Roll. Yes madam president. Supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar present. Supervisor tang not present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. Madam president you have a quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Will you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . Pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda . Nomad no, madam president there are no changes and there are no communications. Okay colleagues are there any changes to the Meeting Minutes . Motion by by supervisor mar seconded by supervisor cohen without objection the meetings are approved pending public comment. Madam clerk, can you please call our special order . The first item of business is the policy discussion between the mayor and the board of supervisors the mayor may make initial remarks not to exceed 5 minutes and the president will recognize the questions and as long as the entire discussion doesnt exceed 5 minutes per supervisor. Okay at this time we will recognize the supervisor from the great district of district ten supervisor cohen oh, before we do so, the mayor has some opening remarks. Oh, of course. Thank you president breed its good to see everybody this past weekend for the entire bay areas s enjoyment of our new years new years celebration and the year of the ram and want to congratulate the Chinese Chamber of commerce and all of their thousands of volunteers and i want to acknowledge the grand marshall this year was your public works director and of course i want to thank him and all of his staff for keeping our city clean and beautiful they work very hard and i see them around the entire city so when you have an opportunity please thank their staff as they continue all of our corridor cleaning and thank president breed and the board on the end of construction for the citys navigation center. We know the status quo is not acceptable and theres still too many people on our streets and well Work Together to help our homeless residents change their lives for the better and this approach will help Homeless People reconnect with their loved ones at home and move off of our streets and into stable housing or residential treatment programs and get access to services that they need to stabilize their lives and in fact through our housing and family reunification efforts our city has helped more than 19 thousand people leave the streets with 11 thousand moving into Supportive Housing that weve built since 2004 and we take pride in being the city of Saint Francis and healthy San FranciscoHousing First treatment on demand and project homeless connect and now the nations most progressive minimum wage and our new project called 500 with a focus on intense services and Case Management for our most at risk families and i just want to thank the Interfaith Council for their partnership and working with our board of supervisors and City Departments to launch this center that will provide counselors to intake new clients provide meals and safe shelter and connect Homeless People with their Critical Social Services and as you know, part of this effort is to master lease single units and they are being lined up as we speak and we hope this will be another model that i think we, as a city, can be proud of and with that eager to get to supervisor cohens question. Thank you mayor welcome and at that time id like to recognize supervisor cohen from district ten. Thank you good afternoon everyone. Mr. Mayor thank you for coming. Just one very short question for you but it has a long preamble and so i begin so mr. Mayor we both discussed our mutual desires to increase the number of serving businesses along the corridor and worked with your office of Workforce Development to support existing businesses attract new businesses and to Fund Improvements in an effort to increase foot traffic and better serve the surrounding community however several city agencies and nonprofits including the Human Service agency have been looking for office space along the corridor and while these organizations provide key services they are competing for the same spaces needed for new businesses and weve identified office space surrounding the merchant corridor and where these services can expand and weve also proposed ways that these nonprofits and city agencies might partner together to leverage their collective resources to lease or buy new space. Given that we have room for both new businesses and expanding departments in the bayview, do you support efforts for commercial businesses . What is your position on where various city agencies should locate in the bayview which includes hsa thank you. Thank you for your question supervisor cohen and i know you and i both share say vision to support our neighborhoods throughout your district and throughout the city and i want to thank you for supporting my invest in Neighborhoods Initiative and a variety of programs along the third street corridor and i want to name some of them im proud these companies exist and theres auntie aprils where i get to have chicken and waffles once in a while and southern sweets and when anita lets me and the bbq is my next visit and the market and lag u. N. A tacueria to name a few and these businesses have struggled they are always about family and i know as they both survive and just last month i had the pleasure of walking the corridor along third street where southern sweets is. She started her business as a single mother and now shes a staple in the bayview and i want to see more businesses like yvonnes continue to be successful in our neighborhoods for years to come and thats why this initiative will continue to attract businesses to vacate store fronts for a thriving corridor. Supervisor, to answer your question, the simple answer is yes, that we need to i think emphasize for the commercial corridors Small Businesses that could be located there. And ive seen these efforts with our invest in neighborhoods not only thrive but been very successful and in fact throughout the rest of the city weve had a 2 percent drop drop in vacancy rates as a result of this initiative and with that rate we need more of that attention and well be able to get there in the next few years and i want to see things improve in the right direction for the bayview as i know you do and this project is good and supports the vision that that the community has defined for itself and im in support of the complete neighborhoods but the emphasis should be on commercial ideas. I think that the best solution to this challenge that you have articulated is to have our agencies are looking to expand work within the confines of a plan that the neighborhood has adopted along with your leadership and that should help identify spaces that are appropriate for business and spaces that are appropriate for agencies and also spaces that are appropriate for a variety of nonprofits. City agencies should find more creative ways to establish themselves and i will honor that commitment but i also know that theres a lot of nonprofits that could spark a lot of filling of vacancies just as we see along midmarket street thank you for your question. Thank you. Thank you very much mr. Mayor we appreciate you stopping by today. Thank you. Madam clerk, will you please read the consent agenda. Items 2 through 4 considered routine and if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. Seeing none will you please call the the role. Supervisor kim supervisor kim eye. Supervisor tang aye. Supervisor yee aye. Supervisor avalos aye. President breed aye. Supervisor campos aye. Supervisor christensen aye. Supervisor cohen aye. Supervisor farrell aye there are 11 ayes. These items are finally passed and adopted nan under unanimously. Item five is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish a legacy business registry and authorize an an administrative fee. I just want to thank all of the folks who worked with us to make this happen its very exciting that well be the first city in the country to have a registry for legacy businesses and i want to thank my cosponsors supervisor supervisor farrell and supervisor mar and the emphasis behind this is how we as a we as a city can help long time businesses that have given character to our neighborhoods that are being pushed out and this is a first step in this direction and i ask for your support. Colleagues without objection this ordinance is finally passed. Can you please call the next item madam clerk. Extend the reduction of building coincide code fees and to affirm the planning departments determination. Same house same call this ordinance is passed on the First Reading unanimously item 7. The Competitive Bidding requirement and to authorize the director of public works to enter into a construction contract with pneumatic tube Products Company in an amount not to exceed 953 thousand for for for the Delivery System at San Francisco general hospital. Passed unanimously. Item 8. Emergency public work contracts under administrative code section 660 with Design Space Modular Buildings Inc and albert electric which will comprise fire station 48 to house fire operations on treasure island. Same house same call without objection this is adopted unanimously. Item 9. Authorize the general manager of the puc to execute a new tenyear Water Service contract for continued Water Service to the Lawrence Livermore national lab with estimated revenue through december 21 2034. Without objection this resolution is adopted man under man muffle. Item 11. Same house same call without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously next item please. Item 11 to authorize the department of Public Health to accept and expend a one a 1 million grant to participate in a program entitled bay area trauma and assistance of care september 30th through through september 29th. Without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously next item. Item 12 to approve the award of a licenses and Services Agreement to the Development Foundation to use the citys intellectual property for an applicationbased trip free collection service. Same house same call without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item number 13 resolution to retroactively perform various activities as part of a bay area Regional Network program. Same house same call without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously madam collect please call item 14. An ordinance to compel persons producing drugs for sale in San Francisco to participate in a drug steward ship program to provide for implementation and enforcement and fees and penalties and making environmental findings. President breed thank you before you today is legislation that addresses both a Public Safety and an environmental concern. What we do with leftover medication. Flushing medication down the toilets and then to the Sewage Treatment plants that are not designed to remove them meaning the chemicals end up polluting the bay and putting drugs in the trash also pose risk as the chemicals can either leak out of landfills or get pumped to the sewage plants and not get removed. Its easy to think you can close the medicine cabinet and forget about it and unfortunately that can have the worst consequences of all. The california poison control system states that more than 90 percent of accidental poisonings happen in the home last year san franciscans called the Poison Control Center over 46 hundred times about pharmaceutical expose ures and nationally people died of Prescription Drug overdoses in 2013 and the cdc states that 15 thousand people die every year from prescription painkiller overdoses and thats more than heroin and cocaine combined so unwanted and expired medications are not just an environmental problem they they can be a Public Safety risk and we may not be able to prevent or remove all chemicals from the bay but we can do something here in San Francisco to help. This legislation will require drug manufacturers with city oversight to fund and operate full collection programs just as they do throughout europe colombia and brazil and directly to the north and south in canada and mexico and consumers could simply place their old medications in secure drop off bins in pharmacies or return by mail all at no cost and without an increase in drug prices San Francisco has actually been operating a Pilot Program for about 3 years and in that time our pilot has faithfully collected 23. 5 tons of medicine. Thats 47 ,000 pounds of chemicals that would not end up in our bay or in the wrong hands because of this program and imagine how much more we could collect and properly dispose of if we could include more drop off locations citywide and the ordinance before you today colleagues will provide a longterm safe medical did i medical dispose al program and its informed by the similar programs in alameda and king county washington and also supported by a Diverse Coalition of supporters ive ever seen the San FranciscoPolice Department the puc the department of the environment the department of Public Health the San Francisco medical society representing over 15 hundred physicians and medical students and the dog pack of San Francisco and the San FranciscoSuicide Prevention and alcohol justice and the National Coalition of alcoholism and other drug addictions bay area and statewide environmental retail and senior groups including california product steward ship council and the California Retailer Association and green cities California California against waste the California Association of retired americans and National Organizations including National Resources defense council, the clean water action, the National Coalition against Prescription Drug abuse and the product steward ship institution and we have a letter of strong support from all 12 of the independent pharmacies that have been participating in the citys Pilot Program and in considering this issue we can either side with the Police Officers the environmentists or Drug Treatment Centers or seniors in our own City Department or we can side with the Drug Companies and we had almost 2 and a half hours of testimony so i i wont revisit every detail here but i want to address a few questions ive heard in recent days first i know some will say this legislation wont remove all pharmaceuticals from our waters or stop addiction. I know that i would never argue this is a cure all but i also dont think we should do nothing just because we cant do everything would we be better off if those 23 million tons of drugs had gone into the bay or landfill instead . Second, some ask why we dont add a fee onto retail drug prices and the department of of the environment explained the rational and the concept that a company should actually be responsible for the products it creates and ill add that this program will cost in the in in the range of 4 to 5 hundred 500,000 compared to the sales Drug Companies do in this city every year and third a question why is it not mandatory for retailers and ive been working closely with pharmacy operators in the city including kaiser and wal greens and cvs and im confident they will participate when the program is launched. It is a value add for their customers so will we be able to get 55drop off locations citywide as this legislation seeks . Ive added an amendment with those two plus all ten police stations and the 13 locations in the pilot, we have 25 locations we are coming out of gates with half of the drop off locations that the program already needs as we heard in committee in king county washington 86 pharmacies have already made Firm Commitments to participate in this program and per section 2205 b1 the program can use other collection methods if there are not enough Retail Locations available. I will not support an amendment to make participation mandatory for retailers. The California Retailers Association just sent a a letter expressing their commitment to keep working with the department on this ordinance after it passes. If for some reason the retailers dont act in good faith as they absolutely have been we can always revisit the idea of making it mandatory and lastly we intentionally left out flexibility in the ordinance for drug manufacturers to determine the most effective and efficient way to operate the program my hope is that they will setup a third party funded by manufacturers in amounts proportionate. The department of environment will be there to oversee and assist in every step of the way its not our role as legislators to operate or micromanage this program but to empower the department to lead and give then their success with the pilot and the talent of their ed Debbie Rafael, i have every confidence the department will succeed i want to thank my cosponsor supervisor mar and supervisor yee and to many of the folks like Debbie Rafael and Maggie Johnson at the department of the environment and all of the stakeholders and supporters throughout the city and county. San francisco wont back down from protecting our environment or protecting Public Safety now is the time for us to pass this law and make it convenient and safe for san franciscans to do the right thing with their leftover medication. Colleagues, i hope you will support this legislation today. Thank you. Thank you president breed supervisor yee. Thank you and thank you president breed for such a you know, detailed summary of the discussion we had at the gao committee we had a very lengthy discussion there and there were actually many many questions that were asked and it was a really good discussion and i want to thank all of the stakeholders that actually showed up for that discussion it lasted for 2 and a half hours but i wanted to also acknowledge as you have, debbie, from the San Francisco department of environment because some of the questions that were asked and i appreciate there was a follow up memo basically the answers to many of the questions that were asked and they were very thorough and i could see there shouldnt be any holes for anybody to criticize that we that we shouldnt be doing this and certainly when i asked for examples of timeline, some people may be concerned about whether we can do this in the period that we cited in the legislation, it was pretty evident that from alamedas effort and from kings canyon in washington that this is really really doable and you cited, president breed kings county up in washington and in 3 months they were able to do this it didnt take much time to actually reach out. They have 8 pharmacies already signed up and so forth and i really appreciate it and i hope everybody else here my colleagues will support it also. Thank you supervisor yee supervisor kim supervisor kim. Thank you i want to add my name as a cosponsor. Okay colleagues is there any additional commentary on this item . Okay seeing none colleagues can we take this item same house same call . Okay without objection this ordinance is adopted nan under unanimously on the First Reading. Okay. Madam clerk. Thanks colleagues. Madam clerk can you please call item number 15. An ordinance to amend the planning code when adding dwelling units to existing buildings undergoing retrofit and making the the appropriate findings. Supervisor wiener. Thank you very much madam president colleagues today before us is legislation that will allow for the addition of accessory dwelling units also known as in law units in buildings either undergoing mandatory or voluntarily retro fits and provide an incentive to add new accessible moderate typically moderate Income Housing without public subsubsidy and for buildings to provide seismic retrofit and this builds upon the castro unification that creates new rent control units in San Francisco because the legislation provides that if a unit is added into an existing rent contro