there was concern i had with the sunshine task force around the city charter and some violations that were made but bruce was one individual that i thought was very committed to making reforms that were necessary to follow the city charter and i also believe has a strong commitment to sunshine and i will continue to support bruce wolfe as our appointee to the sunshine task force. i do want to thank both ms. simon and ms. forsley for your interest to serve. i think that there are a number of different committees and task force that your background would ideally suit and it seems there's more of a general interest to serve in any capacity, more than just specifically the sunshine task force itself. i know in mr. wolfe's circumstances he is specifically interested in sunshine and transparency and open government and for that reason i would like to support him as well. i want to recognize supervisor farrell's comments though regarding the fact that -- (no audio) -- i do want to give him an opportunity to do so, to meet with my colleagues and see if he's able to garner some other support.

san francisco is a charter city. at the recommendation of a bully and in order to support small businesses -- who recommendation and in order to support small businesses commowe anticipate t. currently, we are allowed to retain 10% of invoices submitted. up to 50% of the amount of the contract commo, which means we e and which from 10% to -- we reduced from 10% to 5%. we are hoping this will provide more cash flow, including performance. i will be happy to answer any questions you may have. but i think it is a good idea. reducing this will really help contractors reduce cash flow. >> any other commissioner questions or comments? i cannot see anyone on the small business commission having a problem with this one. goothis is strictly to try to hp them. have we had any negative comments? when the state introduced this bill, there was some opposition. some said this would reduce the leverage the city would have on making sure contractors perform on their projects. goothere are other tools, and te is a mechanism to make s

civic engineer, last year, the state passed code section 6.22 from 10 to 5%, san francisco is a charter city and does not have to follow or apply sb293, however, under the direction of edward lee, this ordinance may lead to support small contractor and is to align our policies with those of the states. currently, city departments with contracting authority reduced the retention from 10 to 5 percent on every public statement when the work completed by the contractor exceeds 50% of the value of the entire contract. this modification reduces the retention amount to 5% from the beginning of the contract until the end. this change will provide more cash flow available to small contractors while working on six projects, hopefully, there's better performance and timely confusion. i would be more than happy to answer any questions if you have and i'm joined here today with [inaudible] from the city attorney's office. >> alright, thank you. is there any public comment on item number 7? i'm sorry, before we get to public comment, could you step aside for a second. supervisor chu's a sponsor, my apolog

this is an informational presentation regarding the proposed charter amendment. the city attorney would like to address you. >> i want to remind the commission that our office has distributed our memo on political activity by a city officers and employees to the commission and his staff. the proposed charter amendment on the agenda is a ballot measure that has been approved for the ballot by the board of supervisors. it is pending before the voters. the discussion of the dead -- the charter amendment is an informational item only. in the use of city resources or personnel for political activity is prohibited. the planning commission it may not take a position on a ballot measure pending before the voters. individual planning commissioners and city staff may support or oppose the measure on their own time using their own resources, but should not advocate a position during a public hearing on the item. as with the item today, commission may ask staff for information about the impact of the ballot measure on the city. city employees, lawfully use the resources to investigat

i wanted to address one issue around the city charter which supervisor wiener pointed out to us regardingre was general consensus among the board and our city attorney that the task force violated the city charter and it came up with the previous appointment for the member of the task force. i know comments were made that it was supervisor wiener only but i think that was the general consensus among the members of the rules committee at that hearing. supervisor campos. >> co-chair campos: thank you. i want to thank all the members of the public who have come out for this item. before i talk about the specific applicants, i do want to make a point about the issue of failing to appoint a member of the disabled community. i think that every member of the public who spoke about that is absolutely right, that ultimately it's the obligation of this committee and of this body, the board of supervisors, to know that. and i think that all of us, and i certainly personally take responsibility for the fact that i frankly did not know that when we were having that discussion here, in committee. and i

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there are actually sixteen places in the city charter where there can be a finding of official misconduct. there's this one plus fifteen others. at some point you are going to need regulations on how to handle that. admittingly the charter provisions are a mess. once you move away from what the mayor can do and the mayor cannot do but you still need the regulations. the other problems i have obviously the artificial statute of limitations one year from the date the records were asked for. it makes no sense and i think it's probably too restrictive to stand up to the constitutional requirement of how you interpret laws affecting public access. there's also a provision that the notes of the investigative individuals on investigating individuals are to be kept confidential until the decision is made. there's no basis for keeping any of those records confidential. that's been established. i think the quick case i filed a couple years ago probably established that principle. other than that, there is any number of glitches and such but i really think that taking another look at it is very help

first, it is important to note that primarily, what we're talking about is an amendment to the city charter to establish this revenue capture or set aside in the general fund, but one piece of legislation you will be hearing as a follow-up item, so i want to be clear that the program as a whole includes both the charter amendment and associated legislation. our primary goal in establishing the housing trust fund was to help encourage balanced growth in our city. that includes affordable housing production, home ownership and housing programs, as well as to articulate market rate and below market rate stimulus measures. i will go through those in one moment. first, affordable housing, critical to our office, with the support of -- would be support of our existing pipeline. we have currently approximately 9000 units of affordable housing in our pipeline. these include projects in our transition-age youth initiative, parcels in our major project areas, certainly implementation of our public housing revitalization program, and the apposition development of new sites throughout the city. -- the

whether or not teachers strike tomorrow students at charter schools will be attending classes concerned parents have flooded phone lines at the city's 119 charter schools with questions about how a strike will affect their children but the united neighborhood organization which operates charters says this is a battle between the organization says it the almost 50,000 students served by their schools will be in class monday morning no matter what >> no one wants this to happen. >> charter school officials have used a system and spent $12,000 advertising on spanish- language radio stations getting the word out that school will be in session regardless of any strike scenario >> the other big story in chicago today... the bears are back >> they looked pretty sharp in their first game at soldier field >> one of those perfect games if you are a coach. he played plenty well enough to take the suspense out of it. they made enough mistakes that you have plenty more to work on. >> perfect couple afternoon on. the lakefront.. three touchdowns on the ground and putting to from the newcomer michael bush as the bears opened a 10 point halftime le

sitting as commissioners today are familiar with the rate making process that is dictated in the city charterthat has been applied to water and sewer rates making most recently. same process for these rates. once our commission adopts a rate it will be forwarded to the board of supervisors where it will sit for not less than 30 days. no action on the part of the board means the rates go into effect, so anygaction on the part of the board suspends that process for opportunities for additional hearing and consideration of those rates. we hope to be -- if we stay on target with our schedule, we hope to be in that 30 day period in mid-december where -- excuse me, in mid-november through mid-december so that by mid-december we will have a. -- adopted the rates for the program and we will be in a more public mode with the turn of the calendar implementing our customer education and notification program, implementing the provisions that ask customers to tell us "are you in? are you out? " and hopefully the serving customers in this program by july of 2013. >> great. thank you very much ms. hale. col

pled to a low level misdemorn does not constitute official misconduct within the meaning of the city charter. sometimes doing the right thing isn't the popular thing and the supervisor needs to do the right thing and not be afraid of their political life. thank you. >> president chiu: thanks. next speaker. >> overhead please. >> president chiu: sfgov-tv? there it is. if we could switch the the microphone. >> this is fine. i can see the time, how it runs out. on the other side, i can't. in a few days we're going to have another anniversary. occupy wall street started mid-september. kind of helped define the 1%, 99%, what we have. our san francisco, that's our version up there. where have they gone, you know, but at least they left us the distribution of wealth issue. and i thank them for that. they're a ragtag little bunch left out at the bottom still in san francisco. where is the 1%? oddly we talked about it here all last week. they're across the street at -- # washington. they want to super-size their height, super-size their profits. they want 400 units between two and 8 million, the 1%.

lee says that all along on the matter has been fulfilling his responsibility according to the city charter a graffiti tagging spree. >> how a a lot of then turned into widespread vandalism? >> the mayor of oakland continuing her efforts to keep local sports teams in her court, we'll tell you who she is turning to next and why this group fears it may be too late. >> clouds at the coast and sunshine in land and the little heat wave, the days to expect,,, >> new security measures were no match for the raiders fans as cameras captured a fight in the stands during last night's home opener, you can see a few men pushing each other before punches are eventually thrown. officers eventually break it up and end up handcuffing the men. the oakland raiders open up their regular season in front of a packed house and right in the middle of the raider nation, the oakland mayor. >> she is trying to keep all three major sports teams from leaving her city. cate caugurian is in oakland where the mayor is expected to show up any minute? >> that is exactly right, it is part of her rally to build support from l

ordinance task force composition, some of my colleagues have mentioned the brazen violation of the city charter when that task force decided to exempt itself from the charter's quorum requirement. you have to have a majority of all members vote for something to pass it, not just those present. this board has to act with six supervisors, his even if we have only six members present. the sunshine ordinance task force, because of attendance issues, exempted itself from that charter requirement. the task force, according to the reports prepared by the board's legislative and budget analyst determined that city employees had to go to the task force to have their case adjudicated 1.9 times. the task force was not handling its agenda property and as a result city employees would have to go multiple times, and that is a waste of taxpayer money, and it generates unneeded overtime. there were reference made to sunshine ordinance complaints against members of this board, it is true that since i've been on, there have been sunshine complaints filed against almost every member of the board. that's part of l

i requested presiding judge nichols to annull the 1996 city charter of san francisco, because of circumstanceslaw, the state bar of california, some murders, 50 murders, and specifically related to my father, and my case was silent. previously i have made statements to the board of supervisors, to the point president barack obama is a sat jan and he has made a deal with the catholic church with serious consequences to the birth -- to israel and our social security. chapter 8, exodus. and the lord spoke to moses, go to pharaoh and say to him, thus says the lord, let my people go, that they may serve me. but if you refuse to let them go, behold i will smite all your territory with frogs. so the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly which shall go up and come into your house, into your bedrooms, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, on your people, into your oftens, into your impeding bowl. and the frogs shall come up on you and all your people and all your servants. thank you. >> president chiu: thanks. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm peter warfield, executive director of librar

the mayor-ap himself cannot be removed for official misconduct under the city charter.ch is quite interesting, because if we actually committed perjury here -- [tone] before the ethics commission, it would be suitable to bring this up against him. i think this is a waste of resources and time and money. i cannot believe you created 15 in. of documents. i applaud you in your duty, but i think things have gone too far. i ask you to hold the mayor accountable and consider whether he abused his discretion in started this whole process. [tone] give him careful thought and consider whether -- [no audio] >> thank you, ma'am. >> my name is vivian. i am a city workers speaking as a private individual on my own time. the mayor invalidated the will of the voters, who embraced ross and his vision for a better tomorrow. ross has always invigorated the electorate. his brilliance and integrity inspire us and make us better citizens. city hall inflicted unprecedented punishment for a misdemeanor. there was no official misconduct. a false imprisonment was merely turning around his band

describe your consideration and what the commission has been doing under the obligation of the city charter. that was solely meant to describe the mayor's presentation of evidence, which we have felt from the outset was not called for in any stretch, either under official misconduct or was a reasonable exercise in the mayor's discretion. the test for bigness is whether or not the statute at issue, in this case 15.1 05 has sufficient definite miss that ordinary people could understand what conduct is prohibited. that is number one. the second prong, because the manner or language of the statute anchorage arbitrary and preliminary enforcement. under both of those, can we understand what conduct is prohibited, and does it lead itself to arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement? under both of those, we would say that 15. 10105 is vague. how do we tell it the application of an this is enforcement? we look of the context and consistency. how work other examples of alleged wrongdoing dealt with by the mayor, the city, and other enforcement bodies? was the mayor's suspension arbitrary? was a discri