david chu collected 570,000 dollars.0 first place votes or just over 31 dollars per top vote. john avila received 4 5 50,000 dollars more than 37,000 first place votes. about 12 dollars per vote. >> public finance program itself works very well. that's what it is intended to do. >>reporter: he heads up the city ethic commission now considering changes to the public finances. under the current law any candidate who wanted to drop out of the race would have to pay back all that public financing so some may have stayed in reluctantly becoming zombie candidates. political consultant clemens believe several long shot candidates fit the bill. >> in the last race we had several candidate truthful with themselves knew a month before election day they had no hope of wing. >>reporter: tonight the ethic commission will consider modification. >> we are thinking that if we wait until we start dispensing funds to later in the year early enough that candidates still viable but not so early that they might waste public dollars. >>report

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

legislation to amend the planning code and zoning map sponsored by the board of supervisors president david chu. >> good evening. i am with the ports planning and development division. i am here to provide for you an overview and informational briefing on a piece of proposed legislation sponsored by supervisor and president david chiu on the planning code and zoning map. we have been working with the supervisor's office. we have been working with them and planning department staff as well. it was presented to the planning commission last month in october. that was really the first public hearing before the public to start to understand what the proposal was. we tried to jump on board. it is a broad piece of legislation. there are over 200 different amendments peppered throughout the planning code. most of it does not deal with the waterfront areas. i am not really in a position to speak to the full scope of it. we have tried to focus it to the controls that would reduce that we wanted to bring to your attention and to the stakeholders attention about what the proposals are. there are some comme

. >> reporter: the supervisor's president david chu told me all the revelry is good news for the city. >> what i've heard from businesses is there's cautious optimism. a lot of folks are hoping 2012 will be a better year. there have been some signs of that. >> reporter: in fact, president of san francisco travel, jojo sanrow says all the indicators are positive. >> 2011 has been a great year for san francisco. our growth rate has been upsubstantially over last year of the we're all confident that the end of the year will continue to see that same pattern. >> reporter: another option is thirsty bear on howard street which has a fixed menu, drink specials and a champagne toast at midnight. in san francisco, ktvu news. >>> google social network is growing. a statistician tracking the site says google plus is tracking about 225,000 members a day, currently has 62 million users and could have 400 million users by this time next year. the mountain view company made google plus available to the general public in september. facebook claims more than 800 million users. >>> candy makers at a un

we are joined by scott wiener, john avalos, david chiu, the committee vice chair carmen chu, is on route. we want to thank the following members of the sfgtv staff for covering the meeting. please call item 2. >> approve the minutes of the november 8, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have an item before us. motion by commissioner amylose, seconded by commissioner chiu. without objection. please call item 3. >> citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> because of the holiday schedule, the citizens advisory schedule -- committee has a combined november and december schedule. we are meeting tomorrow night and we will report any of the findings in the following week. >> commissioner campos: thank you. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. please call item 4. >> update on the implementation of california high-speed rail. this is an information ite

david. here to answer any questions you have. this is the animal prevailing wage that we file every year. supervisor chu: could you explain generally the process you go through, what this looks like? for many of us, we have seen this item time and again, but just for the general public will reset the prevailing wage rate might be useful. >> the process as we survey get information from the state, as well as some of the larger unions that represent the people functioning in these capacities and get their current rates that we would use to set for the city in any contract we contract with outside agencies, third-party, that sets the prevailing base line for which we would contract out the work. supervisor chu: the prevailing wage that the city has passed indicates the city would be paying prevailing wages for certain trades or jobs that we actually contract out for. your job has been to survey a number of different employers to see what the prevailing market rate has beenne

david chiu, president of the board of supervisors. thank you for coming. the mayor does not come along. he has a policy. supervisor carmen chu is also with us. we are also lucky enough to have supervisor mark farrell as well. maybe he is having a pastry or something. there is a lot of traffic between here and city hall. that is a bad joke, i know. we also have supervisor eric mar here with us this morning. all the supervisors are sitting together. we are also lucky enough to have the chief of protocol for the city of san francisco charlotte schultz. last but not least, we have tony sun, chair of the asian arts commission. that's good started this morning. i am going to get off the stage and and things off over to jay hsu. he is going to tell us a little bit more about what we're doing today. >> someone needs to hand me the remote. terrific. brand implementation is a journey. the asian art museum embarks on a new journey. to reinvent ourselves, to engage a broad audience. the broad audience is very much at the core of what we do here and who we are. why now, you ask? as the aging world influence grows, so is understanding its