in a waiting room of 100 school age children, roughly 30 will be overweight or obese. almost 1/3 of the boys and 1/2 of the girls will be affected by diabetes. we must take responsibility for the health of our children. education is only one piece of the puzzle. we must also change the food environment. i heard the moms say, behave for the doctor. if you're a good girl, i will take you to mcdonald's for a toy. she said, my child likes the toys. we usually just get a happy meal. i can work with patients and parents to discuss discipline, but it is misleading, unfair, and wrong to link unhealthy foods to toys that kids want.

it sends our children the wrong message and takes away the option for parents to give their children treat an irresponsible way. we must support the nutritional standards of food. >> is there anyone else that would like to speak? >> my name is francisco decosta. some of the comments i make, you may have not heard. first and foremost, i think the supervisors, the mayor, the city, the san francisco health department, should look at the health of our children. as an advocate, what concerns me

in some areas is the very poor quality of it. when we came to you, you were not so forthright in encouraging our children and our elders. i am referring to the hearing before this where one person was pretty harsh towards the other side. and what i feel it is that you are addressing this issue. it is a good issue. we have to not only look at fast foods, but look at restaurants.

it is a shame that at one time, people would cook at home4ç, god food. but the habit of cooking fresh, good food is a lost art. there are many families that cannot fry an egg. on retreats, they can fry an egg. thank you very much. >> is there anyone else that would like to speak. supervisor maxwell: why don't we close public comment and ask the doctor to come up again if there are any questions or if you want to explain the data that might enlighten us a little bit more. >> why don't i start with questions?

ok. the other thing that we did review is a data on one industry, mcdonald's nutritional performance. again, i think that there is evidence that mcdonald's is doing things to improve the nutritional quality of their meals. it seems that many of the standards, they would already be in compliance with. the main issue is the issue of vegetables which we have reduced. some of the meals me disodium standards, others would not. most needy calories standards in the fat standards. i think i want to use that point to mention that there are other food industry participants that are offering happy meals.

hopefully, this is a discussion much broader than mcdonald's, and i am sure it is. the other point that was raised laughter as well, according to nutritional surveys, they are not eating very well. we were presented with data on the national health and lr÷ from 2003-2004. few people would have their meals meet that standard. the agency that does the survey is promoting theseq.mv. the agency is wanting to understand the gap between the recommended standards and what americans eat. they're doing it in order to identify strategy to improve people's diets, not to show that it can't be done. that is another important point.

particularly over the past few years, the public school districts in the united states have really stepped up under the motivating direction of the united states department of agriculture standard to improve their meals. they're being produced to meet the standards, they're being consumed by children, other research not discussed here has shown that more and more kids are getting better diets. those are the main points. >> i wanted to thank you and your staff for the great work you have done to protect our public health and get a plug to the healthy development measurement tool that allows you to go on line and find the retail food environment that is really equitable.

it is not just in bayview, it is connected in some ways with the lowest income populations, largely people of color. and also the great work to show that in some ways, the ethnic and demographic breakdown, but especially the folks that work to raise awareness about how many have many different areas to make improvements so it is not just about education, but it is just about creating an equitable to the environment. >> i will name the web site of the healthy measurement toolthewww.th -- [unintelligible] we do hope that people look at

it in use the data. >> i mentioned that i had a great conversation over the weekend with the show obama's director, and she expressed support that what we're trying to do here is in line with the four pillars of let's move. i hope that san francisco participate, because what we do in the school district with sodas and beverage changes, food labels, we're really in line with what is happening at the national level. i also just want to thank everyone that spoke today, all of the pediatricians and food guardians, many of the community-based groups that have been here to testify. i hope my colleagues will h=d÷support this very strongly.

supervisor maxwell: we have already closed public comment. supervisor chiu: are those representatives here today? well i had a couple of questions for them and i thought that they were going to be here to answer, but let me put theim on the record. my conversations with them and other fast-food establishments, there are not any studies that demonstrate a link between this of tollways with the sales of happy meals. i was trying to understand that in the context of the evidence we had heard, apparently mcdonald's spends about three and $60 million a year in marketing happy meals. i did a little research over the weekend, and it picked up a copy of "fast food nation."

a couple of interesting things from this book. the american academy of pediatrics says that it is inherently deceptive and exploits children under 8 years of age. that is a fairly mainstream position by the pediatrics world. i went to the section that has to do with happy meals. fast-food chains regularly spend money, but it goes on to talk about to talk about -- it goes on to talk about the happy meal phenomenon. in fact, there is a magazine that looked at the success of the brand, and they looked at a study that showed in a typical week, mcdonald's sells about 10 million happy meals. when they tried to give away theç teeny beanie babies,

mcdonald's sold 100 million happy meals. while there may not be studies that demonstrate the link between toys and the sales of w÷

supervisor maxwell: are you on? >> on the resolution, item number eight, page four, the result clause, the city will conduct the ceqa review. we can have a cat and mouse game here, but term sheets are specifically contemplated under chapter 29 in a special case for exemption. it was decided upon by the board of supervisors, it must have been a specific project. i don't recall the nature of that discussion. specific term sheets were exempted, but not the one under

us from discussion 29 given that the resolution in front of us does seem to authorize the ceqa review that will go ahead and make a finding for responsibility about the ordinance. >> let me take a closer look at the section you are referring to. i hear your point, and let me look closer at it. supervisor maxwell: if you would like to continue. >> there is an interesting little part in the examiner about my opposition to the current proposal. the " from the mayor, when asked

about the mayor, it said, who? about daly's opposition to the event. it would be funny since i am turned out here from the board of supervisors. i will likely not be on the board of supervisors. crazier things have happened. it occupies the mayor of san francisco and it would be funny if the home district supervisor appears as the term sheet says. , for this proposal -- for this

proposal, supervisor maxwell will be the main post -- the main poshost for the participan. if they had been consulted in the process for this bid, if the home district supervisor -- even if i disagreed or a post -- opposed, you couldn't check the staff on these questions. -- you can check the staff on these questions. if they are aware of the neighborhood impact that will happen, unforeseen development proposals, we had a proposal in the contract for a cruise ship

terminal with a developer, a project that i did not support, the one that i was briefed on and certainly wasn't blind sided. i was in a briefing with city staff not in a newspaper ". if i was communicated to, then maybe the mayor's office and the san francisco examiner, maybe they would be funny. right? i am not sure what my point is other than it would be nice as a representative of 70,000 people for the 70,000 -- or probably 40 that will be the most impacted

by this proposal actually had representation on the board of supervisors that was included in the process. the most impact that their representatives in this legislative body, someone who was not consulted and not included, this is a problem and the fundamental breakdown of government. whether you like me or not, they are actually going to bear the brunt of the impact of this proposal and it is not ok. it is not acceptable, and that is not why i opposed this proposal. it is something that is the bee in my bonnet, yes. but it is not -- my opposition is based on some assumptions and reading between the lines that i have had to do because there are

not answers that i have been able to find any documentation. i think there are probably things that others from the staff probably don't even know the answers to. let's start with the council's report that was the $1.4 billion boon to the original economy. if we are to believe this report, and almost every time boosters have commissioned an economic study preceding the approval path from the world cup, the olympics, the super bowl, an all-star game, the estimates are almost universally overoptimistic. they even somewhat acknowledge that.

they try to take conservative members because of that choice which is clearly universal and sort of natural if you think about it. if these numbers are accurate, let's go to page 25 and 26. as the main big sponsor in conjunction with whatever acoc is wrong. -- is called. the net revenue for the general fund is $13 million. very roughly, that is $24 million in combination of payroll tax-the $11 million that is related costs that they

identified including traffic. i am not sure what else is included in the $11 million. i am just going to the resolution, going through the term sheets, going through the rest of this economic study. this is assuming that the economic boon is accruate a -- accurate and the [unintelligible] i am interested in the revenue, i know that there is some parking enterprises and other things on pier 60. -- pier fifty.

i am interested in the cost of relocation of tenants. in addition to appear -- piers. i am interested in what the financing costs are for the future infrastructure and financing mechanisms. that will come out of sacramento. i am interested in the actual cost of the work at pier 80, the removal of pier 36. the cost of the removal of the sheds. i assume these are all not included in the $11 million figure that the council came up with. who knows? there is also issues of docking, super yachts. the issue of lost advertising

revenue for like the national airport. i am interested in the city's cost, perhaps it is included in the plan that did go through. i am interested in what the city staff is telling us in terms of preparation to be here today, in terms of preparation of ceqa documents. i believe the city is liable for that cost. the cost of permit expediting, but what i am most concerned about is the long term development deal for san francisco, and specifically for this area of district 6. the think are remeer