i think mr. mar brings a lot of expertise in to knowing the life of tenants, and also from the perspective of landlords, what it is like to be a landlord in the city. i have spoken to him enough to know and trust his instincts and politics, and i really think we need that perspective in the leadership of the commission. not that i do not think mr. mccurdy brings but also. i have had experience through the years and know him to be very reasonable and intelligent man, but i think that perspective of folks in the community really needs to be respected. i would ask you reconsider and take the nomination for vice president. >> commissioner walker. commissioner walker: congratulations. i think working with commissioner mark has really reinforced what you were talking about that the responsibility of this department and the goal of the department is to help our building community and our citizens with building code issues and to issue permits and make sure buildings are safe, and also that it is done correc

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supervisor mar: mr. rodriguez? >> guillermo rodriguez. the department of the environment was awarded a grant of $180,000 to support the implementation of the existing commercial building performance ordinance. it was adopted in february of 2011 and requires each commercial building 10,000 square feet or greater to annually report the energy performance, conduct an energy audit every five years, and direct the department of the environment to make transparent all of those findings. the grant funds will be used to support the implementation of the program and promote the collaborative effort in making sure that we can have a robust program. the department thinks the foundation for their support of this program. supervisor mar: any questions? let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. can we move this forward without objection? can we do this? great. thank you. miss miller, item number four, without objection ahead of item number two. >> to consolidate eating and

. >> translator: mrs. mar kell will undoubtedly challenge a number of the propositionses that i present, but that's what a negotiation is about. it's not germany that will decide for the whole of europe. >> economists ran a piece that this could be a big problem for european investors. do you see it that way some. >> i do think that the new holland/merkel alliance as opposed to the mercozy alliance will hold a different tempo of european discussions. it was interesting to see the ecb also came out in support of a component of a growth agenda within the fiscal compact. now, we can't know what this is. second containing to the constitution in 25 years. so to add another element will be difficult. but it could be the transition out of us a stairity into the growth agenda. >> i would like a growth pack that cuts government spending and cuts taxes, but i doubt if we get hollande, i doubt it would be along those lines. >> you might get an element that you can access the eurozone firewall funds. and apply those to gr

supervisor mar: so, mr. robbins. >> thank you, supervisors. jerry robbins with the sfmta sustainable streets division. about a year ago our department drafted a tour bus parking management plan to look at tour bus issues throughout san francisco. some of the issues that are discussed in our draft report include improving enforcement of tour bus passenger loading zones, establishing more tour bus loading zones where necessary, establishing paid on-street parking spaces for tour buses, so they can park someplace when they're waiting for their tours to come back. facilitating a plates for tour buses to be -- place for tour buses to be parked overnight. currently there isn't any place in the city where tour buses can park securely overnight. and also, considering the establishment of a permit program to permit tour buses to operate in san francisco, and that's something that the legislation that supervisor chu is bringing forward today would help us to accomplish. so that's pretty much summarizes what's in the plan. we've released it to all intere

mar: thank you. i wanted to thank mr. levin and mrs. e. in for the presentation. let's open this up for public comment. we received a letter from jason henderson in our records. i know that peter and fernandez just stepped out, but i will call the cards and anyone that would like to speak, please come forward. jim, carrot, joe? thank you. it looks like we need to limit this to two minutes per person. a bell will go off with 30 seconds to go. again, i should ask you, peter, who just left the room, to someone let them know? thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my first observation would be -- only in san francisco might this measure be considered unusual or out of the ordinary. we got a call in response to the crash of 2008 and 2009, eliminating fees, reducing them is a way of increasing economic activity to save jobs. this measure in no way harms the city budgets. it is paid to the city instead of private equity firms and banks, money that stays in the city. under the old system, the city did not spend the fees because of the risk of having to refund them. it

this was a very famous sort of bed and breakfast of the 1890's called vista del mar, run by mrs.o guests could stay up and look at the ocean from the car up above. this house sort of became like the winchester mystery house. it kept growing and growing, and having more additions and more cars annexed on to it. so at one point it has up to 10 cars. you can see they're using old dash signs or destination signs for fencing, actually, here in the front. so everything gets recycled in carville. later mrs. patriarch's bed and breakfast becomes an episcopal church called st. andrew's by the sea. so here it is in that incarnation. in the back there's a shed there. that's the sunday school, it says. you can see the fence. it was necessary to sort of fight the sand and keep it at bay. it's another pretty famous house on the great highway. it looks sort of like a mechanist myian temple or something. it kept being boxy and then growing. it's in the center here. it was made up of about four or five cars, actually. you could see people had different takes on it. some people liked to keep their

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mr. power and other separate into this, as well as supervisor olague. supervisor wiener thank you, president chu. -- mar if there are no comments, i would like to ask for others to come out. >> good afternoon, supervisors. at the request of the supervisor, i was sure you the video that was shown. i am supposed to let people know that they should switch over to the video. >> hello, a city planner. i am a small business with an exciting new restaurant concept. either and planning issues i should be aware of? >> great. san francisco wants new business entrepreneurs to open new businesses to keep our city dynamic and unique. what type of restaurant and where? >> i would like to open in my neighbor. what do you mean what type of restaurant? >> to sort out the applicable rules, i need to ask for some questions. will the customers come to the counter or order at the table? >> i guess they would come to the counter. >> with the food be served at the counter or at the table? >> i guess by a waiter, like a cafe. >> the planning code has a more -- is more like a fast-food restaurant. will you be serving disposable

mr. zimmerman perceived that trayvon mar ttin was acting suspicious.ements give us any insight into that? >> when talking to the police dispatcher, i believe he indicated that he was suspicious. >> did he use that word? >> without reviewing it right now and reviewing all the stuff we have, i can't honestly say if he used that word during the dispatch tape. >> and they informed zimmerman that an officer was on the way and to wait for the officer. >> i believe so. >> and you would have gotten that from the 911 tape that has been heard? >> the non-emergency tape. >> non-emergency, sorry. >> now, i'm curious, you say zimmerman made reference to people that he felt had permitted and gotten away with things in the neighborhood. what was that that gave you that indication? >> i think he said the second line that you -- before you stopped, part of that is included in that statement. >> how many different statements existed, the non-emergency ur, emergency, how many phone calls existed of george zimmerman's communication with law enforcement? >> on this evening

mar: supervisor avalos is doing this section. i should defer to him. supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. chair. we can pause on that. to see exactly what mr. chu's presentation is going to be. thank you. i appreciated. brian, we are going to call you up a little bit later. so let me talk about the flow of the hearing, and i have a lot of speaker cards as well from chair mar. so these are three hearings that are being called together. the one with the assessor and the report we just heard. this one was on strategy is that the city might be able to employ around preventing foreclosures in san francisco. we also have a hearing on the resolution, kind of lumping them all together, so first off, i want to thank you for the report and also for the work from supervisor campos on the other hearing that we just heard, and a reminder about san francisco. we have seen about 6000 families that have suffered foreclosures in the city, and we know that that number of families that are being affected is rising. as i mentioned before, my house has been one of the households that suffered from not a foreclosure but from difficulty wi

supervisor mar: i move that we make that amendment in the number, and thank you for bringing that to our attention, mr. lazar, as well. can we take that a minute? thank you. can we move this forward without objection? our city attorney is advising that it does not require continuing. so we're moving this forward with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. is there any other business before us? >> no, that is it. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account. everyone is welcome, even if you are not a u.s. citizen or have bad credit. qualifying for a bank account is simple, just lived or worked in san francisco and had a form of id >> we started bank on san francisco at six years ago. we wanted to make sure they know they have options, which would be more successful for them. ♪ >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city. they're convenient locations, with a hidden price. -- the convenient locations, with a hidden price. >> i got a refund check and they took out $200. >> i underst

supervisor mar: i move that we make that amendment in the number, and thank you for bringing that to our attention, mr. lazar, as well. can we take that a minute? thank you. can we move this forward without objection? our city attorney is advising that it does not require continuing. so we're moving this forward with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. is there any other business before us? >> no, that is it. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders

supervisor mar: i move that we make that amendment in the number, and thank you for bringing that to our attention, mr. lazar, as well. can we take that a minute? thank you. can we move this forward without objection? our city attorney is advising that it does not require continuing. so we're moving this forward with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. is there any other business before us? >> no, that is it. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> before we go round and introduce ourselves, of like to thank the task force of compliance amendment committee for the very helpful information you provided to us in writing and for meeting with us here today. of afford to a productive conversation. we certainly on the commission are trying to do our best to figure out a way to really welcome your health and advise in that regard, so thank you very much. >> defied the had a comment on that, this has been a long process. we do appreciate the patience you have shown us in waiting for us to weigh in on this very important process, so thank you. >> would you like to introdu

supervisor mar: i move that we make that amendment in the number, and thank you for bringing that to our attention, mr. lazar, as well. can we take that a minute? thank you. can we move this forward without objection? our city attorney is advising that it does not require continuing. so we're moving this forward with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. is there any other business before us? >> no, that is it. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material.

supervisor mar: i move that we make that amendment in the number, and thank you for bringing that to our attention, mr. lazar, as well. can we take that a minute? thank you. can we move this forward without objection? our city attorney is advising that it does not require continuing. so we're moving this forward with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. is there any other business before us? >> no, that is it. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> i am a vice chancellor at city college. on behalf of our chancellor, i want to welcome all of you here. friday eauals successful college opportunity. city college wants to you. we want you to come here. we know he will succeed here. we will do everything we can to support you. we believe in you. you are going to hear from some leaders today that are going to be examples of what lies ahead of you, and the faith we have in you. i would like to introduce a dean from city college who has been the person in charge of putting this whole event together. i want you to listen to this story that she is about to tell you. >> good

supervisor mar: i move that we make that amendment in the number, and thank you for bringing that to our attention, mr. lazar, as well. can we take that a minute? thank you. can we move this forward without objection? our city attorney is advising that it does not require continuing. so we're moving this forward with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. is there any other business before us? >> no, that is it. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful

mr. president, it's not the same house, we have supervisor olague back. president chiu: roll call vote. >> item 13, vfsor kim? >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. respect sprfors olague? >> aye. >> supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> supervisor campos? >> aye. >> president chiu? >> aye. >> supervisor chu? aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor elsbernd? >> aye. >> supervisor farrell? >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: the resolution is adopted. item 14. >> resolution supporting assembly bill 1831 which bans expand the box for state and employees to cover city and county workers state wythe. supervisor elsbernd? supervisor elsbernd: continue for one week. president chiu: is there a second? supervisor cohen. if we can do that without objection and continue until april 3, that shall be the case. with that could you read the memoriums. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in the memory of the following individual on behalf of supervisor kim, olague and avalos for the late dr. engrazia, escobar, borha. president chiu: is there any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for toda

mr. o'mara. is that true? >> yes, sir. >> all of the other rights he has told you about, you have to say nothing and we'll go forward here on some procedural matters at this time. >> sfwlzimmerman's attorney marara did not ask for a bond. he would ask for a bond after the ferver surrounding the case would settle down. he's in protective custody in the sem nol county jail. he's expected to enter a former plea of not guilty. zimmerman's case has not been assigned to a trial judge. but the two-page probable cause affidavit gives an indication of the prosecution's cases. it said zimmerman followed trayvon martin, disregarding the police dispatcher. trayvon martin had been talking to a friend prior to the confrontation and he was scared. it said, zimmerman confronted martin. the cries for help were trayvon martin, according to trayvon's mother. according to the prosecution, while zimmerman was on a 911 call, he said punks, not a racial let's turn daryly parks, a family attorney for the trayvon martin family. >> a lot of the facts are things that we heard before, ed, and i think that, you know, we knew that the evidence that was found in the 911 tapes were things that would lead the prosecutor to d

mr. zimmerman profiled trayvon martin. it doesn't say racial profiler by the way. that he was the aggressor and it was tray vob martvon mar1 call. >> there are a lot of unnecessary details that are put in this probable cause affidavit that are very striking to a lawyer who routinely looks at these kind of documents. it tells me she basically puts everything forward. but it's almost in an argumentative way, lester. as a matter of fact, as you pointed out. he profiled him. there are words he used. that's what she should put in her affidavit. she's putting her asemgss and that in her affidavit. she should use the facts. >> by saying profile, he looked at trayvon martin and decided he's suspicious for one reason or another. is she setting the stage here, that he's outside his car and intemds to do harm to martin? >> absolutely. she's laying out that ees he stalking trayvon martin. in fact, that be will -- >> the lawyer has not laid out the defense but we all believe "stand your ground" is going to be a part of it. to the extent that he gets out of his car and follow trayvon martin, does that take away your option of "stand yo

mar. we saw the administrators and some of some of the teachers arrive. the shrine is going to be emotional for people to go and a see their friends. even did mr. it will end sometime next week. >>justine: o p d major reforms. will have an update later. >>mark: the neighborhood watch volunteer that shot and i'm a teenager is out on a hundred $50,000 bail. he appeared to be wearing a bulletproof vest. he has a tracking/monitor the hearing device. he said he shot 17 year-old trayvon martin and self- defense. >>darya: more than half of college graduates are either unemployed or under employed. this is a strong demand in the field of science and how but isn't it is it is tough job market to find something and humanities. 50 percent of the crash was under the age of 25 for jobless or underemployed. >>mark: one person was hurt in hit-and-run this morning. this happened around 230 this morning on 880. the second car fled the scene and has not been located. >>darya: this san mateo bridge has cleared out he can still see that the day is gray. >>george: welcome back as we continue to track as a rough ride and to 80 southbound. the crash is likely to be c