people safer. i think what it does is that it continues the cycle of injustice that we have that makes us on safe in the first place. i am the only one without a political future. i do not care if someone puts a piece of mail about that i am letting it nice little old ladies get mugged. i think we need a different vision in this country. if is not want to come from san francisco, where is it going to come from? >> it is a rhetorical question. one that requires no answer. >> any additional discussion? supervisor chu: thank you for your comments. many of your points are well taken.

i will say that the legislation sets a maximum, not a minimum. it provides for the courts to be able to determine whether certain acts are very egregious and whether certain penalty should be applied. this is a maximum that we are increasing its to. colleagues, thank you for your consideration. >> supervisor campos. >> i think that supervisor daily races some important issues. -- daly raises some important issues. >> it is critical that we provide additional training to law-enforcement and also the police department. there are fair inspectors within the mta that interact with the public on a regular basis. if you are going to go down the road of increasing penalties, we have to make sure that there is

accountability on the side of law enforcement. they have to make sure they have the cultural sensitivity training to make sure that there is proper enforcement of what ever laws we are enacting. >> any additional discussion? >> item 36. >> no supervisor campos: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor dufty: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor maxwell: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor alioto-pier: aye. >> there are 9 ayes and 2 nos. this was considered at a land use and economic committee meeting on august 2. they forwarded this item to the

board, an ordinance to extend a retroactively extended grand from the u.s. department of energy through the association of bay area governments and the county of los angeles. this may reflect the addition of three positions in the department of the environment. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor campos. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor daly: aye. supervisor dufty: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor alioto-pier: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: i suggest that we go to our 3:30 special commendations. why do we not start with

supervisor daly. supervisor daly: thank you very much, mr. president. i would like to take this opportunity to recognize collins. president chiu: supervisor maxwell. supervisor maxwell: thank you. i would like to take this time to recognize somebody that is celebrating her 100th birthday on august 6, 2010. [applause] she was born on august 6, 1910 in richmond, louisiana. she moved to san francisco in 1945. she has lived in the western district before moving to the bayview district. she is the member of the order of eastern star for more than 40 years. she has served as a stay at home

mom. everybody calls their mom a king. is the mother of 14 children. a host of other neighborhood children. on behalf of the board, i extend my pur-congratulation and proclaimed august 6, 2010, katy king in honor of your 100th birthday. [applause]

>> ok. good evening, everybody. i say, thank god. i know i am loved. all of you are showing that you care for me to put your time out and have me down here. joining with me a few days before my birthday. i want you all to remember me in your prayers. do not doubt me. i am not going to turn back.

i am fighting to get up to the king's highway. i would talk longer, but my breath it's too short. when you are young, enjoy your life. here i am. i still say to thank you all again. i appreciate it. [applause]

>> happy birthday, mama king. make sure you come back for your 110th birthday. our next commendation is going to be offered from district 6. supervisor daly: we are ready to go now. do you want to come on up? i do not do too many of these. in thinking about collins leadership as the first chair of the fund advisory committee, i

have been able to think about how as we have opened the doors to populations that have historically not been involved in conversations here, we are really the ones, the people of the city and county of san francisco are the ones that gained from all of the activism and all of the work. there is no clearer example of the services to all of the san francisco for her leadership and dedication in chairing this. this is a precedent-setting fund. there are the low-income and vulnerable communities within south market. he has shared nearly 65

meetings and three town halls. under her leadership, they have developed a strategic plan that guides the fund. $1.8 million. there are community organizations and a couple of city departments. there is work force development, economic development, and community capacity building. many of us know her from her other leadership work. i want to recognize the brett of activism -- breadth of activism that she has brought to city hall. when i first met her, she was a leader at the plaza hotel on sixth street, which was a significant battle that involve

redevelopment. here in city hall, she has been active. this is the sixth street agenda of working to stabilize the conditions. she has been south of the market community working to engage communities within the soft market. this has been involved in the housing clinic. this is an award today. she rather what have been out fighting and taking on the united states congress to get transgendered equity rather than personal accolades. that is the kind of personal --

person and later she is. the supervisor thanks you for her years of service. we wish you continued success in your leadership to san francisco. that is a lot of meetings and a lot of time spent. those of us to do the day to day of this grind know what that means and know what people give up when they spend so many years and so many of those meetings for the good of the neighborhood. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon to my neighbors of the city and county of san francisco. thank you to brother daly.

that hurt me to step down from a committee that i have served on the for 4.5 years. it is time for me to go back to school and received my ged. i have not left the service of the city and county of san francisco and my community. i have gone to put myself to serve others. i have a commitment to my brothers. not only to that community, but to the south of the market committee. people living with disabilities and senior citizens as well. i have not stop working for the community. i want to get more tools for you so i can better serve the community. thank you to all my neighbors of the city and county of san francisco. thank you. [applause]

>> i have the last commendation for today. if i could ask them from the same high program to step up to the podium. four members of the public, if you have not heard of the program, and has been a spectacular summer program for middle school age students offering smaller class sizes in improvement in programs for academic performance for arts, culture, sports activities. the demographics of this program are interesting. 99% students of color. 66% speak a language other than english at home. this program started with just 50 students and 12 teachers on one campus in 1986. the program serves over 1000 students with 250 teachers.

this has been a program that has been developing future teachers four years by providing hands- on experiences for many young people that came out of the program. this year, we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of aim high. the best testament to this program was a quote provided to a san francisco chronicle reporter. he said that i like aim high for the summer school. he said that summer school is more like school and this is more fun. for those of you that do not know about the elementary school, it has a tremendous history rooted in the neighborhoods that i happen to represent. i want to thank the directors of that program. i want to thank all of the folks affiliated with aim high for the

work that you have done over the past 25 years. [applause] >> good afternoon. on behalf of aim high, our staff, students and their families, it is our honor to accept this proclamation declaring today aim high day in san francisco. with special mention to his legislative group. he is a graduate from a group that serves middle school students from this district. this was founded in 1986 with 50 students and a dozen teachers working with kids during the summer. the school kids with educational enrichment. 25 years later, we served 750

students in san francisco and over 1100 students in the greater san francisco bay area. over these 25 years, aim high has been supported by the board of education and the san francisco board of supervisors. this last spring, aim high received a grant to allow us to keep san francisco sites open. without the support from the city, aim high would serve fewer middle school age children this summer, many with nothing to do. i would like to conclude with a paid staff and volunteers who are here today in attendance. >> if i could ask all of you to

stand up and be recognized. thank you for all that you do. [applause] >> under their leadership, they lead a staff of future educators. they make the magic come to life each summer for hundreds of san francisco youths. the majority returned to the program and gave back to the city. thank you, all of you guys. [applause] >> i am the co-director. i work during the school year. i have been there for 23 or 24 years. many of our students who are not teachers, i have known since they were in kindergarten.

of the 23 teachers that we employed the summer, 15 are aim high graduates predict one thing that makes our site special is the number of graduates the comeback of its volunteers. we have 42 students that came back that just wanted to be a part of the program. they were amazing. they did a lot of the work for us. they all hope to be teaching assistants today. i would like to thank these young people that our graduates that are now teachers. they are what keeps me aiming high. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you, congratulations.

that concludes our accommodations for the day. i suggest that we go back to item 35 which is the special assessment of liens for assessment of cost. >> thank you, members of the board. we were able to discuss the issues afternoon, members of the board. we were able to discuss this with property owners, and although we encourage them to come so that we would have more time to discuss these matters with them, i am happy to report that we were able to resolve most of those. that will be a total of four, and we will give an updated list to the clerk of the board within the next 24 hours for that. thank you. president chiu: ok. for the record, so, my understanding is that we are going to adopt the report without the amended items, without the items that we just

stated? could you state and for the record which items we are not going to do? >> i have two of the four before me, and the one is for the shield, and the other is for 701, and there were two others from court enforcement that we would be you removing, and one is from the lady who gave the testimony with respect to the notification of her order of abatement. i cannot identify the address, but she also be removed from the record. president chiu: so my understanding is that with those changes, we can adopt this report as amended. first of all, there has been a suggested motion by supervisor campos, and without objection, that is amended, and, colleagues come to adopt it as amended? colleagues, if we can do the

same house, same call, the last item? without objection, this resolution is adopted as amended. if we can now move to the roll call? clerk calvillo: first for the roll call of introductions, supervisor avalos, supervisor mar. supervisor mar: the first set went to say is that it was a pleasure to wake up on monday, and it was a very handsome, clean-cut man, wearing a tie, david campooss, a hero, and i will go over and get his autograph in a minute, but congratulations to david campos. a local hero. [laughter] i was going to join supervisor camapos for the -- campos for in

the in memoriam, but i will do that later. also, a mother and resident, another woman who is a long time richmond district member. she passed away on july 24. she had lived your entire life in san francisco except for the years she spent in japanese internment camps during world war two ended two years she spent in japan working for the u.s. department of army. she and her husband enjoyed their life together until this passing in 2008, and she is survived by her two sons, michael and richard. he is a leader at the seiu, the local, and at san francisco general hospital. thank you for allowing us to honor this richmond district

hero. she will be sadly missed. also, i in introducing legislation today dealing with the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products and pharmacies. it is in the interest of promoting healthier living and healthier communities. the united states is the only place in the world where tobacco products are sold in a pharmacy, creating a contradiction to the pharmacy korea beckett's of being, quote, committed to the welfare of their patients -- pharmacy code of ethics. this is why i in introducing an amendment to the 2008 ordinance that prohibits pharmacies from selling tobacco products. the rich and organs exempted some, including big box stores. this would remove the exemption so that all pharmacies, including safeway and kosc those and others would not sell tobacco. thank you. i will submit the rest.

clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, madam clerk. i am introducing an ordinance to stop plastic bags in san francisco and to have a fee for the use of paper bags. san francisco stood up to the oil and plastics industry while doing something good for the environment approximately four years ago. we had no idea at the time that when we submitted the ordinance of banning plastic bags, the largest grocery stores and drugstores in hybrid-type stores of 140 stores that would be the point of about 60% of the plastic bags, that we would be the first city in the united

states, for that matter, in the hemisphere, that would take action. i am proud of the great compliance of all of those 140 or so stores and of san francisco residents who have shown they can adopt this level of creativity and with the kind of binding and forward thinking law. now, as i understand it, california is poised to blaze a path that started incidences go by merely mimicking the very law that we instigated four years ago and make california the first state in the united states to ban plastic bags. very exciting. we believe that other cities around united states could follow suit and possibly other states. when we implemented -- i mean, when we introduced the law and implemented, for two years thereafter, we heard from approximately 40 states in the united states, cities within those states, and 33 nations, who are interested in making a

lot of our type, and now, many cities have tried, but, and fortunate, they were blunted back by the petrochemical industry and by the oil industry because they did not agree with san francisco taking action, but while there seems to be paralysis or very little incremental change, anything but incremental, at best, on the federal level in dealing with our energy crisis, dealing with climate-change crisis, and certainly while americans wait for great leap towards those endeavors are even towards state government, it is time for state government to do its part. now, why is that? the plastic bag is made from petroleum to get it takes literally over 500 years to degrade in the environment. there are land-fill issues adopted throughout our landscape in california and throughout this country because of our consumptive habits. while we certainly have an excess of habit on fossil fuels

and foreign oil, we could be doing our part, municipally speaking, in showing to the rest, i think, of the state and the country that we are sincere and determined to do just that, and that is to ban plastic bags, but not to rely heavily on the use of paper bags. that is why the fee would be attached. we have contemplated a fee on plastic bags four years ago, but it was the plastics industry and the oil industry in particular that prevented us by going to sacramento and passing state law that prevents california cities from assessing a fee on bags in itself. there was a fee, not even banning, and they saw in four years and 80% reduction in the use of plastic bags and the whole nation of ireland. another has moved towards a ban on plastic