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 item that involves one of the most important issues facing not only the city and county of san francisco, but quite frankly, the entire rising health care costs.

there have been a number of news articles recently about, specifically, hospital costs, including differences in those costs. in fact, just this past weekend, in "san francisco chronicle," there was an article about health costs. this is a very important issue for the city. and i believe that we as the board of supervisors need to get a better grasp of the specifics of what is happening in this industry, and so, on introducing a hearing request on many things, but among others, the comparative costs of hospitals in the san francisco bay area. "vogue chronicle" actually talks about -- "the chronicle"

actually talks about costs, and if you have some dominate the market, there is a lack of incentives for a curbing of costs, or at least a loss of incentives. we have taken initiatives in improving this. there has been a collaboration with several insurance groups, hospitals, in doctors -- and doctors' groups, in this is so different actors in the health- care system better communicate -- and this is so different actors in the health-care system better communicate. hss was also successful in negotiating a 0% premium for

blueshield for the upcoming fiscal year, and we applaud them for their efforts. but as we continue to face the enormous cost of health care, especially when it comes to the impact on the general fund, this hearing will focus on the following. understanding what the trends in drivers of hospital costs in the san francisco bay area are, of costs of services and different hospitals compared to one another, is there a relationship between quality of care and cost, and whether or not future development plans by san francisco hospitals could impact the costs for members of the city and county health services system and for san francisco residents, in general. how the health service system can work to control costs and plans to control future cost increases, including the support

of the launch of the affordable care organizations. we look forward to hearing from the director of the health services system, ms. undocked, who has done great work, and any other -- mcculloch -- ms. dodd, who has done great work, and any other. thank you. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor elsbernd? supervisor elsbernd: i just want to mention supervisor cameron. every time ago to one area, i think of him. as you begin to go into the tunnel. in the last few years, it has picked up, but i do not think it

has been as fast as he would have liked it, and i think of his great work with the mta, and i will follow-up on president chiu's comments, and carmen, his wife, is just a wonderful person, and i have sympathy for her right now. the first four years -- few years at the board, there were, shall we say, board liaisons, who i knew, without even hesitating, when they put forward a fact, i did not have to check it. peter was always straight down the line, always a perfect gentleman, nothing but integrity, and he really did bring a sense of class to public service, a sense of class to the

board chambers, and his commitment and his dedication, not just one area, but really, his love for the city and county of san francisco is something that i have always admired, and this is something we can aspire to, and if we do that, i think he would be proud of each one of us. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor elsbernd. supervisor mirkarimi, you wanted to be re-referred. supervisor mirkarimi: i agree. he was a wonderful public service, and he will be missed -- he was a wonderful public servant. so well said in articulating, i think, his contribution to the city. next, i want to recognize a couple of events that have occurred in the past 10 days that i think are important to

all of us. japan town in our district, district 5, has been engaged in a series of fund-raisers around the clock and televised in raising funds for earthquake relief in japan. president david chiu, myself, the mayor, we were in japan town for an impromptu telethon. i have to say, very well done. they did not have enough phones to accommodate just the tsunami, for lack of a better phrase, for the interest or desire for people who wanted to donate, and by the time i left, in less than one day with four hours to go, they were able to raise over $300,000, and the people who were calling in were absolutely happy to talk to somebody. they were anxious to donate, it is really very, very inspiring.

how inspiring it is to see the people of japan town come together and focus how effective they are. i know supervisor kim and her staff are putting together an event tomorrow which has been well publicized. and then on friday, april 15, a friendship reception at the hotel kabuki. i went to underscore how important this is. more so, our relationship is that much more profound. san francisco is only one of three japantowns in the united

states, and this is something that is near and dear to our hearts. on march 31, we are celebrating the new year, which effectively took place yesterday, on the equinox. the persian culture is fast around the world, with a substantial population here in california -- the persian culture is vast. every year, we have some sort of celebration marking the persian new year. it will be on march 31 from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the rotunda. it is open to everyone, but we expect it to be tight, because last year, we had about 1000 people, so it will be a little tight on room, but it will be quite fun, fun and for someone who has not seen its -- it.

and born in jay gray 1941 in ireland, there was a man -- and born in ireland in january 1941. a true champion of workers' rights. he first came to america with the transport workers union and subsequently worked as a union organizer. he organized the exploited chinese sweatshop workers in san francisco, and along with cesar chavez, he was an instrumental leader with farm workers, and he was a founding member of the peace and freedom party and helped organize protests in chicago during the infamous and democratic national convention. brian was a founding member of

the national -- a keynote speaker and fund-raiser. both of these organizations were completed the two irelands complete freedom from british rule -- were committed to ireland's complete freedom from british rule. brian would come back and help on campaigns and the events, where and at him over 20 years ago. he was committed to addressing the social and civil rights of san francisco. wherever bryant's travels took him, his commitment to the irish language was there. that people learn the irish gaelic language. in his fifties, he received a ph.d. in theater and then went

to law school. he passed the bar on his first test at age 57. and he leaves quite a legacy, provided that his wife of 45 years, his three sons, his grandchildren, and his first wife and the many, many irish people that he had worked with here in the united states. the rest i will submit. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor wiener, you would like to be re-referred? supervisor wiener: i would like to have the immemorial sponsored

by everyone on the board. president chiu: we can do that. [gavel] clerk calvillo: that is it. but -- president chiu: please read the next item. clerk calvillo: this is for public comment. you are able to address the board on items that are not on the agenda. if you want to place of the on the overhead, you can, but please remove it. president chiu: please come forward. you have two minutes. >> i think this board needs to take a long hard look at -- legalizing marijuana korea it will be a great reason to generate money for the people of

san francisco and to build a hospital or for people with mild disabilities i take my hat off to this board of supervisors. you have done some great things, but now, this is when the rubber hits the road. this is going to be a tough one to bring to our people, but we have smart people in the city of san francisco. we know that. but if we bring this to a vote, i am sure that they will do the right thing, and we will find a way to legalize marijuana. 54 your time korea good work. -- thank you for your time. good work. president chiu: saint you.