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The city of San Francisco rules committee occurring on january 15, 2015 will begin shortly. Good afternoon. Everybody is sitting in the back. Welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for thursday january 15, 2015. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor katy tang and supervisor david campos. The clerk today is ms. So mera. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv today charles and jonathan who record each of our meetings and make ...

Not the surrounding communities and maybe a psa for the theirs that allow that. Okay. Any other questions or thoughts . Okay. I do have a motion to approve departmental general order 808 as drafted . inaudible . Do i have a second . Second. Do we need a roll call . [inaudible] lets find out. All in favor say aye . Looks unanimous to me. Thank you for all of your work. Clearly this was a tremendous amount of work and keeping us updated from 19fob to are 1994 to now and its cottified and you do th...

And jonathan who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk are there any announcements. Yes. Please make sure to silent all sen phones and devices and speaker cards that are part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and minutes will be done next. Madam clerk please start with item 1. Item 1 is a report on the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Okay. We have jim simby from the Shelter Monitoring Committee here to present. I am nicholas and i am the chai...

Limited to owning a small business. What do you believe would represent the interests of low income individuals . One of those things that are important advocate, issues important to the committee . I know that a lot of the Community Impact fees assessed on the developers, there are limits and requirements for these developers with regards to Affordable Housing of these new developments. I would like to see those requirements exceeded if at all possible. With regard to a lot of the residents, an...

Businesses, occupy a lot of the commercial space that i know will be created along Market Street coming up. I know Small Business development, and Small Business retention has been identified as a priority by the cac, and the upper market plan. I have worked closely with the cbd, the castro cbd, and i know that we can make this happen. I look forward to working towards is objectives. I am also, as an employee of the lgbt center, and a supporter of lgbt culture i want to ensure that disappointmen...

Oftentimes i am not only working with people that start businesses but people come looking for services who may need some assistance in finding parttime employment. And maybe being able to utilize some of our Financial Services as well. Supervisor kim you interface with people who come in asking for services . Yes. Supervisor kim great. Thats my question. Are there any other questions from colleagues . I would like to follow up on my question. Do you identify yourself as low income . I do. I bel...

Avalos . Thank you chair kim. I do appreciate the applicant put himself forward to serve on the committee. Although i feel there is expertise in doing community work, and working with certainly around the leand avenue area, that is a significant public service. I think someone representing a low income seat, i look for keywords, concerned with demographic changes, poverty. I just wasnt hearing that. I think it is important if we are going to be having a seat looking at overseeing how we do devel...

Commissioners, about john gallagher. He has done his ba in social work, dissertation on homeless among veterans. Many are in the district i represent. Is a tragedy that after you serve we often wind up with an and women who end up on our streets after the service. He can provide a valuable perspective as well. Are there any other thoughts . I can move your recommendation to move forward. Repeat those three names again. First is lee barnett, in the city colleges seven ; the second is john gallagh...

So, i know this is awkward. Can i suggest that perhaps before we forward this with no recommendation, its been close to a year that the seat has not been filled. In terms of the cac, and mr. Cohen was not accurate about this. Would appoint almost a year ago michael simmons, Affordable Housing developer who lives and works in the western addition. I think that, it would seem to me that given the time that has gone by, and given that the lgbt center does provide an awful lot of services to extreme...

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