Should be mandatory that especially pit bulls, dogs should be muzzled, especially when theyre inside of Apartment Building complexes and also when around little kids. People are not aware of it. But a pit bull dog is a wild animal. They originated from the netherlands. Okay. They used to be used to herd cattle. Okay. Then from there they were brought into communities from the netherlands, overseas, from there they were imported into the United States. And every year and a half or two, you hear about a pit bull attacking somebody. Either theyre in the backyard or either in the neighborhood or in an Apartment Building complex. We had a female that was killed by a pit bull. And, as a result, the openers were placed in jail. So i think it should be mandatory that not only these types of dogs, but other dogs as well, who are biting and rushing up on people on who they dont know, it should be a requirement to have a dog with a muzzle, when youre in the public areas and areas where children are around. And on the inside of Apartment Building complexes. In fact, i want to add that a little small dog was coming up to me in a place where im located and barking and biting on my pants leg. If i kicked the dog, then youd be saying its cruelty to animal. But youre not saying that now that a dog is barking and coming up on me. I dont appreciate that. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you, michael. Any other member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Once again this Commission Finds itself in the impossible situation of having more incredibly qualified candidates than we have open seats. And i do want to let all of the candidates know that there will be new open seats in april 2020. So if your name is not moved forward today, please reapply, because if we had if i had my druthers, i would appoint all of you today. With that, i wanted to see if any of my colleagues had any comments or would like to make a motion . Briefly i just want to echo the sentiments of chair ronen and i want to say thank you to everyone who took the time to apply. And for all of your work with animals over the years. There are times when we have a lot of qualified applicants that come up with and makes our job difficult. But its also something that we appreciate and look forward to seeing so many qualified folks come before us. We do have to make a decision and decide who we want to move forward with. So i just want to say thank you to everyone who applied. This is not always an easy decision for us up here. Yes. I would just echo the comments of my colleagues in thanking all of the applicants for all of your work and your contributions to Animal Welfare in our city. And your and your willingness to serve on this important commission. For me this is this is really important. These are really important issues personally. You know, ive been a lifelong animal lover and pet guardian. Like i said, the proper term these days. And so i really important how important especially pets are to the quality of life for so many in our city. Thats certainly the case for my family. You know, we have two cats that we adopted from a. C. C. So i really love, you know, to see the importance of such an Important Role that a. C. C. Plays in our city. Im so glad that the rebuilding in creating a new modern facility is moving ahead. And even this morning, you know, just walking to the bus in my neighborhood, i crossed two very healthy coyotes walking by me. [laughter] it was really startling. But i think theres also the important issues around the wild animals in our city, rapidly increasing developed city. So thanks again for all that you do. And i guess we do need to sort of move ahead and decide on three appointments appointments for the three seats that are open. Do one of you guys supervisor ronen okay. Im happy to do the difficult honors. So i would make a motion to move forward the two incumbents, because wed like to see continuity when people are doing a great job on these commissions. And both russell and jane have been doing a wonderful job. So id like to put forward russell for seat 4 and jane tobin for seat 5. And then for seat 6, id like to put forward michaelangelo torres. I do think its important that we have someone from the latin community, who is able to reach that population in the city, which, you know, might have some specific issues around animals and to have that cultural connection, someone from the mission especially who is able to connect with them that way. I think its important. Having said that, cindy, this was an impossible decision. You are overly qualified for this position. And i really encourage you to thank goodness thats what i wanted to hear. [laughter] supervisor ronen thank you. I hope to still be here as chair and cheering you on. So thank you so much. So again just to repeat, to make sure our chair got it, i would like to make a motion to put forward russell for seat 4, jane for seat 5 and michaelangelo for seat 6. And to move that forward with positive recommendation. Can i take that without objection . Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] thank you again. Thank you so much. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Clerk the ordinance many of the administrative code to reenact and revise the Tourist Hotel conversion ordinance, restricting the conversion of hotel in large burst hotels or condominiums. To condominiums. Supervisor ronen so before we open this up to Public Comment, i wanted to mention that i was able to speak to supervisor peskin, who is the sponsor of this legislation. And he has some amendments that he wanted to put forward today. But theyre not ready from the City Attorneys office. So he has asked that i continue this item to im going to do it to the call of the chair. Well figure out later what date were going to do that. First, open this item up for Public Comment. If theres any member of the public that wants to speak in ill make a motion to for this to continue this item to the call of the chair. Without objection, that motion passes unanimously. [gavel] mr. Clerk, can you please read items 4 and 5 together. Clerk yes. Item number 4 is a motion approving the appointment of chris foley to the Historic Preservation commission, for a term ending december 31st, 2020. Item number 5 is a motion approving rejecting the mayors nomination of for appointment of libya for a term ending december 31st, 2022. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. As many of you know, i just wanted to put this on the record, the Historic Preservation commission was established by the voters through a charter Ballot Initiative and passed very substantially in the city, as a matter of fact, to advise on matter of Historic Preservation and to make recommendations on city landmark and Historic District designations. Historic preservation is a highly specialized and technical field. With guidance and standards set by multiple jurisdictions and detailed investigations and evaluations, to determine historic significance and appropriate treatment of historic property. The seats are defined to ensure that specific skills and experiences and perspectives are represented on the commission. Our committee will be hearing from two mayoral appointees today. In addition to the specific requirements for each of these seats, we are looking to seat appointees who are in the words of the charter, quote, specifically qualified by reason of interest, competence, knowledge, training and experience in the historic architectural, aesthetic and cultural traditions of the city. Interested in the preservations of the historic structures, sites and areas and residents of the city. And with that wed love to hear from our two nominees, starting with mr. Chris foley. Your interest and experience and qualifications for this seat. Thank you, supervisor walton, supervisor mar, supervisor ronen. I was nominated for this because i did the renovation of st. Josephs at 10th and howard. That was a very interesting project. It was actually vacant for 31 years. The building was actually failing. The whole north side of the building had been leaking for over 25 years. And it was collapsing. And in that transaction, what happened was we actually got denied from the National Parks service for initial renovation. And we had the National Parks service, we had to go back to washington, d. C. To reapply for our rep. And what we had to do, we had to take the bridge, that is connecting the two mezzanines, and make it from 8 feet to 6 feet. And once we did, that the National Park service approved our tax credit application for that project. The project itself is a new market tax credit, historic tax credit, transaction in the United States, only six done in the year that i did that. Its a very complicated transaction. Its about 24 inches tall, just to sign the documents. Theres five different sources of funding for it. Then what we did is doug ross and i actually started the project together. Hes a large general contractor, the only reason we did that job, because we partnered with a general contractor. But ken full came in as our partner. As we were getting ready to start, when we first met ken focus, i love the building just the way it is. Never believed that from a designer. They lie to you. Actually ken folk took our basic, wonderful design and made it spectacular building. We had to do eight different amendments to our historical tax credit application. In general, in california you only do one amendment, maybe two. And the reason we do amendment or two, 90day cycle before it goes through the state process, the federal process, comes back to you, whether they approve or disapprove it. When you do eight different amendments, youre at risk the whole time to go back and redo something. Luckily we had preservation architect working with us and the ken foaming team and we felt very confident making the amendments were fulfilling all the standards. Since i started working on that, ive been inundated with groups asking me to help them with other nonprofit or other historical properties. And the most interesting one im working on right now is reverend amos brown called up the archdiocese and said who did that church, st. Josephs. And the reverend calls me, i want you to do my church, what you did for your church. And its hard to reject someone who is running the Oldest Baptist Church west of the mississippi. And so i started work with the board chair and the board of directors about 18 months ago. And were actually at the point where we think well be able to start a Capital Campaign by the end of the year and renovate that building next year. Very interesting working on that project, because as you probably know, the Western Addition was really destroyed by redevelopment. And a lot of those congregations were basically shredded apart. This congregation is the largest congregation still there. So i feel that its im fully proud to work on it. Again weve been doing that work pro bono. We brought in Payton Turnbull to do a bunch of work pro bono. Were getting a bunch of work done, its not like they have lots of money to try to renovate the building. The goal for the renovation is to do a seismic upgrade, all a. D. A. And all of the same things we did to st. Josephs, including not adding an mezzanine. We would like to try to add some other, gosh, addons to the facility and make it a stateoftheart facility for kids and youth. They do a lot of things around music, which i think is a really critical a critical thing. Other than that i have done a lot of work in the community, which most people know. I have got united way is here. I helped them buy their building. Theyve been my partner, gosh, forever. And i guess thats it. Any questions . Supervisor ronen i have a couple of questions. So based on your experience, what you see as the most urgent issues facing the Historic Preservation commission, that you would like to talk about . Yeah. I have two really very interesting stories around that. I talked to heritage about it. And i have talked to multiple supervisors about it. A, we have to talk more. We have to get everybody talking about it. At my church, because the Planning Department did not get a piece of paper from page and turnbull in a timely manner, they red tagged my building. It becomes a lien, which means i have to do a construction draw, in general you cannot do. Luckily we had a great relationships with all of our lenders. Maria, who runs the tax credit buying for u. S. Bank, and so she said to me, foley, i would never sign off with a lien on title, but i know youre not doing anything crazy. I gave her all of the documentation. I think the critical issue that is we all have to talk. The community has to talk. Preservation planning has to talk. Planning has to talk. We all have to talk. If we talk, we dont have things like that happen. And luckily we were able to get through it. We were able to get the building renovated. We have a great relationship with historic and preservation. The other interesting story about preservation, im personally focused on, is when you look at the Small Business rules that we have done around legacy businesses, thats really super great. What we havent done, we havent helped those businesses that are legacy businesses or current businesses actually operate in an easier way in San Francisco. And my perfect example is so my daughter and i go to como sushi once a week. She loves, i love it. Corner of polk and post. The people that run it and operate it live in the tenderloin. They have great fish. Its great priced. And again my daughter love decision. So asked them one day, you know, it took them nine months, multiple meeting withs d. B. I. And planning to put a silly sign up on the building. We have to figure out a way. I dont know a solution. We have to figure out a way to allow these Small Businesses to actually go run their business. Because the Big Companies they can big out the lobbyists and the people they need. Weve really got to figure out how to help these businesses, that are really the fabric of our community operate. And if we do that, were the winners. And the community is a winner. But we really have to Start Talking more. And thats what that is. Thats about getting Historical Preservation planning, d. B. I. , all together and saying what are we going to do about these people getting the mixed message about the sign. And i think those are the two things that i think are really important for the commission to be thinking about. My not necessarily be their job. But i think its something we can talk about and we can actually talk to planning about how we can make that better. Supervisor ronen and then, you know, youve done two of these projects and youre obviously you like these projects and are passionate about them. Do you anticipate any future projects and any conflicts of interest . Im actually working on potentially one project that will actually be for a nonprofit. So im doing two things around nonprofit work. Well, a bunch of things around nonprofit work and Early Childhood education and mental health. So i am working with a large nonprofit that trains 25 psychologists and put them in a Historic Building. It would be very noncontroversial. Wed actually renovate the building, kind of the same which we did st. Josephs and keep the whole for sod, the whole facade, might add a little bit of mezzanine. It would be a very, very, very straightforward transaction, that i think everyone on the commission and the city would be very happy about. Thats kind of my the biggest thing i have to recuse myself from. Supervisor ronen okay. 125 psychologists, thats music to my ears. Its really important. Supervisor ronen any other questions from my colleagues . No. Thank you. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen and now can we please hear from lydia south. Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, chair ronen and members of the committee. My name is lydia south. Im honored to be nominated for serve on the Historic Preservation commission. I moved to San Francisco from portland, oregon, in 2000. My daughter and i have been living in the mission for over 11 years. We enjoy one of the most vibrant, diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco. Every day we experienced a rich history of the city. As an immigrant from hong kong, i know what hard work means. It requires me as an immigrant woman to work 500 harder, just to demonstrate that i can do the job. This is a challenge that i have stepped and relished, because i know that the future will be bright for my daughter and for my community. Im nominated for seat 2 of h. P. C. , which requires a licensed architect who meets the secretary of interiors professional qualification standards. These standards require either one year of graduate study in architectural preservation study or closely related field, or at least one year of fulltime professional experience on Historic Preservation projects. I meet and exceed these standards. I have much more experience working on Historic Preservation projects, preparing plans and specifications on Historic Buildings. I have worked in San Francisco as a licensed architect in San Francisco and nearly 20 years total in architecture. In San Francisco, nearly every