since then, we have met with chairperson maxwell to discuss one of the components would like to have removed. i have copies for you. i will let chandra egan go through the details. it has to do with for 15.8, and what to do with units that cannot resell. -- with 415.8, and what to do with units that can resell. -- cannot resell. chairperson maxwell: we had a number of things in the tool chest. talking to them, they had concerns about it and thought it may need a little more work. >> i am from the mayor's office of housing. we did review a number of tools that we have proposed for assisting below market rate homeowners when they are having a difficult time reselling their unit. we agree with supervisor maxwell that a number of our suggestions are helpful and help to maintain the long-term affordability of our units, including increasing the household size of the house multiplying and potentially waving the asset -- waiving the asset test. this allows the next qualifying household to go above the next established income maximum for that unit. we have removed that. we have made an amend

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned.

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of city school districts's. i'm the chair of the committee joined by fellow supervisor chris damey. our scol board members here with us are commissioner kim and fewer and mendoza. i want to acknowledge and thank our clerk who is here clerking for us and acknowledge that the great folks at sfgtv are making it possible for the people of san francisco to see their city government at work. and could we call our first item. >> item number one, hearing to consider how we are addressing the needs of students who are being served in the wm system and the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. and i want to acknowledge that crisis here as always to represent the school district. today we are continuing our hearings on lo

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. >> good morning, everyone. i see bright smiles on faces. can anyone guess what i do? raise your hand. what do you think i do? jimore? what is your question? close. police officers wear uniforms. chef, wow. what about you? a bodyguard. what is your name? firefighter. exactly. my name is joanne. i am a firefighter. i came into the department in 1990. none of you were born. maybe your teacher was. i am the fire chief. i have been working as the fire chief for almost seven years. mayor gavin newsom appointed me as the fire chief about seven years ago. today is a really important day. does anybody know what we're about to get ready to do? a fire drill. you are close. an earthquake drill. fire drill, earthquake drill. is the same message, everybody needs to be prepared.

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. president chiu: welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. on behalf of the board of supervisors, go giants. >> [roll call] mr. president, all members are present. president chiu: can you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? madame clerk, are there any communications? can you call the consent agenda items 1-21. >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. if its request discussion of the matter, it shall be so. president chiu: would you like to sever any of these items? will you call the roll on items 1-21? if we could sever item 4. excuse me? ok. let me just take for the record that supervisor daly is recused from voting on item 4 because he lives near the project. if we could take a rollcall vote on items 1-21. except for i

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. we have to make sure we are accurate here. i am grateful so many folks came out for the swearing in. in particular, i want to thank -- you seem so lonely over there. supervisor dufty by himself representing the board of supervisors. the round of applause for him for being here. we are grateful. [applause] i am thankful that a number of department heads live -- are here at their peril. let me not recognize them. [laughter] but recognize their leader, about to be appointed cao of the city, the chief administrative officer of the city. ed lee is here. [applause] thank you, ed. we appreciate it. we are appointing people to various boards and commissions. you are familiar, i am sure of the good work at the asian arts commission and how proud we are to have this remarkab

chairperson maxwell: i think you are right. our district should really have been more available. supervisor chiu: you only have a couple. chairperson maxwell: patron hill, thank goodness. it lends itself to the kind of developments we are seeing, denser development. as we all reach out to try to do that, we will probably find ourselves, hopefully, having more zip cars in our district. we have close public comment. supervisor mar: could you add my name as a co-sponsor to this? i think it is great. chairperson maxwell: me too. without objection, we will move this forward. >> i need to read item six. ordnance amending the administrative code appeals process under the california environmental quality act to clarify procedures to provide public notice. chairperson maxwell: this will be continued, but if you wish you may speak on this today and i also speak on in november 5. public comment on item 6? public comment on item 6? >> david glover again. to eliminate abuses of ceqa by demonstrators -- by developers or neighbors, we need a process that is transparent. it helps major environmen

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. of new recreation classification, the administration of five civil service exams, the selection of candidates, and the processing of new employees in the city of hr's system. the unit played a crucial role in the management of our successful labor-management collaboration with sciu. all told, with in the space of only eight months, the h.r. staff created a classified -- three new classifications. they resurrected one former class and expanded the use of two other classes. the staff has reviewed over 500 applications for these classifications. we have processed over 240 new employees. in particular, i would like to recognize the work of our two recruitment analysts. the current and recent head of our processing unit, jonathan nellie and linda martinez, and our two l

have exciting races at 40 not speeds on the seafront -- 40 knot speeds on the seafront. it could transform the cup to a very large event. please provide this event we could use in san francisco. chairperson maxwell: peter stoberg, jack baird, geoff green. >> i am norman per spierce. we have all talked about the value to the sailors and the sailing community, the economics of this event. i want to bring up the value to the citizens of san francisco at large. much like the ballpark, if we create this beach area into a fine entertainment environment, the public can attend events. this america's cup will be unique for the citizens of san francisco, the grassroots people to come down and get possession of the waterfront. we do not have that opportunity right now. there is a line that says sailing is elitist. i think you're seeing more and more that it is not elitist. big boats are expensive, but there are a lot more smaller boats out there. the more opportunity the citizens of san francisco have to reach the waterfront and participate in waterfront recreation is a larger desire to be there. we cannot forget that if it was not for sailboats the forty- niners would not have come here. a couple of those

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning and welcome to the full meaning of the san francisco trade petition authority. madam clerk, good morning. i want to thank sfgtv for their great work in recording all of this. could you please read roll call. >> [roll call] we have a quorum. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. item two. >> approval of minutes of september 28, 2010 meeting. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take this without approval -- without objection? so moved. please read items three and four. >> chairs report, this is an information item. executive director's report. this is also an information item. supervisor mirkarimi: i

chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned. >> welcome to the regular hearing for thursday, october 28, 2010. the planning commission does not tolerate any outbursts of any kind. please turn off any mobile devices. when speaking before the commission, please speak directly into the microphone and state your name for the record. at this time we would like to take roll. [roll call] thank you. first up, commissioners, consideration of items proposed for continuance. president miguel: prior to starting the agenda, i think the director had some business? >> thank you, mr. president. i am very pleased to announce to the city and to the commission that scott sanchez has been accepted as the new zoning administrator. we're very pleased to have him on board. he has shown great excellence at this position the last thr

have here before us. those are questions that are in my head. chairperson maxwell: i think those are very valid questions, and i also think it is important to say whether it is or is not we want to get more people out there. i think maybe this is an opportunity and we need to recognize it has been. look at the audience. what do you see? from that, it is not as diverse as we would like it to be. certainly, it does not look a lot like san francisco. how do we make that happen? for me, this stuff is also about making it happen. next speaker, please. >> my name is curtis kalusen. i am going to talk about elitist sports. my supporter is the bay area youth sailing association. that is a conglomeration of the huge sailing programs in the bay. we have approximately 2500 youth that are sailing against each other. these use come into our sport without owning a boat. they are all sailing our boats. they raced against each other on the pueblo and on the regional level. about half are girls. about half our boys. there are many diverse people who sail against each other. it is a