Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 92716 20

[gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors for the meeting of tuesday, september 27, 2016. Mme. Clerk, can you please call the roll. Thank you mme. Pres. [roll call] thank you. Mme. Pres. You have a quorum. Thank you. Can you please join us in a pledge to the flag. [pledge of allegiance] thank you mme. Clerk, are there any communications . I have none to report. We have a motion by supervisor ali lows and seconded by supervisor peskin can we take this without objection . Without objection, this motion passes. On items one through 21. [roll call vote] there are 10 ayes. Okay, those items are passed on the First Reading and adopted unanimously. Mme. Clerk, the first item. Item 22 is an ordinance ordinance appropriating 77,000,000 of proceeds from the general obligation housing bond, series 2016f to the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development for public housing, lowIncome Housing, investment in mission neighborhood, and middle Income Housingdalp and tnd in fy20162017, and placing these funds on controllers reserve pending sale of the bonds. Colleagues can we take this item same house, same call. Without objection this ordinance is passed unanimously [gavel] item 24 please item 24 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require that prevailing wages be paid for work loading or unloading materials, goods, or products for special events and shows on City Property, and the driving of commercial vehicles for that purpose. Thank you. Supervisor wiener. This board of supervisors is making a prevailing wage legislation to a sure that this comes with a fair living wage and allows for a quality of life and my office hasdone a lot of work on this very complicated legislation. We have worked for nearly a year on this legislation and i want to thank our city administrator and our recreation and Parks Department and other departments further helpful feedback as we have developed this legislation. This legislation strikes the right balance between supporting our workers and ensuring that we do not have undue Financial Hardship on our City Property and we have done so by focusing on these events in our local jurisdiction and i ask you for your support. Thank you supervisor wiener. Colleagues, can we take this item same house same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. [gavel] item 25 please. Item 25 isordinance waiving the competitive process requirement of administrative code, section 2a. 173, for a Lease Agreement between amoura international, inc. , and the city and county of San Francisco, by and through its Airport Commission, for an interim employee cafe at airport terminal 1. Supervisor peskin. Thank you mme. Chair. I have had some conversations from with the airports mr. Widener and if we could ask ms. Widener to come up if that is okay mme. Pres. Yes. Good afternoon mme. Pres. And members of the board. Kathy wagner with the San Francisco airport. Thank you miss wagner. I understand it is just the waiver for Competitive Bidding that is before us. You and i have discussed that this lease has been in place and we have now proposed, should this waiver be granted as a threeyear lease with two oneyear extensionshich to me is a policy matter and it calls into question why this would be waving the competitive bid process and to that and you and i have discussed the possibility and you guys have given us the temporary nature of the ability and if we could work out a threeyear lease it would alleviate some of my concerns in this matter, is that correct . That is correct. So colleagues, i make a motion that we continue this item for one week and when we learn that indeed that the Airport Commission has made this threeyear flat we will pick this up again and this will eliminate some of my concerns about granting as a matter of policy a waiverto grant. So supervisor peskin has made a motion to continue this for one week to october 4, 2016. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor kim. Supervisor cohen. Supervisor campos. I guess i have to question why if it is a threeyear term why we are not going through a competitivebid process . If i may ask through the chair to the airport board . Good afternoon supervisor kathy wagner with the airport board. When this was looked atit wasnt determined that we could develop a permanent space for three years and through that airport board this was not seen for three years as a competitive opportunity. You made this determination and how did you make this determination . The Airport Development teamthatwrites all of our rfps that come before this board every years in talking to our airport current operators and made bids on the bid it doesnt seem to be on a temporary facility. If it should do a temporary bid of course the answer is going to be no. They are offering food and Beverage Services on the airport and others are offering a similar proposal. And how many are there . I do not know off the top of my head but i would be happy to get you that information as a general rule they are against waving competitive bid requirements and it is probably better that it is a shorterterm but i will continue to post an item that waives competitive bid requirements especially with a complicated project. The bottom line here is that we want the taxpayer dollars to be used the most costeffectively and the only way to ensure that is actually by going through a competitive process that allows people to bid on the contractto see if someone will do this at a Competitive Price and that is why this is a matter of policy that we should not do this. Thank you. Thank you supervisor cohen supervisor cohen. I think that me and supervisor speaking of both share the same position. When i was looking through it seemed to me there was not a competitive process when im looking throughthe bid it is indicated that this is an employee cafe that has never gone out to bid, is that correct . And the reason this never goes out to bid is why . Through the chair, supervisor cohen initially this would never be more than 12 months and because of the changes that have went on with terminal 18 is something we would never consider. And because of the competitive bid process we had never had an employee cafeteriaand we had no idea whether it be profitable or not and so this is the one company that was able to take over the pilot process. And, this is on the authority of this process and this was five years ago . That is correct. We did not have an area in the facility that cannot be demolished this was the only space we could utilize. So im going to ask that you and your entity go put together an rfp and go out and bid to be in line with our established city roles. All right thank you. Thank you. Supervisor farrell. I appreciate all of the sentiment on this obviously we do not want to do things without Competitive Bidding. Again, this is a temporary solution to when thenew tower goes up and a permanent cafeteria is finally done for the employees and that will be bid out. That will be put out to bid and for those of us that travel in an sfo and a changing construction environment this is the only way that we will have an employment cafeteria that can afford this on a daily basis so can you help me out with that because i know it certainly help me out last week. Thank you supervisor farrell, this is a service that providesmeals for the employees. That airport staff has 30 minutes for meals and they do not have enough time to go off of the property for meals and in addition the space and the cost for the airport for building it is necessary even if we do not have a food and beverage component in that space. We would need to provide a break area for a microwave and for eating for people that have only a half hour break and do not want to purchase airport pricing food. Im sorry, what was the second part of your question . Mine was less of a question but i just ask for you to explain how this would be a temporary solution to the permanent employee cafeteria once all the construction is finished off and no one is willing to bid and we can continue to offer this service and that we can have an affordable chance to go off the property to get something to eat while they are work. Yes, when this is completed at that point we have 90 days to take down the control area and office space will be a Permanent Location and this will be subject to a competitive bid process. And this will not be an opportunity to exercise the two year option for that. Thank you supervisor farrell. Supervisor campos. And where is this Company Located . Are they outside of San Francisco . I believe so. Have you approached any San Francisco restaurant or company or cafeteria about serving you for three years. In that list that i will provide you i am certain that we will provide you with San Francisco companies. And i am certain that i can provide you with that list. I believe that these that came from prebed conferences have not bid on these before. I think there are places and companies San Francisco that would be open to this option but they are not going to give us the opportunity to do that. Mdm city clerk we have a motion and a second wind that the motion net act can you please call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 10 ayes. Okay, this item will be continued to the meeting of october 4, 2016. Mme. City clerk please call the next item. Item 26 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the recreation and Park Department toaccept and expend a grant from the San Francisco Parks Alliance to Fund Community events, staff development, recreation programming, and other activities from fy20142015 that together are valued at approximately 84,202. Supervisor peskin. I know that supervisor farrell had to leave quickly but i know that he had expressed to me that this was a retroactive item and i see that there are very few of them but i want to see if there are staff here that can give us a compelling story as to why this is retroactive by i appreciate the largest of the donor in the amount of 84,202 but why is this afterthefact . Is there someone here from the recreation and Parks Department . I do not believe they have a member of the department present right now but they are tracking down that answer as we speak to them. Perhaps the author may not know. Supervisor peskin, we can either wait for the staff or we can vote on this later in the agenda. Like to do that . All right, mme. City clerk please read item number 27 item number 27 is a resolution authorizing the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to execute amendment no. 4 to engineering project Design Services agreement no. Cs879c for water system improvement programfunded projects between the city and county of San Francisco and Kennedy Jenks consultants, to extend the contract for three years to commence december 6, 2016, for a total term of december 6, 2007, through december 6, 2019, for an additional amount of 2,000,000 for a total amount not to exceed 18,500,000. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this item is passed unanimously. [gavel] mme. City clerk please read item 28. Item 28 is anordinance amending the administrative code to prohibit cityfunded travel to states that have enacted laws after june 26, 2015, reversing antidiscrimination protections for lgbt individuals or permitting discrimination against lgbt individuals, and to prohibit City Contracting with companies headquartered in states that have enacted such laws, or where work on the contract would be performed in such states. Supervisor. As you know we have had huge victories for lgbt communities and now we are seeing passages of laws against businesses discriminating against people and also requiring people to use the restroom assigned to them at birth as opposed to their gender identity. These laws are despicable. These are out of a different, uglier era in this country and from a time when we had many laws that were discriminating against residents of this country and we have to get rid of these laws. The executive order and travel and this legislation codifies the travel band and expands the carefully crafted exemptions which have been the case of all the travel bands that have been issued around the country. This will have a strong message that San Francisco stands firmly with lgb t brothers and sisters around the city and around the country and i also want to thank all of my colleagues who have participated in making this reality and colleagues, i asked you for your support. Thank you supervisor weiner. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Mme. City clerk can you please read item number 29 and 30, together please. Item 29 isordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by allied Insurance Company against the city and county of San Francisco for 60,000; the lawsuit was filed on january 22, 2015, in San Francisco superior court, case no. Cgc15543789; entitled allied Insurance Company v. The city and county of San Francisco, et al. ; the lawsuit involves alleged Property Damage arising from flooding; and appropriating 60,000 from the Water Enterprise Fund balance for such purposeand item 30 isan ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by Raymond Kruse and ashley kruse against the city and county of San Francisco for 325,000; the lawsuit was filed on september 17, 2014, in San Francisco superior court, case no. Cgc14541704; entitled Raymond Kruse, et al. V. Precision engineering, inc. , et al. ; the lawsuit involves alleged Property Damage arising from flooding; and appropriating 325,000 from the Water Enterprise Fund balance for such purpose. Colleagues, can we take these items same house same call. W without objection, these items are passed unanimously. [gavel] mme. City clerk please call the next item. Item 31 is a resolution responding to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 20152016 civil grand jury report, entitled into the open opportunities for more timely and transparent investigations of fatal San Francisco Police Department officerinvolved shootings; and urging the mayor to cause the implementation of accepted findings and recommendations through his her Department Heads and through the development of the annual n item 32 isan resolution responding to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 20152016 civil grand jury report, entitled San Francisco Homeless Health and housing a crisis unfolding on our streets; and urging the mayor to cause the implementation of accepted findings and recommendations through his her Department Heads and through the development of the annual budget. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, these items are passed unanimously [gavel] and with that, it is 2 30 pm so we will begin withour presentation supervisor kim. September 2016 is National Suicide Prevention Month and i want to thank everyone who is work every single day in working to prevent suicide i want to thank the california Highway Patrol and the uscoast guard. In particular the group of 32 Golden Gate Bridge patrol officers led by [inaudible] these 32 officers walk and bike the bridge every day looking for individuals who show signs of contemplating suicide or are in engaging in contemplating suicide. As capt. Picardi would likely tell you, individuals that and their lives on the bridge come from all ages and all backgrounds. One good point to know is that 75 of these individuals who decide to commit suicide are from San Francisco. These individuals are turning younger and younger and each of theseindividuals are unique in their story and while each of these individuals has their own plan capt. Bacardi and the bridge iron workers in the chp and the coast guard and also the Suicide Prevention and crisis are all involved in the plan and it also depends on the unique and individual responses. Officers this is really mind blowing but officers each have less than 10 minutes to make a personal connection with the individual while keeping in their own emotions and remaining calm and professional. After each intervention whether it is successful