blank. also, i feel that in san francisco there is a suspicion way of solving problem -- suspicious way of solving problems. chris bailey is treated one way. ross mirkarimi is treated similarly and yet since 2008 i'm still waiting for sitting supervisor to answer a very simple yes or no question, which city attorney herrera still refuses to do anything. if he's done anything, i don't know about it and i should. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. happy new year and welcome to the new supervisors.

i'm executive director of library users association. the san francisco public library, if you could show the flyer, is planning very soon to eliminate the historic multicultural community created murel on the library. this murel was painted by arch williams, a gay man, and carlos in 1980 to 1982 with the help of many neighborhood adults and kids. the existing missourial covers three sides of the building with the front facing side including the historically important chilean musician, victor hara. if they could focus in on that. victor harrah playing the guitar with his names and words from one of his songs. he was tortured and killed by the chilean military when they seized power in 1973. the stadium where it happened in the capital is now named after

him. the military also destroyed tapes of his recordings. nonetheless, according to "the new york times," relatively recently, chile is experiencing a full-fledged victor harrah revival. a documentary about harrah has recently been completed and the trailer is available online at resurrectionofvictorhara.com. the destruction of this mural is wrong. and we ask you, supervisors, to do -- and the public to do what you can to preserve this valuable asset. you should know that this destruction plan has happened without any discussion about the mural's important history of community creation, the specific images such as victor hara himself and without discussion of the words of victor hara or holly near who is also included, all of which will disappear. thank you. chiu tchue thank you.

next speaker -- president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> my second hand is on 10. my name is steve lightfoot, world famous jon lennon murder evidence expose artist. author of leninmurdertruth.com and i'm here to tell the world, not just you, don't visit san francisco as a tourist destination and i'm going to try to jink the 49ers and every other team for the next year from winning and i'm going to go to cam la harris in sacramento who i know is on my side and do everything on my power to disbar judge michael beggart at the traffic court. i was just railroaded on a ticket i didn't deserve, a ticket that was set up for me months and months ago on 19th avenue and stern grove. at 3:30 in the morning. and my bumper is over the line. and before i even went through the intersection at 3:30 in the

morning, the corrupt city of san francisco probably manually with a human being behind the controls stopped me four consecutive lights in a row to the point where me and the guy next to me were bolting off the next green to get out of that sequence. when the fifth light turned yellow, i went through it because i knew i had time and i knew if i stopped i'd have been rear ended and yet michael beggart, a corruptist judge as i've been before in my life and i've been hundreds of judges, as corrupt as they come, swatted down all my motions, admitted that they did not receive my motions for a change of venue that i timely submitted with proof of service two weeks ago, admitted that he did not receive my other motion to dismiss for discriminatory prosecution and he railroaded this entire trial through. i'm depg to use my website and talk radio to destroy your tourist industry and i have lots of fans internationally, to

destroy your reputation and can your sports teams from winning because i can jink them. you guys are in for a rough ride. >> members of the task force, director of san francisco open government. i first want to sin veerl wish and hope that you each had a very pleasant holiday season. and i would like to wish you a happy new year or as the hawaiians say, [speaking in foreign language] i've come before the board on numerous occasions to talk about the issues of public access to records and public right to comment at meetings. and i will continue to do so. today i'm going to start out the first of this year acknowledging two people which i see ignored by this body and by the library commission and by the library commission treated on occasion very badly and that is an unanimous citizen who talks to you very frequently about the

friends of the public library and mr. peter warfield, the president of the library users association, who has talked to you about the library murals. both of those gentlemen worked very, very hard on issues that apparently not too many other people seem to be interested in. but they persist. i have experienced some things with the public library and the library commission that show me that the unanimous citizen, when he talks about the friends, has some very valid points. in fact, recently mr. herrera, the city librarian, was found in violation of the sunshine ordinance, withholding public records having to do with the friends. mr. warfield has gone before the library commission to talk about their process in dealing with the mural which if you look at the actual process is a joke.

it is something that is put up to make things go. at the arts commission meeting yesterday, the term was used, steam roller. and they were trying to appoint a new president and they didn't get it done. they didn't steam roll that one. president chiu: next speaker. >> hi, i'm the cheerleader at the medical marijuana cheerleader and i want to talk to you today about what is love. love this year has started with an inauguration of a new mayor and -- [inaudible] i also want to talk to you about love when it deals with violence, whether uruguay or lesbian in this country. this is what the heart says.

hey, brain. what does love mean? the heart says, well, heart, love means different things to different people. it can be trust, respect, boundaries, safety, communication. what do some of these things do for us? so, you know, with this being martin luther king weekend, you know, holiday, we ask occupy 99, the occupy marijuana people who are going through great things, because you know, marijuana does not rape and molest young kids in playgrounds. criminals do that. corruption does that. and we need to come to our senses and know that medical marijuana place like laguna market where you can get a $3 gram to $50, everyone else's grams start at $25 a gram. you have people who need their medical marijuana medicine. so we're asking occupy medical marijuana and people for lgbt -- i mean, lgbt people to come out

for martin luther king celebration this weekend. because, you know, the day that dr. king gave his message, the day before he died, we need to know our history about america. all of us are multicultural. thank you. and i hope you all come out for the king celebration. we'll see you back on the 24th. i promise. president chiu: thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. could you please read the adoption. >> items 41 through 45 are being considered for immediate seeking unanimous adoption. these items will be acted on with a single roll call vote. president chiu: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items? supervisor wiener: item 44. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye.

supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: resolutions are adopted. item 44. >> item 44 is a motion directing the clerk to work with kpoo radio on a plan to enable the radio station to broadcast weekly board of supervisors meetings and to implement the plan for such broadcasts. supervisor wiener: yes. so, this was introduced by supervisor now sheriff mirkarimi at his last meeting. while i am completely supportive of it, it would be great to get back on the kpoo radio, i'm informed it will cost us money to do that. and in the past that used to be paid for by redevelopment apparently which of course is not going to exist anymore. and so this directs the motion

that directs the clerk to work out a plan and to implement it and so i just don't think -- i think it's premature. i move to table this matter. president chiu: motion to table. second to that? seconded by supervisor chu. without objection? without objection, this item is tabled. and with that, madam clerk, could you read the memoriams? >> yes. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor campos for the late mr. arnold ellis. on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the late miss lillian francis david clark and miss cheryly ahern. on behalf of the full board for the late mr. john buchanan. president chiu: and, madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes the business. president chiu: at this time we're adjourned -- we're adjourned. thank you, everyone.

♪ meet cathy, who's lived most verywhere, from zanzibar to barclay square. but patty's only seen the sight, a girl can see from brooklyn heights, what a crazy pair! ♪ cathy: oh my, patty. did you find all your files? patty: finally! who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire! cathy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start in on that social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online. patty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes?

cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪

director kim: good morning and welcome to the transbay joint powers authority meeting of january 12. >> [roll call] madame chair, you have a quorum. director kim: please call item no. 3. >> communications. i know of none. >director kim: please call item no. 4. >> director new and old business. director kim: item 5? >> executive director's report.

>> the first meeting of every year we present to the public the milestone we accomplished in the previous year and we plan to do in the current year. pick 4 we get to that, i want to announce we have put out a number of applications for our cac. we have sent notices to all of the hispanic, chinese, filipinos, vietnamese -- all of the ethnic presses, chambers of commerce in san francisco. i wanted to let the board know that we e-mail debt to the board as well, in case you know anyone that you would like to recommend. i also want to give the board adopted and status on redevelopment. in december of last year, the california supreme court issued a ruling on ab 26. i have asked andrew shorts to

prepare something on that. >> good morning, director. outside counsel for the tjpa. the problem with redevelopment began when the state's obligation under proposition 98, to backfill money for schools, a rose -- arose. the state required redevelopment and it -- agencies repay some other tax increment to the state. the redevelopment agencies and city responded with proposition 22 withich prevented the state from taking tax increments. the governor's solution to the problem was to abolish redevelopment in order to get access to that money to close a budget gap for the 2011-2012

budget year. in order to do that, the legislature passed a be 26 and ab 27. ab 26 eliminated redevelopment, require that they liquidate their assets, for a successor agencies to pay down all of the enforceable obligations of redevelopment agencies, but otherwise, to terminate redevelopment as we know it. in conjunction, the legislature passed a be 27, which allowed them to continue for some payments of the tax increment in redevelopment areas to close the budget gap that the governor required. the redevelopment agencies and cities challenged proposition 26

and 27 as the violating proposition 22, and on the basis of the other arguments. on december 29, the supreme court upheld proposition 26 and struck down proposition 27 passed by letting -- ab 27 on the ground that it violated proposition 22. the redevelopment agencies are to dissolve as of february 1 of this year. with respect to the transbay project, we feel we are an enforceable obligation, as it is defined in ab 26. because of the fact that this project is under construction and is based on a financial plan that requires tax increments

that this project is essential to grandfathered under the language of ab 26. we feel we have a strong case that the tax increment from the state transfer parcels from the redevelopment plan continues to flow to this project. >> the mayor and supervisor cohen recently introduced a resolution regarding the next stops. specifically, as it relates to the three projects in san francisco, mission bay, hunters point, transbay. the city is working on constituting the successor agency so that they can start the work of filling the shoes of the redevelopment agency. >> yes, a successor agency that

would be controlled by an oversight board, seven members. the mayor has four appointments to the oversight board. community colleges has an appointment. the san francisco unified school district has an appointment, and bart has an appointment. >> any questions from directors? director reiskin: thanks for the update. a couple of times, you used the phrase "we feel." we feel it will be grandfathered. i suppose that constitutes a project that is already under way and would not be captured here. who, ultimately, makes that determination? >> the state direction -- director of finance is the decision maker as to what constitutes an enforceable obligation under ab 26. the process is that the successor agency will submit a

list of recognized, enforceable obligations to state. the successor agency for san francisco intends to submit. the transbay project has an enforceable obligation. the director of finance could object to that. in which case, there could be a dispute, but we do not expect that. director reiskin: do we know what the time line for that would be? >> i think mike rizzo is here and can address the time line. the schedule to recognize obligations need to be submitted in february? before february. then the director of finance, i think, has a certain amount of time --

we do not know how long the time line is. the director of finance will be receiving a list of recognize the obligations from hundreds of redevelopment agencies, so we expect that decision will take some time. director reiskin: it is a deemed approved situation where if they do not rule it is an enforceable obligation within days, it is deemed to be -- >> if there is no objection. the statute requires them to object. >> any other questions? just for the sake of the public, if you could go over coming in detail, in terms of how the state is defining enforceable obligation, and why you think they have a strong case to be accepted by the state. >> the state statute, ab 26,

defines enforceable obligations as bonds, outstanding bonds, and other debts of the agency, and other enforceable obligations. with the transbay project, one of the best cases for an enforceable obligation, because the tax increment for the transfer, state transfer parcels, is supposed -- has been pledged to the transbay project by the agency under a pledge agreement. we have a formal agreement that obliges a redevelopment agency to make those payments over to the transbay project. in addition to that pledge agreement, we have incurred numerous obligations based on that pledge, including a tipia loan from the federal government worth $7 million.

it demolished the transbay terminal. it built a temporary terminal and started construction of the transit center project. we think we have a very solid case, that that is an enforceable obligation, under any definition. director kim: director ortiz? director ortiz: what happens if things do not go as planned. what is the hit for this project? >> maybe i can answer that. i was going to respond to care person -- chairperson kim's question. the intent of 26 -- there were a number of issues. the project center was intended to be shut down as part of this,

not public projects in construction, like ours. some of our union friends are here today. we have thousands of people in construction now. we are not a golf course or shopping mall, which was one of the issues raised regarding problems of redevelopment. that is point number one. like hunters point, which has received $800 million to clean up the site, we're getting over $400 million from the federal government for our project, substantial commitments, that we would want to preserve for continuing economic improvement and betterment for the entire bay area counties. i did want to add that to the response. to your question, director ortiz, there are three funding issues that are affected as a result of the california supreme

court ruling. one affects affordable housing. it is unclear if we will meet the 35% mandate. that is something the city is working on very closely with us on. but if we cannot meet that, there will not be the same level of affordable housing in the neighborhood. the other component was the tax increment we were going to use to help build the infrastructure to support the new neighborhood that we are building. we are going to be looking at a variety of other funding sources. we have started to talk with the city staff from redevelopment about that. in the event that we do not generate all the funding for that, obviously, that is a cost that will have to go to the developers. with respect to the third component, the tax increment that goes to build the transbay transit center itself, obviously, if we did not have that money, we would have to

find another way to fill it, but we do not consider that an issue, considering the commitments made by the federal government and state of california, and by the fact that we are in construction. director kim: thank you, directors. if there are no more questions -- >> thank you, directors. if there are no more questions, i will ask brian to come up. he will be followed up by sarah to present what we expect for 2012. you will see the commitment of the state of california, the federal government has made towards the project. there is really no turning back, at this point. brian, thank you. >> good morning, directors. principal engineer of the tjpa. the agenda is to tell you what we have accomplished in this past year, where we are right now, and what we plan to do in

the coming year. in 2011, we had a one-year successful operation at the bus terminal. we made improvements as the year went on, including restroom does of these, additional benches. -- facilities, additional benches. we recently got an award for transportation project of the year. we built something that works and people are happy to use. the demolition project was very successful. over 55,000 hours with no safety accidents, which says a lot for demolition. we also acquired, with the city and eminent domain, additional properties to finish out the west end,