>> good afternoon, mr. wong. >> thank you for the opportunity to let me speak. i would like to talk about the john f. kennedy proposed the bike path. thank you for the update, as far as including the people with disabilities and the mayor's disability office and paratransit coordinating council, which i am members of. it seems to me when they proposed this pathway, the bike path is going to be against the curb. so everybody will have to be going across the pathway in order to get to the curb, the sidewalk. i am kind of concerned about people with disabilities, and families with strollers, having to make their way onto the curbs safely. also, even when people are paratransit users, the lift is so large -- by the time they deploy the left, it is going to be on a buffer. when the wheelchair user gets off the lift, i do not know how far into the buffer zone would be safe in order to pass to get to the sidewalk. it is one of those concerns we had talked about in many of our disability committees. i just want to bring this up as a public comment. but one of these crea

>> good afternoon, mr. wong. >> thank you for the opportunity to let me speak. i would like to talk about the john f. kennedy proposed the bike path. thank you for the update, as far as including the people with disabilities and the mayor's disability office and paratransit coordinating council, which i am members of. it seems to me when they proposed this pathway, the bike path is going to be against the proposed this pathway, the bike path is going to be against the

corwan, then mr. wong, mr. abdullah, mr. brooks. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is hassan abdulla. i work for the east bay m.u.d. i have been project manager for the last few years. we have been studying this project since 2003. san francisco has been one of the original partners. now we have five partners. we are trying to figure out whether desalination is an appropriate water supply option for the region. this has been a truly regional cooperation, a cooperative effort. our vision for the project is to lower environmental effects and project costs by implementing two ideas. first, we want a centralized facility, instead of each agency doing their own desalination at their own facility. we would like one central facility that serves all five, or several agencies. that reduces the footprint. second, our agencies have assets that exist. some are fully utilized. others are not. we would like to maximize utilization to see if we can help neighboring agencies implement this project. this project has been recognized by the state and federal government. we hav

mr. wong, he is just like deborah. when there is illegal dumping, i let him know as soon as we hear about it. i do not know what he does. he makes it disappear. he finds that people that did and we do not have to worry about them again. lastly, i want to mention mr. munez. he is the custodian in this bunch, and i think that those jobs likely go unnoticed. he moves the trash and the compost on a daily basis. there is one other organization that plays a vital role. they come out as a team. we hired them. they come out and remove the recyclables from our facility and do it with teeth that we gave them to go into the containers. removing the trash and the compost. as i said, the wonderful thing about these people, they have got it, they have really got it and never ask what is in it for them. this is what teamwork does. it grew the makes me proud, to stand here and present this award in honor of them.

as you can see, mr. wong is not here. so, we will proceed, but the answer time will remain the same. ok, we will go to our first question, starting with mr. cunnie. the sheriff's department web site states that the sheriff's department and performs an ever- expanding range of services and functions. we all know that ab109 was introduced on saturday, because the whole game changed. in what way will the prison realignment bill expand the role of the department. how will you rise to meet this new challenge? >> a good question. thank you to our sponsor for having us here. we appreciate the opportunity. the will of the sheriff's department is going to expand under ab109 tremendously. but the deputies do already do a lot of those duties. i will lead this as working with the rest of the city family. it came out of the governor's office and was approved by the board of supervisors. it will take leadership. it will take the leadership of the sheriff, the district attorney's office, the chief of police, and our nonprofit partners an

. >> our order is a little bit off, because mr. wong is not here. we will have to start at the end of the table. mr. cunnie? >> ok. ito letsh, a hat -- >> oh, i have to ask a question. [laughter] >> i am good, but not that good. >> october is the domestic violence awareness month. there is a silent witness that says that -- exhibit across the street. how would you prevent instances of domestic violence? >> as a share if an elected city leader, it is our responsibility to be -- to stand up and be counted on to any violence, including domestic violence. i would not sit here and pretend to be an expert. i would go to the experts. and i have done that. i would meet with the community of victims, seeing what their needs are and how, as a sheriff, we can do better. the department already has many programs for the department of justice. people that were convicted. batterers. also on that issue, i would be very careful to make sure that batterers do not slip through the cracks. two or three cases back, they may be convicted batterers. another issue on domest

dalywong and mrs. wong. [inaudible conversations] ms. sheryl shamberg and michelle francis shamberg. [inaudible conversations] >> sheryl shamberg is the chief operating officer for facebook. >> thomas c. hubbard and mrs. joan magnusson-hubbard. [inaudible conversations] >> general james d. sherman and mrs. thelia lee therman. >> mrs. chang and mr. neil shapiro. [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. and mrs. martilla. [inaudible conversations] >> secretary general ban ki-moon and mrs. ban su. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. khan zad khan zad. >> mr. lee wound sonia and mr. lee kuan jacques. mr. raymond meier. the honorable ann brown and mr. don browne. mr. steve choi and mrs. lina joy. [inaudible conversations] mr. william hiatt and mrs. patricia heights. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you so much. >> the honorable tom -- tom vilsack. mr. tom feldman. dr. peter rhee and mrs. emily rhee. [inaudible con

mrs. margaret gibbson. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] miss jay lee wong and mr> ms. cheryl einberg and ms. francine einberg. ambassador thomas c. hubbarrd and mrs. joan magnusson hubbarrd. [inaudible conversations] general james d. therman and mrs. delia lee-therman. [inaudible conversations] mississippi ju-ju chang and mr. neal shapiro. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. john martilla and mrs. nancy martilla. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> secretary general ban ki-moon and mrs. ban su. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the honorable howard koa and dr. claudia arad. [inaudible conversations] the honorable brooke anderson. [inaudible conversations] >> richard danny russell and mrs. russell. [inaudible conversations] mr. ji song and mrs. -- >> miss christina kim and mr. leeman meyer. the honorable anne brown and mr. don brown. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] mr. steve choy and mrs. lina choy. [inaudible convers

wong. robin bonner and commissioner leah lecroy. >> mr. chair, i think i screwed up and made a mistake because we probably want to hear from the budget and legislative analysts before we go to public comment. and so i apologize. that was my -- it's been a long day. and so my -- >> i'm very sorry for -- >> my deep and sincere apologies. >> so we'll start public comment after hearing from the budget analyst, the budget analyst's report. and i think we may have gotten our signals crossed on this as well so i probably have a role to play in this. and fred, thank you for coming here. thank you for your work on your analysis. and we're all ears. >> i had quite a day, too. >> you got a long way to go. >> good afternoon, chair avalos, members of the committee and supervisor campos, fred brusoo from the budget and legislative analyst office. i'll work through our report. a cost-benefit analysis of waving muni fares for students or residents, ages 5 to 17. and the objective of this analysis was to identify the costs and benefits associated with the

mr. john haley to introduce them. we have frank lem, an electronic minutes system supervisor, here for 21 years. the able leader at the presidio. wun wong, with 18 years of service. douglas glee, electronic trances it -- assistant supervisor of the 21 years. ms. peterson, 21 years of service. more years than i have days. [laughter] myra tellabs and nim lem, with years of service given to the people of san francisco, it is all extraordinary. the work that they did to drive down the generation of waste is what we are recognizing today. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you. i will actually turn the microphone over and i will say only two things. one, you do not get the kinds of results that they got by not being passionate at the job. please make sure that you dispose of your waist before you leave. [laughter]