and to my left is supervisor kim and mrs. want to recognize we have a guest with with us our friend and colleague supervisor campos our clerk mr. victor young i'd like to recognize jennifer lowe and jim smith our techs helping us to broadcast in committee meeting i also would like to ask the clerk to make any announcements at this time. >> yes. please silence all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the september 29, 2015, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much mr. clerk, call item one of the amending the public works code for the flood management code to have a minor code for the public works commission grant funds are exemption from payment of right-of-way assessment fee subsidies. >> wow. that's a mouth full supervisor campos would you like to make a announcement. >> thank you to supervisor wiener and supervisor kim for hearing this i represent district 9 excluding an area of admission that has been tale with the issue of glood for quite a few the legislation before you is a simple amendment to the code so that it specifically to the public works code so that small businesses and property owners who are in those flood prone areas and they make change to the property it addresses the issue of them not paying and fee that's been the case up to now this amendment the code in such a way in the property owner is doing flood water management work with the help and finance assistance of b uc including grant fund they've not be charged a public right-of-way assessment fee should they encroach into the sidewalk give you a little bit of background on march 19 of this year we held a hearing on the issue of intersection and fulsome in my district actually, the lowest point good gaefk of the city this has been a flood zone for many, many years during that hearing we discussed with the puc and community member ideas and ways to address the flooding and actually developed from that hearing a working group in two ideas come out of that yipping the ideas that are moving forward one is to customize the puc flood grant program to mediate the niece of local businesses and restaurants this guess something the puc is doing i'm grateful to the general manager and staff for the work and the second idea was in issue of a fee waiver waving fee subsidies if those projects involved a minor encroachment and, of course, the puc and my office has been working with the property owners in this neighborhood it make that happen and you know when you look at this is congressman california exempting those from annual fee subsidies make it easier for the small businesses and tenants to pursue swayed their property owners to apply for grants from the public works it will also incentivizes the floodwater grant program to encourage property owners to lower the risk of damage harm and storm events and finally to ease the burden on the public works when people participant in the program in their running their funded have to going through this process an example we actually have chris vicky who is in the audience a small business owner and property owner in this area and as he will explain as he was trying to address the issue of flooding he was actually charged and assessed by the city an encroach fee of $2,200 per month this is a fee the city was charging to fix a sunk in sidewalk in front of the property he was the trying to raise to the original level i want to say that the puc worked with chris hickory and most of fee was eventually waved but we don't need to have a situation where property owners have to go to through this process that is why this piece of legislation is here i'm proud to say the legislation was received very well by the sxhauks that unanimously supported the legislation and i hope you'll support it today i'd like to thank again, the public works, staff, for working on this also the department of public works for their support around this legislation and i specifically want to thank the small business owners and the residents in my sdrint district in this neighborhood in particular who have been volunteering their time to work with us to make this happen i also want to thank carolyn in my office that's been spending a great deal of time on this very important issue important so with that, unless you have questions of me i'd like to ask kathy the assistant general manager the public works and kathy thank you and your staff for all the work. >> thank you, supervisors i just to give you a little bit of background the san francisco giants developed the floodwater grant program in 2013 to encourage san francisco property owners to make improvements it to their property to lower the risk of waters flooding risk and the interest in the grant program has increased for several reasons several jimbo bob major storms caused flooding last year, it was extended to benefit the constituents and focus and there's been focus on a widely anticipated el nino and supervisor campos gave you an example of the improvement but another example if a property owner wanted to put a removeable barrier in front of their house was anchored to the building but protruded over the sock they'll be assessed a fee the current code for any reason improvement of an annual fee every year they'll pay the 22 hundred that mr. hickory was paying it can only reinforce the comings but not reinforce for annual fee subsidies so the proposed amendment to the public works code requires a permit but wave the fee subsidies so passing this legislation would extend the incentive of the floodwater grant a he help the pertaining to reduce their risk of damage in storm events. >> thank you. >> colleagues, any other questions in not i'll go to public comment. seeing none, let's open up for public comment i've got a few comment cards we have (calling names) please come up up a soft chime you'll have 30 seconds left. >> i'm hank fixing a cars an fulsome for 36 years chris's neighborhood i urge you to ratify this amendment thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> i'm chris hickory who had the fee seated against me i moved into the neighborhood 3 years my building flooded twice in the fir that will take a long time to fix the problem so i decided i've got an 18 thousand square feet so i raised the ground floor to its original height and the sidewalk that costs almost a million dollars it protects the building but the sidewalk get raised and slopes so because of that the amendment fee and improvement is $2,000 i year i was shocked no guaranteed goes unpishtdz thanks to the help of the public works and mr. supervisor campos that's a huge thing if you think about 10 years it raised a lot of money but ultimately we need to fix the problem once again and i'd like to see if you could put pressure in getting it done in the long run thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi my name is malcolm i own a building at fulsome we've had newcomer slides i hope this legislation will get passed i'm disappeared it is important traced as the solution to the problem that is not a solution one band-aid a serious flooding and now a park that will make the flooding worse it is elevated above the park it will the sliding will go down to ribbon grocery this is short-sighted a piece of legislation is a good idea but the attendance is not satisfactorily we talked about 3 steps to the problem short time solution and mid and long term we're talking about right now is fixing the code we're not even talking about fixing the problem i think it is ridiculous like the park that is proposed there is is environmental impact report did not consider flooding the parks is supposed to start construction in january and no for the storage the city owned the parcel of land that used to be a mash it could be restored but that's not the way the city works panhandle that's my piece. >> thank you for your commenting we'll try to get you answers to your question. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisor jane kim and supervisor david campos and supervisor wiener the entire town for right now for the past months it is continuing on stockton street and all the way to jackson it is beyond the transit and construction sites it creates lots of construction machinery and parked along the pathway the pavement everywhere i don't think this is necessary the free the financial aspect of such a construction it seems like two which of a construction happening in stockton chinatown i go every morning and stand by the corner of stockton and slausen so the construction machines too much of them too much. >> thank you public comment is closed. at this point, i'd like to invite ms. health how up to address one of the questions shooe she harder and directed to the code supervisors. >> we will be meeting with the community again in mid-october and so we still are looking at short time and midterm and long term solutions it hadn't dropped off the table we'll present some of those ideas in october. >> great supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much i want to reiterate the need to have some of these structural solutions it seems i know it is on fulsome every time we have rain and there's a flood in my district we had massive flooding last defenseless and people can't live in their homes it is a structural issue that needed to be addressed i know someone has occurred costs and want to express to the agency as i have to senior management at the agency we need to address those issues and we have some very frustrated residents who are rightfully nerve what is going to happen as soon as we enter into a el 99 last time it was not rainy and imagine a 1997 style el nino what's going to happen it is time sensitive. >> i hear and just to remind you the storms from last did he we were in a krauths drought those were an stenos storm not typical but public works is looking at all 3 areas of flooding la iron and some others and fulsome thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor campos. >> thank you particular and the speakers this is part a large process that has been going on for many years we have been working on this in any office and we will continue to push for that short term midterm and long term solution and you know we continue to believe the city has to be more we'll continue to advocate and push for that and so you know we have heard hearings and meetings and we're not going to give up on the issue in terms of the the park it is a you know there are strong feelings about that issue and hopefully, when the process comes before this board in terms of approval people have an opportunity to comment i think we need to address the issue the code and ton to work on some of the long-term solutions. >> i agree with you supervisor campos is there a motion? >> so moved. >> a position to approve. >> can this pass without objection thank you thank you supervisor campos mr. clerk, call item 2. >> item 2 is an ordinance amending the planning code to eliminate the urban mixed use that the property owners to lower their inclusionary affordable housing requirements in the eastern neighborhood benefit fee subsidies by agreeing to have their market rate as retro to units for 20 years. >> supervisor kim is the sponsor of this item and she has a few openly remarks. >> thank you chair cowen this actually came from when this item was heard before land use and two developments it take advantage the rental sensitive programs from the eastern neighborhood plan those that we're building in this district after that sorry the u z zoning area after the developers i asked them whether or not a sensitive was needed i introduce a change in the planning code to reflect the different housing market than when the eastern neighborhood process since 2009 it has been offered to the project manager to encourage instead of the homeownership and an amendment was passed in 2009 to reduce developer obligations by that 4 to 5 percent on the inclusionary housing for qualified projects in 2009 this amendment was passed the rebel projects represented zero percent of projects today, the rental projects represent 84 given the delivery of the rental utilities not an incentive but the strongest in san francisco it is appropriate to remove the sfefz to make sure the developer are building what we expect them to in terms of affordable housing stock noting this fact several projects were entitled and condos changed directions and coming online without in incentive and indeed as i mentioned i spoen spoke with the developers not the incentive that is motivates them to build the rental units but the market supervisors i'm glad to see this was recommended by approval by the planning department staff and the staff is here to present after your consideration. >> thank you, supervisor kim. >> aaron star manager of the legislative affairs supervisor kim went over the ordinance the planning commission on august 2015 and voted unanimously to recommend approval to the board of supervisors and they found the increase in the made the program unnecessary without this the supervisors found the impact fees unjustified that concludes my remarks. >> come folks it on for item number 2 any public comment that wants to speak seeing none, public comment is closed for item 2. >> thank you is there a motion for in item. >> i'd like to make a motion would recommendation. >> we'll take that without objection. this motion passes mr. clerk, call item 3. >> item number 3 an ordinance amending the planning code by the citywide sustainability fee and spending the applications of the impact fee to clarify affordable housing and homeless shelters exemplification from the sustainability fee making conforming the amendments to the area fee and the planning code. >> thank you, colleagues i've heard from many folks last week and following the planning commission we've received many recommendation and comments that in my view need more time for consideration i prototypes we move to continue this until september 28th land use. >> we'll take that without objection. this motion passes comment. >> yes. thank you very much public comment on items 3 i've got two cards one from charley cross and another one from edward mason. >> thank you supervisors or supervisors i'm charley vice president its san francisco state university we sent a letter this morning and perhaps you haven't read it i want to highlight the city compromises the impact fee and ucsf has been exempt as a result of charitable exemption that exemption will be eliminate by the proposed transportation sustainability fee any posts secondary institution that has a master plan will no longer be eligible for the exception ucsf is the only major university that will be impacted by this change of legislation and only the following institutions require a full i m t the california art institute and doifrt and ucsf and the academy of arts not able by thely the california of arts is a nonprofit and cca is a small institutions does not have significant plans on the horizon i o p moved and won't be doing construction are ucsf has student housing and academic space and hoping to build in two phases contemplated by the rfp we'll have the comping $8 million those costs are significant for ucsf and not courage our mission ucsf serves a difference body with great financial needs ucsf housing plans have an impact on the infrastructure and limit the growth on the hilltop and moving students on campus we're providing mini pays for the students $1.6 million per year and other transportation sports for the you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> growth funds no exemption all development impact transit and bicycle safety cumulative effects of the housing or remolding eventually impact everyone the nexus shows growth is not funding growth the residents pay the difference and $87 a square feet and ucsf is $18 plus an 84 percent reduction and t s f is 75 percent discount the stakeholders will fund the mitigation costs by future bonds and parking increases raising it they inhibit the south side that will not be constructed and future expansion of huge hospitals should not be given a free pass the point of impact mitigation considered and fee subsidies not cross town hall entirely the shuttle and van services must be available to the public like public and private and in the presidio intuitively the green house gas emissions are made the delivery industry such as the express should be eliminated and mta searchers for a training facility and may not be priced out of the city sunlight of growth and fire department will availability this treasure island development authority board and growth must be funded and san francisco there's a victorian in 1909 now 5 bedrooms and 5 car garage and there this legislation it gets a free pass along with other construction and remodeling that will occur. >> thank you. >> public comment okay seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you shall we take the vote again paroleely. >> yes. please. according to the district attorney motion to continue item 3 to the september 28th land use committee this is an unanimous motion that motion passes unanimously mr. clerk anything else on the agenda. >> no other items on the adjoined. >> thank you. this meeting is adjoined thank you. >> >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come. >> let's get started. this meeting will come to order. this meeting is the government audit and oversight committee for september 17, 2015. to my right is vice chair julie christensen and president breed has appointed supervisor mar in her place. could i have a motion to excuse president breed for the meeting. >> so moved. >> without objection the motion passes. [gavel] supervisor mar will join us briefly. he's in traffic right now. the committee clerk is erica major and the committee would like to recognize the staff from sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. madam clerk do you have any announcements? >> please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be part of the file somebody submitted to the clerk. items will be on the september 29 board of supervisors agenda anyplace otherwise stated. >> okay. can you please call item 1. >> item 1 is a hearing to discuss the city's response plan in the event of a forest or brush fire within the city and county of san francisco. >> okay. so colleagues i have called this hearing today to discuss the response plan and the event of a urban forest or brush fire taking place in san francisco. i want to make it real clear my intent here is to really listen, just to the fire department, and to emergency management department to really see if we're really ready for this type of situation. i know there's been some confusion on this issue. people are thinking that this is about cutting down trees and it's not, so i want to make it real clear to the audience and watching this on tv that this is about being ready for forest fires that can happen in the city. as you know san francisco has many areas that consider many forests. there are places like telegraph hill. russian hill, mt. davidson. golden gate park just throughout san francisco you have these small areas of heavy vegetation, and i grew up in the russian hill area and i remember as a little kid on the backside of the home basically is a big huge area of everybody's backside in which there were no fences. it was basically vegetation back there and one day it caught fire, and about seven or eight homes got heavily damaged. this was in the 50's, and one of the things that i didn't when i was watching as a kid the firefighters i realized how difficult it was them to get in there to the back, climb up the hills and so forth and that left a mark on me in realizing that fighting that type of fire is really different from fighting a fire of a building, so and here we are. we're faced with a four year drought. vegetation throughout san francisco, throughout the bay area, throughout california is rather dry. even san francisco is blessed with what we call the natural air conditioning, the fog, it doesn't take that much, that many days -- like you have two weeks ago when the weather was very hot. a couple of days of hot weather, low humidity will just provide or give you the condition that can be very, very awful for fires, and today is not about let's hope there is going to be a fire. i hope there never be a urban fire like the oakland hills in the 90's or if anybody has been around long enough there was the beverly hills fire in the 70's. we don't want that to happen in san francisco but the question today we're trying to answer is if there is a fire that catches, whether it's a brushes or trees or whatever, are we ready in san francisco? so that's what we're going to answer today. as you know we have seen the deftation just this week of the valley fire in napa, lake and sonoma counties with 61 -- probably growing. it's more than 61,000 acres of burned area with almost probably i would say 600 homes that got completely burned down. this is just really a reminder we must prepare in san francisco. i hope this hearing will be fruitful in the discussion how our city departments and how our constituents can work with these departments to do their part to ensure that families and loved ones that safe and our city remains resilient, so first up i would like to call on chief hayes-white to maybe have some opening remarks and call her staff to talk about this issue. >> thank you. good morning chair yee, supervisor christensen, joe an hayes-white san francisco fire department. i would like to applaud you supervisor yee and not only you're in my district but i don't recall in my time as chief we had a discussion in the legislative branch of government on this topic so it's very timely as you referred there has been great devastation throughout our state throughout the last several months including the fact that we had 30 firefighters deployed. we just had 22 return last night from the butte fire and then we have remaining eight at the valley fire, and so everyone loves to come to san francisco, but it is challenging from a firefighter perspective. i was a training director for four years and the bulk of training is in relg to structural fight fighting but we have things in the city as you mentioned and the golden gate park and the presidio and a whole number of areas. also under the freeways there is vegetation as well, so we pride ourselves on training. we have componentos wildlife fire fighting and we have groups able of the master mutual aid agreement with the state and we deploy our firefighters per that agreement throughout the state to help battle fires so what we prepared today is a presentation on our resources that we have, some of the training that we have, and then we're certainly able to answer any questions for you. i am very appreciative and sensitive to the fact that we have beautiful open space here in san francisco. as a mother of three boys we've enjoyed many of the parks and so forth although as fire chief i have children just to make sure there is a balance between vegetation as well as good solid urban forestry management to mitigate the fuel load as we would call it, and proper attention, and forestry management, so i would like now to introduce the deputy chief of operations, mark gonzales and give you an update on the vegetation fires in the city and followed by lieutenant mary shea from fire prevention and talk about the collaborative efforts with department of public works and recreation and park department and a good partnership existed and we're going to continue to remind everyone including our partners at ucsf. we went through a process two years ago where they did significant training and creation of defensible space and we're looking at those things as well with them so at the end of the presentation we're happy to answer any questions. good morning supervisor mar as well. deputy chief gonzales. >> good morning supervisor yee, supervisor christensen, supervisor mar. this is my presentation. it's on the urban wild land interface operations. can you pull it up? okay. thank you. so the first slide is just showing from 2012-15 the types of calls we've had. the list of call types they're including graphs, brush and vejingtation and -- vegetation and forest and including trees. this shows some of the specialized equipment we had for a while. right now they're stationed in the southeastern part of the city. as chair yee mentioned we have fog and even during the drought the rest of the city, the west and the northwest gets the fog. the best weather is in hunters point southeast so that's where it's driest and one of the concerns is mclaren park so the four mini-pumpers are in that area and we have front line stations in the city and a lot of those companies have been trained with immediate need and trained with wild land operations and the chief mentiond that we have over 200 firefighters that do that. the main prusmers able to access areas not accessible by the engines and carry water and equipped with smaller hoses so they're maneuverable and get in and out quick. we use the mini-pumpers at special events and get in and out of crowds for trash fires or vegetation fires within the events. some of the tools that are carried on the mini-pumpers and some of the engineers one is a pulaiivegy and it's on one head and rigid handle of fiberglass. it's a versatile tool for fire breaks and dig soil and chop wood. often time there is is a little fire up on bush or brush they can knock it out with this and just smoother it. second specialized tool the mccloud. this combination of rig and tools used by firefighters to cut through things and declare loose surface material. the next slide we have five of these engines that we bought from the state for a pretty good price a few years ago. when we send a strike team out as we did to the butte fire this is the five engineer engines we sent out and it was assistant chief franklin and brought an assistant with him so they're assigned by the state to the fire whether it's structure defense or setting up a defensive line. a lot of the other equipment is wild land use and shovels and the things i mentioned before and wear different personal protection equipment so the turn outs and pants that we wear in the city are a lot heavier and these are lighter and there is still fire protection but you can imagine being in the heat all day long and going through a diagram yoga class and the training as the chief mentioned. >> >> happens every year as part of our training. we adopted the state interface wildlife manual and be consistent with the state and we work with them on the operations. >> could i ask a quick question? >> yes, sir. >> in regards to the 200 firefighters that's been trained how many of them have actually gone taken part in these strike teams or had experience find fighting these fires? >> i don't have those stats in hand. i would say most of them. definitely with the last few seasons we've had they have all gotten to experience it i would venture to say. i do know that 20-25 years ago when we went out not as many were trained at all. we were city firefighters. we did some of the things if parks or guards got caught we sent them out but we didn't have the mini-pumpers and training. i am comfortable that all of the firefighters went through this need but as well as this component it's 200 so they're planned to go out on the strike teams and like if oakland hills happened again we would pick from the 10 engines we have trained in that specialty as well. >> thank you. >> the next -- i skipped ahead too much. so the next slide is 2014 is just a grass and outside fire responses. you could see it better on the map here. i thought it show up better on the screen but it's denoted by the red flag icons and dispatch called for multiple units is by the blue icons and you can't tell by the size of the map. i apologize by that. if they're bigger we went to the same area more than once. the little red engines and you can barely see them (off mic). bought from the state. they're also in the southeastern part so whether we get called for the mutual aid deployments the process is the engines go to 19th and forsom and meet up with the strike team leader and assistant and grab the equipment there and take off whether going north, south, east -- >> supervisor christensen. >> can you bring the map up? when we see it closer it's easytory read so understandably it seems like some of these are occurring under the edges of golden gate park, some of the open land, but i am seeing clusters of them along major roadways so are those dots that i see and bay street or the embarcadero in the northeast? >> yes, where there are patches of open land but actually there is a big correlation if you noticed near the freeways, so a lot of open lands that caltrain has and -- caltrans excuse me. 101, 280, 80, all along and open patches of lands that we respond to do knock those out. >> so i am imagining your tracking probable cause for these as well. the roadway could be cigarettes or automobiles but we have encampments in some of the areas. >> if it's not obvious to the officer if it's a single unit or a multiunit we send out the task force to find out what the cause is. >> would you hazard to guess what the most frequent cause is? >> i could guess and say you're probably on the right track. >> yeah, so it's inhabitants -- >> or a cigarette and at the off ramp and a bush to the right they throw it out, one or the other. >> thanks. >> we had a pretty good size fire that i consider urban wild land interface but we're not considered that type of city. it's a different definition. it's forest near a city. with the fire on the east side, you may remember that and affected the bay bridge traffic a couple of years ago and pretty significant and as i mentioned mclaren park can get going pretty well. the last slide is from 2015 same call types, the imagines are in the same. >> engines are in the same place but our objective is protect lives and civilian and department and members and protect the structures and mitigate the situation and i am proud of our teams and they have done a really good job. these fire conditions are -- [inaudible] members haven't seen. they're creating their own weather systems and imimpressive of the job and i am proud of them. if you have any questions i am glad to answer them. >> you talk about other areas of mutual aid and i assume it's reciprocated also if we ever needed help? >> that's correct. >> okay. which i guess county that would be -- >> we're in region two. there are six regions in the state. we're in the 1/2 of the region two and it's made up of 90 counties. we have an agreement with them. more immediate need we go to front line engines. everyone else and mutual aid sends five engines and strict -- strike leaders and we will send out what we can but we have to maintain the fleet in the city. the concern in the city is we have wood buildings in the districts and they're all next to each other so we need to keep our fleet of engines up to partoo and we're trying to get that done as well. >> do you know if these other locations, other counties, whether or not they're as well trained as our firefighters? >> i would say some -- i would say most just as or sometimes more because that's what they do predominantly. that's primarily what they do. >> and in regards to we have engines here and again there's some freak thing that happened and something gets out of hand do we have access to air lift of water -- what do you call those airplanes that dump the water? >> we can order on anything we might need from the state and if the state has the asset we would get it. >> do you know where the closest plane would be? >> i have heard -- this is pointed out. last i heard moffett field. they're close if we need them. >> so they can get here within 30 minutes? >> now, i would venture to say no because most of the planes are busy at the other fires. >> right. >> but historically throughout the city's history we have never done that. >> okay. supervisor mar. >> quickly i wanted to ask about the golden gate park dispatching and also there's an area in central heights where the cliff house is where there have been a number of incidences according to the maps and old houses with big backyards that butt up against city and federal property but i see there are single unit dispatches and multiple unit dispatches and there has been some changes in patterns from 2014-2015 but when it's multiple unit dispatch my guess is that's a more severe fire so you're using more units? >> they're want final call types the way it was pup pulled up and initial call types and what they said to the 911 taker and oftentimes they're people camp fire down by the beach but we had a good fire there i remember in the last two years that was going pretty well and actually some of the companies were asking for mini-pumper engines over there and it's a compromised area and it would entail getting another mini-pumper which is a little bit of money. >> right. and most of the golden gate park is in district 1. i see that the katy tang district site had significantly more for an increase in a year of the single unit dispatches along lincoln way and do you see patterns and changes like that as the homeless shift isn't park? >> i would agree where you're going with that maybe. i haven't been around golden gate park lately. my travel is from bernal heights in that area but i don't know if the homeless population has increased in golden gate park. i don't know. >> the last thing i wanted to complement you on a tie clib and it looks like a pulaski and it's cool. >> i can give you one. >> let's make sure we all get one. >> okay. >> lieutenant booshay for the rest of the presentation. >> hi. good morning. lieutenant mary shay with the fire prevention at the fire department. as you can tell i'm trying to prevent fires so from my end i try to do what i do to prevent fires. regarding the management of forest and brush fire in san francisco from prevention we got a look how the city is like. although we cannot really say we're totally a wild land urban interface area supervisor as you know we have pockets that we consider so. one of the main and important things about san francisco we're a urban city that doe't fall under chapter of the city code and deals with other zones and the other important thing that the fire protection of responsibility of san francisco falls under the local authority, not federal and that's the fire chief and san francisco and based on cal fire the topography and the fuel we have the city falls under a rating for fire hazard severity and our main concern is through the maintenance of over grown weeds, grass, vines and other vegetation. the fire department's weed abatement program. we enforce the code of the california fire code. that section specifically states that weeds, grass, vines and other growth that is capable of being ignited and endangering property is cut down and removed by the owner or the occupants of the premises so some direction that we get or the building owner or occupants of the premises could get is from title 19. some of the examples i list here is a safe fire break of at least 30 feet is maintained around any buildingoir occupy eansz. any portion of a tree extending within 10 feet of outlet of chimney or stove pipe shall be removed. any dead or dying portion of a tree adjacent or over hanging a building should be removed and free of needles and leaves and dead vegetative growth so those are the guidelines that we provide owners when we identify a hazard. our weed abatement program one of the agencies we work is with the department of public works. with them annually we send out a joint later to building owners who own problem buildings that we know and a history of complaints of weed, grass hazard over grown vegetation. we send this later two weeks prior to july 4 and instructing them they need to abate -- inspect the property and abate any weed and grass hazards. the department also conducts inspections in neighborhoods and areas where weed and grass problems have been reported. reports of weed and grass problem can be received through the following channels. some of the examples are 311, a report can call, email or through united postal mail send the complaints to the fire department to headquarters. a report can do a walk in. they can walk into our headquarters and report it. they can walk into fire house and report a problem. one of the biggest group of reporters are actually field firefighter, staff because they know the area well and respond to and if they see something they would notify us. once a complaint is received and inspectors is sent out to do an on site inspection to determine the validity of the complaint. if there is merit to the complaint we notify the owners and occupants of the premise to abate the hazard and if a owner fails to comply with that request to abate we have the option to issue them a violation. although the first course of action is get the owner to understand the danger of the weed and grass hazard and get them to comply. now we have any owner that refuses to comply which is very seldom, or we cannot locate an owner -- that is more likely the case and it's an abandoned lot or it's determined who owns the space or whose jurisdiction it is. we would send a referral request to the department of public works asking them for assistance and once we ask for assistance and we try to work -- now this time with the department of public works and get compliance. if we can't get compliance for whatever reason within 10 days then dpw have the option to abate the hazard first and bill the owners later. the main goal is abate the hazards first and the fire department -- oh sorry. (paused). more than anything and as fall comes around it dies off, but i can't give you exact number. i can only tell you where the peak season is and usually around summer and peaks around summer and towards fall it tapers down. >> i am actually less interested in the exact number. i am just curious about the scope. is it in the thousands or hundreds or tens? >> i would say it's in the hundreds. it's not in the thousands. that's for sure. it's in the hundreds and it's kind of isolated in certain areas we can tell. like we won't see anything downtown but we see a lot like near the hunters point bay view area where there is more open land and a lot around freeways. >> yeah. >> yeah, kind of like that. you can see a trend. bernal heights gets a lot, like that. >> okay. and then when you get these complaints do you feel -- again when you get the hundreds would you say that most of them are legitimate complaints or do you find that a certain percentage really aren't hazardous at all? >> i would say about half. a lot of time it's more like a neighbor does not like the other neighbor's tree hanging over their yard, hanging over their roof than anything and i hate to say that a lot are like that. people usually keep their property very well unless they can't upkeep it like the seniors. they might have trouble and we work with them rather than hitting them with a notice of violation. we try to find people that could help them like locate their children and guardian. problems that we have a lot more abandoned or empty lots and we don't have any in san francisco to tell you the truth. >> okay. any other questions? seeing none thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so next speaker i would like to bring up is from the department of emergency services. >> yes, sir. >> supervisor yee and supervisor christensen and supervisor mar thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to speak. ip i am the assistant deputy director with the department of emergency management. when we think about disasters in phases. we have prevention, mitigation, preparation response and then recovery. lieutenant shay was talking about that prevention piece, what can be done? chief hayes-white talked about mitigation. what we try to focus on is some of the perforation. how do we work citizens to talk about public safety? and preparedness and we direct them to a website to what they can do if a disaster happens, in this case a significant fire, and we're are responsible on the preparation size for the large planning and something happens and when we behind and to the right of the fire department and the police department to support whatever happens. it starts with the 911 call center. when the call comes in deputy chief gonzales talked about the coordination of resources and once on scene we're there to support the fire department with the appropriate response. we take care of warning and notification system and if there are directions to give to the residents we can do that and once if the event is large enough we may then open the city's emergency operations center and coordinate agencies and department of health and human service agency and like the red cross or salvation army and the idea is that we create that common operating picture for all city agencies so we know if there is some support needed from fire or law enforcement we can provide that. one of the big places where we come in is in the recovery phase and have individuals misplaced and think back to the mission fire last year and after the blaze was put out law enforcement was securing the area but we have residents displaced and we brought togetherlet task force and the homeless groups to find places for our residents to g we're also the connection between the state and federal agencies. we brought in the small business association to help the businesses in the bottom of that structure affected, and when needed similar to when fire may deploy we have our own assets deployed right now to the valley fire to help with the operations center and learn about the sheltering needs they have and how to coordinate it so we're there to before the event help the citizens get ready. during the event to support law enforcement and fire, and then after the incident to make sure that we get our citizens back to a state of normalcy. >> okay. if we do need help from other jurisdictions, other counties in terms of this mutual agreement who actually contacts them? is it the fire department or your department? >> it depends on the type of resource. the chief could probably explain specifically and correct me if i'm wrong. there is a master mutual aid agreement that deputy chief gonzales mentioned and it's exercised regularly and they have protocol in place to order the resources. if it's not fire, emergency medical then it would come to the department of emergency management and we go to the coastal region of the california office of emergency services and make requests to them for the need, whether it's sheltering resources or whatever the need is. >> okay. so if the fire department needed mutual aid then i assume it would be from -- their request would come from the fire department to other jurisdictions. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> okay thank you. >> i am glad this coordinated. >> that's the idea. >> other questions? seeing none. thank you for coming here. next up i would like to finally invite the fire marshal from ucsf and present on what they have done to prevent a forest or brush fire occurring in the area surrounding will campus. >> [inaudible] >> chairman yee, supervisor christensen, supervisor mar thank you for inviting me for this and i am former cal fire department chief and have a lot of experience. i wanted to discuss the efforts at the mount sutra mountain reserve and i am responsible for the fire assessment at ucsf and we're the responding agency as you heard if a fire breaks out in that area. we have an excellent working relationship with chief hayes-white and her staff. san francisco fire department is one of the premier and happy to have them here. we own the 63-acre reserve and maintains the open space and originally planted in 1886 and there are a primarily tree species there and we maintain the reserve, ensure the safety of visitors and buildings and neighboring homes. several buildings including the hospital and the central utility plan behind the report provides the power for the complex. the regeneration medicine building built on the cliff -- it's the unique building on the side of the mountain and the adjacent to the reserve. ucsf [inaudible] san miguel housing complex is in the area and houses students and families and adjacent to neighbors hopes. we are committed to have the reserve as a resource and staff is responsible for the maintenance and collaboration with other departments. daily maintenance is performed in house by two full time forestry technicians and professional landscape and tree companies and regular maintenance includes maintaining and establish the trail system, addressing hazardous or fallen trees. every two, three fiscal years we have aar boshist come in. >> >> and maintaining along road and roadways building adjacent to the reserve. our non-profit partners build and maintain trails and a nursery and provide thousands of hours of trail work each year. our fire hazard mitigation efforts in 2013 we were concerned about this and collaboration with forest experts and the san francisco fire department to look at the risk and we aggress that these conditions existed in the reserve (paused) shrubs and mowing non woody plants. we continue to monitor the area and ensure the safety of structures and visitor to the trails. in the two years since we performed this work much of the vegetation has grown back and we plan to repeat this work this fall. if the department agrees with our agreement we plan to revisit the work that was done two years ago. in conclusion ucsf understands the value of this open space reserve that brings to san francisco and we're committed to maintain the reserve as a public resource. our priority is protect the hospital, neighbors and visitors. we want to work with the san francisco fire department and stakeholders and mit giet any fire risks and keep it safe and accessible. you can see on the over head -- can you see that? okay. this is an indication of the work we've done. it's little hard to see on this screen, but you can see it's a buffer mitigation effort around the reserve itself. and do you have any questions? >> i can't tell by this map, but the reserve that you're talking about doesn't cover all mount sutro, does it? >> it's the wooded area up there. >> even on the other side of the hill. >> yes, sir. >> i didn't realize that. where would the sutro tower be on this map? >> i don't know exactly where it's at. >> [inaudible] (off mic). >> okay. >> [inaudible] (off mic). >> on the east side. >> [inaudible] >> okay. >> and there's a private section. >> right. >> [inaudible] >> okay. >> [inaudible] >> i mean -- >> [inaudible] >> where is it? >> [inaudible] (off mic). >> right here. the tower is -- on the legend -- the tower is where the legend is placed so you can't see the tower. >> yeah. that gives me a better orientation of what i am looking at. i don't have any questions but thank you for being a good neighbor in san francisco. sounds like you're doing the right thing in terms of preventing -- doing the things that will prevent any disasters and working closely with our city departments. thank you very much. >> and we enjoy your trails. >> thanks. >> actually those trails -- a lot of people don't even know about. okay. are there any public comments on this item? >> [inaudible] >> on this item, fire prevention? >> the valley fire because 17,000 -- for the restrugz were destroyed. as a holy leader, holy representative of [inaudible] human disaster -- [inaudible] from the -- families and structure natural order and management and [inaudible] from holy practices. mission parkway and concentrate too much on the [inaudible] of gloria -- glory and economics and [inaudible] great disaster. >> denise louie. i am here as a san francisco native voter and taxpayer and i want to say thank you to everyone for bringing attention to this problem of stands of trees around the city that have been unirrigated, stressed and are now dying that represent a hazard because they can fall over and hurt us or they can fuel a fire storm so i would like to say that i will -- i would like to ask rec and park department and the rest of the city officials for example what about those trees along o'shaughnessy in glen canyon that can hurt or trap people on the new handicap access path that parallels o'shaughnessy? what about the silver tree preschool? have those families been alerted to the fire risk, the danger? do they have an evacuation plan, fire drill? what if the children are trapped in the canyon? these are all things to consider. okay. >> thank you. >> i think that this is a phenomenon in san francisco and we need to think about the real risk to our housing stock, our use of water in case of a big fire, and the liability to the city in the case of people and property get hurt or damaged. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other public comments? >> good morning government and oversight. it's going to be a cool night and we're going to see this item by the fire light, and i hope it works out right. i thought you should know. it's going to be a cool night, and we're going to work out this item. make it work out right, and it's going to work out and i hope you give it a go. it's going to be a cool night and we're going to make this item work out by the fire light, and it's going to work out right, and i thought you should know. thank you. >> nice seeing you again. >> it's always hard to follow a song. my name is sally stephens and i just wanted to talk about two things. one is there's rec and park is in fact has plans to cut down trees just because they're not native and replace with grass land and we know it's flammable and that's where the fires start and spread rapidly so i hope in all the discussions that the fire department is having on managing things whether they talk with rec and park that they're focusing on some of the changes that are going on and the transformations of the landscape that are going on that could potentially creating a greater fire risk especially with ignition and things like that, and the other thing that people forget about is the golden gate recreation area is also doing major landscape transformations. you have the fortthumbsom and covered with ice plant and mitigates fire because of the water in the plant. that's all taken out. ocean beach -- a lot is taken out and replaced with grass lands so i hope when the city is working on response plans and things like that that they're working with them as well and make sure they're not doing things that might negatively affect the people around lake merced or inut outer sunset in god forbid a fire should start there or take off in that sort of thing. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments? come on up. >> my name is [inaudible] and i live in district 7 right at the foot of mount set ro. i think one of the things we heard -- first i would like to thank the fire department and yourself for organizing this. it's been a very interesting morning for me. one of the things that we've heard is that the western side and the northern side is less vulnerable because of fog and i just wanted to talk a bit about that. living where i do i see the fog coming in to mount sutro all through the summer and in fact very often the forest is wetter in summer than it is in winter. there was actually standing water there a few days ago even before it started raining because what is happening the trees precipitate the fog. they precipitate the fog moisture and the under story holds the water so in some cases reducing the vegetation increases the fire hazard because what happens instead of having vegetation that holds the moisture you end up with flammable vegetation that dries out more quickly and it's one of the things we should take into consideration rather than applying these rules. thank you . >> hi. my name is anastasia [inaudible] and listening to this presentation and people generally know that brush and shrub and -- dry grass are much more flammable than trees especially [inaudible] trees, and you know the plan which is coming up for certification soon and replace [inaudible] with something called native grass and shrub habitat and i don't think it's a very wise thing to do and mclaren that has more fire danger than where i live and 800 trees are going to be removed and something native is planned. this native stuff is very flammable. okay. what is happening on mount davidson and [inaudible] and area program. what they do is they kill -- they use herbicides very toxic and they kill the vegetation and leave it there so you can walk there and see the [inaudible] which was killed and left in place and i don't think it's good for the fire, you know, for fire safety. just recently posting -- limited posting all the [inaudible] eastern side of the mount davidson are dead, brown. there was posting say i they were going -- i didn't see it again. they didn't post and use toxic poisons. one was just recently classified a probable carcinogen and this program should be changed with the forest management for fire safety thing. this is really dangerous what they're doing. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comments on this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] i want to thank the fire department and the emergency management department and ucsf for being here and giving your presentation. i wasn't too sure -- as i said in my opening remarks that i wasn't sure where we were at in terms of being prepared for one of these rare urban forest fires, and after hearing today's presentation i feel very confident that san francisco is very prepared and i feel also that this corination between the departments to make sure that we don't have something happen where one is pointing a finger and saying "wow i thought the other department was going to take care of this" and i think ucsf is a good example how to take care of a certain area and working with the neighbors to do this, and in regards to the message here i am hearing is all of us in the city, the residents, play a role in preventing any disasters to happen. the reporting mechanism that we have to complain about certain things we shouldn't look at it as a complaint, but more of a good neighbor pointing out something that maybe dangerous to other neighbors, and that's a good thing, so if there are residents that feel like there's some areas or a lot or whatever that seems to be in a position of starting -- being a fire hazard they should really report it. what i heard is that not all of them are going to be considered dangerous, but let the experts here, being the fire department, remember whether it's dangerous or not and not us as residents that know less about this stuff so that's my comments. any other comments? seeing none -- okay. seeing none so this item is closed. again i want to thank the public for coming out and making their comments. [gavel] >> mr. chair would you like to make a motion? >> oh yeah, can i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> so moved. >> so objection so the motion passes. go ahead madam clerk could you please call item two. >> item two is a hearing to present the comprehensive annual financial report, single audit and management letters prepared by the city's external auditors. >> good afternoon mr. chair, supervisors. ben rosenfield city controller. i will describe what this hearing is and turn it to others in the staff and the external auditor to present. as you're aware each year at the close of the fiscal year we work with departments to compile statements that reflect the city's financial health and required disclosures and those documents are compiled by us which in this sense we're serving as management, and then each year the audit committee of the board and the board of supervisors itself retains an external financial auditor to review those statements and comment directly to you, the audit committee of the board of supervisors regarding their findings and a normal check and balance that exists in governmental accounting and management practices so we're here today to interviews those external auditors to you and talk you through their findings for the last year's cafr, our comprehensive annual financial report and to talk you through their audit plan for the fiscal year end process that we're in the midst of so thank you for your time today. i will turn it over to carmen lafrank in the controller's office that leads this office for us. >> thank you. >> hi. good morning supervisors yee, mar, and supervisor christensen. so as ben mentioned we have this hearing every year to allow the auditors to present their findings and their audit plans, so before you have a list of the speakers. it's going to be kpmg our external auditor, the senior manager will present the audit plans and results of last year's audit and have mgo and annie louie is the partner and present the findings and plans. and then we also have a representative from the airport who received a finding this year, wallace tang and miguel [inaudible] from the department of technology and we also have other speakers available from departments for the single audit find focusing you have questions and i am available. >> >> i will turn it over right now. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. good morning. my name is jamie and a senior manager with kpmg and i will be presenting -- we are performing right now. >> okay. >> we will be presenting kpmg's audit plan for the 2015 audit as well as recapping the 2014 audit. you will see here we will start with our engagement team. overall we have a lead engagement partner nancy rose and concurring review partners. the managers including myself are assigned to each of the departments that we're responsible for auditing. overall we have good continuity. each member partner as well as senior associate and manager are repeating over the past three years on the engagement. so to just to the audit objectives our objectives is express an opinion on the financial statements prepared by management. we provide reasonable but not absolute assurance that the financial statements as a whole are free of material misstatements due to error or fraud. what this overall means that we audit to a materiality level. we audit and test the design of key controls of the accounts with significant risks . to move on to the responsibilities the statement of auditing standards require us to disclose roles and responsibilities within the audit so the next slides you will see here are the responsibilities of management, the audit committee or governance as well as the auditors so i will not go through all of these in detail, but i will point out key once of management, so the key ones being the fairly presenting a financial statements in conformity with the general accepted accounting principles and maintaining control of reports and the statements do not relieve those of auditing and management of their responsibilities. as far as our responsibilities as your auditors we conduct the audit in accordance with the professional standards to obtain a reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free of misstatement as i indicated earlier. it's not designed to detect error or fraud material to the financial statements and overall we will provide a communication of significant deficiencies and material weaknesses of internal control to management and those of governance and contact the audit with professional skepticism and governing auditing standards. one thing to note in regards to other information and documents containing audited financial statements several reports may have an introduction or statistical data which we do not opine on this information. we do read the data for reasonableness and identify inconsistencies or misstatement of facts. anything that is not resolved account lold up the -- could hold up the issue of the report or modify the opinion. to move on to the audit plan our scope of work for the 2015 fiscal year consists of the following departments. the san francisco health services system, the municipality -- municipal transportation agency, mta, the public utilities commission and the san francisco international airport. we perform the single audit for mta and sfo as well as additional agreed upon procedures for mta and we issue an additional report for puc on the balancing account of the water enterprise. these audits are performed with general accepted accounting principles and auditing standards as well as government auditing standards. to re-cap of the 2014 audit results all of the departmental audits we issued opinions for were clean, unmodified opinions. we did have one deficiency that we have reported for the airport in regards to timely reviewing of monitoring of capital asset records. this finding the management recorded adjustments of capital assets related to items that didn't meet this definition of capital assets, assets no longer considered existing and assets which appreciation was calculated using this formula so an adjustment was made. we provided a recommendation to management to perform the annual reviews of the fixed assets and focus on the appropriate accounting and transactions. at this point in time as we're in midaudit we're are testing the remediation of this and that is still in process. one disclaimer in regards to public offerings if it should be the case that the city wish to incorporate the financial statements in our report into offerings securityings we are required to perform procedures to events and updates and consider whether the manner of the presentation is appropriate. the procedures would be under a separate engagement letter compared to the engagement letter of the audit financial statements. in regards to the audit timeline and key dates so we completed our planning and interim filled work of the departments in may and through august. final field work is start. we started here in september and that will go on through january. our deliverables and target dates so the puc we plan to issue that audit report on october 16 and have that be the first one out and the remaining departments will follow the following week of october 23. we will issue the significant deficiencies report on october 23 as well, and then the single audit and other report will fall in line to be issued by january 31. and lastly we always like to disclose that we are independent with respect to the city as defined by the terms of the professional standard. so i will stand for any questions or comments. >> colleagues any questions? seeing none. i guess in terms of the deficiency from the airport mr. tang is going to address that later? >> yes. >> okay. no questions. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so next we will have andy louie of mgo present her results and plans and have the two departmental representatives speak to the findings and one for the airport and the other for department of technology. >> thank you. >> good morning. i am from mgo, one of the partners on the city's engagement. i am here to present the fiscal year 13-14 audit results and the plan for 14-15. so first i would like to go over the scope of audits for mgo and annual financial statements or the cafr for short. . the single overall audit is for the federal awards, the retirement system, the [inaudible] agency of the redevelopment agency, the two hospitals, the port of san francisco as well as the finance corporation. i adopt to point out that the city's cafr incorporates separate financial statements audited by kpmg as mentioned in the previous presentation. in terms of the audit results for the previous fiscal year we issued opinions on both the city's financial statements as well as the single audit. that is the highest level of assurance you can receive for these. we issued reports related to the internal reporting and compliance and i will go over later in the slides. we issue a separate report directly to this committee and that report includes communications under professional standards as well as our audit authorization from the various audits. so in the next two slides i will go over the required communications. 22 of the. >> >> two of the items that we're required to communicate to the governing body is the professional standards and timing, scope of the audit. we communicated those two items in the previous audit plan that was presented last year. the remaining required communications which i are list on the slide are included in the report to and report to the gao and these are standard items that require to communicate. what i do want to point out in the report is under number 3 qualitative aspect of accounting aspects under this item refer in the report talks about new pronouncements that are required to be adopted by the city in terms of accounting treatment and accounting presentation so during the fiscal year 13-14 the city did implement a significant standard gasb 65 which changes the classifications of certain balances or certain account on the financial statements so compare 13-14 financial statements to that of the prior year it will look a little different because of the new pronouncements that were adopted. in terms of the audit implementations we had one recommendation that we have with the audit relating to the city's overall information technology governance and we considered a significant deficiency which is defined to be something we believe is a matter of concern that would be useful to the gao. what the find was that the comment related to the overall governance of the city whereby each department has their own policies and procedures regarding the systems that they use, and there isn't a centralized body for the city that would issue policies and because of that each department has different processes, if you will, to govern their own system, and we believe that a centralized oversight body would be necessary. in terms of prior recommendation as part of our audit we do have recommendations that we have made in prior year that we made outstanding. one of the outstanding findings in terms of the financial statements related to a comment we made in 2013 and this is for the payroll process. during fiscal year 12-13 the city implemented a new payroll system called emerge and while the system transition took place some of the policies and procedures by departments were not updated so our comment relates to that. during the 13-14 financial audit we went back and revisited this particular situation and found that corrective action happened implemented. and other prior years recommendations that we made outstanding was from fiscal year 11-12 and this was an informational item so it wasn't a deficiency. in 2012 the gasb which is the body that makes accounting standards for governmental agencies nationwide they issued two significant accounting standards, 67 and 68 which relates to pension benefits, and the accounting and financial reporting requirements relating to such benefits. 67 is the requirement that we have the retirement systems and the planning and 68 is the [inaudible] benefits for the employer for the city as a whole so we just -- at the time we made a comment to communicate with the city and inform everyone this is a significant standard that would drastically change the financial reporting of pension benefits. 67 -- statement 67 was implemented by the system during fiscal year 13-14 and the city as the employer will implement statement 68 in fiscal year 14-15. next i will go on to the recommendations relating to the city's single audit which is the audit of the city's federal award compliance. sorry it should say current year. so the first comment that we have again is consideration of [inaudible] c and [inaudible] monitoring and we found this situation for two different federal programs that we had audited. the first is the work forcement act cluster and [inaudible] research and demonstration projects. both programs are administered by the office of economic development development and we found when the city passes on federal funds to other agencies outside the city, what we call separate recipients and communicate the title and number and other information. we found when the city provided funding under these programs to their recipients such information was not communicated at the time of the award as required but they were communicated during the award. the second financial -- the suddenly federal award finding is for the programs listed. the first is the continuum of care program and served by the human service agency and the second one is the pilot demonstration and research project by the office of work force development. this finding related to you a report that was required to be submitted anytime awards are made and has to be made at the time of the award and we found that the reports were not filed. this finding on procurement and suspension debarment is also a significant deficiency and relates to the child support enforcement program that is administered by the department of child support services. for this particular finding it relates to the contracting process. for contracts that are funded by federal awards there is a requirement to make sure that the contracting entity is not suspended or debarred. in one of the examples we selected for testing the department of child support services utilized a blanket contract that was procured by the city, but because the blanket contract was procured for the city overall at the time the procurement occurred the contractor was not checked against the federal suspension and debarment listing so we listed this as a finding. i'm switching now over to the recommendations that were made in previous single audits. the first one result relates to the fiscal year 13 and. >> >> with single monitoring and for the agent clusters. similar it was about communicating required information to the city at the time of the board and during the follow up audit in 13-14 we found that the corrective actions have been implemented. so now i will switch over to the audit service plan for fiscal year 14-15. i'm not going to go over all the items in detail but i do want to highlight the three items that are listed. the first one is the plan scope, so as i mentioned in the previous slide we will be auditing the same components including the city's cafr, the single audit retirement system, the successor agency and the port as well as the finance corporation n terms of the timing of the audit we provided a timeline on page five. although the plan you can refer to for more details but overall we expect to issue the city's financial statements by mid-november, the week before thanksgiving and the single audit will be issued by january of 2016. lastly the [inaudible] relates to our responsibilities as well as management's responsibilities. these are required communications that are provided to you in our audit services. with they will take any questions and comments. >> okay. thank you. any questions? seeing none thank you very much for your presentation. >> thank you. >> wallace chance will come up and -- chang will come up and give status for the airport. >> thank you. >> good morning chair yee, supervisor christensen and supervisor mar. it is wallace tang airport controller from san francisco international airport, business and finance division. relating to the fiscal year 2014, the findings regarding the untimely real and monitoring of capital asset records that happened as part of the airport's continuous improvement effort starting fiscal year 13 and 14. the airport was taking a proactive approach to start cleaning up the fixed asset and capital asset data base for getting ready for the upcoming city wide financial system replacement project. our goal was to clean up the data and make sure that the good data will be wrote into the new system. as part of that clean up effort we had a capital assets account to see if they met the policy and we reviewed the reasonableness of useful life of fixed assets and through that effort in fiscal year 13 and 14 and we worked closely with the airport project managers and we identified certain adjustment and we were the one that initiate adjustment and show it to the auditor that should be the adjusting entries in fiscal year 13 and 14, so to address the findings and to strengthen the internal control the airport has taken multiple corrective action to address the witnesses related to untimely review and monitoring of capital assets records. one of the action thases we took was on the top of the annual review for year end close purpose we schedule the project manager to confirm the reasonableness of useful life whether the accounts met the capitalization policies and also and the items that are supposed to be capitalized versus expense and we identified in our second quarter close and third quarter close during the fiscal year, so that has been implemented in fiscal year 15. and also next at the airport we created and updated the new set of construction in progress policies and procedures to make it clear to the project manager what's supposed to be the requirement for booking capital assets. regarding the suggestions from kpmg's recommendations from last year's finding related to reassessing the resources, the airport has created a fixed asset accounting group in fy '15 to strengthen the resources to focus on the accounting. with that i am open for any questions supervisors. >> in regards to implementing this new system to look at the fixed assets has that been completed yet? >> yes. we have completed the 100% confirmation of all the fixed assets and value of fy '15. >> so there were additional resources put in there for that effort to make it happen? >> yes. >> so my question is moving forward -- >> yes. >> -- will you continue championing of resources to keep everything updated on an annual basis? >> yes, we do. at the interim we have already hired one additional staff to focus on the fixed asset and we have the starting plan when we do the upcoming two year budget we're going to put in requests for permanent positions that will focus on fixed asset accounting so we have the interim solution and the long-term plan. >> okay. thank you very much. any other questions? seeing none thank you very much for your presentation. >> thank you chair. thank you supervisors. >> so next up would be miguel camino. >> good afternoon. i am from the city and cio. i just wanted to respond briefly to a couple of points regarding the information technology governance finding. we have been working really hard on a city wide chief information security officer recruitment. what's different about that than previous situations is that departments have had and still do have security officer functions but this is an actual city wide authority. we are getting very, very close. we had engaged in executive search firm and close to have finalists to review and select from so i see this position being filled very soon and instrumental to making progress on some of the concerns, and also at the committee on information technology we have an architecture and policy review board that is a working group that functions to collect the stakeholder groups from various departments and organize the conversations around technology policies, priorities and recommendations, and then bring those back forward to the official governing body of coit for consideration, discussion and approval, so that is also a city wide cross departmental coordinated effort and discussion. that body has been officially instituted and has had its first working meeting, and we're making progress there pretty rapidly, and again once the city chief information security officer is in place i think that will also accelerate the outcomes of that policy review board so that's the departmental response to the findings and the concerns. >> may i ask a question? so are there departments exempt from participate something. >> exempt from participating in which component? >> in being over seen by chief inform security officer? >> no. the city will have responsibility and authority for establishing the federated security policyo the umbrella security policy and departments have departmental authority to kind of take it from there just like a federal law type of structure. this city's staff person reports to me as the chief officer with a dotted line to the controller directly so it's very clear it's a city wide purview. >> thank you. >> okay. any other questions? okay. seeing none thank you for your presentation. >> thanks. >> and that concludes then the presentations for this item? >> yes, that conclude the presentation unless you had questions for any of the other speakers? >> no. i don't. supervisor christensen? no. okay. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much for your presentations and now are there any public comment on this item? >> airport commission group, a policy as standard procedures please elaborate, communicate, connect to the world with perfect open window to the world. >> any other public comments on this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] . colleagues could we have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> i'm sorry? >> could i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> [inaudible] >> okay. any objections? seeing none the motion passes. thank you very much. madam clerk item number 3. >> madam clerk could you call items 3- 17. >> items 3- 17 are ordinances and resolutions with various settlements and agreements with the city and county of san francisco. >> okay. before we entertain a motion to convene in closed session is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on items 3- 17? seeing none public is now closed. [gavel] colleagues is there a motion to convene in closed session. >> [inaudible] >> moved and seconds. motion passes. [gavel] so members of the public we will no covers. actually there have been some utilities completely punched in -- >> we are now back in open session. >> deputy director john gibner. the city voted to amend the ordinance for number 14 to reflect in the body of the ordinance that the lawsuit was filed in san mateo superior court and voted unanimously to forward items 3- 17 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> okay. thank you. colleagues can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? second? okay. no objection motion passes. [gavel] madam clerk is there anything else on the agenda? >> there is no further business. >> okay. if there's nothing further the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] thank you very much. >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> good morning. today is september 9, 2015. welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is john avalos, chair of the committee and to my right is katy tang and to my left is president london breed who is here in place of supervisor cohen. our clerk today is alisa somera and the meeting is brought by sfgtv. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> s yes, please silent all cell phones and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items will be on the september 22 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> great. thank you. first could we have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. >> so moved. >> and seconded by supervisor breed and take that without objection and item 1. >> item 1 is a motion of reappointment to have bryant tan for the successor agency commiss entertainment commission. >> hello and please introduce yourself what you hope to do with the reappointment. >> thank you. i am bryant tan and seeking reappointment for another term on the entertainment commission. i just completed by three year term. i served on the commission sense january 12 and in the last two years as the commission president. incidentally i was reelected to a third term of president despite my term officially expiring and hopefully this goes well. i worked hard to be a leader with the commissioners to find solutions in regulating and promoting san francisco and helps the task with neighbors be neighborly and holding owners and permit holders to a high standard of responsibility. it's required us to inform the broader public as well as yourself as city officials to see the importance of night life in san francisco. under my term as president as a commissioner and specifically the urban planning representative which is the seat i am looking for reappointment for i played an active role in preserving night life in the western soma plan. there were several options considered during that time that some were a lot less friendly to night life, some more, and i think we went away with one more friendly to night life and in respect of the residents there i chaired the interdepartmental late night group and staffed wonderfully and our director jocelyn king and i designed the residential review process. thank you supervisor breed for your legislation to protect night time businesses as our city continues to grow and build housing so i worked hard at this and honored to take on this role. i think my leadership is apparent with my thoughtfulness and kindness and humor. a little bit about me personally. i am born and raised in san francisco, the tenderloin to be specific and graduated from the high school there and go cardinals and i work for the department of children, youth, and their families and design, fund and evaluate and provide assistance to the many non-profits here in san francisco that work and serve our children and families. i'm deeply, deeply committed and just passionate and love san francisco, and so when i was asked to take on this role is was because not only because of the passion and that story of being a san franciscan but because when i was in my 20's worked as a youth worker outreach in club frs hiv and helt for the lgbt community and i i'm an active person and enjoy the night life here in san francisco and specifically the mayor is looking to fill this role as a urban planning rep and graduated with a degree in urban planning and working with the chinese community development center i was honored to take this on initially and honored to be considered again today so that wraps it up. i am happy to take questions and i emailed you all this morning sorry i have been off line for a couple of weeks so i would have reached out sooner if i was online and here i am in person. >> thank you very much and thank you for serving on the entertainment commission as well. one of the things we ask people who are coming this year, we had four applicants for the ethics commission what's your favorite venue in san san francisco? >> good question. wow i hate playing favorites. one of my favorite venues is the rick shaw stop. it is small. it is really well run, and they have lots of emerging artists coming through all the time and i think they play to very different crowds. i'm a gay asian male and there is a gay asian male party they throw on a monthly bands and they have indie band and i talked to the owners and everyone there and they love the crowds they pull out because i think they see themselves as an important place to nurture entertainment in the community and nurture new artists and create a safe space for all types of people and they have a great sound system too. >> great thank you. well based on your leadership position on the entertainment commission and your work with western soma and lait night transportation and other issues youy waked in on well and balancing neighborhoods with promoting night life i totally support your reappointment and i am sure that my colleagues will be the same as well, so any other questions from the committee so we can go on to public comment. >> great thank you so much. >> thank you. >> so this item is open up for public comment. >> [inaudible] talk about entertainment commission. first statement [inaudible] stress it's meaning, [inaudible] of life and [inaudible]. avenue and balboa and next week the second statement still time [inaudible] but for me everyday it's both. it's life and meaning both together and [inaudible] accomplish how to use the life span. >> thank you. any other members of the public who would wish to comment seeing none. public comment is now closed and colleagues -- >> thank you very much. i just want to thank commissioner tan for his interest in serving all of the work already but moving forward as well and i am perfectly find with sending forward this motion approving -- i guess amend the motion of approving bryant tan to go to the full board and as a committee report. >> great. supervisor breed. >> great. i will second the motion and i want to thank him for the help on the commission and your assistance with helping my office with the night life legislation we passed this year. i am looking forward to make sure we continue to have commissioners serve on this body that really support and promote night life, but more importantly bridge the gap between the changes in san francisco and making night life important part of those changes as well, so thank you for your work in that and with that i am happy to second the motion. >> great. thank you. so we have a motion to approve the recommendation as a committee report to the full board and take that without objection. thank you. congratulations. next item there's. >> item two is a motion approving the appointment of leah pimentel for the successor agency commonly known as the commission on community investment and infrastructure for a term ending november 3, 2016. >> if you could come to the podium and welcome and talk about your interest in the successor agency and your experience and what you would like to accomplish that would be great. >> good morning supervisors. i am leah pimentel and born and raised third generation from bay view. my mother grew up in affordable housing on channel street and worked in the shipyard and they were able to buy a home in which they still own. my entire clear has dealt with work force developments. at grid alrnatives i provided homeowners throughout the state of california with low cost solar panels and with work force development to make sure they're getting jobs in the organization as well. i feel there is a need for developments that have multiple rooms, three plus, for families and need for child care centers and they're drawing interest from companies that that have a affordable child care center. there are numerous families in san francisco and that's one of the barriers of keeping them here, affordable child care and a parking lot and make accommodations for everyone that uses various types of transportation in san francisco as well. i also would like to increase the amount of minority contractors on projects as well, and also encouraging and working with youth and school to expose them to the construction field to increase them in that area. if they know about these careers it will spark their interest and also get them into those fields as well. >> great thank you. i really appreciate what you have to say about promoting the needs and interests of working people, working family and with home ownership and child care and issues that affect them and give opportunities and how does that link directly to the work of the successor agency? >> could you repeat it because i have a hard time hearing. >> sure. i appreciate your mentioning your work and experience in home ownership and child care and work force and they're important in terms of advancing for working people in san francisco. how do you see the successor agency playing a role in that? >> as they're building it's having them making sure we're building the units with one, two and three rooms in there, so if a family is a family of two you need more than one room, so for building those units with multiple rooms it's attracting the families. if we're having the child care centers you're drawing the people working for companies to let them know you can have a family and stay in san francisco and work and have an affordable place for your children and the accommodations to live and stay in san francisco. >> great. thank you. what do you see are the areas of the city the successor agency will have the most impact on? >> bay view, the southeast sector of san francisco with the shipyard homes, a lot of the affordable housing development. in mission bay i helped a fourth generation in bay view i worked with and got into an affordable housing development. she didn't understand the paperwork and i was working with grid alternatives i had the pleasure of helping the seniors with the paperwork since i have been doing it for years it was something i was able to do for them, so i was able to help you understand the paperwork and advocate with and talk to and she was able to stay in san francisco and have an boardable place to live and that is important to me and people are able to stay here. >> thank you. i don't believe that the city does enough to support the homeowners especially southern southeast part of san francisco. we've had a huge problem with defaults and foreclosures that hasn't been recognized in san francisco, and we have a whole body under the mayor's office that is involved in housing under the mayor's office of housing, and i have been trying to push and promote greater awareness of homeowner needs and supporting homeowner in the city, and you wouldn't be under the moh but have a relationship with them under the successor agency and i would like to see if there is a way to partner up if you're appointmented to get more attention to the needs for the mayor's office of housing and not just from the successor agency in terms of promoting home ownership. >> i agree with you. three years ago there was a large promotion of home ownership and it builds community and to this day my parents live close to me and i walk my son back and forth and you see the owners there their entire life and it builds community. you leave your garage door open and someone will close it and let you know and that's how i grew up and we do it often and builds the community of trust and understanding of people and there needs to be more of the home ownership to build the community and preserve history. >> so i would like to see a way to strengthen the interdepartmental efforts around supporting existing only owners, because there is work around prospective and first time homeowners and the resources there but they're not ulght liezed effective. >> exactly. because i feel a lot of people -- i was at a meeting yesterday and a woman said "i don't know if i will be here next year" and she's in her 70's and grew up in the community and people don't know if they're going to be there and understanding the power of the property that you have and finding ways to preserve, keep and pass it down to your family members. >> great. thank you. president breed. >> thank you. i just had a few questions. i know -- i do agree with supervisor avalos in that the agency and the -- now the successor agency hasn't been enough to really focus on preservation and retention. as a former commissioner i know oftentimes we would work with communities when they were in trouble in order to provide under writing so they can borrow the funding necessary to do rehabilitation in order to preserve affordable housing, but it was always on a case by case basis. there was no real plan or mechanisms for support for home ownership outside of building new homes reserve preserving old and i know there are a lot of limitations because of the changes in state law and i am wondering if there are ideas for what is planned? we know what is planned with the shipyard and with everything that the successor agency has to work on and close out with the projects on the pipeline but do you have suggestions or plans for any proposed changes that could enhance what's left to do as a result of the changes in state law that now have a somewhat limited in our abilities? >> i think it comes with outreach and education. as you said it's often on a case by case basis when it's an urgent situation and reaching out to the individuals and letting them know about the resources. when i worked with hope sf on outreach helping them understand the target market and the affordable housing element oftentimes that flier makes it to one person but not the person that actually needs it so working with community based organizations, having listening sessions, letting them know about the option or maybe giving them a micro loan where the individuals can rehabilitate their home or renting it out and preserve if the son is out of college or leaving and renting it out so you could stay in san francisco as well. >> so as you know i along with other supervisors introduced neighborhood preference legislation. sadly you know the other frustration i had as a commissioner is we would support building new affordable housing. we would build new affordable housing and me, my friends, my community would watch as we may have qualified for this housing but we didn't have access to this housing. we would be in a lottery system with hundreds of names hoping that we could get pulled and it never happened and i think sadly that's what changed the kaish of many of our -- character of many of our neighborhoods: access, access to affordable housing, access to new affordable housing and i think this neighborhood preference legislation will change that, and i am asking you if you were able to serve on this body would you be -- would you include outreach? would you push for outreach and support to the community especially the bay view hunter's point community and they're aware so they're applying for this affordable housing and as you said hunters point is going to be impacted significantly because most of the new units we're building now are in the southeast sector of the city and we want to make sure that folks that live in that neighborhood also feel they have access to that housing so will you be a supporter and pushing outreach to make sure folks know about the community preference would exist once the legislation is passed? >> yes, i would. last week i had a conversation with my neighbor, a family of four living in a one bedroom and they want to stay in san francisco. she said there is affordable housing but it's difficult to get in. we don't know how to get in. can you help us? do you know about habitat for humanity and the mayor's office for housing and bridge housing and they don't understand the paperwork and they're hesitant to try because they feel there is no hope and i think it's important to show them there is help and this is a face of someone you know that got the affordable housing unit and they can help the individuals and it's important to keep them here. they love the community and neighbors and they're feelful they can't stay because not getting the units they need. >> thank you. that's all the questions i have. thank you. >> thank you. i think that's all the questions we have from the committee and thank you for your interest in serving and we will go on to public comment. >> okay. thank you very much supervisors. >> thank you. >> may i please continue. off statistic equality of [inaudible] for true freedom, legal liberty of proper judgment, public measure, public guideline of equality -- >> thank you. >> help the people in the tenderloin all their live -- >> i want to make sure -- thank you. >> [inaudible] >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is shi mar walton and executive director of young community developers in bay view hunt hunt and i came to speak on support of the mayor's appointee to the commission, ms. leah pimentel. someone who lives and works is from the bayview community i think it's hrnt to have someone who has experience and working with our community in several capacities. we need someone that made job connection and developed opportunities in the communities, both for members of the community as well as for small businesses and ms. pimentel has played a major role in that and as an example when she was working with grid alternatives and they're providing solar installation training and provides people to provide training within our programs but she helped us provide employment connections for solar installers who actually had the opportunity to install in their community and working on projects that are under redevelopment and ocii's auspices. and also leah provided support in those areas but even with that she's a dedicated mother, a dedicated wife and spensd a lot of time she's is taken care of family while out in the community and doing her work and the last thing i wanted to say on her behalf she is definitely a big huge vessel of information for the community. information she gets she definitely does a great job of sharing it and making sure that community is able to access the information, so i want to support her appointment to the office of community investment and infrastructure. thank you. >> thank you. i would to recognize you as the school board commissioner as mr. >> thank you. >> good morning supervisors. my name is jackie flynn and the executive director of the [inaudible] randolph institute in san francisco and here in support of leah's appointment to the ocii. i appreciate the lens that she actually views our city through. just around the comments in home ownership we often neglect to see the challenges that many people face just to acquire a home. imagine being low income and struggling to make it in the city. it's people like her and help the families when they want to live here in san francisco. i think it's important for whoever takes the seat at ocii to have a strong understanding of the goals of the former redevelopment agency and important to understand the history and culture of bay view, tenderloin. leah has a vast network of professional connections and supporters that made policy efforts effective in the city and has a wealth of knowledge and experience not just in the city but state wide, and personally she to me is multifaceted and fearless. i met her at one of my first turkey days in hunter's view passing out turkeys. she's very well grounded and did grass root efforts since i met her and i think that is important to really working with families that have difficulties living here in san francisco. i appreciate all your time. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. gone of supervisors. my name is jackie and i i'm a district 9 resident. i live in the mission and i am here to wholeheartedly support the candidacy of leah pimentel and she's one of my work sisters and i worked with her over three years and worked in the bay view hunter's point neighborhood. we have gone to alice griffith up to double rock to talk to residents about some of the changes happening in the southeast neighborhoods and one of the remarkable things about leah is as a third generation bay view resident she is able to connect to individuals there and understand the struggles and histories and stories. it's something when she goes and talks to community members about walking her grand father and father at candlestick and talks about her mother growing up in the housing projects and what that experience is like and that cannot be duplicated by someone without the breath of experiences she has and she's a mother and advocates for children and women and understands the struggles of staying here in san francisco and they're real and she has concrete solutions how to address those and thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello supervisor. my name is jennifer garcia and i'm a proud resident of district 10 and she is one our fiercest advocates in the district. i am happy to call her a friend and a neighbor. her commitments to families is unmatched. as you know she was recognized by the chronicle as the bay area for famy loose and worked -- families and worked with habitat for humanity and worked with others and replacement electrical, construction and plumbing and i am proud to be here to support her. >> thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is dj and deputy director of young community developers and a resident of bay view hunter's point and i think everyone articulated the great work she's done scpawlt things she wants to do and i briefly want to state and talk to her character since my time being in san francisco. leah is the individual when my niece is one on the 15th was born was there and we're talking about affordable care for children. how to pleghta of places that we can contact for my one year old niece to get child care. that's the type of commissioner i want to see on ocii, an individual that not only happeneds and has the deep knowledge that leah and cares about the community and residents and district 10 and all of san francisco. i worked along leah in so many clubs and vast areas and arenas and i just think she would be a phenomenal fit for ocii and the commission and what they're looking for so thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning supervisors. my name is derek. and a district 5 resident, community organizer in the district and officer in the democratic club. i am here to support pimentel's appointment to the commission. leah -- i want to speak to her character. she has been a good friend to me, reached out and available to offer advice and guidance. she has shown she's a strong leader. i was asked to join the club and it dwindled to six members. leah took time away from her busy schedules and meet with me in person and talk at length about the challenges of rebuilding an active club in the neighborhood. the leadership and guidance she provided me lead me to accept the position and four months later our membership has grown seven fold. recently i worked with her to organize the democratic club for the upcoming november meeting and endorse paloosa and i knew she would have a clear vision of what she wanted, a plan to achieve that vision, coordinating over a dozen democratic clubs for one event is no small feat but when she adopted pragmatic and creative solutions when necessary and comfortable with delegating tasks and motivating others the event was a rousing success. these are two examples of the times i worked withly a she's a leader and a force on the commission and i ask that you advance her nomination to the full board for consideration. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good morning supervisors, madam president. as somebody who has known leah for better part of a decade i wholeheartedly support her nomination and move on to the full board. best i can sum it up is family, education, jobs, community have all been part of the fabric of what she's done, her commitment to looking at policies and as you have heard from the other speakers working with individuals, not just in district 10 but across the city to really find solutions and help people achieve. i think that kind of vision and that kind of voice is what we need on the ocii commission and i wholeheartedly support you guys supporting her. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioners, supervisors, committee members, i am speaking individually and a community liaison for local 261. individually speaking i couldn't speak in stronger terms about what pimentel can do on this commission. i have known her for six years. we just figured out and the city has a groundbreaking solar problem not engaged by low income community members and we teamed up with dr. espinola jackson to put low income solar on the map memorial day 2009. she was a hard worker, believes in the community and the environment. you heard her talking about housing and she hasn't stopped since that time to continue that work so i think what she can do there in terms of a broader set of opportunities and housing and one of the things she talked about and she's a quick study and in doing research for the commission she had a conversation "wait a second. the ocii employment policy for local hiring is good faith. how is that good faith and you did it mandatory at the board of supervisors for the city?" i said "what do you think ?" . "we should do something about that and that is exciting and you have heard all of the reasons and i supplement one of the reasons that our union strongly supports her appointment and request your support today too. thanks. >> thank you. i believe you already spoke. >> (inaudible). >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> yeah, thank you. i think we're okay. okay. just our rule -- you have already spoken on your own behalf. you can't do someone's elses. okay. this item is live before us. colleagues i'm a supporter of ms. pimentel going forward. supervisor tang. >> thank you very much. i want to thank everyone for coming out. obviously i think that all has been said about ms. pimentel and how much she's demonstrated over the course of the years how much she's dedicated to our city and i don't think i need to reiterate what has been said in public comment so at this time i am thankful that the mayor selected someone so fitting for this role so i would be happy to i guess approve the motion confirms the mayor's appointment and send that forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> okay. and supervisor breed. >> yes, i would like to second that motion. i think leah is an amazing individual who works really hard for the community and has a proven track record of being effective, and i think that's most important when serving on these kinds of bodies is someone who is apart of the community, someone who understands the issues, someone who is willing to go out of their way to educate the public about some of the challenges that exist and someone who is willing to question staff on issues that are important to the community, so i think a good decision was made, and suggested to move her forward for this particular body and look forward to some changes as a result of it, so congratulations, and i am happy to second the motion. >> great. so we have a motion to approve. seconded by president breed, and i will be happy to support it as well, and i just want to thank future commissioner pimentel for your work and clearly you have a lot of experience going back generations in san francisco and very helpful for this post, so congratulations, and we will take that without objection. [gavel] next item please. >> item number 3 is a motion appointing supervisor jane kim term ending june 1, 2016 to the reentry council. >> okay. this is pretty much a pro forma item. i don't expect supervisor kim to come but we will open this up for public comment. public comment is now open. >> (inaudible). >> well, we have someone before you. thank you. >> my name is karen shane. i'm a reentry policy planner with adult probation and staff the council. i am here for questions if you have any. we're excited and thrilled of having the possibility of supervisor kim joining us at the reentry council which has you know has embarked on a very important trek through justice reinvestment for our city and county. we have promised her ols that we're going to change the day of the week on the meetings and has been on tuesdays and hard for supervisors to attend so we're changing that starting next year and we certainly hope this gets approved. thank you. >> great. thank you. just a question for you. what are your main policy goals? do you next year or next couple of years? >> sure. we have been working on justice reinvestment which has a three pronged strategy. one is reduce the time that people are on probation. a second is to reduce the number of people in the san francisco county jail through -- well not through bail reform but by expanding pretrail release flew pretrail diversion and the third is -- >> >> let goal is eliminate racial disproportionality in the justice system. it's a lofty goal. i hope i'm not evaluated in terms of the immediate effects and we have a plan and that is going to be the central focus for the reentry council for the foreseeable future. >> great. so you're aware of some of the things that come up in my district they think are important for the reentry council to be aware of. a lot of concerns about property crime, and when i hear the police department talking to residents they feel like their hands are tied because there's too much leniency for people that actually get assisted for property crime,. >> arrested for property crime and they feel the hand recess tied and it's important and it runs counter to what the goals of the reentry council are that i actually agree with how do reduce recidivism? keep people out of the jails and the influences that jails can provide that lead to recidivism? and i hear the opposite wanting to fill the jails up so i think it's important that the reentry council can actually connect with our offices to understand what that is going on in our neighborhoods as well, so i welcome supervisor kim being on there, but that's just something i think is important to be aware of. >> thank you. we're aware of that and one of the things we're doing as the initiative and we will come to your office and talk about it directly that we want to hold community meetings throughout -- particularly those areas of the city that have been identified through the recent burns report as having the highest levels of disproportionality which happens to be the highest levels of crime. to have a frank discussion how to make the community safer and at the same time as just as possible. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] passion of the destiny, of the wisdom, of everything and the principle, of the individualized [inaudible] also marriage of your family, of your career, of your holiness, of your virtue, of your -- >> please keep this to the item that is before us. thank you. seeing no other member ever the public am -- of the public come forward we will close public comment. [gavel] thank you. supervisor tang. >> i am happy to support this motion appointing supervisor kim to the reentry council. i think she's a perfect fit for this and send it forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> very good. motion by supervisor tang and second by president breed and we can take that without objection. thank you. next item please. >> item 4 is a hearing considering one member to the san francisco health authority. there is one seat and one applicant. >> okay. mr. pictins please come forward. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is roland pickens and proud to be here today and have you consider my candidacy for a seat for the san francisco general hospital seat on the san francisco health authority . i'm a 24 year resident of supervisor breed's district 5. i have been a member of the third baptist church in san francisco for that time. i have been an active member there, served in the choir and the church musician at the same time working in the public sector for san francisco. first for 10 years at ucsf and was a practitioner manager and ran the offices and internal medicine and family practice. i ran the san francisco airport clinic for five years and recruited by ceo of san francisco gene o'connell to join her staff as associated hospital administrator and the chief operating officer for seven years and serve as the director of san francisco health network reporting to barbara garcia and the interim ceo as san francisco general as we recruit for a new executive officer. i'm a lifelong health care administrator. my first job was when i was 16 high school student and a certified nursing aid and taking care of patients. how does a 16 year old become a certified nursing assistant? while not a san francisco naifit it's my second home but i am from houston texas and i was in the privilege of a city with a school system that partnered with the medical school to have professions for high schoolers and the first in the country and in 1976 and i graduated as 1981 as i date myself but basically it was a great public private partnership that exposed high school students to the various careers available within health care. we were both vocational and academic training. we were all trained as medical assistants so we went to our classes part of the day. the other part of the day we worked in hospitals and clinics in the texas medical center but we had a rigorous academic education and including science and physiology and all of those things and it was nice. some people grew up wanting to be a doctor or nurse and i grew up wanting to be an administrator and i asked who runs the place and it was the administrator and i pursued a bachelor's degree in public health and masters in education and i have been in health care ever since, and as i said i have been a san francisco resident for 24 years. i currently serve on the board of the san francisco general hospital foundation and am proud of the work we have done there in terms of helping to fund raise to support the opening of a new san francisco general hospital. i also serve locally as the president of my under graduate university's alumni university and dillards university in louisiana and my role is the recruitment of bay area students and venture down to new orlean and have a educational experience at a historical black college and that's the focus there. i am committed to the san francisco community. it's my home. i worked in the public sector here and feel that i'm hopefully have the qualifications to fill the seat on the health authority board and i am happy to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you. based on the lifelong experience in health care and administration i would say you're very qualified. what you see the issues that the health authority would weigh in on that you can contribute to? >> i think the biggest one is the implementation of the affordable care act lawmakerring sure we have -- making sure we have no stone unturned and everyone eligible gets medi-cal expansion or covered california. we had great success here in san francisco, more so than most countries in the -- counties in the country and not let time be the enemy and be aggressive and sign up campaigns. i think our goal is too as people that make too much to qualify for medi-cal expansion are able to qualify for covered california. how do we make sure it's affordable? we know we're working on the bridge plan which would take part of the employer contribution of the city option to healthy san francisco and make it available to san francisco residents to help provide premium support for purchase of covered california insurance so i see that as a big activity that the health authority will be at the forefront on in the next year or so. >> thank you. how does the emergence of new hospitals being built affect the work of the authority and making sure that we're doing enrollment and meeting the needs around low income people in receiving health care? >> i think the agreement between the city and cpmc goes a long way in making sure they provide a valuable service in terms of making their hospital available to local residents of the tenderloin; that they provide primary care homes for those residents. they're also providing assistance to the department of public health and san francisco general in terms of providing access to specialty services that we have long waits for so the citizens that either have medi-cal or covered california can see a specialist there more sooner within our own institution so i think all the hospitals have a role to play. we're lucky to have a charity care ordinance here in san francisco that shines a light on the contributions that our hospitals make which i think compared to most communities our hospitals do a really good job, but there's always room for improvement, and i think as long as we can continue to have transparency in terms of the public benefit that the local hospitals give to us we will be in good stead. >> thank you. does the health authority have a role in ensuring the access of those institutions happen? >> absolutely. access is a key component of the health authority to the extent that it can influence and implement public policy there's definitely a role, and because the health authority has a -- i don't want to say bipartisan but representation from throughout the health care of the hospital industry in the city i think it's a good place to make sure we've got everyone looking keeping an eye on the prize. >> great. thank you. other questions from the committee? so we can go on to public comment and thank you for your service and your interest in the authority. >> thank you. >> thank you. okay. this item is up open for public comment. >> thank you. [inaudible] all of -- of your -- [inaudible] physical have -- life [inaudible] of your personal glory, of your fame, of your money, of your sex. please understand, please realize that -- [inaudible] fame and position are all temporary for making success of some nature accomplishment and [inaudible] >> okay. any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] okay. colleagues. supervisor tang. >> all right. well again another person before us who i think has their resume speaks for itself so i am very happy then to move forward or appoint roland pickens to seat three of the san francisco health authority and send that forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> and seconded -- >> yes, happy to second that recommendation. >> president breed and colleagues we will take that without objection. thank you. next item i think we're at number 5 now. is that right? >> item 5 is a hearing to consider the mayor's appointments of carmen sosa, vida bonilla, mollie matull, patricia siegel, and michael wald to the children, youth and their families oversight and advisory committee for terms yet to be determined. >> okay. very good. i'm not sure if everyone is here that applied, and i know some have been here twice because they came before us when we had the board appointments. let's take them in the order that we have, and carmen sosa. is carmen here? please come forward. good morning. >> good morning. hi board of supervisors. my name is carmen sosa. i'm a recent graduate of san francisco flex academy. i'm 18 years old from the mission district. i'm going for seat one. some of the organizations that i have been a part of is boys and girls club. i have been going since i -- i don't know how long, for the past 11 years or so. when i became a teen i was able to work i started going as a teen pass and involved in the teen leadership, their keystone program. i have been president for three years and because of all of my work with the boys and girls club i was awarded youth of the youth for san francisco through the boys and girls club. i also have been a big part of the san francisco public library. i have been on their board of advising youth for the past several years helping and create their new teen center and media and visual lab that is now open. through the san francisco public library i was also to be part of the annual youth advocacy day through -- sorry, and i was also a part of yac which is the youth advisory council through dcyf. another organization i was part of is -- i was part of the youth employment program with the exploreiorum and funded by them also and i have a lot of experience with dcyf programs. a little bit about myself. i'm the first born in america and child of two immigrated parents. something that i have struggled with is the english language just growing up in general. neither of my parents or sisters spoke english. getting my homework done. i had to do it myself or figure out how to do it at school. we were also low income,. both of my parents were incarcerated at different times. after my parents got divorced my mother became disabled. after a new years of her fighting she passed and we were put in the foster care system and something i noticed that we struggled with is the social workers, something they would like to -- [inaudible] sorry. and yeah so i believe that i have -- my background has a wide diversity and i feel like i can advocate for a lot of youth in san francisco on various topics. just being able to be on the board i would love to have a youth involvement, youth voice. i know there's a lot of youth in san francisco that don't feel like they have a voice, and that they feel like they wouldn't -- it wouldn't matter what they say pretty much. something that i look forward to is that being able to advocate not only through the san francisco unified school district and i noticed a lot and we outreach a lot through the school district, but personally i was never part of the school district. i went to charter schools for the past 13 years of my life and i never knew about most of the -- i never knew about most of the resources available because i was in a charter school so just being able to outreach outside of the school district through the dcyf funded programs and the communities itself. >> great thank you. >> any questions? >> well thank you for sharing all this about yourself as well. i think it's the second time you were here too and you were here earlier and thank you for coming forward and your interest. [inaudible] >> yeah. >> does i mention that before? >> yeah. >> okay. well great thank you for your presentation. supervisor tang has a question for you. >> thank you. i don't have a question. i want to thank you for the interest. i am glad we have youth seats on this body and it's really important and just what you stated in your presentation i think it's important for students. it doesn't matter if you're in sfusd or charter school or private schools you're students and you need access for information for all the services that we offer in the city and i am glad to bring that perspective to this body or if you're appointed and again thank you for the work on that and look forward to having you on there. >> okay. great thank you. >> thank you. >> so we can go on to our next appointee, vida bonilla. is vida here? >> good morning supervisors. i am adele and vida has class this morning and provided a letter and application for the committee to review. is it okay that i share highlights? so youth commissioners recommended vida bonilla as long as with carmen sosa for the mayor's appointment for seats one and two of the committee and carmen sosa's qualifications speak for themselves and she also spoke to them. vida bonilla is an excelsior resident and grew up in the san francisco public schools and a city college student, 18 years old. she maintains a role in caring for her siblings and looking out for children and youth services across the life span. she's worked with community am preprograms for years and with lyric and an intern and educator and project pull, enterprise for high school students and she's a homework tutor at her library so we were happy to have such amazing applicants for the two youth seats and thrilled there will be young people on sitting on the body and look forward to supporting them. >> great. it's great to hear that the excelsior is represented as well and have a large number of schools and children under the age of 18, and i don't think vida is under the agent of 18 but she would have a great perspective of being around that able as well. >> yeah, youth commissioners thought so too. >> great. okay. next person is mollie matull. >> [inaudible] >> okay. she's want going to be able to make it and patty siegel. i don't see -- oh she is here. welcome again. >> i upon happy to be back. >> it kind of worked out because we had other appointees from the board and i was hoping that the mayor would put your name forward. >> right, i remember. thank you so much. i am pleased to be back and since you heard before i will be brief. i lived in san francisco and district 5 actually since 1968. i'm the proud parent of three children who are wonderful graduates of the san francisco public schools and now four grandchildren who are benefiting from public services including child care right down stairs in city hall with my grandson attends. my granddaughter is at pacific primary benefiting from preschool for all and my grandsons are at roof top and we're well served and it's a multi-generational commitment. my late husband who died last year and worked in the school system and i bring his perspective as well. my life's work has been to help families to find and access child care. i started way back in 1971 when i couldn't get my play group in my inner sunset neighborhood down to the park at golden gate park and lincoln way might have been the mississippi river and there were no crosswalks and crossing the street with a grouch toddler was -- group of toddlers was taking their life in the hands and i was in on committee chaired by supervisor dianne feinstein and we got the stop lights and every time i go through the intersections with my grandchildren now in tow i am grateful that the board of supervisors supported parents from throughout the inner sunset and haight ashbury and having access to a great resource that wasn't available. i learned in that play group working with 12 families in my neighborhood that unmet child care needs were then sadly in 1971, 72, a huge issue, not just for my family, not just for other families in district 5 and the inner sunset but throughout the city and with a grant from the rosenberg foundation i was happy to be part of a collect ofive that started the -- collective that started the child care switch board and sounds ancient now and it's an oxymoron and our goal was to help parents get affordable child care and i wish i could say we achieved that goal. we have a lot ways go and why i am excited about the potential of being appointed to this oversight committee but one thing i learned about listening to parents on the telephone in those days and now we listen on computers and other ways as well, that unmet needs were rampant in the city. the unmute needs for parents that work non traditional hours and this continues to be a challenge. not everyone in the city works 9:00 o'clock to 5:00 o'clock. not everyone has the privilege of having a schedule that is predictable so we figured out we needed flexible child care arrangements for parents in addition to formal settings and care for infants asked to hers and searched for any funds available. we were fortunate to receive a grant from the department i think it was called social rehabilitation services to do a neighborhood based recruitment and training project for home based license child care providers. we worked in hunters point, in the western edition, two sessions in chinatown, one in mander rin and one in cantonese in the district and i am proud to say many of the graduates are providing care today and that was back in 1974 but we learned a horrible thing that believe it or not in 1974 if you didn't speak english in san francisco you couldn't get licensed as a home based child care provider. we didn't accept that. it was a county rule at the time and done not locally and we sued the state of california and said it was unfair. we got great representation from the employment law center and we over turned that very injust regulation and it opened the door to really begin to build communities of providers throughout the city, not just those who had the privilege of growing up speaking english. that's one of the things and we realized we needed training materials that were relevant for all types of child care providers so that was one of the things at the child care switch board that i was most proud of. i worked hard. as a result of that lawsuit we met jerry brown in the first incarnation and thought what we were doing mattered and authored legislation and child care services became a state wide program and i served for nine years throughout the two terms as governor as the chair of the child development advisory committee and i learned a lot working with advisory committee and working with diverse constituents and i think i would bring some of the skills. i went on ultimately in 1980 to my retirement in 2012 to lead the california network and we're reverse pioneers in california. we started the first r and r in san francisco and known as the childrens' council but we spread that throughout california and ultimately the country. i worked hard at the federal level because we never had enough money to do the things that we needed to do and we still don't so i was a state representative to the national coalition that passed the child care and development block grant which continues to be the major source of funding for child care. back here in california i was an adive supporter of -- avid supporter of prop 10 and by antonio reynoso to serve on first 5 commission and i learned a lot there and serving on a diverse commission and getting in touch with all of the member agent agencies and counties in california with the incredible diverse needs and i think at times in san francisco we can be very insulated in terms we have so many benefits available, so much -- i mean one of the reasons i am anxious to serve on this commission is i feel like we have resources that believe me other counties drool over, and so we have an opportunity to lead the way and we also have the opportunity to learn from some of the good practices that happen in other counties in california and throughout the country and that's one of the things i think i would bring. one of the last two projects that i did at the r and r network, the one i am most proud of and legacy work is something called "parent voices." when i started the switch board i had two children under three and twins and by the time i was testifying in sacramento and washington i was the parent of high school kids and i wasn't an authentic voice for the young kids and i was impressed with leah pimentel that talked about the opportunitys in her communities and i know carmen and the others will bring that perspective from their families but what i wanted to see if there was a way for parents to actually have a voice here in city hall and sacramento and washington, d.c. so with support from the margaret casey foundation and now the pepper corn foundation and womens' foundation of california parents voices started and helping low income parents become very informed and engaged and what matters more than to each of them and it's their childrens' future and i am glad the parents advocates and marie lois torres and i hired way back then they stuck it with the children and not just the early years but high school and beyond, and the last thing and i mentioned it earlier was the growing learning caring project which was funded by the state of california to really look at those workers who are lowest income and in the non traditional hours because not every family has access to the wonderful preschools and child care centers that we have and we have to find ways to make sure that those services are not just available to people that fit the 9-5 category but to all families so in short i'm very honored to be considered now by the mayor and if appointed i pledge to you that i have a lot of time and energy to give, and i look forward to working with all of you in the months and years to come. thank you. >> great. thank you very much. i think it was very thorough presentation, and i am happy to have you back again and look forward to you serving. >> thank you. >> thank you. next up is michael wald. >> thank you supervisors. i'm michael wald. i actually had sent you all of the committee members a statement of qualifications. i think that supervisor breed prejudicial didn't. >> >> probably didn't get one because i sent it to supervisor cohen so i won't go over in detail things that i covered in the statement, but i have been appointed to seat five for which i'm very honored and very pleased to have this opportunity to serve. that is the seat that where there is either expertise or experiences in working with low income children and under served children and families. i actually believe that if you have any expertise it comes from experiences that you need to work with people to develop, and i hope that my qualifications fit on both sides of that. i have been working on childrens' issues for over 48 years. my entire professional career has been devoted to childrens' issues. i lived in san francisco for the last 28 years and i'm going to mostly focus on that but actually going back earlier in 1971, 72, i was a lawyer at then the youth law center working with some people you know: james bell and jaim morales and others and i was on the board of san francisco neighborhood legal assistance foundation at that time, so i go back early in terms of san francisco. i did -- [inaudible] i had stanford as a teaching base during this time. i was actively engaged in east palo alto and teaching in a day school set up by gert triewd wilks and eaching on the east palo alto community and the board founded and being involved in promoting particularly special education needs of children in east palo alto. over the last 28 years while in san francisco i had the opportunity to serve in a number of capacities which i think relate to all of them give me background through the five or six things that the statute lays out for the commission to do to look at outcomes for children, to look at evaluation, to think about how to apply data to think about funding processes, to think about programming, and capacity and have community engagement. as i think you know i was appointed by mayor brown as head of the human services agency and served in that capacity in 1996 and 97. worked closely with a wide range of people in the community and set up a community task force in which we developed a plan which i think has worked well in making san francisco one of the most progressive places in terms of supporting lower income families. i then had the opportunity to -- i was appointed by mayor newsom to co-chair with another person [inaudible] catherine casellis and foster youth and wonderful advocate who is up now in sacramento advocating. i co-chaired the [inaudible] transitional youth board and the most disconnected kids. i have a copy if you haven't had that report in which we tried to think how you get 18-24 year olds out of work and out of school reconnected to supportive sets of services, and i was very pleased as part of the charter amendment dcyf is now focusing on 18-24 year olds which was one of our recommendations in that report. it gave me an opportunity to work with a number of really wonderful people in the community there, and finally most recently i was chair of the youth council of the work workforce investment board again focusing on getting work force and education for youth particularly those who were struggling. i brought the attention of the youth council and our funding to the students in the alternative schools who are the most at risk students in san francisco, and brought work force training and other programs to connect with their academic studies and i hope in serving on this i can bring these various experiences to bear for fulfilling the obligations of the committee. i am happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you very much. your work is well represented in terms of the issues that are going to be important for the oversight committee and just want to appreciate your wanting to be part of it and i think your expertise will be a great asset there. thank you. okay. so we can open this item up for public comment. >> please allow me. jane kim supervisor. i like her as a person -- no worry. nothing worry. still worry about -- [inaudible] life and outcomes for the future, of marriage, of life, and family and terms of son and father, and in life -- passion, wisdom -- destiny, who would want to have -- i mean a person would like to have completeness of true self nature and life of destiny for oneself and family and engage on to career of headquarter center [inaudible] position -- anyway -- >> okay. very good. thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. there. my name is molly brown and with huckleberry youth programs but here as capacity of the youth coalition and sub-committee. i want to thank you for the patience during the process and on the board's side and the mayor's side. it's taken longer than we expected. however we are thrilled with the candidates before you today and carmen and patty and michael and vida we think they're well qualified and represent their communities and constituents and have expertise and will do a fabulous job so we are thrilled that the mayor appointed such qualified people and we're excited for the work to begin and the committee to be beginning and i wanted to come and thank you. >> thank you ms. brown. thank you for your work as well and shaping the charter amendment. any other speakers? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] and colleagues these items are live before us. president breed. >> thank you. i just want to thank the individuals who came today to meet or to introduce yourself to let us know who you are, what you have been doing, and as some of you know i am filling in for supervisor cohen so i came in a little bit later and didn't have a chance to thoroughly review the materials, but hearing from you gave me a good idea that you all have some great expertise, and will provide a lot of great information and support necessary to make this advisory committee successful. i do want to express some concern, and i do apologize again for not being completely prepared, but i would like to know specifically if -- molly i guess was not here but has the mayor made any appointments of any african-americans in the list of his appointments? and does anyone have information regarding that? no one is here from the mayor's office; right? okay. and i guess having the information for -- i don't recall exactly who we as members of the board appoint the but i was wondering if there are any african-americans on the list and if someone can get that information for me? and the reason i am bringing this issue up because i am very concerned that the african-american drop out rate in our public school system is higher almost than any other group. you have the latino drop out rate is high and the african-american drop out rate in the system is high and when we're looking at a advisory committee of reflective of that demographic so i am very concerned about that and i do apologize for not being completely prepared in order to understand the makeup of what the advisory committee would be. >> yeah supervisor i don't believe there is any. we did receive another notice of appointment from the mayor for seat six so i don't know what -- >> and seat three? >> i don't know -- [inaudible] >> okay. >> we also had concern about representation from other ethnic groups as well that were important to represent. we barely made it with i believe the chinese person, someone who speaks chinese and asian to be on the committee, and i think with ms. sossa we have a latina there but no other representations from the latino community as well so it's an issue and there was a lot of work to reach out and encourage people to apply and i believe with the mayor's office that was the case as well and we were hoping that the mayor's office could deal with the diversity issues and we had a lot of difficulty to get the mayor to come forward in a timely way with the appointments because they're about a month and a half late. >> and i will say that as someone who was previously run a non-profit that was funded by dcyf i think one of my biggest frustrations was the fact there were different organizations that would apply for funding, they would receive funding because they were good at applying for funding but they're not the organizations doing the work effectively for the community and i want to make sure that the kinds of folks that serve on this body are people not just looking at how well somebody writes a proposal but more importantly where are the services needed? and we know there are certain neighborhoods with more challenges but when we look at where money is going for violence prevention in particular and we have the bay view hunter's point community and significant violence unfortunately and a huge homicide rate compared to anyplace in the city yet the dollars are not reflective of that in terms of the funds we give out is a call for concern which is why i feel we need to make sure the representation on this body, which is a really important advisory body for the distributions of millions of dollars to programs that serve our young population i want to make sure this is a solid group of people with a diverse representation. >> well, thank you. i actually -- i do believe in terms of peoples' actual representations, the composition of the committee in terms of ethnicity and race not as diverse as we can be. i believe in experience and in terms of the work we have done. we approved just on tuesday someone who is chinese that does a lot of great work in the community and the chinese community and knows the neighborhood of san francisco very well, so i believe that we have that -- a lot of people who have a broad experience who have connections with our communities who are there, and i think supervisor tang has some news too they think is important to share. >> sure thank you. so i believe that mayor lee actually this week appointed an african-american woman to this body and so again i do agree that absolutely there should be incredible diversity on a body such as well, so i believe that will potentially be coming forward to us, but that decision was made this week. >> thank you supervisor tang, and i want to add that it's not just about diversity in terms of racial makeup but diversity in terms of experience because i think there is a real disconnect in this city when we talk about the population of african-americans, when we talk about the number of young people in our public school systems that are dropping out, and the lack of targeted support around this particular population it is really frustrating, and i just again want to make sure that they're individuals on this body that understand that there are a lot of challenges out there, and everything is not as simple as you know this is a systematic way of doing things, but more importantly how are we being innovative? are are we truly progressive about providing the right kinds of programs and making sure we're funding not just the status quo but we're funding new innovative programs or finding creative ways in order to support this population? and i also want to add that one of the ways i was able to get a lot of the young people who were challenges to work with in the community was we basically paid stipends and now stipends are under attack. dcyf has basically put a cap on the amount of dollars that could be paid as a stipend to young people, and unfortunately you know we had challenges with capacity in order to as the minimum wage went up and as funding somewhat stabilized we didn't have the financial support to hire an hr team in order to manage our youth so they were actual employees so we used stipends as a way to work with young people and keep them actively involved in our programs so they were around positive people. they received support, and they were a -- a lot turned out to be successful individuals that work for example the city, attending city cleefnlght one graduated from san jose state last year so again i just want to make sure that we are not putting obstacless in the way of trying to work with a challenging population, and that we understand what those challenges are, and we're prepared to do what it takes in order to support those programs, especially the ones that are finding creative innovative ways that are not always what the city wants us to do, but it's more what we need to do in order to support that population, and so i just want to put that out there, and i'm glad that the mayor has someone, but i'm hoping that person also understands the challenges. i would like to see more funding directed at more communities where it's truly needed to more programs that are effectively serving our most challenging population here in the city. thank you. >> thank you. and i think that's the advisory and oversight committee will be a body where that -- where those type of comments are important to be directed to as well so it's not just the appointees but the work of that body that will create the innovation that will meet our needs so i agree the appointments are going to be important, but that's not the end all so colleagues these are live before us; and we're most -- mostly reviewing these and the mayor's appointments go forward and we send to the full board -- no, we don't send to the full board? >> no. this is a hearing that you file. >> so this is an information item. do we need to take action like file or anything? >> yes, you can file and continue to the call of the chair. >> can we have a motion? >> i make a motion to file the hearing. >> seconded by president breed. >> second. >> and we will take that without objection. again i want to thank everyone for being here today and presenting and your interest in the committee. next item please. >> item number 6 is a hearing consider pointing two members terms ending april 27, 2016 to the sunshine ordinance task force. there are two seats and two applicants. >> great thank you. and first up we will have mr. rumold. welcome. >> thank you. thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you today and for considering my application. my name is mark rumold. i previously served in on the task force in this seat. in march this year i moved from san francisco to the east bay and i had to resign because of the residence restrictions. in my time on the task force i helped the task force make importa improvements to operate more efficiently, operate more credibly and those are things i would like to help the task force continue doing. a bit about me. i am a staff attorney at the electric frontier foundation. i do work primarily on transparency and surveillance issues in the national security context so there's not a lot of national security issues that come up before the task force but my transparency work -- i am familiar with federal transparency laws and state transparency laws. on the prior time on the task force i became familiar with the ordinance too so i guess in closing when i was appointed initially i agreed to serve for two years and with the committee's approval i would like to fulfill that commitment. >> great. how was your experience for that personally on that and what were your consideration contributions at that time. >> >> i was surprised by the time commitment. it ended being a more significant commitment than i expected but in terms of -- (chanting in the hallway) i think part of the work that needs to be done to help the task force to operate better is make the meetings go more smoothly and more efficient, and in my time we set up a system where committees would consider complaints before the full task force meeting so the full task force would only approve or deny the recommendations of the committee and i thought that set up the meetings a lot and helped both members of san francisco agencies and members of the public operate in a more transparent fashion. >> great. okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> next up is eric. last name isn't before me right now. >> hi there. my name is eric eldon and chief -- [inaudible] neighborhood publication in san francisco. our primary focus is cultural civic and local business issues, and i would like to talk a little bit about what we do because it's important context why i care about being on this committee. i will also tell you about a little about myself. our neighborhoods are primarily located in districts three, five, six, eight. our daily news coverage is unique way that residents get the news. 80% of the stories that we publish wouldn't be considered stories by other publications because they're simply too granule. at this time we found a significant audience in terms what we're doing. in terms of our staff we hire from every community in where we're located and write stories that are relevant to everybody. as i believe is the case with the other handful neighborhood (paused) and we have written about regularly. it's really seems public service. personally i spend more than a decade as a reporter and editor covering technology and business news at technology publications in silicon valley so i am familiar with that world. i work at hood line because i believe in the local news and the mission and i was burned out covering silicon valley and wanted to do something more community oriented and i now live in oakland for the usual reasons. i couldn't afford to stay here but i continue to work in the city and manage our team across different neighborhoods. in terms of the sunshine ordinance task force i believe that transparency in government helps citizens believe the best how the tax dollars are spent, how the votes are going to work and when they believe in government they're willing to invest time and money and energy and build communities in the city. hood line and myself have benefits from the efforts of city agencies and the board of supervisors to be more transparent. the data sf site is a huge tool for us to understand what is going on, basic issues like permits and business changes and all sorts of things like that, and i realize while times it can be challenging to deal with the public and the scrutiny they may have however well or poorly founded it maybe we understand as journalists understand what supervisors and agencies go through and we believe the effort and the discourse of transparency and that transparency allows is hugely important for building the civic life of the city and my hope as a member i can help the city and the residents to understand this and build trust and questions from the task force and i am looking forward to serving on the committee with your consideration. thank you very much. >> thank you. so you haven't searched on the committee before. >> served on the committee before? have you attended? can you talk about your impressions? >> i was talking about this earlier. there is certain a lot of process involve the. i think on the one understand the committee is providing a voice to anyone who has questions about how the city is working and its balance and efficiency and giving everyone due consideration without allowing any one person to derail the efforts of the overall committee, so i think the work that mark is taking about is important. i think there are a lot of possibilities in the future for making it even more efficient allowing people to submit on line and share on line and have the questions reviewed online. i think there are are a ton of opportunities in that area and i can't say i inventory done. >> >> i haven't done it before and i will learn more about being involved but i think the right structure is there and just needs to be improved. >> great. thank you and in terms enforcement and accountability do you have ideas around that and people responding and elected officials or departments responding to requests or the public engaging the task force to get service? -- >> can you repeat the last part? >> in terms of enforcement do you see ways to make it more efficient and departments to be enforced or for the public to people be more efficient in the use of using the task force? >> it's always a tough balance in terms of analyzing the questions of citizens, and forcing more transparency in some cases. they're often legitimate reasons why agencies don't want all of the information disclosed and i would want to consider that carefully. i think anything that could be auto mated should be and the chief technology officer around making the data sets produced by the agencies available online and a hugely baseline tool for allowing that. just to understand to look at things like anything from crime incidents to street repairs to education to everything else that is happening in each neighborhood that can actually be put online and a lot of the questions that people have i think around this they're going to be more and more ways that the city can present it to them so they can get the answers they're looking for without going through the committee process. >> great thank you. is this any interest for hood line expanding their neighborhoods? we have a lot of granules in district 11. >> i would love to. i wrote an article about your work for the medical cannabis dispensary zoning review you're working on last year and earlier this year, and i think that's a great example of an issue in your district that has not been covered in that much detail by city press. that would be a very important for us to delve into but the issues we were hearing about bay view, all the housing issues there, all of those sorts of things are important to be covered and there's want enough media in the city just bringing those issues up making citizens aware of what is happening and i would love to work on that. >> that's great. we can talk about that off line. district 11 is uniquely ignored by a lot of media institutions. >> right. >> and anything we can do to change that would be great. >> i appreciate it. >> okay. president breed. >> thank you. i had a question and i guess i will be asking the city attorney a little bit about conflict of interest because hood line does make sunshine request and do you think some of the decisions you make as a member of the task force maybe in conflict? for example in you made a request to any department or supervisor for a particular matter and eventually that particular issue came before the sunshine task force would that impact the decision you would make or see that as a conflict? >> if i was personally involved i would recuse myself or qualify my opinions to the other committee members. i think for the position that i'm going for the society of professional journalists and representing that and i have to deal with that conflict if i write about anything in the city and i am open to the feedback. i want to to be a fair process for everyone and i see myself on the committee as representing the interest of society of professional journalists and journalists at large in the city and not just hood line and my own position. >> for example, there are similar complaints that come before your body that are not necessarily directly involving hood line but maybe similar to situations that you faced do you see yourself -- i mean how do you see yourself dealing with those kinds of situations? and how do you separate what your personal -- not personal, but more professional opinion based on your desires are to get the information you need in order to produce your story? like how do you separate that what could be a conflict in terms of the right decision on the issue? >> it's a great question and i don't have a perfect answer for it. i would say that hood line is not advocacy journalism. we're trying to writing objectivity and it maybe an impossible goal but we strive for it. it's valuable to people and they appreciate we're trying to be fair and i would say any question like that i would take the approach what is fair for the citizens of the city? i think in the sense our audience is essentially the same as ours. >> and let me just get more specific. i have a different opinion about like the calendar requests in terms -- i mean there's a thin line between public information and then also being nosy and wanting to know what someone is doing all the time, so more specifically if there is a request asking me as an official did i meet with a particular individual and if the public wants to know details about that or what have you i think it's appropriate. i think it's appropriate to share that information with the public, but i don't think it's appropriate for the public to know my whereabouts 24 hours a day, all of my information, anything personal, my patterns and so on and so forth so i have a difference of opinion about that, so that particular issue continues to to be an issue with the sunshine task force because i bump heads with people who i would consider mentally unstable that constantly request my calendar and -- >> i was at the july meeting where this came up and it's a complicated issue what is your personal life and what is your public life. hillary clinton herself is going through some of the questions on the national stage with her emails. i think a lot of this stuff is laid out and you know past case studies and past situations and with the sunshine task force do i try to go for the pretty straightforward interpretation of what is on the books already. i would listen to the advice of the city attorney. i would probably talk to independent lawyers who are familiar with these types of issues and come to a conclusion based on all of that rather than my personal interest in the matter or the interest of particular people that come before the committee. >> so do you think that public officials should have to share their calendars if requested? >> i would -- i'm not a lawyer, and i'm not exactly sure what's on the books for that. in general for this sort of thing and my experience working for news organizations i try to have one personal email account and everything where i manage that and one where i manage my professional life. for public officials all of it can potentially as i understand come under review, and i don't honesty know the answer. i haven't heard a clear answer from other people. i just heard a lot of opinions and i can't say i have decided on that right now. >> okay. and then i think -- yeah, that's it. that's all i have. thank you. >> thank you mr. eldon. we will go to public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment please come forward. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm richard nee speaking on behalf of the society of professional journalists northern california chapter. we're the organization that nominated these two fine gentlemen to the task force. the process that we go through, the process of vetting and interviewing the people who want to serve on the task force it's extensive and intensive and we look at their credentials. we look at their cvs. we interview them on their views on various sunshine related matters, and we believe that mr. rumold and mr. eldon have the competence, certainly the good sunshine intent that will make them welcome additions to the task force, and having served on the task force for 12 years i can tell you that some of the cases and some of the issues that come before the task force can be quite contentious, and we are confident that mr. eldon and mr. rumold have the temperament necessary to go through these things and to do so in a fair and objective manner and come to decisions that will serve the interest of sunshine. >> great. thank you very much. and seeing no other member of the public we will close public comment. [gavel] >> i did have a question sir. i'm sorry. i forgot your name. >> [inaudible] >> mr. knee; richard knee, just like elbow. yes, ma'am? >> were you identify to local residents for this and both are from oakland. i am not comfortable with this and it's challenging to support a residency requirement especial if i know they're qualified san franciscans that can serve on these bodies and i am trying to understand was there any san francisco residents that you looked at or any outreach to possible recommendations you could make with residents of the city? >> okay. in the case of mr. rumold he wants to continue on the task force, sort to resume service on the task force so we didn't really reach out to anybody else. he served the task force ably and well in the past, and we believe that he would continue to do so. in the case of -- >> i'm sorry. mr. rumold lived in san francisco but he had to move out -- >> he moved to oakland, and that forced him to leave the task force. now he wants to come back on it with the waiver requirement waived. in the case of journalist seat, seat number two, no, we were not able to find any san francisco residents for that. we did have another applicant who works i believe in novato and lives in richmond, the city of richmond, so given that we believe that it was in our best interest and in your best interest to nominate mr. eldon. both mr. eldon and mr. rumold work a stone's throw from city hall so their attendance at meetings will not be a problem and we urge the residency requirement be waived. >> thank you. i believe the work of mr. rumold is a good choice for this seat and nature. again one of the challenges i have is we are exhausting all public options for residents of the city first. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. it was -- it's again that we get a residency requirement waiver request, and so i understand your concern. i also think it's important to have very qualified people who know the terrain very well, who are on the task force, so it's that kind of uncomfortable balance that we have to strike all the time. president breed. >> okay. so with that i think i will say that i'm not completely familiar with mr. rumold -- i hope i'm saying your name right, but as someone who has served on the task force before i'm comfortable with moving forward -- hesitantly so with moving forward with waiving the residency requirement, and i'm definitely very comfortable with mr. eldon because again familiar with his involvement and understanding of the city landscape and thinks -- and i believe that he would do a really good job on the task force and i i'm glad he has the interest in steps outside just the neighborhoods and doing something in city hall that could really make a big difference for our city, so with that i would like to make a motion to waive the residency requirement for seat one and for seat two, and move forward with positive recommendation to the full board both individuals, mark rumold for seat one and eric eldon for seat two. >> i second that. >> okay. and colleagues we can take that without objection. [gavel] thank you. okay. madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chair. that concludes everything today. >> we are adjourned thank you. [gavel]

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