Of Chinese Hospital . Of Chinese Hospital. Now we have had the hearing we hope that gives it more traction to move forward. I understand there is leadership change at dph and a bit of turnover and we have gone through a transition period. Respectfully, as you said we had this conversation with doctor garcia. I know that we made some serious progress with dignity, and that got paused because of change in leadership over there. We have gone through a change in leadership in a couple of different places. I want to say myself and supervisor peskin want to invite to sit down. We want to move to get this done. That would be very helpful. We look forward to participating. I want to say for the record. Can you speak a little bit about the kent field. I will ask the chair to continue this so we can come back to say where we are in terms of numbers of subacute. We want to hold the department accountable and ask the Hospital Council to step up so we can come back with concrete numbers. We are con
Fewer. Welcome to the thursday, september 19th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Im joined by supervisor valerie brown. Supervisor peskin was unable to join us. Thank you to supervisor sandra fewer for joining us. And thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and i would also like to thank maya and hernenda at s. F. Gov. Agenda items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call item one. Number one is the followup hearing on the 2017 to 2018 grand jury report entitled mitigating the dwelling and modular housing. Chairman as a recommendation from this report, we have not yet reached final status, i thought it valuable for us to finalize these outstanding responses before addressing the new report. There are two recommendations from the civil grand jury report on accessory dwelling units in modular that we can now give final status to. Recommendation two, they am
Grand jury report. And of their findings. And their recommendations. What motivates me to come here today, yesterday morning, despite the best efforts of the station 15, two members of our community lost their lives in a fire on dellano avenue. Woodframe building, built in 1915, like so many woodframe buildings on the west side and southern sides of town, where theres a greater concentration of families and children. At present, we dont have a system that can handle the big one in those areas. I feel strongly that the city departments and the financing people need to focus on solving this question seriously. I thank the grand jury for their recommendations, for their effort and i thank mr. Dute and nancy werfell for having led so many people and explain this to them. Thank you. Mar thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is ellen lee chow. Im a resident in San Francisco for the last 33 year. I am a Public Employee. Around the former civic grand jury for two terms, 2014 a
President the street scape improvement is a collaborative project with the ms works and the utilitys commission. For the past two years theyve been working together to make crucial improvements to the inner sunset street scape and nearby Transit Services that not only make the area more vibrant and more accessible safe and reliable. When you look around the surrounding streets you see the vibrant landscapes that add to the neighborhoods charm improve seating as you can see visitor striving, new street trees. All of this creates a healthy environment and a great carbon footprint. What many do not see are the upgraded traffic signals, the repaved roads and all of the help to improve theed safety and transit service. Theres many components to this project that has not been seen. We have improvements to the underground sewer line and improvements to our water lines our firefightings were upgraded or replaced, all to increase capacity and to minimize any destructions that will provide more
Are saying that that rentcontrolled unit is going to remain a rentcontrolled unit at its previous rent. There are legitimate reasons that people have to temporarily displace a tenant for major work. Some of the mandatory work. I get that. But there is also a group of folks who go about, many of them speculators, keeping units off the market as long as they can, knowing that that tenant is not going to return. To the extent that we a say were going to own it and have a place for them because we actually do have the capacity within our inclusionary and 100 affordable stock, and we have these Additional Findings that the a. L. J. Has to make, and ultimately were in the business of preserving existing rentcontrolled housing at its current nonvacated rates. Which is the whole reason for this. I want to thank the asian law caucus and c. D. C. , and the Tenant Rights Committee for pushing this supervisor on his legislation. I would hope that the committee would adopt the amendments and then w