supervisor malia cohen, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you. hello.th. how are you good. thank you for coming out here this morning. i'm so excited to be here. there have been many years that have come and gone in the past that i was in these seats over here listening to the speakers commemorate, honor the memory and legacy of many of our an set of erps and the persons that have gone on before us and it is about time that we started to think about the legacy that african-americans have had and the legacy that the civil war has had and the intermingling between the two because it is with no easy feat that over 200,000 african-american soldiers fought in the civil war during a time when african-americans were denied the right of course their citizenship. can you imagine that? so i'm very excited to welcome you here to our great city hall. and as i stand before you, i want you to understand that i am your represent and if you have a chance to stop by before you leave and leave your contact information, so we are able to better communicate and keep the li

>> appointing malia cohen. supervisor kim: is there any discussion? i would like to open for public comment. is there any public comment on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to help -- thank you for making this happen to make sure that malia can be on the board. supervisor campos: thank you. -- supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. is there anything else on the agenda for the 125 pm meeting? no. this meeting is now adjourned. we will began our special committee for the 1:30 p.m. meeting. can you please call item no. 1? >> appointing to the term -- a point to the treasury oversight committee. supervisor kim: we have a representative from the treasure is office. could you please approach? >> this motion is to point peter goldstein to the city college seat on the treasury oversight committee. this is the seat that is reserved for the chancellor of the community college or his designee as per administrative code 10 baht 80-3. mr. goldstein is the vice chancellor for city college and he apologizes he could not b

my name is eric mar, and we also have scott wiener and malia cohen, and we also have with us today supervisor chiu. hopefully we can finish this first item within the hour. if not, we will have the -- before we start on the first item, supervisor wiener had some comments. supervisor wiener: as the chairman indicated, we will be starting at 2:00. if you are here for that, you could come back. supervisor mar: so ms. miller, item number one, and president chiu is the chair. supervisor chiu: thank you. as i think many of you know, are waterfront holds a special place in the city. from the 1960's to the embarcadero freeway, we have had many battles. early next year, we will vote on another controversial project. this entails 145 luxury condominiums, which can only be built if the board decides to increase the 84-foot height to limit on that side to 136 feet. this would be the first high increase on the northern waterfront in almost 50 years. as you can imagine, this proposal has generated significant debate, as well as along the city. as i heard more about this, i had growing concerns about it. th

to my left is supervisor wiener, and malia cohen will not be with us today. can you please give us the announcements? >> please turn off all sell funds. if you wish to speak during public comment, turn them into myself. if you have any documents for the committee, -- items will appear on december 6, 2011 unless otherwise stated. supervisor mar: we have four items on the agenda today. >> resolution approving the property near the intersection of ocean avenue where a public plaza for 75 years -- supervisor mar: we have the director of real estate for the city. >> good afternoon, chair. so this is the fifth of five plant pieces of legislation that involve the redevelopment of the area near the bus loop. previously, you have recommended approval for a complex exchange data involved jurisdiction of transfers and exchanges between sfmta and puc. the sale of land with mixed use development that is under way. and the really classic transitory and the project. today, we are focusing on what will become the plaza de way from ocean avenue to the new city college and cam

supervisor malia cohen is a staunch advocate for her residence, as well as the residents of district 10. we thank her for her leadership on this project and we are pleased to partner along with her and the residents. >> thank you, good morning, everyone. seven months ago, many of us were standing here doing a groundbreaking ceremony. here we are making sure that our walk and talk were in line with each other. i told you that this was the beginning of a rebirth for a new neighborhood. here we are along an infamous street. those of us that know this area knows that there had been good and bad activity. here we are one block off of third street, celebrating the work of san franciscans, a shining example of our local hired initiative, and i want to the knowledge the public partners that make this a reality. we have new roads, and everyone is here, a physical manifestation of the partnership, not just on the city sought but the contractors, private citizens, working to make san francisco better, one street at a time. i am very happy to be here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervis

my name is eric mar, and we also have scott wiener and malia cohen, and we also have with us today supervisor chiu. hopefully we can finish this first item within the hour. if not, we will have the -- before we start on the first item, supervisor wiener had some comments. supervisor wiener: as the chairman indicated, we will be starting at 2:00. if you are here for that, you could come back.

supervisor avalos: i am introducing a hearing request along with supervisors jane kim and malia cohen addressing our foreclosure crisis which exists in san francisco, often overlooked, but there are certain neighborhoods and districts where we have a concentration of defaults and foreclosures, specifically in district 11, district 10. but there's also a lot of neighborhoods throughout san francisco where we have a high rate of foreclosures like in the south of market neighborhood, as well. this hearing will be looking at solutions that we could put forward to, as a city, to prevent defaults and foreclosures in the future and ways we can hold banks accountable to doing more work to support homeowners against defaults and that is my submission. >> supervisor mar? supervisor mar: madam clerk, colleagues, i've been working with diverse neighborhood and small arts groups in the city expressing concerns with the lack of commitment to cultural equity in our arts program. i'm directing the city attorney to draft an ordinance to strengthen cultural equity in the arts in san francisco by allowi

to be up here with malia cohen, who is going to create many, many new stories to come along with all of san francisco and the other supervisors up here and the oop leaders and al williams and the historical society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure that there are jobs. to make sure we protect the family structure. because from my heart and where i come from and what my family is all about, i know what it is to be helped by the african-american community. i know that that's been a strong tring and -- thing and we wouldn't have survived without that kind of kep -- help. so i leave you here today to let you know what's in my heart and mind and let's kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud -- proud of who we are, and thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who's joined us. let's welcome supervisor camp