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liberty and justice for all.
>> President Chiu: colleagues,
we have our July 31 board meeting minutes.
Motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objectionthose are approved. Madam Clerk, any communications?
>> Angela Calvillo: I have no communications.
>> President Chiu: could you call our 3 pm special order.
>> Angela Calvillo: first item of business is policy discussion between mayorand linley and board of supervisors.
This week representing the even districts, specifically district 4. The mayor Mayaddress the board for up to five minutes.
the President Will recognize the sproofers who will present her question to themayor, as long as the entire discussion does
not exceed five minutes per supervisor.
>> President Chiu: Mr. Mayor,
welcome back to the board.
>> Mayor Lee: thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, and to the public, thankyou again
for inviting me here to present answers to your questions. Before I begin, I wantto welcome everybody back from the August break.
And, also, just to add to the
moment of silence, we had
earlier for 9/11 victims, if I
might just ask you to remember
our local heroes, as a part of
that, and in addition to the -- some almost 3,000 people who
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lost their lives for us in san francisco, one of our many
connections, is betty yong and mike bingham for saving the people that they didand struggling with that tragedy. Thank you, Mr. President and the board. we're
back to work, and appreciate the question.
>> President Chiu: thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Our one and only question for today was provided by our
colleague from district 4,
supervisor carmen chu.
>> Supervisor Chu: I am pleased to offer the one question. The question is the
area you
have to support economic growth in our neighborhoods in March we invited youto participate in a
merchant walk on taraval street
where you saw blocks of vacant storefronts and saw thought of city investment.What specific physical improvements have your departments completed in the
naks six months on taraval, and what specific actions has the office of smallbusiness or the
office of economic workforce development take in in the last
six months to reach out to property owners and business
between 31st and 33rd avenues.
>> Mayor Lee: thank you for that question.
On our merchant walk on taraval street, it really did emphasize to me theincredible potential
and opportunity for transform in change in neighborhoods. I'm pleased to sharewith you
that as part of the 2011 repavement and street safety
bond, that the department of
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public works is implementing, we
prioritized 1.6 million dollars for improvements along taraval, particularly betweenthe streets
of 46th and the great highway. These improvements are based on a conceptualplan that was prepared by one of your community members, and was given tome while we were on that walk
with you in March. The next steps will be to work closely with your office andcertainly to organize a series
of meetings so that we can confirm, with feedback from the
community, and then refine this conceptual design, and we would
be prepared and dpw and the other agencies will be prepared
to start construction pursuant
to that agreed-upon plan as soon
as summer of 2013, which is next year. in addition, the office of
economic and workforce
development has funded the sunset neighborhood beacon center. In fact it'sfunded, that
center, since 2009, in terms of
hosting a part time corridor manager that specifically dedicated to assessing andaddressing the unique needs of
that street and that area.
This corridor manager talks to property owners and businesses
along the street, encouraging
them to upgrade the storefronts, what were they see fit, to be
able to utilize effectively the
311 system, fill, and have ideas
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to fill vacancies, as they occur along that avenue, and
participant in the neighborhood cleanups. Because I believe we can do
more, I also made sure that taraval street was part of our new invest inneighborhoods
initiative, which will leverage resources from the various departments, and all ofthe economic development tools that
are currently available to us. on public safety, we are also
working closely with our police department to increase the
number of patrols along taraval, particularly in response to the uptick in criminal
activity,
especially in front of that
seven-eleven store on 31nd and taraval.
You know, although it's slightly outside of the few blocks that you've identified inyour question, supervisor, I want to mention that we have partnered with thecommunity and your office, to increase visitors to
the area, including the
promotion of movies in mccapen,
a series that had great success
this past month of June. In fact it had such success that
we intend to provide funding for a second series of movies that will begin everyfriday night during the month of September.
I'm also pleased to report that
we're laurening a new ad -- launching a new ada improvement program in district4. For you other supervisors this might be something you would be interested inas well. we're partnering with the the asian neighborhood design and
mayor's office of disability to
complete free assessments for
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businesses around ada compliance.
Some of you have deliberated
around what the businesses are
facing to ada compliant matters. So providing this free assessment would behelpful and I would be glad to entertain other requests from your supervisors aswell to help our small businesses. And then after these assessments
are done, supervisor, the businesses will then be encouraged to apply for grantfunding through the sf shines
program to make these improvements. I would like to invite everyone here tocome and continue this conversation at the community coffee, which will be held
this saturday, in district 4, saturday, September 15.
And I know supervisor, your concern about your constituents
as the others are, and so am I.
I look forward to productive working relationship, both this community coffee, aswell as the community clean team effort that's scheduled for this
saturday for both district 4 and district 7.
Thank you very much.
>> President Chiu: thank you, Mr. Mayor. I think that conclude today's questiontime.
>> Mayor Lee: and I want to especially acknowledge and thank the othersupervisors for their questions as well.
thank you.
>> President Chiu: with that,
Madam Clerk, why don't we go to our consent agenda.
>> Angela Calvillo: items 2 through 5 compromise the consent agenda, andwill be ablthd upon
by a single roll call vote. If a member would like to
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discuss a matter it shall be removed and considered separately.
>> President Chiu: colleagues, anyone want to sever any of these items?
Roll call vote on 2-5.
>> Angela Calvillo: supervisor farrell, aye.
Supervisor kim, aye.
Supervisor mar, aye.
Supervisor olague, aye.
Supervisor wiener, aye.
Supervisor avalos, aye.
Supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. Supervisor chu, aye.
Supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor elsbernd, aye. There are 11 ayes.
>> President Chiu: those ordinances are passed. Items 6.
>> Angela Calvillo: an ordinance amending the police code to eliminate certain
requirements for secondhand and antique dealers, modify permit
requirements, and to set the secondhand dealer permit
application fee at 200. >> President Chiu.
>> President Chiu: thank you. First, I want to thank the sponsor of thislegislation, supervisor wiener, for his work in moving this through and I think he'sdealt with a lot of the issues that were raised, both from the public safety
community as well as from the secondhand community. There was one questionand I have an amendment to address the situation. I want to appreciate the factthat this legislation really
does help to minimize
bureaucratic hassles for secondhand dealers interacting with city governmentand to
focus on goods that are more often than not the subject of criminal activity. One
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of those goods that was
emoom rated in supervisor
wiener's legislation vosms jewelry. I was approached by several small business
folks within my
district, who asked to ask that
we exempt out jewelry that involved minimal amounts that
typically would not be involved in criminal activity.
So I have circulated a brief amendment that states that jewelry and watcheswould be encompassed by this legislation unless they have a fair market
value as a secondhand good of $40 or less.
This was a number arrived at after conversations with the police department,looking at
these activities, as well as by secondhand dealers dealing in jewelry andwatches. I want to thank supervisor wiener for his engagement in thisconversation and ask for your support.
>> we have a motion by p
President Chiu. Supervisor eastern.
>> Supervisor Wiener: I wanted
to note I support the amendment.
>> President Chiu: can we take that without objection? Without objection. Canwe take this item, same house, same call? Same house, same call.
This ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, can you call item 7.
>> Angela Calvillo: an ordinance amending the administrative code toauthorize the airport commission to enter into leases with entities providingaviation support services without competitive
bidding for a term not to exceed 10 years.
>> President Chiu: colleagues, same house, same call. This ordinance ispassed on first read. Item 8.
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>> President Chiu: same house, same call. This resolution is adopted.
>> Angela Calvillo: item 12 resolution authorizing a
contract amendment increase with alliant insurance services for
an amount not to exceed 15.1 million.
>> President Chiu: same house, same call, this resolution is adopted. MadamClerk, could we call a number of items related to treasure island that came out of
the budget committee without recommendation.
>> The Clerk: item 13 a resolution the amendment to treasure island masterlease to
extend the term to November 30, 2012.
Item 14 resolution approving the 37th amendment to the treasure island masterlease.
Item 15 resolution approving the 16th amendment to the treasure island masterlease.
Item 16 resolution approving the
eighth amendment to childcare master lease.
Item 17 amoving the 24th
amendment to treasure island event master lease.
Item 18 resolution approving and authorizing the treasure island developmentauthority to enter
into a modification of the cooperative agreement with united states navy toextend the
agreement from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013.
>> President Chiu: I understand the director of treasure island is here to makea presentation but I'd like to acknowledge the district supervisor, supervisor kim,to make some opening comments. >> Supervisor Chu:
opening.
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>> Supervisor Kim: thank you.
Given the new concerns regarding
tida no longer as a redevelopment agency and the
city attorney's memo regarding potential increased liability on
the city's general fund, we did
bring this item to the board of supervisors without recommendation so thatcolleagues could take additional time to read through the items
and to feel comfortable with
supporting these items which we actually have been routinely bringing before theboard over the last 15 years, I believe.
we did also request hearing just
because there has been new news potentially radiologically
impacted sites on treasure island. Of course there have been
concerns AMONGst residents and we want the board to have opportunity tolearn more about these reports and also ask any questions as necessary.
So we have the director of the treasure island development authority here topresent on both items before us and to
answer any connective questions that we might have regarding the
navy which is the party we are contracting with, as well as questions aboutliability. So I did want
want to introduce merriam from the treasure island development authority.
>> President Chiu: supervisor
avalos.
>> Supervisor Avalos: thank you.
And, yes, that's exactly how we had our discussion last week, colleagues, thatwe had some
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concerns about the recent
reportings of potential radiological contamination that still remains or May stillremain on treasure island. Actually, it does remain. We're trying to figure out what
level it is.
And I have concerns -- there were different reports that have
come out over the years and most recently from california
department of health that there
are some known unknowns about what exists there on treasure island. And whatI wanted to make sure is that we could get a report
back from what is the latest discussion from the california department of publichealth which seems the last entity that's really involved in
looking at review of potential radiological contamination that's there. last week aswell, there was an article that came out in the
east bay express, probably the third or fourth article that
came out, that expressed a lot of concerns as well and I would
like that to be touched upon by Ms. Sons of the treasure island developmentauthority. And if you want to go on with your presentation, be able to touch uponthose concerns, and I'll probably ask follow-up questions as we proceed.
>> President Chiu: supervisor
kim, last comment you want to make.
>> Supervisor Kim: I wanted to clarify what is before us today. We have twoseparate issues before us. One is the items that we actually are voting on today,
items 13 through 18 which tida will walk us through the master leaseamendments along with the cooperative agreement.
One of the concerns that has come up through that process is
with the aging infrastructure on that site, owned by the navy,
who is then responsible for improving that infrastructure, whether it is the navy,the future developer, or the city and the puc. So I think that is one of the issues
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that I think members of this board will have questions
on because that directly relates to the agreements that are before us today. Buttagging along with that, because the navy is one of the
parties to which these -- the master lease and the cooperative agreement arewith, we certainly have concerns now that there is
news that there is additional sites with potential radiological impact.
What is the city going to do to
ensure that we are doing the
proper cleanup and the safeguards that need to take place to protect ourresidents and of course our workers on that island.
I wanted to separate those two issues out.
>> President Chiu: why don't
we go to the authority, Madam Director.
>> mereian sighas, director of operations at treasure island, President Chiu andmembers of the board.
I just want to first just make some remarks with regards to the
items before you today, and then
quickly get into the issue at
hand with regards to the recent media report.
so with that, 15 years ago, tida -- the board of supervisors approved theresolution establishing tida as a single entity focused on planning, theredevelopment, the reuse, and
the conversion of treasure
island for development.
Concurrent with the base closure
the city and county entered into a co-op agreement with the navy for servicesincluding operation of maintenance and utilities, police and fire, grounds and
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street maintenance, property management, and care take services.
Then tida entered into master leases with the navy to sublease properties andbuildings for
commercial use, maritime use and special event use, specifically those are themaster leases
before you today, the southern waterfront master lease, the
childcare development center, events venue, land and
structures, and maritime leases.
Tida, in turn, subleases these properties and -- to generate revenue to offsetcosts associated with the property
management and municipal service obligations of the co-op agreement includingleases for
housing, commercial, and special event.
Some subleases are for public service and do not generate income like to ournonprofits,
little league, boys and girls club, were to open spaces. housing and commercialleases generate millions of dollars each year for tida's operations
to pay for the day-to-day spending.
Both the co-op agreement and master lease expire annually and indeed theyhave been before you
for 15 years.
But as the supervisor avalos and supervisor kim said last week during thecommittee meeting, there is a request for tida to
present on the most recent media
account of the navy remediation.
So for that today, we have amy brownwell from the san francisco department ofpublic health who
will speak to the regulatory process associated with
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remediation, and then bob burns,
who is tida independent expert
on radiology with over 15 years of experience.
>> May I ask a question to director sykes.
>> President Chiu: supervisor kim.
>> Supervisor Kim: before we
move on to the radiological issues which there are a lot of questions concerning Iwanted to put to rest some of the issues around the cooperative agreement.
So some of the concerns that
have come up -- now that tida's
no longer a legally separate entity, I think there are some questions that havecome up around some of the aging infrastructure. And I was hoping that maybeyou
could touch a little bit about what the discussions are
currently today around the aging infrastructure, what discussions are headedtowards in terms of
who May be able to invest and fund for some of this work to
ensure we aren't having electrical outages and some of
the aging we're seeing in the wastewater treatment. if you can address some ofthose
concerns and move on to the radiological issue.
>> it is true that the infrastructure is old and that it continues to be repaired, and
we've had some recent outages.
But I must say the puc has been very responsive in their
attention to not only getting
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the repair done, but proactively inspecting all components of the
infrastructure so as to prevent
repairs in the future. The infrastructure is part -- will be part of discussions in
the future, and puc -- I need to
turn to the puc family who is
here today, and also to michael time-off, who will present -- who could present toyou those issues that are part of the
greater development plan. >> good afternoon, President Chiu, members of theboard, michael carlan, deputy general manager for san francisco public utilitiescommission. We currently work with tida
operating the utilities on the island. It's something that we have done
for numerous years.
As the director has stated, we do proactively look at trying to maintain the utilitiesout there, but as time progresses,
we see that there needs to be an investment made in some of the infrastructureon treasure island to keep it going in the future. And that's something that we'rein discussions with tida at this point in time.
I'm not here to discuss great
details of all what that might be, but part of what you need to do today is actuallycontinue the cooperative agreement so we can continue operating the utilities inthe manner we have in the past for residents out in treasure island. we can comeback and discuss with you, in detail, sort of what the infrastructure needs mightbe out there. In the interim period between
the period of time when the city accepts perhaps treasure island and when thedeveloper actually starts replacing all the infrastructure on the island. I'll be gladto answer any questions.
>> Supervisor Kim: I just want
to say I'm hoping we can get an
update at budget committee in
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fund, versus puc, enterprise.
>> so it's a very good question. I'm going to try and give a simple short answer.
But it deserves a lot of attention. We've kind of identified that in
the next year, and next two years, that there's an investment need of about $5million a year that needs to be made in the infrastructure on treasure island. AndI'm talking about the four utilities that we actually operate.
We operate the water, sewer, electric, and gas systems on treasure island.Those are capital improvements.
Right now, we collect money to cover operation and maintenance
costs but we're not collecting any moneys to cover capital cost. Tida -- ortreasure island is still a federal facility. Those people who live on treasure islandare city
residents, but the actual utilities still belong to the navy. So liability and such, thisis where the caretaker agreement comes in.
Some of it is the navy, some of
it gets passed onto tida.
In the future in the city were to accept the utilities in the state they're in now, itcould
be that you would have to make overriding considerations of accepting supstandard utilities
and how do we invest in those, whether it's the puc or the city's general fund andthat's
the question we haven't answered yet.
>> Supervisor Avalos: so we could very well have a significant impact to the
general fund, and if not, how -- what constraints are there for
the puc to be able to take over
such utilities, and have the financial wherewithal to do that? >> right. that's one ofthe issues that we need to discuss, especially on the water and sewer side
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because
we're constrained by -- unless
the city actually owns the
utilities about capital fund on the utilities because of state law.
We can't have our ratepayers
subsidizing other ratepayers thp
they're not puc ratepayers.
>> Supervisor Avalos: so that's still being worked out. >> that's correct.
To supervisor kim's questions there are two federal ent itself, department of laborjob center and coast guard and they're starting to engage on some of thesediscussions about how they will get utility
services in the future which May affect on
how we discuss capital
needs with them 16r789s.
>> Supervisor Avalos: how do
you see the city, and tida and
developer come into -- is that when the agreement comes before us? Is thatsome other time? That is something that would be important for us to knowhopefully today. I don't think my vote is contingent on knowing that informationbut I think it's important for us to have some sense of a timeline moving forward.>> I think I'll leave that to the development team, when the developmentagreement comes to
you but we're engaged in those discussions and we're willing
and able to kind of stay engaged
and get those resolved.
The development agreement at least.
>> President Chiu: supervisor campos.
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and we anticipate bringing
forward funding solutions and an operating agreement at the same time as webring back amendments
that we have been working on, on
the edcmoa, which is the transfer agreement between tida
and the navy to confer the property and we anticipate doing
that in the next couple of months. To supervisor campos' question we have a fullpresentation on the radiological issues so I'd
like to turn it back over to amy
brownel to address those.
>> President Chiu, supervisors,
my name is amy brownel an environmental engineer with
san francisco department of public health. I have 19 years of reviewing navycleanup. As you're aware the navy has
been conducting and is operating the facilities at the -- they're in charge of thefacilities at treasure island, and they've been conducting cleanup at
treasure island since the mid-1990's under protocols
established by the comprehensive
response compensation and reliability act. The oversight agency for this workmonitoring what the navy is doing is the california
department of toxic substances control. and with respect to radiologicalprotection, the california
department of public health oversees that aspect. There are two other regulatoryagencies also involved in overseeing all the navy's work and they overseevarious aspects of the cleanup.
Those are the regional water quality control board and the united statesenvironmental protection agency.
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these agencies review the navy's work plans prior to them conducting the work.They review all the data after
the work is done, and verify that it is correct.
And they verify that air monitoring and fences and controls are in place when thework is being done.
In addition, they also conduct
independent scans, which our radiological expert will speak to you about in just amoment.
For the past 10 years, amack, environmental and infrastructure has providedindependent oversight and review of this navy's cleanup program on behalf
of tida. They also have a consultant who
works with them, ngts, and they provide independent review and
analysis of the navy's radiological cleanup activities for tida.
Mr. Bob burnsis here.
He's the chief executive officer
of ngts and a certified health fizz sift and he has over 20
years of experience in radiological assessment and will give you a preparation onthe raid
radiological issues at treasure
island.
>> good afternoon. i know you've all been provided
a briefing packet, I believe earlier today. There's a lot of information
there, and you May not have had ample time to digest it all at this point.
So we have just a few brief
slides summarizing the high points of that presentation. I was going to go overthose
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with you today.
as you know, radiological characterization and cleanup operation -- I'm sorry.
If we could bring up the powerpoint please.
>> President Chiu: it's on.
>> great. Radiological characterization and cleanup activities have been
going on at treasure island for
roughly six years now.
To date, areas of known radiological contamination -- there's only three areas
identified with no radiological contamination. We have a map here.
I'm not sure... >> excuse me, could you speak directly into the microphone.
>> I'm sorry.
Okay.
If we could switch to the overhead, I'm told.
There we go.
The three areas with known
contamination to date are site
12, the building 233 site, which
i can't see because I just
changed glasses, building 233 site, and then the site 31,
which is in this area here.
And that's the extent of known
areas of known radiological contamination today at treasure island. It's importantto recognize
there's extensive oversight by
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all the navy's cleanup activities there.
And through all its oversight activity they have not identified any human health
concerns or human health issues
at treasure island.
Likewise, they have consultants
to tida based on our independent evaluations and reviews of the documentation,and the investigations performed out there, we have never seen
anything that would question or
contradict cdph's conclusions.
Right back to the powerpoint,
the second slide.
I'm reminded just today we were
provided a letter by cdph, summarizing some of their more recent investigationsand i believe you all have been
provided a copy of that.
As you all know, the navy recently released what it turned
as supplemental technical memorandum which is an addendum
to the 2006 historical
assessment of impacted and non-impacted areas on treasure island.
And this supplemental memorandum
they identified some -- some --
identified some newly identified
impacted areas that had not been
identified in the previous hra. But in digesting that information it's important to
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recognize that the radiologically impacted does not
mean there is contamination present.
so to understand... Going back
to the letter we received in cdph today we wanted to make it
clear that the quote, a direct
quote, no health and safety
concerns were identified in our
surveys in or around the five locations at treasure island.
And I'll administer on those additional locations in a moment.
Going back to the impact versus non-impacted I think that's been
a source of a lot of confusion. I wanted to start, the definition of a non-impactedarea, which is simply an area where there is no reasonable
possibility of residual contamination.
So for a non-impacted area we
set a very high bar for being
able to -- once an area is deemed non-impacted you're done. You don't doadditional investigations, no surveys, no nothing.
In general some sites you don't necessarily identify non-impacted areas. Oftenyour non-impacted areas are off site used for so-called reference areas forbackground.
what then is an impacted area. An impacted area is an area that you cannot callnon-impacted.
Those areas are impacted by default.
Impacted does not mean contamination is present.
It means the additional scoping surveys are warranted.
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So some of these additional impacted areas identified in this latest tech memo, ifwe go
back to the overhead, there's usf pandemonium site one, used by the navy forradiological training exercises and decontamination. Wastewater treatment area,
building 3, also building 342.
Too small for me to see.
In response to the tech memo
coming out, the cdph has gone
out and performed some
investigations in the vicinity
around site 31, around the boys
and girls club area, childcare center, community housing partners facilities. Theytook both direct measurements and what are known as white surveys whereyou're
looking for removable contamination. That's the subject of those surveysdocumented in the letter we received today. In addition to those, there areadditional investigations that are going to be performed with cdph at the requestof tida and using prioritization requested by tida, specifically the sites identifiedabove, pandemoium site one, wastewater treatment plant area where there'spublic utilities workers, and also building three and building 342.
It's my view there's little likelihood of finding anything of public healthconcern in these additional areas.
>> President Chiu: supervisor kim.
>> Supervisor Kim: thank you, Mr. Burns. Thank you for the memo that wasbrought before us. In the memo you said that you
were confident in the data that
cdph has provided and measures
that they take to assess human
health risk and due diligence on the oversight of the radiological program. Couldyou explain why you feel
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confident in the processes and
the measures that cdph takes and
go into a little more detail about what they do.
You mentioned surface wipes. To a layperson that doesn't sound very scientificand is not very reassuring. Maybe you could talk more about that. >> I would say
just looking at
everything cdph has done today I
think their reactions or responses have been timely and appropriate under thecircumstances because you have an ongoing cleanup action as you know, butyou also have
residents and workers in close proximity.
So they've been very proactive and diligent in the actions
they've taken, which included so-called direct surveys, where
you're making direct measurements of exposure rates in these residential areas,also
you mentioned the white surveys.
When you talk about surface
contamination you can take a detector and take a measurement on the surfaceand say there's a certain activity level there.
in addition you want to know if they're removal activity because that couldpresent a greater hazard to individuals and would
also be indicative, if present, would be indicative of activity
that would have been say wind blown or something of that nature.
So if it's removal, it's readily dispersible, and it's something
that requires a greater degree
of care, and also means it's easier to clean up if there. White surveys are anothertype
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of assessment that cdph has performed.
>> Supervisor Kim: could you
talk about what surface wipes is. Are you talking about the ground, the soil? >>no. They're looking, as i understand, I think as windows, window sills, things ofthat
nature, you know, just -- cdph would have to provide more detail but, again, whatthey're screening for, what they're looking at is was there any wind
dispersal or anything of that nature.
>> Supervisor Kim: I'm sure
you understand the concerns that our residents have. >> crm. >> SupervisorKim:
particularly the cield care
center and boys and girls club because that was listed by the navy as a potentialsite. You've made it clear just because it's radiologically impacted doesn't meanthere's actual contamination present but
it also does not mean there isn't contamination present. >> that is correct.
>> Supervisor Kim: so the
early assessments of cdph that
these sites are safe for use by our children and families, I hope you can go intomore detail as to why that is the case. I personally have concerns. I understandwhy our residents have concerns given that this is what we're presenting to them.So kind of speak to that. >> okay.
Again, I can't go -- I can't
speak on behalf of cdph, I can't
go into great detail about their measurements, other than my
outside review, I guess, or just looking at the work that they've
done, like I said, everything --
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out lately? >> not all, but some, yes.
>> Supervisor Kim: what would
be your response to some of the concerns from previous residents of treasure
island that say that they feel like there's a higher
rate of cancer amongst their
family, and their neighbors, and some of the concerns that have come up throughthose articles?
>> I'm not aware of an elevated cancer rate. As far as that being -- but I'm
also not aware of any
radiological exposure of anyone on treasure island that -- of
that background, of a -- you know, distinguishable from
background and that's what cdph
and -- have said all along. Again, I'm not aware of any elevated cancer rate but Iwouldn't think you could draw any correlation, if there was such a thing, I can'tsee drawing a correlation to elevated radiation when there wasn't been any.Radiation is a fact of life we're exposed to it every day, it's a natural thing, it'snothing to be afraid of.
>> Supervisor Kim: would you feel comfortable with your kids
being at the boys and girls club? Is. >> yes.
Given the -- I have two children. My kids are 5 and 3. They're my whole world.
>> Supervisor Kim: I do want to give opportunity to my colleagues to ask somequestions
as well.
>> President Chiu: supervisor avalos.
>> Supervisor Avalos: thank you, supervisor kim. Thank you for yourquestioning.
I think they're real good questions you were asking.
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identified impacted areas.
>> Supervisor Avalos: cdph are
they doing any other kind of assessment done by --
>> I don't do assessments, I
strictly -- 16r78g9s but you do oversight. >> I review what the navy
contractors are doing, what cdph is doing. i have not performed any independentassessment.
>> Supervisor Avalos: who could talk about that?
>> either -- well, cdph would
have to talk about their work, and...
>> Supervisor Avalos: so last weekend, the east bay express,
they talked about radium wells, talked about disks that were
found in different places, in
some of the areas that have
had -- where there's radiation
that's been potential contamination of radiation.
Can you talk about those -- that were found.
>> the foils and disc are commodities as they're called out there.
they're deck markers, they're radio loom nes sent devices used
back in the day like I said for marking decks on the ships.
They're used for marking gauges,
marking ditches.
They're used today they're just not radium. where those commodities have beenidentified are these solid
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waste disposal areas.
>> Supervisor Avalos: where there have been known -- you
talk about it as known areas of radiological contamination, in those areas they
were found? >> correct.
12 primarily was my
understanding.
>> Supervisor Avalos: we're going to have a hearing on the whole thing lateron.
So I will be cosponsoring that,
and will go into further discussion.
>> President Chiu: supervisor campos.
>> Supervisor Campos: thank you. I know the items before us
involve a master lease, and a cooperative agreement.
but I do think it's important in the context of the siting whether or not to supportthose
items to have a better sense of
the safety issues that have been raised. I think -- I know that there's going to be apublic hearing on this, which I think is a great idea.
And I want to thank supervisor kim, supervisor avalos, for
sponsoring that. What worries me about this is the fact that, as you said, you
know, there is no guarantee that
that in fact there is no contamination that could create a health hazard. I mean Ithink your presentation
is a carefully drafted document
that, you know, leaves open the very possibility that there could be healthimplications here. Isn't that correct? >> that's correct, recognizing
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there's these additional investigations that cdph is
still going to be conducting.
I don't want to be me mature.
And I believe in, you know,
never say never.
>> Supervisor Campos: and that's the question.
I mean so I do have a question about the wording though. In your report, it saysthat
there is a little likelihood of
these areas representing a health risk.
In terms of definition of likelihood, what is that definition?
i mean what percentage, what...
>> it would be difficult to quantitative. Again, me being a scientist, that's how wespeak. We don't look at things in black and white but in continuum of probabilityand such.
So when I say little likelihood again I can't assign a probability to it but certainly
no more so than -- like I say i think what we already know out
there is the low-hanging fruit. I don't see these additional
areas, you know, for whatever quantification you want to
assign to what we've encountered and assessed out there, I don't see theseadditional areas presenting any risk, certainly
not any greater than that.
>> Supervisor Campos: would
likelihood be like 40%? Is that lower? >> lower.
>> Supervisor Campos: 20?
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estate expert but usually those
are deed restrictions that can
be -- my bad.
>> again, amy brownel from the san francisco health department. All of theseareas that were
identified in that supplemental
technical memorandum are navy
areas that navy is going to investigate. They are doing their work, andinvestigating them. There is not going to be any development until the navy hasfinished all their investigation, and then all of the regulatory agencies have signed
off that everything has been done correctly. During the investigation phase,
the navy will control the area,
have fences, do air monitoring.
The cdph and the other regulatory agencies will verify that they're doing that.There is no chance of contamination going outside of the area, that the navy willcontrol during their work.
And then when it is all done,
and signed off, and cdph will give a free release letter that
says all the work is done, there is no contamination left, everything is same asbackground, basically.
That's called a free release. Only at that point would the
property then transfer, and be
used by tida and developed. There will be no development until the navy hassigned off on
all the radiological issues.
>> Supervisor Campos: well I appreciate all the work and I think that it's goodto just follow up on these issues through the additional hearing.
I'm still concerned.
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I think a 95% likelihood that we are right about no health implications is prettygood but I don't think it's good enough.
so hopefully we'll get to 100% at some point.
Thank you.
>> President Chiu: supervisor mar.
>> Supervisor Mar: thanks, Ms. Brownel, Mr. Burns for the presentations. Iwanted to say if I were one of the parents of the child development center I thinksupervisor kim was raising this questioning, Mr. Burns, whether he would havehis kids in a spot
that we weren't absolutely 100% sure was going to be safe would make me
nervous, given some of the press reports.
And then I know in 2003, and the department of public health is
aware of this that we passed our cautionary principle policy that
states where threats of serious or irreversible damage to people
or nature exists lack of full scientific certificateity about
the cause and effect shall not be viewed as sufficient reason
for the city to prevent the degradation of the environment
or protect the health of its citizens.
I really worry that of the 2,000 residents that live on the island, that some of thekey kind of new potential sites are very close to many of the residences. And theboys and girls club, and many areas where young children, who might be evenmore susceptible live.
But I just wanted it know, could you give us more certainty that the sites aregoing to be safe. Because I would be worrying if I were one of those parents orone of those kids.
>> thank you, supervisor mar. Again, Mr. Burns was talking about the areas andhow the investigation was going to happen, and the question was asked abouthis certainty on those issues. Again, that's for the areas that
the navy is going to investigate, the residents do
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not live there, and they're not going to be allowed to live there. There will not beany development there.
Those areas will be properly investigated. The -- as we already mentioned, and is
in your letter that you received from california department of health -- public
health, the boys and girls club, the childcare center, the
school, the winery, and the
trailer, were all scanned by cdph and have been cleared, that there is no publichealth risk, based on their scans that they have already done.
There are other areas that -- as Mr. Burns was mentioning, are
going to be investigate by cdph. In fact I'm aware that they went out there todayto start that, and to do their scans. So all of those areas and those issues ofuncertainty, they're
not areas where people are living.
Thank you.
>> President Chiu: supervisor olague.
>> Supervisor Olague: I just have a quick question.
I know that sometimes during
these periods of members of the public residents are probably reading a lot ofdifferent
pieces of information, in the newspaper, and it might be creating anxiety or fearamong them.
So I was wondering how are there going to be community meetings out there?
I know even when we do wire or
towers for at&t the department of public health, or there's
some kind of allowance for some
kind of testing and this sort of thing.
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I'm wondering how are we reassuring the residents that live out there that they're
safe, or, you know -- what kind of outreach is being done to the residents? >> Ican answer that question for Ms. Unbrown. Our office is cohosting a
meeting with tida and the navy
next tuesday, September 18 at 7 pm on treasure island. And I'm not sure if wewill be able to address all the concerns residents have but we will be there toanswer questions and get feedback on where we would
like to see the efforts the city makes to advocate on behalf of our residents at thatmeeting. I don't know if Ms. Brown if you have anything to add to that.
>> thank you, supervisor kim. Yes.
The meeting will be held next tuesday. Representatives from the navy
will be conducting the meeting and representatives will be
there from cdph and dtfc. I will be there. In addition there was a letter
sent to all the residents with this information, and maps, and information aboutwhat's going on. So tida has been keeping the
residents up to date and this additional meeting will be
another venue for them to hear
the information. >> Supervisor Olague: transparency is important, obviously.Thank you.
>> President Chiu: colleagues, any additional questions to city staff?Supervisor kim.
>> Supervisor Kim: no additional questions.
I do want to speak a little bit
to the item at hand, and also
some follow-up to the
contamination impact issues.
So our office is cohosting a meeting with the navy again and cdph and tida to
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our residents to live and work. But the set of items before us
are really just to allow tida to continue to subleases buildings
on site, and also to allow us to
deliver fire, police, and other
gas and electrical services, wastewater treatment services, to the island. And Ithink that we should move forward and support these items before us today. If inany case we find that we don't want to continue this
relationship with the navy, and
really the the only case I think that would happen is if we
decide to relocate all 2,000 residents we have 30 days notice
if we decide to move forward in that direction. Supervisor campos did mention itthough and I will talk more
about it at roll call but supervisor avalos and I will be
cosponsoring a hearing on the radiological impact at treasure island and I'llspeak a little
more to that at roll call.
>> President Chiu: colleagues, any additional discussion? With that, why don'twe take a
roll call on these six items. Madam Clerk.
>> Angela Calvillo: on items 13 through 18, supervisor farrell, aye.
supervisor kim, aye.
Supervisor mar, aye.
Supervisor olague, aye.
Supervisor wiener, aye.
Supervisor avalos, aye.
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ceo of seas canneddies a beloved san francisco institution. He worked there as amanager in
the packing department and in
1972 selling the company to warren buster among
buffett.
As a philanthropist he was a
generous person in town. He loved jazz.
he served on numerous boards of san francisco nonprofits including gracecathedral, san francisco traditional jazz foundation and the children's health
council. More importantly, in district 2 he and his wife brought together a numberof people to raise money to restore the palace of fine arts to the jewel that it istoday raising over $16
million in private money.
he served our country as a
paratrooper during world war ii.
They had -- after her passing he
married and is survived by donna hug begins who was with chuck for 15 years.
He is survived by his sister,
ruth, sons, peter, charles, and
daughters, ann and shelley, nine
children and a nephew.
A tribute is planned for
saturday, September 28 at the
hetious theater from 1 to 3 pm. I would invite everyone to come out.
The rest I submit.
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>> Angela Calvillo: supervisor chu.
>> Supervisor Kim: I
chu.
>> Supervisor Chu: first is
norah patricia spears known as
patsy to many of her friends and family, passed away September 1.
She was a sunset resident and
active parishioner at st. Gabriel's.
she volunteered at laguna honda hospital and was always involved
in the neighborhood and stayed current. We very much appreciated all the workshe did on behalf of the neighborhood. She was here many times to testify at theplanning commission, on behalf of the sunset district.
And we will all Miss Her but she will be especially missed by her
husband, sean, her children, and their spouses and many grandchildren. I alsowant to adjourn today's
meeting in memory of celia rodriguez, she passed away surrounded by herfamily.
She joins her husband and her
son in heaven. Her husband immigrated to
san francisco in 1955 and celia
joined him in 1956 but it was in san francisco that they raised their family andrealized their dream of opening their
restaurant in the outer sunset district. Her restaurant opened its doors
in 1962 first as a simple coffee shop and later becoming mexican foodrestaurant. Over time she brought to the sunset her unique style of
cooking, and her hard work and dedication eventually led to the establishment ofmore than a
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dozen celia's mexican restaurants in the bay area.
They quickly became a bay favorite and many remember going there and still donow. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends.
she is survived by her sisters,
her children, and her
grandchildren. The rest I will submit. Thank you.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor chu.
Supervisor kim.
>> Supervisor Kim: thank you. the first item that I'll speak
to is just the item that we most recently discussed. Supervisor avalos and I are
cosponsoring a hearing to -- related to the radiologically impacted areas thatneed further explanation before the land is
of course transferred from the navy to the city of san francisco. i think thepresentation, while
it answered a number of questions also raised additional
questions related to this issue.
We're having a hearing to follow-up on the radiological
issues to ensure we're doing
everything we can do to intur the
ensurethe safety of those on the island. As representative of this part of our city,this is an area
where we do actually place many families, working class and low incomefamilies, formerly homeless individuals, and of course our veterans, as well as
other population on -- that are particularly vulnerable.
So I'm requesting tida and the department of public health to
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These alleys are the life blood of the community.
So the alley ways are often used
as routes for pedestrians and often play areas for children
and sitting areas for our seniors. we do have many seniors and families that relyon these
alley ways as thoroughfares through the neighborhood. Project improvementincludes more street lighting on something we've heard a lot about from ourconstituents, special roadway
roadway paving, raised sidewalks, all of which enrich the pedestrian experience.As many of you know we have a lot of pedestrian safety issues in the south ofmarket area,
some of the highest incidents of collisions between vehicles and
cars and we are hopeful this will continue to do a lot of the common work that weare seeing
and the city is engaging in, in the south of market area. The rest I submit.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you. supervisor wiener.
>> Supervisor Wiener: thank you.
I have several items today. First, I introducing legislation
that will ensure that new
housing developments in
san francisco are able to
include car sharing spots, accessible to the general public. Car sharing is part ofthe future of transportation in san francisco.
If we truly want to get people out of their private automobiles, then in addition to
improved muni and bike access we
need to provide people with high quality taxi service and
convenient access to car sharing opportunities.
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Being a transit-first city means
making it easy for people to use these various transportation options.
my legislation will help move us
in this direction by allowing developers to include a limited
number much car sharing spaces without counting those spaces
towards their parking maximums.
These optional car sharing spots would be an addition to the one
or two car sharing spots that certain larger projects are already required to
provide.
In many parts of the city, developers require to build
projects with less than
one-to-one parkinging, constituently one parking spot for every two units.
Currently any required and any optional car sharing spots are included togetherin this
maximum parking allotment, even though easy access to car
sharing, as we know, makes it easier for people not to own a private automobile.As a result, particularly in
smaller developments, developers May forego having car sharing spots becausethey don't want to
reduce the already-low number of parking spots for the residents
of the development.
My legislation would allow an optional car sharing spots, with
up to five optional spots for
developments up to 49 units, and
eight optional spots for any developments 50 units and above. In exchange these
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spots would have to be deed restricted and could never be used for private
vehicle parking. So colleagues I look forward to a discussion about this importantaspect of our transportation system. I'm also calling for a hearing
on the city's urban forest, with the specific focus on the city's plan to care for ourstreet
trees and park trees. We have hundreds of thousands of trees in the public realmin this city and it's one of our
greatest assets that makes our
city green, cleans our air and beautifies our streets. Yet for a number of yearsbudget
cuts have severely reduced dpw
and urban parks budget and their ability to maintain these trees. Dpw hasproposed a tree maintenance transfer plan, transferring tens of thousands oftrees to property owners who May not want them, who May not know how to carefor them and May not be willing to spend the
the money to care for them properly. Rec and park on average is able
to prune its trees once every 50 years. Which is not acceptable.
I believe we need to find
sustainable source for our urban forest. I'm asking the department of publicworks, rec and park and the planning department to participate in this importanthearing which will include discussion of the forthcoming
urban forest master plan. Then I'm also introducing
legislation to approve the mta's purchase of -- contract to
purchase 45 new 40 foot long low floored diesel hybrid buses and
the rehabilitation of 80 existing buses.
Muni has the great need for new and rehabilitated buses and it will help improvethe system.
the rest I submit.
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>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor wiener. President Chiu.
>> President Chiu: first of all as someone who regularly uses car sharingservices in san francisco and as legislator
in this area I want to cosponsor supervisor wiener. I appreciate what you're doingin that area.
i have two in memoriams, Mr. Fabs served our san francisco police department
for 27 years from 1966 to 1993. He was known by former members
of this board for his service, in protecting the public safety of our neighborhoods.
There will be a memorialal
service this friday at forest city.
also would like to make an in
memorium request for andy lee
leecokeus a local small business
owner who ran the sports bar at the ferry building for many years.
he was also known as the mayor of golden gateway based on his closerelationships in that
neighborhood and that neighbors
told me no one had more friends
or more generous than andy.
He served as a army ranger in the korean war.
We will Miss Him dearly. Colleagues,'m also introducing a resolution today tocongratulate the city college of san francisco on the upcoming
completion and opening of the
chinatown north beach campus. This is a campus that has been 40 years in themaking in the northeast neighborhoods that I'm honored to represent.
we've had a number of disoperate and unconnected sites that have not been
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adequate for meeting needs of higher education for our residents. I know that weare all looking
forward to a ribbon cutting happening in a week and a half to open up thiscampus which will be educating 6,000 students
a year, many of whom are recent immigrants, and working folks in
the northeast neighborhoods.
The completion of this campus
will exemplify the end of a 40
year dream for so many education activists, and neighborhood
activists, and folks that have wanted to see with the financial support of thecommunity, the creation of this campus. I want to take a moment and
thank my colleagues -- our
colleague, supervisor mar, and -- for their cosponsorship. The rest I will submit.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, Mr. President. Supervisor campos.
>> Supervisor Campos: thank you, Madam Clerk. I wasn't planning on saying
anything today, but after
watching the exchange in question time today, I think it's only appropriate for usto say -- for me to say something about that.
I appreciate the question from
supervisor carmen chu, but I don't know that I'm the only one who feels this wayabout question time.
But my own personal view is that
question time is no longer working. I don't know that it ever really worked.
i think that it's too scripted.
And from my perspective, the intent of question time when it
was first brought forward and first talked about was to engage in a meaningful
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discussion between the board of supervisors and the mayor.
And I think that the way that it's currently structured in my
view, I don't think that that meaningful discussion is really taking place.
So I'm certainly interested in
pursuing and exploring different ways in which we can modify question time tomake sure that
it is more interactive and not as scripted as it's become.
So I certainly will be thinking
of ways of tweaking it, and with the hope of bringing something
to the board, and I would encourage my colleagues if they have specific ideasabout ways
in which we can actually create a process that actually allows for that meaningfuldiscussion so that the public really benefits, I think it would be something that willbe of service, not only to this board,
to the mayor, but to the public.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor campos.
supervisor olague.
>> Supervisor Olague: I have
two in memoriums.
One for james mccray sr.
He was born March 12, 1927.
The third son of johnny and rosie hughes. Mccray, on the family farm,
located at dennis mills louisiana. He grew up surrounded by five
brothers and three sisters.
In 1948, he moved to
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san francisco, and in 1949, he
married gloria irving.
To this union, one son was born,
james mccray Jr., who some of you might know.
He's a commissioner on the building inspection commission,
and a long time pastor and
community advocate in district 5.
James mccray sr. Lived as a
self-starter and was quite entrepreneurial. Operating an evening janitorialservice, while working by day
for the ford company.
After extending his educational background, james went to work
for standard oil, which
eventually became chevron.
Becoming one of the first african-americans to manage
service stations in san francisco.
After retiring in 1989, he spent the remainder of his life
working in his yard, and chatting with those friends he
met daily while running errands.
Mr. Mccray sr. Is survived by
his loving wife, gloria h.
Mccray, his devoted son, james
mccray Jr., three special sisters, his four grandchildren,
as well as his five great
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grandchildren, keith, justin,
james iv, sophia and grayson.
He was a special part of the jones memorial united methodist
community and he will be greatly missed.
also, I would like to close the
meeting in memory of
Mr. Jonathan bullock Jr., who passed away last week.
He was a well-known member of
the westside courts community,
and he will be missed. Mr. Bullock's death is a
reminders of our individual and
collective responsibility to keep our communities safe and free from violence.
I send my condolences to his family, and will remain
committed to working with groups
like the healing circle, and
west side community services, to provide assistance to to victims and familymembers that have
experienced loss and trauma.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor olague. Supervisor mar.
>> Supervisor Mar: thank you, Madam Clerk. Today, I'm requesting a hearing
on the series of theft scams that have targeted chinese elders.
As a member of the public safety committee but also the district 1 supervisor, I'mconcerned
because they've been hitting the richmond district. From January to September
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elderly members of the chinese community were victimized by several scamartists and nearly $2 million has been made off by the scam artists this year.Several of these cases were in
the richmond, but also other
areas like chinatown, the sunset and other district in the city. The scams havetargeted the chinese communities of other
major cities like new york and chicago. The san francisco police department andthe district attorney's office have continued to receive reports from many
elderly chinese seniors in our communities. My office is working closely with thepolice department, and the district attorney's office, but also safety awareness for
everyone, sf safe and members of
our community on key strategies
to stop these scams that target the vulnerable in our communities.
There's a cantonese and -- tip
line, 415-a 553-9212.
I am cosponsoring the resolution
congratulating the city college chinatown north beach campus. It's been a 10year struggle for that campus to be built and I wanted to congratulate the new
dean, and kind of the outgoing dean for their tremendous work and students andstaff members.
I plan to be there on friday,
September 21, to celebrate with everyone the victory of the
campus and a brand new place in chinatown and north beach.
Also this morning, I was joined
by our city librarian, luis
herrera, and adrian pawn, to
raise awareness about an important public hearing process
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for the public library system. It's very important, every five years, under the librarypreservation fund, we're required to listen hard to representatives and
residents and users of libraries. We're starting the first of 11
public hearings on improving the libraries. I'm very proud that our office is reallytrying to help with
getting more of the immigrant
communities and non-english
speakers to weigh in on the
hours, the types of materials,
computer labs, number of
ebooks, even issues related to improving our libraries.
There's a whole list of the 11 different supervisorial hearings
but I wanted to raise awareness
on thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 at
the branch library on 9th
avenue at geary and clement we
will be holding the first of 11 hearings.
I also wanted to alert people
and congratulate the chef at assiza restaurant one of the
best in the city on geary and 22nd.
He's been named by the U.S.
Government in a ceremony recently by U.S. Secretary of
state hillary clinton as one of
the american chef corps chefs. He's called a state chef now and
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from low income neighborhoods
have as good and possibly better arts education than kids in the more affluentareas where it's
an equalizer goal of the arts education master plan.
We have to fully fund it so supporting the schools through
proposition h for example is one thing hopefully we will all
support in the coming years. Assemblyman tom ammiano and leaders from theschool district and our communities were starting to get together to discuss thereauthorization of
prop h so that we have a fully funded arts education master plan for all children inthe san francisco schools. The rest I'll submit. Thank you.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you. supervisor avalos.
>> Supervisor Avalos: thank
you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues,for introduction I have a couple of items related tothe passage of proposition b
that was on the ballot in June.
Prop b is related to coit tower.
It was passed by 53.4% of the vote.
And was a declaration of policy
to suggest strictly limiting commercial activities and
private events at coit tower and
to prioritize funds generated at
coit tower for maintenance of
the tower's murals.
According to the city charter, around declarations of policy the board ofsupervisors shall,
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within 90 days of such approval,
take such actions within their powers as shall be necessary to
carry out the declaration and to effect.
And I'm requesting the budget analyst and park department to
work together on identifying how funds have been -- revenue has beengenerated at coit tower and how they have been expended over
the past five years, and looking forward about how we could actually get a senseof what spending has been like and how we can better program funding that'sthere.
So I have a letter of inquiry to the rec and park department to
that effect and a request of the
budget analyst to carry out analysis about funding and how it can be used and
recommendations for the board to
begin to enact new policy. That is mine. Thanks.
>> Angela Calvillo: thank you.
Supervisor carmen chu.
>> Supervisor Chu: I wanted to adds my comments to the resolutioncongratulating city
college for the chinatown north beach campus.
Again I know supervisor chu and supervisor mar spoke to it about the importanceof the campus, especially to the chinatown and chinese community but I alsowant to say this is such an important step for us.
I won't be there at the opening unfortunately but it is a place or institution wheremany of our newest immigrants are able to go, to learn the language, to gain newskills. And it's something I think will
really help to revitalize the chinatown area. I want to simply say how importantthis opening of the campus is, and again of course I am absolutely supportive ofthe resolution. Thank you.
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>> The Clerk: thank you, supervisor chu. Mr. President, seeing no other nameson the roster, that concludes roll call for introductions.
>> President Chiu: thank you. I understand supervisor cohen
had a motion to rescind.
Supervisor cohen.
>> Supervisor Cohen: I'd like
to make a motion to rescind
items 13 through 18.
>> President Chiu: I think
it's 13 through 19.
>> Supervisor Cohen: 13 through 19.
>> President Chiu: yes, 13
through 19. Supervisor cohen's made a motion to rescind those items. There is asecond? Seconded by supervisor chu. Any objection? Without objection thoseitems are rescinded.
If we can take a roll call vote
on items 13 through 19.
>> Angela Calvillo: supervisor farrell, aye.
Supervisor kim, aye.
Supervisor mar, aye.
Supervisor olague, aye. Supervisor wiener, aye.
Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor campos, aye.
president chiu, aye.
Supervisor chu, aye.
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Supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor elsbernd, aye. There are 11 ayes.
>> President Chiu: those items are passed.
And why don't we go to our 3:30 special commendations. I know our first
commendation
will be offered by supervisor avalos.
Supervisor avalos.
>> Supervisor Avalos: thank you, President Chiu.
Colleagues, I would like to call
up ameal deguzman, a resident in
my district, and has been a great public servant in it
san francisco for a number of years.
Coming up now.
Colleagues, I'm excited today to
honor emeal, on the occasion of
his retirement from the scoin of san francisco. He is retired after almost 15
years of service, with the human rights commission. He's been a housingrepresentative there.
Before the human rights commission, he was employed by the san franciscopolice
department for 12 years, to provide protective services for
the elderly, who are vulnerable to street crimes.
He has a bachelor's from uc-berkeley, a master's of
public administration from harvard university, john f. Kennedy school forgovernment, born and raised in san francisco
and grew up in the fillmore district. He's an active resident of district 11, wherehe's done a
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lot of great work residents.
He lives with his wife and two kids. His daughter is with him as well. she's filminghim as we speak.
His wife maggie, teaches elementary school for the
san francisco unified school district. Emill has a long history of public service tothe city but
on top of that he has also a long history of social justice work for decades in sanfrancisco.
as an undergrad at uc-berkeley,
he was involved in the 1969
third world strike and was very active with united farm workers. As a student hewas also involved in the historic
struggle to preserve manilatown.
As President Of the international hotel tenants
association he fought along side the ihotel residence and a coalition of studentstenants and community activists to stop
the demolition of the "I" hotel.
He was among the tenants on that
notorious night back in 1978
when the courageous tenants were dragged and forcibly removed
from their place of residence. After the eviction he continued to fight along sideother
community members to rebuild the
"I" hotel which was rebuilt and reopened as affordable housing
for seniors in 2005. He is currently on the board of the directors of -- board of
directors of the manilatown heritage foundation which is promoting social and
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economic
justice for -- and preserves the
"I" hotel legacy advocating for
equal access and advancing filipino arts and culture. You have done tremendouswork in the city and county of san francisco in your touch and
mark on the city is around in so many different ways. I want to congratulate youon your great service and I look forward to all the work we can
do together in our district in the years to come.
>> well thank you, supervisor.
I just wanted to thank President
Chiu and honorable supervisors, and, you know, my colleagues
from the human rights commission.
this is sort of a 180 degree
turn from when I was an advocate
and not working for the city.
Because hostility in the board of supervisors was more kind of
what things were like in the 70's. And to the point where we
gathered our cockroaches in the "I" hotel and threw them at the board ofsupervisors because
they were so hostile to us. So I have many friends on the
board, and I'm very happy to be here.
Having, you know -- I'm at the quorum, always an activist, and I will alwayscontinue to be there. But I was also a city official and I worked for the city. and Itried to do my best of providing public service.
And I will always encourage
people to work for the city, to make it a better, to make it more affordable, to
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make it so that it serves the most lowest
income and the most deprived individual.
So I want to just kind of get that across as to what I think is -- what the spirit of
many of us in san francisco. We come from an era where so
much was done to make it a great city.
I don't want it to just purely
be for, you know, a world-class
city for well-off people. It's got to be for working people. Thank you very much. >>I know a couple of other
folks want to speak but emeal, as you know, you have been someone who hasled so many efforts in the city, particularly within my district
and the international hotel.
Colleagues I should let you know when I don't have a district
chart in my office I have a
photograph of emeal as a
slightly younger man in 1977 as
he was being dragged out of the international hotel during that
protest by our city deposit deputy sheriffs. It became symbol not just of
that fight but the beginning of
the asian-american political mobilizations that have continued to this day. And Ivery much want to thank you for your service over the years.
Thank your family for their
service and thank supervisor
avalos for recognizing one of his great district 11 residents.
>> thank you, honorable President. >> [Applause.]
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>> President Chiu: and that's not all. I know supervisor olague and others havea few things to say. Supervisor olague.
>> Supervisor Olague: I want to thank you for all of your help. When I wasworking at the mission agenda we used to call you frequently, asking for help
with some of the habitability
issues, with that residents of single room occupancy hotels had to contend with.And then you were also very
helpful when I was working at
the senior action network.
We'd call you all the time, me, tony robles and others. And just want to thank you
for
all of your wisdom and your openness, because you never turned away a call,and you always did everything you could
to help the residents, especially the ones we were working with, particularly, verylow income residents.
So thank you.
I know -- is here, but we're
glad to have lupe, but we'll Miss You a lot. >> thank you, supervisor.
>> President Chiu: supervisor kim.
>> Supervisor Kim: I just wanted to dhiem chime in and also thank you for allof your work. As a college student I remember watching the fall of the "I" hoteland learning about you and
the story of al robles.
It was inspiring to me as a student to be committed and dedicated to working onbehalf of our communities, and also just learning about the history
of our activism, and of asian-americans who stood up on
behalf of our neighborhoods and our most vulnerable members for a population.your work is inspiring. When we were finally able to rebuild the "I" hotel 30 years
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later it was amazing to see both
you and al, and al was serving
up food just like he did in the 70's. It's amazing to see that continuum and to be a
part of that now and to work with you
and your family, maggie of course is a really important part of the south of market
community and bessie carmichael. Your family does so much not
just in the manilatown and cheentown
chinatown but south of market as well. >> thank you, supervisor.
>> President Chiu: last but not least, supervisor mar.
>> Supervisor Mar: thank you,
for your leadership in our
movements from the international hotel tenants oh, and the spirit of the "I" hotelto the work on housing justice and even for seniors and so many others. I knowyou as a great parent too. I remember immigrant pride day events with you andyour children. And for you and maggie and your
family I wish you the best of everything. But I know that you're going to stayinvolved.
And you have nurtured so many
young activists to many other organizations.
And I hope you get some rest, and recuperation, and then get back out there andhelping to build our movements. But thank you so much for your
service to san francisco. >> thank you.
Thank you, supervisor.
>> [Applause.]
>> it's kind of rare I do two in
one day but I've got another
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commendation for another amazing
person, lilie haskell who i
would like to call up to the
podium.
Lilie haskell is a moroccan
american organizer who has been organizing a community based organizationhere in
san francisco since 2007. Lilie has contributed to and led arab communityorganizing youth
development and educational initiatives through cultural and
political work as well as antiwar coalition building for over 10 years.
She is a graduate of wellesley
university with a bachelor in sociology.
She cofounded a foundation providing training opportunities for civic and politicalengagement.
Since she joined arock she has helped build a member of low income andimmigrant members of
the arab community, empowered to
provide mutual support in issues around the arab community.
She helped to grow the
organization threefold, providing immigration services to the local arabcommunity as part of the san francisco immigrant legal and education network.Lilie has been a leading committee member of the coalition for a safer
san francisco, a strong advocate
for for on and -- immigrant and
civil rights issues impacting low income communities. She joined with sanfrancisco rights defense community to pass a policy to help protect immigrant
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It is an honor to welcome you to the board chambers and thank you for yourservice and look forward to our future work together as well.
>> thank you, supervisor. >> [Applause.] >> I just wanted to say I look forward to
arock continuing their work with the board of
supervisors to ensure the human rights and services for all of san francisco'simmigrant and working class communities.
Thank you.
>> [Applause.]
>> President Chiu: thank you.
>> lillian is joined by her mom from georgia.
>> President Chiu: welcome to
the chamber. >> [Applause.]
>> President Chiu: now, I'd like to acknowledge our district 6 supervisor,supervisor kim, who has a commendation.
>> Supervisor Kim: thank you. I have a separate commendation but I want toacknowledge lilie
as well, and your work with arock on behalf of the city and county of sanfrancisco. Our office got to work really closely with you, and I can't
tell you how immensely proud we
were to work with you, and the organizing work that you were
able to do in the arab-american, muslim, and south asian community to bring tolight some
of the issues and racial profiling that had been ongoing in this city. It was reallydifficult work. And you brought up a lot of members of our community that werenot used to coming to city
hall to speak and speak on very sensitive stories. And you know, really requireda lot of courage and I know you
were key in supporting that and I'm glad to see you go.
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I know arock is currently in district 6 and we will Miss Your presence in arock andin district 6.
Thank you for all of your work. I'm actually -- I have a commendation and I'm
sure that many of my colleagues will want
to speak on behalf of this individual.
We were waiting for our emergency preparedness month because we couldhonor this individual every week. But we wanted to take time to recognizesomeone who has been a steadfast presence at the site of every singleemergency call
in our district and in our city.
I want to bring up ben ames up
to the podium.
>> [Applause.]
>> Supervisor Kim: whether
it's a major fire, in a single
family home, a residential
apartment building, a gas leak,
he has become a familiar face as he is often the first person on the scene andusually the last person to leave. He has been the emergency responsecoordinator for the
city's human services agency
since 2002, so over the last 10 years. This past decade you have been servingour city.
Since I took office in 2011, he
has responded to at least 10 significant fires in our district, and worked with
residents to find both temporary
and in many cases permanent housing, after those incidents.
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Many of us that have gone on the
fire of these scenes, it's scary. Families and individuals and seniors often don'tknow where
they're going to go next, have
lost a lot of their belongings, but most importantly, have lost their home and theirsecurity. It really takes an individual I
think of a high level of caliber and sensitivity to be able to work with so manyindividuals who are scared, and who don't
know