i have participated in a number of their efforts over the years. on april 16, in a couple of weeks, the california coast in the schools will hold the largest city wide workshop at the main library, and i ask all of my colleagues for your support in declaring that date april 16 california poets in the school's day in the city and county of san francisco. the rest i will submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor chiu: i will submit. mirkarimi colleagues -- supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues, i am submitting a resolution in support of the upward bound program. it is in danger of being eliminated. federal program established to assist disadvantaged students in san francisco and throughout the nation to enroll in complete college education. in continuous operation, on the campus of university of san

francisco since 1966, of fort brown has made our city quite proud. in november 2009, the university of san francisco informed of were down with decision to transfer -- informed upward bound -- we know the truth that i transferred to another institution would require approval by the u.s. department of education, and the bureaucracy is unlikely to be of much assistance in a short time. unilateral action will essentially kill the program. upward bound is located in the same building with the rotc. usf has found space for rtc but not for upward bound -- found space for rotc but not for upward bound. thank you. the rest i will submit.

supervisor campos: thank you. colleagues, i have a couple of items. the first is an item that i discussed earlier during the consideration at the mid market tax incentive proposal, and that is in recognition of the need to address the large number of vacant buildings in the mid market area and throughout the city. i have made a request of the budget and legislative analyst to analyze the number of vacant buildings in san francisco, the average size, the length of time they have been vacant, and the types of businesses previously renting those locations. we want the budget analyst to help us determine a size threshold for tax and vacant buildings in a way that not only helps prevent blight and promotes public safety, but also discourages large commercial property owners from keeping commercial rents artificially high. we also want to know ways in

which we can also help address this issue without impacting negatively small property owners. this we believe is information that will be helpful as we move forward with the efforts being led by supervisor kim to create a legislative solution on that issue, and i look forward to continuing to work with her and her office on this matter. the second item is that i am requesting a committee hearing on the issue of the payroll expense tax for the biotechnology industry. i request a hearing on whether the payroll expense tax break has met its intended goal with respect to the biotechnology industry, including whether or not that has helped to revive the local economy, whether it

has created jobs, whether it has created an increase in property tax revenue for the city and whether or not it has helped to create a biotechnology industry, and i request this be forwarded to the government technology industry. finally, i request to be joined along with supervisor wiener on congratulating the bay area reporter, the local lgbt newspaper, that is celebrating its 40th anniversary. i speak as an openly gay man, when i say that the publication from my own experience serves such a critical role in the life of not only the lgbt community, but all of san francisco. as an openly gay man first moving into san francisco, you saw that as a great resource to know what is going on in the

community and to this day to find out what is going on with the community and issues that impact the community, that is the place to go, and we are very lucky that such a publication is here in the city, and i know they will be celebrating this week, so i want to congratulate them, and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thank you. the have the same rights that most workers have, most often have no health benefits, do not receive overtime pay, exploitation and violence, often work in isolation, and assemblymen ammiano has put

forth in domestic bill of worker rights that would provide standards for what the industry, the domestic worker industry, more of an industrial sector should work under. these include equal right to workers' compensation, equal right to notice, equal right to five hours of uninterrupted sleep under adequate conditions, right to annually -- annual cost of living wage increase, paid vacations, and sick days. those are the main elements of the bill of rights, and i commend tom ammiano for his visionary work at the state of california. that is the extent of my introduction. supervisor kim: thank you. as i mentioned earlier today, i

am also introducing trailing legislation to both clarify and strengthen our community benefits agreement process, which i know there are many questions about from stakeholders and members of our community. the legislation will establish a separate committee, which represents a variety of stakeholders and surrounding neighborhoods impacted by this legislation, such as the tenderloin, south of market, and central market area. representation will range from books that represent small business to affordable housing, low-income families, low-income seniors, and community-based organizations, who will get a chance to review it and advise the mayor's office on the agreements. they will also conduct a public hearing to gather further feedback from the larger communities prior to the conclusion of the agreement. in addition, they will advise the mayor and board of supervisors on policies and programs to mitigate the unintended consequences of development and revitalization and also help advise on

stabilization efforts for existing tenants and small businesses. also, monitoring the local hire mandates, which may be in the cba. this will ensure an opportunity for stakeholders impacted by the legislation to receive feedback and also partner with our new business neighbors and educate them as well as the neighborhood that they are moving into. the rest i was a bit. >> thank you, supervisor kim. -- the best i will submit. supervisor chu: i wanted to make a quick announcement on something our office has been working on that might be beneficial to many of the students in our communities. we are partnering with congresswoman jack e. spier to his eye financial empowerment workshop for high-school students in the district. -- the school district. on april 30, from 10:00 to 1:30

at lincoln high school. we have always thought about the issue of financial literacy and the fact that our public education system and even our college system does not teach us how to be financially literate, how to budget, how to make sure that our credit is where it needs to be. partnering with the congresswoman, we are working to make sure that we provide some avenue of information to our students, so again, this is happening april 30, from 10:00 to 1:30, and we hope you will be able to share this information with students in all districts. it is open to all high school students across the district. thank you very much. supervisor wiener: thank you. today, i am introducing a charter amendment that will start us in the direction of reducing the number of ballot measures that voters have to vote on in making our government more flexible. it will do so by allowing after a certain number of years

instead of requiring that any changes go back to the voters. one of the most common complaints i hear from voters is why do we have to vote on so many ballot measures? why can the board of supervisors do its job and has legislation without asking them to pass it for us? as we all know, there are some items like taxes and bonds that will be required to submit to voters under state law, but there are other ballot measures that are required only because of our own local charter. the charter amendment would change our charter to allow the board of supervisors to amend and in some circumstances revealed ordinances adopted by the voters that have been on the books for a certain amount of time. specifically, our charter currently provides that if the voters adopt an ordinance, then they must otherwise provided in -- unless otherwise provided in the ordinance, the voters and only the voters can amend it. this would change it as follows

-- once the voters adopt an ordinance, then for the first three years, the board would be prohibited from amending or repealing the ordinance, and only the voters would be able to do so. for the next four years, the board would be able to amend or repeal the ordinance with a 2/3 vote. after seven years, the board would be permitted to amend the ordinance. we cannot amend the ordinance, given that it was adopted.

i will let the california and san francisco are fairly unique in our stringent rules about non-i'm ability border adopted measures. there are 21 states that allow for voter adopted ordinances. of those, we are the only ones that prohibit the legislature from subsequently making changes. a plan to dramatically resist, a plan designed to dramatically eliminate access and possibly to eliminate dog periiod. we're having a hearing at land use next monday, and i hope that

it will be a productive hearing. i ask that this resolution be referred to land use for consideration next monday at the conclusion of that hearing, and the rest i submit. >> seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes roll call for introduction. supervisor chiu: thank you, colleagues. why don't we go to item 13, to the closed session. my apologies, sorry, i just realized i skipped over public comment. why don't we go to general public comment? i turn the page accidentally. >> the next item is the opportunity for the public to address the board for two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including items on the adoption without reference to the committee portion of the agenda, and excluding items which have been considered by a

board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if a member of the public would like to document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. supervisor chiu: thank you. first speaker. two minutes apiece, unless you are translating in a different language. >> [speaking foreign language]

ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. i am here today to thank one of our supervisors. his name is campos, david. i respect him being here, not only as supervisor, but also as a man. he told me and asked me, "you need to talk with your supervisor." he said to talk with her first.

mr. david campos, i would like to ask one other request -- i would like a meeting with our supervisor. you know more than i know, more than anyone else. that young lady, she has one of the toughest districts in the city. she is young, but she can handle it. how can she handle it? by your support and our support. supervisor chiu: if you could direct your comment to the board instead of singling out individual members, that is the rule of the board. thank you. >> thank you. i would like to ask you again. because it is going to be a nice meeting, and we will give her a chance to make a decision to correct our mistakes in district

6. supervisor, you never be afraid. you never give up. people like me, tell them if your district would like to be behind you, and we would like to see what you are going to do. i respect you for the decisions you have. i have been before to your office, but i have had no chance. now, i have a chance to ask you publicly -- [bell rings] >> good afternoon, supervisors. stop the corporate rate of the public library -- the corporate rape of the public library. a private fund raisers who call

themselves the friends of the library our love to present themselves, the department produces a quarterly report of the program to remodel the branches that was intended to cross $105.9 million and be finished in january 2010. the friends and foundation of the library originally claimed that it would raise $16 million. according to the quarterly report from the department of public works, the foundation have expanded $1.1 million or 7.1% of its commitments. an examination of the charitable report to the state attorney general shows that they have other charitable purposes themselves. for example, the salary of their director and their controller is considered 79.4% to be a charitable purpose. the rest of the employees make over $1.6 million. that is 79% a charitable purpose. and consider 91% to be an office

charitable purpose. they hire an outside consulting firm and consider the 79.7% to be a charitable purpose. they have only honored 7.1% of their commitment to the library improvement program because the department of public works will not include their own salaries as a contribution to the library. the point is they have no agreement with the city because they would not submit to an examination of their finances by your finance committee. this board of supervisors will not hold them accountable and will not even examined the documents that were designed to create accountability because rich people have immunity just for being rich. they are ripping off the public, and the supervisors praise them for doing it, and that is why it is still true -- the lives are worth more than the money -- the lives -- the lies are worth more than the money.

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all that is left are the city dreams i hold ♪ [bell rings] supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i have a graphic that i would like to show please. thank you, supervisors. i would like to speak to you about an issue that some of you have been here for a while have considered last year. some of you are new and have not considered it yet. it is the botanical gardens. if you remember, last year, an ordinance was passed to put a non-residency fee at the botanical gardens. many of you knew -- voted for it, and everybody knew it was an

unpopular measure, but you voted for it because you felt like he needed to in a moment of budget distress, and he needed to save the jobs of three gardeners that were threatened to be fired by the rec and park department. a year has passed, and i wanted to come back and give you the benefit of the hindsight that we have now. we have a lot of information about this fee now. i wanted to first tell you how it is performing. i wanted to tell you the impacts -- with the impact has been on the community and on the garden, and i wanted to speak a little bit about the rpd forecast for the coming year. how has it been done? it has been quite disastrous. only 59,000 of the $250,000 that was promised to you in order to pass this fee has been generated. on top of that, there have been

two downgrades since they gave you the forecast last year, so they are down about 45% on the forecast they have given you on revenue. the botanical society has decided to step up and put up a $140,000 subsidy in order to avoid an imbalance at rpd budget. i will tell you that these numbers will get worse in the coming months. i will tell you about that in a second. secondly, the attendance of the garden has plummeted. [bell rings] supervisor chiu: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am pleased to speak before the full board today. i wanted to echo a little bit of what the previous speaker said. i know you have a handout that was submitted before the meeting, and if you could refer a little bit to that. i basically have a simple point

today, and in light of the harvey rose budget analyst report that came out, there is some significant doubts as to how the arboretum fee is performing, and the projections that are being put forward. basically, i just want to say that there have been many people who have worked very hard to bring in a solution to this fee, and the ordinance that some of your colleagues have put forward to actually supplied a sustainable solution to abolish this fee that we have worked really hard to get prop n money passed last year and provide this solution that actually satisfies with the botanical society and the rec and park department asked as requirements to maintain and operate the

arboretum as a free public garden. i appreciate your looking at the new information that is coming out around this, and i appreciate your support for actually ending the fees and creating this icon for san francisco to continue after the 70 years it has been freed. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. it is a privilege to be here in front of you. thank you very much. i just want to thank you for passing the ordinance for the payroll tax for mid market. i have been a resident of san francisco for two years in district 8. previously eight years in district 5. i worked down at -- >> excuse me, sir, if you could make your comments more general, not just about that item, as it was on today's agenda. >> absolutely. i hope that the board would consider framing debates around economic revitalization of san

francisco to include the performing arts and the creative arts. i have read very much around that many museums and performing arts theaters would like to be included in the development of san francisco. thank you very much. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm here to we lay a very serious message -- to relay a very serious message. i'm not here to sing, but to invite the supervisors to the various historical meetings that take place in the western addition. keynote speakers will be the developer of the redevelopment agency. we have many other guests. i'm happy here to announce a meeting of this magnitude. i also want to invite supervisor

cohen also to attend because we want to speak about some crucial issues about the redevelopment agency, the past, the present, and the uncertain future of the rebel agency, as it affects the african-american community specifically. we will be talking about the unfinished agenda, the out migration report, so this is a very informative meeting. we would like the city and county to pay close attention. because without a doubt, you may not be listening to me, but without a doubt, this is institutionalized out migration. u.s. tralee is the only one that has on record documented the inception from the current mayor, the out migration report. and i want to announce whoever sits in that seat, including the current mayor, and from then on, this is institutionalized, and

without a doubt, you may not like it, and it seems that we are few in numbers, but blacks are leaving this town. not only this town, but it is occurring throughout the country. yours truly has been studying this from the unfinished agenda of the way to the current out migration report. therefore, i am here to tell you i am on a mission and hope that i can have somebody come out and take a listen. >> glad to have the opportunity to do good to all men, especially those that are [inaudible] i have written with my own hands a letter. as providence would have it -- i did not know if you remember, but the last time i was here, i put on as a of 54. i had a carpet cleaning job that night, and i turned on the radio, and the brother was reading as a 54 --