that is why i spent so much time with supervisor david chu in rolling out this mid-market tax exemption. it is a new way that we have got to work together on. it is one that i think not only will help us anchor one of the most important companies that the city has come and we have many important companies, but this one,twitter, will grow exponentially the next few years. it will have an international identity. it has got a home base in san francisco. more importantly, it will be an anchor for the mid-market, an area of the city that has been our skid row for so many years. that is why it is so important for us to establish an anchor there, to roll out a six-year payroll tax exemption, one that is calculated to not only bring in the additional 2000 jobs that we think will be afforded for this one company, but it will also attract other businesses. the economy of our city has been changing. even though we have an unemployment rate today of about 9.5%, and that represents about 41,000 san francisco residents being unemployed, you have got to know that we have a lot of hope. the hope that w

that is our board president, david chu. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. fire chief started with a story about mayor lee. let me continue with a second story. about six months into my first term, we have a major fire in the heart of chinatown. it was played on a friday night. i had just gotten a call while i was at a dinner for the chinatown development committecd about how we have people who did not have supplies they needed. these were low income, monolingual, mostly seniors. i started calling around at 11:00 at night. i could not reach anyone. i called our city administrator, then ed lee. he met me in my district in chinatown. he had one of those hats on with the little lights. we toured the fire site late on friday night. to me, that was one of the reasons why when we were debating of the board of supervisors who should be our interim mayor that i had so much faith in this man. please give him a hand. [applause] my apologies for being late. it seems like to date is disaster. preparedness day. at city hall today, we recognized two schoolchildren who sav

in the months ahead, we look forward to working with the mayor or president david chu and business leadersuitable business taxation, which will make it possible for all companies here to thrive. in summary, the 2011 agenda will focus on advancing these three priorities. putting jobs -- job creation first. number two, encouraging government efficiency, number three, avoiding any new burdens on business growth. we will continue to hold our elected leaders accountable with our paychecks and pink slips. everyone across the country is now talking about jobs and economic development. the real test is not what they say. it is how they vote. we will continue to monitor the votes at city hall for job creation and economic development. now we will take a few minutes, enjoy the rest of your breakfast, enjoy your colleagues at your table, and we will be back with dr. warren browner and ed li in 10 minutes. thank you very much. ok. time to get down to the business of the chamber breakfast. health care continues to be one of the nation's top-growth industries and is growing at an average rate of 6% per

i am david campos, joined with mark farrel and david chu. the clerk is andrea osberry. and we want to thank the sfgtv staff for covering this. do we have any announcements? >> turn off all cell phones. if you want to speak, fill out a public speaker card. copies of all documents will be included in the file and should be submitted to the clerk. >> can you call item no. 1? >> this is the hearing on the controls report on the current and projected budget costs, with the use of overtime hours. >> thank you very much. this is an item i introduced with the understanding that for every member of the board of supervisors and the mayor, the issue is a very important one, something we have been watching for some time. and i thought it would be important to have this discussion here, at the oversight committee. let me turn this over to the comptroller's office, and i thank you for being here. >> this is a committee, as you know, the comptroller's office monitors this on a biweekly basis. we thank you for calling to this hearing -- i have a very short powerpoint to submit to the h

that are here today, so i am really pleased with the community efforts and by the leadership of david chu on this, as well. supervisor chu? supervisor chiu: i really want to thank those of you who have expressed concerns about this project. i think this project is better because of it. because of the issue of race, you have forced the city and others to make sure this takes into account all the different concerns that we have. at the end of the day though, to me, we know that in san francisco, we are losing our families, and we have to do everything began to reverse that trend, and this is exactly the type of project i think we need in a 21st century san francisco to assure that our parents, our young people, our seniors, and those from the community are taking care of in the best way possible with some of the best library and recreation spaces i think our city can create, so with that, colleagues, i hope we move this forward and move the project adds quickly forward as we can. thank you. supervisor mar: supervisor cohen? supervisor cohen: i am very excited about supporting this project.

the struggles with middle-market and talking with supervisor kim and david chu, we felt that was the appropriate tool because we had tried everything else in that district. this is a tool that we believe will be successful. twitter management, even though -- when we compromise on the six months of exemption, that was the right thing to do for the corridor. we have invited them and we know there will be other businesses because when you walk into their offices and you know how it operates and the engineers informed us of this, that operate in clusters. you hardly ever see an employee working alone. the applications companies are there with them. even in their current site they have a whole floor of other companies that are working with them as well. we think this will be the way to do middle-market, whether it is inappropriate tool for others, we will have to see on a case by case basis. >> he mentioned the possibility of supporting a replacement of the payroll tax. would that be a replacement of the gross receipts tax or do you have something in mind? >> we have a lot of loopholes th

how about david chu, who is considering running for mayor, giving him nine months in office before heor? you have people like bevan dufty, david chiu, even john avalon's common john campos, and ross mirkarimi, all had indicated an interest. so you have people on the board who want to run for mayor. do they go for the caretaker mayor, or do they put those interests aside and best themselves with a politician that has a good chance of being elected? with that dilemma in front of them, we saw what happened. they could not put their egos aside. they generally would with the caretaker mayor. that person would pose no threat of running against them. >> when the board met next week on november 23, the clerk of the board proposed a process for nomination for mayor, which the board debated, amended, and eventually passed. >> a board member read the nominated may not produce pig in the discussion or vote on the competitor nominees. if the nominee of a board member nominee has been withdrawn, the board member may no longer have a conflict and could return to the room and to dissipate. >> basical

someone who is very familiar with the problem, and now the president of our board of supervisors, david chu. please welcome him to make a few remarks. [applause] >> good afternoon. i first want to thank momed for your -- muhammad for your leadership on this incredible issue. i hope at some point the mayor will debuetize you as our graffiti czar. i want to comment as i look out into this room, this is an amazing turnout. and thank you all so much for coming out and huddling on this important issue. when i think. all the motivations that bring us here to this room to fight graffiti, i think the sentiment is probably best captured by the comments one of my neighbors made a couple nights ago. he said, i'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore. i think many of us in this room who want our city to be beautiful, who want our city to be safe understands the theory of the broken window applies here, which means that when there are things in our neighborhoods like broken windows, or graffiti or trash that these are all indicators to some degree of a community that is not taking care of itself

i know the board president david chu is working on possibility this there -- possibilities there. i look forward to working with him. we've targeted efforts to revitalize areas and bring industries here with the tax holiday and proposal introduced yesterday relating to parts of the tenderloin to provide some payroll tax relief to encourage businesses like twitter and others to go there. >> the governor has proposed eliminating funding for redevelopment agencies. what is your opinion of the plan? what are your thoughts on the value of redevelopment agencies? >> i think the plan is over- broad. i do not support it as it relates to san francisco's model of redevelopment. our redevelopment agency does tremendous work in san francisco. a lot of projects like treasure island and what is happening in hunters point, those kinds of projects would be difficult to achieve without redevelopment. a redevelopment agency is the largest source of affordable housing creation in the city. it has been a huge asset. i understand there are other parts of the state where redevelopment has a different m

to be with us here today, our president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chu. tom nolan, chairman of the board and also dr. donald shupe, our professor of urban planning at the university of irving-los angeles and worldwide expert claim on parking. we're also joined by m.t.a. director cheryl brinkman. and we're also joined by supervisor scott wiener as well as chairman of the transportation authority ross mercuriami. we're glad you're all able to be here with us. we're also joined by leslie rogers, regional administrator of the federal transit administration. we also have jose luis moss covitts of the transportation authority, jim lazarus of our san francisco chamber of commerce is here, along with red rifkin of the san francisco city of public works and melanie from the department of environment. we had a strong partnership. there was no way we could do this work without a strong partnership here within the city planning and the port of san francisco that had a strong partnership with us at s.f. park and agreed to participate in the pilot program. we have a gr