June 15, 2007 - Recessed Meeting

City and County of San Francisco

Rules Committee

City Hall, Room 263

Meeting Agenda
Friday, June 15, 2007
1:01 PM
Recessed Meeting

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Members: Tom Ammiano, Sean Elsbernd, Aaron Peskin

Clerk: Gail Johnson (415) 554-4445

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		Note: Each item on the Consent or Regular agenda may include the following documents: 1) Legislation 2) Budget Analyst report 3) Legislative Analyst report

		Each member of the public will be allotted the same maximum number of minutes to speak as set by the Chair at the beginning of each item, excluding City representatives, except that public speakers using translation assistance will be allowed to testify for twice the amount of the public testimony time limit. If simultaneous translation services are used, speakers will be governed by the public testimony time limit applied to speakers not requesting translation assistance. Members of the public who want a document placed on the overhead for display should clearly state such and subsequently remove the document when they want the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting.

	MEETING CONVENED

	REGULAR AGENDA

1.	070677	[Charter Amendment - Requiring the Mayor or four or more members of the Board of Supervisors proposing to submit an initiative to the voters to submit the measure to the Board of Supervisors	Supervisors Elsbernd, Peskin, McGoldrick, Alioto-Pier, Maxwell
		Charter amendment (First Draft) to amend Sections 2.113 and 3.100 to require the Mayor or four or more members of the Board of Supervisors proposing to submit an initiative to the voters to submit the measure to the Board of Supervisors first for a public hearing.
		5/15/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/14/2007.
		6/14/07, MEETING RECESSED. Heard in Committee. Speakers: Tom Owen, Deputy City Attorney; Jim Lazarus; Bruce Bonaker, Small Business Advocates; Egon Terplan, Good Government Policy Coordinator, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR); Male Speaker; Female Speaker: Male Speaker, Silvia Johnson. Meeting recessed to Friday, June 15, 2007, at 1:01 p.m.

	ADJOURNMENT

	IMPORTANT INFORMATION
		NOTE: Persons unable to attend the meeting may submit to the City, by the time the proceedings begin, written comments regarding the agenda items above. These comments will be made a part of the official public record and shall be brought to the attention of the Board of Supervisors. Any written comments should be sent to: Committee Clerk of the Rules Committee, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco, CA 94102 by 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the hearing. Comments which cannot be delivered to the committee clerk by that time may be taken directly to the hearing at the location above.

	LEGISLATION UNDER THE 30-DAY RULE

	(Not to be considered at this meeting)
		Rule 5.40 provides that when an ordinance or resolution is introduced which would CREATE OR REVISE MAJOR CITY POLICY, the committee to which the legislation is assigned shall not consider the legislation until at least thirty days after the date of introduction. The provisions of this rule shall not apply to the routine operations of the departments of the City or when a legal time limit controls the hearing timing. In general, the rule shall not apply to hearings to consider subject matter when no legislation has been presented, nor shall the rule apply to resolutions which simply URGE action to be taken.

2.	070724	[Charter Amendment - San Francisco Affordable Housing Fund]	Supervisors Daly, Ammiano
		Charter amendment (Third Draft) to add Section 16.127 to: establish a baseline appropriation and set aside the equivalent of an annual tax of two and one-half cents [$0.025] on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed property tax valuation for the next fifteen (15) years to support affordable housing programs; require the Mayor to prepare an affordable housing plan every three (3) years; affirm City policy urging the Redevelopment Agency to use at least fifty percent (50%) of its tax increment funds for low and moderate income housing; and setting an expiration date of July 1, 2023.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

3.	070725	[Use of City Surplus Real Property for Affordable Housing]	Supervisor Daly
		Charter amendment (First Draft) to add Section 16.128 - Use of City Surplus Real Property for Affordable Housing.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

4.	070726	[Charter Amendment - Requiring the Mayor to appear personally at one regularly-scheduled meeting of the Board of Supervisors each month to engage in formal policy discussions with members of	Supervisor Daly
		Charter amendment (First Draft) to amend Sections 2.103 and 3.100 to require the Mayor to appear personally at one regularly-scheduled meeting of the Board of Supervisors each month to engage in formal policy discussions with members of the Board and to authorize the Board to adopt rules and guidelines.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

5.	070727	[Ability of Mayor and Board to amend MTA budget and regulate MTA operations; Controller to administer MTA quality review; MTA Director as ex officio Parking Authority Director; transit	Supervisors McGoldrick, Sandoval
		Charter amendment (Second Draft) to amend Sections 8A.102, 8A.106, 8A.107, 8A.112, and A8.404, to provide that: the Municipal Transportation Agency's budget shall be subject to the City's normal budget process; the Municipal Transportation Agency shall be subject to regulation by the Board of Supervisors; the Municipal Transportation Agency must comply with voter-approved ordinances; the Controller, rather than the Agency, shall administer the biennial municipal transportation quality review survey and study; the Director of Transportation may serve ex officio as the Parking Authority Executive Director; and, the salaries of platform employees and coach or bus operators shall be no less than, rather than no more than, the average of the two highest wage schedules for the same job classes in comparable transit systems.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

6.	070728	[Charter Amendment - To provide retirement benefits for police department employees who were also airport police officers prior to December 27, 1997, as if they had been members of the	Supervisor McGoldrick
		Charter amendment (First Draft) to amend Section A8.506-2 to authorize the Board of Supervisors to amend a contract with the Public Employees Retirement System in order to transfer to the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System the assets and liabilities of certain airport police officers, and by adding Section A8.597-10(d) to include time worked as an airport police officer in the calculation for retirement benefits for police department employees.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

7.	070729	[City Elections In Even-Numbered Years]	Supervisor McGoldrick
		Charter amendment (First Draft) to amend Section 13.101 and Article XVII to change the election cycle for the offices of Mayor, Sheriff, District Attorney, City Attorney and Treasurer so that these offices will be elected in even-numbered years; and to amend the definition of general municipal election so that such elections occur only in even-numbered years.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

8.	070730	[Charter Amendment - Renewal of Library Preservation Fund for fifteen-year term and authorization to issue debt for Library purposes secured by and/or repaid from the Fund]	Supervisors Peskin, Maxwell, Jew, Elsbernd, Alioto-Pier, Mirkarimi, McGoldrick, Dufty, Ammiano
		Charter amendment (Second Draft) to repeal the existing Section 16.109 and to add a new Section 16.109, to renew the Library Preservation Fund for fifteen years and to authorize the City and County of San Francisco to issue debt for Library purposes secured by and/or repaid from the Fund.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

9.	070731	[Charter Amendment - Emissions Reduction and Transit Reform]	Supervisor Peskin
		Charter amendment (Third Draft) to amend Sections 8A.100 through 8A.106, 8A.108 through 8A.110, 8A.112 through 8A.113, and A8.404; repealing Section 16.110; re-numbering Sections 16.100 and 16.102 as 8A.114 and 8A.115, respectively and amending Section 8A.115; and requiring the Board of Supervisors to adopt an ordinance amending the Traffic Code to repeal any provision in conflict with this measure and convert such provisions to rules and regulations of the Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors, all to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and autonomy of the Municipal Transportation Agency and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from San Francisco's transportation sector.
		5/22/07, ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to Rules Committee, expires on 6/21/2007.

Meeting Procedures

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