president chiu: good afternoon.

welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, may 10th. could you call the roll? >> [roll-call] mr. president, all members are present. president chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you join me in the pledge of allegiance?

president chiu: colleagues, you should have copies of the meeting minutes for our april 5th and april 6th the board meetings. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? a motion and seconded, without objection, this meeting minutes are approved. a communications? >> today, we are in receipt of the memo from the comptroller's office regarding background information concerning the analysis of the deferred retirement option program's cost neutrality and achievement of the program's goals pursuant to charter -- in addition, we are in receipt of a report to the board of supervisors from the department of elections. under charter section 13. 110d, the data compiled under the u.s. census bureau, the board is required to convene and fund a redistricting task force to redraw boundary lines for san francisco's supervisor districts.

president chiu: thank you. could you please call the special order of the mayor's appearance at 2:00? >> the first item of business is the opportunity for the mayor to engage in former policy discussions with members of the board by answering eligible questions submitted by supervisors reprimanding did -- representing the even districts this month. the mayor may address the board from to five minutes and the president will recommend -- will recognize supervisors from district 4, 2, 6 and 10. discussion should not exceed five minutes per a supervisor. president chiu: thank you, mr. mayor. welcome to your second appearance in front of the board. we have received another -- a number of questions submitted by our colleagues. the first question was -- i did that again -- mr. mayor, and the opening comments you would like to make? mayor lee: i will not take too

much time. thank you, members of the board of supervisors and the public, thank you for being here today. i just want to say that i'm about to finish my last budget town hall this week. i want to tell you at each and every one of the town halls, i have really learned a lot and i appreciate the support of each of the supervisors as he set up those meetings. they are wonderful, eye-popping time i've been having in the communities to understand what's going on. to feel their sentiments, and they really help me and help my staff understand what is going in the city and try to repress or ties the way we have done things with the budget. i hope to honor all of the public hearings and the gist of them, which is to keep in close contact with each and everyone of our communities to make sure we reflect those priorities. i want to say that to you on the eve of potentially ending those town hall meetings for this

year. today is even member districts, and i want to thank you for those questions and i will do my best to answer them and suggest that perhaps the questions are not as exciting or the answers to those questions may not be as exciting as a ninth-inning of the giants game, but the public deserves less torture and more productivity. i will do my best to continue pushing on answers i hope will be ones we continue to work with and provide clarity and transparency in the way we govern our city. thank you, and looking forward to this month's questions. president chiu: thank you. our first question is asked by our supervisor of district no. 2. supervisor farrell: thank you, mr. mayor for being here. what a, if any, are the discussions with the san francisco forty-niners to keep them in our city and with the

golden state warriors, to potentially draw them to san francisco? mayor lee: thank you. first, i want to be clear. i believe the san francisco forty-niners belong in san francisco. i want to make that clear to the public and to all of you. this is their home, it's been the home of the forty-niners, five super bowl victories, and it's the only fitting location for this team. as you are aware, the city has focused its efforts on a new football stadium for the 49ers at the hunters point shipyard. the shipyard redevelop approvals included all the necessary land use entitlements to build a football stadium, including a certified environmental impact report, rent-free stadium, and it included $100 million in funding from private funding developers toward the construction of the stadium itself. with that, as you are aware, the city and the 49ers have

recently, and i want to thank the board of surprises for expeditiously approving the negotiations and settlement that was a decades-long dispute over the candlestick park. he recently approved that settlement agreement and a lease agreement with the forty-niners that extends the lease for an additional three years to the -- through the 2015 football season. as well as funds through the much-needed maintenance at candlestick, some of which will be done this year. i want to thank you for that because just last week, i received a text with the enthusiastic response, saying the nfl approved the lease. he seemed very happy because it's part of a foundation have been trying to create with him and the 49ers business family. that is to personally meet with him as i have done in our offices here and create a positive relationship with the

owner of the forty-niners to make sure we have a secure foundation and that least bit. -- that police did it. -- that did it. we want to welcome the new coach and do things that will represent our cities colors. i knew it and -- that came from supervisor. this is our football team, sports is inspiring and the forty-niners continue to add value to our communities by their donations and the inspiring programs they have. i want to continue that relationship and build on it, leading from the mayor's office and we work with you, supervisor, on all of those tree i know you all feel the same way i do about our team and we think we will create those foundations so hopefully as the economics become more clear

about whether the stadium elsewhere is doable or whether our approach, which i think is an excellent approach, will move the foundation toward keeping the forty-niners here in san francisco. i want to let the public know we are not letting go at all. it begins with a good, personal relationship that we're forging that as we speak. thank you. there is of course the warriors. and i do want to say right now that from what i can understand and i have done by an investigation, the warriors are staying in oakland for the time being. i am not a mayor that does poaching of other teams. we will refrain from episodes reflective of doing that. at the same time, we are playing it smart. there is a lot of business and sports intelligence that suggests that should the city

and county of san francisco be willing and ready with potentially a multi-purpose arena in the city, and we have areas that could be very conducive to that, in the future, when they are looking at a more marketable place, they will see a city that has a very, very high enthusiasm for the nba and that will be san francisco. i hope to work with you on that and our other departments, including the port of san francisco and other business entities to create that opportunity. it might be very ready to move on in years in the future. thank you very much. president chiu: our next question will be asked from our supervisor of super -- of mr. before. supervisor chu: the board is looking at proposals to keep

several large businesses and our city. how can it help our small businesses, particularly the local small businesses in our corridors? mayor lee: thank you for that question. i attempted to answer that question last month and as i reviewed -- and i did have a chance to review with you some of the programs that have been working in some of them that have not been working. as a result, i will not talk that much about our market initiatives because some of the programs we have offered worked better in some communities that others. what i think the small business community needs is a tension along the specific corridors of the city. that is why i have enjoyed walking through the business corridors with the before.

we met small businesses in your district and what i walked through sixth street and on third street, through market street, every single time, we learned some things we could adapt. i think adaptability has caused me and my staff to get more creative so we're not looking at simple programs that will themselves be the answer, but that we need some specific types of things that will help small businesses in those corridors succeed. what i would like to do is open up some ideas here, and i think this is where we can get creative because i think the small businesses want some creativity from the city. i do want to suggest each of the corridors have all asked for more of the increase of things like newspaper pedestals. i know that we are about to get

anyone on balboa park place. that's going to do wonders and i think all the corners of our established business corridors, i think they can benefit from the uplift by having newspaper racks, and we should talk with newspaper owners to get their consent to rollout even more of a neighborhood related rack that would help with the vision people have about increasing it. that means looking at our revolving loan program and being more creative and putting more money into it so small businesses can utilize small business loans to help with the passat improvement programs and other things. i want to reflect the mayor's office. when we are talking with larger businesses we are attracting throughout the city, we can perhaps ask them to take on an agreement to help small local businesses in the city as well

and be dead go-between between creating relationships between big and small. even a company like wells fargo, bank of america or other larger businesses can actually when they are establishing their offices, look to some of the neighborhood corridors and support neighborhood programs. i also want to suggest that we have a planning process that invites the community in these major corridors to work with our city in a very tight way. what i am bothered by in some of my walks is some of those long time vacancies we know have been there not just for a few weeks, but for months, if not years. they are problematic for a number of reasons. why don't we have a more creative process where the neighborhoods, along with the business corridor, can work with city hall, the mayor's office and talk about what are those

priorities in the neighborhood that might be suggested of good, well supported, new small businesses that might be supported there and how can we support that? for example, -- and i note supervisor campos knew this, no one business could afford to move into that site. what they did was suggested program at city hall support it with some funds and create a site where there were two or three small businesses that collect it into that very same site and allow people to go from a small nice shop to a jewelry shop all in the same place with a bakery. none of them individually bore the burden of having to play the fool -- having to pay the full rent of that place. [tone] all of that could be born from that and i would be happy to talk to you and get creative with the small businesses. president chiu: the next

question will be asked by our colleague from district 6. supervisor kim: thank you, and happy birthday, mr. mayor. in 1989, voters approved the san francisco sanctuary city ordinance which predicts our police department and local government officials from assisting in the prosecution of immigration enforcement unless it is absolutely required under federal or state law. in 2009, this very body passed by a super bowl -- by super majority, the clarification to that ordinance to prohibit our law enforcement from reporting undocumented use unless they are convicted of a felony. to date, as ordnance has not been adopted by the city. what are your thoughts on prohibiting the juvenile probation department from reporting undocumented youths at the time of arrest?

mayor lee: thank you for that question. i am proud to be a cinco de mayo baby. i will take this opportunity to go through the roots of our sanctuary city. it was established in 1989 and at that time, our city had heard numerous stories about how people were fleeing to america and trying to find their new lives because of persecution, war and all the other things that had pushed a lot of people to come here and find their opportunities here. during that time, we felt did very important that we allowed and welcome these new families to come here and feel safe and as they became embedded in our neighborhoods, we discovered that if we were to not only continue that invitation, but also as a sanctuary city, could involve them in everything from the way we conduct our business

to having adequate services, to having help programs accessible, to having police and public safety programs accessible to them to take the fear out of being undocumented or unaccustomed to the culture. to have more open and welcoming neighbors along with a realistic viewpoint that we could not prevent a lot of it from happening because we have an unstable immigration policy for this country. reflective of that, all of us have and i continue to be a big supporter of our sanctuary city. having said that, your question is specific to our juvenile justice system. i have spent the last few months studying the need to balance our public safety juvenile justice system and the need to be more compliant with our sanctuary city ordinance to

make sure we're still having the foundations of making sure people feel safe here and do not feel threatened. in that more confined view, i have had to take care in balancing the issues of public safety, but also of due process. i want to thank you, supervisor and a supervisor campos as well have lent their viewpoints to me as well as community groups to have met with me as well. both legal groups and immigrant advocacy groups have been a part of my assessment and reassessment as to whether we are doing the right things are not. having said that, when i want to let you know that i have asked the juvenile probation department to review its practices in light of the century city ordinances and make sure there are values that can

be better balanced. i have always been and i have expressed to supervisors here and other community advocates that my history with the city has been about the tightening and support of families, all kinds of families. families as we define them and extended families. reflective of that, i wanted that value to be balanced with public safety and due process. in that regard, i have asked the juvenile probation department to make adjustments to their current practice and to allow for families to be reunited as they are caught up in our juvenile justice system. given the balancing priority, they have responded by allowing -- by reflective of steps whereby with juvenile to have families here, to make sure the

family reunification is reflected in those steps. i have authorized them to make those adjustments. [tone] i believe those adjustments are in keeping with the century city and in compliance with federal and state law. president chiu: our next question is from the supervisor of district 8. supervisor wiener: we in san francisco de a very good job of building market rate housing. we build almost 80% of are stable for low-income housing. we did a poor job of building middle-income housing. since middle-income housing is not reported separately for market rate housing, it is unknown how much middle-income housing we produce. implementing our local hiring ordnance will be very difficult if we did not produce the needed moderate and middle-income housing for these local hires.

how do you propose increasing the amount of housing affordable to middle-income people said a weekend house our work force locally? mayor lee: thank you for that question. housing is such a challenge in this city and i think your question is apropos. i would like to thank you for your good samaritan legislation because we have both been on those walks and i know supervisor camp and a supervisor chu when we had fire victims and the need for housing. we have to protect them at every cause because, especially with the recent loss of some 48 units in south of market, that reminds me of how much more we have to do to protect the housing stock. having said that, you are absolutely right that we need to pay attention to what i call work force housing and what you refer to as middle-class affordable housing. it is good to know at as these economic times are improving,

our staff did a survey on the affordability levels coming out now from a quick scan of our realty web sites. it seems that more and more homes are for sale less than $400,000 are increasing in our city. that's a good sign. we are no longer seeing the $800,000 or $900,000 homes that are available. i welcome you to look at that because i think that starts telling us a different story. however, there has not been the case for the last decade and our current affordability is unlikely to hold at this low level forever. we have got to do more in this housing area. to make sure our city remains accessible to people on low incomes, we have the strategies we want to share that are key to this