but mars isn't. the oldest planetary material we have is from mars. it's four billion years old, just slightly older than the oldest rocks we can get at that have signs of life on earth. we have no rocks from the prebiotic transition. we have no idea how that happened. mars will give us a second insight into that and, therefore, by looking at it we will get an insight and understanding about ourselves. so if there is no life on mars, why isn't there life on mars? why not? why? what so different about it? and if you do find life, let's face it, you know, everyone's going to go up, they're going to look at i. biotech companies will be all over it. you hide low temperature washing powder or whatever, they'll isolate whatever they can. so it's a good reason to go, and it's a journey to find ourselves in itself. humans to mars is part of the long-term strategy to look at these samples and personally speaking, it's a very doable thing to do. we know a lot about how to find life. all you have to assume is that life is made of carbon and will concentrate the

supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: colleagues you have before you and amended version of the resolution urging city college sf; i want to thank my colleagues but also trustees from the college board and community members for giving us lots of input as we brought it to the budget committee where it was amended with suggestions from supervisor avalos and -- advocates. those amendments are included in your version which came out of committee with unanimous support. i also want to say that city college is an incredible institution. some of the call at the heart of san francisco because so many of us are connected directly, like supervisor yee being a product and many of us having taking classes , or having had family members. it helps to transform lives and provides access to people from all backgrounds; for immigrants it has allowed them to learn english. for laid-off garment workers from chinatown to ancient, it has allowed them to get retraining so they can support . their families with better income . but it is really an amazing place many of us when we fought for the chinatown campus o

. >> president chiu: supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: i think it is wonderful to have a dialogue, and to add live on the points that supervisor campos made, another supervisor amniano (sounds like), who created the committee of education, in which i said on for years, there should be some way to them through the college board of trustees and that important decision-making , on the city level and i know our advisor to the mayor and education -- mendoza, sitting in the audience as well, i hope to work with many of you together to bring a working group on how to support the college system more especially . . in this time of crisis but in long-term i think that would be helpful discussion i want to say that the suggestions made by a few colleagues new amendments on this, supervisor kim's suggestion for page 2, line 24 which takes the sting out of the word "inflating" by replacing it with growing, i think that is a really good amendment. i will make a motion that we add that to the amendments. and added the suggestion of supervisor wiener and chiu, to address the concern raised by wiener a

supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang, tang present, supervisor wiener, wiener present, supervisor eyre, yee present. all members are present. >> 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 some meeting minutes from our march 26th and airplane 2, without objection those meeting minutes are approved. madame clerk, are there any communications. >> no communications. >> if you could read our consent agenda >> items 1-10 are considered routine if i member objects an item can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues would anyone like to sever an item? >> supervisor campos? >> item 8. >> roll call on items 1-10 sketfor athlete. >> campos aye. >> supervisor chiu? >> aye. >> chiu aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> cohen aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >>

por mar. >>> eramos doce, ibamos dentro, escondidos. >>> los cruces por el mar son una verdadera papaalrededor de 700 detenidos. >>> no njos dejaron avanzar. >>> Él señala que esperó hasta 6 semanas para poder embarcarse. >>> la comida no sirvió de nada, porque todos vomitamos en el barco. >>>ttambiÉn los agentes en los Ángeles confirman un mayor número de embarcaciones con inmigrantes indocumentados. >>> vimos la guardia costera y la patrulla fronteriza, en ese momento nos la jugamos y nos siguieron. >>> Él y su grupo iban en un yate de pesca, otros lo hacen en llamadas pangas >>> la mayoría de los que se embarcan son indocumentados deportados. >>> todos regresan, todos. >>> no había uno que venía por primera vez. >>> el destino es san diego, el condado de orange o los Ángeles california. >>> si logran llegar con éxito, y traen 15 personas, y les cobran 8 mil dólares el esfuerzo valió la pena. >>> para este aumento del contrabando lucrativo a través del mar, las autoridades han expandido la vigilancia a 114 millas mar adentro, lo que representa el peligro para los inmigrantes indocum

: mar -- where you fall on the political spectrum? supervisor mar: definitely strong support for small businesses. some have said that in a progressive, and though i do not like the term to much because i think it always boxes in, i have always considered myself as having progressive politics because i believe in a vision where people have their needs met. i believe in equity. when people have special needs, we should be considerate of that. i also feel that working families and the lowest income populations should have a safety net. we should have human rights and equality and civil rights for people as well. i am very proud of being a progressive. >> what do you think are some of the biggest issues facing san francisco? >> right now, there are so many people out of work the local hiring and jobs and creation of new jobs, whether it is in a high-tech economy with twitter and other types of work force issues moving forward and businesses moving forward to creation of construction that local residents have a good shot at jobs. the john

(applause) >> thanks, katy and thank you to supervisor mar. my name is mark farrell from district 2 which covers the northern part of our city here in san francisco. and this year had the pleasure of serving as our budget and finance committee chair. so, we'll be intimately involved in this budget process with the mayor, with our department heads, and with my fellow supervisors. it's an honor to be part of this process and to be leading it in city hall. i really want to thank all the department heads and the mayor, my fellow supervisors for being here today. but this is really about you and hearing from you about what your concerns are, both in district 1 and district 4. and, so, i will keep my comments short here and look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. and i think you should know that all of us are very committed to having an open and inclusive budget process and it really starts today. so, thank you all for being here. (applause) >> and now kate howard, our city's budget director is going to give her overview. thank you.

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~ >> thanks, supervisor. i'll be very brief because the whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to put a little backdrop that a year ago when we started holding these community meetings, we had some significant budget deficits. and in years past they were even worse. now we've come through a lot of that and i'm thankful to all the department heads that are here because they worked very hard to work with me to find all the efficiencies, to make sure we balance that budget. clearly, the members of the board of supervisors and today we're focused on districts 1 and 4, but i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and supervisor farrell for providing their leadership at the board because we can only make it work if the mayor and the board work together. but most importantly, we've got to listen ca

breed present, campos present,chew present, supervisor cohen present, mar present, tang present, wiener present, yee present. mr. president, all members are present. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? could i madam clerk, are will any communications. >> i have no communications. >> if you could read or consent agenda. >> these items are considered routine unless a member on thes. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items. seeing none, roll call vote. >> chew i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, supervisor mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i. there is 11 i's. >> those ordinances are passed and approved. >> item six is an ordinance recognizing small business month in may 2013 amending the planning and building codes to waive fees for the month of may for improvements /-fpt . . >> this ordinance is finally passed. >> this is an ordinance authorizing the settlement of a lawsuit -- the wireless association versus is city and county of san francisco. >> roll call vote. >> chew i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener

mar, i'm telling you. mars! call-back show ever. >> aren't conjugal visit currency in sglal. >> it is. there's a woman that's -- she smokes and party and is passionate. my only problem with her -- only has two boobs. goodness. all right, -- jedediah, could w have a serious cop-slapping impact? >> i don't think so, but i've slapped people for less and -- i don't know how much it costs, nicorette and all that. i guess if it's pricey and it's your own reason -- >> what's the most frivolous reason you ever slapped someone. >> for stealing my pen. listen, i'm from brooklyn, we don't mess around. >> yeah. tucker, you're smoking a -- an election cigarette right now, aren't you? >> right now. >> yeah. yeah. >> there's nothing your hand -- >> does it work? >> the electric cigarette? the e-cigarette sweeping this nation? enjoy, blue -- >> i can't get over the ritual of it. i like -- >> i like to see how much he's dropping and get free ones. let me just say, this is totally true. if the u.s. government was insear in wantin

i mean, five, 600, a thousand years from now to have a colony on mars.ng time, okay? couple hundred years. here's the deal. if you want to live on mars, i tell everybody go live in antarctica a couple years to see what you think. not near the coast. not near the ice sheet. no, go to the dry valley where it hasn't snowed for a couple hundred years and it is 20 below at noon. but that aside, what spacex is doing that is so, is so admirable and worthy and great is they are working hard to lower the costs of space exploration. melissa: that make as lot of sense. i want to stick to the first point for one more second. the idea is, eventually we're not going to be able to live here and we have to go find another planet. do you agree with that or disagree with that? >> when the sun starts to be a red giant and expand out to the orbit of the earth, yeah, we will have to do something else. now it is presumed, based on evolution that we won't look much as we do now but it is our dream as genetic organisms our genes will be out there and in several hundred years, o

supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you for your hard work and for routing for our sports team as well. as a longtime immigrant activist myself, this is a question for the language equality according to census, 40% of seven siskins are foreign-born and city residents speak more than 28 different language is. our city land which access ordinance has been in effect since 2009 after many immunity organizations . advocated for it the ordinance make sure that various needs of the diverse language population are served yet i and others are aware from feedback that our city departments still struggle to meet the san francisco's diverse needs. i particularly concern of the first responders and tier 1 the pardons of whether they are in compliance. i would like to know what your offices doing that the requirements of the language ordinance are fully met in the spirit of language equality in our city. >> mayor lee: thank you supervisor you and i agree on the importance of making sure that all of our communications is a city especially those of the first respondents meet the language each of

thinking about the future in the stars from trips to the international space station to putting people on mars the future of space travel is increasingly becoming a private business venture we'll take a look at efforts to make big bucks in the final frontier. with the sequester force in the u.s. government to tighten its belt on spending back home can the same be said for foreign aid particularly for modest money guzzlers like the iron dome a look at the dollars and cents of supporting israel's defense systems coming up. it's thursday may ninth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you're watching r.t. . starting off this hour tens of thousands of student activists flooded the streets of chile yesterday to protest the education system there between thirty seven and eighty thousand students actually gallery in santiago fall party c.e.o. concepcion. to demand more affordable higher education just recently the chilean government changed the criteria for students to receive federal financial aid the minimum income requirements were raised a centrally disqualifying thousands of students f

. >> you, mcguirk have chosen mars. there is a list to sign up for to go to mars.l the tape. >> establish human settlement on mars in 2023. in that year the first group of four humans will land on mars. 1972 was the last time that humans walked on the moon. no human has ever gone as far as mars. mars one is designed as a mission that is simpler than previous designs for mars missions. the crew is actually going to stay and live on mars with the intention to remain there for the rest of their lives. >> why not? let's go. people signing up, let's go. >> 78,000 people signed up. a good way to thin the herd. >> bill: and you can't come back. >> a one way trip. >> and they will not be able to get the technology to take you there but even if they could and take you and you pay them all the money you can't come back. that's it. you are out of here. 78,000 pinheads. >> funded by a dutch reality tv show. who would take a trip to mars paid for by the kind of people who gave you gary busse and khloe kardashian. >> the whole point is to tell people you are going, not really go

second by supervisor mar. can we continue without objection. without objection shall be the case. can we do the same with 12 and 13? that shall be the case. item 14. >> this is to valued at 250,000 from the open society foundation for the grant period of january 1, 2013 to june 30, 2015. >> this resolution is adopted. >> this is to accept a gift of design services and furniture valued at approximately 26 thousand from various donors. >> super /sraoeutz supervisor avalos. >> i feel very uncomfortable about being in the position of approving to accept and expand [inaudible] when i feel that there's been advice that our city attorney has provided to our district attorney and the district attorney has not followed. the district attorney said he's got conflicting advice and i understand that's what he feels is important to him, but i don't feel comfortable supporting this without the district attorney fulfilling both advice from the state and the city attorney as well. that's how i feel most appropriate voting on this measure and just want to let you know that, colleagues. >> at 500 do

seeing none, roll call vote. >> chew i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, supervisor mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i. there is 11 i's. >> those ordinances are passed and approved. >> item six is an ordinance recognizing small business month in may 2013 amending the planning and building codes to waive fees for the month of may for improvements /-fpt . . >> this ordinance is finally passed. >> this is an ordinance authorizing the settlement of a lawsuit -- the wireless association versus is city and county of san francisco. >> roll call vote. >> chew i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos no, breed i, campos i. there are ten i's, one no. a: /ord >> ordinance is passed. >> purr >> any discussion? roll call vote on this item. >> chew i; cohen i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i. there are 11 i's. >> this ordinance is passed next item. >> this is a /orbd /tphapblgs regarding the health code to raise patient rates charged for mental health services. >> this is passed on first reading. >> item ten, award in

thinking about shooting for the stars from trips to the international space station to putting people on mars the future of space travel is increasingly becoming a private business venture will take a look at efforts to make big bucks in the final frontier with the sequester causing cuts on the u.s. government spending one can't help but wonder if the same is going to be true for foreign aid especially military aid for israel for things like the iron dome system a look at the dollar and cents of supporting israel coming up. it's thursday may ninth four pm in washington d.c. and i'm maggie lopez and you are watching our t.v. starting off this hour tens of thousands of student activists flooded the streets of chile yesterday to protest the education system there between thirty seven and eighty thousand students gathered in santiago. concepcion and demanded more affordable education and higher education that is now just recently the chilean government changed the criteria for students to receive federal financial aid the minimum income requirements were raised disqualifying thousands of students

>> aye. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> and commissioner tang in >> aye. >> weiner >> aye. >> yee, yee absent. item passes. >> very good. our next item please. >> three, this chair's report this san information item. >> okay, good morning, colleagues, i would like to commend everyone who participated and took part in the nation's first walk to workday. held last friday april 12th and i want to congratulate the individuals and organization to help this become a great event i was not able to participate that day due to a slight family emergency, but it is a great chance to encourage people to walk for all sorts of good reasons, your helpth and the environment and it is the opportunity to highlight all of the work that needs to be done to insure that there are safe and attractive walking routes in every neighborhood city wide. i have been really encouraged by the members of this body who have been taking up a lot of effort around the pedestrian safety as well. >> mayor yee took this advantage to release the

president mccarthy, mar, here, commissioner lee, here, mccray, present, melgar here, and commissioner -- is excuse. >> because of time restriction here we would like to propose some changes to the agenda and move them to the next full meetings. >> yes. >> what i'm suggesting is formula retail in the upper market ncd proposed planning commission policy that would establish a methodology for determining the concentration of formula retail and set the appropriate level of concentration for formula retail in the upper market neighborhood nct and ncd. preliminary recommendation: adoption -- seven and the dbi. i recommend we continue that to the next full commission meeting. >> could i go go ahead and second on that. >> thank you. those items seven, eight and 9 will be continued to the next meeting and mccarthy you are okay with that. you indicated that you are okay with that. i received a note that you are okay with continuing that. >> yes. that one i'm okay to continue with it. i don't have a real detailed update. >> we can talk on the side about that. >> okay. so that would be what item?

. >> thank you, supervisor mar. first of all, i want to thank all the department heads and the mayor and the supervisors and all the residents who are coming out for this town hall. this is very important for us to have a voice, have input. we don't, and we do a disservice for the people that we service. so, for me i'm a project manager. my name is eddie chang, cyc community center. it is important to focus on city of san francisco immigrant youth for the last 33 years in the city of san francisco. our main office is in tenderloin, but we also have the branch offices in the richmond district and we also have a branch office in the bayview district. so, we are very grateful for that. so, thea of ~ three of the things i want to talk about we want to ask the city to help support us is we would have a city wide multi-cultural youth leadership model that we are not only engaging to people in our neighborhood, but also engaging from people all across the city, especially young people who happen to deal with a lot of diffe

use el camino del mar as the address. subsequent ly the address changed. it's not our choice. i think when it comes to the height limit, they are a lot of data in the evaluation in the record of the planning department sections, drawings that exist to support the department's decision that it's an accurate building that is within the height limit. so i don't have any objection to work with the department to go through all of those and present a very detail analysis to this board. >> thank you. >> are you finished? >> yes. >> all right. the addresses have nothing to do with how the height limit is. the parameters of the site. okay. >> that's correct. >> mr. sanchez? >> scott sanchez planning department. i just want to reiterate that we are more than happy to review the calculations for the height and confirming again that the street address even where the door is located has no bearing on the section of 20.12 and that they can choose their frontage. i apologize to mr. garfunkle that he did send me an e-mail. it's been a ve

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i wanted to thank supervisor mar for doing this. i'm setting up a new committee. i wanted to join supervisor mar and on the next election we'll get him to perform. legalities -- let's go to district 2. >> ladies and gentlemen, i have the great honor of introducing someone that supervisor mar just called out but for someone of my generation, we grew up watching her on television and she brought us the nightly news and someone that i have been honor today

chew i, cohen i, i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i. there are 11 i's. >> i'm 17. >> fiscally feasible under administrative code chapter 29 [inaudible] and the port commission. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. this was introduced in collaboration [inaudible] see walk 337 as many of you are familiar is better known as a parking lot which is leased to the giants and currently they are in negotinsthe mmittee than other parts of san francisco. and also, as been briefed by the newspapers will include [inaudible] san francisco and will be a site for local manufacturing jobs here in the city. this did come out from the budget committee with positive recommendation. i'm looking forward to ongoing discussions with the giants about this. i know that we are certainly looking forward to having a conversation about kind of the different triggers about when i know we will [inaudible] open ll come forward and the parkings and some of the the infrastructure we look forward to having that discussion, but i ask for your support today. >> can we do this i

i wanted to thank supervisor mar for doing this. i'm setting up a new committee. i wanted to join supervisor mar and on the next election we'll get him to perform. legalities -- let's go to district 2. >> ladies and gentlemen, i have the great honor of introducing someone that supervisor mar just called out but for someone of my generation, we grew up watching her on television and she brought us the nightly news and someone that i have been honor today -- to get to know as someone that i'm so honored to get to know today. that's emerald ye. emerald is known for channel 4 is now the chair of the asian pacific fund here in san francisco. i don't know if you remember but supervisor tang interned for you in college. she has a masters degree from columbia university. she began her tv career as a reporter in honolulu and joined in 84 and then for cnn in atlanta. she served for 19 years. i'm going to embarrass her with some of her journalism awards. she received 9 emmy's. an excellence awards for consumer action, 3 awards from radio and television news from the director

to excuse mar.ve a motion without objection. we want to thank or clerk, derrick evans and the members of sfgtv who are covered the meeting today. we want to thank or city attorney. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to

you say in this book not only will we get to mars. we should set up shop on mars. stay on mars. of setting up the stepping stones to get to mars are such that if we were to go and then come back shortly and then go again and come back, i'm sure that someone in our congress would say, well, we know how to do that. let's find another place where we can spend the money. so the investment in going to the moon years ago has paid tremendous dividends in our advancing technology and our education systems. and the same thing will come from the step by step approach qualifying the interplanetary spacecraft much more than those that were needed to be able to go to the moon and bring somebody back after three or four days. this is a very determined activity, building the base on the surface of mars is something that should be done very close by having human intelligence in orbit at the moon of mars, and they can be assembling just like i hope that we will do on the moon by the u.s. and also trained to do that on the big island of hawaii, believe it or not. >> just quickly, 20 seconds, sir,

mar, tang absent, wiener absent, yee passes. >> next item? >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item no. 6 -- campos, avalos, chiu, cohen, commissioner kim, mar, tang absent, wiener absent, yee, item passes. >> next item no. 7. item 7: appoint wells whitney to the citizens advisory committee action >> no comments from commissioners? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> same house, same call. the item passes. next item. >> item no. 8. item 8: adopt the bayview hunters point mobility study final report and business plan action >> okay. thumbs up from commissioner from this point and we'll go to public comment. >> good afternoon commissioners, i'm a member of the cac. this item was brought before us at the last meeting. i suggested you have someone from the san francisco housing authority as far as the working group is concerned has been working on this project, there is a project hope is an umbrella. the hope 6 is an umbrella of the san francisco housing a