and for us not to be triaging by happenstance every time a tech company says they are ready to leave san francisco unless we react in a way that is not fluid or consistent with existing practice. what has been called into question is exactly what that practice is. i believe there is probably more reform in the making, but in the short term, our legislation specifies two years. i have already talked to a number of colleagues who have inquired about the legislation. i am certainly pliable. we may be able to negotiate with those maybe, but i think it is important that we do everything we can to look for the win-win to communities that may feel the double bang adversely by the potential gentrification that could be constituted by well- intention policies that are being discussed right now but

might have the unintended consequences of not being able to help communities in which we hope that they serve. we think that companies that exist, such as in district 10 or district 9, and other companies that i know would like to come to, say, district 5 -- we are looking to find a way to incentivize them. by scott firing the potential remedy, we are at that intersection where we are able to ride that particular incentive. i look forward to the deliberations on this and the others over the next few weeks and months. next, i am submitting -- i'm sorry, chair of the budget committee -- supplemental appropriation for women's and lgbt health services for fiscal year 2010-2011. without mentioning who specifically, as is required by

our own process here, there is a concern to us of health services provided by various communities, but one community in particular, where we do not want to see those services compromised or reduced to the point where they become ineffective. i believe that the community, especially the lgbt and women's community, have done a brilliant job of trying to find supplemental resources to help with this particular endeavor. now, i think it is time for the city to step up to the plate. we have held substantive hearings on this question here at the board of supervisors and budget committee, and we realize that everything that can be done is being done, and it is time for the board to step up. the supplemental appropriation, i think, is nominal, but it could really help make a difference in restoring the kind

of health care services that i think are in danger of being cut, which would be a travesty. next, in submitting a request for legislation by the city attorney -- i am submitting a request for legislation by the city attorney of to allow the radiobroadcasting meetings of the board of supervisors here roughly about eight years ago, the meetings of the board of supervisors yesterday on mondays, not his days. then it was a unilateral change by the board of supervisors to switch to tuesdays, but when they were on mondays for decades, kpoo radio was the station that broadcast it live our particular proceedings. then they went to the redevelopment agency and have been broadcasting the redevelopment agency proceedings. but if the bid development agencies ceased to exist and the commission's businesses ceased to exist, that frees up the ability for them to return to was to broadcast the proceedings of the board of supervisors.

they are one of the last few remaining independent stations. in my opinion, as we have recognized and commemorate their work, probably one of the cool stations around. i think it is important that we allow a mom-and-pop, such as theirs, to be included in our plan of making sure that the people have access to what we do at the board of supervisors. lastly, i have to tell you, i was completely heartbroken to hear about the passing of supervisor charles smith classroom from marin county. i know others will speak to this as well. he was my counterpart, a real fighter against some of the travesties of pg&e, and it was the architect of community choice aggregation in marin county. we just had dinner very recently. he is a year older than i am, and i cannot tell you how blow away when we found out that he

passed away unexpectedly. he is an amazing legislator. two-term supervisor with a number of commissions he had served on, and he was seeking his third term as a county supervisor. i know that he is a colleague to many folks up here on the golden gate bridge authority. i have to tell you, speaking about the golden gate bridge authority and about charles mcglashan, when we were contemplating what a community choice abrogation would look like, we used to meet privately at the golden gate bridge authority, both with their team of people and our team of people to try to have what was a series of meetings to envision what it would look like with marin and san francisco to work together. this was pre-prop 16 when pg&e tried to extinguish the county's right in california, to deny us that independent path of wanting

to provide an alternative energy service along with the private utility. i have to say, those meetings were incredibly rewarding. charles mcglashan, incredibly wise about how to proceed, and it does not surprise me that marin county is the first city to implement their program. and, as everybody had predicted, in terms of the industry predictions, that the program would fail, in six months' time, they paid back the start of dollars of $900,000 on their program where they are now already making a profit in marin while being able to furnish a green energy at a different rate to customers who elect to want to have that particular energy. it is really brilliant but in a very simplistic way because it requires breaking down those kinds of barriers, and that is what charles was. he was a fighter in probably the

most smoothly as possible, and he was a colleague, and i have to say i am extremely saddened about his passing. i think it is a loss not for marin county, but for county boards of supervisors throughout the state because he was a real leader. the rest i will submit. thank you. supervisor chiu: colleagues, can we do the in memoriam for our colleague across the bay? without objection, that shall be the case. >> thank you. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. i do want to thank supervisor mirkarimi for the in memoriam on supervisor mcglashan. i'm glad we are doing it collectively as a board. i also was very struck by the sad news. for those of us who serve with the supervisor on the golden gate bridge board, not only was he a very pleasant individual,

but very hard worker, and who really had the best interests of the public at heart. i am reminded in thinking about his accomplishments with the chronicle said about it -- what "the chronicle" said about him, which is that he was an environmental visionary whose efforts from solar, wind, and biomass power into countless homes and businesses. he truly was a visionary, and i think we have a lot to learn from what he was able to accomplish. for those of us who served with him on the board, we will miss him, and give our condolences to his family. the second item that i have is a hearing request for the city's external auditors to present a comprehensive annual financing report single audit management

letters for this item to come before the government audits and oversight committee. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you. i have two items today. first of all, in terms of stock options, i want to thank president chiu and supervisor mirkarimi for starting a dialogue about a stock option. i have actively been working on a for a number of weeks, have been meeting with a number of technology executives that i have worked with personally in the past, as well as the investors which fund these technology companies and make the decision to locate here in san francisco. i think one of the unintended consequences of our mid-market, now twitter debate is the notion that san francisco opposes a tax on stock options. companies are aware of it. investors are aware of it.

in a way, the sleeping giant has awoken. we need to refrain this debate from one as a notion of a corporate giveaway or changing our laws based on a particular company. that is not sustainable long term. we need to focus on how we create a long-term sustainable economic environment in san francisco. that has to be the question. the status quo is just unacceptable. the reality is we are the only city in california that taxes stock options. it might not seem like a big deal, but to young companies and investors that invest in them, it matters a ton, and they create a ton of jobs. it is not like we are incrementally more expensive for a little bit more burdensome. we are out in left field on the issue compared to other municipalities. the question that a number of us are working on is what to do about it. i appreciate supervisor

mirkarimi's legislation. as a government, we cannot continue to kick the can down the road or craft legislation based on a company. that does not work, in my opinion. we have to focus on the long term in san francisco and focus on the long-term solution. if we pass a two-year fixed, in 12 months, we will have the debate again. we have a broad coalition of people who want to work on the issue to get a long-term solution done now. that is what we have to focus on. last week, i took two steps. i asked our budget and legislative analyst to conduct and complete a study on other technology hubs in the united states, from seattle down to silicon valley, acrostic austin, the research triangle in the carolinas, new york, boston, to understand what other municipalities and areas are offering technology companies to relocate their, what incentives they are providing. we have to realize that while we

have a lot of inherent value in san francisco, i believe it is the best city in the world, but we are competing for companies and the jobs they create in our city. i have also asked our city attorney to draft two pieces of legislation to address the issue. one version, a more extended version of supervisor mirkarimi 's current bill, is a complete elimination of taxes on stock options. the other is that we tax companies based upon the stock price of their option or the fair market value of the stock when they should not be fair market value of the company when it goes public and there is a triggering event for taxation. in addition, i have been speaking with the mayor and working with his office to put together a technology council comprised of industry executives, investors, attorneys, and other service providers to discuss the economic environment of san francisco and generate policy ideas that will insure severance is to remain at the forefront of

our technology industry. i believe the idea of bringing this group together as long overdue, and i look forward to a long-term dialogue about the future of our city. lastly, before coming to city hall, my career was spent as a corporate attorney drafting stock options, as an investment banker, creating a financial analysis, and as a venture capitalist issuing them. i have worked in the area for years and believe our current situation is a problem, but also one that can be solved relatively easily and in the short term. i look forward to working with everyone else on this issue and believe we can have legislation introduced at the board within the next 30 to 60 days to create the long term solution. second of all , i ofan in memoriam -- i have an in memoriam on top of what president chiu introduced for

chi-- for joseph alioto. i have known the family for years. he will be sadly missed. more importantly, really, the face behind or in front of alioto's down on the wharf. he will be missed by a number of people. we will miss him dearly, and i asked my name be added to president chiu's in memoriam. supervisor wiener: as supervisor avalos noted, we did hold a hearing that i had called, and it was, i thought, a very productive hearing. i have been willing, when appropriate, to be critical of muni, and i really want to

commend mta for coming forward with a laundry list of ideas to improve the service on the j. it is a very important line in my district, and it just does not always run that well. mta has a number of ideas, some short term, some long-term, to fix the line, and i just want to commend mta for thinking outside the box, and i look forward to working on the future to making it a better line. the rest i submit. >> thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, mr. president, that concludes roll call. the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address the board for two minutes on items with the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including items on the adoption of the committee reference portion of the agenda

and excluding items which have been submitted by a board committee. speed is using the systems will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. a member of the public would like to document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly states such and move the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. supervisor chiu: thank you. each speaker shall have two minutes. we do have one special commendation at 3:30. i will probably interrupt public, in about two speakers or sell. -- two speakers or so. >> our president, our supervisor, i see something wrong today. six of our supervisors use glasses.

supervisor chiu: i think we are all waiting gemini eir -- reading too many eir's. >> [speaking foreign language]

ladies and gentlemen, i am here today to thank the man who saved my life. i would like to tell you, it is very proud to be one of his vision. he has saved many other people's lives as well. i would like to invite them to go to egypt. i would like to establish a clinic under my granddaughter's name.

she has only one heart. i have eight-time heart attacks. i would like to thank god for that. but the reason i would like to go back to my country, because i like to have your support to establish the clinic foundation, to help the poor people there back home for the heart disease we have. ladies and gentlemen, i introduced this for them to accept my invitation to go to egypt, and i believe they will have time to help other people who need our own health. our supervisor, i appreciate what you do for my city. i would like to ask again and again and again, and i never give up.

our supervisor kim promised me one time, to the wheel of times, three times, and i did not know if you are going to promise me today, to see my building. my building is an example of the grateful buildings we have in san francisco. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. after this next speaker, we will move to our special accommodation, but folks can still line up it you want. we will go back to public comment. next speaker. >> thank you. we do not interrupt other agenda items. public, it should be a full agenda item. stop the corporate rate -- rape of the public library. supervisors and many others think the rich people provide " influence, but at least the public gets good libraries compared to other cities.

big mistakes. the american library association gathers statistics on how cities of the unbearable size provide services. san francisco is one of 56 in its category peer among public libraries in cities of comparable size, san francisco is first in per-capita expenditures for libraries, much higher than anyone else. 226% of the average. san francisco has the second- highest paid library directories in the category. 49.5% above average. what does san francisco get for the money in books and materials as a percentage of expenditures? san francisco ranked 8.6% less than average. and in collection's size, which is where we should sean, since we are a 130-year old library, san francisco has 2.19 items for

capital, and the average 3.11 -- in collection size, which is where we should shine. you had a choice between democratic libraries or money, and you chose money. when we give up public control benefit to the community is the first casualty. for democracy, there must be accountability. yet, the supervisors voted for their own powerlessness, and the library is going to lead the current budget challenge by cutting books. in this case, as always, the allies cost more than the -- the lies cost more than the -- [bell rings] supervisor chiu: 90. at this time, we would like to go to our 3:30 commendation, which will be offered by supervisor cohen. -- thank you. supervisor cohen: i am excited

to introduce to you a gentleman by the name of dr. andre campbell. the reason why i wanted to take a moment to introduce this gentleman to you was because he is one of san francisco's unsung heroes. i think that we need to do a better job of acknowledging not only mentor's but leaders in the community. dr. campbell is a professor of clinical surgery at ucsf and a graduate of harvard university. he completed his internal medicine, general surgery, and surgical critical care residencies at the columbia presbyterian medical in new york. as a trauma and acute care surgery -- surgeon at san francisco general hospital, dr. campbell saves lives every time he goes to work. he makes a difference every day by serving those that are in

emergency situations. as you know, san francisco general hospital is the only trauma hospital in san francisco, and it treats everyone. the reason i asked dr. campbell to join us today is to express our gratefulness to him and his service for district 10, but to give. whenever one of our constituents gets shot, this is the doctor pulling of the bullets and stitching them up and educating them on how their life has value. this is the man. i brought him here today said you can take a look and understand what exactly -- what a life saver looks like. so i am deeply grateful for dr. campbell and the enormous impact he has. as just one individual on our whole entire community.

i am very proud to honor him today. do you have any words you would like to briefly share with us? >> yes, i had a few words. first of all, thank you so much for that very kind introduction. it was extremely moving. members of the board of supervisors and distinguished guests, i would like to thank supervisor cohen for the recognition of my in fact as a surgeon, for my contributions to my community. i am honored and humbled that i had been selected for this during black history month, and am also sorry i was not able to come here in february to receive the award, but i had scheduling issues and previous commitments. i work for the past 17 years as a trauma surgeon at san francisco general hospital. it is the only trauma center in the city and one of the first in the united states and in my opinion, one of the best. we stand ready to care for any injured patient in san been system. we also have a general hospital

caring for the uninsured and underinsured. we deliver between 1112 hundred babies each year. 55,000 patients are cared for in our emergency department. we also receive the most ambulance traffic in a hospital of any district in san francisco. we have seen the reports of the impact from the natural disaster in japan. the earthquake even affected the california coast and resulted in numerous loss of life. we see how important it is to have a strong trauma center and system as we live in the earthquake-prone bay area. i represent the thousands of dedicated physicians, nurses, administrators, and katie is caring for the patients at general hospital. i offer immense support that the members of the board of supervisors -- that would be all of you -- but have. i also thank you for voting yes on prop a to save general

hospital, the heart of the city. we appreciate that. each day, i am proud that we will continue to provide care on the future of potrero hill. i have dedicated my life to providing care for injured patients in the community. i have discussed the impact violence has on our community in this form and others. we still have an epidemic of violence in our community that i see every day that has disproportionately affected african-american young people and people who live in the southeast part of san francisco hearing this week, the murders that took place for it to the fact that we still have much work it in our community in the future. many of you have been out here to visit san francisco general hospital, and i have seen some of you already. you have my personal invitation to visit with me any dedicated practitioners of san francisco general hospital. we are skilled at caring for injured patients, but we cannot

save everyone who comes to our hospital, as noted by the patients who have died in the past few days. telling a loved one bad news is the most difficult part of my job, and i wish i never had to hear the screams of bereaved families ever again. once again, i want to thank supervisor cohen for this recognition. i want to thank my wife who is here, who is quite nervous. [applause] my family, who have allowed me to do the work that i do at san francisco general hospital, and spent numerous hours working to save the lives of patients from san francisco. thank you for allowing me to say a few words this afternoon. supervisor cohen: 94 coming in sharing your message. wait just a minute. [applause] >> thank you very much. osupervisor cohen: where else cn

you get that? a standing ovation. in closing, i also would like to recognize your wife. this is a dynamic duo. mrs. campbell also is a nurse at general hospital and served our city and county. thank you for your service as well. [applause] >> i have declared loud so i did not get into trouble. -- i have to clap loud so i do not get into trouble.