mr. campos suggested and also reached out far more in the allotted time. thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> i am shawn flanagan and i am speaking as one of several from the bartlett street neighborhood association. since we last met, the covered patio was added to the plans and it is definitely a nuisance, but our neighborhood has major concerns about how the plan will be implemented and the type of neighborhood partner campero will be. since we last met at the hearing, they demonstrated signs they will be a bad neighbor including waiting on days before the hearing to reach out to community groups and supervisor campos' office and the parson street neighborhood association. i was unable to attend because i was out of town. this is a few days ago they held this meeting. they still try to mask itself as something other than formula retail. and essentially we are concerned they will continue to ignore the community as they have done in the last few months since the last hearing and we request you not approve the application and if the

mr. campos to be involved. i have one question with respect to the condition of approval and it says and space should be provide provided and architectural addenda and does that mean architectural plans? if so, can we figure out where this space is? >> those are the assessment and there an area designated that may not be designated that way. commissioner miguel: do we know where that is on the plans? >> at the restaurant where the patio meets, we had all the components in this area for freezers and in this area for trash. and that remains in that area. we may find we have to expand it a little bit or something like that, but that is where it will be. it will be treated as a trash area per the building code and we will remove all odors to the path. commissioner miguel: thank you. with respect to the neighbors' conditions, i think that if we work from the bottom up, the review we're seeing seems to be a consensus to report back to planning staff in one year and during that period the neighbors have every opportun

mr. campos to be involved. i have one question with respect to the condition of approval and it says and space should be provide provided and architectural addenda and does that mean architectural plans? if so, can we figure out where this space is? >> those are the assessment and there an area designated that may not be designated that way. commissioner ml:

[applause] supervisor campos: mr. mayor, i want to say on behalf of district 9 and the mission, and thank you for being here. thank you to all of the department heads. you have a commitment from this community

[applause] supervisor campos: thank you, mr. mayor. for those of you who are not able to speak, on the wall we have a place for you to put comments on specific topics. we will be collecting those. this is not clear. mission girls, come on up. [applause] i think you are just going to have one person? ok, all right. we know they were just visited by mayor lee a few days ago. here you go. >> my name is kathy. i am part of the youth council. one day i got caught drunk. mission girls helped me talk about my problems and how to solve them and talk to my mom. i know if i had been on the streets, i could have been arrested, gone on record, and not been able to talk to my mom about the issues i was going through. having mission girls kept me off the street and helped me deal with the issues i had going on. they also come from communities like mine and help me understand what i am going through. that is why i am a technician grows. please do not cut the budget for the program. -- that is why i am at mission girls. please do not cut the budget fo

[applause] supervisor campos: thank you. mr. mayor? mayor lee: this is a good time to make sure you know this. there is something new we are going to do this year for departments and community-based agencies. we're going to start looking at five-year plans. we have to. it is what barbara just said. we cannot have sustainable services unless you plan for them in the long run. what are you going to do next year when the state cuts you? what are you going to do if the federal government cut you? what is your private funds dry up? we have to ask these questions now. plan with us for five years ahead so we know where the strength of the organizations will be working with us. that is how you start planning. that is the best way to do it. do not do your to your review your to your planning any more. it is not good enough. -- do not do year-to-year planning. it is not good enough. i will ask every department and agency to start planning five years in advance. [applause] supervisor campos: thank you, mr. mayor. one thought on that. i see some o

[applause] supervisor campos: mr. mayor, i want to say on behalf of district 9 and the mission, and thank you for being here. thank you to all of the department heads. you have a commitment from this community that we want to see a city that works for all of us. we want to see a city that will be viable in every way. this community once their safety net protected. they want basic services protected. we want to work with you. they want to thank you for all the progress made already. we are committed to working with you and been there every step of the way. i would ask you to make sure that when it comes to the budget, your involvement does not in here tonight. you have to continue to come out. we need you to come out to the committee meetings and city hall to make sure that your voices are heard. it is not just for you. it is for your neighbor and everyone who lives in our district. we need to make sure that city government hears. the fact that we're here as the board of supervisors and the mayor is telling you the imp

supervisor campos: it is a related item. mr. campbell? >> a cut ahead and did items five and six together. supervisor campos: supervisor mirkacommissioner mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i am wondering if the exit of one may give us an opportunity to send a message to pg&e that we sit down and talk question if they are headquartered here in san francisco. we have gone through a number of disagreements and battles like proposition 16. based on the information we received through their shareholders' meetings and the board of directors that have bubbled out about the reason why they wanted him gone, it had to do with the fact that he had to be recalcitrant and not very engaged on a positive level with municipalities in pg&e service jurisdictions. i do not know if that particular reason for the exit would help to flavor the quality. i would like to grab the opportunity on behalf of the city to say that we would like some co-existence through the cca. let's try to find a way to have that kind of common respect. i wonder how formally we can do

supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. following up on the questions through the chair, and did you in your analysis, look at what other large places of the cities are doing and around this? >> the department did not make that evaluation. we were following the in this specific case he. supervisor campos: was it possible that other cities might actually be undergrounding this type of equipment? >> it is possible that various municipalities have certain locations. for a variety of reasons. >> i want to follow up on a couple of points. going back to the issue of cumulative impact, i want to know exactly what the department's decision is. is it that it doesn't really matter? >> with the planning department, the analysis and evaluated the project as a whole. there is no project of this nature or any other that i am aware of. ceqa guidelines, class 3 for example, the guidelines permit certain structures of a single- family home. there is not in america threshold for a project of this nature. the planning department does not find

supervisor campos: next speaker. mr. smith, thank you for waiting to speak. >> thank you for this very interesting hearing. we take it as a very sincere question of how we can cut costs. one way that we can tell you is cutting $40 million of the city costs by doing one then. but you asked for an economic figure. i called my office and they brought it over. what do i do, but this sunday -- i want to make clear that these are zero well-deserved wages. we have an effect of work force. the hospitals in northern california, particularly in the bay area are the most effective anywhere in the country. that is because of our incredibly effective work force. here is the information you have asked for. nurses received about -- ken dollars more an hour. i want to look forward to working with you on reducing costs. supervisor campos: is there any member of the public that would like to speak? >> of what to say thank you for organizing this hearing. it comes at a very timely point in the city's development. i was blown away by some o

supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. let me say this. i have recently indicated that i support the concept of getting to a point where we get rid of the yellow pages. from an environmental perspective, it makes a lot of sense. because of that, i will be supporting this legislation. where i feel that things could have been done differently is that i do wish there could be -- there had been more outreach to certain small businesses, especially businesses where you have monolingual speakers. my experience in talking to a number of those folks is that the kind of outreach that you would want for this kind of legislation was not done. it is really important for us as a city to make sure that we work with small businesses in particular, and with certain communities that perhaps might be disconnected from city hall, to make sure they understand what this legislation means. some people may think this legislation impacts them directly when infected may not. so i think education is key. the last piece is that there is a technology divide within ou

supervisor campos: thank you very much, mr. president. let me begin by thanking the parkmerced community, who for quite some time have been going through a very long process of providing their input on this project. i also want to thank the project sponsor in the planning department for all the time and energy that has gone into this project on their part. the last time this project came before us, the item was continued. my office agreed to facilitate a discussion between the two sides on this project to see if there was a way for us to find a middle ground that could address the concerns. the parties met in good faith, and i think in very good faith had a number of discussions about different possibilities, different things that could be explored to address the concerns that were raised, and specifically concerns around the protection to the tenants who currently live at parkmerced. i appreciate the work that president chiu has done in his amendment. the amendment includes items that were essentially part of this discussion, items that

mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. colleagues, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor campos. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [unintelligible] into the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. colleagues, you should have copies of the april 12 meetings. motion to accept? motion by supervisor mirkarimi, second by supervisor mar. are there any communications? >> i have no communications. >> if you could read the consent agenda. items one through 14 comprise the consent agenda. supervisor chiu: colleagues, would we like to sever any of these items? roll call on items one through 14. >> supervisor kim? aye. supervisor mar.? aye. supervisor mirkarimi? aye. supervisor carmen chu? there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: next item. >> item relating to a conditional use authorization. supervisor chiu: colleagues, same call? motion is approved. >> administrative hearings on appeals for work contractors or subcontractors and certification for for for a or noncompliance with waivers to additionally con

campos: thank you. any other member of the public who like to speak on this item? mr. washington? >> my name is a.c. washington. -- my name is ace washington. [inaudible] you mentioned the african- american community. when you did that, my flags went up. right now, the african-american community is in a state of emergency. that is what i am doing here, a lobbying for the african- american community. you might hear some chuckling in the background and that's ok. the -- we have no advertisement for the black community. we have the sun reporter and of the new baby, we have the paper i used to own called the western addition. all of them i worked for at one time or another. but there is no clarification on how the city administrates into the black community. i would like to make sure you have these, that we have some advertising in some of the black-on the papers. i will be putting together a black paper to talk about the experience of the african- americans here in san francisco. not only that, i'm getting ready to write a book so you can take a look. just one page you have to read and you will be hook

supervisor campos: so that does not include what is being proposed? >> correct. mr. chairman, i think you already cited these points from the "l.a. times." insurers say the the dominant physician of this particular health care system gives it the upper hand in contract negotiations over prices, so it is a negotiation, but the insurers just are not able to do much about the pricing. part of the reason for that is because their customers, all of us, say we need to have access to sutter facilities for our employees and our members. supervisor campos: can you expand on that a little bit? what exactly does that mean? >> as an employer, you could -- and actually calpers has done this -- you could tell york insurer that you want them to choose only a subset of the available providers in the city, so if there is high cost and good quality elsewhere, -- there is high cost in one area and good quality elsewhere, you might construct what is referred to as an arrow network, which would exclude some of the higher cost providers. supervisor campos: the first bullet that you had up

mr. chairman. supervisor mirkarimi: excellent. this meeting is now adjourned. supervisor chiu: good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, may 3, 2011. please call the roll. >> avalos present. campos present. chiu present. chu present. cohen present. elsbernd present. farrell present. kim present. mar present. mirkarimi present. wiener present. mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, you should have copies of the march 29, 2011 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve? without objection, this meeting minutes are approved. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications, mr. president. supervisor chiu: if we could go through our consent agenda. >> items one through eight comprise the consent agenda. these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless a member requests a matter be removed and discussed separately. supervisor chiu: would anybody like to sever any of these items? madam clerk, could you call the roll? >> on items one through eight, mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. cohe

campos: next speaker please. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. just wanted to echo the sentiments of mr. kelly and others.s really is not about the ecology -- recology. it is a great company. it is worker-owned. they have this whole 0 waste program. we have to look at what is best for the rate payers. i heard the gentleman from r3. some of the questions he answered. the other things he did not know the answers to. i urge you to take the time to get the kind of answers that you seek, to find out the truth of these things. codifying these agreements. who is paying what. there are many folks in this room that could tell you the answers that the gentleman from r3 does not even know. it was a good report. not complete. i urge you to take the time. get the answers you seek. i did not know about pier 80, of brisbane. i would like to see the citizens of san francisco benefit. i'm not hearing that. recology does not have any barging facilities in place. they do not even have any landfills. it is not really cost-effective for them if they do not have a place to barge. as i said, there is no doubt they are a good co

campos is with us. [applause] supervisor ross mirkarimi. [applause] and supervisor malia cohen. [applause] where is supervisor scott wiener? [applause] thank you for being here. we have our district attorney mr. gascon. public defender jeff a adachi. and our fire chief, joanne as white. [applause] acting city administrator, amy brown. [applause] port director monique moyer is with us. [applause] and from senator mark lino's office, susan slim. [applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your generous sponsorship, making the ce

campos: good morning. buenos dias. \ i represent district 9, and biking is part of daily life for so many of my residents. mr. mayor, i am happy to see you on that bicycle. you look good. one thing i would say is we have so much happening around bicycling in san francisco, it is very exciting, but we also have some ways to go. i see commissionaire brinkman. it is frustrating when you visit is like d.c. or barcelona and see that they are far ahead of san francisco. we cannot let that happen. we should relating -- leading the way not only in this country but in the world when it comes to making sure that we have the best bicycle network anywhere, so i am committed to making that happen. one thing that i would say, and i want to thank the bicycle coalition for this -- for us to get to where we want to be in terms of making biking a part of daily line for every san franciscan -- daily life for every san franciscan, we need to reach out to every member of this community, the diverse communities that make up this city, and i want to thank the bicycle coalition for making that effort, taking the time to reach out to