i think it is authentic. he is a graduate of reardon high school. sometimes transitional youth take a little bit longer to pop, to come to some kind of -- but he is making his way in this world and trying to make the best of it. i had some doubts about -- [bell rings] michael, in fact, i opposed him on the redistricting committee. michael nulty is in a similar vein to that. someone that is in the community. i would also say this, you know, resident consumers -- oftentimes, it is a good deal for the taxpayers as well. because we really do kind of look for ways to do things, you know, within the available resources. [bell rings] thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. and yet the public comment on this item? >> good afternoon.

i am here in support of the johnny appleseed, mr. michael nulty. i have known it michael for the past five years. we have worked in the tenderloin together. michael is a person of moderate views. and i think moderate views are necessary on your citizens advisory board regarding community benefit agreements. so i strongly urge you to support johnny appleseed. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the executive director of hospitality house, and i wanted to speak in favor of daniel hlad. as you know, hospitality has been rooted in the tenderloin community for the last 44 years. we recently did expand to the sixth street corridor and the central market area. and daniel was an integral part

of our decision to do that and to bring our model to other neighborhoods. i hired daniel about eight years ago, and from the very beginning he really embraced the community and the mission of hospitality house to serve folks you are low-income and homeless in the neighborhood. he lived in the neighborhood and has been a really big part of what has happened there. he is a man of integrity and of energy and ideas. so i hope you will strongly consider him for this position. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello. director of the coalition on homelessness. i also wanted to speak in favor of the appointment of daniel hlad to the cac. i have been working with daniel for a number of years, and he is really amazing. i think one of the things that he can bring to this seat is

really have broad representation of the neighborhood. in terms of both being a resident and also in terms of being a part of an organization that serves thousands of neighborhood residents. it is seen by most people as the heart of the community. in these kinds of positions, i think it is really important to be able to have an ability to get really brought input from the community when there are critical decisions that are going to be made. i think he is in a very unique position that way, of both being a resident and being able to talk to his neighbors and with organizations, being able to represent broad numbers of people. to what. supervisor kim: -- thank you. supervisor kim: thank you.

>> hello. my name is susan. i live in the heart that the tenderloin. i have a letter there that you can read, but i would like to add a couple things to it. i wanted to let you know that michael nulty gave me a chance more than 10 years ago to use my newly found computer skills for the benefit of the neighborhood and encourage me to advocate for the residents. sometimes the residence, you know, their needs are not completely met by the service providers. and sometimes we have had to hold the feet of the service providers to the fire on a couple occasions. and i wanted to let you know that he has worked with service providers and with residents and homeless. so he has kept the peace in many ways by helping us find areas of

common agreement. and i want to reiterate, he has worked with homeless youth and the sro collaborative. michael nulty would be excellent. he has been a mentor to me in the sense of, you know, i have found a way to use my skills for the people around me. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. and yet there public comment? >> good afternoon. my name is douglas yepp, and i have lived in san francisco to 60 years. before coming here, i was having no choice for these four applicants, but what -- but since it was stated earlier that michael nulty is an alumnus of reardon high school, i say give

reardon a chance. in my opinion, there's one school that has influence in san francisco. in regards to this seat, i felt dizzy and important for this city to consider how independent the applicant will be. according to my research, it seems like many people that fill these committees have a very cozy relationship with parts of the city and county in san francisco. and i feel that this might hinder the creative thinking and eventual solutions on these committees. so i think one criteria that should be considered is how independent a committee member would be, because we do not want a system where everybody knows each other, everybody pats each other on the back, and then certain things get done, and then the inhabitants of that area wonder why things turned out the way they did.

not only should we consider qualified people, but also independence-minded people. [bell rings] thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. any other public comment? mr. paulson? >> good afternoon, ruling committee. i want to say that i have known michael nulty for 30 -- 34 years, and i think you'll be a good candidate. and -- >> ♪ he is part of the city part of the crowd i know it is going to work out in those city times pass this one he is really out of sight oh fix this one fix it up on the last city train home tonight pass item one

it is michael nulty he is out of sight oh time fix this on and he is going to fix it up all right ♪ supervisor kim: thank you missed -- a thank you, mr. paulson. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. oh, ok. please line up so i know, otherwise i will close public comment. but i will reopen. >> i am going to put my backing behind michael nulty. he is in the community and in doing stuff. he is networking. he has all these internet connections to the community. he has his voice and word out there. supervisor kim: thank you. any other public comment at this time? ok. seeing none, public comment is

now closed. i do want to thank all the applicants to apply. it is great to see this and many individuals are interested in serving on this community advisory committee, which we created last spring. following up to the tax exclusion we passed for the central market and tenderloin area. we were able to sign our first committee benefits agreement with sandusk. we're looking more -- for more considerations for the cac to consider. actually, i do know mr. michael nulty very well. he really does intend many defense and has an incredible relationship with the committee and knows a lot about the issues. i would be very happy to support him for a residency. i think it is upon that the c.p. held by a person with particular expertise or experience working with the homeless population, purses just sitting on boards and advising on a myriad of issues. we do have folks that are able to represent that perspective on

this cac already. while i do not know mr. daniel hlad very well, i do know the work of hospitality house. tenderloin, 63, and midmarket area, and i am appreciative of the shelter that you run, the drop-in center will -- where folks can come in to get employment. and doing arts at the gallery. i know hospitality house works very closely with the homeless population here in the district. it is important to have that perspective on the committee as we develop and move forward with community benefits agreements with other companies as they move into the area. so i will be supporting mr. daniel hlad today. i do want to open it up for discussion amongst committee members. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. i want to thank all the applicants. anytime someone wants to serve the city of san francisco, you

want to recognize that willingness. it is difficult when you have more applicants than you have seats available. i think any of the people we have heard from would be excellent additions to this body. and i certainly know mr. michael nulty, because he is everywhere. he is very engaged and very active. that is very impressive. i think he would also do an excellent job. but at the end of the day, i am going to get deference to the district supervisor with this kind of appointment. in light of that, i will be supportive of supervisor kim and what she has indicated. my hope is that for those of you who do not get an appointment, there are other opportunities down the road to serve either on the same body are on a different body in a different capacity. thank you. supervisor farrell: thank you. i will echo what supervisor

campos said. mr. nulty, you have the most support here, for sure. i will follow supervisor kim, given this is a never the organization. i will make a motion to send mr. forward recommendation. >> thank you. recommendation to the full board. i want to thank both of our applicants who are here today. again, mr. nulte, i would love to support you for something that is more of a general residence seat on this cac. there'll be other seeds over the next couple of years. i want to thank and recognize lj cirillo who previously served on this seat and has been active on the issues in our neighborhood. i am is rg see that she cannot continue to serve. but i am glad we have these applicants.

thank you to both of you. we had a motion. we can do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, please call item number two. >> motion appointing supervisor christina olague, a term ending february 4, 2014, to the san francisco local agency formation commission. supervisor kim: thank you. any questions or discussion? seeing none, i will open up for public comment. any public comment on item number two? >> good afternoon. douglas yepp. i would like to speak in favor of supervisor olague for this position. she is the newest member of the board. i think she should be given every opportunity to prove herself. also, i noticed that it says here that the term ends in 2014, so i would like to say that i hope she serves the full term. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you.

any other public comment? >> ♪ look at the appointment for lafco strangers in every way will take a lifetime to say we will know you well and then we will know you will do just swell and the good appointment will go for all lafco we know and love will grow for lafco ♪ supervisor kim: thank you, mr. paulson. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos: motion to for the positive recommendation. supervisor kim: thank you. i want to reiterate, this was the seat formerly held by supervisor mirkarimi, who is now our sheriff.

so he could not finish his term. moving forward with the motion of christina olague 2 san francisco lafco. without opposition. can you please call item number 3? >> item number 3, hearing to consider appointing one member, a term ending june 6, 2014, to the immigrant rights commission. one seat, one applicant. supervisor kim: thank you. we do have professor bill ong hing here today. thank you so much for coming here and for your willingness to serve on the immigrants' rights commission. >> thank you, madam chair and supervisors. first, i want to thank the staff of the committee and program and other members of the current commission in urging me to apply. years to know that i am probably one of the original anchor

babies. my father had a questionable claim to u.s. citizenship. when he came in 1915, my mother's citizenship status was also questionable. when i was born in superior, arizona in 1949, i had an automatic claim to u.s. citizenship. if current proposals against birthrates citizenship had been in place at the time, i probably would not be standing here. i grew up in arizona, but i have been a resident of san francisco since 1971. over the course of my career, i was a founder of the immigrant legal resources center, where i continue to volunteer as the general counsel. although my academic, literature seems to be centered in -- the truth is, everybody who has ever taken a class for me knows that

i am is centered in the community. i firmly believe that any change that is going to take place, either nationally or locally, has to begin within the community. that brings me to where i am interested in serving on this commission. honestly, there are two major things. given the political environment in the u.s. today that has shifted to an attempt on the part of local and state officials to legislate in the immigration field negatively, it is very important for cities like san francisco to maintain very, very strong sanctuary policies, and also to maintain very strong programs that welcome immigrantsit is for thom interested in serving and i welcome any questions. supervisor kim: i do want to

acknowledge how closely you worked for the board of supervisors -- i was working on the sanctuary city which supervisor campos lead. many of my students have taken your class and i appreciate the scholarship and the work you do on behalf of the san francisco community and immigrant community broadly. supervisor campos: thank you for your interest. i think san francisco is lucky you are interested in serving in this capacity. those of us who have been working around immigration issues and immigrants rights are familiar with your work and it is impressive and i am delighted you are interested in it serving and thank you very much for that interest and everything you do. >> thank you very much. supervisor kim: are there any

other questions? we will now open it up to public comment on this item. i see some of our commissioners are here as well. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the vice chair of the immigrant rights commission and i am here to show my support for the professor. everybody knows him. , he's an excellent advocate and has been all the time fighting for social justice, for emigrants, and i believe he would be a wonderful asset to the commission because we can have all this expertise and knowledge. i would really appreciate if you appoint the professor to the immigrants' rights commission. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you and thank you for your service as

well. >> i currently serves on the immigrants' rights commission as well and i'm here to speak in support of the professor. i know you are familiar with his work. i want to reiterate what an honor it is he would consider joining the commission. he has pursued social justice throughout his career the route -- through his scholarship and has written dozens and dozens of books and articles on immigration policy. he has been a distinguished emigration professor at stanford, uc-davis, uc-berkeley, and now at the university of san francisco. his expertise in asian americans and a lot and on sanctuary cities are on the country would be a tremendous resource for all of us on the commission. not only is he an expert but he

has deep at the bought -- deep and abiding commitment since he moved here in 1971. his wife and children are native san franciscans and he served on the board of the aclu, the asian law caucus, goodwill, and others. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, and thank you for your service as well. great to see you out in support of him. >> i want to thank you very much for considering the professor's appointment to the immigrants' rights commission. on behalf of the staff and commission, we are enthusiastic in our support of his appointment. i've known him for many years personally and professionally, first as corporate funder when he was running the ilrc and as a

member of the asian law caucus family. we could have packed this room with supporters, students, admirers, etc., but there's plenty to do that. his record, expertise, integrity and compassion it -- and compassion are well known. we would be honored and thrilled to have someone of his caliber and character be part of the immigrants' rights commission and we urge you advance his candidacy to the full board. we need his help on behalf of the immigrant and vulnerable communities. thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you for being here. >> ♪ it is that night. your horse is quick. ♪ they are up for appointment and they have to ride like the

city went to be free ♪ again. but they've got such a long way to go. ♪ so they ride, ride like the wind. ♪ pick the best one to win. supervisor kim: thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor campos: i make a motion to move this forward. supervisor kim: we have a motion to move this forward with recommendations. we is have one applicant for this seat, we do have a very qualified applicant and i'm grateful you will be will take time for this commission. thank you. we can do that without opposition. thank you. madame clerk, can you please call item no. 4? >> the public utilities bond

oversight committee. there's one seat and three applicants. >> i do believe our third applicant sent an e-mail to let us know he will no longer be able to be eligible to serve because he got a project in new zealand. i am sorry to see that because i've heard many good things about him. we did already here mr. sheehy, so i will call to see if karen donovan is here. thank you. >> i'm an attorney with the east bay utility district. proper legal career which spanned 20 years, i've worked with its borders players. i have worked with pretty much

all of the major water suppliers in the bay area. while at the public utilities commission, i worked on issues related to planning for city projects and challenges to the city's rates as well as broader water supply and rights issues. i work on legal issues related to the planning for the east bay mud project and work on an array of issues related to the capital projects we undertake for water and waste-water utility at east bay mud. i've lived in san francisco for 14 years. i have been active in issues in my neighborhood and have been active in nonprofits that operate citywide. environmental issues are a passion of mine and the planning

that goes on in the city is of great issue -- great interest to me. i come from a family -- my father worked in pensions and financial services and i've been exposed to issues related to bonds and the financing of projects for a long time. supervisor kim: thank you very much. the we have any questions? we have no questions. joseph is here. it you did not get to speak before supervisor farrell, so if you'd like to speak about your interest to serve on the board. >> thank you for the opportunity of addressing again. i spoke about my enthusiasm for water issues and had ceci in particular. water is not that interesting --

hetch hetchy in particular. i remember my grandmother talking about the 1906 earthquake. people were living in further burned homes without water. hoarding water was a shooting event. -- shooting offense. that convinced your forefathers to build the cleanest water system in the country. san francisco citizens have historical -- historical used 88 million the to 90 million gallons of water per day, the lowest in the state. san francisco is the only city in california with a combined sewer system that treats both sewage and storm water. unfortunately, there are threats to this system and the san francisco repairs to support it. some will affect water quality

and quantity in the future. the seismic upgrade is behind original's dental and there is concerned by the oversight committee with the internal reporting and whether the project may be further delayed and over budget. i would like to investigate further and help if i can. audits are starting for the waste water treatment program. our waste water system is a national model but it does produce an average of 10 overflow events per year where walt -- where raw sewage is released into the bay and in the beaches. as a chemist, have the knowledge to review and reveal the wastewater treatment system for the committee and the people of san francisco. the allotment for san francisco would be cut by 12%. we are frugal water users and the water would have to be replaced by finding other sources more expensive than a quantitatively inferior, such as the sun set aquifer or the water

treatment and recycling center. these views chemical purification processes the public utilities commission has to rely on a previously and they come with a risk. i would like to be involved to make sure these changes are not impacting the public health and safety of our residents. lastly, the united states house of representatives passed a partisan bill yesterday that would override california's state water rights and water compacts. while bill did not specifically address the reichardt act or the hetch hetchy system, some republican members talked about their intention to attack it in the future. i disagree with this because the city paid to build the system in the first place and is paying to refit the system now. but most otherer