madam role, would you call the roll? madam clerk: [reading roll] all members are present. president chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, we have received meeting minutes from the october 19 meeting. can i have in motion to approve these? we have a motion from supervisor dufty, seconded by supervisor mirkarimi. without objection, that is approved. madam clerk, are there any? could you read items one through seven. madam clerk: these items will be done by a single roll call vote. president chiu: colleagues, would you like to sever any items? supervisor elsbernd? item 3. madam clerk, could you read items one through seven with the exception of item number three? madam clerk: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those items are passed. item 8. madam clerk: this was a lawsuit that was i have on december 10, 2007. president chiu: roll call. madam clerk: [reading roll] there are 10 ayes, one no. president chiu: this item is finally passed. item eight. madam clerk: this is an ordinance amending article 8 of

madam clerk -- the eight vote threshold. madam clerk: there are other issues. there is one issue that has been redacted, indicating that they're ready obviously more nominations be allowed on the floor at one time. in the clerk's process, there is a roberts rules of order which indicates that upon a time when there be any more nominations made than positions are available, so in my process, i am indicating that -- supervisor daly: if roberts rules states that it is silent, that would apply, right? madam clerk: pres., forgive me. i have not had the opportunity to read this, and i am looking at it now for the first time. supervisor daly: as the clerk goes through this, if i may, through the president for the members who support it, if we go through this process and take a look at what we can do with six votes and leave out what we cannot do because we do not have the required eight votes to amend the board rules, then we have basically a verbal agreement, although not an amendment to the rules of order, and that in this process, we will do our best while we have

madam clerk: supervisor elsbernd? supervisor elsbernd: we had -- this was a direct result of conversations with various stakeholders related to local hiring and projects in san francisco, and we have had discussions with other of work union tradesmen and women in san francisco. many community groups, small businesses, and local business enterprises. and this provided our office with an idea and we worked closely in this will insure greatest success. at the attorney's office, i want to think some people for their work. -- thank some people. the legislation starts a 25%, and that is 5% per year. and we have a real opportunity to support the community by keeping local dollars in the local area, creating access for jobs with worker protection and good wages in targeting parks -- pockets of stubborn unemployment, communities that have been promised jobs and who have not received them. lastly, we know that it's shorter commutes, reducing global warming conditions, and impacting our environment, this legislation will be for

madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. politicians like to talk about cutting deficits. president obama and his fellow democrats seem to think that tax increases are the only way to lower the deficit. earlier this year the president released a budget that called for $1.8 trillion in tax increases. in fact, since president obama took office, democrats have raised taxes by over $670 billion and have used nearly all of it to increase the size of government, not reduce the size of deficits. during the same 22 months, the federal government has spent $6.1 trillion. but now democrats are about to hand american taxpayers the largest tax increase in our nation's history, and house republicans are determined to stop it. congress should permanently extend the tax relief for all taxpayers. higher taxes are not the way to lower deficits. washington must cut spending. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the ge

madam clerk: page two, three. -- line 3. president chiu: section d. madam clerk: i am so sorry. page three, item d3. supervisor: this is absurd. we are doing this on the fly, not knowing what we are voting on? i am not feeling good about this process at this point. president chiu: one thing that i can propose, colleagues, is that we take a quick 10 to 15 minute break that incorporates supervisor daly's amendments that do not involve changing robert's rules, unless anyone has some other suggestions? supervisor daly: this may be the first time today the i agree with supervisor -- that i agree with supervisor elsbernd. i do not think any of us thought through what type of swiss cheese process we were making, and i would ask through the chair that the board of supervisors who are holding up this process for two of you to reconsider. i think we have a process which i think is clean. it is far superior to this other process, which is, honestly, exercising almost a never used board rule, 5.22, to come up with something that speaks to the committee as a whole, which is not even a standi

mcconnell: madam president? madam president, we've got a lot to do and not much time to do it. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: we've got a lot to do and not much time to do it in before the end of the session. the american people spoke loudly and clearly on election day. they want us to put aside the political wish list and focus on jobs. the more important thing we can do to create jobs between now and january 1 is to send a message to job creators that we're not going to raise their taxes. that's why i offered a bill back in september, s. 3773, that would make current tax rates permanent. this is the only bill that's yet been offered that would prevent a tax hike on anyone. in other words, nobody in america would get a tax hike at the end of this year. the white house didn't seem to like that idea. they said we should raise taxes on small businesses. but this should be an easy one. we should be promoting private job creation, not killing p

clay: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative -- the gentleman is recognized. mr. clay: i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? mr. clay: madam speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to the bill house resolution 771. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 771, resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a national mesothelioma awareness day. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from missouri, mr. clay, and the gentleman from virginia, mr. wolf, each will control 20 minutes

supervisor -- madam clerk date you, supervisor mirkarimi -- madam clerk: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor elsbernd? supervisor elsbernd will submit. supervisor campos? supervisor campos will submit. supervisor? supervisor: this is in my district in chinatown. there is a historic parking garage that has been an incredible asset of the community. it was in danger of having its lease ended, and i want to thank the recreation and park department as well as the community for working together to come up with an understanding of a multi-year lease to move them forward. and i will be submitted other items. madam clerk: thank you, mr. president. supervisor maxwell? supervisor maxwell: i am submitting two things dealing with the commission. the puc is being commended on the community benefits program and working toward the adoption of greater integration. the sec and urges -- the second urges the puc to replace a treatment facility and to move forward with that project expeditiously. it also includes language developed in partnership with community advocates that highlights the importan

madam clerk -- the eight vote threshold. madam clerk: there are other issues. there is one issue that has been redacted, indicating that they're ready obviously more nominations be allowed on the floor at one time. in the clerk's process, there is a roberts rules of order which indicates that upon a time when there be any more nominations made than positions are available, so in my process, i am indicating that -- supervisor daly: if roberts rules states that it is silent, that would apply, right? madam clerk: pres., forgive me. i have not had the opportunity to read this, and i am looking at it now for the first time. supervisor daly:

>> no, madam share supervisor chu:. -- no, madam chair. supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. i'm sophie maxwell and i'm chair of the committee. eric mar will be joining us shortly and our board member and president of the board, david chiu, has joined us. madam clerk, i believe you have some announcements. i'd like to chang the folks at channel 26 and our clerk, alisa, channel 26 for bringing us live and you for being our clerk. and i think you have some announcements. >> please make sure to turn off all cellular phones and pagers, complete the speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated, on december 7. supervisor maxwell: thank you. we will have item six. item seven will be continued until december 6. and item number four will be continued till the call of the chair. supervisor chiu: you said item six is also continued? supervisor maxwell: item seven will be continued

thank you, madam speaker. time and time again members from both side of the aisle have spoken on the need to create jobs. mr. smith: this is what the american people want and it's passed time for washington to start listening. we have just a few short weeks to take that message to heart and stop a $3 trillion tax hike set to take effect on january 1. our country needs real economic growth which can't happen if washington doesn't prevent the tax increases on farmers, ranchers, and small businesses. we won't solve our fiscal challenges until we cut spending, stop the growth of government, and extend the current tax rate. the sooner we can provide certainty to american business, the seener they can get our economy back on track and start hiring again. over the next few weeks we have the chance to do what is right for our economy. let's make it sooner rather than later. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise?

madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit copies of material, please submit it to the file. items sent out of committee today will be considered by the full board of supervisors, tuesday of next week, unless another date is indicated. supervisor chiu: please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution authorizing the department of the district of san francisco to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $750,000 through the united states department of justice, bureau of justice assistance, for a program entitled "san the grant period of october 1, 2010, through march 31, 2012. supervisor chiu: i know that we have a representative from the district attorney's office. welcome. >> i am here to answer any questions that we have about the grant. this is a great opportunity for the people of san francisco. transitional housing for offenders is in great need and we never have enough. a chance to open a grea

woolsey: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, the trip taken by the u.s. delegation to the nato summit in lisbon was an expensive one indeed. the decision made there to extend our military occupation of afghanistan into 2014 and possibly beyond will ect untold, unsustainable, unacceptable costs. a war that has already tragically cost us 1,400 money lives will now take many hundreds more. a war that has already drained the treasurey of $370 billion will drive us further into debt and a war that has undermined our national security goals will continue to make us less safe. here we are, patting down holiday travelers at the airport while we escalate a war that is foe meanting, rather than fighting terrorism. that's the current state of our national security policy. talk about missing the forest for the trees. this decision to stay the disastrous course in afghanistan represents a broken promise, plain and simple. a promise that was to begin ending at least begin ending this war in july of next year. meanwhile as the timetable extends, the tactics seem to grow

for you and actually i told madam chancellor to do. so. it's discuss them we're setting up we have actually already set out the customs union with bill or east in kazakhstan and now we are talking about creating a common economic space but i would like to repeat what i said during part of our meeting with the german businessmen but i will look at them with the rules by which we establish these common economic space one on one in the form. are practical you know way different from the rules that are used in the w t o. and this applies both to markets access to syria says the movement of goods labor for its capital everything so in this sense. our european partners including our german. will find it much more convenient to work in the area because all rules are. understandable to them yeah. make things more difficult in fact this will simplify. our operation make it more convenient actually we did this. for our european partners and we will complete it soon so this will only benefit our couple mission with europe. today also mentioned second

madam president. and throughout my time as a member of this august body, i've had the opportunity to spend more than 200 hours in the presiding officer's chair and have earned two golden gavels. i also had the honor of delivering our first president, president george washington's farewell address on his first day of this year to this august body. from the chair, i had the opportunity to listen to the words of my colleagues and reflect upon the great debate that unfolds each and every day as it has always done throughout our nation's history. in this the greatest deliberative body in the world. and we come to this chamber from every state in the union, democrats, republicans, independents and the like. each of us carry the solemn responsibility of giving voice to the concerned of those we represent. and although we do not always agree, madam president, as the debate on this floor will often show, i'm always struck by the passion that drives each and every senator to stand in this singular place in the

>> no, madam share supervisor chu:. -- no, madam chair. supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. commissioner chu: good morning. welcome to a special meeting of the transportation authority plans and programs committee. madam car, please call item two. >> update on the financial plan for the san francisco municipal transportation agency's central subway project. this is an information item. commissioner chu: this was an item that we heard last week and we asked for an update. >> this is an item that was continued from last week. i am continued -- happy to say that we have worked with sfmta staff over the past week. i am about to introduce the central manager for the central subway project to show you a presentation that shows you our attempt to close the funding gap as well as an overall context and where regard to the road map of getting the full funding grant agreement from the transportation administration. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is john, the central subway program manager. i'm also joined by mr. carter wrote hand, th

next item, please. >> madam president the next item is the closed session. the commission will entertain a motion to move into closed session on the listed items. adam president if you would call for any public comment on any of the closed session items and then entertain a motion to invoke the attorney-client privilege. president vietor: is there any public comment on any of the closed session items? >> commissioners, my people are packing up. we should note tomorrow is one of the furlough days for the city, so the p.u.c. will be on a skeleton crew tomorrow and thursday and friday are vacation days but if you recall, when the additional 12 days of furloughs were given to city staff it included the one to report thanksgiving and the one between christmas and new year's so tomorrow is the first of those official furlough days if someone is accessing our services. president vietor: let's hope everything goes smoothly. >> has there been a motion? president vietor: no, there has not. may i hear a motion, please, to assert attorney-client privilege and go into cl

but, madam speaker, i remember those years. i remember what they were like for white farmers in my neighborhood and i remember what they were like for me. and i did business with the farm service administration and some of those years that are included in this that i've noted and i would remind the body and yourself included, madam speaker, that we had a farm crisis toughout the 19le 80's. i remember what that was like. i can remember a booming economy in 1979 where we had more work than we could do. i was doing custom work on farms, terraces, dams, waterways, cleaning out cattle yards, shaping up, trying to improve upon what more nature gave us. and -- mother nature gave us. in 1979 we were already watching the consolidation of farms. we were watching family farms that were -- people were being pushed off their land. they were losing their farms. they were selling their farms. the bid was so high sometimes that they couldn't afford not to sell. other times they didn't have the equity to be able to stand in and refuse an offer

madam clerk, do we have any imperative items? >> on behavior of -- behalf of supervisor avalos, -- president chiu: we have a resolution in front of us with the requisite commendtory finding and a finding introduced by supervisor avalos, could we have a second at that resolution? supervisor avalos. >> yes. and actually, there are several board members who had co-sponsored, including supervisor campos, supervisor dufty, supervisor alioto-pier, and supervisor chu. and this is actually -- and supervisor mirkarimi as well. this is a resolution declaring today clinic by the bay today. today, clinic by the day is -- hoped its doors in the excelsor district. it was started by volunteers m medicine. and the the work of janet reilly and scott howgie to bring this to san francisco. volunteers in medicine will be bringing together a team of health care providers who most of them who are retirees who will be providing free medical care, to people who are about 250,000 -- 250% of the poverty line. in the else sexor district, in the outer missi

madam clerk. can we move to adoption? >> items 48 through 53 are for adoption without committee reference. these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless a member would like to request discussion of an item, it shall be called separately and the matter considered. president chiu: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? seeing none, please call the roll. >> items 48-53, supervisor maxwell. aye. supervisor mirkarimi. aye. supervisor alioto-pier. aye. supervisor avalos. aye. supervisor campos. absent. president chiu. aye. supervisor chu. aye. supervisor daly. aye. supervisor dufty. aye. supervisor elsbernd. aye. supervisor mar absent. there are nanne ayes. president chiu: these resolutions are adopted. madam clerk, could you rad the in moorms for today. -- in memoriamless. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in themry of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor maxwell, for the late mr. ralph house, on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the late mr. ray shiran and mr. howard les

thank you, madame chair. i look forward to your questions. >> how many people do you have on the ground in afghanistan right now? >> right now i have 15 auditors, eight criminal investigators, to administrative staff and in addition to that a compliment that with forces that enter and exit on a regular basis. that's just in afghanistan. >> mr. geisel how about in afghanistan? >> we have five auditors and analysts in kabul and that will increase to eight by january. our investigators are always on tdy status and i think we have two investigators in the country. >> mr. carroll? >> we have not and auditors, and hopefully very shortly we will have five investigators. >> what do you have currently in iraq? >> just last week with 21 personnel there were 14 auditors, three investigators, 3e evaluators and chief of staff and support staff. islamic what was the high market iraq in terms of how many auditors you had on the ground? >> total number of auditors? notte inspectors just auditors we were up to 29. >> how many

madam clerk, are there any announcements today? >> yes. all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please place them in the container by the rail to your left. if you wish to submit copies of material for members of the committee, please submit an extra copy for the file. i will actually be calling items out of order. madam clerk, please call this item. item #4. >> item #4. ordinance amending the san francisco health code by adding section 114.1 and section 114.2 to require that the health department and department of aging and adult services adopt a pilot project to provide further care for mentally ill community members. supervisor chu: thank you very much. this item was provided by our sponsor, and she has requested that we tabled this item. do we have a motion to table it? let's go to public comment first. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item? >> thank you. my name is douglas [unintelligible] and i have lived in san francis

madam clerk, please call item no. 1. >> item #one. hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises liquor license from 730-732 broadway street to 163 jessie street (district 6) to jon gasparini for jessie street cafe will serve the convenience of the people of the city and county of san francisco. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have the chief inspector here. you might want to turn on the microphone. in speaking to it. -- and to speak into it. >> beer, wine, distilled spirits for consumption. also offering food service. no letters of protest. no letters of support. the department recommendation is as follows -- approval with conditions recommended by be liaison unit. proposed condition, number one, the sale and service consumption of alcoholic beverages provided between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. each day of the week. the sale of these beverages for off sale consumption is strictly prohibited. the petitioners shall not make structural changes without prior written approval from the department.

>> thank you, madame chair. dr. king reminded us that for every complicated problem there is a simple solution that is usually wrong. what i would like to do is first to examine how complicated this problem is and try to get beyond the superficial solutions if at all possible. at one time we had a mortgage circumstance when we had a borrower, a lender, and eight ween or a mortgage. currently, that has metamorphosed into a winter, the borrower, the mortgage -- but we also had a sponsor that turns the mortgage into a bond and then sells it to the depositor. we have the depositor that sells the mortgage to a trust. then the trust hires a servicer. this does not include the entities that have become a part of this process. with all of these various entities in the process, the question becomes are there impediments to sustainable mortgage modifications with reference to this current crisis? i would just like to mention a couple of issues that have been called to my attention. many of my issues have been satisfied. i hav