campos. the historic preservation commission -- and i supported the creation of the commission -- it has become an increasingly powerful and important commission, reaching into a lot of different areas of policy in this city. not just housing, but now recently reaching into parks and potentially libraries and other areas. it is important to have a diversity of backgrounds and viewpoints on the committee, and -- on the commission, and if we are going to have a commission made up exclusively of advocates for historic preservation, only advocates, that is a problem. i will be speaking to that in more detail later in the meeting during introductions, but i think this is a very appropriate and good nomination, and i will be supporting it. supervisor mar: i think there

was a thorough discussion, and i think it became very clear that there were passionate people on both sides advocating for and against mr. johns and i wanted to acknowledge his strong work as an attorney and also a community leader as well. from my perspective, a number of community advocates and preservationists made clear points that seat number four should be an historic meeting the secretary of interior with demonstrable experience in north america or bay area history. another candidate had come forward at that meeting as well, a historian from san francisco state, and it was clear that there were many other people that more clearly meet those qualifications, so i will be voting against mr. johns, in favor of having a stronger

historian on the commission as well. supervisor chiu: colleagues, for the discussion? if we could take a roll-call vote on the motion. >> chiu no. chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar no. mirkarimi no. weiner aye. avalos no. campos no. there are 6 ayes and 5 no. supervisor chiu: of the motion is approved. item 20. >> item 20 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for reappointment of karl hasz. chiu aye. chu aye.

cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. weiner aye. avalos aye. campos aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the motion is approved. >> item 21 is a motion confirming appointments and harry kim and herb cohn. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. >> item 22 is a resolution confirming the appointment of florence kong to the city hall preservation advisory commission. supervisor chiu: the resolution is adopted. >> item 23, resolution

determining that the issuance of a tight 75 on sale general approval of liquor license to the unicorn pan-asian restaurant will serve the public convenience or necessity. supervisor chiu: the resolution is approved. >> item 24 is a resolution determining that the issuance of a tight 51 beer and wine club license to golden gate council of american youth hostels inc. will serve the public convenience. item 25 is a resolution authorizing the the poorman of public health to except and it's been a retroactive way -- the department of public health to accept and expend retroactively a grant in the amount of $402,596 from the university of california sanford's is good for debate in a program entitled integrating hiv and geriatric for people living with hiv 50 and older. supervisor chiu: same house,

same call? resolution is adopted. >> item 26 is a resolution authorizing the san francisco recreation and park apartments to retroactively accept and expend a gift from the sanford cisco parks trust to support various reserve -- recreation and park poorman operations. supervisor chiu: this item is approved. >> item 27 was forwarded to the board as a committee report. the resolution approves and authorizes acceptance of a right of way easement need for a 50- year, exclusive, subsurface easement at no charge from the united states department of the interior for the purpose of constructing the water system improvement program they division pipeline improvement upgrade. supervisor chiu: same house, call? this resolution is adopted. we can now move to roll call. >> president chiu, your first on

a roll call for introductions. supervisor chiu: i have three items today, first on the subject of business tax reform. i would like to help restart our city's efforts to reform our proven business tax system, which, as many of you know, has discouraged job creation and makes us less competitive. the problem is simple -- san francisco is the only city in the state of california that relies entirely on a payroll tax for its business tax. the payroll tax has been a job killer. it discourages job creation, excludes some of our largest and most profitable institutions such as banks and financial service providers. with only 10% paying the payroll tax, it narrows the tax base when it should be broadened. the solution, as we know, is a bit more complicated. last spring, after working extensively with the mayor's office, say economists, and business and labor leaders, i proposed a more progressive

payroll tax system with replacement revenue from the reduction coming from a new tax on commercial rand, which is common to many california cities. according to our economist, the proposal would have created jobs while adding revenue to support by two city services. as some of you remember, i decided last summer not to move forward to place this plan on the ballot. instead, many of us supported an increase on a high in real estate transfer tax proposed by supervisor avalos, and thankfully, that was approved by voters last november. i think we need to think bigger. we have to consider eliminating the payroll tax entirely and replacing it with a gross receipts tax, not just in commercial rent, but in all industries. the goal of business tax reforms remain the same -- we want to create jobs, create a fair business tax, and increase

revenue by broadening our tax base. i'm sure in the coming months, we will have robust discussions. i look forward to working again soon with our city partners, including our new mayor, the office of economic and workforce development, our treasurer, city attorney, office of small business. at this time, and specifically asking our city attorney to draft legislation. many of our colleagues have highlighted the issue as a central part of what we all hope to get done. i want to thank supervisor weiner for his interest in the issue as well as supervisor farrell who spoke about payroll tax on his first day in office. we need business tax reform to improve our economy and create jobs, and i look forward to working with all of you on this effort. the second item i am introducing today is an ordinance that would reauthorize the real estate watchdog program. in 2006, the creation of a real-

estate watchdog program, which allows our assessor to give a reward to anyone who provides information that leads to the detection of underpayment and property tax owed to the city and county of san francisco. over the last few years, the real-estate watchdog program has been a success. we have seen dozens of claims initiated by the public, several of which were eligible for rewards. at this time, the program has resulted in a net increase of almost $1.2 million in new property taxes collected by the city with total reward payments of close to $60,000. the ordinance i am introducing today makes a couple of programmatic changes that were recommended as well as reauthorize the 2006 ordinance. the last item i am introducing today is a resolution to support the california assembly bills 1003131, also known as the california dream act -- assembly

bills 130 and 131. the bill was previously passed and vetoed by former governor schwarzenegger three times. jerry brown said that during his campaign, he would sign the california dream act if he were elected. we all know that lack of access to financial aid helps to perpetrate an underclass in california of students who are here and will be here for the long haul. our city has stood up time after time for immigrants, and we hope that the state of california will do the same to lower the barriers to higher education faced by some of our students. i want to thank supervisors avalos, mar, and campos for joining me in cosponsoring this legislation and thank you for your support. supervisor mirkarimi: i rise today to call attention to a resolution that i am submitting,

co-sponsored by supervisors avalos and mar. the expression of our sincere dissatisfaction of what a grave error it was for the university of san francisco to sell the license of ausf 90.3 on the dial and asked to the -- for the sale to be taken over by a station in los angeles for a sum of $3.75 million. as an alumnus of university of san francisco and as an elected representative whose border comes right to the touch of where lone mountain is in university of san francisco, i think it was a travesty that the university of san francisco did not reach out to a well-known community, very creative, thoughtful, brilliant genius people who for the last 33

years have built their radio station that is not just well known to practically every community throughout san francisco and the bay area but has garnered a reputation as one of the finest stations of its kind in the united states and beyond. i think it is important that even though we recognize the limits of our authority and our reach, that we do not stand silent when we think a mistake of this magnitude occurs, and that is why i think the illustration helps outline why it would have made more sense for the university of san francisco to apply that jesuits ethic in simply acting in a more respectful way of the community that has put in their volunteer time and investment of in-kind resources and their own dollars in the caretaking and sustaining of that radio station to at least offer the first right of refusal decision to that

particular community in the troubleshooting and problem- solving way that i think would have been consistent with the jesuits outlook. they did not do that. instead, what we see is trend. trend that i know scares us because the board of supervisors has weighed in when we have seen the subversion of public access tv program where we have had to intervene and provide pressure to such institutions of comcast and others that they do not and those dollars that are able to make public access still available for all community. the radio dial, 90.3, and those very, i think, attractive stations that are under the dial of 92 on down are now becoming a real madman of opportunity and target of corporate interests that are looking to do everything they can to gobble of those stations by asking for sales. i think it is important that we

come together as best as we possibly can, call attention to the fact that we would like the university of san francisco and the fcc to rescind his decision and become more of a partner to a problem-solving, i think, approach, so that the community be allowed to step up and at least be given the diligence that i think is so richly deserved in determining if in fact can they come together in order to save the university of san francisco? more notably, the very fact that the university of san francisco had sold the station to a station in los angeles only chance, i think, to the herd and the fact that it is the kind of programming in some respects that we are concerned about that is now lost. when you talk about programming that is 24 hours a day, seven days a week, that is airing over 12 languages, those primary and

not so primary language is in san francisco, that has a relationship to nine consulates in san francisco that assist with that particular programming, that is cutting edge in its programming for all ages, that with the loss withkusf, there is literally no other station that can compensate effectively for that well-rounded benefit that the public certainly will come to appreciate in the loss -- with the loss of kusf. this is a loss of another non- commercial station that is now being, i think,--- dashed simply because of the idea of making a profit. it is a mistake to deny the community a benefit of resources they have had for 33 years that now suddenly will go away. we appreciate the struggles that the university of san francisco is facing financially. we know that they must be

certainly forthright in their ability to try to manage those struggles, but in the way this has been managed and the ramifications from them i think deserves our response. this resolution does just that. i think the other supervisors -- i thank the other supervisors for their co sponsorship, and i look forward for this discussion to continue and to expand and radiate throughout the community and beyond. i just want to say that i intended to perform the university of san francisco. as dictated and watched hundreds of people come together and try to have a conversation with the president of the university. i think there was an intent to have a reasonable discussion that did not result, i think, in the desired effect, and they think it is important, what i learned from witnessing that, that we still try to encourage the administration to have a reasonable discussion towards an

effect we would like to see in saving kusf. next, i'm submitting an accept and expend a grant on behalf of the adult probation program. i keep putting a number of these forward in an attempt to make sure that our reentry services in san francisco are well bolstered, that people should be aware of in a very systemic way , that recidivism in san francisco, as it relates to our public safety concerns and criminal justice, is over 60%. we can realize that when somebody gets out of the system -- prison or in jail -- in the first three years of them getting out, there is an over 60% chance that they will repeat their crime. in this case, i want to put forward the grant in having an -- have an adult probation, which will be very specialized in working with good will and

the lance history to develop and implement a gender response of plan for supervision of women on probation. there are many different tiers of people who need specialized services, and i think with the good work of the district attorney's office, public defender's office, sheriff's office, and the social service agencies and nonprofits, they are doing everything they possibly can in order to step up to the plate, but we will need significant improvement in dealing with this reentry problem. next, i'm submitting a hearing on the america's cup. this board, as you all know, has unanimously supported the idea of the first terms of agreement on america's cup. i have been an enthusiastic supporter. we solidified the terms last december. there was a lot of fanfare about that. some of those terms were massaged and wheat after we solidified them -- and tweaked.

there has been no disclosure after that particular milestone. so i'm calling for a hearing in making sure we do this in the month of february and to call attention to any plan or lack thereof on the dislocation of tenants from our various peers in the court so that they are asked to move for the america's cup. i think it is important that we do what we can to help those tenants who want to stay be able to rebound as best as they can and have a win-win solution. next, i am submitting a hearing that calls attention to the elimination of the trading for mental health, training for the san francisco police department. there has been a number of high- profile incidences and other incidences where the police department has responded to people with mental health

needs, and unfortunately, and shockingly in some cases, what resulted was either in the shooting of those particular people who were experiencing mental health or the fact that they use of force, an escalation of force was used in a way that many believe should have been perhaps reconsidered, but that came in coincidence with the elimination of mental health training in the police department. that, i think, is a mistake. we need to revisit what the strategies are going to be in order to deal with a community that also requires specialized attention. and i think we have to do what we can to find the resources in order to sensitize the city government and more importantly law enforcement to responding to people who are obviously going to require more than just the generic response. the rest i will submit.

there is a lot in the next few weeks that we will be putting forward. thank you, colleagues. i'm so sorry. i do need to do two in memoriams. in relation to public safety, we have had a bad last few days. several homicides have taken place, which i was dispatched to, including a well-known incident where a 9-year-old boy finds a gun supposedly and shoots himself because of the gun that he found. this is unacceptable in san francisco, and yet, it happens from time to time. we should be completely intolerant of these kinds of positions, so i'm stepping up to say that all the progress we have made in district 5 and western addition, in particular, parts of the fillmore western addition overall, we feel overall are slipping because of revocation of programs like community policing.

so we want to call for the town hall meeting, which we are trying to set the date right now, that will summon the police chief, the district attorney's office, the housing authority, said some of these incidents are occurring in housing authority and hud for free. dcyf, adults and juvenile probation, and legions of nonprofits. we want to try to make sure that we stem the tide of what we think is escalating in our particular area, but we are not alone. we are noticing the uptick of violence. i do not think this is happening simply on a fluke or something randomly. i think it will require a more concerted strategy by us, hopefully through the board of supervisors working with the mayor's office and law enforcement, and more importantly, agencies that are able to get to some of the causality as to why some of this is happening as opposed to

always executing a law enforcement response. that package of response needs to be significantly upgraded, and as we start the year with a body count already beginning to take a very scary notice, this is what we have to demand on. that is what i was spending might begin doing. i appreciate your indulgence. with that, i have an in memoriam for those who have now been killed. anthony jones, born july 20, 1957. known for his generous nature in assisting his neighbors, passed away january 21, 2011. leaves behind his loving sister, his five children, and knees. next is larry maloney, born december 13, 1930. residents in the lower haight for over 30 years. he operated various antique stores. he was known for his sense of style and large collection of

african art. he also could tell you the insight into history of the lower haight. he was well known as kind of the mayor of the lower haight. he passed away on january 2, 2011. next is maximo esperon. he was a member of the imperial court, passed away at the age of 77. san francisco resident for 44 years known as maxine. was a member of the tavern guild of san francisco and worked in gay bars for more than 40 years. the last few years, maxine was working at new mars. texting was elected in 1973. the rest i will submit. thank you for your indulgence. >> thank you. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you very much, madam clerk.

i do want to thank supervisor mirkarimi for introducing the hearing requests on a number of issues, but certainly, issues involving public safety. along the same line, introducing a hearing request that i'm asking be sent to the board's public safety committee to look at the current condition of the community police advisory boards. all of the 10 police stations in the city have a citizens advisory board that essentially serves as the cornerstone of community policing in the city and county of san francisco. my request is that we hear directly from the police apartment as well as members -- the police department as well as members of the community about the current state of those citizens advisory boards. i request that the chief of

police or his designee give a general update on the boards, including an update on the structure, a description of the goals of each board as well as whether or not those goals are being met, whether or not there are guidelines that govern the work of the boards, but my hope is that with this kind of an updated presentation, we will have a better sense of what is happening in terms of community policing throughout the city and county of san francisco. the second item in introducing is a resolution approving an agreement with the nonprofit owners association for the administration and management of the property-based business improvement district. finally, i am introducing a resolution that verges the san francisco municipal transportation agency to adopt changes to the use lifeline

discount fast pass program for qualified, low-income youth. i would like to thank my colleagues who are cosponsoring this legislation, and i especially want to thank the work of supervisor mirkarimi, who is the person who on this board made it possible for us to create the youth lifeline past. the resolution basically recognizes that of the large number of students in the san francisco unified school district, that many of them take public transportation and in fact, nearly 70% of the high school seniors that were surveyed indicated close to 70% that they used by some form of public transportation, and more than 44% actually take more than

one train or bus to get to school. as someone who used to work in the school district, i can tell you that it is clear that there are a number of low-income students that are having a tough time in terms of getting to and from school. in the 2008-2009 school year, 21,951 students or close to 40% of the students at san francisco unified qualified for free lunch, and 8000 students or close to 50%, qualified for reduce lunch. in this economy, families are having a tough time meeting their financial obligations. something that was compounded by the fact that the price of the muni fast has recently increased by 100%, going from $10 a month in may 2009 to $20 now.

even though it may not seem like a lot of money, if you have a family that has a number of children, you can see that the impact can be pretty severe. in 2010, because of the actions of this board at the urging of individuals such as supervisor mirkarimi, the sfmta board of directors funded fast presses to homeless youth, and in the process of implementing the program, we have come to see that there have been challenges , and those challenges include the challenge of making sure that sales of the discounted passes are accessible to students across the city, insuring that cash payments are actually made in a secure manner, and a defining adequate staffing to run the program. it is for this reason that we are now