Good afternoon, everyone, this meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 6th, 2017 regular meeting of the rules committee. Im chair of the committee to my right is vicechair supervisor sandy lee fewer and to my left is Rule Committee members. Our clerk today is alicia and madam clerk, do you have any announcements today . Silence all cellphones and Electronics Devices and copies of any documents to be include firstdegree as part of the file and items acted on will be on december 12th agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, madam. Are there any initial comments please call item number 1. Item number 1 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to reauthorize the San Francisco Sentencing Commission and extend the date to june 30th , 2020. Unless theres comments from my colleagues id like to call brittney forward. Please proceed. Good afternoon chair and Committee Members. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk with you today and my name is brittney from the off
And the needs of the children, youth and families of our city. Clearly were seeing increases of violence amongst the population of lgbtq young people, a sobering 97 of violence and increases of homelessness from 39 six years ago up to 68 in this past year. Thank you. Hi, im tracy, a native of San Francisco, homeowner and an advocate for the community. My community is under attack and underrepresented in City Government and the setasides make us feel part of San Francisco. This is my city. This is our city. This is a sanctuary city for everyone. In 1994 and please correct me if im wrong, i worked on the first Children Fund campaign, i was a mother of three children under six. I needed childcare to be able to work, i needed after School Services to work and provide for my family, so i could stay in college. So i could do a lot of these things that the services that the Children Fund protects. Therefore the next time it was up, i was a mother of four and all of my kids worked on the campa
Which is primarily city employee, pensions and healthcare costs and wages that are rising over time. In order to cover those it robs funds for vulnerable populations and voter priorities. These are priorities that voters have chosen to prioritize in good and bad Economic Times. We should not deprioritize them when the economy goes down and the need is the greatest and it treats all setasides alike, even those that rise and fall with particular Funding Sources and where is the provision that says we do not need to add new Police Officers when the deficit is large. Even that setaside happens regardless of cost. The general fund return is very bad policy and open to a couple of types of abuse, allowing city officials to undermine the priorities to not incumbent funds and allocate funds as the year of the end approaches because its use it or lose it. And its unfair to put in a poison pill against a measure that received two thirds of voter support last time on the ballot. We ask the board
Accidents and dismal customer service. In 1999, there were expectations by the voters that mta would bring improvements. Theyve had almost two decades to do that, but has that happen . Now is the time for voters to weigh on whether the mta experiment has been a success or not. I would strongly urge the board to respect the voices of the voters and place this charter on the june ballot. Let the mta and others make their case in the voter handbook, not in the board chamber. Thank you. Supervisor safai thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So as i said, we intend to, and a lot of it was represented today. We intend, both supervisor peskin and i, to have some further conversations with those in the taxi industry at their request. I think we need to give that a little bit more time, so i would like to entertain a motion to continue this item to the next meeting. Supervisor yee before we do that supervisor safai oh, s
12cent tax hike also questioned. The hike is coming into effect just as refineries switch from the high costing summer gasoline to the cheaper winter blend. So you may not notice the tax increase right away. It was an intentional, deliberate way to mask this tax increase to the california motorists. The fact of the matter is the roads are falling apart and getting worse and we need to do something. Reporter so there you have it. Its going to be a real question whether the bump at the pump were seeing today winds up getting flattened at the ballot box. In emeryville, phil matier, kpix5, back to you. You think the gas tax is high . Kpix5s devin fehely is live in san jose with how truckers could feel the brunt of the new taxes. Devin . Reporter yeah, the increase tax on diesel was most dramatic climbing 20 cents from 12 to 30 to 166 increase that many are concerned could send a Ripple Effect through the entire economy. Well someone is going to pay for that gas because its a service. Repor