supervisor avalos: mr. ross, be sure your report. >> members of the committee, mr. chairman, as pointed out on page 3 where using guarantee gross revenues, whichever is higher. and then there is an adjustment on the 5% minimum annual guarantee on table two that they have rejected the pay $448,000, about $148,000 more than the menu will guarantee. -- minimal guarantee. page seven of the report, i will go right to the recommendation, that you continue the resolution to the call of the chair to allow for time for an increase in the annual minimum guaranteed amount for an additional $500,000 each year. incorporating the estimated increase under the amendment in the annual minimal guarantee amount should be subject? the increase in the amount of the parent -- fail guarantee would have a violence of wrapped up advertising on 5%, including fully covering the vehicles windows. outdoors states that while we have seen a slight improvement, the advertising market of 2009 will continue to be concerned on the overall climate. and increased the annual minimum guaranteed would be

the protest in oakland both hot topics this week and both making news in this weeks matier and ross column. mrtier what is going on. >> let's start with the warriors. it appears oracle ceo larry ellison the sixth richest man in the world he tried to buy them but made a major miscalculation. the bid, $650 million an nba record came from venture capitalist, joe lakup and peter gubber producer of many hollywood movies. after they made their offer ellison wanted two weeks and waited and came in at the last minute with a lower bid. >> lower than theirs? >> warriors went ahead and started talking with the others. he came back within hours of the final deal he comes in with a bigger offer. and they said hey, we've already got the deal and signing the papers. so that is why he made the public comment that he gave every opportunity to win the bid and they took less money they took less money because it came in too late. over played his hand. all right. speaking of questions about whether they over played their hand, don't expect charges to be filed against two oakland city council women who stood betwe

ross mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. president. colleagues, i know that this is the last stop after what has been well over a decade long process. and i know those stake holders do have worked diligently to try to get it here, are anxious for it to get passed us. i want to first thank supervisor maxwell for her leadership in trying to and helping marshal this to this particular stage. i want to thank all stake holders who have worked from the city, both from the community and from the business community to help make this, in their minds, the best project possible and i want to thank all the stake holders who are opposed or who have been apprehensive about this project, who have worked so hard to make this the best project as possible as well. the supervisor from the fillmore, i represent the fifth district and that should not be at all from this discussion. the first largest -- [inaudible] took place in our district known as the fillmore. for years as i was leading up to elected office which is one of the reasons why i did because

ross mirkarimi has a motion to reattach. seconded by david campos. if we could take that without objection, motion passes. supervisor sean elsbernd. supervisor elsbernd: we can do this all night. mr. president, i would like to divide the file. president chiu: we are dividing this file. supervisor sean elsbernd has done this unilaterally. supervisor ross mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: this is the same exercise. i make the motion and amendment and reattaching. president chiu: if we could take that motion without objection. motion passes. supervisor sean elsbernd. supervisor elsbernd: i would like to divide the file, mr. president. president chiu: supervisor sean elsbernd unilaterally divided the file. supervisor ross mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: i would like to take a station break for supervisor daly. he would like me to follow through so i will make my amendment again. it's a familiar song. it is to reattach the parts divided by supervisor sean elsbernd 42 and 43. president chiu: is there a second to the motion? seconded by supervisor david campos. that passes. supervisor elsbernd: i would like to divide the file. president chiu: supervisor daly, i had already acknowledged

i'm ross mirkarimi, chair. madam clerks and mr. clerk, hi. would you please read the roll call. >> mirkarimi present. campos absent. dufty present. avalos present. schmeltzer present. mar present. bornstein absent. we have a quorum. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. i understand commissioner campos will join us shortly. would you please read item number two. aeye approval of the minutes of the 2009 special joint meeting with sfpuc. supervisor mirkarimi: is there any public comment on this particular item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, entertain a motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner dufty. so moved without objection. would you please read item number three. >> item number three. report on the status of choice aggregation activities. supervisor mirkarimi: ok. mr. kimball, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is mike campbell. i'm the director of the sfpuc's clean power s.f. program, often referred to as c.c.a. so today i'm just going to go over what progress we've made in crafting

mr. george smith and london breeze and executive director of the african-american arts and culture center, rossirkarimi -- i always pronounce your name wrong. excuse me. and claudia wilkins and district five and sandra bolden from the western edition and collaborating together and organizing a partnership and activities in our low income housing development. this is something new we did this year you guys, and i want to greatly acknowledge the following individuals and teams who worked me at king grafer garvey who mas happen at this site and that is marianne and wa neatia and special thanks to mayor gavin newsom and the park police station and not last but not least supervisor ross mirkarimi and the many meetings and listening to the needs and desires of the housing development and our community and assisting in developing an action plan that has proven to be beneficial and successful this summer. where there is unity, love, and compassion there is strength. we want to thank all of you for making this happen for our children this summer. (applause). okay first on our -- we will hear remarks by

ross mirkarimi. and we're on item 48. consideration of the charter amendment. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. president. thank you for your co-sponsorship as i would like to thank supervisors david campos, eric mar and chris daly. i can see that i think the sensibility of us moving this charter amendment might be spoken by the absence of the public comment. we can take the cue from eight states in the united states, these are eight states that adopted same day election voter registration and they have all seen a bump of upwards to 7% of voter participation. if you compare san francisco in the last 10 municipal elections that we have held, the average voting turnout is approximately 35%, 36% of voter turnout from municipal-only elections in san francisco. yes, five of those states who had the highest voting turnout in 2008 were five states who adopted same day election voter registration. i think it's time that san francisco helps lead the state of california in adopting this particular element because technology has now enabled us to provide the service that i think a lot of people feel excluded from. f

needs right now also mr dudley made from team key pretty old style salvi a tall company he made one of the best in ross in a few knobs from him down the street just look at the marketing success of b.p. brand at a retail market in the largest retail region of russia in moscow. probably one of the most popular in moscow saw the share all over the retail market. is actually more than a quarter so it says something. the finance ministry is planning russia's biggest asset sale since the early ninety's the government aims to raise up to thirty billion dollars over three years to cut the budget deficit minority stakes in ten companies are up for grabs including russia's largest oil producer rolls left power generator was hydro and told lenders vitti be in spare bank the government could keep fifty percent plus one share of these partially listed companies and related sell stakes in a list of companies like russia's rail really come out having looked at the markets and here in moscow the r.t.s. exchanges opened in the black gaining a quarter of a percent with what it follows big gains on monday thanks to high