they do not represent san francisco. san francisco wants better and more choices on high-speed internet access. vote yes for at&t to invest in san francisco and vote yes to improve the quality of our lives, and by the way, ugly san francisco is not caused by the cabinet, it's caused by social problems. we need to address the social problems. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, my name is susan finnegan. i live in parkerside -- parkside and i suspect i'm representative of a lot of people in san francisco. i'm a single parent, renter, single income, and even with a good job, i still live paycheck to paycheck. one of the gentlemen earlier mentioned that internet and cable is a necessity these days. and it truly is, especially if you're raising children, especially if you're a giants fan. that's a necessity. and if you can't even see a home game, you know, without having cable, i think that says something. i would love for comcast to have some competition. perhaps to make pricing, packaging o

we need to do a lot in san francisco to encourage young people and young families to stay in san francisco. i think we are missing out on a lot of our diversity when young families leave our city. we need to do all we can to be mindful of the needs of young families in the city. we mentioned housing. schools are a big deal. but also being able to be flexible with transportation and children. >> what is happening with crime in your district? give me your thoughts on how you think the police are doing with respect to crime in your district? >> i think we are very fortunate in district two. we have a number of great police captains that oversee the stations that touched district two. richmond and northern are the two major police stations that touched the district. we do have a lot of crime in district 2. both crimes against individuals but also against merchants along our merchant corridors. chestnut. union in particular has been hit. fillmore and sacramento. it is a big deal. we also have the break-ins. we need to be very mindful that people keep their iphones and laptops out of sight. but

board of san francisco is absolutely of interest to us. -- port of san francisco is absolutely of interest to us. pier 96 is not. the reason is when we got the permission to use pier 96 for the purpose of recycling our traditional recyclables -- paper, bottles, cans -- we committed to the citizens of the bayview that this was going to be recycling only. we told them, we committed that we would not bring garbage into the bayview district. that was important to them an important to us. our facility, pier 96 sits right below the hunters point housing project. while we did not have to do it, we committed and have been voluntarily for the last -- i guess it has been eight or nine years now that pier 96 has been there and processing the city's recyclables -- we voluntarily offered, long before anybody was talking about local hire ordinances in the city -- we voluntarily offered all new jobs to people who live in two zip codes that are impacted in the bayview, and we have hired somewhere around 175 people who come from that zip code -- those two zip codes to work for us. what we heard a week or t

because san francisco is so young. -- because san francisco is so young, it is riddled by faults. i have a map that shows the faults across the bay area and san francisco. the granddaddy of all of these is the san andreas fault. it is the longest. it can generate the greatest earthquakes. >> it is just south of san francisco. it goes offshore down here. >> from my house to the fault is about 3 miles on average. >> the closest area in san francisco to the fault is this area here in the southwest part of the city. people said that the closer you are, there are conditions that exacerbate issues. >> the fault's effect on development depends on the fault type and soil component. the san andreas is the main fault. there is the hayward fault. the difference between the two is that the san andreas is predominantly offshore. the hayward fault actually crosses beneath populated areas and poses a larger threat. as we speak, there is a 67% probability of a major earthquake on one of these faults in the next 30 years. it is of major -- high probability. it is a magnitude 6.5. the 1906 was 7.9.

rockets were in san francisco. gimenez were on the mound, and his mad-to help win a critical game, outfielder darren ford. ladies and gentlemen, i have only one phrase for the next giants player -- the beard. brian wilson. [applause] fear teh beard. how about the youngest left- handed pitcher in the history of the world series. eight shut up series. madison bumgarner. they tied the phillies in game 6. the bullpen when they last innings, and coming in first in the third inning, men all over the bases in a tie game, and he was critical to the giants winning the pennant. here he is, a left-hander, affeldt. -- jeremy affeldt. \ the next left-handed pitcher had his season cut short, but we know he has a bright season with the giants, dan runzler. giant open was right down the stretch, and this guy, maybe through his heart, santiago casilla. [applause] another recent acquisition to help the giants down the stretch. i would say he give a heck of a status report on those rangers hitters, too. chris ray. [applause] he hit a

communities across san francisco have benefited. it seems the service could be arbitrary depending on what the issue is and what service is being renewed or increased. that has some benefits. it would be great to have something that would be more global in how the new services are rendered to the city and what the benefits are. having clarity about that is good practice in government. >> i hear the questions of the commission and the concerns regarding documentation. our main concern is to ensure that since we have a system that works, we have a system in place that has worked for many years, and that is highlighted, we are succeeding in having the highest ever generate, that we want to ensure that even if we are looking at additional documentation for our system, that our system is not disrupted. we are working aggressively to reach zero waste by 2020, and any part we -- in the work we're doing would severely jeopardize our ability to reach that goal. that is our perspective, how we can keep having momentum to move down the path to

convention and visitors bureau only in san francisco award. please join me in applauding paulo cabezas as he approaches the stage. [applause] >> his mother, also known as cruzita, and the friendliest person of the excelsior district -- [applause] -- is a night tiff of el salvador. in 2004 she accepted the invitation to join mama art cafe as a representative. gradually she decided to pursue her new career and to contribute to the excelsior community. the position at mama art cafe provided the opportunity to promote products and events on the radio and to network with bay area professionals. she continued her education through private training, business consultants and classes at various organizations in san francisco. she is on the board of directors for new eat-in projects that facilitates projects that benefit youth by fofters creative arts and education. please give applause to the mother and son. [applause] >> our next category is the category of education. our presentser is our esteemed city librarian, luis herrera. please join me in welco

, so our constituents are the people of san francisco. we want to do what we can to reach out to as many kinds of populations as we can. one way we do that is by bringing in guests. that is one of the things that makes a festival exciting. not only do get to see films that you might not otherwise see, but you can meet a director

pay over the past 13 years without leaving san francisco. according to the controller's office, mr. egan, who's here, can have the policy advantage of providing a tangible benefit to a few successful companies, reducing their incentive to leave san francisco, while leaving the majority of taxpayers and the city's payroll tax revenue unaffected. mr. egan has estimated that the effect on the city's general fund, with this limited stock option exclusion, would be minimal in annual tax revenue and that the loss would be more than recaptured by making sure that companies are retained and sustained in san francisco. so that we are then in the proactive business of making sure their companies are nurtured and that our employee base grows, and from that employee base, because we're not going after payroll tax and just stock option, that we be able to benefit from their contribution into the employment base increasing into either payroll tax or whatever the new business tax that would supplant that in the future. that is the legislation that is befor

it is costly and difficult to do business in san francisco, to raise your children in san francisco. i would like a voice at the table to create policies that will minimize the stigma that san francisco is not a business- friendly city, minimize the stigma of that san francisco prioritizes the rights of dogs over children. we started walking down that path largely because of political ideology. it is less about politics. i want to have a positive impact on the city overall, specifically district 10, connecting it to the city. people have been left to defend for themselves. i am honored to have been elected to serve to be the next advocate for the next four years, hopefully the next eight years, to really protect, defense, and serve the residents of district 10. >> we will talk more about some of the issues facing district 10. before we do, i would like to know a little bit about what you learned campaigning for supervisor. talk to me a little about that experience. >> first, i learned that a lot of the conversations we have about our neighborhood and community happens in silos. we ha

the san francisco giants as world champions. [applause] it is, in every sense, a great day to be a giants fan, aint it? [applause] we, like you, are all elated to find ourselves standing on the summit of baseball. we are also proud, aren't you? in the job that bruce bochy did with all of his teams and players. one more round of applause for bruce and his team. [applause] >> and we are just as proud as the job that our general manager brian sabean did to put this group together. let's give them a big round of applause. [applause] the san francisco giants are the champions of baseball this year because of a lot of work, good, smart work done by lots of folks for decades and decades. we are up here today because we are standing on the shoulders of giants who preceded us. applause for all those guys who built the pyramid who got us to this summit, please. [applause] >> in that line of succession, please join me in developing and making the family of the stonehams family. peter mcgowan, the in the past steward of the team. [applause]

and whereas the san francisco carnaval is produced by the san francisco cultural arts tradition, a nonprofitstrives to make multiculturalism a -- tangible reality by uniting people in celebration with music, dance, artistry and food and these endeavors continue to be a significant contribution to the vitality of our communities. whereas the theme of this year's san francisco carnaval, live your fantasy, i think that's what i'm doing, celebrates the magic of life in the san francisco bay area and our city's legacy of acceptance, tolerance and equality for all people. and whereas california's largest annual multicultural celebration, the san francisco carnaval, will take place in the historic mission district for its 33rd year to showcase the very best of latin america and the caribbean cultures and traditions. now therefore be it resolved that i, ed win lee, along with the board of supervisors, in recognition of the celebration of our diversity, proclaim may 28 to 29, 2011, as carnaval weekend in san francisco! >> so, greetings. i would get to follow the mayor. well, of course let me start by

there are certainly many technology start-ups in san francisco, in the region outside of san francisco. i would venture to guess the city's payroll tax option is a disincentive for many. to the extent that this mitigates the problem for those companies, it would make it more attractive for them to be in san francisco, and would be an important signal to the industry that we are committed to maintaining a healthy sector. supervisor mirkarimi: i know presidents chiu and i had submitted some amendments. i thought the feedback was a program for us to adjust the period back to six years. i know when twitter was occurring, i felt eight years was a bit too much, but six years gives us an effective gauge. how do you feel about that? >> i think that is about right. would you do not want is an exclusion period that is so short, companies considering going public, they will say, i do not want to incurred by employees to try to quickly exercise their options so they are covered by the exclusion. that is not an effective incentive. on the other hand, you do want to have a period of study, certainly

in san francisco and that's the case for the past 13 years, if we have two to three i.p.o.'s a year, which has also been an average rate, it could cost the city about $750,000 a year on average. now supervisor mirkarimi, he told you introduced this idea of effect irving criming to the policy, which is no company can take advantage of the exclusion unless they're paying up to $750,000 already. the most we have ever seen any company pay is $685,000. so none of these companies in the past 13 years would even qualify under supervisor mirkarimi's amended legislation and that's why i told the budget and finance committee for all intents and purposes, the cost of the amended legislation over the past 13 years would be zero. because no company i could find would have qualified. none would have paid the maximum $750,000 above which it gets excluded. if you're talking about a company like zinga, which is also valued now in the upwards of $5 billion range, then if they had an i.p.o. in the next year or two could very well be in that category where they would be owing more than $750,000

of power here in san francisco. i am so happy the board of supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. >> over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the other big shock is that the moderates seem to have won this round. people thought, progressives have themselves on the board. there is no reason that they will not get together and take a noted leader who is a progressive to be interim mayor, and then stayed there for another term. the great thi

neighborhood papers in san francisco. there have been so many as one of the great things about the city. what the plan to do going forward that has not been done? >> the way it is announced is it goes on the internet, it goes to our historical bid list which gets larger from year to year. i became aware that there is an association of san francisco newspapers, and they will be on the bid list next year. that is what we have done up until now and next year, we will be better. president chiu: these ad prices seem to be all over the map. do they reflect the different ad prices -- to reflect circulation sizes or is there a way for us to treat all of these community- based papers equally? >> i do not have handy and correlation of the bid price with circulation. i could put something like that together but i do not have it with me. president chiu: i don't know of that makes a difference to you, we have one paper that has at prices almost three times the size of others. i'm trying to think about the fairest way to sway distribut

gets solar in san francisco. it's really a question of vision and commitment. with respect to the $1.3 million that is left, go solar has always run out of money in the past year. supervisor chu: thank you. >> do you want me to end? i was going to answer the question of supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: please finish, very briefly. >> in the past, we've had boom cycles where we've gone through the money very quickly. it did not require all installations to have certified go solar sf work force development employees and now there's a requirement of 50% of the workers. what happened at the beginning of this fiscal year is that the sf puc made a number of changes reducing the amount of the incentive, expanding the jobs from just installer to back office and required that all installations have go solar sf work force development employees on the job. what that did is it witreduced e drop of the incentive. it is a good thing. it was a benefit to the program. it has been a good start ship of the program by the san

i worked at san francisco general hospital for 20 years. i would like to thank the mayor for sponsoring this item. i would like to thank this committee for hearing at this morning. especially as item number one. i would like to credit sentences -- the "san francisco examiner" for the recent front-page stories that dealt with this subject specifically. they pointed out by sleep that the city and county of san francisco and the department's public health would have to pay a few extra million dollars per year in order to carry out this agreement. from my 20 years at san francisco general, i'm all in favor -- all in favor of improvements at the hospital. i feel certain people have been taken advantage of for a long time. something like this is way overdue. i would urge the three members of the committee to read the recent examiner article, because it does point out of the facts that i am not sure you are aware of. i do not have the article with me today, but it was roughly two weeks ago and it was a cover story by the "examiner." i would also l

but right now san francisco has a problem. the problem is we have of growing industry of pre-ipo companies. what the midmarket debate was able to shed light on was it was not about one company, company,a -- but a discrete population. the questions were prompted about companies who, in our minds, the also legitimized in wanting to keep their business. ed but this is without the adverse boomerang effect. the best approach, the only approach, is to look at what is unique in san francisco and that is we're the only ones with a payroll/stock option tax. by peeling off the stock option tax on the payroll, being able to help those specific companies right now -- and there are not many. there are maybe 10. but those may be right now will allow us to really be able to corral, i think, an industry that is burgeoning, but one we may have lost before because we did not tackle the problem. let me tell you. at least from this political side of the bench, it has been a long time that people in this government have confronted business tax ref

so well done san francisco. you are leading one against by utilizing innovation and i'm sure big cities across the nation will learn from your example from the pilot you're launching here today and emulate the kind of creativity and innovation that you're utilizing to address what is to say the least a very common flob big cities across the country. thank you for your leadership, your application and innovation and your partnership with u.s. d.o.t. and the federal highway administration. [applause] >> thank you, mr. deputy director. it is now my pleasure to introduce the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, david chew, who has been a strong supporter of parking reform in the city and look at it as a means of encouraging economic growth for local communities and merchants. of course, of course, is a major element of the s.f. park program and most appropriate at this time when it appears the local economy is finally rebounding of the great recession the past few years. president chu? >> thank you,

i want to make sure that san francisco has a working class population. i want to make sure we do not take for granted because we are seen as more cosmopolitan, that that excuses us from not tackling issues of poverty, which there are still substantial pockets of it in san francisco. just by what others may argue. that to me obligates our requirement to make sure this city, being in its reputation of being forward thinking and progressive, learn to -- learn to make sure that that translates into economics so that this isn't a city just for those who could afford it. >> what do you feel like are some of the biggest issues facing your district? >> well, when i came into office in january 2005, a number of areas of our district, as you outlined in your opening statement, really confronted different neighborhoods in different ways. district five is by far one of the most interesting drawn districts of the whole city. my western border goes almost into the sunset. my eastern border is goss street, my northern border is california street, our southern border is

i m leader pelosi's district rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was speaker of the house. she had had 16 tax cuts signed into law to help small businesses grow and thrive. as we know, during the last 15 years, small businesses account for about 2/3 of the job growth in our country, but when the bush recession hits in 2009, 2010, small businesses were hit particularly hard. small businesses are the center of her agenda. congress under her leadership gave 27 million small businesses tax cuts. two main pieces of legislation -- the small businesses jobs act in the information you have, will create a total of 500,000 jobs and create eight tax cuts. they are all described in the packet you have. also, unleashing up to $300 billion in credit for small businesses to access. there are another eight

san francisco is not a theme park. it needs to keep up with the times if we continue to be a viable place to work. i conclude by asking you to lock around this chamber. it is full of modern infrastructure and technology. it might offend the aesthettic sensibilities of some but i don't think anyone would argue that it doesn't provide a net benefit to those who work here and to the citizens of san francisco. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is tony harris, i'm a resident of noy valley and proud san franciscan and this is the first time i've been here so please indulge me. i'm not normally part of a group that testifies but i felt moved by this issue because there were four things i thought about that got past the typical political arguments. competition is important but with competition, also, is the digital divide and making sure we bring everybody in the city up to the technology. many things now and almost everything that's being developed new in the future is going to require that kind of access, and we

like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. we are still using cars a century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to

we need to rethink how people traveled here in san francisco. assuming not only after 2013 that the america's cup, that we continue to win for many years to come, we have to figure out how to deal with this capacity and not just if, but when san francisco comes out of the recession that we are in, we have to figure out how to continue to move not just 800,000 people a day, but many more than that. so i'd just want to welcome and thank everyone for this kick off of a conversation, a dialogue that will lead to the implementation of plans that will lead us to be one of the greatest cities in the world here in san francisco. thank you for being with us today. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. the next person i'm going to introduce sits on two relevant authorities, but i know a third reason he has been so active -- he is a member of the california coastal commission and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, but he also grew up in newport road -- newport, rhode island, and was passionate about what the america's cup in to the

this reflects san francisco and the best in the department. i would like to congratulate everyone. >> i was out of town, but i did read about it. thank you, chief. i would like to congratulate everybody. commissioner marshall: i set mine yesterday. commissioner kingsley: congratulations to each and everyone of you. i look forward to working with you. >> thank you. >> thank you and welcome aboard. [applause] president mazzucco: could you call line item 1? >> if i may reach before we began, i have to do this. i know we will have a great meeting tonight. i have the knowledge that the vice chair of the human rights commission is the former police commissioner, doug chan. the executive director of the human rights commission is the former president of the police commission, theresa sparks. we're going to have a great meeting. >> thank you. president mazzucco: please call item one. >> general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction