simply asking businesses to pay their fair share. it is an approach that essentially calls upon the wealthiest businesses in san francisco to play at a higher rate. it supports the very concept of economic development. when it comes to job creation, it is our small businesses that create the jobs. i was proud to co-sponsor the initiative to support small businesses. it is for that reason that i support this measure by supervisor avalos. small businesses are the backbone of our economy. i support the measure to exempt from the gross receipts, small

businesses with gross receipts under $1 million. i think it makes sense to have that approach. the amount of money we try to obtain from the larger businesses was larger than the $40 million being proposed. the $40 million, as supervisor avalos indicated, would be generated from some of the largest corporations in san francisco, those making more than $25 million a year. it is only fair those corporations pay more than what they are paying. we have a structural deficit that needs to be addressed. it is at these times that we try to make sure it is not just about cutting, but that we also inject revenue into our system. we have cut and cut. it is about time that we require

an additional investment from our large corporations. i look forward to the conversations that we are going to have in the next few weeks. it is my hope that we can have a single measure that we can all agree on. i think it is appropriate for us to go to the voters and properly ask that larger corporations pay their fair share in san francisco. supervisor olague: our office has been working with supervise avalos and the progressive revenue coalition for some months. before even being here, when i worked in nonprofits, i was part of those conversations. i believe this measure is the best way to support not only my district, but small businesses in san francisco.

district 5 has the fillmore jazz district, the visit darrow, and inner sunset. this would replace the payroll tax. it does not penalize local businesses are hiring neighborhood residents. it exempts small businesses under $1 million to but to stimulate job growth in the tech industry and smaller neighborhoods. it would exempt operators of rent-control buildings to encourage owners to reinvest savings back into their assets. i, along with many of my colleagues, am proud of how far we have gotten with this legislation. i want to continue working with the mayor and the business community, and other interested parties, to find a way to reach compromise legislation. i support a business tax measure that would generate revenue. but it cannot succeed without a

broad coalition of support. i am committed to supporting this approach. i want to unite people read it and pulling people apart. i believe we will be equally as successful in coming up with a middle ground on this. parties feel they have been dealt with -- doe with fairly. i look forward to bringing forth one measure to the ballot. also, i am proud to co-sponsor the transbay plan with supervisor kim. i think it is a very exciting plan that will help provide jobs and affordable housing. i look forward to those conversations. i think it is a positive move for some francisco.

i am somewhat disappointed about the tense legislation. a lot of folks who are longtime tenants have faced eviction because of this. i will be a part of those discussions as well. >> that concludes roll call for introductions. president chiu: let us go to general public comment. >> the public may, and for up to two minutes on items within the jurisdiction of the board. please note that 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 time. please remove a document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> stop the corporate rate of our public library.

-- rape of the public library. accountability and democracy go together. then there is private influence peddling. we have reached the point where open government and ethical standards can no longer touch private money. they violated the right to make public comment, and the violation was willful. the ethics commission made a finding of official misconduct and recommended that she be removed from the library commission. this recording was posted on the library website after the commission was found guilty of official misconduct.

but this was before she swore out of fraudulent police report against public comment. ask yourself why it is that elected officials are removed from their positions before being tried on official misconduct charges, but other people are retained after being found guilty. the answer is, as a wise man once said, just follow the money. if you are ripping off the city of enough money, official misconduct is a virtue, not a crime. the public-private partnership is not just immune from accounting for the money. they are immune from the ethics, justice, and democratic values. if people no longer accept the result when their faith in the institutions is broken, the lie cost more than the money. thank you.

>> i am peter warfield, executive director of library users association. we have been working for months to save a worthy and wonderful city asset, the bernal heights branch library mural, featuring a range of working women and musicians. scaffolding went up to prepare for a paint out that was supposed to start yesterday. luckily, we have found and alerted the city to a legal issue that we hope will provide at least a temporary stop. here is the merrill as it was a few weeks ago. this is before the scaffolding went up.

this is the famous and chilean singer-songwriter. what is that going to be replaced by? no people. no words. on the side is a panel honoring working women. friendship and unity is to be replaced by this. on the back side, there has not been a decision made. we have heard a great deal about a community process that supposedly made a good decision about what would happen to the mural. when we asked supervisor composts for his files, we got heavily redacted material. none of it should have been redacted. the task force found that this was a violation of sunshine.

we find, at bottom, maybe this is what is motivating it -- a 10 times more expensive replacement. >> what you see on the overhead right now is an order of determination issued earlier this year, based on a hearing last december, based on a public information request placed last july. in this horror of determination , the city librarian, who signed a sunshine declaration, was found in violation for withholding public records, and has continued to do so. at the next meeting, i will be documenting what is responsive

to my original request of a year ago, which has still been withheld. i will ask for a finding of willful failure. why would the city librarian with hold public records? i brought before this board of supervisors the $8.80 million that supposedly the friends of the library have given to the branch library improvement program. $3.60 billion of that is well- documented, which is 42%. i will show you the total documentation for the other $5 million. there it is. $5 million. all you have to do is tell the city, "we gave it to you. did you see it?"

did you miss it? $3.60 million is documented. five put $7 million is not. -- $5.70 million is not. this was self-reported. i would like to get a deal with the city like this. you get to raise $5 million or $6 million a year, and you give them whatever you want and keep the rest. >> my name is edmund larry. this was recovered on sunday. it had my bible and speaker scud and medical marijuana. i raised enough held i was able

to at least get -- i have heard you talk about affordable housing. this is the picture of the bridge and what housing should be like in the city. it has all type of rainbow people in houses. spiderwebs our people's homes. we fly away like butterflies. i want to bring up the point that i want to thank you for getting this word out. there are 112,000 people on medicare in san francisco. that is 224,000 people who get social security. we need housing rights for all of us right now. that will last us until 2030.

we need to make sure people have a house that saves, just like chris bailey. south of market, if you are poor, you do not get to go nowhere. housing for all rights. rainbow housing for all people in this county. thank you. more to come. president chiu: other members of the public wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, the adoption calendar. >> these items are being considered for unanimous adoption without committee reference, acted upon by a single roll call vote. president chiu: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any

of these items? roll-call vote on the calendar. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. sueprvisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: -- >> supervisor cohen is absent. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. >> there are 10 ayes. president chiu: motions approved and resolutions adopted. could you read the in memoriams? >> for the late jacqueline reed and the late thomas lewis rouche. that concludes our business. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

>>. touring england was a time when robert as mentors were being challenged by a quickly growing middle-class. for endeavour's crew of new artists began to assert themselves, offering new definitions of the athletics of arts and beauty. over 180 objects of avant-garde design and art from the victorian england has been collected inside the legion of honor snoot exhibition, it's the cold of the ec. -- the cult of beauty. >> there was this group of artists that were not only revolutionaries in their artistic expression but also in their personal lives and their interest in democratizing art in introducing beauty into the growing middle-class. >> one of the inspirations for

the victorian avant-garde was the industrial revolution. quality household goods were now being mass-produced. artists responded by either creating elaborate unique court or by embracing technology and trying to share a beautiful creations with as many people as possible. >> william morris was in a difficult position, because he wanted the middle-class to be able to acquire really beautifully made objects. but the piece is that he actually made, you know, took so much handcrafting that there were quite expensive. i think he would have been pleased to know that there are things like restoration hardware anne craig and bare all that tried to make available to the middle-class -- and crate and barrel that tried to make these things available to the middle class. >> over 60 lenders contributed art and craft to the exhibition. one of the partners is london's

victoria and albert museum, which has been collecting the finest examples of victorian craft since queen victoria herself attended the groundbreaking ceremony. the artist of the victorian avant-garde believe that every object could contain an expression of beauty. the attention given when creating a towering sculpture should be the same as when creating a simple cottage gate. they embraced arts for arts own sake. whether in the curl of a flower or a stray lot of unpin hair. surprisingly, sensuality returned to public view during the victorian era. albert moore and others were inspired by ancient greek sculptures and found new uses in modern times. >> many of these paintings are large. when you get close to them, they seem to wrap you in this luscious colors. there's a great sensuality to the paintings, even though

there's nothing sexual going on in the pictures. the artists just took delight in luxurious fabrics and colors and beautiful women. >> symphony in white is a life- size portrait of the immense stress of james wisler. it is featured prominently in the exhibition. harmony in gray and green was an of socially judged as a disagreeable presentation of a disagreeable young lady. the first public reaction of this series was so divisive that led to court proceedings. today, they hang in london's tate gallery. walking to the exhibition, you might be distracted by objects that seem to modern war appeared to be at least art deco era. forward thinking victorian artists emerged the economical ambitions of 18th-century cottage's style furniture with

the asymmetrical design elements of japanese art that was introduced to london in 1862. >> so you come out with these very beautiful and sleek design worms that the artist combined -- a design forms. very modern. our visitors are really surprised that so many of the works at a very modern feel to them. >> they believe that no object needed to be considered worthless or low class. each thing, existing in its own place, was the best thing for its place. and what first seems to be idle showiness, shows the richness of today and yesterday. >> it is exciting to have a project you have worked on for so long coming in know, come to your own museum. and museum curators are among

the luckiest professionals, because we get to share with tens of thousands of people the things that give us enjoy and the things that explain to our visitors the relationship between art and society. art is not just a frivolous, you know, sidebar. it is a very important expression of culture and morals. this particular moment, the artists were interested in community. >> san francisco is the exclusive american host for the cult of beauty exhibition. the legion of honor is website has more information about the artists and tips for planning your visit. learn more at the website. thank you for watching

>> welcome, everyone. my name is bevin dufty, and we're so excited your your for the public launch of the san francisco home for heroes campaign. let me introduce some of the individuals who are here with us. we do have several speakers. we have several veterans who are here and bad recipience. you will be able to talk to them -- bagehot recipients. you'll be able to talk to them after the ceremony. michael and thomas and joseph -- have a touch, the veterans here with us right now?

i just want to say, this is an incredible partnership jump started by our friends and the veterans administration, but we could not be successful without some of our partners. i would like to say the san francisco association has been incredible. also, peter weiss is here, and i would like to say a part of this story has not been known. we want to acknowledge this. we're so pleased with some of the leaders of the chinese real- estate association are here. archer woman is here. we also have our president elect. cvs and visa are providing gift

cards. i would also like to say that our representatives from hud have been incredibly important. you'll be hearing from the leadership of hud. jake martin is here from the va , and joanna's year as part of the incredible case work that has gone on. and trent, his incredible team. and joyce krum, his deputy for homeless services. i want to acknowledge they have been helpful in pulling together the nation's when an individual needs furnishings -- pulling together damnations when an individual needs furnishing. -- pulling together donations when an individual needs furnishing.

and so, to start us off, our mayor, ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, bevin. i want to reiterate my thanks to the board of supervisors for working with me. bevin, is an ex-person on the board as well. we are also proud of the work you have started. i cannot think of a more patriotic thing to do than to find a homeless veteran there home in san francisco. i would be the first tuesday, despite all the success we will ever do -- to say, despite all the success we will ever do, and you know the economy is growing and we're trying to find people jobs. housing is expensive. that is why we're doing the housing trust fund and other efforts.

but people who need our help our veterans. we owe it to you. we owe it to you for the sacrifices you have made to the country over the years to keep us safe. yes, we join the president of the united states in this effort and what he signaled, even as late as yesterday when he was here, and we honor that commitment by hud. these vouchers are not easy to come by. they are precious. b-s that, in light of the economy of the -- it is that in light of the economy of the whole country -- should we not honor that with the best effort to find housing come -- find housing, put a roof over veterans? i just want to put it in context.