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 to do public comment on items we've already considered. >> this is about garbage. president chiu: you can talk about garbage. >> i'm talking about garbage

that are around current public boxes. president chiu: that's fine. >> i'm just worried that it's going to increase now. and so part of what i'm concerned with is garbage collection, and that is that it's not tied to the property parcel. there's a number of houses that do not even have garbage in the three neighborhoods that i have lived in in san francisco. and when you call the city and you ask if a particular parcel has garbage pickup, they refer you to the garbage company. so it seems to me that it's time to tie garbage pickup to garbage parcel and at least make sure that every parcel and each separate parcel has garbage pickup. you can't go with your neighbor even if you only have a small garbage bag and combine your garbage with your neighbor's garbage and have one garbage

pickup for two houses. so i don't know how people cannot have garbage pickup for any house. so i just would like to end this by saying that if everyone picked up one piece of litter off the street and encouraged everyone else to pick up one piece of litter off the street every day, maybe our streets would look better and our visitors would be -- have a more enhanced visit to san francisco and not consider that we're one of the dirtiest cities in the country. i'd really like to see our streets cleaned up, and i think that anything we can do to make our streets beautiful is an advantage. thank you. president chiu: thank you. any other members of the public wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. madam clerk, could you please read the adoption without committee reference counter. the clerk: these items will be acted upon by a single roll

call vote. if a member wishes discussion, it will be called separately and the matter considered. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any items? supervisor cohen. you want to sever item 53? supervisor campos: no, sir, i don't. i'd like to sever item 52, please. president chiu: and supervisor chu. 51. if we could do a roll call vote on items -- >> excuse me, sir, mr. president. president chiu: yes, supervisor cohen. supervisor kim: yes, i would like -- supervisor cohen: yes, i would like to sever item 52. [roll call taken.]

the clerk: there are 1 1-a yes. president chiu: those resolutions are adopted. item 51. the clerk: [reads item 51. [ president chiu: supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: thank you. i'd like to move to have this item continued, please. president chiu: supervisor cohen has asked to continue this item for a week. i hear a second. any objections to continuing this item to one week? this item is continued to july 26. item 52. [item 52 read]

president chiu: supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. let me simply say that i wanted to just note the main reason why i have introduced this resolution. i think that much has been heard here in staal in terms of how -- in city hall in terms of how taxi drivers feel in terms of the interaction they've had with the municipal transportation agency. and i think that very legitimate concerns have been raised by taxi drivers. being a taxi drivers is probably one of the most difficult jobs you can have not only here in the city and county of san francisco, but anywhere. and one of the things that i have been concerned about is this decision that the m.t.a. has been trying to overturn section 11 on 06 of the f.c.c. transportation code. that section forbids taxi companies from charging taxi

drivers a fee fort redemption of credit card charges. but the way that the m.t.a. has decided to approach this issue is to shift the burden of credit card charges to the actual drivers, and i think that that is having many -- will have many unintended consequences, one of which, in my estimation, will negatively impact not only the drivers, but also the ridership. i certainly have had my experience where it's been difficult at times to get a driver to actually take credit cards and by shifting this burden to them, you're talking about creating a situation where there will be a reluctance to take certain riders, because now they're going to have to pay that extra fee. that's not a good thing for the residents of san francisco. i also don't think that it's a

good idea to impose this added burden on taxi drivers when, if you look at what's happened to them in the last few years, there hasn't been a fair increase in more than 8 1/2 years, and the fair increase that will be instituted is a 25-cent increase per ride. and, of course, this is happening as we're looking at the cost of living increasing dramatically, to say nothing about the cost of gas. so it is for that reason that i have introduced a resolution. and you have on your desks amendments to the resolution that essentially make it so that the point of the resolution is to simply say that shifting the burden of the charges to the driver is a bad idea, but not necessarily directing that the burden be --

or that the charge be shifted to anyone in particular. and the hope here is that the m.t.a. will sit down with all the stakeholders and try to come up with a resolution that is fair for everyone involved association that it's no longer placed on the driver, but that there is some discussion of the most just and effective way of dealing with this cost. so first, i'd like to make a motion to amend the resolution along the lines of the document that's provided to you. president chiu: supervisor campos has made a motion to amend. colleagues, any objection to the motion? without objection, the resolution is amended. supervisor campos: i know it's unlikely that we'll have a unanimous vote, so i would move to continue it for a week. president chiu: we have a motion to continue it seconded by supervisor mirkarimi to july

26. colleagues, unless there's an objection, this item will be continued for a week, as amended. item 53. [clerk reads item 53] president chiu: supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: thank you very much, mr. president. colleagues, we heard the testimony last week, and i believe it's pretty -- this resolution is self-explanatory, and more importantly, it's just an important statement to many of our constituents particularly those in the african-american community here in the city and county of san francisco. so i ask that you support this measure today. president chiu: can we take this item in house? without objection, this resolution is adopted.

madam clerk, could you please read today's in mem more yums. the clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of two individuals. on behalf of supervisor mirkarimi for the late mr. shawn wilson, on behalf of supervisor chiu for eva marie mckohn. that concludes our business for today, mr. president. president chiu: at this time the board of supervisors is adjourned. .