supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you, supervisor avalos, for your leadership in calling for this hearing. i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of ti want to thank all the members of the community who are here, not only the students, but i see many of the faculty. i see our teachers union here. let me just say this. i don't know that anyone disputes the importance of making sure that city college has its financial house in order. the problem that i have is that i don't think that having your financial house in order means that you actually lose the character of this institution. san francisco and our city government is a perfect example of that, has a long history of being able to respect and adhere to the values that we have as a city and still have a government that is fiscally and financially responsible. the concern that i have and where i hope that we get to a point where the entire elected city family is on the same page is that some people are talking about having this financial house in order, but saying that th

>> no, madame chair. >> okay. seeing that there is no one from the public with any more questions, you guys it is exactly 2:00 and we're going to take a 15-minute break right now. 10-minute break. i'm sorry, a 10-minute break right now, and we will be back. thank you very much. thank you for >> thank you everyone and welcome back to the second-half of our meeting; which is going to be exciting. welcome back, council members. we are pleased to have five presentations on this next half. we're going to ask if you would keep your public comment until after the presentations are done. and then we will take public comment from the council first and then the staff and then the public. this month is mental health awareness month, and we are so glad to have so many different presenters this month. and it is a pleasure to have language matters, resources, mental health veterans and on and on. so you guys, today to start it off, we have language matters, doing the presentation today is terri byrne the solve program coordinat

. >> madam chair, members of the board. my name is kevin wagner, i represent ers as a member of the team. what i want to say is that our team has worked very closely with the tja staff and we feel this is a prudent budget. the project reserves and contingencies that are represented in that budget i believe are the appropriate amount based on the position of the project and the amount of time left for construction in the actual project itself. i'm very glad to hear that there is not any interest in delaying the approval of this budget because any delays in the project at this stage are sure to cost this project millions of dollars. so i'm very glad to hear that the intention of the board is to move forward with this. also want you to know that the entire team has spent countless hours of reviewing the alternatives in this budget to make certain we have presented to the community a project that is responsible. that we've looked at in in terms of not only the actual project cost itself, but also the long-term impact on the ope

madam chair i'm here with the person in charge of this particular establishment. i'd like to first state i've been in talks with southern station and we have - we would request that the after hours portion of this application be continued. until the next meeting. the police feels officer chan feels we have to have more discussed this is 6th street. we would like to have more discussions with the police department. >> our next m n be until the first day of august and you're just like 16 accounting is off-site so i want to tell you that. and so is that okay >> we're fine with that. there's going to be some rehab >> why don't you stop for a second and let's take care of that first. >> okay. so let's move for a continuance of the extended hours permit to the first meeting no august. is there a public comment on that? >> seeing none, can i have a second to my motion somebody. >> second and we have a second. come on up >> good evening. we would like to revisit this 6 months into the operation >> because of the location of the premises and because it's historically had a

. >> good morning madam chair and tj and directors i'm at her . i'm terry, d u.n. nigan there's going to be -- there also is a great outreach to the people of the community that's business owners and small business owners i urge you to pass this budget you have done a great job in getting local residents to work as well as veterans. thank you have a good day. >> are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> i'm with the electrical workers. our members suffered through an extremely difficult time. projects like these have gotten us back on our feet it's important for our local economy and therefore important for san francisco i is of san francisco ans please approve the budget. thank you. >> any members of the public. >> public comment is closed. i want to thank everyone for coming out today and the diversity on our workforce i appreciate. i just want to reiterate that i think i can speak on behalf of the board we just want to thank the staff for their credible ly hard work and we asked a lot of questions the last couple months and a

. >> madam chair and commissioners. i'm here with 3 of the partners that will be a recuperate and lodge. this is b.a. luck inc. last known as - this is basically a major amendment that was requested be brought before the commission but i think everyone will agree this is a change for the better. this was a type of 47 it did have food there was a cook back there but if you walked back there you wouldn't see anybody eating. we have - when mike quan owned the majority interest his other partner was bruce and he started the majority partner in a restaurants called foreign cinema. and has been one of the 10 or 15 high grossing restaurants and it's on the top one-hundred list. it's a beautiful restaurants people thought they were crazy to go in there but mr. mcdonald has been a significant owner of this place for a number of years but a silent partner. he is now bringing in a real restaurants into the area. the bar across the street is proven it's ready for a restaurants. a they've hired randy lewis he's a chef and he was vot

chair. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you please call item number 3? >> item number 3, hearing for the city's external auditors to present the comprehensive audit financial report, single audit, and management letters related to city audits for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2012, and audit plans for fiscal year 2012-2013. >> all right, thank you. i think we have a presentation from ms. [speaker not understood] who is with the controller's office here to present on this item. thank you for being with us. >> yes, thank you for having me and the external auditors. good morning, supervisors. i'm here to introduce the city's two external audit firms, kpmg and [speaker not understood]. they have a short presentation for their audit plans as well audit and results of their last audit. there are only a total of five findings. we're going to have kpmg present first and [speaker not understood] will be the presenter. and those are the last two items in your packet if you want to follow along. >> all right. [speaker not understood]. >> all right, thank you. so,

>> no, madame chair. >> okay. seeing that there is no more public comment, we will move to 4, which is a report from the chair. good afternoon. i am co-chair wilson everyone. happy june, you guys. it's here, june, june, june. i want to say thank you for everyone being here today. i am glad you guys came out. thank you council members. i am glad to see everyone here today and doing well. i would like to say today i am asking roland wong to be co-chair with me, if i am missing from the pulpit, he will co-chair from where he is to be accessible. thank you very much mr. roland wong and i would like to say thank you to everyone who sends invitations for us to go different places in the city. there are different events to go to and wonderful things to do and i can't get to all of them, but thank you for sending them. keep sending them and we'll get out there, other council members, too. i would like to say and remind everyone that we do welcome public comment, but we say if there is a lot of people here who wish to speak

madam chair, i wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for permitting me to come and address the board this evening. i stand within the portals of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington which took place august 28th, 1963. i was there in the crowd, leading a delegation of over 50 students from my alma mater, morehouse college when i was a student there. martin luther king, jr., was my mentor and jail mate. he taught only one class in his lifetime, and that was at morehouse the semesters of 1961, '62, a seminar in social philosophy. when sat at his feet, one thing that impressed me most about his lectures was one concept that was advanced by dr. black man at boston university, of personalism. that idea that all persons in this crusted earth are important, are endued with worth and dignity. and in a government of civil society, we should accord all peoples, those services and amenities that will enable them to develop as fully matured persons. unfortunately, friends, because of the dark past of this nation, not too often african americans have experienced

>> madam chair and members of the council, my name is peter mendosa and i'm with the force center in san francisco. access to housing is an important issue for our consumers that we serve. i want to urge -- first of all i want to commend this -- moving this resolution forward. i think this will bring the city together to work on this issue. i don't want to echo what has been said but i want to strongly urge that as we develop housing, we develop housing for people would are very law income -- people who are low income. the maximum rent that i believe a person who receives section 8 can rent for is around 1850 roughly. i may be off by a little bit, but the average rent in san francisco as we all know, it's higher than $1850. people with -- that are on housing on section 8 public housing, when they do get assistant through section 8, often have to move out of the city in order to find housing. that means we're losing san francisco residents who want to live here but can't live here because there's no housing available. i also would like to remind everyone that if someone moves in to ho

. >> madam chair, we have one other presentation from radika fox from the public utilities commission. >> [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> so, good morning, chair cohen and supervisors. again, i'm radika fox with the san francisco public utilities commission. i want to thank supervisor mar for the opportunity to share some

. >> madam chair, we have one other presentation from radika fox from the public utilities commission. >> [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> so, good morning, chair cohen and supervisors. again, i'm radika fox with the san francisco public utilities commission. i want to thank supervisor mar for the opportunity to share some of the work that the puc is doing, both about helping our public, our residents, our rate payers understand where their water comes from and the benefits of drinking tap water. to start, i just wanted to -- i wanted to begin by just sort of situating our work around promoting access to tap water in the context of our broader public outreach and education efforts. a you all know, the puc provides water, wastewater and municipal power here in san francisco. and as we think about our public education work, we really focus on sort of the theme of one water one system. we want people to understand where their water comes from. it's pristine [speaker not understood] from the sierra nevada that travels by gravity to san francisco. but then what happens after that wa

. >> thank you, madam chair. so, who decides whether or not the accreditation standards have been met? >> the commission makes the final determination. they take a look at the entire history of the institution. they review the team evaluating report, the visiting team that came, the report that they prepared. they take into consideration the testimony that the chancellor, the special trustee and myself provided to the commission. we sort of plead our case of the changes that we've made. and they take a look at our show-cause report that we prepared, which was a self-evaluation of how -- how well we're doing to meet the standard, where we fall short, and what our plans are to meet the standards. and the commission makes its decision. >> and what standards does the commission follow in making that decision? >> i can't answer that question. the original standards of accreditation, if you read them and you look at where the college is, it's very clear if we've met it or not, yes or no. when you read our report, signi

chair of the committee. and others. i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting today's hearing. and madam clerk any announcements >> yes, please silence any devise arrest items acted upon today will be on september agenda. >> item one is the granting of the permission to come up the hospital operations at 835 jackson street. >> thank you mr. chair this is a simple resolution to move forward the chinese project. in order to allow some tanks and vaults to be included in the public right-of-way. i want to ask t dw to present the presentation and i have a couple of quick technical amendments so we can resolve the matter quickly >> good morning. i'm john from the department of public works. we have received a question from the chinese hospital. among them is a 5 though gallon storage tank for 4 transforms and two water storage tanks and a rainwater storage tank for reuse of rainwater. there's a petroleum station located under the sidewalk at 8:30 jackson street. those are the facilities that are identified in the encroachment permit >> great. thank you i don't have any questions. we can go to

so can we continue this to the to the call of the chair >> madam clerk call item 3. >> it's the planning code to have the standard i see conformity for residential uses. we have a gentleman from supervisor avalos offices. and supervisor avalos what like this continued to the call of the chair we're hoping to have the city attorney to move forward on a portion of the project. to give you a brief update. the planning staff outlines this as 3 parts of the legislation. the main part is section 33 of the criteria considered when considering merges of residential units. it's our tennis to bring this more 40 in line with having an option to have affordable housing. we're hoping to move forward on this. another part of the legislation section 181 deals with legally inconsistent non-residential units. there is some question on how those relate to the second unions. those are not traditionally in-law units their traditionally built before the zoning of the city and it's on a parcel that's zoned for two unit. we want to have legal protection for those units. at the planning commission they asked fo

my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority. madam clerk, could you please -- actually, the clerk is chang. today we are being broadcast by sfgtv staff, joshua alexander and greg burk. madam clerk, could you please call the roll? >> roll call, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> avalos present. commissioner breed? >> here. >> breed present. >> commissioner campos? >> present. >> campos present. commissioner chiu? >> here. >> chiu present. commissioner co-en? >> cohen present. >> farrell present. commissioner kim? >> here. >> kim present. commissioner mar? >> here a. >> commissioner mar present. commissioner tang? tang present. commissioner arena? commissioner arena present. commissioner yee? yee present. we have a quorum. >> okay, very good. thank you, colleagues, for being here. i want to make sure we had all of us here today for this special meeting to talk about our selection of an executive director. madam clerk, could you plix call the next item? >> item number 2, closed session, appoint/public employee executive director, inform

. >> thank you so much, madam chair. and it's an honor to be here with you this morning.and i enjoyed when we had the opportunity to be the chair and ranking member on the readiness subcommittee and armed services committee. and i think since we both serve on not only this committee but the armed services committee, i want to echo your commitment to making sure that we address the problems that have been identified by the internal report by the gao reports, and that this must end to make sure that we can do what's right for those that we have left behind and bring them home. so it's an honor to be here. as you know the soldier's creed includes the following words, i will never leave a fallen comrade. these words are memorialized, are memorialized and memorized by our soldiers, are just as true for our entire nation. coming from a military family, as i mentioned as a member of the armed services committee, i am determined, as i know the chair is as well, to make sure that our nation does not waver from this solemn vow. that's why today's hearing is so important. we have a