of the poverty level. to get a sense of that, that is a family of four making $28,000 and surviving on that salary here in san francisco. something needs to the city of new york is providing transportation. why should we not take this effort as a challenge. a report outlines what the challenges are. we have been working diligently with and our region to find sources of funding. even though we have a tough economic challenge, the fact is there are potential sources of

funding that could pay for this and in the process, we have to think big picture and think about the need to make an investment. not only in public education, in public education -- transportation, but i and our families. this impacts certain families. the impact can be felt more so. that is the case in district 9. my colleagues have experienced that in their districts as well. i hope we have a meaningful conversation in the near future. we want to see this program implemented and i would respectfully ask this board of supervisors support this proposal. i also look forward to working closely with mayor lee and our partners at the mta and the transportation authority. the municipal -- mtc and other partners, including others in

the private sector to see if we can find a way of making this happen. the leslee i would say with respect to president -- last thing i would say, i will look forward to finding out more about the specifics of the proposal. some of your ideas you mentioned are ideas that chamber has raised with us. we want to delve into the specifics as to introduce your legislation. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: i am introducing an ordinance that would require commercial buildings to allow access for bikes through creating a secure space to park or allowing them to except bikes into the space. this ordinance has been vetted with building owners and there

could be some amendments if any about moving this ordinance forward. this is important in a number of ways. often cyclists will go downtown with their bikes and do not have a place in a building to secure them. will lock them up on the street and putting up some of our sidewalks base, making it less accessible. we want to bring these bicycles into buildings, we can free up that space on the sidewalk. we also have a bike theft problem. it happens everywhere in major cities. i have had one bike stolen here in san francisco and four bikes in my life. to got stolen different places. -- two got stolen in different places. we will be able to and have it

-- inhibit greater theft. overall it encourages commuting by bicycle. which is a goal we have, president chiu has targeted 20% bicycle trips by 20/20 and i support that effort. this is a good way to get their way encouraging cycling in san francisco. this has been co-sponsored by supervisor kim and supervisor mar and supervisor campos. i want to thank you for your co- sponsorship. the rest will submit. >> thank you. supervisor mar. supervisor mar: thank you. it is a pleasure to sponsor this. i had my bicycle stolen the first day of middle school. i let a number of people know. so the trauma of that.

it is break legislation. -- great legislation. it is also part of the broad transit movement. the young people are in the lead of fighting for free youth passes and this is an effort that will grow and will spread to other cities. i also want to thank carlos garcia and the mta board and the community-based groups and the young people who are taking a lead. i want to let people know that there is a bunch of city council people from all over the country that are participating in the california league of cities conference. they hold this each year in this year it is called "cities standing strong for city's." i will be participating with

others. the conference goes on wednesday through friday. at the moscone west conference center. also just applaud again for sunday, september 25 from 2:00 p.m. through 5:00 p.m., there is a memorial celebration for a colleague who passed away recently. on saturday, september 24, the japanese community center in supervisor mirkarimi's district is celebrating its 24th anniversary. i spend a lot of my saturdays there. the amount of events and classes that come out of the japanese community center is awesome. it is such a great anchor for the japanese never did. the rest will submit. >> thank you. supervisor avalos, did you wish to be re-referred?

supervisor avalos: i did not. president chiu: why don't we move to general public comment? >> speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the time to testify. if you have a document, please remove it at the end. president chiu: thank you. first speaker? >> [speaking foreign lan guage]

>>to be a community activist is not easy. to be a homeless advocate for 28 years as i did is also not easy. as you know, i have argument with many of you. and the people who have been here. including the mayor. why? because still in my community,

to help the people. to-would like to give special thanks to the mayor. -- today i would like to give special thanks to the mayor. and also -- you see the mayor with christina adams. and our supervisor with them and also the mayor with a young lady who has become the manager. i would like to visit the farm market. we have fresh goods and fresh vegetables. your children and family need it. we need -- they work for us and

work with us. thank you very much. god bless all of you. mr. campos, get your family and your children and spend some money in the farmers' market. we need your money there to support them. thank you. >president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. this is my first time here to speak. i am 36, a single mother. i may vietnamese-american. i believe everyone of you have received my letter about my problem. i was helped by that community activists -- the community activists.

i was hoping ms. malia cohen could help me soon before they put me and my children out in the street. this is in this child. she is 2 years old. our supervisors, you have children too. this is important and my big concern with housing is i will be homeless. just showing me how you can help before september 30, before i find myself and my children in trouble on the street. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> the afternoon. -- good afternoon. one hears constantly reference to the city hall family. they do not mean the entire citizenry of san francisco.

they refer to a small set that shares their selfish economic interests. the bankers who took me -- millions of public dollars and pay themselves bonuses with tens of millions of dollars think nothing of it because they are the financial services family. the bankers are so much a part of our distorted protest government, it was the bankers to the build out from the financial crisis while the people will be facing austerity measures. this year represented the toxic home loans were the mortgage industry family and so on. the point was to have social values that we all share. not family values. the people in the public library do not consider it lying, cheating, and fraud. it is what is necessary to foster and support the friends of the library family. the president of the library

commission was found by the ethics commission to be below the standard of decency required of a public official and recommended she be fired. she is still there because she is part of the friends of a library family. that family maintains the influence of private donors and returned -- in return for money. the truth is we are being enslaved by a private -- by private money. are you prepared for a city hall where citizens cannot criticize the corporations because the corporations pay for the chair? what is -- that is what they do in city hall and a library. of course that is why the lies cost more than the money. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. nice seeing you in the paper,

president chiu, how nice article. it makes me think of a powerhouse. i am wearing one, too. ♪ climb every city mountain ♪ ford every bay and stream until you find your city dream ♪ ♪ climb every city mountain ♪ ♪ and across the bay into every ocean until you find your dream ♪ thank you. president chiu: next speaker.

>> i am eugene gordon, jr. out of context from the tracing martin bormann, first printing 1966, union of soviet socialist republics. secret document, dated april 3, 1945 is not signed according to american historians. publicist -- who made the document public. it was seized among donitz' archive. and an entourage of reimann and goebbels. one, liberation of german people

from oppression and occupation. two, repatriation of expelled persons, three integration of a german racial community. four, [unintelligible] european union on federalist basis. the right to brace your tummy. 7, the european common will. -- commonwealth. and to create a germanic reich. common wealth, guaranteed protection of racial groups, economic integration of europe. unquote. this reading is an example of an impact as number from 12 desires to historical nazi evolution. president chiu: other any other

members of the public who wish to speak? thank you, sir. if there is anyone else, please line up. >> tom gilberti, supervisors. i think -- i am hoping you know i am talking about noise. and of course, there comes a time when you talk about noise the you have to talk about decibels. i am doing this for us and the people at home. decibels worke -- say this is a volume of 10 apples and this is 10 decibels. is this fun? i think it will work over here. can we say? -- will this work? i think it will work over here. that is 20 apples. here we go. we will double, add ten decibels

to make it 20. this is where we differ. another box of ten, that is 30. unfortunately for noise, you double. here we are, we have 4 boxes for 30 decibels. here is another box of 40 apples. now, we have to go to double what we have here. we have two more. and two more. on 50 apples, we go pretty high. now we have got two more, two more, two more, and two more. if we go to 60 decibels, our cup runneth over. in the range, we live, your

apartment when you close it is probably 30 decibels. to close all the windows and doors. we live in that range, 70 decibels if it is hitting your part and continually. you will be starting to think of suicide. or violence. 70 decibels is loud. if it is continuous, it is a disaster. it used to be my neighborhood that was the code. bay -- my apartment could get bombarded by 70 decibels. tom revard change that with noise control. at night, 45 decibels but there is noise under 45 decibels. in the daytime it is 55. i am saying we can do better. basically, the noises coming from buildings. continuous noise. -- the noise is coming from buildings. it is a commercial building.

if 10 decibels doubles the noise volume in an area, and in residential new building can add five more, we're adding a lot of noise. unnecessary. i guess my time -- hopefully, next week. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> members of the board of supervisors. i have to say i like this arrangement much better than the main chamber because it is harder for you to run off and avoid listening to public comment. it is time for a civics lesson

and this is nothing any of these members do not know but many people do not understand. on each and every agenda for a sedate meeting, it says, know your rights under the sunshine ordinance. there are two things you should know. many of the people do not like it if you know your rights and more importantly, do not like it if you try to exercise those rights. what you should now, and i think this is important, many citizens come before this body and other city bodies and thank them for an opportunity to be allowed to speak. what they should understand it is under the sunshine ordinance, that is not an opportunity, that is a legal requirement. they have an obligation not only under the city law, the sunshine ordinance, the california law, the brown act, the california constitution, and the united states constitution to give you an opportunities -- opportunity to speak with your elected representatives. first amendment rights are the most important. that is why they are in the first amendment of the bill of rights.

unfortunately, many people who serve on boards and commissions seem to have an idea that giving citizens the right to speak about matters are being considered is some sort of thing they give them as a matter of courtesy rather than a matter of law. it is their right to speak with you. it is the citizens' rights to come before and speak to you about anything about which they are concerned. things that you are doing that they feel you should not, things i feel you should be doing but are not. and yet many come before you with a feeling they have to be polite or else they will not get the opportunity. i watched last week and last week's hearing was a disgrace to this board and to the chair. president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> i have been before you two times before. i wanted to express -- on that occasion i expressed to you there was an issue of a house here in san francisco, the issue of some law and also the issuance of the house. we are disciples, teachers. we seek to unite the ideals of capitalism with homeownership. in september 2009, my partners and i began to research opportunities for home ownership. rico, -- we attended a first

time home buyer workshop and met with counselors, loan officers, mortgage brokers said citibank, bank of america, even the department of agriculture. rural housing guaranteed loan programs. all these we did in hopes of obtaining homeownership before we turned 41. we located a home in the castro neighborhood. unfortunately, we found out more about this place. an opportunity to understand how to investigate a murder of a gay doctor. when we looked into the title, there were a number of irregularities. the married couple from the u.k. had set a price on the home five times that built by habitat for

humanity. it still has a compelling selling point. [bell] within the heart of the gay community. president chiu: thank you very much. thank you very much, sir. thank you. next speaker. >> i will put the overhead projector on and keep it on for the remainder of this public comment. ladies and gentlemen, our nation is under attack. it has been 10 years since the san francisco board of supervisors came out with a resolution to close the golden gate park stables. that was september 2001.

a tragic month for our nation and a tragic month for our city. what is most interesting is what happened after this great tragedy. our city family did nothing but gloat in the tragedy which is still continuing as i speak. this is a political revolution, and the perpetrators that committed this crime are sitting right in front of me as i speak. and the obligation of our city is to bring them to justice. either they are with the enemy or they're with us. it is clear they have done nothing but lie and abuse our constitutional rights here in the city and county of san

francisco. [bell] thank you very much and i hope to see you soon. president chiu: any other speakers? at this time, general public comment is closed. [gavel] i see it is around 3:30 p.m. and i would like to move into special accommodations. supervisor mar has a comm endation. i would like to invite up alison collins and anyone else who wants to be the part of a school with in my district. helping to serve north beach and chinatown for 100 years. it is good to see it. jean parker is one of the first schools to teach kindergarten. it has been acclaimed as an excellent school by the state of california's department of education, serving a high percentage of low-income and english language learning

students while continuing to achieve high levels of academic achievement. it has been devoted to community service and has a wonderful community of supporters and fundraisers around it. it has prided itself on creating a support of community that personalizes instruction for students. empowering parents for participating and providing culturally appropriate parental information and a school that has had an amazing open door policy to ensure the best services for their children. to mark the 100th birthday, the committee will be celebrating on september 28, and i look forward to attending and celebrating with all of you. i want to take a moment on behalf of the board of supervisors to extend our appreciation to the entire community. to your students, your teachers, parents, staff, families, and administrators and thank you for your contributions to education today and over the

past 100 years. thank you very much. [applause] anyone want to say something on behalf of the school? >> i am one of the many parents at the school. on behalf of the faculty, the staff, the students, and parent family, i would like to thank you for this honor. the school has been in our community for 100 years and we have one of the graduates, frank wong, here with us today. he is a graduate of the school. his son is a graduate. his grandson is now attending. we are happy to[applause]