Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180207

Our iphones and you kind of lose users in the city and have a cup of coffee im corey a typical day increase no typical day. And just the first time being on the talent show and getting a huge applause and i never expected it is is r is a great experience im an executive chief here at kathy serve over one hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks. People love our meals and the idea they can pick up a meal and dont worry about shopping or doing dishes and enjoy and have a great time at camp mather grasping grab on. I like camp mather it is a lot of freedom and kids run around its great. They have all the things i dont have to do the kids get to do what they want to do and we basically focus on them thats our only job. I like camp mather because i can ride my bike. I love camp mather. The children are up here playing around and riding their booiths bicycles thats a great place to see what the word is like outside of the city. We are now back in open session in government and Audit Oversight Committee for february 7, 2017. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Deputy city attorney. The committee voted 20 to forward items 6 through 14 to the full board with positive recommendations. Thank you. Can we take that motion and also take a motion to not disclose the proceedings from closed session and we can do that without opposition. Mr. Clerk, are there any items before this committee . Meeting is adjourned. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco General Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco [music] i came in with her impression of what i thought it was good what i knew about auditing with the irs spears i actually knew nothing about auditing in my mind it was purely financial. With people that audited the pain no one wants to deal with it now i see a lot of time explaining auditing is not just about taxes. Oftentimes most students believe that auditing is only financial whereas when they come into a Government Environment we do much more than financial audits. We do operational audits that were looking at the operations of the department for economy and efficiency and effectiveness. When i hire an intern some of the things that i am looking for first of all is is this individual agile and flexible because i am our environment is so fastpaced and where are switching from project to project depending on whats going on in the government at any given time. Primarily i didnt with audits on utilities management across city departments. Citywide this ods management audit was also been assisting with Housing Authority Audit Program the homelessness audit the it functions [inaudible] were starting any water on the department of Public Housing environment allows i also assist with the [inaudible] program. Then additionally i really enjoyed having staff who have some Critical Thinking skills. Because i believe the basis of auditing is not do you know how to audit, but to have Critical Thinking skills [inaudible] [inaudible] even though ive only been here for short time our quick indepth analysis and Research Analytical skills theres a lot of taking enlargement of information a compacting it a very concise report because weve a big focus on [inaudible] if youre transmitting this information to the audience you need him to be able to understand it. So i work with the Sparrow Program primarily. Broadway stan abused [inaudible] they prepare me for fulltime employment because i knew i could not to challenge myself in order to be an auditor. At the [inaudible] we are a content feedback and communication and they pointed out areas where i need to grow. One of the things i like about working at [inaudible] is that they actually give you quite a bit of autonomy i feel like kevin sage trusted me. The environment really [inaudible] to everyone feeling super collaborative and wanting to get to know one another. Which i think at the end of the date is a better Work Environment and gives you a better workflow. I believe that a really is a great experience because it provides an opportunity to have a better understanding of how government works. I think what ive learned so far is that every audit is unique everyday. Different learning opportunities. The recordation we make in on its i can honestly go home at the end of the day and zack and treated [inaudible] in a better way. Even of not familiar with what auditing is you should deftly find out. Its been really really awesome he was it turns out theres a whole world of auditing that i cannot open file oriented performance and [inaudible] and thats an exciting. Audit is a lot broader than i ever knew before. About two years ago now i had my first child. And i thought when i come back, you know, im going to get back in the swing of things and ill find a spot. And it wasnt really that way when i got back to work. Thats what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. When it comes to innovative ideas and policies, San Francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. And this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. Being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. I was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. She was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i dont know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. Not all returning mothers have the same access, even though theres existing state laws on the issues. These moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they dont feel wellsupported at work. We started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. But this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. With the newcome accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. What are legislation . We wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. Do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. I would love to. Lets go. This is such an inviting space. What makes this a lactation room . As legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesnt have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. And we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. The things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. And the sink is in the room. Our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but its all right in here. You can wash your pump and put your milk away and you dont have to put it in a fridge that you share with coworkers. The new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in San Francisco. But are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city . I think Small Businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for Small Businesses that may have small footprints. For example, we dont mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. In city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. So the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. I think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and Breast Feeding mothers is necessary. What is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. Otherwise a lot of times moms dont feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. Really its hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, youre leaving your heart outside of your body. When you can provide your child food from your body and know youre connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. And businesses and employers can just provide a space. If they dont have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in San Francisco. If you want more information visit sfdph. Org breastfeedingatwork. [gavel] all right. Welcome to our Land Use Committee meeting on monday, february 5, 2018. Im katie tang, the chair of the committee. And were joined by new vice chair supervisor jane kim. Welcome. Welcome back. And, of course, returning member ahsha safai. Our clerk is victor young. And thank you to s. F. Gov tv. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. I would like to note that we currently have a quorum of the board constituting a quorum. I forgot to mention, were joined by fewer, yee, stefani as well. Im going to ask you to call item three out of order because we need to make some amendments. Item three, please. Item number tlaoe. Ordinance amending the planning doed accomplish the gear rimasonic special use district in the area generally bounded by the geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessors parcel block numbers 1071, lots numbers 1 and to the north and west. Thank you. Supervisor stefani, the new sponsor of this item. Thank you, chair tang. Colleagues, thank you for hearing this item today. Im thrilled to put the final touches on this project that has taken over two years to get to this stage. I was ah aids when this first came to district two and it is great to see how far this project has come. This s. U. D. Allows it to go from 21 ewe it in units to 91 units while remaining the same size. It goes from three to 22, that is more affordable units than the total number of units in the original project. These are homes for 95 families to join the neighbourhood along the transit corridor. Thank you to the neighbours, Laurel Heights and antavista neighbours for being so great. We want to thank them for supporting such a dense project in a neighbourhood that hasnt seen any new housing, which i know is challenging for many neighbourhoods. So, thank you to those neighbourhood organisations. This project is a uniquely dense project that is labour and neighboursupported. It took a lot of work and i think the Broad Coalition of people who did work on this. Im very happy to be carrying this across the finish line here today. I do have a couple of amendments in response to the Planning Commission recommendation and ive handed those amendments out to my colleagues. First, the inclusionary rate goes from 18 to 23 . And that is broken down as follows 10 at 55 of a. M. I. 5 at 80 of a. M. I. 4 at 110 of a. M. I. And 5 at 120 of a. M. I. And then of course the appropriate a. M. I. Bands will apply. The second recommendation is around the car share spaces. The Commission Recommended four of the spaces be reserved for car share. So on the advice of the city attorney, we have increased the findings regarding car share to require four of the 16 Parking Spaces in this project to be reserved for car share use. And those are all the amendments . Yes. Ok. Great. Thank you. Do we want a motion to move those amendments . Yes. Id like to make a motion to accept those amendments. All right. And supervisor safair, did you want to speak on the item as well . No, supervisor stefani summed it up wonderfully. Any questions or xhenzes, any staff . Rention nope. Well go to Public Comment on this item three and i have three cards richard, michael and colleen. And if anyone else would like to speak on item three, please come on up. Thank you. I just wanted to summarize the Planning Commissions actions from a couple of months ago. On november 30, 2017, the Planning Commission, after hearing and closing Public Comments approved the proposed ordinance with modifications, recommended by planning staff. The modifications to the ordinance increased the required onsite Affordable Housing provision from 18 to 23 for rentals at the a. M. I. Levels prescribed by section 415 of the planning code. This recommendation was made on the basis that the proposed s. U. D. Confers density increases that are commons rat with the level of increase contemplated in the home s. F. Bram and, therefore, an increased onsite affordable rate within the su. D. Is appropriate. Staff wants to thank mayor ferrell for amending the ordinance to include the commissions recommendations. At the same hearing, the Planning Commission granted conditional use authorization to demolish the onestorey building and construct a mixed use building containing 95 residential dwelling units above approximately 1700 square feet of ground floor commercial space, 16 off street Parking Spaces and 120s bicycle Parking Spaces. The commission added a condition of at least four of the Parking Spaces are dedicated for car share use. This concludes my friendsing and im available for my questions. Thank you very much. Any further questions . Ok. Nope. Seeing none, then well go back to Public Comment, actually. So, please come on up. Youll each have two minutes to speak on this item. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im Richard Frisbee with the Laurel Heights improvement association. It has take and lot of work as the supervisor pointed out but we have something that i think works for all three parties and id like to thank everyone for the work thats gone into it. Its not been receive but it has been useful and what came out of it is something we all think will benefit the neighbourhood. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is michael coholland. Im a 40year resident and Property Owner on wood street, just a block away from the project. Id like to echo my friend dick frisbees comments that the neighbourhood of which im a part of and also part of the Laurel Heights improvement association, is in support of this project. Id like to extend my welcome to supervisor stefani for coming back to district two. Were glad to have you. And i also noticed on the way in that the actual developers are there in the back and i said this at the planning hearing commission. I wanted to thank them for being so transparent and upfront with the neighbourhood. I think this is a key thing for this commission and the board and the Planning Department to Pay Attention to in the future. Because there is a lot of projects coming online that things work. They work when the developmenter is up front, transparent, communicative to the neighbourhood and we all get to have a conversation. So it has been a while. Really appreciate everyones efforts. Also chris mei is back here. I believe i got your name right. I think he is a staff person who has done an exceptional job at working hard to get the neighbourhood and the developer to get this project done. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is colleen ryan and i live on emmerson street adjacent to the project. And i echo dick and michaels comments. Were pleased that the developer worked with us. We were concerned that the height would be overshadowing our properties. We thank you again for that. And christopher may definitely worked hard and called us back promptly. So, were in support of the promise and we appreciate the fact that things are working. We do understand that the city needs housing. It should be noted that cities should be proud of the fact that you took a 12,000 foot lot, zoned for 21 units and are creating 95 units. That is impressive. Our one concern is the concern of all my neighbours on emmerson is the fact that where gearymasonic funnel into, there is a small Little Corner and there can be a lot of traffic where trader joes is and we know that the developers trying to work out a plan. Were going to wait to see if the traffic is going to be ok getting home each day. Our kids take the bus. We walk and bike through there. And so traffic is really a problem in that corner. So, were really hoping that that part works out. But we a