but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >> although it was obvious we would appoint an interim mayor, there was no time line for the two to occur. we looked to outside counsel for answers. they researched those questions. while they researched the legal angle, we began the research on the parliamentary level. at the beginning of the calendar year 2010, we started to craft a generic process for a successor for mayor. being a parliamentarian of the board, i have been working on the process itself. i have been working with two one and parliamentarians in the city. we did some role-playing and tried to contemplate all of the different variables that the board would encounter in appointing a successor mayor. >> the first time i became aware of the process as when my editor and myself asked us how the process would work. we quickly became tongue tied and did not have an answer. you went to the clerk of the board of supervisors to ask, the difference supervisors, the city a

several suggested the more experienced board to make this election, rather than the new board in january. >> there are two problems with the new board coming on. one is the experience level, but more importantly, there is a part of me that believe you should already know your password and e-mail address before you get to hear. that is the reality of it. >> the board saw this as a golden opportunity to select a progressive mayor. >> for progressives, this was the mother of all great opportunities. they have been chomping at the bit to be in room 204 years. the city generally votes more moderately on the whole. >> there is one in term mayor from the progressive side to make sure in the next year, it will be a progressive mayor with a progressive majority board. then maybe in the election, they can have another elected progressive mayor. >> another issue was to consider selecting a caretaker mayor. several may run in november and preferred that the interim mayor be a caretaker. >> the board of supervisors should respect the people's current choice, which was extended a few years ago, and at

i believe that elena has a lot to offer the board. she will bring her years of therapy and counseling as well as all the strategies that she brings to our organization in terms of being able to respond appropriately to the high needs and complexity. i believe that she is a visionary. she has done that with the work that she has done with our agency. i hope that you all approve further to the mental health board. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to talk. i have known -- for more than a dozen years. i would like to say that not only is she a visionary but she puts the word in. she will do a lot of heavy lifting. she goes to a lot of meetings. she works with the youth, the families, the parents. not only does she work with you but she inspires you to do more. lot of the times, she would make me do it myself and i was able to do it. to give guidelines and help. now, you can do it and get your own level of expertise. i would like to see where on the mental health board. i have seen a lot of trauma

once the board approves it, that approves a permit. this is lawful and allowed under the permit, it might be preferable. >> if i had five minutes, i think that he could get through each violation and agreed to remove them from the permit. there are some that we can keep on their probably. >> i was about to suggest that we take a break after this case. why don't we do that and give you a chance to have a conversation. >> i thought that we should not go ahead with this permit with the references to the violations. >> i was calling to suggest a break. might we break for 10 minutes and returned to this case. president goh: welcome back to the july 27, 2011 meeting. it will return to item 5v. b. mr. duffy, if you could explain it to the board please. >> commissioners, we got together and we're going to remove -- >> he gave me the wording, he would like the bellpull the permit, all work to be struck from the scope except for two things. remodel the term in unit 340 and comply with -- that is it. commissioner garcia: which deals with what? >>

the board secretary, our new board members. [applause] this year marks the 45th anniversary of san francisco pride. we continue to create diversity and march in the street parades. this year we will be focusing on our youth. pride is at the forefront of protecting the lgbt youth and fighting against bullying. our committee has continued to fight since last year. we had a big treat with don't ask, don't tell. a federal judge overturned proposition 8. we continue to fight hiv and aids for our committee. the theme this year "in pride we trust," many ask how we could have that thing this year. it is in san francisco that we fight for equality, a diverse culture, we fight for liberty and freedom for everybody. it is fitting that the community, our leaders, that we can trust our city leaders to stand up with us and stand brown. i hope you will join us for the march and celebration. -- we can trust our city leaders to stand up with us and stand proud. i hope you will join us for the march and celebration. [applause] >> i have a particu

i would ask the board not to change the composition of the board. in law enforcement, sometimes your career is cut short. that was my case. when is, you rely on the board as far as what benefits we were going to be entitled to. if the board has changed and the benefits are changed, we are denied it basically what we were told, that we would receive for the rest of our life. it seems not fair or just. >> my name is louis scott, and the immediate past president. i come here as an individual, not as an officer. a mark of humanity of an individual is care for the vulnerable. i think the market of humanity of our city is also care for the vulnerable. as put together, this 260 page measure has snakes army of the most vulnerable and modest income retirees. these are people like teachers, accountants, professionals, technical engineers, many of the miscellaneous retired employees. these are the same kind of clause that shot down the measure last year. another snake is that we don't have a transparent and open government process. who could even understand th

they gave that service to the community. as a board member, i was not allowed to go through the auditor. as you know, the board controls staff, not the other way around. there are e-mails showing their illegal activities and things like that. you need to take over set of this organization. chairperson campos: thank you. next speaker. just for the record, supervisor kim is not able to be here because she needs to be in the budget committee. i think she is probably needed for a quorum. next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. i am not related to lane, but we have the same last name. i am the clubhouse director of the board -- of the boys and girls club. i have been there for five years and have gotten an opportunity to work with the safe passage program. it is a community-based safety project to get children safely through the neighborhood. the tenderloin has the highest concentration of children on the city. having a safe street is really critical at times. there is a block between high, taylor, ellis, and g

and then as we bring the information forward to the board, through the commission to the board, we will have to have the necessary appropriations approved by the board. this is the commission and the board. >> and then whatever is in those contracts will have certain triggers and we can go forward with it. >> ok. a term sheet and contract for rishel on july 26, the coast -- >> the term sheet on july 26 because we want people to have it before we finalize the contract. the contract will be later. >> term sheet with noble -- >> it is the back office stuff that is interesting, and that can come any time in the next few months. about the substance of the business deal. >> right. >> ok. for some reason, it is not competing for me. when do we see a contract with shell? >> if the term sheet is approved and you're happy with the terms, we're starting to work on contract language. it is not complete. if the term sheet is approved, we can bring back a contract hopefully as early as september. it depends on the responses. commissioner moran: with both noble and a shell, it will be term sheets firs

the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the other big shock is that the moderates seem to have won this round. people thought, progressives have themselves on the board. there is no reason that they will not get together and take a noted leader who is a progressive to be interim mayor, and then stayed there for another term. the great thing about being in term mayor is to get to run as an incumbent. the fact that the progressives could not get together to get somebody into office as interim mayor in their own self-interest was very surprising for a lot of us. >> what happened in the last month in city hall was an incredible sho

the board office is located at 1615 mission streets. this meeting is broadcast live on san francisco government television, cable channel 78, and the these are available for purchase directly from s.f. and -- dvds are available directly from sfgtv. if you intend to testify and wish to give your testimony, please stand, raise your right hand, and say, i do. please note any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to the rights under the sun shine ordinance. the solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. vice-president garcia, commissioners, i have one announcement. the july 20 meeting has been cancelled. that is next week's meeting. our next meaeting will be july 27. this has to do with -- one item has been withdrawn and will not be heard this evening. moving on to item number one, is there any member of the public who would like to speak on an item that is not in the agenda? seeing none, item 2 is comments and q

adachi has to appeal to the board of supervisors. i do not believe he will have the support. >> [inaudible] school construction bonds. do you worry about asian communities may not approve it -- thinking together -- two things? >> i have not had a chance to review the school bond proposal. there are several government structures, so they can place things on the bonds without our authority. i will say, with a lot of bands, the asian community has always been concerned about the quality of schools. you talk to any asian family in general, they hope that schools improve because it is their kids getting into it -- education. if they believe the school board will increase the opportunity for their kids to have a better education, there is no doubt they will vote in favor of it. but if they believe the school bond will not do that, that they would be the first ones to say no. that is the way i think i. the school district will have that obligation to convince them that this is good for them. we have challenges in our school district, as you

therefore, it would be a policy for the board of supervisors. supervisor chu: just a couple of questions, perhaps to nadia. with respect to the cop's being exposed, you break out the necessity for commercial paper, being able to take out what we anticipate from the commercial paper program. there is another line item for interest. could you explain the difference between the commercial paper program and interest related to that? what is that intended to carry us through? >> the numbers show that we used commercial paper, once the board approves this through 2012. as a result, we would use up to $15 million or more to fund the project. in that case, because we are drawing down on commercial paper, it is the accrued interest on that commercial paper that is included in the $1.1 million, which represents accrued interest. supervisor chu: so commercial paper will be used during the planning phase? you can use that fund for planning, construction work? >> all of that. we are showing up to $23.9 million. the accrued interest associated with that would

members of the board of supervisors, thank you very much. it is my pleasure to be here again to answer the questions you have presented and to know again my thanks for working with me on the budget and balancing that. i look forward to working with each and every one of you on a number of different aspects as we meet both individually as well as as a group. there's so much to accomplish, and i appreciate the invitations to be in your district every time we are able to signal to the public and to your constituents the things we are getting done to make the city safe and solvent and successful. supervisor chiu: 90. we have five questions that will be provided by our colleagues that represent our even-numbered districts. the first question will be provided by supervisor farrell from district two. supervisor farrell: thank you. beyond what we have accomplished in city hall in 2011, i wanted to understand whether you have any other specific plans you plan to implement before leaving office? >> thank you. that, for me, is a very important question

i got those statistics from the retirement board. probably the same or more for people making 25,000 or under, which is maybe one-third to half of the people who get the retirement. we are not in good shape. it may not amount to much for people who are getting more and that amount may be $500 a year, but to somebody at that bracket, it means having a cell phone or going to dr. when you need to. [tone] president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i worked 33 years for the city and retired in the adult probation department. please remove the provisions in the city retirement and health- care benefits charter amendment. that would change the composition of the health service board and reduce the supermajority vote of 5 to a simple majority of 4 to approve yours and my health care plan rate benefits and other major decisions. if the city administration is allowed to appoint four members, they would have the majority on the board. all majority decisions would be made by this majority of four. it would eliminate the voice of the employees, y

that the item be directly placed on the agenda of the board of supervisors. i would hope that, given the effort to get along and work well together, that as the author of a piece of legislation, you would not be forced to do that, but i am prepared to do the -- that if this committee is unwilling to forward this to the full board. one thing that i would say is, president chiu, you are a co- sponsor of the legislation, and if you are going to co-sponsored the legislation, i would ask that you move it forward to the full board, and if you are not prepared to do that, i would ask that you let us know whether or not you are continuing to be a co-sponsor of the legislation. supervisor chiu: thank you, colleagues. i first want to thank everyone who has come out here today to discuss this very challenging issue. obviously, this is the first time the matter has been heard of the board, and this involves a lot of complicated issues. my colleagues and i have spent a bit of time thinking about and discussing it in recent times. i do want to thank supervisors campos -- su

instead, we have from the board of supervisors, david chiu. [applause] supervisor chiu: thank you, and first of all, i want to thank the incredible men and women who are serving at the leadership of the mta. many of us at the board of supervisors were anxious and curious about the position that would be announced today. i can tell you from the board and, we are all incredibly gratified with the wonderful decision made today. congratulations for that. i also want to obviously say a few brief words about ed, and then we all want to hear from him. i have known him for three years. before i was elected to the board of supervisors, he was someone i knew was incredibly well respected not only in my district, but throughout the city, and as someone who understood the details and the big picture. we have worked closely together on improving our roads. i have cycled with him. i know he is very committed to making sure we will see great safety and great industry ahead, and he is someone who rides the bride and walks the walk. we have sat on the knee -- o