couple of imperative items today. the first is one that is offered by supervisor mar. supervisor mar, do you want to discuss it? >> no. >> mr. president, may i read the item? >> sure. [laughter] >> it is a resolution offered by supervisor mar requesting president barack obama to award posthumously to mr. fred ross senior. >> thank you. supervisor mar has offered the imperative agenda. is there a second to it? seconded by supervisor wiener. is there any public comment on this imperative item? okay. seeing none, this imperative item has the requisite purely commendatory act and brown act finding. and with that, let's take a roll call vote. >> on this item, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee?

yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution passes. and, colleagues, i have circulated to all of you except to supervisor chu a resolution commending and honoring her for her distinguished service as a supervisor of the city and county of san francisco in her last day as supervisor. i have a feeling that different colleagues will have things to say, but i think from my perspective, today is a bitter sweet day. we know she is leaving. we know she is not going to go far, and we look forward to her bringing in millions of dollars of property tax revenue so we can figure out how to spend it. but i first want to start by reading some excerpts from this resolution and i want to take a moment and thank her incredible staff, kenny blackstone and soon to be supervisor katie tang with whom we look forward

to serving together, who helped to draft what i think is an outstanding resolution. and just a couple points from it. whereas supervisor carmen chu has served the people of the city and county of san francisco with dedication for five years, whereas supervisor chu was happily crunching numbers and keeping the city fiscally sound as a deputy budget director when she was appointed in september 2007. whereas supervisor chu not only brought her trustical klatch era long with her to the board of supervisors, but also her budget prowess, all of which were of incredible importance as she served four out of her five years on our board's budget and finance committee and i would just add to this surpassing the expectations of her toughest critics. whereas supervisor chu served on the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board, the county transportation authority, abag, health system board member. whereas supervisor chu has always been a class act with a

level professionalism that has been unmatched on the board. and whereas supervisor chu appears calm, cool, and collected on the outside, but she has represented her district with fire and determination at every turn. whereas supervisor chu has broken new ground in district 4 with the nation's largest solar facility, park lets movie night series, working to pro serve the sunset history by bringing the soap box derby racing and larson playground back to the community, she put the cool back in school. [laughter] >> convening many things with our local schools, our school principals and our parent teachers associations. i could go on and on. but, colleague, i think we all know that carmen has been someone who has been an incredible colleague, amazingly hard working, generally even

tempered with a very deep knowledge of city government. i just want to take a moment and say there are a couple of less obvious things that i'm going to miss about carmen chu. i'm going to miss the fact that she is the best source of chocolate and french fries at the board of supervisors and i'm sure that some of us will be glad that we won't have a regular mcdonald's patron in our midst. [laughter] >> i think that we will miss the fact that -- well, actually i'm not sure we'll all miss the fact that carmen rarely breaks with her modern colleagues, except on the critical issue of cat de-clawing. oh, you remember that. i think many of us will miss the fact that she has been so hard working that we were all surprised that today she didn't submit any new legislative proposals and at the last minute she asked me four tough questions about the ndaa which i appreciated. and i will just say for me, one thing i'm not going to miss as you leave is that no one is

going to wonder after today if i have a sister on the board of supervisors. [laughter] >> but to just wrap it up, carmen, thank you for your service. you have been a tremendous colleague. we all look forward to working with you and serving with you as co-elected officials and we wish you all the very, very best. thank you. and with that, does anyone else have any words you'd like to say? supervisor farrell. >> thank you, president chiu. geez, carmen, today is certainly a tough day. i guess one i knew that would come. i think you probably thought it would come, too. many ways i thought it would be better to come two years from now, but i think this is really a great outcome. and i think mayor lee could not have made a better pick in katie. i know we all look forward to working together with you, but really look forward to working personally together with you. you have the respect and

admiration of everyone around here, aides, supervisors alike. the mayor couldn't have done a better job. but today i'm also very extremely sad, actually, to be losing carmen here on the board. carmen, you've been not only a friend, someone certainly we share a lot of political views together, but really been a mentor. and, someone i've looked up to. and i think, you know, to me you're exactly the example of what a supervisor should be. you do your job, take your job very seriously. you're incredibly humble. and you are so authentic and i think you just don't even realize how beloved you are when you're out there in the community. and i've seen it time and time again. people cheer you on and you just have no idea. and, you know, i know this is the right move personally and i'm very excited for you. i'm sad for the rest of us, but

i know you're going to do an amazing job as well and take that job as assessor to the next level. so, any ways, i will miss you on tuesday afternoons. i will be down in your office quite a bit. i hope you come up and visit us still. but thanks so much for all you've done last year working together with you has been an absolute joy. and it wouldn't have been the same two years for me without having you here. congratulations on your new gig. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor mar. >> thank you. i just wanted to first say welcome to katie tang. and your remarks today were so great that you showed tremendous knowledge and active involvement. so, you're going to be hitting the ground running indefinitely as the district 4 supervisor and it will be wonderful to work with you. and i know many others that i've talked to feel very similarly but it will be great to work with you. my view, carmen as one of the wisest and kindest people that i've had a chance to get to

know on this board. she's been a tremendous representative of the sunset and park side districts as others have said, i think you've been one of the fairest people as well chairing the budget committee, always taking time with all of us to break everything down and to give us a process and to take our input and to really do your best to listen and to try to integrate different ideas that we all brought. so, i think that's what represents tremendous leadership of being fair and really listening to all of us. i think you're going to make a tremendous assessor-recorder as well. but my memory of you will come from the look on your face when we enter your toys on village, your marching band. there is a marching band there and little kids, elders. [laughter] >> but i felt very proud for also being a tucson route. my village wasn't near as grand as yours. the mayor's village was close to mine as well. i remember the look on your face. it just shows you come from tremendous roots. i hope your family is very

proud. i'm very proud of you as our new assessor-recorder as well. it's been an honor to serve with you. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. it's -- it is sad and especially it's a one-two punch with supervisor elsbernd's leaving and now supervisor chu, but she won't be gone very far. although certainly perhaps different approaches at the same time. equally just amazing upstanding people. carmen, i really -- i know i was quoted in the press after your appointment saying that -- i really mean it, that we all -- how shall i say this delicately? we all meet and work with a lot of different kind of people in politics. and sometimes i wish there were more people like you, carmen, one of the most just completely

authentic down to earth well adjusted, just real people that you would meet. not just in politics but in any aspect of life. whether you agree or disagree, just communicating with you, you know you're having a conversation with someone. and you are just so thoughtful about every issue. you can see it just working through in your mind where you're just talking through the pros and the cons and i know that every decision you make is completely thoughtful and even today in the parking garage, one maybe a political advisor might say you're about to run for city-wide office. you don't want to make anyone upset about anything. but you did what you thought was right and i always know that to be the case with you, even when we're not on the same side of an issue.

and i also just know in talking with you over recent months about the possibility of the assessor appointment, i could see, even though i think you knew and i knew and we all knew it was the right move for the mayor and for you, that you, as difficult as this job s i know that you truly enjoy it. and i can always tell that you never seem to get exasperated. maybe at 3:00 a.m. on budget night maybe a little bit. [laughter] >> but it's always honestly enjoyed, that's what really made you such a great supervisor. now, i will say i do have a bone to pick, and that is i know your addiction to mcdonald's. i actually in high school, i worked at burger king. and we always had a chip on our shoulder because when i'd be working a drive through, someone would drive through and say, i want a big mac and i'd have to explain we don't have big macs here, we have whopers.

it was always a mcdonald's shadow over burger king. but i've moved past that and i know you made fun of me for my liking peanut butter and jerry sandwiches. notice you didn't seem to get it i said, you eat amedthxctiontion. mcdonald's. because to you that's normal hearty food. i also, carmen, i enjoyed helping you get to know the lgbt community. * one of my favorite carmen stories is one time i got a text from carmen. i just drove by a marker and there is a different flag flying above the muni station. it's not the rainbow flag. what is it? i said, oh, it's the bear flag because it's bear week. and so, she said, what's a bear? and i said, go on wikipedia and put in gay bear. and she did and i got the oh, with an exclamation point back. so, i look forward to

introducing you to the bear community and to all the other wonderful aspects of the lgbt community. [laughter] >> and seriously, carmen, we're going to miss you, but you're not going far. and we're going to work together for many years and i look forward to that. >> supervisor yee. >> supervisor chu, i mean, i don't know what you heard about me from the board of education that you're scared away to leave the board of supervisors when i'm just coming on, or is it because there's two lions, you know, on the board of supervisors that you're running them? seriously, you know, i feel ripped off that i only get to work with you for less than two months. but even though i'm new on the board of supervisors, throughout your tenure as a

supervisor, you've always reached out across the street to the board of education and wondering about issues and advocating for the young community in district 4. we had many discussions around issues that you cared about with public schools. and during those discussions, i realized what a caring person you are and -- and we'll miss you. and i hope you do well. i know you'll do well in your new job and we'll talk some more. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. one of the things that you and i had a conversation a while

back, and i remember you told me about how your mom was worried about you being more social and more outgoing with people. and i just thought, wow, every time i talk about the board of supervisors everyone is like, well, carmen chu, she's one of the best -- i'm sorry, colleague, please don't hold this again me in future, but carmen chu was always the name that came up in terms of how you do your job, how you pay attention to detail, how you're friendly and you're open with folks. and you just make the job look easy, although we all know how challenging this job is. and i couldn't believe that you weren't a social person growing up. and i just -- i look at you now and i think, wow, i just don't see it because you are very open, honest, you communicate clear. you're friendly. you make time for everyone that

tries to interact with you. and you just move along a if it's effortless to do and i just wonder oftentimes, how are you able to just maintain your composure while doing this job? and from afar, i've always admired you and i'm so disappointed that i'm not going to have the same experience of working with you for years to come as some of my colleagues have had. and i know the city is going to be in great hands with you as assessor. the mayor couldn't have picked a better person for that position. but i wish it could have happened at a time when it was time for you to go from the board. but thank goodness you won't be far away and i'm looking forward to working with you in that capacity. but i truly will miss the opportunity to work with you on this board of supervisors. thank you so much for your service. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. to my friend and colleague carmen chu, it's been wonderful

watching you grow and bloom starting back in the days when we both worked for mayor newsome. i remember meeting you, i think it was the first time was actually in the ladies' room. sorry, fellows, lot happens in the ladies' room, deals are made. that was one of the first times we met. i am always grateful for the opportunity to grow with you on our trip to israel, a strong bonding point. i'm excited for you a newly we had, new personal life, you and scott get to enjoy and also now an opportunity to have a new pathway on a career -- on a public service career. you've already embarked on that career, but it's amazing how the road has taken a brief split from what you have known. and i am also enthusiastically excited to welcome katie tang to the board. of course, always remember her when she was an intern in the

mayor's office and doing -- at the time what seemed like menial taskses. it's amazing when you do things people aren't paying attention and you build on them incrementally how it can manifest into something very great and katie has already an outstanding public record that she can stand on as a result of being under your leadership and your tutelage. so, i'm excited for san francisco to have a new assessor-recorder. you are going to do amazing things in sacramento, but now we have an opportunity to get, i don't know, lack of better way to describe describe it, one of our own, bring an interesting policy perspective. and i would imagine that carmen will be introducing legislation from her seat downstairs. how the new role should be staffed. if you need a piece of candy, send up a text message.

we'll bring you a piece down. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. supervisor campos. * >> thank you, president chu. iu. and supervisor chu, i'll be very brief. i think it's probably fair to say we have, you know, sort of a slightly different voting record on some issues here and there. but what i have always appreciated about you is that i always felt that i could have a pretty open substantive conversation and that, you know, you were there to listen to different points of view. and i think that's very important in this line of work. and i have always appreciated the professionalism and the respectful way in which you approached the job and you interact with your colleagues. i think someone said you can tell a lot about a person's soul by how they treat their dog.

and you and i are dog people. [laughter] >> there is a unique bond that those of us who love animals and those who love dogs especially have. i think by that measure in terms of the quality of your soul, given how you treat and talk about bertie, i think that that makes you an amazing person. and i wish you the very best in your new endeavors, but i know that you're still going to be here. i appreciate the fact that you, as you indicated, you're going to make sure that district 9 gets more resources in your new job, which i appreciate. and i look forward to working with you. and, of course, you know, one of the things that i think it's an illustration of the kind of person you are, the kind of supervisor you are is that as you leave, you leave behind not only the work, but you also leave in place someone that you have mentored and someone that

you have helped, and that's i think a very important testament of your leadership. the fact that you're passing it on and i look forward to working with supervisor tang as she goes on board, but the fact that she is there is another testament to your leadership. thank you. >> supervisor avalos. >> supervisor chu, congratulations. i was wondering when this is actually going to happen, when you would become an assessor. it was foretold months ago, but i think it's a good position for you to be going to. i've been very, very impressed with you the moment i met you when we actually were on an interview on television debating the budget, a very strange budget i was trying to defend. and you were trying to hold onto the budget that mayor newsome put together. and despite, you know, our

difference on the budget, i was really impressed with you where you came from shall and where you've been, and just your poise, the grace you have about you. and then you later were appointed supervisor. and it was really great to see coming in how you were able to move and grow in the position. and the past couple years i've seen you on the board have been quite amazing to see just how you have been able to carry out the most intense decisions of the city, in budget committee. and i felt that you had a very fair process about how you put the budgets together. and actually when you first came on as chair of the budget committee when you were first appointed there, it looked like it was a bit daunting at first. you had this furrow on your forehead. but that probably lasted about a week, and i've been watching, you've been really impressed.

so, i know you come with great skill to and knowledge to your new position, and i wish you all the best. and, you know, hopefully you're going to pull in that corporate money from downtown and make sure we can have it available to us to spend, a way to support our neighborhoods, especially neighborhoods that are further from the heart of where a lot of decision making actually benefits in san francisco. and, katie, supervisor tang, supervisor to become tang, i'm really excited to work with you and i've always felt that you've been a great representative for supervisor chu's office. and now you'll be a great representative for district 4 as well. so, i wish you all the best. i'm actually very curious to see who your [speaker not understood] is going to be. [laughter] >> thank you. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. so, in november 2006, i

actually won my first elected office. and i remember actually my predecessor came up to me and he said, you know, you were the surprise of that election, because i had come in first place and he thought i had come in third or not win at all. he was like, you and ed chiu. and i remember for several months i actually had the honor of being the youngest elected official in san francisco, i think for a couple months. and then soon thereafter we all know it happened, and carmen chu came in and was sworn into office. i actually remember that press conference that we spoke at. and i remember being like, ah, i can no longer hold that title. but it was exciting to be joined by another woman, young asian american woman. and then really had the pleasure of working with you over the last two years on budget committee. and i'm so glad actually that president chiu assigned both of us because i don't think i would have gotten to know you as well as i did if we hadn't sat through so many meetings.

and, of course, our epic nights here at city hall and budget. and i have to say i really enjoyed sitting with both you and supervisor avalos, and something that i really respected about you and obviously was something that i saw in supervisor avalos in budget committee was that you stand on your principles. and whether i agree or disagree with someone, what is the most important to me is that they're smart, that they're intelligent and their reasons are based on a set of principleses and values. and that is something that i've always seen and come from. but despite all of that, i think there are a lot of issues we really agreed upon in terms of fiscal accountability and responsibility and i think, you know, on issues like that we sometimes aren't always the most understood by some of our constituents or some of our most active interest groups. it's really important to have those eyes on so many of the smaller item that come through budget committee because they really set precedence on terms of larger values and principles

of how we build a city budget. and even when we have spared on issues, it's great to be pushed on what our arguments are and where they come from. * so, i've really always enjoyed that conversation. and i do think that you have been a tremendous chair and have been a model chair. it's clear when i come into board meetings that you introduce every single item, you know, all the presentations. and when we come to the full board, you're always able to articulate really complicated issues in a way that i think we can all understand. and i'm going to be really sad to lose you. i have really enjoyed your time here and i knew that this day would come for the past year, but i thought that you were an excellent representative and advocate. and also i appreciate you talked about the outer parts of the city. i do represent a very central part of san francisco that i think is so important that we continue to advocate for the

outer areas and making sure that all of the infrastructure that we're closing is also being met. and i'm also very excited to work with supervisor appoint katie tang tomorrow. >> thank you. supervisor chu, before you say anything, colleagues, i'd like to pass this resolution, number 42 13, which we -- has been introduce and had co-sponsored by all of us except for supervisor chu. it has the purely commendatory and bound act finding. let me ask are there any members of the public comment that wish to speak in public comment? seeing none, colleagues, technically we need a second. could i have a second to that motion? seconded by everyone, supervisor farrell. and with that, can we take a roll call vote on this resolution. >> supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener?

wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu ayes. >> there are 11 ayes. the resolution reads let the board of supervisors on behalf of the officers employees and residents of san francisco recognize the supervisor chu's vast contributions to improving the city, her intellect, passion for numbers, her high quality work and tireless devotion to solving and being responsive to the constituents of san francisco. congratulations. (applause) >> well, thank you very much. i'm going to stand in honor of

supervisor elsbernd who isn't here with us today, but i also just wanted to thank you all. i think before today's meeting we had talked to the mayor about when this might take place. and when we talked about this being my last meeting, i didn't know exactly how long it was going to be. [laughter] >> so, i want to thank you all for helping to extend my last meeting here at the board. thank you. [laughter] >> but i also was president -- expected to be outed today on my mcdonald's cravings. i guess that's one of my secrets, worst kept secrets. it has been my honor to serve district 4. * we have really spent the last five years rebuilding trust in the district and making sure that we're focusing on the day to day things that really matter in the neighborhood. and, so, some of the things that katie spoke about today have all been things that we have really been focusing on, making sure we're preparing our play grounds, making sure we're building our libraries, we're making sure