automatic calculation for what gets deposited on july 1 of the cheer, and then also -- of each year, and then also has the provision that the fund can not contain more than $13.50 million. it is not clear to me why the fund would ever need $13.50 million with the current cap. there cannot be than $7 million occurred in the funds and once we get $7 million, anything else would revert back to the general fund. it would also provide in the year of the mayoral race, the minimum in the fund would have to be $5 million. we spent 4.7 million in the last mayoral. the minimum would have to be $4 million. i will read that amendment into the record because that is not contained in the written material. this would be on page 3. at the top. starting at line three. for each fiscal year during

which the city and county of san francisco will hold an election for mayor, the city and county of san francisco show appropriate funds to the election campaign fund such that the total amount of the election campaign fund on the first day of the fiscal year is $5 million. for each fiscal year during which the city and county of san francisco will hold an election for the board of supervisors, the city and county of san francisco show appropriate funds to the election campaign fund such that the total amount in the election campaign fund on the first day of the fiscal year is $4 million. that is the amendment to that subsection. in addition to the amendment relating to the mayoral account. president chiu: supervisor wiener has made the motion to amend as he described.

is there second? seconded by supervisor kim. -- is there a second? >supervisor chu: i would like to vote separately on different aspects of it in terms of amending down the mayoral cap, i would like to amend -- vote on that separately. with respect to having the first day of the fiscal year, the ballots at $4 million, that is something i would be opposed to. when we first put together the fund we have indicated that there would be $2.75 deposit per resident of san francisco. every fiscal year by ordinance. or by law. so that represented what supervisor wiener spoke earlier. it was meant to be able to catch up so let's just say in one year we expand down that public finance campaign fund. you're one, we would deposit

port -- $2.2 million and year three another. while i support limiting the cap or the amount to $7 million, i would not support starting the first day of fiscal year with $4 million. we intended the fund would build up over time to catch up for the large expenditure years. i would be not supportive of that. i could vote all the other items except for the $4 million start. president chiu: is there any discussion? supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: i appreciate the comments. the intent is we have an automatic formula that keeps depositing over and over. we get to the same result. we placed a cap on so we are no longer over funding the fund in the extreme.

we wanted to put a base line in there so we do not have to constantly go through supplemental appropriations. it is a pretty modest baseline based on what we know we need to spend in these accounts. it applies in the years when we will actually need to spend in supervisory and merrill. even if there is no public financing that will occur in that year. this is an effort to have an alternate system that is more in line with actual practice. i do respect their marks. -- of the remarks. president chiu: any further discussion? i would like to ask our deputy city attorney given that this legislation would need a palm -- approval by the ethics committee. we can make these amendments

here but we send back to the rules committee after which it would be sent to the ethics committee. >> the board can be -- make the amendment today and then that goes to the ethics commission where it has a 30-day hold. it is acted on by the ethics commission. they make their recommendation and that is forwarded to the rules committee. the rules committee makes a recommendation back to this board. president chiu: understanding that, if there is a supermajority of colleagues -- if these amendments are adopted, you are saying we send these to the rules committee and wait for the third three days for ethics to act -- 30 days for and extract. >> i do not think it matters. it needs to go to the ethics commission where it will administratively be here in town -- internally for the decision. president chiu: why don't we

vote on the motion to amend. then we can decide where this is going to go. is there any more discussion? supervisor chu: i have asked to sever the component related to story of the ballots at $4 million. if our point is not to superfund the campaign fund, starting off at $4 million does that. i request we sever of that compound in and vote separately. supervisor elsbernd: where we adopting the amendments? just move them item back to the ethics commission and the will adopted. we have to vote again. where are we going through this severing? let them adopt the amendments. supervisor wiener: it would be useful in welcoming the commission to have a sense for least where the board is so they do not send us something back and they're not shooting in the dark. president chiu: supervisor

elsbernd, do you want to be on the microphone? supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: we will end the current fiscal year with $7.30 million in this account under the current scheme. we will have an automatic deposit of approximately $2 million on july 1, will start at $9.3 million on july 1. in terms of the over-funding, i believe we are ratcheting up that back significantly. that is my take on it. president chiu: any additional discussion? why don't we take a roll call on the severed item. the portion around the merrill fund. -- mayoral fund. supervisor chu: the part -- this is the severing out of the part that has a balance of $7 million

in the fiscal year. supervisor wiener: the entire item i read into the record about the $5 million and $4 million. supervisor chu: only on page 3, lines 3 through 5 and on page 4, lines 2 through 8. president chiu: are there any additional questions? why don't we vote on the first item that supervisor chu called out. >> supervisor kim, aye, ceqa biz -- supervisor at delonte, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. to pressure campos, of aye. -- supervisor campos, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, no. eight ayes and three nos. president chiu: on the balance

of the amendment -- on the balance of the amendments. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor a lucky, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chu,i, aye. supervisor to, aye. supervisor aye -- supervisor elsbernd, aye. >president chiu: with regards to this item as amended, madam clerk, is your suggestion we send this back to committee? >> mr. president, it would be fine to return it to committee. we would wait the 30 days for the ethics commission to return

the report to the board. of course, public comment could be taken. is that required on this report? >> public comment would be taken when it comes back. if you refer to committee you should refer to the ethics commission where it will have a 30-hole. >> we will refer it immediately. >> i was -- wrsupervisor chu: thank you. president chiu: supervisor kim has made a motion to refer this back to the rules committee. is there a second? supervisor wiener. can we refer this without objection? without objection, that shall be the case.

on item 23. supervisor kim: i would like to re-refer this to committee. president chiu: any discussion? >> supervisor campos: i wanted to make the point i am happy that we have come to what i believe is a resolution of these issues. i think that i know it is a lot of work to get to this point. i want to thank supervisor kim and her office for all the work they have done. and -- as well as the other supervisors, supervisor farrell and supervisor elsbernd to raise the issues about the need to comply with the u.s. supreme court trader want to thank my staff and the folks who worked to have these items come forward. with respect to item 23, the hope is we will not need to go forward to the ballot. i think that it is great that we

are where we are in terms of resolving these issues without doing that. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: this may come as a surprise but i came prepared to boat. it is inappropriate for this board to increase the amount of money individual members of the sport can receive by themselves. i think this issue is one that should go to the voters. while i find -- perplexing it would go to the june ballot, i got lectured a few times last week that measures regarding elections should not go on the june ballot, i was confused but i was ready to vote for this. i think the voters should weigh in. if you look at the history of the public financing program for board of supervisors, it was the voters who created. this with the -- be the first time that elected officials, the board of supervisors have on their own without going to the voters voted to increase how much money is available to them.

nine out of 11 of us have the ability to run for reelection. five of us very well could be doing that this fall. nine out of 11. tell me i'm wrong. supervisor chu and i are the only once turned down. nine of you are available if you so choose. correct me if i'm wrong. i think i can count tonight. i think it is inappropriate, highly inappropriate for members of this board to increase the amount of money they can get from the taxpayers. if you want this extra money, let the taxpayers vote for. do not do yourself. i urge you to vote against this sends back to committee. but the voters decide. -- let the voters decide. supervisor wiener: i respectfully disagree. if i run for reelection, if i take financing, i would be entitled to less money than i got last time because my cap i and my race is exploded.

president chiu would be in the same situation. it is not accurate to say that we are raising our own caps. in addition, it is entirely appropriate for this board to use the authority that the voters decided to give us in passing public financing where we are allowed to amend with eight votes and the ethics commission. there are ballot measures where the voters have not given us that authority. the voters have kept the power to themselves through prop e. in this instance, the voters passed a ballot measure that provided a mechanism for us to make amendments without having to send it to the voters. i think it is appropriate for us to do that. if the voters disagree, we have the initiative power to change that. thank you.

president chiu: is there any further discussion on this motion for this item back to committee. roll-call. >> supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, no. supervisor elsbernd. aye. president chiu: motion to refer back to committee passes. on march 20 which is the date we have sent the american cup items to three members of our board will not be here on that day. what has been proposed is that we rescind those boats and schedule the items for the 27th

of march. with that information, i would like to entertain first a motion to rescind the boat with regards to item 26. supervisor chu has made the motions -- seconded by supervisor campos. i would like to entertain a motion right now. we had passed the march 20 date. i would -- motion made by supervisor chu, seconded by supervisor farrell. let me ask for -- there are members of the public would like to speak on this rescheduling. seeing none, public comment is closed. with regards to the motion as amended. to amend this to march 27. madam clerk, would you take the role? >> supervisor farrell, farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mark, aye.

supervisor al-radhi, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor abels, aye. supervisor campos, aye. supervisor chu, aye. president chiu, aye. president chiu: if we could item -- recall items 20 and 21. if we could intertwine -- entertain a motion to rescind. our votes are rescinded. and now i could entertain a motion to continue items 20 and 21 to the 27th of march. motion by supervisor chui and seconded by supervisor avalos. if we could take that to continue without objection, that shall be the case. madam clerk. please read the in memoriams. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals.

for the late mr. chang and for the late mr. hodgson. president chiu: does that include our business? >> yes. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

>> the right to vote allows us to vote for candidates or party and it is a significant way to have our voice heard. exactly 100 years ago, women were given the vote in california. the battle for women's suffrage was not an easy one. it took more than 70 years. a woman could run for president in new york.

>> organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. it marked the beginning of the women's equality movement in the united states. >> at that time, women were banned from holding property and voting in elections. >> susan b. anthony dedicated her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea.

>> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. that woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> support gradually grew in state and local campaigns. >> leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings -- , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure. doing everything they could to ground the campaign in

domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. a specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was associated. >> susan b. anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco. liquor was the foundation of the economy. and >> anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular. >> the first campaign was a great effort, but not a success.

>> the war was not over. less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. >> women's suffrage, the republican convention in oakland, this time it was the private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center. women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san francisco.

it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. >> the eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we all voted. it was the sixth and largest

state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their

voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's. in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years

of voting in california. 100 years ago this year, we won the right to vote. around 1911, this is how it would have addressed. and here we are, dressed the same. [chanting] >> we have the right to vote. >> whether you are marching for a cause or voting in the next election, make your voice heard. thank you for watching.

>> can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? [pledge of allegiance]

>> thank you. >> roll call, mr. president. [rollc all] -- [roll call] >> marshall is en route, he is a little bit delayed. >> [roll call continues] you have a quorum, mr. president. you also have the chief and the director of the occ. >> welcome to the february 22 to san francisco police commission meeting. we have a