to live coverage of the meeting. first speaker, please. >> [speaking arabic]

i am arab. i am muslim. i am proud to be so. i would like to thank each one of our supervisors to support my muslim people. mou we look in ourselves to protect our land here. many of us like your country. many of us die for your country. because we have respect for the land and for the people like you, who help us and support us. i see six of you support us and five said no. why no? who are you? you are hereby our voice.

you are going to be outside by our voice. i say this not to scare nobody, but this is our wisdom. support us like we support you. do not act like you are a dummy or you do not know what you do to support us. it is someone like me who has time to wake you up. if you do not wake up, i have punishment to wake you up. sooner or later, you will find everyone behind me and everyone agrees with what i said. i am very glad to see campos and kim. she goes outside to support the muslim people. not only that she has muslims were in her office. -- work in her office. we are here because we love you. we love you more if you support

us. wake up and see what i said. i do not need to repeat. every word i tell you is going to be on your mind, if you have one. thank you. >> occasionally, we need to remind ourselves that politicians have built careers on vanity and abuse of power. they disappear as fast as they arrive. where is the progress of democracy comes from the supplies of nameless individuals and is built up slowly over decades. it was exactly 50 years ago today that there was an address

of latin american diplomats. history shows how piece de resistance can be to changes which later generations regard as part of the framework of life. those who possess wealth and power in poor nations must accept the responsibilities. they must lead the fight for basic reforms which alone can preserve the fabric of their own societies. those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent resolution inevitable. it may be provocative to say that if you persist in your vanity and corruption that people will kill you, but it is the truth. this board of supervisors is always intent on destroying whatever democratic power the people will have, turning back the court on the people's power, but it will not work. this is national sunshine week. whether it is the public library or any other public-private partnership or corporate rip- off, people can only be protected by maintaining their

right to know the truth. liberty and knowledge necessarily go together. national sunshine week -- the lies cost more than the money. we need to remember them now. >> i am peter warfield, the director of library users association. this is an opportunity to refresh our understanding that the free and timely access to information is absolutely essential to the proper functioning of democracy and to holding government agents and agencies accountable for their actions. it is currently planned the

complete destruction of every square inch of the bernal heights branch library mural. it honors working women and the history of bernal heights. the elements that i have mentioned are going to be gone up from the new design. supervisor david campos started a so-called community process that was to make a decision about what would be the fate of the mural. this was essentially a semi- secret process that had is essentially no agendas, no publicly-announced meetings, no recorded votes, no limits, and essentially no progress reports. when the library users association tried to figure out what was going on with this process, we asked for the mural

lyle, and these are examples of what we got. tons and tons of redaction. redaction, redaction, redaction. here is a page where the mayor of bernal heights, informally known, the home office and cellphone redacted. he died a year prior to our getting this document. yet here it is, redacted. we were told this was to protect the privacy of the people involved. that is not open government. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. but the episodes are coming up on the dance party. that is on kofy. also metv. coming up soon, sundays at

8:00, cable 13. welcome to year of the dragon. i found this at the flea market. i do not know if it is meeting right yet -- meteorite yet. but it is a dinosaur. and i found this great book. that brings me to my public comment. the bells of san francisco. i did not know what was sunshine week. what should we say? ♪ let the sunshine let the city sunshine and the sunshine in ♪ and with this book -- ♪ you can ring my city bell ring my bell dangling -- ding a ling you can make it swell. bring me said witches and food

as well. -- sandwiches and food as well you can take me to mel's you can make it swell you can ring my city bell ding a ling i hope your house you do not have to in cities here sell i hope you do not have to sell ding ding i know we sold our own for $25,000 we did sell, way back when i would like to win that old bell today ♪ you -- yo man. it is on the new york times if you want to look it up. dance party. president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> my name is kathryn hill and i have a song to share. ♪ it's not just a bar closing down this kind of thing has been happening all over this town a family business closing its doors so our landlord can make a bit more leasing out space to a big box name making this neighborhood look the same i am going to put up a fight so i can say i tried to hang onto what is mine 47 years, i have been working here counting my dollars earning the blue-collar now i'm supposed to go without any say for these 47 years when i was a boy

i came to this land i worked very hard i worked with my hands i did what i had to do loving my wife i build a better life i came for hope all those years ago before the spirit broke 47 years i've been working here counting dollars burning the blue and white collar now i'm supposed to go without any say for these 47 years sitting in the bar tonight looking at is crystal lights i think of how built this place all the time it takes saving pennies

counting dollars burning the blue in my collar -- earning the blue in my collar ♪ [laughter] --[applause] >> i have a public document i would like to put up. it is going to be a coincidence that 9/11 this year will be 911 days into the sabbatical cycle. another coincidence is that it will be 30 months plus 11 days from the 11th anniversary. the dictionary of a coincidence is a dictionary definition is occurring at the same time, taking up the same position in space at the same time, in effect agreement, identical. his hobby is coincidence with his vocation. i think of an incident that happened on palm sunday. people started yelling and

screaming really loudly in this incident known as palm sunday. the pharisees were not really happy about that. they told jesus to keep it down. as this incident happened, there was another incident i forgot to mention. jesus rhoden on a document -- on a donkey. they had the second incident of him riding on a donkey. i forgot the third incident that happened on palm sunday. it is recorded in some 118 -- psalm 118. this is the day the lord has made. i beseech thee, oh lord. send now prosperity. blessed be he that cometh in the name of the lord.

jesus wept over jerusalem. he said if you had known of this divine day -- he was referring to the data had rejected the chief cornerstone. daniel said when this event would happen, the precise year this would take place. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i would just like to say that i want the citizens to stand up for what is culturally important for the city, to stand up for what is historically important to them, stand up for what is important to them culturally. we have an opportunity right now with the gold dust lounge which is getting a lot of press.

where the dust settles, no one really knows. but this is not a turning -- this is an opportunity to save part of san francisco city. if it is going to lost, -- going to be lost, it will be lost forever. it is a topic that could change the way things are this -- arkin -- are conducted down in union square. i want the people who live here to take the stand. -- a stand. president chiu: any other members of the public want to speak in public comment? if not, public comment is closed. madam clerk -- colleagues, what i would like to do is to go to our closed session at the end of today's agenda. so if we can go to our adoption without committee reference. >> items 25 through 29 are being

considered for unanimous adoption without committee reference, but a single roll call vote. president chiu: would anyone like to sever one of these items? i believe items 25 and 29 need to be severed. unless there is anything else, madam clerk, could you please call the roll on items 26 through 28? supervisor weiner: i severed item 25. president chiu: will call. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are 11 ayes.

item 25, opposing assembly bill 1678, regarding restrictions on food trucks' parks and in the two schools. -- in proximity to schools. supervisor weiner: i want to thank all of you for the significant support that you have all expressed over time for the opposition to this bill. fortunately, the opposition that has been able to organize in san francisco has sent a loud and clear message, and the author of the legislation, assemblywoman bonnie from carmel, who is a thoughtful and responsible legislator, has significantly amended the bill in a number of ways, including grandfathering

in the local regulations that exist as of next january, which would include hours, and statewide reducing the required distance of school trucks from 1,500 feet to 500 feet, and making it apply only to public schools, in addition to some other changes. although there are still some changes to be worked out, this is a pretty dramatic change to the legislation. as a result, i move to table item 25. president chiu: colleagues, any further discussion? i am sorry, supervisor weiner, but i did not touch the last of what he said. supervisor weiner: i moved to table. president chiu: seconded by supervisor campos. without objection, that shall be the case. >> item 29 is a motion authorizing corporation of britain proponent and opponent

ballot arguments and rebuttals ballot arguments for submittal to the voters at the june 5, 2012 consolidated general municipal election. president chiu: our court had solicited suggestions for this motion. no one has volunteered to right arguments for either the garbage collection disposal measure or the coit tower measure. supervisor weiner has agreed to provide arguments with regard to the garbage collection measure and supervisor elsbernd coit tower. are there other suggestions? if not, i would like to entertain a motion to that effect. motion by supervisor elsbernd, seconded by supervisor farrell. we would strike the words with regards to support for language

and the opponent measure. supervisors elsbernd and weiner will do that. can we amend without objection? and then on the underlying case as amended? we did the last item with a unanimous vote. can we take the motion as amended to be approved, house, called? -- same call? as we have approved going into the closed session of item 27, can i have a motion without objection? >> item 24, the motion of the board of supervisors convene in closed session on march 13, 2012, with the mayor's office and the department of human resources regarding negotiations with labor unions representing city employees. president chiu: can we go into

closed session without objection? without objection, that shall be the case. if we can ask members of the public and the press to step out of the board chambers.