since 1968. we have to start looking at what tools do we have to revitalize the area, and what i like about this legislation is we are not just giving a tax break to come in. you have to create jobs. you pay your payroll tax base, but if you move to midmarket and create jobs, we will not tax you on those jobs for six years. for the next six years, you are a community partner with us, partnering with us to revitalize neighborhood and then, if you are successful in six years, hopefully and the midmarket become successful, you come back into the tax system. i do not have an interest in expanding it. it was not about corporate welfare to companies. that was not the purpose. the purpose was to help

revitalize the area and make it the use is supposed to be for large businesses that have an incredible number of jobs for santa insistence. with 18 muni bus lines that -- for san francisco. we have 18 muni bus lines that run through it. that is what this legislation was carefully tailored to have that type of outcome. i am happy to concede we should monitor the legislation and make sure it is doing what we wanted to do. >> talk about the role of sports and in the city's future. you have thoughts about the america's cup, the 49ers? supervisor kim: i am a fan of the forty-niners and are giants and are warriors. i want them to stay in the area. one thing i love about the giants is it is so easily

accessible by caltran and muni, and i hope to see that infrastructure build for the forty-niners if the state. the same thing for the america's cup. we have to make sure as we build infrastructure for major sporting events we are keeping in mind the needs of san francisco and what they would like to see come out of these events. it is great if it creates jobs and helps to raise our tax base. >> slightly unrelated, but i am curious how you feel your work -- how your work with the school board has prepared to for being a supervisor? supervisor kim: i will say this about the board of education. when i ran for the board of education, i really wanted to represent and make sure i had to

be -- had to have a voice in the system. what really surprised me about being on the school board was how much i enjoyed it. i really loved it. i love meeting with families, meeting with teachers, visiting schools, and getting a deeper understanding of how our system works better and doing it with our communities. on that level, it prepared me for a much wider scale,, what it means to work for constituents, and also kind of -- you know, the low interfacing with your colleagues, working with a large bureaucracy to make it happen. it is tough. it is not easy to come before the community organizers --

working with small nonprofits, it was very unfamiliar to me, to slowly move a large glacier. >> are there any other issues that concern you we have not discussed, or any other issues of specific interest you plan to concentrate on? supervisor kim: job growth, economic development. land use. i did to represent one of the most exciting and dynamic districts in the city. i think it is exciting weekend model how to be a smart growth neighborhood, how we can use transit effectively to serve our city and do a lot of green-type policies we have developed over the last 10 years. but the third area of office is really interested in is how to support families in need. honestly, that is not something

city hall has done in good enough job with. in many ways, we at city hall feel we're off the hook in that area, that we do not have to worry about our public schools, that other people haven't covered. i think the city can do a tremendous amount. it can do a tremendous amount for our families. one thing i learned from my predecessor, chris daly, is what we can do to ensure we are prioritizing parts and affordable housing for our families and -- prioritizing parks and affordable housing for our families. i think that we need to support things that our schools cannot fund, like summer school. i would love for our city, in better revenue years, to have the longest school year and the

longest school day, to really model for the rest of california what you can do if you really fund schools. so, that is the third area. hopefully we will kickstart our economy back up again. >> it looks like we are out of time. i want to thank you for joining us today. supervisor kim: thank you. >> we have been talking to supervisor of jane kim. watch for the next episode when we will be back.

supervisor chiu: good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday september 13, 2011. welcome to our temporary board chamber. please call the roll. >> [roll call] mr. president, there is a quorum. supervisor chiu: i think you let somebody out. >> mr. mayer. mayor lee: present. supervisor chiu: and eric mar is here as well. >> sorry, supervisor mar.

mar present. supervisor chiu: thank you, madam clerk. ladies gentlemen, could you join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of united states of america, to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu: madam clerk, do you have any communications? >> i have no communications. supervisor chiu: could you call our to be a special order? >> the first item of business is for the mayor to engage with members of the board by answering eligible questions submitted by supervisors representing the i'd district. the mayor ray address the board initially for to 5 minutes. the president will recognize the representatives from district 1, 3, 5, 7, and 11, who will present their questions to the mayor, and discussion shall not exceed five minutes per supervisor. supervisor chiu: thank you.

mr. mayor, if you would like to address the board. mayor lee: thank you. welcome back from our break of earlier this year. i also want to welcome the public here as well. thank you for coming in to this new room that is just temporary. we will get back to the larger chambers, of course. in this question and answer period, you know we build some flexibility in to catch some unexpected things that might have occurred before we had a chance to review the questions. i wanted to address something that occurred in the last few weeks. there has been quite a bit of discussion in the press and also within departments about what is happening at pier 38. as you know, that as a background site for about at least 21 new and starting technology companies, and it has been in the press reported, and i confirmed that the port had some very serious concerns about

the structural -- the electrical circuitry on their. what we wanted to do was make sure that the commercial tenants there, particularly the small technology companies, had very dedicated team of people from the city verifying the conditions of the pier, so i wanted to let you know that we are paying very close attention to it. i have asked our office of economic and workforce development to work proactively to a couple of things. one is to work with the port and make sure our city agencies, including our fire marshal, department of building inspection, as well as the port stone harbor master, work together to confirm the conditions of that here -- pier. we want to make sure that information flow is not calendar with different information perspective that might cause a lot of confusion. i have asked that a joint meeting with the tenants of pier 38 take place this friday with

all of our various departments together in the same room with them to share the information of the most recent inspection of all the agencies and make sure that we confirm the findings of our fire marshal, our department of building inspection, as well as the port's harbor master so that they all know that the city is speaking with one voice relative to that condition. simultaneously, i have asked our office of economic and workforce development to proactively meet with all of the representatives of the businesses so that we have actively help them search for alternative sites, make sure that we are paying extra sensitivity to the way those sites have developed over the course of several years because they have been a very successful site. it has been a synergy of firms comedic other, and they want to work together and be together in that setting for their innovation and for their startups, and there is serious money in the state in these companies as well. we wanted to take care of that

simultaneously. i wanted to assure the board and the public that we are paying close attention to the tenants there. safety, of course, is the number one concern. after that, we want to pay attention to making sure that these firms have a place in sanford cisco, whether it continues at pier 38 or whether it is close by that we will find -- we already have sites identified, but we want to make sure they are conducive to the way these businesses operate. they need that degree of flexibility. i just want to let you know that we are on top of it for the sake of our city and at least 21 companies to our employee a great number of our work force today. i will begin with that. -- 21 companies who are employing a great number of our work force today. supervisor chiu: what we acknowledge our colleague from district 1, supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you, and welcome to our cozy chambers

here. health care access and equity has been a major issue for residents of my district and many other neighborhoods in the city. it offers the city a good opportunity to potentially improve health care options available to all san francisco residents. expansion could also result in a loss of a services to some of our most vulnerable citizens. six supervisors have publicly indicated that they will not support a cpmc deal that does not include a community benefits agreement acceptable to the various community coalitions that have been negotiating the cpmc for the past two years or even more. i understand there has been much progress, and thank you for engaging cpmc and other stakeholders in the process, but there has been progress made toward strapping a development agreement, but a development agreement for legal reasons cannot contain some of the provisions are of most importance to the community, such as giving the community the

ability to enforce whatever agreements are made in the development agreement. this is my basic question -- are you willing to require the cpmc enter into a community benefits agreement before the proposal is approved by the city? mayor lee: 94 that question. i want you to know that virtually every supervisor here who i have had a chance to meet on a one-on-one basis has raised the project in various forms. -- thank you for that question. i want you to know i am paying very close attention to the project. it has a very big impact for the city, not only for the health needs of the city, but also the physical impact, the transportation in fact, the community needs and have it has in outlining the neighborhood divisions that it impacts where the proposed site is. i want to thank you for the question. i am happy to report that we have made good progress towards the community benefits goal that i laid out previously. we reached this point only after

well over a year of discussion between and among the numerous stakeholders in this project. as you know, the stakeholders include more than just the cpmc staff. i understand and acknowledge that concerns have been raised from stakeholders around the project, but i also understand the tremendous benefits the project could bring in the form of jobs and the additional revenue that i could -- that it could bring in. to move the product forward in a manner consistent with the needs of san francisco residents and to make sure that the pluses of the project out weigh the minuses, i have proposed a set of community benefits relating to health care for the ndp, the future of st. luke's hospital, affordable housing, workforce development, transit impacts, pedestrian and bicycle improvements. the extent of the project i have requested are very broad, and to that end, the enormity of the

task for my staff is significant. we are making ourselves available to you. when discussions are completed, these community benefits will be incorporated into a development agreement, which is the city binding legal agreement with cpmc so the city can stand behind them and bring resources to bear in any action to enforce them. staff will work closely with the city attorney's office could draft a tight and enforceable agreement with strong remedies in case of default and clearer oversight and monitoring. i will make sure that the public has ample time to review before the agreement comes up for our final approval. finally, i want to make clear that i have and continue to encourage the community coalitions and cpmc to sit down and talk to each other to

address their mutual concerns. you are correct, supervisor, that there are topics that our office cannot get into, but i will encourage very strongly that cpmc make those direct contract -- contacts with the community. i believe this will make a better relationship going forward among cpmc, community stakeholders, and the city at large. supervisor mar: i will provide the next question, which is a run market street. a series of pilot projects around market street in the past few years have reduced muni delays and improve safety for people on walking and bicycle lanes. giving the successes and the fact that most san francisco drivers already know to avoid the market street gridlock, do you support a trial version of private automobiles from market street downtown accepted across it and the implementation of additional pilot projects to significantly increase the

priority and safety of people using public transit, bicycling, and walking on market street? specifically, what on the ground pilot projects should happen soon while long-term planning continues on san francisco was a most important transit, cycling, and walking street, and when would you expect these pilots to occur? >> thank you, board president, for this very comprehensive question. i have been very dedicated to work with you and supervisor kim and all the supervisors to make sure we revitalize mid- market and make sure that street is working for all of us in the city. i have been very supportive of finding ways to improve conditions for all users of san francisco streets. buses, streetcars, automobiles, taxes, delivery vehicles, bicyclist, and pedestrians, including what we have already done to restrict vehicles from certain parts of market street, and i would be supportive of additional trials and pilots. over the last two years, we have

initiated several changes that have been successful in improving conditions along market street. for example, the right turn trials that sixth and 10th streets have resulted in a 3% improvement in travel time on market street with no increases in travel time on mission street, and an increase in the volume of by syphilis on east down market street -- volume of bicyclist on east down market street -- volume of bicyclists on eastbound market street. due to the success of this pilot, these right turn requirements remain permanent in march with virtually no opposition. there are a number of other trials being introduced to improve the condition of market street. they include improving loading options and times about market street.

all-door transit boarding on market street to improve troubled times for a quarter of the city's transit system. a recent mta analysis shows that more than 50% of the public transit travel time delay on market street is due to those boarding times. new and expanded pedestrian and bicycle treatments. improving street markets at -- street markings and signs to improve safety, and make it clearer for all users of market street where the different types of transportation are supposed to go. improving crosswalk conditions to improve safety, especially along numbered streets, particularly sixth street, and some key intersections north of market. i would also like to add that i would start on something you and i have worked together on last year, and that is to begin in mid-market ambassadors program, someone along the lines we did

for third street and for mission bay, for the visitation valley and hunters point where we will work with our jobs now three program to introduce additional eyes and ears along mid-market for increased safety for everybody that uses that street. i am a big believer in pilot projects to try out different potential solutions and before any pilots, though, we need to get input from market street, multiple stakeholders. merchants, businesses, residents, drivers, delivery providers, hotels, restaurants in the area, public safety, pedestrians, bicycle advocates, taxi drivers, etc., to make sure we are taking everyone's concerns into consideration. of course, all of this requires funding, and i am committed to working with the mta and with our county transportation authority and other partners in seeking the necessary funds to get this done. thank you for that question.

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. good afternoon. as a result of assembly bill 109, the state prisoner realignment act, san francisco is projected to receive $5.7 million from the state for fiscal year 2011-2012 to help accommodate approximately 700 additional criminal offenders. we know this plan commences literally in three weeks. adult probation chief still estimates funding does not cover the cost of san francisco's realignment plan. the key projects that the city will be up towards to about $3.5 million short of meeting local realignment funding objectives. how do you propose to address this funding gap? >> thank you, supervisor, and thank you again for your leadership on reentry programs. i attended the first meeting earlier this year ended enjoy

hearing the best ideas coming out from this. as you know, public safety realignment is yet another example of the state pushing responsibilities on to local governments and not providing adequate funding to support them. my office has worked closely with chief still. she is here today. he is director of our adult probation. all the members of the community correction partnerships to produce a plan to respond to this population of inmates that we will be receiving from the state. the plan includes funding for additional officers and new community assessment and service centers, health and social services as well as analytical support to manage and monitor the program. we have also included $4.8 million in the sheriff's department budget to cover the cost of opening county jail 6 in san bruno, should the