form the fleet week association, it has grown. they decided they wanted to do more around disaster and highlighting the role of the military and disaster relief. this partnership has grown. when we needed a partner to make this a reality, they were our first thought. they were great partners. and they are great partners. there were able to raise the money through private sources so we did not have to spend any taxpayer funds to make this a reality. we went to a van, spent a few days on the ground area. i am not one to go in detail of the highlights. but was done sometime in with their city engineer, there director of public works, there mayor, some of their city council. we got a firsthand look at what the conditions of work. the take away from that was that he there are some things we can do, as a community, and that i think can help them.

in a very broad sense, i have started some work with colleagues in fire ems services to help on that front. some of the things they need in our things that we can do. not the least of which, at this point, is a need things like food. the economy has tanker it is not that there is no food, there is no money to buy food. there are not a lot of jobs. a lot of people were displaced. it is a largely tourism-based area. with that kind of damage, i can relate to that area we are largely tourism-based area. we're going to have profound effects like they are. they're looking for assistance. we are trying to corner with an organization which, those of you who know what it is, will

probably slap me around and for doing this simplified explanation, but it is like craigslist for humanitarian 8. -- aid. there are some challenges. it is in turkey, so there are logistical challenges that along with that. it is possible and i think we will be able to move ahead with that. we left them with a number of suggestions, recommendations. i will not go through them point by point, but i will say they are acting on some of them as appropriate. some of our takeaways, i'm going to be a little bit selfish and talk about some of the things we learned and we are loyal to apply in san francisco -- one of the things that was really illustrated to me was the mental health aspect. i come out of the first response world and they tend to be thinking in that mode. you get into the emergency management, where it is a

different lens. it is not so people-focused. our partners in the health department have been saying this for a long time and they are right. seeing it firsthand in that environment, it is wanting to know it and another thing to see it. the effects of aftershocks not just on or structures but your population. we were there and there were a few aftershocks. it does have an affect on you when you are around some of these buildings. logistics, obviously a huge issue maybe they are not on a peninsula, but i think there are challenges because there are -- they are hard to get to. we will have the same challenges. medical care -- i'm not talking about the acute care, that is something you deal with and can move people around by air if you need to agree but the continued care of maintaining the health of the population when your acute care facilities are damaged beyond repair.

it went from having university- level tertiary care and be in the tertiary care destination for their region to essentially clinic care. the nearest possible 400 kilometers they can actually do surgery. these are things i look at and i am very keen on exploring them. the bay area will have similar problems carry weirton of hospitals reduced from being a world-class, tertiary care facilities to clinic and d.r. care for a time until they get things back in order. finally, i think it really speaks to the issue of resiliency and people in general. this is one of those things where it is a different world and you have to cut through the differences of the environment in the living conditions in another country versus dollars. it really speaks to how people will come together when a half to and how people can be

resilient and it just kind of recharged my desire to keep pushing in this direction. it is not about kids, it is about a community. it is about making people stronger as a whole and not just saying, here are some boxes of water and some m.r.e's that you are not going to want to eat anyway. he working primarily with the organizations that are already in the community to strengthen their constituencies and until that community as a whole. that is what is going to see us through. you see that when you go to places like this ntc with the community has come together. in a lot of ways, quite frankly, because the government is incapable of delivering all of the needs. i know we cannot do it so it is something they cannot either print >> i would like to thank you for having me and thank you for that thank you. it was a no-brainer when san francisco approached fleet week

and asked if we could help with the mission. we are not first responders, but we are containers and that is what we can do. i came here many months ago before fleet week to talk about some of the things we were doing, not just the freight ships and all of that, but humanitarian assistance and disaster response programs we have put together. when we talk about this, we thought this was an opportunity to show the world was san francisco values are all about. we showed up as san franciscans and had a wonderful reception at the airport. we were very enthusiastic about our presence in. i will give you a couple of thoughts -- rob touched on p.s.d. yes, the population was clearly suffering in some manner. but i think it was a take away to think about the leadership.

when i look at the eyes of the people we were dealing with and the government leadership level, the head of the dpw, the building department, they were exhausted. there are all camping out in tents at an old park and maintenance building tree that is where they are operating out of. they are eating beans and bread every day trying to make the right decisions, and knowing there is very little money, little resources to help get things like sewage systems rebuilt. that medical facilities in place. they have to go to hundred miles, 400 kilometers, if there is a real traumatic event in order to get real medical services. there are really struggling. i saw the same thing when i was down in katrina. i remember sitting in the state operations center in that larouche and seeing the firemen -- in baton rouge and seeing the

firemen tried to make the decisions, absolutely exhausted. i am not a first responder, but as you do training and preparation for this organization or any of your conferences, really think about the p.t.s.d. issues that the department heads will be going through at these times. the other thing i wanted to tell you is the children. they were just fabulous. if we went into -- we went into a tent shaped like a hut. they were being well taken care of and there were so happy to see us, kind of a novelty to them. i ask them if they were happier here or if they would rather be in school. i got a resounding they would rather be here. they were being taken care of. when the big one hits in san for cisco, i think that we will

probably show the same care for our children. that was very heartwarming. there were a lot of vignettes that were in cadbury -- the were incredibly heartwarming. i'm glad to do as much follow up as we possibly can. >> are there any questions for the -- from the disaster councilmembers? >> what kind of assistance were we able to give to the people of van? >> we are still in the buildup of that. the logistics of and are rather complicated, as you might imagine. we are in the process of, with our partners in fleet week, planning a fund raiser. the department of public works as an engineer and they put together a report that we have shared. i am working through some networks that i'm involved with. one of my -- that i think is

most pertinent to the department of emergency management is there a fire department is in great need. this is a community that is over 350,000 people. they have a department that has a 46-member staff. they have one station. they have not 3 apparatus, one of which is over 30 years old. they do not have food for their newest 20 members. these are all earnings that can be met. they need things like breathing apparatus, turnouts, boots, tools. i have been beating the bushes and figuring out how we do this. there are a couple of organizations that we will be doing some work with, one is firefighters without borders, they do this on a fairly regular basis. working on how to make that happen. the other side is, we are in the process -- hopefully within the next week or so, we will have the formal set up so that we can connect with some humanitarian

needs with things like more beans. they are pretty much out. they went from doing two meals per day to one meal per day to providing just dry stuff every few days. they just do not have it and are trying to get it. there are a lot of challenges. >> we at -- we had the department of public works architect and civil engineer, thank you mohammed for having him out there, he made some very good observations and offered a checklist on how to do building inspections post-earthquake, what ever met that it is that they use. there has already been an exchange of information from that side of things as well. i think they are going to really

attend to prevention in the future by taking a lot of what he brought to the table on what you for building code enforcement, things like that. yes. >> and enforcing them, that was a big deal. >> other questions? no? thank you mary much. we look forward to continuing to hear about our efforts. are there any other announcements by disaster council members? yes? >> i am of the census and interface council -- he asked me to apologize that he had to leave early, but we are all working for prepared this in the background every single day. the interface council, every two years, recognizing that the

faith community plays a huge role in recovery. a disaster workshop is coming up on the second at st. mary's. the department of emergency management, the red cross, this year, with the neighborhood and our network. we are working in the background, preparing our voluntary organizations every single day for large-scale disasters and trying to work together to bring together this preparedness. it is a half-day event that will be from 8:30 until noon. that is at st. mary's on the second. >> thank you very much. any other announcements? is there any public comment? hearing none, this meeting is adjourned. thank you very much for coming

writ happy new year. -- thank you very much for coming. happy new year.

>> the meeting will come to order. this is the monday, generate 30, 2012 meeting of the land use and economic development committee of the board of supervisors. i am supervisor mar, chaired the committee. supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener the are here. we're joined by supervisor chiu, president of the board. our clerk is ms. alisa miller. >> please turn on it -- please turn off electronic devices. documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the february seventh board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. supervisor mar: thank you. please call item number 1. >> hageman, ordinance amending the planning and administrative code to provide a contribution option to the developers of the public murphy in establishing a public art work trust fund.

supervisor mar: thank you. the sponsor is supervisor david to -- david i.g.. supervisor chiu: thank you. i have a couple of technical clarification amendments. then i would like to ask for this item to be continued for another three weeks for the following. i had a conversation with mayor lee about one of the amendments at our last meeting, which was around the extension of 01% public arts requirement, which currently applies for projects over 25,000 square feet in the downtown c-3 area, for that to be extended city-wide. the planning commission had asked for that to happen. at the last meeting, i made an amendment to reflect the spirit of that, of appearing with the planet commission asked for to call for products over 75,000 square feet to be included under this, with an effective date of 2013. at this point, mayor lee and i

discussed this, and we would like to do some additional outreach to the developer community on this, and we will be holding a series of meetings likely over the next few weeks. i would like to ask us to hold this for three weeks in furtherance of the conversation. in the meantime, i was asked by the city attorney that helped to draft this legislation to make a couple of amendments. first, to simply clarify on page six, line six, that in addition to the options of either expanding the remainder of public art fees on the site or depositing the remainder of the public art fee into the public trust fund, there could be a third option allowing a developer to do both. to expend the remainder on site and deposit the rest into the public artwork trust fund. that is the language i would like to demint. on page 12, lines 14, 16, and

page 15, lines 13 and 15, i would like to delete language that refers to at the department of building inspection would receive reimbursement for the services that they provide with regards to administering the collection of this public arts fee. that is language we included in the last meeting, but the deputy city attorney at dbi in the department realized it was superfluous given the other code that has language permitting that to happen. i would like to ask that we move those amendments forward today, simply so we can have a clean copy of this when we come back in three weeks. i wanted to see if there are any members of the comic who wish to comment on any aspect of this legislation today? supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? a three-minute limit. >> supervisors. director of san francisco open government. i was concerned when i saw this on the agenda in light of this -- this is a recent audit of the

san francisco arts commission and by the comptroller's office. it basically found significant issues relating to their money- handling of what funding they already get. a couple examples. the 105 projects in one category they did, they picked a symbol of 10. in all 10 of them, is that the expenditures appeared to be for discretionary purchases inconsistent with the purposes of the intendant sources of the fund. then it goes down here and says according to the finance director, once the allocations are combined, the administrative account -- this is explaining what they do. there were charging each of the sub funds an administrative fee, putting it into what basically is a slush fund, and they spent $269,000 inappropriately. i recently attended a meeting of the visual arts committee of the

san francisco arts commission. and, basically, i will tell you, the only people that were there or myself and one other member of the public. there were the staff and interested parties. in other words, the people who were making money on the deals before them. the had an agenda with 20 items on it, half of which they had allotted five minutes, and they were totally hostile to public comment. every single time during one of those items, they would take the five minutes to the staff would take the entire time or more to do their report. they would then proceed to have a short discussion. if a member of the public up, they would make the comment, we are running behind, we're running behind, we cannot take this time. i do not know what it is they do not understand about the word public in public art. now what is going to happen to that agenda is it is going to appear in the consent agenda for the full art commission, where there will be no discussion of

it their right there, and no chance for the public to discussion. i was there with a number of people at a different meeting, and they told me they do not even bother to go, because they basically understand that the arts commission does not want public input. they want staff reports, which they approve, and then they simply pass it on to the full commission. [bell rings] when that did the things mentioned in this report is the staff feels intimidated. in other words, if they see miscarriages of justice are violations of the law, they are afraid to reported to their wrote supervisors for fear of retribution. so giving the san francisco arts commission additional funding at this point, in light of the fact that the city comptroller's office has found them incapable of handling properly the millions of dollars they get each year, is ludicrous. [bell rings] supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker.

>> supervisors, let me bring to your attention that, say, if we have a project like the water system improvement project, 4, .2 billion. the sewer system improvement project, over $6 billion. the art commission gets a substantial portion of this money. on other projects, many of them in the millions of dollars, the art commission gets a substantial amount of money. what we need to do in you all need to do, and when i say we, the people, we need to shine light. and if you are representatives, you should shine lights. by shining light, i mean you have to be educated on issues, and some of you all are not paying attention, because you

are biased. if you are biased, it is fine. but as the previous speaker said, there are few who understand of the freedom of information act. to understand the public records act, who understand the grounds that. we attend the meetings, and we represent, because we have something to gain, but because we want to shine light. what is happening here is this, some supervisor's made the met write and think they're helping the art commission, but you know -- make deem it right and think they're helping the art commission, but you know that recently the director of the arts commission was found to be lacking in leadership and in other things. if i say his name, some supervisor will stand up and say, oh, you're not allowed it to say somebody's name.

but when we vote for directors, we say their name all the time. but then we come before such meetings, we're not supposed to say their names. i am group is out because good leaders and the way, show the way, and go the way. the art commission is a corrupt organization. all over the city, in the bayview and in other areas, they get the money in disbanded peter it is a small clique. a small clique of people that do as they please. we have representatives who always say, you know, they believe in transparency. but far from being transparent, far from being accountable, the they will do things that have worse lee impacted the population. in some cases, it has infected the youth. some supervisor may deem it

right to make some amendments. the whole art commission needs to be put on notice. [bell rings] thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you. next. >> after noon, a land-use double-good afternoon, land-use supervisors. ♪ public art and a trust to free and what ever happened why did you keep it free? so many things we would have done but budget clouds but in our way i have looked at districts from all sides now win and lose it is a city illusion i really do not know yet all city hall and now it is just another land use day and you'll say and help us and you'll pay

so many things you would have done but the city clouds got in our way i have looked at all districts from all sides now win and lose and still try somehow it is what a city i recall i really do not know you at all its city hall ♪ supervisor mar: thank you, mr. paulson. anyone else from the public that would like to speak? seeing them, public comment is closed. you're asking for a three-week continuance. i believe that presidents' day is february 20, so there is no land use meeting. it would be the following meeting, which is february 27. can we take the amendments without objection, colleagues? thank you. without objection, we will continue this until the meeting of february 27. supervisor chiu: 1 comment. i know there are where a couple public comments are in the