Traffic impact during construction there is a 8 month period where we have to take a lane of traffic out from Howard Street so we can expand the tunnel. We anticipate the construction to be minimal. [inaudible] make the center statef the art and much more competitive. [inaudible] having the space. [inaudible] underneath howard. Having [inaudible] this is a [inaudible] worked with the residential, the merchants in the neighborhood, the non profits to make sure this is a vibrant area. Even if you dont come to the convention and enjoy the public space, it is something that helps revitalize the neighborhood and bring energy to the neighborhood and more people to the neighborhood and shops and retail and shocase San Francisco around the world. Hello. Youre watching the show that explores San Franciscos love affair with food. There are at least 18 Farmers Markets in San Francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to yearround. This is a great resource that does not break the bank. To show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the Farmers Market challenge. We find someone who loves to cook, give them 20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the Farmers Market. Who did we find for todays challenge . Today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. You only have 20 to spend. I know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. It is a San Francisco classic. We are celebrating bay area food. We have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. We have some beautiful fresh fish here. It will come together beautifully. Many to cut out all this talk, and lets go shop. Yeah. What makes your dish unique . I like it spicy and smoky. I will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers. I am going to stew them up and get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. Bring it on. How are you feeling . I feel good. I spent the 20 and have a few pennies less. I am going to go home and cook. I will text message u. N. Is done. Excellent and really looking forward to it. Today were going to make the San Francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. Itll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. Then we will put in the fish soup. The last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. It will be delicious. When i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. Those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. This is a good time to make our fish stock. We will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. Family dinners are very important. Any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. One of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. Hello. Anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. Always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. All this double in view is this broth with great flavor. But your heart into it. Make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. I am here with a manager at the heart of the city Farmers Market in San Francisco. Thank you for joining us. Tell us a little bit about the organization. Were 30 years old now. We started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. What is the mission of the organization . This area has no Grocery Store spiller it is all momand pop stores. We have this because it is needed. We knew it was needed. And the plaza needed somebody. It was empty. Beautiful with city hall in the background. Thank you for speaking with us. Are you on the web . Yes, hocfarmersmarket. Org. Check them out. Thank you. Welcome. The dish is ready. It looks and smells amazing. Thank you. It was not easy to meet the 20 budget. I checked everybody out and found some great produce. Really lovely seafood. I think that you are going to love it. Do not be shy. Cyou know this can run you 35 to 45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for 20. This will feed four to six people. Not if you invite me over for dinner. I am ready to dig in. I hope youll love it. Mmm. What do you think . I think i am going to need more. Perhaps you can have all you want. I am produce the that you have crushed this Farmers Market challenge by a landslide. The first, were going to have to tally of your Shopping List and see what you actually spend that the Farmers Market. And go for it. Incredible. You have shown us how to make super healthy, refresh chapino from the Farmers Market on the budget, that for the whole family. That is outstanding. Thank you peter i am glad that you like it. I think anybody can do it. If you like the recipe for this dish, you can email us at sfgtv sfgov. Org or reach out to us on facebook or twitter and we the city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee occurring thursday, june 2, 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] supervisor peskin good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Im the chairman, supervisor peskin board and i like to thank the folks at sfgtv for Live Streaming this meeting. Mdm. Clerk, any announcements clerk yes be sure to sound all cell phones and electric device. Complete speaker cards to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the court. Items after the will be on the june 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor peskin thank you. Please read the first item clerk yes, item number one resolution approving sfmta eight 201617 paratransit broker in operating agreement withservices incorporated supervisor peskin thank you. Is there a representative hear from the mta to address this item . Staff annette williams. Before you today is a new contact or Paratransit Services will provide doortodoor transportation for people with disabilities unable to use muni. For the past 35 years, and i note you been here for many of those years, and contacting San FranciscoParatransit Services and we went through a competitive bid for this new contact. When out in november with drs p and we had an evaluation made up of panel of disabilities and seniors and experts and paratransit that a valuate of the proposal. Were their recommendation, mpa staff negotiated a contract withfor a fiveyear period and fiveyear option. Some of the new things in this contract are mobility management activities. We are going to revenue information and Referral Center for seniors and people disabilities to tell them about all the Transportation Options that there are in San Francisco. We are also going to expand the travel Training Program for people who may not have use the system before and could benefit from that. We also have some new Technology Related projects in the contract. One is the integration of the debit card. This is the taxi debit card with flywheel so customers will be able to call a cab using electronic technology, which we think will be a huge benefit, especially to wheelchair users who can differentiate between accessible and nonaccessible vehicles. In addition, we will have software that allowed the band customers to do their scheduling, canceling, tracking of rides using technology as well. So, we can both of those are going to be new and good additions. Im happy to answer any questions you have. Im glad to be here before you again. Supervisor peskin its good to see you here im amazed mark soto is still running the program and youre still doing it for the mta. All these many years later. Ms. Newman, on behalf of the budget analyst, you recommend approval of this item. Any comments staff through the chair, supervisors, yes, debra newman from the legislative i would just note that the mta did issue a request for causal in november 2015, and then in december 2015. The board approved a ordinance require the sfmta eight to include prevailing wages and worker retention provisions in the new agreement. So if you look on table 1, on page 4, of our report, it doesnt show the various Funding Sources that will be used to fund the 142 Million Dollar agreement over the next five years. We would also note the proposed agreement for the first year for fiscal year 1617 will cost approximately 25 20 million, which is about 2 million, or eight 8. 6 higher than the fiscal. About 22. 7 million, and we just note the primary reason for the cost increase is related to the higher salaries associated with the prevailing wage provision that we do recommend approval. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Newman can supervisor breed president breed thank you. Ms. Williams, i just had a question you during the process, can you provide me with information of who did it on the contract as well as who was on the Selection Committee and tell us a little bit about the process . Staff sure. We had three firms that came to the prebid for the rfp Selection Process and that was zapt, first transit, and secure transportation. We had two options that the firms granted under option a or b. One was doing Administrative Services get the other one was administrative and some of the transportation services. So any from the bit on both options. We had two calls from one firm, so only one of the three firms transbay, elected to bid on the trunk contract and they did under both options amd. The Selection Committee reviewed both of those proposals i made up of three people with disabilities, to organizations that serve people with disabilities, a paratransit expert from outside of San Francisco and a paratransit expert from San Francisco. President breed thanks. Supervisor peskin i want to welcome vice chair the Committee Supervisor norman yee was joined us that other any members of the public would like to testify on item number one . Seeing none, we will close public almonds. [gavel] supervisor peskin supervisor yee any questions for ms. Williams relative to the the contact with zepp . Supervisor yee i reviewed it and it seems fine to me. Supervisor peskin that we have a motion to send this item to the full board with a recommendation . Dylan do want to add anything . Okay. Moved by supervisor breed without objection will send this item to the full board with a recommendation. Thank you ms. Williams. Good to see you again. [gavel] supervisor peskin please read the next item clerk item number two, resolution retroactively authorizing San FranciscoBusiness Commission to accept and expand increase the grant from the United States department of education. Supervisor peskin thank you. Supervisor yee this is your item supervisor yee this is always nice for the city to be the seed funding from the federal government. Particularly, with this type of funding for [inaudible] and i believe tracyis here to present staff im tracyphone for the commission. This is a additional 300,000 for a grant that began in july 2012. This is the federal dollars passed through to the California Department of education for our Early LearningQuality Improvement system which is also called quality rating and improvement system. What this fund is, not only assesses the prequel classroom, but also workshops, training, technical assistance, and other developmental support. Like Mental Health and inclusion. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Long. Ms. Newman, any comments . You recommend approval i noticed. Any questions from Committee Members . Are there any members of the public would like to testify on item number two . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor peskin is there a motion to send this to the board . Supervisor peskin i the motion to send this to the board supervisor peskin motion to the send this to the full board with a recommendation. Without objection, that will be the order. [gavel] supervisor peskin please read the next item clerk item number three 81 examining the administrative codes require housing platform to residential unit is on the city registry prior to listing. Supervisor peskin thank you. Weve been joined by the chief sponsor of this orbix david campos and i want to thank supervisor campos for his leadership on this issue as well as the coalition of housing advocates, homeowners, tenants, Public Safety advocates, hotel workers, the hotel council, the apartment association, the tenants union, for lending their support to this very reasonable and longoverdue piece of legislation intended to fix some of the loopholes in my predecessors well intended but yet evolving and still flawed legislation around shortterm rentals. With that, but he turned it over to supervisor campos supervisor campos thank you. Much mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and your staff for working so closely with us on this item. I am proud to be cosponsor of this piece of legislation with you. Colleagues, i want to thank the committee for their attention to this matter. I am handing out a amendment that we would be introducing to the legislation, but essentially, where we are and what is before you todayi want to thank all the members of the public on both sides of this issue who have come outfor this item what is before you today is a very modest and very simple proposal that is aimed at helping here in San Francisco reserve the very precious Housing Stock that we have them and we know that we have a housing crisis, and what we are doing through this very modest amendment is simply closing a loophole in our current shortterm rental law. I would like to once again, thank supervisor peskin which and that is been working on this for quite some time. I also want to thank for their cosponsorship supervisor mar and supervisor avalos. This legislation mandates that web platforms support, not hinder, the enforcement of our current shortterm law here in San Francisco. Let me be very clear. This is not about changing the existing law. It simply about making sure that this lot that has been in effect for 18 months or so, that this little lot is actually enforced. Its ultimately about corporate responsibility. , about an industry that has made and continues to make tens of millions of dollars in this business, in this line of work, taking responsibility for the negative impact that theyre having on the Housing Stock. Why is that important . Its important because we have been facing for the last 23 years, a housing crisis unlike anything that San Francisco has seen. Again, this proposal is about enforcement and the proposal specifically mandates that have housing platforms like b b verify that a host has actually registered with the city and county before they actually advertise their shortterm rental on their website. Its that simple. If a hosting platform fails to do so, we believe that hosting platform has a responsibility to be a good citizen. That hosting platform under this amendment would be penalized up to 1000 a day. While the current law has set rules for hosts stipulating that all posts must register with the city and county and postregistration number, as of today, more than 75 of the 7000 , plus bmd house 7000 with bmd alone, have not registered, and yet, what we see is platforms like b b allowing those folks knowing they are breaking the law to advertise on the platform. To budget and legislative Analyst Reports as well as extensive reporting by the San Francisco chronicle of all entities, show this industry continues to exacerbate our worsening housing crisis by taking even more units off the market. Last year, the budget analyst did report that found that bmd alone is responsible for taking up to 2000 entire units completely off the Housing Market for the purpose of engaging in commercial shortterm rentals. This is why we need to bring the hosting platforms into the regulatory scheme by making sure that they have a role in helping enforcement. This is something that Planning Department staff, as much as the maid tried to walk away from this comments, Planning Department staff when asked about how to enforce this law have recommended in the past and will alsohave made it very clear as has the budget and legislative analyst, that the changes we are making is consistent with what is required for proper enforcement. The weakness of the current law is the fact that corporate accountability is nonexistent. Corporate accountability is not part of the equation. We believe that when, after two years, we still have 75 of folks out of compliance, that it shows the law is simply not working. Again, i law, this amendment does not change anything about the rules that are in place. It simply ensures that hosting platforms follow the law and help the city not hinder compliance. Let me say this. I met with many in the home share and community. I support hosted i support the mom and pop goo are using this as a way to make ends meet. We have no problem with that and we made a very clear them and there is nothing in this law that actually places any burden on those hosts. But, left unregulated, this industry will continue to exacerbate the housing crisis and as much is bmd and platforms may try to hide behind the momandpop castle host, those are not the target of this legislation. At the end of the day, this about enforcement and compliance. Some have claimed this legislation would force platforms to please shortterm rentals. Let me just say, that is a ridiculous notion. If you are a rental car agency and you make sure that a person has a license before you let them rent a car from you, does that somehow turn you into policing the folks who rent cars from those entities, those companies . I dont think it does. Likewise, it doesnt do that with these platforms. Im a huge supporter of Internet Freedom and we work carefully with the City Attorneys Office to make sure that we follow the very letter and spirit of the law and what the law provides. As mark rosenberg, executive director of the la Privacy Information Center has said, if youre operating a business on the internet and providing business related information, pursuant to a license activity, it seems entirely reasonable that you comply with those obligations. This law, once agin was carefully written so that it does not come into conflict with federal law that we are not forcing web platforms to edit hosted content in any way. We are simply saying that with a platforms must be that they have to be responsible actors and not facilitate unregulated activity which is the very problem that we have here. That facilitation is happening. Unscrupulous whammo seven abusing the loopholes in our law robbing San Franciscos residence of the Affordable Housing they need, and bmd from our perspective to take the analyses further, poke seven robbing residents of that housing and bmd has essentially been driving the getaway car could this is government stepping in and saying, enough is enough. This has to stop. Again, want to think the broad range of people worked with my office on this legislation. Supervisor peskin, his chief of staff sunny and cool, San Francisco tenets unit, local two, choochoo, tenants together the San Francisco apartment association, you can see its a very interesting gathering of people were not usually on the same page. Senior and disability action. Share better, housing rights committee, and many more good i also want to thank the City Attorneys Office, especially rob catholic for his phenomenal work on this legislation. I also know that kevin guy, the director of the office of shortterm rentals is here and we want to thank him and his staff for the input they have provided, but before i turn it over to rg cosponsor supervisor peskin i do have a question that i want to to the chair asked the city attorney. People have been raising concerns in the past about the Communications Decency act, and theres a lot of posing on the part of bmd and others that they have a winning legal case, and as an attorney and someone whos litigated many cases before, i know that people tend to do that, tend to say that and boast about those things. But i want to just directly asked the city attorney, if you can address that issue because this is not any layperson simply saying this is a legally defensible. We want to be are directly from the city attorney. City attorney good morning. At your direction supervisor, we drafted this ordinance in a way that minimizes any issues under the Communications Decency act. The law that you mentioned. This ordinance does not regulate the content of any posted information on the website, the hosting platform. Rather, it relates to Business Activities as you said, supervisor, of the hosting platform. So, essentially, it extends the type of information that they must collect in order to engage in booking services and doesnt regulate the content of the website. Supervisor campos thank you much mr. Gibner and we want to thank our city attorney. This is an office that has a stellar track record of event defending challenges to city law and a successful record and that will continue shouldve the litigation here. I will just close with an expiration of the amendment that i ended out. And at some point ill ask the committee to amend the legislation along with those lines but the amendment does the following. One, it clarifies the definition of a hosting platform. Second, it clarifies what happens the first day the law goes into effect just to have as much clarity as possible. Did it clarifies privacy protections for people registered with the city, and finally, it actually streamlines the compliance process. This is actually a amendment those made at the request of the office of shortterm rentals. With that, colleagues, i look forward to the discussion and respectfully ask for your support. Again, thank you supervisor peskin to you and your office and t Carolyn Guzman in my office whose been work on this long time. The peskin thank you supervisor campos. I know theres many individuals here there would like to testify. I got huge stack of speaker cards so we are going to limit testimony to 2 min. To that evod