[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on january 29 board of supervisors agenda. Call item 7 out of order. Item 7, Charter Amendment to amend the chart of the city and councily San Francisco to require an annual baseline appropriation for the park and recreation open space with an election to be held on june, 7, 2016. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, i will save my comments for a full board with this measure. At this point i counted this charter measure has been in committee five months and have gone over 15 amendments. And i want to say tha
Dee cellyman. Come on up. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. I want to my name is dee cellyman, i want to congratulate supervisor farrell and the committee on improving the draft. And i have one piece of text that i feel should be submitted. Changing page 12, line 3. I believe it should be changed as follows i will explain why, rec and parks guidelines for new open space and renovations shall be reviewed and adopted by the rec and Department Park commission. The reason i believe this, that the environmental and Design Guidelines are currently entirely in the hands of rec and park. There is no required review by the rec and park commission, who are in fact the ones tasked with representing the publics viewpoint. This is a very important point, design assumes policies. Let me say that one more time, and let you think about it. Any design assumes policies. What happens if recs and park calls for more grass lands in open spaces and the nonnative trees that they feel less desirable. Shou
Of our most important principles. This year we will have offered 1. 1 million in scholarships. Up from 80,000 five 5 years ago. 1. 1 million in programs to communities in San Francisco. On the Park Maintenance side, thanks to the supported of the Controllers Office and this board over the last few years even in difficult budget times weve been able to maintain our Park Maintenance functions and in partnership with the controller we actually keep very careful data on the work that we do and i think you can see here that weve made significant progress in the last 6 or 7 years with respect to Park Maintenance. We operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. Also on the recreation side, where over the last 45 years weve gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and thats something we are very proud about. You can see even in the last resources thanks to in partnership with the recreation staff and sciu, we reinvented
Good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, july the 15th, 2014. Madam clerk, could you please kale the roll . Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos absent. President chiu . Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen absent. Supervisor farrell . Farrell not present. Supervisor kim . Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar . Mar present. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. 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. Colleagues, we have our june 10th, 2014 Board Meeting minutes as well as the june 11, 2014 special Meeting Minutes of the rules committee. Could i have a motion to approve th
You call items 10 and 11, please. City clerk item 10 [approving expenditure plan San Francisco children and Families Commission Public Education Enrichment Fund fy20142015] 10. 140636 sponsor mayor resolution approving the San Francisco children and Families Commission expenditure plan for the Public Education Enrichment Fund for fy20142015. 6 3 14; received and assigned to the budget and city clerk sf 101234 item 1 14069 [proposed annual budget and appropriation ordinance for selected departments fys 20142015 and 20152016] 1. 140619 sponsor mayor proposed annual budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for selected departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of june 2, 2014, for the fys ending june 30, 2015, and june 30, 2016. City clerk sf 101234 item 11 [approving expenditure plan San Francisco Unified School District Public Education Enrichment Fund fy20142015] 11. 140637 sponsor mayor resolution approving the