allowed it to get quickly downtown. basically, we were able to pay for the n suppress with money we save from eliminating the crowding problems during rush hour. on the t line, do not have the same level of credit or the alternative high speed routes to downtown. riders already have express bus, including me 9 l. but i hear the concerns regarding performance of the t line, as you and i discussed last year, we need to address this. since we spoke, the agency has inspected and fixed these signal systems, which gives the train priority as it moves through the neighborhood. there is the signal system at

fourth and king street for potential improvements to future speed service. even without these changes, the t is the fastest of the light rail lines when moving above ground. i will continue to work to make sure it is working as it can and are serving the people of district 10 well. thank you, supervisor cohen, all the supervisors, and i wish you a happy end of year and new year. president chiu: thank you, mr. mayor. madam clerk, could we go to our consent agenda? clerk calvillo: each item will be enacted with a single roll call vote. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any of these items? could you call item 2 through

23? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen. there are 11 ayes. president chiu: these items are adopted. item 24. clerk calvillo: item 24, amending the park could to offer a long-term management agreement to the national park service for a park in san mateo county. president chiu: roll-call vote?

clerk calvillo: [reading ro.ll] supervisor elsbernd, supervisor mar, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor wiener, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen. president chiu: are those your final answers? this is passed. clerk calvillo: the cafeteria plan. president chiu: supervisor chu?

supervisor chu: sorry about that. they recommended to make sure that the administrative code reflect that change and to make sure that we specify that the health services system also administers the plan. it also makes sure that the transportation authority are able to participate in that program, said this is a fairly noncontroversial item, and it really is cleanup work -- so this is fairly noncontroversial. president chiu: will call vote. clerk calvillo: [reading roll] supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen, and there are 11 ayes.

president chiu: this item is passed on the first read. item 26. clerk calvillo: item 26, a grant in approximately the amount of $748,000, amending the annual salary ordinance of fiscal year 2012, to reflect the addition of one senior administrative analyst brand-funded position in the adult probation department. -- grant-funded position. president chiu: same house, call? this resolution is adopted. item 27. next item. clerk calvillo: item 27,

prevailing wages. president chiu: same house, same call? this resolution passes. supervisor elsbernd: could we resent that? president chiu: -- could we will send -- rescind that? president chiu: that is rescinded. supervisor elsbernd: i think this is really creating an inequity. i will vote for it. we need to vote for it today, but this has to look at the prevailing wage across the city. this is something i will be looking at over the next year, and i hope we can look at it. i understand the need for it, but to put some employees who are not even city employees ahead of borrow and to

completely ignore the impact on employers, i think this is a mistake. there is a lot that goes on said, and i think it really needs to be explored. -- there is a lot that goes unsaid. president chiu: can we take this same house, call? item 28. clerk calvillo: to retroactively accept a retroactive buffer zone in approximately $199,000 from the department of homeland security. president chiu: same house, call put this motion is adopted. item number 29. supervisor sandoval: -- clerk

calvillo: item number 29. president chiu: same house, call? this is adopted. item 30. clerk calvillo: a resolution approving the second amendment to the refuse collection agreement. president chiu: supervisor chu? supervisor chu: this is really to allow recology pick up the trash. this was initially approved in 2007 for a term of 4.5 years and had two one-year options to extend the contract. when we allowed that to happen, one thing we did not do was to increase or allow for the authority, that is what this does. this a really changes the not to

exceed amount, so we really can spend that money. part of it is just the appropriation authority. we sent this out of committee with that recommendation because we wanted the budget analysts to work to make sure we had the proper amount for the contract that will last us through the end of the fiscal year or this current fiscal year, which coincides with the extension that has been exercised already, and i believe that we do have that value, with the comptroller's office working, what they have come together with, so if i can ask a budget analyst to share with us what that is? president chiu: mr. rose? >> just to clarify, originally, we issued a report last night's, and we recommended that you reduce the total authorized amount by $2 million plus, in

this was based on the actual projected need out of $26 million plus an additional 5% contingency of $285,000. and then we said the recommended that you approve the resolution as amended. they should work to identify all of the specific discounts and the mou be amended to clearly offer these. this would be subject of people -- future borders supervisor approval. this was just prior to today's board of supervisors meeting, regarding unpaid bills owed to recolgy that date back to 2010,

and we now want this to be amended to instead reduce the total authorized amount by over $1 million from the originally proposed $29 million to a revised total. this revised amount is $619,000 plus more than the money that we previously recommended in our report that we sent to you last night, and that is based on the additional unpaid garbage bills from july 2010 through july 2011 and to reflect the contingency, which we agreed would be reasonable. i would be happy to respond. president chiu: thank you. supervisor chu? supervisor chu: i will make a motion to amend that down,

reflective of that number, and i believe that because that number is lower than what has been noticed, it is not a substantive change. president chiu: supervisor chu has made a motion. is there a second on that? seconded by supervisor elsbernd. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: discounts not be included in the mou? supervisor chu: all the provisions of the contract are the same, so nothing has changed about it. the only thing that has been changed is to include a lower level. we had the additional years of service and the two one-year, all this does is reconcile the amount to go through the end of this fiscal year, which corresponds with the extension of the one-year contract. supervisor campos: thank you.

president chiu: any further discussion? colleagues, can we take this? and on the underlying resolution as amended? can we do this same house, call? supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i just want to note that i will be voting against this amendment, and this is not something against recology. for me, the underlying issue is we still have the case where we have a sole source contracts, and on top of that, we have a company, notwithstanding good performance, -- the only

jurisdiction. this was simply as a matter of principle. i will be voting against this today. thank you. president chiu: any additional discussion? roll call vote. clerk calvillo: on the amendment, [reading roll] supervisor mar, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen. there are 10 ayes, one no. president chiu: this item is adopted as amended.

item 31. clerk calvillo: item 31, an ordinance amending the san francisco transportation corp. -- code. president chiu: roll call. clerk calvillo: [reading roll] supervisor wiener, supervisor wiener, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen, and there are 11 ayes. president chiu: this ordinance is passed on the first reading. next item. clerk calvillo: item 22, a resolution for the sale of a general license from 6333 geary boulevard, for the necessity of the city. president chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you.

this is an application from wh ole food a license, and for what i can tell, they did very little outreach to the neighborhood, to the neighborhood association, to me dbd, my office -- to the cbd, my office, and there was a split vote, and i think that is indicative of the conversation continues to happen in the neighborhood about this, so i am going to move that we continue this item to january to give whole foods the opportunity to do the outreach that they need to do. president chiu: supervisor wiener has made a motion to continue this item. apparently january 17 is a holiday. supervisor wiener: athe 24th. president chiu: this is seconded by supervisor farrell.

supervisor mar. supervisor mar: i was dissenting because there was the selling of hard liquor, as they call it, in addition to the existing beer and wine is sold in whole foods, and i think they raised concerns of the impact on small businesses in the area, so i am appreciative, but i still have concerns about the impact on the small business sector. thank you. president chiu: any further discussion, colleagues? on that, on the motion to continue, can we do this? without objection, this item will be continued until january 24. item 33. clerk calvillo: item number 33, a resolution urging the united states government to reduce the military budget and and the wars

in iraq and afghanistan and redirect the savings. president chiu: roll call. clerk calvillo: [reading roll] supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen, and there are 8 ayes, and 8 -- 3 nos. president chiu: this item is adopted. next item. clerk calvillo: item number 34, rezoning. and making environmental findings. president chiu: roll call vote. clerk calvillo: supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor

maxwell, supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen, and there are 11 ayes. president chiu: this item is passed on first reading. item 35. clerk calvillo: item 35, transferring the jurisdiction of and improve real property located at 341 corbett avenue. president chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. president. colleagues, this legislation transferring 341 corbett avenue to the department of public works will allow the neighborhood to do what it has been wanting to do with this space for a long time, and that is to transform it into usable public space, a public park, of

sorts, a community garden. this neighborhood lacks significant open space. and this space, which is the largest open space in the neighborhood, has a significant history in the neighborhood. for a long time, it was used by the neighborhood as open public space. at some point, it was closed off after someone was injured on it, and for quite some time, the neighborhood has been wanting to reopen it. it has a beautiful slow, with great views, with dozens of mature trees. almost a decade ago, this property was transferred to the mayor's department on housing. surplus property ordinance he has many merits to it, but unfortunately, in my view, this property never should have been

transferred. it is not to release surplus property. this is neighborhood open space. -- it is not truly a surplus property. they are instructed to either develop or sell for development and use the proceeds to help formerly homeless people. the idea of selling off neighbor and open space to a private developer, in my view, is questionable in this circumstance, questionable at best. this slump is typical to develop, as housing, and as a result would only be developed by a private developer, probably placing luxury housing on it. this lot has been vacant since the transfer, and i am unaware of any significant activity to try to sell it, so it has sat there vacant in the neighborhood. the neighbors, the neighbor

association for the neighborhood has a terrific plan to transform this space to a usable public space. to place a community garden there for donating the agriculture produced there to win organization like project open hand, to create a park, to put a terrace on the slope to reduce its steepness, to place stairs there, in the future, at some point, they hope to have a playground to plant fruit trees. this is a terrific project. this is why i had this legislation. i believe it was back in 2005, and this was transferred out of the surplus property program, because it was open space for

the neighborhood. i know there is some opposition, and i believe that is not meritorious. i do not understand why some advocates are pushing to sell this neighbor and open space to a private developer. that does not seem particularly neighborhood oriented or progressive to me. the advocates of pushed for the department of public works, and dpw is not exactly teeming with the funding to do that. i know that someone like to take a broader look at the surplus property ordinance, and that is fine. i am very, very supportive of that, but that has not happened, and i do not think this project should be delayed so that can happen. now, i have, at land use, i

introduced two amendments at the request of the mayor's housing. those amendments do two things, or did two things, number one requiring that if this space stops being used as public open space, if the neighbor and abandons it, i do not think that is going to happen, but if it does, it will be transferred back to the mayor's office on housing. this also requires an automatic five-year review to determine how it is being used, but the benefits are for the neighborhood, etc., and in addition today, if there is any profit that is derived from this property, whereby the neighborhood, starting a farmers market, the profits would be transferred to the mayor's office on housing.

this is in consultation with the district supervisor to explore options whereby a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of open space could potentially purchase the properties so that it would be maintained as public open space, but we could do that for housing. those were the amendments offered at housing. colleagues, i ask for your support in maintaining this important open space, and i also moved to adopt the amendments that were not adopted at land use, and i have it distributed to the amendments to each of you. president chiu: supervisor wiener has made an amendment, seconded by supervisor farrell.

supervisor mar? supervisor mar: i was wondering if miss mcnamara from the department is here? , services and housing, we recently heard a hearing on monday that supervisor avalos called and that we attended, where families came to us, up to 5000 homeless children and parents in the city, identifying at least 22 under children this year that are homeless or need housing services from the city, so it is a major crisis before us. i want to see a win-win for the neighborhood, and i really appreciated in the land use committee not only supervisor wiener, trying to find a win-win

for everyone. neighbors have been wonderful and try to identify open space and talking about creating a community garden, and they seem like a great people to do that, but it puts us in a policy dilemma about how to deal with policies that have been transferred to the mayor's office on housing, so there was the transfer. i know that you have analyzed this property. supportive housing for homeless people, if it is not, is in developable by a developer? -- is it developable by a developer? >> mayor's office on housing. yes. when the site was transferred in 2003 or 2004, staff did a side suitability analysis, and we determined that the site could be developed. however, because of the slope,

additional costs related to putting in a retaining wall and additional foundation would probably because prohibitive for the mayor's office on housing to develop as supportive housing, so it would push our per unit and a total development costs much higher than the ranges we were used to, -- and the total development costs. it was recommended to sell this to subsidize the pipeline. supervisor mar: what was the value? >> $2.20 million. that was based on either eight units at two bedrooms or 17 units at studios, which is the

two scenarios we looked at. supervisor mar: i guess i see that money as potential money that could help ease the suffering of many of the families that were before us in this chamber yesterday morning, and i am just wondering if the mayor's office on housing is not proposing this proposal to turn this into open space, how do you intend to make of that essentially $2.20 million that could have gone to easing the suffering of families in san francisco? >> that is a difficult question for me. perhaps i can have to recent young come. i usually only to technical questions -- perhaps i can have teresa young come. >> those proceeds, whether it is through the program are other mitigation or