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tv   [untitled]    July 26, 2011 2:00pm-2:30pm PDT

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>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. supervisor avalos: present. supervisor campos: present. president chiu: present. supervisor chu: present. supervisor cohen: present. supervisor elsbernd: present. supervisor kim: here. supervisor mar: present. supervisor mirkarimi: present. supervisor weiner: present. >> all members are present. president chiu: thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance.
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colleagues, we have copies of the june 21 meeting minutes. motion to approve by a supervisor mirkarimi seconded by campos. those are approved. >> i have no communications. president chiu: could you read the consent agenda? >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless a member requests discussion of a matter, which will be considered separately. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any of these items? >> on items one through six -- supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye.
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supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: these ordinances are finally passed. items seven through 18 constitute the upcoming budget. >> items 7 through 8 are the positions in the annual budget, and appropriation ordinance for the fiscal year ending june 2012. aiken's 9218 of the legislation associated with implementation of the -- items 9 through 18 of the legislation are associated with implementation of the
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budget. i contend increases fees for non-residents and tournaments at parks and golf courses. item 12 designate this weekend hours. item 14 is the ordinance increasing all fees based on the controller's consumer price index. there are fee amounts set for applications for planning commission, certificates of appropriateness, and building permits. item 16 sets the patient waits for the department of public health. item 17 modifies monthly and daily fees for construction and st. occupancy. item 18 establishes a fee for a program for services provided by the public administrator. president chiu: colleagues, any discussion on the budget for the second read? why don't we take a roll-call
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vote on the final ordinance? supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: these ordinances are finally passed. >> item 19, ordinance providing for a special election to be held on tuesday, november 8, 2011, for the purpose of submitting a proposition to incur the following bonded debt up for $248 million to finance the repaving of roads and streets safety. president chiu: any discussion?
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roll-call vote. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor elsbernd: no. supervisor farrell: no. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are nine ayes and two nos. item 20, amending the administrative code to limit overtime worked in a fiscal year by any employee to 20% of regularly scheduled hours. president chiu: colleagues, this is an ordinance that does two things. first, it lowers the percentage of regularly scheduled hours that the department is required to get an exemption from the
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department of human resources from 30% to 20%. it helps reduce the number of written reports required from the controller's office. i conferred with labor leaders earlier. they have requested a second meet and confer, so i would like to ask that we continue this item to next week. supervisor campos: that motion is seconded by supervisor farrell. can we take the without objection? madam clerk, next item. >> item 20 -- item 21 approves the 10-year land fill disposal agreement and facilitation agreement with recology san francisco. president chiu: and the discussion? supervisor campos: i know this
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is an item which has been vetted a number of times in committee. let me begin by thanking all the people in the city departments that have been working on this item, including the mayor's office and the department of the environment. as you may recall, the item was continued quite a few times to provide an opportunity for the local agency formation commission to delay study -- to do a study of how the issue of the kind of trash collection, transportation, and disposal is handled in other jurisdictions. i think that discussion and process was informative and helpful. i think that in some respects it perhaps addressed some of the concerns that had been raised in terms of how we were doing
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relative to other jurisdictions. i think in others it probably also raised additional questions. what i wanted to say today is simply that i recognize that recology provides great service to the city and county of san francisco, and we have through this process learned a lot about all the positive things they are doing. but for me the question with respect to this contract, at the end of the day, comes down to not so much the specifics of who the players are, but simply the process and where we are as a city in terms of management and the handling of this issue. and it is because of that, notwithstanding the many positive things recology is doing, i will be voting against this item. i understand why other supervisors would support it and can see there are very good