The authority a year ago, six months ago, today, tomorrow, up until the expiration of the statute of limitation if he chooses to go into court and to sue for collection of back taxes. We dont need to authorize him to do that. If he decides that that is the best way to proceed, he has the power to do that. And, so, what this amendment is proposing, this amendment is not about somehow authorizing the collection of back taxes. We already have the power to do that and this legislation wont change that. What this amendment about back taxes says is that unless and until that money, the back taxes he are paid, home sharing in San Francisco is illegal period. And although he its easy to say, well, it if air bnb doesnt pay the back taxes, were going to hold up air bnbs ability to have legalized shortterm rentals . No, what it means is individual residents of San Francisco will not be legally able to do home sharing until those backs taxes are paid and until the years and years of litigation lea
Grand stand on taxes. Its been abundantly clear that this tactic is not actually about getting tax revenue for the city. Its all talk. I think its easy to grand stand on back taxes to score points against this legislation but actually delivering tax revenues for the city means moving forward on clear rules that bring shortterm renting activity into regulation and into compliance and, colleague, that is what we must do today. Thank you. Supervisor breed. Thank you. I just have some comments about the back tax issue. I dont know if a lot of folks are empire fans here, but al ka poem is about to go to jail. ~ capone. Not for bootlegging, not for bribery, not for murder, but for tax evasion. That part of history is actually true. He did time in alcatraz, which is a famous landmark in our city. It makes me real aye that the government is really, really good at collecting taxes. Say what you want about the governments ability to take on other problems, but the old saying about death and taxe
Supervisor breed . Breed aye. Supervisor campos . Campos aye. Supervisor chiu . Chiu aye. There are 11 ayes. The ordinance is passed on the first read. [gavel] next item. Item 58 is an ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by mark morgan against the city and county of San Francisco for 238,000; the lawsuit was filed on november 2, 2011, in San Francisco superior court, case no. Cgc11515615; entitled mark morgan vs. City and county of San Francisco, et al. ~ in superior court. Same house same call . This ordinance is passed on the first read. [gavel] item 59. Item 59 is an ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by joseph luebberke against the city and county of San Francisco for 100,000; the lawsuit was filed on january 21, 2011, in San Francisco superior court, case no. Cgc11507528; entitled joseph luebberke vs. City and county of San Francisco. ~ in superior court. Same house, same call . This ordinance is passed on first read. [gavel] next item. Item 60
Free ride through i love going up the stairs its a free elevator ride today, its a rare opportunity eyes e otherwise its going to cost you 7 bucks you think today is a wonderful celebration theres so many to celebrate for this landmark and continue to be a landmark and when youre coming from the east side of bay north side or on the water or from our roads along the city youll be looking at this great coit tower we need to remind people ate a vast Community Effort that comes into play thats lead by the honoring of coit and the families history but you taller than and honor everyone else a thats made this city a great city now that norman has blessed this places lets cut the ribbon and welcome everyone to this wonderful restoration thank you for being here today clapping. well be cutting the ribbon gown down in front and lunch on the other side 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah. clapping [gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, may the 20th, 2014.
Concerns raised by neighbors in my district. And with that, colleagues, on items 12 through 15, can we take a roll call vote. On item 12 as amended through 15, supervisor yee . Yee aye. Supervisor avalos . Avalos aye. Supervisor breed . Breed aye. Supervisor campos . Campos aye. Supervisor chiu . Chiu aye. Supervisor cohen . Cohen aye. Supervisor farrell . Farrell aye. Supervisor kim . Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Mar aye. Supervisor tang . Tang aye. Supervisor wiener . Wiener aye. There are 11 ayes. The ordinances are passed on First Reading including item 12 as amended. [gavel] and with that, if we can go to our Committee Reports, madam clerk, if you can call them starting at item 31. Item 31 was not forwarded to the board as a Committee Report. And item 32. Item 32 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday, may 15th and was forwarded to the board as a Committee Report recommended as amended with a new title. Supervisor yee. Mr. President , excuse me, superv