we have an opportunity to hear the rest of the applicants and i was impressed with mr. sheehy. i make a motion to continue at the call of the chair. supervisor kim: we will try to get this done as soon as possible. thank you again. madam clerk, could you please call item seven which is our last item today. >> ordinance amending the campaign conduct code to delay the certification of 2012 supervisor early -- the supervisorial candidate seeking public financing. supervisor kim: we had someone from supervisor cohen's office who is author of the

legislation. >> to have had a long committee hearing in his -- hearing this item. -- you have had a long committee hearing in hearing this item. this would make sure that for a candidate seeking election in 2012 we will not certify their eligibility to receive public financing until the redistricting task force has redrawn the city's boundaries which i know we have been involved in. we expect to have this completed by april 15. candidates will be able to apply. there will not be certified until the boundaries are completed. this is something the ethics commission has considered and recommended. i know the executive director is here. happy to answer any questions. supervisor kim: thank you. do you have anything to add? i appreciate you waiting this entire time. >> thank you. that is it in a nutshell.

this will help us to avoid some problems. it is a proactive peace. it also gives us some breathing room. it also makes some breathing room for that effort that you are conducting right now. supervisor campos: thank you. we will open up for public comment. -- supervisor kim:. -- supervisor campos: thank you. we will open up for public comment. it seemed that redistricting the important effort we're going through my result in -- might result in members are candidates running for seats that get reconfigured. they might either not be in the district at pearl -- after april 15 or the district contours' may be different. they may choose not to run or others may choose to run. it may change to some extent the

landscape and it seems to me that delaying certification until after our work is completed was a common-sense approach to this sort of thing. i would urge you to support and enact this ordinance. i would also note in the future when there is legislation like this that has to go to the ethics commission, there was an item in the legislative digest that indicated the ethics commission had adopted or approved or recommended the proposed a legislation. it would be good to have a separate letter in the file from the ethics commission stating that so it is not coming from the city attorney but the ethics commission staff reflecting the work of the ethics commission. thank you. until next time. supervisor kim:. -- supervisor kim: thank you and i appreciate the work on this ordinance. >> thank you.

supervisor kim: is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i wanted to state that we do have a public financing ordinance coming before rules committee next week. hopefully that can address these issues as well. i think this is an important amendment to make as the redistricting task force is considering major changes to our district lines. that will be important to delay certification of any candidate to determine where folks live and which districts that can run for. i do support this ordinance. any thoughts? supervisor campos: i would make a motion to move this forward with positive recommendation supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. -- positive recommendation. supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. is there any other

announcements? >> no, ma'am. supervisor kim: meeting is adjourned.

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>> i think a lot of times we look a community and we say, there is this one and this one, and we all have our own agenda, when our agenda is to create great work. if you're interested in that, you are part of our community. >> it is a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> we are trying to figure out a way to create a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of, the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons from presenting dance, producing theater, presenting music, having a full scale education

program, and having more than 50,000 visitors in the building almost every year. a lot of our emerging artists generate their first projects here, which is great. then we continue to try to support figuring out where those works can go. we have been blessed to have that were produced in new york, go unto festivals, go on to the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things, when you see artists who think there is no or else of someone being interested in me being a woman of color telling her story and getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. artists becoming better artists. what is great about surely coming back to brava, we have this established, amazing writer who has won a slew of awards and

now she gets an opportunity to direct her work. even though she is an amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is also being nurtured as a director, being given space to create. >> and the play is described as ceremony and theater meet. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is that the completion of an epic. the purpose of this ceremony is to celebrate. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. they have given me carte blanche to do this. it is nice for me in the sense of coming back 25 years later, and seeing my own

evolution as an artist and a thinker. the whole effort even to put the indigenous woman's experience center stage is very radical. because of the state of fear, it is a hard road to hold up an institution. it really is a hard road. i am looking at where we're 25 years later in the bay area and looking at how hard it is for us to struggle, to keep our theaters going. i would like to think that i am not struggling quite as hard personally. what i mean by that is that in tension, that commitment. what i see is that we're here to really produce works of not be produced in other places, and also to really nurture and women of color artists. i think that that is something

that has not shifted for me in 25 years, and it is good to see that brava is still committed to that kind of work. you know? ♪ >> happy birthday to you happy birthday to you ♪ >> windy will talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go with what we have on our staff. south asian managing director. african-american artistic director. latino outreach person. to us, aside from the staff, aside from the artists that we work with him being a reflection of oz, yes, the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that, just that sense of a trend. i tried to make about the work that shows the eclecticism of the mission district, as well as serving the mission. that is what i feel brava is about.

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atoms act upon it will appear on the february 20 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. hearing to examine the proposed community choice ever -- aggregation with shell as well as the appropriations startup costs. >> and members of the public, we will be postponing this hearing. we will have a number of reports coming out. we thought we will have them before today, but we don't. can i interject a motion to postpone and continue to the call of the chair? first, can we take public comment? >> good afternoon, my name is

douglas yeap. in regard to item number one, i am kind of surprised it is being heard in this committee. that is just my opinion. the second thing that i would like to say about this committee hearing is that i am kind of surprised that based on the last gao committee group, there was only one item scheduled for today. in regards to gao, i feel like this is an important committee in the past, it seems like it has been under-utilized by city hall. i feel like this would be a change to continue the president of the last gao committee. i would like to mention one thing that this committee should keep in mind as it proceeds on this year. first, obstruction of justice.

second, dereliction of duty. third, abuse of power under the color of authority. i say that just for the record. i also feel that hopefully, it is not going to have another letter to the examiner-editor and titled "ethics commission needs an overhaul." i feel like this committee has been under-utilized. i thought each of these meetings would be attended by very many people that had issues with different parts of the city bureaucracy. since there are so few attendees, maybe some of the people feel that this is more or less a lapdog committee rather than a watchdog committee. hopefully that is not going to be happening this year and it will be an aggressive

investigation, especially based on different things that were mentioned in the civil grand jury reports. to conclude my statement, god has a strange way of dealing with situations. especially montezuma's revenge. supervisor farrell: other any members of the public that wish to speak? public comment is closed. we will be continuing this item. so moved. we will continue this to the call of the chair. are there any other items? thanks very much, meeting adjourned.

>> welcome to the february 15 meeting of the board of appeals. presiding officer is president michael garcia enjoining him as commissioner fung and commissioner hillis. commissioner hwang will be absent this evening. we do have one vacancy. the board may hold a meeting if there's a vacancy.

the board may overrule the action of the department with the votes of three members. we're joined tonight by the deputy city attorney. she is sitting to my left and will provide the board with any legal advice. we also have our legal assistant. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that had cases before the board this evening. we have this in your building inspector representing the department of building inspection and we have the representation for a taxi services. we will conduct the swearing-in process. >> the board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb proceedings. carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows, permit holders and department representatives each have seven minutes to present

their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments with and those periods. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have up to two minutes each to address the board and no rebuttals. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish to speak are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to staff when you speak at the podium. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. there are customer satisfaction survey forms on the left side of the podium as well. if you have questions or are requesting a rehearing or hearing schedules, speak to staff during a break or after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow morning. the offices located at 1650 mission st., room 304. this meeting is broadcast live

on san francisco government television. cable channel 78. dvd's of the meeting are available directly from sfgtv. thank you for your attention. we will conduct are swearing-in progress. -- process. if you intend to testify and wish to of the board figured tested fair in -- testimony evidentiary weight, "i do" after you have been affirmed. any member of the public may speak without taking this oath pursuant to the rights under the sunshine ordinance in the administrative code. thank you. please stand. anyone who is going to come up, if you wish. do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the

truth? thank you. >> thank you. president, commissioners, we have two housekeeping items. item five has to do we all -- has to deal with appeal number 11-150. it has been withdrawn and will not be heard. item number 6, appeal number 11-099 has to do with a permit suspension by dbi. the attorney for the appellant is here this evening to request a continuance to may 23, 2010. it will allow time for the appellant and her neighbor to participate in arbitration. dbi has indicated its consent to this continuance. if the board is in agreement, the motion can be continued. >> did you wish to address this before we made a motion? >> no, your honor. i am used to addressing judges. that is correct. we would like the continuance to

may 23. we have not completed the arbitration yet. we are almost there. we're in the breeding stage of arbitration. continuing thisç -- we are in the early stage of arbitration. president garcia: thank you. çwe are glad the parties are trying to work it out amongst themselves. i move we continue this to may 23. >> ok. is there public comment? >> good evening. i am the attorney for james, the owner of the adjacent property affected. i concur on the request on his behalf. president garcia: thank you, sir. >> do you have a card as well?

>> no, i don't. >> we have a motion to rescheduled to may 23. on that motion -- commissioner fung: aye. commissioner hillis: aye. >> they do. the vote is 3-0. this is rescheduled to may 23. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. we will move on to item number four, the adoption of findings. this has to do with the p.o. number 07-209. i don't know where my head is. let's start with public comment, item number one. is there any member of the public would like to speak on an item that is not on the calendar? ok. item two, and the comments or questions, commissioners? >> i have a two-hour speech. i am sorry. >> seeing no comments or questions, we will move to item

3, the adoption of minutes. before you for discussion and possible adoption are the minutes of the board meeting on february 8, 2012. president garcia: i would move that we adopt the minutes as written. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? if you could call the roll, please? >> on that motion from president garcia to adopt the minutes -- commissioner fung: aye. commissioner hillis: aye. >> thank you. the vote is 3-0. the minister adopted. >> now we move to item four. the adoption of findings in appeal number 07-209, martinovsky vs. taxi commission. on december 14, 2011, the board voted a 3-0-2 to uphold the

removal of gary martinovsky from the taxi medallion waiting list. >> i have read the material. >> we can proceed. mr. murray is here from the mta and has indicated that he is in agreement with the findings as written. mr. martinovsky has not participated in the findings review process. he has been given the opportunity. he has not given us comment. commissioners come if you have questions about the findings or if you have a motion? commissioner fung: i have a general question for mr. murray. çhas there been any further actions by your board related to ada processes?

>> no, there have not. commissioner fung: thank you. commissioner hillis: just one question. the time period between the filing of the appeal in 2008 and being rescheduled until 2011, that was to let it go through the legal process and the lawsuit to be -- >> that is right. the appellate was not a party to the lawsuit. because he believed he had issues related to the subject matter of that litigation, he and the department had asked that the matter be put on hold. commissioner hillis: thank-you. >> i should ask if there is any public comment on this item. ok. commissioners? commissioner fung: move the adoption of the findings. >> ok. if you could call the roll,

please? >> did you want to comment on how well they were written? commissioner fung: they were extremely well done. >> we have a motion to adopt the findings. on the motion -- president garcia: aye. commissioner hillis: aye. >> thank you. the vote is 3-0. those findings are adopted. >> ok, commissioners. we have already and all items five and six. we move to item seven, adoption of budget. we are here to discuss and possibly adopt the department of budget for fiscal years 2012- 2013 and fiscal years 2013-2014. bringing the budget proposal to you this evening because the city's administrative code requires that all departments submit their budget no later than february 21 to the mayor

and the controller. this year, for the first time, we will be submitting proposals for two budget years under proposition a. all departments now are required to participate in a two-year rolling budget cycle. my aim this evening is to give you an overview of the structure, provide you with an update on this year's budget status, and then go over my recommendations for how we should approach theç next two budget years. looking at the structure starting with the revenue, we have two revenue streams. the largest one representing 95% of the budget, is comprised of surcharges that are placed on the fees paid by people who are applying for new permits or renewing permits. they're collected by departments that issue those permits and that have matters that our appealable to the board. they are reviewed annually to make sure that they will satisfy make sure that they will satisfy our need for revenue to cover