>> i am. >> president cohen: come on down. the floor is yours when you are ready to get started. >> i'm randall smith from sfpuc. we are requesting an amendment of the ordinance for the contract between sfpuc and the city at western area power administration. this isn't working. >> president cohen: this item is a contract amendment from -- >> it's pretty straightforward. >> president cohen: i was going to fill it in for you. >> what we're trying to do is -- >> president cohen: increase the value of the contract up to $28.4 million. >> it's been amended two times before. >> president cohen: from $20.2 to $20.4 to purchase power from western area power administration. this seems pretty straightforward. >> it is. there's only one thing i would note is that the number that we're increasing it by is $12,419,112. and the ordinance, the number is $12,358,486. so i would request that that number be changed. otherwise, everything seems in order. >> president cohen: okay. does that conclude your presentation? >> pretty much unless you h

supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: aye. >> clerk: cohen, aye. the motion passes. >> supervisor cohen: all right. chief, you're done. thank you for your time. i'd like to call up kelly kirkpatrick to discuss technical amendments. >> thank you for your patience. i had to get all the papers together. the clerk should be bringing them over to you. i have included three rounds of technical adjustments. round one is what you had heard on monday? all the technical cleanups about balancing overhead entries, correcting work orders, accurately reflecting grant amounts, and it includes the detail which i submitted to you all via e-mail over monday, but i wanted you to have that full package to accept. round two of which there's a letter as well as excel sheet is attached are actualizing the rebalancing plans for homeless and mohcd, so it was removing all items related to proposition d that was included in the first budget, removing the state revenue, reflecting the updated retiree health benefits, addressing expenditures both at h.s.h. and mohcd to fund ho

>> supervisor cohen: hold on. the reason why it's eight miles a day is it's an old car and it's breaking down. >> and the reason -- >> supervisor cohen: director, director, i'm sorry. i want supervisor sheehy to finish his thought. >> supervisor sheehy: i just thought it would be great if the b.l.a. could look at car usage overall and look at the size of our fleet. who knows. maybe they'll put everybody on scooters. but honestly, the cars, that's -- now, it's just -- there are a lot of city cars. >> supervisor cohen: maybe we do need city scooters. >> supervisor sheehy: we do need -- i mean, we put so many encumbrances on people being able to drive in this city with the goal of everybody using transit, but we do not follow that practice in my experience as a city. so if we can eliminate one car, i think we'll make progress. >> if i may, i just -- this car is used by the enforcement staff to go from our office which is kind of central to the city to locations all over the city. with all respect to m.t.a., and i thi

that doesn't mean that what michael cohen -- that doesn't corroborate what michael cohen is saying.ut to simone's point, it does suggest that there is a lot of mistruth, untruth, that has already happened around that. >> lies. just say lies. i'm going to keep you guys for another segment here, but i just have to say, this is me in the role of rudy giuliani, and i read this, i played this at the top, so he says, gosh almighty, why didn't he tape it? he taped everything else, he's got a hundred tapes, why didn't he tape it, maybe he did, maybe he's got a tape that he erased. did you ever think of that? no. you don't think that he would erase a tape? maybe he would. i don't know. again, if you're saying the meeting never happened, and then you're conceding that he taped the meeting that never happened, what sense does that make? we'll be right back. what will you discover with a lens made by essilor? sharper vision, without limits. days that go from sun up to sun down. a whole world in all its beauty. three innovative technologies for our ultimate in vision, clarity, and protection. to

thank you, chair, chair cohen. >> president cohen: all right. seeing that there are no further accommodations, madam clerk, i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. that motion has been seconded by kpriefr peskin, and can we take that without -- supervisor peskin, and can we take that without supervisor peskin. and it is after 3:00. can we take the special orders at 3:00? >> clerk: this is items 62 and [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right. thank you. before we begin, i have a few things i want to read. so madam clerk, thank you for calling items 62 and 63. ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this hearing is to hear testimony on the proposed levy of assessments of the property districts named. pursuant to the board of supervisors resolution of intention adopted may 22, 2018, as described in the management district -- as described in the mcment district plan, the proposed district would be approximately 535 identified parcels located on approximately 14 whole or partial blocks. details of the covered ar

>> supervisor cohen: over two years? >> peryear. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is louie gonzales. i volunteer for the coalition on homelessness, and i just want to travel you how embarrassing it is to travel to third world countries and find out there is more homeless people on the streets of san francisco. i implore you if you could use those funds for the homelessness, the youths, the future of this country. just because they're homeless does not make them disposable people, and i think it would make me proud for you people to use the funds to help them out and i would -- want to die knowing that i lived at a time when i had very important and wise supervisors that made a change. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is von chase cly. i'm speaking on behalf of the chinatown nmca. we're asking you for continued support of our s.r.o. program. in the last two years we've served after 128 families with a comprehensive support program that provides them with economic self-sufficie

one is cohen and the other is trump. and lanny davis is a skilled -- i don't know -- skilled publicists, shall we say. and it feels like lanny may have hypothetically have been responsible for the cohen tape being revealed to show cohen had something worthwhile. and rudy giuliani perhaps should have remained silent because basically it's an inkulpatory document, it does not exculpate trump. another blemish on giuliani's to explain how expulpatory this document is and the timing doesn't matter. when it's very close to pay off in august, that they're in september talking about handling the money. >> i'm out of time, jay, but i'll give you the final word briefly. go ahmed. >> giuliani has not been helpful to trump. but then he says that michael cohen can be counted onto tell the truth. and that's an exact quote from the statement that he makes. and it's in trump's interest to impute negative hostility to his testimony with respect to any wrongdoing on a part trump. and for trump's lawyer to say that he's somebody could be c

>> supervisor cohen: b.l.a. >> chair cohen. reason why we were looking at the substitution is because this is for senior personnel clerk and the human resources division of the department. this division currently already has two full time personnel clerk and two senior personnel clerks. our understanding previously was that it was temporary. we've been corrected on that. that this substitution was done prior to board approval. we wanted to bring it forward to the attention of the committee. >> supervisor cohen: why did you do it prior to board approval? >> it's pretty standard at the department level. you can i can changes vacant position within a 15% salary differential of the position. we had a particular need in light of some of the system changes that were happening to people soft. which is our human resources and payroll processing systems. we had a staffing hold that we wanted to fill. we have an incumbent. there was a list we selected the person we would prefer to keep them. it was mid-year change. >> supervisor cohen: i

>> supervisor cohen: please. we'll continue for the next one. >> for the recreation park department, we recommend reduction for $1,024,489 in fiscal 18-19. it allow increase fiscal year 18-19. recommends closing out prior year $56,749 for total general fund savings $996,000. also with the policy recommendations, we understand that the department is prepared to accept our policy recommendation to delete one replacement for 250 extended cab. are little to accept the savings reduction for the upward substitution of the policy recommendations of $18,904 first year and $18,888,000 in the second year but with position authority to do that substitution and then in the second year, our recommended reduction to the budget total $55,755 and all of those are one timesaver -- time savings. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: can you go through the amounts again? you're saying year one, it will be 1,004,000 -- $1,044,000 that are one time only. this is what i have? is it one time only. >> that's correct. >

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i'd like to request that the mayor authorize a growth in the budget by the amount of the closeout. can you take care of that? >> it is my understanding that before actions just taken by the board as related to police, that there was $2.06 million worth of encumbrances? >> supervisor cohen: say that one more time. how much? >> 2.06 million in encumbrances or prior closeouts identify by the budget and legislative analyst's. since that would grow the bottom line of the budget that does require the mayor's office to increase the appropriation authority. given that the board was put out a spending allocation plan that is $31.6 million and in combination with the b.l.a. baseline cuts, this additional 2.60 million offen -- 2.60 million of encumbrances would get them to the 5 million approximately, and i have been authorized by the mayor to make that department -- increase the appropriation by the 2.60 million. >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you. we're going to take the $45 million of discu

supervisor yee take it away. >> supervisor yee: thank you, chair cohen, and president, chair cohen. and thank you for allowing me to take this out of order here. and this legislation would permit the city to bring suit to validate the proposition c and g which passed on june 5th. the reason for this is that opponents to those measures have expressed their belief that prop c and g needed a two-thirds vote to pass rather than a majority. such lawsuits would permit the city to rely on the funding from proposition c and g much sooner. and the board of supervisors will meet in closed session on july 24th to discuss this potential litigation. and so i'd like to just end on that and request that this be forwarded to the full board as a committee report for july 24t july 24th. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. and i want to pivot to the city attorney to add comment to this particular item. i understand that since the revenue is legally tenuous that initiating this process will accelerate the settling of this matter? >> i wouldn't say that it's tenuous but as supervisor yee said that

. >> supervisor cohen: okay. yes mr. rhodes. >> i do remember not the specifics, other transfers where it was a one on one transfer. i do not remember, ever in my history, of a transfer of a function where it went up 233% in the same year that was being transferred. if anybody can prove me wrong to the contrary, let me know. >> supervisor cohen: it would be mr. herrera. >> i'm sorry. >> one thing that was pointed out to me. couple of years ago we started doing lawyer work here. i we have lawyers that handled lawyers law work. never came back and look for additional funding for that either. that is going to be consumed within this unit that is going to be -- >> supervisor cohen: we've got some questions here that i want to get some clarity on. i want to go back to the state legislation. it passed out of committee 31-0 and frankly i believe expected to pass. what are the implications of this legislation passing? what are the implications going to be on city county of san francisco? >> it's hard to predict. my understanding

>> supervisor cohen: it's probably easier. >> okay. >> good morning chair cohen. good morning budget committee members i'm director of property and permits with rec and park department. i'm here first before you to present legislation to adjust our tennis fees. these adjustments are the first time they have been adjusted in over 20 years. the new rate has been publicly discussed during community meetings as well as rec and park commission. the ordinance will enable and ensure equitable rates in our service and activity in the golden gate park tennis after it is renovated. the lowest possible rate for our residents. if you have any questions. >> supervisor cohen: yes i do. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i like your senior rate. i would like to suggest that the seniors be identified as 60 years and older and rather than 65 years and older. was there a discussion about that? >> that never came up. that's what we've had all our senior rates across our other facilities. we were matching those. >> supervisor fewer: you identified, across all your programs, it's

in trump world or cohen world? >> nutty is a generous term, lawrence. these are not sophisticated people. a number of them are, you know, described as stupid. you see this random behavior around that. for viewers to watch this and unbundle some of this, donald trump jr. takes a meeting in trump tower with russians who are offering to give him dirt on hillary clinton that could help donald trump jr.'s father in his campaign. no one knows about that meeting until the spring of 2017 when "the new york times" begins reporting on it. when they do, the trump family puts out a cover story. they say the meeting was about adoption policy in russia. that slowly unravels. and then ultimately they have to admit that the meeting was about gathering compromising dirt on hillary clinton. the person dictating and no one has ever denied this, the cover story was donald trump on a campaign jet or air force one with other people around him, including hope hicks and evan--a ivanka trump. he believed the president knew about the meetin

>> supervisor cohen: sure. the controller will standup and let us know. >> i don't know that i can do the math that quickly. obviously, the value of the different items that were discussed here over the last couple of hours are dramatically in excess of the 6.8 million, so i think part of the exercise is among the different priorities that have been talked about here, in a world where funds are finite, kind of what does the final package look like for the board? >> supervisor sheehy: but the mayor has already submitted his budget priorities. >> the discussion today, supervisor, this was tens of millions of dollars of discussion over the last couple of hours. it's up to you how you want to structure the conversations with the mayor's office. >> supervisor sheehy: i guess i'd like to make hard decisions given how much money we have. and so -- 'cause what are we trying to develop a basket of funding for? what's our number? are we going to come up with $10 million that we're going to spend? >> supervisor cohen: i t

i don't know if emily cohen is here -- oh, emily cohen is here. i'm going to give her an opportunity to speak on the rebalancing plan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen, supervisors. just want to thank the mayor's budget office, kelly and her team for the diligent to rebalance the budget after the failure of prop d. we're very excited about this spending plan, about this new budget, and the items that reply with it will bring approximately 300 units of new rapid rehousing, the navigation center, and we wanted to express our sincere thanks to this board and the mayor's budgeting office for working through this, and i'm hoppy to answer any questions -- happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. and i'm happy to recognize kelly kirkpatrick and her team, and i want to recognize emily cohen and jeff kovitsky for their patience and flexibility. since there are no questions, i'd like to make a motion to accept the rebalancing plan in the h.s.h. and mohcd budgets. all right. seconded by supervisor sheehy, and i will take that

like michael cohen and allen. you have to worry if you're president trump that they are really getting close to you. >> yeah. you think they could unearth things that are relevant to the mueller investigation? >> yeah. of course the mueller investigation has been so disciplined. it's hard to know for sure what different angles they're looking at. that professionalism in not leaking information is actually quite intimidating if you're the defendant. or the subject of an investigation. because it means these are guys who know what they're doing. >> tell me about this case. and what this could mean to the investigation. >> well, i'm not sure how that would connect to the investigation. it's another legal problem for the president. and it's a fairly big one. from my per spect i have it's a good week in ethics in goth government. we haven't had a lot of those lately in government. in one of the three cases this is involving the state of maryland and the district of columbia. with help from a citizens for responsibility

michael cohen is not reliable.his is the guy that one of the ways he gotten in trump's world is he did whatever it took to get problems to go away. donald trump is not terribly reliable. the washington post said that he lied more than 3,000 times of his first 266 days in office. simone? >> well, don, this makes a bigger point. if we can't believe the president and his allies and his family about something as small or as big depending on how you look at it as a meeting, what can we believe them about? >> what the president said matters and who the president matters. we have found that none of these folks are credible. we can't believe anything that's being said. for instance, when the president said he's giving $12 billion bail out quote on quote to farmers and he's going to do something about this, can we believe him? the president says i did not discuss x, y, and z, can we believe him? we can't believe the president of the united states. >> the only person who have said anything about this under oath that we know

. >> supervisor cohen: it would be mr. herrera. >> i'm sorry. >> one thing that was pointed out to me. couple of years ago we started doing lawyer work here. i we have lawyers that handled lawyers law work. never came back and look for additional funding for that either. that is going to be consumed within this unit that is going to be -- >> supervisor cohen: we've got some questions here that i want to get some clarity on. i want to go back to the state legislation. it passed out of committee 31-0 and frankly i believe expected to pass. what are the implications of this legislation passing? what are the implications going to be on city county of san francisco? >> it's hard to predict. my understanding of that legislation, i don't pretend to be an expert on it, it will expand the definitions of who can be conserved. there will be an increase in the population if they need help. it expands the definition who can be conserve. that would lead more work on top of the 500 cases existing now with the current definition. >> super

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. 's. >> supervisor ronen: and we were talking about that ask. >> supervisor cohen: ok. so, for that one --'s. >> supervisor ronen: is $300,000 in education. >> supervisor cohen: ok, thank you. and for clarification, that's $300,000 over two years? 's. >> supervisor ronen: that's right. >> supervisor safai: it would be $300,000 in year one. >> supervisor cohen: we are all giving different numbers. i would really like it done, you know, -- the ask is really $600,000 is what you are asking for. i translate it -- based on what she was describing, the was talking in year one. it is desirable for it to be seen manifest in your two. that is the assumption i am making unless you indicate otherwise. >> supervisor safai: it would be under, sorry to interrupt. it would be under dph. >> supervisor cohen: ok but not education. >> supervisor safai: is under the category of public health. >> supervisor cohen: ok. fantastic. we got it. ok, so we've got $600,000 over two years. >> supervisor ronen: and

good thing you had a bunch of lawyers around for the release of the cohen -- cohen tape number 1. there's going to be many more. we're going to play it in its entirety for people to decide what it is they're hearing here. but let me begin by telling you who's not going to be on our show tonight. rudy giuliani declined to come on and explain what his client donald trump is actually saying on that audio that we're going to play in a moment. but michael avenatti is here and he has a novel take on what's going on with these tapes. adam schiff was here already to talk about what rudy giuliani's been saying about the president possibly cooperating or not with the mueller investigation. we'll get his take on what his read of this tape is as both a former prosecutor and member of congress. but rachel, i think this is -- this is the night that the president has been preparing his followers for. just today saying don't believe what you see, don't believe what you read. he knew this was coming because rudy giuliani had been working all day on the response to the public release of this becaus

so ultimately cohen's emotions.ht they have gotten the better of him, or do you think this is part of a bigger strategy we can't see yet? >> so clearly, one of the pieces of the early strategy was to say, president trump, i love you. i care about you, but i have some bad things to say about you. i have information that could be damaging to you. and when there was no love shown or no commitment shown, that got michael cohen quite concerned, according to people close to him. as for whether there's a larger strategy. we can't know what else michael cohen has in his, i want to say bag of tricks, but that's too flip. we can't know all the things he might have and recordings and e-mails still to be released. however, you're absolutely right, alex. his initial salvo doesn't seem that smart, because prosecutors with whom he ultimately has to make some kind of plea agreement, with whom he ultimately has to negotiate, are not going to be pleased by this kind of behavior. sharing evidence that's not been entered into the publi

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, i have some announcements about the procedure and what you can expect for today. each member of the public will have an opportunity to speak. they will have an allotted time of one minute to speak. public speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed to testify for two minutes of public testimony time limit. priority will be given to public speakers who may require special accommodations such as persons with disability, special accommodations will also be given to the infirm, to seniors, or any person with a child under the age of five. saving of seats are standing in the chamber, as you know is prohibited. individuals should stand in line to speak and not gather ask -- in a group at the podium. only one person is allowed at the podium at any given time unless for interpretation or the individual is speaking on behalf of an entire group. speakers, speakers will not be called by speaker cards. those who wish to fill out a speaker card may do so to ensur

so they might have thought they were getting everything from cohen but according to cohen's lawyer, millions of documents would be held back because they were privileged. that has not turned out to be the way it has gone. what this new report says is that there are about 22,000 dpomts are still going through some layer of review, and she the special master, will decide whether they are attorney-client privilege. 22,000 documents. still in the mix. today prosecutors were given 1.3 million documents. that were seized from michael cohen's office and home today. prosecutors got that many documents from cohen's office and home today. that's the bloody line in this very short tidy report from the special master. the release to the government of 1.3 million items. we had also learned in court proceedings around this search warrant and all the stuff that was seized, we learned there were about 16 pages that were taken from cohen's office, even though they had gone through a shredder. agents collected the contents of the shredder basket and sent all the shreds down to quantico to reassemble those shr

commissioner cohen, supervisor cohen, chair cohen, president cohen. i have to also join the chorus of having an open process during the budget process. i think we had very good debates during the process and sometimes we had to give, sometimes we win some. i thought it was well-run. san francisco police budget, one of these things i lost some arguments there. again, it's all about give and take. and the nice thing about the issues i raised with the staffing saying how can we get police officers on the street faster and people didn't buy the argument at the time but the nice thing is we didn't just leave it. we agreed the controller's office should look at the 6-8 officers that could be civilianized which would quickly then have police officers on the street rather than sitting behind a desk. hopefully that study will come soon so we can actually continue having a discussion around that particular issue. i want to thank also ben rosenfield's office, harvey and severin of b.l.a. and jon givner deputy city attorney and kelly kirkpatrick, and congratulati

cohen is cooperating. they've made the decision he is going to tell prosecutors what he knows and he's going to do that honestly. we used to call ta joining team america. he's on the team. if that's true, there is no way in the world that mr. cohen would leak this information. it just doesn't make any sense. on the other hand, i don't really think the leak if it came from the trump team, undermines cohen's value as a witness. here's why. the government still needs to prove it. they still need to have somebody who can get on the stand and testify to it. they need to corroborate it. so the fact it's already out there is not good for the government because they don't want details of their investigation made public before they across to make it public but still need mr. cohen as a witness. somebody has to put meat on that bone. and an anonymous leak from an unknown source, that's not going to cut it from a prosecutorial standpoint. that's information but it's not evidence. at least not in a technical sense. an