would you like to add something? >> i just say thank you very much >> can we do this without objection? without objection we'll move forward and see you in a little bit. madam clerk we'll move on to our next hearings. can you call item 61 and 62 >> pursuant to resolution 19715 adopted june 2 the board will convene for item 61 and 62 to consider the renewal and expansion of property based assessment district known as yerba bren acommunity district and item 62 is the resolution to establish renew and expand the praurptd based business imprivement districtordsering levy and collection of assessment against property located in the district for 15 years beginning with fy 15/16, the purpsh is the hear testimony on levo of assessment of business and improvalment district named the yerba bena district. pursuant to board of supervisor resolution of intention adopted june 2, 2015. as described in the plan the district will be approximately 2123 identified parcels located on 20 whole or partial blocks. details of the covered area are in the file. at the conclusion nof public hearing the department of elications tabulate the ballot and report to the board of supervisors. member thofz public may view the ballot tabulation on the basement level of sitee hall in room 59. the board of supervisors will neither lev athe assessment [inaudible] without objection the public testimony will be as follows... we'll hear from speak aers in support of the district 2 minute max and then hear from speakers in opposition to the proposed assessment district. during the hearing a property owner wishing to change his or her vote or who has not yet voted may speak with department of election staff at a table just outside the board chamber. they will provide you with the affidavit [inaudible] after the hearing closes the ballot will be counted. at this time supervisor kim since this is in your district would you like to make a comment? >> i want to recognize the hard work of the yerba brena cbd and staff. i see the [inaudible] and andrew robinson and a really dedicated boards of directors. this is cbd i'm proud to work with. they build a identity of a neighborhood that didn't exist before but doing great services for our residence small businesses, our museums, cultural attractions. i think this is a neighborhood that all of san francisco can be proud ouf of whether you are a worker or tourist or residents. i believe the ballot turn out will demonstrate how spoteive the property owners are of the work you do >> any comments by city staff? >> thank you president breed. [inaudible] senior project manager office of economic and work force development. as stated in the resolution this is renewal i expansion of the yerba bine community district. i like to thank supervisor kim and staffer for her support during the process #6789 i also like tocu-mind cathy mop the exectev director. the community engagement process is the model for all. i would like to thank the departments that provided support during the process, the clerk of the board and the department of elections, in particular alisa sumera, erica major, andria osberry [inaudible] >> thank you very much and at this time we'll open up to public testimony for those speakers who are in support of the assessment district. first speaker please you will have 2 minutes each. >> please come forward and those interested in speaking as well can line up to my left. >> good afternoon, thank you president breed supervisors [inaudible] in the heart of yerba bena. i also serve as chairman of the [inaudible] currently. i volunteered for the past 2 and a half years and a great board of directors who are results orientsed. you can see that from looking at our application. one of the things walking through our neighborhood is trying to imagine what it would be like without the ybcbd. what would it look like without the clean team representative removing the 25 thousand pieces of graffiti within the past 7 years in the neighborhoods? it is evident the quality of life has improved at least in the short time i was involved as well as through the 7 years of the life. i urge the board to approve our ybcbd. thanks very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello supervisors. my name is michele [inaudible] and the ybcbd [inaudible] i have been down in the area for about 20 years. i went to academy of art college and [inaudible] before the ybcbd was there things were a little messy and so having them there is just so much bet frr our community and i really support the community group. >> thank you next speaker please >> good afternoon president breed and member thofz board of supervisors. candice sue [inaudible] i'm proud to serve as vice chair of board of directors at ybcbd. at sfmta we have 2 parking garages within t district and we are among the largest payers into the cbd. as part of the district we durive a lot of benefits from the suvss they provide. they promote the area and make it safe and clean and we are very supportive of what they do. i want to spend a moment to talk about the staff and echo what [inaudible] also said. having work would the cbd for about a year now i have a tremendous respect for exectev director cathy mopeen and her team. they work really hard to understand the processes of the city and do so with a high level of integ rutry on behalf of the neighborhood they serve. as a member of the renewal committee i saw what went into the process and the methodology it use today come windup the renewal. cathy mopen is thoughtful in her approach to insure they serve the needs of the people in the area, both the residence and non profits and businesses and museums and cultural centers woo value as well as visitors and went above and beyond to conduct outreach for the community that is a model. in addition she is done so with the ininvolvement with the board. we are impressed with the cbd and think the neighborhood gets better and hope you support this renewal. >> thank you very much, next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. lawrence lee recollect the administrative director at spur and we ralocated in the community benefit district and just wanted to show strong support because of their support for non profit institutions like ours as well as art institutions. the support they give us include streetscape programs they implement, those large and small. they improve public spaces with public art plans, greening programs, bike racks, alley design jz more all supporting the visitors that come to our institutions. yerba bena night which is organized by ybcbd celebrates with dance arts and musing and perform squns attended by 10 thousand people last year and draws attention to all the cultural attractions in the neighborhood. it is one of my favorite events. also provides grants to neighborhoods groups and non profits like us and they support efforts such as family programs, public art projects and cultural exhibits. this type of support also just engages our neighbors and people in the neighborhood and it is just really important to have that neighborhood cohesion and celebration. also just for us one of the most direct impacts is simply every time one of our visitors comes to visit spur they see a clean safe and inviting neighborhood and the [inaudible] return and support other similar institutions. so, the renewal is vital for our visitors as well and i please ask you to support renewal. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good evening. rea bobt and operate 715 harrison street which [inaudible] we have been there for 28 years and we are one of the sort of small store fronts that really benefit tremendously from the ybcbd. there is so many different elements of the organization that is helpful to our small business as you are well aware, the neighborhood when we got there 28 years ago is completely different from what it is now. we have mu scony and visitor squz att park. we have so many people and so many residence and what the cbd does is serves as vehicle to bring so many different dynamics of the community together and we benefit from that. we benefit from the 10 b program they provide police serves for community. the neighborhood guides who are also trained in dealing directly with homelessness issues, so it is great orgzism we are happy with cathy and the staff and everything taking place in regards to what it has done. the graffiti removal, it goes on and on, it is a great project, so we strongly recommend that you renew it. it does a great service to the community and we want to say thank you >> thank you next speaker please. >> [singing]. yerba brena here we come right in the big city sun. open up that, expand that golden gate and please don't be late. yerba benny, please fix it up. >> thank you next speaker please. >> sally johnson and i like to [inaudible] new ways of doing things [inaudible] making things better. i did already put housing building and i haven't done that much because i have been doing-dealing with physical issues and it is getting better and they said that i was a fairly maintained being alive. [inaudible] these are one of the benefits that we are advised by and support the newer establishes to rebuild buildings. this is where it comes about for our cheaper place of living. we have really been [inaudible] because the things that we haven't been able to explain. i never did get anything in [inaudible] and mental ward for 2 years and i never get a chance to really [inaudible] because the health issue and just started it for 2 months >> that you -thank you very much >> my name is peter heart and resident home owner at 300 third street and chairman of cbd streets and public space committee. from the committee stand point we are dedicated to emproving the public realm in the neighborhood and thirng you heard some of the projects we have done. we have oreb 30 projects in streetscape improvement plan. a good example is [inaudible] where we have been able to create a new public open space and have a graut laut of great projects in the future. from a resident standpoint i want to tell if you can imagine what it might be like living in a neighborhood where there isn't a community benefits district and visit friends of mine and they ask about it and i tell them what we do and say this is great because we don't have a organization like that we can reach out to if we have safety issues, if we have trash or graffiti issues. they feel like they have to reach a remote city bureaucracy to deal with the issue or may pick up the phone and call you and your office, so having the community benefits district in the neighborhood to provide these services is a very extremely responsive. people know who to call and take care of the problem right away. so, i just urge you to keep this great service going forward and to support the renewal. thank you. >> thank you next speaker please. >> good afternoon haun rbl members of the board of supervisors and city staff. my name is rea moisa, i'm with the yerba bena gardens festival and hear representing the yerba benny gaurdance festival to speak on support to renew the community benefit district. i would thrike read a few statements from a letter submitted by our board of directors at the yerba bena gardens festival and artistic director in support of the vote. the board of directors and staff support the renewal. ybcbd offers vital neighborhood services and built productive partnerships with the city residence business and cultural organizations. ybcbd provides needed grants to art projects that help make the nairblds a wonderful place to live. yerba ben agardens festival is the organization that produces and present more than 100 outdoor free and live performing art programs in yerba bena gardens and outside public spaces of the yerba bena gardens including the esplanade, jessie square, the childrens garden and east garden [inaudible] attune to the public street scape, live ability and attraction and attractability of the city, ybcbd is a valuable partdner making sure the city and yerba ben agardens sutractive and lively place and visitors and residence and workers and they are a nice birch of people to work with. >> thank you, sir. thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm summer [inaudible] exectev director at [inaudible] i have worked in the yerba bena neighborhood for 17 years and there is a lot of change. 30 years ago the redevelopment agency had a vision and this vision has come to play a new path and the yurby buena community district helped keep us together as a community, helped give us a voice and provide vision, helped look to the feature and i think it is essential to keep the yerba buena community district together for another 15 years to make sure that all of the projects that are on the plate already in progress will have a very nice and cohes irfb and neighborhood application and all have a voice together and hope you will approve the renewal. >> thank you every much next speaker please >> good afternoon my name is cathy mop and the exectev director of yuba brena [inaudible] thank you for the opportunity to come before you today. i want to reiterate why this is important for the neighborhood. there are a lot of changes since we were formed in 2008. 5 thousand more residence moved into the neighborhood which doubled the population from 5 to 10 thousand people in the neighborhood. we had thousands more workers as buildings have been refurbished and we'll see the expansion of sf [inaudible] in the spring of next year and expansion of mu sconey will bring 10s of thousands or more people in the neighborhood. i also want to say i feel we have done a good job about the public outreach. making a effort to reach out to all asspects of the neighborhood. we held more 70 public meet squgz tons of one on one meet wgz property ownersism we heard a lot of things from the neighborhood. we are excited about expanding services and will double down on the cleaning because you can never be clean enough. we'll add more money to streetscape impruchbment projects and we are excited working with sfmta to develop some pulestren safety and traffic enforcement initiative frz the neighborhood because like it or not wree a on and off ramp to the free way. this wouldn't have happened without the support of the board of direct rbz. i want to thank them and all the supporters that came out and want to recognize and thachck supervisor kim and her staff for their incredible and staunch storet e support and willingness to listen and enter into dialogue with us as we work to improve the neighborhood >> thank you very mump. any other members of the public who would like to speak in support? >> i want to state history. the area we are talking about was taken over by redevelopment where a lot of gentrification took place. it is true this community benefits district will do this and that, but one of the things they need to do is outreach to the black community and to the filipinos so that they have a opportunity to bring back what was lost. i hope that this district will pay a significant amount of attention to south park where at one time that entire area was owned by blacks. having said that, we know what redevelopment is doing all over the city and some of us who are asleep we should awaken up and see what has happened to the fillmore. we know like what is happening in district 10 and who is fast asleep in that cockpit. this community benefit district depends on leadership. good leaders know the way, show the way and go the way and it seems from the comments that the people are making here, they are making good comments about the present, but they need to reach out to the past so that you can do it. it is just opposite saint patricks church. you have a beautiful garden. i have written many of my poems 15-20 years ago sitting in that garden. who maintains that garden, kudos to them and- >> thank you very much. your time is up. are there any hoar or the memberoffs the public who would like to speak in support of forming the cbd? seeing none we'll move to those who would like to speak in oppositionism any members of the public who would like to speak in opposition of the cbd? seeing none if there are no other speakers we would like to close-you want to speak in opposition? okay. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. my name is soomial woo. i represent a owner of several properties in the community benefits district. i would urge the board to obtain or move to continue the vote on this because there are serious issues in terms of both the formation of the district as well as how different property owners were or are included in the current and future benefits district. in addition to that, there is really no way to either contest the assessments or to figure out why certain property owners are now paying 3 to 400 percent more for their assessments when the actual budget itself is less than 100 percent more. this quasi government agency lacks oversight, transparency as well as accountability and until those answers are resolved, it makes sense to ubstain from a vote on this issue. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello good afternoon my name is richard bird and manage paurpts on clar street. i have a few quick questions and in our particular our yerba bena cbd went from 160 dollars to 722 dollars, so roughly 4 times the original amount so that like your sunday paper goes from 3 to 12 dollars or muni from 2.25 to 9 dollars. curious what justifies 400 percent increase. also, ask the increase proportioninate across the board. for instance the intercontinental hotel pay 25 thousand dollars. would they go up to 100 thousand dollars, is it is a proportioninate thing or subjected to different properties and use. lastly, i was curious where might i find where the votes were tallied from the original ballots on the measure? i was looking and unable to find it so curious if there is anywhere i can see the previously tallied ballots >> thank you. any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition of the cbd? seeing none public comment is closed. and is there a motion to continue the hearing? or would we like to close the hearing? supervisor kim, did you have any remarks? >> no i made my remarks in the beginning. i believe the votes are being tallied and announced in the meeting, is that correct >> yes >> make a motion to close the hearing >> is there a second? second by supervisor yee. colleagues can we take this without objection? without objection the hearing is closed. at this time the tabulation will now begin and we'll continue with our business on the boards ajendsa. when the tabulation of the ballots is complete our board will announce the votes and that will happen as i said down stairs in the department of elections. >> okay, madam clerk we are going return to item number 59 and 60. mr. davidson are you ready to go? >> so, the property that is removed from the report are as follows, majestic is removed. 6201 geary street is removed. 317 [inaudible] 210 is [inaudible] 225 [inaudible] is removed. 80 melrose is removed. 2278 42 avenue. 753 coalkohl and 763 kohl removed. >> colleagues can we have a motion to amend the report based on the list provided by mr. davidson? motion by supervisor mar, second by supervisor cohen. can we take the amendments without objection? without objection the amendment passes. and madam clerk can we take the item as amended same house came call? without objection the item as amended is passed unanimously. thank you. okay, we'll skip to item 63 and 64. madam clerk can you call those items? >> pursuant to resolution 199-fine eapproved june 9, the board of superizer vooz will conseen for item 63 and 64, public hear toog consider the establish oment of property based assessment to be known as the greater rincon hill district pursuant to california and property business improvement district law of 1994 and san francisco business and tax reg llgz code. item sick 4 is resolution to sfb the property base improvement district as greater rincon hill district and order levy and collection of assessment gaens property located in the district for the next 15 years commencing with approval of the item >> colleagues the purpose of the hearing is hear testimony on the proposed levy of assessment of the proposed property and business improvement district to be named the greater rincon hill community district pursuant to resolution intention adopted june 9, 2015 and to hear testimony on amendments to the proposed management district plan and engineers report dated july 2015 and file would the board july 15, 2015. after the adoption of the june 9, 2015 resolution the city mailed ballots to property owners then the greater rincon hill community business district committee submitted amended management districates plan and engineers report dated july 2015 that removed 2 parcels fwraum the edge of the district. details are in the file. the proposed rincon hill community benefit district under the amendsed july 2015 management district plan contained 3277 identified parcels located on approximate 57 whole or partal blocks in the transbay rincon hill area. detailoffs the streets are in the file as well. that conclusion of the public hearing the department of elections will tabulate the ballots and report to the board och supervisors. member thofz public may view the ballot tabulation by the department of election on basement level of city hall in room 59. the board of supervisor will neither levy the assessment or apruchb the establish. of inkistricate is there is mu jrt protest. without objection the public testimony is as follows. we first hear from speaker isupport of assessment 2 minutes mac. then hear from speakers in opposition to be assessment district 2 minutes max per person. during a hearing a property owner wishing to change their vote or not yet voted may speak with department of election staff at a table outside the board chambers. they will provide with a affidavit and ballots. after the hearing closes the ballots will be countsed. at this time i would like to recognize supervisor kim >> thank you president breed. also want to recognize many individuals that worked on developing and creating the new xhinety district in district 6. i think our district has the most cbd. this is a new and developing neighborhood formally industrial neighborhood but now has many residence employees and workers. the cbd really comes on the tail thofz mell rose district which we supported and passed unanimously last septwith full support of this board and the mayors office and now the cbd will also work to enhance many of the existing but also future needs och the growing neighborhood. i want to recognize mary mu cue who is active with ourt cbd and mgm for helping to lead and using eperatize and experience as well as jim chapel and residence vaubed in the rincon hill cbd. [inaudible] john cromwell, catena johnson, sara mac tire and marilyn stuart and also to some of the property owners and developers in the neighborhood [inaudible] and tony [inaudible] the cbd will provide services as the yerba bena cbd for public safety and maintenance of the streets and our new open space which is coming down the line whether it is transbay roof top park or [inaudible] really looking forward to the pass chblg othe cbd and want to thank you. it is hard to start a new cbd and gain support among property owners so want to recognize a tremendous effort initiative. >> thank you supervisor kim. is there any comments from staff? >> thank you president breed and supervisors. [inaudible] senior project manager, office of economic and work force development. today you hear the rez dugz to establish the rincon hill cdbd. the resolution removes 2 parcels [inaudible] apn 37770-001 from the eastern edge of the district. the boundaries adjusted in the management plan and engineers report. this resolution will alsoerize the formation of this district mpt the testimony you will hear is in regards to the proposed formation and amendment tooz the management plan and engineers report. at the end of public comment they will tabulate the results and if no [inaudible] approve the rez dugz to establish. i would like to thank supervisor kim for her office support. i would like to cu-mind the committee that led all the work through this all most 4 year campaign specifically conteena johnson and loren post. i would like to highlight the work of mgm management group for their hard work on this and furter more jun just thanksgivinging the clerks office and department of election on this in this campaign >> thank you very much. at this time we will open it up to public testimony for anyone who wants to speak in support of the assessment district. if you can come forward and line up to my left. first speaker please >> [singing]. my kind of hill. rincon is my kind of district hill. it is one bill that i hope you'll pass and you'll get your fill. it is my kind of hill and i hope you vote on it and you all agree with all your will. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is john graham 8 year resident of the neighborhood and live in infenty. i'm fully support the cbd for rincon hill and think it is a proven example of infrastruck dhoor support the city services. i this can everyone knows who walks athround neighborhood dollar is a significant need for additional security, cleanliness and maintenance of things such as current and future parks and i think this is way to go from good to great in our neighborhood so hope you'll support this. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> my name is tony [inaudible] with [inaudible] we are a business owner and operator in the greater rincon hill neighborhood and very excited to support the community benefit district. we think it is great resource tooz the neighborhood and make for a better quality of life for the tenants and neighbors so we support the creation of the cbd. >> thank you next speaker please >> my name is marilyn stuart and i want to make a personal statement and a statement as a residents of a smaller condo minium building. as a personal statement i spent my first few menths in san francisco in the yerba bena district and saw the benefit of the cbd. then i moved to my current unit which was just across second street from yerba bena and discovered how badly we need a cbd in our neighborhood. now, i'm representing one effort which is a small building, we only have about 50 unit in it so compared to other buildsings you may think of, we are pretty small. we would not be able to afford to fund the security and clean up of kinds of activities that need to go on in our neighborhood. the need is great and we really want to follow the model of what is successful and we fully support this. it will be a great improvement to the neighborhood. >> thank you next speaker. >> good afternoon madam president and members of the board. i also want to thank supervisor kim for her support. my name is loren post, i'm a resident and as you heard from the cultural leaders and business owners and residents och yerba bena we are neighbor tooz the east and we want what they have. we are very inviious of their quality of life and need improvement in our neighborhood and feel our cbd will bringfelt our neighborhood is planned for over a does chb high rise towers residential and xhrjs with new housing units being affordable. we hope they bring in families and working people who deserve a lovey neighborhood and what will be the busiest neighborhoods in san francisco budding the financial district and home to new transbay transit terminal and what we think is the most exciting and biggest district in the opportunity for opportunity for all. please support supervisor kim to establish the greater rin onhill community district. >> my name is catena johnson, thank you for having us today. i have been a rez dent of rincon hill for 6 year jz if you notice i said area not neighborhood because we are not quite there yet. we don't have a grocery store in walking businesses. we don't have schools or parks but the good newicize most of thesethis are coming, especially the parks which was the initial reason for form thg cbd. pulling together to support for the cbd is a team eeffort lead by the other residence who are here to speak today. as part of this effort i have explained and promoted the cbd to neighbors and in person and [inaudible] once i explain the benefits verses the cost the response has been positive. it is imperative this cbd be approveredism rincon hill is barring the brunt of the construction actirfbty. we need 15 million in infrastructure financing that will come as a result of the cbd. we need the cbd for the parks to be maintained. there is no plan b for parkmancy and that is troublesome. nearly ever space in the area will be residential in the next few years. my ask is you approve and support the greaten rincon hill cbd. >> thank you next speaker please. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. my name is john cor well and 21 year resident of south of market and the president of port side home owners association. there is a huge enlargement of the residential pop ylshz that is happening more now. the cbd is critical not just a business standpoint but for resident. most of the new developments are very vertical and what is developing is a bunch of disconducted islands. there needs to be some organization that brings everyone today as a neighborhood and community and handles the spaces between them. in terms of security, i live said in the area for over 20 year jz the amount of street crime not just property crime, but crime involving weapons has gone up in the past 3 yearsism there was a armed autorobbery in our garage last week. that was someone that appeared to come in right off the street so we need this from a quality of life and safety standpoint and everybody i have spoke toon views this as a valuable benefit to being in the district and urge you to support it. for ll the right reasons-i can't think of any reason you wouldn't. there is a infrastructure development fund that represents [inaudible] unless there is a entity like the cbd to take control of that and manage it, it is going unutilized so i urge you to support the cbd >> that you can very much next speaker please >> thank you supervisor. jim chapel from mgm management and urban planner by craft and supposed to be retired but come out of retirement to work with mary mu cue and cbd formation because i so believe in cbd thaz ultimate in grass roots democracy. the paest several years we had scores of community meeltings representing thousands of person hours working through issue squz the type of services that the community needs and wants and what cbd's are in addition to providing the clean and safe kinds of services eothers have spoken about are a community building exercise and that is what is so exciting for me. to work with a group of people to figure out what they want their neighborhood to be. none of this would have been possible without supervisor kim and her staff who have been so supportive and helpful all along and in deed the rest of the city staff, chrisa atono who has been with us since the beginning, chris cor gs and other city staff so thank you to all of you and thank you to the great number of people in the neighborhood, the stirring committee and other speakers here today asking for your support and i too ask for your support. thank you >> thank you next speaker please >> androbryant from mgm and speak on behalf ofmery mu cue who is vg trouble to move around. [inaudible] mayors office of economic and work force development and supervisor kim and your office for the support as we work to have this cbd formed. it is a great plexor to work the with steering committee and that ground swofel support to create a cbd. it is also gratifying to me, i chs on the formation committee years ago to form the ybcbd and hear the testimony. i sat here knowing in 15 years you will hear that same thing from residence who had to be one over because the services are tremendous. i believe the neighborhood will be better off and mgm is glad to support the committee. i encourage you to support it. >> any other members of the public who would like to speak in support of the cbd? seeing none we'll move to those members of the public who would like to speak in opposition to the cbd. any members of the public who would like to speak in opposition to the cbd >> my name is auto duffy and like to speak in opposition to it. seems to me that the cbd's generally-there is limitations on the amount of taxes that the government, any government can collect. it goes back to jaurfbs gan. i think it is coming on 40 years now and now with the cbd it allows a marginal amount more resources to go into a neighborhood but it is in violation of what the people and the big corpications of america have decided should be the limits of gurfbergence and attempts to drive us back to a third world country. 40 years now even though the democratic party is dahmsinant in california that remains the case so that tells you the limitation of conventional politics. forgive me if none of you understand this, but i live in a neighborhood where a sro hotel room days like today it gets stuchy and hot and excuse me for excessively wordy but it is nice in this air conditioned environment. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition? >> it isn't a opposition but have a question, why haven't they paid their back taxes? i'm a american and every time i buy a soda and pay sales tax. corporations are great but they never pay sales tax. every time they buy a billion dollar corporation there is a billion in sales tax. every time someone buys something they don't pay sales tax. every time i buy smck i pay sales tax. i love corporations i rich people and everything but can't understand if i bought a dollars worth of something or combine stuff, if i bought another business for a dollar i had to pay sales tax. corporations do want to be considered a single man, that is what they said in something recently, pay your sales tax. that is all i have to say. my name is ronaldue gene davey lee and i'm here to say pay your taxes or the irs should collect the back taxes >> any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition of the cbd? seeing none public comment is closed. if there is no motion to continue this hearing we will now close this hearing. at this time we will tabulate the ballot and continue business of the board. when the tabulation is complete our clerk will announce the results. thank you everyone for your comments. madam clerk let's move to the next public hearing, item 65 and 66. >> pursuant to resolution 198-15 adopted june 9, the board of supervisors will convene for item 65 and 66. item 65 is public hearing to consider the establishment of assessment district to be known as dog patch and north west potrero hill. item 66 is rezitution to establish business improvement district ordering the levy and collection of assessment against property located in the dishricate for the next 10 years commencing 15, 16 >> the purpose of this hearing is to hear testimony on the proposed levelly of assessment of the property and business improvement district named the dog patch and north west potrero hill green benefit district. pursuant to board of supervisor resolution adopted june 9, 2015. described in the plan the proposed district would be approximately 1382 identified parcels located on approximately 69 whole or partial blocks. detailoffs the covered area are in the file. at the conclusion of the public hear thg department of elections will tabulate the ballots and report to the board of supervisors. member thofz public may view the ballot tabulation on the basement level in city hall in room 59. the board of supervisors will ether 92 levy the assessment or approve the establishment of the district if there is majority protest. without objection the public testimony will be as follows. we will first hear from all speakers in support of inassessment district with 2 minutes maximum per person. we'll hear from all speakers in opposition to the assessment 2 minute maximum per person and during a hearing a property owner wishing to change their vote or has not yet voted may speak with department of election staff at a table outside of the board chambers. they will provide with the ach davit and a ballot. after the hearing closes the ballots will be counted. at this time i would like tarecognize supervisor cohen >> we had 2 hearings on community benefit districts but today you will hear on a green benefit district. are you excited? this is exciting because-thank you president breed. i appreciate your genuine enthuse yaism. let me tell you why this is exciting because if pass san francisco would once again be the leader in the way by establishing the first green benefits district in the nation. not many people can say they are the first in the nation, but we hope we will be able to. the ballot today is the culmination of 3 wrores of community based planning and special legislation that i authored. a few years ai worked in a group of dedicated neighbors a hand full are here today and praeb property owners on creative solutions to funds open space improvement and maintenance in the eastern neighborhoods. at the time time i worked legislation [inaudible] can voluntarily assess themselves to pay forome proving and creating public parks and open space. the model is nerly identical for community bft districts as well as business impruchbment district but this is the first time residential and xhrjs property owners are participating ina sessment district and these funds can be used for a wider variety of services such as graffiti removal, capital improvement, tree planning, park maintenance, these things we don't have enough money for. you heard me discuss the challenges we are facing, fund{prioritizing the new infrastructure in the eastern neighborhood which are rapidly developing as we speak. this is one creative strategy where the city and neighbors take up the challenge to create and maintain needed parks and public realm and park improvement. we have already heard from other neighborhood groups across the city looking for model something similararve the work done in the dog patch and north west potrero hill. look out scott wiener i got word constituents are interested and david compose. [inaudible] our friends and neighbors as well as property owners and work with my office to get to this point. so, forgive me but i most show a moment of gratefulness to bruce hewy [inaudible] tony kelly, [inaudible] shar main curtis [inaudible] david [inaudible] i also want to thank city staff who spent numerous hours with my office reviewing documents after documents helping the committee to get us to this point. particulary of course i want to give acknowledge to chrisy atawny who received accolades for work with oawd. she started the process and jonathan goldburg from dpw help finish this project. robert brian and city attorneys office i want to thank you for your help in draft thg necessary documents over and over again with the changing amendments. that is a inside joke. just want to let you know that we are grateful for your assistance in helping move this project forward. madam president i think we shouldopethen hearing at this time. >> okay before we open the hearing madam supervisor, we would like to give the staff a opportunity to make a comment >> brief comment, please staff. >> that you can president breed and supervisor cohen. jonathan goldburg green benefit district program manager with public works. i'll tree to chemothe comments brief. the efforts to transform green benefit dishricate into reality can be described [inaudible] without long term vision of supervisor cohen and staff particularly nob waub we under not be here today. thank you for your leadership for believing in and empowering the community. i like to acknowledge the formation consultant [inaudible] staff hanna smith [inaudible] for continuing to push the 3 plus year formation process inspite of each set back and small victory. the assessment engineer [inaudible] creative word smithing [inaudible] city attorney. also the city attorneys office and staff robert brian for considering the countless argument and reviewing data sets and engineer reports. the hard work for election staff [inaudible] and perhaps one of the most significant behind the scenes contributesers my colleagues senior project manager [inaudible] her professional guidance innovative thought process and mentorship to [inaudible] success has not gone unnoticed particularly at public works. thank you >> thank you very much. at this time we'll open this item up for public testimony and so i would like to call on the first speaker in support of the assessment district. there will be a opportunity to anyone oppose d to speak after. >> my name is susan [inaudible] dog patch resident and gbd formation committee member. in the past 2 and a half years we presented to over 15 different public meetings and work shops focused on building awareness and sulitsing feed back on the concept of green benefit district in dog patch and potrero hill. we were met with interest and enthusiasm for this way to fr residence to invest in the beautiful of the neighborhood. knowing in the next few wreers dog patch will have over 1 thousand yinets which provides minimal open green space. our residence and property owner understand the value and have the design to [inaudible] green space, parks informal community garden and [inaudible] to improve the long term eclogical helths of the neighborhood. thanksgivings -thank you for your support >> [inaudible] north west potrero and want to thank supervisor cohen for her help in this business. nort west potrero is a smail neighborhood joined by dog patch. about 60 years ago a free way was but through the neighborhood and it divided the neighborhood in 2. that was the 101 free way and neighbors over the fast 15 years have worked on taking the land that is arounds the free way that is right of way land and seeing if it can be turned into public parks. dpw helped with that. we had a park formed and reck-we need to provide maintenance so we look forward to having the green benefit district hen maintain this area as well as beautify the streets. thank you very much and hope we have your support >> thank you next speaker please >> i'm going to be brief and look at the [inaudible] my name is bruce heely. i live a half block from the 280 freway across from muni woods repair lot and down the street from a former whole sale fish market. the nairbld is changes into more residence. i would thrike ask and welcome your partnership with dpw and supervisor cohens office in moving ahead with this objective. we would thrike to establish after 3 long years. we consider that long because it is changing. we have a number of street parks put in over the past fee yoors and double capacity on street parks. we need maintenance for that. after your support with the gbd and thank you for your time >> thank you next speaker please. >> hi everyone rbs my name is brook rea smith and executive director of [inaudible] mission bays non profit organization working with supervisor coo00 and formation knhity to facilitate the formation of gbd. the mission is empower neighborhoods to fund build and maintain high cault public spaces in san francisco and hopefully some day beyond. we are proud to play a role in theriation of the first gbd securing grants and designing a state of the arts community survey to cublthing over 15 community out reach meetings and workshops over the past several years. the team worked tirelessly and partly probono. from the start the gbd is intend today be a prototype to bereplicated. our gone is engage and empower citizen tooz improve their naird realm in partnership with the city efforts. we look forward to continuing our work in close collaboration with san francisco toward the shared goal of making san franciscos public wellm safe clean and inviting for all. >> that you -thank you, next speaker >> [singing]. green green it is green they say on west potrero hill. make it better with all your [inaudible] green green t is green they say on the north west potrero hill. green green, and i know you'll vote good and vote as i know you [inaudible] green green. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> [inaudible] tony kelly [inaudible] neighborhood association and a cochair of green benefit district. thanksgiving frz considering this today and thank you supervisor cohen for moving this forward which was a painful process but appreciate you helping design this. this is a glimmer in our neighborhood since the mayors open space task force in 2007 and it is important in this neighborhood because we vaneighborhood self [inaudible] with open space where individual guerilla gaurdners find places of public owned land, planting plants then asking state agencies permission >> student to let the plant grow. this is next step for these spaces as we continue and create more. we have enough plans in the area in the development pipeline in the planning department to triple the population of zip code 94107. we do not have enough open space today. this kind of tool is a way we can work on our own ahead of reck and park and the slow planning process to get open space to support the growing neighborhoods. we look forward to a subsessful vote during the petition process. the cochair worked hard and got petition signatures from more than half of the locally owned land so look forward to the election result squz thank you for your support >> thank you next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is joboss. i live in dog patch. i was helped with the committee and i just have to say we really do need the green benefit district and my only warning or negativity could be if the city departments recognize there is another source of funding that they don't back away from what they are supplying now. i understand there was a study done and so forth, but it is the board of supervisors and their budget committee that have to hold line on that sort of thing. the departments have been very helpful and so supervisors and-let's move forward. thank you >> thank you very much nerks speaker >> my name is scott wilkinson and [inaudible] would like to offer our support. all those in the building who voted and believe it is 27 or 28 voted 100 in favor of the gbd. the hoa supports the small green space to the tune of 215 thousand a year something we can't maintain doing which is why this is so important. i urge your support. thank you very much. malia, we love you. >> that -thank you, next speaker please. >> hello may nime is cary glancey and partner and director of operations at puchino in the dag patch. i'm here to support the green benefit district. the owners couldn't be here today but they rin support and worked very hard on this as well. we are landlords that are the building and property owners in support and have employees that own property in the dog patch and keeping the neighborhood green is very san francisco feeling and supporting livable cities so thank you for your support >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who would like to speak in support of the gbd? see enone we'll allow for a opportunity for anyone who would like to speak in opposition. are there member thofz public who would like to speak in opposition of the gbd? seeing no members who would like to speak in opposition public comment is closed. we would like to-if there is no motion to continue the hearing without objection we'll close this hearing. at this time the tabulation of the ballots will begin and we'll continue with our other board business. when the ballots are counted, when the count is umpleat the clerk will announce the results and at this time madam clerk can you please call the next item? >> item 67-70 comprise special order for public hearing of persons interested in the public works decision approving 91 residential units and 1 xhrjs units mixed use new construction project at 645 texas street. 68 is notion to approve the public works position and map for the texas street project. item 69 is disapprove the public works decision and map. [inaudible] disapprove the 10ative map for the texas street project >> okay, colleagues we have before us a appeal of the 10ative map for the project located at 645 texas street. for this hearing we'll considering whether the 10ative map for 645 texas street is consist wnt the general plan or any plan that applies. without objection we'll proceed as follows: up to 10 ments for appellant to describe grounds for appeal. tupe 2 minutes for fublic commenters to speak in support. up to 10 minutes for representatives of department of public works and planning department to describe the grounds for their decision to approve the 10ative map chblt up to 10 minutes for the real party in interest to present and up to 2 minutes for public commenters to speak in support of the real party. finally, the appellate will have up to 3 minutes for rebuttal. colleagues at this time we will begin our hearing without objection. supervisor cohen you have comments? >> thank you i have a few brief comments. i did have a opportunity to work with the project sponsor and several neighbors on the project when it was first proposed all most 2 years ago roughly. have ultimately this project is approved by the planning commission. i am looking forward to the hearing-just kidding, i'm actually not. i understand it is a process. i'm just being honest. anyway, the appellate look forward to hear the information presented today so without furter ado thank you >> thank you supervisor cohen. at this time weope toon the appellates to describe the grounds for their appeal. you have up to 10 minutes. the appellates are not here. let's make it-- >> my name is david inlow [inaudible] is having eye surgery. i will reiterate her appeal. she feels like the project cast too much shadow on her property. the bulking doesn't seem right that that project is in a block that is characterized by single or 25 foot wide lots with single family residence, victorians and old wood frame buildings. it appears suitable for the down hill type of development, but it is the first project on this particular block and doesn't seem to suit the character of that block. i understand a few lots were consolidated to make this property and it is the first property on the block. the bulking seems to over wellm the other lots on that particular block. thank you. now i'll open this up to public comment for anyone who wants to speak in support of the appeal. you have up to 2 minutes. >> [singing]. i wish you good luck with texas and all the stars up in the sky. i wish you all good luck with [inaudible] texas and thank you all you guys. >> thank you very much. are there any members of the public who would like to speak in support of the appeal? seeing none public comment is closed. and now we will move to up to 10 minutes for the representatives from the department of public works and the planning department to present their case. and the grounds if their decision to approve the tentative map. >> bruce [inaudible] city county surveyor. this is pretty sfrait forward. we haven't received anything that is indicative of a objection to technicalimators merits of the map so very little to say. i can give the run down on the chronology of it. we gave a tentative map approval in june, it looks like the 28 and the appeals was filed on july 6. >> okay. are there anyone from the planning department like to present at this time? >> good afternoon i'm eliz bet wadding. the project at 645 texas includes the demolition of 2 buildsings and nob 91 dwellb units and 600 square feet of commercial. the project had a benefit of public process including review and approval by the planning commission august freen, 2014. the planning commission considered the project scale, density and rear year dimension and sthr were sig cnts public input no appeal was filed. in addition there was no appeal of the sequa determination either. following the approval the planning department recommended approval of the parcel map june, 4, 2015. the appellate filed a peal 2 days later. the appellate could have addressed her concerns related to access of sun light at the time the planning commission considered approval of the project rather than part of the subdivision that creates parcel that can be sold [inaudible] at the time the planning commission considered this project. the commission found the scale of the project compat wbl the neighborhood. the project volume is minimized at the northern side of the site. the large court and light well provide sun light along the northern edge. at the north end along texas street the forth floor is set away from the praurnt line reduce thg shadow ozthen appellates property. the project sponsor work would the community thrut the process reducing the height and epreliminating roof deck. some loss of light is to be expected as a more dense development at the titecyte the loss of light isn't out of character for smaller jaisance properties. the project is compat wbl 2 to 3 stories buildings in the neighborhood and compareable size the buildsings across texas and mississippi street. the project undergone a public process and received a thorough review by the planning commission. the planning commission finds consistency with the policies a benefits including neighborhoods servinging retail and [inaudible] we request the board reject the appeal and approve the partal map >> at this time we will open it up. any questions? no names on the roster. we will open tupe the real party interest to present for up to 10 minutes >> good afternoon president and members of the board. my name is alexa pulossy [inaudible] the project sponsor. ip to thank staff for their very thorough and diligent review of the case before yoi this afternoon and they have covered just about everything i wanted to cover in my presentation. as was stated mrs. watty the project was proposed in 2012 and approved by the planning commission in august of last year. there was no appeal. the project sponsor has diligently pursued the project andant to show a picture of what is going on on the site for your information. as you can see demnition has occurred. the project spauser is underway with construction and i'll turn it over to jessie stuart from [inaudible] will talk about the community outreach that is done and if you have questions please let me know. >> good afternoon madam president squl supervisors. my name is jessie stuart and develop manager for [inaudible] thank you for the opportunity to speak today. i would tyke-like to explain the [inaudible] dog patch and potrero hill [inaudible] since early 2013 we worked with the local neighborhood talk toog the residence and munchant neighbors. [inaudible] additionally we walked the area to lel let people know about the development. we had numerous community and one on one meetings resulting in neighborhood support including 14 letters of support and over 80 signature of support. we presented our projects to the dog patch neighborhood association and the potrero booster and receiveredue maninous support. we made many change tooz design including revised the buildings facade to add visual dep tooth create a more town house design. we added 6 ground floor walk in units on mississippi and 22 street. we eliminate thd building at the corn orf mississippi and 22 street to reduce building height. we made revision to court yard lay out. we added retail space on corner of mississippi and 22 to provide a neighborhood aminty and activate the street. the project will greatly enhance the area and pulestren experience along the street front squj help [inaudible] based on our extensive out reach and community support i request you deny the appeal and up hold dpw's determination. thank you for your time >> with that we will move to open it up to public comment for those members of the public who are in support of the project. you have up to 2 minutes. any member thofz public who would like to speak in support of the project? please come forward. >> my name flaub nob a neighbor of the project. i'm only making a comment that you change their sign that says 91 luxury apartments in dog patch. it is not dog patch t is potrero hill so i appreciate if they change their sign. other than that i have no other comment >> thank you very much. any other members of the public woo would like to speak in support of the project at this time? seeing none public comment is closed. the appellate will have up to 3 minutes for a rebuttal. sir, would you like to make a rebuttal? >> thanks again just to reiterate my name is david [inaudible] i just want to point out that the transition from the property from 645 to 635 texas street and mississippi street in our minds isn't step down. i think they built near full height of allowance all most 40 feet. right now on texas street there is a 2 story drop between the top of the property at 645 texas street to the top of 635 texas street so that is quite a bulk head for texas street residence to see. mississippi street there is not a building on the adjacent lot now. it is 25 foot lot and all is a drive way on it. there is trees on that lot. so, i think the transition there is over 30 feet. there may be all most 40 feet right there. we don't feel there is a transition, a step down from 635 to 645 texas street. the other thing is the plans on page 118, they don't show windows facing north and i think the elevations show windows so-i don't know if that is a oversight or if the planners looked at that very carefully but we at least want to see windows facing the north. thanksgivings : >> thank you very much. colleagues seeing no other members of the public who are available to speak, we will now close public comment and this hearing has been held and is now closed. item 68 and 69 and 70 are before us. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. thank you for participating in this appeal. i'm sympathetic about some of the issues that are raised, these are issues that should have been done in the 2 year planning project. i spent over a year working with the neighbors on texas street as well as project sponsor and planning department to refine the project. in addition to community meetings the project sponsor i too convened sechb several meetings to discuss neighborhood concerns and review design changes and so really it is because of the work we did with the neighbors this project was greatly improved and supported at the planning commission and it was largely due to the involvement of the neighbors that resulted in a better design that increased the usability and desirable of the open space and better interaction between glound floor units and the streets. retail space, removal of the roof deck and better streement on building facade, on site below market rate units and lower massing to better align with the adjacent cando buildings. i find it hard to believe the appellate didn't know the planning work was going on for this site or didn't find it necessary to participate in the process. i also believe the design of the current project with the various light wells ajaisance to the appellates property will low for sunshine on her site. because of the extensive work put into the project is a compliment to the neighborhood and the nature of the issue the appellate raised are not spinge to the tentative map i like to make a motion tew prove item 68 and table item 69 and 70. >> supervisor cohen made a motion to approve 68 and table 69 and 70. second by supervisor campos. colleagues can we take this without objection? without objection the motion passes unanimously. okay madam clerk let's go back to our agend awhile we continue to wait for the election results of some of our hearings. >> then we should move to roll call for introduction of new business madam president >> supervisor campos. supervisor christensen. >> thank you. i have a amendment to propose to the special use district in north beach. the helths and vibrancy of the sate xhrjs corridors is important to neighborhoods around shf but especially district 3 where residence gathered. the legislation we passed earlier today will allow a neighbor business to open a second location in a prime space that is vacant. it has tameen 2 years with those permissions in place with build out to follow. the process was lengthened by [inaudible] more than a decade later the restrictions are having opposite effects stifling the health of businesses and leave thg neighborhoods with 2 dozen vacen store fronts. in the hearing on mamas of the planning commission we heard the north beach special use guide lines for restrictive. my staff said we would look into adjustments that reflect existing condition and the experience gained over the last several years. in the existing sud limited restaurants that donot serve alcohol are prohibited from ever applying for a alcohol license. caf e and small restaurants licensed before the sud went into effect can sell beer and wine andinose not licensed earlier are prohibited from applying. the neighborhoods is experiencing competition fwraum the mission. the central subway construction and up coming repaving app columbus avenue and small businesses are struggling. my office begun outreach with adjacent residential and xhrjs groups and will step up that effort during board break to further adjust the amendment as needed and insure broad input on the matter. this proposal is nolt designed to increase the number of bars or convert neighborhood serving businesses to restaurants or bars but to bolster small business. each proposed conversion requires a conditional use permit approval by abc and subject to neighborhood review. this amendment is designed to allow some of our long term businesses a economic leg up to help survive and what has been for many challenging economic conditions. the rest i submit >> thank you supervisor christensen. supervisor cohen. >> we had a technical difficulty here. today i introduce a ordinance that establishes prevailing wage and local hiring requirements for any development on property that is sold or leased by the city for housing development. as the city agreessively develops and sell public land for housing developments we need to make sure we are providing the same wage and labor law-use the same wage and labor law that applies for construction as we perform on our property is critical we prioritize the property for affordable housing to generate units in san francisco but also need to make sherlockal residence working on these buildsings working to build the housing units are paid a prevailing wage and have a local apprenticeship opportunities. this ordinance is pretty simple and it will do 3 things. it will require any property sold or leased by the city and county of san francisco for mixed use housing development to pay prevailing wage, to comply with local hiring ordinance and offer apprenticeship opportunities. these are the same requirements we aurmd demand for silty contract rbs under chapter 6 and makes no sense to remove requirements once we sell or lease the properties. madam clerk the rest i submit >> thank you for supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim >> thank you. i just wanted to recognize many of our community xhups working with [inaudible] for over a year non [inaudible] korean [inaudible] behind bars after charged with ubjuckted our daughter when she flood the u.s. to escape her abuseer. she was released in prl taken into custody [inaudible] july 17 she was released from custody when she was able to post bonds. for those following the story [inaudible] detained and separated from her daughter. we know it isn't [inaudible] for protecting herself and daughter from her abuseer but she was failed by multiple systems. she called the police for help once when her expartner [inaudible] each time she called nothing was done to protect her. the police [inaudible] remove himself from the space at the time. in the criminal justice system the da stated he didn't believe this is a case of domestic violence just a case of one abuse chb incident. with the immigration system because she shadomestic violence survivor she should have been informed about resources for domestic violence for survivors and opportunities [inaudible] immigration officials did none of these things. insteads they pushed to incriminate her. tomorrow is the one year anniversary of superation from her 6 year old daughter. [inaudible] asian women shelter and asian law caucus as well as a coalition of community groups supporting her will hold a day of action here at city hall and city haulm plaza. i encourage you to join me in encourageing the california supreme court to overturn the charges and allow her to be reunitsed. you can help by attended 10 amp to noon at city hall tomorrow and tweeting your support with hash tag, stands with non we and not one more. we know her case isn't the firsto the last of immigrant domestic violence surviving failed. we hope by lifting her voice and other immigrant wem squn women of color they can be heard and the rest i submit >> thank you supervisor kim. supervisor mar >> thank you. colleagues i have a number of items, the first is eent displacement housing crisis item. it is a resolution in support of the national housing trust fund matched by our city t. is isn't a secret we stugal to find fundsing sources in san francisco and the fair market rent for 1 bedroom apartment in san francisco is about 3500 dollars a month while low income house holds can only pay 728 dollars a month t. is crazy housing situation for low and moderal income people. the shorj of homes available for low income house hold is a primary cause of homelessness. at the federal level congress established the national housing trust fund as a dedicated fund to proitd revenue to build preserve and offer housing for people with low income including people that are homeless. it will [inaudible] the state of [inaudible] develop the state allocation plan for the national housing trust funds and california allocation plan is required to give priority to projects based on 6 criteria one is the extents a project will use non federal dollars. it is the matching funds at the local level that are critical. the funding was one because of national mobilization headed by the national low income housing coalition and spear headed by the coalition on homelessness, tendser loin [inaudible] senior and disability action network. i want to thank james tracey and others for their amazing work in the communities. the resolution commits san francisco to match all national housing trust fund awarded to [inaudible] urges senators boxer and finestein and nancy pelosi to support with expanded sourceoffs revenue. this come weekend join me for the had 42 annual street fair august 1 and 2 in japan town. in 1984 i was a long haired volunteer. [inaudible] to me means home. it is where my daughter grew up and many people grow up feeling it is their home. in the 60's and 70's there was displacement japan town like the mission. [inaudible] membery grass roots organization tooz fight back. i think the street fair represents this nonl commercial grass roots street fair in one of the last [inaudible] also it represents creative expressionism in the street fair poster and represent station it is about justice self determination, re-dress and [inaudible] and other times eviction. i think the fair to me in the 42 year spresss asian pacific islander life through food, art, community out reach and service. i think the fmly festival has games and crafts including orgoma [inaudible] i think one of the key things for me is performers and performances. at the peace plaza coming up on saturday there is a band [inaudible] also san francisco tykeo joe joe at 5 and sunday at 12:30 there is a performance by professor anthony ground with poet jenny len and a favorite at the wester street stage at 3 p.m. [inaudible] lounch which used to be above the denys spot. their band pulse at 3 p.m. at the webster street stage sunday. i think the [inaudible] street fair represents community festivals and ask for people to support them as they mentor api youth and foster leadership and communication skills through the development of the festival. it is www dautd nehomauchy street fair.org. also this coming week next tuesday august 4th is the 3 aith 8 anniversary of one of the darkest days in san francisco history, the forced eviction of 200 tentants from the hotel. 6 to 8 p.m. commemorating the fall of [inaudible] in manila town center 868 kearny street. 3 thousand people created a human barricade to prevent eviction 200 immigrant older residence, filipinos and chinese. we called it the international hotel complex. it was their home. this day is remembered for a decade long fight in that helped ignoit the tenant right movements and across the u.s. today is the international hotel sat is transformed to provide loincome housing and senior house frg communities involved. this symbolizes the struggle to [inaudible] and civil rights and housing justice. for the mu naungs like uncle [inaudible] from china town and many others it represented a place that was their home and a fight for the cities soul and future. toort asian americans, african americans and latinos and [inaudible] today we have to learn from the i hotel history and apply it to todays conditions. it is aults important we remember the history and honor the past and plent day eviction fighters. that sh the theme of the 38 annual i hotel celebration 6-8 p.m. next tuesday. as you see frame the logo, the tiger-i think it it is represent thg spirit never forget the fighter spirit. join us tuesday from 6-8 in mu nilo town heritage foundation. also, this coming weekend or actually next weekend is the outside land festival returning to district 1 and golden gate park. august 7-august 9. this line up has a diverse spectrum of great bands, mediums arltest and. elten john to the black keys. same smith [inaudible] and many many different other artist. some others at the lower end of the head liners list, leonbridges, carl [inaudible] james bay, george esru, ben harper and billy idol. in addition to the music and street art the festival features local food and beverage, over 100 wineries brewery small business and restaurants that provide lots of great things to see at the festival. some of the notable attractions include an eco lourch powered by nrg to use solar power to charge the phones. wine taesting and many other types of activities. i think the organizers have done a great job. they continue their community hot line to respond to issues that residence have. the community hot line is 415. 872- 1650 and begins from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. at night. for parking problems there are 2 tow trucks and a parking control officer the respond it blocked drive ways. recreation and parks department printed signs. i have some in my car alerting not to block drive ways. you can get it at the front desk of 501 stanian as well as in my office in city hall room 284. over the years [inaudible] improved the responsiveness to community concern squz come about through my advocacy and oretds on the board. numerous community residence and openness of planet entertainment on ishuse of noise and sound there is improved monitoring of impact in the community and real time responsiveness from the organizeers of the festivals. a stronger annual outreach plan includesing a mailer and various information to home jz businesses within 4 blockoffs the park. i thij another key important improvement this past year and last is there are crew frz clean up and safety that are also along the perimeter of golden gate park where it use td be only inside the park. lastly, the resources that go toward the reck and park department and communities from the festival are important. nrchgz is at sf outside lands.com. my last item and next tuesday august 5 from fifen to aithd the richmond district police station will celebrate national night out. come out for free activities and keeping the neighborhoods safe at our police station at 6th avenue and geary. my last item is in memoriam. i'm sad to ask if we can close this meeting in honor of rose kelly. shees was a 61 euroolds retired muni operator in customer service who was strick and killed by a truck on 33 avenue monday july 20 about a week ago. she was crosing the street in the outer rip-mind and died at sf general hospital. she was a muni employee over 30 years. mrs. kelly is survived by alforeladyo arona and [inaudible] grand children,icateland [inaudible] in addition to serving the city as a muni employee rose kelly also volunteered in the community. she served for many years in the nursey of san francisco general hospital. she is remembered by friends and family for quick wit, generosity and love of life. tragic ly kelly kills was [inaudible] pulestren killings like this are the remind frr a urgent for road safety and safe streets for seniors and street funding. eerfb year about 30 people lose their lives. these deaths and injuries are unacceptable and preventable but have to challenge our culture of speeding and dangerous driving. in the spirit oof mrs. kelly, lets continue our work with walk sf senior and distublt action and pedestrian safety action to improve street safety. as a member of vision zero and work with the mta on safe routes to schools. people with disunlts and seniors and kids and familiesism hopefully these measures will continue to meet the cities vision zero goals of ending traffic deaths by 2024. condleances to rose kelly and thank you for letting us close the meeting in her honor >> thank you supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos >> i just have one item for the imperative agenda that i'll briefly talk about it. it is a resolution that marks the 70th year since the balming of her oges mu and nagasaki. i spent a weekend reading bare foot [inaudible] it is graphic novel from the eyes of a kid surviving her roges mu. the run up to the bomb being dropped in her roges mu and what his family went through in termoffs suffering and deprivation and hostile government in japan to had bomb being dropped and seeing his world taken away from him kw the years sponet dealing with radiation and family members and friends dropping one by one coming to rideration sickness. from the eyes of a young kid who was incense in experience of causing the war or suffering of a human being. to me it was incredible to read and the message from the book is we should not forget what happened, the suffering that went on. i honor my kids and their future and want to do a resolution recognizing that we are at 70 yoors from the balming of hero sheema and nagasaki. the kaets august 6, 1945 and august 9, 1945. these are at the end of the war. i want to the make sure this resolution also is not providing justification for the bomb nor condemning the bomb happened but recognizing the great toll on people not just the immediate victim squz those that suffered radiation about all humanity. we are living in a ijage [inaudible] i think it is important tee reflect on that especially as we look that 70 anniversary of these bombings. we haveeeing a time where this may be a anniversary event where the fewest number of people are survibe{probably the 80 anniversary will be the smallest numbers as well. also want to mention that we have added other markings this year, the holocaust in europe i think it is important to mention as well along side this 70th year of the bombings that changed the wurmd dramatically. just offering in my resolve claus nothing more than marking daying august 6 and 9 as a reflection of salinity. days we ecan reflect how nuclear weapons can beadolished and never used again. >> president breed >> thank you madam clerk. today colleagues i attended a pres conference for preserving affordable housing at frdric douglas hanes located in the western addition and it was actually built incluberation with the community under the redevelopment agency with third baptist church. it has a powerful history. the late mary helen rogers lived in this property and was very ininstrumental in its construction. it has 104 units, 80 percent are section 8 tenants and todays press conference was to stop the sale of this affordable housing complex by the non profit responsible for the care of this complex. this would completely jeopardize all these units and last thursday i was first along with the residence informed of the sale and it was disturbing and timely since i was inl new york last week with the san francisco mayors office of housing learning and exploring what new york is doing to aggress vly builds new afordable housing yurnts and also preserving their existing affordable housing stock. some may be familiar with the blauzio housing goal to provide a ambishish 200 thousand units of affordable housing but what is less whidely known is that number include 60 percent of existing housing units. preservation is at the forfront of this house plang, preserving affordable housing is key and 40 percent of the plan is for new production. like new york, san francisco must prioritize existing afoblt units like fredric douglas hanesism plike new york, san francisco acknowledges many units are developed using financing that require affordability but they are only affordable for a limit time. [inaudible] concern to me especially because many of those units are in my dist rblth and the san francisco redevelopment agency which put together the deal to make it possible no longer exists. right now in my district the fillmore center has 223 affordable units whos rent restrictions wim legally expire in december 2017 if we do nothing. 223 house holds, is about 500 people who can see their rent sky raup rocket. in addition to the fillmore center, there are developments in other districts that have in fact the same fate. we are work wg the mayors office of housing to look at a variety of ways to keep tenants safe and protected in these units. in new york i learned about tax incentives, grant programs density bonuses, using a erft to preserve and build affordable housing. in san francisco, we need to acknowledge that we don't have a comprehensive housing preservation plan and working together with the mayor and mayors office of housing and other agencies to sauchbl the issue, we can do it as well as supervisor cohen. to solve the problem it will cost money and require creativity. i'm willing to be front and center in this fight to protect our existing affordable housing stock and working on legislation coming this fall in order to address some of these issues. we were fortunate today with the fredric hanes property third baptist church worked with the community and our former city attorney lieu ease reny to file a stay in order to stop the sale and there is a lot of things happening behind the scenes with the residence in order to make sure we don't luce the 104 units. colleagues i want to bring this to your attention and make sure we all pay attention to our existing affordable -when she graduated [inaudible] she married [inaudible] a tokyo university graduate who pass td away in a automobile accident. in 1956, she took 2 week voyage by ship back to the united states and pursued a career as a language teacher. also i should mention this in memor mooreium is on behalf of myself and supervisor kim. it was here she met her second husband, mr. [inaudible] and at that time she organized a japanese language class for adults at marina junior high. her curriculum was integrated into city college [inaudible] knowing the benefits of learning the japanese language at a young age, mrs. hoary also introduced japanese language programs at loelhigh school and george washington high school. the programs were emensly popular from the start and continue today. because of her leadership she was asked to be the principle of [inaudible] which is the first japanese government sponsored pool in the san francisco bay area. we honor her life today-sorry. that never happen before, i apology. i honor her life today as a incredible teacher and pioneer whonishiated the japanese language program in san francisco's unified school district, the first program of its kind in the nation and in --she is survied by her children. she had 4 children and 4 grand children including her grand daughter who is yoin joining us today [inaudible] is here today, if you could stand. thank you for being here today. and her great grand daughter who is 1 years old. she was proceeded by her daughter [inaudible] at the age of 59. she was loved and will

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