the district. she's simply says that everybody has to do something. san francisco is our home, and we should look after us. what a difference that could make throughout the city if each of us did a little bit. i want to thank her for her dedicated service. she is an outstanding san franciscan, and an inspiration all over the city. she does what she can for our environment. i also wanted to think patricia, the director of the richmond district neighborhood center, and keith, a community director, who highlighted mina's achievements. will you say a few words? >> thank you for this well- earned recognition. i first met mina several years ago. i noticed there was something different about the northern side of geary boulevard between

22n and 23rd. it looked better, felt better, and felt like a nicer part of the neighborhood. there was a person who came out, "there is a woman who spends an hour or two every day, sometimes twice a day, and cleans the neighborhood. she trims the bushes and keeps everything clean puzzle it not only creates a visual difference. there is a different feel when you walk down that street. i am delighted she is getting that recognition. i hope she will set an example for other people. anyone can do this. it takes a little bit of time and of little bit of thought. the whole city will look and feel that much better. thank you for this recommendation -- thank you for this commendation, and congratulations. it is well earned.

>> i want to add my kudos also. individual time spent picking something up make such a big difference. you can bet children will follow the same thing. we, as adults, set the example. you have done such a beautiful job. you make our neighborhoods clean, plus i feel so good. she does it without any recommendation, without any expectation. she does it knowing it is the right thing to do to help keep the neighborhood clean.

thank you for taking time to acknowledge citizens such as mina. supervisor mar: i wanted to again thank gene and pat and beat richmond district neighborhood center. this gives an example of how neighbors take care of keeping the neighborhood level -- livable. i will be out there with many of the families that come out as well. >> i am so excited to be here. thank you so much for being -- for having me. it is a big honor for me. i do not deserve it. it is a responsibility to do that. a neighbor once said to me, "

your weekly salary is your pride." she was right. i do not expect anything else. what you do for your neighborhood, it does not matter what it is. to me, it makes a bit of a difference. that is a jewel in the crown to me. i will continue to do the best i can. thank you so much. i have all kinds of stuff. thank you, all the supervisors. you are wonderful. i am honored to see the city hall. it is my first time. it is beautiful. and all of you beautiful people. thank you. [applause]

president chiu: thank you, colleagues. that concludes our recognition of commendations. why don't we move back to our 3:00 special order? the dpw staff can report about the assessment costs for blighted properties. >> thank you, members of the

board. revisions have been made to the previous list submitted to the board. those removed from the list have met the obligations to the department under chapter 80 of the blight ordinance. we will resubmit the risk -- the revised list to the clerk. president chiu: thank you. any questions to dpw on this item? in addition to the members of the public that already testified, is there anyone else who wants to speak on this item? seeing none, this item has been held and filed. we have a revised report of the assessment costs. unless there are any questions, why don't we vote to adopt the resolution with the amended report, which is underlined in the resolution? supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye.

>> supervisor elsbernd is absent. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. >> there are 10 ayes. president chiu: the resolution is adopted. if we can go to our 4:00 p.m. special order, items 23 through 26. >> the 4:00 p.m. special order is constituted by items 23 through 26. i'd 23 is a public hearing of persons interested in the decision of the planning department, determination dated february 3, 2012, that a project located at 1100 lombard street is exempt from the environmental

review under the california environmental quality act. item 24 affirms the decision. item 25 reverses the exemption. item 26 directs the clerk to professor findings. president chiu: i understand both parties have agreed to continue these items to july 17. do you want to make a motion? supervisor farrell: so moved. supervisor campos: second. president chiu: is their public comment? >> long and crooked road to lombard street. ♪ don't leave us waiting there make it better than before ♪ president chiu: thank you, walter. and the other members of the public wish to speak? >> mine name is admin.

-- my name is edwin. this is the most crowded street in the world, but we can have world peace on that crooked street. are you irish or italian? lombard street has to have world peace in that crooked streets. that is why people come to san francisco anyway. president chiu: can we take the motion to continue without objection? with that, we have already vanished roll call. >> the next item is the opportunity for the public to comment generally, including items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar.

public comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to public comment by a board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly states such, and remove the document when coverage should return to the meeting. president chiu: this is for discussion items that have marked -- that have not been considered today. >> [speaking arabic]

ladies and gentlemen, i would like to tell you that i am very happy to be here with you today. at least i can show you the letter i sent in to the great people who control tndc, to allow them to open their own eyes. if they know how to read english, they have eyes to read the agenda for today. north 16, i talk about it. our manager of our building dictates he would like to do everything. i talk about that enough. from now on, i am going to take him to the court.

that is the reason i would like to let you know. if i have evidence, i must prove it. we do not need him anymore in the city. his people who work above him must change him sooner or later. i asked barack obama and the governor of california to be involved in my complaint. thank you, and i appreciated what you did to me before, and i appreciate what you did for my people behind me. god bless all of you. thank you. take care for the people who are going to vote now. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. stop the public rate of the public library. -- stop the rape of the public library. last week, i was at the hospital with a burst appendix.

i do not miss this meeting easily. democracy is being destroyed. the branch library puts out quarterly reports. for more than a year, those reports show the france donation -- friends donation of $1.1 million did not change during the busiest part of openings. a quarter of that was public funds. finally, the library's suddenly realized how bad this looked, and came up with a figure that the friends had donated $5.10 million. we made a formal request and for the basis, and the answer was, "i do not readily have that information on hand."

we still cannot justify that figure it three weeks later. what you have to understand is that this comes after being castigated by the civil grand jury for failure to document issues. we usually talk about the harm to our democratic institutions, which have been privatized. what about the harm to the citizens? your constituents are donating this money. you might say that only a fool would give money to the friends of the library, but even a fool does not deserve to be cheated. if they were raising money for sickle cell anemia, there would be in jail by now. the allies cost more than the money. -- the lines -- the lies cost more than the money.

>> good afternoon. my name is paul career. i am here to talk about three different items. i would like to talk about the housing authority invitation to a huge meeting that all of the residents of the senior and disabled developments need to know about. i'm want to invite everybody to the west bay community center, the conference center on eddie and fell more street. on thursday, may 31, the seniors and disabled part of it will be going on from 10 in the morning until 12 noon. from 1:00 until 3:00, the family housing events will be there. it is important to us. i spoke to the supervisors before about the need for san francisco government tv in the

san francisco housing authority commission meetings. i have since met with supervisor combos. i have talked a supervisor of the lows. and i met with my supervisor, mark farrell. it would be great to see this included with television for the sunshine taskforce. this seems to be critical. we have a quorum at this meeting. the sunshine task force has a problem with a quorum. maybe it is because they do not get paid. the audit at sunshine showed us that the task force saves the city may be hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits. it is really important, especially since we have a problem with organized crime at city hall. i would like to close with the idea that there is a particular case number --

president chiu: thank you very much. >> members of the board of supervisors, i am the director of san francisco open government. i have two items i am going to talk about. the first goes to why i introduced myself as a roman catholic. i take great offense at some of the comments i have heard. just recently, but consistently, anyone who challenges our city attorney is accused of having something wrong with them. even the pope is not infallible all the time. he is only infallible when he speaks ex cathedra, issues an encyclical, or something along that line. otherwise, he is a normal human being. if you really believe dennis jarrett is infallible, he should

represent the city every time it goes to court, because he would never lose. i am glad to see mr. chafee back, and am glad he is talking about the public library and its relationship with the friends. i want to say an old expression the pharaoh's used to use. -- pharoes used to use, "so let it be written, so let it be done." you are failing in their actions as a public trust. we will cya. we are doing that because we are covering our own at the same time. for those commissions who dare to cross us, be sure that retribution will be swift, complete, and final. do not dare find us in violation.

lastly, what has this board of supervisors done in the existence of the sunshine taskforce to support it? president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> peter were filled, executive director of library users association. the folk speaking about the library should be listened to with great care. we heard the library commission, this would be the month when the bernal heights merrill -- mural would be painted out completely, in preparation for its replacement. i am going to use the overhead

projector to show you what has been and could be again. the backside of the mural shows the history of bernal heights with a lot of detail. it includes made americans and a neighborhood center across the street. the side panel, facing east, owners working women, in particular women doing cultural, educational, political, and medical work, and multiracial hands in friendship at the top. the front of the library has two panels, one at the left of the entrance and one on the right. the one on the left features victor hara. there are words in spanish and english. there is a figure who is or is

like roberta flack. this is a picture of the current merrill. this is what the library wants to replace it with. the front is to be replaced with this. the side is to be replaced with this. a tremendous loss of history, social and cultural. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> so many losses in the news. speaking to don a suburb -- donna summer and mr. gibb of the bee gees. ♪ it said it in the air on the radio ♪ and ♪ i looked at the sky

running my hands over my eyes and i fell out of bed hurting my hammer on things that i said i finally died which started the whole city living and you could not see that the joke was on me this joke was on me ♪ and i would like to say -- i went to the asian street festival over the weekend, and i stopped by the "hawaii 5-0" booth. ♪ what a city you see what a city what a city

wild and free what a city you've got a city to be what a city you've got ♪ and i just wanted to say, ♪ winter, spring, summer, or fall donna summer, how far you had to fall we will be there you've got a friend friend to the end ♪ president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, a super dapper

new model prototype. cannot get anywhere. i flip the switch. st. francis, how are you doing? you are pulling your hair out, following everything down there. it is in the cloud. the rents are going up 10%, 9.5%. we forgot, you are nice to people. 7.4% voted in our precinct last election. heaven has a betting line on who is going to be more or less. you are always optimistic. haven't says we will get more voters than 48 out of 652. 33 years on regulated rent -- unregulated rent. people can move in, but they cannot afford to say -- to stay.

it is worse and -- worse than feudal times. market rate apartments are not homes. they are ways for developers to make money. maybe we should change the way to potter's fell = = -- pottersville. is there a way to change? the supervisors are smart. the mayor said to be bold in the year of the dragon. you like voting. their rent can only go up 5%. keeps the society healthy. keeps the environment safe in unstable times. it is nice to people. you like the idea of bundling things. condos, apartments, lower income houses in the same building. you are revolutionary. thank you. we are running out of time.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is pastorlin gavin. i am here in support of sunshine. 365 years ago today -- i came before you. i think your decisions today, in regards to bruce wolfe, who i have sometimes bucket heads with -- president chiu: excuse me. the rules for the chamber are you cannot speak about issues that have been discussed today. we will give you the rest of your time, but if you can speak about sunshine more broadly,

thank you. >> i think that your behavior in regards to my case, 11048, against the boy you were supervisors, has reverberated with the people. it will be a historic case. i believe that in my heart. i think the people in san francisco who have yet to find out about it will reflect how they feel about this case at the city ballot. i do not think san francisco will ever be the same when the sunlight will truly shine on that case. i have reverence for all of the commissioners. they have been phenomenal in their time. as the body of civilians, i will always respect them, because it took tremendous courage for them to come up with the decisions they did in many of the cases they have had.

we have seen what happens with the messenger. in has been a historic moment for you. for those who want to continue as 860 family -- as a city family, the san francisco people spoke in 1999. case 11048, about the phantom 14 pages, will eventually become the pentagon papers of san francisco. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> [speaking a foreign >> [speaking a foreign language]