Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 8916 20160909

Its so striking to me it bodes well for me and the commission moving forward there wasnt much of a divergence as to what they wanted to see that, to me, yeah it was safe there was much more divergence on what they wanted to see, which is great. That means were going to include everything in this process that is good to see. What i would say we do have all of these comments theres a lot of data to take in. So colleagues, the way this is processed as we discussed in july was designed is over the next couple of dais all of us are can read this. There are charact characteristics and attributes you have to summarized for us as you pointed out the commission made the commissionment to view every resume we will do that in closed session next week you have the data from the Community Officers it sounds like we will have supplemental additional surveys and the plan is for this week for commissioners to spend time with gary and review resumes that is, again, and confidential process and we will go into closed session not tomorrow. We will go into closed session next week. For the members of the public we will look resume by resume have a discussion of the persons background how it matches up versus the criteria and characterist characteristics and we as the commission will decide to interview and if with ke get that done in one session we may have to have 2, 2 that is the next step. Dr. Joe . I want to give compliments i want to thank fur the hard work you put into the process. You really have. I know you get paid but seeing you at the Community Meetings watching you grab the pen and pencil that is stuff you dont have to do. Me being a Community Person doing those things sometimes its crazy i wanted to complement you for doing that. Thank you very much. Thank you for all your hard work as well. I got a call on the way here i was told we were going to get binders and i hope that has changed and were going to have to review these amply indicatio at the Police Commission officers im out of town this week and next. That makes it hard to review it next evening. I dont agree with that process i dont want to be compelled to sit on third street through the night to get it done. I dont know who made the decision to switch it. I thought we would get binders. We have done this process before. This is the personal process this is the done the same way commissioner mazzucco, the binders were kept you had to schedule a time to go there. So its not. The way i remember it is we set a time and we all met and went through it together when we met i had my own binder i made notes on the binder i was confused who changed this and things have changed now i dont think i should have to be compelled to sit down there at night i think we should take about the schedule and how we do it. The wind binders with the Police Commission office we came back here in closed session and i remember my binder is marked up. With ratings and we went through them we had them here we did the first coal through. We ran through would this person be willing to interview . And we did the process again over there. We never had the binder withes us. Dr. Marshall. We had one session downstairs in one of the rooms we had the binders with us and rooms set aside. We did lieutenant talbi bought the binders and notice to the meeting we did have. Those were the three names we sent to the mayor. That is our third or 4th vote if im not mistaken. We have a special meeting in a special room. Notice to the public. At this point in time we had our binders that is when we made the determination we limited a significant number of the applicants after that point after several renters that is the three names we will refer to the mayor. If i hear correctly, what you did is everybody had a binder, but you never took it away from the office. No. We dont have an office here. The way were phrasing it. It was brought to us at each location. Right. [multiple speakers]. We can work it out. I think again, things can get muttaled especially after these meetings when we reflect on what happened. I wanted to do my best to make this crystal leer can you work with commissioner dejesus the issue is getting the binder to her we all need sufficient time. Scheduling is the issue because we have a Police Commission in the Public Safety building that is the place with parking and thicks like th things like that. We l do work understanding the issue is given its confidential information thats how its going to be handled. The weekend will work better for me i will not say five hours every night during the workweek after going all day to stockton and back. That may be the best time for me to do it. Okay. [multiple speakers]. Okay. Any questions from the Commission Commissioners before we have Public Comment on this matter . Okay. Thank you very much. With the information you gave on the demographics. That is not on the press release. Do you have that . What i propose we do is put that together and issue, and have the Commission Release that tomorrow im sorry okay. Yeah. [speaking off the mic] lets get that out to people can be made aware assuming that not everybody watches us on wednesday night. Okay Public Comment. Patricia education i have seen people that have absolutely no comments with the public. I have met people who have education that do have public input. We cant say yes or no. We have to look at the whole picture of the person their experience how they handled the job. Possibly, people from the towns theyre from. But common sense and dealing with the public and street sense is an extremely important thing as well as being a boss. I have been a boss of 28 crews at times. Vi worked with construction people. Transamerica was part of my job a as a child i think you really have to consider common sense and can you handle the people that work for you and can you handle the public . This is a very, very very important issue. I have heard the conversations about education versus noneducation i cant judge someone on that status because you have to know the person themselves to find out if theyre capable of dealing with the public. Thank you. We take votes even if there are no members. Thank you. Welcome back. I want to thank chief peterson. I this is a remarkable process and thank the commission for their leadership. He was very responsive he may have done all of those things without my input. On paper demographically you have a strong pull. Another six teen that has asit tant or deputies the best candidatings possible im hopeful from this demographic that you have strong candidates in the pool i appreciate if there is an opportunity for a little bit. You are about to go to this confidential dark period so as much transparent as po possible. I think you need to keep it in this phase. We know the chiefs what agencies theyre from. Whatever without too much burden as much demographic information as much as possible. If you dont have time to discuss it next hour this meeting the recommendation i made three weeks ago which is pretty much common practice this is how the searches have changed most big cities at this stage they ask for permission of the finalists if theyre willing to release their names. Maybe they will say yes or no you respect when you say no or cross that bridge when they come to it. In the last year chicago fort worth tucson have released that information and los angeles dallas seattle released it twice. You made that decision to ask the finalist to release their names thank you. Thank you. Next spooeaker. [inaudible] Police Accountability. I would like to address the listening sessions and the survey. I found it to be not helpful at all. 776 respondances of a registered base of foun 4 hundred hundred is prt 0000 . I counted 100 distinct people at the different out reaches i went to. These folks that took the rvey is self selected. So none of the quantitative data that came out of this 49,000 exercise has any real validity for 35,000 you could have hired david binder that works for all the candidates and all the initiatives you would have gotten real quantitative data you you could ri lrely on in terms of making decision. There is call and quantity in this dit session is poor because of self selected folks you could have hired a focus Group Company and been stronger in terms of what San Franciscoians want in their new police chief i have no confidence in any of the information you had just gotten from the consultant and i think i should consider that. Next speaker. Welcome back. Good evening. Two minutes is not enough. I will do my best about the meetings i want to plank commissioner melara and dejesus. They were at the Community Meetings they were approachable. In this scenario it feels like we have to speak to the dies and it didnt feel like that. Page two i want to sigh how gratified i am. It is integrity. If you look down at the Leadership Qualities they want to be considered if theyre trust worthy. They also want credibility. I dont know if you have gotten the theme. The theme is they want somebody that is honest and trust worthy and has integrity they want the opposite of chief surf for instance. If we have to have one it cant be acting chief chaplain i recommend he follow this. Go to oakland if you wanted to know what limited resources. You do not have limited of resources that is a con nard also the Police Department say they want highlighting in the Police Department. Its not just pr its an integrity problem. I had more i can not think of it now. Thank you very much. Next speaker . Welcome back. Hi thanks. I wanted to say a couple of things from the perspective of a graduate student in qualitative and quantitative methods not as a community activists. I think you should disregard the results of the survey because they have poor validity, from a quantitative perspective. This is completely nonsensical choice of sampling strategy for quantitative survey. And that are not representative of the city of San Francisco. The way the survey was put together stro strongly bias respondents to think of things in a fixed rubr rubric. In the summaries when you are considering it in particular anybody concerned with accountability is reduced to fill out the box in a one 1 manner in a survey when its present. Finally just from that perspective i dont mean disrespect to the process as a democratic exercise its useful. But as useful data what people in this city feel i dont think you should base decisions on the basis of that. Thank you next speaker. Welcome back. Thank you. Commissioners i urge you start with the end in mind all of us in this room want a chief will hold Police Accountable and we paired the relationship with the community so we can all move forward. This is going to take the full force of the community, the mayor, this commission if from here on out we have no idea who any of these people are any of the candidates are nor what their qualifications are and one day mayor lee announces who the next chief is, were not setting up him, her, you the mayor or the community up for success. The number one criteria for a solid candidate for this rule is nowhere in that report. And thats not having the enforcement of the San Francisco Police Officers association. We urge you to make this process as transparent as possible for the good of everybody involved. Please think about that chiefs first day in office. Do you want him or her to come in with legitimate sea. Or do you want him from the entire community on slot. The entire concern in the search process. Please think about this. Thank you. Next speaker . My name is john jones. I will be brief. I didnt expect this process of choosing a police chief to be democratic in the least i aplowed you the work you go in with the surveys in the communitys sensibility i think the prior speakers about having a legitimate choice is well taken i think you are trying to achieve that. When i think about the process you are undergoing what occurred to me is the choice of dwightiz eisenhower a commander in chief in world war ii. Eisenhower surprised everybody. I respect your subjective the qualifications of the person in front of you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Mr. Gilberti. Welcome back. Thank you again tom gilbert. New ideas. Some times theyre very strange theyre new ideas grandiose ideas, grandiose opinions. Right here, i brought what i consider the best paragraph in all of baseball and i havent seen all the paragraphs of baseball can we get a close up on that . [speaking off the mic] that is jackie robinson. 42. Across the land where racism doesnt exist. Some of have heard the word, some of you know what its about your entire life. This is a moment in time if you want the job if you want those goals i will tip my hat and let you go for it. New ideas. Slow down saturdays. Light gunless belts. Trainees that are graduated and working with ten year vets that have never shot a bullet. Theres a lot of, why notes, we can approach this with that is part of jackie robinson. Thank you. Next speaker. Welcome back. Thank you. Groood evening commissioners. So i also want to commend you for your work on this Police Chiefs search i know its been intense and also for your recruiter its been a process i wanted to talk about how important it is to bring in a chief who can lead reforms you have gone through a lot of the ground work to do this and having worked in the over site field now for over 30 years i know its a fact that in cities where there have been reforms sh the reforms come from hiring an outside chief. Look at seattle look at new orleans one that comes to mind that is very local here is the city of East Palo Alto. A much smaller city but chief ron davis was brought in to turn East Palo Alto around. He as the head of the cops office. He put out a piece recently saying we are at the moment in american policing history our collective efforts to meet the challenges we have faced over the past few years have opened a knew but small window of opportunity. A window through which police and the communities they serve see the need for policing reform and recognize the necessity of working together to achieve success. Now i think that here in San Francisco were at the same kind of cross roads and we have a unique opportunity to make some reforms so i know you are taking this very seriously, but you need to bring in an outside reform candidate. Any further Public Comment on this matter . Hearing none comment issed. Sergeant call the next line item. Item 5 discussion and possible action to take off calendar disciplinary case filed against assistant patrol special jose vidal, file no. Alw iad 20150072, 20150161 20150186, due to his resignation effective 7 29 16 actio action . Good evening everyone. So commissioner mazzucco this is your matter. Thank you. Members of the audience were doing house kleining on the patrol special the first matter is with reference to special krol patrol jose vidal. He has tendered his resignation. With that in mind the resignation i will ask the commission to take this matter off calendar. Do i have a motion . Second . All in favor. multiple voices aye. Any opposed . Tom come on. Good evening. Patrol special officers is a criminal racket. They have been put out of business long ago. He didnt show up. He should be locked up theyre criminals. Thank you. Thank you. Call next line item please. For point of clarification we do these in Public Session because special Patrol Officers are departure how we deal with officers sergeant call the next line item. Item 6 hearing regarding disciplinary charges filed in the following cases patrol special officer samuel reyes, file no. Alw iad 20140051 patrol special officer serge white, file no. Alw iad 20130214 6. Hearing regarding disciplinary charges filed in the following cases continued patrol special officer serge white, file no. Alw iad 20130214 assistant patrol special thomas mccloskey, file no. Alw iad 20130173 20130239 patrol special officer alan byard, file no. Alw iad 201301 20130155. Commissioner mazzucco. Im recused from the last line on all of its council present state your appearance its been late. Officer gar la browned and. [inaudible] on behalf of the department. Good evening. Charges were filed against Patrol Officer [inaudible]. Each year patrol specials have to turn in information which includes insurance all their current phone numbers who worked for them and so on. In this particular instance mr. White says he has no worked since 2009. Hasnt had training with firearms gone to the Academy Every year. With this matter its called revocation of their appoint. It doesnt mean discipline but have you notified officer white of the hearing . Yes. Do you have what you need to present to the Police Department. Did you send notification to this police address. Yes. How did you do it . Certified mail or hand deliveri . Mail. When did you send that letter . That was from the Police Commissioner. When was the last time you have had a conversation with officer serge white . I believe in 2013 for the original case. I interviewed him for the iinvestigation. There was no response from him is that correct . No. Hes not in compliance with any of the terms of conditions be withing a special Patrol Officer. Correct. Any questions from any of the commissioners any Public Comment for we take a vote . Come forward tom. I can speak about serge white with particular knowledge he was one of the people that worked with chuckle em bert i refuse to say his name. A crime against me he has never followed regulation you tried to follow in years and years in 2010 and 2011. When some of the commissioners tried to do something about him about the other scofflaws lawless criminals and someone i wont mention their name nothing happens to these criminals theyre play to pay. Week old violator criminals. This is one of the worst. He is jane owners air. Its the not clear if he took training or not or if he has he should be in jail lock him up. Any further comment on this . I will invite a motion. What is the motion commissioner . Finite the for the proper term of revocation of the appointment of patrol special officer serge white. Second . Second. All in favor, please say, aye. multiple voices aye. Any opposed . Motion passes. Okay i believe there is an additional matter before we. Yeah call the matter of assistant principal special officers patrovski. Officer carla brown. [inaudible] on behalf of the department. The department start what is your position on this case and where are we at . We filed chargers in this matter commissioner mazzucco on or about the 11th day of august of the year 2015. It is my understanding that mr. Mclostki has had patrol for a number of years. There were Police Contacts he failed to report to the department there is an issue of the restraining order that he fails to disclose to the department the affidavit in support of that as well as the written notice of that case filed in support of that restraining order concerned very disearning information about thomas mccloski. It included repe repeated derogatory comments to his wife and daughter. Were talking about the terms can you not, whore, bitch and these are made to both female adult and a minor at the time it started when she was ten and continued until the time she was 12. They raised allegations in the written statement in support of this restraining order that a system patrol special officer mcclowski would pier over their fence and peer into their windows snap pictures. As an intimidation. He would as a Police Officer gesture with his hand in the form of a gun with his finger the. In 2013. Officer brown would he at this time have the qualifications to be a patrol special officer willing to work with him or the hours he would need in order to maintain that employment the departments position is we would ask that he had be released from the program as an assistant Patrol Program as a special. So you are charging document mrs. Warshim. Indicated he was terminated as a special pa patr already that is a distinction lost on me i could use clarification. A patrol hires a patrol special and that hire determine nated his appointment with him but that not. So presumably the supervisor has the authority to do that. To terminate. Correct. And usually per their rules once that happens he would be terminated, revoked through the commission but because of the charges and because of the restraining order we havent gotten to that matter. So i spoke with him yesterday and he did say he had a patrol special to work for. I spoke to that person and he could not guarantee the eight hours required so he will not meet that requirement. Okay. So the point is he could potentially be hired by another. Lets hear from him. Commissioner mazzucco . I see that mr. Mcclowski is here. The only department of the representative i spoke to yesterday was sergeant brown. That is officer brought right there. Shes a sergeant. No. Officer brown. Duh speak to her. The woman standing next tow. Dont know where to begin here i never had to go up against two lawyers with no representation. My neighbors did get a restraining order against me. Were you noticed of this matter. Of the restraining order . I recommend that the witness be sworn in with relation to the case from the court reporter. This matter is on its my understanding i dont think anybody thought officer mccowski was going to show tonight. He is here tonight. We shouting talk to him about his right to counsel. Im not trying to claim counsel. You have the right to counsel technically are you walking into a hearing as the deputy City Attorney said we soul should swear you in urnld oath and the commission can use that determine about your reference to your future as a Patrol Officers we owe it to you you do have the right to counsel. That is your call. I know you have been in contact with you you are not longer employed by any special are you here to regain control. Yes. I recommend you contact counsel that is the right thing you should do at this point. With the length of telephone Conversation Council you or i and this lady on june 1st you asked me about retaining counsel i told you, the would cost 3 5,000 and there is no money back guarantee. I can not afford that. So im going to have to respect myse represent myself thats the only option i have. You are aware of the charges. Yes. I was given the consideration. To answer. What we need to do with an abundance of caution. It sounds like you were like to contest this as an attorney and members of the Police Commission i dont dont think we should do anything further this evening. You need an opportunity to review the discovery what the Police Department has against you. All the people involved. They will produce a copy in order for you as a commission to hear this tonight you we need a copy of the straining order. We need to hear what transpired and hear from witnesses we should calendar this for another date we will have another status conference you can be in contact with the Police Commission office through officer brown and we will set up another pretrial conference you have to decide what you want to do but you should not until you at least yourself heard the allegations against you. Otherwise i would feel uncomfortable doing anything this evening before you Say Something and end this case quickly i suggest you talk to counsel so i recommend this continue 34 weeks from now. Yes. In that period of time i will get a hold all of the department for discovery. Yes. Off calendar you schedule another date with officer carla brown. She has my phone number. We will set this for another. And review for discovery. Chigs ners in addition you would like to add to this . Again. As commissioner turman and loftus you have a right to council. I understand that. If i were you i would endeavor to hire council. If you dont we will make sure you are making knowing and intel jelige waver of council. Review discovery. Yes. I know there are representatives from the Bar Association that are here too if payment is an issue you cant afford a lawyer there are some that represent yourself at the end of the day there are fancy words for it. If you have a response there are assistance you can get. That toke make to make that decision. The paralegal i paid for will be put to use. That wasnt cheap. Lets calendar this matter is find counsel. You mean a conference call. Yeah that one time with myself. I need longer than a week for that. We will give you two weeks okay . The inter recommend the record is clear are you not a patrol special officers you are not to carry a firearm or badge is that correct. That would be immediate disqualification. Yes. Thank you. I will take Public Comment. Good evening. Commissioners this is not mr. Mccowskis first restraining order. I filed for july 13th. 2010 and he worked with his friend august 11th. So i wasnt able to attend it on the august 10th. So it was dropped so i hope that is included in the documentation of his transdegradation of his permanent removal from the patrol operation. Which is an institutional amend. Its a racket and you noi its a racket. Thank you so much. Thank you. Sergeant next matter. Patrol officer allen by yard. For the recard commissioner mazzucco is recused in the he hearing room commissioner hwang. State your appearances first. [inaudible] appearing on behalf of the department. Officer carla browned. Officer allen biard. I was assigned this matter a month ago. In sum, officer biard is charged with offenses in early 2013 he reported in searching two additional beats is an issue two of the beats possibly merged. Officer browned investigated he does that represent. Roughly yes. We had meetings during the meetings mr. Biard has become much more cooperative. He disclosed. Set letters with clients he would not work outside of the district. He has cooperated with what officer browner asked him to do. Yo if you want to add anything to the overview. You did say it all commissioner. We had an agreement that biard signed off on. I brought extra copies. We are prepared to move forward. Patrol special officers binard has made Great Strides with compliance. Do you have anything to add. Do you have another document. In the document is a request the sale of two beats as an officer required. That came up in the conversations the beat the 96 that he did owe is primarily Residential District that did not give him enough business to keep afloat so he purchased two beats and will not work outside of though beats but wi willify nanlly allow him. To not have to go outside of his district areas which is subset of the viegs in this case. Violation of this case. Fairly stated. Correct. This is the term . S. A rough overview of the terms he would be pleading in essence a termination in abeyance we have gone over this many times in the meeting this is a strict inforcement or with a patrol special officer outside of the district if he did not file a report as requested by officer brown. If he did not comply with the rules of central he would be subject to revocation. He is subject to a fine by the department of 500. And my recommendation to do is 40 additional hours of volunteer work within his district to approve the commission of the sale of the other two beats. The challenge for me is the settlement. I dont know if that was it. I would like time to review it. I dont know where other folks are. Let me back up. So 2013 he was operating in beats that werent his. You charged him with that. So the settlement is to correct that. To settle those beats and additional two beats. But he has two additional beats he will purchase two more not the ones he gave up . Right. So tonight were going to charge a fine for working two beats then reward him with giving him two other ones . That aint happening here. Theyre not separate matters at all. He didnt follow the rules on this one and i dont like the fact were not doing this. Im not dog this. What the hell are we doing . Lets understand. Theres a second piece for sale of the beats not linked to this. Are you going to have to sell him the beats. [inaudible]. That is correct. The third matter is this stipulated whether or not we want an agreement let me stay there and add im curious we came to the con lugs this is a good thing to do. You got in the rum. There have been attempts to buy beats with two clients with. There has been an exchange of money and paper work with the woman who owned . These are discussions in settlement conferences. So those sales have either not be properly completed, but once he was informed he had to absolutely stop working with clients in those beats he made written communication, personal conduct he has complied with everything officer brown has done. Part of the 2year time frame has been that others have taken precedent over the special patrol cases. It was from the two separate things. Lets go back to stipulation. If you want to go into recharge in 2014. The case sat there for two years we did not move on the two cases. There is confusion i think officer brown clarified it we had to dig back into the historical maps to see if the districts were consolidated in the past. We dont know they were consolidated. No. He could start working a beat as if they were consolidated. I believe. What belief that he did that we didnt have. Perhaps officer brown could explain the distinction. Old stuff. [multiple speakers]. You want to explain the distinction from when they were consolidated. Why there is a mi misunderstanding of beats 2 and 7. 287 from the previous owner who said he told me they were combined when the looked back through the records they had never been combined. What do you mean officer brown . They had been combined. Mr. Biard told me that. So i went back through the records they were never before he knew r not one agreed he purchased or they were consolidated that is not Everything Possible i couldnt verify it so i wouldnt hear it any way. I looked at ten different maps i cant explain tow now what mrs. Brown showed me is there is confused as to 2 and 7 whether they were consolidated they were split at some point they were part of hey larger district they got split up. The paper work is not that clear whether the split it took a lot of research by officer brown to discover that. This is the hold up of trying to get the sail of these districts to hold through. I understand that that doesnt mean you move forward until it is cleared up. That is an issue. Thats a problem for me. Commissioner marshall . What in your opinion got mr. Biard in compliance. If there is confusion and hes confused all the details about which if biard. Should be fine. If hes being penalized and fined it doesnt make sense to me im trying to see what got him in what is the discovery that he wasnt . Of his own volition . This is set for two years i dont know. I got it involved last month and trying to clean it up to move forward. We can separate these two issues in my mind when i told special officer biarnd. In fairness i recommend the commission of beat sale not to reward him but because understanding if he keeps one district he cant survive in that one district. This is what forces him to separate oud of the district. Without customers so if you actually want somebody to be able to perform, this is the solution Going Forward if you want to discuss the fine we can discuss that. Setting him up with the district after we do this. [inaudible]. Im trying to find a solution so we can. Part of that is okay. I miss understand that. I really do. I thought it was the first place. I see its your rationale. To con sell date the others so he could finish this sale. Finally to say is this under to add it to the other two. I guess officer brown mrs. Warshim. The i indicated i wanted more time on this i red the specification the question for the settlement for me on these matters essentially with discipline of officers theyre confused or did i Say Something that was not true . That is a bright line for us. I would to i two of you it sounds as though commissioner hwang is convinced there is sufficient confusion there wasnt any point where mr. Biard patrol special officer biard made a Patrol Commission about these beats that would be a key commission. I would ask for your assessment of that chl. I believe there is confusion on his part i have not personally spoken to the woman he was dealing with. In terms of beats 2 and 7 but i know the took officer brown bringing in various maps to show us how these boundaries relate to one another and the beats he owned and was working in he shouldnt be working in. Did he produce the paper work. That is my understanding from the beginning there was a beat sale and the process was never completed this has been years. I mean, so, i feel its somewhat difficult to penalize him to some ex10th century when these cases have been languishing. Im not part of the disciplinary process notifying him that hes in noncompliance. We probably had eight officers dealing with the patrol specials i have been with the department and everybody has a different way of running this program. Vi to say, officer brown has been 100 on it in terms of documentation whereas years before there wasnt any documentation other than the allegation that there are violations out there. And then when other cases come before the department that take precedent they take a backseat all i can tell you is he expressed confusion with beats 2 and 7 and these beats have been combined officer brown presents us with maps to show you where these beats were and there was talk of purchase of beat number he owns 96. This is 44 that would be a beat where if hes allowed to purchase he can work with those clients and continue to work with a principatrol office hes one of the few that has come to compliance with what Patrol Officer told him. What i can tell you is there are several with this program and hes doing a wonderful job he has made every attempt to come into compliance. That is no. Based on your review. All i can tell you is what he said to us in the discussion. He purchased beats 2 and 7. There was confusion about the purchase. There was a discussion about whether he miss represented because he was dealing with confusion was he dealing with clients inside of his beat . He was. That is a violation of the rules and is 500 fine and 40 hours of Community Service and revocation hanging over his head a sufficient penalti . This is one of the cases we have gotten this far on. Those of you that have been on the commission for a while. This is the most detailed. I think this is the first time i had a stipulated agreement for a patrol special. From the ten years i have been here. To no fault of Patrol Officer biard. He thought he purchased these two beats. That is the information i believe officer brown had an certified check in the file. It was a certified check. He said he paid money to the previous owner for 2, 7 and beat 44. We have to approve the. That is when he purchased it. When i took over i looked through the files and found he had clients outside of the beats 2, 7 and 44. captioner ends services. Placing a hard stop on capti captioni captioning for this meeting 160 residential building requirements] 160946 [electrical code repeal of existing 2013 code and enactment of 2016 edition sf 47 sf 48 sf 49 supervisor london breed good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors for september 6, 2016. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk, please call the roll. Supervisor avalos, present, breed present, supervisor campos, present, supervisor cohen, present, supervisor farrell, present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar not present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor tang, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Supervisor yee, yee not president. Madam president , you have a quorum. Supervisor london breed thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Madam clerk, are there any communications . I have none to report. Supervisor london breed colleagues any changes to the minutes of july 12th, july 19th, july 26th, august 2, 2016, regular Board Meeting minutes shall or july 19th, july 28th, july 28th, july 29th, july 29th, or july 29, 1035, a. M. Special Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes . Motion by supervisor mar and peskin. Can i take those without objection. Those Meeting Minutes are passed after Public Comment. Now, madam clerk, lets go to the consent agenda. Items one and two comprise of the consent agenda. These items are considered routine unless removed separately. Please call the roll. Clerk on items 1 and 2. Supervisor tang, aye, wiener, aye, supervisor yee, yee aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, ay campos, supervisor farrell, ay supervisor mar, ay supervisor peskin, ay . 11 ayes. Those ordinances are passed. Item 3 clerk reading code . Supervisor london breed colleagues can we take this colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. Item 4. reading code . Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor avalos, no, campos aye, breed aye, farrell aye, supervisor kim, aye. Supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 10 ayes and one no with supervisor avalos in the dissent. The motion is approved. Please call item 5. reading . reading code . All right, seeing no names on the roster call the role. Clerk [roll call vote taken] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor london breed the motion is approved unanimously. All right. Lets go to madam president . Supervisor yee . Supervisor norman yee seeing that we are ahead of schedule, i would like to ask that we take the consent votes. Agenda votes. You voted on the consent agenda, supervisor yee, you did not vote on the Meeting Minutes. We can rescind that vote. Please. Supervisor yee has made a motion to rescind the votes on the Meeting Minutes. Colleagues, can we take that without objection. The vote on the Meeting Minutes have been rescinded. Is there a motion to approve those minutes . Motion by supervisor mar, second by supervisor yee. Colleagues, can we take that without objection. Without objection those Meeting Minutes for the Board Meetings and special meetings will be passed after Public Comment. All right. Madam clerk, lets skip over to committee reports. Clerk items 12 and 13 were considered by a special meeting at 9 30 a. M. The committee forwarded these two items as committee reports. Item 12. 10. 160880 [hearing street vacation order parkmerced development project] hearing to consider an ordinance file no. 160851 item 13, madam present . No. Item 12 is fine. Colleagues, can we take this colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item same this is adopted. Item 13. Clerk 13. 160900 [assessment ballots for cityowned parcels Central Market Community Benefit district modify the Management Plan and engineers report] sponsor kim supervisor london breed colleagues can we take this item colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor scott weiner thank you. Today im introducing legislation that is part two of legislation that i authored and the board unanimously passed this year. The solar rooftop mandate. You will recall that the legislation requires that for buildings between one and 10 stories, the roof tops must be covered by solar panels. This is a first step in the future for the city to adopt this requirement. The other part of the legislation is that we initially intended to combine the 2 pieces of legislation and for a variety of reasons, we split it into two. This particular legislation will allow the solar rooftop requirements to allow for a green roof instead. The solar roof requirement requires that 15 be covered by solar panels. This legislation allows that instead of the solar panels, that 30 of the rooftop can be covered with a green roof. We expect that many of the developers will have a combination of solar and green roof tops. Green roof tops are an in incredibly important piece of viable sustainment in the future in San Francisco. Using rooftop space to have more greenery will have many benefits. It will help clean the air and absorb carbon and in addition green roof tops absorbs storm water in order to reduce the amount of storm water run off for the combined sewer systems and solar increase the Energy Efficiency in buildings. We worked closely with the department of the environment and the Planning Department on this legislation as well as other stakeholders including spur and i like forward to moving this legislation forward. I want to thank my office for working on this and in particular on this power and the rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor yee . Supervisor norman yee i just want to say some good news since we met the last time that im now a first time grandparent of a granddaughter born august 18th. [ applause ] the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos . Submit. Supervisor campos. Supervisor david campos i have a bill senate bill 489 to prevent properties in detention facilities that require them all to provide human rights. Since 2003, more than 100 people have died in immigration detention here in the United States. Many of these deaths were caused by a lack of medical care, including a failure to adhere to basic detention standards. Privatization is driving over in incarceration to maximize their profits. 72 of beds in the u. S. Are operated by private business companies. Local lock ups where facilities are incentivized to fill beds are written into contracts including here in california. Heavy lobbying in california by private corporation such as cca have increased this detention and throughout the country. This bill will show those more accountable and legal standards for immigrants that are suffering under these conditions. This bill 1289 will make california the first state in the country to create enforceable standards related to immigration in detention facilities. Sb 89 and lgbt rights and other arenas. When it comes to lgbtq detention they are cast to the side. They are subject to the same abuses as other immigrants and higher rates of solitary confinement and sexual abuse. This provides additional protections for the members of the lgbtq facilities. 1289 will be able to protect those who are regularly submitted to this type of treatment and transgender detainees. Such practices affect Mental Health and other traumas. I ask you to support this bill. I would like to thank avalos, mar, cohen for your support. The second item. I would like to remember gloria best. She was born in detroit, michigan, september 6, 1927. She has three brothers, two sisters, three children as well. Allen, dana, paul and two grandchildren. Jerald and doreen. Gloria loved going to church and dancing and arts. She worked as a medical assistant and raised her three sons. She was crowned in 1951. Sadly she developed lung cancer a few years ago and passed away friday august 12th. She was a Community Leader who dedicated so much time to the holly Courts Community and served for many many years. She always had a smile on her face and a biggest heart for her neighbors. She always attended the meetings until she was no longer physically able to. Her presence will be missed by that community especially by residents of the council team and our committee in holly ports. Her memorial is wednesday at 5151 court land avenue. Rest in peace gloria. Lastly, in memoriam a legendary artist from mexico, an icon really of mexican culture. Juan gabriel. He passed away a few days ago. He was born Alberto Aguilera in michoacan. His mother was committed to a hospital and unable to support her family, she placed juan gabriel in a home when he was 5. He met juan contreras, a deaf musician who played in a band. He chose the stage name in honor of both his father and mr. Contreras. Juan gabriel said the pain of his childhood was through his music. I think its hard to explain to people who dont know who juan gabriel was. How in a country that is so macho and has very typical views of what it means to be male, straight, to be a man and what it means to be human, that in that country, someone as flamboyant who was essentially as gay as you got would become a national hero. And even though he never technically came out, through his his work in a very subversive way. He challenged our notions of sexuality, masculinity and femininity and to really educate an entire country. What is remarkable about juan gabriel is you see in a family generations that have been impacted by him. Even though he was a mexican artist, his influence went beyond mexico and its safe to say that the entire Spanish Speaking world has been mourning his loss. I have had the pleasure and honor of seeing juan gabriel in concert. I could never understand how, and i think as a gay man, i can say this word. One of the biggest queens that i have seen have had the following of some of the most macho tough guys around. That was really the artistry, the humanity and the unique nature that juan gabriel was about. I know that a lot has been said about him, but as a gay man and as a latino gay man, i especially want to thank him for making it possible for so many of us to actually be accepted in a culture that at times seemed apprehensive about sexuality and certainly questioned whether or not you could be a man and still be effeminate and flamboyant. Juan gabriel was an example at how at the end of the day, the connection that we as humans have with one another and the ability to relate to ones experiences really transcends our own biases and stereotypes. With that i want to do an in memoriam to juan gabriel for when he meant in mexico and music throughout the world and art throughout the world. May he rest in peace. Thank you, supervisor campos. Supervisor cohen . Supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar . Supervisor eric mar thank you, i want to congratulate the new grandpa, norman yee. Congratulations. Coming up this sunday is the annual 5k run by kaiser permanente. Sunday september 11th from 8 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. Its in the Beautiful Mountain lake park thats been upgraded thanks to neighbors. They run along the sea cliff to the edge of the richmond to linkin park. Please join us. It raises money for Richmond Community based organizations like ymca. Its fun. Many people walk it as well with family. Enjoy one of the most beautiful places on earth in San Francisco. Also jog in the fog. Com. I want to give a special shout out to christy, and the staff from ymca and many of us putting the effort into building this community in richmond. And i want to thank supervisor wiener and peskin for championing this issue of other periods on this board. These Management Plans are critical in ensuring that large special events for example the outside lands and the upcoming Bluegrass Festival dont create unpleasant traffic jambs and delays for residents in the district around the park. In march of 2015, this board passed a similar resolution to adopt the commuter shuttle operators. San francisco parks and recreation has in its application process for a transit Management Plan. The mass transit vehicles have a significant effect provided that operational cost and permitting be enforced and monitoring the events are put in place. Transportation plans that shuttles must not adversely affect transportation. Shuttles that have participated to and from large events will likely result in the disruption of ordered mass Public Transit and prevent rider access to mta vehicles because there is a likelihood of a disruption of a labor dispute involving a private Shuttle Service as is providing for labor harmony with respect to their shuttle amenities. The goal is to prevent unnecessary disruption. Im urging this resolution to speculate the process in requirement of labor harmony conditions with respect to the shuttle providers and completion of the application process to where an applicant can ensure labor harmony to minimize Public Transit. It also urges the recreation and Parks Department to label it broadly so its not affected by the method of labor harmony. I urge your support. The rest i will submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor pes kin . Supervisor aaron peskin thank you. Today im submitting a resolution to provide for earthquake relief to communities of italy in the wake of the devastating earthquake in central italy that took almost 300 lives. As a city that is situated on the san andreas fault, we know the outpouring that we received from all over the world, we have the history of coming to the aid in cities around the world in 1991 and in 2001 where we appropriated funds for earthquake relief. What comes around, goes around. Today, im introducing a supplemental ordinance for the amount of 100,000 for earthquake relief to be vetted out by experts of the department of emergency management. I know we have a representative from the italian consulate today. I would like to acknowledge him for his work and his colleagues work in acting quickly in organizing relief efforts here in San Francisco and around the world. I ask for your support for this appropriation and please help spread the work about the on going relief efforts that are happening in San Francisco. I specifically want to acknowledge those who put together in the italian Athletics Club which was very well attended where i was asked to identify how our city could help in the relief efforts and this is my answer to that. Speaking of earthquakes and seismic safety, i think we are all aware of the revelations in regard to the building tower and asking for seismic fitting in all the zones. The city has rezoned city for height and death depth and would like to know about the city requirements and would like to have everything done to the highest of building standards. Finally i would like to adjourn this meeting in the memory of three individuals. First one of San Franciscos characters warren hinnkle, his Memorial Service was last week. It was a vivid reminder of the indelible mark he left on our city. He was a raucous and flamboyant editor and left a powerful voice in the 1960s and later champion the voice of the investigative and satirical journalism. He was 77 years old and survived by his daughters hilary and pia. I would like to also adjourn this meeting in the memory of delia, a great philanthropist and involved in many San Francisco causes. And finally, a nun, who spent decades organizing support for refugees as well as organizing protest against the United States military Training Center for latin American Military leaders and the rest i will submit. Thank you. Madam president , no other supervisors on the roster. Thank you, add my name to the warren hinnkle in memoriam. Can we do the in memoriam for warren hinnkle on behalf of the entire board . So moved. Without objection, we will adjourn on behalf of warren hinnkle. With that, this brings us past 2 30. That brings us to commendations. Im happy to present the first commendation. We have a special guest of the San Franciscos team. The San Francisco giants, the president and ceo larry baird is here today along with other members of the giants for this special presentation. Im going to ask mr. Behr to come up along with the special director and counsel for the giants, jack behr along with the Government Relations manager. Thank you all for being here. Now, we are not here to present the San Francisco giants with an award because they continue to win world series, we are here to present them with an award because of the work that they do for the community on occasion of the San Francisco giants named humanitarian awards for San Francisco. The board and county of San Francisco extends its highest commendation in San Francisco to the giants for a decade of Community Outreach including those through the Junior Giants Program. Today, the San Francisco giants as we all know, they are an integral part of an institution in the city arriving here in 1958. An mlb Baseball Team has the opportunity to be an informative voice to create improve human life across the city. It established the nonprofit Giants Community fund in 1991. The Giants Community fund collaborates with San Francisco giants in the use of baseball as a form to support under served youth and their families to promote a health life. This is a great Baseball Program with 25,000 participants statewide and over 1300 of them in San Francisco. The Flagship Program of the Giants Community fund, called the junior giants, was created as a free noncompetitive program for under served girls and boys and girls ages 518 to specifically help in the cycle of violence and in impoverished areas in the city. While baseball participation has increased since 2008, has increased 52 in participation since that time. That is truly amazing. The Junior Giants Program offers a chance to learn the basics of baseball while discovering the importance of selfesteem and respect and educating and which includes confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork. In incorporating fundamental life lessons and removing bullying. The program is implemented thanks in partnership to the bayview Hunters Point ymca, the mission ymca and the San Francisco recreation and Parks Department as well as many other community organizations. Giants, posey serves as a junior giants commissioner and the other giants players alumni and Front Office Staff contribute to the success of the program. It is because of this extraordinary success of the Community Fund and the reach of the junior giants that the San Francisco giants was named the recipient of the 2015 commissioners award for a philanthropic for manford jr. This program was recognized once again this year when the San Francisco earned the 2016 sports man of the year award presented by espn that honors legends, teams, individuals and those that use the power of sport to make an impact on communities. It was an amazing honor. We are so fortunate to have not just an amazing team, but amazing folks who care about doing whats necessary to give back to the community. So on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco and the board of supervisors, we commend the San Francisco giants for its work in this regard. Thank you very much for being here today. [ applause ] thank you very much, president breed. I would like to thank president breed and the board. Its a humble and honor to receive your commendation and the humanitarian award. It really is a testimony to the people that we have as giants. I think many of you have worked with them. These three wonderful folks on the frontline. Peterson, as mentioned the head of our foundation, roscoe maps, who does a lot of work for us in the community, we have jack behr who handles the general counsel and works with our board and city hall. I think that one of the things that really stands out to us in todays world and its a world that has a lot of challenges to be sure. Is that sports has a unique role and opportunity to inspire and in communities. Its a spirit of gathering in town square, a community center. There are numerous occasions where people come to our ballpark not just to celebrate games or championships but also to support for aids epidemics, the human tragedies and to honor tens of thousands of kids that come to many games with the junior giants. These are kids from low income neighborhoods. They have experienced not just the joy of baseball but life lessons of growing up in a challenging environment. When i think about all the heart wrenching events that occurred in our country and in San Francisco, that we as an industry have the responsibility to step beyond our comfort zone and to do more than the games, but ask the question, how can we help, how can we unite communities . Im very proud of the giants who are constantly asking questions. We ask that you come with whatever needs you have so that we can help the community. Thank you very much. [ applause ] [ applause ] supervisor london breed all right. Now we will have our second commendation from supervisor john avalos. Supervisor john avalos thank you, president breed. Now i would like to commend president berl. Please come to the podium. [ applause ] berry has worked for the city for 33 years with the last 20 at the San Francisco Public Utilities reviewing commission and complying with complex rules and environmental regulations and something that we here at the board of supervisors are very familiar with. Categorical exemptions under ceqa. He started in november of 1983 in the Planning Department where he followed leads to verify complaints such as illegal commercial uses in residential areas and other property inspections. Over the years, he has helped the city and reviewed every city complex rules and regulations. When he first started working at planning, the planning code was one volume with about 400 pages, and today its three volumes covering more than 2,000 pages and counting thanks to many of the board of supervisors. In 1996, barry moved to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Environmental management where he deals with Environmental Review documents for a variety of San Francisco Public Utilities commission projects. He also prepared permit applications for the citys Planning Department in regional and state resource agencies permits such as the bay conservation and the valley commission. Before joining the city, barry worked for the u. S. Department of interior at the Heritage Conservation and National Park Regional Office in San Francisco. He was the regional Environmental Review officer assessing Environmental Impact statements for compliance with the Historic Preservation act in land and Water Conservation fund. Barry is a Third Generation native san franciscan with 2 degrees. A masters degrees in Public Administration earned at the age of 50 and a bachelors degree in theology. He lives in ingleside with his wife and four cats. Nina, margaret and goldie. Are they here . They are working in the district helping to build a nonprofit with home safety and repair projects. In district 11 there have been so many projects helping so many elderly and disabled residents. Its great that you have been involved in this work. He also leads free tours through San Francisco city guides. With his retirement, we hope to see more of you out there as volunteer and with lending your expertise. You are welcome to say a few words. Thank you very much. Thank you president breed, supervisor avalos. I would like to thank the members of this board for this great honor today. As a son of a commissioner and the security administration, i was destined to serve the city that i love. Those that i have known for 30 years in the county of San Francisco. Its been a privilege to be a member of this government. In my retirement, i will continue to be a volunteer to serve this community, not only with city guides and rebuilding together but involved in other activities every time i turn around. I do have to say it was a little hard act to follow the San Francisco giants, but i am definitely honored and humbled by your recognition of my service to the city. Thank you again and i will continue to help this community as much as i can. [ applause ] side supervisor london breed thank you again for your service mr. Pearl and congratulations on your retirement. [ applause ] okay, now we will return to our regular business and go back to, madam clerk, lets go to Public Comment. Clerk at this time the public may now address the entire board of supervisors for up to 2 minutes on items within the just jurisdiction of the board. Without addressing items 1621. Pursuant to the boards rules, please direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors and the audience. Speakers using translation will be given twice the amount of time. If you would like to use documents on the overhead projector, please take it to sf govtv. First speaker . Public speaker on the screen, is from your own website, the San Francisco charter section 2108 states that the board of supervisors will liberally provide for the publics access to their government, meetings. That is an example of Frank Herberts quotes politics is the art of appearing candid. It was reported in june that this question was asked by supervisor cohen. I would like to take this opportunity to answer the supervisors question sharing it with all members of this board. Sometimes when dealing with city representatives and they are antagonistic condescending and over all it is necessary to reply in kind. This including five board of supervisors, it is the publics right to access documents which is completely critical. President breed, supervisors farrell and mar dont give a damn about your rights under the law. If you make a public records request, they will not apply. When you file a complaint, they wont reply to the task force. They wont show up to the hearing. The only time they show up when they go to the ethics commission. Next speaker, please. Public speaker our people leading them to followup the holy way and to engage onto holy works of mission. Therefore with collective efforts come to save the peaceful kingdom. Certainly we can depart from human forces of destruction and stopping forward to joyful true success. The recovery of true self nature and spiritual accomplishment of family, social are prisoners of all aspects of achievement as well as two principals. With the protection of human nature. Good virtues and true principal. An establishment of great one holiness. To enhance people. We can achieve great prosperity for holiness for the new century. Amen. Next speaker, please. Public speaker sf govtv. Please begin, sir. I will start the timer. You know what im thinking . I wish i could find a way where i could give this book into the hands of everybody in the United States. Thats what im thinking. And honestly, roger stone is the answer to my prayer. Roger stone has known donald trump for 40 plus years. Hes the guy that actually got him to run for president. You say how is he the answer to my prayers . For years i have been holding up a sign on street corners asking the public to google the interview with senator john decamp. The Franklin Cover up has been quoted four times in chapter 27. Praise god, thank you, lord jesus. When you pray, shut the door and pray to thy father. I have been selling this book in salas. We have a situation here where basically hes going to indict the four president s. I pray that you protect donald trump and i pray that you make him the next president. Lord, i pray that the christians will get out and preach the gospel. Next speaker, please. Public speaker my name is charles kessler. I live in supervisor kims district. Over the weekend i had a Domestic Violence issue. I called 911 in the afternoon. Where i had an individual holding a knife to my neck. On my right and lefthand i have visible wounds from pulling the knife from the individual. No officer responded to this. I walked to the Police Station where i verbally assaulted the officer where i found out that only 4 were assigned to the beat. Ms. Breed, i called your office. I have spoken to her numerously. I want to know why the officers are being transferred out of the station . I cant give you names because the officers are afraid for retaliation. I have gone to the Police Commissioner and the police union and how you can over ride their contract amazes me. No individual should have to do that. Because of this incident and because of this report, i will probably lose my housing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hi, good afternoon. My name is kate west. I live in the upper haight. In june i was given a notice that my rent was going up from 3105 to 8500. That happened august 6th. Some friends pitched in. I got a 3day to cure for august. I havent been able to come up with the difference from 3,000 to 8500 for this month. Im expected to and this is unlawful. I have been in my apartment for 22 years. In my neighborhood i have given lots and lots of hours of Community Service for that time. I help babies at San Francisco general intensive care unit. I was in that program. I sat with dying people at john hospice for years. In that program, i have given a lot of service because i believe in it. But i dont know how do you justify taking a womans rent. Its just a railroad plot. Its not a special big deal thing. How do you justify 8500 from 3105. Im going down. I have no more money to give my attorney and he cant work anymore without money. He cant do anymore bono for me either. Im terrified. Im just a woman trying to keep her home. I came here because i want you to see me. Thank you, mam. Next speaker, please. Public speaker thank you, president breed and all. My name is Christopher Dall and i live at 600 howard. Still above sea level. Your crohnsey faction has lost consistent supportive members from the mayor to the super kroeney is losing goals. Of course painfully reserve the National Coalition testimony Republican Party and complaint they have lost their majority but thought they still deserve to rule. Member wiener was loudly shocked and dismayed by arithmetic by democracy that he is comfortable with. I speak with charming consortiums of arguments in the bay Police Accountability measures. The crohnseys try to hold sf p. D. Liable. The anticrohnsey tried to strip him of the powers. In the process, the city were the losers. We the people in general and the Police Community in particular all deserve to be able to share confidence in a police force that is civil, sustained, professional and prepared. But you didnt even come close. We all lost. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, all ladies and gentlemen. Mam, please speak into the microphone. Thank you. Public speaker im here to protest and tell all the supervisors how this law no transparency is deadly. My neighbor doesnt let my contract to finish their work on do their job. It has been holding for almost 3 years since my house was in renovations. Most San Francisco residential houses are built side by side and attached to each other. If some ill or unreasonable neighbor are using this law to prevent people to maintain the other peoples property, its not right. One of the inspector of the department told me there is a chapter 14 on first floor. That is called California Building maintaining code. But i cant find any supportive information beyond the department. Im the property owner. I have the right to maintain my building. I dont have my house to be damaged. Please help me to my contractor get this done. I need the painting and repair. These are the pieces that are missing. I need to fix it. My neighbor to cross the line. Maam, please use the microphone. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, i think you guys all know me. A lot of you do. Here is the conundrum real quick that i ran into. It took me a long time to get my ssi money on a card. Someone stole my card, right . So i have been trying to recertify my ssi. They are telling me i need to have an address and i tell them i dont have an address. They say without an address i cant get my ssi anymore. And without money, how can i get an address . They told me there is nothing i can do. The money is in the account but i cant get it because i dont have an address. So some of the things i would like to say, you always support the Fire Department because lets see, yeah, can you do a quick thing on here if i put it down. The Fire Department, they are the guys that take care of the fires. There is one guy outside. Nobody gives him a commendation. He was the guy that marches outside. His name is dennis. I like him. Hes a good cop. And then i do cartoons. This is my take on kaepernick. I dont know if you saw it. For sports fans, that makes him look kind of skinny. Anyway, all of these things i do just running around for months because i havent been able to get my ssi completely back. Its a conundrum. I have no idea how to solve it. Im not politically conscious. Can someone give me a trump button. I dont have one. Does anyone have a button in their office. I love you all. I really do. By the way, i like the mayor too. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, supervisors, peter war field, executive director of the library association. On april, the Library Commission met and as part of the report heard about a little thing called 750 bran street lease. They didnt vote to approve this deal which is good for 25 years at a Million Dollars a year rent and a Million Dollars of improvements. The minimum term initially is 10 years with 35year renewels. We have this handout that came to the Library Commission meeting on august 18th which i would like to show you. Well, it needs to be blown up. One of the bullet items say potential space for friends of the library. And then it goes on to say that the lease was approved 2 weeks earlier by the board of supervisors on august 2nd. And thats all we know about the fact until we look at the board of supervisors agenda and find out that yes, it was on the agenda august 12th, and presumably passed. This was a sweetheart deal to bailout to friends who your legislative analyst said were facing a major rent increase. What your harvey rose report did not say was something they brought up at the commission. They plan not to only have their executive offices there, they plan to do their book collection and book sales from that location which is not a Public Library publically open space. I think thats an outrage and i think that you need to know whats going on and so does the public. The library is not telling. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker tom gilberte. I just recently heard somebody say that they had some consternation about some words that i spoke here. They were never meant that way, they were never aimed that way. In an area of this part of the season and the opera coming up again. We move on. When i was a kid 5, 6, 7, 8, growing up in doctrine aetd. I still have a consternation of freedom of speech, what we do here. One of the few places we can do this. And the people that lined up today, you know. They are part of us. This is the only avenue basically you can have for 2 minutes, two 1 2 minutes i would prefer. A voice is important. Twitter, whatever the screens. I was raised with a screen, howdy and mickey mouse. Having this avenue unrestricted. If you want to campaign for yourself, you have more experience here in this chamber in the Government Office than i do. I dont think it would be harmful. It was good stuff that we got here today. I want to thank the clerk for being as generous as she is. I would also disagree. I would like to sign a petition. 28 mayor doesnt ring. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. If there is anyone else who would like to address the board under Public Comment, this is your opportunity. Madam president , i dont see anyone else lineup for Public Comment. Supervisor london breed all right. Public comment is closed. Lets go to the first 3 00 p. M. Order. Clerk item 69. 141018 [public hearing appeal of tentative map 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 141018 [public hearing appeal of tentative map 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 21. 160951 [final map 8594 100 van ness avenue] 141018 [public hearing appeal of tentative map 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 21. 160951 [final map 8594 100 141018 [public hearing appeal of tentative map 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 21. 160951 [final map 8594 141018 [public hearing appeal of tentative map 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. Sf 2112349. 141021 [preparation of findings related to the tentative parcel map 639 peralta avenue] motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings relating to the board of supervisors decision to disapprove the tentative parcel map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. No. 014. Sf 2112349. 141021 [preparation of findings related to the tentative parcel map 639 peralta avenue] motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings relating to the board of supervisors decision to disapprove the tentative parcel map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. clerk of no. 014. Sf 2112349. 141021 [preparation of findings related to the tentative parcel map 639 peralta avenue] motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings relating to the board of supervisors decision to disapprove the tentative parcel map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. clerk of the board you have issues that involve questions that should properly be resolved by a court. The continueances that have happened have been done in anticipation that at some point those issues would be resolved by the court. Unfortunately the timing hasnt worked out as we expected and procedurally there are still open questions as to when a substantive decision would be issued. With that in mind, it appears its going to take a lot longer for us to have a court resolve the underlying legal issues that need to be resolved. So my goal and my intent would be to continue this for as long as possible to give the legal proceeding an opportunity to go forward. As i understand it from the parties, its going to take actually a long time, several months, for us to have that resolutions and after checking with the clerk of the board, it seems that even though, the appropriate thing would be to continue it for a long period of time, that the longest we can continue at this point is to december 13, 2016, because at that point well have a better sense of what the calendar for the board will be beyond that. With that in mind, i move to continue this item open december 13, 2016. And again, i thank my colleagues for their understanding of this very interesting and complicated matter. Thank you, supervisor, campos. Has made a motion to continue this item until december 13, 2016. It was seconded by supervisor peskin. Is there any Public Comment on the continuance . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. On the continuance, madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee; supervisor avalos, supervisor breed, supervisor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor mar, aye, supervisor peskin. Aye, there are 11 ayes. That is continued to december 13, 2016. Madam clerk, lets go to our next 3 00 special order. Items 10 and 11. Clerk items 10. And 11. The 10. 160880 [hearing street vacation order parkmerced development project] hearing to consider an ordinance file no. 160851 reading code . Supervisor london breed okay, colleagues, we are discussing this as a committee as a whole discussing the vacate order of this development project. Lets open up the hearing. Supervisor, would you like to make opening remarks . Supervisor norman yee thank you, supervisor breed. As most of you know, this development has been in the books for a few years now. For several years, it had not gone too far. But more recently there is a movement in this and there has been Community Meetings around different issues that are presented to the residents at this moment. The other thing is once this is getting started, its not one of the these immediate completion of a project. Its going to take many many years to complete. So, this particular item is something that has always been in the Development Plans or the agreement. So, i see this as more of a procedural issues that we need to take. The only emails i have gotten from residents on this particular issue is that they didnt quite understand what it really was, and we tried to explain to them and it seems okay to them. But i would urge the management of apartments to maybe do a better job in reaching out to the residents and explaining these little steps because i think once you explain it, they will be fine. I urge that we will hopefully pass this resolution. Supervisor london breed thank you, supervisor yee. And seeing that there are no names on the roster, we will open this item up to Public Comment. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right. This hearing has been held and is now filed, and we will reconvene as the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, lets going to the item. On item no. 11. Can you please call the roll. Clerk item 11. Supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor mar. There are 11 ayes. This ordinance is passed. Lets go to items 1621. Supervisor mar . Supervisor eric mar i would like to continue 16, 17, 18. I think we will call these all individually at this point. Item 16. Clerk 160902 [supporting california state proposition 55 california tax extension to Fund Education and healthcare initiative] sponsor ma reading code . Supervisor london breed supervisor mar . Thank you. I would urge the board to continue this from back in 2012 to ensure up to 9 million a year to k 12 schools and Community Colleges. Its about 10 to Community Colleges and some years where Health Equity where low income kids and families are supported. Its a millionaires tax for education and an equitable tax that would help so many schools. Thats why its supported by our School Districts and School Boards and medical professionals. I want to give a shout out to the chinese production, in San Francisco and ace and many on the grass roots level for this millionaires tax break. I urge support. Madam clerk, on item 16. Please call the roll. Clerk item 16. Supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, aye, supervisor campos, aye, supervisor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor mar, aye, supervisor peskin, aye, there are 11 ayes. Supervisor london breed the resolution is adopted. Item 17. Clerk 17. 160903 [supporting california state proposition 56 california healthcare, research, and prevention tobacco tax amendment] sponsor mar supervisor london breed supervisor mar . Supervisor eric mar thank you, i want to thank supervisor campos and farrell and wiener. This is a no brainer, increasing the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 0. 87 including ecigarettes and nicotine. While the American Heart Association and many medical entities support this. Its holding Tobacco Companies accountable while its hooking teens on tobacco products. Dont be fooled potentially by misleading ads. I urge your support. And want to thank the Tobacco Youth coalition. I urge support. Supervisor london breed thank you, colleagues. Colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. Item 18. Clerk 141018 [public hearing appeal of tentative map 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014. Clerk sf 18123418. 160904 [supporting california state proposition 58 Multilingual Education act] sponsor mar supervisor eric mar another important statewide proposition. The urging of language education on this multilanguage initiative. This is an anti bilingual bilingual measure. Now introducing a measure that would increase local control so that districts with large numbers of ell or English Learners can have enough funding, local control funding and removes mandates including expensive waiver requirements for multilingual and bilingual education programs. San francisco has been stated by numerous resolutions and policies. We want to provide our students with the highest quality of education and promote language equality so immigrants can main tain their language. Prop 58 supports english instruction for all students and broader opportunities to offer multilingual programs and to be Bridge Builders and successful people for the 21st Century Global economy. I want to thank the cta, the California Association of administrators, the Latino School Board members and the latino, the latin America Teachers Association along with many others that have been advocating for language equality for many years. I urge your support for putting this on the record for the prop 58 and Multilingual Education. Supervisor london breed colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. Item 19 and 20 together. You are going to ask for a continuance on both on the same date. Please call them together. Clerk 141019 [approving decision of public works and approving the tentative parcel map 639 peralta avenue] motion approving decision of public works and approving the tentative parcel map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 123419. 160905 [supporting california state proposition 67 referendum to overturn ban on singleuse plastic bags] sponsor mar 141020 [disapproving decision of public works and disapproving the tentative parcel map 639 peralta avenue] motion disapproving decision of public works and disapproving the tentative parcel map for a 2unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessors block no. 5634, lot no. 014; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of sf 201234 supervisor eric mar i want to thank former supervisor kraemey and former sheriff and our Environmental Coalition for taking the lead and now a statewide protecting our environmental policy like the plastic bag ban. I urge continuation until september 13th meeting. For item 20, i want to thank supervisor tang for raising some questions that we are waiting for the school to provide how they have operated in the past. We are waiting for more information. I urge that we move these items 19 and 20. Supervisor mar, you submitted amendments to us . Yes. Did you want to wait on those amendments or do you want to introduce them today . If they havent been formally introduced, i will wait to look at them and probably introduce them between now and next week. Supervisor london breed supervisor mar has made a motion to continue item 19 and 20 for a meeting in september. 13. 2016. Without objection, that will be continued to september 13, 2016. Clerk thats a motion to approve final map 8590 in a two lot locations at 100 van ness. Supervisor london breed colleagues, can we approve the motion. Colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. Colleagues, i without objection will reopen Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment who have not done so previously. Public speaker yes, thank you for hearing me today. I have been living in an sro for almost 4 years. In that four years4 years i feel like my body and my life has been abused more than i ever imagined were to happen to myself. I can handle the sro, rules and regulations they put on people, but at the end of the day, the tennants are the ones who are living in those buildings. I applaud what we have. I love what San Francisco does for the people and for housing them. Who is counting the number of people who die earlier unnecessarily in the housing that they are given . Politics is something i know nothing about, but im eager to learn to protect the people. The eta, doesnt think about the people of San Francisco. Even though we have an office here. The building sick syndrome. Thats the same as my building. Thank you. Someone will talk to you. Are there any members of the public who havent had a chance to speak previously . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam clerk, will you please read in memoriam . Clerk yes, for the late gloria best, juan gabriel, judith lipke, and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, for the late warren james hinnkle the third. Supervisor london breed colleagues, this brings us to the last of our agenda. Are there any business to attend to today . Madam clerk, that concludes the agenda. Supervisor london breed we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] madam clerk im going to start. [gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the special meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for today, wednesday september 7. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor aaron peskin. Joined by member who is replacing member london breed. That would be supervisor john avalos. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major if you could make any