mr. paulson supporting it. i do not think i have heard mr. paulson advocate for one candidate.having been to a number of your venues, i know of your work and it is incredibly impressive. mr. eicher, you had a ton of folks here as well. one of the things i have realized on the board, i have seen in district 2 is a lot between the neighborhoods and the commercial corridors. that is an inherent tension in our great neighbor kids in the city. it has come through for what people have said and what you have said about your desire to integrate and work through those issues. that is so important and especially our technology background, it is very fascinating for me personally. i will indicate where i am thinking right now and i will let my colleagues talk. amie, i will have difficulty considering her today given that she is not here. this may seem not fair. it has been consistent with what i've done all year. when we have all lot of -- even though your recently moved out, when we have a residency waiver requirements, i have a difficult time and i have been this way all year with peopl

mr. paulson. anyone else from the public that would like to speak?ing them, public comment is closed. you're asking for a three-week continuance. i believe that presidents' day is february 20, so there is no land use meeting. it would be the following meeting, which is february 27. can we take the amendments without objection, colleagues? thank you. without objection, we will continue this until the meeting of february 27. supervisor chiu: 1 comment. i know there are where a couple public comments are in the recent issues happening in the arts commission. many of us have been concerned about the situation, and we hope that there are changes to how the arts commission is managing itself to move that forward. but this is not legislation about whether or not we helping the arts commission or not. this is really legislation about the requirement of developers of using 1% of their project costs to spend on cards. right now, the law says that that money needs to be spent on on-site art, usually in the lobby way of these public buildings. this legislation i

mr. paulson. >> i don't have a song prepared for you, but perhaps i can do a dance. letter that i like to submit to the supervisors. they are supportive of the proposed regulations for the plazas. as one of the neighborhoods closest, we are aware of the problems that exist because of the lack of rules that result from these plaza's not falling under the control of any city agency. it is signed by dennis richards, thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i am the chair of the castro community on patrol, a volunteer organization to improve the safety and security of the castro. i have ideas that can be forwarded to the other commissioners. the thing i want to point out is that these plazas are both adjacent to residential areas. in the case of jane warner plaza, there are 12 apartments above the sidewalk. in the case of harvey milk, there is a condominium group that has their entrance on the sidewalk of the plaza. what we find is that without any consideration of the folks that live there, common sense and decency are being able to have a time of day where

mr. paulson. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have lived in san francisco for 59 years. a position one way or the other in regard to mr. tan, but i have to admit since he has an mit grad, he went to the same school as my dad. secondly, i would like to say that since this is a mayoral appointment, i hope to fully consider the actual qualifications of the candidate rather than being asian and a mayoral candidate. the reason i feel that way is that sense i have lived in district 7, in my opinion, the infamous triple-play appointment was a real bomb for our district. i feel that the 49ers will be leaving san francisco soon, and with that happening, the entertainment commission becomes even more in important because whenever they are going to do, they will try to replace the forty-niners. that will be a big chore to do. in regard to making suggestions for other candidates that might be considered, it would be interesting to bring in an outsider such as michael wiener, also known as michael savage. outsiders bring something different to the city, and since this candidate is alr

mr. paulson. >> that is tough to follow. will do the best i can. >> we try to get them warmed up for everyone. >> my name is natalie. i am a dog walker and ne

mr. paulson. >> that is tough to follow. will do the best i can. >> we try to get them warmed up for everyone. >> my name is natalie. i am a dog walker and trainer. my company is called top dog ss. i want to say thank you for all of your help. your feedback as been great, and you are responsive and helpful. thank you. i think it has been an overdue net for a long time in our profession. a couple of things i want to talk about is the number of dogs. i think you can have four really bad dogs or you can have eight great ones. it is in terms of enforcement and regulation. i hear a lot about everybody having a hard time for funding, a.c.c., park and rec and so forth. i'm not sure about how all this works, but if there is a way we can come up with some kind of alternative for funding to make sure this is enforceable and keeping it going so that it is effective. we want to make sure that it does really stand up, which i think you are doing a really good job up, but it is hard to maintain if there are 500 walkers and x amount of par

mr. paulson. is there any other member of the public who like to speak or sink on item number one?none, the item is closed. we have a motion by president chiu, if we could take that without objection. we look forward to having that discussion on a very important issue of family flight, so stay tuned for our next meeting on that matter. could you please call item no. 2? >> a hearing on the city's services audio -- auditor's review of the san francisco municipal transportation agency work orders. supervisor campos: i would like to begin by work -- by welcoming the controller's office and thanking them on the important work they have done on or quarters. we have the director of audits for the city services auditor division and let me just begin by making a very general statement about why this issue is important. if you look at the up items that are were ordered by the mta, you can see there items that include services are very important and functions are critical not only to the mta, but to the city as a whole. the question is not whether or not those items should be funding -- shoul

mr. paulson, they were being guarded by a group of possibly seven or eight policemen affiliated with the somalia government. they were part of the spu, special protection unit. they were moving between regions patrolled by different clans, changing vehicles as they moved from one area to another. paulson says the leader of that police unit was compromised, that he was paid by the kidnappers to turn on buchanan and to aid in their capture. i spoke with paulson over skype this morning from his home in sweden. >> he was sold out and he had a mission to capture ex patriots and had change of some of the ordinary spu guards that we utilized into guards that were -- they were just not part of the and came close to the position and then they were stopped and then they were moving into other vehicles and driven away. >> pallson would not give us that police officers name. at this time they believe that one other officer, the lead officer was the only person involved in the kidnapping plot. he says that the man is still at large and has essentially disappeared. we pressed him repeatedly whether ot

mr. paulson had a particularly bad year last year. is that still the case?fferentiation in terms of the size of the funds that are actually the recipient of new money? >> yeah. so last year we saw the biggest hedge funds get the lion's share of the assets. we just did a survey. and the survey basically said just the opposite is going to happen now. i mean, what you say is this trend. a couple years of trend where people focus on a the mega hedge funds. the returns as you just said for some of them really weren't there. of course, this market's kind of crazy. so we see then institutional investors, both pensions and endowments and foundations really moving down the asset under management scale on the hedge fund side. for instance, they might have done a $5 billion to $10 billion hedge fund last year. really we see there's 50% of the pensions are saying, i want the smaller manager today. the $1 billion to $5 billion category is really what i'm after. >> why is that? >> that's because back to this whole issue of more nimble. okay? if you think of an endowment w

mr. sherman? here are three headlines from the last two weeks, and i quote, the secret fed loans based banks $13 billion. the second, bloomberg report, and i quote, henry paulson gave hedge fund in advance fannie mae rescued. mr. tremendous is why the american people are so disenchanted with congress, and i quote the third. the economic times, and i quote, in the mnf global proves accounting lives on. three years after the financial crisis with the too big to fail banks or even bigger the accounting is still being used by the bailouts and financial institutions still continue. just yesterday i was asked by a constituent why the banks that received a bailout continued to give millions of dollars of bonuses to their employees it simply makes no sense, mr. speaker. that is why a chart 1148 is so important. this legislation proves to the american people that if there is a problem, those of us in congress will fix it. it is of the utmost importance that members of congress maintain the integrity of this institution. we are given a privilege and an opportunity to serve the american people. they deserve to trust those they elect to represent them in washington. and m