housing authority. [speaker not understood] it will improve life for residents in the building. it will allow residents of the rosa parks and rosa parks 2 to have access to each other, community facilities. the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation will develop the new senior housing units and they will partner with bethel ame church, a long-standing advocate in the western addition to assist with community outreach in developing the ongoing senior services and community connectionses for the project. my resolution today allows the city to apply for up to $30 million in california qualified mortgage revenue bonds. the bonds do not require the city to pledge a repayment. the project revenue itself backs the bond. mayor's office of housing will come back to the board to request authorization of issuance of the bonds and this project will provide critical as needed affordable senior housing units targeted at homeless seniors. construction is scheduled to start in february of 2014 and

be completed by october of 2015. i am proud to support it and look forward to working with the community during its development. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor breed. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. i have one in memoriam to offer. recently the african-american community lost one of its pioneers, mr. david glory. he was born on july 15th, 1952 and passed away on may 22nd, 2013. way born in st. louis, missouri and a graduate of howard university with a degree in journalism. he, after moving to oakland he was hired by the bay area urban league to help promote and find jobs. ~ he is also the co-founder of the green lining institute which is an institute that helps create policy to up lift the under served. he taught neighborhood leaders the skills required to advocate for equity and improvement. and this is a great loss for the san francisco bay area community. he's one of our most gifted -- he was one of our most gifted

advocates for economic justice and i think it's appropriate that this body close the board meeting in honor of his memory. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor kim. >> i would also like to add my name to this in memoriam, having been part of one of the organizations that mr. glover cofounded. it is a tremendous loss to our community and i appreciate the in memoriam on behalf of supervisor cohen's office. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor breed? >> he is the uncle of our agency redevelopment fred blackwell. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor breed. mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster that concludes roll call for introductions. >> thank you, madam clerk. why don't we now go to general public comment. >> at this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including the policy discussion between the mayor and the board and items on the immediate adoption calendar. please note that public comment will not be allowed on those

items which have already been subject to public comment at a board committee. pursuant to board rule 4.22, direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors and not to the audience. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. and if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such to sfgtv and then remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> let's hear from our first speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. stop the corporate waste at the public library. don't give money to the friends of the library. don't accept money from the friends of the library. before we begin, we should be reminded that today is exactly the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's landmark civil rights address at a time when civil rights mattered. 50 years later, rights of any kind mean nothing and our society is privatized by the influence of corporate money with very little money and no

benefit to the public. these are actual public disclosure documents. when the friends of the library made its original claim that it would raise $16 million for the branch library in 2000, it had assets of 20.3 million. at the end of the most recent year for which we have figures, the friends had net assets of 8.9 million, thus during the 12 years of the branch library improvement program, it had net lost assets of 11.3 million. as required under the san francisco administrative code, the library administration has reported that funds expended to carry out or assist any function in the public library during that period was only 4.9 million. this means that after having income over that same period of $40 million, of which the library got not one red cent, the library received only 43% of the reduction in assets. the library would have been better off, in fact, four times

the benefit if the friends had turned over its assets in the year 2000. the private philanthropyists fund-raising is so effective precisely because they can honestly say that the mechanisms put in place to protect the public benefit are nonsense. not only will this board of supervisors not hold these private fund-raisers accountable, but official misconduct, ethics violations all mean nothing. the public benefit is nonsense because of the failure of you as supervisors. the real damage is to the faith in our institutions and the lives cost more monday the money. thank you. ~ lies cost more than the money. thank you. i wish members of the public could stand up and have conversations when you guys are talking and show how rude it is to deal with people. (applause) here's an article from may

15 examiner, sick school officials accused of fraud, $15 million allegedly misused. nonprofit agencies also found under failing activity. whenever i see another story about the misuse of taxpayer funds, it makes my blood boil. especially when i think about the fact that we never hear any resolution to these abuses. the friend of the san francisco public library raise million of dollars each and every year in the name of the citizens of san francisco. when we come here and point out the problems in this public-private partnership, you just look the other way. when we point out that the city librarian and library commission have been lying -- yes, i said lying to the public about the financial dealings of the friends, you look the other way. 50 to $60 million have been raised since the year 2000 and

the library commissioners and the city librarian have absolutely no idea how much of that money actually benefited the citizens of this city. they have abused the public trust placed in them. when we point out the $181,000 of freebies given to the library staff for them to look the other way, you just look the other way. why don't you care about these abuses of the public trust? since you're not going to look at it, i'm putting forth a thing and i'm going to send to the franchise tax board because i think a lot of those $181,000 are gifts given to those library staff were illegal so a whistle blower complaint to the internal revenue service. maybe the state and the feds will do something very much [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker.

good afternoon. my name is ann brubaker and i am chairman of the san francisco committee to underground utilities, and i [speaker not understood] for this summer and it's lovely, we should all go traveling together. could we get that up? how does that work? >> [speaker not understood]. abby road, london. lombard street, san francisco. london double decker. very iconic. cable car, san francisco. you know this one, eiffel tower. coit tower. this is the eiffel tower from across the water.

this is alcatraz across the wire. this is the residential neighborhood of paul mccartney. it's called saint john's [speaker not understood]. this is the residential neighborhood of the flower power of the $60s. it's called the haight/ashbury. this is where we go to shop in residential neighborhoods in london. that's [speaker not understood]. brussels. pacific heights. and this is my favorite, tina moyland, the just past president of russian hill neighbors sent this to me this morning. it is for sale when you go traveling to carmel. it is an oil painting of san francisco beautiful. gentleman and ladies, it's really time. we need to leave the 19th century and join the rest of the world. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

my name is eugene gordon, jr., quoting out of context into national publication, note date, quote. [speaker not understood] tracing martin [speaker not understood] progress publishers, moscow first printing 1966. printed in union of soviet socialist republic's surname, foreman, [speaker not understood], party number date of entry 605 08, february 1927. present occupation, [speaker not understood] and sdap national socialist party, religion, christian. [speaker not understood]. abbreviated name for organization of persons belonging to ss [speaker not understood] immediately after the war. odessa was one of the first organizations around which the

fascist regime gathered with blessing the vatican. contact was made through [speaker not understood] who lived in rome [speaker not understood]. applied for a visa to argentinean [speaker not understood] month later in buenos aires [speaker not understood], germans living there, citizens, third raich 11,000 under the direct control of overseas organizations and nsadp. argentina had owned organizations, fascist organizations [speaker not understood] 144, [speaker not understood].

>> thank you. next speaker. patricia voy, not representing anybody but myself. supervisor mar, you said it all. it takes a synergy of people working together to solve a problem. and in case of the food truck legislation that was passed yesterday -- >> excuse me, ma'am, we have a rule at the board chamber that if there's already been public comment on a matter like the food truck matter that was considered in land use yesterday, that you can't use general public comment today to speak about it, but you are -- you can speak about the topic more generally. i'll talk more generally. small business is the crutch of the city. if they're not listened to and

not included in legislation concerning restaurants, retail, then more than likely a legislation is flawed. i'm asking that you reconsider some things. i will be talking to each one of you because the leaders of small business were denied in another project the right to participate. small business right now is going through a crises. we found out two days before hearing on a friday night to get people down, they can't afford right now to have people come and take their places because they've laid people off. they are having rent raise and had [speaker not understood] throughout the city. they are being given unfair

legislation that will potentially close them down. i'd like to talk about something else really fast, is david glover. i worked with him for years, a very wonderful man. number two, i think that we -- you're going to hear a lot from us as small businesses. and of all sections of the city concerning their rights. we are tired of not being heard. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood]. i am a patient advocate representing access of love and patient advocacy network today. we are here to, first of all, we want to thank supervisor mar for honoring one of the collectives that is being unfairly attacked by the u.s. attorney [speaker not understood].

we're here to respectfully request the help of the supervisors and city attorneyses to file suit against the u.s. attorney. other cities have done this and i believe that we have better standing than any city in california to do this because we're not filing on behalf of one particular business, but on behalf of the patient access of our city. the grounds on which the u.s. attorney is seeking now to actually take one of our buildings is unfair and it's an unfair application of law. these laws were intended for crack houses near schools. our dispensaries are city permitted and city zoned. i'm sure if there was a mistake in zoning, our zoning department is more than responsible. we also want to acknowledge there are now 21 states, eight

out of 10 americans and 78% of all the world's positions are in our corner. i don't know if this request is controversial. i think it's timely and i look forward to working with you. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, board of supervisors. my name is john martinelli. i'm a medical cannabis patient and i also want to call attention to what melinda haig is doing to our community and causing not just the closing of of dispensaries that are vital, but there is the collateral damage of the -- all of the people that are losing their jobs being employed in these places and their health care benefits, not to mention that they're not contributing into the tax roll as such. it's just not right that a place that's a sanctuary city

like san francisco should be attacked by the feds if for something that is state and city sanctioned and everything is being through so many committees to get permits to be able to operate and the money put forward and all the taxes paid. we need to be defended by the local as well as in conjunction with support from nancy pelosi to our cause. thank you very much. >> thanks. next speaker. [speaker not understood] sfgtv, please. i was cleaning up my room and i found the letter from my brother-in-law who died, father who died. our governor earle warren in january 1946 and also the chief -- went on to be the chief justice of the united states and head of the earle warren commission on the assassination

of president kennedy. i was looking for this letter. i'm glad i found it. good luck with the america's cup and i hope those boats really move and it's... ♪ smoke on the city bay water they're going to really move fast smoke on the water they're really moving fast and smoking on the bay water they're really going gonna have a good time there and smoky cannabis dispensary rain it keeps on calling keeps on calling h. brown's name smoky cannabis dispensary rain it keeps on calling keeps on calling

your name somewhere lost in the smoky cannabis dispensary mountain budget rain. can't wait to be let go as she needed to feel high and not low she needed the [speaker not understood] smoky cannabis rain this sweet song keeps calling your name thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is douglassyv, i have lived in subpoena for 61 years. i would like to thank publicly the two irs whistle blowers based in cincinnati, ohio. ~ yip in my opinion it's going to start a major agency by agency examination for waste and

corruption at washington, d.c., so, they will go down in history even more important than the enron whistleblowers. secondly, i would like to wish good luck to the nsa whistle blower, mr. snowden. (applause) let's put it this way. the red chinese knew what we were doing. it was no news to them. the only people that didn't know it officially were the people in the united states. for the record, he did not disclose names, he only discussed methodology. and i say, let the guy live and let's argue about it in court and see what the jury decides, whether he's a patriot or a traiter. thirdly, i would like to call fort meade ~es are itiontion vation itionv ~ resignation of mayor ed lee. in baseball you get three

strikes. san francisco muni, he was a long-time city administrator. he should have known better. the muni was going downhill fast. strike two. in my opinion, he and supervisors elsbernd and chiu failed miserably to save the san francisco 49ers. and the only reason why the giants are in town is because they built their own stadium financially. and third and most compelling, san francisco housing authority, he had a hand in hiring him. he knew about the agency, the city administrator [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. (applause) >> ladies and gentlemen, if i could just remind folks we have a rule in the board chamber for members of the public to not engage in either expressions of support, like applause, or opposition to statements with hissing out of respect to various members of the public and to keep the proceedings

going. so, if i could ask you to please refrain from applause. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tom mcdonough. thank you for this opportunity to express my democratic rights. i think the fact that the u.s. government is spying on its own people is wrong. president obama taught constitutional law at the university of chicago. surely he knows better. government surveillance of its own people in a democracy is wrong. if government is looking for terrorists, surely it can develop a more focused sophisticated system to identify the accused terrorist. to establish a drag net in which all 350 million american citizens become possible suspects is absolutely outrageous. the constitution can be looked upon as a highly enlightened document. it brings light to the world in a sense, the actions of

national security agency being a dark enclosed over that powerful document. i'll quote thomas jefferson. when the people fear the government, there is tyrany. when the government fears the people, there is liberty. and the gentleman brought up -- one of the supervisors brought up muni. i think to create a very efficient system, a large amount of money needs to be [speaker not understood] to create the initial infrastructure. also a large amount of money needs to be budgeted to operate the system efficiently. and alpern he will who work for the transit system should put in a hard day's work and as well as work in a very smart manner. did you all very much. >> thank you. next speaker. i'd like to apologize to the mother of michael akino if she's still alive for last week's outbursts. i called him a son of a b.

as far as i know, for reasons of national security, i think it's important to say that as far as i know michael akino, you can google him, still lives at 20 40 leavenworth in san francisco. i don't know the guy's name, but the san francisco chief of police was ordered by somebody in the fbi to destroy the porn videos michael akino made of the children he arrested up in park presidio there in '84 and '88. you know the reason why he had to destroyed the porn videos of michael akino? for reasons of national security. for reasons of national security. now, the chief should have popped him and said, you're under arrest for obstruction of justice, pal, you know. if you go to info wars.com with

alex jones and get the video about oklahoma city and they'll belie -- the federal [speaker not understood] put the bombs there and blamed it on christians. knee row blamed it on christians the burning of rome. let's get in the political realm now. my speech comes from john 5. jesus said ~ beginning verse 30, i can of my own self-do nothing. as i hear, i judge, and my judgment is just because i seek not my own will, but the will of the father which has sent me. if i bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. there is another that bears witness of me and i know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. >> thank you. next speaker.

good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter war field, executive director of library users association. the library is planning massive cuts to evening hours city-wide and that's part of a $1 million per year plan that they have that they're touting as an hours addition. now, they are adding 56 hours city-wide including some additional days at some of the smaller branches. but they are going to cut every single last hour currently available to use libraries 8:00 to 9:00 in every single library where that exists. currently there are 18 branches out of 27 where you can go from 8:00 to 9 o'clock. in fact 6:00 to 9:00 two or three nights a week. every one of those is going to

close at 8:00 instead of 9:00. for folks who are working or otherwise occupied, students occupied during the day, that's a drastic cut, especially when they're not able to get to the library until 7:00 or 8 o'clock. the branes affected are as follows. six branches have three evenings till 9 o'clock. chinatown, mark lie, excelsior, mission, richmond, [speaker not understood], sunset, and west portal. the branches with two-hour -- two evenings per week open till 9:00 having a 9 o'clock to 8 to 9 o'clock cut, [speaker not understood], harvey mill be, merced, [speaker not understood], park side, presidio and western addition. when the haight started coming to the library, they had a flurry of quick one-week

survey, tiny type that you can barely read by comparison with normal type that would be on a flyer. not informing the public for informed [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. let's hear from the next speaker. hi, my name is matthew denny and i'm a student at [speaker not understood] law. and i want to take a moment to talk about the eviction crisis in the city and why i support the [speaker not understood] compromise by supervisorses kim and chiu. >> sir, unfortunately we've had multiple public comment periods on our condo conversion tic proposals and such public comment would not be permissible today. but if you want to speak about

the general situation of housing in the city or the plight of tenants, you're welcome to do that. okay. so, as many of you may know, we've had [speaker not understood] a number of cases of eviction in the city. we've had a leave of 1,176 this past year. a lot of those evictions occurred [speaker not understood] for a long period of time and some of those are no cause ellis act evictions. and currently the market rate of housing in the city is so high that once somebody is evicted for their apartment there's nowhere for them to go afterward. many people are displaced from the city all together. i live in the tenderloin which is generally a cheap area of san francisco where a lot of people with disabilities live. and the market rate studio in the tenderloin, you can run anywhere from 1500 to $2,000 a month right now. that's why it's so important to maintain protections we have for renters in the city and make sure that we have the

supply of rent controlled housing that's protected. that's all. >> thank you very much. next speaker. yeah, good afternoon to everybody. i just come here to comment about the eviction again. you know, i would like to know how much money do you guys need for us to stay here in san francisco? because we are very poor and we don't have that kind of money, that kind of power that can buy a lot of things, you know. so, my question is how much money do you guys need? because i don't have money. thank you. good night. >> thank you. next speaker. good evening, my name is carolyn brown and i'm aden at this timev and the dental director for the native american health center and i