that i will support and defend -- >> the constitution of the united states -- >> the constitution of the united states >> and the constitution of the state of california -- >> and the constitution of the state of california >> against allen miss foreign and domestic -- against all enemies foreign and domestic -- >> against allen miss and domestic -- >> that i will bear true faith and aline of scrimmagens. >> that i will bear true faith and aline of scrimmagens >> to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and to the constitution of the state of california. >> to the constitution of the state of california. >> that i take this obligation freely -- >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion -- >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion -- >> and that i will well and faithfully -- >> and that i will well and faithfully -- >> discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter. >> discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter -- >> and during such time -- >> and during such time -- >> as i hold the office of -- >> as i hold the office of -- >> mayor for the city and county of sa

a general tax on the ballot unless there are legislative seats also on the ballot under the california constitution so this requires a 2/3 vote of the people. the tax needs to be dedicated as a special tax. what is proposed are a couple of things. this falls into how the mayor has been talking about his priorities for the budget over the past several months. some of you have heard the mayor may be one or too many times about how you'd like to see a budget that is solvent. a safe part of that equation is what we're talking about today with this measure. when he talks about having a safe city, he talks about two things. he talks about public safety which is the core police and emergency response services and that is obviously a key component of safety. he also means a basic social safety net, a minimal level of social services that help people in our city feel a sense of personal safety about their future, about their health care, about their economic stability. so, the proposal that is before us would be dedicated to a fund that can be used for both of those purposes. this could be used for public s

not only the sunshine ordinance, knowing your rights under sunshine, but the brown act, the california constitution, and the constitution of the united states. i give you credit in the sense that as i watch your board, i have yet to see any of you interfere with somebody making public comment. i give you a big thumbs up on that. the second thing is access to public records. this is where i probably still have a bone of contention. because of a case that i talked about that i was not involved in, where there were serious questions about whether the process that had been gone through was fair. i know for a fact that the public records that the person who is a party of the case needed were denied it to her, and she was run through a whole bunch of sunshine ordinance hearings, which i got the impression was only to just drive her crazy. i brought that here, i said i have no skin in this game, these are just acquaintances, but i've seen what they have gone through and i think there are some serious things, annual shrugged it off and said, not our problem. the building department gives her a hard time, t

is looking at it also could do violate the first amendment it could violate the california constitution which also provides even stronger free speech rights than the federal constitution does i'd be surprised if they're not lawsuits here eventually. so all the f.c.c. tries to sort out the legality of the cell phone mess has become clear at the people of san francisco are continuing to fight against police brutality and for their rights of free speech and assembly. now it's fact technology the internet it's changing the way we interact with one another changing the way that we learn and changing the way that we remember last month a new study was released that show that banks to the ability to have information available at our fingertips think google searches we some consciously stop storing away as much data as we used to we now forget things that we're confident we can find on light and we're more likely to remember the things we think are unavailable online on top of that we're better able to remember where to find something on the internet that we are remembering the information itse

the california state constitution mandates that every county have a civil grand jury. therefore, there are 58 grand juries in california of varying sizes. the grand jury in san francisco is comprised of 19 members. i am pleased today that there are several members of the 2010-2011 grandeur with us, and i will ask those members to rise to be briefly recognized. thank you. [applause] i agree. the members of the grand jury report regard for the citizens of san francisco. the purpose of the grand jury is to serve as oversight to the operation of city government. as such, we appoint investigative committees around various topics and then prepare reports each year. this year, we completed seven investigative reports, and in addition, five continuity reports, all of which will be hurt by this body over the next several months. today, we will present our initial report on "the parkmerced vision: government by developer." i would like to introduce to you now michael, who serves as the chair of that committee, who will present the report for the jury. thank you. supervisor campos

that seems to be in the spirit of the state of constitution of california. >> the next day, the board had one last chance to nominate their twice for interim mayor on january 4. >> when the board finally got around to actually nominating people for, and taking up the issue of inter mayorship, the first thing people should know is it was late at night. the board really put this off as light as they could. people were tired and cranky. that is the first thing people should know about this meeting. >> they said they would take nominations according to who was on the roster first. so it became a game of jeopardy where the question was, who could press the button first? then it became this sort of strategy. >> having run out of time, board members began the first round of nominations. >> i would nominate former mayor art agnos. >> current city administrator ed lee. >> everyone is expecting hennessey to have the sixth vote. >> i would like to request a 20- minute recess. >> perhaps an explanation? >> i would like a recess. that is my explanation. >> colleague, can do that without objection?

but seriously, i'm humbled by the ctla members who every day, every day defend their clients using the constitutions of the united states and california in support of great principles. every day our members show courage in bay area courts, and we do ok in the big battles as well. who will ever forget the extraordinary accomplishments of john in defending our college, patrick, from a crazy federal prosecutor in nevada? that level of talent and that level of courage is unique, but every day criminal courts in the bay area shine because my colleagues from ctla are working there. recently ctla issued a public statement against the death penalty. ctla joins other groups and individuals here today in calling for permanent incarceration as california's alternative to the death penalty. this city and county has a great san francisco public defender and we want to express our thanks to jeff adachi for his support of ctla over the years and for his gratitude for being here today. thank you for your taxi and have a great conference -- thank you for your attention and have a great conference. [applause] >> i also want to acknowledge the public de