with the surplus? >> do you have an answer? >> the question that cannot for the committee is that the previous purchaser backed out of the transaction so we don't actually have a current supplier for that what? what we have done it is revised the resolution to allow the department to sell this for no less than $1.3 million. because there -- this is simply a resolution, there is no language around the resolution of it. when this happens in april or march, they will report about what the final sale prices. at that point, the board chose to appropriate it and we would have a different ordinance to appropriate the remaining

balance. >> if you want it to appropriate, we would need to do a public appropriation on this. >> we would need it to introduce an ordinance and order to make an appropriation. >> we have an ordinance that we would have proceeds from the property that those proceeds would go toward affordable housing. >> i look forward to seeing what happens. >> can we have this same house, same call? without objection. >> item 16 authorizes the fire department to amend the ambulance billing contract and

anticipate $20 million in revenues. >> same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. >> item 17 approves modification number five the the professional services agreement with professional management services not to exceed one. -- not to exceed $16.8 million. >> can i ask the budget analyst a couple of questions about this item? looking at the report, we are talking about an increase of $1.7 million to this construction contract, which is a pretty significant increase when you are looking at an original budget of $15 million. this is more than 10%. i am trying to discover the reasons for the increase. what happened here that would

require amending the amount to this contract by this extent? >> mr. president, members of the board, supervisor campos comedy existing agreement was originally competitively bid under a request for proposal process. the department felt that they needed additional work and additional construction management services which we pointed out in our report and we felt that if they were justified in amending the contract rather than having a subsequent competition for this particular item. given the experience and the qualifications and the work that has been previously done. >> one of the things that is mentioned is that there was some delays in the project and i'm wondering what the reason for the delay is was?

>> can you give me a moment? >> we can come back to this item. >> i understand we have a representative from the airport. maybe we can hear what happened here, what we are amending the contract by such a significant amount. >> if i can answer your first question about the modification and the amount, when the contract was originally bid, the scope of work was a little bit different and we were just contemplating renovations to the inside of the terminal as work on the contract progressed. we realize that there was some road work that needed to occur to make the road outside of the

terminal stable enough to handle some of the actual weight that would be going through the new project. that is why you see this. that is one of the reasons why you see the increase in the modifications. your second question about the delay in getting it to the board. on there was a miscalculation. as i explained, we had a number of items, all of which were deemed pretty high priority which we were trying to get to the board for recess. the timing on this one was simply that i made a mistake. i cannot remember the last time that we have brought something retroactively. that is not usually how we do these. >> no more questions. thank you. >> can we take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted.

>> item 18 approves the exercise of the last one year option to extend the option for luggage cart police. >> same house, same call? this is adopted. >> items not teen is it a resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute water system improvement program funded professional service agreements. >> same house, sam call? this resolution is adopted. >> item 20 establishes the monthly kutch addition to that held service trust fund? >> same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. >> item 21 is an ordinance amending the police code by extending the consolidating

prohibitions on the discharge of firearms. >> same house, col. >> item 22 is a motion confirming the appointment of paul kelly to the san francisco relocation appeals board for the amex board portion of a three- year term ending january 2nd, 2012. >> we just received a letter from the appointee because of possible conflict. i have a motion to table. this motion shall be tabled. if we can skip over the special orders though i will note from 23-26, they wish to continue this to a later date. if we could now go to item 27. >> items 27 was considered by

the audit and oversight committee it was sent as a committee report. disapproves an agreement with the nonprofit owners association for administration and management of a property based business district known as the mission miracle mile business improvement district. >> same house, sam call? this will be adopted. >> -- same house, same call? >> this is adopted. >> item 28 is a motion appointing supervisor avalos to the bay area quality management district board of directors. firs>> supervisor avalos shall e excused. >> i would ask if we can

continue this for two weeks. >> supervisor elsbern has made a motion to continue this for two weeks. without objection, this will be continued for two weeks until march 1st. >> next item, 29. >> item 29 is appointing supervisor kim to the trans bay powers authority. >> do we have a motion to skews supervisor kim? -- to excuse supervisor kim? without objection. can we take a roll-call vote. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye.

>> this motion is approved. next item. >> item 30 is a motion appointing supervisor merck -- mar to the urban counties caucus. >> to we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? can we now take a roll-call audivote? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye.

>> aye. >> aye. >> this motion is approved. item 31. >> a motion approving supervisor's elsbernd, chu, campos, avalos to the board directors, golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. >> do we have a motion to skews our colleagues? can we take a roll call vote on this item? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye.

>> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> this motion is approved. item 32. >> a charter amendment second draft to amend the charter to increase the compensation for members of the board of education from a monthly stipend of $500 to one half the salary of a first-year teacher in the san francisco unified school district. >> as members of this board know, this has gone through a couple of different forms. amendments have been made as are articulated in the version that everyone has received. i would like to make some further amendments. we are under a time line given that this would be moving

forward to the june ballot. i am proposing some amendments. our board of education currently serves with the statement that was said by the city charter. an actual cash value is set at $500 a month with more stipulations for cost-of-living adjustments or anything of that sort. some of us have served on the board of education including supervisor mar and myself. we know that they have some -- have spent many many hours serving their community. this does not spend time spent talking to community members. i excited to bring this forward.

this is not to exceed first year's salary -- half of a first-year salary. the maximum salary would be half of the teacher's salary. the amendments i would like to make, the school district would like this to come out of their own budget and so i am asking to strike subsection b. >> do you have copies that you can circulate? no, i don't have copies. >> why don't i suggest if your staff could bring some copies and once they have, we can come

back to this item. >> ok, thank you. >> can we go to item 33. >> these items were considered -- item 33 is a resolution determine that the issuance of an on sale beer and wine license will serve the necessity and to be is to the people of san francisco. >> can we take a roll-call vote? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye.

>> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> this resolution is adopted. >> item 34 is a resolution urging the san francisco municipal transportation agency to adopt changes to the use fleiss line discount fast as program for low-income youth. -- for youth lifeline discount fast-pass program. >> i would like to thank the agencies responsible for supporting this, the department of children, youth, their families. i would like to thank america for his support of this item.

for those of you who are watching the hearing at the -- committee the other day, we had a pretty impressive turnout. -- i would like to think the mayor up for his support. we are try to make transportation free and accessible to students and to the youth in general. i would like to thank the groups that worked so hard to make this happen. many of the commissioners were here to testify. the student advisory council, the chinese progressive association, and here local -- and thank you very much and look forward to your support of this item today. >> is there any further discussion? i would be happy to be added as a co-sponsor. can we do this same house, same

call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. >> >> today, i am asking that we adjourned power meeting in memory of carolyn marks. it is my duty to report of the passing of a truly legendary figure in san francisco politics. she passed away yesterday morning and she was 90 years old. she is someone who actually saw several times that i would often campaigned on the same cycle as her son. she's the wife of milton marks jr.. she was a trailblazer in politics and in civic

organizations. she has been in a host of organizations. she was born in providence rhode island and she attended bryn mawr college after the outbreak of world war ii. she took the place of a man who got drafted, as she puts it, in the state department. she moved to be a part of the staff of the united nations. the secretary of state was your supervisor. in 1954, she met milton -- and a married one-year later. she was a dynamo behind her husband's career and she -- to spend time as a state senator. it was a political fear that she shined. she was a fixture of san francisco politics for decades.

she also served our city as a former president of the commission on the status of women and was active in our city's jewish community, serving as the board of directors, and as the vice president of -- her intellect, tenacity, warmth, humor, will be greatly missed. i ask that all of my colleagues sponsored this and that we send the deepest condolences to her family, particularly her children. may her memory be a blessing. >> can we take this without objection? >> thank you. the rest i submit. >> thank you to the clerk for my new gigantic microphone.

>> today, i am calling for a hearing, i am joined by supervisor chu. relating to the golden gate national recreation areas proposed off leash dog restrictions and the various properties including -- and some other locations, i know this has got a lot of press lately and there is a lot of concern and opinions about it. specifically, i would like the hearing had to address the impact on these restrictions on

dog owners and dog recreation in san francisco. there are many areas that provide significant off leashed dog space. there is the impact of these proposed restrictions on city- owned parks. if we restrict the dog space in this location, will there be a corresponding increase in our parks which will cause tension problems both for dogs who use the park and those without dogs? i would also like the hearing to address the additional resources that are set recreations might have to expend if these items go through. in addition, the hearing will address whether we should adopt legislation to require permits

for commercial dockers who bring large numbers of dogs into our city parks and whether we need to be regulating this commercial activity. this request is directed to primarily to the animal care and control and secondarily to the puc and to ports. >> we would like to think media services for their assistance. >> colleagues, i'm calling for a hearing specific year relating to our city's debt structure and in particular, our certificates of participation. i am sure that everyone would agree that the financial problems have been part of our largest issues and something we

will have to grapple with in the upcoming few years. for those who are on full clear with certificates of participation, these are basically nonvoter approve debts that we have on the books here in city hall. in digging into the issue, i have to say it shocked me that we had over $1.3 million in nonvoter approve the debt on the books and i understand in many instances it makes sense. when we releasing a building, it makes more sense. what concerns me is when we use these instruments to find what should be routine maintenance operations such as filling the pot holes, dealing with our streets. this really masks the true cost of city government and what i've heard time and time again on the campaign trail kicks that can down the road and burns our

future taxpayers. we need to take a hard look at that. if you in crude all of those that have been authorized, we have over hundred million dollars in street maintenance and repairs alone that had been nonvoter approved and that is costing us over $5 million a year when they're finally issued. the dollars we could be using to find other social structure projects, economic development and san francisco. i am asking our city attorney's office from the city attorney's office, the board and the mayor to discuss our overall debt structure and in particular, the legal basis for which we issued -- in san francisco and a comparative study against other large mr. toddies in california and have the issue the debt.

and have a true policy discussion about the future, especially these last few years that have been highlighted and the board has a responsibility to look out for the financial future of san francisco. i look forward to having that dialogue and working with my colleagues. >> i want to add onto a few things that were said. thank you for introducing the -- for ms. marks. supervisor wiener, thank you for your leadership on the dog issue, especially with golden gate and the national recreation area. for many of us, this is simply a matter of our back yards we are talking about, not just some obscure place far away.

>> i am following up on the hearing that we held yesterday in this city operations committee. first of all, i would like to thank the committee members for their indulgence in what was a long and thorough hearing. and the point of us have in that hearing about the recycling center and the status on how of the recreation and parks department has been treating this matter, it was all done through the prism of the commission and the recreation of the recreation and parks department. there had never been a hearing in city hall. for a service such as the

recycling center, two have been provided in a community way that has served so many parts of san francisco for well over 30 years. i thought it was a slipshod manner in the way in which parks and recreation have committed the termination of lease. by us have in that hearing, there are a couple of things that we learned that i think help motivate the resolution that i am putting in. in asking the mayor and the city departments cease on their termination of the lease and do their best if in fact they decide to proceed, to do everything they could to help relocate. a paltry effort had been applied in order to seek a relocation.

yet, when any nonconforming use like waste water or water irrigation treatment plant and that -- would like to put in the park which is ultimately nonconforming use, logic prevailed to suggest that it be placed in golden gate park and city efforts had been routed to look for an alternative location. this is one footnote that i wanted people to appreciate about what we are losing here, of the 6,000 tons of recyclables that the -- takes in, if we were to eliminate them, the department of the environment said it would take 27 then the machines in order to replace this point is often volume of what people can feedback. keep in mind what se