my name is jenny. i would ask that you support the policy. we want a safe and healthy environment for students to learn. we hope that this law will pass. supervisor chiu: if you wish to speak, please speak closer to the microphone. >> good morning. all the superintendent the authority of san francisco business school, our school all support the ordinance. we hope the law can pass because of the training for the co-worker like a really safe place. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you.

next speaker. >> good morning. my name is fong. i am a manicurist and i'm working at a nail salon. i know that every day we have really hard time to smells and all the chemicals and products. it's really -- i really want to have the safer products for everyone. it's good for people that work like us every day there. and also everyone would be -- have a baby there in their life they'll have one or two children. and protect for clients come to us. it's really helpful if we have a safe place to work. and protect for everyone that come to our salon. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> good morning. my name is kim. i'm the owner of nova nail spa located on 811 mission street in san francisco. my husband and i, we have been our nail spa, we using the recycles, recycling materials. also we using all the nail products is natural. we don't do the acrylic at all. anything in our nail spa is -- we are using nail polish remover, it's nontoxic, lotion and cream. everything. so basically we are already green.

i think this is a very important for myself. and the worker at my salon, for example. i would like to -- i'm here today so i think this ordinance will improve the health of the nail salon worker. i hope the city will approve. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is chris. i'm with arabian law caucus. my organization is a member of the arabian american center for advancing justice. we are a co-sponsor of this ordinance. i'm also a resident of district five. i wanted to offer a few comments this morning from a civil and human rights perspective about the importance of the proposed program. everyone in the city deserves access to a clean and safe work

environment. this is especially the case in local nail salons where extended periods of exposure to toxic chemicals is common. a california occupational mortality study indicated, for instance, that cost mowtologist vs. a 1.8 times greater incidence rate of breast cancer. this proposed program is essential because the regulatory agencies at the federal level such as the f.d.a. do not conduct independent premarket assessments on personal care products like nail products. san francisco is taking an important step in making nail salons healthier and safer. for the vietnamese community, small business and nail salons in particular are an important economic force. for the last several years my colleagues at a.l.c. have worked hard to establish key relationships in the community to build support for this initiative. this recognition approach is a much needed step to making the industry sustainable for the work force and lays an important foundation for increasing health and safety standards for san francisco workers, business owners, and consumers.

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is henry and i work at a nail salon. i think 24 program--this program will help nail salons have a healthier salon environment and i think this is a good idea for nail salons. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. could you pull your microphone back.

>> my name is nip. i work at the nail salon in san francisco. i feel bad that i don't understand a lot of everything that was said, but then i couldn't understand -- i don't want to repeat this again. however i think this is a really good program that can help for everyone's health working in

salons. [speaking in foreign language]

>> i want to get to the problem that we could talk to the manufacturers to reduce the concentrations and the chemicals inside nail products. especially nail polish that once you open and you start coughing. she just wants to reduce the concentrations or toxicity in that so she won't have to cough anymore. she think the program would really help for everyone's health working in the salon.

>> i have been using this product and it doesn't have a lot of smells an i think it really helps improve the salon's conditions. i would hope in the future there are more products like that so we won't have to smell these chemicals. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is van nguyen. the owner of new york nails. i am here today to speak on this. thank you. supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors and everyone here.

my name is christine, um' with the center for environmental health based in oakland. we also work statewide and nationwide on getting toxic chemicals out of products and manufacturing processes. for almost 15 years the septre for environmental health has worked to get toxic chemicals out of children's products, prior marely children's products . about a decade ago we were part of the bay area working group on precautionary principle, the simple yet vital idea when it comes to toxic chemicals we need to look bothways before we expose our most vulnerable, children, elders, and pregnant women. today c.e.h. stands with and continues to work with all the groups today urging you, the san francisco board of supervisors, to continue to be at the forefront as you were with the precautionary principle to protect your city's workers and residents from the toxic three. your leadership can protect our most vulnerable. we can work with small businesses to ship markets to to

safer alternatives and be a beacon for other cities to follow. thank you. supervisor chiu: i'm marty martinez, within district eight. i'm with the california pan ethnic health network. a statewide health policy organization working to improve health of the communities of color we strongly support this ordinance. thanks thanks. supervisor chiu: thank you. let me ask are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this topic? seeing none at this time, the public comment is closed. i want to thank all of you for coming out today. it's funny with at love legislation sometimes good legislation comes from identity december of my colleagues and i, but this is an idea that was really brought by the community. it was brought to us by public health advocates, by advocates for immigrant workers, by advocates for the environment, and all these folks coming together in the coalition and collaborative as helped it move forward. i want to thank you both for

bringing it to us as well as the work i know you're going to do in the coming months and years to make sure this program hopefully does become an ideal model for the rest of this state and country. with that, colleagues, could i ask if we could move this without -- yes, supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to complement our colleague, supervisor david chiu. i also have co-sponsored on to this legislation. in san francisco for a good 20 years before we eeven had a department of environment has really been testing the boundaries of the federal government's registry on what they consider to be acceptable or not in terms of household and workplace toxic that -- toxins that people are exposed to on a daily basis. and that we understand that due to the powerful interest of the chemical industry, especially their grip on washington, and how that influences the kind of

registry in giving the acceptable means of toxins just like what is being evaluated here today because of the relationship to nail salons, etc., that that on a national level is considered to be ok. well, it's not ok in san francisco. and i really do appreciate how this legislation helps sets up a framework that while we navigate the strata between state and federal government, san francisco continues to push forward and says that we will not allow these hazards to be in our workplace environment, especially which is predominantly administered by immigrant communities and nonspeaking communities where they are off taken advantage of and that, of course, in our households. our job here is to be clean, green, safe, and smart and this legislation leads right to that. thank you to the many advocates who really helpedpropel us into this position. it's smart legislation but it's also really common sense.

supervisor chiu: thank you. with that, colleagues, could we have a motion to send this to the full board with recommendation? motion by supervisor mirkarimi. without objection, that should be the case. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor chiu: at this time this meeting is adjourned.

>> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you

want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more.

these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go.

da captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor avalos: good morning, welcome to the budget and finance committee. we do not have supervisor mirkarimi today, we have a motion to excuse and it has been seconded. the clerk of the committee is mr. baker young. and the announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to speak during public comment, please turn out in the card to myself. please provide copies of all documents to the file. pocket -- documents of hearing today will appear in the october 10 meeting unless otherwise stated. supervisor avalos: item number

one, please. >> item number one, resolution authorizing the department of emergency management to enter into a contract with the state of california office of administrative hearings to provide administrative law judges to serve as hearing officers on administrative appeals from certification actions by the san francisco emergency medical services agency. supervisor avalos: very good. welcome. >> good morning. this item has to do with the emergency medical services agency, a division of the medical services management. one of the functions is to certify people that want to become an emergency medical technicians in san francisco. we do many checks to make sure that they're the right people to perform services. if someone is rejected, they are entitled to an appeal. all county esa's must use a

state law judge to hear the appeal. as administering this process, the resolution before you authorizes them to enter into an agreement as required by state law. we anticipate wanted to state rules for year for the certification process. $80 per hour plus the filing fee and the state of california has set up a fund to pay for it. we do not anticipate new costs to the city. the reason this is before you had all because it is different from our contract language and our city attorney recommended that we bring it before you. the contract files are relatively straightforward, we encourage you to pass the resolution. we are happy to answer any

questions you have. supervisor avalos: great, thank you for presenting today. it is straightforward, led move on to public comment. any members of the public? we will close public comment. motion to approve with recommendation. without objection. thank you very much. please call item no. 2. >> item #2, resolution approving and authorizing the execution of modification no. 1 to lease no. l01-0297 with japan airlines company limited to reduce the demised premises and the annual rent at building 944 on plot 50b-1 at san francisco international airport. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. i am beginning to think you should have an office here at city hall.

we could get some of that airport money. >> we will see what we can work out. [laughter] the airport is here today to secure approval of a lease modification on our existing lease with japan airlines to reduce square footage and decrease the annual rent amount. airport currently have been in place since october of 2001, it will terminate in october of 2011. the reason this modification is before you today, the proposed modifications reduces the amount of weast cargo and office space, releasing airport employee parking spaces. they currently pay s a brand of

approximately 1.9. the modification before you today would bring it to $1.6 million. this proposed modification allows japan airlines to address its current financial challenge while continuing passenger service. it only has to do with cargo and freight leases with the airport. i would be happy to answer any specific questions you might have. supervisor avalos: the grounds service lease is not affected? >> sorry? therefore staff believes that when this lease extends it will not be renewed, but japan airlines is one of the signatory airlines that flies on lease agreements approved by the board in may, which is a good indication that they continue to

feel strongly in their passenger service. supervisor avalos: mr. rose? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, as indicated, this would be a reduction in rent to the airport of some $320,000. however, there would be no fiscal impact of the budget itself. as you know, the airport operates under a break even policy. the cost would be spread to another 10 airlines if it were not found for this space. we recommend approval of this resolution. supervisor avalos: very good, thank you. we will open this up for public comment. would any member of the public like to comment on item number two? we will close public comment. motion to move forward without recommendation. that will go forward to the full board with recommendation.

item number three, please. >> item #3, ordinance appropriating $2,200,000 of general fund reserve to fund indigent defense expenses associated with increased felony caseloads in the superior court for fy2009-2010, requiring a two-thirds affirmative vote of all members of the board of supervisors per san francisco charter section 9.113. >> good morning, supervisors. we are here before you today to sound like a broken record and request $2.2 million from supplemental appropriation. the broken record part is due to increased caseload. supervisor avalos: just before you go, we had anticipated your coming here earlier this year. i believe that 2.2 million was what was discussed early in the summer. pretty consistent. so, not to cast your request as

a broken record, but the system itself needs to be address and this is a part of getting balanced. >> understood. supervisor elsbernd: to be cleared, this is a supplemental for last year? >> correct, this is retrospective. the chart i have handed out and dammed showing on the projected overhead and is basically the chart i have been showing you for the last year. last year we had 7000 cases for $8.8 million handle the the end of the fiscal year, 10,500 cases for almost $12.9 million, which creates a need for the supplemental. a 49% increase in cases and a

46% increase in costs. looking at it by type of case in more detail, last year we had 4700 record felonies for the fiscal year. this year we have -- for the year that just ended, 4800. this is a 30% increase in felonies-and a 120% increase in misdemeanors. felonies, by far, are the most expensive types of cases that we handle. supervisor elsbernd: the big increase in misdemeanors, is that tied to the cjc? >> some of it. most of it, however, are in regular trial departments.

supervisor avalos: even this increase from 2008-2009 to 2009-2010, does it take into consideration the many cases were thrown out because of a crime lab? >> yes, if the creek -- if they were work done prior to being dismissed, they do count because that is the longtime for the attorneys. the time they spent working on the case before it became dismissed. so, we need just under $2.2 million. we are in agreement with the budget analysts office. i am here to answer any questions that you have. supervisor avalos: let's hear from the budget analyst and go on to questions. >> based on the data submitted,