supervisor farrell: present. supervisor kim: here. supervisor mar: present. supervisor mirkarimi: present. supervisor weiner: present. >> all members are present. president chiu: please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> i have no communications. items one through seven comprise the consent agenda. these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote, unless a member requests a matter be considered separately. president chiu: if not, roll call vote. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. president chiu: those ordinances are finally passed. item eight. >> ordinance amending the administrative code, limiting the hours of overtime work to 20% by any -- to 25% of regularly scheduled hours during a fiscal year. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: no. supe

supervisor farrell pointed to a number of them. but there are differences, and having a detailed discussion in terms of options going forward is something we need to do. i think taking additional time to go into closed session and having that discussion is something that can be useful, is respected of how you feel from a public policy -- irrespective of how you feel from a public policy perspective about public financing. i think we do need a thorough discussion with our counsel on this issue. i look forward to having that opportunity. supervisor farrell: just 2 below points to my colleagues. i will be happy to support the motion to go into closed section -- session next week. this is not public policy. this is about a supreme court decision. it is not a public policy debate about our system. i caution my colleagues that timing is of the essence. people are thinking about the implications on elections going forward this year. i am skeptical whether this would apply to this year's mayor's race, given the way fund-raising has gone so

supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you. first of all, again, thank you to the civil grand jury for their work on this matter, and thank you for those who came before us today. i think, at this point, i would be prepared to accept the finding. i have no reason to doubt that their hard work has kind of really gotten to the bottom of what some people are feeling about commission and city workers right now. however, on the recommendation, i am inclined to disagree here. it would be great to hire more folks, but we at the border faced with the budget for next year. and hundreds of millions of dollars of deficit already. so i would be happy to consider that next year, and we can think about it as a board next year in terms of our overall budget process. but to recommend it right now, when we heard it was not a necessity, you know, we're in austere times in the city and city government. we need to be very careful about that. so i would be prepared to agree with the finding and disagree with the recommendation. supervisor campos: s

supervisor farrell pointed to a number of them. but there are differences, and having a detailed discussion in terms of options going forward is something we need to do. i think taking additional time to go into closed session and having that discussion is something that can be useful, is respected of how you feel from a public policy -- irrespective of how you feel from a public policy perspective about public financing. i think we do need a thorough discussion with our counsel on this issue. i look forward to having that opportunity. supervisor farrell: just 2 below points to my colleagues. i will be happy to support the motion to go into closed

supervisor chiu: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: i want to echo those comments. this could put you in a stronger position with bart. we want to make very clear. president chiu has articulated this in the past. we want to make a very clear statement. we would like you to go renegotiate, and we certainly are not going to tolerate that in the future. i think by including this in here to me sends a stronger message without tripping up any boundaries and gives you the power to go back and say that is what the board is recommending. i will be supporting this. supervisor chiu: supervisor chu? supervisor chu: thank you, president chiu. the first two amendments we have made in committee. in addition to strongly having a methodology that shows the nexus between the transfer trips. i would be supportive of the first resolved clause that supervisor campos added on, to urge them to renegotiate an added amount. i think we should try. however, i won't be supporting lines 21-23. i would ask we straight that out. even though we are saying this is a resolution and that it is non-b

supervisor campos: so that is a motion by supervisor farrell. i do not know if you have any thoughts or comments, president chiu? thank you. i certainly understand the perspective that supervisor farrell has and can supported or suggest in the language that we state that the kit -- the commission should consider the hiring of personnel. but in the context of the budget, i am happy to hear more on that this. president chiu: are we allowed to amend the language? >> yes, you are allowed to amend the language. president chiu: i see the point that supervisor farrell makes. i think that if we can have a language that leaves the option of hiring open, i would be -- that would be my preference. the reason i see that -- say that is that i do not want us to take a position where we disagree with that finding or with a recommendation and later, you know, find out that, for some reason, in fact, this may be needed. i think that to the extent that there is a need, that there is an understanding that we will get the expert advice from the civil service commis

supervisor farrell: do you know they have not made any efforts? >> the recreation and parks department did not know the official reason why they did not make an effort, but there is speculation that trying to find a naming rights agreement is not one of their priorities at this time. supervisor farrell: again, the question is do you know they have not made any efforts or they'd have not succeeded? >> we do not know if they have

supervisor farrell: do you know they have not made any efforts? >> the recreation and parks department did not know the official reason why they did not make an effort, but there is speculation that trying to find a naming rights agreement is not one of their priorities at this time. supervisor farrell: again, the question is do you know they have not made any efforts or they'd have not succeeded? >> we do not know if they have made any efforts or not. one other thing -- when we talk about the policies, we did make a recommendation and the city administrator agreed to begin to coordinate and centralize to some sort of uniform standards to advertising which is currently lacking. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is sarah duffy. and going to go over the findings related to the mta advertising contracts. mta has three advertising agreements. the first is the transit shelter agreement between clear channel and outdoor, the second is for vehicles and parking garages and the third is a memorandum of understanding betweenmta and bart -- between mta a

supervisor farrell: i appreciate that. that clarity. but are you saying we are going to delay or gamble with taxpayer dollars? that is something i'm fundamentally unwilling to do in the face of the supreme court having decided that our laws are not in line with their decision. i appreciate the banks this has caused. we have a rich history of public financing that has benefited a lot of us on the board. however, it is gambling tax payer money. especially in light of our budget, hundreds of millions of dollars in deficit for the next year's. to me, this is an egregious mistake if we go against this. president chiu: i am going to reluctantly be voting in favor of this legislation. the supreme court has spoken. while i disagree with that decision, it is the law of the land. that is the basis for my vote. that being said, i will and many of my colleagues will join in asking the ethics commission to expeditiously consider, advise, promote other options to help strengthen our public financing system in the wake of this decision. to make sure w

supervisor farrell: do you know they have not made any efforts?> the recreation and parks department did not know the official reason why ey

supervisor farrell:ou have obviously been working with dpw on this. what are their thoughts? >> these contracts were negotiated a long time ago in the people who negotiated these contracts, they don't know where they are. they also did not realize what the other city departments were doing, so to them, it would have been helpful to that what was the structure for other departments, so they are trying to negotiate amendments, but they also realize a challenge given this agreement has been in place for a long time. >> how long is -- supervisor farrell: how long is the term of the agreement? >> the agreement is for -- >> the agreement as until 2016. they were actually opened to the idea to come back with some sort of incentive for some sort of reason for the company to come back and renegotiate terms of the contract. although it's not a given they will be able to do that, they are open to trying. supervisor campos: what are the terms of the agreement? is there a unilateral term? >> i do not think so. superv

supervisor chiu: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: thank you. a reminder, on its last reading today, this is the legislation that will allow target to come into the old city center district. it is the site of the old toys r us, sears row buck and mervyns. supervisor chiu: without objection this ordinance is passed. ilet 24? >> item 24, ordinance amending the administrative code, decreasing film fees for smaller budget productions pertaining to the film rebate program. supervisor chiu: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: thank you. colleagues, this legislation is going to bolster our current film rebate program by including documentaries and reality programs to the program. in the past, reality shows used to be fairly low budget productions. now we are seeing many more of these shows with more substantial budgets to work with,, and we would like to attract them here to have them spend their production dollars here in san francisco and hire local crews. this is going to apply to documentary films as well. since introducing this legislation ove

supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you. first of all, again, thank you to the civil grand jury for their work on this matter, and thank you for those who came before us today. i think, at this point, i would be prepared to accept the finding. i have no reason to doubt that their hard work

supervisor farrell: aye. president chiu: those ordinances are passed. >> item 3 is an ordinance amending the and ministry to code, section 1610, to allow the use of time-limited paid administrative leave for employees under certain circumstances. president chiu: i understand there is a technical amendment we need to make. >> the actual title should be 16.17. it is not a change to the body of the text. this could be moved on second reading. president chiu: could i have a motion to amend to make that technical change? by supervisor csampos, s -- campos, seconded by farrell. same house, call? without objection, the ordinance is passed. >> item 5 amends the administrative code, limiting the hours of overtime worked in a fiscal year by any employee to 20%, asking departments to implement a reporting mechanism. supervisor elsbernd: i would like to ask this item be continued for one week for proper meat and confirm. -- meet and confirm. president chiu: seconded by commissioner avalos. continued to next week, septemb

thank you to supervisor farrell and his staff. thank you to sheila and my staff for working on this. and thank you to president chiu for your support. madam clerk, call item 3. >> item number 3, resolution encouraging the san francisco municipal transportation agency to develop a plan to manage overtime expenditures in 2011- 2012 and subsequent fiscal years. supervisor campos: first, a quick question on item two, and that would be a motion to move forward with the recommendation. that is not going as a committee report. item three, please. let me say that, with respect to item 3, this is an item related to item two, as was just noted. we on the board of supervisors do not have direct oversight of line-item budgets within the san francisco municipal transportation agency, which is why we are accompanying the legislation with this resolution that is urging the sfmta to take all necessary steps to address the issue of overtime. as has been noted before, the sfmta, at this point, accounts for 41.52% of the city's total overtime for fi

supervisor farrell: thank you. to get your opinion on it this, you know, is the second edition, from your point of view, is this nice to have or need to have? as you talk about expediting processes, i completely understand, and i would want to support it really respect what the civil grand jury -- all of their work. i think about our process and the board of supervisors, everything else in city hall, and our city government. obviously, we're in a huge budget deficit times. and we're all having big austerity measures. so is this completely necessary to function? or can you bucshon without it? >> i think all of us have cut our belts and tighten our belts. we do with what we have. this department can certainly do that, and it is not the recommendation that we thought that is what the finding of the civil grand jury is, and the commission agrees with that. but they do feel that there should be additional staff for the commission. but i also want to assure everyone that anything that is brought to our office is addresse

supervisor farrell: would it be possible to send us the contract as well?upervisor campos: it amazes me how we find $5 million pockets of money in our city government that we are not taking advantage of. >> obviously, it would be nice to renegotiate the higher revenue share consistent with the others, but if the departure of public-works were to renegotiate even just a 25% revenue share, that include additional kiosks, we estimate the city could generate or receive $1.1 million in additional revenue annually. supervisor campos: from my perspective, 25% is a very conservative number. i would hope the would be higher than that. supervisor farrell: i hope someone is running some financial models here. 25% now as opposed to terminating in 2016, someone needs to run the numbers here because those are big deals. >> we do follow up to our recommendation, so that is something weill continue to follow-up. unfortunately, dpw lost their director, so it will be a new situation for us. >> one of the more controversial agreements san francisco has been is the naming righ

thanks again to supervisor farrell for keeping us involved. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? mr. paulson? >> good luck with those lines. i still remember i was in that very sears store and got lost when i was 5 years old. i live across the street. i am glad you're fixing it. ♪ the long and winding road leads me back to the city center and you left me standing there a long, long time ago don't leave me lost theire lead me to your store ♪ supervisor farrell: very nice. chairperson mar: let us close public comment. supervisor farrell: just to reiterate, i would like to ask the community to make a motion to approve the amendment as a whole. we would still like the chance to engage with target this afternoon, and that is going to happen. i would ask that the committee for it without recommendation for tomorrow, and we will vote on it as a full board tomorrow. chairperson mar: on the amendments, can we approve them without objection? at the urging of our colleague, can we move this forward as a committee report for considera

supervisor farrell: just 2 below points to my colleagues. i will be happy to support the motion to go into closed section -- session next week. this is not public policy. this is about a supreme court decision. it is not a public policy debate about our system. i caution my colleagues that timing is of the essence. people are thinking about the implications on elections going forward this year. i am skeptical whether this would apply to this year's mayor's race, given the way fund-raising has gone so far. let us go into closed session, but let us not delay and make this a political effort. i do not want to cost our city hundreds of thousands of dollars again. i know people are lining up in the wings to file this lawsuit. they are eager, and my a -- and in my opinion confident of their potential outcomes. i will support the motion, but with a caution that we move this expeditiously and it does not become a public policy debate. supervisor elsbernd: are you thank you very much. when you do come next week, if you can between now and then -- i u