supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu no. there are 9 ayes and 2 no's. >> the resolution is adopted. item 17. >> item 17 is a resolution retroactively approving the boarding area "f" specialty store lease between avila retail development and management, llc, and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through its airport commission with a minimum annual guarantee of $162,000 for a term from january 1, 2013, through december 31, 2019. >> roll call vote? >> on item 17, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 18 is a resolution authorizing the office of contract admi

supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee absent. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. colleagues, we've been asked by our colleague if we can ask a motion to excuse them. motion by supervisor campos, second by supervisor wiener, they are excused. ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. colleagues, we have our february 12, 2013 board meeting minutes. can he have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor cohen, seconded by supervisor mar. without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are no communications, mr. president. >> and could you read our consent agenda? >> items 1 through 16, the consent calendar are considered routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone

roll call vote on items 1 through 16. >> supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor kim? aye. >> those are adopt and had approved. the regular agenda, madam clerk, can you call the items 17 through 20 western soma? >> they were recommended without recommendation. [speaker not understood] adding the western south of market plan making conforming amendments to the housing commerce and industry, recreation and open space elements, the land use index, and the soma, east soma mission showplace square potrero and central waterfront area plans and making the requisite findings. item 18 is an ordinance amending the planning code, by adding and amending various sections to implement the goals, objectives, and policies of the western south of market area plan, bounded generally by 7th street, mission street, division street, and bryant street on the western portion of the plan area, and 7th

supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 10 ayes. >> this ordinance is finally passed and resolutions adopted and motions approved. next item, please. >> item 9 is an ordinance amending the administrative code, by adding sections 16.704 and 16.29-7.6, to mandate payments to city employees to offset federal income taxation on health insurance premiums for their same-sex spouses or same-sex domestic partners and to exclude such payments from the computation of compensation under the san francisco employees' retirement system. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i just thought i would add myself to the list of co-sponsors. >> any other comments? colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? >> mr. president, we have a new house. >> oh, we have a new house. roll call vote and i understand supervisor cohen would like to be added as a co-sponsor

>> supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 11 ayes. >> these resolutionses are adopted. supervisor mar, if you'd like to make a couple comments about item 26 or rescind. >> no, i think it's fine. if i speak after we've already adopted them. i wanted to thank supervisors yee and indicate yee tang, supervisor katy tang as well for co-sponsoring item number 26 ~ which urges the california state legislature to pass a bill, senate bill 2 19. i wanted to also acknowledge that the tragic death of the young lowell student also raises additional importance of passage of laws like this. i urge support, thank you for your support for helping to make not just the boulevard of supervisor yee's measure did, but also 19th avenue and presidio, park presidio as well safer. i wanted to also say that san francisco needs more places that are safe for everyone to walk,

supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president true? chiu aye? supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 10 ayes. >> item passes. madam clerk, if you can please call the next item. >> item 36 is a resolution opposing the indefinite detention provisions of the national defense authorization act. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of this resolution. as you know, i don't offer -- i don't often offer resolutions that impact federal matters, but when i learned about the indefinite detention provisions and the national defense authorization act, i frankly was so offended and so surprised at them that i thought it was important that we as a city speak up on this issue. and we will be joining in solidarity states, counties, and municipalities around the country at this moment. i believe we would be the 17th city to support this if that were the case and the will of this body today. the nationa

researching a quote, mars menu. recipes for food that could some day be served on the planet mars. here is a bulletin. money is already living on mars. that's insane. i don't want to pay for it the feds are stealing my tax dollars. another one, sure the united states agency for national development funding a four year project that will improve the economic competitiveness of morocco. morocco the country in north africa. key part of this project, training moroccans to redesign porter. the cost to the american people $27 million. why can't the moroccan government teach their own people to design porter. i will tell you why. because we will send them 27 million, that's why. very little pottery will be designed. the money will likely be stolen. one more? sure. i have dozens. the national science foundation has allocated more than a half million dollars to create a video game called prom week. this game will give players a chance to relive their high school prom. why is a national science foundation doing this? quote: because it will give americans a new and powerful mode of personal ex

supervisor mar. mar aye. supervisor tang. tang aye. supervisor wiener. wiener aye. supervisor yee. yee aye. supervisor avalos. avalos aye. supervisor breed. breed aye. supervisor campos. campos aye. supervisor chiu. chiu aye. supervisor cohen. cohen aye. supervisor farrell. farrell aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the final e-i-r is approved. now let's move to the term sheet, which is at -- >> item 24. >> item 24. colleagues, any further discussion? okay. let's take a roll call vote on the term sheet. >> on item 24, skim? kim aye. supervisor mar. mar aye. supervisor tang. tang aye. supervisor wiener. wiener aye. supervisor yee. yee aye. supervisor avalos. avalos aye. supervisor breed. breed aye. supervisor campos. campos aye. supervisor chiu. chiu aye. supervisor cohen. cohen aye. supervisor farrell. farrell aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution with the term sheet is adopted. >>> thank you. >>> thank you. (applause) >> congratulations to all. and with that, colleagues, we still have plenty of business left. i can ask folks if you could please leave quietly so we can continue the res

in the rocks on mars.ou got the info on all of the rocks. i want to know, i want to know if there's life on mars. was there life on mars? >> reporter: well you want the good news or bad news? i will give you -- you know, the bad news is, nasa scientists haven't found life on mars yet and probably isn't any life existing there right now. but, but the good news is that, what they are telling us today is, that they do in fact believe at least at this particular site on mars, maybe all over mars, the prerequisite ingredients for life did exist. how did they find it? that's pretty important. that was one of the primary functions of the curiosity mission, go to mars, find out if there weare bliluilding blocks life exist. they drilled into their first rock on mars. they scooped up the dust, the samples from the drill and put it in the on board chemistry lab on the curiosity rover. curiosity has its own capability to analyze samples. you can can see the animation showing that process attacking place. they found su

supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, there is a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have copies of the january 15th, 2013 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve those anixctionv motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection, those minutes are approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> i have no communications, mr. president. >> and could you read our consent agenda items 1 through 12? >> mr. president, before doing so, i wanted to present a point of information. this morning our controller mr. rosenfield identified item number 3, the supplemental appropriations specifically the district attorney positions on item number 3 to have originally been rejected by the board and the mayor in the annual budget for th

aye, campos aye, cohen aye, supervisor mar, mar absent. there are 10 ayes. >> resolution is adopted. >> and with that why don't we go to item no. 10. >> item 10 is an ordinance amended the planning and administrative codes and zoning maps making miscellaneous codes and corrections. >> colleagues, any discussion? can we take this item same call. it passed. >> next item? >> to prove acception and requirement for a $2 million loan for an affordable housing project at 1091 market street. the house has just changed. let's do a roll call. >> supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, supervisor breed, supervisor choou, cohen, kim, supervisor mar, there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance passed. >> item no. 12. >> miscellaneous variance to same section. >> can we take the same call? without objection this is passed. >> the appointment of murphy term. >> supervisor avalos? >> thank you, president chiu. i don't necessarily speak out against appointments. i know the mayor has a lot of leeway to appoint commissions. i have a re

supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener no. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. there are 10 ayes and one no. >> the ordinance is passed on first read. colleagues, we have one 2:30 special accommodation. i'd like to acknowledge supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues, i wanted to ask if an incredible teacher parent organization could come up and join us up here at the podium. we have the principal of argon elementary school [speaker not understood] and noah is here i believe and a number of great parent leaders from argon elementary school on 18th avenue and cabrillo in the richmond district. i say it's an incredible pto, parent teacher organization, because they've been dreaming not only their school, but their whole neighborhood. not only educating the students and parents, but all of our residents in the richmond district. and about two years ago i stood wit

this is not to show that there was conclusively evidence of life on mars. if they find organic material, that will be a result. >> what are the chances we will discover there was life on mars? >> i think we will at some point. it will take a lot of exploration. it is a big place. it has much -- it has as much land to base as the service the 3/4 , given that earth is water. >> do you think the secrets have been released? >> i think the important ones are. mars had a warmer climate in the past. there was flowing water and rivers. it does not seem like that climate was sustained nearly as long as it has been on the earth. >> just briefly, if we did know there was life on mars, how important would that be? >> that would be the important -- that could be the discovery of the century. that is what nasa is doing at this time. trying to figure out whether we are alone in the universe and of life has originated in other laces, it would be an incredible finding. >> indeed. thank you for joining us. you are watching bbc, world news america. it still to come, from humb

this is not to show that there was conclusively evidence of life on mars. if they find organic material, that will be a result. >> what are the chances we will discover there was life on mars? >> i think we will at some point. it will take a lot of exploration. it is a big place. it has much -- it has as much land to base as the service the 3/4 , given that earth is water. >> do you think the secrets have been released? >> i think the important ones are. mars had a warmer climate in the past. there was flowing water and rivers. it does not seem like that climate was sustained nearly as long as it has been on the earth. >> just briefly, if we did know there was life on mars, how important would that be? >> that would be the important -- that could be the discovery of the century. that is what nasa is doing at this time. trying to figure out whether we are alone in the universe and of life has originated in other laces, it would be an incredible finding. >> indeed. thank you for joining us. you are watching bbc, world news america. it still to come, from humb

this is to offer a ticket to mars. i'd land here, just taking a deeper drill and go bayway down. >> they have a lot more work to do with curiosity. >> this is a big step. >> abc 7 news. >> just incredible stuff. for all tweeting rover has done from mars waits given the social media award today in austin, texas. >> they have a million twitter fans. wow. tonight is the night if you want to take a look at the comet as it passes by. m this is pretty amazing now, it's our turn. your best chance about an hour from now 30 minutes after the sun goes down. look west it will be 10 degree as above the horizon and left of the crescent moon. it will be visible for weeks still to come. very exciting. >> yes. let's talk about the weather forecast. >> it's looking nice and warm today, high temperatures soaring into 70s. highs 78 in lofr dale. 77 clear lake. mid-70s into other locations. and mild weather continues. a little bit of fog, clear skies else wr. sunny skies, mild conditions, 80 degrees in chico. 83 los angeles. here in the b

eric mar has another award. >> thank you, supervisor. [laughter] >> this is another important connection. i learned about black studies at sf state through this institute, and i'd like to share in honoring them with supervisor breed from district 5 who is kpoo or kpoo has a strong history. but i learned about black studies through a lot of leadership. i see that arnold townsend is back there and a number of kpoo community jj parsons, if you could come forward. it's my honor with supervisor breed to acknowledge kpoo radio 89.5. (applause) >> and i'm really hoping that in future airwaves we'll be hearing you're listening to kpoo radio, kpoo 89.5fm in san francisco. we could hear that broadcasting our san francisco board of supervisors meetings like they did historically for many, many decades in our city. and i'm hoping to work with jj parsons, the general manager, supervisor breed, and others to make sure that we can continue that process where kpoo is a tremendous community institution that also broadcasts our board of supervisors meetin

. >>> also, was there ever life on mars? what nasa researchers announced about mars rover. we'll have that next. >>> what's behind all the good moods on the market? we'll take a look coming up in business. >>> we've got some good moods in the wet department. good morning to you. even with the fog we're slated to get near record territory this afternoon. the heat will break just in time for st. patrick's day week of the rain moves in. we'll sort it out for you in your full forecast. if you like shrimp, then you're going to love sizzler's shrimp combos starting at just $9.99! four kinds of shrimp, seasoned just right and served in three new combinations. at sizzler! >>> this morning we're learning more about the red planet also known as mars. just moments ago nasa scientists telling us what they learned from the very first rock sample collected by the curiosity rover. live in mountain view right now. bob, what can you tell us about the latest out there. >> reporter: good morning, jon. a news conference wrapped up. the discovery announced by scientists at nasa and in washingto

getting more complicated is a question as a bug to experts for generations is there really life on marsone of the european space agency with a lot from russia is going to try and find out the mission exo mars will drill thirty times deeper beneath the surface of the red planet than what the curiosity rover has mattered so far russia will supply rockets and facilitate launches from the bike inner side even cosmic stan are he's eager to spin off reports. the search for the past or present life on mars screen to news and this time scientists are digging deep exo mars project is based on it to freeze exploration first in two thousand and sixteen russian proton heavy rocket to usually used for delivering satellites and space station components should blast off from lack of a cosmodrome in kazakhstan sending a european orbital probe and a stationary test lander to the red planet speech to his plan for two thousand and eighteen one a second proton rocket will deliver a rover named pastor after landing it will then begin tracing the life on mars this includes drilling two meters deep into the g

this search for past or present life on mars clinton news this time scientists are digging deep the mars project is based on it to freeze exploration first in two thousand and sixteen russian proton heavy rocket to usually used for delivering satellites and space station components should blast off from lack of a cosmodrome in kazakhstan sending a european orbital pool and a stationary test lander to the red planet to his plan for two thousand and eighteen one a second proton rocket will deliver a rover named pastor after landing it will then begin tracing the life on mars this includes drilling two meters deep into the ground that's around six and a half feet to collect samples the mission's other objective is to study mars a surface to find out what dangers there may be for future manned missions powerful dust storms extreme temperatures radiation and so on are not exactly your ideal working conditions the european space agency has already invested over four hundred million euro into the project which was initially supposed to be conducted with nasa but it backed out due to financial c

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supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, all members are present. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of the allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

supervisor mar?, to the police department for their listening to the community and being really responsive, i really appreciate that and haven't really witnessed this before you but i appreciate it. >> and i worked in the area of 50th street 20 years ago and i remember when fox plaza had the bar and restaurant and the quinncy restaurant was around the corner and the first pub club around there but it was, and the top hat or there were a bunch of different places with a livelier area and i am sure that when the old fox theater was there it was been a hub of activity. but i really feel that recently it is really changed and this beer hall will really help to improve the area and off-site to me will hopefully improve access for many people in the area that i think would be strong customers of the beer hall as well. i really wish that dan and andrew had considered the richmond district as well. we have the second healthy spirits store that just opened on clement and also, what is it chomp and swig, but t

supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? >> what are we -- >> on item 30, a motion to sit as a committee of the whole. breed aye. supervisor campos in campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. there are 11 ayes. >> motion passes. and with that, madam clerk, could you call the 3:00 p.m. special order items 23, 24. >> item 23 and 24 are the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole for a hearing of persons interested in the proposed resolution endorsing a term sheet and revisions to the proposed development agreement with the california pacific medical center long range development plan, including the new hospital at the cathedral hill and st. luke's campuses with any final development agreement subject to the approval of the planning commission's municipal transportation agency and the board of supervisors. item 24 is a resolution endorsing a term sheet for revisions to a proposed development agr

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supervisor mar. >> >> can you give more impacts on the schools and the housing authority? and i know we have a hearing coming up but a lot of questions are coming from parents and school sites. >> thank you for the question supervisor. i will have more detail about this in a subsequent hearing but at the moment we are projecting approximately 3.6 million dollars of reductions to funding at the school district including funds for nutrition programs, head start, as well as individuals with disability act funding, ada. for the housing authority the effects are both the capital and the operating budget and at least 1.$6 million. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed. >> just for clarity i thought you said that the potential shortfall would be 25 million, and i'm not hearing 25 million from the numbers you provided for those two estimates. >> sure. so i have a detailed sheet which i am happy to provide all of you with. the cuts -- the reductions that are implemented by the sequester are across the board in nature so they affect our public health department, our human services agenc

, yeah, mars is never going to happen.nd i hear so many people say, that's the way america used to be. that we had bold dreams and we all got behind making them happen. well, i think that's the way america needs to be now. >> 501 days straight in space is some people's idea of pure torture. and yet this is something that you desperately want to do. i mean, i think we should tell our viewers that you were part of that famed biosphere ii experiment back in the early '90s where the both of you lived in basically a three-acre bubble in the arizona desert. what is it about this type of work that is so thrilling, so exciting for you? >> being inside and being separate from the earth's biosphere gave us a perspective that was very interesting and unique and a way to see what's going on in our world and what's going on in earth and having a spacecraft flying by mars where you look back at earth is literally just a pale blue star like all the other stars. i think it's going to give it interesting perspective. you know, maybe, you k