president chiu. supervisor chiu: thank you. i have two items . first tested it with twoa from november 2009. those of you who were here will remember that we passed a measure to address the years of structural budget deficits that we had. i had actually sponsored proposition a along with a number of you who supported this at the ballot. there were three major things that it did. the first is to require a two- year budget requirement, which we will need to engage in next year. the second was to set up a process for our city to put into place financial guidelines to ensure that we have principles in place to keep our budget tight. last year, we passed legislation in this regard. the third requirement is to establish and to require the adoption of a five-year financial plan. today, the mayor and i will be introducing that five-year financial plan. it will show that over the next five years, our budget is projected to grow from $283 million this year to $829 million in five years. these are obviously very serious and significant challenges. the five-

supervisor chiu: colleagues? this ordinance is finally passed. >> item 17 establishing a three- year pilot program in the distribution of waste in private residences and businesses in san francisco. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i want to thank you for support of this measure. as i did indicate, i had conversations with one of the stakeholders in this matter. at&t had proposed a number of measures to limit the number of yellow pages that they had. unfortunately, the model that they still wished to use was an opt in option. as we all know, under an opt out system if residents do not have a strong preference, it is natural due to human inner show that they take no action. this will result in the maintenance of the status quo, which is the continued mass distribution of yellow pages. from my perspective, i think any system that requires individuals to opt out would by default undermine the goals of this ordinance. in particular, the environmental impact would not be adequate given the scale of the problem. with that,

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have graphics. is this on? how do you turn it on? >> sfgtv, please. >> last week, i called him on the phone when he was in the middle 90's, and i said, "bring on football down" and i will add a graphic for you, and he died last week. joe the jet. but here is my 49er football. so i brought it down. he said -- well, i'm sorry he died. and ♪ don't be afraid to go up the 49er ladder headed up to have and you can be you can be with football, closer to heaven don't be afraid to go you are going to go up the ladder to the roof and you can be closer to heaven you can be closer than ever to have an ♪ thanks. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen of this chamber, week after week, mothers, before you pleading for justice for her son that was killed. today, we have not received that justice. yet, every time she looks around her dining room table, there is a vacancy because the one she loved, the one she bor

supervisor chiu: thank you. what we go now for public comment? >> the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address members of the board on items within the jurisdiction of the board, excluding items which have been considered by a board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly states that and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. supervisor chiu: first speaker please. >> thank you, supervisors. stop the corporate rape of the public library. it is about time somebody wondered how things -- how much things get grease behind the scenes. the san francisco public library used to be an accredited research collection. when the privatizing of the library foundation was created, the library relinquished its custodianship of the collection, lost its designation of the federal documents supp

chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the motion passes. supervisor elsbernd: just on the item itself, the reason why i will continue to vote no -- i think what just happened is a think what just happened is a perfect example of why i have

president chiu: roll-call vote. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: next item. >> item 7, resolution authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expand a grant of $100,000 from the bay area air quality management district to contribute to the cost of installing 60 publicly available electric vehicle chargers. president chiu: same house, col. >> item 8 is from the budget and finance subcommittee without recommendation, the resolution funding the proposed cruise terminal project at pier 27 physically feasible. supervisor kim: -- fiscally feasible. supervisor kim: i want to talk about some of my concerns and some of the responses i got. a month to thank you for it quickly addressing some of my concerns about this -- i want to thank you for quickly addressing some of my concerns about this. it is close to $90 million.

supervisor chiu: supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: the due diligence has been done on this legislation. it has been well vetted in a number of committee hearings and the small business commission. you have heard a number of arguments that they are mutually exclusive or not. they are night or day. this piece of law would focus on a dozen companies, at most. not even that many. the other law, that i think is being asked to be linked together -- we are talking about well over 200 companies. there is a significant difference in the impact of what that number looks like and the impact would be -- it is not well felled by the general fund. at least not well understood. we know what the impact of this legislation would be right now. we should use that information to move forward with the kind of confidence that has been furnished by our controller, our key economic analyst. the mayor's office feels comfortable with that. to roll the dice on a larger piece of law right now which ex facto would have the law in it, i think

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is brian mulroney and i am representing richard schumacher. he got a notice at 1570 hate street and there is no such building. basically, we've had a guy tagging our building for six months. we paint it almost on a daily basis. i have a guy who comes in every morning and cleans up the mess from the night before. i put a note for the sky two weeks ago that if he did any more of it, he would find a baseball bat upside his head. so we have not seen it since. you should go after the people perpetrating this not the people who of the building. some people think it's an art form or whatever. it's vandalism and they should be prosecuted for it. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i'm the owner of 275 haight street. i got a notice and after i got the notice for graffiti, i do removed within a short time. i still got charged $250. i don't know why. i write this supervisor to remove that for me. and then to more. the second one is 301 20th avenue in san francisco. w

supervisor chiu: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i concur with supervisor at a los -- av alos' comments. it is probable there will be great movement between now and 2012, some attempts at significant reform. i know that is being well probed by a number of our colleagues here and by the mayor's office and by others. and that is a good thing. but right now san francisco has a problem. the problem is we have of growing industry of pre-ipo companies. what the midmarket debate was able to shed light on was it was not about one company, company,a -- but a discrete population. the questions were prompted about companies who, in our minds, the also legitimized in wanting to keep their business. ed but this is without the adverse boomerang effect. the best approach, the only approach, is to look at what is unique in san francisco and that is we're the only ones with a payroll/stock option tax. by peeling off the stock option tax on the payroll, being able to help those specific companies right now -- and there are not m

, chiu, aye. there are 10 aye's and one no. president chiu: motion to continue passes. madam clerk, are there any in themmiums today? madam clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individual on behalf of supervisor campos on behalf of the late sandra ravety chiu ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i would like to ask for your request -- i started on a point in case i do not get to it, so i urge you to please reverse the eir of the draft of the 2009 housing element. please send it back to housing because it was in adequately analyzed with in fact and fail to go a reasonable alternatives korea getting to the point, one of the last things i noticed before the planning commission, there were some last-minute changes made. these were not taken and discussed with the neighborhood, and out of fairness, i think there should have been a decision prior to the sudden adoption of a last-minute changes after public comment was closed. i also want to state that there has already been submitted to you the administrative record that provided citations as to violations of law. i think that only one person may be even raised the issue that there is a violation of state law, and let alone, today, there is a group of people in the back. they are all standing. i thi

chiu aye. there are 10 ayes supervisor chiu: chiu this motion is approved. item 16. >> item 16 is the reappointment of gary lead to the minister of transportation board of directors, a term ending march 1, 2015. on item 16, chu aye. cohen aye elsberndaye aye -- cohen aye. elsbernd aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. chiu aye. campos aye. there are 11 ayes. item 17 was considered by the city operations and neighborhood services committee at a regular meeting on monday april 25 and was recommended as a committee report. it is an ordinance waving the public works code which imposes temporary street space occupancy fees on saturday, may 7, 2011, and saturday, may 21, 2011, for certain streets in san francisco as part of small business week sidewalk sales. supervisor chiu: colleagues, same house, call? supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: just wanted to say that this resolution will make possible an earlier date for the arts walk festival, which will be the first event for small business week, a week before small business week. it will

president chiu? >> you can't sit on -- president chiu: thank you, mr. chair. colleagues and members of the public, i again want to thank you for the years of work folks have provided to this project. as supervisor elsbernd knows, this is a critical project in the vision of what we are as san francisco. it is about smart growth, transit-oriented development, housing, and preserving and protecting rent-controlled. as a tenant, i have been concerned about the issues that have been raised by tenants around rent-controlled. many of us have spent days studying these issues and want to see them addressed. that is why earlier today, at 9:00, in our land use committee, i offered numerous amendments to make sure we are protecting and control and our tenants. i want to summarize the them for those who did not have a chance to follow what we did in land use. i have made developments -- i have made changes to our development agreement to make protections for tenants related to the transition that will occur as folks move from where they currently live into the new developm

president chiu: thank you. next speaker? thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. we are here actually today to talk about the sufficiency, the accuracy of this eir, and i would ask up-front that you approve the motion of item 14, which would reverse the certification of the 2004 and 2009 housing element in remand them back to the housing for adequate review. the court stayed the 2004 neg dec. actually, it was -- let me see if i can see my updates here. the appeal was filed in november of 2004, and everything was stayed until there was a finding in may 2009, but yet, in the meantime, there were very major plans past. balboa, eastern neighborhood, etc.. major revisions in both-and balkan and zoning. that was essentially a legal, because that was stayed according to cequa, chapter 31, 31.16. the superior court ordered the city to refrain from enforcing or implemented policies and objectives identified as changing from the 1990:. therefore, the 1999 element was or is a baseline for the evaluation for 2

[bell] president chiu: thank you very much. >> president chiu, could i get the overhead?hiu: if you just place it on there, there it is. i think you need on turn that piece of paper over. >> oh, oh, christ, i know what i'm doing. o.k., i'd like to just kind of consider this while i read this short statement. i'm here today with observations and questions concerning the disinfection or lack thereof in the office buildings in downtown san francisco. i work as a night janitor in many downtown buildings and my last job, i work in the 1455 market, i pointed out to management that there was no disinfection occurring at that site at all, after having reviewed all the chemicals. i wanted to make sure i was using the right chemicals and the disinfection just wasn't there. i talked to a number of people. all the staff, all the janitors believed disinfectors were being used, the supervisor, the manager, the head of the safety group all believed disinfect infectants were being used. they weren't. a fellow got back to me and told me that they weren't indeed. they brought in a number o

president chiu: thank you. other members of the public wish to speak on this item? seeing none, this public hearing has been held and closed. do you have anything else you'd like to add or should we proceed to the vote on the underlying re-resolution? roll call vote. >> on a item eight, chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd absent. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. elsbernd aye. there are 11 ayes. president chiu: this resolution is adopted. could you please call the second special order at 3:00 which is items nine and 10. >> items nine and 10, is the board of supervisors interested in the redevelopment agency's city-owned public right of way improvements of the plaza in the bayview opera house in the bayview hunters point redevelopment project area for a resolution making certain findings pursuant to the health and safety code authorizing the derofmente -- redevelopment agency's use of tax funds for improvements to the bayview opera house and the bayview hunters

president chiu: supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues, i would like to bring up somebody from the department of emergency management to speak to this item. it was waived on 30 days that we entertain this at the public safety committee at the urgency of the head of department emergency management. we had a very comprehensive hearing. there have been some concerns by constituents regarding the case. i wanted to make sure that we continue to be thorough so i asked the department of emergency management to address that concern. so that we stay on schedule considering the sensitivity of the timing as to why this came before our committee and before us for a vote. >> supervisor mirkarimi, i am sure with the department of emergency management art director is on her way over. we started moving a little bit quicker than we realize. i am happy to give you a quick overview and tell you a little bit about the project. we have had specific questions. there was a little bit of an issue early on with this particular pro

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the corresponding secretary of the improvement club. i am here to express the views of the improvement club, and also, seven of my colleagues are here with me. i would like to have them please raise their hands or stand. they keep. they may have their own remarks to make to you. a little bit of history, which, no doubt, you know, but just to recap, the planning department mission try to push through the housing element without an eir. the neighborhoods felt that the housing elements merited an eir because within it were measures that would no impact the environment of the livability of san francisco. these neighborhoods suit. they won in court. the judge rendered a judgment that eir should be done. the planning department then proceeded to do an eir on what is commonly referred to as draft two of the 2004-2009 housing element document. then, in draft 3, they made the unauthorized, and reviewed, and publicized in assertions of new lang

[tone] president chiu: thank you very much.is as washington and i'm coming from a different perspective today. for all the politicians positioning themselves to move on to higher office, community reform is something that must take place. there is a big disconnect from city hall to the community. how can you say that? i've been in city hall over 20 years, longer than most of you sitting over there. i'm here to tell you there's a big disconnect from city hall. i'm going to bring some solutions -- if you see all of these city agencies infiltrating my community, all of these agencies as the around and make decisions that affect our community -- on the community side, we do not get to sit down with the decision makers. that has to change with this new generation coming up here. i am going to bring some charts to show you more. there is a community blueprint and going to present -- and informed community is an empowered community. unity in our community -- could i did not know particular, i'd be able to be in city hall as long as i

president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, president chiu. my name is neal bardac. i live in pacific heights. my concern is that the push for aesthettics will throw the poor and working poor under the bus. the problem you find in san francisco is the cost of cable. cable is not a luxury, it is a necessity. if you drive through your neighborhoods tonight as you look in open windows, you'll see a flat-screen tv on the wall open to cable. you have shut-ins, stay-at-homes, working mothers with children looking to it for education and entertainment. $162 to $200 a month to a working class family is a lot of money in the budget and the only way you can lower that price is through competition and each of you have a constituent in your district that this is applicable to. it just isn't the poorer neighborhoods. this is all the neighborhoods. in today's world, $40,000 is working poor and that causes people to really pinch and if you don't believe me, i recommend all of you go down and stand in line on a saturday morning at comcast and talk to the peop

chairwoman chu: supervisor chiu? supervisor chiu: thank you itch also want to reiterate my colleagues' commence about appreciating the work that you and your staff are doing at the airport, understanding it is a well-run agency. it's a pleasure to have this conversation. i think we wish that, say, the m.t.a., we could say the same for other transit-related agencies at this point. but thank you for being here. the question that i have for you is around i.t. this is a question not specific to the airport but one that i'll be asking a lot of departments about what your overall budget is for i.t. expend tours what fraction of that -- expenditures, what fraction of that goes specifically to airport-related specific applications, hardware and software that you need. you mentioned some of the things that you're doing that are unique to what we do here in san francisco, vis-a-vis other airports. and then i do know that the airport is helping to shoulder the burden of helping to look at a variety of other enterprise, systemwi

what president chiu's additions did worse -- were simply to strengthen that. it did not go beyond strengthening what was already there. the opponents of this project, their opposition is fundamental. i completely and utterly respect that opposition. these changes, they are not going to change the dynamics of this project. those dynamics are what they are. i believe that we should proceed today and we do not need to continue the matter. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. >> i just wanted to direct a couple of question to the city attorney's office. to the city attorney and to mr. sullivan the intents of the changes i made were to strengthen rent-controlled for the attendants. if you could summarize for everyone, what those protections are that are laid out currently in the development agreement that would insure in force -- enforcability. i want you to give an idea of how strong you think the enforcement is and what protections exist in case this happens. >> thank you, president chiu. i spoke this morning. i am going to summarize some of my words. i will firs

supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor chiu. i believe we have agreement with the recommendations at this time with a few adjustments to it. if we could, colleagues, would you like to entertain a motion to accept these recommendations with the modifications? from the members of the committee, and seeing that they would like to go to public comment before that happens. we are doing public comment as a whole, actually. i could ask the department of environment to come up next and then we can take up all our public comment. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm the director of the san francisco department of the environment. today we have brief remarks about our budget. of course, we would be happy to answer any questions. the department's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year is $ 17.1 million, which is up from $3.5 million for the current fiscal year. $1.1 million is from rate revenue. $100,000 is from fees or services. the departmenhas not received general funds since 2003. our revenue comes from a combination of competitive gr

supervisor chiu: just a quick introduction -- >supervisor campos: over to president chiu to introduce this item. supervisor chiu: a quick introduction, a significant goal was established to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions related to the san francisco transportation sector to 80% of 1990 levels by 2012. we are all concerned about not just a global warming but what we can do as a city to bring these numbers down. and what to think the staff for your presentation. >> i am the deputy director of planning. in the interest of time, i would like to walk through this point. we submitted the climate action strategy submitted to the clerk cozy office a month ago. -- or the clerk cozthe clerk's h ago. it is a very exceptional project in terms of the collaboration with the city department. we have the transportation authority in the department of the environment that has been instrumental in assisting us and participating in the various strategies and i will walk through very quickly. this is the information outlined to reduce emissions of them as an operator and an ambitious goal for the cit

supervisor campos: president chiu? president chiu: i recommend we follow the practice of the years passed, splitting the contract between the papers. we do not have in the proposal today specific outreach opportunities for the african- american and asian and specifically the chinese communities. in years past and, in addition to that, newspapers that have submitted bids from the african american community, that -- the san francisco bay view has been designated in years past. that china press and others have been publications within that community and i would like to propose those also be included as far as the outrage that we do as a city. >> the outreach is the next item. we did that last year. i will get to that in a minute. supervisor campos: do we need to make any amendments to this item more can we wait for a debt next item? president chiu: i think we need to make the amendment before the next one. supervisor campos: is there any member of the public who like to speak on this item? >> i'm with the "san francisco c

supervisor chiu. supervisor chiu: a couple questions to follow-up on involving city college. at the southeast campus you obviously have a lot of activities there related to your department's work. how did you come up with the $228,000 for that lease price? >> i have no idea. historically, the building was really almost taken over by city college. in fact, when we started working with different agencies, they thought city college owned the building and it was their building. i think historically the p.u.c. said, it's your building, you should pay for the upkeep on the building. it's been the last year saying, no, it's not. it's the p.u.c.'s building and we should be making a difference in the community and so we've been taking on a whole different view of what that rate and what the rent and who should pay for security and who should pay for all that. historic cost was really probably the cost of maintenance on the building but i don't know because we're not trying to keep to that. supervisor chiu: ok.