supervisor chu: actually, one moment. we have to rescind the vote quickly. we did not take into the record. if we can, just rescind that vote. we will do that without objection. we have already taken the amended of the budget analyst recommendation to the were additional amendments that were read into the record. quickly on page 6, it indicates online 1, where it references the clerk of the board of supervisors, should actually read controller. allied 20, or is the city treasurer, it should read controller. online 21, is says registered by him or her, but it should say registered by the city treasurer. those are the amendments. can we take those amendments without disagreements? thank you. and those are not substantive, correct? ok. to the underlying item as amended, can we take that without objection. thank you. ok, i'd never four. >> item four, ordinance

authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend funds in the amount of $100,000 for coulomb technologies inc. to provide administrative and outreach services for program to install electric vehicle charging stations in multiple-dwelling units and amending ordinance number 146-11 to reflect the addition of one grant funded position at the department of the environment. supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> thank you. gosset robert with the san francisco department of environment. this item is to accept $100,000 and operates the expenditure of it for implementing a program for conducting outreach to depart -- apartments and condominiums and other multi- family buildings in the city, for a demonstration program on installing electric vehicle chargers, and also to authorize one position that the department of environment for implementing the program. the funds are actually state

grant funds from the california energy commission, in a grand they awarded to the company that manufactures electric vehicle charging and equipment, coulomb technologies bit of that grant is to conduct a demonstration program to provide information and best practices on how to actually get multi-family buildings to have electric vehicle chargers. the company and the california energy commission had decided to conduct that entire demonstration program here in san francisco. this is a sub-award from the contract to us to help administer it and to do outreach so we can effectively conduct of reach to building owners in all parts of the city. the program will be a complement to what we have underway for putting charging infrastructure

on public property for people to use during the day for charging during the day, but this is for people to have their base home charging capabilities. multi-family buildings have been a particular challenge in doing this, for a variety of reasons. so this is seen by the state as a high priority for figuring out how we can do this effectively, develop best practices, which will then make it easier in the city and throughout the state for during this on a far broader basis. i would be happy to answer any questions. supervisor chu: thank you. this item, in a different way, came to us, or the idea of establishing electrical charge stations can to assign different ways. it is when we were putting it on public facilities. at that time, when the department of environment came forward, i asked about the outreach efforts in the sunset district or western parts of the city or other areas that do not benefit from either as much

density, so there's not as much of a need. i am wondering with this new opportunity, how do you see the department reaching out to other areas? in some ways, if we're talking about italy being located in apartment buildings, we may also lose out on an opportunity to see charge stations on the western part of the city or other areas that do not meet those criteria. >> this particular program, through the state demonstration project, is multi-family buildings, and it can extend into units including triplexes, so we're going to that level. we will be working with every list that we can for reaching out to people throughout the city, through the apartment builders association, building owners association, and we have done out reached worked on our energy programs to residential and commercial establishments. we will be happy to, and

certainly well, work with, among others, your offices on identifying potential buildings within the areas where your districts are, to make sure we are reaching out as broadly as we can. supervisor chu: great, i appreciate that and look forward to that. we're finally getting a city car share, i suppose, parking spots out in the district in the outer avenues. i appreciate the effort, but would really help the department of environment actually does look vigorously in the area. it is a hard area to improve from, but i think it is worthwhile. >> we certainly will. we will be happy to work with you in qualifying buildings in their districts. supervisor chu: thank you. this did not have a budget analyst report. so let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item number four? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have got a motion by supervisor mirkarimi to send

this forward with recommendations. a second bite supervisor kim. we can do that without objection. mr. clerk, to we have any other items? >> the completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned.

>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here

at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store.

in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that

work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare.

>> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging

artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails.

>> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only

one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print

shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful

things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team. >> proposition a would

authorize the san francisco unified school district to issue bonds to repair and upgrade more than 50 school facilities. property taxes could be increased if needed to pay the principal and interest on these bonds. the bond funds would be used to repair and replace major building systems including electrical, heating wat, water, security, and fire sprinklers. remove hazardous materials. improve accessibility for people with disabilities. make necessary seismic upgrades. replace permanent structures and perform other work necessary to apply closure -- codes and regulation . they can't pay for teachers and administrative salaries or operative expenditures.

first >> perhaps true, everyone. if i may have your attention, please. welcome to the friday, september 30, 2011 meeting of the board of supervisors and government audit and oversight committee. my neighborhood -- my name is david combos, the chair of the committee. i am joined by supervisor mar ferrell, as well as the board president, david chiu. the clerk is andrea. we want to thank the following members of sfgtv for covering this meeting today. mark and nona. madam clerk, do have announcements? >> yes. i ask that you turn off all or ringers on phones. please fill it is bigger card. you may turn it in to the right

side of the podium. we want the motion for the committee report on the october 4 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. as was indicated, this is a special meeting of the government audits and oversight committee. those of you who are here, thank you for your presence. we're working on getting an overflow room in the event that we needed more space. once we know what that overflow room will be, we will announce it. let me simply began by noting that this is legislation that i introduced, and i want to thank my colleagues on the board of supervisors who have been co- sponsors of this legislation, beginning with supervisor cohen, supervisor mar, supervisor avalos, supervisor kim, and supervisor mirkarimi.

i also want to think it the very broad coalition that has worked together in the last few months to tackle this very important issue, beginning with the progressive workers alliance, the labor council, and so many small businesses that have also been impacted by this issue in that have come forward throughout this process to voice their opinion about this important matter. let me simply begin by saying that, from my perspective, and i have been on this board for three years now. there are times when we tackle issues that become a defining issues. the finding in the sense that not -- they not only address specific policy concerns that underlie the legislation, but issues that define who we are as a city. and in my view, this is one of those issues. the process that we have followed in drafting this

legislation has been a long process, a carefully thought out process, that has led us to reconsider some points of the legislation. and as introduced in its latest iteration, the legislation is a modification of the original version. after hearing from a number of individuals, including business owners, including members of the business community, there were some points that they raised that our modification addresses. so we have before us what is already a modified piece of legislation that really tries to strike a middle ground, a balance, on what is a very complicated issue. but let me make a couple of key points about why it is so important for us to make sure that this legislation is voted on as soon as possible. this legislation, first and foremost, gives workers a chance to receive routine medical procedures after working

for several years. the way that health care reimbursement accounts work, by definition, they place workers who are covered by those accounts at a disadvantage, vis- a-vis, workers get health insurance. luckily in san francisco, the vast majority of businesses covered by the ordinance are doing the right thing, but there is a small security, 13% of businesses that are primarily relying on these accounts. these workers, if they're lucky enough to be about to get work full time and work in entire year, at the most can accumulate about four thousand dollars in these accounts. we know that many of these workers are accumulating a lot less than that. some of them, a few hundred dollars, and it runs the gamut. when you put that in the context of what it dictates to get basic health care in san francisco, you can see why this is so important.

if you look at the mill workers and the way they are impacted by this liberal -- if you look at the mill workers in the way they are impacted by this loophole, the average cost of childbirth in san francisco without any complications is $16,000. $16,000. that means that a female worker working in a restaurant in san francisco has to work four years to be able to pay for what is, by most accounts, we would agree something that is a very basic procedure and is the essential to the well-being of the family. childbirth, $16,000. when you put that in the context of the proposal that has been put forward by the chamber of commerce, when they want to cap the amount of money that is accumulated in these accounts to four quarters in one year, you're telling that female worker that she can only have $4,000 of that $16,000 procedure covered by health care.

i am very lucky that as a supervisor, i have excellent health insurance. i am very lucky that if something happens to me or my partner, we have the ability to go to the hospital. and i am not in the position to tell that was meant, that family, -- to tell that woman, that family, that is to baggage she gets pregnant, even though she works full time, goes to work every day, that $16,000 procedure is not going to be covered. only a fraction will be covered, and the rest of it has to come out of your own pocket. i do not think it is fair for me as a policymaker, as a supervisor, to expect anything less than what i am getting as an elected official. but it goes beyond the worker. it is also about what happens to consumers. i cannot tell you the number of consumers that i have heard from in the last few weeks who are simply appalled that they, as

consumers, go to restaurants in this city, and they are charged in extra feet, 2% to 4%, as the public -- supposedly to cover health care, and we find out that the bulk of the money is not going to the worker for whom that consumer is paying that extra for, but in fact, is pocketed by businesses. i never thought that i would say this. but they got for the "wall street journal." -- thank god for the "wall street journal." thank god that at least one paper in this city to be time to actually look at the facts and look at what is happening in san francisco. you have restaurants, like wide market, a michelin start restaurant, that has collected more than $100,000 from its consumers, from its customers,

supposedly to pay for health care for their workers, and they are, in fact, only spending $12,646 of that $100,000. as a policymaker, i am not in a position to tell consumers that it is ok for them to be deceived, but it is ok for them to be told that they are paying for something that, in fact, is not happening. and that is not the only restaurant that is doing it. you have wayfare tavern. the collected $63,000 last year. it only paid $6,000 in health care. this is not just about workers. it is also about consumers. but it is also about tax base. because we know that those workers, who are working every day, when that health care is denied to them and they need coverage, which they will need

coverage, they have to go somewhere. and we know that that means it will go to san francisco general hospital, which means that you and i, as taxpayers, will be paying for that service. in a sense, we, as taxpayers, are being charged twice. because not only are we paying as taxpayers, those of us to go out and are lucky enough to enjoy some of the amazing restaurants we have, we also pay as consumers and customers to those restaurants. i do not believe that is right. i do not believe that is the kind of city we are. so that is what this is about. it is about whether or not we're going to protect certain crucial points to go to the court dignity of a worker. i believe that the intent of our law that was enacted by the leadership of the then- supervisor, that was voted for

by the entire board of supervisors, that the intent of that law was too, in fact, provide health care. i am grateful that the vast majority of businesses in this city are actually not only complying with the letter, but they are complying with the intent and the spirit of that wall. but this law has a loophole, and that happens, and it is our obligation to make sure that that loophole is closed. and it is for that reason that i respectfully ask my colleagues today that we take the time to hear public testimony, to hear from the workers, to hear from the small businesses that are playing by the rules and are being damaged by this. because the vast majority of them are not playing on a level playing field. let's not let one group, a small minority of businesses, not play by their rules. so i asked my colleagues today

after listening to the testimony to police forward this legislation to the full board, so that after weeks and weeks of consideration, we can finally have an up or down vote at the board of supervisors. with that, colleagues, i will turn it over to you. do you have any initial comments? so that we can hear directly from the citizens of the city and county of san francisco. president chiu. president chiu: thank you, mr. churkin a first, i want to take -- to thank you and the community voices for bringing to as a very big issue that needs to be addressed. i strongly support the original legislation and the help the san francisco program that has resulted from its implementation. i am proud, as i think we all are, to live in a city where our employers have a legal our employers have a legal obligation to provide health