# Board of Supervisors Minutes: November 15, 2011

- Meeting date: 2011-11-15
- Document type: minutes
- Source format: PDF
- Extracted pages: 23
- [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/2125/2011-11-15-minutes)
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## Structured legislative records

### File 111200: Public Hearing - Administrative Code - Health Care Security Ordinance

- Pages: 8-9

### File 111030: Administrative Code - Health Care Security Ordinance

- Pages: 9-10
- Sponsors: Chiu; Cohen
- Vote 1: amendment
  - Action: inance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code Sections 14.1, 14.3, 14.4, and adding Sections 14.1.5 and 14.1.6 to: 1) clarify that only expenditures reasonably calculated to benefit the employee shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security Ordinance; 2) require that contributions to a health reimbursement account remain available to the employee for two years; rather than one year; 3) condition use of a health reimbursement account in 2012 upon carry-over of any balance in the account at the end of 2011; 4) provide, in the alternative if triggered by court action, that only amounts actually paid to provide employee health care services shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security Ordinance; 5) require employers imposing surcharges on customers to use the full amount collected under the surcharge for employee health care expenditures; 6) add an employee notification requirement; 7) modify penalty provisions; and 8) set an operative date. Supervisor Cohen, seconded by Supervisor Chiu, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE. The motion carried by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Avalos, Campos, Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi, Wiener
- Vote 2: first-reading
  - Action: Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code Sections 14.1, 14.3, 14.4, and adding Section 14.1.5 to: 1) clarify that only expenditures reasonably calculated to benefit the employee shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security Ordinance; 2) require that contributions to a health reimbursement account remain available to the employee for two years; rather than one year; 3) condition use of a health reimbursement account in 2012 upon carry-over of any balance in the account at the end of 2011; 4) provide, in the alternative if triggered by court action, that only amounts actually paid to provide employee health care services shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security Ordinance; 5) require employers imposing surcharges on customers to use the full amount collected under the surcharge for employee health care expenditures; 6) add an employee notification requirement; 7) modify penalty provisions; and 8) set an operative date. PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Wiener
  - Noes: Avalos, Campos, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi

### File 111131: Public Hearing - Ground Lease - Redevelopment Agency Land - 474 Natoma Street

- Pages: 10

### File 111132: Ground Lease - Redevelopment Agency Land - 474 Natoma Street

- Pages: 10-11
- Sponsors: Kim
- Vote 1: amendment
  - Action: 111132 [Ground Lease - Redevelopment Agency Land - 474 Natoma Street] Sponsor: Kim Resolution approving and authorizing the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco to execute a lease of land at 474 Natoma, Assessor’s Block No. 3725, Lot No. 101, to 474 Natoma, LLC, a California limited liability company, an affiliate of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, for 75 years, with an option to extend for 24 years, for the purpose of providing housing for very low-income households. Supervisor Kim, seconded by Supervisor Farrell, AMENDED on Page 2, Line 9, by adding 'WHEREAS, the Agency Commission approved the Ground Lease on April 9, 2011, and the Developer and the Agency executed the Ground Lease, prior to the June 28, 2011, date that AB x1 26 (the "Redevelopment Dissolution Act") became effective, and therefore the Agency is obligated to implement the Ground Lease as an "Enforceable Obligation" under California Health and Safety Code Section 34167(d)(5); and'. The motion carried by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Avalos, Campos, Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi, Wiener
- Vote 2: adoption, likely final
  - Action: Resolution No. 479-11 ADOPTED AS AMENDED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Avalos, Campos, Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi, Wiener

## Extracted text

### [Page 9](https://sfbos.info/documents/2125/2011-11-15-minutes#page-9)

Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 11/15/2011

From the Board

111030 [Administrative Code - Health Care Security Ordinance]
 Sponsors: Chiu; Cohen
 Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code Sections 14.1, 14.3, 14.4, and adding
 Sections 14.1.5 and 14.1.6 to: 1) clarify that only expenditures reasonably calculated to benefit the
 employee shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security
 Ordinance; 2) require that contributions to a health reimbursement account remain available to the
 employee for two years; rather than one year; 3) condition use of a health reimbursement account
 in 2012 upon carry-over of any balance in the account at the end of 2011; 4) provide, in the
 alternative if triggered by court action, that only amounts actually paid to provide employee health
 care services shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security
 Ordinance; 5) require employers imposing surcharges on customers to use the full amount
 collected under the surcharge for employee health care expenditures; 6) add an employee
 notification requirement; 7) modify penalty provisions; and 8) set an operative date.
 Supervisor Cohen, seconded by Supervisor Chiu, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN
 AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE. The motion carried by the following vote:
 Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Campos, Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi, Wiener
 Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code Sections 14.1, 14.3, 14.4, and adding
 Section 14.1.5 to: 1) clarify that only expenditures reasonably calculated to benefit the employee
 shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security Ordinance; 2)
 require that contributions to a health reimbursement account remain available to the employee for
 two years; rather than one year; 3) condition use of a health reimbursement account in 2012 upon
 carry-over of any balance in the account at the end of 2011; 4) provide, in the alternative if
 triggered by court action, that only amounts actually paid to provide employee health care services
 shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the Health Care Security Ordinance; 5)
 require employers imposing surcharges on customers to use the full amount collected under the
 surcharge for employee health care expenditures; 6) add an employee notification requirement; 7)
 modify penalty provisions; and 8) set an operative date.
 PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote:
 Ayes: 6 - Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Wiener
 Noes: 5 - Avalos, Campos, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi

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### [Page 10](https://sfbos.info/documents/2125/2011-11-15-minutes#page-10)

Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 11/15/2011

SPECIAL ORDER 3:00 P.M.

Board of Supervisors Sitting as a Committee of the Whole

111131 [Public Hearing - Ground Lease - Redevelopment Agency Land - 474 Natoma
 Street]
 Hearing of persons interested in or objecting to proposed Resolution approving and authorizing the
 Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco to execute a lease of land at 474
 Natoma, Assessor’s Block No. 3725, Lot No. 101, to 474 Natoma, LLC, a California limited liability
 company, an affiliate of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a California nonprofit public benefit
 corporation, for 75 years, with an option to extend for 24 years, for the purpose of providing
 housing for very low-income households.
 The President inquired as to whether any member of the public wished to address the Committee
 of the Whole. Sally Oerth (Redevelopment Agency) provided an overview of the project. There
 were no other speakers. The President declared public comment closed and adjourned as the
 Committee of the Whole, reconvening as the Board of Supervisors.
 HEARD AT PUBLIC HEARING

Committee of the Whole Adjourn and Report

111132 [Ground Lease - Redevelopment Agency Land - 474 Natoma Street]
 Sponsor: Kim
 Resolution approving and authorizing the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San
 Francisco to execute a lease of land at 474 Natoma, Assessor’s Block No. 3725, Lot No. 101, to
 474 Natoma, LLC, a California limited liability company, an affiliate of BRIDGE Housing
 Corporation, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, for 75 years, with an option to extend
 for 24 years, for the purpose of providing housing for very low-income households.
 Supervisor Kim, seconded by Supervisor Farrell, AMENDED on Page 2, Line 9, by adding 'WHEREAS,
 the Agency Commission approved the Ground Lease on April 9, 2011, and the Developer and the
 Agency executed the Ground Lease, prior to the June 28, 2011, date that AB x1 26 (the
 "Redevelopment Dissolution Act") became effective, and therefore the Agency is obligated to
 implement the Ground Lease as an "Enforceable Obligation" under California Health and Safety Code
 Section 34167(d)(5); and'. The motion carried by the following vote:
 Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Campos, Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi, Wiener
 Resolution No. 479-11
 ADOPTED AS AMENDED by the following vote:
 Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Campos, Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Mirkarimi, Wiener

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