won't you stay just a little bit longer president chiu say, say you're gonna stay here and we're gonna have a good time i want a hear some more of those speech lines and we're gonna be fine oh, won't you stay-ay-ay a little bit longer please, please, please say you're gonna stay ♪ [cheering and applauding] >> walter, i'm gonna miss you. thank you. >> next speaker, please. hi, supervisors, my name is deborah bennedict. i live in the south of market area and i just wanted to say

three of the thing that were said toward the end of this meeting were pertinent to thing that i've been involved in. first and foremost, i wanted to say thanks for a hearing that's going to be coming up on safety. i live in the south of market area. as i said, there is 's a lot of property crime down there and we have an infestation of crack dealers who have taken over the corner of th and mission. i can tell, supervisors, one of the effects of proposition 47 when i spoke to a couple of police officers who were standing no more than 500 feet away from where the crack dealers were located and i mentioned that they might want to use their radios to call into the southern station -- southern station to ask for someone to sort of chase them away, they said, well, you voted for prop 47, so, this is what you get. ~ ninth i can't say the attitude of the

police officers related to trying to stop illegal activity on that corner is really very positive since 47 passed. and i want to say a special thank you for the supervisors' interest and promotion of free muni for senior and people with disabilities. i am a person with a disability and right on the teetering edge of senior hood and i know that there are very low-income people such as myself who really could use that support around getting mta to allow for free muni for seniors and people with disabilities. thank you very much and i really appreciate your interest in that area. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. supervisors, my name is mike casey with local 2, the local hotel [speaker not understood]. i want to speak to item 45. this board has been hailed as

one of civility and transparency, is civility, well bread manners, debate and discussion. civility goes beyond the way people talk to each other. civility is about inclusion and making sure all voices are heard. i find it unbelievable that you would consider such a weighty matter today. who is going to be the president of the board, a position that assigns key committee assignments, makes a lot of important decisions, that you would do that without the supervisor from the mission district. recently there was a brutal campaign between supervisor chiu and supervisor campos in which the very future of the city was discussed in great detail about the kind of city we will be about holding accountable the global corporation that have so much sway in this city.

and the strongest voice for tens of thousands of voters that went to the polls and well over a thousands volunteers who walked the streets was david campos. i talked to a lot of voters during this last election, people were cynical when 60% of california voters stay away, when almost half the voters in this city voted because they're cynical. actionses like this where a matter as important as the president of the board would be decided without one of you there is really troubling to me and i would hope that you would consider that and work hard, find a day when everybody can be here. i know you can schedule special meeting. why not schedule a special meeting when every board member can be here to speak and express their opinion and voice? david campos should not [inaudible]. >> next speaker. (applause)

[inaudible]. anything else, congratulationses on the campaign. everybody is back. i'm seeing faces that i have seen for a long time and i'm very glad to see that everyone is back. and i'm like walter. i don't think that our president is going to be staying much longer. and what i would ask of you right now today is to take very seriously what i take very seriously that the women's community takes very seriously is the job that you do, because we work with you every week on important pieces of legislation, how we can possibly work with you to change, moderator fix some kind of budget impasse he we may have. it's about women. these issue are crucial. we can't wait and you're important. you're the actual body that makes the decisions for us and works together with us to make that happen.

so, please, don't wait. make the decision now and please vote for a new president. and i'm sorry that i don't think our current president can stay longer. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. it's a beautiful room. my name is [speaker not understood]. i'm 64 years old. i reside in the marina district. i've been a resident of san francisco for the past 35 years. i've made a decision to run for the mayor of the city and county of san francisco -- >> excuse me, sir, you are not allowed to campaign here. i'm not campaigning. [speaker not understood] i'm talking about. >> keep your comments to that. i apologize. >> thank you. i'm an entrepreneur, good looking one, too. if you look at some of my

accomplishment, none of them political. i helped the city of san francisco. you can look at my website, my name is nissan [speaker not understood].com, look it up. i have built and remodeled more house he in san francisco than you can believe ~ houses i own more buildings here than you can believe. i've made a fortune here for a reason. it's not because i'm good looking. i'm a hard worker. my family, sir, at the age of 21, i managed 50 stores in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. in 1976, sir, i was a district manager of an office on [speaker not understood] street managing 50 stores. by 28 i managed 500 stores. now, in san francisco, sir, i created employment, [speaker

not understood]. i have 20 stores, [speaker not understood] -- may i finish the sentence? >> you have 27 secondv. ~ second. thank you very much. you can look at my website. i'm not only funny. i'm honest, mister -- who is the man who died? robin williams. he's bipolar, but he died. i'm bipolar, but i'm cool. you're going to see me around. you're going to love me because i'm funny up here. [speaker not understood]. if you're a hard worker, keep up the good work. >> thank you. next speaker. thank you, mr. president. the victims of the kabal, my name is christopher doll and i live 14 meters and ten blocks from sea level. i rise to speak about the use

of the bible in political discourse. for the interest of disclosure, i have been what you might call an apostate christian. i lied when i said i believed that stuff. i lied to my mother. she ha passed and the facts won't hurt her now. i would draw your attention to that book in the bible, the two books called samuel. here the narrative is about the founding hero of i real, david. after killing goliath, king saul brought david into his household which included the heir jonathan, david being 13, jonathan 21. there are two verses which i read about home owe sexuality and social standing today. the first is david loved jonathan with the love that

surpassed the love of women. the implication sexual activity is obvious. the second verse is david loved jonathan as his own soul. the implication of a lifetime commitment is also obvious. members, i can have no faith in any person who cannot find acceptance in the one verse and sanctity in the second. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you. next speaker. good evening, president chiu, colleagues. my name is [speaker not understood], i work at san francisco rising. we're an alliance of tenant and worker organizations across san francisco. i'm here to speak to item 45 following up pursuant to an e-mail that a leadership committee sent to the board earlier today. please don't go ahead and vote on a president today especially while your colleague from district 9 is missing. i'd like to associate myself with the comments made by make casey earlier. it just doesn't feel appropriate at all, especially in the wake of the last

election. sincerely hope you do not go forward today on item 45. thank you. >> next speaker. hello, president chiu, supervisors. >> pull the microphone closer. you can pull it down. thank you. >> thanks. so, i would like to address the free muni. i am in appreciation of the effort in this community to really address. i looked at my income, if i were to write down what i get for an honest salary by working, it's equivalent to $5.06 and the hourly wage right now is going to be $15. so, i am a senior. i'm a disability person, and i am in third [speaker not

understood] supervisor martin -- skew me, norman yee. i appreciate so much what you've been advocating for and i also want to mention that we san francisco and san jose are still young. one of the ten expensive city to live in, san jose has free muni or free bus service and i would like to ask, plea, for everyone to agree that we seniors get bus service. it would be a great help. thank you so much.

>> thank you. next speaker. thank you, president chiu and supervisors. i'm julie fisher, resident of san francisco, and have worked in san francisco and voted the last 30 years. i just wanted to add to the consideration for item 45, ask that you choose not to vote for a president of the board of supervisors this evening, but that you preserve your previous practices and choose when everybody is present. thank you. >> next speaker. hi, i'm patrick connors. i'm curious about the problem the board seems to have with voter. not long ago you nearly

overturned the election of the sheriff, political over reach by the mayor. when the proposal was made to end mayoral appointments to this board, a majority of you declined to allow voters the opportunity to enact that change, thus hoarding your power. now you appear determined to force a vote on a president of this board when an important voice, a representative of district 9, is not present. it's obvious to anyone with a brain in their head that you're rushing this vote in order to rush control of the outcome, another political power grab by a body that is increasingly more responsive to billionaire power broker than you are to the people you're supposed to be representing. i ask that you at least pretend to be influenced by the voters and wait until december to elect board president.

undoubtedly it will be a difficult struggle for san francisco to cope without a board president temporarily, but somehow we will survive. perhaps just pretend this is august when you're all on break. >> next speaker. good evening, my name is tammy bryant and i didn't come prepared to speak [speaker not understood]. so, i'm just here to echo what mike casey said. i really agree with what he said. he summed up my feelings and there are many more. there is a real sense we don't have democracy in san francisco any more. one of the most undemocratic things the board would do today would be to vote without the presence of david campos. there is no reason why we can't wait for the full board to be here. and i also want to know why i'm here. i am really here because aes are department of san francisco, i'm tired of all the human suffering that i don't see getting addressed and i want a chance for a board president who is going to look

out for all of us. i leave my job site today for a cup of coffee and i see a guy on the ground in his underwear getting arrested. i walk over here and i have to find a police officer because there's a guy with a bat about to attack somebody in the bathroom on larkin and grove. there is a lot of human suffering. i go out my door where i live and there are memorials to young men who have been murdered in the last couple weeks and i want a board president who is going to take all these issues into account and represent the city as a whole, represent my district because i don't know that we always get the representation that we deserve. so, i'm going to urge you to please delay the vote. there is no need to do it today. you deserve a participation of a full board. thank you. >> next speaker. hi, my name is dana rosea. i spoke at the meeting october 28th and i talked about the high rates of breast cancer in

the bay area, especially in marin which has the highest rates of breast cancer in the world. in marin when people learned about hormone replacement therapy, synthetickest throe genoa causing high rates of cancer, heart attacks and strokes, usage plummeted in 66%, in two years invasive breast cancer went down 33%. a 2 to 1 ratio, an astounding drop. suggesting that hrt was playing a significant role in half the cases of breast cancer. the drug companies have been told by leading scientists and medical organizations that synthetic estrogen should not be put on the market until it was thoroughly tested. research from jonas hopkins, yale university, northwestern university, university of chicago showed that estrogen was causing cancer, blood clots in animal testing.

and well might do the same in people. the drug companies chose to disregard this advice and managed to get an fda approval and stayed on the market untested for 60 years. at one point 30 to 50% of post menopausal american women were taking it. it was the most profitable drug in history. and the cancer it caused was very aggressive. it -- women had a 96% greater likelihood of dying from it. it promotes cell growth. i go to marin and around the bay area, talk about these issue, i am getting enormous harassment for doing so. cancer in most of our major diseases are largely preventable thev thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. ~ good evening, i'm theresa

[speaker not understood] from north beach, and i'm here to beg you, please, not to make any vote today without a complete full board present. i also want to thank norman yee, supervisor yee for, one, bringing up the issue of free muni for our seniors, working with sda. i see that as a real need. people are too much in isolation right now and this would enable them to use their precious dollars for food and other things while traveling to be with other groups of people and not be alone. i also want to say i didn't know about paula, but i have her recipe for cheesecake that is amazing, but i've been making for 25 years since my son was in paula's preschool. so, thank you for honoring her and [speaker not understood].

>> next speaker. good evening, president chiu, honorable members of this board of supervisors. frank martinez campo. i'm proud, proudly served on the san francisco labor council, speaking in that capacity. i rise in unison with all the previous labor voices, they eloquently offered their thoughts. i would like to add another one. it appears to me that after the november 4th elections, it's very clear that a very rigid and cold wind has swept this country and that includes san francisco. that feeling exists amongst the working people in the communities of san francisco.

moving forward, i think would increase the feeling of a government that no longer listens to its people and, in fact, rules from above. a thoughtful process to ensure that we're reconciling rather than heating up and accelerating the conflicts that have already been seen so clearly throughout our nation and here in san francisco [speaker not understood] we would like to see after all in conclusion, if our children that were making decision for the kind of society they will live in, and if we delay the vote, have a thoughtful process, we are creating a better life, less conflict, more security and more legitimacy for those that represent us and ourselves. >> thank you.

can i have the next speaker? bobby coleman, san francisco tenants union. and naturally we encourage on item 45 a continuance. of course, doing it in the standard way is going to instill more confidence in this body and in the government process in general, and for that reason the tenants support a delay in the deliberations until the full body can convene. thank you. >> next speaker. i am [speaker not understood] from the tenderloin. i imagine it's hard to elect a president, having seen it done a few time, it's pretty awkward. if you're elected to this body naturally you can do thing for the city. certainly you must imagine you yourself would make a good president. so, therefore in order to elect one, you have to set some number of, at least, ten out of

11, have to step aside to support somebody else. i imagine it's a difficult thing and certainly it's a decision for you as a board to make. as far as when you make it or when you're not, don't make it, you know, i sat here through the mayor's thing and i was pretty much set up, much more set up than i imagined it to be. if you've got it all set up who the next president is going to be and you have the six votes, save us all some time. i disagree with the progressives sometimes, although i consider myself one to be. it's just a matter of efficiency. >> thank you. next speaker. i'm becoming aware you guys are in need of assistance for a management role. i just want to let you know if you guys need any hope, i'd be happy to help you. my name is kyle and i'm here. so, if you need help, please let me know. >> thanks for the help. next speaker.

good afternoon, mr. president and members of the board of supervisors. i would like to speak about number 45. i believe we should go forth and have the meeting of the whole so you can elect another president of the board of supervisors. i think that president chiu has done an excellent job and i see no reason why the city of san francisco business should come to a halt because a member of the board of supervisors has chosen to be absent again. thank you. (applause) >> are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? please step up. good evening, members of the board. i'm peter war field, executive director of library users association. first of all, i think on item 45 you should find a time when all the members of the board

are here. whatever one thinks of the candidates, certainly the one who is not here got a very large number of votes in the highly contested election and clearly has a lot of city support, at least in that election. second, so i recommend you not go forward until the full board can be present, as many prior speakers have just said. second, congratulations to the president of the board for his election and best wish he for serving the public in sacramento starting december 1st. third, i hope that the supervisors -- i would ask the supervisors to think about any future president of the board and board procedures that follow more closely democratic

principles than have come to be standard. a number of ideas with respect to improvements, first of all, to reinstate the three minutes that are legalery required under the sunshine ordinance for public comment rather than the two minutes that have been so long in practice. second, to stop pulling the plug on the microphone when speakers are finishing up what they have to say. third, not to call the sheriff deputies on folks who are peacably making public comment. and instead arresting them, removing them or even just reminding them, all of which are highly intimidating to the folks and certainly the general public. and finally not violating the sunshine ordinance. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment?

okay. seeing none, general public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you go to our adoption without committee reference calendar? >> item 45 through 50 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote may enact these item if a member object, that matter can be removed and considered separately ~. >> colleague, would anyone like to sever any of these items? >> i would like to sever item 45. >> okay. can we take a roll call vote on the balance of the adoption calendar, items 46 through 50? >> mr. president, i believe supervisor kim has an amendment to make to item 49. >> okay. so, let's do item 49, if we can take a roll call vote on the balance, items 46, 47, 48 and 50. >> supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee?

yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. there are 10 aye. >> those motionses are approved. [gavel] >> before we tab item 45 let's do item 49 quickly. >> 49, mr. president? >> yes. >> okay, item 49 is a motion to schedule the board of supervisors to sit as a committee of the whole acting in its capacity as the successor agency to the former redevelopment agency to hold a public hearing on november 25th, 2014 to approve actions by the commission on community investment infrastructure to subordinate property interests and the site designated for affordable housing in the transbay redevelopment project area. >> supervisor kim? >> was supervisor avalos before me on the roster? >> supervisor avalos on item 49? >> i want to speak on item 45. i'd like to just resolve item

49. >> thank you. on item 49 we are submitting an amendment which sets the date which we sit on the committee of the whole on the interim finance for the transbay center. so, this amendment nearly sets the date of the committee of the whole tuesday december 9 at 3:00 p.m.. >> okay. supervisor kim has made a motion to amend the motion, seconded by supervisor avalos. without objection, the motion to amend passes. [gavel] >> and on the cubed lying motion, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call as amended? without objection, this motion is approved as amended. and now i want to go to item 45, madam clerk. >> item 45 is a motion that the board of supervisors convene a committee of the whole today, november 18th, for the purpose of receiving public comment on nominations and to open the election for the office of board president to fill any unexpired portion of the vacancy remaining in the term that ends january 8, 2015 at 12

p.m. >> supervisor avalos. >> colleagues, i am totally fine to sit as a committee as a whole to vote for the person who will be serving as the interim president of the board. but i'm not interested in doing that today. i don't think today is the right day to do that. we have one of our colleagues who is not going to be here today and actually represents a district that will not be able to have their voice heard in the interim president vote. and i don't quite think that's right. i don't think that's the kind of board of supervisors that we have been purported to be, one that's democratic, one that's civil, one that's collegial. i don't think it's very collegial to exclude one person from the vote when there isn't really a pressing need