Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Full Board Of Supervisors 12115 20151202

Process forren dangered rare and species and already by existing development and the subdivision will be consistent with the urban Development Project in the city. The fifth criterion is whether the subdivision will cause Serious Health problems, again t subdivision will make for low density and housing and will not create a Serious Public Health problem. The fact that the project will lead to access to more public open space. The project sponsor will be at their own cost constructing a public staircase and landscaping along the street next to the project site so it will lead to more access. The sixth criterion whether it will conflict with the public easement on the property. The property will result in Greater Public access to carver street through the construction of that staircase. So in short, the appellants provide no basis under the state map act and the code. What we have here is an appellant who is very clearly opposed to the project using the map appeal as a new venue to challenge the project. I would submit this is not a precedent we want to set at this point. There is already a very robust approval process in place that this project is expected to go through. We are working with the east slope Design Review board and our correspondence who are very happy with the data and will continue that dialogue and will have an opportunity and the planning appropriate body with other residential guidelines and the board of appeals will have the at some point to hear any Building Permit appeals and of course its very possible that this project will be back in front of the board of supervisors on appeal at the ceqa document on any projects approval. Adding this new appeals process and the city concerning the fact that we have a very robust review process which is still to play on. So, with that said, we respectfully request the board deny this appeal, allow the development under the citys well established procedures and we are here if you have any questions. Thank you. Supervisor london breed thank you very much. I will now the open this up for Public Comment for those wishing to speak in support. Im sorry, maam, you spoke in favor. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Now, i will allow a rebuttal for up to three 3 minutes from the appellant thank you. Eileen i will endeavor to stay within my 3 minutes. First, subdivision in this in bernal is very unusual. In the 25 years i have lived there, i have never experienced this subdivision process before. All of the developments were already in existing lots. I found it very interesting that the spokesperson from the Planning Department talked about our local process essentially not to consider the special use district on the guidelines at this point but to push all of that into the planning process. Well, unfortunately, the subdivision map act, the state code says no local agency shall approve a tentative map unless at that time there is a finding that it is consistent with the general plan. And the general plan is very very specific. 11. 3. Objective of the general plan. Accommodation of growth shall be achieved without damaging existing residential neighborhood character. The city should continue to use a Community Planning process to direct growth and change according to a Community Based vision. This is all being thrown out the window in our local process. I submit to you that that is illegal. It violates the state subdivision map act and we ask that you reject the subdivision approval and you send this back to the Planning Department and the developer to give us something that is consistent with the neighborhood character so that we can live as Good Neighbors going forward. This is going to be a blot on the neighborhood and a very bad precedent going forward. Thank you very much. Supervisor london breed thank you. Okay, at this time item no. 50 has been held and is now closed. Supervisor avalos . Supervisor john avalos thank you, president breed. I meant to ask a question related to the hearing about any potential ceqa issues that might be related to this project . Thank you, supervisor, rodgers through the board president from the Planning Department staff. Its a good question. When we had written our response to the board that the ceqa appeal was open and ceqa appeal maybe filed. Since our appeal response was presented to you guys, that window has closed and there was no ceqa appeal filed by the appellant. The extension for the subdivision for ceqa review for the Development Proposals which we have in our office. There will be no ceqa appeal before the board since none was filed. Can you clarify what type of review was done . What was the ruling . Its a class 32 exemption for development. We went through all the standard ceqa requirements and criteria to ensure it met that development and it did. Looking the entire built structure in addition to the subdivision. So in the future, if the project sponsor were to change the project significantly. We would redo the ceqa and the appeal is over. The buildings would be less or more in i would rely on ceqa to determine if its under ceqa determination. Okay. Thank you. Colleagues, i did have a chance to meet with the appellants in my office last week and you know, i really heard their concerns about just the change to the neighborhood and there was a lot of alarm about the kind of density that this project would create. However i did feel that what has been discussed in terms of there is still a possibility for a discretionary review bfrp before the Planning Commission that there is a lot of work in terms of what the project will actually look like and hearing from ms. Rodgers and discussion with mr. Gibner as well that if there was an attempt for the residents around the site Bernal Heights boulevard who wanted to see if there was a possibility from going from 43 lots and there was a method for that as well. Hearing from the Planning Department, if we keep this at four lots and that makes sense and looks like the lot sizes do make sense to have the four houses in the lots and to make sure they are not massive on those lots and the smaller structure that three lots would cause perhaps larger structures to be made. So seems like smaller structures is what the community would want. If three lots were to move forward then we would see that desire to see smaller structures perhaps would not necessarily go into effect to the planning process. Given that to bite the apple that the residents have, it doesnt seem this is the right place to make the determination about the process. Im okay with the subdivision with the one lot into four for this project knowing that we can go to three in the future. I would like to motion for these items to not approve the appeal. To approve item 51 and table items 52 and 53. Not approval the appeal but acknowledgeing the residents who have concerns about changes to their neighborhood and this lot that there could be other process that have to engage with the developer to have something they feel is going to be working for the neighborhood. Supervisor london breed supervisor avalos has made a motion to approve item 51 and table 52 and 53. Clerk, please call the roll. City clerk breed aye, cohen, aye, kim, aye, mar, aye, tang, aye, wiener, aye, supervisor yee, aye, supervisor avalos . Aye, there are 10 ayes. Supervisor london breed okay, colleagues. A tentative map is finally affirmed. Madam clerk, can we go back to roll call for introductions. Next, supervisor cohen, new business. Supervisor malia cohen thank you. I have no new legislation to introduce. I would like to close to remember a wonderful man who passed away a few months ago. And in his home going ceremony, the chief of police attended and other bayview officers. It was a Beautiful Community event and opportunity from people from all walks of life who had the opportunity to remember mr. Ben robinson to share how he touched peoples lives. And a member of the community. We called him uncle ben. Just to give you a brief background and profile about ben. He was known as uncle ben to the community and family and friends as benny robinson. He was known to be the heart and soul of the bayviews Hunters Point for the full finger of his needs Font Community with kindhearted nature. Mr. Ben robinson served as a forward observer and combat infantry man in all black artillery regiment and experienced some of the most horrific fighting in the pacific during world war ii. He retired after receiving an honorable release from the military. He worked in the community as a lease on liaison for his community with a cement trucking business. Through his fierce dignity and unwavering spirit in the community. Necessary year 2,000 mr. Robinson founding the bayview chapter of this rotary chapter and committed to service and to provide for knows need. The bayview rotary established a Robinson Scholarship Fund in 2011. I remember this was around the time i was sworn in as a new member of the board of supervisors and became very an acquainted with uncle ben. This fund is in honor of his lifes work to raise money for promising bayview use aspiring to their higher educational goals. On an annual basis we have from friends while a Community Mourns a giant, we have many memories of uncle ben and his memories will live on so many who will up lift and move forward our next leaders of our nation. With that said, madam clerk, i want to recognize the family and Community Members here in the chamber who have come to celebrate mr. Robinsons memory with us. Please stand, thank you. Thank you for joining us. I would like to have a motion that we close out the entire Board Meeting in honor of mr. Ben robinson. Thank you. Thank you. I think at this point we can all agree that homelessness in San Francisco has not only reached a crisis but an emergency. Our overall Homeless Population has stagnated for many years. We have far too many families and children which are starting to be addressed specifically seniors and other people suffering from Mental Illness in our streets and other situations that need our help. During a time when our local economy is growing and strong, i do believe we need to make investment now in terms of programs and services to have the best outcomes. One of the best programs we have seen is the Navigation Center in the Early Mission district. Early data and analysis on the effects of the navigation model have pit falls of the model to learn and adapted to as needed. As you are aware, the Navigation Center is not set on location. The center will close its doors in june in 2016 once construction begins. During that, i want to expand the Navigation Center across San Francisco. To date the Controllers Office has released three reports. They have provided an overview of the model itself and over our traditional homeless shelters in San Francisco with interviews from stakeholders and clients at the Navigation Center. A look at the impact the Navigation Center is having on homelessness in San Francisco and a look at how different city agencies and nonprofit partners are creating Better Outcomes for those in the Navigation Center. I would like to thank supervisor london breed for her legislation today and look forward to seeing how the money is spent around homelessness. The final report is to be released later this month at the end of december. I will plan to bring the Mayors Office of hope and Homeless Agency and nonprofit partners to report for this hearing as well. I look forward to hosting this hearing in midjanuary and look forward to the expansion early next year particularly when the existing navigation will close. We want to make sure we will not skip i beat and provide the best service for our homeless. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor mar . Supervisor eric mar thank you. I have a couple of items. This is lou as last week in civic engagement. He has jury duty this week. He grew up in the Richmond District and went to graduate from urban planning before joining staff in the Youth Commission. During his tenure, allen has been part of the youth empowerment. Hes worked with Youth Commissioners and been the leader to young san franciscans and worked on free muni for youth and thank you to supervisors for that as well. Hes also empowered immigrated youth and thanks for that and also equitable housing and justice issues for youth and transitional issues and also a key point with the commission on the Public Education Enrichment Fund and in the 2014 campaign as well. Allen has brought a deep sense of Mutual Respect with humility and quality and insight in his work and i want to thank him for his support of the Youth Commission staff. I also want to say hes gone on to work with the cal center. I wish him the best of luck. Today im introducing a hearing request on hunger and Food Insecurity. As you recall, 2 years ago, december, we passed a policy to drastically reduce or end hunger and Food Insecurity in San Francisco by 2020. It involved analyzing data from the Food Security task force and the tenderloin Security Task force that said 1 4 of san franciscans up to 225,000 people of in danger of Food Insecurity and during the holidays we are more aware of how many people, lots of seniors and family are going to bed hungry at night or waking up in the morning not having enough to eat as well. I think the reports from the task forces really brought to light the real suffering that happens. I know our board resolution and the city is committed to developing plans and setting goals so we are gradually reducing and dramatically reducing hung er in our city. In march of 2014, we held more hearings in our each departments plans to advance progress in achieving recommendations for ending hunger by 2020 resolution. We also set out concrete city departments steps to get us to the goal so its been 2 years and this hearing would help us assess how far weve gone and how far we have to go. I also want to acknowledge that weve committed millions of dollars in the last several budgets. I want to thank the Budget Committee and colleagues for committing money for critical senior nutrition and health programs, but also significantly impacting hung and hunger and Food Insecurity and how we are ending hunger by 2020. Also we are creating legislation for increasing culture and safety. Supervisor yee and kim and wiener all attended with me as well walk sf moving memorial for Traffic Systems 2 weeks ago where im really understanding for walk sf for base of systems for traffic killings. I think it was very moving to hear the stories during march and gathering along Market Street. Our community will see that as a district level. Its about enforcement and engineering and education. Reducing speeds and really looking at methods is a tool we have. Speed reduction is a strategy and will look at how of we done in terms of reducing speeds and in district 4. Patrick yee, the 87yearold Richmond District hit by a car in the crosswalk. The first traffic killing in 2015 along a high injury corridor and kelly senior, killed around the corner from my house as well on cabrillo. These stories were brought out on walk sf memorial. As we look at state streets and other programs that we are telling the human stories of the families and loses and how we need to do what we can to advance vision zero more aggressively. This budget item report will ask for assessment and evaluation for speed reduction and strategies in the city and reports on the recent calming strategy and reducing speeding and speed limits, updating on all streets where the city has street limits and examining the data and preventing collisions and improving safety. Secondly it will look at safe streets for senior strategies reports on recommendations where seniors congregate such as Senior Centers and care facilities and study models and best practices such as new yorks senior zone along chinatown and places in manhattan. This will develop best practices and models for traffic calming measures that involve seniors with disabilities and creating safer streets as well. Another issue thats very important to me is developing a water access for all. Agua for all in the Central Valley as we look at how to increase water fountains and tap station in their community. We looked at updates from from our cities not just from the Public Utilities commission but School District and other departments on achieving new water fountain drinking stations. We are almost there. We are up to 69 and next week i will be working with harlin kelly and from the Health Improvement partnership and communities to acknowledge that we are getting close to the 100 mark. But the 69th will be on clement street near the park by the Farmers Market that the community has set up. As you know, access to water is a great strategy to curb obesity and diabetes by discouraging sweet drinks and discouraging the use of plastic water bottles. I think that water has been one of those ways and if we have access to it, it will lead to healthier lives. The fountains we will have next year are necessary as well. As we counter the soda issue and we counter the water problem going on in our world and the rest of the community. As we have clean and hetch hetchy water is critical to the new fountains of youth in our city. Next september 4th, at 10 00 a. M. Join us at clemente street at third avenue. This new drink tap station will be again the 69 as we are trying to advocate for 100 in our city by next year. It the collaboration of our School District, the Public Utilities commission and the parks and Recreation Department and where the drink fountain station will be unveiled and it will be opened in 10 days. There is many coming to the district and district one but also throughout the city. I want to thank from the Public Utilities commission from natel and those uniting for water access for all and fountain communities as well. One more plug before i give the mic to our next colleague, on december 8th, coming up next week from 5 00 p. M. To 9 00 p. M. Richmond district merchants are holding the clemen tine will band together to carried fun family oriented experience of Holiday Shopping and community gathering. There is going to be a bunch of discounts and promotions and will be a way to gather earned clement street for Holiday Shopping. If you want more information go to clement street sf. Com. Thank you. The rest i will submit. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Supervisor tang . Supervisor katy tang thank you. Colleagues, last week we had a pretty lengthy discussion in regards to neighborhood evictions where they currently reside. I said i was going to tac on that legislation. It requires the board rent board when they are providing notices that they are going to be evicted and to provide information what Housing Resources are there offered by the citys Mayors Office of housing particular in below market rate and the program they maybe eligible for. I think its pretty important as we are doing as much work that we can to strengthen our programs to allow for more Affordable Housing especially for our tennants that they actually know what is available and what they are eligible for. Then per our existing Language Access ordinance, these notifications will be provided in the various languages spelled out already. Secondly, im introducing a resolution today that really reflects some of the work of the Shelter Monitoring Committee. They had adopted a resolution at their last meeting to urge the Human Services agency to amend the eminent danger policy for the shelter systems. I would like to thank all of our female cosponsors and of course our male colleagues are invited as well. Thank you supervisors breed and kim. Those involved in Domestic Violence incident are denied shelter admittance or not allowed to remain in a shelter for 30 days if they are in a dangerous situation that might cause harm to the family themselves. Recently fsh and the monitoring community did reduce the timeframe to 15 days. While this has been put into place, out of concern for the protection of the individuals at the shelter, it doesnt provide assistance to the victims of Domestic Violence who are in dire need of protection and services. As we all know Domestic Violence affects the thousands of San Francisco resident s and one of the most under reported crimes to transitional housing to provide that support that they need during Domestic Violence situations. In fiscal year 20132014, city funded emergency shelters provided 3500 bed nights and one Permanent Supportive Housing Program providing 11069 nights to services. There needs to be a change in policy. So adopting the Shelter Monitoring Committee recommendations would most importantly prohibit the denial of Services Based on being a victim of Domestic Violence and being a self disclosure of Domestic Violence and no victim of Domestic Violence should be turned away from shelter or services. Furthermore we do not want to discourage victims from reporting. In addition the changes would require assessments upon intake to assess all families, establish protective order to contact Law Enforcement and updating manuals for staff and improving policy to renew and establish shelter providers. So as we all know victims of Domestic Violence are already facing difficult battles. I want to thank the shelter monitoring Community Members and Domestic Violence advocates for their dedicated work on this issue. 1 person in particular, nicholas is part of the Shelter Monitoring Committee. He was really key in bringing a lot of these issues to our attention. I think actually when i was sitting on the gao committee and unfortunately he will be leaving the Shelter Monitoring Committee very shortly, i think the end of this week is his last week. So i just would like to thank him for everything hes done and all the members who contributed to this particular change pursuant with the hsa w that i will submit. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener supervisor scott weiner thank you very much. Today im introducing a reoccurring oversight hearing request dpor a quarterly hearing so we can have full transparency on the citys Enforcement Effort around shortterm rentals. Prop fchl , of course during this ballot measure and those who are opposing it and those who are supporting it, we all want strong enforcement regarding show term rentals. We know there are shortterm rentals occurring right now violating the law that are causing problems in neighborhoods that are really not in the spirit of the regulations that we passed late last year and in the middle of this year. We need to make sure that we are allowing those engaging in legal and appropriate shortterm rentals to do so and to their lives while cracking down on the shortterm rentals that are violating the law. This summer, we passed legislation as you will recall creating the office of shortterm rentals, we also significantly increasing the important resources providing to that office so they can enforce the laws. Weve seen what appears to be an increase in enforcement. In my district there are properties for violations of the law were occurring and city staff stepped in and enforced an imposed significant fines. It is important for the public to have confidence that enforcement is happening. A lot of times there is skepticism in San Francisco in various aspects of city government. When it comes to shortterm rentals given importance of this issue to a lot of people on all sides of this issue. The public needs to know what level of enforcement is happening and needs to know that people are being held accountable when they violate the law. The hearing request an oversight hearing to occur every 3 months and every time the shortterm office for rentals will come and determine how much enforcement is happening, how to enforcement is happening, how many registrations are occurring in terms of shortterm of rental properties and the properties imposed and what the trend are. Colleagues, i look forward to this quarterly hearing to have full transparency on this important enforcement endeavor. I also have two very tragic in memoriam today for Chris Mitchell who passed away suddenly saturday november 21st. He resided in San Francisco and employee of fitness sf, the gym. Known for his amazing smile and wit. He was an invaluable colleague and friend to all who knew him. A memory at the oasis december 11th where friends can celebrate his life and reflect. The second in memoriam, dennis nick, an avid diver and skier killed. He was part of the social fabric and participate negative local groups and often seen in the neighborhood. A dear friend to so many people. Dennis was involved in many civic and social organizations in the bay area and nationwide. Dennis reveled in his new york up bringing and styling his new york accent for all in San Francisco. His death comes as a shock to his family and he will be missed. I also want to acknowledge mayor lee that today is world aids day. To really reflect on the progress weve made in addressing this epidemic when we look at the number of new infection in San Francisco last year, 302 which was lower than before and dramatically lower than 1015 years ago. We have been collapsing infection rates in San Francisco. Weve also been reducing the number of San Francisco who pass away from hiv. We have significantly expanding access to testing, access is to all prevention tools, and access to medication, quick access to medication for people who become hiv positive. We really do see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of in the not so distant future eliminating new hiv infections in San Francisco and eliminating deaths in San Francisco and making sure that everyone living with hiv can do so in a healthy way and full support of our community. We also need to recognize that many people in our continue to struggle with the virus. We have 2 million new infections throughout the world and 2,000 infections in the u. S. There are people here in San Francisco who struggle to Access Healthcare and struggle with Mental Health and Substance Abuse issues who struggle to stay healthy too many people with hiv and aid struggle with housing. Hiv is still unfortunately alive and well and we need to recommit ourselves to ending this epidemic and supporting everyone living with this virus and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee . Thank you. Madam clerk. Colleagues, today im assessing the impact of coyotes in this city and the citys Response Plan moving forward. Over the past several months we have received dozens of calls reporting coyote sightings. The office is working with animal control with experts to better understand the issues. Wild coyotes have been in and around our neighborhoods in the past including in districts that represented by supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor farrell, i think coyotes in your district and supervisors christensen and probably supervisor mars also. Its nothing new. However it seems this year, they are moving into some neighborhoods that never seen before and thats become an issue. There is really a lot of considerable concern for our households. There is really concerns for our dogs and other pets and cats and so forth. There is especially when two dogs with attacked recently by coyotes this year. Several neighborhood associations have taken it upon themselves to conduct surveys and organized neighborhood meetings to better understand coyote behaviors and mitigate their impacts. Animal care and control and recreation and parks have dealt with this issue. However there is still a lot to learn about coyotes in our city and how we as our local jurisdiction can manage the impacts to ensure the safety of our residents, pets and wild life preserving too. I look forward to working with the departments and our neighbors on the citywide plan to see what we are do with this. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor yee. Supervisor avalos . Supervisor john avalos colleagues, with the world watching on the current climate, it will not be sufficient to limit Global Warming as predicted in the copenhagen conference. In cities like San Francisco must lead the way. We have a really strong Climate Action strategy in San Francisco and we point out in that that moving to 100 clean power is the single biggest step we can take to reduce our carbon emissions. As a delay we are close to launching our cleanpowersf in the spring of 2016. Its kind of disappointing to see that while the ceo of pg e is jetting off into conference in paris, pg e is looking to undermining our efforts to promote Climate Change or prevent Climate Change with our cleanpowersf program in San Francisco. The california Public Utilities commission will be making two important decisions to affect our cleanpowersf programs ability to compete with pg e energy. Pg e wants to increase the monthly exit fee to cleanpowersf customers and increase solar charge for customers. Allowing pg e to increase the exit fee will hurt the ability to compete with pg e. Those fees will go to increasing pg es profits instead of enabling us to build new Renewable Power abilities. Pg es proposing changes from solar will discourage our residents from building solar panels and will cause jobs. Today im introducing two resolutions opposing the pg es fee on cleanpowersf customers and increased fees for rooftop solar. Unfortunately we saw in the november election that pg es Employee Union local 45 is continue to be to try to sabotage. They put on the ballot our ability to compete with pg e and when they came with prop h instead of prop g, they spent thousands of dollars and yet i b appears to supporting pg es attempt to sabotage solar. They have submitted comments. If it does agree with local power, i hope it speaks in favor to these resolutions. We will be scheduling a special public hearing at lafco probably december 11th in order to vote on these resolutions before the california Public Utilities Commission Takes action later this month. I want to thank the cosponsors on the resolution related to the exit fee which includes every member of the board of supervisors and on the net metering fee, i havent had the chance to talk to all the colleagues about it, but i want to talk to the cosponsors on the resolutions before lafco later this month. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. Madam president , that concludes the introduction of new business. Supervisor london breed okay, madam clerk, can you read Public Comment. City clerk an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including items being considered today which have not been considered by Board Committee and excluding items which have been considered by a Board Committee. Public speaker free energy is used to create fresh water and will remove excess co 2 from the atmosphere and pull us back from the bring of a near catastrophe. Our billion year catastrophe which will destroy our world. These desalination systems will be powered by free energy. Free energy is free for the cost of harvesting equipment. Free energy is free of all carbon upload, free energy is free of waiting for the sun to rise or the wind to shift or the tide to change. Free energy is available to everyone. Its available do anyone, anywhere. It is available to anyone any where except that it a few miles down. Geo thermal energy is free energy and freely available to water called high ydrothermal events like this one is into ocean and internal heat will force the water towards the surface. This kin tin impulse can pull turban blades. However accomplished free energy will provide a safety net for our civilization. Thank you, president breed. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker for 2 years im coming here since im homeless. Supervisor christensen is lucky, maybe its her last time that shes fascist. Yet you know you have millions of people on the streets. Its not people. Its animals. They are eating from the garbage can. They drink from garbage can. They never saw doctors. They are not people. They are coyotes, maybe. Maybe change face. You are listening to me for 2 years and no one of you tried to help me to ask what can i do for you. 85 years old who survive world war ii, who survived holocaust but couldnt maybe survive homeless in San Francisco. Interesting right. He should ask people who came to russia. But here it exist on the streets. God punish you and your family. What do you do to people. Thank you, next speaker. Public speaker a complete awakening from everyone. A loss. Personal television at loss. To the helping hands and the difficulties in that end. Everything back to security. Education, life support, life, mercy. From being the physical entity. By playing are working city whats so work on this idea. The initial rescue for the five major ancestor. Buddhism, catholic, muslims can work on the rescue for people. Having holy management for people on the realistic work of kings way of holiness. Supervisor london breed thank you very much. Your time is up. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hi, my name is jackie and a lifelong educator. I didnt know i was going to wait for hours to make this tiny speech. Im hoping you will change your Public Comment to the beginning. Anyway, good evening, everyone. President and board of supervisors of San Francisco. After the vicious attacks at planned parenthood im appealing to you to disallow the january 2016 march for life in San Francisco. Allowing this march will be like allowing the kkk to come after the charleston massacre and march through the streets. The antichoice people want to take people back to the middle ages. They are the kind of people who oppose and call for violence against the legal abortion providers of this country. This is hate speech. Its not free speech. Women have the right to be liberated from these back ward ideas. Women have the right to choose their own Health Providers when it comes to our own bodies. How can this socalled progressive San Francisco government year after year allow these 50,000 women haters to march through San Franciscos Market Street against our rights. I say no more. Supervisor london breed thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good evening, supervisors, San Francisco Domestic Violence consortium. Im happy to be with you all tonight. Im here for two things. One is that we want to show our full and complete support for supervisor katie tangs resolution around the eminent danger policy for the homeless shelters and its effects on Domestic Violence. It couldnt be a more poetic time as the mercury falls and holidays are near us and i could not understand that a shelter is full on a cold night. I want to thank supervisor tang for here leadership and everyone who has worked on this. Im just very pleased an honored ks , thank you. It really brings my second reason for being here. We live over the policies for this year. We have learned to cut corners and to hide families and do all kinds of stuff because of this policy. I have to say we got complacent and this young activist, nick camera, i wish you were here. Asked is this okay with you guys, you know and we said no, of course not and wefk the energy to do this and i want to make this change and weve been working from shoulder to shoulder with his team and the shelter monitoring community and its really been an experience of having some real help, somebody that would climb with these families and push from a different perspective. I want to join the supervisors and especially supervisor katie tang and honoring camera and San Francisco loss and new yorks game. Its what we need. Public speaker last week i learned something that is slosh dash 27 years ago within a month of my being paralyzed i was roller skating and my last date before i was paralyzed was at the north beach pool. Any attention that goes in the area is very much appreciated. My housing is on a grand scale preferential housing. Appreciated. Learning something else. There seems to be a pattern here. Communities come. Its hard to get communities rolling. They come here in mass to say housing is this element were not in favor of this at the marsh they came. So came we have to expect that crowds come late and they keep losing the appeal here 05. We need a little bit more step up here at the board of supervisors. We need a halt. Thank you. Supervisor london breed thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker my name is johnson. These outcomes and my mathematics should be higher and 4 . And housing situations and an economy that we have housing is for. That our Safety Building are written a long time ago and that they were in deed an they have it already. The advantages have been more safety issues and where we need to put our cars and our and the elements we are contracting the major in our same projects and 347 message. Which we need all of these degrees in housing and our view in our center in our high prices that it will be 7. 5 . Supervisor london breed thank you. Next speaker. Public speaker members of the board, earlier this week i applied for the resignation by london breed. I gave Public Notice on three separate occasions. I filed a complaint with the Sunshine Task force, there was a hearing with the task force. I would say a person has to be dumber than a box of rocks that she didnt know of this lawful request. Throughout the process the supervisor failed to respond in any manner. She did both knowing and willfully under both obligations and under the sunshine ordinance and the act. I publically cues board supervisors london breed of malfeasance and under the law not able to carry out the duties to serve certainly not as your board president. My sincere when eric returns to this chamber, that one of the earliest opportunities you remove president breed from the presidency of this board. She sets a bad example which supervisor farrell has passed. Hes been found in violation of this ordinance twice in respect to my public records request. I concur with supervisors wieners comments that many of this city have a lack of faith in enforcement of law. As the sunshine ordinance this board has done nothing to be of blatant force and violating the public. Supervisor london breed thank you. Are is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam clerk, can we go today next item. City clerk item 64 and they will be considered together. Madam clerk, item 66, i have a couple of clean up amendments to it. My apologies. Okay. We will remove. Please call the roll. Items 64, 65, 68, 69. Supervisor breed, aye, campos, aye, christensen, aye, cohen, aye, farrell, aye, kim, aye, supervisor mar, aye, supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos . Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor london breed those motions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item 66. Board of supervisors regular meeting schedule. To strike march 29th, page 6, at the end of the sentence, add the word spring, line 7, add march 28thapril 1st, on second page striking lines 810. Duplicative paragraph. Supervisor london breed thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues is there a motion to approve those amendments to item 66, moved by supervisor cohen, second by supervisor farrell. Colleagues can we take this amendment without objection . It passes. Colleagues on the item as amended can we take this same house same call . Without objection. Item 66 passes as amended unanimously. Thank you. All right. Madam clerk, can you please go to our imperative item and please read the item. Yes, on behalf of president breed and supervisor tang we have a resolution commending supervisors Julie Christensen and for 20 years of duty of serving San Francisco. We have a finding by twothirds vote. Before unanimous adoption of the actual item. So this is purely commendatory and there is action came at the attention of the board after the agenda was posted. So, is there a motion to approve those two particular items. Motioned by supervisor farrell and second by supervisor tang. Without objection. Public comment . For the findings . No. I apologize. Without objection we will prove the findings unanimously. On the actual item. I will open that item up to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on the imperative item only . Public speaker this is evera johnson. I have spoken on the major. Maam you have to comment on the item specifically. On supervisor christensen . Christensen. Shes a supervisor. I really like him. He has a lot of outlines where our difference and you know i think we need to bring to some new supervisors all supervisors are here on items that i havent approved on languages in our area that when we see for love and protection and safety issues. I have been working hard on these issues that i have put in to make advances to our board building processes and we need to see a little better eye view supervisor london breed thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Public speaker tom. A few seconds on my second speech. In my heart, the north beach pool and playground occupies a big place in my heart. Im hoping for other generations to appreciate it too. Supervisor london breed is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we take this imperative, somebody is missing. There we go. Can we take this imperative item colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. And madam clerk, can you please read the in memoriams. City clerk yes, today s meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following individuals, mr. Chris mitchell and mr. Dennis nicks, and ms. Es estel crawford and mr. Ben robinson. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . That concludes our business for today. Supervisor london breed thank you. We are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] on december 28, 1912. San francisco mayor, Sonny Jim Rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. A moment in history. The birth of a publicly own Transit System. San francisco municipal railway. Muni as it would become to be known. Happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. The birth of muni had been a longtime coming. Over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. Horses and steam and electricpowered vehicles. Creating a hodgepodge of transit options. None of them particularly satisfying to city residents. The city Transit System like the city itself would have changes during the San Francisco earthquake. The transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change San Franciscos Transportation System once again. Facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the Electric City car. The writing was on the wall. The clammer had begun for the experiment including Public Transit people. Owned by the people and for the people. The idea of a consolidated cityowned Transit System had begun traction. And in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the peoples railway. Would become a reality three years later. On december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new San Francisco railway. That he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. And San Francisco gave further incentive to expand the citys network. A project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. In december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. Just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. And k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. In 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. In 1944 San Francisco voters finally approved muni takeover of the Market Street railway. By then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer San Franciscos hills. After the war most of the streetcar lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. In 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. And it appeared that San Franciscos iconic cable cars had seen their final days. Entered mrs. Cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. Arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. It passed overwhelmly. The california street Cable Railway was purchased by the city in 1952. There were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain. The three lines that exist today. In 1964 the cable cars future as part of californias Transit System was sealed when it was proclaimed a National Historic landmark. In february, 1980, muni metro were officially inaugurated. In that same year, muni received its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts. In 1982 when the cable car had a shutdown, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. The festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent fline that would extend all the way to fishermans wharf, by 2000 the fline was in place. And in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. For the first time in 60 years. In the course of last 100 years, munis Diverse Workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures that flock to the city. Munis groundbreaking antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. The citys policy mandates the course for the future, as they work diligently to increase options and increase multialternatives, and deduce reduce the carbon footprint. It continues to improve the systems. During this sen centennial year we reflect on the Transit System. Driven notyou. 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Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco General Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco [gavel] welcome ladies and gentlemen to the regular november 23, 2015 meeting of the San Francisco ethics commission. I will first take wool and i will say that ms. Hayon unfortunately is not going to be able to attend due to illness and shes been excused. Mr. Andrews can Council Member hur commissioner . All commissioners are present and accounted for. I will ask for Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. O