. >> ms. fewer, ms. maufas, ms. mendoza. commissioner maufas: here. >> ms. kim. coip present. -- president kim: present. president kim: please join us for the pledge of allegiance. president kim: first on the agenda, approval of board minutes from the regular meeting of september 28, 2010. we have a motion and a second. >> i move. >> second. president kim: are there any corrections? seeing none, roll call, please. >> ms. fewer. ms. maufas. ms. mendoza. vice president mendoza: yes. >> ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> mr. yee. >> yes. >> ms. kim. president kim: yes. >> your ayes. >> while 100 days late, the state finally passed a budget this provides more resources for public education reflected in the governor's proposed main budget. however, i have to note that overall the state budget is based on optimistic assumptions for federal assistance and other revenues. if these do not come through, we could all face the all foo familiar prospect of cuts again. in the big picture, this budget still leaves california nearly last in the nation in education funding

ms. whitman, and attorney general brown, welcome, nice to have you with us tonight. let me remind you of something that i know you were familiar with at one point in your lives. but it seems to have been lost in american politics. 50 years ago this january, john f. kennedy at his inauguration said famously ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. modern campaigns and yours is no exception, spent most of their time telling voters what they can do for them. tonight i'd like you to begin by looking into the camera and saying to the voters of california, as citizens of this state, this is what you must to for california at this crucial time. ms. whitman, you begin, please. >> first of all, thank you very much to dominican university. thanks to you, tom. i'm sorry about your ankle. but i am delighted to be here tonight. and i'll start the answer to that question by telling you why i came to california. 30 years ago my husband and i moved here as newlyweds

and i think unless ms.fleming has something to say, i think we are ready to offer a motion and vote. so thank you. commissioner fung: motion to continue. commissioner garcia: that would be my preference. commissioner fung: how much time would you -- both parties would like to take and discuss this issue? two weeks? vice president goh: commissioners, i heard or i thought i heard -- commissioner fung: pardon me? vice president goh: i thought i heard the permit holders say he was not interested or thought it was futile to discuss it with his neighbor. i would be disinclined to vote for a continuance unless we heard from him he intended to discuss that with his neighbor. commissioner fung: that is not the first time we have heard it at this board. commissioner garcia: i do not think we have the authority to require the appellant to pay something. i hope that when they go out, they will have some discussion, realize the board is reluctant to have the offense day as it is, knowing that ms. fleming offered to pay

ms. whitman's former house made. she claims she was fired by ms. whitman before the campaign began and also knew she was illegal and continued to employ her. >> she treated me likes a if i was not a human being. i'm doing this because i know there are a lot of megs out there who are mistreating the nikkis who worked so hard for them. >> bill: she is reading that statement, interestingly enough. in response, ms. whitman told neil cavuto yesterday she did not know ms. diaz was illegal and the whole thing is a political assassination job. >> it's simply a lie, and i feel terrible for nikki. nikki is a wonderful individual. she was an extended part of our family for nine years and something has happened. she is being manipulated, which is a political gimmick led by gloria allred. >> is it true that during any of that time you suspected she was not a legal citizen of this country. >> no. absolutely not. >> bill: today ms. allred produced a document from the social security administration infor

specifically on this issue, ms. inie a has the right ideas, supporting opportunities in the development areas. we can finance. we can provide some help for fresh produce along third street. we need to bring back more redevelopth resources to do that. we used to have 11 greenhouses in the district. now we have one and it's falling apart. bring back more people powered green economy urban agriculture. thanks. >> mr. lacey? >> thank you. dewitt lacey. there's a few things that i think we could do to alleviate so. the problems around fresh produce. one, i do believe we do need to promote a farmer's market within the bay view hunter's point area, as well as have local farms, and opportunities like farms that i helped restore out off of alameda boulevard. those are types of thing we could do within our public housing development. not only give people a resource to their own freshly grown products, but also give kids some knowledge about growing plants and our vegetation. things they so desperately need. as well, i think w

>> thank you. >> ms.smith. >> the two people i would choose would not be supported by the old guard or want to change their ways and do better. i do not know who is backing howhom. that would be the way i would determine it. i would find out where the money is coming from and to supporting the candidates. that is how i would make my decision. -- who is supporting the candidates. that is how i would make my own decision. i feel that all the candidates are great. we need a supervisor who has the courage to stand up and protect us. for too long, we have gone undetected. we need protection. that is why we have the hostilities in the district. no one is working for the people. when you cannot reach your elected representatives. thank you very much. >> ms. cohen. >> it is difficult to answer the question. i am looking at a person's values. do they love the community? what kind of work do they do? what is their background? are they supporting working families? will they support families with children? those are

roll call, please. >> ms. fan. >> yes. >> ms. creer. >> yes. >> fsmuer. commissioner fewer: yes. >> ms. maufas. commissioner maufas: yes. >> ms. mendoza. vice president mendoza: yes. >> ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. coip aye. president kim: thank you. thank you again. keep sending this to more school districts. all right. our next item is item j, public comment regarding speaking general matters. we have a number of speakers for this. first i will call up taylor emerson, then we have a number of speakers from uesf, pamela ruth, ann bornson, ken schrae, linda plank, tiana tillry, tom harryman. diane johnson. key lou. roberto michaels. gil cocork. dottie varejas. kany -- marry lavalas. patty. and anthony singleton. we have two minutes per speaker. i just want to have taylor emerson go up first, he's speaking on a completely different item. are you? >> yes. president kim: thank you. two minutes. please turn on your mike and identify yourself. >> my name is taylo

ms. ayotte says she wants to extend all of the tax cuts that president bush put in office. everybody agrees that that would double our deficit. we can't afford to double the deficit. and it really is surprising that i am attacked by saying i would include -- increase the deficit but the policy she espouses would double the deficit. we need to stop the tax breaks for the rich and would need to invest the money and helping the states and our small businesses. on that we agree. we need to help small businesses. we can't do what we need to do to rebuild the middle class and help small businesses if we are doubling the deficit. that is absolutely clear. >> moving on to health care. >> there is a recent survey that indicates that rising health-care costs remains a top concern. you said you would repeal current health-care law. why? >> the health care bill was a trillion dollars government takeover of the health care system. this is an area where congressman hodes and i definitely disagree. beca