to work with the whole city and not divide people and stop discrimination against african-american businesses and contractors. we need to add that to what we just did today as far as hiring. and we need a mayor that will do that. we need to get one quick and we need to really do things in san francisco that's going to help our children. we've got a 65% dropout rate among african-american youth. we have a high dropout rate among latinos. and all of that is because people are not working. i came here in 1950. of course, i went to alaska for 30 years. but when we had jobs, there was no killing in bayview hunters point. none. and there was one addict in the community. one. look at us now. we've got killing going on

everywhere. but it's because of our policies. people don't -- if they don't have no job, they're going to do something. they're going to eat. and if they have to knock you in the head, they'll do it. and if they have to kill each other, they do that. but now, right now, look what happened at the library. all of a sudden gavin newsom on his way out decided that he needed to take the contract back on auto insurance, which we already had. those kind of things. we need a mayor that's going to look at this city and make it a city that we can't go around here just raising fees and raising fees, going in debt. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i urge that you get on with it. that you sit as a committee. i thought today was going to be

the day. i think a lot of people in the city have felt the same way. it's coming up on a month that this process has been going on. i think it's time. at any rate, i think that before you leave today that you should send a communication to tom amiano and ask him to consider being the mayor, so that when you do get around to voting, that you have an answer from him, because we need someone that is like that, somewhat independent, that shows independence of the machine, that has the compassion and track record. if you look at the commissions that we have, we've got these commissions making important decisions, and you see unanimous votes, like on park and recreation. it's outrageous. this doesn't even reflect any kind of diversity of the city. it's all of the downtown interests and the people that

the pacific heights mafia, you know, what they want, and the disinformation dalies and their relentless adak on the people's vote in san francisco. i know it's not the rank and file workers, it's their editors. but kick up some fuss, writers, come on. it's a disgrace that this city has no hearing about what's going on. it's always the same thing coming down from the top. we've got department heads. we've got like people in planning who are terrorized by a phony sex scandal or a scandal that was exploited for purposes other than doing the right thing and planning the city and just getting the way and the will of the downtown interests. president chiu: next speaker.

>> carol jones. i'd like to be endorsed by you as a person who cares about this city and cares enough to fight for what is right and cares enough for the people. the children of light should be allowed to walk the planet in peace. exactly one week ago today i was harassed and abused by children on the bus. they have no life, they have no art, they have no harmony. whereas in new orleans, they're encouraged to get their jackets. they do music four hours during the summer and the winter months. i inhale the fumes and i ride these horrific buses mauled and hurt seven times on these buses. yet, as a disabled person i get no help from the police. mauled. 92% of them, if they were dogs,

we would shoot them. there is no accountability for their time, for how they spend their efforts. you don't know that. you don't see it. i know it. it's not true, they're not working. and there is a lot of other things that aren't being worked. you're giving $700 million to behavioral sciences to these hospitals. this is insane. there are other alternatives, alternatives that are working in europe. we are behind the times. in europe the neurologists learn auricular acupuncture and they use the homeopathics that i'm advocating for emotional balancing. it takes one week's time, i can guarantee it. what other things are going on? in cambodia they have three to a car and they pay hitchhikers to get in or they are fined. that would certainly help the pollution a lot more than what we're doing now. there are wheels all over the place.

we don't need to re-invent them, we need to replace them in our situation and our government and do better than what's being done. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is leonard colley. i was born and raised in san francisco over seven decades ago. i'm here today as a resident, a voter and a retired person. item 52 is about to process. there's no question in my mind that you're going to sit as a committee as a whole. i think that will take you to item 26. the question says, "shall this hearing be heard at a public hearing?" i think the question speaks for itself. the obvious question is we all hope that we'll have another opportunity to speak when you get a little more specific about who you're talking about and what they represent.

when you do sit as a committee as a whole, i hope all of you have heeded the letter to the editor in the chronicle last thursday, december 4, which asked you to consider having the new board of supervisors make this decision. i know this is not anything that's been said up to now, but the four new supervisors and supervisor chiu, who is the incumbent coming in, represent 46% of this board, and they will be here longer than any of the other sitting members. i just am asking that that be considered another avenue for you to consider when you take up this very most important issue.

thank you. president chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on this motion? seeing none at this time, public comment is closed. [gavel pounds] colleagues, discussion on these items. supervisor maxwell. supervisor maxwell: colleagues, i move that we continue this item until december 14. president chiu: supervisor maxwell has made a motion to continue this item to december 14. seconded by supervisor dufty. i believe that would mean you're amending this item to change the date from december 7 to the 14th? supervisor maxwell: yes. president chiu: and let me just ask madam clerk, does that mean we're also continuing item 26 and 27 until next week? >> pursuant to the action of the board, yes, mr. president. president chiu: ok. that motion was seconded by supervisor dufty. supervisor daly. supervisor daly: thank you, mr. president. let me speak against the motion

. while it may be the case that this board of supervisors is not prepared today to appoint someone as successor mayor of san francisco, i think that we shouldn't truncate the conversation. even though we spent the better part of last month talking about the process and finally agreed upon a process. i think i may be the only member of the board of supervisors who's expressed publicly some of the attributes, values or characteristics of -- that i would value or that i'm looking for in terms of the process of selecting the next mayor of san francisco. i also think that if we don't get into a situation or a habit of discussing this, if we're

going to put it off without advancing the ball down the field, that i think that we're really doing ourselves an injustice in terms of getting -- giving ourselves an opportunity to make the best possible decision. and then i want to add on to this the fact that we now are borrowing time against the next administration in san francisco . if you followed regional politics like i do, last week oakland's mayor elect, jean kwan, named her 24-member transition committee, heading that transition committee i think a friend to some of news this room, one of the most competent and capable managers in the region, henry gardner, the former executive director of abag is heading that transition. mr. gardner is already having

transition meetings, meetings of his committee. they're doing work in oakland, california, to get ready for mayor kwan's administration. now, i've heard on a number of occasions here in san francisco that maybe the board shouldn't act because there's not a vacancy in office yet. but the fact that there's not a vacancy in the office of oakland mayor, as the mayor there still occupies that seat, is not deterring jean kwan, henry gardner and many others from doing the work to prepare to run the city of oakland. now, here in san francisco, with our process for electing mayors, typically a mayor would have had, you know, about a month to put together a

transition team, a chair to transition that team, if that's the structure that they would want to use to start talking to, you know, existing city staff, potential recruits or new hires to deal with budget issues. i know that our governor elect is also doing this type of work, as i think many of us have been invited to a budget briefing up in sacramento that the governor elect is hosting tomorrow. but there are real issues that folks who are coming in to office need to deal with. and to the extent that we keep putting off this discussion and to the extent that we're not even advancing the ball at all down the field, i think that we're doing a disservice to whoever it is who becomes the next mayor of san francisco,

because the thing that's similar about san francisco, to oakland or to the governor's office in sacramento is while there's not a vacancy at the moment, we know that vacancy is coming and that vacancy needs to be filled. and it will be filled by somebody. i know when i talked previously about some of the attributes or qualifications that i was looking for and i mentioned, you know, experience and capacity to do the job, compassion and then the real politic of finding six votes here on the board of supervisors, you know, i probably left off the fourth point, which is willingness to serve in terms of assembly meb armiano who may have the first of these three points covered. it's a no-go on the fourth with allegeness to serve.

i think the good news is that there are many san francisco cans who have checkmarks next to all four of these points for me, and i probably have a list of 10 individuals that i think have the experience necessary to do the job, the compassion, and the willingness to serve. and they may or may not be able to get six votes here. and so i think that that's kind of the math problem that we need to start figuring out. in terms of the process that we have, this is a one-of-a-kind process. it's a hybrid of our rules and roberts rules, with the implication of california conflicts law that may see the sequestration of members of this board. i think it probably would be a bad idea to nominate a member of the board of supervisors right now. but i think it might be a good

idea to try the mechanism out and see fit works. if you're going to buy a car, you take a test drive, you run it around the block and you see how it drives before you buy it. i think this process may be kind of like that. it might be worthwhile to take a test drive today. i am prepared to make a nomination, and obviously it wasn't the first person on my list, which i crossed off and moved down the list. and then the top five on my list are three members of this board of supervisors. so i don't think that i'm prepared to nominate one of you, my colleagues, today. but i do have someone in mind that i would like to nominate and see some votes and probably there's not six here today. or at least i don't really know whether there's six, but i think we should give it a try and see how it works. >> colleagues, any additional

discussion? ok. at this time why don't we do supervisor campos. >> thank -- supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. i think we need to be as transparent and as open as we can. and for the reasons that i think supervisor avalos so eloquently outlined before, we do have a very tough budget year that we will be facing, and we have many challenges ahead of us. because of that i do think that if it is possible for us to come to a consensus, that it would be better for whoever the individual is, for us to act sooner, rather than later. so that still guides how i approach this. that said, i don't have a problem with continuing this ate elm for another week,

though i have to say that i think that not acting, or at least beginning this process at the next board meeting in my view would be a mistake, in light of the fact that we have a number of challenges that we'll be facing the the interim mayor, whoever he or she may be. president chiu: supervisor mar. supervisor mar: i wanted to acknowledge a number of speakers that have acknowledged that there's a value-based platform that a number of labor and community-based organizations have started to work on. i believe that there are some follow-up meetings that will be happening as they build an alliance to create values and criteria for us as supervisors. so i think i'm going to be supporve of delaying this for one week as the labor groups

communicate to us what their values are, so that we can move forward as not only supervisors, but also with social movement and organizations that are also united with us as well. we find the strongest possible mayor for our cities, so i'm going to be supportive of the motion to delay this until next week. president chiu: any additional discussion, colleagues? if we could fake a roll call vote on the motion to continue these items for one week, till tuesday, december 14. [roll call taken]

>> there are nine ayes and two no's. president chiu: the motion to continue passes. colleagues, if we can now move to our other 3:00 special order regarding the transbay. regarding the transbay. madam clerk, if you could please call items 28 through 40. >> items 28 through 40 comprise the special order at 3:00 p.m. the board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole for a public hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the following 12 proposed resolutions of necessity authorizing the acquisition of various real property by eminent domain for the purpose of constructing the transbay transit property. each resolution is an individual file and i will read each block and lot number, beginning with 85 natoma street number one. block number 3721, lot number 109. 85 natoma street number 2,

block number 3721, lot number 110. 85 natoma street number 3, block number 3721, lot number 111. 85 natoma street number 4, block number 3721. lot number 112. 85 natoma street number 5, block number 3721, lot number 113. 85 natoma street number 7, block number 3721, lot number 115. 85 natoma street number 9, block number 3721, lot number 117. 85 natoma street c-1, block number 3721, lot number 118. 60 tehama street block 1736, lot number 088. 564 howard street, block number 3721, lot number 019. 568 howard street, block number 3721, lot number 020. and 13 parking easements,

interests across and through 85 natoma street block number 3721, lot numbers 095 through 105. block 3721, lot numbers 109 through 118. adopting environmental findings and guidelines under the california environmental quality act, administrative code chapter 31 and adopting findings of consistency with the general plan and city planning code sections 101.1. president chiu: col relation, at this time we are going to sit as a committee as a whole to conduct the public hearings on the proposed resolutions of necessity to acquire certain property interests by eminent domain and then vote on the resolutions themselves. specifically, well consider the acquisition of real property commonly known as 85 natoma street number one, number two, three, four, five, seven, nine, number c-1, to 60 tehama street, 564 howard, 568 howard, and 13 parking easement interests across and through 85

natoma by eminent domain for the public purpose constructing the transbay transit center program in. this hearing the board of supervisors will consider the following -- first, whether the public interest and necessity require the transbay transit center program. secondly, whether the transbay transit center program is planned or located in the manner that will be the most compatible with the greatest public good and the least private injury. thirdly, whether the easements and the fee-simple interest sought to be acquired in the subject properties are necessary for this program, and lastly, whether the city has made the necessary offers to purchase these easements and the the fee-simple interest from the property owners for just compensation, as required under state law. if we adopt the proposed resolutions, we will also be making ceqa and general plan consistency findings in connection with these acquisitions. the values of the properties, which are the subject of the hearings today, are not at issue today. property value will be

determined by a court in a jury trial or through further negotiations with the property owners. as a result, the board need not consider the value of each property in deciding how to vote on the resolutions of necessity. under state law the board must pass this resolution by at least a 2/3 vote or eight votes. colleagues, unless there is an objection, we will consider all 12 resolutions of necessity together. the order of the hearing shall be as follows -- first, the tjpa will have up to 10 minutes for presentation in support of the resolutions and the acquisition of the easements and the fee interests by eminent domain. then members of the public that wish to support any or all of the resolutions shall have up to two minutes to speak. each or any of the property owners will have up to five minutes for presentation or opposition for resolutions pertaining to their property. any owner of multiple properties will have up to 10 minutes to address all their

properties in total. then members of the public opposing any or all of the resolutions shall have up to two minutes each to speak, and then the tjpa shall have up to two minutes to rebut. the board will then vote on each of these 12 resolutions separately. let me first ask if there are any questions about the process. seeing none, let me ask the district supervisors, supervisor daly, from district six, if he has any initial comments. supervisor daly: i'll take one minute. maybe the staff can yield one of their minutes to me. colleagues, we're here today -- i know that there are 12 resolutions of necessity in front of us. this really represents four outstanding buildings that are in the critical path to deliver phase one of the transbay transit center, one of the most significant public works projects in the region that has almost unanimous support across our city. and i think that we won't likely hear from any of the

folks associated with these four buildings that they oppose the project or are trying to hold it up. it really is a case of not being able to get to a settlement or a negotiated settlement with these particular property owners. please keep in mind that the tjpa has successfully reached negotiated settlements with 13 other properties. so a majority of the acquisition that is have been necessary and make the way for this most important public works project have been completed by negotiated settlement. these are what's outstanding. and we do need to act in order not to delay the construction schedule. i think that what we did from the tjpa side is we attempted to reach settlement. took it as far as we could in terms of the timeline, but then

decided to come here for the resolution of necessity and ultimately for eminent domain proceedings. in order to not get behind schedule and have escalation on construction costs in terms of the project delivery. so thank you colleagues for hearing these items today. president chiu: thank you, supervisor daly. if you could now ask the tjpa to make antiprosecutetation. you have up to 10 minutes, you don't have to use the entire time. >> i'll attempt to be brief. i'm emelio cruz i'm the program manager of the consulting for the transbay authority project. also with me is andrew, who is counsel to the tjpa, who will be able to answer any questions in addition to obviously your own deputy city attorney staff. i have a presentation here to go through the project itself. it is an integrated transportation and urban revitalization project.

the transbay terminal was originally opened in 1939 to accommodate both rail and auto and bus service and at its peak at 26 million passengers, it is, since 1958, it's been a bus-only terminal. the terminal itself has fallen into minimal use. and in 1999 proposition h was overwhelmingly adopted by san francisco voters to extends caltran to a new or rebuilt regional station on the site of the transbay terminal. the demand and the capacity for the new terminal is shown here with the new terminal. we have the capacity to provide significantly more, up to 50 million passengers per year, using regional and statewide transportation systems. the transbay program on the whole is made up of three primary components -- the new intermodal station, which is a one million square-foot facility, the extension of caltrain, a 1.3-mile tunnel

extension, and the new neighborhood that is going to be built over the 40-acre redevelopment zone, bringing in 2,600 units. the transbay authority is the agency charged with the design, construction and oltings of the new transit facility and its member agency are five members, three representing the city and san francisco, one from alameda, and one from the peninsula joint powers board. graphically this is our project area. some of the benefits of the highlight, it alleviates congest shons and strengthens our economy and generating 45,000 jobs. it creates housing, 35% of which is affordable and it provides a safe and essential facility for the neighborhood. we're coordinating with a number of regional entities, as shown sheer. moving forward, some of the renderings of the program as it's going to move forward and as designed by the architect, the facility will will be a five-level facility, two

underground, two above grounds with a five-acre park at the top of the facility. the rendering here shows the outline of the schematic. additionally we've included some graphics. rail extension is the second phase of the program. the rail extension will include caltrain and high-speed rail. some of the benefits are the reduction of 42,000 tons of emission as a result of reduction in traffic and a savings of 3.7 million gallons of oil annually. additional, high-speed rail will eliminate 12 billion pounds of carbon dioxide and reduce five million gallons of oil use on an annual basis. the tjpa has acquired 13 parcels through negotiated agreements. there are 12 properties remaining to be acquired. these 12 properties exist in four buildings, as was outlined by supervisor daly. 56o