chair avalos: ok. please call item no. 3. secretary: this is a resolution authorizing the mayor to cast assessment ballots in the affirmative on behalf of the city and county of san francisco as the owner of two parcels and part of a third parcel of real property, where those two parcels and the partial parcel would be subject to assessment. chair avalos: i want to say the we are close to concluding the vote to establish the community district, and there has been a lot of work done with many members in the community. in particular, dolly and the ocean avenue revitalization collaborative, and they have been doing great work. if you want to tell us what is before us today? >> absolutely. good afternoon, chair avalos, supervisor mirkarimi. i am here to ask for authorization for the mayor to cast an affirmative ballot vote under the board of supervisors jurisdiction. i have a little colored map of the boundary. i do not know if it will all fit on the screen. and anyway, the red, this one is a portion of one parcel. this one is th

supervisor avalos: thank you. representative from the department? >> good morning, supervisors. this is the annual setting of the prevailing wages for the crafts of labour that will be done -- performed for the city. this is in accordance of charter section 80.7, and various administrative sections -- code sections. supervisor avalos: thank you. i recognize there are a number of contracts that were referred to which included prevailing wages. my main question is, the wages become different as those contracts changed here every year -- year after year. that is what we provide the prevailing wage as? >> we provide them as mou's, the kind of labor, as well as the labor determinations as given by the department of industrial regulations. supervisor avalos: thank you. mr. rose, if you could share your report. >> the prevailing wage rates are set forward in our report. our recommendation is a policy matter for the board of supervisors. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. we can go on to public comment. i

chairman avalos: excuse me. we had approved earlier this year those other repairs and that was also a sole source contract as well. >> i believe that is correct. i would note that the sfmta does show what the projected total funding sources are in table two on page 2-7 of our report. however, they only currently have $13 million of the total almost $33 million of this that is before you. that $13 million is approved in their existing 2010-2011 operating budget. the remaining $19.8 million will be subject to future appropriation approval by the board and certification by the controller's office. we would note that if they don't secure those additional funds, that they would go forward with up to the seventh number of vehicles that they secured the funding for. in terms of the sole source contract, i would note that the m.t.a. did look at alternatives trying to do the work in-house themselves but they were feeling that it would take away from the regular scheduled maintenance. they also looked at the potential of

supervisor avalos: one day. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to accept the recommendation. supervisor avalos: without objection. item number four, please. >> item 4. resolution concurring with the human services agency's declaration of emergency to modify the contract between the city and county of san francisco and hamilton family center to provide emergency elevator repairs for the family shelter in the amount of $180,000. >> good morning, chairman. what we have before you today is a resolution concurring with the department's decision to declare an emergency to affect repairs to the elevator at 260 golden gate. that is the former fire department headquarters. for the last 10 years, has served as a family home was an emergency center. the elevator in the building is approximately 48 years old. in early august, it started mail -- a malfunctioning -- malfunctioning on a daily basis. the maintenance was und

chairman avalos: thank you. for the m.t.a. >> all i would like to see is they hire the guys. chairman avalos: thank you. from folks on the m.t.a., you have a plan to increase work on bredas there. you may not be the ones that know that. >> we are not aware of that. chairman avalos: thank you. if there are no other members of comment we will close public comment. the matter is before us. commissioner mirkarimi: motion. >> motion and approval. we will take that without objection. mr. young if you could call items three and four. >> number three resolution approving authorizing an agreement for the purchase of a permanent abscess road easement totaling 751 square feet over a portion of assessor's parse number 016-002-011 and 016-002-012 located in stanislaus county, required for the san joaquin pipeline system project number cuw 37301 for $500. item number four resolution approving and authorizing agreement for purchase of a permanent access rhode island easement over 398 square feet over 016-002-048 in stanislaus

supervisor avalos: thank you. >> my kind of entertainment commission my kind of entertainment commission and has all that commissioned jazz find a good commission home don't let it rome one commission town that will let you down good commissioner all around and downtown where all the lights are bright downtown we are going to have the entertainment commission may turn out all right all around downtown is going to be fine thanks to you downtown and at the coat pa code but cabana -- copa cabana pick the commissioner and make it worked out at the copa ole supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. paulson. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon. i am here speaking on behalf of shell thomas. i'm also a member of the lower polk neighborhood association, and he is the liaison between the neighbors office in our neighborhood. he has been instrumental in getting a security collective together with the local bars and the officers as our neighbor has grown and the bars have become more popular. supervisor avalos: please continue. >

supervisor avalos: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, chair avalos. first i want to thank supervisor supervisor alioto-pier:. i think this is warranted and merited. i have sponsored one of the four properties that are identified here that have been contracted over the last several years. when other properties have come before us, i have asked questions about the merit regarding the designation and regarding the tax ducks. can you walk me through a bit at how we arrived at a 75% reduction? >> that is not our determination. this is done by the assessor's office. i will indicate that this property did go through a couple of iterations. it has been in the pipeline for a while. the planning department or the assessor may be a little more qualified to walk you through that aspect of it. however, i do know that it was purchased as a single family home. however, my understanding -- and that was the way the assessor did the previous determination. it has now been corrected because planning has indicated actually on their roles as a three-unit building. althoug

supervisor avalos: thank you. if you can't repeat for me if we were to approve the release, what would be remaining? >> if you approve this requested release, the remaining balance would be $ 550,688. my understanding is that the department plans to come in next year and do a similar process to request release of reserve for the environmental justice program to continue. >> supervisor avalos: so that is next fiscal year? >> correct. supervisor avalos: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i was going to ask that question. when you come back next year, that completely completes what is left in the program, is that right? >> it may not completely deplete. there may be a residual amount left after that, and maybe we will be coming back the follow year for the residual. we are in the process of trying to come up with additional funds to keep the program going beyond the $13 million. >> and those funds are grant funded positions still? >> correct. supervisor mirkarimi: from which grants? >> from which grands? th

supervisor avalos: supervisor, mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i absolutely agree with what supervisor elsbernd was inquiring about. the police department or any department that has come before us, department of emergency management, although that may have been federal, grants that we have accepteded in that people have been within the system due to grant-funded positions, but then those grants segue into general fund positions, that has never been calculated with regard to what the future liability may be? >> i believe the question that supervisor elsbernd was bringing up was if a grant continued say for a 10-year period. even if the employee leaves the city and county, the city would be continuing to pay a portion of the health insurance to the extent that the employee continues it. if an employee stays in the city, then absolutely that would be part of the calculation that is done in terms of our overall city work force. but i do believe that there are probably some instances -- supervisor mirkarimi: whether they are gran

supervisor avalos: we are going to go on to public comment on these items. >> i am just glad to see that you have got tax control you have tax control deep in the heart of this city for you and me so deep in the heart it almost taxes a part of me try not to give in i say to myself item 7 you are going to make it work square make it good today. >> the san francisco police department permits section. it looks like we have been given the task of permitting gays commercial parking garages and lots starting january 1, 2011 from the fire department. we have set up a special application for these parking garages. we are also sending out letters, notifying them of the change, what needs to be done. from what i have listened to from the budget tax office, we are probably going to need to coordinate with them on bonds and different things they have to submit with their application in january. supervisor avalos: thank you. seeing none, public comment is closed. -- is there anyone from the public that would like to

chairman avalos: thank you for your presentation. if there are no other questions from the committee we can go to public comment.

supervisor avalos: thank you very much. please come forward. >> we are the owners of 1818 california. i wanted to thanks you for considering this. thank you to supervisorality's office -- alioto-pier's office for bringing this far. the monthly maintenance is not the situation. it is the $250,000-plus that we would have to get a loan for. we thought we couldoff set that with the property tax, and it would make sense for us financally. i don't know the our applicants, if they did retrofitting or had to come up with so much money other than the monthly maintenance. but it is significant for us or anyone, a quarter of a million dollars-plus, not to mention that the tremendous appeal that the home that is to the public. every week we get at least five people knocking on the down, wanting to take pictures of the home, giving us gifts and plants to plant in the yard from their yard. it was just overwhelming to us. we really never expected that at all. i spoke with mr. lilienthal this morning, and he is in support of this to mainta

supervisor avalos. >> yes. and actually, there are several board members who had co-sponsored, including supervisor campos, supervisor dufty, supervisor alioto-pier, and supervisor chu. and this is actually -- and supervisor mirkarimi as well. this is a resolution declaring today clinic by the bay today. today, clinic by the day is -- hoped its doors in the excelsor district. it was started by volunteers m medicine. and the the work of janet reilly and scott howgie to bring this to san francisco. volunteers in medicine will be bringing together a team of health care providers who most of them who are retirees who will be providing free medical care, to people who are about 250,000 -- 250% of the poverty line. in the else sexor district, in the outer mission and -- in the excelsor district, in the outer mission, and those who don't have medical care or health insurance. the clinic itself is amazing site. i was just there today. beautiful rooms. lots of space to provide care. an x-ray machine. there's a referral

supervisor avalos: i am going to call a few more cards. dorothy peterson, will hall -- >> that is me. chairperson maxwelmy name is wi. i am a contractor in the bayview, near san francisco. i have had a business here since 1993. i am happy that the city is putting forth this requirement. i think it is going to be a good thing for the residents and the citizens here in the city. i also want to make a point. you had mentioned about hiring apprentices. that is a part of this requirement. i think there might need to be some special consideration for requiring contractors to hire apprentices, because what i have noticed is that there have been times when we have wanted to hire new apprentices in the communities where we are doing these projects, and then the union would come in and say we cannot bring in new apprentices. that creates a problem, because we then have to try to bring them in as a journeymaen when they are really apprentices. i think that in making this mandatory, we need to look at how this thing is going to work out for the contra

supervisor avalos, did you make an amending motion? supervisor avalos: i like to make a motion to accept this motion, my motion is on the calendar. supervisor mirkarimi: seconded by supervisor david chiu. can we take that without -- president chiu. any discussion? items 54 and 55w e were called togather. -- together. if you are not listed to speak, please take your name off. supervisor daly: i think it is fair to say that the issue of transition is the most important issue for the most important single issue that i have been faced with as a supervisor here in the board chambers over the last decade. to our board president to our board clerk, i hope that in subsequent board meetings, we can prioritize this discussion so that it appears on our calendars so that we can provide a higher level of certainty for members of the public that wish to engage in this process. i would like to welcome those people that are still here, finally, the first real input. and what really is the ultimate insider deal, an internal discussion of leadership or

supervisor avalos: present. supervisor avalos: present. president chiu: present. supervisor chu: present. supervisor daly: present. supervisor dufty: present. >> supervisor elsbernd is absent. supervisor mar: present. supervisor maxwell: present. supervisor mirkarimi: present. president chiu: can you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? [pledge of allegiance] are there any communications? >> we are in receipt of a letter communicating the mayor's veto of file 101096. certain types of fast-food meals generally marketed to children. supervisor mar: i would like to make a motion to put that item on the agenda for the november 23, 2010 meeting for a veto override vote. president chiu: supervisor mar has made the motion seconded by supervisor mirkarimi. if we can move to the special order. are we expecting the mayor today? >> the mayor will not be attending today's meeting. president chiu: if we could move to the consent agenda. >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless the board member wants to sever an item. president chiu: why don't

supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thank you. colleagues, i am very concerned about the transition to the successor mayor or interim mayor for the city and county of san francisco. we know that gavin newsom is the lieutenant governor-elect. there will be a vacancy in the mayor's office in early january, and we need to make sure we have a steady transition, especially with our budget deficit that is looming ahead of us. the earlier we get started on writing -- righting this ship, to help with that process, which i believe needs to be a collaborative process with the boar

we are here to speak in favor of the supervisor avalos's motion.are in favor of the current board and making the decision for the next inter-american -- and from mayor -- interim mayor. they can appoint someone who understands the budget and understands all of the pertinent issues that are before us. again, we want a transparent process and that the current board makes the new mayor can come in and make their feet wet right away. >> and the executive board at last night hot our meeting -- [unintelligible] this current board is the best decision maker for the upcoming and current mayor. we believe we have been through a lot together. there is a difference between people who are coming and and that is what you have here aboard. what are the challenges and opportunities? it is something that is only gained through actual experience, and i hope you will think about the importance of the experience when you are voting. i think this is a wonderful opportunity. how often do we have such an exciting opportunity to choose someone? why would you give this up

supervisor avalos has made a motion to continue this until next week. is there a second to this motion? it is seconded by supervisor campos. supervisor alioto-pier: i would just like to -- supervisor daily is talking about doing what he is quick to do. it is than redundant to continue this item. we have essentially the same thing on the agenda for next week. am i missing something? it seems like we are duplicating this. and if we go with what supervisor daly suggested, which seems to be the simplest -- supervisor avalos: i will withdraw. supervisor alioto-pier: it can be done during the public comment. so we are not duplicating that either. president chiu: anybody else on the roster? supervisor daly: the only reason why i would support supervisor avalos's motion is because the substance is slightly different. it perhaps should be amended and stuck in a place where we are not continuing to talk about the process next week. we have had a discussion of process already and will get that opportunity when the cork comes forward. but the nice thing about super

supervisor avalos: that motion is there. and we can takes it without objection. >> cloo i clarify that that -- could i clarify that that number is the amount of the reduction or the amount of the contract? supervisor avalos: the actual property tax. >> because the way it is worded now is the amount of the contract is the $10,6 2. 692. you are changing the savings, the reduction >> you are changing the amount of the actual contract? supervisor elsbernd: i think you understand what we are trying to do. rather than seefing the $31,benefit. supervisor mirkarimi: the $22,000. supervisor elsbernd: we will let you figure out what needs to be done on that end, but that is the motion. supervisor mirkarimi: $22,based on your record. supervisor avalos: moved forward to the full board with recommendation. mr. young, next item? >> resolution regarding greater union square business imcombrookt district, receiving and approving the annual report for fiscal year 2009-2010, modifying management according to the annual report. changes in the