The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting for the rules committee for march 26, 2014 will begin shortly. The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting for the rules committee for september 9, 2015 will begin shortly. 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. Its 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 nonprofits here in San Francisco that work and serve our children and families. Im 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 20s worked as a youth worker outreach in club frs hiv and helt for the Lgbt Community and i im 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 CommunityDevelopment 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 whats 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. Im 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 its meaning, [inaudible] of life and [inaudible]. Avenue and balboa and next week the second statement still time [inaudible] but for me everyday its both. Its 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 theres. 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 alternatives i provided homeowners throughout the state of california with low cost solar panels and with Work Force Development to make sure theyre 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 theyre drawing interest from companies that that have a affordable child care center. There are numerous families in San Francisco and thats 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 theyre important in terms of advancing for working people in San Francisco. How do you see the Successor Agency playing a role in that . As theyre building its having them making sure were 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 its attracting the families. If were having the Child Care Centers youre 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 didnt 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 dont believe that the city does enough to support the homeowners especially southern southeast part of San Francisco. Weve had a huge problem with defaults and foreclosures that hasnt been recognized in San Francisco, and we have a whole body under the Mayors Office that is involved in housing under the Mayors 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 wouldnt 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 youre appointmented to get more attention to the needs for the Mayors 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 thats 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 theyre not ulght liezed effective. Exactly. Because i feel a lot of people i was at a meeting yesterday and a woman said i dont know if i will be here next year and shes in her 70s and grew up in the community and people dont know if theyre 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 hasnt 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 whats 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 its often on a case by case basis when its 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 didnt 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 thats 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 Hunters Point Community and theyre aware so theyre applying for this Affordable Housing and as you said Hunters Point is going to be impacted significantly because most of the new units were 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