investment you can make in the development of this extraordinary country, which as you mentioned, at 17% of the population was slaughtered in less than at fremont's. bayh it thank you up for this -- i thank you for this honor. you are all invited to come visit and follow our>> of all ol principals, he worked closely with the non-charter schools and one of the principles that is a good example of charter schools being a catalyst for improvements in the whole public

school system, thank you to peter thorpe for his work in the san francisco unified school district as well. supervisor campos: i just want to echo those comments. i had the pleasure of working with peter when i was at the school district and i do think it is commendable what he has done. you are not going to find some more committed to public education and helping young people. so thank you, peter. president chiu: it is my honor to make the next commendation. for those of you who did not know, lending the park is currently the longest running lindy hop dance event in the san francisco area. it offers free swing dancing in golden gate park since august of 1996 with free lessons to the public for the past several years. it is an event run by volunteers who volunteer their

dj and dance instruction skills. lindy in the park has provided an extremely inclusive community events, welcoming hundreds of dancers and non-dancers likens brandy -- spreading the joy of dance to thousands people. this is why i wanted to invite the founder to accept a commendation from the board of supervisors that, among other things, helps to proclaim sunday, august 14th as the 15th year anniversary to be windy in the park today for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. [applause] would you like to say anything? >> thank you for this honor. we are so privileged to be able to put on a windy in the park every sunday, year-round. you are all welcome to come.

we have free swing dance lessons at noon and we get about 150 people every week. it is a very inclusive place, welcoming to all. we have people from all walks of life joining us and it is a whole lot of fun. we hope to be here for many, many more years and thank you for this honor and thank you for your support. [applause] [applause] president chiu: our last

commendation will be provided by supervisor carmen chu. supervisor chu: if you could come up and stand here behind greg, that would be great. today, i would like to ask you all to join me in paying tribute to a man who has devoted the last 10 years of his life managing the largest general fund apartment in this city. greg joined the department of public health as a chief financial officer for the department community health network in june, 2001. by the next year, he was already serving as the chief wenzel officer for the entire department of public health. this task is not an easy one. every single person on the budget committee and every single budget chair has always gotten to know greg very well, especially in the month of june. while it has been said that one dog year is equal to seven human years, it could be said that once cfo year at the department of public health is equal to at

least 10 human years. thank you to devoting at least the last 100 years to overseeing the san francisco department of public health budget. his last day will be this coming friday. yesterday, great received a commendation from the civil service commission, the mayor's office, and was serenaded by his staff with choruses of "taking care of business." i would like to thank you on behalf of the san francisco board of supervisors and hope you will hear all more choruses of "taking the easy." thank you very much. [applause]

>> thank you very much. i find it an emotional thing to be leaving this city. unsurprisingly a emotional about it. it has been an honor and privilege to represent a health department for these last 10 years. i need to thank all of you for the support i received from all of you in my time here and your predecessors, i have learned so much from you and from past supervisors and all of the people i have worked with at the board. i value my relationship with harvey rose and his staff, the

comptroller's office, just so many people, more people than i could begin to thank. i have had this incredible opportunity to work in a department with people who are completely committed to the mission of the health department and service to the people we care for and it is an honor to have contributed to that in any way i can and i'm leaving here with so many friends and relationships and i'm hopeful that i can find ways to contribute in the future and continue to be involved in some way if that opportunity should come. just so i don't have to say goodbye because it is too hard. thank you very much for this honor. i am almost speechless. not quite. [applause]

[applause] president chiu: congratulations and thank you, greg. with that, why don't we go back to item number 34 related to the 3:00 committee as a whole? >> we have met with the individuals outside and reached an agreement with all four. all four will be removed and we will meet with them back at the department and we will be working with the owners to resolve these issues. all four of the properties as follows -- [, -- [reading

addresses] president chiu: with those amendments in the document, i understand we will receive the underlying document under this resolution. with that, can we move forward with the resolution to be adopted with the amended reports? why don't we -- i think we need to take a roll-call. >> on item 34 -- [roll-call]

there are 11 avalos -- there are 11 ayes. president chiu: the resolution is adopted pureed white only move to item no. 37 -- item number 47. >> item number 47 was considered a regular meeting on thursday, july 28th and was forwarded as a committee report. irresolution responding to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 2010-11 report entitled the partners said division, government by developer. president chiu: roll-call vote. >> [roll-call]

are9 ates and 2 nos. items #48 and 49 were for it as committee reports. item number 48 declares the intention of the board of supervisors to establish a property-based business improvement district to be known as the west portal community but the district and levy a multi- your assessment on identified parcels in the district of proving the boundaries map and approving the notice and ordering and setting a time of -- time and place for the public hearing. president chiu: roll-call vote.

>> [roll-call] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: this motion is adopted. >> item number 49, promoting [reading names close bracket -- reading names] president chiu: this item is approved. >> item 50, determining the issuance of a tight 42 on sale here and wine license for the expansion of the city beer store

into the education office space located at 1168 folsom st. will serve the public convenience. president chiu: same house, same call. this item is adopted. >> item 51, determining the on sale occur license to 1423 poultry will serve the public convenience. president chiu: same house, same call. this house is adopted. >> item 52, authorizing the part of public health to submit a one-your application for 2012 to continue to stop receive funding for the comprehensive hiv prevention programs grant from the center for disease control and prevention. president chiu: same house, same call. this resolution is adopted. supervisor avalos: i would like to rescind the vote on item

number 47. president chiu: is there a second? can we do that without objection? a vote on item 47 has been rescinded. of roll call vote on item number 47. >> [roll-call] item number 47. 7 areayes and 4 nos. president chiu: the motion has

been adopted and supervisor mirkarimi has made another motion to rescind. the vote has been rescinded. roll call vote. >> [roll-call] it's hard to hear when you don't use your microphone. [roll-call] are6 ayes and 5 nos. president chiu: the resolution is adopted and it's a good thing it's almost time for recess.

>> supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thank you. a couple of items for introduction. one is an item for the america's cup program. under the america's cup agreement, there is supposed to be the america's cup workforce implementation program and that is supposed to be done concurrently with the environmental review, i'm worried might be behind, so i want to have a hearing early september to make sure we are on track as a city in developing the work force planned trade there are numerous job opportunities in construction and the jobs related to the offense for america's cup and we should be doing everything we can to make sure we have as robust a workforce development plan to hire local san france --

to hire local san franciscans. i also have my next item, a request for legislation to be drafted, related to the access for bicycles in commercial buildings and existing commercial buildings in downtown san francisco. i have had about four different bikes in my lifetime. three of them were stolen from me. i have had the current one for 10 years and i have been very safe with my bike to prevent theft. but one of the ways we can ensure our bikes are safe from theft is to be able to bring them into our building so that when i'd bring them in, we use the city hall locker room to be able to store our bikes. for many, there is not like access and we want to be able to provide that access in the future for cyclists in san francisco.

legislation will be asking the city attorney to draft a plan modeled after the one that exists in new york city that would either require commercial buildings to provide space, locker rooms for cycles, or to allow workers to bring bicycles into the building. while this is being drafted by the city attorney, i intend to be working with bike advocates as well as the building owners and managers association and related unions that do work to make sure we have a plan that can move forward and be successful to ensure we can create better safety from theft for bicycles in san francisco. lastly, it is that time of year. to celebrate the excelsior district native son, jerry garcia, what a long, strange trip and has been.

it will be this coming sunday, it is almost the 10th anniversary of jerry day. every day, there are more and more people and i fear in the future we will not be able to hold jerry day in the jerry garcia amphitheater. for this year, it will be in the jerry garcia and the theater, starting at 12 noon this sunday, august 7th. there will be several bands and this is an amazing event, attracting people from all over the bay area. i want to recommend colleagues that you attend and will be a lot of fun. wait until you see what is going on. that is all my items for introduction. >> thank you. supervisor mar: to pick up on a supervisor avalos'point about bicycle theft, on my first day

of high school, many, many years ago, i had my bike stolen. my daughter starts middle school in two weeks and i want her to be writing to school as well. but your introduction of this item is really important. i'm going to be continuing to work with a safe route to school and the san francisco unified school district to make sure our children feel safe to bike to school as well. incidentally, i attended a great work shot by the san francisco bicycle coalition. i really excellent instructor on bicycle safety and how to protect bicycles from getting stolen. the bicycle coalition and other resources are great resources we could use to make sure we can bikes safely in our communities and make sure we don't have been stolen as well. besides jerry day coming up in two weeks, we have the san francisco golden gate park. a number of the meadows and i can't wait to see phish, john

fogarty, some of the awesome bands, so many different bands will be performing and i should say another planet entertainment promoters have been awesome to work with and they have a model of leading golden gate park even better than when they set up. they are modeled that rec and park is looking at to make the park better than when the events come in. hopefully there will be tremendous bicycle parking and use of alternative transportation and people around the richmond, sunset have any difficulties, there is a hot line they can call to report called -- to report cars parked in driveways. if there is a problem with noise, there is a simple to call a hot line. lastly, i have been working on the issue of good jobs and green

jobs and job equity over the past two years with a coalition of labor community-based organizations and advocates. one of the charges we face is some of our initiatives have gone into uncharted territory and which trade unions will perform the jobs and which ones will perform the jobs we create as we build a new, green economy in san francisco. we have experienced this on the sunset reservoir solar district. while we were able to meet the community hiring goals on the project, largely with a strong community and labor advocacy, it has been more than a year since we approved any new municipal solar projects. our plans to put solar panels on symphony hall have been on hold, unfortunately, and this is the most significant projects to be impacted by the question of who will perform the green jobs for our city. last week, the board of supervisors received a key letter signed by over 20 environmental justice and

community work force groups requesting a hearing to help guide green job creation -- each of our partners and labour and i will be helpfully -- i will hopefully be sponsoring a hearing. i'm introducing an ordinance that would allow the city to craft its own policy with respect to green jobs and other jobs created for which the state has not yet weighed in with complete labor standards and wage rates. the ordinance is designed to give guidance to the office of labor standards enforcement as to how we should proceed on these projects when the state has not set guidelines for when the state has suggested certain types of work are multi-craft. i hope we can hear from the city and from advocates about how we can use this new framework to install solar panels again and guide the energy-efficient work in a way to protect workers' standards on public-works while creating more jobs overall for our communities and partners in

labor. thank you. the rest will submit. supervisor cohen: good afternoon, colleagues. early this morning, the city attorney and i hosted a press conference announcing legislation that i will be introducing with the support of several of you related to regulating false advertising by crisis pregnancy centers. the intent of this legislation is to prevent them from purposefully and knowingly making false or misleading statements about the pregnancy- related services they provide to the public. the focus of this legislation is on protecting the consumers rights of those seeking pregnancy-related services. as is the case with commercial advertisements, potential clients of crisis pregnancy

centers have the right not to be misled by providers of pregnancy-related services. as a city, we have the duty to protect our most vulnerable residents of our community which this legislation seeks to do. in working with the city attorney's office, i believe we crafted legislation that is awful, -- that is a thoughtful, and balances the free speech right of every citizen both pro- life and pro-choice, with the constitutionality protected reproductive rights of women. i just want to make sure that we are clear that this is a piece of legislation that will not tread on anybody's first amendment rights. it is not in favor of pro-life or pro-choice. it is simply to protect the consumer. the rest i said net. -- the rest i submit to.

supervisor kim: i think is really important to protect the choices of our women and this will move our city toward that. i am proud to co-sponsor this ordinance. two things today -- as many of you already know, august 8th is recognized as burma day. august 8th, a marked anniversary of the bloody uprising when students were shot down by the military regime by peacefully demonstrating. the burmese democratic alliance has been actively advocating for democracy in human-rights for the last 10 years. i would like to run relies lost in the democratic struggle in burma to -- and to share a solidarity with political activists to continue to

support the cause despite political repression. there is also a call for a commission of inquiry into the war crimes and crimes against humanity by the burmese regime. many of us know the background of this, but the burmese american democratic club wanted us to share this. burma has been under military dictatorships since 1962. in 1988, the people rose up to demand democracy nationwide. the military regime brutally crushed the uprising by firing at unarmed students and demonstrators. in 1990, the regime held an election in which the night -- a national league for democracy won a victory defeating the back party. however, the regime never relinquished power. instead, they placed her under house arrest and terrorized her supporters. there are more than 2000 political prisoners in burma and

the united states officially recognizes them as their legitimate representative of the burmese people as determined by the election according to the freedom and democracy act of 2003. 16 countries including the united states have so far supported the call for a commission of inquiry on burma. i want to recognize that today. that will be on august 8th, next week. i also want to ask that we adjourn in the memory of the tenderloin activists today, darwin diaz. he died with his best friend and still made of the last 36 years, holding his hand at his bedside. he's a san francisco native and longtime community organizer and grassroots activists. "i hit the planet by way of san francisco in 1934 and then had

to live in fresno until i was 21. he returned in the 1954 he became part of the early day pioneers who were out and lived in the castro long before it became the game back up, as he would say. -- before it became a thegay mecca. he took part in the anti-racist the struggles and the efforts for justice for people with mental illness. they were together blockade in the international hotel on the night of them mass eviction of our elderly mostly filipino and chinese tenants. both men formed the mission chapter of the national committee to overturn the decision defending affirmative action programs for women and minorities. darling was committed to the belief that housing is a human rights and in early -- in the early '80s, he became part of the tenderloin development coordination and served on the board of dirrs