mr. perez and ms. ruxton. chairman campos: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: well, mr. conlan had a medical emergency. are you suggesting that we move forward on reappointing the two others, ms. ruxton and mr. perez and holding off on the third spot? supervisor alioto-pier: until he comes back. supervisor mar: all right. chairman campos: so we have a motion from supervisor loteleet to move forward with the appointment of margaret ruxton for seat number two, which she currently holds, as well as alfredo perez for seat number four which he currently holds. and with respect to seat number three, currently held by mervin conlan that we come back to that item. Ãconlan. and i have to say that i was very impressed by ms. lewis. your presentation and background is exactly the kind of background and presentation that we want to see in these kinds of appointments. i want to applaud you for coming forward and putting your name forward. irrespective of what happens with respect to this appointment, i think you have a lot to offer to the city, and i would encourage you to continue to

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ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> mr. yee. >> yes. >> ms. kim. president kim: yes. >> your ayes. >> while 100 days late, the state finally passed a budget this provides more resources for public education reflected in the governor's proposed main budget. however, i have to note that overall the state budget is based on optimistic assumptions for federal assistance and other revenues. if these do not come through, we could all face the all foo familiar prospect of cuts again. in the big picture, this budget still leaves california nearly last in the nation in education funding and getting only 82 cents on the dollar of what we're supposed to be guaranteed. our financial and budget team members will be heading up to sacramento this week to hear the fine print as they try to decipher this budget for k-12 education and will make recommendations to me over the next few weeks in terms of how that will look and we'll bring it forward in the budget committees and the board. our approach is to continue to operate within the budget we set up in june. we we

mr. rose. ms. zamuda? >> to remind the committee, this appropriation reinstates money that was cut by the mayor and the board of supervisors in the budget process, requiring the appropriation to increase the account with two-thirds of the vote from the board of supervisors. supervisor avalos: thank you. we can open this up for public comment. thank you and congratulations on your new position. any member of the public that would like to comment on item number three? we will close public comment. we can move forward with recommendation to the committee. right, we will accept the budget analysts recommendation to produce and take that, moving forward with recommendation without objection. supervisor avalos: item number four, please. >> item #4, resolution authorizing the mayor to cast petitions in the affirmative for formation of the proposed civic center community benefit district, to sign on behalf of the city and county of san francisco as the owner of certain parcels of real property that would be subjec

mr. thomas and ms. weissman. the work on the civil grand jury, you have probably worked in learned on many things that most people do not know, which would benefit the commission. but i will be supporting mr. benetti today, for a number of different reasons. aside from the fact that he is truly qualified for this position, his resume is fabulous. but i think mr. benetti and i share a perspective most people do not share. when you sit at the board of supervisors and are in the middle of heated debate and one of your colleagues turns around and looks at you and says, you know, disabled people don't go to golden gate park so we don't have to worry about the issues there which is an honest to god statement, i have to say to myself, we need more people who were about and are concerned with and understand issues of access. when it comes to places of entertainment. i think i as a person of disability and a person who uses a wheelchair, most of my obstacles are places of entertainment, restaurants that are too pact, night

and list a geisha did not confirm that mr of ms goal of chain co were being confined by police and thus we have decided not to open a criminal case due to the absence of criminal act. but now some of those who defended the convent and its rules a year ago say they regret not telling the truth back then in goes carty central russia. in the face a wide ranging public sector spending cuts across the continent the european union has voted to increase its spending the move will cause the u.k. alone an additional nine hundred million pounds that comes as the country announced its largest public spending cuts of the second world war thousands of protesters took to the streets of london saying it all condemned the u.k. to get a brutal employment and robert jones director of think tank the bridge groups as the here system is to corrupt to give them money. but the timing is astounding really as we are making these cuts in britain to pay off the enormous debt that we've been left having to give more money to the u.s. is money that the british taxpayer the british government cannot afford to give i

ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports. our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in terms of our next school year budget development. of course at the time, the state had not passed the budget yet, so that was a very quick discussion. one of the concerns, and i still don't know, this should be a concern, but there was the governors' suggestion to cut all the unaccounted government funds which would have meant as much as $25 million that would have been cut out of our budget and so i don't think it happened but i don't know at this point. >> you would have heard. commissioner yee: i'm sure my friends would have notified me. and the nice thing was, you know, our local reps assure me that was not going to happen. so the

ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports. our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in

ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. coip aye. president kim: thank you. thank you again. keep sending this to more school districts. all right. our next item is item j, public comment regarding speaking general matters. we have a number of speakers for this. first i will call up taylor emerson, then we have a number of speakers from uesf, pamela ruth, ann bornson, ken schrae, linda plank, tiana tillry, tom harryman. diane johnson. key lou. roberto michaels. gil cocork. dottie varejas. kany -- marry lavalas. patty. and anthony singleton. we have two minutes per speaker. i just want to have taylor emerson go up first, he's speaking on a completely different item. are you? >> yes. president kim: thank you. two minutes. please turn on your mike and identify yourself. >> my name is taylor emerson. i'm here to talk briefly, two minutes, on homework. which is a dreaded word in our family and i've learned it's emotionally charged for most parents that i talk to. the school district, the board of education, has a homework policy that is p

ms. phelps. >> mr. chief justice, may it please the court when members of the west bro baptist church entered an ongoing extensive public discussion and why array of comprehensive activities taking place in direct connection with the deaths and funerals of soldiers killed from iraq and afghanistan, they did so with great circumspection and they did so with an awareness of the boundaries that have been set by the precedence of this court. demonstrations outside the person's home, outside the person's workplace, outside the person's church, saying these kinds of things. you are a war criminal. tartare >> i don't think that person should have a cause of action or would under your case would have a cause >> we did have a doctrine of fighting words and you acknowledged it. if somebody said, you know, things such as that to his face, that wouldn't be protected by the first amendment? >> we agreed that fighting words are less protected under the first amendment. >> unprotected? >> i'll go with unprotected, jus

ms. phelps. you >> mr. summers you have four minutes. >> can i ask you to go back to an answer you gave to one of my colleagues. you said a more standard anti-war demonstration. get out of iraq. war is immoral at this funeral, same distance. same size signs, a more standard anti-war demonstration would be protected from the first amendment, i'm wondering why that is. if you think that what his, what causes a lack. protection here is the kind of glomming on to a private funeral. the exploitation of a private person's grief. the appearance for no other reason than to gain publicity. if that's the problem, why doesn't it also apply to a standard, you know, get out of iraq. war is wrong kind of demonstration. >> justice, kagan. i see that as a much closer call. two, i would look to the facts of the case to see if the funeral itself was disrupted. that isn't the facts of our case. it was disrupted and two, it was personally targeted assaults on mr. snyder >> suppose, i know, you can attest to these facts. you're

ms. brown and mr. updike for being here, also a time line for setting up the cac. i feel strongly committed the- based people should be at on that committee in addition to small farmers. i know the history of the farmer's market is a grass-roots effort. it is challenging for us to have a people's farmers market. also for small farmers to have a chance versus the big grocery industry, who was opposing this. i hope that comes from the cac and this remains the people's farmers market. supervisor maxwell: in discussing the cac, they plan to have farmers and people who live around the area, maybe beyond. it needs to be bigger than nine. this is a huge city, historical place, people really love and are dedicated to farmers' markets. it will probably be bigger than what we talked about. we definitely need people who live around, maybe beyond. thank you very much. we will talk again at our continued meeting. supervisor mar: we are continuing this item until -- what was the date? to the call of the chair. we will make sure it happens. ms. stokes are there any other items be

mr. low to seathj 7 and ms. torre to seat(? so moved. congratulations. please read item 9.ainted publicly accessible online database of information ade by appointing authorities to city and county of san francisco advisory bodies. joined today by the sponsor of supervisor chiu. supervisor chiu: this egislation is simple, to address the fact that we have many task forces and boards on whichp in fact, we have dozens of these. in many ofj%e our colleagues hae heard that it is often difficult to get information about exactly which of73q those positions are vacant and available at certain times toát ensure that these advisory bodies

mr. boozman, thank you, ms.incoln. >> thank you, thanks to you, steve, and the panel, we appreciate all of your work here today. we want to thank our hosts today. you know, i still believe that the biggest issue in this campaign is jobs and the economy. i think if we put off 100,000 arkansans that are out of work back to work, if we do that as well as people all across this country, we're going to see our economy grow. i think there is great opportunity with that. i don't think government is going to produce those jobs. i think industry will. we got to provide them an environment from government that creates certainty in terms of the tax code and regulations and other things that they need to be aware of. we need to open up trade, making sure that exports are increased. we also need to look at tax policy. i have been a tremendous supporter of lowering the tax burden of small businesses and making sure that they have the ability to reinvest in themselves. i also have supported the incentive to keep jobs in this c

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ms. mcmahon. >> mr.nthal, i think you want to constantly focused on wwe, because it is really difficult for you to focus on the economy and creating jobs. wwe is certainly a company for which i am very proud. of the last 28 years, wwe has averaged creating 20 jobs per year. primarily in this state. i can tell you that we need more of that here in connecticut. we need someone who knows how to create jobs in the private sector so that we can have an economic recovery here in our country. when companies here in the united states by products -- buy products from outside the united states because that is where they are manufactured, what we need to focus on his reading incentive for our country, our corporations -- focus on is creating incentives for our country, our corporations to have the right environment to grow. they need to have a climate of certainty. they do not know what is coming down the pike at this point -- health care reform, whether this national-energy tax is going to happen, whether card che

mr. o'donnell's repudiation led ms.bble in witchcraft and swerve off into that category? >> well, i don't think clowning leads to witchcraft. maybe the other way around. i think clowning more leads to obesity and alcoholism. i wouldn't know anything about that. >> mr. o'donnell claims his role as fill-in bozo he would ride around in the bozo mobile. does that sound accurate? what is your preferred mode of transportation? >> you remember reading i'm funny at any stage. i'll tell you right now i don't want to talk about it, it's a depressing moment in my life. next question, please. >> you had co-bert blow up on you, i know. to the witch again, trailing her opponent here, should she embrace her past and consider using witchcraft to get ahead? >> yeah, i mean, she is anti-masturbation, anti-sex, that is something we can rally around. put the wart back on. i would even vote for you if you came out of the broom closet if i could see the lever. i've been making love to myself. what you say about that is so true. >> let me clo

mr. o'donnell's repudiation led ms.werve off into that category? >> well, i don't think clowning leads to witchcraft. maybe the other way around. i think clowning more leads to obesity and alcoholism. i wouldn't know anything about that. >> mr. o'donnell claims his role as fill-in bozo he would ride around in the bozo mobile. does that sound accurate? what is your preferred mode of transportation? >> you remember reading i'm funny at any stage. i'll tell you right now i don't want to talk about it, it's a depressing moment in my life. next question, please. >> you had co-bert blow up on you, i know. to the witch again, trailing her opponent here, should she embrace her past and consider using witchcraft to get ahead? >> yeah, i mean, she is anti-masturbation, anti-sex, that is something we can rally around. put the wart back on. i would even vote for you if you came out of the broom closet if i could see the leaver. i've been making love to myself. what you say about that is so true. >> let me close for both of your rea

ms. chu. >> , mr. > you have been an outspoken advocate for fair immigration reform policies, policies that would take care of the challenges that we face today and to make sure we face tomorrow's challenges. there's a wall street journal article that you authored in 2004 that allowed ali describes the contributions immigrants and children of immigrants if make our society every day. i would like to enter that into the record. >> without objection. >> thank you. why have you chosen to direct so much energy to this issue with so much else on your plate? >> i am a concerned citizen. a number of public issues that i care about and this is one of them. >> in your written testimony you have stated it is nonsense to talk of expelling 12 million people and citing a study by the center for american progress you know it would cost $285 billion in five years -- over five years to of forcibly removed the entire and demented-- undocumented population and continue border control efforts. what would it mean to our country's economy of 12 million employers and employees, all of whom are consumers, disappe

ms. waters characterizes fox news across the board as being anti-immigrant. mr. gutierrez, you know that's not true. you know that's not fair and i would like to you tell ms. waters to knock it off. >> okay. here's what i would like to say engage as i always have, bill, in the conversation and dialogue with you. here is what i have to -- what i said to rupert murdoch yesterday. i said thank you very much. thank you for taking this position. thank you for engage america in a conversation that is different and distinct about there is somewhere other than that's amnesty. that's open border. there is a process of legalization which mr. rupert murdoch spoke to yesterday where we could take the 12 million, legalize them, tax them, teach them english because of as he suggested to do otherwise is silly and foolish because there are too many people who would say anything other and many times we hear this on the fox news network because it's what i have encountered each and every time. >> bill: it is true do you hear that point of view but you hear the other point of view a

ms. whitman. mr. brown, let me move on to another subject -- >> may i respond? i know what the budget of the governor is. it was a fraction of what it is today when i was governor. here the point -- i want -- here's the point. i want those in power who are at the top to lead by example. i want to see them feel some pain and sacrifice. if you don't lead from the top, it's hard to ask those below you to do things. by the way, she doesn't have a detailed plan. she said $14 billion in cut, doesn't say what they are. 40,000 people, doesn't say who, where, what departments. by the way, you got to get the legislature on board or nothing happens. >> ms. brown, let me -- [ applause ] >> let me come to you with the 100,000-pound gorilla in the room, public pension programs. california is being compared to greece in a lot of sectors because of the amount of money that they're paying for public pentagons. you have 12,000 state employees who are making more than $100,000 a year in retirement. 3,000 teachers who are earning more than $100,000 in retirement. any reform of the

mr. salazar. >> i would say the one thing that ms.e with is that people should read this initiative. and i think once they look at it they'll see one of the things that this initiative does is puts into place special protections, basically a civil right for marijuana users that prevent employers, especially those who are involved in transportation issues from drug testing employees, before they get behind the wheels of vehicles and before they, you know, they come on to the job. it's one of the reasons that the chamber of commerce and the school administrators, cops, and sheriffs, you know, all around the state are opposed to it. >> guys, i'll -- i should have booked you guys for the half hour. there's so much more i want to ask you guys. thank you, both. ms. jones, mr. salazar. you know what? i actually might do that, guys. i hope you wouldn't be opposed to it. there's so much, including about driving, people have concerns about that, about being -- driving under the influence of marijuana. that was a big issue, as well, i wanted to

ms. zernike, mr. carlson and mr. armey. >> well i would be happy to take a lot of lessons from cadel but they never -- they've never given me any money sadly. laughter ) i would be shocked if you took a poll of people liked to take off work to retreat to a party rally or will some day or get on a bus, can you imagine, these are people who are making a commitment during uncomfortable things to express their views. what do you think of the charles coates foundation or whatever it is, one in 100? exactly. maybe there is some kind of conspiracy but it's gone beneath my radar. >> there are two of them. i would put their name and idea appendix but it would turn out to be pretty big losers in that deal. coats to my great satisfaction to support any association with freedom works. i can live with that happily. but there are folks across the country that support our work and our position has always been by the way as we have a grass-roots organization, our funding is grassroots funding, too. usually comes in small denominatio