i'm happy to co-host this town hall with supervisor eric mar. i think that both of our districts -- our residents share a lot of the same concerns and we have high populations of children and families, lot of seniors as well as folks from immigrant community. and, so, today i think that it is a great partnership that we have. i also want to thank the department heads who are here as well as our mayor and very hard working budget director having been the legislative aid to former supervisor carmen chueed when served on the budget committee four years, i know how hard it is that all of you worked to put together the budget. ~ who had as you know the mayor and his team will be submitting the budget to the board by june 1st, and, so, i think that we're very lucky that we have a very collaborative mayor and his team who want to hear from you as he's putting the budget together, not after, but during the process so that he can incorporate your feedback into his budget. so, with that, i want to turn it over to our budget chair, supervisor mark farrell.

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~ >> thanks, supervisor. i'll be very brief because the whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to put a little backdrop that a year ago when we started holding these community meetings, we had some significant budget deficits. and in years past they were even worse. now we've come through a lot of that and i'm thankful to all the department heads that are here because they worked very hard to work with me to find all the efficiencies, to make sure we balance that budget. clearly, the members of the board of supervisors and today we're focused on districts 1 and 4, but i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and supervisor farrell for providing their leadership at the board because we can only make it work if the mayor and the board work together. but most importantly, we've got to listen ca

committee, my name is david camp os and i am the chair and we joined by norman yee and supervisor eric mar is excused the clerk of the board is derek evans and before we turn it over to the clerk, i also want to acknowledge the following members of stgtv staff, jessy larson, and jennifer low. >> could we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? >> could we take that without objection. and mr. clerk if you have any announcements. >> make sure that you silent all cell phones and devices and complete the speaker cards and the file should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will appear in the agenda unless always stated. >> i want to acknowledge john gibner who is helping to cover the meeting today with that mr. clerk, if you call item number one. >> it is a hearing regarding various city departments efforts to implement, the lease bean gay, and transgender chapter 12 n. >> we have been joined today at the committee by supervisor john avalos who is the main sponsor of this item that is co-sponsored by supervisor weiner and myself and i want to thank supervisor avalos for his leade

let us move to the richmond and supervisor eric mar. >> thank you supervisor chiu, i'm really honored to be here. i have so much pride that there is great leadership. i see emerald gray, the pioneers from the media and chou was the first district chinese personality from that district. there are so many other great leaders supporting the community organization. the louis, i wanted to be the first chinese american miles davis of all things and jazz was my passion. i gravitated towards the radio and i got to meet many of the great jazz music. my honorary from the richmond district is one of my hear -- heroes. he is one of the native asian american instruments. there were a couple of really eclectic activist going around. yam zachey who i used to see at city lights bookstore and i saw posters posted on the streets for the asian american jazz festival and my honoree was one of the founders. i'm honoring mark -- zoo who is an accurate or of many careers of the asian jazz festival and who i met and inspired by him and other leaders of this movement. i would like to ask mark and partner of c

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~ >> thanks, supervisor. i'll be very brief because the whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to

breed will be joining momentarily supervisor scott wiener and we are going to be missing supervisor eric mar who we will be excusing. i'd like to thank the members of sfgtv mark bunch and jeff as well as victor young. do you have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic deviceses. copies submitted to the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will be on the board of supervisors june lease termination agreement - downtown parking corporation - 833 mission street unless otherwise stated. >> okay, colleagues, before we call item number 1, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor mar who is absent for family reasons? motion by supervisor avalos, we can do so without opposition. [gavel] >> mr. clerk, can you please call items number 1 and 2 together, pleat? se? >> item number 1, resolution retroactively approving the feeder agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the bay area rapid transit district for payment for transfer trips, with a term from july 1, 2010, to june 30, 2020. ~ item number 2, resolution retroactively approv

supervisors file no. 120996 and presentation by nickolas pagoulatos legislative aide to supervisor eric mar. >> thank you again for this opportunity. this is a revised version of the original legislation that you considered. it's improved in some significant ways. primarily we have had an opportunity to work with both the community, as well as to reach out to other supervisors, particularly those supervisors who would receive the most benefit from this legislation. so as you will see, we do co-sponsorship from supervisors from districts 6 and 10 and we had the opportunity to examine the questions and suggestions made at this committee, specifically as to how we could improve the legislation and we have incorporated some of the suggestions that were made into the revised version that you have in front of you. the goals remain the same. we wish to support small businesses in san francisco in this case particularly convenient stores and convenient stores in those parts of san francisco where there is a lack of access to healthy food. again, that right now would primarily be in the tenderloin a

i am joined by committee member supervisor norman yee, eric mar is unavailable so we can have a motion to excuse mar. we have a motion without objection. we want to thank or clerk, derrick evans and the members of sfgtv who are covered the meeting today. we want to thank or city attorney. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the may 28 supervisor's agenda. >> can you please call item number one. >> item number one is a hearing to consider the transfer of a type 48 on sale public premises license from 493 broadway street to post street in district three doing business as cafe royal. >> if we can hear from the applicants, if you could come up and give us a brief presentation of what exactly you're requesting and tell us a little bit about your business. >> absolutely. >> if you can speak into the mic please so it can be heard. >> i'd like to say thank you for having us here today. we've been looking forward to this day for a very long time. to be standing here before you is a

. >> item number two motion reappointing supervisor eric mar to the association of bay area governments executive board for a term ending june 30, 2015. >> okay. this is for the reappointment. okay. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues any thoughts? can we move this -- have this motion go forward to -- this appointment to the full board with recommendations? there is a first. is there a second? is there a second? >> second. >> thank you. motion is moved without any objection. madam clerk item three. >> item number three motion appointing supervisor jane kim to the association of bay area governments executive board for a term ending june 30, 2015. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is now closed colleagues any thoughts? can we move this? thank you. is there a second. >> second. >> thank you with no objection motion passes. i think -- can we have a little pause? i was expecting supervisor -- either supervisor chiu or supervisor wiener might want to come in here. >> would like me to give their offic

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~

eric mar mar talked about a lot of good things looking at the demographics. let's go back. you have a migration report. you have an unfinished agenda. gavin newsom signed off that and there is short fall in the comment and the black community sat back and allowed everybody else to grow. even in the budget cuts right now and the city has recognized the shortcomings, the development done in district 10, billions of dollars being pumped in how can you not take under consideration when you do the budget these important short coming in these reports. you might as well use it as a table mat. number two, i sat on a few board in the city. fob and executive board for affordable housing. i also worked in real estate for 10 years selling money. i am trying to figure out why i can't get black people in housing and why i got into community work. at the end of the day any investment, the investment dollars that we have that are city taxpayer members that pay taxes we're looking for a return. our return is the majority of our people have jobs. the majority of our people are not in jail. t

we haven't had a increase in four years and we want to thank supervisor john avalos and eric mar and london breed for assisting us and pushing forward our budget ask and we also want to say because of the increase in cost of living that is driving up poverty for a percentage of the city while some are benefiting from it others are forced into dire straits. there is a huge unmet need and we also support creating new revenues to fund social services supporting the restoration fund to restore social services before the recession happened. budget cuts translate into violence and people in the jails and people on the street and we have to address the cost of living. otherwise san francisco is just going to turn into manhattan so i want to thank you for your time and have a nice day. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is ken. i'm director of episcopal services and join my colleagues and many of the residents and clients here today in urging you include it, add the funding for health and human services in this year's budget. we're providing today shelter to 5

committee, my name is david camp os and i am the chair and we joined by norman yee and supervisor eric mar is excused the clerk of the board is derek evans and before we turn it over to the clerk, i also want to acknowledge the following members of stgtv staff, jessy larson, and jennifer low. >> could we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? >> could we take that without objection. and mr. clerk if you have any announcements. >> make sure that you silent all cell phones and devices and complete the speaker cards and the file should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will appear in

may 22, 2013, my name is supervisor mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee joined by eric mar as well as john avalos. i would like to thank the clerk of the board, the clerk of the committee, mr. young and as well as the members of stgtv covering this meeting. >> mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices complete your speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, items will be on the june 13th, agenda unless otherwise stated. >> could you call number one. >> resolution authoritying the office of the district attorney to contract for accept and expend up to $256,974, allocated from the california victim compensation and government claims board for the project entitled the criminal restitution compact. >> all right, we have jackie ortiz from the district attorney office. >> thank you for having me here today. i am here to explain to you a little bit about the restitution specialists. i wanted to let you know that she is a liaison between the victims, the state, and

peter lauder born, again speaking on behalf of supervisor eric mar who is very honored to have the opportunityort the nomination of ms. becky hogue for this seat, the seat currently held by president richard rothman. ms. hogue herself has been a long-term long time respected leader in the richmond district until she recently, we were very upset to have lost her to district 6. but her new home supervisor, supervisor jane kim who is also supporting her candidacy. the work she's done to build the constituency to bring more people to the table is really admirable. we look to her for guidance on a number of issues. so, to see her have that role in a formal capacity on this club would be a great benefit to us, a great benefit to the city. so, we would greatly appreciate the support of this committee. thank you, supervisors. >> okay. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, any thoughts besides i would say it's pretty clear that we're going to read back -- read back, is it, is that what she said, read back? pi, pi ra. >>> another figure yet. [speake

presidio planning, the san francisco department on the environment, our supervisors mark farrell and eric mar who have been skeetingly supportive and our most committed partners the recreation and park department and the san francisco parks alliance. as abigail indicated our budget is $3.15, of which $2 million has been award by the park bond. $350,000 has already been made in in-kind donations thanks to our architect and we have $750,000 left to raise to close the gap. we're going to look to our richmond district community and also neighbors from other districts who use mountain lake park and at all times during the year the park is very active and many districts not just ours will benefit from the improvement of this playground. we have come so far since our meetings three years ago in local coffee shops and we feel really excited and encouraged and we hope you approve our project so we can get to work. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there any other public comment? >> good morning commissioners, meredith thomas with the san francisco parks alliance and i agree with dawn these folk

joined momentarily by chair supervisor eric mar. want to thank the members of sfgov-tv john ross and jeff as well as the clerk of the committee mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all foexctiontionv and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be com included as part of the file should be submited to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the june 14, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1, hearing to receive an update on the port budget for fy's 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. >> okay. so, we have a hearing, port budget update. we have the executive director of the port, ms. monique moyer, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. for the record, monique moyer for the port of san francisco. i want to thank you for carving out time for all the items today. we hope to be succinct as you need us to be, [speaker not understood], b