area. last august the city leaders made a commitment to provide assistance and housing for 100 homeless people that live in and around transbay terminal, and i just wanted to make a request to see how this process has been going and what some of the outcomes are. there have, unfortunately, been some very mixed reporting in the media in terms of what actually happened, how many individuals were served and how the process has gone. i have reached out to human services agency already and am requesting a report at a hearing to see how many people were placed in housing, the outreach process, where individuals were placed and what kind of support services were offered. as we continue to move forward with this major project, it will bring many benefits to the city of san francisco of the it's important for our office to see how the city of san francisco also treats really our long-term residential population that has been living in that area for many, many years. second, i did not report out on this last week.

i apologize for that. our meeting was very long and i didn't want to extend it. two weeks ago there was a three-alarm fire in district six in the tenderloin at 217 eddie. fortunately and unfortunately, the property is run by one of our nonprofit agencies, tenderloin housing development corporation. approximately 105 units, 125 residents, were all displaced that night at roughly about 9:00 p.m. our office was there as well, along with the san francisco fire department and h.s.a. and red cross and really just wanted to commend -- it was the first time i was out for a large fire. it was amazing to see how the city works together to really provide emergency services to our seniors, our disabled and our families and youth. we were very fortunate in this case that tndc was the landlord. their staff came in late at night, pulled out the roster of tenants, were able to identify which tenants would need housing

immediately, what special needs they had, what medication was needed to be provided. last minute they were able to put up two shelters. the following day at 6:00 in the morning, along with red cross, they were able to start aggressively housing their highest need tenants in vacant units that they owned around the tenderloin, keeping them in the community. really wanted to thank h.s.a., red cross, tndc and the san francisco fire department for all your work on this. in addition, this is also the ain office for tndc and also has one of their child care centers and many people reached out and offered their recreation space for the youth to come in, including captain garrity for tender loin station, had offered his rec center to the kids there as well. so really, it was a community effort. many people have come together. many folks have started to become housed. unfortunately, many will not be able to move back into the

building for an unforeseen number of months and our office will continue to monitor this. thank you, and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor kim. president chiu. >> thank you, colleagues. i have a number of items. but i first want to say a few words to follow supervisor farrell's comments about stock options. i have had, in the last couple of months, a lot of meetings with different tech leaders, and like supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor farrell and our mayor, i'm equally committed to working as quickly as we can to solving the dilemma and the situation involving stock options. i have asked our city economists and our controller to gather some data and provide some analysis that will entail work that will hopefully be done in the next week or so and from which i intend to offer some legislative proposals from that. it is my intent and hope that all of the various ideas in this area, which i think are not very par apart, will be able to move through the legislative process

together and hopefully we'll be able to come to good consensus to ensure that despite the fact that at this time we may be the one city and country that currently taxes stock options. hopefully soon we will address the situation in a way that both balings our current needs for -- balances our current needs for revenues as well as insures that we incent the economic growth that we want to see happen here in san francisco. i have a couple of items today, colleagues. first of all, i'm introducing a resolution to ask for our city support on a new health care initiative that will help to transform medical care in our city. anyone who has moved doctors knows how difficult it is to transfer medical records and personal health information. today the exchange of chincal information is extremely variable -- clinical information is extremely varle and is based on faxes, u.s. mail and physical messenger. oftentimes information can get lost, can become incomplete or

can be illegible. until recently the idea of a unified patient record was simply an idea. but with federal stimulus funds in recent years, that dream is now becoming a reality. there have been many jurisdictions around the country that have launched a health information exchange, and colleagues, i have a resolution to ask for your support in doing the same here in san francisco. there has recently been a committee that has gathered all of the various health care and medical organizations in san francisco to achieve that, and i think this is something that the city and county of san francisco needs to participate in. i also have a hearing request of the m.t.a. with regards to the latest climate action plan. in 2011 proposition a passed, which required our m.t.a. to submit a climate action plan to the board of supervisors every two years. that was in 2007. the last plan was submitted in 2009 and i expect a two-year update just in time for earth

day. i understand that the plan will detail the various programs and relationships with other city departments designed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in transportation and with regards to our m.t.a. operations. about half of our greenhouse gas emissions comes from transportation, so it's important that we look at this as we figure out, as a city, how to combat global warming. i'm also introducing and accept and expend -- typically i do not mention the subject matters of various accept and expends that i introduce, but i'm very excited about a grant that we're receiving to move forward. the fisherman's wharf public realm plan as we plan to host the america's cup in 2013. fisherman's wharf will be one the most popular places to visit and experience the race. for the last few years the planning department and many stakeholders in the fisherman's wharf area have been working together on a new design for jefferson street, a design that will really be incrediblebly

attractive for residents, for merchants, pedestrians, cyclists, for the entire experience and i'm introducing a resolution to accept a grant to really advance that jefferson street re-design. i do have one in memoriam, and this is a very personal in memoriam for a good friend named ben golfin, who's an affordable housing developer here for his son, who is a teenager. this past sunday there were hundreds of friends of eli who gathered together to celebrate his all-too-short life and to share stories about the ways in which this very sweet teenager, with an incredible sense of humor and a fundamental goodness, touched the lives of hundreds of people around him. i want to mention that eli took his own life. and let me read a little bit from his father, who wished there to be a little bit of a public statement on this. for us as his family, honoring

eli publicly at this sad moment is to honor all of the city's teens who, at this particularly vulnerable time in their lives, run the risk of losing track of how deeply they are loved by their families and their community and of taking an impulsive step in the wrong direction. we want to have eli's memory honor all of our city's teens who lose track of the depth of the love that the world holds for them, if only for a moment." the rest i will submit. >> thank you, president chiu. seeing no other names on the roster -- supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. so whereas the good samaritan ordinance that we passed today was a kumbaya moment between landlords and tenants, unfortunately at the municipal transportation agency when it comes to collective bargaining,

it's not so cume buyia. i was very disappointed to hear yesterday that transit workers union is going to be taking a strike authorization vote, i believe, later this week. this past november the voters overwhelmingly passed proposition g that requires the m.t.a., for the first time in decades, to engage in collective bargaining. this is a unique opportunity to reform muni, to reform the way it works, to reform its work rules, to make it serve the people of san francisco. it's also an opportunity in this horrific budget year for the m.t.a. to be able to save some money and to be more efficient. and pretty much every other union for the city has been giving back and giving back and giving back again, the t.w.u. has not. and now, in the middle of collective bargaining, t.w.u. is

threatening to strike. that is just a terrible move, and i hope that members of the union will reject this -- will reject this effort. this will set back reform at muni. it will set back the collective bargaining process and the agency and it will not allow us to move in the direction that we need to move in san francisco in terms of providing quality transportation. it is incredibly tone-deaf and i just wanted to express my profound disappointment for having heard this. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes roll call for introductions. >> thank you, madam clerk. let's move to general public comment. >> the next item on the agenda 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 committee portion of the agenda and including items which have been considered by a board

committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. if a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meet willing. >> thank you. first speaker, please. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] [chime] >> president of the board, mr. david chiu, our supervisor, as

you know, my name is abdulah. today i have three issues i would like to discuss with you. the three issues i want to talk with you about is a village issue happened in my back home country, as you see here. thank god this was on the internet yesterday, show me and every one of us none, none of us going to be above the law. the director, mubarak, he been in hospital and now they want to move him to the jail. he and his two children, there is corruption. they take our money. $90 billion they have been

stealing from us, from our country, from our people. not only that, they also kill innocent people. 800. not 300 like the egyptians. it's 800 people killed, innocent. the second issue, 10 days from today i wish that can be involved with me and many of us to be. happy for your younger man, his name is william. prince william is going to marry on the 29 of this month. i wish him good luck. the third one and the issue i wish that mr. donald trump shuts his mouth and he can go behind the woman who wants to be our

california governor. [chime] thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> surely today there could be three minutes. stop the corporate rape of the public library. don't give money to friends and foundation. don't accept money from the friends and foundation. we need to acknowledge that yesterday, april 18, was san francisco disaster day. it is the 105th anniversary of the great earthquake and fire and the 15th anniversary of the public private partnership's new mine library. no matter how much of a disaster the new library was to the public, it was a success for the private partners who ended up with millions of dollars in private money and all of the problems will be fixed with public funds were not fixed at all. the difference is that there will be another major earthquake, but there does not have to be another cherished public institution ruined by a

public-private partnership. of the book dumping scandal, even state librarian emeritus kevin starr said, "san francisco public library should divest it is toward a collection that was moving towards 100 years old, to disestablish it without any public mandate or public discussion is shocking. the post-occupancy evaluation said the building had been developed without regard to those who would run it and would take $26 million to fix. even willie brown, maybe willie brown, said that library was a very sad story. the new main library is the poster child for everything that is wrong with abandoning public responsibility for public-private partnerships. what we got was wasteful, dysfunctional, ugly and too expensive to run. in short, the classic white elephant. people ask, why did the private corporation interests want to destroy the library? but, of course, they wanted to make sure that nothing stood in the way of private money. yet, there is no accountability

because everyone knows what will happen. no matter how much harm is done, no one wants to examine the proposition that privatization is not the best social model and the law costs more than the money. [chime] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. good luck to the special olympics and all 42 gold medals i won in the special olympics. glad to have done that for the state of california, the united states and the world. and good luck to them. and -- ♪ you're elected ♪ you're elected ♪ good luck to you today ♪ smile to the newly named sf gov tv and the crew there. ♪ they do a good job. thank you there today. ♪ smile to the new sf gov tv and tv 2.

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♪ me and mayor lee and we're traveling free ♪ traveling around the budget ♪ me and mayor lee and we'll fix it up please ♪ how i love being a free city man ♪ [chime] >> next speaker. >> [it's a true story about happiness, success, whether or not they're the same or not. the first time i was in the shelter in eugene, oregon, which, by the way, feeds rotten meat to people still to this day, i'm in the line and i wasn't really depressed about being there or anything. but this guy ahead of me could tell it was my first time in the line. and he turns around and he says, this is your first time in the shelter? i says, well, yeah. he said, i remember the first

time i went on a shelter. i was really feeling down because it's the lowest point i had ever been at. here i was in a shelter looking for food and shelter. he said he saw this guy up ahead of him and the guy only had one shoe on. so he stopped feeling sorry about himself and he couldn't help it. he finally tapped the guy on the shoulder and asked him, he said, what happened? did you lose a shoe? and the guy turned around. he had a big smile on his face and said, no, i found one. he's one of the happiest guys you could ever meet. because he found himself a shoe. all right. anyway, you know what i'm saying, i think i'm the child that fell out of the sky in this alien ship. i was frozen, they brought me back to life, put me in a sheep. anyway, that's the story there. there's two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the path. the saginaw indians have the same story, like the bible does, about more earthquakes happening and when the end time is coming.

and there's compassion, there's love, there's life, there's death, there's lies, there's greed. your politicians, your shepherds, are the ones that feed the people, not the ones that feed themselves in fancy clothes. have a nice day. >> thank you. next speaker. [no audio] >> my name is eugene gordon junior. out of context from book tracing martin borman, printed in the republic, 1966 in germany, tush lentz 1920's, not reassuring for world masters and presidents of berlin banks, communist party gaining strength.

adolf hitler spoke to audience of rural industrialists packed between rural monopolies and nazi hirings, determined further political development in germany. repeatedly allegiance to captains of germany. the nazi party firmly resolved or gained in strength, influence over masters -- over masses, shunned at no means to achieve its end. it aimed to work the -- to reach the worker. germany made a bid for world supremacy. nazis began before the second world war, something like the dress rehearsal. this was offset in class consciousness of german workers. during -- goering told officers

at nuremberg that americans were making a blunder about morals. you think it is enough to arrest nazis and introduce democracy overnight? do you think they are less not see because they have been adopted christian parties? the nationalist socialist party is banned. what else is left for them? they hide behind decreased surpluses. such a strong, a dangerous trend, which permits -- which permeates the federal atmosphere. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is still see more. i work for tenderloin walking tours. i spend a lot of my days in the san francisco public library. recently, because of the

anniversary, i have been doing research on the earthquake of 06. as we all know, the earthquake did not do the major damage to our great city. it was the fire. right now, we have a situation where the city itself is calling for more integrity for the buildings with the open garages underneath, because that are prone to earthquakes. we need to think about where our firefighting equipment is in this city. our fire engines and rescue trucks are in open air constructed buildings from the 1930's and 1940's. if we have a major quake like they had in asia a few weeks ago, all of our firefighting and rescue equipment will be trapped in these buildings that will eventually fall down. the same situation with our police department and sheriff's department. 300 of our police and sheriff cars are underneath the freeway,

parked permanently underneath the freeway, the old central freeway that goes by 850 bryant. in a major earthquake, that will not stand. the only rescue equipment we will have is pg&e. they park their trucks outside. why do we have to have a waterproof vehicle inside of a building? this fire engines will be trapped in the rubble. somehow, i think one of our committees needs to take a look at that. maybe eight years from now, when this happens, we will look back and say, "why didn't we think about moving these fire trucks?" leave it outside. please think about that. thank you. president chiu: are there any other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing none, general public comment is closed. >> items 19 through 23 are being considered for immediate and unanimous adoption without committee reference.

these will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless one is called separately. president chiu: would anyone like to sever an item? roll-call vote on all these items. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: these resolutions are adopted. we have 2 below items left on the agenda. the first is a 3:30 commendation. my suggest is that we reconvene at 3:50 to do the special call, and at 4:00, we will take up the continuances of the project we

were going to hear today. with that, why don >> we are back from our recess. the next item we will take up is our special commendations. that is being offered by our colleague from district 9. supervisor campos: thank you very much, mr. president. i want to thank my colleagues for being here. let me say that i know that we are trying to finalize our meeting, but it was important for me to recognize a very special woman. i would ask her, as well as those with her, to please come

forward to the podium. i do not need to say too much about mia. a few days ago, a young woman was sitting at a bench at the 16th street bart station. she was the victim of the very brutal attack. that was but a group of men. she was teased and ridiculed, and then she was brutally assaulted. that was simply for being who she is. and you can imagine the horror and the shock of being the victim of that kind of brutal attack, and how difficult it would be for anyone to be subjected to something like

that and simply because of who they are. not only did this woman recover from that attack, but she has had the courage to share her experience with the community to shed light on a very important issue, the issue of transphobia that still happens here in san francisco in the year 2011. she was attacked at 16th and mission, which is a neighborhood that is very welcoming to people, where you see transgender men and women and they are an integral part of the community. the fact that this attack would happen at 16th and mission tells us that it is an attack that could happen anywhere in the city.