i guess you can add your own commendation. i was happy to represent rainbow stores two years and happy to hand it over to supervisor david campos and will continue to be a regular shopper. last thing i want to say, i want to recognize one of your workers who is fighting eviction herself on market street. she has been such an amazing leader. not only are you an amazing small business, but your workers are activists throughout the city fighting eviction and fighting to stay here in san francisco. and that type of leadership is so hard to do and we're so grateful for her leadership and for yours. >> thank you, supervisor kim. now to rainbow. >> thank you. we are utmost grateful for your support, supervisors. our collective voted on this overwhelmingly. we are aware that there is a huge population of filipinos in the bay area and we wanted to continue to remember, yeah, three months ago people cared about it, but it's still happening now and there are still millions of people who need our help. we felt that there is a responsibili

with that, that concludes our special commendations. let's move to item 17. >> it's a resolution to authorize the sale of rights at the memorial complex at 301 van ness avenue. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor kim. >> kim absent, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are 10 i's. >> resolution's adopted. item 1. >> it's a resolution to to accept and expend a grant of up to $670,000 for the design and construction for landscape design for -- >> same call? this resolution is adopted. >> item 19 is a resolution to authorize the department of public health to accept an expand a $250,000 grant for a recovery program for october 21, through september 30, 2012. >> same house, same call. item is adopted. >> authorizes the $133,000 grant for safe havens. >> same house same call? this resolution's adopted. >> item 21 is the resolution to accept and expand a grant up to $1 million for a renovated playground in mountain lake park. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. >> item 22

what i'd like to do is recognize supervisor yee for his commendation. >> thank you president chiu. today i am honoring a special person, michelle rutherford, a friend and advocate of the children of family services of san francisco. would you like to come up? i met michelle in 1997 when she was asked by our human services agency to lead the child care planning department. this was created as a offshoot of the welfare reform act, also known as tanf and it was amazing to have /phetd met her at that time. as the program manager, michelle had an impressive record of bringing forth innovative solutions to whatever she's done. her experience as a public schoolteacher, which i didn't know about, and social worker and public advocate add tremendous depth in her perspective. michelle possesses a deep understanding that our youth benefit from having educators and caretakers continue to improve their skills through quality training and trainings. she brings together child care providers, educators, parents and policymakers to achieve common vision and goal. that's what she's very good at. dur

status of women with this commendation. i won't read all of it, but it is befitting that we note certainly that when you were appointed commander of the sfpd minority recruitment. you were the first to recruit the first women and asian to ever serve in a police department in this country and you were also one of the police officers to work and create to certify the officers for justice peace officers association which includes sfpd minority women officers to this day. with that mind and certainly and other accomplishments that you have been able to bestow upon us in san francisco, it's my honor and pleasure and delight to present this commendation to you, sir. thank you. [ applause ] >> i think lieutenant tapia is on his way up to say a few words. >> thank you, mr. president. tommy, how are you. members of the commission, chief and staff here. you know, they say that victory and success has a hundred parents and failure or defeat is an orphan, right? that's the way it's happened a little bit about the j suit. troy is very m

and we thought that we wanted to thank you and to commend you for your achievements. we wanted to do that on our agenda. we thought, why not? we didn't kind of know where to put it on the agenda. we said why not put it at the beginning, you know. you can't say thank you enough. and, so, maybe one thing, colleagues, if it's okay, maybe monica can read our resolution that we have to thank director nutter for everything she's done for us and for the city and for the environment. >> commending director melanie nutter, department of the environment. approval of resolution commending director melanie nutter for her service to the department of the environment and to the city and county of san francisco. whereas mayor gavin newsom appointed melanie nutter director for the san francisco department of the environment in august 2010 and whereas melanie nut r has continued to direct the department of the environment and provide san francisco's leadership under mayor edwin m. lee and whereas melanie nutter directed the department of the environment of 110 staff for the past 3-1/2

the second thing is i want to commend captain turn as. we has coffee this morning. he knows how important being on time is to me. we spoke about issues having to do with the 400-block of farrell. it's getting better. it's funny about this is where the mayor wants the library cleaned up. captain puts out a newsletter every week and i go down and

my name is jackie bryson and i am here to commend two officers out of our tender loin station as well as captain turner since he is the commander and the commander sets the tone for the entire station. and i have to put my positive spin on these, because, if you were just to be the facts, you may think, oh, it is a criticism, it should have gone differently, but it turned out okay. i went into the tender loin station on january 26th, to file a police report and the officer who was behind the counter was new to that station. and they had not shown him where all of the forms were and so he could not find the interview form that i needed to fill out. he tore that front counter area apart, looking for the form. and he could not find that form, but he did find incident reports forms and he said that i know this is the wrong form, but please fill this out. and so, for officer david lee

and i really commend supervisor chui and his staff and so i, am active in my home owner's association. and there is a lot of factual misinformation about the legislation making the rounds, formally. and so, what i worry about, so just my, anecdotal information of what is happening in my neighborhood is that my neighborhood there is a market demographic in the last ten years with a lot of chinese families moving in that have in-laws unit and they are the cultural preference too and or that they live with us too however, i think that, i know that there are some folks that are having the differences in culture in terms of land use patterns and i am wondering what kind of education that we are going to do about this, and because i think that this is a really positive thing for this city, and i think that it is adapting, to our modern land use patterns, and also, it is environmentally, more sustainable, than some of the land use patterns that we have had in the past and so, i am wondering what kind of out reach, we are going to do in particularly, non-english speaking communities to allow

and i want to commend commissioner avalos for being appointed chair of the committee and i want to as far as commissioner weiner is concerned, i think that you both should be commended because you both have gone in front of mta board meetings and you spoken on things that effect the city that the transportation process that effects the city and made public aware of what is really going on. and i hope that you can continue to do the same. i am looking forward to you doing the same. thank you very much. and good luck for both of you. thank you. >> okay. thank you. and if, there are no other members of the public who would like to comment, we will close the public comment, on the election of the vice chair. and we can do roll call vote. >> on the motion in favor of electing commissioner wean for vice chair. >> avalos. >> aye. >> breed, aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> farrell. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> kim aye. >> commissioner mar? >> aye. >> commissioner tang. >> aye. >> commissioner weiner. >> aye. >> commissioner yee. >> aye. >> yee aye. the motion for we

colleagues, we have one 2:30 special commendation i'd like to acknowledge supervisor kim and thank you for your patience as well as the patience of your honoree. >> i'd like to thank the patience of our honoree today. our office was brainstorming. we thought it's really good as i mentioned before to put a face behind the legislation. and when i mentioned individuals that were going to benefit from the passage of fair chance act, i thought it was good to honor folks that already before this legislation passed [speaker not understood], already put in place and employment practices here in our city. in particular in district 6. i wanted to bring up two businesses that have been role models that we would get advice and support from throughout this process that have been banning the box previously already because they believe in giving a fair chance to all individuals who want to work and are qualified to work. first i want to bring up brian king who represents the winery on treasure island. and [speaker not understood]. ~ from target. i wanted to showcase two examples of businesses that ar

this issue i did not get the headline and so, i am just so, that, incredible and wonderful, and i commend the department for that decision, that is a decision that not many departments across the united states have taken and i think that it is really speaks to the chief's leadership and so i would say the extent to which we are not testing a kit but it sounds like we are not going to have that problem. wow. thank you, commissioner chan? >> you, render me speechless. >> i missed that headline and i did not realize that is a commitment that the department is going to take up, because i think that it is, it is hard when there are some tests and some are not, and understanding that, and that is really exciting. and i second commissioner kingly's request for some of this in writing and i know from visiting. i know there is a lot of improvements and the lab is looking good and i relay the perspective and i want to ask i don't know this very well and so is there a ten day requirement under the administrative code or is it a ten day requirement for something to be done? >> so, there are two langu

i want to commend the capital planning committee and commend brian strong who's here, who does a fantastic job on that committee. i'm very supportive of this very important bond. with that said, we are ultimately the policymakers who need to make decisions about the capital needs and financing those needs and one of the unfortunate items deficiencies of our capital plan is that class of very important municipal assets is missing, and that is our streetlight system. as you know over the last year and a half, i have called for two separate hearings on our streetlight challenges and you all -- many of you have cosponsored that hearing. we know that throughout our city, we have huge problems in terms of reliability of street lights. these are classic capital assets that this city has neglected for many, many years. our streetlight system has huge capital renovation needs and we have neglected those needs. the pfc we learned at our last hearing, spends approximately $250,000 a year on the maintenance capital needs of the 25,000 streetlights that it owns. that is not acceptable. we also know tha

status of women with this commendation. i won't read all of it, but it is befitting that we note certainly that when you were appointed commander of the sfpd minority recruitment. you were the first to recruit the first women and asian to ever serve in a police department in this country and you were also one of the police officers to work and create to certify the officers for

not going to read it to you but commend it to the attention of everybody. i think it is still very viable today. and i thank the witnesses and everybody concerned with this and since my questions are a duplication of the questions duplication of the questions already asked, i yield back. and i thank you, sir. >> senator klobuchar. >> i have a few more questions about some actual individual recommendations you ha

i would want to commend your earlier decision unanimous which i thought was very brave and correct. we think that from what we are able to determine at liberty hill neighborhood association. the units proposed are already small and overpriced and not very livable. it's a very strange way to address the housing probable for san francisco. the affordable units is one or two at the most. that's pretty negligible. we had someone with his own resident dense -- residence across the street. that is historical resource. what they are not compliant with residential guidelines and we think it's correct and brave of you to finally give us someone better than lip service. it was really wonderful to hear that and to finally hear our code pretty much upheld as it hadn't been before. and we would like to have something that is more compatible with the build scape. thank you very much. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. my name is barbara russel. i own property on hill street. i bought it 52 years ago. i think i'm one of the older residents. i own property on guerrero and an 8-unit building on

>> we heard a presentation, and it actually was a great presentation, i want to commend mr. golden for it. and it was, information that the school board members in attendance pretty much knew but had not seen collected in one place and it was basically he went through all of the districts, surplus properties, and oh, good, did everybody get copies, thank you. >> and he went through every single property, surplus property and sort of the status of that and it was very informative. and it was great, that is all that i have to say. >> and i just like to add to that because i was in attendance that we actually don't have as much surplus property as people would, what people believe. >> and it is just one thing that i wanted to say, that for all of the board members. and to see that, because it was very interesting to see that property that we declared surplus a few years ago, and it has been most of them have and are now being used for a school district purpose. >> yeah, thank you very much. >> and the committee. >> president fewer? >> i am sorry. >> as i may make one comment? y

we don't want to rest for a minute when it comes to safety, but i think it is commendable that our teams are working safely in the field. we've also completed 150 out of 180 shut downs and as you have heard in the past, every shutdown that we complete is another incremental portion of risk that is reduced in the program. so it's great to see the numbers shut downs coming down in the program. finally not listed on the slide is the in fact we did complete the new tunnel last fall in the reporting quarter. that is a tremendous accomplishment and significantly reduces the risk on that project going forward. now, we do have a cost trend that is somewhat disturbing and i want to just point out that there are several projects that are causing this forecast of about $40.4 million over the approved baseline of $4.6 billion. these recent increases are due to four projects of . there is the alameda creek project and an advance of $4.2 million on that project t reason the ground water storage has a recovery program of the approved budget and the new tunnel project has a forecast of $90 million. that

an army commendation robbery occurred tonight. in answer and one victim being sent to the hospital but not the help from his neighbor. the neighborhood where this happened is a quiet neighborhood about 315 after three members of the guns and tied up everybody inside. this included a grandmother and a tour year-old boy. this boy somehow got itself free and ran over to state senators house asking for help. here the man the police is looking for. the first suspect is about 20 34toall hispanic suspects at the moment. to people interested regarding the shooting this morning. kelly--this person the structure and pants behind him is allegedly the triggerman. it all started here inside this mcdonald's. is bright and early during a breakfast runs from please were called thein. the victim was shot in the stomach and was helicoptered over to the next possiblclosest. the shooting occurred in southern russi side the restaur, . right after the shooting zero pd about inscriptioa description oo suspect suspects. they found the suspects in the car

and we thought that we wanted to thank you and to commend you for your achievements. we wanted to do that on our agenda. we thought, why not? we didn't kind of know where to put it on the agenda. we said why not put it at the beginning, you know. you can't say thank you enough. and, so, maybe one thing, colleagues, if it's okay, maybe monica can read our resolution that we have to thank director nutter for everything she's done for us and for the city and for the environment. >> commending director meni

you commended the congress in your remarks for the effort it is making. there is a news, comment from house speaker john boehner that it may not happen this year. greatk it will be a disappointment to many communities across our country who were hoping it will and to our efforts to rebuild our economy after the most serious recession since the great depression. do to persuade john of steps he might take in this election year to get this thing back on the right track? he was one of the one for said he wanted to make this happen. >> i do not have a crystal ball. there are people who talk to the speaker about this and other issues. i am sure he is getting no shortage of advice right now. in 2014ope will happen is that there is an emerging, evolving realization that this should not be politics. this is a problem that we have in this country that needs to be fixed. of us here in washington who represented the american public ought to do what we need to do to fix the problem. everybody agrees we have a problem with immigration, with enforcement and administrati

i think you have done a very commendable thing. >> thank you. we recognize the gym and from massachusetts. to add mywant comments and i hope that the families that had concerns and questions have now felt they've had a opportunity to hear really to thosenswers concerns are that they will be heard going forward and attention will be a to their continuing concerns and questions. i want to address our panelist today, i think nothing that i have read or heard would indicate that any of you preceded or goes under your command have proceeded with anything but the best of intentions. and caring and concern for their colleagues. with whom they either works directly or indirectly or at least empathize with because of their shared commitment to this country into each other. and i commend all of you also for diligently going about your investigations in the revue in the same manner and also the willingness to learn, whether the learning was appropriate on that, thank you for your service . you represent your country well. >> thank you. as we conclude here.

. >> i want to commend the staff for putting both the historical and the future projections in one presentation. i know it was a lot of work and a lot of time but i think it's good to see the two side by side and i think there is a lot of insight that we do see. a couple things, one we've already talked about, in the future i think it would be useful to have an operating cash flow for the period historic and going forward because i think we can see cash is increasing versus the fact net income on an accrual bases is declining. that's one thing to watch as well. i guess i, if we've talked a little bit, the key thing in these forecasts is really understanding the assumptions that go into it and i guess i would hope that we could also list out at any future presentation some variables to the projection so we can understand exactly what the sensitivity of those assumptions are and in this and the real estate revenue, i think the question i had is whether, how granular we were able to do the analysis versus a cpi increase of rental rates because at this point the trend line of the exact the expenses