madam chair, are there any announcements? >> yes.

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, shown on page three of our report, table one, which is on page four, summarizes the $2,340,400 project grant -- total project cost. 2,340,400, then the source of funds are shown in the following table on page four, table two, coming from the former san francisco redevelopment agency. we list the tax increment bonds, the specific sources of funds. we recommend you approve the resolution. >> thank you. are there members of the publics who wish to speak on item three? seeing none th, is closed. colleagues, can we send this forward with recommendation. so moved. thank you. item four, please. >> resolution authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission general manager enter into a long-term interconnection with pacific gas & electric for solar power project on alvarado elementary pursuant to san francisco charter 918b. >> this is by supervisor wiener who wanted to speak but in his place is andre powers to speak on his behalf. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this allows the san francisco puc enter agreement with pg&e, first alert projec

please come forward. >>> good afternoon, madam chair and supervisors. my name is bruce oka and let me begin by saying that my commitment in public service began way back in the [speaker not understood] of this city. unofficially. i've been part of the city [speaker not understood] for many, many years. i've been an advocate for people with disabilities as well as myself all of my adult life. and most recently, i [speaker not understood] the mta board of directors, a job which i thoroughly enjoy. and believe me, i've been retired for the last 3-1/2, almost four months, and i have thoroughly enjoyed that. [laughter] >>> believe me, my family says they haven't seen me around so long in 40 years. so, it's time i got back to work. i think what i bring to this position is i have a reputation of being level headed and fair. and one thing that i will promise to do because [speaker not understood] one way to approach any job that i do, and that's to go full bore forward. and i will do my best as i [speaker not understood]. i will devote 100% of my time and energ

>> thank you very much, madame chair. and i want to thank all of the members of public who have come out to speak on this item. i also want to note that we have in the audience former supervisor tony hall and it's good to welcome a former member of this body here. i will keep my comments very brief, because i think that everything that has been said, that needs to be said about this matter has been said by the tenants themselves. and i especially wanted to thank the tenants and the residents of not just sro hotels, but different units in the city that have come forward to shed light on this issue. i also want to thank supervisor kim and her staff, who have been dealing with this issue from the moment that she got elected. and i think that this legislation is in many respects, you know, not the culmination, but it adds to the body of work that already has been done and we need to continue to monitor this. so i'm very proud to be a co-sponsor. i think it's one of those pieces of legislation that is truly a no-brainer and my

>> yes, madam chair. please make sure cell phones and electronic devices, speaker cards and documents submitted as part of the file be submitted to the clerk. [speaker not understood] unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1, motion supporting eric mar to the california state association county board of directors. >> thank you. colleagues, are there any discussion on this item? seeing none, i would like to open it up for public comment. if you would like to speak on item number 1, please step forward. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues, do you have a motion on this item? >> make a motion to move forward the recommendation. >> motion to move forward with recommendation to the full board. can we do that without opposition? and we can. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2, hearing to consider the appointing three members, terms ending april 30th, 2014 to the commission of animal control welfare. >> thank y

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, supervisor avalos, i don't think there are any consequences. certainly as budget analyst i believe that any increase that requires board of supervisors approval as the city attorney has advised us should go before the board. on this particular item i don't think there is anything that significant. it is a matter that the department has to be careful. i don't think there is a very agregious error in what has taken place. as you can see, we are recommending approval of this legislation with the correct amounts to be modified. but you're correct in your observation. this should not happen. >> i haven't seen too many -- to often of a model where there are certain stages expected in terms of a contract renewed over and over, like this one has. this is pretty -- >> are you referring to the -- let me -- i know we are talking about next week as well but those are burning questions. >> supervisor avalos, are you referring to the fact that when the contract was first approved on a competitive basis the initial amount was about 600,000. now we are up sig

madam chair, are there any announcements? >> yes. please complete speaker cards as part of the file that should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you. can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1, hearing on the recent navy closure of additional areas of potential radiological contamination on treasure island. >> thank you. i know that we do have many members of the public who are here today. just so we can run through the format, we do have amy from the search department of health and treasurer from the treasure island island authorities and michael to present for the city and county of san francisco. we will have presentations first. we may have questions from colleagues, including myself. and then we will open up for public comment. and this is a time to give feedback and also questions and concerns to us on the board. and then we'll continue the conversation after that. i also want to acknowledge that many of our residents have been writing to us about the outages, the electricity outages that have been going on the isla

and if i may, madame chair, i would like to select two folks. david mauroff, who i have had the pleasure for working for many years for seat 3. and william walker as well and i don't know which seat that would be. but you have nominated seats 4 and -- >> you know what why don't i put miss garcia on seat 8 with youth and families. i think mr. walker as a student at city college would be better suited for seat 4. >> i will do david mauroff for seat 3 and mr. walker for mr. seat 4. so we do have two more seats. supervisor farrell? >> given that i wasn't here last week i would defer to my colleagues. i was impressed by those who came out and spoke today and thank you. and mr. mauroff, i'm glad to see has been mentioned, but i am happy to defer to my colleagues for seat 2, i think mr. rita evans would be great for the bart riders' interest, especially someone riding [pwa-rlt/] everyday to the east bay and i think you would be very well-suited to that see the. which only leaves one remaining see the, seat 1. >> again, i think any of these individuals

. >> thank you, madam chair. to address the question on water quality, the puc does test annually for chemicals of concern. we can report back on those findings, but to date the water quality out on treasure island has been tested to show no human health safety concerns. having said that, because of some of the recent comments we have received, the puc is currently going to be conducting water coming -- conducting testings from water coming out of the actual tap. so, we're working on getting that scheduled for the end of october. >> thank you, mr. timoff, i appreciate that. supervisor campos. >> thank you. if i could ask that -- her to come back. >> ms. brownell? >> yes. sorry. and, again, i want to thank everyone who has been working on this. i appreciate that. a lot of work has gone into this and i want to appreciate the work from the treasure island staff for their responsiveness. i guess one question that i have, and i appreciate everything that you have said is i understand all the things that have been done

supervisor campos. >> thank you very much, madam chair. i want to thank the transportation director for the city for his presentation, as well as his staff for the work on this item and our budget and legislative analyst and his staff. i have a great deal of respect for mr. risken and ms. bows. i appreciate a lot of the work they are trying to do to address some of the issues that have been raised over the years about the mta. so the questions i have are not about them but specifically about the specifics of this lease. so if i may, through the chair, if i can ask -- i don't know if it is mr. risken or ms. boes to come up. before i go into some of the questions about the lease -- let me say a couple points: one, i don't question the need to move out of this site. that it is inadequate, there are many challenges that are presented to people who work there. i think that goes without question. clearly, we need to move. i don't believe we should move and move into something that is essentially a bad deal. i don't think that moving for the sake

>> thank you very much, madam chair. and again, thank you to all of the applicants who have come forward. the immigrant rights commission is a very important commission and has played a very key role in the last few years on issues involving a large number of our residents. you know we have a large immigrant population in san francisco and we have a long history with immigration in san francisco which is one of the reasons that this commission was created a long time ago. and, so, i want to thank all the applicants. but my motion, i'm going to make a motion to reappoint the four commissioners that have reapplied for reappointment. and, so, it would be a motion to reappoint vera haile to seat 1, gaime to seat 2, theresa chee to seat 5, and commissioner enssani to seat 9. so, that's my motion. >> so, we do have a motion to move forward all four incumbents to the seats that they currently reside in and i'll accept we can do that without objection. i do want to -- i'm just take the time to thank our commissioners. like all o

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, supervisor campos. under this proposed new 20-year lease at 2650 bayshore boulevard in daly city -- this lease has two five-year options for the city's vehicle towing

>> no, madam chair. >> seeing none, meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. 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

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. >> madam chair and members of the committee, as has been stated, the actual increase would be 111312, there would be no increase to the laguna honda hospital budget, it was previously budgeted for 584 million 946, 602, funds would be pregame -- programmed to pay for that additional amount, this increase would provide funding for approximately 3 contractor employees through first calendar of calendar year 2013, that includes also the modification number 15 amount. we do recommend that you make that technical amendment which would result in an increase of 111 thousand 312 instead of an increase of 608, 969, so the not to exceed amount would also be revised if you accept our recommendation from 16 to 1694421, and that would be to or not to exceed the amount of the 16 million 805733, that's in the resolution tha, would remain the same, we recommend you would approve the resolution as amended. >> thank you very much. why don't we open this item up for public comment. do we have members of the public who wish to speak on this item number 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. young,

. >> thank you, madame chair and thank you for the presentation. i think that we have to heed the advice given and i look forward to working with supervisor kim's office to see where we're going from here. the way i see it it's not about lack of innovation or willingness or desire and i think we can work together with the existing committee members to see what some of their ideas are and to work with the agency, which also has its own ideas in terms of how we can move forward. i'm certainly committed, supervisor kim, to working with your office to ensure this body not only lives up to the letter, but also the spirit of what was intended. i want to thank all of the members of the committee for their work. it is in many respects thankless work. a lot of time and energy goes into it and you wouldn't be doing it unless you had the commitment and the passion. and is that is greatly appreciated and i'm especially concerned to make sure that we have members of that committee that reflect the diversity of the city. especially when it comes to being able to

. >> as well, madam chair, you do have a quorum. >> are there any community indications from the boarders? seeing none. i will move on to the business. if there is none, so we will move on to the executive director's report. >> great. good morning, directors and members of the public. some good news, i would like to start off by reporting that since our last meeting in september we did donate our wo llie mammoth tooth to the academies of sciences and they are thrilled to receive it and are going to be making it part of the permanent collection and they will notify us and put together an exhibit to understand what san francisco looked like about 11,000 years ago. we would like to thank the academy for all of their work on our behalf. second i am also pleased to report that our transbay traveling archeology exhibit was awarded the california, preserve vasing foundation, 2012 award. it is quite an honor to receive that award. there were only four awards given for the entire state of california. you had a jury of architecture, engineering and planning and history along with critics from th

>> thank you very much, madame chair. and i want to thank all of the members of public who have come

>> madam chair, members of the committee, to the best of my recollection, i don't think you did, the department, as i understand it has agreed with our recommendations so our suggestion is to still amend the legislation. >> okay. >> great, given that then, colleague, do swre a motion to adopt the amendment as a whole? we can do that without objection and to the item as amended, we have an amended motion to send the item forward without amendment and we can do that without objection. final item, item number 6, this is a pretty straight forward item that allows the department of public health to submit an application for ryan white funding but do we have a speaker on this item? >> good morning. you see in front of you the request for an accept and expend or to apply for funding for ryan white, you see the amount, the total that we would request just to point out that that represents the largest amount that we received from the federal government from part i which is unfortunately about 8 or 10 years ago that we received this amount, so i think i'll be brief in my comments, i'm bill blo