for report writing -- for providing this as part of the realignment process, which commences this october and will happen in increments of stages. it is important that we begin to follow through on the process as to how we are going to receive and process in then redirect these inmates into areas where after risk assessment, going into incarceration or to diversion programs that might be more effective in helping to rehabilitate these low-level offenders, low-level felon offenders. this thursday, the public safety committee at 10:30, we are having our first hearing on the realignment as it implicates -- as a applies to us. the budget had not been signed by the governor in the previous hearings. now that the budget has been

signed by the governor, now we have greater clarity of how much money will be coming to san francisco. this and now requires us to figure wrote how do we receive this infusion of inmates without the proper, commensurate dollars, so that discussion must take place, and next to what to say congrats to the recreation and parks department. the women's world cup soccer. it was extremely excited. i could not have been more proud of team usa, and it was extremely exhilarating watching the match between japan and u.s.a. i was beaten to the council general of japan last week and said that i think it would be important that depending on which team, i would like to go ahead and extend a further invitation to the japanese seem

to come visit san francisco. i think it would be a great event, and the usa team, as well korean people should be reminded that we have the oldest of japan down in the united states. it is the oldest japan town in the united states. there are only three remaining in the united states. san francisco was the first to be a host city with a sister city relationship, and i think it would be perfect to celebrate the labradoodle -- that amount of collaboration, that bilateral relationship we have had with japan, especially with what they have had to deal with after the earthquake and tsunami. i think it would be a nice way to fortify relationships. the rest, i will submit. clerk: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. president chiu? president chiu: colleagues, our committees -- our communities have had many artists that have

left san francisco. we currently require large developments it to pay an instruction fee to help purchase on-site art work. many developers to fill this requirement by purchasing large art for their lobbies, which means that the general public rarely has a chance to enjoy this art. the proposed legislation, and i want to thank the mayor's office in his department's for helping to work on this, would help to provide more flexibility in how this 1% public arts the is actually used. if a project sponsor or developer did not want to use the entire 100% of the funds for on site public art, they would have the option of contributing some or all of the amount to a public trust fund for art. money for the trust fund would be used for the creation, the installation, and the exhibition of temporary and permanent public art as well as capital improvements to nonprofit art facilities within the district,

and this legislation would also expand and expand the boundaries of the improvement district to include neighborhoods that are within half a mile outside of the existing c-3 boundary where the public art could occur. also, a resolution that would address the report that came out related to the access ordinance. in my first year in office, i helped to sponsor, and many of you help to co-sponsor, to ensure that many of our departments are addressing the needs of all residents in san francisco regardless of language, whether or not english is ones first language. the report that was required from this ordinance has found a number of somewhat disturbing trends, which showed the close to 60% of all departments do not offer training for bilingual staff. over 60% of tier-1 departments that are supposed to respond to emergency calls do not get any

protocol on how they would serve english deficient clients. whereas there are 44% of client interactions with limited english individuals in san francisco, that happen in cantonese, only 27% of the bilingual it contacts deaths actually speak cantonese. there are many lane -- many issues like this. i would like to adopt these findings as well as to hold a meeting to find out what we can do to move our city forward to being more language accessible. the rest of my items i will submit. clerk: thank you, mr. president. seeing there are no more names, that includes roll call. president chiu: why do we not go to public comment? clerk: this excludes items which have already 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 states such and return it to live coverage of the meeting. president chiu: why do we not hear from our first speaker? >> [speaking foreign language] san francisco, david chiu. [speaking foreign language]

support me and to be with us. ladies and gentlemen, you can see here. you can see that i put an american flag on my face. this was to bring the japanese team, they were telling us that

it was a good idea, and it is a good idea, yes, to bring the japanese team and any team like you see here. they make money, and they make it, something else for our country. my idea can help. lots more business. wake up again. supervisor kim, campos, mar -- [beep] i need your help, and i need your support. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

stop the rape of the public library, do not give money to the friends foundation, do not accept money from the friends foundation. this goes hand-in-hand with the degradation of our principles and traditions of open government and public participation. abuse of the public, contempt for accountability, and open exploitation of public assets for private gain is what the philanthropist's get for their money. that is why the san francisco library commission has been the most egregious sunshine violator in the city of san francisco for many years. it benefits the private donors. the public library and was presumed to be the most democratic institution. the president of the labor commission violated someone's right to make public comment in mcs -- and the task force found it to be so egregious that it was in violation of the sunshine

ordinance. the ethics commission found, but to be, quote, falling below the standard of decency, good faith, and right action required of all public officials. finally, last week, the ethics committee supported the violation and recommended that that man be removed from office. yeah, the bigger scandal is that the library commission itself considered in business as usual. it reelected the violator as president of the library commission twice and refused to acknowledge in any way both the charges before the sunshine ordinances and the ethics commission. the library administration is a family, like the city hall family, and to hell with the law, but we are supposed to be a community with social values and projections for the benefit of the entire community. you know very well abuses that are unleashed, and guess what?

the lies cost more than the money. [bell] thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have graphics. ♪ the city has gotten a melody i am going to sing it to my friends -- i know a city that has not gotten any malady -- i am going to sing it to my friends will the budget fly high like a bird up in the sky? will the city go around in circles? will the budget fly high like a bird up in the sky? will the budget go round in circles? circles? will it fly high like a bird of in the sky?

will the budget fly high like a bird up in the sky? will the budget go around in circles? circles? will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? in city hall nights, you were looking soberride -- soberride, in your diamonds -- and you were looking so right. president chiu, you looked so great, riding your bicycle up all of those hills. big city nights and those big city bills you were looking so right. making all of the budget come back, big city home nights and

those big city bills and you were looking so right bring the budget bat b -- ack ♪ [bell] president chiu: thank you. next speaker is not. >> thank you -- next speakers. >> you may hear the seriousness in my voice because i am been victimized. many just give you one example over there. i want to make this clear to the city and county on record. i have been here in city hall for 20 years. i was upstairs in the media room before the earthquake, ok? now, i done made history.

i made history, and now, they are trying to get rid of me. one thing is sure, i'm going to stand my ground. i am asking for a public hearing of what goes on in the press room. right now, i think you all know. the press room, that is part of city hall, and that is expensive real estate. back when real -- when willie brown was the mayor, he gave them the room. to see if there is quality. some got two realms. some got one. but me? i got no rooms. i do not have a key to get into the place. i made history. i am not trying to fight city hall. they are trying to question my

-- i do not care if it is through the birds and bees. i do what i do, and i do it good. but now since we have this, a lot of people in city hall are asking. i am asking for this. there is racism going on in city hall. [bell] >> my name is john, and this is probably my 50th time. each time, i have the same message to try to get you to exercise your oath and to stop mass murder in an unconstitutional wars of congressional choice, never a necessity, against cia- fabricated enemies. i left each of your offices the following message.

do not put week, the people, further into debt, a cease-fire on it unconstitutional wars of troy's not necessity, stop the lack of due process of law, cut to two billion per day for defense, and do -- face disqualification from office or treason. and then it shows in there where i am holding a local reporter boat accountable for treason and felony for keeping this information secret.

i think they're going to fix this thing. this is going to solve our problems by simply exercising section 5 of the california constitution. standing armies may not be funded in peacetime. thank you for listening. president chiu: next speaker. cl;e -- clerk: next speaker, please. sfgtv, please. >> supervisors, may i kindly have your attention? i have not noticed any of the

supervisors giving attention to the other speakers or supervisors speaking, and that is very disappointing because you are paid a good wage, and listening is the most important part of your job. i in here because i have some fantastic ideas about revenue generation for you. my name is colleen. i am from a town. i'm going to suggest that you talk to the california public utilities commission about these problems with pg&e and that you take a look at kennedy choice aggregate, working with marin and other counties that may be able to provide energy without profit or danger to your users. now, could not help but notice in the sunday paper, in the inside section, about american priorities, your very own mayor, and part of the u.s. conference of mayors passed a resolution

with an absolutely perfect way to generate revenue for your city, and it is simply sticking to the constitution. before we have any further appropriations, before we get any further discussions about raising the debt ceiling, we need to have this city and county passed a resolution that is similar to the 14 u.s. mayors but with teeth in it, would strengthen it -- similar to the one for the u.s. mayors. having our service members returned home. a constitutional declaration of war before any further engagement. the house of representatives is the most egregious form of the policy. say no to constitutional war. [bell] president chiu: thank you very much.

>> good afternoon, good evening. my name is drawn to a. i have not appeared before you in a long time. i am concerned by the lack of attention paid by the supervisors to the public comment. i appreciate you do this and because the cab drivers are not getting a good voice at the mta, and i do want to thank president chiu for giving us two minutes because the president of the mta gives us one minute even though there are the same number of speakers that appear before them, and it really bastardizes the public process, and i am concerned about that, so i want to thank profusely supervisor campos for putting the ballot about the credit card issue. trying to talk about improving tax and service, well, how do you improve the taxi service when you are being charged 5% on your credit card charges, and

you are seeing your income diminish? so you are not want to be as nice to your customers as you would like to begin is your income goes down and down and down, and the mta has refused to increase the meter after eight years. they are supposed to deal with it on august 2. we do not know what will happen. the earliest it will happen is in september, the high seas and of the tourists, and i am really concerned about how the mta is addressing the issue of driver in come. if you are a small business, and you see your income go down because of costs and fees, u.s.s. the customer or pass them on to your customer, mike restauranteur regarding the health-care fees. -- like regarding the health care fees. it is only fair that they can do that, and i asked you today to pass the resolution that supervisor campos has put before

you. [bell] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with the united taxicab workers. i am here to urge you to support supervisor campos' resolution. a similar resolution was passed by the san francisco labor counsel, as for good reason. this is an issue for cabdrivers. it is an economic burden on people who can least afford it, but it is more than an economic issue, because from the public's standpoint, they are frequently being inconvenienced by the fact that drivers are made responsible for these everth. auf i have heard this from passengers. i have heard this from other drivers, that some drivers are either refusing to take credit out right or discouraging their

clients from using credit. this can be a severe inconvenience for somebody to go to an atm machine or find some other means of payment. it can lead to potential conflicts between drivers and passengers. this is not good for service. this is not what we want. granted, drivers should not be doing this. they should not be saying they cannot take credit when they can. i do not condone it, but it is human nature. it is going to happen. it is not permissible. there is no way to get a handle on it except to take the burden off of the driver, and there is also a 60 component this because cabdrivers, as you may be aware, are among the most crime prone victims in our society. taxi driving has one of the highest rates of homicide and other crimes, so to the extent that you can reduce cash in the

cab, you are protecting the driver, and to the extent that you provide a disincentive to drivers for that cash, you are endangering them. [bell] president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. dave schneider. by way of information but not necessarily reputation, i am a co-founder of the united taxicab workers. i have also been a legal aid worker and a journalist. i rise in support of item 52. the file urging to halt the action under the transfer of credit card charges, because as i see it, it is an economic issue that affects poor, working cabdrivers. they want to charge as much as 3% to 5%.

by way of public disclosure, i work over a green cap, and drivers do not get charged at all. -- i work over at greencastle regent -- green cab. we have raised this at the mta about getting credible information about being able to use the av cameras in a comprehensive way to get the data and so forth, and yet, nothing seems to be really, really happening. it is almost like living in a bad movie. there are people in good faith. there are bureaucrats. they are responsible, but nothing seems to be happening. it is a concern, so i report to you because of your position on the board of supervisors. you are part of the family, and i just wanted to raise those issues, but i do support this ordinance, proposal, resolution,

and i hope you adopt it. thank you very much. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. tom. south beach apartments. i moved there 22.5 years ago, the resident who is living there the longest. from my apartment, at one time, i could see five dirt parking lots. they are all gone. and what has happened in my neighborhood i really do not want to happen in the rest of the city, and i am going to give you an example but i was not planning on. say the department of public works got an idea that if they put 500 boxes on the sidewalk in the city that could regulate the

lights, traffic lights, but that could read how many cars are on the road, it would be a good idea, and we implemented it, and there are 500 boxes that start buzzing, in making noise, what would happen? in the daytime, but those boxes could make 65 decibel is worth of noise, and the nighttime, there will be 45 decibels of noise. you can hear noise under 45 decibels. what the city has going for it on the noise issue right now is inadequate for the city. i do not get here this often, and i have 26 seconds left, so i will not be able to preach the subject very much longer, but it is an issue for noise, that

finished buildings create, that go across party lines, over the common areas, into other people's property. it is an issue and needs to be taken care of. >> i just want to thank you all for being here. i'm interested in a clean city and i'm abhorred by the garbage on the san francisco streets. so i have two things i want to talk about. and the first one is these boxes you just approved without an e.r.a. president chiu: excuse me, ma'am. under the rules of our board, you're not allowed