session. welcome back, members. mdm. clerk, please call the roll thank you madame president supervisor avalos present; pres. breed here;; compost present; christiansen present cohen, present farrell, present; kim-present some; mar not present tang present wiener-present emac-present you have a quorum thank you. ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you madam clerk are there any communications or yes mdm. pres. this medication is meant to inform the public that the board of supervisors has expanded its existing language access services program by authorizing the office of the clerk of the board to enter into an abortive partnership with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. for an 11 month pilot program beginning september 1, 2015 and lasting through july 31, 2015. during that time, the staff will provide spanish and chinese interpretation services upon request and every regular and specia
conducted, studying the effects of a condo converse study two years ago. happy to provide you with that. but that s where that fee emanated from. co-chair kim: in terms of depending on the number of years obviously that fee reduces down to $4,000. i know there s concern about whether $4,000 per unit can mitigate the loss of rent control units. beyond the normal existing procedure that we have currently for to ensure that there s sort of a metered rate at which we lose basically lose rent controlled units. supervisor farrell: i challenge probably the premise of that comment but i will say that the amount of fee reduction was a balancing act and to the city attorney can speak to further detail about that. we have to match that with the nexus study but also there is at a certain point a breakage point where people will not be incentivized to go forward and pay a fee. if they are seniority base you have a greater chance of winning the lottery. if you have missed it for
support in housing. there are 50 of us coming here to support this proposal. i hope all supervisors will support this t.i.c. to be successful. co-chair kim: i have a question for the speaker. are you a t.i.c. owner? translator: no. co-chair kim: i m curious as to why you re speaking on behalf of friends that are t.i.c. owners or if you re not one yourself, because this doesn t impact t.i.c. owners in the future that may be looking to buy. this is purely for those that currently have participated in the 2012-2013 lottery. translator: because i have many neighbors, and relatives. they all have that need. i volunteer in visitacion valley for over 20 years. thank you. chair wiener: thank you. thank you. if i could just remind, we again, no audible applause, booing, hissing. if you want to raise your hand to express aroofl, that s approval, that s great. next speaker. my name is kenneth laverne, i live in district 8. i m a renter. i live on social security. i m dis
i don t. i suspect you re looking at there s probably conversions in there and new construction. new construction co-chair kim: i see. so new construction is also included in that as well. i m not sure where those stats came from but i can assure you that 200 no more than 200 units a year get converted from existing residential units. co-chair kim: okay. thank you very much. sure. chair wiener: president chiu. supervisor chiu: a couple of additional follow-up questions to supervisor kim s questions. this is either to the controller s office or to the author of the legislation around the how the fee was set. when i looked at the controller s nexus study on how this was done, i understand this proposal creates a $20,000 conversion fee. and what the nexus study suggests is that that would be a potential fee that could be justified for $300,000 t.i.c., but for $400,000 t.i.c. the nexus study suggests that you could have a conversion fee of about $30,000 and
because she s been priced out. well, i wanted to give you a little historical information about what it s like to be an aids activist in 2013. what i noticed in 89, and i don t think any of you folks, sitting there, were here in 89 oh, you were. okay. i don t know how old you were, but my land lady was a small time realtor named greta from skyline. she owned quite a few properties. she decided what a great idea, i m going to take advantage of the fact that no one is willing to rent to people with aids. i will. she kicked out people left and right, including me. and tripled the rents. they were happy to have her. no one else was willing. she took advantage. that was in 89. and so i m an unhappy native. i m embarrassed of the city. i love this place for almost my whole life. i m very, very ashamed of san francisco, and the politics. thank you. chair wiener: thank you. next speaker please. thank you. i m max and i ve lived in san francisco for 24 years, lived in distr