i am joined by rules committee member sean elsbernd and supervisor mark farrell. i just want to thank sf gov tv for taping this early in the morning and making the transcripts available on-line. we have only one item on today's agenda, which we had heard last thursday. please call item one. >> item 1. charter amendment (third draft) to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco by -- regarding city retirement benefits and health care benefits. commissioner kim: because we heard this item last week, we are just going to hear public comment. please line up if you have any public comment. good morning. -- >> good morning. i have a question for the board for which i have no -- i do not think i will get an answer. why should we expect our representatives to do any more to live up to this agreement than you have in the past? the reason i say that is, in past years, boards of supervisors have entered into negotiations with city employees on retirement, the different things that accrue over the years, and they made commitments to those city employees, sayin

we have jane kim, carmen chu is here, scott wiener, mark farrell. they are here as well. there may be more coming. i want to give a special thanks. i know not only gain, but her staff, has worked hard to spend the time necessary to explain to everybody but this is all about, and to also make sure the commitments that were made by the city family are actually carried out. whether they are affordable housing or transportation, or open space, parking challenges that we will face, or whether they are simple communications of what this is all about, i want to invite supervisor jane kim appeared to speak. -- up here to speak. >> thank you, mayor lee. i got to come to the end of a really long process, close to 14 years, of the development project, the last six months, and it is amazing how much can happen. so many people were involved in the process for many years. mayor li the enologist many of them. -- lee acknowledged many of them. tida, the citizen advisory committee. i look at developments with a careful lens because they have a huge impact on the city of san francisco and

we are joined by president david chiu, as well as a mark farrell who will be here shortly. we want to thank sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> i would like to announce to please turn off all riinger volumes on cell phones. and--- ringer volumes on cell phones. supervisor campos: thank you. if you could please call item one. >>item 1, hearing to receive regular status reports on the america's cup. supervisor campos: this is something i introduced with supervisor mirkarimi. we want to make sure that we provide the necessary oversight in the implementation of this -- of the various agreements that are implemented, and more specifically to make sure that all of the interests of the city and county of san francisco are protected come into the extent that there are certain obligations that those are met not only on the city part, but on the part of the cities involved. we have been joined by committee vice chair supervisor farrell. with that, i will turn it over to stop. >> good morning. mike martin and office of economic and w

a little while back when the candidate mark farrell knocked on our door and asked for my vote, i told him how i seem to regularly come down here to city hall to speak in front of this agust body which he was aspiring to become a member. i come to beg and plead usually to restore the funds that they are threatening to take away from hospitality house again, so here i am, supervisor farrell. the yo-yo money game, i call it , 3 1/2 years ago the city said yes, yes, please come and set up a drop-in center just like you have, a self-help center, just like you have on the tenderloin on sixth street. now they say to us no, no, with you can't have the money to operate either of the centers properly anymore. i told you then, supervisor farrell, how all the time and money we spent in organizing these efforts to fight the cuts is exhausting and decompleting of our energies, and instead should go to serving our clients. so up and down we go just like a yo-yo. more importantly, i told supervisor farrell, i have my neighbors on pierce and green, on union and chestnut, and they know all about hospit