i'm following the footsteps of a lot of amazing people that have held my seat and my office like mrs. dufty and turk. all of us who understands what it takes to run a great city. a big round of applause for ed lee. ed this would not have happened today if not for ed lee. ed lee, thank you very much. [applause]. the only change today that i want to --

i'm following the footsteps of a lot of amazing people that have held my seat and my office like mrs. dufty and turk. all of us who understands what it takes to run a great city. a big round of applause for ed lee. ed this would not have happened today if not for ed lee. ed lee, thank you very much. [applause]. the only change today that i want to -- >> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are

i'm following the footsteps of a lot of amazing people that have held my seat and my office like mrs. dufty and turk. all of us who understands what it takes to run a great city. a big round of applause for ed lee. ed this would not have happened today if not for ed lee. ed lee, thank you very much. [applause]. the only change today that i want to -- >> welcome to "culture wire." the director will introduce you to the man behind one of san francisco's most anticipated music festivals. ♪ >> welcome to "culture wire." with me today is the founder and financier behind the hardly strictly bluegrass festival. tell me about what inspired you to have the festival. >> i am flattered that you would want to listen to me. now you are going to have to. i had a sort of fantasy for a lot of years that it would be really fun to put on a bluegrass festival. i have a friend named jonathan nelson. we were skiing one weekend. i told him about my fantasy. he said that i should do it. dawn holliday and sherry sternberg. the four of us had lunch. he said we would start a festival. that was the genesis. it was no

mr. president. president chiu: ok. that motion was seconded by supervisor dufty. supervisor daly. supervisor daly: thank you, mr. president. let me speak against the motion . while it may be the case that this board of supervisors is not prepared today to appoint someone as successor mayor of san francisco, i think that we shouldn't truncate the conversation. even though we spent the better part of last month talking about the process and finally agreed upon a process. i think i may be the only member of the board of supervisors who's expressed publicly some of the attributes, values or characteristics of -- that i would value or that i'm looking for in terms of the process of selecting the next mayor of san francisco. i also think that if we don't get into a situation or a habit of discussing this, if we're going to put it off without advancing the ball down the field, that i think that we're really doing ourselves an injustice in terms of getting -- giving ourselves an opportunity to make the best possible decision. and then i want to add on to this the fact that we now are borrowing time against the next admi

mr. president. president chiu: ok. that motion was seconded by supervisor dufty. supervisor daly. supervisor daly: thank you, mr.

mr. president. president chiu: ok. that motion was seconded by supervisor dufty. supervisor daly. supervisor daly: thank you, mr. president. let me speak against the motion . while it may be the case that this board of supervisors is not prepared today to appoint someone as successor mayor of san francisco, i think that

dufty. unless i have missed anyone? mr. president, that ends the roll call introduction. president chiu: close to 3:00, i would like to move to another section, so we will have some public comment. first speaker, please. first, i need to ask if you would like to say anything about public comment? madam clerk: think you, mr. president. public, is a time for members of the public to directly address the board of items of interest to the public better with in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including items being considered today -- not been considered by a board committee and excluding items which a big considered by a board committee. president chiu: thank you. first speaker. >> [speaking foreign language] ladies and gentlemen, my name is -- i am here to tell every one of you happy holiday and happy thanksgiving. i wish to remind our supervisors as i asked them last week about the poor people who need turkeys. one person at a birthday. as you see in my letter. today, she is becoming 50 your -- year old. i asked her about coming to san francisco. i can give her

dufty present. elsbernd present. mar present. maxwell present. mirkarimi present. mr. president, all members are present.thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me for the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, i just want to mention as far as the agenda today, given that this is the last meeting of 2010 and we have a lot of items, what i would like to propose is that we go through the consent agenda, moving to local hiring, and given how many people are here with regards to the america's cup, we move to that item and proceed through the rest of the calendar until our 3:00 p.m. special orders and moved to our 3:00 p.m. special orders, including the discussion of its potential nomination around an interim there. why don't we move to the meeting minutes? you should have copies of your november 9 and november 16 meeting minutes. motion by supervisor mirkarimi to approve. without objection, this meeting minutes will be approved. are there any communications? if you could read the consent agenda, items one through 16. >> items 1 through 16 comprise the consent agenda. the items will be acted upon by

dufty, gill white, sergeant jim acivedo. on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned. preside vietor: i would like to call this meeting to order, at the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission, december 14, 2010. thank you, mr. secretary. next item, please. secretary housh: roll call. commissioner caen is excused. madam president, the next item is the approval of the minutes from november 23, 2010, and i will call your attention to a minor amendment to clarify the intent of summer marks. -- the intent of some remarks. president vietor: may i have a motion to approve the minutes as amended?

dufty, gill white, sergeant jim acivedo. on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned. >> ok, good evening. this is a special meeting of the san francisco planning commission for thursday, december 9, 2010. let me go over a few logistical items. first of all, turn off your pagers, cell phones, and electronic devices that may sound off during these proceedings. this is a community meeting, and we welcome all of you and thank you for inviting us out here, but we ask that you tried to the best of your ability to not engage in secondary discussion. if you really feel the need to do so, if you could take those di

dufty, gill white, sergeant jim acivedo. on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned. chairman ford: good mi would like to call to order the meeting of the transbay joint powers authority december 9 meeting of the board of directors. madam secretary, please call the roll. >> mr. chairman, you have a quorum. chairman ford: let's work our way through the agenda. >> note communications. chairman ford: let's go to the next item. >> new and old business. chairman ford: any new or old business? director daily? director daly: just because of the timing of this, i wanted to mention some of the things happening with

dufty, gill white, sergeant jim acivedo. on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned. >> good evening, everyone p and thank you for your patience. welcome to the regular meeting offer the board of education on tuesday, december the 14th. my apologies for starting late. president kim will be joining us. roll call please casco. ms. fewer? >> here. mr. yee? >> here. ms. maufas. >> here. >> if you would like to join us for the pledge of allegiance, please do so. >> thank you. approval of board minutes. i need a motion and a second. >> second. any corrections? >> no. >> roll call, please. >> ms. fewer? >> yes. >

dufty, gill white, sergeant jim acivedo. on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned. [horns honking] [siren wails] announcer: big dreams and goodrades aren't enough to get into college. there are actual steps you need to take. finding someone who can help is the first and most important. for the next steps, go to knowhow2go.org. because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and envi

mr. sullivan. i want to thank the planning department and the city attorney's office for their help in drafting this. >> thank you, supervisor cook dufty. i am with the planning department. -- supervisor dufty. this would require an agency or pretty developer to prepare a feasibility study for on-site child care, whenever it does one vote of two things. when it constructs a new building, leases more than 50% of a new building for more than one year, or alters more than 50% of the space in an existing building. the supervisor's office has been working with us to work on the legislation. we do thank them for being amenable. the planning commission heard this, and we have recommended several modifications. the first modification is that this provide -- apply to city projects. it would apply to both private developers who lease city-owned property, and the commission and the department feel it should be applied only to city occupied projects only. the second has several components to it. it is refocusing on the requirement of the goal of this legislation, which is to provide adequate child care facilities. in that, the department wants to