Transcripts For SFGTV CCII 51716 20160526

Supervisor peskin. Present,. Present. Supervisor tang. Tang present. Supervisor weiner. Present. Supervisor yee. President. Supervisor farrell, prept. Automatic members are present. Can you please join us for the pledge of a geedges. [recitation of the pledge of allegiance] thank you. Are there any chaimgs to the april 19th or the april 20th special budget and finance Meeting Minutes . Seen none. There is a motion . Colleagues can we take that without objection . The Meeting Minutes will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. One through four comprise the agenda. An eye tomorrow may be removed and considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster. Madam cleerk, please call the roll. One through four, supervisor weiner. Aye Company Supervisor weiner aye. Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Iewp visor breed aye. Iewp visor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, mar aye. Supervisor peskin, aye, tang aye. There are 11 ayes. Those items are approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please read the next item. Item five is it an ard nans to allow departments to procure contracts threw a best val iew process with bid discounts applicable to price and to get performance and creation of a database. Call the vote. Weiner aye, supervisor eafl hes, no. Breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar, aye. Peskin aye. Supervisor tang. Aye. 10 ayes and one know with supervisor avalos in the dissent. Next aye testimony. Item six for 4. 1 million in revenues and deappropriate [inaudible] for nonpersonnel services and appropriate rating 4. 7 million to overtime in the sheriffs department. Fire department, Public Health department. Public Utilities Commission and Police Department operating budgets in order to support the departments increases in overtime. Supervisor avalos. Thank you madam president. I voted on this last week and i intend to no on it this week as well. I did want to mention some concerns i had, one issues i had with this last week is i felt that the board of supervisors had not practiced its budget short as effectively as we generally should. Especially when it came to the Police Salaries. We had 8 million left over that was moved in this ordinance being moved from Police Salaries to cover overtime that was used for the super bowl. I think we should be much more effective in how we do a budget review. This year, and i did have a conversation with the chair of the Budget Committee today, based on the requests from the Controllers Office, according to the chair of Budget Committee, that our budget process has been bumped up a week ahead of schedule. And that gives harvey rose less time to be able to do his analysis of the budget and without that analysis, were ham strung. I have a concern again for a next budget psyche that will starts next moppett. Are we going to have the ability to scrutinize this budget the way we need to to avoid the problems all over again . Im concerned based on request from the controller that the Budget Committee following we may not be able to do that. Today again, im voting no. Thank you supervisor avalos. Supervisor farrell. Id like to divide the file and have a separate vote on fire d. E. M. And sheriff. Okay. Roll call on the initial separated file as suggested by supervisor farrell. Avalos. Fire, d. E. M. And sheriff, i add d. U. C. To that as well. To include the d. U. C. Fire,. D. E. M. And p. U. C. . Okay, so were going to vote on that particular part of the divided file first and then well take a second vote on the remaining file. Madam clerk on the divided file which initially includes fire, d. E. M. Sheriffs department and p. U. C. Please call the roll. Our minutes from last Tuesdays Division was dphuc and the [inaudible] without the fire department. Can you repeat that. Original division from last week was dpheuc and sheriff without the fire department. Madam president supervisor farrell. For clarification purposes last week we had three separated out. Pyre, d. E. M. And sheriff and a dphsfud and puc. What supervisor avalos is suggesting that we not have a 33 vote. That we lock together four of them. On second reading, that is fine. Well have a first vote, if point. Fire, d. E. M. And sheriff and add p. U. C. To that. So just for clarification, there is no requirement for second reading. Yes, the entire ordinance must pass on second reading fire requires eight votes. The rest require six votes. The division from last week doesnt have to match up with the division of this week. Thank you for that clarification. Our first vote on the divided fire with will be for the fire department, d. E. Member of the k. Sheriff and p. U. C. Madam cleerk please call the role. Weiner aye. Yee aye, avalos aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye, peskin aye. Tang aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay, the ordinance finally passes unanimously. On the second part of the divided file, please call the roll. Supervisor weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos no. Breed aye. Campos know. Cohen no. Farrell aye. Kim no. Supervisor mar aye. Peskin no. Supervisor tang aye. There are six ayes and five Noh Avalos Kim peskin in the descent. Ma. Clerk item seven and eight are two leases between the city and bank of america for automated teller machines for item 7 with a 365,000 minimum annual guarantee for the first year of the lease and a five year term and item 8 is the lease for automated teller machines with a 250,000 minimum annual guarantee. Five year term with a two year option to extend. Supervisor campos. This is not an easy one in the sense that ideally, i personally dont want to have anything to do with any company that is headquartered in North Carolina. I do know this institution has actually gone out of its way to fus push back on the practices of that state. In recognition of that, i will be supporting this. But i would ask bank of america and any other company that is headquartered in North Carolina that if we fail to change the mind of this state and this government that they did seriously consider coming out of that state and moving on to different state headquartered, their offices somewhere else. City of San Francisco being one is one possibility. For that reason, i will be supporting this today. Supervisor cohen. Madam president , i need to ask that i make a motion to rescind item six. I voted incorrectly. So supervisor cohen has made a motion to rescind the vote on the split file of the second vote for item number six. Is there a second . Second. Can we take at that without exception. I did not catch the second on that. Supervisor farrell. All right, for item seven and eight since we called those items together, well finish the vote with that and go back to the second part of the split file that we rescinded the vote for. Clerk, please call the roll for items seven and eight. Weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos no. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim no. Mar aye, peskin no. Peskin no. Supervisor tang aye. Eight ayes and three knows. Nos. Those are adopted. On the item number six, the second part of the split file of the vote that we rescinded, madam clerk, please call the roll. This is for dch and ffdp. Weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos. Pd and dh no. Breed aye. Campos no. Cohen yes. Farrell aye. Kim no, mar aye. Peskin no. Peskin no. Supervisor tang aye. There are seven ayes and four knows. Avalos, kim and peskin in descent. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit the use of city funds or resources to assist in the enforcement of Immigration Law except for individuals that are convicted of a violent felony. Avalos. Id like to refer this to later in the agenda. Well refer to later in the agenda. Madam clerk, items 10 through 14. Five resolution resolutions that declare of intent of city to reimpurse from multifamily housing rev if knew bonds. In the following amounts for item 10. Resolution in the amount not to exceed 76 million for 171 loehr street and sunnydale avenue. A re liewtion not to exceed 479 million for 158 1500 through 1508 avenue. 13 in the amount not to exceed 111 million for 54 mccallister street mcallister street and not to exceed 20 million more the knox sro. Vote. Item 10 through 14. Supervisor weiner. Weiner aye. Supervisor yee aye. Avalos aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Tang aye. There are 11 ayes. The resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please read item 15. Ordinance to amend the police code to prohibit any person from keeping an ire arm within any residents unless thats locked in a container or disabled with a trigger lot. Supervisor farrell. Thank you. I appreciate your hearing this item today and voting on it and for my colleagues at committee. Gun violence is a large issue not only here but across the country. One of the factors is the unsafe storage of firearms. I believe earlier this year or last year a recent study found that over 1. 6 million children and youth under 18 were living in homes withed and unlocked firearms. Can and they knew the low cautions of their parents firearms. Its into the just children and youth at risk, theyre also susceptible to theft during home invases. Over 80,000 firearms are stolen a year in burglars and 57 are used in crimes. Thats why i want this to close the loophole to ensure that all arms are kept in a locked container or secured by a you trigger lock. I want to recognize supervisor cohen as well for her work in this area. This is not in response to something that happened on the streets of San Francisco but i do not want to wait for a tragedy to enact this legislation. This proposal itself mandates all firearms not just handguns be be properly stored and have the proper trigger locks. In order to encourage risk of lost or stolen firearms, a person that would file would not be subject to prosecution under my proposal. This continues to be a top priority for everyone inside of city hall and we owe it to our families and children to be aggressive as possible to promote Public Safety especially in the home. We have the opportunity to be one of the the strongest gun safety cities in north america and continue to be at the leadership of these types of legislation and opportunities. I do want to thank a number of piano. First jeff from my office and the professionals at the law center for all their work on this issue. They do a loot of work in our country and are sphwrx. I want to acknowledge their leadership in this. Thank you. And madam clerk, please add me as a exoa sponsor. Supervisor campos. I want to be added as a cosponsor. The key here it to shak make sure we spread the word and make sure that firearms are kept safely in their home and im proud of the fact that we continue to lead the way around the issue of gun safety here in San Francisco. Thank you again supervisor farrell. Thank you. And madam clerk, can we take item 15 without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Item 16, please. Item 16 is an ordinance to designate 35 to 45 onendagga avenue also known as the hospital and Health Center as a landmark. Supervisor avalos. Im delighted to bring this forward to landmark these two buildings for historic Landmark Preservation list. These are would sites, two hospitals one was an Emergency Hospital part of the system that was built in the 1930s during the depression. It was a system in place for about 40 years. Until it was shut down in the 1970s. Interesting about the history here, is that the when d. P. H. Decided to shut down the site, workers and residents occupied the space to keep the healthcare continuing for residents in that part of town. They held it for a month. Within the building you can see graffiti held behind during at that occupation of the building. There are other many, many historical parts of the stild building. Architecturally theyre amazing in terms of spanish architect. Architecture. And there is the health at home building. There are two murals by bernard zakheim. We found two frescoes partially covered by paint. More recently in the past five years in the lealt and home building. And were going to be landmarking this building. Whatever happens in the future, these historical remnant can remain. Colleagues, i encourage your support. Also, this measure has big support from my district in particular the new Mission Terrace Improvement Association which had filed for the Historic Preservation resolution. So, colleagues, i encourage your support. Thank you. Thank you supervisor avalos. Colleagues item 16 without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Madam clerk, please read item 17. Clerk to amend the health code to protect the Public Water System by replacing obsolete requirements consistent with current state and federal Drinking Water laws. Without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Please read items 18 through 20 together. Items 18 through 20 with three resolutions to authorize the issuances to licenses for the following locations to ensure that the alcohol beverage control. Item 18 is a type 18 premises license to Frank Leclerc for gaiten restaurant. 21 is a general license to howard goh located at 5900 third street. Item 20 to issue a type 20 offsale beer and wine license to Surinder Singh doing business at 7eleven on mission street. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Please read item 21. Resolution to urge governor jerry brown to declare a state of emergency to this growing crises and provide state assistance to the cities and counties to provide needed support and services. Colleagues, can we take this item . Madam president ,. Item 21 weiner aye, yee no. Afl yoas aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Tang no. There are nine ayes and two knows yee and tang in i the dissent. The resolution is adopted. Item 22 please. 22 is an ordinance to exempt the California State University of Fresno Foundation from the chapter 12 access ordinance to facilitate the agencies entering into a contract with the foundation for Training Services required for Child Welfare staff and foster parents. Supervisor weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Tang aye. Tang aye. There are 11 ayes. The ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Item 23, please. A motion to reappoint annemarie fortier and nicole bunny math use rosenberg to the commission of animal control and welfare. Can we take this item. Without objection the motion is approved unanimously. All right, lets skip over the 3 00 and 33 00 p. M. Especially items and 3 30 p. M. And go to special items. Supervisor yee. Id like to be rereferred. Supervisor avalos. We cant all rerefer. Are you guys ready for roll call for introduction . Okay. President breed. Rerefer, please. Campos. Great, ill take it. Thank you. The first item is an item i know a number of people have talked about. But i want to give credit for credit is due by thanking former assembly man tom enono. Hes been thinking about this for more than 10 years. Hes been working tirelessly to bring people across the aisle to bring needed change in different aspects of government. You think a lot of the structural changes that made government function bet railroad because of tosm and his work. For the last six months, a blem bli member anonoeo. S have what been working with labor unions and nonprofits to draft the legislation im about to introduce which is the creation of an office of public advocate here in San Francisco. The office of public advocate is a complaint and whistleblower department empowered to fight for San Francisco residents here in city hall for the purpose of Getting Better results for those residents. Now more than ever, the public is yearning for accountability and transparency here in government. Whether its around police accountability, homelessness, housing, you name the issue. I want to thank my cosponsors of this Charter Amendment supervisor mar, supervisor avalos, supervisor kim and i look forward to adding to that list. This Charter Amendment makes three major changes. When it comes to the office. And the responsibilities. I want to thank the City Attorneys Office and tom owen in particular for all his great work in putting this proposal together. First, this office would be a constituent services agency. On an individual level, the public advocate takes complaints, and makes it sure that members of the public are treated fairly by their local government. If you get a parking ticket as an example because they start sweeping streets, and you complain because you point out rightly so that you actually were not there at the time that would have made you liable for the ticket. If you complain to the sfmta, chances are youre not going to get your complaint answer. On the systemic level, the public advocate would investigate on going patterns and problems to address whatever the issue is whether its an effectiveness, ineptitude. Waste, corruption you name it. The second function is to respond to something that i think is very much at the forefront of what is happening here in san diego. In San Francisco in that is what is happening with our Police Department. The second disappoint that is an important part of this proposal responds to the preliminary findings by the panel created by the District Attorney and specifically does that by bringing the office of citizens complaints under the public advocate. Currently, you have a situation where you have the Mayors Office that overseas the San Francisco Police Department. At the same time, the Mayors Office also overseas the office of business complaints. The idea that the occ which is supposed to provide independent oversight to the Police Department ultimately reports to the same individual from our perspective from a government and best practice standpoint, ebl that change is needed. This Charter Amendment would bring the offices of citizens complaints and gift public advocate the authority to appoint the head of occ. The third piece is to enhance the advocacy for workers to make the public advocate, an advocate for workers by bringing the office of labor standards enforcement under the public advocate. The office ever economic and Workforce Development and labor standards and enforcement are both under the Mayors Office. One agency is tasked with bringing in as much big business as possible and weve seen that. At the same time, you have another agency that also reports to the Mayors Office whose job is actually to provide oversight into investigate and regulate those businesses. There is an inherent conflict. Thats what this Charter Amendment addresses as well. Im excited that the public advocate is also an omed buts person. Whaed but om buds person. And its led to millions of dollars in of savings in these governments in just the first two years of office of the current publicked zero cat in nepublic advocate. Her office saved 170 million. Because they focused on reviewing contracts because of the good work that went directly though that city. She also recouped 2 million from the state of new york, money owed to the city and because of the work of the public advocate, this su surfaced. This Charter Amendment is about this administration, mayor lee, its not about this board of supervisors or any of the members, its about checks and balances about making sure the system functions as well as it possible can function. In the current system, i believe we lack a high level of accountability for certain departments that many major cities have demonstrated that in fact having a public advocate is Good Government, its about transparency, its about accountability. We believe that we need this office in San Francisco and look forward to making the case in november. The second item is very difficult one any time there is a death and this is in memoriam for a special person, a young person. In memoriam for leighen Reuben Medina. Leighen Reuben Medina passed way this morning of may 22nd in his home in elk grove california. He is survived by his mother who is a former member of the San Francisco human rights commission. Who is also a past executive director to the Mission Economic development agency. He is also the father the son of jose medina who is a former member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Former member of caltrans and one of the founders of [inaudible] leon Reuben Medina is followed by his mothe brother. Leon worked for fair employment and equal opportunity and rights in the public and nonpublic sector. He fought for labor rights. Before working for 13 years with the state of california at the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board Department of fair employment and housing. The department of fish and wildlife and most recently the department of business oversight. He was not afraid to take on his employers or to openly speak truth to power if that could further the rights of people. Leighen was a San Francisco native born at st. Lukes hospital in my district here in the mission. He grew up in the mission, pou portala. He attended st. Pauls and hillcrest elementary and graduated from lowell high school. He went on to uc la where he earned his b. A. In history and law school where he learned his juryis doctorate degree. He overcame so much since developing epilepsy in high school but never compromised his values and condition and imparted additional wisdom to his friends and family who loved them so dearly and wish he could still be with them. He was 45 years old. My age. For those who want to attend his memorial, its this sunday. At 1 00 p. M. Actually sunday 1 00 p. M. June fifth east lawn and elk grove. Mass is monday june 6th at Good Catholic Church in elk grove. We know this a difficult time for this family and our thoughts are with leon and his entire family and i ask we close the meeting today in his memory. The rest i submit. Thank you. Madam president. Ready to be referred back to. First off, colleagues, i want to thank supervisor campos for introducing the charter for public advocate and i am a big supporter oaf the work of the public advocate. That the public zero cat will be able do. We have a lot of enforcement, bodies and agencies within the city and county of San Francisco. I have always felt that many of them didnt have the need toed to carry out their work. Time and time again weve been saying that they are hamstrung often by politics by competing political interests. We want to make sure that these agencies can be as strong as they can be to support workers in the case of olfc and support people who have cases of Police Misconduct or Police Brutality here in San Francisco. With the Police Department and office of citizens complaints, we have to have a more robust occ that can handle the crisis of confidence that many communities in San Francisco have towards the Police Department. This the lowest ive ever seen it and it means we have to restructure our agencies and institutions here in San Francisco to make sure that they can hold accountable the Police Department and also be a place where the public can get a sense of confidence in the enforcement bodies and investigate tri bodies helping them with their cases. I am honored to support the public advocate. Its important that occ has a director that is appointed by the public advocate rather than by the mayor through the Police Department which gives the kind of independence that the public advocate, or occ needs to have to really be able to do its work and the public can have confidence in that agency to be successful in representing their cases. And so, just want to put in a word for that. Charter amendment will be wending its way through the board of supervisors here in the next couple of months but it has my full support in moving forward. Today im also introducing a Charter Amendment that is related to new revenue that will be supporting transportation develops Homeless Services. This amendment will be aligned with what appears to be. 75 cents sales tax and that sales tax is a tax that would apply to everyone, but in San Francisco, we have a big part of our sales tax revenue that comes from businesstobusiness transactions paying for up to half of what the total revenue on the sales tax will be. The tax measure, as i said, will Fund Transportation as well as Homeless Services. On the transportation side. Ive been pushing for a number of years based on the t2030 process to look at how to make long term improvements especially around capital to our transportation programs and capital programs in San Francisco. And part of that process, ive been working with Many Community stake holders especially teak holders who have a stake in affordability and equity and in robust Transit Service that will get to the outlying neighborhoods and neighborhoods that are more low income where a lot of people of color live. D8.  based on the work of the past four years on getting that discussion around equity, the m. T. A. Made a lot of strides forward in building an equity framework for how they make decision on funding and how they make decisions on theirero their lines and were building in language into our transportation Charter Amendment that will accompany the sales tax to ensure there is equity and affordability in there. We also know and appearance on the daily, our homelessness crisis here in San Francisco. And weve just the Mayors Office to his credit has restructured Homeless Services under a particular office that will be headed by jeff kazinski. And we have a very comprehensive system, but coordination is going to be key. One of the things that is lacking in terms of how we can help the hardest to serve people on our streets is to react to homelessness. This tax measure will bring the revenue up to 50 million to be applied a year for helping create those exits to homelessness and certify services that will address homelessness in San Francisco. This measure, we havent gone the full breadth of cosponsors, but it has the input allowing great input from supervisor wiebeer and his office from supervisor farrell and his office from the Mayors Office from the mta and transportation authority, Mayors Office as well. We are a trying to make sure that we can have the type of investment that is going to hit the huge needs we have around building our Transportation System for the 21st century as well as addressing our huge, huge problems with homelessness to make sure that were making strides and real concerted effort to bring people off the streets and into secure housing in San Francisco. Thank you supervisor avalos and back to supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. Colleagues, im excited today to be introducing some legislation that well be bringing to voters in november. Im excited because id like to it reminds me many times i spent with my grandmother who instilled upon me the importance of taking care of our seniors. Im introducing along with cosponsors of supervisor mar, yee, campos and avalos in an important measure for novembers ballot. Were drug the first of its kind in San Francisco history. Our senior population is growing and its growing rapidly. Did you know by the time 2030 rolls around, well expect to see a population grow by over a hundred thousand people. The dignity fund will allow our growing senior population, our veterans. Disabled and those with chronic diseases including hivaids to age in place with dignity by helping to stabilize funding that allows the populations to age in their homes, not only their homes but communities. Each year during the budget system, our seniors and advocates have to come to fight over pennies to make sure they have enough money for the budget for basic services as homedelivered meals and inhome support services. Were creating a dedicated and predictable funding stream beyond what our department aging and Adult Services already receives each year and looking to put a stop to the fight around the budget season. Many of our seniors in San Francisco are living in fixed incomes that dont meet the rapidly growing cost of living here in San Francisco. What the dignity fund will do is that it will create additional funding of at least 30 million that will help offset some of the cost of growing older so the seniors can remain their homes and communities much longer. The dignity fund will provide Financial Support for inhome care service provisions. Housing modifications. Homedelivered meals a pped groceries. Adult healthcare services. Conditional housing and more importantly protections and Financial Assistance against eviction and homelessness. Thats incredible. This is just a short list of the services that will allow our seniors to age in place. Our seniors helped build this miraculous city. Our veterans fought for our freedom. We have seen jers that were adults in the 1980s that contracted hivaids and other chronic diseases. I think its time for us to stand up and be a champion for them today. We must treat our elders with respect and dignity especially as they get on in their years. Its what they deserve. I feel this is the morally right thing do for our city and citys future. I do hope to have more cosponsorship with my other colleagues. Thank you. Thank you supervisor cohen. Supervisor farrell. Thank you. Colleagues, i have one item today. An ordinance regarding dpw permit reform. Its not a shock to anyone that our Construction Industry is booming in our city and the sheer amount of construction has a effect on the quality of life. Residents are frustrated by the volume of scarce neighborhood parking faces taken away. The frustration are on permanent situations that are taken up when construction is not being done on a project site. Were told of and investigating an issue in district two where a parking space has been reserved for a nonexistent Construction Projects for 13 years. Given these issues, i teamed up with dpw and dbi to do the following first dictate that the duration of a street space occupationy for permanent construction cannot be longer than our Building Code allows for the work. Adds more review before permanent extension and directs the director not to grant it unless there is on going work on the sietd. This proposal would giver in discretion to the dpw director. Under this proposal, the directorrer may deny the extension. In addition the proposal would give the director the discretion to revoke any street occupationy per myth mitt if he or she feels an inconvenience will be reserved by revoking the permit. Residents will be able to a appeal. Its intended to free up limited Parking Spaces and not curtail residential construction. It will only apply to residential, urban mixed use or commercial transit districts as defined in the planning code. Lastly this would apply retroactively so we the city can proactively address those that have quality of life issues in our neighborhoods. I believe this is a very simple, especially some of the other items that are coming forward today. But straightforward piece of legislation that will have a positive impact into our neighborhoods. I want to thank dpw and dbif working closely with my office that stems from one particular project site in my district that i think we can work across our city. I want to thank jerry and john. Bill strong as well as my staff. The rest i submit. Supervisor farl, thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you madam clerk. San francisco as we often talk about here this chamber is experience being unprecedented change driven by a rapidly growing Economic Growth and wealth here in our city one that is envied by cities around the country and one that lous us to boast 3 Unemployment Rate here in San Francisco yesterday. However, with this change, were experiencing the fastestgrowing income gap in the country. According to our own data, our Human Services agency, one rivaled only countries like rwanda. For too many families, this displacement comes in the form of eviction. In recent poll commissioned by toddco this past week, it shows that 7 a of san franciscans are concerned that the rent is too high and 10 is concerned that rent is too high. Only 4 stated its not a concern or certaining. We are seeing that were becoming a city that is rapidly becoming unaffordable with record levels of evictions an rent here in our city. There is a pervasive sense that were losing the city we once loved along with the Community One person at a time from friends, parishioners. Businesses to teachers nurses and artists. Nimmune to the wave of displacement sweeping our bay area. But we can do more to address the tremendous anxiety with regards to our future. Im proud to stand here with many members of the colleagues to fight for more Affordable Housing to work to protect our business legacies to fight to increase our minimum wage to 15 15 and hour here in San Francisco and fight for the strongest tenant protections here in the country. There is much more do and that is why today im introducing a package f package of legislation for city stability in growing the middle class and that is in education. Specifically in Community College. I have a propose that will i announced last month that well make City College Free for all San Francisco residents. I also promised to introduce a proposal in order to generate the revenue that will allow us to do so. We know that Community College is often the institution that allows our working class to rise in the middle class and there are barriers to attending Community College today. In fact, it is the california promise that Higher Education be free here in the state of california. In fact, Community College was once free here in the state of california until 1983. Where we can work to make that a reality again here in San Francisco. My proposal today, a mansion tax that i had first talked about last december. Its a real estate transfer tax that we increase by a quarter percent for tax paid on building and luxury homes on and condos that sale for more than 5 million, 10 ml and 25 million. We cant stop people from creating a market for luxury homes. But we can ask those that contribute to the market to pay a little bit more to protect the San Francisco, the city we love here. In fact, if we nas measure, in november, well become the first city in the country to make City College Free for all of our residents regardless of age, income or any type of gpa prerequisites. This measure will jen rit more than doubling the amount of money we need to make City College Free today. Were looking an examining at a proposal to also serve students that are qualify for Free City College by looking at an educational stipend for books, transportation and potentially child care as well because we know that tuition is not the only barrier to attending Higher Education. In fact, books are far more expensive these days than the fees are in and of themselves. We believe there will be money remaining leftover to work on other initiatives to make our city more affordable to all. I want to thank and acknowledge our Controllers Office who has been working with us over the last six months to craft a proposal that would work where were doing a slight increase in our real estate transfer task asking a small investment from those who are able to afford large and expensive buildings and homes in San Francisco to help keep San Francisco affordable for all. I want to acknowledge afp 2121, the faculty at city college Alyssa Messer along with chance letter lam and City College Board of trustees bringt davala and john rizzo and radioing my colleagues who have been strong supporters from the beginning. Supervisors peskin, mar, campos and avalos. Free city college is just one of the way that we can work to protect San Francisco for San Franciscoens. We hope youll join us in november to fight to make this a reality. I look forward to november 8th that we can announce San Francisco will be the first in the nation to make Community College free for all our residents put us at the forefront of building more equity and affordability here in this country. The rest i split. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Thank you. Colleagues, i wanted to first say that im applauding our senior and disability advocate organization the dignity fund owe lition for working for several years with supervisor croween, supervisor ye and avalos and campos in putting forward what i spheel an historic piece of legislation that when passed by voters in november will make sure that our city can claim being an aging friendly city for the future. Some of you know that supervisor yee is probably the lone senior on our body. I will be a senior in a couple of years as well. And i think its not just the 200,000 seniors and people with disabilities that were talking about represented by the coalition before us, but its also the baby boomer generation that supervisor yee and i are a part of that will be rapidly becoming seniors. Over the next 20 to 30 years well add a hundred thousand seniors by 2030. By 20 oo, well be 40 of San Franciscos population and were not keeping up with the funding levels of our senior and disabled population in our city. With the guidance of our brass roots coalition. Weve learned where the gaps are. The Dignity Fund Coalition will make history in november as we begin the process not only to pass this measure, but to really lift up our senior and disabled organizations especially from low income communities throughout the city so well have dignity and respect for all. I want to thank the coalition along with the allies on the board of supervisors pushing this measure. My mother is 91 years old. She has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility. We have many aging in place programs that we as the board of supervisors funded over the years but we need many more of these types of organizations and programs so that seniors not only like my mom, like supervisor cohens dad or grandparent that she mentioned but they deserve to be able to age and live in their homes and in their communities with dignity. My hope is that well pass this measure and San Francisco could make history as the first city perhaps in the nation that responds to our rapid growing senior boomer population with an Adequate Funding stream of resources that we call the San Francisco dignity fund. I also wanted to applaud supervisor kim and the Free City College coalition for the city College Funding measure and ma matching tax as well that im proud to cosponsor. To add a point to supervisor campos and form ar assembly man amanone call in San Francisco. I think for the occ and police accountability, its important for an om bud om buds program but for workers and hundreds of thousands oaf people in the think sti that are workers. We need and an advocate for borks in San Francisco. The office of standards needs to be an independent enforcement agency. Under the mayor and city administrator, i dont believe that it is. I think this public advocate position helps to ensure that we have Good Government and checks and balance system. I recently called with a number of labor organizations including jobs for justice and others for moving the enforcement out from under the Mayors Office to either the City Attorneys Office or a newlycreated Public Advocates office created in order to have the independence. I think this Charter Amendment led by supervisor campos with ammianoo and our commission will achieve this. For the ofc and labor standards. Its critical our workers have an independent office to ensure that wages and wage step to ours and Worker Protections we built in are protect. I a flawed supervisor campos. This is a Good Government measure with good checks and balances that will save money and increase accountability for our city. I hope what voters in november will support a public advocate for San Francisco. Also, i have a couple of quick announcements. First of all, join me on saturday were unveiling yet another mural in the richmond district. I and my office are advocating for public art and more murals whether its on pea body elementary or argon elementary, to a new one coming up or the two brand new murals at the ocean beach safeway complicting playland at the beach and ocean beach is a treasure. The new mural is on complemen complement clemant street. Ace plumbing or standard plumbing or ace hardware. Well be unveiling a brand new mural on saturday from 4 00 to 6 00 in front of ace hardware on third and clement. I wanted to thank Cynthia Hughey and michael busk for really helping our office achieve not only the funding, but the selection and implementation of this amazing mural. There is a new character in the mural called foggy it will be an icon of clement and the richmond district. Thank you to the artist jason jaigal for the incredible mural with lots of great characters. It reminds me of richard scary storybooks. This marks district one movie night. Bundle up with blankets and sleeping bags. Well be watching finding nemo well gather at 7 00 and as the sun goes down well thank the merchants, ymca, San Francisco rec and Park Department for collaborating with me and my office to make it happen. Joins at Rossi Playground at sunset for great movies. Lastly, jackie chan center of help for elderly on 22nd and geary is celebrating 20 years of serving seniors and low income and immigrants. Theyve served the low income residents in our district and surrounding areas. Props to jackie chan for supporting the center over the years. Were celebrating the anniversary on n two weeks at noon. Join us for lunch for the seniors. For more information, selfhelpelderly. Org. I want to thank leon modine that ive known for 20 years and his family. I want to say i met leon 20 years ago when he was a young law students and was appreciative of his thoughtfulness, his warmth, how much he gave to the community in how he looked at life. Thank you to Gabriel Medina and family for bringing leons passing to our attention. I wanted to say when Community Leaders like leon pass on, i think its important that as g gabriel today, we cant forget them. Gabriel wrote in a posting after leon passed, i love you leon and im glad you have everlasting peace. Through your friends, im discovering who you are so genuinely pained and im glad you lived a life where others admired your heart. Condolences to leon Medina Medina and his family. I want to be added as cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor peskin. First i want to grasm late our colleague supervisor cohen on her recent nuptials and witch her the best on her new life. Congratulations supervisor cohen. There is quite an uproar in the last 24 hours with respect to Recreation Parks Department proposed loor park pilot program. This is not an isolated incident. Its not okay and its not been okay for quite a while. When the oversight body has made recommendations isnt even apprised of what the department is doing or the rationale behind it, i think we have a problem. When policy calls are made on an ad hoc basis depending on what backlash is happening and what neighborhood is sphrugling to get access to their own Public Open Space, i think we have a problem. I want to add my name as a cosponsor to supervisor kims resolution and hearing request and i think its time we make some system attic changes and ensure that this kind of stuff does not happen again. As a former employee of the trust Republic Land and a long time parks and open space advocate, i find it troubling weve even considered piloting a proposal to charge the general public to enjoy the grass in the park. This park, by the way, is the same one that city taxpayers just laid out 20 million to renovate. We all have the right to enjoy the citys precious open space and recollect rate without having every square foot and every blade of grass privatized, micromanaged and monetized. Today im asking the City Attorney to draft amendments to article 7 of the park code expressly restricting picnic permitting of Public Open Space including our public lick meadows, lawns, natural areas and every blessed piece of public grass within our jurisdiction. This legislation will ban the yo issuance of picnic permits including park bonds and with the exception of capital improvements. There will be a limited picnic issued for those that have structural facilities. Also today, i am drug a Charter Amendment for all of your consideration which i think is long overdue. Its something this body in years past saz well as Good Government advocates have been talking about for some time. We have some critical core city offices who do very important work with little to no oversight. I believe the public deserves to have transparent processes in place that ensure that your public dollars and policies are administered in appropriate, transparent ways. Im drug a Charter Amendment that establish establishes a Housing Development to oversee the Economic Workforce Development and our department of real estate with limited oversight authority. Recently resubmitted an inquiry to the oches of economic and Workforce Development regarding their grant process and request specific sets of criteria to utilize how to determine how they structure their rfp process. After reviewing their responses, it is quite clear to me that more transparency is needed with respect to the allocation process can. According to the Neighborhoods Grant Program in fiscal year 2014 201550 of the budget was for Capacity Building neighborhood organizations a total of 3 million. In the current fiscal year, that rose to 47 . In the same category to the tune much 3. 8 million. This is a lot of money that generates a lot of consternation among neighborhood organizations that is pickup trucked against each other in a fight for funding. I dont think thats Good Government. Weve heard a tremendous amount of concern around the lack of oversight with respect to the Mayors Office of Housing Community development. These departments, by the way, collectively are worth well north of a hundred million dollars. We have commissions for every other important City Department and nothing to help create a good system of checks and balances for these core offices and functions. The Mayors Office has requested funding for 64 positions in the budget. 124 total positions if offbudget positions are included. In the office in the office of housing and community development. And an additional 101 positions in the office of economic and Workforce Development. To put that in perspective, the last time i was on the board of supervisors when willie brown left office, that department was s shrunk to 0 ftd. Thats a lot of growth. I look ford to discussion and debate as this makes its way hopefully to the ballot. I thank to thank you for your unanimous massage of resolution 25223. Many of you have 2522. Many of you have seen that awr governor is moving to deford Affordable Housing and give an as of right privilege for those in exchange for modest housing commitments well below our local standards here in San Francisco. In the midst of this housing crisis that continues to impact thousands of san franciscans and californians. Governor brown released his budget on friday and allocated a grand total of nothing in new housing funds. He opposed the 1. 3 billion assembly affordable heable housing plan by our david chu keeping money in the Rainy Day Fund and putting forth an as you ever right Development Plan that would have applied to every project in San Francisco and is in essence a give way to developers. Especially concerning is the provision that market rate projects with 10 inclusionary and 20 affordability in other areas be given a complete pass on local development and planning controls. Ld im introducing a