, we generate it from the market rate developments in the city. something i am very happy about is we can wonder about how much $11 million benefits in terms of affordable housing, but we are talking about a very small project. !you can generate a lot more public benefits from much larger projects. we are talking about a very small project. $11 million -- you can say it is not a lot of money, but it is high above what any other developer has committed to affordable housing. we are talking about continued development on the waterfront, whether it is with the warriors arena or others.

another point i think was valid is who is our waterfront for. i think the lancet street was an incredible -- i think delancy street was an incredible project. i am pleased to see the port is committing to the developments for affordable housing, but in order to build on that site, we need revenue into our public trust fund. i know we cannot pre-commit where these had to go, but i think it makes sense to ensure that some of the funding goes to building affordable housing on the waterfront. that would be very exciting. last, the issues around parking,

which i brought up, and how we can work with golden gateway -- those are benefits i would like to see being put in. this is a project that is moving forward. i think it is fair. i feel comfortable moving forward as we work out these outstanding pieces. i look forward to working with the port to ensure that. chairperson chu: that is a motion to send the item forward without recommendation at this time. supervisor avalos: i withdraw my motion and will probably just vote against the motion to move forward. i think it makes sense that we keep it in committee, but i do not have the votes, it looks like, for that.

i want to put out a caution for $11 million being adequate for this project. the examples we have from other projects show a much greater level of community benefits, well above mandatory. i think that is something we should be aiming for in this project, especially the estimates i have seen of the overall revenues from the project, a parts of $400 million. that, to me, makes the most sense, knowing that we have real benefits that we see. i do not think that, since we are making allowances for this project, that we should go above what is statutory. i withdraw my motion to keep in committee, but i will be voting against the movement to the

board without recommendation. chairperson chu: that movement has been withdrawn. a few thoughts, and then we will take a vote. i think the port and a developer has orders regarding be developed and areas that need work -- regarding the development and areas that need work. i think this motion allows it to move forward, but with a pressure to come to resolution on some of these items. you probably will not have the votes to do this. it is a good place to go. on the parking, the surcharge issue, there are budget analyst recommendations. before tuesday comes, i would

like to direct our budget analyst to reconcile the numbers. what i would like to see is the same apples to apples comparison of what you are indicating, and why there is a discrepancy -- i think it is important to the public to understand that. in some of these areas, which is right or wrong? on the ifd calculations, is it right to say 30 years of vs 45 years? -- 30 years versus 45 years? it is of public benefit to lay out what those numbers are. provide that to members of the board of supervisors in advance of the tuesday meeting. i would like the city attorney to take a last look at the

enforceability of the transfer fee component, because i think that is important to come to terms with. finally, with regards to the ifd conversation, it is not a finished conversation. it is simply allowing us to form an ifd. as to the value of what gets transferred to the port, i think that is still an open question, but i am willing to have that conversation at a later time. the board of supervisors still has the appropriation authority and the ability to designate funding. i am not completely satisfied with the proportion yet. i do understand the significant needs for the port, in terms of capital. i understand that part of it. i am not sure what is fair, in

terms of a share. i am looking forward to that conversation. colleagues, we do have a motion to send the item forward, be amended item. supervisor kim: one last request. hopefully, we can get this resolved by the end of the week. getting information on tuesday morning does not give us time. i brought up these issues prior to this budget meeting, so hopefully that will give us enough time to resolve this by the end of the week. i am glad we will continue to have a larger discussion, split between the general fund and port improvements. chairperson chu: there is a motion to send items 7 and 8 to the full board, item 7 as amended, the amendment of the whole, and item eight as is,

without recommendation. do a roll-call vote on that? supervisor avalos: no. supervisor kim: aye. chairperson chu: aye. >> the motion passes. chairperson chu: thank you. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda for today. chairperson chu: thank you. we are adjourned.

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but good morning der community members, like the officials and colleagues. we are here to celebrate a day that san francisco should be proud of, a day that we should all be proud of. the san francisco civil rights ordinance is officially signed into law. i have been the coalition coordinator for the past two years and have seen firsthand the committee's efforts and inspiring bravery to bring us here today. i have also seen as support of elected officials and allies in the community. please help me in welcoming a few of these people to share this perspective today. help me recognized supervisor jane kim, the sponsor of the organizers -- of the ordinance. [applause] >> thank you. i cannot believe we are finally here. it has been a really long journey. the for our office, i know we came on board in august when we started working with the saved

san francisco coalition. but for the coalition it has been an even longer journey. the starting in 2001, but really, the organizing that has happened in the last couple of years working with the police commission, the human rights commission, and organizing amongst community residents and community leaders that you see here today. we are taking an historic step here in san francisco. we are now the second city to put into ordinands that racial profiling is something that we do not do. for the sake of national security. this is already something that our police chief, our elected and community leaders have said and sat again. but we have now put this into ordinands. it has been a really long passage. i do not want to gloss over it. this has been a really challenging process for all of us. our community leaders, our office, the mayor's office, and many of our elected officials.

we had many conversations. i know the chief and i have engaged a lot in what it means to keep our communities safe, but also how to create trust. i am proud to be standing here today. to the effort of so many people like those that want to recognize who helped push this along to the end. we have the department of public works. and standing behind one of our small business leaders here in san francisco that helped us get to the point that we should compromise around a solution that will work for everyone here. and i want to recognize our police commissioners in the audience today, and our human rights commissioner, who helped advise us in this process. and my elected leader and co- sponsor, president david chiu at, and supervisor christina olague. we have people who want to

speak, so i don't want to belong. but thank you for holding with us every step of the way -- so i don't want to be long. but thank you for holding with us every step of the way. [applause] >> our next speaker is a coalition member and community member an active in the community. [applause] >> good morning, respected officials, honored guests, friends and family. i would like to greet you with the muslim greeting of peace, love, and justice. i am a proud member of the coalition for a state san francisco. and i have been working with the coalition for the last two years to address racial and pulled -- and religious profiling and discrimination of arab, middle eastern, muslim, and asian

committee members here in san francisco. my family and friends and fellow classmates have all had to deal with this type of discrimination. after september 11th. it all boils down to the point where eight city officials may discriminatory comments about our -- as city officials made it discriminatory comments about our community. and these comments were very frightening to community members to get it showed my community as a very scary community. we felt that we were second- class student -- citizens and we have lost some of our dignity and human rights. it has not been an easy road for the members of this coalition to get together. before this work, i had never set foot in city hall two years ago. i had never had the opportunity to work with such a broad based group of grass-roots community organizations. asian-american communities,

latino communities, african- american communities, and different communities here in san francisco. it has been a great and i opening experience for me. at the member of the community, i am thankful and proud of the many organizations that have come together in support of this. i am thankful and proud that san francisco has come together to speak for human-rights. i want to thank the council for their help in this struggle. for the mayor and his support. and all of the community members that will be working to support this. it does not matter how many pat downs, where checks, gps tracking devices -- why your checks, gps tracking devices. these are not going to keep us safe. what will keep the state is community coming together and working together side by side. at the end of the day, we're all

here and we are all equal. i am proud and thankful to have been part of this community. my mother is here and it is her first time to be in city hall. this whole process has been a great and wonderful experience for me and my community members. i look forward to the future to come. it was decades later before some supreme court decision finally apologized and passed something similar to this, but i'm so thankful and i'm proud to be san franciscan and part of my community. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you so much. our next speaker is the executive director of the asian law caucus. [applause] >> good morning. i'm the executive director of the asian law caucus, and we are also a proud member of the state

coalition -- the coalition for a state san francisco. i want to thank supervisor kim in setting the standard against racial profiling. and in support of transparency and local control of our own communities. and our sincere -- sincere thanks to merely for the civil rights ordinance. in the coming months and years, part of the coalition will be working to ensure that the standards enshrine in the ordinance are in a way that protect our communities and shared values. in particular, will be addressing the impact of the ordinance on the existing agreement between the sf tv and the fbi. we plan to meet with various stakeholders how best to meet the ordinance. and lastly, we work to bring the community leaders together as we have been to be sure that the ordinance robustly fights racial profiling.

many of the people we will be reaching out to are in the room today. be prepared to our -- for our calls. we look forward to celebrating with you today and working with you tomorrow. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. and our last -- next speaker is the president of the arab cultural and community center. [applause] >> good morning. i am the president of the arab culture and community center, a member of the coalition for a safe san francisco. the center has been working for a safe the san francisco for the last two years. to address very important issues of racial profiling and transparency in san francisco. many of the organizations and individuals that are working with the coalition are not new to this issue.

our community has faced many difficult situations regarding our place in the city for many decades. each of us has tried to work to bring understanding, knowledge, and representation of our community. the center has brought to our communities old and new, and to the issues old and new, and to bring about positive change in the san francisco civil rights honors. because of this board and the mayor's support of this ordinance, it is clear that the city of san francisco stands with our community and working against religious and racial profiling and transparency. again, i would like to thank the mayor, the board of supervisors, especially supervisor kim, the sponsor of this, and the police chief. thank you.

[applause] >> thank you so much. i just want to say, we appreciate you coming out today, especially in light of the tragic fire that impacted a few of the buildings that you manage. i know -- our next speaker is mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming today. it is a very, very happy day for a lot of people, for our city. i think it is true to say that every city on this side of the world, i think, are challenged with this a very basic conflict these days, that conflict that we see and read about almost every week between our civil liberties and public safety.

and it is different in every city as to how it has been handled. and we see different examples of what we fear having happen here. and then we have examples of what could happen. i want to thank the board of supervisors, particularly supervisor kim for her persistence and persisted -- or her persistence in moving this forward through the legislative process. i want to thank the chief of police and his commission to buy because they have also move this conversation forward. but most important and i want to thank the members of our community. they feel the sting or they feel the level of safety and care that the city might have with them and for them. it is in this spirit that we wanted to make sure that we would not end up in the days of apology. that should be long gone. we should not be apologizing for things that we do. we ought to be moving every community in our city forward

with their civil liberties, and enjoying the basic freedoms this country has to offer. it is why everybody who has found a way to come to america, and especially to san francisco. i want to especially thank f ouad, because there were moments where we were not sure what the basis of the relationship would be and what would be its foundation. he has been with us from the very beginnings of the human rights commission servicing the city. and we worked together to deal with other challenges we have had in the city. and it has built upon always a trust that our interfaith community is always helping us provide for committees of both faiths and immigrant communities. -- for communities of both

faiths and immigrant communities. we never want to say we are sorry for something we could have prevented. it is with this legislation and i am proud the today's signing -- proudly today signing that makes people want to enjoy their civil liberties and for generations to come, as well as feel that their safety is also the priority of our whole city family. safe and joins the liberties, where else can you see that happening? and i want to signal my appreciation to the ongoing asian law caucus. i know you are proud of your work here, proud of the bases upon which we do this. and for me, is always about

putting the community first. and all two men become i believe this is the best legislation and one that balances the right tone for our city, but also, that protects these basic promises that we have made for generations. it is my pleasure and my enthusiasm to sign this legislation that you are witnessing. let's do that. [applause] > > are we ready? there, it's done. [applause]

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happening, and it should happen for everybody. whether you are and a grant of support from local training fields or rule ventures, it is fantastic these companies are reaching out because sometimes you have to make a special effort to make sure everyone is included. that is what we are doing in the city. if we allow things to naturally happened, a lot of people would not be included. that is why i am taking the opportunity to announce the department of labor's grant to give us $5 million. we are creating tech sf, too literally reach out to minority kids, people in leadership, people that would not pay attention to technology but for some special efforts to recognize who is not in the room most of the time. we have got to have people in the room. i was at a conference of mayors two weeks ago with mayor bloomberg. we had all of the urban mayors -- new jersey, philadelphia,

detroit, louisville, atlanta -- all in the same room. we were talking about innovation and technology. we said, let's have an honest discussion. who is not in the room? even the google represented -- eric schmidt was talking to us. he said if we are not making products with the people that are the consumers, we are missing out on a generation of folks. we will then have a market that is only for certain high class people, people who are well educated. how is that gap going to not get bigger and bigger, unless we are recruiting from the communities that we want to sell products and applications to? this is, i think, the greatest accomplishments that successful businesses in san francisco must take on. we are doing that at the local level, in san francisco.

i have summer jobs for kids. about one-third of them will be at the technology companies, paid internships, and we are reaching have to disconnect kids. they are not paying attention but they have the creative minds, but they are not paying attention to the regular school stuff, making sure they are included. today, the new media -- i saw a couple of you have a few months ago. i wasn't enthusiastic about the idea. we had to keep some of its secret, but i want to really encourage you to continue this innovation. we need your communities to be with us. if we're going to succeed as a city, we need everyone to share in the richness of san francisco. you have great supporters and want to encourage you to do your best. keep moving on. i wish you all the success. we will be right there with you to support you when you graduate. thank you very much. [applause]

>> thank you so much for those kind words and for stopping by. i am not going to hold you any longer. you'll be throwing tomatoes at me. founders, go back to your boots. have at it. thank you so much for coming. i will get back on the microphone one last time, but i promise it will only be because it is time to go. thank you.