carlton b. goodlett place. supervisor chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you. in light of new information some of us have received, i would like to move to refer this back to committee for a full and fair consideration of the corrector that has run the cafe for years in the basement of the city hall area. supervisor chiu: supervisor daly? supervisor daly: i will second that motion. more so than the new information, like most of us here, i patronize downs. i patronize over at the court building as well. we have relationships. i think this is really a bitter tasting situation that we have right now, and i would like to see us somehow work through the issue of someone that has been serving this city, a disadvantaged business enterprise that has been serving the city family here for a number of years, and just the situation that has soured. i -- we can't fix everything, but hopefully we can make it not so bitter. i would second this and refer it back to committee. supervisor chiu: colleagues, any further discussion? supervisor elsbernd? supervisor elsbernd: i are r

carlton b. goodlett place. commissioner avalos: welcome. >> welcome back. members of the committee.istant director of real estate. so i want to give you a little bit of background as to how we arrived at what's before you today. back in early 2007, mccall, who is operating a mobile cafe operation in the north light court terminated their lease. following that termination we decided to pursue a social enterprise and cafe operation in the north light court. and this board approved a recommendation to have juma ventures operate that which lasted from spring of 2008 until, unfortunately, spring of 2009 when their financials were just not performing at all. so they elected to affect and early termination. there was a penalty associated with that early termination in terms of forfeiture of their security deposit. which actually made the city financially whole until currently. now it's in agreement that results from a competitive solicitation process an offering of one operator for both the north light court and the ground floor cafe. we are not recommending the current operator, chaun su