supervisor mirkarimi: related to this particular item, last week, i asked to be a co-sponsor. could you please identify me as a co-sponsor? supervisor chu: thank you to my colleague for bringing this forward. taxi issues are difficult and complex to understand. i wanted to explain why i would be voting against the resolution. i think it is a good one. the mta board was intending to take action if they had not increased the wait time. to increase the mileage by 10 cents for every one fifth of a mile. they can increase the drop rate by 40 cents. that is the reason i will not be supporting this. i believe the intention of the mta board is to offset what that

cost would be. president chiu: any further discussion? roll-call vote. supervisor chu: no. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: no. supervisor farrell: no. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor wiener: no. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are seven ayes and four nos. president chiu: given that this would have required eight votes, this resolution is not adopted. >> may i just make a quick comment? i know that this did not

technically pass. it is important that the majority of the board of supervisors is on record asking be mta to reconsider its decision. >> why do we not now move to item 54? >> item 54 is an authorization of proposed arguments submitted to voters at the consolidated general municipal election. >> colleagues, you have two items that have been distributed to you. this has been photocopied and passed out to all of you. the first amendment looks a little bit more formal. it adds to the opposition

language. the three petitions that have been cemented. they have been cemented on pension. the initiative on the banning of male circumcision -- circumcision. the components are going to be people collecting signatures. the second part is the hand written scratch attempts to achieve the goal of simplicity and efficiency. you have a number of people being the official components. everybody needs to sign the forms. all of us consign them. the burden of the one person assigned to collect all of the signatures and all of the forms. what i have done is i have gone through and listed who is going

to be the official proponent of these ballot measures. this is the pension proposal that we all have voted for. since this came from the board, there was a thought that they would collect all of the signatures. page two, line 24, having b. mayer be the official sponsor of the sales tax. that is to have supervisor wiener be the official proponent of the street bond. this is the official opponent to the pension measure that has

been filed. this would be charged with collecting everyone's signatures. these are initiative measures that to my knowledge, unless any of you want to volunteer, have no opposition. this is the charter amendment that all of us voted for. the sales tax, which all 11 of us voted for. as well as supervisor wiener's ordinance with the campaign and governmental conduct code. that would just take that language out of this motion. i suggest that we strike my name. so the supervisor farrell can be the lone opponent to the street bond. page eight, line four. i would volunteer myself to be

the opponent to be initialled amendment. line 13, in regards to demolition. this is depending on how you read it. i would like to be the official opponent of the park a initiative as it is a big project in my district. page eight, line nine. supervisor farrell, i would like to put forward his name. page eight, line 24, i would like to put forward supervisor wiener's name as the opponent to the ban on supers -- circumcision. i would ask to move all of this forward. >> i understand that the status of some of these measures are still unclear. i would suggest that we continue this item for a week so that we

have a chance to understand and then we can make a final decision next week when all of these measures are clear. supervisor cohen: supervisor elsbernd, i am concerned, how did you come to select farrell and wiener to be your opponents? >> let me start in my district. the demolition ordinance that i've heard in the committee hearing, the sole reason it was put on the ballot was this. on the park measure, i have been very involved in creating the campaign committee that will hopefully defeat that measure. i was very involved in the rules committee hearing where we have had a significant discussion on the measure. rather than talk about who else will do it, i have not heard about the supervisors involved.

supervisor farrell has been doing a lot of work outside of the building. supervisor wiener at large the did the leg work. this does not mean that you do not sign the ballot measures. you bear the responsibility of doing all of that leg work. this happens after we are on recess. typically, if you have more than two, three, or four people, the odds that all of us will be in this building in august when these are duke is slim. it makes it difficult when we have to get everybody's signatures. it is far more efficient to have just the it one that is responsible for everything. >> i did not want you to take my

question as being disrespectful or challenging. it is like it happened. i was unaware when these things were happening. thank you for clearing that up for me. >> i will add to my motion that we will continue the item as amended. >> if there are folks amongst us, many of you would support if you wanted to be the lead proponent for these measures. you should look at the latest draft and come back, hopefully before next week so that we can get some feedback. any further discussion? supervisor elsbernd has made a motion to make the amendment as he described them. is there a second? can we do that without

objection? without objection, the amendments are made and this item will continue to next week. why do we not now move to the items related to the health care security ordinance? we can call items 44 and 45? >> they can confer with or are receiving advice from the city attorney. this is amendments to the security ordinance. item 45 is something that has been called from the committee that provides only the amounts paid or to revoke a bleak committed to pay to providing health care services shall keep the ordinance. >> item 44 is an item of closed session. do we have a motion to go into

closed session? let me see if there is any public comment about whether we should go into closed session? unless there is any objection, why do we not going to close the session? at this time, we will go into closed session so we can receive advice from our city attorney regarding the health care ordinance. please help clear the room. as soon as we are cleared, we will >> can we have a motion to not disclose the information that we just discussed? without objection, the motion passes. why don't we go to item 45?

>> thank you, mr. president. i thought we had a very good discussion in closed session without going into the details. i think that it would be beneficial given the complexity of the issues involved if we continue this matter for a week. i make a motion to continue this until the next week. "supervisor campos has made a motion to continue until august the second parent to without objection, this will be continued. madam clerk, can you please read in memorium. on behalf of the full board of supervisors, for the late -- >> is there any more business? >> that concludes our business.

>> in that case, the meeting is adjourned.

>> good morning, everyone. welcome to the beautiful and quiet powell street, here in downtown san francisco. i am the director of public works. i am delighted to see all of you here today. we are here for a special occasion, a special group of folks that i want to introduce before we get going. starting to your far lesft, border supervisor david chiu. sitting next to him, the mayor of our great city, and elite. -- ed lee. [applause] the chief marketing officer for audi america, organizer of this

event. [applause] the man whose design we will be enjoying, walter hood. and finally, the director of the business improvement district. [applause] here in san francisco, on a beautiful, sunny day, it is time to celebrate the innovative spirit of san francisco. we innovate social policy, housing, the environment, on transportation and technology. we innovate when it comes to the weather. we call this summer, here in san francisco. and when it comes to the public way, it is hard to think about innovation. it was billed years ago and it

is hard to change, at least that is what some people think. although much of the public rights of way in san francisco take up 25% of our city, they were built generations ago, in a different time to serve different needs with different sensibilities, largely built for people to pass through, as opposed to being in. we are changing that in the city and we are showing that the environment can change for the better. what we have here today is an exemplar of that. i will let the other speakers tell you more specifically what we are talking about today, but i want to thank some of the folks, besides those up on the stage, who have been a part of making this happen. i will start with the shepherd of this project from the planning department, andres

power. [applause] without his work, no question, from navigating the city bureaucracy, working with the city planner, public, this would not have happened without his efforts. from my department, his counterpart, nick ellser. from the mayor's office of workforce development, the mother of our communities in our town, lisa pegan. and the guy from the mta who gets all the difficult job of figuring out how all this all works, jerry robbins. those are the folks on the city side. there are a lot of other folks

to thank, a lot of other work that went into this. but now, it is my pleasure -- this man was progressive before it was cool to be progressive, and he was innovating in the public rights of way before it was cool. as a public works director, he started addressing alleyways in chinatown, in the tenderloin, making them more attractive and welcoming, improving the public realm all over the city. he has since moved on to bigger and better things but has carried that affect on with him, forcing collaboration between city departments, the private sector, and this is the epitome of the kind of partnership that edwin lee is bringing to the city. it is my pleasure to introduce to you mayor ed lee. [applause] >> good morning, everybody.

welcome to union square. one of my favorite places. you may know this, but two- thirds of our annual visitors make their way down here to union square. that is why 10% of our annual sales tax revenue comes from right here. people love coming here, and why not? why not link the historic cable car stop on market street, and make the experience of making up here -- making it up here and the rest of the city and experience. one of the things that i love is we get to collaborate between our planning department, mta, department of public works, working with the private sector. working with some fantastic designers, like walter, and his fantastic design studio.

and gaining the confidence of the people who protect this gem of the city, the business improvement district in union square. i want to thank everyone for coming together and blessing, with the contribution from audi of america, coming together to make these couple of blocks even better, to modernize it, make it even more welcoming, and to make sure that it is people-friendly in every respect. i want to give a shout out to all of these departments because we are seldom recognized. collaboration is often behind the scenes, but this is out in front for everybody. i want people to get excited about the friendliness of this street, but you are doing to try to change the feeling here, make sure that the experience invites even more people to enjoy union

square, powell street, the cable car experience. i also want to recognize the police department. as we transition this landscape, they are going to keep everyone safe, make sure we all have the opportunity to enjoy it. i want to thank everyone for this collaboration. so happy to be part of this. and also to make sure that we are investing and renewing every part of our city, to make sure that the tourists enjoy this area, and even people like ourselves -- those of us now live in the city -- will love it even more. this will benefit everybody. i also want to introduce another champion, someone that i have worked with closely this past year, who has led a very positive dialogue. that is our board president,

president david chiu. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i want to welcome everyone to what mark twain calls a classic summer day in san francisco. i am proud to be here as part of this announcement, and i am here on behalf of my colleague jane kim, who is stuck in city hall. the two of us have the honor of representing the number one place in san francisco where people come to shop, and hello to everyone on the cable cars, spend time in our incredible city. this is an announcement of how we build 21st century city -- cities, how we can create communities on very busy dance streets. we know it takes a village to create a parklet. i want to thank the city department for being our partners.

dpw, oewd, mta -- these acronyms refer to organizations and thousands of hours done to come up with this. three years ago, when i first came into office, a number of merchants from union square came to me and said, david, we would like to tax ourselves more. we would like to triple the size of the business improvement district. today's announcement is part of that portion of that amazing vision. i want to thank the in square business improvement district for everything you are doing to make union square one of the best attractions that san francisco has to offer. and of course, in closing, one of the most amazing aspects of this partnership happens to be our partnership with the private

sector. we could not do this without the generosity of an amazing car company. i do hope in addition to seeing the audi symbol here, i do hope that we see more of them traveling through the city, so feel free to donate any, if you would like. we look forward to continuing this green, clean, community- based transformation that we are undertaking, here in san francisco. have a wonderful day. >> before i introduce our next speaker, i want to make sure to recognize the very important person on the stage as well. wayne is our ambassador here. he is in bright red. as you know, the business improvement district has been spared in making sure that not

only are people safe, but that they are treated well when they come here. that is what keeps the economy going. as david said earlier, audi is a pretty special company. scott, i want to let you know, too, i am jazzed about that car that i want which appeared in the "ironman" movie. when i saw it i said, i want that kind of car. not only does audi have great style and a great corporate image, but they are a fantastic partner. let me introduce scott of audi of america. [applause] >> it is a great pleasure for me to be here.

i am the chief marketing officer for audi of america. it is crucial for companies, not only to celebrate things, but it is also important to do great things. whether you look at the racetracks up le mans, our electronic research lab, here in palo alto, or on the streets of san francisco, it is important to do great things. of course, the concept that our design and technology can have far reaching ramifications. we spend billions of dollars in research and development, and i think you see a lot of those elements in this design. when we first started making cars out of aluminum frames, they said we were crazy. it turns out, aluminum is stronger and less weight. i think you will get a good

sense of that design here. led lighting. people said it was madness to use them in cars. now you see it in every one of our cars and being imitated everywhere. the beautiful lines of our cars, walter had done a great job recreating that a static. and most importantly, wi-fi. -- recreating that aesthetic. the ideals of audi were brought here to this, not. i am very thankful to be here. this is why it means so much to us. now i want to introduce david, the group president of the business improvement district, here in union square. again, sincere thanks.

>> thank you, scott. on behalf of the union square business improvement district, property owners, and the businesses, i would like to thank mayor lee, supervisor david chiu, the city departments, the san francisco municipal transportation agency, and audi of america, and a special thank you to those who supported this trend for this project. when we embark on this new project, it reminded us of where we have been and where we are going in union square. 164 years ago, jasper overall, who has a street named after him one week away, was commissioned by the city to lay out a design for its streets and parks, including union square. the park's design was designed

to be infighting, accessible, beautiful, and memorable. today, architect walter put has applied those same qualities beautifully to the powell street promenade with a contemporary landscape design with features and heard of, like solar technology and wi-fi. o'farrell may not have imagined at the time that 100,000 people would use this street every weekend, making it the busiest city corridor. now with this promenade, it will be one of the best places to enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city, out of its hustle and bustle by working with the city, audi, and union square business improvement district, we have demonstrated how partnerships can further a vision for a better sense of co that i know we all share. it