comments nor the thousands Public Comments seriously today about this issue and thats reflected in this proposed rule. Get a big concern about the proposed rule is the monitoring program. Its clearly punitive. It allows the superintendent to unilaterally decide to further reduce or limit 8 dog walking space in the future without public input. The few remaining dog walking areas should not be subject to being closed down based on the action of a few. Weve offered a number of solutions such as incorporating the city of patent thank you, maam. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. I name is carol arnold speaking in support of item 19 which opposes the gg and array. Plan. Im a thirdgeneration san franciscan and a frequent user of the park city and gg and array. I work as 20 years is obama the planning for state conversation Organization Since my retirement support numerous environment so causes and also working as a freelance writer focusing primarily on environmental issues. One thing ive learned is both environmentalists is that Environmental Protection and dog walking do not have to be at odds. The densely packed urban area like the bay area, all human activity impacts little open space wildlife remain. People need traces to live, work, move around, and recreate and in the bay area, those things are all done very close together. As an environmentalist, i strongly believe this is a good thing that most human activity should take place in urban areas like ours leading west populated baskets in place where nature and wildlife contrive the types of projects i manage my job have Habitat Acquisition and restoration and Enhancement Committee undertake about the threats of unsustainable human disturbance in the future. The dog Management Plan before you today should support the creation for bay area urban residents. The prime reason for which the it this was created. For years the Recreation Area about dog walking within about 1 of its 80,000 acres. Under the current plan dog walking will be restricted even more an estimated 9 about 1 will be offlimits leaving only slivers of land for people to walk their dogs. This will for dog owners already without objection 2. Minnie mouse and negative Environmental Impact itself. The places where relatively thank you very much. You can also summit your written statement as well to the board. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is nancy started on codirector of the San Francisco rational dog Walkers Association est. In 1998. We support item 19. They do not study the impacts on city parks even though the supervisors asked him to 5 years ago. Their own laws require them to do so. The city est. Permits for professional dog walkers could the nra followed suit because of concerns of dispersion onto their land. When the city asked them to match the number of dogs per walker which is age, they refused and est. 6. So ill easily they do not care about dispersion into city parks, we have re happened in stern grove and leclair in. Theres only 20 off leash areas for the spcas estimated 178,000 and hundreds of professional dog walkers serving these family dogs. This plan is an insult to san franciscans. Our Small Businesses are in jeopardy and endangers the ability of our profession to properly serve our working clients. Comments by the public oppose this plan by 80 . Your own previous resolution opposing this. Please continue opposing this draconian augmenter and plan. I support item 20. Biting dogs e