mr. o'brien? >> commissioners, my name is harry o'brien, here on behalf of usf, and we are here to request a for the continuance of this matter. we have had some productive discussions of a settlement with mr. rabbitt as well as other members of the neighborhood. i think we have an agreement in principle, although we need some additional things to be confirmed. richard, if you want to join in that request, and anything that you would like to add, i think it would be to request that you continue this matter for perhaps another month or so and hopefully we can resolve this. >> commissioners, i just wanted to echo what mr. o'brien said. i believe we have an agreement in principle on the settlement, and what we needed is we needed dp debbie to cooperate with us, because it is -- dtw to cooperate with us, because it is contingent upon them as the department that granted the permit to agree. with the terms of the sidewalk issues and the tree issues. one of the things that we would ask the board to consi

mr. o'brien. there are a number of other people who have submitted various types of concerns and thoughts with respect to this case. are they knowledgeable of what is being proposed? >> richard may be a better person to answer that question. the discussions have involved numerous members of the media community. i think everybody else has been an active participant. commissioner fung: in the discussion? ok. same question. >> i would just address that, there are three other neighbors in the immediate neighborhood involved in this, and they can speak in their public comment, but i believe those three neighbors have all been involved in this and are all ok it in principle tonight. obviously, i cannot speak for the broader public interest of everyone in the city of san francisco. vice president garcia: there is a woman who was involved with us, what san francisco, and i don't know she is a neighbor or not. at its sheet involved? >> she has not been involved in the settlement discussions. >> a she invol

mr. president? president o'brien: well, we're on number six, right? >> yeah. >> ok. so i see we have two supervisors here. we feel very privileged to have both of you here. welcome. and i think we're probably going to hear from both of you and we're going to hear that before we hear from the controller, right? so i believe supervisor mirkarimi's proposal was first to come into play, right? >> yes. it was introduced, i believe, on april 5. >> so i guess in keeping with protocol we'll call supervisor mirkarimi up. >> ok. commissioners, you're now on item number six and item number seven. item six is to make recommendations to board of supervisors on file 100337, business and tax regulations code, excluding stock compensation from payroll expense, tax years 2011 through 2013. i believe it was amended since the agenda was posted. and number seven, discussion of possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file number 110462, business and tax regulation code, payroll tax expense, tax exclusion for tax-based compensation. pres

president o'brien: thank you very much mr. egan. i think at this point we should go first to public comment -- or to commission remarks -- >> commissioner questions first. president o'brien: anybody have any questions at this point? >> for mr. farrell. i just wanted to ask, do you have a feeling of how many companies here in san francisco that are public have left because of their continuing to pay stock options? >> right. i think mr. egan as you mentioned before, i think it's impossible to tell how many of those have left over the past number of years to track them down. what i would tell you in anecdotal evidence in terms of research so what we've all been doing right now is public companies are actively placing head count elsewhere outside of san francisco. is it specifically related to stock options? i think it's more of a cumulative issue about their perception of the overall economic environment in san francisco. but they will actively tell you they're buying office space outside of san francisco and trying to add head count ou

mr. egan is doing a study right now that will be available in a number of weeks. it is a little bit of a time step process at this point. president o'brien: would there be a serious impact on the world if we were to wait and give that the time to come back and -- and deliberate on this at that time when we have a more full picture of everything as opposed to voting on something with kind of half of the picture? >> i will leave it to your good zpwraces but i don't believe so, no. president o'brien: we won't have the snime >> you will have the time. >> point of clarification, supervisor farrell and your legislation may not be heard in committee until before or after our next commission meeting -- >> it will likely be before -- be heard before, in all honesty. president o'brien: i -- >> i don't think these are exclusive. these are mott mutually exclusive pieces of legislation. they are quite different. supervisor mirkarimi's is very targeted. i think -- if anything that we do to promote businesses of any size in san francisco is good for our small businesses, and particularly these young entrepreneurial -- you know, very interesting and peo

o'brien, the great navy man now at rest, bid him fair winds and following seas. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. udall: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: i would ask consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: thank you, madam president. i know that senator blumenthal is coming to speak and senator kerry ended a little bit early, so i -- i just want to get up for a couple of minutes, and when senator blumenthal comes in, i'll obviously yield to him because i know he has some time reserved here. i -- i wanted to get up and talk this morning just a little bit about the procedure and what we have gone through in terms of the patriot act. and i -- i'm very discouraged to see the path that we're headed down in terms of the patriot act, and i was here in the congress as the presiding officer knows when we voted almost ten years ago on the patriot act, and it was a sad occasion then because it was right after 9/11, and this horrible thing had happened to our country, but we rushed in a -- in a very, very b