>> we have have to go back and get secondly approvals or follow-ups. several months ago,

savemuni.com was made and myself as a professional architect and i think citizens of the city would air on the side of the and at one time there was language in both the general plan and charter that was somewhat less stringent. as a result there was a succession of harsher and stricter language in the plan over the decades until 1996 when it was much more stronger

language was placed into the charter which said that construction on union square required two-thirds of the vote of the board of supervisors, which the mta is proceeding with here today in this resolution. but also, 4.1 13 subsection of the charter says any construction on a park requires the vote of the electors. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wong. i did have a card from sf neighborhoods coalition. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i am on the chair for the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods land use and housing committee, but i would like to speak on this issue, because it's so important. and the coalition does support save muni in regard to central subway. i do want to support the attorney general representing

save muni, howard wong. their statements and i think they should not be taken so lightly. and i hope your city attorney, i'm not sure if he is here or not, could give an opinion? but i do want to make some comments about the central subway. i spoke about this many, many months ago at the board. and it seems like the comments from the board of supervisors was that oh, we're getting this almost free. we're getting all of this money from the federal government. we're hardly putting up any money. which may be true. however, you have to look at some of the other unintended consequences. for example, if you complete this project, there is going to be expenses incurred to maintain it. and it's going to take away from muni operations. i think that is clear.

and muni funding is uncertain and to compound this issue, with another project such as the central subway, which is going to serve a minimal amount of people for this vast expense is really sort of like our bridge to nowhere. it's unbelievable that supervisors don't take into consideration the expense that will be incured to maintain the central subway and the issue about direct connectivity with bart and muni light rail, that is a critical issue. and it's unbelievable that the board cannot realize this. it's very unfortunate. and again, i want to state again that i support the attorney for save muni, and howard wong. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> linda chapman from knob

hill. i don't purport to resolve supervisor wiener's concern, but at that time around 1996 this was tremendous controversy about structures being added to the parks as was mentioned garages, senior centers and so on. and so when this was passed, it wasn't with the intent that we need to rip out the things there already or we can't maintain the roads, but rather they wanted to be very careful that anything added in future would, in fact, be for recreation. so you might perhaps keep that in mind. union square is really a case in point. now i live for about 18 years, i lived on the south slope of nob hill two blocks from union square. union square had been a green park and was changed to a garage before my time which really had an impact and they

redid it so it was a hard-edged urban space you can see with almost no green space at all. it was a disappointment to me and in the area that i live there are lots of old people and others and the nearest green space is up at the top of the hill and you have to scale three very steep blocks and you don't even though there is a very beautiful park. the nearest green would be to go to yerba buena gardens and that was really too far for 90 years old who lived in my building who could go to union square. so you have an urban living room that has value for entertaining and going to the movies and things of that sort, but we need to be careful not to add more structures and take away what recreational quality it has by having subway stations and people rushing in on subway stations. transportation-wise, again, you are not going to climb over the

top of nob hill to get to california or north beach and takes you out to the presidio union street and so forth. and we would not use this system. we're not -- we would go to the tunnel, like we always did. we would get on the 30 or 45 there and we're not going to go down in the opposite direction, way down underground and ride one stop and then get off and take the 30 or 45. so it's just a really impractical project. i have to say that the stockton corridor was horrible and i used it all the time and so was the 5. there are ways to fix it without the subway thing and without further impinging on union square open space as it is. we have no open space for people on that part of nob hill and downtown. 90% of the people in the census

tract on nob hill have no vehicles. this is not going to help our transit. >> miss jackson? >> thank you. espinola jackson. since the t line was brought up, i had to say something. in the 80s, 1980s the citizens of san francisco passed proposition b for better transportation to bayview hunters point. we the citizens of bayview hunters point did not support a t line, but we got one. it was shoved down our throats and it has never gotten finish, where it said it was going to go. it's a sad situation, when the citizens of san francisco vote on something thinking that they are going to get something. we don't get what we expect to get. i hope you listen to the attorney, because you know what? all of us is not that savvy.

we might be attorneys, but we don't know what the laws are of san francisco and what the voters have voted for. and all the time, a lot of the times things get pushed down the throats of constituents who voted for you and supported and not only that, because the people that served as supervisors in the past was lawyers and they had due court and we the citizens of san francisco voted to have your salaries raised to $100,000 something and i believe at time the supervisor was only getting $30,000 and they did a good job. but since your salary was raised, and we pay the salaries, we are disrespected. you don't listen to what we have to say and what is better for san franciscans. you know, since i was here, since 1943, i have seen the changes. and i remember the line of because i used to live in chinatown. i used to have to catch the one

going up powell street because of the hill i lived on. i lived at 949 clay street and i walked down the hill to stockton to catch the bus. you know, things should be made convenient like it is for you. where the salaries that you get make it convenient for the citizens of san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. if there is anyone else who would like to speak, please come forward. wore going to close public comment in a movement. mr. paulson. >> oh, would you like to ride in the beautiful subway? would you like to ride in the beautiful subway? we can ride along this city, you and i, for we can fly. we can fly. up, up and away in the beautiful, the beautiful

central subway and then we'll make reading item no. 3.

we have dominica henderson from supervisor olague's office. >> good afternoon, supervisors. supervisor olague wanted to make sure she thanked both supervisor cohen and mar cosponsoring this item. i am happy to go through those

amendments individually if you would prefer, or give you an overview summary if that is what you prefer. there was one non-substantive amendment that was proposed today that has been hopefully provided. >> so i think just summarizing them and then we do have the language in front of us, but if you could just summarize the amendments and then the non-substantive one as well. >> okay, so a brief summary of the amendments. the legislation is working to provide the right to return for public housing residents who are undergoing a redevelopment activity at their site. so the amendments that were introduced two weeks ago, in addition to that, the ordinance also is establishing as the rent board as an impartial third party of claims that may be heard

because of redevelopment at the site. there were some amendments that authorized the rent board to instead of the relocation appeals board, to be the body that would hear the re-election appeals that might come up, and those appeals are really related to, if households feels that their relocation -- their moving allowance was not accurate or there is some appeal that they want to make to the housing authority, the rent board would be established as the impartial body to hear that claim and make a recommendation to the city authority. in addition to that, the other amendments that were added were to make changes to the definitions of "households," instead of "tenants," in order to reflect the intention of the authority and really all the partis that one household -- that all the tenants of one household are considered as one individual group and so that

that right to return would be extended to all of the members of the household through that one unit. and so that is consistent with federal policy right now, considering the households -- considering the residents of the household versus individual tenants. and in addition to that we struck some language that was not consistent with current existing policy regarding prior tenants and we made sure in amending the current definition we struck the language regarding "prior tenants." the last set of amendments -- >> that last one was on page 5, line 12, i can see striking "tenants and prior tenants?" >> and the definition s as well. that is the summary of

amendments introduced and we struck in the definition of "new development," we just struck 941 in order to make sure it's consistent across the entire document. it was something that was a slight oversight from the last amendments that we did. >> thank you so much for the summary. thank you and i know that we have our housing authority director mr. henry alvarez here with us as well. if there are no other presentations, let's open this up for public comment and we have a number of cards, espinola jackson, francisco decosta, leah otis martin from huntersview. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> i will let the tenants speak. so i will speak after them. >> people can come forward. thank you.

>> hello there. my name is leo martin, i'm a tenant at huntersview. let me see, first of all, if you don't mind we would like to have the commission's meeting held in city hall for the people that can't make it. it could be televised and they would watch it some day later or whatever, because a lot of people can't get out and a lot of people need to know what is going on over here when they had the commission meetings. second of all, i don't think the kids that are on their parents lease should have as much power as these people give them because once they become 18 you can't just take them off your lease, but you are still liable for your kid if your kid does something wrong and gets evicted, the whole house gets

evicted because of the bad beaver behavior of the kid and that needs to be changed. any time that the parents let the kids talk to them anyway they want and that is a problem. what else was i going to say? i got my daughter all messed up. i was talking about something else. help me out. oh, yeah, the right to return. i'm sorry for the pause, but that threw me for a loop. the right to return, that should go for everyone that actually does move out and comes back in. because everybody that has been there for a while has been through so much, through so

much killing. their families are getting killed and not only that, housing in a sense helps handicapped people because in the beginning these places weren't meant for a family to live there and stay there and then the next family lives there and stays and there and we need higher education for our kids to get out and get a job to make enough money to move anywhere that they want to move, you know? and we need more people to speak up for our community in district 10, because we're only as strong as our weakest ling, you know? and everybody deserves an opportunity to live a rightous life. you don't have to be fearful for going outside because you

might get struck by a bullet and don't have nothing to do with nothing. that is not right. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon i'm jeanise hughes and i'm a little nervous so i will have sai a what i have so say really quick. i was wondering if the meetings could be held here so they could be televised and they can see it from their homes? and everybody should have a right to return no matter what the cause is. that is it. >> thank you. next speaker, there decosta. >> supervisors, this morning i sent you all an email and in

that email is a link about hud. how the housing and urban development a long time ago, before this silly ordinance that you are all proposing, offered anyone who lives in public housing the right to own their own units. so monies were set aside for the tenants to buy their units. those units were not built by the city. they were not built by the state. they were built by the department of defense. and hud made a great mistake by transferring it to the san francisco housing authority, the most despicable agency in the whole nation. we have crimes being committed

like this. a lady and her family bolted and then the unit set on fire. and i can give you a hundred more incidents where people leave, where sewage runs all over the place, where the elderly are put in transit from rehab units. the rehab units are demolished, so that john stewart company can build whatever and our elderly are put in other homes where asbestos fly all over the place and in months they die and you think it's a joke and come up with some ordinance this. is sickening. this is the city named after st. francis. where is the compassion?

why aren't we educated on issues? after all the gang injunctions and after everybody has been removed and after so many have died and after a whole community has been bombarded, now we want to come to their rescue at the tail-end? while the john stewart company, the bridge developers, mercy housing and other big developers want this property to build market-value homes. pretending that they are going to give the poor people something, but when the time comes they are going to ask the poor people, do you have a good credit rating? and i want to ask you supervisors, do you have a good credit rating, something above 800 and say 880 points? most of you all don't have it. how do you expect the poor people to have it? think about it. thank you very much. >> thank