president chiu: madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business today, mresident. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an

president chiu: madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business today, mresident. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> good morning, everybody. my name is ed lee. we're here today, of course, to make reappointments and new appointments to three very good commissions of the city and what i wanted to say as an outset, to thank supervisor mark farrow here from district two, fire chief johan and his wife. john ram from our planning commission. we have other commissioners here, as well. d.p.w. is here and various members. what i wanted to say to these very fine people is that i know about volunteerism. i know that throughout my life the reason why this city is so great is because people come forward, they volunteer their time, sometimes the volunteer is maybe feeling it's not the worth the struggles you have to be on on some of these commissions and getting through the board process and all of that. sometimes it's easy. but the service is well worth it. this city could never be great if we didn't have the volunteer work that our citizens pu

president chiu: madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business today, mresident. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >>

president chiu: madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business today, mresident. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

[bell] president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, mr. president, members. one of the reasons i korea last year was to try to do it. what i korea on was trying to find a way. the best way i can find for the funding of this is the approval of this project. there are changes in love heard recently from the mtc, so we can mitigate some of the 19th avenue. i do not think we will be able to do that without. i want to think one man who has worked a long time on this issue. i would like you to think ahead to 30 years from now about what this area will be like. some programs will have their facts korea and the carbon tax will have its effects. wages have actually gone down in the last 10 years. i think it would be farsighted to start restricting the parking at parkmerced early on, and i realize a lot of this is not part of the eir. i hope you will pass this on the merits of the eir alone and not on the others. the developer, as you know, has already had to reorganize ones. if this it's dragged out, the cost is going to go into the process. there are changes that nee

mr. president. president chiu: thank you. mr. barack's? >> good afternoon. this is very, very simple because this is a very simple issue. this does not have the dates, but i had to write it in. this is very easy to understand. the existing homes start way down here at the bottom of this graph. starting at the beginning of the installation of the project, as you can see, these will produce a lot more greenhouse gases at the beginning of the project. they do not start lowering the greenhouse gases until you reach around the year 2036. that is 24 years of increase emissions. president chiu: let's hear from the coalition. >> the planning commission should be limited to 10 minutes. i would just jump into this. president chiu: i will say for the record that the various parties, we do what we always do your at the board. >> all right. starting at the five minute mark. >> i want to start right out from the beginning. my name is mitchell. i am with the coalition. what is the standard that we are looking at today. there is the informational document and the correctnes

president chiu: madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. commissioner campos: good morning and welcome to the february 8, 2011 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority plans and programs committee. my name is david campos, the chair of the committee. i am joined by committee vice chair commissioner carmen chu as well as committee member scott wiener. commissioners john avalos, david chiu are in route. the clerk of the committee is erica chang. covering the meeting for sfgtv r charles and mark. please call item 2. >> item 2. approve the minutes of the january 11, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: colleagues, we have the meeting before you. any comments or changes to the minute meetings? is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we have a motion on that item? motion by commissioner wiener, seconded by commissioner chu. we can take that without objection. we h

mr. president. president chiu: supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you, president chiu.o appreciate the work that's been done putting this ordinance together. i would like to -- despite that, i would like to continue the item so i can have a conversation with mayor lee and bring it back to you, president chiu, so we can put a little more spontaneity into our marle appearance at the -- mayoral appearance at the board of supervisors. i think it's worth the effort. i think people would like to see something a little more spontaneous. i don't think that needs to be changed very much. i did have a proposed amendment that was made more or less on the fly. but that's the intent and mayor lee has already offered to meet. i told him the nature of my request and amendment. he has offered to meet with me in the next week before next tuesday. president chiu: supervisor avalos has made a motion to continue this. seconded by supervisor campos. colleagues, can we do that without objection? i understand it's to marchle, -- march 8. one week. if we could take that motion to continue with

mr. president. supervisor chiu: and if we could read our consent agenda. >> items 1 through 16 comprise the consent agenda. the items are considered routine and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless the member of the board request discussion of the matter. it shall be removed and considered as a separate item. supervisor chiu: i understand item two needs to be removed. are there any other items folks would like to sever? if we could take a vote of items one through 16 without item two. >> wiener aye. avalos aye. chiu aye. campos aye. chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. . there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: those ordinances are finally passed. >> item two is amended police code regarding discharge of firearms and fireworks. supervisor chiu: i understand that this item needs to be continued until march 15, given an issue with the draft language. can i have a motion to that effect? without objection, this item will be continued until the 15th. colleagues, it i

mr. cooper. [applause] president chiu: supervisor elsbernd? supervisor elsbernd: to the planning department, one piece you haven't discussed that came up in a lot of the appellant's arguments and if you could elaborate further on what the e.i.r. does is that the environmental impact of living in a construction zone for 20 to 30 years. what protections are in place? we have the very -- you know, the very touching testimony about the children, both at the month tore sorry -- the montessori school but the babies that live at parkmerced. what is in place? what is analyzed about living in a construction zone for the next 30 years? >> as a general statement and as a e.i.r. details, there are a lot of existing regulations in place and city ordinances that will significantly reduce those potential impacts. i would also suggest that over a 20-year construction period on the 152-acre site, those impacts would not occur in one place, rather, they would be moving from location to location as the phases develop throughout the project. so while we beautiful

mr. president, all members are present. president chiu: ladies and gentleman could do please join me in the pledge of allegiance. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. >> if you could read the consent agenda. >> these items will be impact upon by single roll-call vote unless a member wants a separate vote, it shall be removed. president chiu: i understand item 4 needs to be severed. are there any other items folks would like to sever? if we could take roll-call vote without item for. >> [roll-call] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: if we go to item no. 4. >> item 4 is amending the police code to amend sections -- to consolidate the prohibitions on the discharge of firearms within the city and restate the exceptions to those prohibitions. president chiu: i understand a version in the file was not the correct version. we have been asked if we could continue this item for a week. could i have a motion? second ed. without objection, we will continue this item until march the eight. colleagues, if we could ca

president chiu: good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors' meeting of march f- 15, 2011. madam clerk, could you please read the roll? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] mr. president, there is a quorum. president chiu: supervisors, as you probably know, supervisors mirkarimi, wei -- wiener, and cohen are in washington, d.c.. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, and you should all have copies of the february 8, 2011, board minutes. could i have a motion to approve these? without objection, this meeting -- those meeting minutes will be accepted. are there any meeting minutes? clerk calvillo: there are none. president chiu: and could you please read? clerk calvillo: all matters here are considered to be routine. no separate discussion, unless a member of the board requests, in which event, the matter shall be removed from the consent agenda. president chiu: madam clerk, could you please read the roll on the consent agenda? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] there are 8 ayes. president chiu: that is passed with the resolutions adopted. item four, please. clerk calvillo: a summary vacation, jurisdictional transf

president chiu: thank you, next speaker? >> mr. president, mi am a a member of the gallery, i come here often. i am confused and i prefer to be in the audience. my district, for the first time ever, in the last election, not only was a progressive collected but the runner-up was also a progressive which is a unique thing for our district. it is positive, but things are not quite settled as they were when it was chirris daly versus everyone. getting rid of that the way -- dead weight, thank god for term limits. i would like to make a belated welcome to the supervisors. my own supervisor kim, i live in probably the most dysfunctional area of the city, we are competing with a view -- bayview on that. we sue each other. it's hard to work with us. i welcome and hope our new lord of the flies -- i know the voters are not used to having to pick someone. i appreciate you getting through that. desmond bishop, i know the bears won that game. today, we won that one. [chime] >> is there anyone else that would like to talk for public comment? if

supervisor chiu: welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march 22, 2011. >> [roll call] mr. president, there is a quorum. supervisor chiu: thank you. i understand the supervisors chu and kim are expected shortly. but i wonder if i could have a motion to excuse supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos will be excused. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. colleagues, we have february 15, 2011, board meeting minutes. can i have a motion to approve? without objection, those meeting minutes will be approved. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. supervisor chiu: if you could read our consent agenda. >> items one through five comprise the consent agenda. the items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. unless a member requests discussion of a matter. it will be removed and discussed separately. supervisor cohen. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: those resolutions are adopted an ordinance is finally passed. >> item 6 is an ordinance

president chiu. supervisor chiu: thank you, mr.olleagues, i want to thank you for your consideration of a proposal today that is about yellow books, about the environment, about how we clean up our neighborhoods, and consumer choice. this is a piece of legislation that rhino many folks all around the city have often thought about in recent years when we noticed the huge number of plastic-wrapped in yellow pages dumped on doorways, lobbies, the apartment buildings, and on streets. the pictures you have in front of you are pictures of my neighborhood, actually, my block. but these are ubiquitous images around the entire city. in the middle of last year, i asked my staff to start researching some of the facts around the situation involving the yellow pages, and we learned some inconvenient truths related to this topic, related to the environment. the yellow pages industry distributes 1.6 million yellow pages to san francisco every year. as we know, the population of our city is a little less than a hundred thousand individuals, so tha

president chiu: good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors' meeting of march f- 15, 2011. madam clerk, could you please read the roll? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] mr. president, there is a quorum. president chiu: supervisors, as you probably know, supervisors mirkarimi, wei -- wiener, and cohen are in washington, d.c.. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance?

mr. supervisors and lady muspervisors. [bell] president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. > > i don't know how these work. president chiu: sfgtv will take care of it. >> oh -- i consider myself a model tenant. there were the communal dump sites, as you see before you. i continue to live here because it is the only place i can leav -- live in a single-family home. my objections are population tripling, single family houseing being irradicated, a loss of private garden character and living space, satellite parking lots would create an opportunity for more crime, particularly during nightfall. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. president chiu: next speaker, please. >> i did not prepare any long speaches. i wonder if you have the answers. one question is ecological. i will have to live for 20 years with construction around me. do we know what the impact on the health of people? i have a big concern about financial security. right now, we see [unintelligible] there are apartments that are not fully packed. there are empty apartments. and many

mr. president, i move item 48 and i move to table items 49 and 50. president chiulleagues, supervisor weiner has proposed that we affirm the planning department's decision. is there a second to his motion? seconded by supervisor campos. roll call vote on the motion. >> [roll call] >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: the motion is approved. if we can now go to general public comments. >> the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address the board for two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including items on the adoption without committee reference. a portion of the agenda yet excluding items which have already been considered by a board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> i'd like the projector to show the document i have placed under the

mr. president -- could we formally container -- continue our closed session item for two weeks? supervisor chiuon to continuing this item? without objection, that should be the case. now to the adoption of that committee reference calendar. would anybody like to sever any of these items? supervisor elsbernd: 23. supervisor chiu: if we could take a roll call vote on all the items except 23. >> cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim absent. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. campos aye. chiu aye. aye. kim aye. there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: resolutions are adopted. item 23. >> item 23 is a resolution authorizing proponents and opponents ballot arguments and rebuttals ballot arguments for some middle to the voters at the june 7, 2011, consolidated special election. supervisor elsbernd: it is easier is just one supervisors listed under these things, and i would make a motion on page one line 17 supervisor kim be listed as the primary proponent for the charter amendment, the supervisor chu be the lone proponent for the ordinance for a former mayor, the eye on page 10 be the lone proponent t

president chiu: saint you. next speaker. >> [speaking foreign language] supervisor jane kim. [speaking foreign language] mr. president. [speaking foreign language] ladies and gentlemen, as you know, my name is -- i would like to give special thanks to our district six supervisor, janer -- jane kim. nÉe people like to be around her to see if she can help our district -- many people like to be around her. there are many who try to run for mayor. you are one of them. not to you or anyone else. the would like to see each and every one of you what agenda you have and what will do when we give you our vote. we have tried to support you. if you run for sheriff, i would like to see your muscle. crime in this city korea i wish you good luck. and guess what? we are going to support and they're going to vote for the person who has a plan for san francisco. think he for accepting our invitation. it is not to come to visit me or my neighbor. you will visit with another family. thank you. president chiu: think you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. stop the rape of the public library. every now and then, we must face th

mr. charles mcglashen. that concludes our business for today. president chiu: we are adjourned. >> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities that it is behind the sphere of dominant gay and lesbian culture. the curator fills us in on the process of creating this thoughtful exhibition. and what she would like you to take away from it. >> i co-cureated with danny, a chicago-based writer and curator. the conceptual framework is what it means to be clear and radical for our generation. clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities, not necessarily related to institutions of gender and swam formativity. danny and i wanted the show to feel funky and to have a really tangible quality to it. so part of that was incorporated handmade objects and installations and beautifully printed photographs and videos. there is also a lot of opportunities to participate a

mr. charles mcglashen. that concludes our business for today. president chiu: we are adjourned. to welcome you to regula board meeting of the san francisco unified school district, march 22, 2011 and now called to order. "roll call," please. commissioner fewer: >> here. dr. murase. here, norton, here, wynns, hire. mendoza, here. please join us for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god in divisible with liberty and justice for all. "roll call," please ["roll call" [ president mendoza: item b is approved. superintendent's report. superintendent garcia is not here this evening, but we are joined by our deputy superintendent. >> thank you, president mendoza. i appreciate the rolling of the r's. this evening, our superintendent is not here this evening. he is in washington, d.c., representing the district at the council of great city schools executive committee meeting, meeting with legislators and the college board of trustees' meeting. he does send his best wishes to e