>> mr. chair and commissioner or supervisor olague, besides the points that we specifically [speaker not understood], one has to be the need to address it. this is our reality. san francisco is an amazing city. i've only been in the bay area three years, san francisco for a year. i love it here. i talk about it at home regular. but with that being said, we can't act like these students over here, the black and brown students are dirty laundry and we're not going to address their needs. we can't act like we're successful over here and amazing to the nation, but we're not going to come up with innovative ways to address what's happening here. so, immediately we do need credit recovery. we need options for these students who are one class plus or more off track to graduate. that includes other options besides online because even with the online options, our young people have said, yeah, we can finish t but i'm not learning anything. and we really don't even have accurate data of what is the completio

the chair: mr. speaker. the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 3409 directs me to report it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union direct he is thousands that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 3409 and reports it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from dwea, mr. woodall, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. woodall: thank you, mr. speaker, i appreciate you coming in tonight and allowing me to have the time. i'm going to get a little outside of my comfort zone, mr. speaker. you talk about the 20 months you and i have been on the job here in this body, we talked a lot about tax policy and i feel like we can -- we're going to have that conversation i think as we stand in the chamber a year from today, we'll have signed fund

. >> mr. chair and supervisor olague, coleman youth are open and willing to participate in that. >> thank you. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. >> okay. i'm sorry, i didn't catch your name again. >> niva walker. >> niva, that's right. you talked about credit recovery. i'm under the impression that we had a summer program, certainly last summer on credit recovery. do we have one this summer as well? >> yes, we did. >> we did. how would you evaluate that program? >> we are waiting for the district to release the data on the completion of rate for the students. we have not been able to get that yet. so, that's something we have to follow-up on. >> have you had a chance [speaker not understood] also new to the committee, have you had a chance to look at the data from last summer? >> yes and yes. and i can't tell you that. right now i have to -- what is your specific question? >> it's not necessarily a question. gist it's more of a stamp. to the best of my knowledge, i see [speaker not understood] in the

mr. chair we have three ayes.thank you supervisor chu and thank you everyone for speaking today as well. miss miller please call the next item. >> item no. 3, ordinance amending the police code. >> supervisor cohen. >> don't leave everyone, we're talking about foreclosures and it's interesting to take it up on the one-year anniversary of the occupy movement. this is the legislation of more than a year of work that my offices and many of my colleagues and community members have spent addressing the impacts of foreclosure crisis on your communities in 2011 there were more than 900 foreclosures in san francisco. when we speak about the impacts of foreclosure in our neighborhoods we speak of assisting homeowners of modifying loans or postponing evictions. we're not only contending with the impact of the crisis on homeowners, but the physical blight that left is behind after the foreclosure process. after the foreclosure process has been completed we frequently see properties falling into disarray. a foreclosed propert

mr. grijalva of arizona. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 773, the gentleman from arizona, mr. >> i hallucinate varks and a member opposed each -- mr. grijalva and a member opposed will each control five minutes. mr. grijalva: thank you. the amendment i'm offering ensures that this land trade is fair and protects the american taxpayers. for every land exchange undertaken by the forest service, the bureau of land management, park service or fish and wildlife service, land managers must ensure taxpayer assets are protected by requiring the land appraisals based on accepted federal standards. this house has considered six different land exchange bills in this congress. each and every one of them required standard appraisals for those lands and they all passed. but today we have a bill that defers to legislation passed by the state of minnesota to control the examination and the value determination of federal lands. this is not how we treat federal assets. whether a land exchange is undertaken through an administrat

mr. chair, could you -- >> okay. supervisor olague. >> well, i guess really -- i guess we really should jump over to coleman. but i have a very quick question. the work force issue, i know this past summer we had that summer jobs program that i think we had about four or 5,000 jobs. >> correct. >> that were provide today youth. the feedback i was hearing was that not all the young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, probably some of the folks we're talking about today that are in that percentage, were necessarily had the qualifications to obtain some of those jobs or succeed once they were placed. so, i just want us to -- at some point i guess i would like to have a better understanding of, you know, whether the match was there, you know, but yeah. >> sure, it's a very complicated circumstance. i think to quickly highlight within the 4 or 5,000 job opportunities, there is a range of opportunities. from entry level internship all the way to private sector placement. of course within that spectrum it has different l

thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you, supervisor. president chu? >> thank you, mr. chair, and i want to thank supervisor compos for those opening remarks, i have just a couple of additional points that i would like to make. first of all, i want to thank the members of the community that brought this issue of this loophole to this board and i think it raised some important issues that we spent a lot of time tackling last year. the two main issues from my perspective that we needed to address were how we improve employee access to health care and how do we ensure that consumers aren't deceived through misleading surcharges by businesses such as restaurants as alluded to by supervisor compos, after the debate we have and after mayor lee's veto of the initial legislation, i work witched supervisor cohen and our colleagues as well as many members of the community to move forward a series of amendments that i do think addresses this loophole and let me summarize them briefly, first of all, with regards to improving health access by improving benefit utilization rates, we p

mr. waxman of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 779, the gentleman from california, mr. waxman, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman, house republicans have repeatedly claimed that this bill will terminate the loan guarantee program. no more solyndras. no more loan guarantees. but that's not true. let's be clear. this bill does not terminate the loan guarantee program. it doesn't phase it out, it doesn't end it, it doesn't sunset it. it leaves it in place, it allows the department of energy to use its existing authority to issue $34 billion in new loan guarantees. d.o.e. could issue those loans tomorrow, they can do it next year, they can do it 20 years from now. this bill creates no end date for this program. after land basketting this bush era program for more than a year, house republicans are leaving it in place to issue tens of billions of dollars more in loan guarantees and that's a fact. so, here's what

>> yes. >> mr. chair, supervisors, i'm excited about . this there was an iconic bar on powell street that went through quite a traumatic episode and had to move down to the war f in the last year. much to the chagrin of the locals and san francisco. this we hope will be a replacement. this is now an off-sale liquor store. i did pass out a photograph of what mr. sirhed's place looks like now. it is a building in a totally commercial area about a block from union square. two-storey building. he's owned it first as a gallery. later as off-sale wine, liquor. on-sale -- retail wine tasting and wine sales inside on the second floor. these licenses would replace that license. i think it would have less impact on sale. alcohol has a less impact on the public than off-sale does. this license will be sold out of the area. we've looked at the conditions. we are fine with the conditions. with one proviso. mr. sirhed is concerned that -- he is going to be getting a lot of local tourists out of the hotels. they may be on different time zones, they may

supervisor -- >> mr. chairshould mention there is a third amendment and conforming changes in the planning code to ensure these apply to housing projects of ten units or more. >> thank you. so we heard the amendments. could we take the amendments without objection? thank you. on this item can we approve this without objection? thank you. thank you everyone. mis miller, are there any other items before us? >> no mr. chair there are no other items. >> thank you everyone. meeting adjourned. >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than

supervisor -- >> mr. chair i should mention there is a third amendment and conforming changes in the planning code to ensure these apply to housing projects of ten units or more. >> thank you. so we heard the amendments. could we take the amendments without objection? thank you. on this item can we approve this without objection? thank you. thank you everyone. mis miller, are there any other items before us? >> no mr. chair there are no other items. >> thank you everyone. meeting adjourned. >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge

mr. markey of massachusetts. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 788, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. markey: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. markey: mr. chairman, my amendment is going to call for 25% of the electricity in the united states being generated by renewables by the year 2035. the united states, excluding hydro, is already up to 7% to 8% of all of our electricity generated by renewables here in 2012. so 23 years from now, the goal will be to reach 25%. now, why do i feel compelled to bring this amendment out here? well, the republicans say there is a war on coal. so far in this first year and nine months that they have controlled the united states congress, they have declared war on solar. they have declared war on wind. they have declared war on all renewables. that's why i bring this amendment down

supervisor -- >> mr. chairshould mention there is a third amendment and conforming changes in the planning code to ensure these apply to housing projects of ten units or more. >> thank you. so we heard the amendments. could we take the amendments without objection? thank you. on this item can we approve this without objection? thank you. thank you everyone. mis miller, are there any other items before us? >> no mr. chair there are no other items. >> thank you everyone. meeting adjourned. >> san francisco recreation and parks department offers classes for the whole family. rec and parks has a class for everyone. discover what is available now and get ready to get out and play. henri matisse. frida kahlo. andy warhol. discover the next great artist. get out and play and get inspired with toddler classes. experience art where making a mess is part of the process. classes and the size the artistic process rather than the product. children have the freedom to explore materials at their own pace and in their own way.

. >> thank you, mr. chair. and i believe everyone has a copy of a couple of different documents that we will be using for a reference for this item. so the main was is the latest draft of the report itself. there's a separate document that is entitled, sf redistrict and task force, neighborhoods intact 4/11/2012 draft and a third document which says lessons learned and recommendations from individual task force members. >> one second. the task force draft i have. the second document you referenced -- >> that was sent to us -- >> in my stack. >> too many papers. overloaded. it's here somewhere, i'm sure. >> there are copies, i believe, on the table as well. so some some respect it was not entirely clear to me how to incorporate some of the content. so if we can talk through that as needed. it seems like we have just one additional section of content that member tidwell submitted that we don't have in our hard copy. so if we can take that up as well. so just to begin with the mane report document itself, again, i

thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you. thank you, supervisor cohen. and i was remiss for noting the following. unless there is any objection, if it's okay with my colleagues, to combine items 1 and 2. so, if i could ask the secretary to also call item 2. >> thank you, supervisor. item 120 6 28, hearing on the african-american student achievement strategies. >> and again, item 2 is a hearing that has been requested by supervisor olague as well as supervisor cohen and myself. so, supervisor olague, if you would like to make any opening remarks. >> first of all, i'd like to thank you all for attending this very important hearing. as i am sure we are all in agreement that our children all deserve the right to a good education and all the opportunities that follow, it is a major priority for our office to see that our communities of color graduate and are afforded every opportunity to reach their full potential. i think i can safely say that's what we all collectively want for every person in our society. that is why the african-american student achievemen

. >> the clerk: mr. chair, we have to open#l1÷jv it up for public comment. >> chair mar: thank you.ons1sj'$ that have been working with us closely, and also with the planning department, to try toc+é3 reach more consensus among some of those items that are still a littleíh controversia >> chair mar: okay. thank you supervisor. >> supervisor olague: uh-huh. >> chair mar:p[cpz let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public comment that would lieb torgm speak? public comment is closed. colleagues, without objection. we're moving this to september %zk[9ñ thank you. thank you supervisorx3?cx olague and chris durazo from her officec1 c @&c"x as well. please call item 4. >> alisa miller: ordinance amending planning code to permit existing gasoline stations cx on 19th avenue to provide a mechanical car wash >> chair mar: so it looks like supervisor olague has left. so we have to presentmu planning department> aaron staffer from the on july 12, 2012 the planning commission votedj-ws 6-0 to recommend approval of the ordinance with modifications. the

to kind of dovetail on what you said, mr. chair, i would first say that it's every once in a while i am in contact with local power. the logjam is not having the financial model ready. it is a concern that things are slow down. we are really glad that general manager harrington decided to stay on until september so we can make sure and wrap this up because it will give us all more time to get everything nailed down. i would also say i think maybe staff might have misunderstood that even though there has been a delay in deliverables, the advocates would still like regular meeting so that we can get some information from local power at least by phone. so that we can communicate in general about the whole program. we would ask that we go ahead and schedule meetings even if the deliverable is not there so we can hash things out and get the advocates point of view across. commissioner shmeltzer: are you authorized to speak for local power? >> from my contract with local power, i have a different view. i agree that it is a concern that w

mr. leigh? >> for the same reasons that -- and chronology that vice-chair lam described, i will also vote no. >> mr. alanso? >> this is too many people too late. i'm sorry, no. >> thank you. >> ok. moving then down our list. mission bay, someone place mission bay. >> decided not to. >> thank you. don't worry about it.let's go 1. >> could you describe that? >> i could not. >> what we heard is that we are ready to kick between san jose, cabrera, and coconut and moved that into 8. the request is to keep that as is. i will keep some of the other blocks east of tiffany. it is bounded by guerrero, san jose and duncan. if there was an interest in the broader move of that area into 8, it would be the broader rotation that i saw the other day. this is already in 8. >> we are good on 3919. moving down to the potential block of sunnyside, the overlapping block of sunnyside and glen park. >> what are the streets that this block is bounded by? >> mangel and congo. >> that is correct. >> is that the correct block? it is a population of 135 people. it would bring the population of district 8 to 3.22%. deviatio

mr. courtney. >> chair kim: thank you, mr. arce. >> supervisors, good afternoon. it's with great pleasure i come to speak on behalf of mr. courtney's reappointment. i've known him in his capacity as a labor leader where i've had the opportunity and pleasure of sitting across the table from him as we dealt with labor management issues and also in bargaining. i've known him as a very fair person, a person with high integrity and he advocates vigorously on behalf of causes and people that he is representing. and he always has the bigger picture in mind. so i must tell you though, that when i first met mr. courtney about five or six years ago i thought what a big pain. but over time, i came to realize that this pain that i experienced from him was really his tenacity. his tenacity in representing and advocating for causes that are near and dear to him. but at the same time that he's very passionate he's open to hearing different views. i think these are qualities that he will bring to his commission seat and i seek that you reappoint him. thank you. >> chair kim: than

>> i believe mr. chair this is coming out of committee report tomorrow. >> with no objection move on september 25, 2012. without objection? mis miller, please call item number two. >> item two is adopting the community safety updates. >> thank you and sponsored by supervisor scott wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman. today we have before us the city's community safety element which is part of our city's general plan. the community safety plan has a overawe for actions and response and recovery from a major disaster and protect san francisco with natural and human made disasters and maintain community resiliency after the disaster happens. it includes lessons learned from recent disasters like katrina and the sunamma in japan. this is the first in the general plan since this time and represents a collaboration between agencies. we focused on seize mic hardards and the risk of life is from the ground failure and impact and other impacts. this includes the initiative under way and this makes sure these initiativ

well, on this item, i would like september 24th. >> the clerk: mr. chairen#l1÷jv it up for puc comment. >> chair mar: thank you. so let's open this up for publiv comment. oh, supervisor olague is here. okay. so we just introducede no. 3, the housing preservation and production item, thejv dashboard -- >> supervisor olague: be item because we need to talk to some of the organizations1sj'$ t have been working with us closely, and also with the reach more consensus among some of those items that are still a littleíh controversia >> chair mar: okay. thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor olague: uh-huh. >> chair mar:p[cpz let's open ts up for public comment. is there anyone from the public comment that would lieb torgm speak? public comment is closed. colleagues, without objection. we're moving this to september thank you. thank you, supervisorx3?cx ola, c @&c"x please call item 4. >> alisa miller: ordinance amending planning code to permit existing gasoline stations cx on 19th avenue to provide a mechanical car wash >> chair mar: so, it looks like supervisor

. >> item seven, the motion was to move to the full board with recommendation, >> mr. chair. item five was amended. >> that's correct. so, for item number 5. the motion was to move forward to the full board as amended with positive recommendation. can we take objection? >> yes. >> item 7, the motion was to move to the full board with positive recommendation? >> can we take that objection? >> so moved. >> are there any other items before the committee? >> no. we have no further matters. >> okay. we are a

thanks. >> chair kim: thank you, mr. brooks. >> good afternoon, chair.private citizen today to support bruce wolfe, who's clearly the most qualified of the two candidates, given that the third candidate, ms. forsley, is a city employee, should not even be considered by this committee for this appointment. to support a false claim that the sunshine task force had engaged in official misconduct and had undermined transparency in government mr. wiener failed to provide evidence and presented misinformation at least four times during the board's full meeting on may 22nd. wiener wrongly claimed the task force had exempted itself from the san francisco charter, wrongly claimed the task force had said how dare you, sunshinelight us end quote when the task force never claimed such thing. wiener claimed he asked for a, quote, audit, in compliance with this ordinance when in fact he had asked for a survey. wiener also inflated the average number of times city employees had to attend hearings to resolve sunshine complaints. mr. wiener also claimed the sotf had igno

determining the premises for transfer liquor license to -- 398-12th for the double rainbow. * >> mr. chair, supervisors, my name is mark rennie. i represent double rainbow llc. come on guys. who have made application for determination under 23958 of the business code that the issuance of a type 48 liquor license to 398-12th street would serve public convenience and necessity of the city and county of san francisco. i would like to put in the record yesterday they had a little fundraiser across the street. here is approximately 500 original signatures that were added to the cause yesterday. i have previously put out -- if i could have the overhead for just a second. this is as of yesterday. at the folsom fair. * on saturday there was a new paint job on the eagle. and it is a unique san francisco institution. we were here while you guys were on vacation. it was quite a hearing. and there have been -- mike leon and alex montiel were the original purchasers of 100% interest in double rainbow llc. this is a corporation. there is basically no bank account, a secretary of state and abc filing. it

. >> item seven, the motion was to move to the full board with recommendation, >> mr. chair. item five was amended. >> that's correct. so, for item number 5. the motion was to move forward to the full board as amended with positive recommendation. can we take objection? >> yes. >> item 7, the motion was to move to the full board with positive recommendation? >> can we take that objection? >> so moved. >> are there any other items before the committee? >> no. we have no further matters. >> okay. we are a >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san

second point then, maps submitted by the public. >> mr. chair, just to let you know, a followup from the department of elections that the website will all be in psychiatristance for 10 years and it will be ssgrdtv and working maps are all available on the website also. we can reference. it will be there for anybody who wants to see it. sorry. >> that's ok, thank you. maps submitted by the public. mr. alanso, in or out? >> out. >> mr. leigh? >> out with the possibility -- i think this is the suggestion i would make just based on what madam clerk has said is that we have two sentences tend of this, one referring to the public file and one referring to the website and in the second sentence referring to the website, explicitly mention working map drafts as well as maps submitted by the public will be available 10 years on the website with the url. >> is it accurate then to infur that maybe you or others would like to see almost a table of contents-ish. why call the entirety of our proceedings will be on the website. is there a particular reason why