Rate in San Francisco. It is about 9. 6 . The fact that we have not done much about that in city hall i think has it change. That certainly is something i will be focused on in the beginning here in city hall. Putting people back to work. It is an individual issue but it is a family issue and weve a lot of families still struggling and i think people have lost sight of that. Hopefully we will be getting out of the recession soon but we need to do a lot to accelerate getting out of that recession, making sure families are back at work and children are provided for. To me that is my biggest priority. I think that we do lose a lot of sight in the past district supervisors lost sight of the fact that we do represent San Francisco as a whole and we need to make sure in city hall we are enacting policies, laws and legislation that move the city forward as a whole. These are the neighborhoods i grew up in, so for me it is fun to be in them to really understand what is going on and be able it
Test. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors for june 24th. Im mark farrell. Im joined by supervisor and the vice chair and others. Id like to thank the members of the sftv for according this as well as the clerk. Mr. Clerk any announcements yes, please silence all cell phones and other documents. All documents shall be submitted to the clerk. All items will be on the agenda thank you, colleagues we have one item. And from the department of technology. So mr. Clerk call item number one the ordinance to retroactively accept the grant from the National Science of foundations and ordinance 9645 to accept the position at the department of technology and a okay good morning. Im ken im representing the department of technology. The National Science Foundation Awarded to the San Francisco the grant to cover the costs of mr. Chris intergovernmental Science Technology office. The amendment provided that all direct costs including salary and fringe will be r
Chair councilmember supanich. Does that prevent someone from taking off a term and coming back . The bylaws would be silent and would not prevent someone from taking a year off as currently written. All right. Chair because it says consecutive. Right. Chair Councilmember Wilson . Councilmember wilson is that four years . Two. I would like to make a motion to adopt it. I will second the. Chair cochair james . Okay. We had two questions. I have a question. We have not had a motion to approve is yet or a second. Did we . Who made a motion to approve . Cochair james, councilmember supanich. Now we are open for discussion and Public Comment. Have a question about the intent of the proposed amendment. I am suspecting the intent by the author is to encourage and engage more councilmember leadership opportunities. What would happen if that were not the result . Lets hope that would not be the case if that comes into approval. Maybe that option, discussion . Councilmember wilson . I do not unde
True for every person with a disability. In looking at the enforcement, the idea came out early on and im sorry, i will go on too long, having a separate enforcement time if the problem affects a senior or person with disability. How do people document whether the person had disabilities . That gets complicated. A lot of people get left out. Those of things that we thought about. It sounds like it is an area where you have specific ideas. We can make sure that if people have invisible disabilities, and have needs, we want to hear them. The concept of reasonable accommodation under the fair housing Amendment Act. Part of what the issues are in your recommendations, jessica, doing outreach with tenants about the fair housing Amendment Act rights, and the opportunity to actually create a reasonable accommodation for the landlord, that would allow for submission of the medical documentation for disability. That is not unheard of. That takes care the fact of nonvisible disabilities. There i
The reality is that, based on the way rent control is in san francisco, when the tenant moves out, the landlord can put the rental at any price they can get, it moves closer to market rate. When people first year about the kind of work that i do and talk about sros, they say its great that you work with affordable housing. The first thing i say is, is not affordable. Its available housing stock. 700 900 a month is not affordable housing. Not what you get for an 8x10. You get Better Benefits in jail. That is sad. That we do this to our fellow citizens. 30,000 people in san francisco. Chair we will go to ken stein. I want to personally thank the presenters today and to point out that even though we in this room and in this community are a bubble of disability and none of this surprises us, the reality is that this discussion is a quantum leap from anything the city has had. Even in the most recent years, we were not able to get disability demographics. We always staff about accessibility