supervisor chiu: welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march 22, 2011. >> [roll call] mr. president, there is a quorum. supervisor chiu: thank you. i understand the supervisors chu

and kim are expected shortly. but i wonder if i could have a motion to excuse supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos will be excused. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. colleagues, we have february 15, 2011, board meeting minutes. can i have a motion to approve? without objection, those meeting minutes will be approved. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. supervisor chiu: if you could read our consent agenda. >> items one through five comprise the consent agenda. the items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote.

unless a member requests discussion of a matter. it will be removed and discussed separately. supervisor cohen. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: those resolutions are adopted an ordinance is finally passed. >> item 6 is an ordinance amending the planning and administrative codes pertaining to fees. supervisor chiu: can we take the same house and call? without objection. >> item 7, awarded its amending zoning she -- zoning map sheet two to include parcels

inadvertently excluded from the zoning map. supervisor chiu: same house, same call? this ordinance is passed on first reading. >> item 8, ordinance segment -- amending the administrative code section 2.97 to define "summary" for the purpose of publishing public notices. supervisor chiu: same house, call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. >> item 9, resolution approving a memorandum of understanding between the comptroller and port commission regarding the 34th america's cup. -- between the controller and port commission. supervisor campos: quick question. some of my colleagues know there was a hearing at the budget and finance committee regarding some of the amendments to the contract, and i was just wondering whether or not that has any bearing on the approval on this item.

i understand my items coming back to the board, and i do not have any specific problem with this, but just had a question on whether or not there was a connection between the two. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. we did have a very long hearing about the america's cup and changes to the agreement. i believe we will start to see a number of items coming back with regards to this specific proposals to the extent that there's any long-term leases or issues associated with the provision. what this is currently is simply an mou with regard to how is it calculates certain reimbursement payments for rent, so it is a very straightforward how it is to calculate the numbers, and not how it changes that relationship. supervisor chiu: thank you. can we take this item same

house, call? without objection, the item is adopted. >> item 10, designating the agency's qualified to produce a bit in the 2011 annual joint fund-raising drive for officers and employees of the city and county of san francisco. supervisor chiu: colleagues, same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 11 is from the budget and finance subcommittee without recommendation, an ordinance be appropriating approximately $15.5 million of market rate general obligation bond proceeds and rear for creating the same amount to be below market rate seismic safety loan program in the mayor's office of housing for fiscal year 2010- 2011. supervisor chu: this item just was sent out from the budget and finance subcommittee without recommendation, strictly for me to be able to get more information about what the levy would mean for property owners. we did receive that information from the office, and we did see that the changes are anywhere

from $1.79 all the way to $3.79. so we did receive information. i am prepared to support the item. i am prepared to know that the plan does not issue for the incidences of the subsidized bonds. supervisor chiu: can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance is passed on the first reading. >> and 12, motion approving the 2011 work plan, performance goals, and setting a date for the annual performance evaluation of the budget and legislative analyst joint venture partnership. supervisor chiu: same house, same call? this motion is approved. next item. >> item 13, resolution adopting findings under the california environmental quality act related to the bay division pipeline numbers three and four of the water system improvement program. supervisor chiu: same house, call? this resolution is adopted.

why don't we skip over our 4:00 special order and go to roll call. >> supervisor cohen, your first on a roll call for introductions. supervisor cohen: thank you. good afternoon, colleagues, and members of the public. today, i have a few items to mention this afternoon. first is a resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing to apply for mortgage revenue bonds support for phase one of the hunters your project from the state of california. as you recall, hunters view is the first project of the hope sf program, which seeks to rebuild distressed housing communities in our city. the deadline to apply is fast approaching, so i will be asking for your support on this measure at next week's board meeting. i am also calling for an informational hearing on the

proposed executive part plan amendments. after a series of delays in its environmental review, the project will now be before the planning commission for its final approvals in the next few months. i look forward to an informative and spirited discussion of the project at the land use committee in the next few weeks. some good news to share with you today -- after many years of community struggle, i'm happy to report that the potrero power plant has ceased operations. for those of you that worked very hard on shutting down the power plant, i just want to express my gratitude and also acknowledged the hard work of your colleague, the maxwell -- sophie maxwell.

a restriction has been filed to the title against the property that states the site will never again be used as a power plant. a broad diversity of neighborhood residents, community activists, and city agencies helped to realize this long sought after outcome, and i wanted to take a moment to publicly acknowledge the city's power plant task force, the green action coalition, bright line defense project, as well as former mayor gavin newsom, the general manager, and the city attorney, and his office, and as previously mentioned, former district 10 supervisor sophie maxwell. i applaud all of them for their efforts and congratulate him for this significant achievement. and there's still much work to be done on this site, which now must be immediate for reuse.

i look forward to facilitating a dialogue around these issues and in the upcoming months. on a little bit more sad and somber note, i am going to be closing -- ask that we close this meeting in memoriam in honor of my grandmother. she passed unexpectedly two weeks ago on march 12. just a little bit about who she was -- florence brown was born december 20, 1924, in new orleans, louisiana. for the most part of her life, she lived in san francisco, made her home in district 11 in the english side district. she had developed a very robust professional career and spent most of her working life working in business. -- made her home in district 11 in the english side -- in teh

ingleside district. not only did she work in business, but she was an active member of the ingleside community. she was a member of the ingleside methodist club for 20 years. she did extensive work for senior centers, catholic charities, and she enjoyed working with the girl scouts, boy scouts, as well as campfire girls. she has left to cherish her memory. five children, my mother, my aunt florence, and their spouses. i also would like to acknowledge my 13 -- total of 14 grandchildren that she also leaves behind. forgive me for stuttering over a

bio so well. >> thank you. supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: i will submit. supervisor chu: today, i would like to request that we adjourn in the memory of cameron beach. he was the mta director on our mta board for quite some time, made a significant amount of contributions to that board, and we always know how difficult it is often to serve in the body, so i do want to adjourn in his memory, so i think we could make that on behalf of the full board. supervisor chiu: there were a number colleagues wanted to do that, so without objection, that will be the case. supervisor chu: we are embarking before they've month -- the month before the budget submission comes was, i request to talk about their policy objectives, over all, what the goals of each department would be, and primarily, the largest

general fund apartments, including with the submissions to the department have been so far. this is really an effort to make sure we understand what those submissions are and can have earlier conversations with their departments ahead of the budget. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor kim. supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. i have an in memoriam for peter nardossa, known as pg to his friends, also a district 8 residents. he was a new york transplant. he began his career as a catholic school teacher, and after moving to san francisco, he volunteered on dianne feinstein's citywide campaign for supervisor, and he joins her in city hall as an aide after the election.

peter was the first openly gay aid to any member of the san francisco board of supervisors, and we can thank senator feinstein for that. his presence in city hall as an openly gay man was important to the developing lgbt movement in san francisco. he helped to change city hall to a place where lgbt people, whether aides or supervisors or otherwise, could be heard. after the assassinations of assassinationsmosconi -- the assassinations of mayor mosconi and supervisor mill, he worked with the budget analyst. he worked as deputy director of public affairs, often appearing at city hall to testify on the air for its behalf.

this is -- since i learned of peter's death last week, i have talked to a number of people. he was a really popular guy, and for good reason. i know he will be missed by an awful lot of people, so i asked that we adjourn the meeting in his memory. i am also introducing a resolution today relating to the availability of night life opportunities for youth in san francisco. recall that i had requested an economic impact study on the entertainment and not let industry generally, and that is proceeding, but tonight, there will be a joint meeting of the youth commission and the entertainment commission relating to the availability or lack thereof of safe entertainment nightlife opportunities for youth. it is important for us as a city in terms of our cultural vibrancy but also as a matter of public safety for youth to have

nightlife opportunities. if they do not, we know that trouble ensues, because there's not much for them to do. tonight, at this joint commission meeting, we will be hearing from youth about what they need in terms of entertainment outlets, and i look forward to that discussion. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor mirkarimi. president chiu. supervisor chiu: 90. first, i want to add to the comments about kamen beach. he is someone i know that many of us knew and have worked with -- comments about cameron beach. he was one of those rare individuals who knew every single bus and rail line in the city, every route, stop, schedule. i know that he will be greatly missed by all of us who care

about public transit, and we want to keep his wife and daughter in our thoughts. i'm introducing a piece of legislation as one of our boards representatives to the disaster council that is relevant to a post-9/11 reality. in recent years, since 9/11, there have been many commercial vendors that have responded to concerns about bio-terrorism and marketed detection devices to companies, building owners, and public institutions. many of these devices have not been tested, have not been set to any national standard and could create false alarms. there are hundreds of these products on the market. a false alarm about a bio- terrorism agent, and an example of that might the anthrax, would cause significant response, and it is estimated that if that would happen within san francisco, we could experience a

cost to the city of $500,000 for an initial 24-hour response. there have been false alarms in other parts of the city that have led to such unnecessary responses. there also, with which it -- there also was legislation in new york city that recently passed to regulate the industry that inspired the thinking here. i want to thank the department of health, our fire department, and our police department, along with our chamber of commerce to craft the legislation that i am introducing today, in part because these commercial vendors have been selling to companies, building owners, and public institutions in san francisco. the legislation in introducing would require anyone who possesses a biological agent detected to register the product with the city to abide by city requirements, and it requires that individual to have a facility response plan if there is an incident and a payment of penalties if there are any false alarms. in a post-9/11 world, we need to be safe and make sure we did not create unnecessary public alarm

where there is no need. i'm also introducing a hearing request on the state of affairs at the mta. this is a hearing in which i'm asking the mta to provide us an update on the budget on ongoing labor negotiations, on the agency's priorities across all modes, pedestrian, bicycling, taxis, and card, as well as a report on key performance indicators such as recent customer service and on-time performance data from the agency's service standards. the rest i will submit. >> thank you. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. i have a couple of items. the first is a hearing on the controller's office cities service auditors audit report on the payroll of the san francisco fire department covering the period july 9 through june 30, 2010. for those of you who might be

interested, members of the public, the audit report is actually on the controller's website. the second item also relates to the work that the office has been doing for the city and county of san francisco, and we are requesting a hearing to discuss the status and current efforts to deal with the issue of overtime for the largest apartments. we are requesting that the hearing be held at the government audit and oversight committee. there is also an accept and expend a grant for $240,000 for the research network, which will be used to implement a financial empowerment program. the last item is an it