how about james tracy? how about juanita? somebody? if you sell this neighborhood down the river, what do you think you are going to get? chairperson campos: if there is another member of the public who would like to speak, please come forward. >> last monday, i was elected to the board of directors. i am coming to speak as a resident, and not a reflection of the views of the cbd. first, let me say i appreciate the oversight. i think the cbd does a lot of good things for the tenderloin. no question about it. but there needs to be greater transparency and there needs to be greater accountability. at the present time, the cbd spends approximately 80% of their budget through one vendor, which cleans the streets. this is on a non-competitive basis. i was given a packet of documents after my election. although i ran unopposed, i never saw the numbers for anybody else. i was speaking about competitive bids, that has not been complied with. city ordinances include the sunshine ordinance. at present, they take the position that the brown act a

my name is james tracy. usually when we come in front of each other like this, it is usually run partisan politics, different issues that we're debating of the day. i believe that the number one thing that any commissioner can do is to put aside these things and just basically obey the law. there is the city charter. federal civil rights law. there is a host of other laws that we have to obey. and we have to balance the needs of a very changing the city that is very, very complex geographically. we do not have as many ethnic enclaves that are unbroken as we did even 10 years ago and 10 years before that. so there will be a lot of challenges before us, basically, you have to be able to put aside your own ideological beliefs and find out exactly what will be the conditions that can give every single san franciscan, no matter where they live, an equal chance at voicing their will. i participated heavily in the census effort of getting out the word. we assembled a team of people that came from the most conservat

i know and have worked with, to various expense, james tracy, mr. hogarth, and mr. mcdonnell. i think that they would be very fair. we do not have any lgbt task force members as well. and think it is important that that community is represented in this task force as well. the individuals i would consider in terms of supporting -- not because we do not have many other great applicants that would serve our task force well -- but given who has been appointed thus far and fun to come up with a balance. there are a number of folks here i would love to work with in the future to my office to get acquainted and through a variety of other commissions. i know this is decommissioned that you all wanted to apply for, for many of you, the only commission you apply for. i know that folks have talked about ms. morales, and i know she has been active are around mental health and residency issues. i would love to work with her in district 6. supervisor farrell: we need to get three names out of here. let me bring a little experience to this. i was not on the committee 10 years ago, but i serv

tracie potts for us in washington. thank you. >>> last night on "hard ball with chris matthews" he asked james carney if the president has given up on tax cuts if tr wellty as part of the so-called plan for the deal. >> that deal is there if the speaker would return to the table and negotiate it. we came very close, the president and the speaker did, and that opportunity still exists. secondly, the helpful proposal senator reid put out while it does not put up front the tough issues of entitlement reform or tax reform it does have a committee that would look on it on a fast track basis before the end of the year. that's not optimal. we would prefer a grand bargain that does it all at once, however, however it turns out, if we don't get those issues addressed, we're going to return to debate those tough issues because the pup lick supports a balanced approach. the it's not the right way do it if we don't ask for sacrifice from everybody. not just one or limited sectors from society. >> lean forward with chris mass throughs as he place hardball with some of the most prominent newsmakers. be sure to watch him at 5:00 and 7:00 onl