and also, the city will serve as the primary fiscal sponsor, as we will be providing the fiscal and programmatic reports to the bill and melinda gates foundation. city college will participate. one of their main implementations will be looking at program and policy changes to improve sf usd access for students. in addition, they are working on implementing programs and policy changes to improve the curriculum. city college will also be looking to improve on four sequences which will assist in shortening a path to graduation. in this grant, there are no new positions and it did not require any type of local match. we have someone here that is on the project committee who can answer specific questions, if you have any about the partnership. thank you. supervisor chu: this is an except/expend for $3 million, we do not have any matching funds from the city, which is why we do not have a budget analyst, and it does not include the hiring of any new positions. when the open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment

city-owned garages. i did want to mention, in the next couple of phases, we will be looking and working closely with car sharing companies. i think there is a lot more flexibility to bring electric vehicles within those companies, that will help us reach some of those outer parts of the city. we would be happy to share with your office the details of that plan. supervisor chu: i appreciate that. i just have to register, in the sunset, we do not have many cars sharing pods, many garages, we do not have many taxis going out there. so transportation option for many of my residents are not out there. to the extent we are thinking about implementation of certain phase one activities, i would love to see the department of the environment take a more pro- active role to look at the outer edges. supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: i support this very much. i think it is sensible, makes sense to fortify our accessibility by providing these charger enhanced installations. i also want to support chair chu's comments. the west side and south side of the city have been terribly underserved in the modernized a

be regulations. any development in the city, particularly this one. ry one of these meetings to let you know ace is on the case. i don't want to speak up no more time, but everything will be related to what talking about and it's about african- americans nonexistent in this city. regardless of people want to say it's not the agenda. i'm going to talk this agenda every time i get a chance to. supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else like a chance to speak? >> i.t. executive director of the community housing partnership, the largest supporter of -- i am the executive director of the community housing partnership. i want to take the opportunity to let you know how critical treasure island development is to homeless families across san francisco. treasure island will provide a safe, secure transit first green committee for these families to raise their children in. i can attest our tenants feel this is a much safer and aren't for raising their children, an environment that offers three or four bedroom apartments that can accommodate multi generation

the road that leads up to the viaduct would be constructed to city standards, and access onto the island would remain the same as it is today on the western side. on the eastern side, the eastbound access ramps are currently being done by the new bainbridge project. we will change this to a one-way street heading down to the treasure island. it would continue to be constructed to the bay bridge down to ti. it would lead to access to the top of the park's. we would adjust the grade so they work well, but get rid of some of the button hook turns that are out there today. the cross-section of mccullough road -- and 1 foot travel line. the combination bike path is 15 feet wide. cross sections here. the street grid will be replaced, becoming more of an urban grid. i know you have heard about the ankle street alignments to protect against wind and promote the sunshine and things. you have heard about that earlier. the infrastructure plan has cross sections for all of the streets of there. will work closely with the mta, dtw, fire department, the mayor's office on disability, and san francisco

and exceed a certain value and have not been reimbursed by the city -- can only be conveyed to the event authority if the expenditures on infrastructure improvements is agreed to by the city. in one part of section 7, it states that if the event authority note -- maturity expenditures exceed a certain value, but -- if the event of 40 expenditures exceed a certain value, -- if the event authority expenditures exceed a certain value, -- each of which would be subject to city approval. of course, leases for any of these five properties would be subject to the board of supervisors. however, i want to emphasize that many of -- none of these long-term leases were included in the agreement of december 14, 2010. that concludes my presentation. i was going to have one man go over very briefly which of the changes -- again, this is certainly up to the committee. chair chu: thank you very much. i think we have gone through the changes that you had indicated pretty exhaustively, so we will skip that. thank you very much for the work on your report. we want to go into public, an

priorities of the city being safe, solvent, and accessible. i think all of us agree with those objectives. the one thing i would add is that as a supervisor who has gone to the process -- gone through the process, it is important for us to understand that when we talk about the city being safe, safety means a lot of different things. safety is not just the typical sense of what we talk about such republic safety -- public safety. the police and fire department play important roles. safety is not just about law- enforcement. safety involves a number of things that include protecting the safety net that makes sure every san francisco ian is takig care of. [applause] i know that nearly shares in that vision. he has made that clear. we in district 9 and the mission have been going through a tough time. there has been an increase in violence. it is something we are very mindful of. we have taken every step we can to ensure the safety of our neighborhood. we're working closely with the mayor and chief of police. we're working closely with the police

hey m - - they may be forced tos ee seek public assistance. the economic climate of the citymust pay their fair share. presently, the majority of the country's wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few. this money must be invested to bring the economy out of the downturn. the business has a responsibility to san franciscans. they should put out the word that there are times to make sacrifices. we will be renaming our city "madison." thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> i am a resident of san francisco, today i am here as a taxi driver spearheaded -- driver. item 36, i support it. but i want to make comments. i am probably one of the few cabdrivers' that will support the idea that you can't separate cracking down on illegal taxis whitout -- without addressing the need that is creating illegal taxis. there are some problems. it is most likely going to involve using spare cabs or older cars. what i have done is offered a summary of a plan that i introduced in 2009, a single operator taxi. it would allow a small number of taxi drivers to buy their own vehicles and ope

city. these interests, who should be attacked by this board, point the finger at public employees active andired who have contributed to this system in prosperous and bad years. from 1966 to 2002, the city contributed no money at all. the reality is that san francisco employee retirees system is solvent, has performed quite well in its downturn and it's actually robust. it is well-managed and does not make reckless investments that have playinged other municipalities and corporations. while the city's contribution to the retirement fund may grow, so will the overall budget of the city in future years, exclusive of the fund. the predicted future percentage of the city budget for employees benefits is based on this year's budget and not on following years. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. i am leslie. this month, associates completed a smart meter report. im just read a little bit of the summary. no positive assertion of safety can be made by the f.c.c., nor relied upon by the cpuc with respect to r.f. radiation. when exposures are chronic and oc

they said that they should not be penalized for the city's mistakes. it seems that they have benefited from the lack of regulation and oversight. human beings make a mistake, especially given how quickly things go through the city. this should be considered part of doing business. >> thank you. >> i am speaking in support of the appellant. we have the jurisdiction request on this matter. what came up was that they were accelerating the installation of these devices because it was before the avalos legislation that had gone into effect. i was working with john avalos on this and was aware of this. i asked them about the devices that were being put up and i asked for information and i got it. it was accelerated here at the end right before the legislation. you can see in this chart here up until 2010 and this month is september for the legislation. >> next speaker, please. >> i own a property where there is a similar antenna put up and we were not notified. i feel like almost everything that i do that affects our view needs to be reviewed by the city. i a

city. oewd used to be cdbg. that was a body that took care of all the cbo's in this city.started from a block grant. i would like to talk with you further down the road before the 18th, because there is a lot of history that has been done in this city. human rights' the others to me has been clipped not doing the job they are supposed to be doing with this ordinance. thank you very much. chairperson avalos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> josh, by one defense project. i want to thank supervisor avalos for his continuing efforts to move this exciting series of policy changes, and to mayor lee and all the departments here. airport, i think it is a testimony we are committing to the aggressive time line laid out in the local higher ordinance. from wanted to make some comments. i want to endorse the statements of jerron brown from power. i want to speak to the face of local hire. we all saw them at the press conference in the mission district. there were 42 students going through the program, faces that are hungry for opportunity, that are ready and excited about

city. commissioner sugaya: i am saying it would be good before 2030 happened that to the monitoring and the city keeping tabs on what is going on that they can project forward what will happen with the idea that redevelopment actually goes away. i think it was a concern of the supervisor that there was no real transition plan, if you want to call it that, when redevelopment exited. >> in one example, the csd bonds, the additional tax -- we have put a life of those of 100 years. it redevelopment goes away, and those revenues keep coming in, that would be available for open space and the sea level rise. there is funding coming in from the development. >> i think part of what supervisor mirkarimi referred to today was the zoning controls and those issues. my sense from talking to him, and i have talked to him a couple of times about this, is that he felt there needed to be kind of a new plan, or at least a revised plan. maybe it is as simple as having a plan that says at the 20 year mark there is a checking to see what should happen when the plan expires, just so we can sort of set the stage,

be implemented. we will have economic hurts sometimes in the city. that's how we get people to work. that's how we keep them busy. that's how we keep their future prospects of being in the city alive. i know about the census. i know what people are leaving the city. i understand why -- we did not do this earlier. we did not catch all the gaps that we have. things are changing. they are changing today. we are beginning right now. we have begun. we have already implemented a lot of this, even on projects that we have caught already. we have passed those departments to make sure the spirit is already in place so they can take advantage of a ready work force and take advantage of the intelligence and training that we are doing with all of our contractors. we will have great contractors working with us. i know manny is here on behalf of many other contractors. there will be a whole contracting family that knows how to do this well. the warning goes out to those contractors that do not know how -- be ready. we do not want you making mistakes. we cannot afford the gaps. we cannot afford any

used to be a military city. it is now no longer. a lot of our veterans out there need our help, and as a member of the committee, if i do get appointed, want to be that link between the community and the city of san francisco because san francisco is an open city, and we can do this. we have the resources to be able to do this. we just need to bring it together and have a focal point for these resources, and the veterans affairs commission is the focal point. with that, i thank you for your public service, and i salute you for your public service. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. ramirez. next, we have matthew shea. i'm sorry, i just realized that matthew shea is deployed currently, so he was not able to attend today. >> thank you, and good afternoon, commissioners. i stand before you as an incumbent of c four. currently, in the only district 5 commissioner on the veterans affairs commission, the only latino on the veterans affairs commission, and i am the only openly gay man on the commission of the veterans affairs commiss

city. i also see a supervisor -- i also see supervisor kim. thank you for being here. she represents the neighboring district. this shows how much she cares about the city, so thank you for being here. this meeting would not be possible without the help of so many people that have worked in the last few weeks to make it happen. i want to begin by thanking mayor lee, first and foremost. [applause] one of the first conversations we had was about the importance of involving the community in these discussions. one of the first things we talked about was how he was going to come to district 9 and have a budget town hall meeting so that the budget discussions do not just happen in city hall but actually happened here in this community, so thank you, mayor lee. i also want to thank the organizations that have come together to work on this. they have done everything from helping to create the format for the town hall meeting to providing things like child care and translation. on that note, each you need child care, as was previously announced, we have licensed child care perso

supervisor kim is on her way -- due to meet you. -- good to me to be read from the official city family be recognized the importance of this family. not only for the name, but the extremely high level of collaboration it takes. this is a senior housing wrapped around with services. with this development, 100 more families below longer be isolated. finding affordable housing in the city. a wonderful story. many other cities envy the way that we do it. with that, thank you for coming together everyone. >> thank you, mayor. our next guest is here to talk about the wonderful partnership that this project represents. in addition to the tabernacle, the urban core is our young partner. please welcome muhammed adiri, the chief operating officer. >> thank-you. thank you. i will try to keep my comments brief. thank you to everyone that came out. i am the chief operating officer for urban core. i have a few acknowledgments, if i can. first i would like to acknowledge my partner, the president and ceo, marvin johnson. many of you know him for the wonderful work he has done over the years. i would l

cities are fun, green, healthy. they are exciting places to be where the magic of human interaction tends to make a place so much more exciting. the idea behind this book, the reason, the claim the book makes for why cities have come back is that cities play to mankind, humankind's greatest asset. which is our ability to learn from people around us. we come out of the womb with this remarkable ability to learn from our parents, from a parents, from her siblings. from people around us who are screwing up. cities make that happen. cities are the space between people, the proximity, density, closeness. coming to a city like new york you will experience this on rush of human experience that teaches you. when we observe the way people come to cities it's not that they become more productive in cities overnight. what happens is year by year, month after month that explains faster growth. they become more productive and that's compatible with cities are machines for learning. as the great english economist said more than a century ago intense clusters,

that this would be a city requirement to have pedestrian writing and the developer would be responsible for that cost. the city requires them to provide 10% of the installed polls and fixtures available to us. that is all at the beginning of the capital project. sponsored by a third party, not the city, that would come to us as part of that. this of reborn by the project developer. this includes having some inventory and stock. >> >> i am not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing but there is very little money for the rest of the program to deal with. >> all the more reason. >> most street improvements, the sidewalks and amenities are paid for either by the developer or by the department of public works and the become teachers diction's for them to maintain this. a lot of the pedestrian lights we are talking about are not our obligation and their basically owned by the department of public works. >> i am not sure. i think that the document that you were given with the package, we're just looking for it says who has what. >> this is another area where someone is trying to figure this

it probably should be abolished city-wide. but the proposal, limited in scope as it is, is a good social experiment and should be tried. certainly, the city should rely more on the gross receipts tax, which is a much more progressive, fair, and equitable way to generate revenue. regarding the comments by one of your colleagues, there is no preclusion by supervisor proposing something city-wide. but this is a good start. finally, let me say this -- if gentrification is to tear down that burnt out hollywood billiards building, or philip the hibernia bank, then i'm all for gentrification. -- or fill up the hibernia bank, all for gentrification. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm a resident of tenderloin and i'm also the coordinator of tenderloin filipino american association. i'm here today to express that our organization's position is to oppose this corporate tax break given to twitter. the reason is, unless our city can clearly tell us how the tenderloin and our community, the low income community would benefit from this legisla

attorney, and there has to be a determination that they are in fact in the best interests of the city, that those changes do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities, and third, that the changes effectuate the purpose and intent of the underlying agreement. those are the questions that i will be asking. whether or not the amendments that were made as described by the resolution were actually made in the best interests of the city, they do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city, and they indeed effectuate the purpose and intent of what the board voted upon. legally, the definition of what is material is clear -- material is defined as important. it also is defined as affecting the merits of a case, for causing of the jugular course of action. the words significant and substantial would also come into play. as we look at these changes, we have to analyze from our perspective whether or not the changes that were made affect the merits of the underlying agreement, whether or not they are important to the underlying agreement, and whether or not th

be taxed. we are one of the first cities to tax those dispensaries. if you have a legal marijuana and dispensaries, they should be able to buy it. that is a very small part of our economic development.

i want the city to be safe. not only safe in the public safety sense, but in the core level of social services safety net. how one of the city to be solvent that we have programs that we can afford to pay for. i want the city to be successful. that we celebrate and try to support all of the diverse things that we do to bring visitors here to keep our children here and keep families wanting to come and go up here. safe, solvent, and successful have been the principles i have shared with city staff and commissioners as we began this budget process. tonight is all about listening to you first and foremost. and getting that in but that we always said we have a value. so i will be listening very carefully to what you have to say church tried to make that balance. the $380 million balance is not that easy to do. there will be decisions that we all have to make. and we have to come together to make those decisions of it we have a balanced budget. i will have my ears open and listening to what everybody has to say. we'll

anybody who could see the draft would be able to formulate on the city side how they could potentially supports such requests. we could have a much more robust conversation around that when the meeting gets scheduled. >> you will see a yellow paper. we will be spending the rest of this month to finish this. >> thank you. >> we are going to be going through an extensive process to go down to san jose unified school district and talk to education experts to identify what students supports are considered quality when it come t sito a-g. we are waiting to do more research. what we do more research, we would be glad to report it to you all. >> thank you. >> are there any other members of the public who would like to make a comment? at this time, public comment will be closed. is there one more comment? >> [inaudible] >> sure. ok, i need you to announce that all mic so that people at home know what is going on. >> people want to do eight unitsclap with the -- do a unity clap with the city leaders. marco santiago is going to lead us. [clapping and cheering] >> thank you. on that note, colleag

this will be a testament of what we stand for as a city. the city named after st. francis. thank you for being here. i look forward to future events here when the building is up and future projects in the city. thank you. >> the district supervisor of district 6, we know them pretty well. >> this is actually district 6. >> i know. [laughter] >> having been raised in the chinatown community development center and now being done the board of supervisors, it is an honor to be here today. moments like this remind me how opportunities come from times of disaster. this is an opportunity for us to not only build community and address the needs of san francisco, particularly for our seniors, but it is also an opportunity to build communities across the asian american and african american community as well. this came to us because of a natural disaster through the fall of the central freeway which is affordable -- i am excited that the mary helen rogers community is going to bring 100 more unions into the community particularly those working below their income bracket. this is exciti