and the board's action, so board members make a decision only as a body. an individual board member does not have any policy-making authority. individual members cannot exercise the powers of the mta board. and, of course, when the the board asks and exercises its power at a notice meeting, by means of a vote. any questions about any of that? president nolan: this year, we are looking at like a $22 million deficit in the budget. how does that fit in in terms of the board of supervisors? what are our options? >> director, as you know, the past five years, we have always had a budget deficits, and the way we have addressed it is by either not hiring or enhancing our revenues. as long as we do not go to the board to ask for more money, we are ok, and we usually have to do that. president nolan: thank you. ms? >> i know you did this ever you through -- every year through our online training. so the basic rules about open meetings is that all policy bodies operate in public meetings. those meetings must be publicly noticed, and the policy body must fix public c

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

find out what one board member things about a particular issue and goes to another board member and says, "well, board member a tells me this. what do you think?" and that process goes on until it includes a majority of the members, and then you have an unlawful seriatim meeting. one thing we have cautioned board members a lot is that it is very easy to have email exchanges turned into an unlawful meeting. someone sends an email addresses it to all board members, and the members start replying. they hit reply all, and then it becomes a discussion among a majority of members about an item that is within the board jurisdiction. that discussion is not taking place in public. the public does not know. today, we're not talking about public records, but i also wanted to remind you that when you use technology to communicate by email or by text or other means, even if you are using your own, personal device, if you are communicating about the public business, it is at least possible -- the lot is not very well developed on this issue, there have been a couple of cases, but we have not been

be action against individual board members, but to date, no individual board members. very few public officials have been held individually responsible, but there has been some of that in san diego. >> [inaudible] director heinicke. [laughter] director heinicke: certainly not. [laughter] that is what we will avoid. if you listen closely, hopefully. >> ok. i am going to touch on just a few of the major recent enforcement actions. i think it is useful just to kind of bring it home. you are probably familiar with these as they occurred. we are going to touch on the orange county, the city of san diego and the state of new jersey, which is the most recent one. as you recall, orange county -- i mean, they ended up going bankrupt, so it was quite a mess. all the bonds, i think, were paid in full. some of the payments may have been delayed, but in some sense, the conclusion of the story was that everyone did eventually get paid. however, at the time, the county was running basically a significant part of its budget off of a derivative scheme, or they were investing in very da

other members of the board? director reiskin: i just wanted to add that when the voters empower the agency with the authority to issue debt, i think they gave the agency a very important tool to help manage these significant capital needs that we have. with that important tool, very important responsibilities, and the intent was not to scare everybody about fines and imprisonment but to let folks know that it is a very the "can you trust your staff?" question that was put out there, i just wanted to let you know that as was reference, there are a number of other boards and commissions that have executed this authority. it is not something that is new to the city. ms. bose and i have counterparts in those departments that are well versed in this and are working with some of the same excellent guidance and support from mr. blake's team and others. while it is an important responsibility, one that we all need to take very seriously, i just want you to know the you have our assurance that what we will be bringing to

questions from the board? >> i have been considering and what you have said very carefully, and i would like to know when you are going to present that to us again. >> as soon as i am required to. >> we have not voted yet. [calling votes] >> just remember what ken said about the board. item m is the discussion of additional items. >> it is my pleasure to welcome and dana lewis, the executive director of the japan society and the project coordinator of the japan project your your -- of the japan project. the nonprofits has really stepped up to support our japanese language curriculum. japanese language curriculum started 39 years ago. my parents were among the founders of the program that really made japanese language of valuable -- available from kindergarten to high school, but it has 19 and without challenges, and i am in discussion with the japan society. now they wanted to know how they could help and would like to talk a little bit about the support they are giving to our district schools. >> thank you fo

the mayor and the board can adopt them. but if we find ourselves needing to change them, we have a mechanism to change them without having to go back to the voters. this is brought to you in that vein. the third piece of legislation deals with coordinated planning timelines. as we have talked about a little bit here today, the city has been engaging in a host of new financial planning activities and budgeting activities and furniture policies over the last two and half years since proposition a was passed. this legislation conforms all of the admin code requirements that existed in the past with these new procedures. specifically, it ships are multi-year planning efforts as a city to a single calendar on and every other year basis. our capital plan, five-year technology plan, city-wide financial plan would be prepared and brought to the board of supervisors for consideration at the same time every other year. second, it harmonizes the three- year budget projection for the city with the five-year financial plan. during this

vote at the board.fter seven years, the word and the mayor may amend or repeal the measure with a simple majority vote to the board. proposition e will not allow the border mayor to amend or repeal. measures that the voters approved before january 1, 2012, or measures that the voters place on the ballot by collecting required signatures or charter amendments and bond measures. ♪ i am here with supervisor wiener, a member of the san francisco board of supervisors, who is also a sponsor of proposition e. thank you for being here. why should we vote for proposition e? >> it is very basic reform of our ballot measure system but our system in san francisco in california as a whole is broken. they're too many things that belong to the ballot. other measures that on the ballot that should be handled at city hall, that we should not be throwing at the voters. and then, one measure they are passing on the ballot, they have a rule in california, we're the only state in the country that does this come aware that m

the board went on to file the other items. after the vote, a supervisor weaner stated the reasons he voted against a motion -- number one, it was a preference one location. second, claims of health impacts are beyond board per view. 3, the project sponsor offered an independent verification of coverage data, but appellants refused the offer. last, with concerns before the board, he noted antennas were indistinguishable from intel structures at the site. that concludes my report for this week. there're no planning or land use items introduced. commissioner miguel: thank you. i was particularly taken by your reiteration of supervisor mar's comments on technical expertise in the department. next time i see him or you can do so when you see him and say it came from me, but i will do so also, i think that is an excellent idea. if the board of supervisors specifically allocates sufficient funds for that type of personnel and research, but without it, it is impossible to do. >> i just wanted to request that it may be the supervisors

and just the board and our decisions are the board and just the board. >> what do you say -- >> last question. >> what do you say to the perception that the board has been trying to get rid of paterno since '04 and this provided the perfect opportunity to -- >> i have no knowledge what you're talking about? >> a trustee to help the team from losing so -- >> i can't talk about that. >> okay. i think we've got to go. >> there you have it, the press conference ending at penn state. coach paterno is also being removed from his position effective immediately. that was just announced just moments ago after an emergency meeting of the penn state board of trustees. >> the board of trustees and agreed that dr. spanier is no longer president of the university and joe paterno is no longer head football coach. >> let's go live to mike galanos. how surprising is this that spanier and paterno are out of their jobs immediately? >> reporter: not as much spanier. he's the one that okayed the final punishment of the 2002, just to take the keys away from mr. sandusky so he couldn't go back in the locke

if you have a question about a rehearing, speak to board staff during a break or call the board tomorrow. we are on mission street. this meeting is broadcast live on san francisco government television, sfgtv, cable channel 78, and dvd's of this program are available directly from sfgtv. we will conduct our swearing in process. if you wish to have the board it your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your right hand, and say "i do" after you have been sworn in or affirmed. please note that any member of the public may speak about taking an oath pursuant to their rights under the sunshine ordinance. ok. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. director goldstein: thank you. we will start with item number one, which is public comment. is there any member of the public to wishes to speak on an item not on tonight's calendar? seeing none, item number two is commissioner comments and questions. commissioners? seeing none, we will move to item number three, which is the adopti

the board also ask, what are the dependencies? another question was, what systems and structures will ensure that all staff knows what they are responsible for? we are also asked what are we going to measure. what are the milestones, and also we need to have the flexibility to adjust if we are not achieving the desired outcomes. what priorities should help close the achievement gap? all of these are just a sample of the questions we have heard that have really driven thing conversations of staff. i would like to turn the presentation over. we will monitor the impact of our strategic plan. >> the evening, commissioners. the next segment of the presentation is going to outline what the overall framework for managing the implementation and monitoring the impact is. i think he has addressed why we are revising the framework, and this is an ongoing improvement, constantly evolving approach to make sure we implement the strategic plan, so we are faring best practices from other districts as well as agencies, so our goal is not to create