seeing none, public comment is closed. -- seeing none, discussion is close. public comment on this item. >> i am glad that the project manager is who he is. i know him very well. i was fortunate that i worked at the presidio and established an infrastructure group. prior to this meeting, i did have a small talk with him. i read some comments about union workers having some conflict, but he explained to me the issue. some creative financing that could help the united states, its prevalence in europe, in canada. some of my partners are involved in that type of creative financing. but what i am concerned is that dole will drive -- doyle drive is built on time, hopefully in two years. that should be good. i wanted to wish you all the best. i followed you on this project for a long time. you are one of the better project managers. something that has to be emulated by the rest. you can see you walk the walk. next, talk the talk. we need people that are good leaders. we have little money. we cannot waste money. every dollar counts, and i am looking forward to seeing

seeing none, any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> public comment. supervisor mirkarimi: any public comment for those of you who did not have a chance at the previous 11 times? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. supervisor mirkarimi: have a great day. deaths >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers.

seeing none, any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> public comment. supervisor mirkarimi: any public comment for those of you who did not have a chance at the previous 11 times? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. supervisor mirkarimi: have a great day. deaths

seeing none, public comment is closed. i guess we need to go back to the action item which is the resolution on the state legislation. >> that's correct. chairperson campos: so, colleagues, we have a resolution, can i get a motion, a motion to accept, to approve, by commissioner mirkarimi. can we take that without objection? thank you. resolution passes. and, madam clerk, you can call item number four? >> item number four, report on the issuance of the request for proposal for a study on refuse collection, hauling and disposal in the greater bay area. chairperson campos: now we're going to hear from our expective director on this item. -- executive director on this item. >> yes, through the chair, nanny miller here, checktive officer. on february 28, the commission approved an r.s.p. to be issued for a study to compare the processes upon which -- under which the city and county of san francisco selects a refuse provider. and to compare that with other greater bay area jurisdictions. the r.f.p. was issued on march 1 and it

seeing none, item number three is closed. item number four, general public comment up to 15 minutes. at this time, members of the public may addressed the commission at items under the jurisdiction of the commission that do not appear on the agenda. i do have one speaker, richard palm? >> good evening, commissioners. general manager. it is hard to talk after all the awards ceremony going on. that is terrific. i want to approach the subject of -- there is our recent problem coming up the past to do with dgnra have off-leash running around problems. i look at it from a different angle. we have parks. there will be of flooding of people into the parks with their dogs. it will likely get into trouble. the rangers will come. it will get into issues. i spoke up at the dog advisory committee when it was through sfrpd. i do not like using the meadow areas. we have playgrounds their four children. so, it is a concern. they are planning to close the beaches. they are flooding into such a landmark, and i like it very much there. ibm --

seeing none, we entertain a motion. >> moved. >> seconded. >> all those in favor? hearbefore we take nine, 10, and 11 together. i'm told that we now have a video that works with sound. because it reflects such an optimistic the general manager's report, i think we should see it or at least give him one more chance to show it. >> do you want to give the gm report again? >> out of the question. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we want to do the things that you guys want to do. do you guys love to skateboard? >> yeah. >> we can build our skate boarding program to meet the needs of our kids. frankly, is what our kids want to do. s♪ ♪ >> well done. >> is this something we can expect every month? >> yes, i think we should. >> great. >> items nine, 10, and 11 will be heard together, but voted on individually. >> harding park golf course promotional rates and the san francisco municipal golf courses. >> there we go. >> these three items were heard at the operations committee meeting two weeks ago. the first is -- we are asking you to take action to recommend to the board of supervisors that w

seeing none, public comments is now closed. colleagues, we have two applicant for two seats and we have a motion. >> sure. i'd say mr. boyd, thank you for your service. i think the motion to move mr. boyd forward with recommendation for seat one and continue seat 13 to the call of the chair. without hearing from someone in person, it's a little bit challenging. supervisor kim: we'll hear from the department, yes, please. >> yeah, i just wanted to add, i think alice wanted to extends to all of you a statement. maybe i could read that. supervisor kim: we actually have the statement, so -- >> well, alice has been on our board for many years. she served and is currently serving her third term as board president. she's a staff research associate at ucsf working on person care assistance and issues. unfortunately, she apologized for not being able to be here today, but she's been a great asset to our board and continues to be, so i'd also like to add, of course, that she has the full support of staff and her fellow board members. tha

none? my question would be -- is it possible for your event to comply with the request from the different play stations that have made the requests? >> yeah, it is. definitely. no, we started putting -- we've got an application now for bands and d.j.'s, certain restrictions for them that they're going meet. when we're going to pay them after the event. we're implementing a new program with monitors for lack of a better word. they'll be monitoring to make sure that bands, cheer stations everything is complied with our permit. >> ok. >> yes. commissioner meko? commissioner meko: members of the public, who do they call? >> well, i guess members of the public would -- we can set up when they're calling those mile monitors. commissioner meko: why don't we get a central phone number that we can publicize that they can call who will be empowered to respond immediately directly to the sight in question to shut the music down. >> ok. commissioner meko: let's attach that as a condition. president roj

seeing none, public comment on minutes, please? seeing none, public comment is closed. may we take this without objection? or we do need roll-call. we have a new house order. >> on item number two. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. there are 11 aye. item passes. item three, chairs report. item four, executive director's report. these are informational items. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. this past month, we had quite a bit of activity in the transportation of grain. -- transportation arena. i went to washington, d.c., march 13 through 15 for meetings on the hill with the obama administration to talk about san francisco transportation funding needs and progress on ongoing projects. we had a very productive meeting with the u.s. department of transportation with the deputy transportation secretary, and we also joined several mta board members in staff meetings. the prospects for the new federal funding for transportation continue to be less than glowing. there is no agreement in

seeing none, any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> public comment. supervisor mirkarimi: any public comment for those of you who did not have a chance at the previous 11 times? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. supervisor mirkarimi: have a great day. deaths 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 environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our was

seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this forward with a positive recommendation? thank you. can you please call item 2 below? >> ordinance amending the public works code declaring illegal dumping on public property a nuisance and providing a mechanism for abating and enforcing. supervisor cohen: this ordinance will provide another tool to the city in the ongoing fight against illegal dumping in san francisco. this legislation clearly defines illegal dumping on public property as a nuisance and places a prohibition on harmful activities in the public-works code. this definition specifically includes debris and waste construction materials left in the public right-of-way. this will facilitate potential future litigation against violators. i am very happy to be working with dpw as well as the city attorney's office on the implementation and execution of this ordinance. we have a quick staff presentation by max, and who is from the district attorney to office. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to spea

seeing none -- any public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. now we move into the committee business decisions. next item. >> item 5. authorize the executive director to exercise a one-year extension to the professional services contract with pendergast & associates in amount not to exceed $275,000, to a total amount not to exceed $875,000, to provide disadvantaged business enterprise/small business enterprise consulting services for the presidio parkway project and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: any discussion on this particular item? seeing none, public comment? public comment is closed. the house has changed. roll-call, please. >> [roll call] the item passes. supervisor mirkarimi: next item please. >> item 6. amend the adopted fiscal year 2010/11 budget to increase revenues by $16,509,843, decrease expenditures by $49,268,862 and decrease other financing sources by $152,787,500 for a total net decrease in fund balance of $87,008,795. this is an action

seeing none, public comment is closed. this is not an action item, it's simply an informational item or do we need to ratify the contract so -- with we have a motion to ratify the contract? motion by commissioner pimentel. we take that wex. madam clerk, can you please call item number six. >> item number six, consideration and approve of s.f. lafco budget for fiscal year 2011-2012. >> before you have a budget that is presented that gives us our statutory amount that we're allowed to ask the city and county for. as a reminder, according to state statute, the amount that we requested last year, they have to give us again or the amount that they gave us last year has to be given to us again this year unless we state otherwise. it is staff's recommendation that we move forward with requesting the same amount again so we have that availability in the future, but given the city and county's current budget situation, and our reserve accounts that we have available to us, we actually can go another year without accepting the actua

seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have a motion on item number two motion by supervisor avalos, seconded by supervisor wiener. madam clerk, call item no. 3. >> citizens advisory committee report information. supervisor campos: thank you. now we will hear from the citizens' advisory committee. good morning. >> i am the former chair, but in the absence of the chair and vice chair, i am here. we had three items on our agenda that were also on your agenda. two of them were action items. your item number four, about the bikeway in golden gate park, it was approved unanimously. i do not remember particularly who -- i'm a member of the bicycle coalition was wondering -- i will say the park commission, but we had to revisit this. there were areas where the road was not wide enough to accommodate the design. anyway, we approved the measure unanimously to read your measure no. 5, we also approved unanimously. one of them with some changes to the university communications station and replacing the liner at tel str

seeing none, the tennis, please call item no. 6. -- seeing none, a lieutenant. secretary lt. falvey: item number six, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, and public comment on whether or not to hold item eight in closed session. vice president marshall: item number 7. secretary lt. falvey: item number seven, to move into closed session. vice president marshall: without objection. we will move into closed session. secretary lt. falvey: item eight will be in closed session. b vice president marshall: can you call item no. 9? secretary lt. falvey: item number nine, disclosed item 8. vice president marshall: a motion? please call the next item. secretary lt. falvey: the next item is adjournment. vice president marshall.: we are injured. supervisor kim: good afternoon and welcome to rules committee, our special meeting for march 31. to my left, i have supervisor farrell and to my right, supervisor elsbernd. we only have one item we are considering today. >> the item on our agenda today is listed to go before the full board on tuesday april 12,

seeing none, public comment is closed.ervisor wiener: i want to thank you for your years of service. 31? >> it will be 32. supervisor wiener: in a city where there is often a lot of drama, the sheriff's department, a political drama, i just wanted to thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. i appreciate it. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor wiener. i am sorry. i do have one more question for you. i see money in a great program will could you just explain what this is for it? >> yes, that is the funding we use for alternative programs inside the jail and outside of the jail. under management. -- anger management. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor wiener, and we will have one more budget meeting before we are done. if we have no other questions from the committee at this point in time, can we get to this item to the call of the chair? ok, thank you very much. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. >> hello. welcome to the regular meeting of the bud

seeing none, the tennis, please call item no. 6. -- seeing none, a lieutenant. secretary lt. falvey: item number six, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, and public comment on whether or not to hold item eight in closed session. vice president marshall: item number 7. secretary lt. falvey: item number seven, to move into closed session. vice president marshall: without objection. we will move into closed session. secretary lt. falvey: item eight will be in closed session. b vice president marshall: can you call item no. 9? secretary lt. falvey: item number nine, disclosed item 8. vice president marshall: a motion? please call the next item. secretary lt. falvey: the next item is adjournment. vice president marshall.: we are injured. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i want to call to order the meeting of the entertainment commission for tuesday, march 22, 2011. do you want to call the roll? secretary: sure. [reading] commissioner roja and meko and perez are not present, but we do have a quorum. president newlin: ok, we go to public comm

none? >> good morning, directors, members of the public.continue to make progress and i still on schedule on the construction document -- which are still slated to have those 100% completed by the end of this year. bus ramps -- design team is reviewing the structure. the design of the rams. on the bus storage, we had a public meeting with the community to present an update and get feedback and lay out on the sound walls. next month, we will be presenting to the board some images of what we're thinking about for the bus storage component of the program. temporary terminal is running well. operations are all in order. we are finishing the installation of the traffic signals requested by san francisco mta. we are working to finalize the system requirements on that here we continue our design review meetings, specifically looking at the lower levels, and i would like to have nancy give us an update on funding. >> good morning. this is a quick update on the phase one and two funding plans. we have $880 million of the $1.589 billion in our fundin

seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this item forward with recommendation? we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. item number 2, please. >> item number two, ordinance appropriating $6,995,000 of loan funding from the california department of boating and waterways to the renovation of west harbor of san francisco, arena yacht harbor for fiscal year 2010-2011. supervisor chu: thank you. i believe we have katie from the recreation department. >> thank you, commissioners. i'm here this morning to ask for your approval of a sublamental appropriation in the amount of $6.9 million which is the final installment of a $23.5 million loan that the city is receiving from the california department of ++ -- supervisor chu: let's go to the member. >> it would appropriate $6,995 loan from the california department of boating and waterways to the recreational and park departments. this would complete the $23,495,000 loan in addition at a 4.5% interest rate. interest is calculated at $222,583 or a cost to rec a

hearing none, the meeting is adjourned. thank you.

. >> hearing none, the motion carries. thank you very much. >> the next item is closed session. are there any public comments, or shall we call for any public comments on any item in the closed session? >> any public comment on a closed session? hearing none, please continue. >> we can entertain a motion to discuss the matter is listed within the conference of legal counsel. >> is there a motion? all those in favor? opposed? >> if you would give me one moment to read the two items. sorry. threat to public services or facilities, consultation with chief of security, conference of legal counsel pursuant to litigation, tadhge conway v. city and county of san francisco. we will now go into closed session. >> we are back now held a closed session. item 14, there was no action. item 15 was settled. >> would you like a motion to disclose or not disclose? commissioner vietor: yes, is there a motion to not disclose? >> so world. >> second. commissioner vietor: all those in favor? motion carries. next item. >> [inaudible] commissioner vietor: no, no new business. hearing none, the meeting

none. r, board members proposals, none. >> item s is the board members reports. >> i want to thank the committee and all of the board members for coming to the last meeting. we interview six excellent candidates for elections commission, and you met the unanimous candidate for that position. i will be working with the committee on formalizing a process at the request of president mendoza. our next meeting is scheduled for march 14 at 6:00 p.m. we will be revisiting the legislative overview. and then in terms of board tols and administrative regulations, we heard a progress report from susan wong. we are in contract with the california board of education to do just that. we discussed the charter amendment, which has been moved by the board of supervisors to appear in a possible june election, and we also discussed the student assignment policy statement for the june ballot. >> thank you. just one correction. it wasn't unanimous on the vote. but you weren't here. we needed a report from the a

seeing none, public comment is closed. if there are no further comments or questions, can be taken action to file the item? without objection. mr. clark, do we have any other items before us? and you, we are adjourned. good d gentlemen. i want to call to order the meeting of the entertainment commission for tuesday, march 22, 2011. do you want to call the roll? secretary: sure. [reading] commissioner roja and meko and perez are not present, but we do have a quorum. president newlin: ok, we go to public comment, where members of public comment may address the commission on items of interest to the public better within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. you had two minutes. ok, any public comment? seeing none, what i would like to do, commissioners, is, as you know, we are at 7:30 having a combined meeting with the commission, so i would like to call the items out of order and take the action items that we have so that members of the public do not get stuck here later than they have to be, so you said two wer

hearing none, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> welcome to the special meeting for lafco, april 18, 2011. supervisor campos: i am david campos, commissioner. we're joined by ross mirkarimi and commissioners pimental and commissioner avalos. madame clerk, please call item no. two. >> approval of the minutes from previous meeting. supervisor campos: you have the minutes before you from the march meeting. we have a motion to except. is there any public comment on those minutes? c. non, public comment is closed. we have a motion from supervisor mirkarimi. we will take that without objection. call the next item. >> item # 3 is the study for a refugse collection in the greatr bay area. >> this is an item we have been working on for a few weeks. the board of supervisors is considering an item to issue a contract -- a landfill contract considered at the budget and finance meeting a few weeks ago. we have been conducting a study of how other jurisdictions deal with the issue of refuse collection, transportation, and disposal.

hearing none, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be