dph nurses the 2014 the nurses week is this week and the dpw will recognize and celebrate the dpw furriers staff within an award ceremony on may 8th at san francisco general hospital please join us for them and we've also have the honor to have the nation's first library social worker that gives hope to the homeless and we have an allen f p with the psychic public library was interviewed twice about the social services she provide at the library and interviewed empty be k go library and it was a wonderful social worker she tries to engage with people in the local libraries to get the resources and they need and the fact she helps with the insuring the safety of the folks if the library on april 24th we opened with opening day at the treasure island nurse clinic and the community response has been positive and we have ages from 8 to 60 and dedicated worker will help to staff it on wednesday and fridays. we work closely with treasure island agencies to insure that there was some medical presence at treasure island's this is a furrier referral incline and many of the people that are on the i'

before issuing the permit dpw invested the site and dpw elevation sheets were attached as part of the exhibit they note the trees are significant in size and praurmentd but they made the reasonable recommendation to remove the trees among the reasons the tree are representing non-native trees and they have you structural issues and it was noted that the evidence show signs of previous branch flu and that subjects you tell us to liberate they've over the sidewalk but overall dpw position is a correct one they are located on the private property and the current project has been in the planning process for nearly two years if so the trees stay there it will have a loss in design and delays we've determined the impacts of keeping those trees to keep them at the site a thirty diameter would have to be kept and this equals about 68 percent of density and the parking spaces. this will result in the loss of two of the b m r units we're proposing at the site this is in crafting he thought east neighborhood to strive to have a affordable to protecting and moderate income families. those are sig

we'll start our rebuttal >> so i'm to briefly correct some inaccuracy from what dpw told you. they've consistently told the department not to wait on at&t to schedule the hearings and, in fact, under the s m f order the department is required if the director feels that a hearing is necessary to schedule the hearing within thirty days of the original notice on page a 7 of the s m f order anothers e-3 that says if the director determines the requirement is - they'll be a date no longer than thirty days of the notice that's not been happening here. we wouldn't hold the department to thirty or 60 days sooner 6 or 12 months. i think it's important for you the board to understand as part the memoranda of the understanding at&t pays for the entire process we pay important the hearing officer and reimburse the city for the cost to do the review and if the issue is staffing the resources at&t is simply willing to provide the available resources to consultation the hearings. it's not a simple question oh, we have so many permits to overwhelm the department we are reimbursing the staff >

foreman we state that dpw has not violated the code the city must approve e.r. disprove a permit within 60 days of receiving the information the city doesn't have a application yet. thees vacation permits have been denied within days of submittal. however, if you interpret the puc to mean the s m f process at&t has agreed to submit the permit in scheduling the box walk and submitting more applications than we can process we process 5 applications we told at&t we'll do our best to keep up with that. i will also note 2ke7 has set up a hearing today to accommodate it wasn't finding the room but space within the hearing because there's other items to be heard, however, we try to facilitate this and smooth the process and dpw has a special hearing set aside >> essentially we feel that at&t is trying to force the hearing officer because they're not submitting multiple sites and it's our belief the mou clearly suggests multiple sites should be presented and the neighbors are pitted against each other their told at the hearing that site maybe appreciable and not given a

we launched what we call the dpw university. it is a one-stop learning training and career development for specifically for public works employees and with the new changes in our streets and right-of-ways and many of the changes in the industry, we are having to reeducate much much our workforce as well as many of the staff that work down in the operations also. so, we've created a campus where we actually provide lessons and teaching and they are specific to public workers. finally, as part of our growth, we are in need of additional office space. so, as we deliver more capital projects, we are definitely doing some projects looking forward. we will be adding space -- we will be moving into the third floor of 30 van ness to officially meet the growth and primarily our engineering and architecture divisions will be going in there. proposed uses for -- let me see what that slide is here. proposed uses, actually, that will conclude. this chapter shows the various years and exactly -- what did you that say? see if i can find the sl

we just building that dpw shown good faith in the process by denying the installation site at the 100 thorton street and at&t cooperated worked with us until the time they filed for a appeal. we're not official parties to the suit we're tax paying citizens that are continual being negatively effected. we respectfully ask you deny at&t appeal number 14 dash 0 dash 2 >> thank you is there any public comment. >> thank you, ma'am chair and i live on thorton avenue which is the first house next to the proposed s m f facility at one hundred thorton. i believe that this particular appeal would have been grouped with another group had it not been with a conflict of interest we subscribe to all the other argument in supporting the dpw denial of this appeal. at&t has skuds have said they wouldn't like to have been here we ask why. at&t would appear to have changed course in a split second and decided they do not want to pressure the agreement we all came to this was documented 0 that they apply for an alternative will site i see that at&t did apply for an alternative site and possibly requested

at this moment ask the dpw staff please stand up the dpw staff. okay. i guess all of you are ready to subcontractor with the members of the public i'm going to ask the dpw staff to go outside the hallway and the members of the public if you could approach the dpw staff they'll have a discussion and when the discussions are over i'll ask the dpw staff to let us know we'll make a report to the staff. so if all members of the public who came to the hearing please follow the dpw staff into the corridor i'd appreciate that. okay. colleagues ladies and gentlemen, now on to one the exciting moments of the program the 2:30 for accommodations related to small property owner week 2014. i want to welcome you have our tenth anniversary of open space week it's our nation's largest local small property owner celebrations attracting thousands of small property owner owners and champions every time our theme a shaping our communities and i know that every one of our colleagues, we said hour o how our small businesses are the backbone of our community. as a former commi

from dpw to briefly describe the and a half of the report if there's members of the public that has issued we're happy to hear from you and ask you to have a brief conversation with the city staff to resolve the staff and last night in the meeting we'll bring you back so to dpw staff. >> good afternoon president chiu i'm gregariously i think representing the public works diversity unit chapter 80 of the admin code it requires the property owners maintain their property in a safe and blight free situation we spicket the graffiti and notify the permanence to make the improvements they must maintain the property free of blight they've invited the property owners by regular mail and certified mail. the notice of violation provides information on how to contact the graffiti united and how to request a meeting and an stinks. upside down by mail notifies we should the pictures of the graffiti. we also include a frequently mail sheet in cases with the property owners refuses to do the work the city will perform the corrections and access the costs. the department requests your approval the

in the way that is written for dpw, there would be a learing, -- hearing. so it's designed to be parallel to the steward identification process. request for proposals -- it has the full intent of a request for proposal, which is a review committee. we actually couldn't replicate the review committee process structure under the performance process for the street plazas because the city is acting in regulatory. so our intent was to make the processes parallel, but it's a little confusing because they are slightly different. >> just to make it perfectly clear in either case, before the plaza isaproved into the program, and before there is a steward agreement, whether that agreement is for city plaza or street plaza there is a hearing at bdr. there is always a hearing at the board of supervisors. there are a couple of different roads to get there, but you don't ever get around the hearing at the bdr. i just board of supervisors. >> i would like to speak to paul wormer's statement that concerns if you are looking at the ordinance on page 4 line 7. there is say l

a summary of how the program is structured it will streamline processes to encourage activation by dpw more tools forlogically the permit costs and this is the - some plaza like is that a have been clearly enhancing the goals but the plans are not clear. the city lacks the coordinations of the plans. each the individual programs will provide a stem tisk approach mriment overlapping city efforts. the program aims to have the stewart's involved as well as the pavement to parks program. while san francisco partnership has the greening of sidewalks and transformation of the parklets the city has yet to develop the systemic plaza outside the jurisdiction. for the plaza program the the appealable the potential at the words warts obey robust proposals to carry out the community support goals and include a scope of work and project letters of support. the plazas program is a program framework it didn't include specific plazas plazas will be adapted on a plaza a i plaza basis and also the program will design robust escalation robust programs to benefit everyone. directing the revenue this is a

>> number 2 was again graffiti vandalism and by the way, we gotten as defined by public works from dpw but we're happy with graffiti vandalism. >> okay. >> i think actually, i already called the amendments for amendments one and two so 3. >> on page 2 line one the graffiti offenders delete the advantageism offenders. >> second by supervisor breed that's without objection the case and. >> on page 6 line 16 in addition to other amenities not limited to outcome like service repair of a property under the code of equality we want to see this as outline it within the legislation. >> i'll second that president chiu but i would prefer it says effected properties in plural. >> i'm happy with that. >> a friendly amendment. >> add the language included and repair even if properties seconded by supervisor breed without objection that should be included. >> the final amendment i apologize that's a surprise amendment a question of whether or not to make f this consistent with other legislation on page 6 line 2 within the last 10 years to in the last seven years. >> i understand supervisor breed you

thank dpw. >> good morning. or good afternoon rather sorry. thank you very much for coming today, we're her to honor our first responders from the mission bay 511 bay fire last month they're standing behind me i wanted to introduce starting with mayor ed lee thank you for being here (clapping) chief suhr, chief joanne haynes-white (clapping) edward reiskin head of mta and mohammed head of dpw and rebecca kate's rebate can animal care and control (clapping) so san francisco prepares for and cooperated and plans for disastrous everyday we're good at it we do it to practice our life saving skills so we know how to communities with one other but most of all to protect our public and residents of san francisco and to protect our first responders. today is also the one hundred and 8 anniversary of the 1906 san francisco earthquake. we went to lotta's fountain this morning to remember those people who came before us who were brave and worship reliant that made san francisco come alive but it made us remember the great fire over after the earthquake a

the dpw order is not an ordinance. it was intended to provide a process that allowed for multiple locations to be considered. we're noted following that process because multiple locates are not being proposed so again, we're following the spirit of those guidelines and because this process has no one been working it will be codified in an owners as proposed by supervisor wiener and credit card at the land use committee. i don't see anyone here from the public so mr. johnson your rebuttal >> i'll point out the respondent has made for me, the argument i've been making you've heard her get up and she said the department is not following their own guidelines i can simply say as a matter of state law this is was an order and the department is bound to follow it and given that you've heard respondents and see they're not following their own guidelines i'll request that you reverse on that basis. thank you for your patience and i'll further add to the extent there further appeals i'll be happy to august them so long as at&t i

stewardship and continues to strengthen >> thank you for the presentation i know that you unifying and dpw has spent on this and supervisor cowen i know has been through a planning commission and a lot of the neighborhood groups i really appreciate the thoughtful amendments that were made to the admin code and the supporting elements thank you for your presentation. >> cohen. >> thank you in the interest of time supervisor kim while you were away we've got a long line up and i'm going to go ahead and skip to our city attorney to discuss the amendments just briefly sir, and if the colleagues have questions for john unjohn gibner, deputy city attorney or dpw staff we'll cover but no need for the formal presentation. >> john i'll keep this short i i think you inadequate described the amendments i could go into them in greater detail you there's things about additional public notice provisions were added and rob addressed the things in the presentation as well. >> perfect. mr. chair. maybe what i'll suggest is we take public comment on this item. >> okay. so we'll now proceed to public comment

a permit is users e ushered because no one someone obtains and there's a directors hearing in which dpw hearing officer hears the objection and looks at the evidence and makes a recommendation to the director of public works to issue or deny a permit and the permit is issued. if i'm missing anything - >> if i can go from that so the department will receive a permit onions application from the sf m f sponsor how maydays for notice of intent. so the 60 days starts the moment you submit our application >> right. >> and how many days does the did not have to mail and post the intent? well, one second we'll find that answer. >> mr. song isn't here. >> i guess i'm wondering about the flexibility i think most people i would have trouble responding given my own schedule and the residents have implicated schedules so my question is really - >> if i could go to public comment we'll have this information. >> this is - they work with the city attorney's office and so we'll get a precisely description this is a tight fit i have no problem of extending it. >> i completely other one's the state law bu

is happening in all of those appeals after the box walk and congeniality outreach is concluded that dpw for whatever reason is not scheduling the timely meeting is violate the california law and the statute a extremely clear this is supposed be a 60 day process if it was a 80 or 90 day process that's one thing but a 12 month process does not provide the services that the people in the city that they want i'll take questions. >> i'll ask a question in the stance on wall street alleging at&t gave twenty-four hours notice of the box walk which would not be very much time and proposed an alternative location it didn't agree with was this neighboring neighbors wanted and the walk being conducted during non-business hours or on the weekend you're trying to hurry up and it's at the cost of the public to not weigh in. >> i'm gladly that you asked me that question commissioner president lazarus. one of the things at&t has exercised they've tried to schedule the box walks at the night and they get a lot of complaints that essentially the utility is trying to do this under the cover of darkness. w

accepted the recommendations. >> i understand had a i guess there's a vote that's happened at the dpw they've accepted the map? >> for alice griffith but not candle stick. >> okay. thank you. thank you >> my understanding is that on a number of streets not all of them to accommodate the increase in strth width the sidewalks are being reduced from 15 to 13. >> yes. we've frankly reduce the areas with the infliction areas and we're elongated them as opposed to to keeping the width. >> my office went through the material that grifbt and ocii gave us, however, you want to describe it that there was some park space mann than bs been reduced that was described as four or five months ago but overall to 2010 that was some increase to the project and as a result of the square footage devoted to the streets there will be some loss of parking space. >> i speak that's true we only have socialization spaces so we have to lose something somewhere. >> thank you. >> i mean somewhere in this binder you have done an analysis some sort of study san francisco do you not have that in front of proven of yo

future applications to provide that kind of notice provided the board give the derivative to at&t and dpw and dpw felt that was in compliance what the s m f approve or disapprove >> you have thirty more seconds. >> the last point i understand people have legitimate concerns the public it supposed to be involved it's not true at&t didn't care the stories that was appointed the original location didn't work and told the hearing officer as such. the - >> your time is up. >> i have a question though how could do hearing officer approve the location if you weren't given that alternative. >> it's precisely the scenario donates presented by appeals. >> where show me the language. >> so if you go to page 8 and i'm going to ask you to look at number 4. i'm going to read this because i have to apologize i've been trying >> i can read it number 4 page 8 what's the language your relying on. >> at the conclusion of the hearing the hearing officer may keep the hearing open 20 days for other locations identified in the hearing. that's what happened >> that's may. >> the hearing officer may. >> has the d

process we've first hear from the tenant and tank public comments then hear from representatives of dpw and the planning department that will have up to 10 minutes and following the departmental presentation we'll hear from the person's speaking open on behalf of the parties in interest and finally the appellant will have 3 minutes up to a rebuttal agreement. supervisor breed in who's district if you have any comments n in not let's open it up to the appellant >> step forward you have up to 10 minutes you can use as much of that as you like. >> i'm jeremy i'm an a in the area i'm appealing this decision on and on on multiply grounds i'll start with the first, i was not notified in august and it was not proven and filing that i was noticed and furthermore, there have on a number of surveillance that were granted for this subdivision and numerous of those surveillance directly and effect me as ass a contract with the builder the first is in the section of planning code requiring the rear yard to be of a certain size and it would decrease my background and personal space to 3 feet from 17.

and i also want to just mention we have representatives today from hsa, from dcyf, from the puc and dpw in case there are any questions. ms. simmons. >> good morning, supervisors. i appreciate the efforts of supervisor chiu with this legislation. we work closely with his office to try to get the framework right and to come up with something that we all felt was workable, and i think we've accomplished that. the role my office will play is to staff this group in all matters to provide the year-end reports and to sort of be the, i guess the point person in leading the departments to come up with the coordinated efforts around workforce while trying to maintain folks, services that they provide to the populations that we all serve. we also staff something called the workforce investment san francisco. so, we see thises as a companion piece to this. this is more -- i would frame it more like the internal part of the wisf which has a variety of stakeholders including labor, education and business leaders. so, this, this body here will actually complement that, that work nicely. in addition,

little as possible and that's another debate what's on the sidewalk, however, in the application from dpw i presume like all city agencies the application spells out exactly what has to be provided as part of the application. >> yeah. we have a check list an application check list. >> what does it say about alternative sites. >> i don't know if it specifically says alternative sites, however, i would state again that the s m f order and mou repeatedly referred to procedural locations and the hearing officer should be directed that way. >> misunderstands did the application also ask for the technical analysis from at&t why they sited. >> they have to provide he details that are verified by your staff as to the technical feasibility of the sites yes. >> which has issues of site selection recommended to where it commodities a pedestrian and well again, we're looking at the proposed site for the technical feasibility but if they were to submit multiple 0 proposal sites we'll evaluate them at the process and issue them. >> actually i've never seen the application. >> i have an example. >> no,

i want to thank i guess the dpw and the city attorney's office for walking through the steps. i still prefer an increased number of days now i understand the process how it fits tithe within the 60 daytime line i'm willing to forego the that amendment >> thank you for all who come out last week and could i i think spice it today where everyone stands this has been a challenging issue for the city. we know under state law with have constraints we can't band the utilities from placing their utilize boxed on our sidewalks they have right rights but we have the right to regulate the mr. president and make sure the utility boxed are being placed in the niece of our community. when you look at what this requires in terms of doing early front loaded outreach to neighborhoods so instead of doing it in the current manner which is not as tight. when we look at the requirement we bring a broader area of the neighborhood together with at&t for other utilities identifying multiple sites where we only look at one site where the kick the can down the road this is a significant improvement to

also wear the hat of the vision zero task force with megan and dpw. there's been a lot of talk about improving traffic safety we've found those 5 keyes key areas that will help us most of this requires collaboration and working together. i have to spend just a little bit of time thanking megan and the public health you should be proud of those employees that have gone beyond the call of duty and educating us we're there with the training to see the way they see things and we can design anything that can solve hi problem but with the data of the lens of the public health has helped to achieve things. it's helped us to improve our collaboration skills at times we tend to work in sill losses and this effort as helped us to getting together and understand the differences and we speak different transportation languages but we speak the common language of public health. it's important to note we're cautious that when we are talking about this it is not about pedestrians or bicyclists or moistures but we're all people and we need to get around as safe as pos