board can take. what the board would be doing is making a recommendation to the board of supervisors. this legislation is not the mta stripping away a level of appeals. it has the effect of removing that level because it does not exist in the transportation code where these elements would be moving to from the police code. the timing of this, which she was conveying, is that from here, were the board to approve the item today, it would be introduced as an ordinance. it would have a 30-day old. because it -- 30-day hold period before it could be heard in committee. during that time, there would be the process of reviewing item 15, where the issue of whether we should insert the board of appeals level into the transportation code could be discussed. the mta board action today would be moving forward what i think -- i do not think i heard any dissension from the very important aspects of item 14, the core of the legislation that would be proposed to the board of supervisors. at the same time, it would p

this business with the board of appeals, taking away the right to go to the board of appeals. let us say your card is suspended for two months. it means s you will not make any money for two months. your only alternative will be to hire a lawyer for $5,000 or $10,000 and take them to superior court? ridiculous. some of these other things, there is a repeal in the tax regulations code that governs the amount that can be charged to somebody who renews their card or permanently. that is a very important protection. i do not know if there is anything else in these rules that would replace that. it has been abused in the past. there was a point at which a notice went out with some ridiculous fee for failure to renew, doubling the fee or who knows what. i call the attention of taxi services to this part of the regulations code and they immediately took back that notice. there is other stuff in here. i have at least a dozen commons i could put in writing. if you are voting today, you are not voting knowledgeably on these items. secretary boomer: [names are called] >> good afternoon.

we could not change it to a special meeting of the board? we are planning all to be there. >> that is an option. why don't we look at that. >> it meets a regularly aagendaized meeting. >> i'm going to advocate for that. the first thing, besides like everybody else, saying what does this mean? when i got this, in addition to that, i am absolutely unprepared to vote for something that says that we have made explicit the purposes for the ch the funds will be used because there is absolutely no discretion of the purposes for which the funds will be used. i would be satisfied but i would think we would have published something that says we're going into the general funds being used for the following purposes, maintaining class size and i don't think the public would have a problem with that, but it doesn't say that anywhere here. then i want to also ask maybe this will help, i don't know. i need clarification myself. what was in the agenda, which i presume is what the public has, certainly what is available online, not this, doesn't anywhere say

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we're only 15% of boards, only 13% -- 13% of boards have no women on them. we're only 16% of corporate officers and only 3%, you know, of fortune 500 companies in leadership in that way. we are the majority of education, of people getting degrees, but in every mba program across the world, across the world, the brightest and the best women and men have a differential of $4,600 worth that they start at in terms of where they enter and they never catch up. and they never catch up. so we have got to start to do differently if we want to change things. i want to focus again, because we can have lots of conversation and having trained -- it has to be a diverse group of women. i know diverse is not as great a term as we would like it to be, but there's got to be difference at the table, not just any women. there's got to be diverse women at table because, again, it has to mirror the kind of changes that we need and make it normal. i have thought as was said years and years ago at harvard to get numbers, because numbers make it normal, and then you stop thinking ab

board's business to the public. i think even you would agree that in this age of technology, our agendize are not easy to create. but you hustle every week and thank you for not leaving many items off the agenda, you know, for any serious issues. thank you very much. i think it bears mentioning that the agenda is the document that many aids and legislators and members of the public have relied on to see what is going on with the board. and we appreciate your many years of creating that agenda. it has been a pleasure to work with you and congratulations on your retirement. >> i just want to say thank you, everybody. that is it. [laughter] [applause] president chiu: our next honoree is the person that our former colleague, the state assemblymen often referred to as the diva of the clerk of the board of supervisors office. gail johnson is leading us after 36 years of service. i cannot tell you after -- the number of committee hearings that i sat through, particularly budget committee, where i needed to go for a walk an

. >> hello, board of supervisors. i spoke with you a few weeks ago about digital city in san francisco. i want to share with you some of the project for people are integrating technology throughout the city. i am a member of the south of market area, district 6. i'm working there to do -- i lead a team doing a knurl project in between fifth and howard and mission. the purpose is to bring together the artists and people from the community and after-school programs and sustainable designers and technologists to do a community improvement project. what we plan to do is develop what will be known as an augmented reality mural. the artists will be collaborating with architecture for humanity, san francisco chapter and working with local artists and others in the area where they will paint the mural and using a free mobile app, they can access this and when the camera sees the mural, it will play a video that tells the story behind a project and we will update that with additional video and footage to share. it's something

board delegates reports.ll of the report. -- other reports. >> the selected city meeting will be this thursday in city hall. i do not have the room number. we are in the main chamber, room 250. we will have an update on those entities. and transitional kindergarten. >> this is a follow-up to the report that came based on the newest information. thank you. >> the hearing on the city funding will be that day? >> we are also going to have a hearing. >> prop 8 and the potentials of the funding. -- potential city funding. >> thank you very much. >> report of close session actions. and we are going to recess this meeting. we will report the closed session. the following staff reports, information on notice of classified personnel come acceptance of gifts. i would like to reassess this general session meeting for now. we will come back after our recess. >> can we take a minute and cut the cake? >> we can take a minute and cut the cake. >> pleased to announce for some cake. -- please join us for some take. -- cake. y

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it will trigger the effects of the rent control board. they are looking into it to see if it is going to really affect -- they are looking at the larger buildings to convert them. but we have to cover the bases in every kind of occupancy. that is all the legislation that we have right now, except for the state bills. we will be working on -- working with the mayor's office. >> item 12c, update on permit tracking system. >> i was just looking at the additional penalties for foreclosed properties legislation indicating that it is going to come up before land use after may 3. has there been any movement on that? >> not that i know of. >> we are progressing very well in terms of the tracking system. we are on schedule. we completed working with the vendor on ais-is and to be, and then we did that configuration documents to show them how we wanted it all to fit together. they are now working on doing the configuration. they are then going to sit with us as they do the documents and will start doing testing to make sure that what they are desig

this is a copy of my letter today to the board.rovided this board, the mayor, the warriors and port commission a copy of my proposal to include a high school classroom inside the arena. i would like to read this short note that i wrote for the benefit of the public. i propose this on my website. i have been sending proposals to city leaders were about 25 years, starting with the giants in 1985. i also teach san francisco public high-school the last 10 years. please review my education and career development proposal. numerous public and private sector officials. i am requesting the original design and construction of a potential basketball are made up on san francisco property be included with this collaboration a career path way accessible to our san francisco high school and college students, youth, and community. i wholeheartedly support the construction of a multi-purpose fastball and it facility with the of national simulation that supports the help of our entire community, a model for visionary facilities, a career-academy cl

>> a good afternoon, board of supervisors. i'm a member of the marijuana oversight committee as well as -- i have several members with military backgrounds, including one uncle that committed suicide because of posttraumatic stress. it distresses me that our own task force cannot support this letter for our veterans because the need is great. the voices may be a minority here in san francisco, but believe me, our veterans have fought hard for the rights that they deserve and i hope you family members -- i look at these seats here and most of you guys are part of my family, i hope you can find to get your hard to make sure these that gets the benefits they deserve. medically as well as modestly. thank you. president chiu>> my name is thad i'm a disabled veteran. we are not allowed to go to federal court. we cannot sue the navy or the va. the bureaucrats at the v.a. are total tyrants and their words is the final answer. in 1950, a veteran at the wrong way it -- the wrong leg chopped off and the supreme court ruled they did not h

of going to the board. by the beginning of april or mid march, developing our budget that will be approved, in order to get to city hall under the charter mandated timeline. so what we did was we it assumed in our budget basically our starting position of negotiations. doing otherwise would have compromised the negotiation that were under way as our budget was going to the mta board. what that meant in terms of budgetary impact, as i presented to you back in may, was an assumed $14.6 million of concessions spread over the two years. i do want to put into context, that our labor budget is on the order of half a billion dollars a year, so $14 million reduction on about $1 billion over the two years is relatively modest. instead of a $14.6 million concession, where we ended up was an increase in labor costs of under $3 million. $3 million relative to $1 billion two-year budget, less than one-half of 1%. that paralleled, for the most part, with the city agreed to with the unions, which is more or less a zero wa

which icon verdicted to a boarding house. >> and is that the boarding house on eighth street where you resided when you were arrested? >> yes, 541 h street. >> do you have children. >> yes, i do. >> what are their names and their ages. >> isaac is 24 years old. elizabeth susanna, i call her anna, she is 22, and john junior is 21 years old. >> referring to the months, the beginning months of 1865, were any of your children living with you at the time? >> yes, ma'am. anna was living with me. john junior came and went. >> and john junior, what was his occupation or profession? >> he was in cotton speculation. >> now, do you have any knowledge or reason to believe that your son john junior was in any way involved in a plot to assassinate abraham lincoln. >> no, ma'am. >> now, at some point did you become acquainted with a man named john wilks booth. >> yes, ma'am, i did. >> when did you first meet john wilks booth. >> about three months before the assassination. >> and how did you come to meet him? >> he came to my boarding house to visit my son. >> approximately how often did he come to t

>> thank you so much for all of your years of service on the mta board. thank you so much for everything i learned from you. it was an honor to serve with you. we are going to miss your words of wisdom, your perspective. i know you will go on to do more great things. director ramos: i wanted to thank bruce, really got a warm welcome from you. i enjoyed the conversations that we had. i felt like we all hung on to every word that you said like it was -- it really was valuable. i had the good fortune of working with people in the east bay as well and oakland that also know bruce over there. thank you for all of your service to this city and to the region. i look forward to staying in touch with you as we proceed in doing our best for transit. >> service on the taxi commission. >> you are right. director lee: it has been a real pleasure serving on the board with you. i know that when you spoke, he spoke from the heart. it has been a real pleasure. i had the pleasure of going to the nafta conference with you. i know we shared a lot of conversations. i know tha

-- you are the first board, where were not even born. when there is succession planning were you will have someone who is from within the we have had in terms superintendent's. -- had interim superintendents. to have succession planning especially when we're not headed in the right direction, whether to go somewhere else but what kills public education is we never stay the course. we keep zigzagging and when something starts to look -- work, double digit growth for african-american and pacificare -- pacific islander students, this is closing the gap. and to hire a young wellbore stepler like richard -- whippersnapper like richard carranza, we will stay the course. we congratulate the school board for staying the course and doing the right thing. thank you to all of you. i want to mention, because we do not get enough thank you's. i want to mention some things that are important for leave here. i wanted to inform everybody that with the student assignment, every we're -- year we have some buzz. fifth and eighth grade students enrolled who

also, this afternoon, the board of supervisors, across the hall -- the board is going to be considering the unanimous recommendation from the rules committee about our newest member, who cannot vote because she is not confirmed yet. she is dying to start voting on things, i know. good luck this afternoon. we look forward to working with you. secretary boomer: could we discuss the order of business today? >> we have a lot of interest in taxi items. i have asked for accommodations. let us get to the rest of the meeting after the taxi items have been hard. is there any unfinished business? -- chairperson nolan: >> this will be very quick. i would like to ask the director if he can direct staff to update us on the status of the installation of [unintelligible] throughout the city. many businesses have been waiting for that. where are we waiting on that? chairperson nolan: thank you. now we are at the executive director's report, right? we are skipping over everything else after this. director reiskin: absolutely. thank you, members of the board, members of the public, and mta staff. i would

evening, and welcome to the may 30, 2012, a board of appeals. the presiding member is commissioner hwag, and joining her are commissioner frank fung, hillis, and hurtado. there is a vacancy, and the board may have a meeting, and they can overrule with three members. four votes are not needed to overrule a department to action. to my left is the deputy city attorney. her name is francesca, and scott sanchez is here. he is the zoning administrator, also representing the planning department and planning commission. joseph duffey is here, representing the building inspectors. and two others are here representing the regulatory health matters from the department of public health. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process? secretary pacheco: the board requests you turn off all cell phones and pagers and carry on our conversations in a hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows. permit holders and department representatives each has seven minutes to present their cases and t

operators on board to full time. we did that.

thank you. >> first of all, i need to point this out to the board. several years ago we eliminated this position because of cuts. our redepartment in this school district has been asked to cut now, what are we up to 20%? >> probably -- 5% incremental for the next year. >> right. on top of what we have been asked to cuts and more for next year because everybody is having to cut. yeah, in an ideal world, it would be nice to have a full time person that would do that, but when you add benefits and so forth, that's what raises it. the other thing is -- correct me if i'm wrong, though. didn't we have an r.f.p. when we originally put this out? >> yes thambings two years ago. we did -- that was two years ago. we had multiresponses. i believe three firms were interviewed. i think he participated in that process. cpre was the selected firm and since the selection took place two years ago, as a staff team, we have found them to be quite effective in meeting our needs. so -- >> i don't mean to interrupt but i would like to make some comments after you're finish

that the rest of the board will have. i want to thank each and every member of the board of supervisors as well. you've been weighing in and we've been creating a different dialogue on the front end to make sure that all of our constituents know what we're doing, more transparent, and ultimately where our values are. i also want a big shout-out and thanks to everybody in this room. there's a lot of department heads and commissions and labor representatives and representatives from our non-profits and community members as well. thank you for engaging us in this really dedicated six-month process. i want to go back to the very first neighborhood budget hearing that we held about almost six months ago. it was one where i was asked at the very beginning, what does the budget mean to you? and i wasn't the only one. there were several supervisors that were there, and we all said pretty much the same thing. it really is a reflection of our values as a city and it's one that we want to work hard at, but ultimately it is who we ar

the golden gate national parks conservancy board, board associates, and staff. where are you? [applause] the national park service. [applause] the presidio trust board and staff. [applause] and the elected officials and the staff of the great city and county of san francisco. [applause] than today we want to welcome our corporate partners who have supported our anniversary with funding and communications support. we are especially grateful to our to our partners. genentech, represented by jeffrey teeter. [applause] hewlett-packard, represented today by kirsten rivera. [applause] kaiser permanente take, represented by yvette radford. [applause] wells fargo, represented by richard belite. [applause] to our cable partner, odwalla, represented by mason thorton. [applause] to our building partner, chevron, represented by russ yaro. [applause] david miller. [applause] levi strauss and co., represented by jill nash. [applause] pg&e, represented today by tony early. [applause] who proposed to his beautiful wife on the golden gate bridge. a fantastic story. [applause] speeck products -

the board of appeals is relatively affordable. if you eliminate them, the only thing left is the courts, which are prohibitively expensive to a cab driver. please do not make it so that a person can only get the justice they can afford. failure to appear makes action final and not subject to further judicial review? just for not showing up? what if you have a vindictive ex-roommate or ex-spouse and do not get the information you have to appear? the year to appear precludes responding from asserting standing for judicial review. do not preclude judicial review just because somebody does not show up. please let it be the same notice as every other item. secretary boomer: [names are called. ] >> i am going to start my comments about process again. put yourself in my shoes. i received all these changes that are going to moment asleep affect the industry this week, and on tuesday, we are voting on it. there are some issues that need to be vetted. more accountability, higher standards, and being held accountable for services. but when a

i staff the parent advisor counsel to the board of education. for people in the room who do not know that, the mission is to provide parent perspectives to inform board of education policy and strength and implementation of district practices. i just want to say also that we really are grateful for your leadership that you have provided in the last few years. i was sitting here thinking, how many superintendents have gone through while i have been doing this work? i think four or five. to repeat something commissioner fewer said, it was not until you came on that people were willing to acknowledge the hard realities. committing to equity has been the underlying value, but it has changed our work to save those are the priorities of our work is devoted to. thank you. we also really appreciate the incoming superintendent of accessibility, and always be willing to try to answer our questions, which i know are relentless. we are trying to do this on behalf of not just our personal children, but all the kids in this district. thank you for your ongoin

and the mayor. >> we want to thank the board, as well, think. president mazzucco: commissioner dejesus? commissioner dejesus: i want to thank them for the academy classes, but i also want to think this board for the budget and for continuing to raise the alarm of the number of officers. i want to command commissioner slaughter, who continue to bring up this issue and pick at it. and i am glad he did something about it before it was disastrous. but i do want to ask some questions. i saw the video, the 10-minute video with a bit more detail. i am just wondering, are we doing an investigation regarding that rioting on the mission station and the surrounding business owners? it appears there was no response from the station. i do not know. i am wondering if we are looking into that. >> we are doing an administrative review on the events, and we have a concurrent criminal investigation going on to help identify some of the suspects, and we are optimistic we will be able to make some arrests in that matter. commissioner dejesus: and i am also wonderin

after they go to the committee that will go to the full board to reuter the board is expected to take some action on this. there is a 30-day waiting period before that can go into effect, and we are expecting them to go through the process in winter of 2013, and if it is implemented, it will no longer be collected, so i am available for questions, and this just gives the information as well. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for that excellent presentation triggered -- excellent presentation triggered quite a lot to address. i want to address the discussion at the end of this, but i have some questions i would like to address up front. we do not necessarily need policy credits to apply to residential because this does not apply. it says under affordable housing you said at 20 units or less it does not apply. if they were in excess of 20 units, would it apply? >> the sustainability program goes to apply to residential uses. however, it contains a program that would allow for reduce sed fee. it simply does not apply to residential at all. >> i got it. that kind of alleviates quite a

for those of us who were not born when he ran for the board of supervisors and who now sit on the board of supervisors today, i think we all know and we would be fools to think we were somehow treading new ground because we are only here because we are on your shoulders, because you did the work and others did the work under incredible challenges and oppression, going through things that those of us in this generation today, it's hard to even imagine. because of that groundwork, we are able to be where we are today and do the work we do for the community. i am so proud to be able to honor you today and i am so proud to see you again. please just know that we love you and we will always be there for you. supervisor olague: i was actually born the year that he ran as the first openly gay candidate for supervisor, and 1961. i just wanted to say that one of the joys of being supervisors, i'm able to honor and think people like you who even though you may get tired of hearing it, if it weren't for the fact that you had the courage to lead the way, many of us would still be stuck in the claus

president yee: other comments from the board? -- are there comments from the board? >> are we revising the three- year projections that we got two weeks ago or are they pretty much the same? >> let me say two things. our baseline projections, if we do nothing, the natural course there was depicted in the numbers last tuesday, there has not been much reason to change that, to change those projections. having said that, another item on your agenda tonight, it is a few items further into the agenda is the approval of the forms which are the official mechanism that we submit our budgets to cdc. so that contains and you will see that if you see your -- if you have your document. these documents, you can see one of the tabs in the district. one is for the city and the county. they do depend on and we will entertain questions and we will get a lot -- will probably have a lot of dialogue with the folks from cde who reviewed these assumptions. they count on being able to take steps primarily in expenditures to lecture we close the gaps that are included in our baseline projec

next speaker. >> hello, board of supervisors.unately, a supervisor is not here right now. i do want to thank the board for some good things i heard today regarding banks and foreclosures. i am current on my home alone, however yesterday, i sent each of you an e-mail at about 5:00 at outlining more information about why i am here and it has the subject line -- public comment, personal, second tuesday, june 5, 2012. i have been denied three times mortgage assistance from bank of america since i lost my job in 2009. i'm currently unemployed and on state disability. i have followed all the steps outlined of the office of housing web page regarding for closures. currently, i'm appealing the last decision made by bank of america. keep your home california is a federally funded program designed for people like me. i would like to participate and work directly with the keep your home california team, however, bank of america has chosen to opt out. i live in district 5 and i don't want to be another casualty of foreclosure. the fact is on

the board approved the three items by an 8-3 vote. parking would be able to be used by 55 spaces, and the new health club will offer services for children who are not members of the club in a program administered through direction of parks and recreation. the next item was the building code amendment. this ordinance would amend the building code to reduce permanent size of efficiency unit so that the size is consistent with the requirements. the supervisor had amended the ordinance to apply only to new sections rather than existing units. supervisor olague request that i to go back to the commission and would like to see more analysis on how it works, who lives in them, and how much they pay. also, if you like to learn more about the quality of life issues, supervisor kim propose such units in her district, but they are not available by design. altman, supervisor wiener asked for continuance to july 10. the next item was the warriors' arena. the solution is not to apply the competitive bidding process in the administrative code for th