whereas supervisor carmen chu has served the people of the city and county of san francisco with dedication for five years, whereas supervisor chu was happily crunching numbers and keeping the city fiscally sound as a deputy budget director when she was appointed in september 2007. whereas supervisor chu not only brought her trustical klatch era long with her to the board of supervisors, but also her budget prowess, all of which were of incredible importance as she served four out of her five years on our board's budget and finance committee and i would just add to this surpassing the expectations of her toughest critics. whereas supervisor chu served on the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board, the county transportation authority, abag, health system board member. whereas supervisor chu has always been a class act with a level professionalism that has been unmatched on the board. and whereas supervisor chu appears calm, cool, and collected on the outside, but she has represented her district with fire and determination at every turn. whereas supervisor chu has broke

and supervisor carmen chu, has been a great champion. the winners of the sf cat annual poster concert and the keynote speaker, -- a human traffic survivor and advocate. i want to say that other human rights commissioners are here, -- and vice chair doug chen, -- commissioner, the president julie -- nancy kirshner rodriguez, police chief greg sur (sounds like) -- i will like to turn this over to mayor lee.diana are you here? he is on his way. well - thank you. why don't we do that? why waste a moment. >> nancy did mention that we will announce the winners of the fabulous poster contest. i am the executive director of commission on the status of women. the mayor will be announcing not only the winners of the poster contest but also the winners of this year's abolitionist awards. fire commissioner -- is here and emily conroy from the department of justice is here. thank you for joining us. i want to bring up mayor lee so she can bring up the announcements of the honorees for today. apl(applause) >> thank you emily and thank you to the commi

(applause) now i would like to call on supervisor carmen chu who has been fantastic and is been really outspoken; she has spoken so often and so well. it is a pleasure to have you here. >> supervisor chu: i want to thank nancy, and the department, and the commission. i want to recognize my colleague amelia cohen a strong supporter. i want to thank and congratulate the awardees and thank you for the work that you do to bring awareness and continue to fight and i want to thank the department heads who are here, annemarie conroy who is here. i'm glad that you're here because we will need all of your help to continue this effort. we talk about human trafficking and human trafficking awareness month which begins january eleventh, it's not about this month only. it's the opportunity for us to highlight the issue but it really is something that we ought to be working on all the time when we have the budget before us. we ought to be thinking about it when we have legislation before us, as department heads and you talk about coordination, we ought to be thinking about it. i want to thank you al

to my friend and colleague carmen chu, it's been wonderful watching you grow and bloom starting back in the days when we both worked for mayor newsome. i remember meeting you, i think it was the first time was actually in the ladies' room. sorry, fellows, lot happens in the ladies' room, deals are made. that was one of the first times we met. i am always grateful for the opportunity to grow with you on our trip to israel, a strong bonding point. i'm excited for you a newly we had, new personal life, you and scott get to enjoy and also now an opportunity to have a new pathway on a career -- on a public service career. you've already embarked on that career, but it's amazing how the road has taken a brief split from what you have known. and i am also enthusiastically excited to welcome katie tang to the board. of course, always remember her when she was an intern in the mayor's office and doing -- at the time what seemed like menial taskses. it's amazing when you do things people aren't paying attention and you build on them incrementally how it can manifest into something very great a

thank you again. >> at this time we would like to call supervisor carmen chu. (applause) >> i think that is part of the program they wanted the winners to perhaps say a few words. >> thank you for choosing our picture. we were really surprised when you did. we are really happy. (applause) >> we were very surprised. thank you very much. (applause) >> i'm tiffany chung, so happy to be recognized in such a way. thank you very much. (applause) >> hi. i name is amy. thank you for letting us having this opportunity to make this poster and also recognize us. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. i want to thank mayor lee and the members of the collaborative. as will build awareness for human trafficking issues i would like to call attention to the need for more shelter beds according to the project study released in 2012, there are only 678 beds in the entire country exclusively dedicated to trafficking survivors. there are thousands the deed aftercare services. that we offer at the monarch residence for women. last year freedom house -- sorry to do this again, there ar

seeing none, with the upcoming appointment of supervisor carmen chu -- >> i'd like to make a motion to table this item. >> okay. is there a second? >> sure. >> so, without any objection. >> can we please call public comment? -- close public comment? >> i will close public comment. and we have a motion and a second. without any objections, passed. item number 6. >> item number 6, motion reappointing supervisor david campos, term ending january 31, 2015, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. >> okay. seeing no public, no public comment, public comment is closed. supervisors? supervisor breed. >> so moved. >> second? >> yes. >> without objection, motion moved forward. mad avenue -- madam clerk, can you please call item number 7? >> item number 7, motion appointing supervisor scott wiener, term ending january 31, 2015, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. >> seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues, any thoughts, motion? >> so moved. >> yes. >> seconded, okay. without any objection, motion moved, pass. item number 8

i am carmen chu, chair of the committee. i am joined by our cochair malia cohen and david campos. our clerk today is here and we have sfgtv here. madam clerk do you have any announcements today? >> please silent all electronic devices and cell phones and all copies part of the file somebody submitted to the clerk. each member of the public will be allowed the same amount of time to speak and will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. will you call item number one. >> item number one is review of the citizen's general obligation bond oversight committee annual report most recent report by the administrative code. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i am pleased to be here as the chair of the citizen's general obligation bond oversight committee to give you the annual report. we have a short report for you today basically explaining what this is all about, what our operations have been and we have made changes this here. what is happening with the bonds in place, and finally the city services auditor role that we also play. so the citizen's gen

. >> gay cha, carmen chu took part as her official last duty as a supervisor here at san francisco city hal. tomorrow her former aide -- her current aide will take her place greeted by a round of applause today presented the woman he's picked to become the new supervisor of district 4. >> may i please introduce katy tang. >> district 4 includes sunset and park side neighborhoods, a police that tang is very familiar with. for the last five years she served the area as legislative aide under the woman she's replacing, carmen chu who is the city's next assessor recorder. >> as john kerly said upon assuming his new role of secretary of state following hilary clinton, i have big heels to feel. >> like her predecessor she's being appointed at the age of 29. if you think she's not experienced enough to take the job, think again. >> someone who knows city hal, knows the workings of the board and certainly has a history. >> as someone who has lived in district 4 for over 20 years, i am so honored to be able to serve on the board of supervisors. >> some people we spoke with in tang's district are

supervisor carmen chu. [laughter] >> supervisor carmen chu? mr. president, seeing no other names on -- mr. president, forgive me. supervisor cohen would like to be re-referred. >> thank you very much, colleagues. hi, san franciscans. today i'm introducing an ordinance i've been working with with the neighborhoods of the bayview as well as the community department to establish a neighborhood notification requirement for parcel zone pdr1b. i'm sad to say this legislation was actually borne out of an unfortunate incident. late last year the old berkeley farms milk plant on oakdale avenue was demolished with no notification to the immediate neighbors and resulted in numerous notices of violation and a stop work order. when we went through -- when we went through nearly a decade long process to create the eastern neighborhood plan, what we established a special zoning category that recognized a particular area of the bayview where we have heavy industrial uses immediately across the street from single-family homes. the contractor in this case clearly m

(applause) (applause) >> our next award will be presented by supervisor carmen chu. >> thank you very much, supervisor cohen. i want to invite up my honoree al williams. (applause) >> al williams is a resident of district 4 and has been for a very long time. he's done a number of different things i'll list some of these things out, some things you may recognize. he's the president of the african historical and cultural society and has been for the last 10 years. he also serves on the board of mission council on alcohol abuse. there are many city projects which you may not know, but al is also been involved w. the san francisco cruise terminal, one that had an exciting announcement today. the san francisco general hospital, a hospital that we all care about. mission bay project. he's also worked with the p.u.c., dpw on a number of different projects across the city. and so on today i wanted to honor al for all of your work, not only your work with the historical society, but also your work on behalf of the city. i think a lot of times we don't pay enough credit to the folks who actuall

i will be pretty much echoing the comments of supervisor carmen chu. i do want to thank people for coming here and expressing their interest and keeping the current structure for the garages. i just feel that i haven't really heard real tangible benefits that are quantifiable that i could really support. i think that there's ways of things have been done that we would like to continue, but i don't think it's necessarily the reason why i want to be able to support something going forward without looking at how we can actually create better structures for our garages overall under the mta. so, i will be voting no on this. i'm sure we'll be in the minority with supervisor carmen chu, which is a good day to be in the minority with you. [laughter] >> any further discussion? trowel call vote. >> on item 15, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor cam pos? campos a

of course i want to recognize carmen chu hao district 4 supervisor as well; she has been a strong leader helping us promote the new year's as well of course taking care of her district, working as a wonderful supervisor. i am excited about this new year too because it has an opportunity to unveil many of our cultural aspirations in the city of san francisco. it has been 160 years, and we know our history well. my ascension to this office has been one of those things that people still consider me pretty special so much special not because of me but because of our community. this tab will have international status. gobs of people will want to have it, reflective of not only our history but if i go to washington dc tomorrow we will have an opportunity to talk with the rest of the mayors across the country is to how to celebrate new year's. this would be another example. want to congratulate again claudine and the whole team, postmaster general, is leadership is always been important. and the public service that she does not only in delivering the mail and postal service but reflective of th

my name is carmen chu. with supervisors cohen and campus. mdm. clerk we have announcements?erk calonsag: turn off all electronic devices; submit cards for any speakers. each member will be allotted the same number of minutes to speak in each item. items will appear on the february 5 supervisor meeting. >> would you call item 1. >> clerk calonsag: ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by adding sections 6.22 q and 6.42 f to require a public works contractors to pay subcontractors. >> chair: this is an item that we have been working on for quite some time. catie chang in my office among other folks and contractors have been working on ways to improve the way that we do business. one of the areas is reducing withholdings to make sure we are not the bottleneck for many of the local businesses and many small businesses and also what we can do to improve the issue of prompt payment. especially during the past few years the idea of how it is the city processes payment and get them back out to contractors is an important issue for us. if you think about the prompt

up we'd like to hear from the supervisors ladies and gentlemen students a round of appraised for carmen chuwhen i say lincoln you say keep ready. lincoln. sweep. all right. thank you so much i'm here to welcome you all to the beautiful sin set district. and i want to thank you for principle payne. can we hear a loud applause for the principle. i think what the mayor said was right on we all have to come together and pick up the trash. so i want to welcome you to our beautiful district and your beautiful reconcile and thank the giants for sweeping and going on to do another sweep. thank you. now we're going to hear from the member of the san francisco giants organization an organization by the way, that priced itself on being a strong partner in san francisco and a team player when it comes to living in san francisco to work and visit. now let's welcome stacey. >> thank you on behalf of the entire giants organization we're thiefrd to be here and we're provided of this initiative. when you come out to the games you're going to see a lot of the information on the sweep so thank you everybody.

. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee introduced a replacement for out going supervisor carmen chu today. >> secretary of state following hillary clinton, i have big heels to fill. >> the mayor appointed carmen chu's long time legislative aid to tang over as the new supervisor for district 4. mayor lee said he made the decision after talking to people in the outer sun set district and other candidates. >> came to the conclusion that we have one of the finest, smartest legislative aids, someone who knows city hall, knows the workings of the board. >> mayor lee is giving her a new role as the city's assessor recorder. she will be sworn in tomorrow. >>> the results of an exclusive ktvu poll on california's support for the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. back in 1969 just 13% of voters supported marijuana legalization. ahead at 6:00 we'll look into how voters felt about medical marijuana dispensaries in their community. >>> beer drinkers all across the country are suing busch for what they claim is watered down beer. a lawyer for the class action suit says the information come

commissioner carmen chu. >> a want to thank and highligh supervisor avalos comments; in addition to effortsmade underway in the central corridor, the subway, big projects good for the city and for the region, but we also need to think about the folks left out whenever we see a muni bus turnaround for the last up, or services that don't connect people. i also noted having seen supervisor avalos work of the budget and seeing how much he cares for the neighborhood and how you connect, it will be a focus this year so i want to thank you for that. >> on the motion nominating commissioner john avalos, if we could have a roll call. >> avalos, aye, campos, aye, chu, aye, cohen, aye, farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. weiener, aye. the motion carries. >> motion passes. congratulations commissioner. the gavel is yours. >> thank you commissioner campos and thank you colleagues for your support; i take to heart a lot of the comments he made about but you see this body should be doing and what the chair should be doing. those are things that i've been talking about for a long time. the word equity said a

my name is carmen chu. why don't we get started. with a marking up with the department of small business -- we have been working with the department of small business. this project started when we heard from neighborhood merchants. unfortunately, they had access issues, visibility access issues. we have been working closely with many of our partners year today to educate about these -- many of our partners year today to educate about these issues. also in terms of board guidance. i want to thank all of you for coming. many of you may have assistance. i know many merchants could not be here. please do it share this information with other merchants in the area. we have virginia from the office of small business. we have roger from the bar association. no carla johnson from the office of disability. -- we have carla johnson from the office of disability. i want to especially it acknowledge my colleague to help us get the resources and brought legal expertise to the table. i do not want to take too much of your time. thank you for comin

. >>> new at noon, san francisco mayor ed lee announced a replacement for outgoing supervisor carmen churrounded by a group of city officials he said he's appointing her long-time legislative aide katie tang to fill the position. lee said he made the decision after talking to people in district 4 and other candidates and that tang was the perfect fit. >> i came to the conclusion that we have one of the finest, smartest legislative aides, someone who knows city hall, who knows the workings of the board. >> lee appointed chu as the city's new assessor recorder. chu and tang will be sworn in tomorrow. >>> the family of an oakland couple missing in south america is holding out hope for their safe return. family members say they've not heard from jamie neal or garrett hand since january 25th. in their last facebook posting, the couple of said they were going to -- the couple said they were going to lima. witnesses saw the couple on february 16th in the town of eketos and they wanted to go on a boat trip on the amazon. despite the new clue, there's another concern. >> all of the financial tran