and to my right is supervisor katy tang and supervisor chiu will be joining us shortly.isa miller. and i also want to thank sfgov-tv jesse larsen and jim smith. and, madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 3rd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. l can you please call the first item? >> item number 1 is a hearing to receive a report from the city's external auditors regarding their audit of the city's annual financial statements for fiscal year ending june 30, 2013, and their audit plan for the upcoming engagement for fiscal year ending june 30, 2014. (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter

today, san francisco supervisor katy tang announced on facebook.t traffic signals will go up at sunset boulevard and yorba street. the work will begin this week. last week, a 20 -year -old woman was hit and injured while crossing the street there. back in february, an elderly man was hit and killed, and a 15- year-old boy was also hit by a car. the little dog. rescued by the c-h-p in walnut creek. is taking tiny steps toward his upcoming adoption. "freeway" the chihuahua was coaxed off of a highway median with a protein bar. contra costa county animal services says. the little dog is socializing with people and other animals. but is still very anxious. and won't be adopted out just yet. there have been so many requests to adopt freeway dog, the county says, it will likely need a "lottery" to decide on the owner. for the first time since his racist rants got him banned from the n-b-a. donald sterling spoke on camera. in an interview with anderson cooper, sterling denied that he is a racist, and asked his team for a second chance. sterling said he be

supervisor cowen and i don't know, you hello right in front of me your katie tang i'm a journalist i have no ability to sing but the ability to talk i want to draw your attention to the population of 2 thousand people that live on treasure island that are right now being second by radiation and chemical contamination and as that he is tuesday and led how much ivory how many of you driven past the building that have led paint from the old military building led paint flaking off the buildings lead in paint was made illegal in the san francisco's mold as you know they've moved the firefighters out of the station to the firefighter training center because they were having respiratory conditions interest the mold the san franciscans stand behind the 2 thousand people in treasure island that are being proilgd by contaminates we stand behind you treasure island's people he can you're at risk we know you're sick and will not let this stand. thank you. thanks >> next speaker >> good evening. hi thanks for being here so late. you guys know who i am the catheter the 10 year resident of treasure

had a productive ride he lets get rid of the hairball make sure we give that up from district 4 katie tang (clapping.) hello everything first of all, a shout out to the group from district 4 and carman that was a great ride. but really a lot of great change in the city when i started to ride my bike my rode on the sidewalk and when supervisor kim went to college i rode my bike everyone i look forward to the improvements in the city thank you very much and hope to see you on the road again (clapping.) thank you supervisor tang. and i want to recognize rehad commuter convey from district 11 those supervisors couldn't be here we have a few more speakers and departments but before we do that i want to quickly recognize the many, many city leaders we're thrilled their investing monique from the san francisco border department and tilly championing >> sheryl from the mta board of directors. carman chiu thank you for joining us i believe nicholas from the sf environment commission and suzy from the police commission in the sunset as well (clapping.) all right. and a few more people that are shapi

joining me will be supervisor katy tang. the clerk today is alisa miller. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov-tv jennifer low and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. madam clerk, are interest any announcements? >> yes. please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. [speaker not understood] should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 3rd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. can we have a motion to excuse supervisor campos from today's rules committee meeting? >> so moved. l >> okay, with no ok, motion is passed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 31, 2016, to the commission on aging advisory council. there is one vacant seat and one applicant. >> okay. there is one applicant for just one seat and, eleanor lurie called in and said she was going to be sick and i've read her bio on th

had a productive ride he lets get rid of the hairball make sure we give that up from district 4 katie tangclapping.) hello everything first of all, a shout out to the group from district 4 and carman

on monday-- san francisco supervisor katy tang as announced on facebook. that traffic signals will go up at sunset boulevard and yorba street. the work will begin this week. woman was hit and injured while crossing the street there. back in february, an elderly man was hit and killed, and a 15-year-old boy was also hit by a car. owners and supporters of san francisco's marcus bookstore held a news conference monday-- over the eviction of the store's owners. marcus bookstore -- in the fillmore district--- is one of the oldest african- american -owned in the nation. city leaders even designated the location a historical landmark earlier this year. but the store shut down after the owners were evicted this month. now the owners are hoping to generate enough support to buy the building back. the owners say, there has been an outpouring of community support, but very little from the city and sauce -- sriracha -- says, it assists plan on moving his embattled factory out of southern california. however, owner david tran adds -- two texas lawmakers visiting the fa

with the restroom renovation project and saw an opportunity with a large support from xhoour and katie tang we had an opportunity to not only drop a plane but to expand it and make it a beautiful playground for the nabtd. in addition to the plane we'll have another seating structure area and new planting to preserve the landmark tree north of the bay there and west of 19th avenue. the bid asize mentioned a capital committee came in about 5 percent under our estimates that leaves money for confederacy and we have additional costs we can cover for the fabrication of the plane. so staff recommendation would be to award the construction contract to j.b. d construction and son and alternative one if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> that i any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners. >> would like to add to have this improved. >> seconded. >> all in favor, say i. so moved. we're on item 8 hertz playground pathways. >> morning commissions general manager thirds graders i'm the director for the leadership of the department today, i

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recently there have been double plays moving supervisor carmen chu to the assessor's office and katy tang to the office of [speaker not understood]. we had christina appointed to hold the district [speaker not understood] until the election happened in november of 2012. there are many people through that process who felt that we didn't really have a transparent democratic way of making that appointment happen and that caused a lot of ripples and discord in the election in that year. we are much better actually having a process that is democratic, that is transparent, that is based on people applying to open vacant seats enthuse a special election. i want to thank city attorney jon givner and [speaker not understood] for their work on this ~. also in my office, jeremy poet for his work. i also want to thank the department of elections director john arents for his assistants. [speaker not understood] to bring this forward. i also want to thank my colleagues who are so far co-sponsoring. supervisors mar and supervisors campos. i think this is a measure that's really about democracy. it's abo