we are talking about how the city appears to the general public. these people that do look at the backs and some of the sides of the building are still a part of the general public. the concept that the front be treated as a more strict interpretation, the non-public right of way has a lasess strict interpretation with lasting guidelines does speak to me rather than dismissing it all together. i appreciate the work that has been done with spur and supervisor wiener's office. >> i also want to echo the report. our biggest concession -- position was to make sure we did not gentrified districts. i definitely support the economic hardship. it does sound like we might need some sort of parameters as to how that is defined.

we are talking about how the city appears to the general public. these people that do look at the backs and some of the sides of the building are still a part of the general public. the concept that the front be treated as a more strict interpretation, the non-public right of way has a lasess strict interpretation with lasting guidelines does speak to me rather than dismissing it all together. i appreciate the work that has been done with spur and supervisor wiener's office. >> i also want to echo the report. our biggest concession -- position was to make sure we did not gentrified districts. i definitely support the economic hardship. it does sound like we might need some sort of parameters as to how that is defined. the average, we have been having that with the westermann planning that has been going on. others that were upset about the historic survey and how other properties were impacted. they did not seem to know until it was much further along. i understand that the issue of having property owner survey was an advisory opportunity. that migh

general public comment is closed. we are on item 5, the consent calendar. we are removing 5b from the consent calendar. it will be heard on the general calendar. is there anyone who wants to make public comment on the consent calendar? president buell: someone raised their hands. >> please come forward, if you would like to make public comment on the consent calendar, but not balboa. public comment is closed on item 5. president buell: moved and seconded. >> we are now on item 5 b. balboa park improvements -- a word of construction contract. >> commissioners. in the capital planning director. this item is the continuing from our last capital committee meeting. due to an inadvertent mistake with the agenda item, we are back to let you know we would like to proceed for the balboa park project. that project will include an expanded playground, improved pathway system and complete renovation of the tennis courts, as well as fencing improvements and other improvements that will improve the use of the park. >> we do have public comment on this. christine? >> hello

you are now with the general public comments. >> if there is not any general public comment on an item that was not on today's calendar. seeing none, the general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. mr. young, are there any announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out the speaker card and return it to myself. any document should be submitted to the clerk for the file. anything discussed today should be brought up for the full board on october 25. >supervisor chu: thank you very much. please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution authorizing the director of public works to execute an amendment to the emergency public work contract to install a new, permanent emergency electrical generation system at san francisco general hospital to increase the not to exceed amount from $18,000,000 to $20,500,000. >> good morning. my name is ron alimeda. i am the progr

item number four, the general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission better with and subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and that do not appear on the agenda. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when each item is reached in the meeting. excuse me, we have one card, and that is talcallie wats. >>>> sftv, i have a video only feeds, no audio. i have been doing corporate ego audits for over 20 years. this year here in san francisco, a 10-year-old elementary soccer player named clear is standing up to bob fischer and his brothers, political business associates, paid lobbyists and other profiteers and corporate representatives for the synthetic industry. from day one city feel lobbyists have exerted their considerable influence around town, convincing the people of san francisco that the plastic neighbor parks were sick. clare and her teammates did not think something sounded quite right and decided to investigate whether play in front

the supervisor. the public comment will take place during general public comment. >> the questions will come from a colleagues from the even- numbered districts. >> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. thank you for coming. i wanted to express -- express my appreciation of the questions asked this month. these questions for this month, covering pension costs and health care costs and first amendment rights are very important and we should get started. >> for the first question, we go to supervisor farrell. >> assuming proposition c passes this november, the city is anticipated to save $1.30 billion from the higher pension fund contributions among other changes. this will continue to be an issue as projections indicate the pension costs may be over $700 billion by the year 2015, according to the most recent estimates. what plans do you have to continue the conversation with potential reforms? >> thank you for that question. retiree costs include pensions and health care. as daunting as these costs are, we are in a better position with the pension benefits than retiree health care. we have the u

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you are now with the general public comments. >> if there is not any general public comment on an item that was not on today's calendar. seeing none, the general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. >> good morning, and welcome to the october 11, 2011 special joint meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission and the san francisco public utilities commission. my name is david campos, and i am the chair of the lafco. madam clerk, if you could please call the roll. before we do that, let me simply think the following members of sfgtv staff for covering this meeting. charles, nona, and i want to begin by thanking not only the members of the lafco but also of the san francisco public utilities commission for being here today. madam clerk. >> on the call of the world. commissioner campos. present. commissioner mirkarimi, absent. commissioner of a less. present. commissioner hope schmeltzer. present. we do have a quorum. >> african turn it over to the vice president of the public utilities commission. mr. vice president moran. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >

resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to executendments to increase engineering project design services agreement no. cs-879a for water system improvement program wsip-funded projects with total revised agreement amounts not to exceed $14,000,000 pursuant to charter section 9.118. item number 7. resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute amendments to increase engineering project design services agreement no. cs-879b for water system improvement program wsip-funded projects with total revised agreement amounts not to exceed $15,000,000 pursuant to charter section 9.118. item #8. resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute amendments to increase engineering project design services agreement no. cs-879c for water system improvement program wsip-funded projects with total revised agreement amounts not to exceed $16,500,000 pursuant to charter section 9.118. item #9. resolution authorizing the general manager of the san

in the square and what do they want what are their ideas and we wanted it to be focused on the general public so it meant producing a high quality newspaper and so there are lots of people who are really and involved in this but the independent did play a key role in terms of bringing many of them together and one of the latest sort of outcry about occupy wall street in the last few days is the message according to the mainstream media the lack of message on town to me about how you are getting that across i hope to be getting that across and what you have to say to say that these you know happy protesters don't know what they want well it's simple there's no one demand because there is no one problem from the global economic crisis and the reason this is successful it is the leader of leaderless movement is as allows people to come in and express their own ideas their own opinions to have a feeling that they actually have democratic engagement so you have people coming in and saying like i don't have a job or i don't have a meaningful job or i can't get into college because i can't afford it

the queue. -- thank you. what going to general public comment? clerk calvillo: the opportunity for the general public to address the board, including items on the adoption and items which have been excluded by a board committee. those using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. if you like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly speak to such and remove the document when we return in the when we return to live coverage. >> first speaker. >> [speaking foreign language] as at its senator abdollah. i am here today. after 30 years, i have lived in the united states one of our supervisors, supervisor kim, and she cried. and that is the first time in my life, and this going, that i saw one supervisor have a sensitivity, life, and worry about each one of us. i hope she puts her hand with her friend and our supervisor. thurgau in one way or another to stop the criminal it is activity. a young baby, five years, has been shot at by a gun. another one, a 60-year old, has been killed by a gun. we must an

the general public can understand it. we teach that mental illness is just like physical illness, it's just like diabetes, it's just like heart disease in that it's disabling, it's real, but it's also treatable. the more people who know where referral sources are, the more that they will refer. and quite often people hesitate because they don't know what to do even if they identify a problem. when i heard that there was a concrete way that i could learn how to react, that was very appealing to me. let the person know that you're available to talk when they are ready. mental health first aid does not teach people how to diagnose mental illness, it does not teach people how to treat mental illness. it's a first aid course. remember we talked about substance use disorders co-occurring with other mental, forms of mental illness. someone may self-medicate if they are depressed or self-medicate if they are anxious. substance use disorders are, in fact, disorders. they aren't just bad behavior or weak will. it is a mental health

using the storefront space to work on design projects, all of these events have an open to the general public. and the events at the studio have led to many exciting civic projects. this includes the victory gardens project, the park's program and others. individuals for the city government, the artists and designers. separate organizations with unique functions with the studio for urban project share interests with my collaborator and myself and for others, by maintaining the shared space, we hope that these organizations will have a beneficial relationship. a little bit about the project. our current operations at 17th and do lores is really a template for how we'd like to operate the new space on harrison street, which is approximately the same size on the street with a similar residential commercial mix. neighbors of the 17th street property have written expressing the excellent relationship has had. we anticipate the same relationship with our new neighbors on harrison street. in addition to the conditional use permit, we are also seeking a variance for a new family home to be built at t

public access. and with the new road, we will be able to open up the opportunity in a new way. >> this bunker that we see now is out of access for the general public. we are excited to completely rework this side and to open up the magnificent views. and what we want to do is add to this wonderful amenity and restore this coastal bluff area and respect its military history and the doyle drive project is allowing us to do that recorrection. and this area is not splintered off. >> and we can see how dramatic a change it will be when doyle drive is suppressd and you have a cover that connects the cemetery to this project. it's historic on the statewide and national basis, but you could rush the project or put thought and time to create something of lasting public benefit. >> we really want this, for everyone to feel like it's a win situation. whether you are a neighbor that lives nearby or a commuter or user of the park. that everyone will experience a much better situation than they currently have. >> the human interest to me is how people could work out so many challenging differences to come to a design that we believe will give us a jewel.

the public that wish to speak? seeing none, i want to thank everyone again for your patience and for your respect during the public comment period. and with that, the general public comment is closed for this evening. colleagues why don't we go to our adoption. would you please call items 27-21. >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. it will be called separately and considered. >> supervisor? >> 27. >> supervisor avalos? >> madam clerk would you please call the roll on the balance of the adoption calendar. >> on items 27-21 -- >> supervisor avalos. roll call vote on item 28-31. >> cam? >> aye. >> supervisor chu? >> aye. >> owen, aye. >> supervisor else burn? >> aye. >> ferrell? >> aye. supervisor kim? >> kim, aye. >> supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. those resolutions are adopted. item 27. [reading] >> supervisor else burn? >> thank you. and i'll be very brief because i understand supervisor avenue lose is going to move to table this item because the governor has signed this bill. i couldn't let the opportunity to go by. this bill is exactly why i think is wrong. why in the world do they pass a bill telling city can an

the public who are here can adjust the commission on items of interest to the public eye in the subject matter of jurisdiction of the commission for three minutes. commissioner olague: is there any general public,? seeing none, general public comment is closed. >> ok, commissioners, is this meeting adjourned? commissioner miguel: i just wanted to mention this seems to be confusion among the public or to misters why it 10:00 session for such a short number of items. the original girlie calendar had a lot more stuff on it, but things have dropped off and then postponed by the sponsors, by everyone else, and it was not anticipated we would be out of here before the big shake. >> one minute. >> thank you. commissioner olague: 10:20. >> the meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> hello. 9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city's population. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encoura

general public comment. president olague: is there any general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. oh, my! haa ha ha! ha hha ha! [snortg] so are you going out tonight? i can't. my parents say i have to be home right after work. ugh. that's so gay. totally gay. ugh. that is so emma and julia. why are you saying, "that's so emma and julia"?

commissioner miguel: this is a comment for the general public. there was also an interesting comment, the micro records in 1901 to 1980 will be converted over time and be available to the system. with the present information going in about 1980. that possibility is also there. this is a fantastic project. >> anne marie rodgers to give you the weekly report on the board of supervisors activities. the first is the ordnance that will allow the sale of alcoholic beverages, and the special use subdistrict. at the commission unanimously passed this resolution. you adopted this with a couple of modifications. with the additional exception, allowing them to serve beer and wine. and the chemical modification. we amended the ordinance to accommodate both of the recommendations. she received word from supervisor campos that there would be a need to allow the single screen theaters to sell alcohol but also multi-screen theaters. this would cause them to send the ordinance back to you for your consideration. they did consider this for the future. supervisor we

the 27 of october. commissioners come a general public comment not to exceed 15 minutes. at this time the members of the public may address members of the commission, except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity will be according -- afforded when that item is reached in the committee. each member of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes. commissioner olague: is there any public comment? >> good afternoon. i come to you today to talk about parking and how the western some attacks forcummitee developed a parking high your screen. the last place we wanted to put parking was on a transit land. we wanted to protect bike lanes next. i really think there is a hole in the existing policy where we have certain policy guidelines that are not being met by the parking policy. i would like for the commission to investigate to see how we can incorporate that city-wide to protect schools as well, because we want to be having up parking policy that encourages ability as well. in addition, i would like for you to revisit a 329 process because it

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laptops, docking stations, all types of computer peripheral equipment. >> that is great now the general public we have access to this in a variety of ways first of all what are the types of things we see somethings here are these recent in up-to- date computers? laptops et cetera. >> well, they are gently used. so these will be surplus items from the fed government they can be up to 2 or 3 years old but not prehis storic dinosaurs. it is not going to be an ipad but not 1986 dinosaur. >> right okay. and how do we -- there are a variety of ways we can get these online,. >> yeah, that is probably the quickest and most direct way. >> okay. >> we have gsa auctions i believe we have the website available that website www.gsa auctions.gov. >> we have it up now a variety of information on screen. >>> gsa excess.gov that is first come first serve you also go on and all the registration online is free go on, put in your information that then opens up an entire website to you and you can place bids on different items. >> you have auctions that take place continuously. >> yeah, they are 24/7 online but th

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