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

while i have a hearing with the rent board coming up, i am asking that the board of appeals, if not toward me the $5,101 a relocation fee, at least be aware that the reason i am here is because i believe that mr. epstein is chosen to use this permit process as a way of harassing me out of my home. he is taking advantage of the permit system. commissioner garcia: thank you. commissioner fung: or accommodations made for you? >> no. the porta-potti has been removed. it was not cleaned for two weeks. anything else? >> mr. epstein? >> we have a new sound system. the buzzes sound the same this time. first one is a 30-second warning. the second one means stop. >> madame president, mr. vice president, commissioners, the way i understand is this board has already decided that the permit complies with the law. she has made allegations with regard to manifest injustice. i have provided the board with the information on which i based the opinion that i gave last hearing that the rent board ordinance does not cover the situation where a tenant has a lease. i have provided you with a copy of the lease t

if you have questions about a rehearing, please speak to board staff during a break, or call the board office tomorrow morning. the board office is located on mission street, room 304, and this meeting is broadcast live on the san francisco government television, sfgtv, cable channel 78, and dvd's of this meeting are available for purchase directly from sfgtv. thank you for your attention. at this time, we will conduct our swearing in process. if you wish to give testimony and have this be given evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your right hand, and say, "i do," after you have been sworn or affirmed. please note that any member of the public may speak pursuant to the rights of the sunshine ordinance of the administrative code. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. thank you. director goldstein: thank you. commissioner peterson, commissioners, -- president goh, commissioner, some of these items will not be heard this evening, and those are with respect to the property on mason street,

>> good evening and welcome to the board of appeals. we're joined by representatives from the planning department and the department of building inspection. we are joined by a -- representing the department of public health. at this time, if you would please go over the meeting guidelines and then conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request that you will turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceedings. the rules of presentation are as follows, appellants, permit holders, and a part of representatives each have seven minutes to present and three minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated must conclude their comments within the time given. those who are not affiliated with the party have up to three minutes each to address the board. to assist the board in the preparation minutes, members of the public that wish to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a card. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side. the board welcomes your comments and suggestions. there are comment cards on th

met again for the last in the meeting of the board. still without a mayor selected or even nominations made. time was running out on the current board, but december 14 seemed like a rerun of december 7, with supervisor maxwell again making a motion to continue to the last board meeting in early january. >> colleagues, i ask that we continue this item. i think we have three weeks to have somebody floating out there for that amount of time is not going to be to our best interest. it will give us an opportunity to really think about, in the next few weeks, what is ahead of us. it allows the board to step back and take a breath and wait this heavy decision that we were just about ready to make. >> there was no one lined up. that was one of the most fascinating and frustrating things about the process. no one knew what was going to happen. everyone was asking. it was amazing. do you know what is going on, do you know who has the upper hand? >> after the holidays, and jerry brown was sworn in as cal.'s next governor. but the tenant gov. elec

if you do go all door boarding to -- if you do go to all door boarding, you're subject to inspection. on rail, there is still some confusion. also, that people understand where they are and what we are asking of them and what the expectations are and finally, the other issue on how to best handle the cash that will be left and remaining. the next several slides are steps that are necessary, no matter what the plan, to make sure the machines are up and reliable, that people understand them and we encourage people to use the rear door when we have that and they begin to turn the message around from a negative to a positive. if we go in this direction, require new sign edge to replace what we have there are a number of ideas we talked about, building on what we have an extended afford to get the message out and educate people. it is important we work with the operators to get the consistency. right now, they bear the brunt of the burden. they do excellent job sorting out how a variety of issues, so we want to make sure we are clear and explain to them and walk them through the process an

so this is a regular board meeting of the board of education of san francisco unified school district for august 9, 2011. roll call, please. >> ms. fewer. >> here. >> ms. maufas. dr. murase. present. ms. norton. ms. wynns. here. mr. yee. >> here, he's here. >> ms. mendoza. president mendoza: here. and ms. tom. here. >> join me for the pledge of allegiance. item a, approval of the board minutes, we have none. item be, presentations to the board of education by the superintendent. superintendent, welcome back. >> for those of us who -- superintendent garcia: for those of us who stayed around -- no, that's not true. i was gone, but we got a lot done. starting the school year today, last week, we've been looking at a lot of training, professional development going on in the schools, it's fabulous. it's great to see the entire district talking about special education, talking about how kids learn to read, how kids do math, how we can improve in those areas. i don't know, i kind of feel like a kid going back to their first day of school all over again. it's exciting time. so i want to thank

on agenda items can call buckner board office -- called the board office prior to the meeting being called. you need to call them out prior to the item being called. item g is the consent calendar. i need a motion and a second. any options objected now? >> we would like to remove k21, and we would like to make a correction on page 105. for foster homes, it should cebe hsa. the listed code should be 61,814, and 05-76-- there should be a credit of $60,000, and that is it. >> any items removed brennan reserve removed? any items severed for discussion? >> item k19 i have a couple of questions on. >> roll call will take place if there are no other comment spirit go no other comments. >> i would like to move forward item i, which is the resolution for approval. and we have the reconsideration of resolution 108, already approved on august 23. can i get a curriculum report? you are reporting for the commitment bowman -- for the commitment? >> it was forward with a positive recommendation, and i believe we did recommend an amendment. >> yes. should i give an overview? >> just hold on one sec

ed says the first 45 minutes of the stock would be praising the board of supervisors -- the board of directors. [laughter] i am very proud of the selection made. please join me in welcoming the new director of transportation and. [applause] >> thank you. obviously, my mom was up late last night what -- writing talking points for everybody. thank you to her for doing so. [laughter] i am honored and humbled to be here before you today. i want to thank the mta board for their vote of confidence in appointing me to this position. i came to local governments, to public service and local governments 10 or 11 years ago because i love cities. i think cities are incredibly important. they will be potential to enable people to access education and jobs and culture and diversity, interaction and innovation. they also hold the potential to about us grow so that we can grow in ways that we are not spreading out to the west out -- to the rest of the planet that we need to sustain itself. for those reasons, i decided about a dozen years ago to devote my professional life to trying to make this work

item s are the board members reports. we have one from the augmented curriculum and augmented rules and i'd like toad reports from the joint city college and the joint city school district. so they can't talk about the reports even though they're not posted? we've always been able to talk about other stuff on where we are and what we've done and places we've been and under this category. >> it's informational. president mendoza: it's informational. >> you generally can make announcements without having to agendize the item under the brown act, but if it's a report from one of your standing committees under the brown act, it would require that we post that report, as well, but you are free to make an announcement if the committee has an announcement rather than a report from its committee meeting. president mendoza: if the committee leaders have an announcement they'd like to make about their committee meeting, you're welcome to do that at this time. let's start with commissioner norton? commissioner norton: the curriculum

i would welcome him to go to the board of supervisors to make his pitch to the board. i believe the majority, if not all of the board of supervisors, will end up endorsing our proposal. we will have a public process for him to involve himself. i had offered his input. we took a lot of his ideas at the beginning in january, february, march, when we included everyone at the table, and he was still out that gathering signatures for something different, using outside money and outside help. we were all working with the city family, labor unions, city departments, trying to do our work. so his proposal has not really changed. i think he is just realizing the data is coming and he is a ploy to have to make a decision whether to go with hours or himself. i do not that there is much support for his proposal. he has not that it the right way. we continue offering him eight opportunity to join us. he will attack our proposal with limited few points that are not correct. he is currently saying that we made some deal using the budget balancing proposal. that is so nonsensical. he

the board of supervisors. we want to make sure that that process is applied to the issue of overtime. supervisor farrell, i do not know if you want to add anything to that. i will turn it over to the controller's office. >> good morning. monique from the controller's office. on a monthly basis and semi- annually as well, the comptroller's office provides reports to the board of supervisors as well as the department of the actual use of overtime compared to the budget. the board of supervisors did pass legislation this week also related to the maximum amount of overtime hours any employee can work. this companion measure would limit the overtime to how much is a budget and would require a real appropriation to change the amount or to increase it. because this legislation was pending before the committee during the budget process, we took a hard look at the actual overtime in each of these departments and recommended an amount that is consistent with the prior year's spending. we're hoping that the apartments wi

i support the out -- all door boarding. also what was being mentioned about the curbside buses not pulling in to the curb. i live in a residential out of sunset. one aboard the bus especially when the hybrid buses when the rap deploys onto the street, many times i mentioned it to you guys. i am concerned about the safety of these buses. i do not know we can do about it as far as creating more bus zones in these neighborhoods. to board safely, we need to look into that. more curbside parking. like noriega, judah, balboa. all of them are mixed use. maybe we can work together to find out how we can make it more safe for people with disabilities. it is not just people with disabilities, it is everybody. everybody has to go out on the street level to board. everyone has to stand on that and hopefully you guys can support it. thank you. >> next speaker. >> robert boden, jim frank, mario tenev. >> i am here to represent the members of the san francisco wrote transit riders union -- san francisco transit riders union. we are in ful

on item 13 on all-door boarding. while we do not have a new recommendation on this, it has been a longstanding and repeated recommendation of the cac that the agency seriously look at all-or boarding, and there are all kinds of advantages to this. not the least of which is speeding boarding and greeting presence on the bus system that is not there now. so that everyone will get accustomed to having checked for their fares by and that haposite evasion. there are all kinds of ways we win by doing this. i was pleased by my reading of the presentation you are about to hear the discussion is one of rolling out this all at once. one of the concerns we have had with implementation is if we do it in part of the system and we have the old system in part of the system, that creates a lot of passenger condition. right now we have passenger confusion stemming from having one system on metro and one system owneon buses prohibiting- door boarding. we differentiate between rail and bus modes. for a lot of people, they don't. it is

welcome to the meeting of the board of appeals. the board president is kendall goh. to my left is the deputy city attorney. she will provide the board with any legal advice. i am the board executive director. in the front row we are joined by representatives from some of the city departments you will be hearing from this evening. the senior planner and assistant to the zoning administrator. next is the building inspector. he is joined by the acting chief inspector tony greco. mr. pinelli will not be here. there is one housekeeping item. president goh has canceled next week's meeting. the next meeting is september 14, 2011. at this time, if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing-in process. >> the board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so there will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentations are as follows. permit holders and part representatives each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for a bottle. -- rebuttal. members of the public

of our request of the board. we will have a full executed agreement that will detail itemized changes that have been made and we will have a very complete, full set of plans for the departments and the board. >> is there something we could show you tonight in the architectural plans that would help clarify the concerns? >> why can't we ujust uphold the appeal -- and [inaudible] president goh: in order for a special permit to be positioned, i need to review and make sure those plans conform to the agreement to the board's decision. without knowing what the modifications are, it makes the task impossible. >> whether it is a final list today for a sheet -- or a sheet or drawing, it is irrelevant. it has to be final. they are unable to give that to us right now. that is the problem. >> i am wondering if you have plans that are specific. >> we do, and i understood they had been given to you before the hearing. perhaps i was wrong. i do have a set for you. >> maybe this can be resolved while we hear the next case. you

. >> anyone else care to address the board? >> item 12, presentation and discussion regarding the central subway project. >> i do not have a formal presentation. this was meant to be included on the director's report, but given the size of the central subway project and it's important to the system, i thought it was important to stand alone. i want to update the board of where it is and how it's going just to keep you current and make sure any concerns from the board we can bring back to the project. the big picture is there were two sets of relocation utility contracts. south of market is almost complete. in union square, we have been working closely with the union square association and other merchants. it is largely done trade largest chunk will be done before the holiday -- the holiday moratorium. there'll be little work after january, but the lion's share has been done. given the magnitude of the work and disruptions in one of our busiest commercial areas in the city and the fact that commercial businesses there are largel

we come to ask the board's permission or the board's consent, well, not really the consent. we came to let you know what we're getting ready to do. we are very concerned about the polite of the veterans here in san francisco and we decided to start a west coast swing dance which is the state dance of california. the instigator being robert here himself. he can tell you more about that. but we're going to start this dance and we're going to have this dance, i feel a lot of hostilities in the room today and i tell you, it's been kind of hard for me to sit here and listen to the things that have been going down. i wanted the supervisors to know that we as veterans, we support the veterans in san francisco and we do a program called the appreciating veterans especially on sunday. you can see it on youtube. you can pull it up on youtube yourself. that's the search engine you use. it's on the public access channel and you can see that every sunday morning from 6:00 until 7:00. so what we're trying to do, we want support from the board of supervisors to do the west coast swing danc

the work boarding and for that reason. what we are talking about is not just as most cities in north america have than all door boarding for light rail, we already have that. we would be the first city in north america to do a complete systemwide all door boarding. our current system, we talked a lot about this. it is confusing to writers and operators. -- riders and operators. the success we have with clipper and the percentage of people buying prepaid fare instruments, the fact we have klipper devices on both doors of our vehicles, we are continuing to improve the reliability of those, but at the same time, it positions us well to move from our current, bifurcated fair system to a different approach. there are the advantages. first and foremost, customer convenience. it would speed up boarding time and do the other things we talked about. in terms of what the concept is, what we talked about and kicked around internally was the idea of a pilot -- should we first start with a couple of lines rather than go to the whole sy

stan smith became the board member. and the statement at that time was a person, they would go and stan smith would approve the fact that it was coming through to work and it would join the union. in the 1970's, that is what we did. that has been 40 years. and my question, because i know he is here, i couldn't believe, when i found out a few months ago, he is the vice president of the black organization and opposes local hiring. i could not understand that. when i started asking about of prejudice, what people can become, i would like to have some statistics of how many people from dave you hunters point had become an apprentice or a journeyman. it is ridiculous to me that a man of that statute being head of local labor union of posing -- and what he has written is disgusting. and he said he is not a racist. thank you. >> again, every chance i get to thank the general manager for his ongoing support for local hiring, it was critical for the city moving forward and adopting an outcome space and approached to local hiring