fund. most importantly, he was a devoted and involve family man. he enjoyed traveling with his family and spent summers at camp. he was very active. many know him through his involvement through the cub scout pack 108. he and his son blew the other cubs scouts away with their dirty cars -- derby cars. he will be missed very much by his family and the many friends and family who came to know and love this person. >> thank you. president chiu: thank you. today, i am introducing legislation to encourage on site water reuse in large buildings. this week, we're opening our new puc building. this building will be a landmark

to our building revolution. it will use 60% less water due to an internal system that meets 100% of its toilet flushing and irrigation needs with reusable water. recycling 5,000 gallons of water a day, storing 25,000 gallons of rain water, and saving almost 800,000 gallons of drinking water a year. it has been impractical for developers to install these systems in buildings given our regulations. i want to thank puc staff, who of course with the department of building inspection, department of health, and my office. we will set up a voluntary program for non-potable water, to help developers install advanced water systems, and helped to streamline the regulatory process for on-site

collection, treatment, and reuse of rainwater, gray water, and blackwater. we hope developers will pursue the highest level of grain building a sustainable practices to save the environment and money. we want to help set a model for green living and working for our city and the rest of the country. i will submit. >> thank you. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i would like to be referred. >> thank you. supervisor mar? supervisor mar: i'm asking close the meeting in honor of jeff, known to his community as jeff leopard. he died in a motorcycle accident in the richmond district off 30th ave. his wife sustained critical injuries and remains in the i see you at this time. he was a member of several metal bands.

he was a musician as well as an accomplished audio engineer. his legacy includes not only his partner and friends, whose party touch, but the recordings of bands. the davis family is currently accepting contributions in two forms. to make a contribution by chase bank, her account number is -- i should not read that. contactor office if you would like information. i want to express my deepest condolences to the davis family and friends. the rest levels of met. thank you. >> supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: some of you may know that in parts of san francisco, we have go for problems. -- gopher problems. if you try to run along the football field, the soccer field, you might trip over a

hole. i think it is important that we try to find the resources we can to ensure we are making our parks smoothe. we have a grant to expand from the sacred heart prep academy so they can utilize the field and help maintain it. i am submitting that today. i want to thank sacred heart prep academy for that effort. i am also introducing -- i have submitted to the department of elections, along with my colleagues, real estate transfer tax measure that is part of the measures that are going forward for discussions about what will proceed for business tax when and revenue measures for the november ballot. it is my hope that we can have

one measure that can go forward. ideally, for me, it will be a gross receipts tax measure that will be replacing our payroll tax with a revenue-generating gross receipts tax. this measure can also share -- we have something in place that can help us with our cities obligations around how to support muni or affordable housing, how to deal with the lack of state funding for child care, or how we will deal with the loss of federal funding for hiv services in years to come. these cuts that happened at other levels of government mean we have to do more with our local dollars to back fill the loss of funding elsewhere. it makes sense we try to move forward with new revenues to do that. i want to be sure that we are working in close collaboration with the mayor's office, which has introduced a transfer tax

measure. i think the intention the mayor has is that we can assure we have something going forward that can help with some of our obligations. the mayor has introduced this measure with the department of elections looking at how to insure we have a new revenue that can support the housing trust fund. i support that measure as well. i want to make sure we have something that can reflect our common interest and assuring we're raising revenue to meet our housing needs and other infrastructure needs in san francisco. the way this transfer tax will work, it will be taxing properties at a higher amount over -- for properties sold at about over $2.5 million. the increase will be from .75% to 1.25%. .5% increase to the real estate

transfer tax. the property is over $25 million, we have an increase from the current rate up to 3%. the way this raises revenue, it would raise $60 million overall if it were to be approved by voters and $12 million would come from properties sold at a value over $25 million. this is really a transfer tax that is looking at the highest and property where we would be making that additional assessment. i want to make sure that it is clear that i am interested in one measure going forward that can have -- my preferences we have something like the gross receipts tax that raises additional revenue to meet our responsibilities as a city,

especially as we're seeing the economy grow and there are greater demands on our downtown businesses and services, or services to support businesses, that we're raising revenue to meet that demand. when we approved a tax increase or tax exemption for mid market, we included additional service at a later date for a muni bus to go to mid market. we are increasing our services. we have to make sure we are increasing the revenue that pays for the services. that is my intent to make sure we are raising additional revenue. i want to thank my colleagues for signing on to this measure. we could pull this back if we have consensus on moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you.

i know winston is happy to see something is being done about the gopher problem. that is appreciated. i want to talk about the transfer tax measure that has been introduced. i think it is important to put some context in what we are trying to do here. i am not convinced that having one single measure that deals with the issues of changing our tax system has -- and at the same time dealing with the affordable housing trust fund, that one measure can do that. from a public policy standpoint, i am not sure if that is the right approach. i am signing onto the property transfer tax that has been proposed by supervisor avalos because i think it is the right thing to do. if you look at the way in which we have been balancing our budget for the last few years, from the moment that i know i

was elected to this board of supervisors, we have been cutting. we have been cutting consistently for the last four years. when we started cutting, we started cutting some of the fat in these agencies and some of the services being provided. a couple of years into that, we started to cut -- in the last year of this process, we have cut to the bone of the basic and essential services. the reality is that the safety net that we have proudly created over the last few years is a safety net that i do believe is in jeopardy. i think that in order for us to make sure that we have the basic necessities of all of our business is met, we need to recognize that cutting is not sufficient to balance our

budget. we need to inject more revenue into the system. we need to inject revenue in a way that recognizes that those who have more means should pay more and those who pay less -- to have less should pay less. that is what this tax does. it focuses on the high-end properties. we're talking about properties that are worth $2.5 million and more. it is appropriate for those individuals who have those means to pay more. that is why i am supporting this. in terms of the gross receipts tax, i think we have to be very honest about what we are talking about. even the proposal supervisor avalos has introduced, and one that i support, $40 million, that is a very modest amount. if you look at the litigation that was filed against the city a few years back, if you look at the amount of money that the city lost as a result of that litigation, to get us back to the level where we would be on

parallel tracks with where we were, you are talking about at least $33 million. that is not to say anything about the tens of millions of dollars that we have lost in the last few years. this is truly about the business community paying its fair share, especially the larger corporations, the larger businesses in san francisco, recognizing one of the reasons we live in san francisco is we really believe that in this city, we care about everyone, and we want a safety net that protects every individual. i hope that we get to a number that is appropriate. i think that anything substantially lower than the $40 million mark that has been proposed by supervisor avalos would not be appropriate. i also think that as we go forward with a measure that makes sense, that we cannot lose

sight of the fact that the affordable housing trust does require a property transfer tax. i think the one that has been presented as the right approach. i look forward to the conversation. i think that we as a city should be able to come up with a solution we can all agree with. i don't know that everyone will be 100% happy with what comes up, but i think we're in the business of making these things happen. i think we can do it. thank you. >> thank you. mr. president, seeing no other names, that and -- conclude brokaw. president chiu: thank you. let's go to public comment. >> this is an opportunity for the public to comment generally for up to two minutes items of subject matter considered by the board. please note that public comment does not allow on those 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 the members of public would like a document to be displayed, please clearly state such and remove the document so that coverage can return to live coverage of the meeting. president chiu: for speaker? -- first speaker? >> [speaking foreign language]

good afternoon. i am here as american egyptian native. i have spent four years in my

life far away from my country, far away from my family, but i never forgot everyone for one second. after the four years i spent the outside my country, i spent 10 years in greece and 30 in america, it is my time to return to my country, to stand behind the new prison that egyptian people have voted for. he don't have -- what he going to do to the future? i wish i can invite him to visit my city. i believe that our grateful

supervisors are going to give him -- when he comes to visit us. after mubarak has taken billions of dollars, stealing from my country, with his people around him, it is time to stand behind mohamed. god bless you. i hope you support him in the future. thank you. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. don't give money to the of friends foundation. don't accept money from that foundation. it must be timely. the friends of the library are required to file a financial report with california state attorney general's. the report for the period ending june 30, 2011, was finely

available. state -- statute requires it be filed by november. all the two branches have been completed. we now have 11 years of reports since it began in 2000. in three of those years, the french took in more than they spent and for eight years, the friends extended more than their income. in 11 years, the friends of the library had income of $40 million. during that same time, the friends of the library has expanded 48.1 million. at the height of its wealth, the friends had assets of $20.3 million. by the end of 2011, the assets were $10.3 million. this would be good news if they were spending that money on the library. no such luck. according to the past 11 years of disclosures required by the san francisco administrative code, the friends of the library have given just $4.9 million to

the library for any purpose. by comparison, the friends executive level of employees have earned $6.6 million. the board of supervisors allow the friends of the library to present themselves as benefactors of the city. since they are only harming our public institutions, the supervisors provide no oversight. being exempt from accountability is what they get for their money. the real damages to our faith in our public institutions and to democracy. that is why i always say, and it is always true, the allies cost more than the money. thank you. -- the lies cost more than the money. thank you. >> supervisors, lo and behold, without any notice, the deliberations are supposed to be

had in room 400. now they're being held here at 263. you know, i never knew, i really did not know that a day would come where the corrupt, the corrupt would gang up against the supervisors. today, we have been talking about people that have been killed, racism, hatred, whatever, but this is the lowest of the lowest disparity that this city and the ones who are somewhere on the other side are ganging up against a supervisor that did a lot for this city. now, we have to stand in a line in the smallest room.

how is the media going to cover this? they want to cover the good, the bad, or the ugly. what has become of city hall? what has become of city hall? now, i know not all of y'all are like that. but, a time will come when that nonsense, that charade outside will be brought into this chambers, and at that time, i want you all to vote your conscience. thank you very much. i am upset. i am really upset. i francisco to hit below the belt in this manner. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i never heard once in the room

this afternoon, even in the mayor, about incorporating fathers into the crime prevention program in the bayview hunters point area. that's not why i'm originally here. i'm here for the article that was in s.f. weekly about the dire repairs in need by muni. even to the -- two of the supervisors, i'm not going to say names, have been targeting me for termination, which they were very successful getting me out of this system and i'm going to be taking them up to the ethics commission and that's what's going to happen with that. they'll deal with the ethics commission on that. but the thing is how embarrassing that this board of supervisors have mistreated these constituents over the years in respect to issues that

pertain to public safety and public health and safety. those issues that need to be addressed here immediately, passing stupid legislation to get personal agendas done for big businesses downtown, tax breaks. that's not the issue here. the issue here is creating jobs for the citizens of san francisco. i got news for everyone thune board. i'm going to be running the next election for board of supervisors in district 10. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. i did the torch run yesterday, .9 miles and the police did a good job. traffic was great and it was a

good run for the city. it went by here. it was one of my 42 gold medals. and -- ♪ p.u.c. building won't it be great that's why i and mr. harrington can hardly wait open up on golden gate new building here p.u.c. here you come and you can fill our water lines and really water thrive through flood a million dreams of emotion and you can fill our city water lines and we can now take a budget dive and flood a million streams of dreams of emotion with this new building motion ♪

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president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon president, board of supervisors, chiu and board of supervisors. my name is dale seymour. i run the tenderloin walking tours downtown. it's a very unique tour. i'm here to invite the board and interns out for a call on the wild side. i've had several tours this morning. had one this morning. it was are the are -- really great. we cover the highlights only of the tender lion. the historical and arc trekture. people have been raving about it. i had a great article in the "san francisco chronicle" a couple of weeks ago and the huffington post is coming out to do a national story on the tour. but i would like some of you

guys to come and see it. so being a resident historian of the tenderloin, i have an issue i'd like you to look in to. last week greg, our great police, took some resources out of the tender lion to go to the park because they discovered there was drug dealing within two blocks of the park police station. we have drug dealing within half a block of the tenderloin. that's where we need help. there's a restroom caddie cornered 30 yards away from the tender lion police station. so why take the cops away from the tender lion? we need police as much as possible, so whatever strings you all can pull, i'd surely appreciate it. thank you so much. president chiu: thank you, mr.

seymour. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is alicia j ourvings w. a few years ago the board of supervisors passed a human right resolution to protect us and today you have talked about chen being a victim of hate crime and a number of people want to tell you about the hate crime going on in san francisco chinatown. this is the eighth attack in chinatown in the last eight months. it's on on iphone and we have it on a video so we're going to pass it to you. it's against the religious beliefs of the practitioners. i have some pictures here as well. i would like to address, bring to your attention here, the residents in san francisco and we hope that your board can

provide some maybe resolutions to provide more assurance of the saste of the residents here. -- safety of the residents here. unfortunately this is chinatown. chinese beating up another chinese just because of believes and the prackstiesers has always been -- in other countries and before the chinese in 1999. because the consulates defeat the citizens in chinatown and that's why the hate crime is happening. if you note -- i'm going to pass the flyers here and the two ladies want to use their time to show a video. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker?