supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you, president chiu. colleagues and members of the public today, i am both happy and p sad but very honored to be presenting a certificate of honor and commendation to a good friend and a really important part of our fabric here in san francisco for the past number of years. cindy brannan. cindy, come on up here. [applause] so everyone, cindy for the past seven years has been the executive director of san francisco safe here in our city. safe for those of you who don't know, i believe most of you know of it, it's an organization focused on safety in our community, in our neighborhoods, i think probably best known for neighborhood watch and so forth over the years, and has set up hundreds in san francisco but also does a lot with personal safety protection, involved with businesses in our community, and before coming here to the board of supervisors, i had the honor of being on the board of directors at ss-safe and i see a number of the board members and our police department including chief sir and the ca

supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you, president chiu.of the public today, i am both happy and p sad but very honored to be presenting a certificate of honor and commendation to a good friend and a really important part of our fabric here in san francisco for the past number of years. cindy

supervisor farrell: you bet. [applause] supervisor farrell: hold on, cindy, hold on a second. >> thank you very much, supervisor farrell. colleagues, at this time why don't we go to our 4:00 p.m. special order. madam clerk, could you call item 6-9. >> item 6 is a public hearing of persons interested in the decision of the planning commission's january 19, 2012 approval of a conditional use authorization for property located at 1111 california street, also known as the nob hill masonic center. item 7 is the commission approving the condition at use authorization at the masonic center. item 8 is the motion disapproving the planning position. item 9 is asking the clerk to prepare finding. president chiu: as i mentioned earlier in the meeting, colleagues, both parties in this matter have agreed to a continuance of one week. there have been fruitful conversations in recent days that potentially may lead to a resolution of this matter. so with that, i'd like to first entertain a motion to continue for one week. motion

supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thanks. let me just echo your comments. everyone who came out and applied, i really appreciate it. once in awhile, we get these committees where we have one more qualified applicants than we had seats, and it is an unfortunate position, but everyone who spoke today really had something amazing to say, so thank you for all you guys do in our community. we depend on you to keep our city going. in terms of where i go, a few things -- one, to be consistent, it was talked about a little bit before. the notion of residency waiver requirements. that, to me, is something i have been consistent with from the get go. you have an amazing story, and obviously, what you do in our community is amazing, but i do have that fundamental issue. it is absolutely nothing personal. i have had to tell people i know that i have had to be consistent with that, but that is something where i go. the people i was totally impressed with -- i know of your work personally as well, ms. davis, from some of the school's image and and really appreciate what

commissioner farrell: questions for you on the marina green bicycle trail. one question around the timing of it. obviously, the america's cup is coming into town. coordination around that is important. something else i did not notice before reading through the package, you mentioned parking spaces. could you talk about that? that is a hypersensitive area. there are not enough and there is talk about taking some away. >> the construction contract would be awarded in the spring but construction would not begin until october 2012, so it would be following the america's cup event. construction would then be completed by march of 2013, in advance of the 2013 finals. commissioner farrell: i want to make one point that has not been made publicly. the mountain dew tore has talked about coming down to host fleet week. that would be the two weeks after . i totally appreciate you are doing it between the 2012 and 2013 races, but please make sure to account for that. if that comes, that will dominate the marina green and surrounding area. >> absolutely. in regards to yo

supervisor farrell: no. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. >> there are eight aye's and three no's. president chiu: item 27. >> of the rise in the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to enter into a long-term meister -- a master license agreement for the installation of photovoltaic power project on san francisco united school district buildings. supervisor wiener: 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 olague: aye. >> 11 aye's. president chiu: resolution is adopted. >> resolution approving four new 2011 airline-airport lease and use agreement between the city and county of san francisco and various airlines. president chiu: same house, same call. adopted. >> of proving port commission lease located at 600 amador street with a 60 month term and option. president chiu: same house, same call. adopted. >> authoriz

supervisor farrell: present. supervisor kim: present. supervisor mar: here. supervisor olague: here. supervisor weiner: present. >> all members are present. president chiu: please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] colleagues, we have the february 28 board meeting minutes. can i have a motion to approve? without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. are there any communications? >> i have no communications. president chiu: could we go to our first agenda item? >> an ordinance amending the city code to establish city policy regarding participation in federal counter-terrorism activities. supervisor kim: thank you. i know this ordinance is now back to us for a second vote. i want to speak again about why i support this ordinance is strongly. as i have stated before, this ordinance is a product of years of work by our era, middle eastern, muslim, and south asian constituents in communities. what you have heard at our allies -- rallies are truly emotional, but this is not reactionary. women to a process with our human rights comm

supervisor farrell: aye. >> there are 11 aye. supervisor chiu: this ordinance is finally passed. >> item two is an ordinance a minute the administrative code to established a policy regarding participation in federal counter-terrorism activities. supervisor kim: i am asking again for another week of delay, continuing to the following tuesday, and this will be my final request for continuance. supervisor chiu: supervisor kim has made a motion for continuance. can we take that without objection? this item will be continued to -- i believe it is april 3. without objection. our 3:00 p.m. special order -- we will pick that up at 3:00 p.m. to discuss the america's cup and the various documents we have received from city staff. our 4:00 p.m. special order will be continued at 4:00 p.m., and this is at the consent of both parties. if we could now go to our committee reports and item 10. >> items 10 and 11 were considered by the land use committee at a regular meeting monday march 26, 2012 and were forwarded as committee reports. item 10

supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. >> there are 11 aye's. president chiu: that portion is finally passed. on the balance of the legislation? supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: no. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: no. supervisor farrell: no. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. >> there are eight aye's and three no's. president chiu: item 27. >> of the rise in the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to enter into a long-term meister -- a master license agreement for the installation of photovoltaic power project on san francisco united school district buildings. supervisor wiener: 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 olague: aye. >> 11 aye's. president chiu: resolution is ad

supervisor farrell -- i understand we have to take public comment. a motion to present proof seconded by supervisor olague. without objection, that vote is rescinded. and if we can have a motion to go into closed session, made by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. any public comment about whether we can go into closed session? no public comment, if we can take that to gogo president chiu: we are back in open session. could i have a motion not to disclose the information we discussed. seconded by supervisor mar. the motion passes. could you please read the in memoriams? actually, there is one more communication. madam clerk. >> we are in receipt of a letter dated april 10 communicating the mayor's veto of an ordinance that sets city policy regarding britain's inflation in federal counter-terrorism activities. he may override the veto and approved the ordinance within 30 days. that concludes my communications. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor wiener and president chiu for

supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. >> there are 11 aye's. president chiu: those items are finally passed. >> from the budget and finance subcommittee without recommendation. authorizing the waiver of certain bidding and contract in requirements of the administrative code and authorizing the director of the port to execute contracts for certain improvement properties. president chiu: same house, same call? item 26. >> item 26 from the rules committee without recommendation, amending the campaign and governmental conduct to modify funding, qualifications, and dates of the public financing program. supervisor elsbernd: i would like to do what i did last week and divide the file, asking for two separate ones. page 15, lines one through four , a separate vote on that. president chiu: why don't we take those votes. main body of the legislation. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: a

supervisor farrell: present. supervisor kim: here. supervisor mar: present. supervisor olague: here. supervisor weiner: present. >> all members are present. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, can i have a motion to approve the board meeting minutes? without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. >> there and a communications. item number 1 is a motion adopting findings and approving a conditional use authorization on property located at 1111 california st., subject to conditions imposed by the board of supervisors on april 3, 2012. president chiu: roll-call vote. mayor lee: ah -- supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. >> there are 11 eyes. -- ayes. item two amends the code for adjustment in writing of a proposal or bid of a california corporation for a competitively- bid city contract. president chiu: same house, same call? >> item 3 urges the

supervisor farrell -- i understand we have to take public comment. a motion to present proof seconded by supervisor olague. without objection, that vote is rescinded. and if we can have a motion to go into closed session, made by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. any public comment about whether we can go into closed session? no public comment, if we can take that to go into closed session without objection? that is the case. [gavel] .

farrell leaps desperately. the other two firefighters create a three-way chain with farrell's feet being licked by the flames, they pull him to safety. >> i was closer to the hole than i thought i was. and it wasn't until i saw the video that i realized that. >> reporter: farrell and his two firefighting colleagues were later shown the video that the news crew caught on tape. >> i didn't really know how mad it was. i mean we all went -- came off the roof and went back to work. >> as crazy as it was at the time, both these guys both kept level heads. and our lieutenant was, you know, just giving us instructions, calm and collective telling us what to do. >> only now does farrell realize just how his colleagues' quick-thinking saved his life. >> i probably would have slid in there had they not grabbed me. >> and farrell says when he got home that night, he didn't even tell his wife about his near-death experience. but she saw it on the news and in his words, he got some flack over it. our thanks to our affiliate

i know that the mayor and supervisor farrell, we have office hours. i do about six over the course of every month in every single neighborhood in this district. i want to thank the neighborhood associations represented here. not just for working with my office, but for the work you do in the community. i wanted to hand over the microphone for a final word from my colleague, supervisor farrell. >> thank you, everyone. thank you to the department heads for coming out tonight, and especially for our colleague, who had to go home to her family. in san francisco right now i think we are feeling a bit better about the economy, but the job that we have in front of us this year again, the reality is that our budget deficit is still close to $200 million. despite the fact that over the last year, since the mayor has been in office, unemployment has pe

supervisor kim: i'm really exciting about the hearing supervisor farrell is calling for today. my time at the school district, it was frustrating to see surplus property line around it could generate revenue or generate bell you for our district weather was teacher housing or other usage for our youth in this san francisco. but the district often is not a real estate division and it's frustrating to the city is mired with the same challenges. i have three items i would like to submit today. the first and a good news, i am submitting a new safe san francisco civil-rights ordnance today. i know we just engaged in a lengthy process where we have heard our original ordinance and have gone through committee and two votes. this past week, after our last boat with a potential impending veto by the mayor, the mayor's office and the coalition sat down and work really hard every day to try to hammer out a compromise that would address three of the main issues the coalition was working to address through the original version. the first was to address the issue of racial profiling. in this

with that, are there any questions by commissioner farrell of district two? i should say that both the authority to staff and the mta staff were very helpful. >> as the districts are being redrawn, i'm wondering if you're taking that into account as you are going forward with the presentations. >> yes, we're very excited about that. next month, we will have all of the boundaries realigned. >> thank you. >> and you can see the categorization of the types of projects year. if we did include a very high level grouping of the caltrain project, since caltrain does run through a significant portion of the district. typically, around september, the plans and programs committee which oversees the capital budget contribution to caltrain that we made through the prop k program prepared -- program. >> in district 10, we are involved in many studies with several partners, agency side. within the community and within other jurisdictions. we have identified and prioritized a major list of projects in the order of $500 million, and potentially a way to distribute the fundin

supervisor farrell: no. >> there are four ayes and seven no. supervisor chiu: the resolution is not adopted. item 11. >> item 11 is a resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of a multi-housing revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed approximately $40.1 million for the purpose of providing financing but the acquisition and construction of a 150-unit multifamily rental unit housing project. supervisor chiu: roll-call vote? >> and added 11 -- supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor chiu: aye. supervisor chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the resolution is adopted. colleagues, what we go to roll call? then a supervisor kim, you are first for roll call for introductions -- >> supervisor kim. supervisor kim: first of all, i wanted to take a moment today to briefly highlight a public health crisis that our office has been focused on. preventing pedes

to jim's left we have john farrell who goes by jack. jack farrell began his career in journalism writing for such newspapers as the denver post and the boston globe. for the last three decades washington has been his beak and he cover all three branches of the federal government which has included his covering every presidential election since 1980. he is a senior writer for the center for public integrity which is a nonprofit, non-partisan investigative news organization. in 2001 he published a real page turner. to the o'neal and the democratic century. his writing has received a slew of prizes including last night as you may know when jack receive a los angeles time book price for biography for clarence darrow. [applause] here are our panelists and off we go. before we get into the theme, who knows if we will stick to this scene or not? i have been looking for threads. having a devil of a time. i thought if each of you might begin we will start with you, dick, perhaps talking about how and why you got into writing about the berlin air

[applause] >> good evening, mayor, supervisors,farrell, and this ty officials.it is an honor to be able to stand here and speak on behalf of the chinatown link care center. it is operated in partnership with charity and cultural services. a nonprofit agency with over 35 years of experience delivering for programs for people with limited english proficiency. i am here because not all of our job seekers could be here today to speak about their needs. we have been operational since july of 2010. since then we have seen thousands of people come into our center because they need help. they need to put food on the table and pay rent, and take care of their children. as a resident of san francisco and a person who lives and works here, and who grew up here, we believe that job training for the needs of the residents here are key and critical. i would like to share some basic statistics with you about the federal funding that has been decreasing over the last few years at millions every year, a loss of over 20%. job training and placement programs need to be passed in e

supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. president chiu: the motion is approved. i want to thank all the parties for your participation. why don't we go to our adoption without committee reference calendar? we have handled item 22. if we could call the balance of the calendar. >> items 21, 23, and 24 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. these will be adopted by a single roll call vote on less a committee member would like to single out an item. president chiu: do we need to sever any items? supervisor olague: i would like to sever item 21. president chiu: items 23 and 24, can we do that same house, same call. without objection, those are adopted. item 21. >> a resolution supporting the assembly built 1831. regarding the extension of california's bandbox policy. supervisor olague: this extends the ban the box policy across california. people who are convic

supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. >> there are 11 aye's. president chiu: those items are finally passed. >> from the budget and finance subcommittee without recommendation. authorizing the waiver of certain bidding and contract i