san franciscans during campaigns read everything they are sent in the mail. love to meet candidates. a gauge with them in conversations. i also learned how important it is to build bridges between communities, particularly communities of diversity we have. i was just incredibly honored to have been elected in november 2008. my district really encompasses the ethnic and economic diversity that exists throughout the city. as a result, i think my district is really emblematic of the entire city. you can find every political perspective that you could possibly want in district 3. so oftentimes, the interest of my district and the city really are quite a line, so i do not have to think about this difference is probably quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. i in particular want to thank the mayor for his decision to protect our nutrition programs. this is something that i think we all believe is incredibly important at a time when we have seen massive federal and state cuts, for us to hold the line locally and stand up in the city of st. francis for

all san franciscans will be eligible to participate in the clean power program sf . we will initiate the opt out process, providing approximately 230,000 account holders to say no thank you to assign the process. that is about 70% of the residential accounts in san francisco. we are anticipating the 230,000 accounts to be dispersed throughout the city in specified geographic areas. we have not determined what the specific geographic areas will be, but we expect it to be a patchwork across the city. from our survey information, the survey that we went ov

i learned that san franciscans during campaign read everything they are sent in the mail.hey love to meet the candidates and engage in conversations with them. i learned how important it is to build bridges between different communities, particularly communities of diversity that we have. i was incredibly honored to have been elected in november of 2008. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? >> i consider myself someone who shares the progressive values that many sentences can hold dear. we have been a beacon to the rest of the world region that many sentences skins hold dear. we have been a beacon to the rest of the world for those. >> you are president of the board. describe the role of the opposition and the responsibilities that come with being the president of the board of supervisors. >> as president, i preside over the weekly meetings we have tuesday at 2:00 here in the chamber. i also determine which legislations will go to various committees that we have. as a district supervisor, i sit on a number of legislative committees. >> what are some of

>> i am a resident of the richmond district and a longtime san franciscan. i was not prepared to speak but i felt moved. i realized the thing i would like to address is the fact that house special san francisco is. i manage a pet boutique in pacific heights and every day tourists marvel at our city because it is a special city and i look at places like the richmond district. i am checking out different neighborhoods kamal these special partisan ice-cream places. i look at the richmond district and think i love this area. i think what is missing? we have an opportunity with these open storefronts to bring it back home. if you looke at buston's, park life is a gallery space. it is world class our work. we have the opportunity to cultivate the richmond district. opening it up to small business owners and to make it special. why do people come to the city? they do not come to the city so they can see petco. why can't we just open it up to small business owners, people who have great ideas but maybe not a lot of money. why is it about money and how much the landl

i think it is what's san franciscans deserve. i do want to a acknowledge both mayors lee and newsom for giving me the opportunity to come to the government on in the first place. it has been tremendously rewarding for me. i want to particularly thank the npw family, many of whom are here today. is tumbling and honoring to see you -- it is humbling and honoring to see you here today. it is incredibly motivated, confident, passionate group of men and women that come to work every day to try to make san francisco a better place. and if i was successful as the director of public works, it is because of the men and women of the department working together with me as a team with the strategic direction focused on delivering the best service they could to the people of san francisco. my success is, there, that's the spirit. i look forward to working under the direction of the mta board, with the men and women of the mta, the labor organizations and leadership that represents them come with the rest of the elected family of the city, wit

but i celebrate in our family that the franciscan missionaries brought our faith. you've got to look at the system and go, what was good out of this? most of my family i am aware of our practicing catholics today. >> i tell you, it's wonderful that we have people like yourself. we can say the missions are a no spin zone. >> when bill justice was pastor at the irony, he gave me only two directives. one, don't and there's me. two, tell the truth. that's what we do. we are trying to evenhandedly tell the story are you not so much that the story for years has been told by the conquerors, the europeans or the sentence, not the bear being told by the concord, a sandy and folks, a balanced perspective. let people make a decision. >> tell us more of that truth now. let's talk about 4th grade missions. i will never forget area the 4th grade, they are staples. >> yes. we stay pilgrimage is part of a rite of passage. it's part of their curriculum to say in local history that they make a trip to a mission. we have over a thousand fourth-graders visit us in an academic school y

why do seven out of 10 san franciscans get on a bicycle each year? we're going to improve that every year. it makes us a healthier and stronger and more vibrant city. the richmond district has not only great businesses like pete from green apple, which just installed the great crowd, but we hope to see many more of those all around the city, and i really will be working with the mayor and my colleagues on the board of supervisors to insure that the jfk drive dedicated improvements are instituted before the end of the year. they should have been done before, but we are going to make sure they are down by the end of the year. thank you so much to everyone for being here today and bicycle coalition for keeping us a biking friendly city. thank you. >> thanks, everyone. i want to say thank you to north dakota, mike, the entire group that came with me from district 2 -- i want to say thank you to andy. give me a call anytime. i'm happy to do it again, and thank you to the bicycle coalition and everyone here improving the infrastructure of our bike lanes, w

i am a born and raised san franciscan. more important, i represent district 2. grew up in the marina district close to the palace of fine arts. my parents still live in the same set of plants that i live in. i went to grammar school here. i went to st. ignatius here. i am a proud wild cat. i went to college at loyola- marymount university in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball. i remember coming down here to christie field, when my dad was in the military, seeing how the beaches have transformed into but we have today. you cannot beat the views, of course. it just holds summoning memories and i can come here with our kids, our family. i ended up going to ireland to get a master's degree at the university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, wh

in the year 2000 is because small business cannot carry on with these burdens and employ a san franciscan at the numbers we need to grow our working population. we look forward to meeting with supervisor campos in coming days and to see if there are no other ways as the benefits employers -- to see the benefits of employees -- employers give are possible. are we leveling the possibility for small businesses to go bankrupt? [list of names] >> i am a small business employer very good i started my business 18 years ago, and my telephone calls and e-mails were never returned. i would question that they do enjoy use it or lose it. they spend 55%, never to be returned to the employer and the employee. she did not reveal her growth plan, so what those she use? i have over 100 employees. we have always use the services appropriately and paid them out very good -- pay the knot. what we do is provide services for seniors. right now the service is so expensive that they are looking elsewhere, such as an independent contractor or someone who is not criminally background check, so we are able to reduc

the basement rock beneath san francisco is known as the franciscan complex or formation.is throughout the city, most notably twin peaks, edge hill, telegraph hill. every once in awhile, you hear about those who make the news with a rock fall or landslide. usually occur in the telegraph and twin peaks. . above the rock are the soil deposits. the most common is dune

all san franciscans will be eligible to participate in the clean power program sf . we will initiate the opt out process, providing approximately 230,000 account holders to say no thank you to assign the process. that is about 70% of the residential accounts in san francisco. we are anticipating the 230,000 accounts to be dispersed throughout the city in specified geographic areas. we have not determined what the specific geographic areas will be, but we expect it to be a patchwork across the city. from our survey information, the survey that we went over with you and your last public meeting that you held jointly, from that survey information, we expect approximately 75,000 account holders to continue to participate in our clean power sf program. of the 230,00 question0 mark >> yes. the remaining 110,000 accounts that have not elected -- among those that have not elected to join us, there will be provided the formal opt out of a vacation after this initial group tells us what they would like to do. the pace of one we're going to have that next offering, that next op

also the community groups to see how we can create economic development that works for every san franciscans. >> one of the topics is -- [inaudible] >> as a member of the police commission, i learned that the most effective policing is the policing where you have the police and the community working together. so you need training for the police officer who's already there. it is important to have police officers on the street and having that police presence, but at the same time, there has to be a connection between the police and the community. so i think we're on the same page. you have to make sure that you create an atmosphere where people feel safe, and i think that to feel safe they have to feel like they're in partnership. i really believe that when you are blessed with the opportunities that this country gives you, that you have an obligation to give back. i really believe in public service. i could be in the private sector and make a lot of money, but i believe that i have a duty to try to make things better for other people and to pay back to a country that has given me so much. >>

that is one i hope all of us as san franciscans would be calling policy-makers in d.c., we are up against the ropes and we cannot afford to lose more money than you already taken from us. i would like to have these conversations with the committee so we can all be advocating to get us out of this mess we're in. >> thank you. we can ask the committee to take a look at that. any public comment on the executive director's speech? next item? >> this is the advisory council report. mr. murphy is not in the audience today so there will be no report. number seven is public comment. members of the public may address the board. nobody has turned in a speaker card. this item 8, approving an employment agreement with deborah johnson to serve as acting -- >> there is a change to #eight? >> we have one member of the public to speak. you want to speak, come forward. >> good afternoon, directors. when any [unintelligible] why is it happening and who is the target. anything happening against the mta is very well watched in this city hall corridors. we made many efforts and we mentioned this morning in e-

the rock under here is franciscan. it is sandstone. it is probably the hardest rock in san francisco at this location. we have just recently completed an investigation for the expansion of cathedral school, and they chose to go down 20 feet below the surface of the street, and it was incredibly hard. it was harder than the concrete that was placed as a foundation. the rock beneath the concrete was 10 times stronger than the concrete that is used to support the building. >> okay, moving to another part of the city, this is the eastern side. >> this is on army street? >> yes, this is army st., se. look at all that stuff. it is an active city. >> a lot of the old industrial, the american can co., goodman lumber. all that good stuff. >> wow. >> and this building is one of the examples of remaining 1906 earthquake damage. it has been repaired above, and that is where they repaired the damage. what did they found these buildings on, back in the early days? >> those days, remember i mentioned early on, it would use of redwood grillage and the

san franciscans are very astute, but they have been taken for a ride for too long. thank you very much. president vietor: thank you. next comment, please. >> that was great that we got an opportunity to talk about other job opportunities and i'm glad francisco led it off. a lot of people in our community -- a lot of them like to use their mind and their communication skills. we have been meeting with rebel prograreputable management firmt are on the same page, understanding that those opportunities need to be open to the community, as well. i'm looking forward to the team that will take on considering hiring quality people in our community that have the skill set to do the work. i do not find people coming in from out of town, but it has to be win-win. thank you. president vietor: thank you. please. >> it's kind of humorous. i think it is very ill prepared for a person to come before the board and make a statement and when asked a question, they have to get help from some other others -- from some of the others. if he is going to give the presentation, he should giv

they want to be your as partners and collaborators and, as we suggest, they want to hire san franciscans. we want to meet that challenge and we want to work with them. at the beginning of this budget, made a commitment to myself that i would do my best to listen to every part of this city, to all the neighborhoods, to the supervisors, and to the corridors that we held compound meetings at. not only what i want to listen to them, ultimately, as the impact of us, my challenge was really to listen to myself, as we reflected all of the values that the city has made -- as they impacted us. as i have been chosen as interim mayor, i wanted to make a commitment that i would not make any intron decisions on this budget. that we had a big challenge to not only create a foundation for years to come, but that we would make sure that we had a budget that would reflect long-term investments and the long-term financial health of this city. we set out a course to collaborate with as many people as possible and to make sure that our budget was reflective of what san francisco knows how to do. that is col

more than 50,000 previously uninsured san franciscans have access to health care, and i haven't because it was -- because of this law. this was an incredible accomplishment here the most extensive public study on the impact of this ordinance shows that not only has the ordinance created the opportunity for these 50,000 san franciscans to be injured, but that there is no appreciable effect on actual job creation or earning patterns here in the city and county of san francisco because of this ordinance. that is a very significant thing to because at that time that the health care security organs was introduced, there were a parade of horribles identified by many who opposed the legislation. thousands of jobs would be lost in the city and county of san francisco, and that the economy in san francisco would crumble because of this legislation. the parade of horribles has not materialized. the one study that looked at the impact of the legislation makes that very clear. but this loophole is something that was never intended when this legislation was first introduced. a loophole that was neve

so we have the evidence, and we have many san franciscans, including children, using cell phones on a daily basis. and they are unaware that the sec and manufacturers are hiding in tiny print in the back of the cell phone manual not to hold the phone to the body. this is information that everyone should have the right to know. you are doing the right thing, and since my husband was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at treated by experts to his long-term cell phone use, i have been touched deeply by hearing from -- i cannot even tell you have many. i have a list of close to 1000 victims of this, and it is just devastating. these people did not have the right to know, and i would appreciate if you would vote yes and take this to the board of supervisors, and i thank you so much. supervisor avalos: thank you for your comments. just to discuss a board rule -- we need to direct our comments generally to the committee and not to any individual supervisor. next speaker please. >> i am a citizen, and my car was in, but i did not hear it. anyways, i support this. i hope you vote for it, a

but let us keep san francisco for san franciscans. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. nice to see all of you today. i do not like this bill either. the vagaries of the wording is not done well. one of the problems we have when we look at this is we do not know where the funding you're going to cut out is going to come from. we basically look at it and say where are you going to get money. people are saying general fund. but isn't it every year you guys are talking about 10% general fund cuts from every department made year? where is that going to come from? parks should be free, but we cannot afford that in this economy. it just does not work, unfortunately. please do not pass this bill. thank you. supervisor avalos: next speaker, please come forward. >> i represent parkwide bike rental. we oppose this measure. bike rentals are an amenity to city parks, adding value to locals and visitors. this ordinance would block any future growth for us. our programs will initially create a minimum of 20 jobs for san francisco residents, as well as generate city funding through our