madam speaker, i yield myself one minute, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. polis: i'm particularly pleased that this legislation does not include $800 million in cuts to critical education reform programs. including race to the top which has encouraged education reform initiatives and accountability across our country, including the charter school innovation fund which provide start-up money for new innovative charter schools to help meet the educational needs of our most at-risk youth and the teacher incentive fund. finding new and better ways to compensate teachers for their hard work. this bill before us today, madam speaker, recognizes that we need both funding and reform. investment and accountability. one without the other will not close the achievement gap. together, madam speaker, teachers in the classroom and the education reform initiatives that president obama is pursuing in a bipartisan way promise to help end the vicious cycle of poverty and ignorance in this country and replace it with a

madam clerk, can you read the next items?am clerk: these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote, unless someone has discussion, at which time it will be acted on separately. president chiu: if we can take a roll-call vote on the balance of the agenda? madam clerk: [reading roll] excuse me, mr. president, we need to take off items 63. president chiu: my apologies. colleagues, should have mentioned that i would like for us -- >> we can continue it later. president chiu: if i can also pull item 63 for separate consideration. roll-call vote. president -- note madam clerk: [reading roll] vierra a 11yes. -- there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those are passed. someone has been waiting to comment on this item, and i would like to ask him to come today. i would like to ask if you have anything to say. >> thank you. i was drawn to this meeting because this was on the agenda. the board of supervisors, total support of this resolution that seeks to advance governor schwarzenegger, the proposition that would include a pardon

madam clerk: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: that is adopted, and in relationship to item 16, supervise chu has made a motion to table it. item 17. madam clerk: item 17 is a resolution adopting findings under the california public utilities commission, the san andreas transmission upgrade project. president chiu: colleagues, a discussion? this item is adopted. i in 18. madam clerk: this is a resolution approving an amendment to the contract between the treasure and the department authority and another. president chiu: this item is adopted. i 19. madam clerk: i 19 is a resolution authorizing and directing the port executive director. presenident chiu: this is adopted. madam clerk: item 20 is an ordinance, and 21 is an ordinance, and item 22 is an ordinance during that -- dedicating a portion of the state trust parcel five. president chiu: these items are passed on the first reading. item 23. madam clerk: this is an agreement with the san francisco museum of modern art and its affiliate for the proposed future conv

madam clerk: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. supervisor campos: that item passes on the first reading. supervisor chiu? item 38. madam clerk, if you could please call item 38. madam clerk: item 38 is an ordinance amending sections 1060.20.4 and 1070.20 of the san francisco police code. president chiu: violence and violence around certain night clubs in san francisco. at this point, almost monthly, we have a homicide or a significant issue occurring in or around nightclubs, and the need for additional powers on the part of the city to suspend licenses is something that we legislative last year. several months ago, after the shooting that occurred at club suede, which is in my district, shots fired, one person killed, others injured, it was discovered that they did not have the authority to revoke permanently the license of a club that had a long history of violence and public safety issues. this was introduced really to deal with the fact that the city attorney had to spend hundreds of hours to shut the club down, and we want to

president chiu: madam clerk, could there be any more business today? madam clerk: know.president to:chiu: we are adjourned. chairperson avalos: good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee. i am joined by supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor elsbernd. will be joined soon by supervisor campos. i would like to excuse supervisor maxwell. she is excused. do we have any announcements? >> all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn of cell phones and pagers. if you wish to present any documents to the committee, provide a copy to the clerk for inclusion. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out the speaker card. actions will appear on the agenda august 3, 2010 unless otherwise stated. chairperson avalos: please call item one. >> item 1, resolution approving the third amendment of the agreement between the city and western states oil, increasing the total not to exceed amount of the contract from $25 million to $50 million and extending the term for one year, pursuant to charter section 9.118. >> naiomi kelly, said the purchaser. w

president chiu: madam clerk, could there be any more business today? madam clerk: know.president to:chiu: we are adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> i would like to welcome everyone. we will now have roll call. >> [roll call] >> all right. for the moment i will ask for public comment prior to workshop? hearing and seeing no one, the waste water system review workshop #6. >> good morning. today we have two workshops. we have a morning session, then there be a break and then an afternoon session. i printed some things out of large size sheets. the fall agenda -- the full agenda and some of the labs that are here that seem so big did not look that big when we printed them out on half size, so i wanted you to have the benefit of the larger size print. so, just to review from the agenda, workshop runs from 10:00 until noon. we will be walking through the rest of the projects we did not get to on april 27, talking through some of the questions that have come up at previous meetings and responding to them, then moving on to level of s

madam clerk, and number two. madam clerk: the california environmentall quality at findings for water system improvement program habitat management action. >> good afternoon. we are here to request that you adopt the ceqa findings and the reporting program to implement the habitat reserve program mitigation actions for the sites. this is to benefit a number of water system improvements, projects, in alameda county, which i think you're basically familiar with. i should have said water system improvement program. i know i should have said it that way. the first thing i'd like to mention is that the puc -- it is basically a very innovative program, an innovative way of providing compensation for habitat impacts, and this is a much better system for the environment and is fully supported by the state, local, and federal agencies, which have to give permits for construction of the project. those are the u.s. army corps of engineer, the u.s. fish and wildlife service, california department of fish and game, and the re

lewis: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, states across america have as their number one responsibility the education of our young. if the states cannot allocate their own spending in order to carry out that top responsibility we will never solve the problem of the bailout from uncle sam. a multibillion dollar bailout today will set the stage for nationalized education tomorrow. that will surely push our economy over the cliff of bankruptcy. why are we talking with each other here today? we should be meeting with our constituents, holding town hall meetings and listening to what's on the hearts and minds of our voters. the folks in my district have made their concerns very clear. they're saying, jerry, tell those big spending politicians in washington to stop spending our money. but the democrat majority is so addicted to spending that they've called congress back just to vote on yet another multibillion dollar bailout. i'm scratching my head because in the past few -- the past few months this congress has done

madam clerk: [reading roll] there is one aye and 10 noes. president chiu: this item will not be submitted. next item. madam clerk: [reading roll] there are five ayes, and six noes. president chiu: this item will not be submitted. why do we not go to the next one? supervisor maxwell: thank you. an update from planning staff, a representative from the academy arts university as to their efforts for the master plan. the environmental review. assurances that it will complete the required studies, but we have not seen progress. instead, we know that it continues to operate in violation and even does continue to acquire property throughout the city. it may be time.to discuss this. this would address for-profit educational institutions. thank you. madam clerk: thank you, supervisor maxwell. supervisor alioto-pier? supervisor alioto-pier: with the reship change of ownership, this might be different. -- with the recent change of ownership, this might be different. potential buyers started asking about the possibility of building a state of the art ar

madam clerk, could you please call item 39?lerk calvillo: item 39, resolution approving the fair schedule for golden gate pedi cab. supervisor campos: colleagues, this is a resolution that would help set the rate for a permanent pedi cab company, which is something we are required to do, which i recently learned through the board of supervisors. we need to do this for a company being established in san francisco, doing its business in my district, district three. this is something we're doing in conjunction with the port, because many of these pedi cab ports are on port property. i need to make a couple technical amendments because there were several rates and routes that i just became aware of through discussions between the company and the port. so i'd like to first make that motion to amend. supervisor campos: colleagues, can we take that without objection? on the underlined item, can we take that without objection? president chiu: item 40? clerk calvillo: a resolution supporting the golden gate state warriors -- the golden

madam clerk, we can't recognize you until public comment. madam clerk, the first item -- items one through four. >> item number one, resolution authorizing the office of economic and work force document to extend a grant for $750,000 from lowe's hiw, inc.. item number 2, resolution authorizing the office of economic and work force development to retroactively to expand a grant from $400,000 from the wal-mart foundation. item three, resolution authorizing the office of economic and work force development for $100,000 for implementation of california low income energy efficiency program. item number four, resolution authorizing theout of economic and work force development to accept and expend a grant for $200,000 to support the citybuild program. supervisor maxwell: thank you, these items will be sent forward as a committee report. any comment from staff? >> thank you. my name is amy wallace. i am director for economic and work force development. i am happy to answer any particular questions that the committee has about any of these four item

madam clerk, can you share any announcements? >> all persons attending this meeting are asked to turn off all cell phones or pages. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please turn them in at the real to your left. if you submit any documents to the committee, please submit an extra copy to the file. nebraska items recommended out of committee will be discussed at the board of supervisors meeting later this week unless another date is indicated. chairperson avalos: before we start, i would like to say happy birthday to supervisor ross mirkarimi. [laughter] call item one, please. >> resolution approving the issuance of tax-exempt revenue obligations by the california enterprise development authority in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $11.50 million among other things to refinance various capital facilities owned by brandeis hillel day school and other matters related thei reto. >> good morning. i am with the controller's office. the item is an approval to issue $11.50 million by california enterprise development author

madam clerk, could you read the roll? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] mr. president, all members are present. president chiu thank you. could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, you should have copies of the june 29, 2010, board minutes. we have a motion to approve these? emotion from supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor campos. that is approved. madam clerk, did you have any correspondence? clerk calvillo: i have no correspondence. president chiu: could you please read item number one? clerk calvillo: [reading] president chiu: either in the that what to sever any of these items? supervisor mirkarimi: yes. president chiu: could you please read the roll? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those items are adopted. could you please read these next items? clerk calvillo: i did not approve the sublease of property located on the southeast corner of of tv boulevard -- octavia boulevard, with a monthly base rent of 5000 others per month. president chiu: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: perhaps you

madam clerk: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: that is adopted, and in relationship to item 16, supervise chu has made a motion to table it. item 17. madam clerk: item 17 is a resolution adopting findings under the california public utilities commission, the san andreas transmission upgrade project. president chiu: colleagues, a discussion? this item is

madam clerk, item number eight? >> resolution establishing an area plan infrastructure committee to supervise a consultant study regarding infrastructure finance districts. >> colleagues, this is the next step in an important conversation that we started in the context of our planning work for the eastern neighborhood. it started with the discussion that the cost of all neighborhood improvements in our plan areas would exceed revenues generated. we need to be focused and creative in identifying additional financial tools to meet our objectives. i want to thank everyone for their hard work to get to this point. it is now time to broaden our discussion to cover all the adopted plan areas in the city, and i look forward to a more detailed exploration of the infrastructure finance district idea. i would also like to ask for an amendment of the whole. i would offer it -- which would add a more robust description of the needs, analysis and back ground for the market, octavia area. >> thank you, chair. supervisors, in your

madam clerk, are there any in memoriams today? clerk calvillo: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of mar. for the late miss tong, on behalf of president chiu, on behalf of supervisor dufty and supervisor chiu for the late officer john mullkern. on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late joannie chang. that concludes our business for the day, mr. president. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. chair maxwell: welcome to land use. i am supervisor sophie maxwell, and i am joined by eric mar and david chiu. i want to thank our clerk, alice somera. madam clerk, did you have something to say? clerk somera: please turn off of cell phones. item number one, an ordinance to retroactively extend a grant for $1,670,000 from the esteban of energy and amending the annual ordinates for fiscal year 2010-2011. chair maxwell: thank you. department of the environment. >> i want to first thank the supervisors for rushing this into the process, and also, thanks to the may

. >> good morning, madame chair, supervisors. what is before you today is a store that is currently licensed as a type 20, which means it currently sells beer and wine. the store across the street recently went out of business. he took that as a type 21, which allowed it to sell distilled spirits as well. individual to the opportunity to buy that led and transferred directly across the street. i wanted to point out to you that there is no net gain in licenses, and he will be sending his current type 20 when he gets through the whole process -- he will be suspending his card to play. we recommend with the following conditions. i would point out that the current type 20 at his business is and condition, so we are allowing more opportunity by enhancing the license with the 21, but we are coming up with some labor conditions -- the current 20 at his business is unconditioned. our -- sales shall be permitted only between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. each day of the week except for december 21 from 9:00 a.m. to january 1 until 2:00 a.m. sun