Be present, kim not present, mar, not present, peskin, present. , tang, present. Wiener, present. , yee, present. You have a quorum ladies and gentlemen these join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] mdm. Clerk any communications . None to report any changes to the federal 2nd 2016 whether Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. 20 past can we take that without objection . Without objection the can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Was Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment unanimously. [gavel] let them cook please call the next item todays special order at to copy him is the appearance by our hon. Mayor edwin lee. There be no questions omitted from the eligible districts the mayor may address the board for up to 5 min. Welcome to the chamber mr. Mayor. You have the floor. Good afternoon supervisors and also to the members of the public. I did receive any questions this month but im going to take the opportunity to address our citys response to homelessness. I know that earlier today it was a media event calling homelessness aquote, crisis. That event did not offer solutions. Novo no new philanthropic partnerships. No new sites for Navigation Centers no path forward. But it did offer rhetoric. In my years of public service, supervisors, never governed in search of headlines. I do believe in real results and i know that those who are homeless also count on him. Back in december 3 of last year, i too, said homelessness and reached a crisis point them up but my response included substance. Substance like 522 new units of permanent Supportive Housing in the last 7 months. Expanding the National Shelter modelmy administration created, the Navigation Center good ending chronic homelessness for veterans. A new 180 bed shelter at cure 80. 80. El nino shelters to cover 700 people thanks in the collaboration and cooperation of interfaith council. Helping hundreds of Homeless People out of a Public Health emergency on division street and into shelter without having to make a single arrest. 20 million for a new bond funding for homeless shelters, creating a new courtney did on this department, a billiondollar funding commitment with a goal of subsidizing 8000 Homeless People by 2020. Ive held several meetings with sec. Julian castro and obamas homelessness director. Last month, i led a west coast mayors funding effort to get more resources to solve homelessness. So much we agree on, but i believe we have a vigorous disagreement over allowing people to inject heroin and meth to literally destroy their bodies and their minds in a city funny sheltered as some have proposed. We should, instead on expanding successful residential drug treatment facilities. Look, we need to build more Navigation Centers and i share the frustration of those are critical of how long our efforts are taking to bear fruit. But anger does not help and cooperation that does. So, to those who are actually in interested in cooperating, genuinely willing to Work Together, were great opportunity. In the 6 months since ive announced plans to double our Navigation Centers, i have received very cooperative responses from about 4 supervisors. You know who you are and i want to thank you. Youve demonstrated your leadership for the people in your district and for the cities Homeless Population. My administration identified more than a dozen potential Navigation Center sites spread around the city and working with the Interfaith Community and city departments with surplus land. Today im announcing a new dedicated project manager. A partnership between our whole office and public works apartment with the sole focus of getting new Navigation Centers built as quickly as possible. We have already begun Community Meetings and what we hope will be our next to new navigation sensor sites. One year. 80 and one in the south of market area. 2 supervisors, who want to help solve this work with me , work with public works, work with the Human Services agency, and certainly, without Public Health department and at least 4 of your colleagues of already begun that work with me. Work with us to get these Sites Community by in your work with us to make this happen. This supervisors, is a true test of our resolve and hope you stand with us in the months ahead as we build the centers, as we staff them up and as we give real help to our Homeless People in need as they deserve. Thank you. Thank you mr. Mayor. We will continue with our agenda. Mdm. Clerk, these read the Consent Agenda. Item 1 through 13 are on consent. These items are considered routine. If a member objects and item may be removed and considered severally. Seensupervisor wiener i dont remove anything i want to make a comment. Specific to item 10. The legislation we passed unanimously last week to increase the tobacco purchase agn San Francisco. From 1821. As you probably saw in the press supervisor wiener itll be appropriate to remove it from the Consent Agenda to discuss it. Sp removed it so we will remove item 10 and on the remaining agenda, adam clerk please call the roll supervisor yee aye, avalos, aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye wiener aye there are 11 aye the items are passed in the First Reading and adopted finally passed and approved unanimously. [gavel] please call item number 10 item 10 and ordinance woman the whole code to bring it tobacco retailers from selling Tobacco Products including smokeless tobacco Electronic Cigarettes to persons age 18, 19 or 20 supervisor wiener i apologize for not severing it to begin with. Colleagues, last week we pass this important Public Health measure unanimously and thank you for your support. I look forward to passing again unanimously today. As you probably saw 2 days after we passed it, in an unexpected development, the state assembly passed pending state legislation to increase the tobacco purchase 8 221. It was unexpected because tobacco measures have frequently died in the state assembly that this is a wonderful step forward and the state senate will take up again this week. We dont know what the governor is going to do. I hope you will sign it. This is the kind of law where potential preempted by the state can be a really good thing. We are monitoring this carefully. We dont know what is going to happen exactly and when it comes to state legislation it isnt over till its over to so, i like to move forward. I with this legislation and if the state passes legislation we will evaluate whether our legislation is complementary or conflicting and then if we need to suspended or amended we will certainly do what is needed but for now i think its important to move forward with this trendsetting legislation and i want to thank you colleagues for your support. Bt. Colleagues can we take this item same house, same call can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. E ordinance is finally passed unanimously [gavel] adam got go to our regular agenda. First item item 14 and ordinance to amend the planning code to require conditional use authorization for the removal many residential units whether authorized or unauthorized exceptions. Units received prior planning or approval singlefamily homes demonstrably unaffordable or unsound and to amend the building codes require that notices of violation under the filing of an application to legalize an authorized unit in certain certain circumstances improve the planning departments ceqa determination in making appropriate findings supervisor tang last week i do not support the legislation but since having more conversations with the planning staff im comfortable with supporting this today. I want to for the record state that thank you. See no other names on the roster, mdm. Clerk, can we do a roll call vote on them item 14, supervisor yee nay, avalos aye, breed, aye campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye there are 10 aye and one nay with supervisor yee in the design the ordinance is passed [gavel] item 15 item 15 resolution to authorize the opposite Contract Administration to enter to a multiyear contracts with Golden Gate Petroleum to spy city to province with a Renewable Diesel for the term of april 1 to a multiyear contracts with Golden Gate Petroleum to spy city to province with a Renewable Diesel for the term of april 1, 2016 to march 31, 2019 in the amount not to exceed 60 million rollcall vote item 16 supervisor yee aye, avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, peskin aye. Tang aye. Wiener aye. Dark 11 aye the resolution is adopted unanimously [gavel] next item item 16 a resolution to actively authorize the treasurer and Tax Collector to accept and expend a 315,000 grant from the Mott Foundation for extending our reach and Family Engagement prekindergarten through college through august 31, 2017. Colleagues can we take this item this resolution same house, same call can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. s adopted unanimously [gavel] next item item 17 resolution to approve the agreement for coming storage and disposal of abandoned and illegally parked vehicles. In an amount not to exceed 65. 4 million to march 31, 2021 with the option to extend for up to 5 additional years. Dick supervisor avalos i want to recognize the Budget Committee further work on this measure. Since the Budget Committee liberated we also had a hearing that was looking at fees and court fees and how they were impacting the working people. Through that, we heard a lot about the towing fee and how much difficult it is for our people who are low income were struggling economically to be able to pay for the fee. How the inability to pay for the fee could be 2 people losing their vehicles can not having the ability to get to work, which often is beyond public transportation, and putting them in i cycle with area are actually not able to escape poverty poor economic distress. So, idea makes a lot of sense that we look at paring back these fees. To actually make it easier for everyone to survive in San Francisco during our economic crisis. In 20092010, the board of supervisors had all the fees of the city before street i recall in Budget Committee that those years having pages and pages of these that were ramped up in both years. I dont think we have actually is a city recovered and we actually have lower fees now that our city is doing better economically. So, it makes a lot of sense that we actually have a real discussion about what we are trying to do with our fees. To actually recover costs. To bring more revenue into the departments. To curb behavior that we dont want to see. Or to salvage resident. All of those things are things that happen and seem to be goals that we have as a city. It makes more sense that we have some clarity about those. Idea makes sense to start soon, to start right away. We have before us the auto return administrative fee that is part of the whole contract we have before us today. To me, it makes sense that we give the mta a little bit more time to reassess these fees, still giving time to actually approve the contract before us before the Expiration Date of much 31st. So, i would like to see we can find some, a lower feed costs that would stop residents much less than the weight of fee currently does. I realize that toe is there for people who actually have an infraction or break the law, but i believe all of us make mistakes. I have made mistakes and have my car towed in the past. It really hurts. I am doing okay economically depending on your point of view. There a lot of people were doing much worse economically. For them, a total would be devastated to their pocketbook and devastating to their ability to pay rent or stay in the city. I would like to come after a short discussion on this measure, motion that we continue this item to next week to allow the mta board to give us a better sense of what the Administration Fee can be. That way we could save residence some money and economic distress. It could very well be the mta is not there for that of 4 Board Meeting next week, so we may need to be continued again i like to continue this for one week so we can have rated discussion about how we could save a lot of residence and San Francisco economic distress. Supervisor avalos has made a motion to continue its item one week to the media march 15 20 system. Moved and seconded. Supervisor kim i want to rewrite many of the comments made by my colleague supervisor avalos. We did actually cosponsor a hearing on municipal fines of which total away fees were included in that discussion. I think there has to be an overall conversation on this board as a legislative body to really consider how we generate revenue to pay for Government Services, and what are the appropriate sources of revenue, and how do we charge our reverence for it. A 600 on average towaway fee impacts are residence different. The penalize agent of that the impacts are residence disproportionally. For some of us, its an incredible inconvenience for others, it hurts our monthly budget. For others, it is a decision between paying rent and buying groceries were getting the card you may need to get to work and to keep your family in order. I just believethis is a comment i made back in june when i voted against the sixmonth extension of the auto return contractpcs are just too high. This is a topic that came up in our budget subcommittee meeting in 2011 and 2012 where asked sfmta to reexamine our ministry to the that have gone up 150 since supervisor avalos came on the board of supervisors. Yes, theres a time and place in which we can look at examining increasing fees and certainly the recession was one of those times, but now we are doing well again in terms of revenue. Again, i think more political question is, what is the proper way to pay for Government Services and how much do we charge for get i think the Cost Recovery conversation is one weve had with sf mta for quite a while. I was quite surprised to learn that in Cost Recovery that we include things like painting curbs and also a director salary in Cost Recovery. I dont think we have a consistent policy for how we charge Cost Recovery because the other times it came out is during the commuter shuttle bus debate in 2013, when i also asked at mta i did you come up with a dollar per stop we pick in that scenario sfmta kept it as affordable as possible. Im not sure salary was included in that Cost Recovery. It would Cost Recovery, lets have a consistent standard of how were going to do it. San francisco should absolutely not be in the business of impoverishing our residence and that is what we are doing by the singular mistake of telling their cars away. Yes, we want to regular driver behavior. We dont want cars on the street on their street cleaning sticky john edwards clean and healthier, when we need to regulate traffic during rush hour. We have these rules in place for a reason. But, we also should not be in the business of impoverishing our residence percent either the states. Nobody is trying to get the car towed. In fact, most people i talk to did not understand the fine, missed an alarm, most people are trying to follow the rules and then get slapped with a 6 700 towaway fee. I like to work with the sfmta over the next 2 weeks if supervisor avalos and peskin on the Ministry Today which i think is exorbitant and certainly the increases weve seen over the last few years. Im not sure they been justified. 2, i think we need to look at the number parking lots we are renting. This is an issue came up at our municipal last week. Do we need to have 2 parking lots to store our vehicles . 3rd, but to look at the storage fee. For many residents come up with 6 700 on the date the car gets towed is very challenging to do. We read some of the stories in the chronicle article that came out this morning. Perhaps we should give more time to our residence to come up with the money and not charge them additional fees for the storage, which in many ways is the moment the car arrives on them i like to look at a hardship program. We do have residents that simply cannot afford to pay this dollar amount. The city of chicago has managed to figure out what to do archer program. I know its challenging. Sfmta doesnt like to income means testing but i think we look at the chicago model is a variety of factors we can look at the people can submit as evidence that this a form of hardship. Either prove that they live in public housing. That theyre free and reduced lunch. Better on food stamps. That