thank you, mr. chiu, for the resolution regarding the ndaa. the united nations began here in the city in an earnest effort to call an end to the fighting, or at least to try to promote peace. of course we have the u.n. plaza right outside the door with the inscription embedded in the concrete advocating an end to the fighting, and an eye toward peace. not a great deal of help is on the way from washington when it comes to our civil liberties. we need to hold the line locally. i urge the supervisors to vote unanimously to pass this resolution of mr. chiu's. we need to hold steady with the bed rock american values of liberty, justice, equality. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. >>> i'm going to keep it really brief. i know it's been a long night and i want to also just say i really enjoyed the commendations today. it was really inspiring. my name is nadia. i'm a legal fellow with the bill of rights committee. i've worked with many organizations here supporting supervisor chiu's resolution. i want to thank all co-sponsors and enco

mr. chair that is the end of public comment. [ gavel ] public comment is closed. president chiu. >> mr. chair i'm hope something city staffers can answer questions raised during public comment. the first question is what was raised by the attorney for save muni. i wanted to ask the city attorney's office if he could respond to why you think that that is not appropriately in front of this board? >> >> john givner, deputy city attorney. as the speaker mentioned our office issued a public memo last friday, explaining that the board could not hear the appeal of the planning department's determination to issue an addendum of the final eir for this project. the board has the authority to consider appeals of certain types of ceqa documents. neither ceqa, nor any local law provides the board the authority to hear appeals of issuances of eir addenda. >> thank you. >> and then if i could ask mr. guy from planning. there was a suggestion by one public commenter that somehow the height related to this sud was going to be significantly taller than other height as round it. could you clarify the heig

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair and i want to thank you for scheduling today's consideration of a suded is at site of the pagato palace. the pagota theater site which has been a blighted site for almost two decades. by way of a little bit of background we have come a long way since this issue was first brought to our attention late last spring when hi office got a surprising call the same day as the first community meeting to provide details about the proposed construction on columbus avenue. in 2008, the plan to extract the tunnel-boring machines in north beach was approached by the sfmta and the planning commission. between 2008 and this past may the sfmta did not do any outreach about the construction plans in north beach and when my constituents learned about this -- director reisk and many other staff from the mta met numerous times to hear concerns raised between last summer and the last few weeks. and to recap the sfmta began considering a number of alternatives to the columbus avenue extraction, that w

mr. chiu's. we need to hold steady with the bed rock american values of liberty, justice, equality. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. >>> i'm going to keep it really brief. i know it's been a long night and i want to also just say i really enjoyed the commendations today. it was really inspiring. my name is nadia. i'm a legal fellow with the bill of rights committee. i've worked with many organizations here supporting supervisor chiu's resolution. i want to thank all co-sponsors and encourage any other supervisor interested to seib on as a co-sponsor and to support the resolution. i just wanted to mention that the issued you heard tonight, the resolution is supported by 27 different community organizations * from across the city and from across different communities that's including groups such as the coalition for safe san francisco, council on american islamic relations, chinese progressive alliance, japanese american citizens league, and i'm not going to list them all out again. i want to be brief. * issues and i think all of you have heard enough about why the pr

funge and sometimes with ed reiskin and often with mr. chiu, that the golden gate bridge couldn't have been built if those who objected to it said no. but if you look at that history of the golden gate bridge, there was nothing there. there was nothing to destroy. there was no risk to take with employees and businesses and residents. so, why should the city as a matter of policy risk those things we have when we know that there's a reasonable option already approved by this board to leave the tbms in the ground, to not destroy those businesses, to not disturb the residents, to not make it impossible to use the playground on the park, to not take any risk whatsoever, and allow and encourage the subway which is a good thing to be built? in other words, there's two good things here, the subway which i'm in favor of, and the businesses in north beach, which all of us are still in favor of and the peace and quiet of the residents which they expect when they come home to find a clean apartment, clean house, to find quiet in the afternoon if they wor

enterprise and to make corresponding technical changes >> thank you very much, president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair and colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of the legislation in us today to continue changes to our city's local business enterprise ordinance to increase contracting opportunities for so-called certified puc lbe, which are small businesses located within our regional water service area, but outside of the boundaries of san francisco. the puc lbe program was created in 2006 to allow small business that operate within our puc water service area to compete for work on the water system improvement program; as know the wisp program has two-thirds of costs being paid by regional water customers of the sfpuc and so the thinking in 2006 it was appropriate for those communities that pay for our water systems improvement to also yield the local economic benefits that are certified puc lbe contracting program can provide. since the wisp program is nearing completion, but the sfpuc has additional projects within the water service area that are not part of wisp construction, the chan

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair, colleagues i want to thank the budget committee for their consideration for

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair, colleagues i want to thank the budget committee for their consideration for this. this was a supplemental appropriation that i proposed in december for domestic violence and i want to thank supervisors co-herself and another colleague who knew we'd be serving here this year. as you know there s a demand for demand for such services has stayed flat. on one period we have seen 47 more calls to domestic hotlines. we saw 17 percent more convicteded people in the way of family violence. in 2010 to 2012 a spooim spike in a total caseload of domestic violence. and the trials have gone up 3 hundred and 50 percent. this is why i want to supplemental with 4 components. we need for funding for domestic violence public awareness campaign and we'll have it here on thursday. and we had is staff position focused on domestic violence. but in spite the recent controversy we need to do more to protect your safety net from our mayor to our sheriff and many of our colleagues. so with that colleagu

mr. chair. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues any other questions of staff? seeing none, i will open it up to public comment. i have a number of speaker cards. if you want to fill out a speaker card, we have them available here. otherwise you can line up after these folks are called. so if you will speak in this order: [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon, supervisor, ads serves survivors of domestic violence and other forms of violence against women and both trafficking within our shelter, as well as for outside clients. most of our [speaker not understood] we see women on the streets and living in cars and they need to be brought into shelters and greeted with appropriate services. and recently i watched a survivor and her children playing a game of tag in the backyard and i reflected on the irony of what brought her to the shelter, which was a very real and lethal game of tag she was escaping from her batterer. so we urge you to consider the other needs of survives. survivors. thank you. >> thank you, [tph-efrplts/] speaker. >> my name is stacy la

mr. president. supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos? campos present. president chiu? present. supervisor chu? chu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim absent. supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, there is a quorum. >> 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 copies of the january 15th, 2013 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve those anixctionv motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection, those minutes are approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> i have no communications, mr. president. >> and could you read our consent agenda items 1 through 12? >> mr. president, before doing so, i wanted to present a point of information. this morning our controller

chiu. >>> thank you, mr. chair and i want to thank members of public who have come out for this item. we have in front of us a supplemental appropriation for domestic violence services and for additional law enforcement staffing that i had proposed in december. i want to [tha-fpg/] a moment and thank our district attorney, mayor lee and all of who were with the board who have co-sponsored this measure. as thinkan

chiu? >> thank you, mr. chair. i do have a couple of follow-up questions and i appreciate this dialogue, because obviously there is a lot of data that we're looking at. and i think it's important for both sides to be able to review the data and get us your feedback. i have given to your staff a couple of slides from mr. odachi's presentation and i just wanted to make sure we're talking about the right thing. my sense is that we're talking apples-to-oranges. what i heard you say first of all in the d.a.'s office, you have nine. >> that is correct. we have nine. >> in this particular slide it's addressed that the public defenders office has 60 cases per criminal attorney and the district attorney has 30. are we comparing apples-to-oranges? i know when i was in the d.a.'s office it was in the hundreds and i'm wondering what that number is >> it's in the hundreds and i will go through this. i don't have that information here, but i think we need to get back to reality here. okay? every time that ere there is a council

president chiu is the author of item number 5. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, as you may have been following the newspapers, there have been discussions about changing the location of where the tunnel boring machine for the central subway will be extracted from the currently proposed site on columbus to pulling it out from the so-called pagoda theater site. these are -- this is a proposal that a number of city departments in my office have been working on for a number of months and i am hopeful that we are at the tail end of negotiations with the owner of the pagoda theater on the site, but at this point we are not completely finished with those negotiations. and, so, just as last thurs at the planning commission we asked that the item be continued, i would ask that we continue this item to monday, february 25th in order to finish those negotiations and have fully vetted plans for us to discuss here. >> thank you. so, there's a motion by president chiu to continue this item item number 5 to february 25th. supervisor kim, any comment on that? >> i'm

chiu. >>> thank you, mr. chair and i want to thank members of public who have come out for this item. we have in front of us a supplemental appropriation for domestic violence services and for additional law enforcement staffing that i had proposed in december. i want to [tha-fpg/] a moment and thank our district attorney, mayor lee and all of who were with the board who have co-sponsored this measure. as think many of you know the late 2011 comprehensive report on family violence in san francisco shows that reports of domestic violence in san francisco has risen sharply in last few years. what the data shows is that the demand for city departments and non-profits for domestic violence assistance has increased steadily while funding for such services has stayed flat or decreased. for example, and the one-year period documented in the report we saw the increase in calls to domestic violence hotlines and 29% in more beds needed at domestic violence shelters. 202% in the number of child support cases involving family violence and i know the district attorney will highlight that. over the

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, obviously given the vote that we just cast i was happy to support the japan center garage corporation for the reasons that were provided. and as the district supervisor for the uptown parking corporation parking garage that is in question, i'm also happy to support this particular item and i hope for those of you who supported the last item for consistency sake, we are able to move forward this item. in addition to the fact that the sfmta has stated for both of these operations that while they could directly administer the different garages, that we have in front of us, they consider the fact that the added oversight and community relations provided by these organizations are in the best interest of the garage and the city. i think and heard and believe that many of you have heard from the leadership of the union square community about the impact that this organization has had in union square within a part of town that sees some of the most densely traveled and densely par

chiu. director reiskin? >> yes. so, mr. chair, i think we've given you updates on this topic in the last couple meetings. so, we're here where we hoped we would be after you gave us direction in early december to pursue this option as a preferable one upon hearing the concerns of the community from the current approved plan which is to remove the tunnel boring machines from columbus avenue. as the supervisor said, and you're correct in saying, if it weren't for his leadership and the leadership of mayor lee, we wouldn't have gotten this done. it really took the city family coming together and the personal involvement of president chiu and mayor lee. so, very grateful that we are all able to come together. as he he also said, it wasn't just the mta staff, but planning department, city attorney's office. we had the economic development folks involved, the building inspection, really everybody coming together in a pretty extraordinary way and under an extraordinary timeline. so, what we're happy to be bringing to you, a propos