looking for. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is ilid and i'm an excelsior resident. i also wanted to tell you that i work with youth. i know they're not old enough to vote, however, their voices still should be heard. so i have copies for you where they signed a letter of all the things that they want from the new mayor. aside from all the things that we want, the qualities like being fair and just being aware of all the issues that's going on in our neighborhood and our communities. so i have 11 copies here for you guys to take a look at. and one of them that they're really strongly -- and i'm definitely -- all of us are strongly prioritizing or would like the new mayor to prioritize is to build a network of community-based after-school programs, so our youth can get off the streets, into community-based programs and back to school and on track

for developing productive young adults, which is what we're here for. so just keep that all in mind and i'm definitely confident that you guys will make a good choice. thank you. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is elizabeth ortega. and i'm here to represent the many youth and as a community organizer the many people that i've met throughout the city who often tell me about the qualities that they want to see in a mayor. and i'm here to let you know, like i've done many times before, the kinds of mayor representation that we want to see in this city is a mayor who's accessible, who has consensus building and who works on bringing the community together, not dividing them. and especially this during the city budget process. we're looking for a mayor that's extremely open to the process and is honest about the process and makes it public, so that we are able to communicate that with everyone that we run into who care about the city,

because they want to have a voice in the process that happens here at city hall. they want to have it before, during the process and after. they don't want to come in here when the budget has already been cut and they're having to come in here to tell their story over and over again about what the budget cuts will mean to them, to their families and to this community. so we're hoping that this new mayor, whoever it is, will make sure that they listen throughout the entire term that they're there. thank you. [applause] president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] . in keeping with what was before, i support you all as a whole in selecting the right

mayor. we have a youth that is coming up and you have the seniors who have spent all of their days working and would like to work, ok? on the other hand, what was put forward today by supervisor john avalos i support 100%. i am ready to come out and show what i have, because in doing so you will bring the youngsters off the street, learn a trade that will show

them success. so do the right thing in selecting a proper mayor. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is jonathan meade i'm speaking on behalf of local 1021. i wanted to make reference to a document that was dropped off at all your offices, i think, this morning. it's called san francisco for all. it's a community labor platform that sort of outlines a lot of the different values that several different community groups and unions think are important. as you guys take this appointment process into consideration. we met last night and endorsed this platform and we hope that you will endorse it as well. and, you know, i think you guys have done just such a tremendous job under incredibly difficult circumstances, and now this is one of your greatest challenges coming up

ahead of you in a very short period of time, and i hope that you can find a way to be creative and compromising at the same time and figure out a way to get an appointment done in the next two or three weeks, whatever the time frame is, because that's the -- it's a very important action that's going to take place that's going to preserve sort of the progressive agenda and the progressive policies that you guys have fought so hard for up to this point. and we can't take anything for granted going into the future in terms of the difficulties we're going to be facing and you're going to be facing. and i think if you guys can come up with a good choice for mayor, that would really be helpful. thanks. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> president chiu, you're asking us whether we think this body should pick the next mayor, and i say yes, absolutely. the duly elected powers that

god put here and a special election also would cost a lot of money. and i would like to say that i think john avalos should be recommended for mayor, because he license to kpfa. kpfa -- no, really, it's very fair. there's a lot of things i disagree with on kpfa, but if he listens -- i'm going to tell you something. last year i learned about this third building that fell. kpfa is the radio station, 94.1, that convinced the guy that i heard, who's an architect here, richard gauge, he was explaining this to me, and i said, whoa, you know. he was convinced by a guy named david ray griffin on kpfa. he now has this huge organization that is calling for a real 9/11 investigation. so we do want someone that's fair. and you seem like a fair fellow listening to him. i would also like to say that if you don't consider him -- i don't know what the residency requirement is for the mayor, if he has to be here for such

an amount of time, but my first one even above john avalos is a former judge named roy moore. he's known as the 10 commandment judge. you'd have to ship him in for alabama and he'd have to be here for seven days -- i don't know how long you have to be here in order to fill the requirement for whoever the mayor has to be, which, of course, we know he has to be a resident for some amount of time. but these dirtbags in the aclu got rid of judge roy moore. you know why? because he put the 10 commandments -- this is his crime, ok? these comey dirtbags from the aclu got rid of judge roy moore because he had a minister of the gospel pray for him to help him be a good judge and because he had the 10 commandments. do you know what a great city this would be if we had the 10 commantments? mayor newsom wouldn't be rolling in the sheets with mrs. what's-her-name, right? president chiu: thank you.

next speaker. [speaking foreign language] >> hi. i'm here because i support a mayor that fights for the rights of workers and immigrants that are responsible here in san francisco. [speaking foreign language] >> because we have rights to education. [speaking foreign language] >> because we are workers here in san francisco and we're fighting for our rights. thank you. >> thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john osake executive director of jcyc. i'm here today basically to urge you to select an interim

mayor who will prioritize our nonprofit sector here in san francisco. last year many of you joined us, as jcyc celebrated our 40th anniversary. and i have to say that that was a really bittersweet time for our agency, because although we were very happy about celebrating 40 years of serving this community, we had to celebrate knowing that we were going to take in excess of $1 million reduction in city funding to our organization. that reduction resulted in decreased services to supervisor avalos' district, to supervisor maxwell's district and almost eliminated some of the services we provide in president chiu's district and i frankly find that unacceptable. i'm basically here today to make a plea that i don't want to be here again in april, and i really don't want to be here again in june.

i'm hoping that a mayor -- an interim mayor will find a solution now -- between now and april to figure out how to sustain the nonprofit services that not only i provide, but when there's unrest amongst our young people and within our neighborhoods, all of you ask for. so many times i've been approached to deliver services to young people that need them, and frankly it is disconcerting that we have to go through this exercise of seeing these massive cuts to the services that we all find essential and then go through a budget process that may or may not restore them at the back end. i'm asking you to find a mayor who will find a solution before we have to go through that process, so that i don't have to be back here begging for the services that we all need here in san francisco. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for allowing me to

speak. my name is jamel patterson. i also represent the united council of human services, and i feel like it's my duty as a citizen of san francisco to give you my opinion who should be the next mayor. and it should be somebody who understands the fabric of the city. when i look at the bicycle program, i look at that as something that brings different parts of the community together. i'd like my community to take part of that more. there's one thing about the last two mayors. pros and cons. you could say good or bad about either one of them. both of them had ideas and they were upbeat, and that's what people need. and also, both of them came to my mother's funeral. her name was barbara brown. she founded the united council of women's services. so we need a mayor that understands the people and understands the young sung heroes of the community. cxfc and i'm the tie between the

younger generation and the older generation because i'm, you know, in my 30's, early 30's. and i'd like to say god bless you all and support the ideas of the new up-and-coming leaders. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. eric brooks here representing the grass-roots organization, our city. we have about 4,000 supporters in san francisco, almost all of whom vote. i'm here to definitely urge you to move as quickly as possible and to have as extensive hearings as possible today and possibly next week for appointing a new mayor. we've already talked about budget and economics. we need the mayor to be chosen as soon as possible so that they've got time -- that person has time to prepare for this stuff. you've all received, i believe, a four-page platform that's

been put together by a very large group of activists from around the city. that platform needs to be discussed so that all the candidates and all the people voting on the candidates know what we expect of a mayor. just for me to kind of speak in for what you can imagine will be my part in that platform, and that's clean energy. it's absolutely critical for that reason that we appoint a mayor as soon as possible. every week there are new reports about melting ice caps. our own sierra mountains are going to have less snowmelt soon and that directly affects our local community and the communities we serve with water during the summer. so clean energy is vital. it's vital that san francisco, which california is waiting to take the lead, and then california, which the united states is waiting to take the lead and the natures then takes

the lead because we have led global warming and will change what's happening in cancun right now. and as far as who, we're not going to name specific names today, but i will tell you that you need look no further than the san francisco local agency formation commission, where there are four supervisors who have a deep understanding on what needs to be done to move forward. clean energy, that's the pool you should look at. you need look no further. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is richard hanlon. i'll be brief. could you turn up the heat? president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is christopher koch. it is a little chilly in here, but i think we'll be all right. i'm with the collision --

coalition of community organizations spanning a pretty good breadth of the city around a set of values and principles that we think are very important for the new mayor to uphold and follow. and we've prepared a very basic set of principle guides here that we've distributed to every member of the board of supervisors and we'll be following up on this in more detail down the road. i just want to leave you with the introduction of our statement, which says that as san francisco prepares for a new mayor, amideon going recession and the near $400 million protected deficit, dozens of organizations from across the city have created the platform below which we'll detail further as a guide for the new mayor's priority. we represent an array of city residents, community-based nonprofits and service providers united in our commitment for san francisco that works for all san

franciscoans. we wants a positive vision for the city's future, based on historic san francisco values of exclusiveness, compassion and opportunity. the platform below reflects our vision for a city and a new mayor that unites, rather than divides city residents and communities. we know there are a lot of names being tossed around right now. what we want to emphasize, again, is the values that we think are important that involve inclusiveness and a city for all and a long-term vision and a mayor that will bring long-term solutions to the city that are sustainable economically and environmentally. there's a fuller document here that gets into issues of affordable housing, you know, more sustainable land use for public good and certainly the local hiring initiatives that supervisor avalos brought forward. president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> hi, supervisors. thanks for the opportunity to comment today. i'm also a member of the community in labor and other folks, group -- the diverse group of community-based organizations that's been thinking about some of the values -- not only policy ideas, but values that we would like to see in the new mayor. we were hoping that our document, the document that chris had alluded to earlier, can really be something that can help bring us together as a city rather than divide us, because we feel that the city -- when some of us suffer, we all suffer, and if all of us can do well, then the city as a whole benefits. so we -- we're excited to share this platform with you and we're excited that we have the opportunity for the dialogue about what we're looking for in

a mayor is going to happen in this room amongst you with us here. and with that, i'll just say that as someone who's done a lot of work advocating on the budget, advocating for fairness for folks who have very little, i'm very happy that we can look at some of the bigger-picture issues together as we decide about how to move forward as a city. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i come to cheer on this moment, you know. i ran into the mayor yesterday at sixth and market, and he did say diversity, and that's what i think the next mayor needs to deal with all sectors of diversity. san francisco is known for diversity. but the next mayor will be a caregiver mayor, as we know,

everyone's been saying, and we need to remind the next person that becomes mayor, like the president said today, if you are going to lead the north star for all people it is time to get someone who can work among all three branches, that means the board of supervisors, the mayor's office and the people. just to let you know important, 32 years ago we was going through jonestown. world aids was coming out. and the next mayor needs to build a vision they'll never forget. remember constantly. we have hate crimes against gays and lesbians. in this city we should have a zero tolerance. we hope that one day we can have a gay or lesbian mayor for san francisco, you know, to lead. but right now it's all about you all and the people coming forth to bring -- this is a great moment for us to really be able to elect the next

person. so right now where it's cold -- it's snowing out front, y'all, in front of the city hall. that's why it's cold. there's a lot of snow out there. so i'm here to say -- people have asked me who i'm for mayor. i ran in 1989. i was probably the first black mayoral candidate in this city. i got eight votes. but you know what, more than anything it's time that san francisco not only just have two tales of the city, but have a tale. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. my name is willy ratcliff. i'm a young contractor. and i published a san francisco newspaper. i think we did a milestone today in doing some of the things that need to be done here in san francisco. but we certainly need to step up and get a mayor that's going

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.