supervisor kim: thank you. i would like to support ms. evans as well. thank you for waiting and for work around pedestrian safety. i would like to support this motion to move for the pedestrian safety advisory committee with recommendation to the full board. we can do that without opposition. supervisor campos: thank you for your great work and we look forward to seeing you. supervisor kim: thank you. can you please call item 5. >> hearing to consider appointing one member to the public utilities revenue board oversight committee. there is one seat and 3 applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i believe that two of the three applicants are hopefully still here. we have jussive -- joseph sheehy and. it is the same format as before. if he could speak to your background in terms of how relates to this seat and maybe principles or values you would like to bring in. >> i am a fourth generation san franciscan. "i left my heart in san francisco" was written by my cousin. i was educated at san francisco state. i have a

supervisor kim: -- thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello. my name is susan. i live in the heart that the tenderloin. i have a letter there that you can read, but i would like to add a couple things to it. i wanted to let you know that michael nulty gave me a chance more than 10 years ago to use my newly found computer skills for the benefit of the neighborhood and encourage me to advocate for the residents. sometimes the residence, you know, their needs are not completely met by the service providers. and sometimes we have had to hold the feet of the service providers to the fire on a couple occasions. and i wanted to let you know that he has worked with service providers and with residents and homeless. so he has kept the peace in many ways by helping us find areas of common agreement. and i want to reiterate, he has worked with homeless youth and the sro collaborative. michael nulty would be excellent. he has been a mentor to me in the sense of, you know, i have found a way to use my skills for the people around me. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. and

supervisor kim: thank you. any questions or discussion? seeing none, i will open up for public comment. any public comment on item number two? >> good afternoon. douglas yepp. i would like to speak in favor of supervisor olague for this position. she is the newest member of the board. i think she should be given every opportunity to prove herself. also, i noticed that it says here that the term ends in 2014, so i would like to say that i hope she serves the full term. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. any other public comment? >> ♪ look at the appointment for lafco strangers in every way will take a lifetime to say we will know you well and then we will know you will do just swell and the good appointment will go for all lafco we know and love will grow for lafco ♪ supervisor kim: thank you, mr. paulson. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos: motion to for the positive recommendation. supervisor kim: thank you. i want to reiterate, this was the seat formerly

supervisor kim: thank you. >> a month on a hearing to consider appointing one member, term 3 determine, to the citizens advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin area. one seat, four applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i believe most of the applicants are here today. i will call you in the order listed on the agenda. although, i do know that ms. goldman will not be able to attend. i will first call up daniel hlad. again, this is for a vacant seat on the citizen advisory committee for central market street and the tenderloin area. they must have expertise and homelessness, trent jet -- transitional age use, or familiarity with the central market and a tenderloin area in district 6. >> thank you, greetings. my name is daniel hlad, a development director of central city hospital lowly the house, president of the neighborhood. thank you for the opportunity. let me speak briefly on my qualifications. educationally, i agree a background in public relations and communications. but i have spent

supervisor kim: thank you for being here. she did write a letter describing her experience and your reasons for wanting to continue. i will open this up for public comment. >> ♪ good luck with your appointments all alone dropped all loan -- drop all alone you're going to make it better from the bayview to the ocean tide you can show me the appointment city that israel -- that is real ♪ supervisor kim: public comment is now closed. supervisor farrell: thank you for coming out. supervisor kim: we have a motion before us. we have a second. we can do that without opposition. thank you. >> item #5, ordinance amending the campaign and governmental conduct code and municipal elections go to modify funding of the city's public financing program, to increase expenditure ceilings for supervisor cohen candidates, to delay the date on which public funds may be dispersed, to change the qualification requirements for partisan bidding candidates, and to advance the date by which all local candidates must file their nomination papers. superv

supervisor kim: any questions?pen up for public comment. >> ♪ and you can fill our city light and point that, point it right to flood a million streams of the motion ♪ you can fill our city wives and a point to point it rights to flood a million streams of emotion. ♪ bring on the appointment like an ocean. supervisor kim>> this is an intg appointment because it deals with bond oversight. in my opinion, i feel the example shows you need to have independence between certain parts of the bureaucracy that oversight's the whole system. since this is an oversight the point, that becomes even more important given that the water system is undergoing a lot of changes and might be going for more changes of certain people pass the initiative. i feel some of the qualifications for the position as a person that is independent and without political influences. i get hesitant when i see people go from one side of the aisle and crossed to the other side of the aisle and say it is a different position and i will not be unduly influ

supervisor kim: thank you. at this time, can we open up for public comment? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the editor of the st. chief. i am a member of the shelter monitoring committee. i am here to give some personal thoughts. about the tokens, to me, common- sense indicates that is a non- issue. it does not cost me anything for an extra person to be on a bus. we have hundreds of people that need a ride from a reservation center to providence. to msc. those buses are running anyway and they have drivers. it is not talking muni for there to be two or three extra people on. i have spoken with the people at the mta and beginning on april 1, they have a program where homeless people are going to be able to get free quarterly passes good on all of their bosses. -- their busses. it would be wise for san francisco to encourage muni to do the same thing. supervisor kim: thank you. >> ok. let's start here. you have a quarterly report talking about -- you all get a quarterly report. the quarterly report that firs

kim philby exceeds expectations. in other words he's the person who is in a position to look at everything that we know. the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. not simply in britain and the context that had passed with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary. twist of fate. in world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence continues to rise. one of the candidates for the post of my six highest rank in british intelligence. with. technology. philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote concepts between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet agent finds himself at the heart of every british and american intelligence operation during one of the most tense periods of the cold war. he is well aware of all undercover operations against countries of the socialist bloc in particular he learns about subversive plans in albania and the soviet union itself groups of seven turns w

supervisor kim: thank you. if you would like to speak for public comment, please do step up now. >> my name is henry howard. i am here to represent pastor parrish. we have accomplished a lot in the time i have been here. we go up to the youth program and talk to the kids there. i am also the director of the art program, which we will launch june 1. i think he will be a good candidate on getting something is done in the reentry world and helping the elderly people, not just the use -- but you have to target the people that is over 25 because they need help, too, and he is the right man for the job. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> how do you do, folks? my name is robert smith. i am a native san franciscan, born and raised here in the fillmore, haight-ashbury, western addition, sun said. i have seen a lot of change. i am a baby boomers age-wise, so i have seen a lot of coming and going in san francisco. i have seen a lot of the generation that erris edgerly represents desires to leave our city, for numero

supervisor kim: thank you. i do want to a knowledge that the same sheet you give us is the same sheet we have in front of us. they did a knowledge there were not able to visit four of the sites because it is a body of volunteers. they try to visit all the shelters. that was not a question. >> so the share -- so the chair of the monitoring committee gets immunity so she does not have to monitor her own shelter? supervisor kim: we will try to answer that question. we have six vacancies on the monitoring committee. that could help tremendously with the sites we do not get to visit. do you know who appoints those seats? on our website, it says that the board seats are all full. >> yes. we just trained two people. we know we got two people this quarter and our training them right now. there is an open seat and we are looking for bilingual because there is only myself and one other person. right now, this is the first quarter that we have only two seats available. last quarter, we did need six people. and they are al

many saw to one rebel that kim philby enigma during his life and a quarter of a century after his death is still the subject of continuing debate. the cambridge graduate realizes what's in store for him when he agrees to go to regents park in the center of london for a secret meeting. but he couldn't even imagine how dramatically his life would change after that talk with a stranger. an economic crisis breaks out in the west in the one nine hundred thirty s. stock exchanges have collapsed heralding the beginning of the great depression the british labor party suffer the defeat hunger marches follow on the heels of one another in britain progressive minded young people begin to sympathize with communist ideals. there was a hunger about it came through cambridge in in february nine hundred thirty four so this was the first time that these privileged students would actually seen working class people they felt guilty about being thorough privileged they felt horror at seeing the poverty in britain in the early one nine hundred. kim philby is among the aristocracy cambridge students helping

supervisor kim: i have a quick question. i am very familiar with all that you do in our neighborhood. i want to thank you for that. your incredibly active the to go to every event. i am curious in terms of your expertise on homelessness. had you worked specifically with the homeless population? what are some of your areas of expertise and around homelessness? >> actually, if you look at my linked in qualifications that are in the packet, they speak for themselves. i have don falk speaking to that issue. supervisor kim: do you mind saying it out loud, your specific work experience with the homeless population? >> yes, i have been involved in various developments. one of the things you need to do is house them. i am currently on the housing development advisory committee of the st. anthony's foundation senior housing. i just helped with the strategic plan for the tenderloin neighborhood developed a corporation, the next four years of strategic planning, what they are going to be doing for the neighborhood. i am also the co-fou

supervisor kim: thank you. now we of steve rowland on the construction update. -- we have steve rowland on the construction update. >> good morning. construction management oversight. a quick update on the activities of the past period. 230,000 craft hours over the complete transit on the transit side. 20,000 in the month of february. the buttress work continues with 10 shops completed in the last period. down on the west end they started the piles that will support this service trestle, we spoke about at the last board meeting. pg&e is working on the infrastructure on fremont street. finished first read already. we're focusing on getting the traffic bridge in over the memorial day weekend. as bob reported, there was one recordable incident on the project. to clarify, it was not a serious incident, but what made it recordable is the individual was given a prescription pain medication, versus just over the counter bad bill or tylenol. and-- over the counter advil or tylenol. it was just an ankle sprain. that is

supervisor kim: thank you, mr. weaver. i want to a knowledge that president david chiu has arrived. >> i am the executive director of the ocean avenue organization. i want to say that the board of oaa is in support of the cac plan and the balboa park plan. we are looking forward to working with the sfmta and board of supervisors to provide oversight. >> afternoon, sueprvisrs -- supervisors. i published the newspaper that serves balboa park, and a member of the powerhouse that is a little thing we're doing over there. i support this, i urge you to support it because balboa park is a gem. it is the identified as a priority development area by the bay area plan. it has great potential, right next to city college, a high- school. thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you. are there other public speakers for item number one? >> good morning, supervisors. i lived nearby in westwood park. i would like to speak out in favor of this resolution, but i have some concerns that i think the advisory committee should address in the

>supervisor kim: thank you. as much as we can work with our small businesses to make connections with our local residents and used to make sure we are employing them. thank you. next, mario west. >> thank you for giving me a chance to talk about my qualifications. i was born and raised here in san francisco. parmele the past president of loudoun business network. comprised of 40 merchants in the mission district. the purses -- purpose focuses on education to the business merchant's trade we hope that at many seminars -- help with many seminars and tried to educate business merchants on different aspects of running a business, anywhere from the benefits of incorporating a business to why they should be reporting their employees to the edd and irs. i loved working with the business community. as far as my background, i have been an auditor for the state of california for about 14 + years. worked for the board of equalization. part-time with the edd for three and a half years. i am aware of what the business commun

supervisor kim: talk more about what happened in 2002 and thereafter. then we will open up for committee questions. >> in 2002, they came up with an mou with a number of provisions that protected these local civil rights and state laws, including -- these are causes from the 2002 mou. the severance as the police department should be required to use only their investigative techniques. the chief of police will decide the specific objectives and organizational commitment to the jttf. control over sfpd resources shall be retained by the sfpd. responsibility for the conduct of officers shall be retained by sfpd. investigative restrictions imposed by sfpd will not be avoided. the informal policies applied will be the sfpd's. all those provisions i summarize, in 2007 in a secret agreement, were eliminated. they are taken out. what is in its place is a document that puts the fbi in complete control. it identifies all new federal policy -- supervisor mar: could use low down a little bit and explained -- slow down a little bit and explain. >> i apologize. we hav

commissioner kim? commissioner kim: thank you. when i was curious, if we are recommending to make central subway the second priority for future rip funds, what is currently our first priority? it says the staff recommendation is to make the central subway a second party after the presidio parkway commitment. what is the current order of priority? >> thank you for the question. the order of priorities is shown on page five of your package. presidio parkway, central subway, and then caltrans downtown extension. but the proposed remaining commitment table is the second one on that page. proposed, revised, remaining commitments. commissioner kim: what is currently the top priority for rip funds? i assume there was a different place before in the recommendation to change it. >> commissioner, presidio parkway is the first priority, as shown on the table. this is simply clarification that the repayment of funds, $34 million in advance that the mtc is providing, would only happen after the central subway. it is not happening after the loc

then a supervisor kim, you are first for roll call for introductions -- >> supervisor kim. supervisor kim: first of all, i wanted to take a moment today to briefly highlight a public health crisis that our office has been focused on. preventing pedestrian collisions. some of which and in fatalities, and all of which could have potentially been prevented if we were making pedestrian safety a top priority for our city. this past sunday alone, two pedestrians were killed in two separate car collisions. our office has been contacted regarding numerous pedestrian collisions, even those that do not occur in our district. i was extremely horrified, as i'm sure many of you saw, to watch the video of the paratransit shuttle, which mode over one of our constituents -- mowed over one of our constituents. i think we were fortunate to have video of the collision occurring. we are waiting for a statement from the police department of what they will do to keep our residents say, and i am hopeful we will have a written agreement outlining clear guidelines on how we enforce traffic violatio

[applause] supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello, supervisors.m from the arab research and organizing center. i wanted to take a moment to thank you as supervisors who have stood up for this important issue. both supervisor kim as brought forward this ordinance and the bravery that takes, and the other endorsing supervisors. those on the committee, and we have had indications from supervisor chiu and supervisor compost -- supervisor campos has indicated he will be participating. there are many here that are a symbol of the community organizations who are really concerned about this issue. community united against violence, community service, islamic society of san francisco, people organized to defend environmental rights. the education network, the baker center for human rights, the national center for lesbian rights, and the black alliance for just immigration. to me, this is an issue that really crosses communities. it is just one snapshot within a larger huge problem, and the problem is the federal government's over reach into our communities

supervisor kim: thank you, mr. reynolds. >> supervisors, and a structural engineer [inaudible] a lot of people have spoken about the passion and commitment of henry karnilowicz. i cannot think of anyone more qualified to assist small business engineers, architects, project sponsors navigate through the extremely accomplished process. he is someone can deal with issues such as ada compliance, seismic upgrades, to more complex issues such as variants and historical preservation, which, as you all know, has a life of its own. san francisco is an extremely difficult place to do business, a difficult place to build. we need experts like henry. consultants like us need experts to be able to navigate through that process. i cannot think of someone more qualified. now, i find out that there's a tremendous number of people that find him to be extremely passionate about his work. what better than someone who is extremely qualified and at the same time extremely passionate about it? henry is precisely what the small business

supervisor kim: thank you. >> a good afternoon. i live and work in san francisco and i would like to voice my support for both proposals before the committee today. i think both should be passed with a preference for the proposal coming from a non- partisan ethics commission. san francisco's public financing system is a strong system and the change in both proposals would make the good system even better. these are common sense and straightforward changes that would make a number of improvements to various aspects of the system. it will bring the law into compliance with the recent supreme court ruling about triggers and increase the funds can't receive and will compensate for the supreme court changed and it's also good in its own right with the increase in expenditures. it will address these offbeat candidate issue we saw and the last mayor's race and it is worth noting budget analysts found there would be no fiscal impact to both measures, so it will have no additional costs. this is a when-when situation and there is something

kim philby exceeds expectations . six months. becomes haider the division charged with countering the soviet threat . in other words he's the person who is in a position to look at everything that we know. the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. and the context is with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate. for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most of the british. the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise he becomes one of the candidates for the post of my six the highest ranking british intelligence. world with. its technology innovation all these developments around russia we. covered. pushers that so much. more when we cast the media middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring are humanitarian interventions effective what about. philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote contact between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet