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

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

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 boardffice 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, i

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

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

>> 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

i have served with him on a board as a board appointee to that body, but today, i just want to recognizett for all of his work on the health service board. he has taught me a thing or two about the work there. in addition to those accomplishments, i do want to speak a little bit about the person behind that. in addition to his role there, he also served formally as the council and general for the republic of rwanda. he was a board member of a company, the director of the nasdaq insurance group, a managing partner, a former director, with several other companies he was at, and he has served on the health service board as an appointee. he has served under many mayoral administrations, under mayor jordan, brown, mayor newsom, and mayor lee, and, of course, he served on that board wellcome as not only vice chair but as chair in many years. he brought with him a significant business experience and really understood what it meant to have to deal with significant budget challenges over the years, and, of course, the one thing i always like to say about scott, even though he had such business ac

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

calendared for board action can tell the board office by 4:30 on the day of the meeting or completing a speaker card on the evening of the meeting prior to the item is being called so any cards turned in at the same time the item is being discussed will not be accepted. i need a motion and second on the consent calendar? >> motion. >> second. >> there are a number of items. in terms of corrections, to item 119-27k13, we have to correct the program title and sac code. it should be eia/limited proficiency fund at sac code should read --. >> what was that third number again? >> so i went through this quickly because i believe that you have it in writing. and then the second one, the second item that these to be corrected is item 119-27k18 on page 105. the dates of service are incorrect. they should read september 28, 2011, through june 30, 2012. that makes this not a retro resolution. president mendoza: get out. take it off my list. >> we also want to postpone action on item 119-13k21 on page 26 that was scheduled for second reading and action tonight. we'd like to postpone action and br

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

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 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

. >> we ostensibly had a majority on the board of supervisors. we had an opportunity and we made the biggest fumble in san francisco political history. >> once it became clear that ed lee had the votes to win, nobody wanted to pull the trigger. so they stopped the meeting -- at midnight -- and decided to have another meeting that friday. at the end of the day, so many people had been put up for consideration, and here is the one person that had not and he ends up being the person who the board ends up with. that is a huge shock. >> when the board finally made their appointment, i was joyful because i thought it would be much more difficult. >> supervisors avalos and, thus ask that the meeting be recessed until friday to allow for a meeting with ed lee. >> i have not had a chance to talk to ed lee, any more than him, to my office and telling me that he was not interested in doing it. that was my last conversation with him. ed lee is currently in china. i would like to see if i can have a conversation with him before we make any kind of determinati

. >> 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

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 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

another meeting and another board is much appreciated. thank you. >> thank you. i attended my first meeting this past week, and i was there years ago when it started. it is a remarkable success story with lots of problems. the main problem is the dedicated source of revenue. it is really up to the goodwill of the three counties to kick in when they can. there are a lot of efforts under way right now to have people -- you know, to try to find that kind of dedicated revenue. i will definitely keep you informed about that. thank you for your kind words. anybody else? director oka: i direct you to have the staff report back on what effect the bicycle lands on motor street and other parts of the city are having on our bus zones. particularly people with disabilities who have complained to me that they cannot get to their calves or close enough to the buses to ride, so i wanted to see why those barriers are constructed the way they are and whether we can do something about the access problem. >> thank you. that with a report on that. director h

the board office. by 4:30 on the day of the meeting or by completing a speaker card on the evening of the meeting prior to the item being called. cards being turned in at the same time an item is being discussed will not be accepted. so that was just an announcement. let's move on to g. consent calendar. can i have a motion for the consent calendar? >> move the consent calendar. >> second. >> any items corrected by the superintendent? >> yes. there's a number of corrections. the first set of corrections are to the summary page or the table of contents on roman numeral page 21 for k-42. the requesting department should read "the baby zone." and for the summary page on roman numeral page 22 for k-51 and 52, the requesting department should read "i.t." instead of student support services department. there's a correction to item 118-23-k-2 on page 72 and 73. the consultant's name should read "adriannaklein" spelled k-l-e-i-n and also the roman numeral should reflect the change as well. there are three with

the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the other big shock is that the moderates seem to have won this round. people thought, progressives have themselves on the board. there is no reason that they will not get together and take a noted leader who is a progressive to be interim mayor, and then stayed there for another term. the great thing about being in term mayor is to get to run as an incumbent. the fact that the progressives could not get together to get somebody into office as interim mayor in their own self-interest was very surprising for a lot of us. >> what happened in the last month in city hall was an incredible sh

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

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

just for the benefit of the board we've taken notes on the board suggestions but one of the solid things that we will do is work with each area team to have some training for principals and information disseminated to the team and monthly meetings as well. we'll schedule that very quickly and then we'll let the board know when that's happening for your information as well. and also associate superintendent will also be working about this idea of integration within the parent engagement, parent community resources department as well. vice president yee: i wanted to say something that's slipping my mind right now. the question that somebody sb brought up -- somebody brought up about, once elac is up to the authority for the council to make decisions on the budget , what's the process to reverse that if the elac wanted to reverse it? is it like forever or is it once a year they vote on it or how does it really work? i'm just curious about that. >> well, the guidelines from the california department of education says that every year elac should be -- every two years the elac committee should