municipal and commercial. 60% of our carbon footprint comes from the operation of buildings in san francisco. this will help us in our efforts to reduce our footprint. we currently have 52 projects seeking leed certification, and we have professionals in 11 city departments to administer these high-performance civic projects. thank you for your consideration. we urge your support. chairperson mayor lee is ther -- supervisor mar: is there anyone else who would like to wish to speak? it has been great to see the certified library branch open up. i want to issue a thank-you to the sponsors, mayor lee and

supervisor mar. this changes the way buildings are designed, built, and operated to create a healthy and prosperous environment to improve the quality of life. the leed system is the premier system. 35,000 projects around the world are currently participating in the system. that comprises over 4.5 billion square feet of office space around world. by using less energy, the buildings save energy for families, businesses, and taxpayers. they reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to a healthier environment. it comes in different levels of achievement it goes from

certified for silver, gold, and platinum. by adopting this standard, san francisco will be among only eight other municipalities in north america to have leed gold standards for municipal facilities. since 2004 when the silver requirement was adopted, green building has become successfully imbedded in the culture of design and construction in the city. we currently have 52 municipal projects seeking and achieving leed certification. these include libraries, and airport terminal, a cruise ship terminal. that adds up to nearly 7 million feet. laguna honda hospital and rehabilitation center is california's first leed certified hospital. it is designed to exceed the already strict energy co by 30%.

it is projected to save over $500,000 in energy costs annually compared to a minimum compliant building. it also successfully recycled over 80% of the construction waste created on the project. another exemplary project is sfo terminal two. it is slated to be the first leed gold terminal in the u.s. the successes been so great that they are now upgrading plans to renovate terminals 1 and 3. our flagship green building program has now achieved a double platinum certification for new construction and operations and maintenance. it is the most visited leed platform museum in the world. we have 10 branch libraries successfully combining high-

performance green building strategies with historic preservation of our important cultural assets. supervisor mar: are the library's 5000 square feet and above? are there any below that? >> they are all at least 5000 square feet. they ranged between 5012 thousand. -- they range between 5000 and 12,000. we're already exceeding our existing requirements. we do have 123 leed accredited professionals with the accreditation given to successful members in 11 city departments to help with the high-performance project. the ordinance was created through the assistance of the green building task force. it has representatives from 10

city departments including the airport, transportation agency, utilities commission, the division of building design and construction, and infrastructure design and construction, the apartment building construction, recreation and parks department, the san francisco public libraries, the port of san francisco, there is also one member of the public that is part of our task force. i look forward to successful adoption of this policy. we will continue to work with all departments to continually improve our building environment. i would be glad to entertain any questions you might have. supervisor mar: if a project is below 5000 square feet like a clubhouse being renovated in the parks department, you utilize maximum leed strategies but it may not be bold. >> that is well put.

we're trying to keep from greeting to the different clauses of construction. certification is an important and strenuous exercise, but we're not putting a requirement on our smaller projects. we do expect them to select the leed strategies appropriate for the projects and carry them through design and construction. actual certification would not be required for less than 5000 square feet. supervisor mar: thank you. ms. parton, did you want to wrap up? >> i neglected to thank the department for working clever to plead with 10 different departments to make sure that everybody's concerns were heard and incorporated into the legislation. supervisor mar: thank you, mr. palmer, for recognizing the libraries. they are incredible.

if there are no comments, let's open this up to public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? >> ♪ they are roandrock and roct in the green buildings singing tweet tweet i bless their soul they even tweet on the bridge after you pay your toll a littlll the little birdies twt

thanking you for keeping this green ♪ supervisor mar: let's move this forward with a positive recommendation. >> the designation of two selling spaces for street artists. supervisor mar: we have a speaker from the arts commission. >> i am the street artist program director for the arts commission. the board of supervisors in 1974, in their designation of spaces for street artists, and designated seven spaces on geary at stockton street. those seven are in front of neiman marcus, if you can picture that. with the construction of the

central subway project, that has rendered those seven spaces derelict. the artists cannot make a living there at all. the construction moved a flower vendor. it is measurable. i have tried to locate temporary spaces to replace. in the union square area, there is not a lot of real estate to go round on the sidewalk. what i was able to come up with is two spaces on post street, post at stockton just in front of the levi's building. i have a map that may work.

right above there would be union square. there is currently permitted hot dog vendor on the corner. those two spaces, i was asking for four, but i dealt with the management of levi's and the hot dog vendor. we settled on two. i think the artists would be glad to have them. they would be good spaces. i am asking that they not be permanent. these would be temporary for the designation of only six months. if we still cannot get back the seven spaces in six months, i will come back and ask for a continuation of a number -- another temporary designation. it is not a plan to try to make these permanent basis. i want to assure you of that. these two spaces meet all of your public safety regulations.

a street artist space cannot be within 10 feet of the outer edge of a doorway or entranceway. a street artist must maintain at least 8 feet of pedestrian passageways between the street artist and the opposite building. this actually allows for a 11 feet. both of those spaces will allow for 12 feet instead of eight. it is a very wide sidewalk. the hot dog vendor gives a crowd in the summertime. he asked that i pushed them back. the nearest space with th -- would be 18 to 20 feet from him. there is plenty of pedestrian passageways. i would be happy to answer any questions. supervisor mar: seeing none.

let's open this up to public comment. public comment is closed. colleagues, can remove this proposal forward without objection? thank you. -- can we move this proposal forward without objection? thank you. is there any further business? >> no. supervisor mar: thank you. meeting adjourned. ♪ >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit

that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some

little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that fed on white snake root faced severe pain. milk sickness, as it was culled, resulted in vomiting, tremors, delirium and death. one of the most famous victims of milk sickness was nancy hangs lincoln. she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the wooden

petition himself. >> we transformed the gallery to and eerie victorian garden. my name is lowe hodges, and i am the director of operations and exhibitions at the conls tore of -- cons tore of flowers. we decided it needed context. so we needed a house or a building. the story behind the couple in the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is supposed to be barred off and

locked up. >> the ole andersonner -- oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill them. a southern california woman tried to collect on her husband's life insurance by putting the leaves in his food. she is now one of 15 women on california's death rowan the only one who attempted to murder with a plant. >> people who may haven't been to their cons tore or been to -- do serve tore or their botanical garden, it gives them a reason to come back. you think let's go and look at the pretty flowers.

these are pretty flowers, but they are flowers with weird and fascinating stories behind them. that is really fun and really not what people normally think of when they come to a horticultural institution. >> "wicked plants" is now showing at the san francisco conserve tore of flowers. unless next time, get out and play.

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