poured properties? >> correct. >> given that these are sent from the guidelines, there are some projects that involve port and non-port land. my understanding is that you're trying to exempt non-port. i am amending page four to item 9 to clarify the point lead is made that unless the non-port landis included, only the port- owned land would be included. >> that makes sense. >> think you. >> -- thank you. course we had a very thorough discussion of this item and we talked about the use of these.

-- >> we had a very thorough discussion of this item. the ifd and would be a different way of doing the same kind of work. many of the members to express concern because for every dollar that we divert from the general fund to pay for infrastructure projects, this represents less resources available for the projects. this is a word of caution that the pilot bram did receive. the standard on how we define deficiencies are corrected thought out and not only that, but that we have the administration and place. >> any additional discussion?

>> why don't i asked if there are members of the public that wish to speak to this issue. can you please lineup on the center aisle? >> thank you very much, supervisors. in a few months, this chamber will be full concerned about the cut in their human services, their essential services. if they understood what is before you, they would be resolutely against it. they are looking for their representatives to understand what is calling on here and to make sure that this does not get through. this is a very clear that this

is not a cared for outside contractors. this is a situation where we are taking funds that should be flowing into argument and allowing the commercial developer to institute the infrastructure amenities that he thought he was going to make for himself.

assumed that something is -- as nonsensical and costly to the city would not get through. now it falls to you to stand in its way and protect the citizen services and the tax base that ought to go in the regular budget process to our human services. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker? >> my name is deborah davidson. i'm hear to speak about the police department using excessive force and they accuse the mentally ill of crimes that -- president chiu: excuse me. ma'am, we're actually

tanguaying public comment on the issue of the i.f.d.'s right now. we will have time for public comment later but unless you want to comment on -- >> i think we should use the redevelopment. that's what jerry brown is trying to do to save funds and make things right the budget for the state of california. president chiu: thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors. mark solomon from the north mission. got some real concerns about this measure. back in the old days developers would pay their freight when they wanted to do profitable developments. they would pay for infrastructure in the community and that would be that. we have the rincon hill development as a 55-story height limit. they were able to essentially print money in bulk. when they wrote the check for the south of markest development fund my understand

is -- understanding is that president man was smiling. there is a lot of money out there. but now we're going to take a tax increment on falling prices over the next years? the reason we're doing this is because smo -- no one wants to challenge developers and this board does not have fiscal development to actually followthrough on the commitments to makes to developers to subsidize infrastructure to very profitable developments. we're going to lock in a chunk that should go to pay for sewage, d.p.w., all the infrastructure that development requires. that means as our property tax income is falling we're going to see services that are already looking at hundreds of millions in deficit further deteriorate. what we need say balanced approach here that those who are making money on -- off the

city entitlements to pay the freight. it's like i'm coming to a republican congress here, when this board needs to stand up and represent taxpayers and residents of this city to be sure that our residents are represented first and foremost and we condition our entitlements to those who are doing quite well on them paying their share of freight here. we're not a charity for well-heeled operations. please vote this down. and have the fiscal discipline to move the infrastructure forward. prouch president chiu: thank you. >> as typical at a lot of board and commission meetings, this item is something you got handouts for and the public didn't so you got it see the details and we don't. unfortunately most of the presentation is done for you. you've read all the

documentation and seen the numbers and maybe in this -- your mind this is something beneficial. i was recently at several library commission meetings and we had a couple of self-serving people who serve on the committee to develop the community benefit district here in the civic center and they came in and made a bunch of innocuous, disingenuous statements and i repeatedly told the library commission what did you get for the $21,000 that you put in for this year and the $200,000-some dollars you committed the library to over the next 10 years? and i think this particular issue is the same thing. you see the details and i don't know, maybe it's good, maybe it's not but as far as the public goes, we're snowed. we just see money being going here, it goes there, and we don't know who it's benefited. we just know that it's going out of the general fund and into things that what i'm hearing used to be paid for by

the developers and now they're getting to use city money and taxpayer money to put in things that they were required to negotiate as part of their contract. so what i'm saying is that when these things come up, it needs to be out so the public can understand what the hell's going on rather than what it seems to be is a bunch of back room deals between god knows who for god knows what, and we end up getting paid the bills and by the time it happens you all will be turned out and we'll still be paying the tab the president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jamie whitaker and i'm a resident of the rincon hill neighborhood. i think what i need to say at this particular juncture is that for 20 years people have been moving to the rincon hill neighborhood. a lot of young professionals who want to walk to work rather than driver, or bicycle or use transit and also a lot of

retirees who want to live active lives, to enjoy the arts and entertainment offered by san francisco. there's about 300 kids living in the area today. and i hope several more. but without parks for those children to be able to develop their muscles, their coordination, and without safe sidewalks, you know, remember, there's a $ -- 260,000 cars going across the bay bridge every day. we know that going into it. it's not going anywhere. we want to work -- walk to work bad enough i guess to put up with the air quality and the traffic that's present. and you also know that rincon hill sits between the bay bridge and the financial district, so we're sort of ground zero for traffic congestion. last week when the sand was spilled on the lower deck of the bay bridge, our entire neighborhood was gridlocked in

traffic. i was happy that i walk primarily to get around because i was easily getting around. so rincon hill has been around for 20 years. people live there. the plan if it's -- if the current sbilements are filled out it -- entime. ments are filled out it will be the most densely populated neighborhood west of chicago. i think that's important to remember. certainly faced with the recession there's been a lull in new development but suburban sprawl is killing our environment. we need people to move back to the downtown court. thank you. president chiu: before the next speaker, i've just been reminded if anyone wishes to file written protests you are welcome to do that with the clerk of the board at this time. and if we could now go back to

any comments and questions with regard to the infrastructure financing plan for rincon hill. this is not general comment. -- this is specific comment around the infrastructure financing of the rincon hill area. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in either public comment with any comments, questions, or protests regarding the infrastructure financing plan at the ron -- rincon hill area? seeing none at this time, this hearing has been held and closed. madame clerk if we could go first to item nine. >> mr. president, that item has been read president chiu: colleagues, as i mentioned at the beginning of the hearing, the intent of the i.f.d. guidelines which is this

item, item 9 on page 4, is to exempt out both port and nonport projects but for the nonport land to continue to have the i.f.d. guidelines apply to them. so i've circulated language to clarify that intent that states unless nonport property is included in a proposed i.f.d., in that case only the port-owned or managed land would be exempt. i'd like to make a motion to amend item 9 to that effect. >> motion. is there a second? >> second. >> can we take that without objection? that will be the order. president chiu: if we could take a roll call on item anyone nine. >> supervisor mirkarimi:, supervisor avalos: --

supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar. there are 11 ayes. >> resolution adopted as amended. item 10. can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this voogs adopted. item 12? so item 12 can we do the same, same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. item 1? same house same call. this resolution sanction adopted. same house, same call. item 14? this is adopted. item 15 is the declaration of the rufpblgts the special

election for the land owners because they waived waiting periods. our court is -- our clerk is in receipt of the ballots. at this time i'd like to ask madame clerk to open the ballots. i understand it will take our clerk a few minutes to tally the votes so what i'd like to ask is that we proceed to the next item and then come back when our clerk has tallied the results. so at this time why don't we move to our 3:30 special order for the recognition of commendations. i understand we have a number of commendations today sparting with supervisor mar. supervisor mar: thank you, president chiu:. along with supervisor carmen chu and david chiu, and i'm sorry for the delay but we're honored with the presence of a veteran of the world war ii and

korean war. he has been honored in a documentary that aired last year but it's a recent film. the -- he's the subject of the documentary as the first asian -american commissioned officer in the united states marine corps. he's dedicated immense resolution and dedication to his country in the korean war in the bat. of chosin reservoir. he's also documented for bravery and heroism. growing up in sacramento, though he is san francisco born, major kurt lee was a proud american citizen eager to enlist in the military ate young age. he joined 9 reserve officers corps in high school. we also have proud members of the american legion post including commander ron lee and many others here with us today and roger dong, the founder of

the chinese-american heroes project and nelsonan lum, the vice chairman of the war museum and as a platoon leader, main kurt lee in the korean war fought in the decisive battle of chosun reservoir against the advancing chinese army who had encircled the american forces. i think the film really showed how harsh the conditions were, rugged terrain and being severely outnumbered by chinese forces. major lee bravely led forces and donning -- a brightly colored vest, some say orange, others say pink or another

color, he endured enemy fire while receiving many wounds and forcing the enemy to reveal their stations. and they successfully evacuated the company's 8,000 marines to the port city. some debate this but many say he and his men saved thousands of lives on that day. he's received the navy cross, the second kind of highest honor in the marine krps -- corps and two purple hearts. the smith sonya channel's documentary "undom -- uncommon courage, breakout ought chosun," was shown and i hope it's shown widely around the country. i'm pleased to have the opportunity to recognize such an exceptional hero and leader and thank major lee for being here with us today.

he came out from washington, d.c. i'd also like to reveal that major kurt lee is also my uncle and it's my great honor to have him here in the chamber of the board of supervisors today. he's 85 years young. i also want to reiterate my gratitude for his outstanding braverry and to thank the chinese american project for helping bring him out here and ron lee and the cafe post for making his trip possible so educate younger people on what he's done. thank you so much for your great braverry and dedication to our country. i wanted to introduce roger dong first who will introduce major lee also. >> thank you. president chiu:, supervisors, it's a great honor and distinct

privilege to introduce to you one of america's great heroes whose story has been hidden for 60 years. we are very fortunate that the smithsonian institution discovered him, told the story and on the internet one day we found it, the story that here is a san franciscoan who has done these tremendous deeds and none of us know about it. so we invited him out here and now he's here today. it is with great honor i would like to present major kurt lee. [applause] >> thank you, roger. to me, it is a distinct honor to be here to observe the city's government in operation, number one. i'm considered a native son of san francisco although in all

hopsy i lived here for only two days when i was born here and my parents took me back to the sacramento river delta area where it was -- he was farming back in 1926. and technically i was brought up in the sacramento area. but i am very happy to be here and to recognize the civic motivation of the chinese americans in this particular city and to see how well they're doing and how this is america in operation. thank you very much for the honor of being here. [applause]

[applause] >> thank you. major, and our veterans today. our next commendation will be offered by i -- our supervisor from district six, jane kim. supervisor kim: thank you, president chiu:. i'm really excited today to present commendations to an

organization that does really amazing work in our district, la voz latina. neighborhood six and the grouppeds in the greater mission area are very familiar with the amazing work of this organization, a fabulous group of women, mothers, that contribute to the vitality of our neighborhoods. they are a model for real community organizing and have taken on leadership roles on important issues that matter within our community, whether it's the safe passages guidelines, a program that started from the community with the boys and girls club north of market c.b.d. and several other community-based organizations, to take back the community to our own hands, to make the streets safer for our kids walking home from school and after school programs, to partner with a diversity of groups in the tender loin. they also work actively with parent groups in several of the

public schools including tenderloin community elementary school, betsy carmichael, redding and buena vista. i became fack with the work of la voz. they are hugely active in helping improve communication for our parent-teacher communications and to work to ensure we are bringing bilingual staff to the schools and to keep our students in our communities ensuring safety transfers and working on not expeling kids. and the group is working on a plan to improve pedestrian safety and cleany -- cleanliness in our parks. they are very strong, outspoken

women who not only work full time and raise families but dedicate their hours outside to take leadership roles in their communities, to fight for integrated and successful and affordable housing, transit and jobs. i also wanted to acknowledge today a woman that has been a huge part of holding up this program. it's a woman that i have worked very closely with, a colleague and friend who has dedicated her life to serve and organize as a tenant rights activist and organizer for the tenner lyon affordable housing clinic and s.e.i.u., barbara "bobby" lopez. [applause] bobby, as many of us know, is ending a five-year-long stint as a community organizer for la voz to work on to actually organizing for the school district, creating stronger

partnerships between our communities and schools and our teachers. latinos make um roughly 25% of the tenderloin, mainly of mayan descent and they are highly organized in a neighborhood that's worked hard to create coalesce around improvements. bobby's an asset to the organization and i know that there are a lot of people here today that want to acknowledge her and thank her for her have. she's officially morvinging on to a new job as community liaison for bryant elementary and i know she will continue to be a rock star advocate for our community and our office looks forward to continuing to work with the inspiring mothers of la voz latina. i am most inspired by her work to write the first draft of the bed bug law and to work on

racial profiling, car con fisscation -- confiscation, detention, and i don't know how boib does what she does. she has many extracurricular activities but she's someone i look forward to working with. so we want to bring up the mothers. and bobby lopess. -- lopez. and as a resident of district six thank you so much for you all the work you do to help improve our communities.

>> [speaking spanish] before i girnings i just want to say good afternoon and i want to thank you for this recognition. [speaking spanish] [translater:so i'm just going to mention a few changes we've

worked on in the tender loin. obviously the housing rental subsidies, the foot patrols making police walk the streets. making sure people's cars weren't confiscated if they were illegal immigrants. and now the biggest is safe passable -- passage because if you live in the tender loin you know it's not safe going to and from schools and we want our kids to are safe. i guess i'll say a few words. as jane said, i've switched jobs and i'm not very comfortable but i've got to get used to it. it's been a wonderful journey in the tenderloin the last five years because we've had an amazing group. [speaking spanish] . jane said it, a lot of the moms work during the day and even the ones that don't have children they take care of,