a legal opinion. i think the civil grand jury in a sense needs to check itself and make sure it gets back to its original mission of auditing city government and focusing on all practices and refrain from fashioning itself as a city-attorney or refrain from becoming the city controller. it s the civil grand jury. stick to your responsibilities. do those well before you start to get into things that are not within your core mission. supervisor campos. thank you, i just want to make a couple of points. one to the extent there is this conversation about the date of the information that was looked at by the civil grand jury. i think that the civil grand jury actually responded tothat information noting that it what they were trying to look at is whether or not there was a change in the trend that he we were seeing? and to the extent of the limitations that were imposed on the use of these accounts, the law passed doesn t address those limitations. so the point that has been m
were on one of those projects? and literally no one could remember being on a five to nine unit project and the numbers here today show that the reason is they just haven t been built. it s sad. it s a bit of a travesty that only 1bmr unit was produced and we missed out on that housing that would have been built and i worked in construction i have been around construction my whole life since i was listen year s old. basically the 11 year s old. basically this is a stepping stone for us. you can look at it you don t go straight to kindergarten maybe to university. maybe we would like to but that s not the way it works, so if you only have done a single family home, remodel projects, did you prux and you ask for financing for a nine unit project that is more units they laugh at you as you re walking out the door with your head down, so this is the only way by changing the rules. that s the only way we can produce five to nine unit projects in the city again. as i say i
that s the only way we can produce five to nine unit projects in the city again. as i say i congratulate every one getting behind these projects. we know they re not built. now that we re back here we will see them being built again. it s a good thing for the builders and the homeowners and a general good thing for the city. thank you. good afternoon supervisors. elizabeth moore with shamrock streels company. we all know that these projects have declined since the passage of this legislation and obviously that results in reduced economic activity for the city, but specifically as a passionate advocate for efficient land use the department has a mandate to increase obviously in fill housing and under utilized sites and most are zoned for these projects and it resulted in a lot of unused land sitting there begging to provide housing for much needed for the city, and the other thing i wanted to say that speaks directly to supervisor cohen s point. my company completed a six un
with this issue. it s not a new issue. we have continued to do. we know that beginning in october we ll see an additional 40-50 winter shelter beds through the interfaith sheriff s department program. city of san francisco just received $5 million in federal and foundation grants to help families stay together in stable housing. in the budget, we have worked with the homeless coalition to put in an additional $2 to $5 million to improve our shelter systems as well. so that is something that we need to continually work on and continual will ually work on the issue of homelessness, but that doesn t mean that you hold everything in place until you solve the problem. it s something that we ll continue to work on. i would simply say that i hope for my colleagues support. it s really meant to allow the mta to have very, very specific ability and flexibility to enforce where they need to and where we see chronic problems. again, this issue, the public comment that dealt with homele
six housing down and just a specific example of the positive benefits that this legislation can have and thank you all for your support. good afternoon supervisors. jeff rock. i m a small builder in san francisco and run a contracting and repair firm and i can say with my whole heart i am glad to be in front of the legislative committees for the first time i am seeing something done to help the small builder and i congratulate you for that. just a real quick story that i think will help zero this in. i have been in business since the early 90 s in san francisco. 100% of my work force is in san francisco and district six, ten, and 11. these are all people through building some of the five to nine projects and i build these in 2005 and for other people and people that own the properties. some are generational legacy properties that we put our people to work on, and subcontractors. in supervisor cohen we did a job and worked with community developers and picked up sub contract