it equals one man hour. 60 shekels. it did not say anything about that and my bible. it is interesting that this definition of -- being 60 shekels is in silver. nebuchadnezzar was the king of babylon. we want to use gold -- which is 50 shekels. it says here that there shall be 20 --

it is interesting that this handwriting on the wall has on equivalency of 2000 -- we have 2520. >> next speaker. >> members of the board of supervisors, i come to you today to talk to you directly but also to the voters were watching on sfgtv. last thursday, an amendment was put an, an initiative, which would allow the board of

supervisors after three years to change all initiatives including voter initiative the- initiatives. it was after seven years which would allow them to appeal those initiatives. is this an attempt to gather signatures from our fellow citizens and or an accident at -- or organizing and putting something on the ballot and i think that this is really kind of a slap at all of the people over the 20 or 30 or 50 years that initiatives have been available where they went out, organize, and made an effort to change something. public comments were made which i thought was disingenuous. one was that this would be for

minor technical changes. this is not preclude them from getting certain things like enforcement provisions that would basically change or make a lot on workable. also, the person who put this forward said, well, i don't have any particular thing that i am looking at but i have a hard time thinking that a supervisor would have the time, effort, energy to change these things if there is not something in the sides and there are two in particular, historic preservation and the sunshine ordinance. do not pass this. come next june 2nd, oppose this. course i would like to take --

talk about the at&t deployment of uverse. i'm a strong supporter of the plane as many as possible. the times are changing. in the spirit of supervisor wiener's statement, anything can happen in this great city of san francisco. i have a suggestion to help you to ensure that the deployment of the terminals. >> there is no public comment because we already had public comment on that day meeting, if you would like to talk about anything else. >> i thought this was public comment. >> there are specific rules -- >> when can i provide comment on

that? >> the rules are quite clear. this is laid out and our calendar. if you want to e-mail us, you can do that. "can i send you my suggestions? >> you sure can. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i operate the historical taurus -- tours. i was here to address the issue of the police officers driving down the heavily crime corners. i was upset that the police department was proposing to put in a $1 million mobile command center in terms of -- in front

of neiman-marcus. the six st. look like pacific heights. it has been down here two or three days. i am here on two points. i make career taxi driver. i am also a customer. as an african-american in the city of san francisco, i cannot get a taxi cab. many people here know what this is about. i cannot give stuck on a

taxicab. before you start increasing this, please understand that we have not -- proper taxicab service. i am a taxi driver. thank you. >> that afternoon, board of supervisors. i came prepared to speak about at&t. >> any topic we have recovered for public comment had public comment at a prior meeting. you're not allowed to talk about that. if you would like to talk about anything other than part merced or at&t. >> thank you all for being here. >> the reason is to ensure the

orderly transmission of people's views to us. if we did not have these rules, we would have repeated public comment every single meeting. i bet no one in this room thought that last week the chairman of the international monetary fund would no longer be the chairmen of the fund. this just goes to show you that the universe is capable of changing very rapidly and something of a bailout of a nation like greece could actually be postponed or even cancel. i am here to talk about glass-

stiegel. i think that this board is capable and should put together a resolution immediately to endorse the house resolution 1489. we have had a number of the members of the congress passed -- sign on to this bill but we have not had nancy pelosi or techie spears sign on. this is something that needs to be done, san francisco is a globally important city. if you consider the fact that every state and city will see further and further cuts and if ben bernanke has his way, hyperinflation. if you would have anything more you would like to talk to me

about, i'm willing to meet with any of you. >> i am with the political action committee. i wanted to comment on this dominique strauss-kahn thing. this is proof that the imf does exist to screw people from the third world. the only solution that is viable is the policy of glass- stiegel, and and national policy of glass stickle.

glass-stiegel needs to be put on the table now. i think that this board of supervisors should have a responsibility and that in order to protect their citizens, their constituents, they should be pushing for an and -- for nancy pelosi to be endorsing this legislation. barbara boxer and dianne feinstein should be pushing this legislation on the senate side of the congress.

we cannot take this anymore. people will be held responsible for the deaths of people. we should help the people of our nation more, start becoming a productive nation again. thank you. >> supervisors. the overhead projector please.

we have graffiti. . we took an aggressive action. this kind of falls into the broken window aspect of our neighborhood. this is a broken litter, it collects litter, it collects another broken window. the neighborhood deteriorates. the interesting thing about this is that if i turn my head away from it, if i don't look at

it, it is can't. if i close my blinds, it is gone. right next to it, those machines on the roof can create noise and the noise can trouble and they can be under the legal limit of 45 decibels and they can still make noise and it can make noise through my double pane glass windows for a building built only 22 years ago and it can be legal. i am saying, doesn't that deteriorate the neighborhood? what gives that owner of that property the right to send

noise? >> thank you very much. >> my name is as washington. i'm a lifelong resident in the western addition. our community has been in crisis. here we are. you have agencies right now which is taken over the lead. there board of directors has

resigned so therefore there is no board of directors. they got to our supervisor for making sure the doors will not be closed. i am here to say that if in fact the committee this matter and input -- does not have an input, you will be held responsible. i'm here to say one thing and one thing only to the city and county -- i have come here and i've knocked on the walls for 20 years. right now, i cannot get over them. right now, you can put it on my face. -- i cannot get a rhythm. i want them to hear my voice and read my lips and look at my face. right now, what i want to make it crystal clear to the city and county, i will request that a public hearing be held about the

community center. i'm also asking for a grand jury investigation of the entire -- if that does not work, and i'm going to the justice department to come here and investigate what goes on here at city hall. i cannot go to the city attorney, he is running for mayor. i am asking that. thank you very much. >> could afternoon, supervisors. i and stand this is the proper occasion to speak about item 30 which is the taxi resolution. ahead in ceremonies of the

horsemen, even upon must hold a grudge. we taxi drivers are the pawns. where large than the same page on these issues. we support a centralized this- system. we support taxi permits as long as they are properly structured and regulated. we support the open taxi access system which will give people direct access to taxicabs on the street without having to go through this package. this issue has been pushed to the side. when i say that cabdrivers' need a meter increase, and i want you to understand that this should not be depended upon issues over which we have no control.

i think that facts are important. there has been a 19% increase in the cost of living since 2003. gas prices have gone up 150%. -- has gone up $12.50 a shift. it costs the driver $30 more a shift to fill up. it cost them 20% more to fill up a hybrid today than it did to fill up a crown victoria back in 2003. let's improve taxi service. thank you. >> i am with the san francisco cab drivers association. i agree now go wrong to tie the service increase with the improvement.

there are companies which have a third of all of the cabs and the city and i have worked for these for over 20 years and i have seen them not improve their dispatch service or do things to give the appearance of a shortage of cabs. that is a third of all the camps in the city. another thing is open taxi access. we're supposed to address this issue and make a recommendation but somehow that this appeared. -- have shown objectives and they have -- in one

we would all like to have that. it has been 8 years since we have had a meager increase and gas prices are going through the roof. this is costing us a couple of hundred dollars a month. >> i am a cabdriver and medallion older. i have found that it is dangerous to be in a cab driver when it once the politicians are running for office. trashing cab drivers is a very good way to get elected.

when i was first here, there was seven under 15 camps on the street. -- 715 taxicabs on the street. this service in the neighborhood is worse now. there is a couple of points. one, this is a very complicated business. they're not giving them as much money because this is not as lucrative as before. this is a strange idea that you are punishing cabdrivers for not doing the job. aren't you all union politicians, you are in favor of workers? you are acting like you are aristocrats.

he will not improve the service. improving the quality of drivers, this one happened overnight. thank you. >> are there any members of the public that wish to speak? public comment is closed. why don't we move to adoption without committee reference calendar. >> item 29-35 are considered for immediate and unanimous adoption without reference. they will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items? >> item 30.

>> same item. >> i will set for item 34. please call the roll on the balance. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. 9 >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> those motions and resolutions are adopted and approved. >> item 30, resolution opposing taxi fare increase under consideration by the municipal

transportation agency in the effort to improve taxi service. >> i would like to thank those who came out to testify about this item today. i wanted to make very clear that if you read a resolution, none of us are saying that cab drivers don't deserve to be compensated fairly. we have a system where we have not seen any tangible service improvements in quite some time and we are now being asked to pay more for cabs. what we do know is that there are proposals and we have endorsed the program which are under consideration. i know that that proposal can be adopted.

i'm not saying estimates on the theoretical future five years off of the service improvement, we have something that is there now. the resolution does not point out the ways in which cabdrivers are treated unfairly. i'm not saying that fares are not the only problem. this refers to the issue of gates and some of the unfair and is there in terms of what cabdrivers.

with all of that said, since this is the first time this has come up, it does require a unanimous vote. >> i will not be supporting this item. over the years, there has not been any increases on the fares

for taxi rider's. the cost increases can be shouldered. this is possible to raise the fares separate from the conditions of the service.

>> i am concerned about the service that happened in san francisco. i've heard from numerous folks that live in district 10 of all ages and the i's are in a concern to the lack of taxi service. that is why i will be supporting this legislation. >> any further discussion?