have to get behind these programs. they may not be ideal, but when this started, the idea was to try to make this better. what we did, we had information involving three community meetings, and involve me knocking on every door, going into every establishment in this area. one thing i was fascinated about was a number of property owners who were involved with their property, not nearly as many living out of town as you may think, there is a lot of local ownership. i did not know this and i have been there a long time.

we went door-to-door telling about this, and especially -- i work with the owners who were not involved before, in the area we were trying to add, to increase what we could do. and after we went through that phase, i came back with actual petitions that we took to the business owners, with over 60% -- this was around 60% positive response. only about 6 or 7%-response. a lot of us, whenever there is a tax increase, many of us just will pay this. there was some amazing feedback that people were supporting, and

i spoke to miss johnson, at the senior development. she did not want to pay a lot more, but she loved the idea and there is something complimentary about seeing the young people being from the neighborhood, to see the familiar faces out there. there was only one real request, that they have to do everything they can for the jazz festival, if they don't put the bandstand effort of the senior building. it will stay right there. they love those activities that they present their, and some people and not what the noise all day. getting this kind of feedback we were able to get from the churches, the people we left out intentionally last time that we tried to bring in.

this concept is important to the neighborhood and we really do need your support, on taking this forward, so this district -- begins to have the same kinds of activities, the same kinds of support the other neighborhoods had, and the great thing about this is that they're doing this on their own this is not about running the redevelopment and not having to take the responsibility. we would like your support going forward, and maybe we can expand this even further, and show other property owners unsuccessful that this has been. thank you so much. >> i would like to offer the

annual report, which was recently published. i will give this to the clerk for distribution. >> i wanted to call this into the record. we had a correction on the resolution, as well as in the management plans. there are redlines shown with the administrative, small correction. >> i am sorry. >> when i structure of this, i wanted to make certain that there was community participation. 50% of the board members own or have interest in real estate, located in this district. 25% of them should be in the

district but they do not have an ownership interest. nearly 25% should be individuals with an ownership interest in business is located in the district. 25% of the communication level -- how do we make certain that this is being respected and that those people are actually -- but are not connected to those who are either elected members, -- >> i would like to ask the chair of the board of directors to answer this question because he was part of the process and how they did the outreach to get the committee members to fill out applications.

>> to answer your question, i worked on the board development committee, and we had a very thorough process in which we have applications that were funneled to the community. they were able to get participation from business and property owners, and also community outreach. we wanted the perspective of individuals in the community, a longtime resident of the fillmore district, a community person. this is from the japan town community, and also, a man living in the film more center.

we did work very diligently to make certain that we had a fair level of the nondiscriminatory approach. >> it is important that we do everything that we can to uphold this conclusion, for the people who are not property owners or business owners. i appreciate this and you'll get to expand this inclusion effort to list the participation. what about those who are not merchants of the fillmore? >> to answer that, we meet the fourth wednesday of every month, and we have begun the process of having merchants

meeting, which has plummeted. we try to get all the persons involved in the discussion throughout the items that would affect every merchant on the corridor. and the community personalities in the community. we had a meeting last month and one thing i told the community and the merchants is that many of these people have very creative ideas for the district, but what i was saying is that they look at the opportunity to coalesce the collective energy for months after months. they are working together to have a more consistent footpath.

they're coming together and in the monthly meetings, we inform the community about the meetings and allow them the opportunity to share so that we can be a better board. >> i think the merchants who are not members should find some ability to outreach to those merchants, so they can assist them be on the border. >> one thing that we do, we are going door by door to make certain that everyone is aware of the merchants meeting, and we involve them in the process. we have done this and we will continue to reach out to all

those businesses. and the people who are not active enough can be more vigilant. >> the good news is that i see that night time, we see a change in the attention given from the people who want to be there, but the challenges during the daytime. it seems like we have a strategy of putting more restaurants in there. during the day i think a lot of them are serving a lot of customers. the foot traffic is bring them in the volume that you would hope, and this retail is robust. if there was going to be any message to walk away from this juncture, the renewal, is about what to do during the day to bring in the tourists, to get

people into the fillmore. i not think we can't simply rely on nighttime activity to sustain the economic interest. >> one thing i will say is that we're very happy that the terrorists have accompanied it -- i am the effect it -- i've been in the community for 31 years. i can look out my window and see the bus coming, and we have made a great effort to compose and put together a proposal, in which we try to create some sort of lasting monument or something in the area, or several monuments where this will stop because they are driving through the neighborhood. you have the lasting monuments,

or the tourist stop for their pictures. this will help the daytime business. and other ideas we hope will emerge, in the future, is to make certain we have more daytime business for people in the area. >> thank you. and is anything else to add? there is not anything else at this time? we will open this up to public comment. if there is any member of the public wishes to speak, you have to mets. >> i am simply appalled with ross mirkarimi. >> can you refer your comments to the committee? >> do i have a right to say that i am appaled at my supervisor? let's start over.

i am ace and i'm on the case. ross, you start off giving him a bonus? two years on there? i do respect you, and this is nothing personal today. i am the one who was there for the inception of this, but this was greeted by the redevelopment agency. i don't have time here and i will not waste my time. right now, i am up all with him getting up here. he was an opponent of this, when he was the chair person. i am here to tell you the truth today. this is not in the western addition. i am hurt right now.

the truth is going to be told. and you can meet appear with the documents. this is not only in the western addition. there's a conspiracy in the community with no sense of community here. there is no community in people out here. people got up here and spoke, i had to do this. he talked about the track record. the last one was because of racism. the talks about how they hired him, if this is going to be a community -- >> thank you. the next speaker?

>> they hired you like a hired gun for them. >> don't play games in city hall. >> mr. washington, can you please let us continue with the meeting? >> good morning, supervisors. in order to get greater community participation, i think that you are enabling legislation -- that the enabling legislation should mandate must comply with the sunshine ordinance. the city attorney has said that you are not subject to this ordinance, but i do not believe that this is correct. the task force has already given the opinion that the district is

subject to this. you should mandate that all of this is subject to the sunshine ordnance. these to get grants from the city, for the funding. at a minimum, if the object is to get greater community participation, he must mandate and comply with this ordinance. thank you. >> the next speaker? is there any other speaker who would like to speak? please come forward. please line up so that we can keep the meeting moving. thank you. >> good morning. i am speaking to u.s. treasurer of the fillmore district, on fillmore street. >> please continue. >> the financial and operational

history -- as you are aware, this settles the financial and operational issues, and the current board has worked to overcome the financial difficulties that we have experienced. i would like to share with you a couple of unresolved concerns. i speak regularly with property owners and some have expressed a concern about the calculation methodology, and the use of their tax dollars. how have these estimates been calculated? and how has the annual budget been used to make a difference in their everyday life. these properties represent the percentage of the board.

this is perpetual and that the current board those for the future board members. we see this with the decision making and the resource use. i would ask for you to instruct fell more to do the following. taking the opportunity to hold the election which allows all property owners to vote on the full commission, giving the board members a greater chance to affect this. they should hold property owner meetings, to discuss the methodology of calculating the subsidies, and how they have been different in the past. the transparency must be inclusive. >> thank you very much. is there anyone else would like to speak on this item?

please come forward. >> i am the owner of the business in the fillmore district and i would like to talk about how i have benefited as a new merchant, because i will be open for two years come july 1. why first came to this area, being new to san francisco, i have heard about this but i had never attended the meetings, although i was invited. i began to get involved as a merchant. and this began to become worthwhile for me. i know that we definitely benefit from everything that is put on by the marketing team, as well as the events but on by members of the community, they

do this as well. as a merchant, we all benefit. i do sit on the board right now, but if we were to not have this, i did not know where i would benefit from those collective efforts of the members of the community, and the members of the marketing team. where would this come from and where would i, as a merchant, a benefit? being a struggling business, in this economy, i find it very necessary to have something like this existing. i am the only one open during the daytime. do so the only restaurant that is open at 8:00 in the morning in fillmore.

is this something you can control in this district? this is residential. people are living here. >> thank you very much. if there is any other member of the public wishes to speak, please come forward. >> president chiu had to step out for the budget committee. actually, here he is. >> i am shiffaro, i have been running a business in the western addition for 30 years. i am the first jazz club owner. i was a person who was promoting the cdp. i saw this as a concept of

assessment. but i have some issues. one of these is the assessment. this cannot be based on favoritism, or payment and things like this. this is implementing the standard, and i would ask that before you push this thing, the standard methodology should be implemented. this is for the business owner and the property owner. i like to feel that i am not someone who is being taxed without representation. i am full the chair -- i am certain that the chair -- i

nothing that this was transparent. i think that this should be the case and i would suggest that because this is legislation for a couple of major issues, that you insist on having transparency in this process, and serious discussion on the assessment of the taxes. one thing i wanted to say. >> can you expand on the last thing that you said? >> there is also a problem in the position of the board. the original idea was that every facility would have one representative. there is a facility with three board members, and they only

have one of them. the chairman of the board just said that he had a community member, but actually, this community member and the position of the property owners -- the largest landlord has a couple of board members. and also, the property owners spent $2 million. i am a very active person in this. we need for them to show us who was writing the check. >> and is there any other member of the public to look like to speak? public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to

thank everyone from fillmore and japan town. i want to remind the general public that this is not always created equal and that is why i have great reservations. there was nothing that existed in what was a redevelopment area. this area had to navigate around economic challenge brought by the missteps of urban renewal. this allowed for people to engage redevelopment in city hall, this was on a process that seasoned people very well. i ask for omdb not to expect

when you creat ee a cbd, everyone is first with the ability to run a meeting, the way that we do, and people who are able to become a partner and a stakeholder in something are going to morph into someone who is, in reasonable with the democratic process. the community had several decades of trying to navigate will was not a very reasonable process with dealing with the upheaval in japan town. this is why i asked the mayor's office to try to move this to provide the escort of services, improvising, to help people to become self-governing. i think that this is ok, for the first few years.

the people who have been there and those on that right now, they had struggled to figure out the right person and how to work together. i saw other challenging and complicated conditions. now they have stepped up and they have demonstrated great progress in the ability to partner together in a way that seems to demonstrate that they are able to become more fluent in the governing body. no. 2 and this has always been my expectation, that this should comply with sunshine. if this means we should go to the ordinance to look for an amendment that requires them to comply, they should do this. there should not be another even practice with not complying. this is something that we will

pursue. the third thing is the methodology. the city has to explain this calculation to the people. this appears to be disproportionate because the cdc looks into who pays what for this proportion of what they are being taxed. it is incumbent upon the administration to be able to explain to everybody why this is fair, even though they may perceive this as not. i think the city and the administration needs answers. they need this more clearly. there is something that caught my attention. i do agree with the public comment, what have been noticing lately.

this is not the fault of anyone with the conspiracy in mind. well i believe it is that it is an even further to the multiple representatives in one location. i would like to see each representative from single lots. it turns out that we have a few people from the same business who might be residence or owners, or somebody else. this begins to restore everything and i will correct this. i will look to be amending this, before the full board. i want to say that for us to have this conversation five years later, lessons have been learned. and i will not demean the good work of the people who have taken t