the truckers would like to go on strike after a meeting last week because of the human rights commission. these are all african-american truckers by and large. i have had this trouble over the years. something needs to be done. somehow or another, the board of supervisors, the human rights commission, and the truckers need to get together. there is no trucker on $65 an hour. the city is demanding you pay the drivers $47 an hour. what we need is some type of stabilization put down to the contractors. there is a certain wage that has gone to be paid. we are asking the something has to be done for the major contractors who bring truckers in and work for $65 or $75 an hour. we need some help. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i am here to reiterate what was just stated. i did have the opportunity of meeting with the director of the human rights commission, and we did express their is an hour early drivers rate, but like any construction site, any piece of equipment on that job, you have an hour the rental rate, and you have an offer readers rent. the two together are what establishes

we have a number of items we need to go back to the human rights commission to get clarification on. we still have some issues that we want to discuss with the joint coordinating committee. these types of things are technology issues. the big point of this rfp is to make sure we not only ask for what we want so we get what we want, but that we also make sure that we are up-to-date with emerging technologies. these things are a little complex. those types of issues -- we will be meeting with the joint coordinating committee rice after the holidays. once we get those incorporated into the draft, it needs to be circled again through this city's attorney's office to make sure we have not miss anything, and the human rights commission to make sure we have not missed anything. we are hoping, depending on people' we are counting on to do the final review, we're hoping to issue this by the end of december. last time, we give the companies about six weeks to respond. after about two to three weeks after it was issued, we had a pre-bid conference. essentially, we meet with them and they ask us

members and the equality and human rights commission says that that could be intimidating for nonwhite prospective members and basically what they're saying is that nick griffin the party leader is playing with he has slightly amended these clauses and done what he calls suspended and no one's quite clear about what that means the equality and human rights commission accuses him of being a persistent offender and also a lawyer lying when he says that he doesn't understand what the terms of the order are and we're not sure whether this case is going to be decided on tuesday but the party faces a hefty fine they have to may have to pay their legal costs and possibly have their assets seized as well now lower despite his potentially radical views the b.n.p. has grown in popularity what do you think are the reasons behind this rise. well we've seen that across much of europe haven't we right wing politics all over europe really has gained quite a lot of ground in the last eighteen months these right wing parties are more playing up the support of people who feel that the mainstream politic

indigenous british people which have to be construed as meaning white people the equality and human rights commission accuses nick griffin the party leader of being a persistent offender right wing politics all over europe really has gained quite a lot of ground in the last eighteen months these right wing parties are more playing up the support of people who feel that the mainstream political parties aren't supporting them in their beliefs that immigration is out of control that domestic societies are being diluted by immigration and that is always particularly common in times of recession b.n.p. one two european parliamentary seats in two thousand and nine and that really was the pinnacle of its achievement the party faithful see this particular case is going on the moment as a win win situation the old adage there's no such thing as bad publicity regardless of the outcome was a good to win win situation for you know if it's. if the dog threw it out the. door the general public will see that we are the only dog and we're being picked on for what we believe in. walker also told me that the b.n.p. is

these contractors and the human rights commission have created an atmosphere that these the contras come to san francisco and they only pay truckdrivers $65 an hour. that is for tractor and trailer. the truckers would like to go on strike after a meeting last week because of the human rights commission. these are all african-american truckers by and large. i have had this trouble over the years. something needs to be done

commissioner richardson and i served on the human rights commission as commissioners for the last fourrs. she has earned my respect, my admiration, and my affection. she is passionate about human rights, justice, and equality. she is a good leader. she has a lot of leadership skills, but she can also work effectively as a member of a team. she has good business sense. she was co-chair of the local enterprise committee of the human rights commission. she also is very in love with her community. she has a strong relationship with the black community and asian community. she is a community activist. she has had an incredible amount of experience in working with the housing development, transportation, homelessness, education, and other issues that are important to the community. she is a very efficient and effective person. she can help move a project forward. i think she would be a great addition to the treasure island board of directors. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker. commissioner, welcome back to the rules committee. >> feels like just yesterday i was

world war two and its lessons which has caused the united nations united nations as human rights commission where you have some of the worst offenders of human rights sitting as members on this human rights commission and making a mockery of the whole process so i think we have to judge everything on its own merits and understand the context and be very careful in making categorization is the way that you made ok but i mean even a court in israel found sharon culpable for events in lebanon one thousand nine hundred two but israel doesn't want internet. have its citizens tried under any kind of a new question your national to your new law it's an excuse me excuse me excuse me the question is guilty of what i said called the lords of the go i'll let you go let you know in the manner that he let you rely on words whenever it is but what is the is really more that's fine but he was removed he was removed from office knows he was deemed unfit to serve as minister of defense why that's not a crime. committed why was he deemed unfit. because because his judgment eat he displayed poor judgment in a

human rights implementation in the united states the u.s. currently does not have a domestic human rights implementation mechanism a human rights commission if you will and so our desire is that the obama administration will work with congress to chant to transform the what we have is a commission on civil rights transform that into a civil and human rights commission which will really be before of implementing human rights in the domestic context and that deal president obama will issue an executive order which would require all the governmental agencies to work together . to link and to be tasked with human rights implementation that's something that they can do in the very short term in addition i might add as i do wish you all about sherlock bhatnagar a staff attorney at the american civil liberties union we've run out of time thanks for being with us. thanks so much for. now georgia plans to revamp its elling agricultural industry by inviting new farmers from south africa but wars are a minority there and the georgian government believes they would find better opportunities far from home and bring investment and new ideas but local farm

, from the hearings about the flotilla at the board of supervisors to the hearings at the human rights commission about racial profiling. it has been a profound year for us, and it has raised a tremendous amount of awareness, not only in city hall, but in northern california and the nation about the issues we face as a community, but it has not just been those issues we have faced. we also had what i think is probably the most successful festival we have had in a long time with the arab cultural center, and each year, the film festival gets better and better. it continues to tell the story of our community and change people's minds based on our -- on art. it is with that pleasure that i bring of our awardee for this year's arab heritage month certificate. michel, could you come up real quick? [applause] his work every year really changes people's hearts and minds. if you could just speak for a few minutes about the festival and the success you faced this year. here is the award for this year's fair of heritage month. thank you. [applause] -- this year's arab heritage month. thank you. [applause]

latina named to the civil service commission and the first latina named to the san francisco human rights commission by mayor dianne feinstein. in 1974 she was a member of the civil service commission and she cast the deciding vote to integrate women into the san francisco fire department. [applause] but she wasn't done there. she was the first latina to win a citywide election in san francisco without first being appointed to the position when she won her seat on the san francisco board of education in 1990. after her re-election in 1994, she served as vice president and then president of the board. she is a latina with the longest administrative tenure at city college of san francisco, having served as dean of the mission campus for 17 years. so please join me in recognizing dr. del portillo. [applause] >> our next honoree is nicky trasvina. [applause] the end of all education should be service to others. this quote inspires nicky trasvina, community activist, student advisor, supervisoror to counseling for many latinos. nicky was inspired by the fine example that her parents and brother demonstra

>> all the regulations that are required by both the human rights commission and the city attorney and purchasing in terms of their profits -- all of those are inc.. they are part of the requirements in the rfp. that is another reason why -- at the very end, i want to get back with them to make sure we are all comfortable and all on solid grounds with everyone. >> thank you. thank you. >> any of our questions? >> i always like to be reassured on the account. how much money do we have for this? >> between us and planning for the total, we are around $7 million. >> $7 million. >> yeah. we have given information to the mayor's office and the mayor's office's people so they are aware of what the request planning needs to make next year and what we need to make so that we are making sure we have enough money set aside for this project. >> there $7 million set aside. >> yes, between the two departments. >> we are paying our part and they are paying their parcht. are we paying for planning as well? >> we are not paying for planning. we are going to pay for the enterprise license -- at this po

we have the human rights commission. it isn't a history or mystery. just look around. blacks are leaving this town. where is willy brown? blacks are lreavin g -- leaving this town. i want to know. blacks are leaving this town. who is in control? thank you very much. president chiu: the public comment at this time has to be focused on either the motion directing the board of supervisors to promote the process for nominating a successor or to the amended motion that the board convened today to take public input and discuss the process by which the board may exercise its jurisdiction. if we pass his motion, we will sit in another committee for additional public comment on this item. >> i want to commend the supervisors that have come forward.