president chiu: aye. supervisor chu is absent. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. >> nine aye's. president chiu: if we can go to the committee reports, item 19- 20. >> considered a buy the land use and economic development committee and forwarded as committee reports. item 19 has a new title amending the planning code to create the chinatown transit station special use district at the southwest corner of stockton and washington streets, preventing demolition of a mixed use in building. item 20 is an ordinance amending the planning to go to reflect the creation of the chinatown transit station special use district.

and also permitting the demolition of an excuse building in the chinatown residential mixed use permit. president chiu: roll call, please. >> items 19 and 20 supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. -- >> supervisor chu, absent. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. >> ten aye's. president chiu: these are passed on the first reading. can we go to roll call. supervisor mar: submit. >> thank you. president chiu: i have two items today. i have one item to continue to help bring our city government

into the twenty first century and to address the paperwork at the city assessor's office where there are literally millions of paperwork that are often difficult to cement. i have an item to allow the assessor to move the records online and establish an electronic record and delivery system, this is the resolution required by state law in order to create digital electronic records. i do have fun -- have an in memoriam for mae louis, who after moving to san francisco from hong kong in 1948 built several successful businesses in chinatown and founded the chinatown merchants association, as well as the autumn moon festival. she was well-known and highly respected as an entrepreneur, a woman business leader, and

activists. -- a activist. she poured it -- she supported civil rights and was always on the front line, fighting against unjust treatment of chinese americans. she organized against housing discrimination in the sea cliffs. she advocated for more community services in chinatown. she is someone we knew as a courageous and relentless activist. i am honored to have known her as a friend and to have an opportunity to work with her. something she often said was that nothing comes easy, but nothing is impossible if we put our hearts and minds to achieve what we believe in. she reminds all of us that we need to do more to help those in need. many of us are going to remember her for that for a long time. i also want to acknowledge supervisor mar. supervisor mar: she was a

wonderful, warm person, and very generous not just a community- based organizations like -- but organizations from the richmond district. she was very generous to the people of the richmond district as well. president chiu: i would like to ask if we could adjourn the meeting in her memory. the rest of will submit. supervisor elsbernd: i will submit my items, save one. that is an in memoriam for diane perez. for five years, before she retired in 2004, was the executive assistant of gloria young. diana worked in the clerk's office, transitioning the board from an at-large board to a district board. i think i only had one week with her as a supervisor. otherwise, i was aboard a.

she treated everybody the same, which is just the way you want it. she was a wonderful human being. i know her friends and colleagues have mr. since her retirement, and will miss her even more so now. she is survived by her husband, two children, and a grandchild. if we could adjourn in her memory, and of the family would very much appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor elsbernd. president chiu: did you ask this on behalf of the full board? we can do that without objection. supervisor campos: submit. supervisor avalos: submit. supervisor kim: i am requesting a hearing today on an issue that our office has been working on for a bit of time, and with a promise we had made in conjunction with many of our communities after our mid-market

tax exclusion. it is a hearing to consider the findings and conclusions on the performance audit of the affordable housing policies and programs. district 6 continues to be a place where housing and jobs -- a place for both housing and jobs close to major transit lines. i want to make sure we continue to consider solutions for meeting the housing needs of individuals and families of various income levels, including those who are currently residents of district 6. as i mentioned, the legislative analyst's report has identified several solutions and recommendations to improve the city's ability to meet the regional housing allocation goals in the housing element. i would like to consider these recommendations at a hearing at the land use committee. we are also asking for a response from the mayor's office of housing and the planning department about waste and a timeline for implementing some of their recommendations in this

report. the rest i submit. >> seeing no other names on the roster, that includes roll call for introduction. president chiu: why don't we go to general public comment? >> this is the opportunity for the public to address the board for up to two minutes on subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including formal policy conversation with the mayor, but excluding items which are already been considered by the board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed to was the time to testify. if a member would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please state such and remove the document when the coverage should return to the meeting. president chiu: every speaker has up to two minutes, unless you are speaking in another language and bush for time to translate what you have just said. first speaker. >> [speaking a foreign language]

ladies and gentlemen, last week, we lost to lovely people, as you see them here in the picture. both of them worked hard to help the poor people, the homeless people. they were killed by their own son, their adopted son. he killed them. the police answer today does not

tell us the truth behind that. not only that, last week to americans have lost one of our nice voices, a woman i like her like any other. her name is whitney. as you see here, the media talk about it in different ways. i come in yesterday. i give the mayor -- i have a chance to give the mayor won in his hand today after he'd finished here. this is a copy of my proposal. i tried to make a memorial for her. and i would like to give my sympathy to her body guards, whatever he is, gavin or the

real one who was there with her at this time. i would like to take advantage to teach our children that the money is not important, but the mind is important for the mind. she killed herself by the drugs. i wish we can teach our children. i have nine copies for our supervisors. i give one yesterday to kim, our supervisor. i hope you give an answer like the mayor. i am waiting for him. >> good evening, everyone. my name is ernestine waters wise. i bring to this meeting a seriously flawed proposition, which is called 8 washington, which is on washington street and the embarcadero. i live on the golden gateway,

where they want to build a 12 story condo, which we do not need, as scott weiner recently wrote. it is out of the question unnecessary. it is in front of a high-rise with no setbacks from the street. it violates the waterfront land use plan, in that it does not connect the land to the water, as the recommend in the planning department. this is totally corrupt in every which way. furthermore, a garage of 500 cars underground on this corner is the craziest proposition i have ever heard in my many years working on the waterfront to beautify it. it is one of the busiest in the structures on a narrow street that cannot accommodate it. there is all the pollution from

the cars. we need to get rid of cars, not encourage them in this city. that is what portland oregon does. i recommend it to people here. i hope you will handily defeat it unanimously, because this is one of the worst propositions ever to come across the real estate game in this city. i developed the open space park, which should be preserved. instead, it will take shows all over the place. it will destroy it 0 wonderful club at the building where i live, where people from all over the city come and use it. it is not an elite club. it is for everyone. >> stop the corporate rate of -- rape of our public library. do not give money to the france foundation. we have often said that sunshine

laws and open government are important to promote democracy. it is even true that the dark clouds of secrecy are important to protect the influence of corporate dollars. the library has reconfirmed their defiance of democracy and open government, but the law itself. the president of the library commission violated someone's right to make public comment. the sunshine task force found the violation so egregious it is a willful violation of the requirements of the sunshine ordinance. the referred to the ethics commission for enforcement. it is required of all public officials. the ethics commission unanimously voted that president the "remove from office in light of her actions." after due process, rules of evidence, and advice from the city attorney, this was found to

be the most serious finding of any sunshine violation in the history of the city and county of san francisco, and the entire 17-year history of the ethics commission. at the february 2 meeting, the library commission endorsed this abuse by reelecting a president to continue as their president by a unanimous vote. the privatization of our public assets goes hand in -- hand in hand with the degradation of our democracy and our traditions of open government and public participation. as we have seen many times, the public is guilty until proven innocent, but those who do corporate dirty work are innocent even after proven guilty. that is why the lies cost more than money. thank you. >> i am peter warfield,

executive director of the library users association. a little history and questions about the possible influence of money as a relates to the bernal heights branch library merrill, which features an unidentified african-american singer. two years ago, the library commission approved a compromise to restore the front of the mural at a cost of $18,000, but expressed great concern as to where that $18,000 funding would come from. a so-called community process was to decide the other two sides. two years went by. in june and july of 2011, the so-called community process task force came to the library commission with a plan that was to get rid of all three sides, despite the previous resolution.

and no budget was discussed at all. we found on line with that budget would be. the burn all library and art project -- bernal library art project had a budget 10 times would have -- what had been proposed two years prior, or $185,000. over here all was friends of the public library, with a fiscal fee of $16,800. we have also found the city librarian sending a letter in which he suddenly and without explanation has money for this project, $20,000 worth. it was never discussed at the library commission.

city librarians are getting $35,000 each year from the friends. think about it. >> good afternoon, board. i am the patient advocates seat of the can of this task force. -- cannabis task force. it was encouraging to see the mayor in attendance of the board meeting. we are hoping to create some dialogue. i write to alert you to an -- an impending health care crisis. hundreds of thousands of disabled americans, who i represent in the patient advocacy seat, are facing a federal block in needed and physician-recommended medical supplies. this embargo is unconstitutional, as well as a

backslide with regard to united nations resolve for health care. i asked that our city officials of hold city laws regarding our sanctuary status. our city has two decades of laws on our books in support and project support of safe and legal access to cannabis, evolving from the aids crisis. 16 states have fallen in our footsteps. our city has a medical cannabis task force comprised of legal experts. this major media attention and concern, as this also affects a leading contributor to the general fund. we asked the mayor to step up, speak up for the patients. thank you. >> my name is denise story.

herbal medicines are under attack, and so are the commons, which covers public space and libraries. the dea and drug companies seem to want their bill money back. they miss it. we, the people, have seen victims of casualties of election-time politics. the middle class are mainly liberal. we need to preserve the middle class, what is left of them. i worry about increasing corporate control of government and vulture capitalists eroding our democracies around the world, privatizing to serve their own interest, buying our government. they do not want to pay taxes, but they will by governments. public space is vital to a fair and vibrant bubble-up economy, as opposed to a trickle-down, mussolini-style subsidized

corporate economy in this country, thanks to the corporate media and numbing and diming us down, thanks to rupert murdoch and the koch brothers. the can of this community -- canabis community is the canary in the mind of democracy. we are willing to pay taxes. yet the people who want a small government to drown in a bathtub, because the one to shrink the government so small they can drown it in a bathtub -- this herb has killed no one. yet they are giving untested drugs to my mother, who lost her memory because she took cholesterol drugs. that is a burden on me. the crackdown of legal dispensaries -- expect to see a large jump in crime statistics when those dispensaries are gone. i can guarantee it.

>> good afternoon. supervisor olague, congratulations to you as well. my name is greg ledbetter. before i start the day, i would like to express to you guys the idea that i stand for the patients that are not able to stand to talk to you today. we have a crisis in our community right now. it seems the federal government has chosen to take dispensaries that are serving sick and dying patient and close them down without regard to the human life and the quality of life that these patients are trying to achieve. at this present moment, we do have allies sitting in the board

of supervisors. but at the present moment, you guys have chosen to be silent. please take a stand. let the federal government know that the city and county of san francisco stands behind their medical cannabis patience and are willing to put in place laws that will govern our community. we are a public entity that you guys are supposed to help. i ask you urgently, speak out before it is too late. thank you. >> good afternoon, members of the board. i am here representing the green cross. i am here to ask will the real san francisco please stand up and defend safe access? the u.s. federal government continues to undermine our local laws, resulting in the closure

of some of san francisco's oldest and best-regulated dispensaries, with more warnings that "nobody is immune from federal prosecution." while resolutions and press statements are welcome, patients and providers deserve concrete and specific action from this board to send a clear message to federal officials that medical marijuana is medicine, and interference with local laws is neither welcomed nor warranted. you could consider passing an ordinance to direct the city attorney's office to enthusiastically support an amicus brief to reschedule marijuana. or you can pass an ordinance directing the city attorney's office to join the state petition to consider marijuana. you could be the first city to join a multi-state effort, and send a clear message to the

state of california that marijuana is medicine and the fed's need to butt out. in closing, you're going to hear a lot more examples behind me. thank you for listening to all of us. we are urging you to have a heart and defend it safe access. -- defensive access. >> happy valentine's day. my name is tony. i have been in medical cannabis advocate for 10 years. i am here to ask you to take access -- take action. i moved back from maryland in april, where are was working to build safe access on the east coast. in 2005, and helped pass the regulations we have now. i am amazed to find our community under attack. i saw many great new dispensary models that i was proud to see

when i first arrived. we have had only five complaints in the five years we have had those regulations. i was very proud of that. to see this crackdown happening is a shame. with resolutions and press statements, they are welcome leadership, but we need more than that. we need to introduce an amendment to article 33, establishing an emergency plan forre- permiting-- for re- permitting, and to follow up the board letter to president obama. say something that appropriately reflects the circumstances of the interference into our local laws, and make clear it was neither welcome or warranted. we can direct the city attorney and all city agencies to refuse any request for information about the program that is not publicly available, unless under subpoena and required by city agencies. thank you.

>> hello, ladies and gentleman. my name is john stone. i live in district 6. some of you i am acquainted with. others i am not. either way, what i wanted to bring to your attention was the issue surrounding the recent closures of many of the dispensaries for medical marijuana, and it particularly affects me and the people around me in my district, because we are running out of places where we can get it close by. it is not a simple thing of walking a few blocks anymore. even with public transportation, i have a friend who has a mobility program, who lives a couple of blocks from it. she is also a can of this patient -- she is also a cannabis patient.

she has an extremely hard time getting medicine. these things need to be considered when the closures are taking place. we do need to get the fed pro- government to cease crackdown. those of you who are allied with this, please speak out. we need you. >> good afternoon, members of the board. my name is john gallo. i am a patient advocate. being a student and a patient, and you get harassed by the fence, because you are supposed to not have medicine. federal benefits. federal restrictions. we are supposed to be a sanctuary city. stand up with our patients and speak up with us.

please, on behalf of students and patients, stand up with us and ask the fed to butt out. thank you. >> my name is marquise. i am a member of access of love. i have seen five clubs close that i was a member to. now i do not have the ability to get my meds like a used to -- like i used to. i am going up for back surgery. i am in pain. this is the medicine that helps me get through every day. without this, if more clubs close, if more places cease to exist, if the federal crackdown continues, i am afraid that most of our city residents will vanish without this madison.

please stand up for your members of your community that need this. we're depending on it. you should too. >> good evening, board of supervisors. i am a member of access of love. i want to stand in solidarity with access for safe medicine. i am troubled by the attack on the dispensaries and the patience, and the right to medical cannabis. we as americans have a right to fair health care. i support you officials. i have voted to put you in office. i just want to be represented. >> i am edmund.