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SFGTV BOS Replay BOS Rules Committee 12816 December 9, 2016

Speak cards should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you, and i know that just as everyone has a heads up, we do have a special rules Committee Meeting on next monday starting at is 11 30, so there may be a couple of items continued. If you could call number one. Hearing to consider appointing nine members, for twoyear terms ending february 28, 2019, to the balboa park Station Community Advisory Committee there are nine applicants. I am going to kick it off to avalos. In committee has set up in 2010, and set up ain a way as an aftermath of creating the balboa park plan that we would have citizens residents of the area who can help to steer the development and how we would manage our transportation needs, and Transit Needs in the area. And just to make sure that we have this plan that is years in the making, in terms of design and how we move forward with the area, that the residents are involved. And make sure that the plan can move forward rapidly. And its also a seat that plays an advocacy role. Often, we have multiple jurisdictions that are in conflict with each other. Or are waiting for one jurisdiction to go forward or the other to manage and projects. And it is really important that we have people on residents in the area, through this complitty that can actually hold our department accountable the time lines and also to effective collaboration and also to priorities that the community has identified. Not just through the station area plan but on top of the station area plan that was approved in 2009. For me, the largest priorities have been to build an Affordable Housing project on the balboa station area, right on the upper yard side, which is at the south west corner of gene va and san jose, and this also is akos the street from there is the Office Building and it is another site that was formally an mta Office Building and now it is under rekr, and park it is a piece of property and the Committee Also has been involved in helping to bring that project forward. And it is a big priority in my office that that moves forward as well. We also have incredible Transit Needs in that area. We have about 30,000 people a day who use the transit station, muni and bart and of course, a lot of people are dropped off even from the 280 freeway and so the different jurisdictions need to have the strong residents to help direct them and in terms of how they meet the needs of residents in the area. And where there is a huge basic conflict that happens with all of these priorities that we have the mta sees the station as a place where the maintenance of vehicles happens. Residents see this as a place where they need a pass through to get to where the destination is. And the people who are using 280 are just trying to get through, and we have the people who want to develop the land and so this is a real critical function for this body to exist and to help and untangle things and make sure that things will move rapidly hless than slowly in the area. So, with that, we have about 9, we have nine seats and we have nine people who are applying, and actually i am excited by the number of people who are applying and we will go through each one who are here, one by one, and what i want to do is since we have two rules Committee Meetings to makeup the final committee, i will not make all of the decisions until we make them all at once, which will be on monday rather than setting up some of the seats today. Because some of the people can apply to different seats and i just want to make sure that it will be easier that way. So if we can, if we are not approving you for a seat today that does not mean that we are not going to approve you for a seat in fact i expect everyone who is here who has come forward will be getting a seat on the committee. But i will make the final decision until monday. And that will be approved by the full board on tuesday. Okay. So with that, i know that one of the persons here has a time constraint and hopefully my over talking has not gone past that. And that will be faye denise. Lacanilao. Hello, good morning, i just wanted to briefly introduce myself and i have written it so it is going to be concise. I have been living in San Francisco for nearly ten years. And i have been an ak vift in the philippine know community for eight out of that. I was at the university when i was an under graduate and serving in the community, and the immigrant community in San Francisco ever since. And i also you know i worked we pi Filipino Center and i started working in the walk San Francisco. And it is like my second day. Hence the time constraint. But i always wanted to highlight that i have lived here since 2011, the balboa bart station is my every day commuter base. It is sort of like my home. So the construction has been kind of fun to weave through each week. But you know it is a very important place for me and in the community that i work with and that i serve with. My commute consists of the same immigrant working class families that are organized with, the people that i work with struggling to build a brighter and a Better Future for, and these same people that i want to you know, be able to represent, the ones that keep me safe in my journey home. And in the citizens Advisory Committee, and to you know, be able to represent them means that i get to guarantee the representation and insure that their rights and welfare is upheld and that includes Affordable Housing and safety and safer streets and healthier, you know, environment for the communities there. So, yeah. Thank you. What is your position on the project on the upper yard . I used to be the case manager for so i dont have im no longer at the Filipino Community center. But i am still sit in to the chstuff and i used to work in the upper yard meetings when i was working with ally active leadership for advanced youth. Great, thank you. No problem. Thanks. Thank you. And if there are no further questions we will bring up the applicants actually in roughly the order that they came. Raffaella falchi. No . Okay. All right, lets move on to robert muehibauer. And if those folks who are not here they will be coming on monday. Hi, committee im robert. I dont know whether to put my glasses on or off. You are wearing the right shirt. Yeah. I applied for seats 5, 6, or 7, but i see that i am showing up here as seat 9 and that is actually probably a better seat for me all in all. I miss read it, i thought that it said that you had to be currently involved in the public sector, nonprofit. I did spend almost 30 years in public and nonprofit Affordable Housing. But more so than that, i am a 40 year res of the omi and i also have the ingleside shirt. I am a graduate of San Francisco state university, that is why i am here in the city, my wife is a graduate. I got two kids one is a masters degree and graduate and another one going through it. We also go to the city college, we have keep roots in this community. I currently serve on the balboa park station committee. I am the past chair. And i am also serving on the balboa reservoir, citizens Advisory Committee and i endeavor hard to try to cross communicate between the two committees because they are both working according to this same plan. Although there are book ends of the same plan. I have had a long career in neighborhood preservation, and Affordable House and adaptive reuse for Historic Preservation and that is what i did when i was working. In fact i have had a hand in building Affordable Housing in this neighborhood of balboa, tar aces when i was working for the Nonprofit Sector on another lifetime ago. So, i would be honored to serve on this committee again, there is a lot of work to be done in particular, john mentioned the Affordable Housing. I think its a real opportunity here to make something out of this intersection, the gene va and the san jose safety study, looking at how we can best make a democracy of the competing demands of pedestrians, bicycle, hover boards, skate boards, everything that goes through there, not to mention cars and buses. So not everybody is going to win all the way. But i think a good balance is possible. It is best as we can do. I mean this is San Francisco. This is what we do. Im an active pedestrian. I mean that i have walked this city and since i have retired since 2008, i put about 25 to 30 miles a week a walk in this city, not to mention the cities around the world and so i have a good perspective of that and that is kind of a vision of what i would like to see happen out here, so that is why i am really excited about the next term for this committee, and there is a lot of work to be done and i would be pleased to serve. So, thank you. Thank you, for hearing me out. Thank you very much. If you have any questions i am here too. Luis licea. Good morning. I was born and raised here. And i work for the ocean Avenue Association as a Small Business program manager. I do reside in District Eleven border between District Eleven and seven. Right across the street. I did my main means of Public Transportation is bart, and ok, and i also walk because ocean avenue is so close for 40 years, i do know the obstacles of the pedestrians do face, i have a family as well. And my kids go to mission prep. And we do take Public Transportation, you know, going downtown because i only live, probably two and a half blocks away. And so i do know all of the dangers that you know like the m, and how it just terminates on san jose and how the pedestrians have to walk, you know. Across those streets, even with on coming traffic. And also, i know that if you are going from city College Going to balboa is bart station and the 280 onramp going to jdcd is a major, you know, danger because the cars just seem to go dont give the right away to the pedestrians. I do walk ocean avenue. You could see me there, and mostly every day. Talking to Small Businesses. So im going for seats five through nine, because i do qualify for all of them. I want to do the park through the neighborhood and i just want to be involved, i just dont want to be one of the people that the city should do this and that, and or this, and might as well, you know, go and work roll up my sleeves and actually advocate for the people taking it to insure that i could contribute to my neighborhood. That is it. Great, thank you. You hit all of the points i think that we are really important to hit in terms of the real difficult spots for pedestrians. And where thank you for serving and we will make a decision on monday. And i am sure that you will be one of the members. Thank you. Thank you. And the next applicant that we have is aaron good man. It looks like he is not here. Okay. Could someone who is not on the agenda. Those are all of the applicants that we have listed. We have one more tiffany who is here. But she will be for monday, but she can present today. Question. Great. Hi everyone, high name is tiffany, and i recently, applied for the representative for the Advisory Committee, i applied for a variety seats and i could lend my voice on beat half of young people, pedestrian and riders and neighbors, i live in mission terrace, and i have been involved in a variety of Community Given projects. And it will be a great candidate for it because i just value the space that honor and prioritizes the committee and informed Decision Making and by liin. Gual and allows me to connect to neighbors and i am committed to seeing the improvements in the neighborhood because i live and work in this area with my family. And im a Community Organizers at the chinese organization, that serves chinese immigrants, and i worked with the Diverse Group of members and many of who live in the park area, and this year, i helped to coordinate the community out reach project in partnership with the mta to gain the Community Input on the proposed line changes. And this project helped me to gain a lot of insights about the needs of the neighbors who ride the mline to the area. And i also have been involved in a few survey projects one of them being the upper yard Affordable Housing project and also focus groups of the neighborhood allowing me to build a lot of relationships with young people and seniors. And i also have a lot of strong relationships with a lot of Different Community groups in the neighborhood who serve other immigrant communities. Yeah, and so im really excited and i will be honored to be part of the cac, let me know if you have questions. Thank you, that was great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other applicants who are here for the cac who may be on mondays agenda . Okay. Seeing none. Then i will throw it back to you supervisor avalos. So great, thank you. I think that we can go. Public comment. At this time we are going to open up Public Comment. We have one card, if anyone is here, feel free to come up, tina, and i am sorry if i miss pronounced the name. Hello, good morning, i work at the Filipino Community center and i have been working there for five years. And i have been working in San Francisco for over ten years. And with faye out of those ten years i realized that i have known her for eight years. And have been working alongside her in the Service Aspect through scc and also in building and the Peoples Movement and in solidary with other immigrants communities. And throughout San Francisco. I am here to vouge for her and say that you should really pick her. Because she is dedicated to advancing the rights and welfare of fill pi and the other communities, and the role is advancing the particular needs of residents including their housing rights and workers rights. She is contributing to the livelihood of Community Members and addressing their issues as she come in through our doors. She is genuinely concerned about the every day matters as residents, including their transportation matters including their ability to be able to go to work and come home to their families. She is also a coparent in her household and a nonpractice dishal household which is a queer household and also shares responsibility in bringing her god child to school at long fellow every day. Any other members of the public that wish to comment on the cac seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you, so everyone who has come here today including tiffany, who was not on the agenda, i will be appointing but since we have particular seats for particular expertise, i will make all of those decisions based on who is all come together on monday. But thank you everyone who has agreed to be on the committee. I am really excited by the folks who have come out. And it looks like a great invig ration of the work of this committee. Thank you so much. Supervisor avalos and i concur that there is a lot of great applicants this time around and looking forward to that on monday. Do we have a motion to continue, item, 1, 2, the special rules committee on monday . Yes. So moved. Thank you. Madam chair, i would like to say, supervisor mar . What a great group of applicants coming from grass root organizations with great expertise in all of the different areas that this committee will over see, and i just want to say that in support of aaron good man, i know that with the park merced he has been great as an architect and a watch dog, i think that he also is an excellent choice for seat 7 or 9. But, what an Amazing Group of applicants good luck supervisor avalos in filling the last couple of applicants for these seats. Thank you. I also want to thank beth for helping to attract a great group of folks as well to be applying for these seats. Great. So supervisor cohen just made a motion to continue this item to the special rules Committee Meeting on monday and we will do that without objection. All right. Item two, please . Hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending november 21, 2018, to the citizens general Obligation Bond oversight committee. There are three seats and four applicants and i would note that on the agenda for the seat qualifications for seat number one, states that it is a Labor Organization seat and that should be active in a Business Organization representing the Business Community located in the city. Okay. Great. And we are still allowed to move forward with that. Okay at this time, we have again, four applicants. So we are going to go off the order, brenda kwee mcnulty. Madam chair. Supervisors, mar and cohen, good morning. Thank you for entertaining my second application. I remember about a year and a half ago i appeared before this same committee, submitting my first application to sit on go boc and thanks to

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