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about the report that was written and adding allegation against the officer when an accurate police report. we're talking brady here. because the report was encoded right, how the inspector who received the report was also given an allegation the inspector never read the report. inspector never approve the report. he was assigned to the investigation. and what relation july have to a unit that doesn't exist? we have got to charge you, too. an audit is way overdue. when i spoke a couple of weeks ago. [unintelligible] the issue a certificate of release. how they file complaints against them.
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these are added allegations, but they are not complaints. many of them should be brought to the attention of the commanding officer of the station said they can deal with it appropriately. president mazzucco: any further public comment? i will announcing that how this will be taken off calendar because they had a death in the family. move to line item #6. >> public comment on all items pertaining to #8 below including public comment on whether to hold a closed session. >> we are going to move into closed session. these are disciplinary matters and confidential and privileged. it is the california supreme court decision and the bill of rights. we move into closed session to
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handle these matters. any public comment regarding the closed session? next item. >> a vote on whether to hold closed session. >> seconds. president mazzucco: we president mazzucco: ok, we are back. secretary falvey: we are about to open session, and we have the same forum members. president mazzucco: i no. 9. secretary falvey: a motion to disclose or not to disclose? commissioner: i move. vice president marshall: i
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>> good morning, everybody. hi. how are you? so nice to see you. that looks like a great play yard. i know you're anxious to get out there and take part in all of the findings today. i wanted to introduce myself. my name is cates -- kate. i am a commentator for the golf channel and i really want to welcome the over 300 students to our golf and leadership party here. [applause] can we did but cheer from the students from lafayette school? [cheering]
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how about a cheer from monroe elementary school? let's hear it for sheridan. [cheering] and a big hello from the students of jefferson elementary. wow. you guys have a lot of energy today. glad to not be in school, right? i know i liked to take a day off from school. we are thrilled to have familiar faces on hand for the celebration, which is the culmination of an effort by pacific gas and electric and the unified school district to teach leadership and call skills to students in -- golf skills in 21 different san francisco elementary schools. that is a wonderful opportunity. as a a board member and a professional golfer, it is
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wonderful to see seven people having a chance to -- to see so many people having a chance to learn the skills provided by the game of golf. i would like to thank the pg&e president. [applause] mayor ed lee. and deputy school superintendent richard for taking the time to join us today. i would like to introduce one of our biggest supporters in san francisco who also is a great golfer himself. mayor ed lee. mayor lee: thank you. good morning, everyone. i do not know about being a great golfer, but if i can brag for a moment -- how many of you
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have a hole in one. how many of you had three? [laughter] ok. those kids have their hands up. why? i have had three, in my last one was here. i am a happy guy whenever i come out here. and of course, i wanted to brag before i teach the kids humility, right? anyway, i am out here with good friends. certainly sandy tatum, who i have worked with for the last two years, who helped initialize the whole first program when we started partnering with the pga. thank you for all your contributions. and you know, the first tee program, the partnership with the unified school district, and then this year with the help of
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pg&e, to really expand that to the fourth and fifth graders, that is a fantastic contribution. i want to thank peony because last week, we -- pg&e because last week, we were doing contributions getting ready for earthquakes, helping our youth there. i want to thank again pg&e for being good corporate partners of the county of san francisco. i want to thank the first tee program. i know a lot of members of the board of directors are here today. it is totally of voluntary efforts to help our kids learn the game of golf, but learn the honest values, the integrity, the sportsmanship that golf brings. and ultimately, the humility that also requires you to have. wherever you go -- in the latest
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example -- i hit 16 shots before they finished 1 hole, and still, they finished the whole round. that was this past weekend. understanding, and humility, but also other values. kids are in for a wonderful experience when you take up the game of golf. i know you're going to love playing this game, but you are also going to love how you get support from all of us. this program is a wonderful program. we have funded it. we have been finding it. this place has been posting the charles schwab cup of four years. it will be right here with all the past pga champion spirited play the final, most important round of the season here, and it
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is a wonderful contribution these professional players have with the first tee program. that is wonderful. it is a wonderful relationship we have with our school district. that is what it is all about. giving hope to the kids. support for them. they are going to take this specialized fitness that pg&e is trying to fund, to use its -- to use it so they can learn golf skills of visitation valley, one of the first areas we opened up. i am so proud of this whole area. being a mayor who plays golf -- i am so humbled by being mayor. i am humbled by the game of golf. i learn something every single time i play this game. but i also played a lot in the city of san francisco.
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it is such a wonderful game for everyone in the city to have, including all of you 300 kids. thank you for coming out. >> and now pg&e president chris dunn. i know you would like to talk next. >> thank you. we are excited to be part of this program and working in collaboration with first tee, is a great organization in the city and county of san francisco and the school district. it is an honor to be here today. mayor, i have had many, many more hole in one span three, but unfortunately they were on a putt-putt course. [laughter] my golf game itself is humiliating. it is actually humbling all the time. it is a lot of fun to play. you are going to have a great
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opportunity, because you are going to be able to learn a lot about lifelong values. this will serve you well. not just in school. but throughout your life. the great part is you get to have fun doing that. you get to play golf while you are doing that. it is going to be a great time for you. i have been blessed in meeting a lot of students to have gone to a first tee program and they have gone on to great things in college and post-college. and they've learned a lot of important things through the program. i encourage all of you to take full advantage of it, to play golf, to enjoy your whole time in the first tee program. we are happy to be a part of the. we are offering a check to fund some of the activities, and i am thrilled to give you that. [applause]
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i think i have the record for a hole in ten. [laughter] by was bragging about the fact that we are joyful learners. we do not just go to school to learn. but we learn about fund. when i counted three, i want to hear the loudest yell you can yell to show the mayor and the president how joyful we really are. are you ready? here we go. one, two, three. [yelling] ooh, that was a big breath. that is the last time you can yell that loud on of golf course. mr. mayor, thank you for why you and pg&e are doing for the children of san francisco. these are difficult times when things are caught and scaled
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back. physical education does not have to be something you do when time of the day or one half hour of the day. it is a lifelong skill but all of our students will be able to use as they grow older and hopefully get better on the golf course. we want to thank you on behalf of all the 65,000 san francisco unified school district students. thank you to pg&e for giving us an opportunity to introduce the sport of golf to the students of san francisco. as a san franciscan and a father, i will come out here and continue to train and practice and try to get that hole in 10 down to maybe of hole in five. i want to introduce a supervisor in the physical education department -- thank you.
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and her name is michelle. michele, could use that up, please? -- could you step up, please? >> i have a humble gift for pg&e from the physical education department of san francisco unified school district. we want to present you with this black for -- plaque for everything you're doing for the students of the san francisco unified school district. [applause] and we have one last plaque we would like to give to first tee of san francisco. this would not be possible if it were not for the folks who are doing a great deal of work to coordinate with our departments so all of you young adults here, please remember that today is your day, and a great deal of
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effort went into with to make it happen. from our department and san francisco unified school district, we would like to present this. thank you, sandy, very much. greg thank you. [applause] >> i have a voice problem. you have got to be grateful. [unintelligible] [laughter] [applause] >> thank you very much. i do want to acknowledge the president of the san francisco unified school district board of education. thank you for being here, being part of this day. so, now we have a party that is
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going to be kicked off, right? we have a first tee shot that is going to kick off this party. and i know you guys are all ready to party. we have a residence chris dunn, mayor lee, maybe school superintendent? and we have some students. students -- the students will exhort you down. the executive director of the san francisco first tee. it does not look like you have the shoes on. 3, 2, 1, party. [cheering]
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president chiu: welcome to the board of supervisors meeting. supervisor avalos: present. supervisor campos: president chiu: -- present. supervisor kim: present. superivsor mar: present. supervisor mirkarimi: present. supervisor weiner: present. >> all members are present. president chiu: please join me in the pledge of allegiance.
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colleagues, you should have copies of the april 15 and april 19, 2011 board meeting minutes. the motion to approve by supervisor elsbernd. are there any communications? if you could read our consent agenda. >> items 1 and two comprise the consent agenda. these will be acted upon by a single roll-call vote. president chiu: would anyone like to sever either of these items? if not, roll call vote. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye.
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costa-hawkins -- supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. superivsor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: please call items 3 through 5, as well as items 25 through 28, related to parkmerced. >> item 3 is a motion approving the final environmental impact report for the project. item four is in motion reversing the certification of the final environmental impact report. item five is a motion directing the preparation of findings. item 25 is the ordinance approving a development agreement between the city and parkmerced investors, making
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various findings and waiving certain provisions of the a minister to code. item 26, ordinance amending the planning code to establish the parkmerced special use district. item 27 is a zoning map to reflect a special use district. item 28 is an ordinance amending the general plan by amending the urban design element height map with respect to the site. items 29 through -- these items were reviewed by the planning department. president chiu: we had public comment earlier today on items
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that underlay the approvals. these items are in the hands of the board. supervisor elsbernd: let me start by thanking my colleagues for taking this issue up again. today is a real big day. today is a big day for parkmerced. today is a big day for district 7. today is a big day for the region. this is a regional project. this is a major project that has been in the public realm, in discussion, for nearly five years. it is finally coming to a tilt today. over 200 community meetings held not just within parkmerced but within the surrounding communities. neighborhood input. president input. significant public process of the last five years has brought us to this point. i stand here today as the supervisor of the district in which this project would take
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place, solidly behind the project. and i want to support that point. you have a west side supervisor saying please add 5500 new units of housing west of 19th avenue. tell me the last time you saw that kind of thing happen. this is the west side of san francisco saying it is no longer appropriate for one side of the city to take all the development. we need to think about the city of san francisco not just in pieces, but as a whole. this is the kind of project we need to embrace. let me talk about a few of the benefits of this project. foremost, i think i spoke passionately about this in our closed session. without a project like this, at 19th avenue and the surrounding areas will never see transportation improvements. over the last 30 years, those of us who have lived there for our entire lives have seen it get
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worse and worse. i can absolutely assure you it gets even worse over the next 30 years. i can tell you that. this is not just me with an opinion. we had the planning department look at the 19th avenue corridor study, which documents the fact of this issue. the area turned into a parking lot without this project. with this project, it opens up the door to the critical funding we need to truly improve chris protection not just for automobiles, but for public transportation in and around the area. you do not get the tier 5 improvements without peer -- without tier 4, sponsored by the developers. on the transportation side, this is such a positive. let's get to the crux of the matter. there is no question that the most troubling aspect of this discussion, the most pressing, and that which has given me the most concern, and i imagine all
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of you, is what does this mean for the residents of parkmerced. the promises that have been made repeatedly by the property owners are promises of what is behind them that can give us the comfort in being able to tell us the promises are legitimate. first, we have the city attorney's opinion. we've heard that in closed session and the land use committee repeatedly. we have followed the letter of the law with all the court cases. we have made this as tight as possible. just earlier today, president chiu presented a written opinion by a former supreme court justice that this contract, this development agreement, is legally sound. i am comfortable. i am comfortable with looking at my constituents and telling them these promises are legitimate.
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what is more, i want everyone to consider the reverse. we talked about what this gives to the tenants of the project. what about the risk if the project is not done? what about the pastures that are inevitable? millions of dollars have been spent on the property. not a penny of those has been passed through. even if you think there is a no- demolition alternative, i think we all agree the department's needs significant capital work. do you really think the work gets done without any pass- through stacks -- pass-throughs? that is absolutely determined. the bigger issue that concerns me, and this is something that struck me in my first few years representing this neighborhood -- that is the way until the owner came on parkmerced was being sold off.
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all along holloway, san francisco state has bought. on the south end of the project, we have a vacant lot that has been sold off. undoubtedly, if there is a no- project alternative, that process will continue. what is the downside of that? one of the wonderful aspects of parkmerced is the nature of the community and the way, whether you are on the east and or no. and, it is what -- or the north anend, it is one community. without this project, the community goes away. that is not what i want to see for the residents of parkmerced. it is important the remain intact. on that front, we need to address what it means for the city. if that bifurcation happens, if it gets split up, the city loses the it
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