the port or its tenants, a public agency banner, which is announcing an event sponsored or supported by the city or its departments or other government agency, and that furthers the mission of that agency, and an even better, which announces an event which will benefit a government agency or charitable nonprofit organization and that will take place on publicly- owned property within the city of san francisco and further a public purpose. banners would not be allowed for political purposes or for general commercial advertising. as for duration, banners would be permitted for up to 50 days or until five days after the day of the sponsored event. banners could be reinstalled for an additional 50 days after they have been off for 70 days, and the port's executive director could allow placement of banners were greater than 50 days, so banners will convey a clear message and avoid visual clutter, all polls within a single block would be limited to a single banner, or banner permits are for four blocks. both the city and port currently impose fees only to recoup administrative costs for operating the

a lot of jurisdictions including oakland and san francisco have city facilities collected either at the discounted rate or for no charge. there is no way for us to tell you on the city by city basis with the value of that is. that has to come from the haulers. in addition to the big three, there are 19 other ones plus one national one. the cities themselves may not want the information released. we would be happy to try and tell you what the results are. i can guarantee you we will not get it from everybody. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you very much. if you can stand by in case any other questions come by. miss miller? we have representatives from rcology and melody standing by. supervisor mirkarimi: miss nutter, thank you for being here and working with the lafco staff to make sure we have as much information as we can have. >> she and her staff were always available to us as consultants. there were very professional in providing data. i believe we will get nothing but cooperation from her staff and your current provider. >> i am here to address you on the study commissioned. i thought i would put a char

it is important to know that no public agency in the city, state, or country collects surveillance information on bed bugs. we do not know what the prevalence of infestation is in the city, state, or country. the limited information we do know is from day that we get on complaints the complaint data will reflect only a fraction of the true problem and burden of bed bugs in society. we do not collect surveillance data on bed bugs because they are not a factor of human disease. they are common. bed bugs are one of a type of test -- pest that makes a dwelling in habitable. others may include cockroaches and other bugs. tests -- pests in dwellings are illegal. there similarly illegal under the san francisco help code. they are common infestations. the primary responsibility for dealing with these infestations is on the owner of the property. our first task is prevention. we have been working on prevention and education for about a decade now. the problem is becoming more apparent in cities like new york. there is a lot of media on this now. there have been periodic eds and flows in the media inter

agreement for a codified agreement -- is there a benefit to us exploring whether or not the percentage of what the city gets from recology should be modified? is there a benefit to us deciding whether or not we should benefit to a rate that is comparable to other jurisdictions? >> from our opinion, those are absolutely appropriate questions to be asking from this body as well as the board of supervisors. we obviously have to make sure that all of those bases are covered, while we are renegotiating as well as having additional discussions. i will say that our concern is that there will be -- it depends on the process of how some of those items may be addressed. that is the question for us because there are some processes that may very severely disrupt the work of the department of environment. if certain facts are taken to address those questions. i will say we absolutely respect those questions being asked, and this is a very worthwhile discussion to be had. we have concerns about the different ways that that may take shape and how that will ultimately affect our department goals. commissioner campos:

city clerk. it should be held with the budget and finance committee on may. there are two underlying principles or questions under fiscal feasibility, which is, one, how is the court going to fund this project? and two, what are the city benefits? with regards to the funding, i will talk about that, but you need to talk about costs first. let's quickly review -- i know you have seen this before, but what the project is -- this is the existing site of pier 27. what we propose to do is demolish pier 27 shed. that portion of the pier 29 shed, the non-historic portion, as well as the pier 27 office annex building, which is the -- i do not have a pointer with me, but the small building along the embarcadero next to pier 27. that will be, if all goes well, miraculously developed into the new cruise terminal project, and per the host city and the new agreement, the event of authority is required to demolish pier 27, pier 29, as well as relocate the short side power equipment. this allows the port to come in as what we're calling this one in 2012, to build or construct the shell building, which is noted h

what that means is that no city employee or no city resources can go towards helping ice or referring anybody to ice or disclosing any information to ice. it was meant to give people equal access to services, equal access to the city without any fear of retribution, any fear of retaliation, any fear of having their status being basically disclosed, and being deported for wanting to get health care. so it is a really important thing for us to remember that as we are thinking about comprehensive immigration reform, that we also continue to strengthen and defend sanctuary ordinance not just here in san francisco, where it has been under a lot of pressure and discussion and a lot of debate, bull also all over the country, because other cities also have a sanctuary ordinance. again, it is not about -- the way that the current dialogue that is been happening, a lot is about crime. it is actually about insuring that everybody has equal access and equal process in san francisco. so we want to put that out there and remind people that is what it is about, and we are definitely here to be able

it is not our prerogative and ability under city law to mandate one particular type of pest control treatment or another. our mandate under city law is to ensure that the tests are eradicated. there is no mandate to say they are eradicated in a certain number of days or using certain treatments. this gets to the third regulatory responsibility which is pesticide enforcement. the city does not have an independent jurisdiction on pesticide enforcement. it is the enforcement agency for state law. the state law on pesticides is clear. certain pesticides are allowed in certain uses. it requires licensing a pest control operators. it does not allow the city to independently prohibit or recommend one pesticide treatment or another. it ties our hands. we have tried to do other things. the fourth and last issue i want to point out is our role as manager of housing. we manage some hotels through master leases. we have done some particular things to prevent bedbug infections that may be replicable in the wider industry. when new tenants are coming into a master lease patel, they are being screened for bed

when there is a case that goes the full way, the parties to that case are the contractor and the city or the contractor and the employee? >> city. >> so, would the standard contract a contractor would have with the city, most contracts today have clauses in there that say both parties agree that if there is a dispute or whatever that they will go to a hearing settlement or case. if that fails to resolve it they will go to binding arbitration before they say i will see you in court. >> prevailing wage violations the procedure is outlined in chapter 6 of the administrative code. that is a different procedure than any other typical contractual dispute. >> all right. that answered my question. thanks. anybody else have any questions? ok. this is an actionable item director. before we do that we need to go to public comment. do we have any public comment? ok. seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners. >> you know approve and recommend? >> ok. we have a motion to approve. do we have a second? >> i second. >> is it approved without objection? ok. approved without objection. thank you.

there is also the danger that san francisco becomes a city that loses families because it may be cheaper or more affordable to live in daly city or down the peninsula or across to the east bay, so i think creating the will neighborhoods that are accessible and friendly to families, so the number of units that are built or the number of bedrooms and the types of units that are built. parking is going to be one of the other issues. i, of course, support san francisco being a leader, but i also see at times that people may need that car, especially if you have a family, to get your kids from treasure island, one of the developments in san francisco, instead of being isolated by being on the island. we have to look at trends and policies from a perspective also of the needs of families as well. >> let's talk a little bit more about transportation, specifically in your district. how is muni service? what about parking, traffic? >> san francisco's transportation system i believe has a lot of great qualities. we have good bustlines in our richmond district. i'm always looking at creating more effi

or not services are already in place. particularly with fines and application fees, thinking about these folks as an investment in the city'sfuture and trying to determine if there are micro loans or other programs that the commission or city might be able to help sponsor to make it easier for people to be able to take advantage of the law when it is passed is something that you need to start thinking about now. there are good programs at other places have tried, the state of illinois, in particular. >> thank you. you have given us a lot of food for thought. commissioners, and this concludes the >> thank you, director. thank you penlists and speakers for your testimony. at this stage, we will at the end, if you have questions carb i know one or two might have a question. i will do it after public comment. if i may, i would like at this stage to see if there is anybody in the audience who would like to talk. i have some speaker cards. i will read out your names. i believe, director, two minutes? >> that would be your call. >> i would like to hold our comments to two minutes as our time is restricted here. if you would line u

supervisor elsbernd: to the president, supervisor campos or to the city attorney's office. the two cases you referred to, did those analyze the density bonus exemption in costa hawkins or did those analyze the waiver exemption in costa hawkins? and with the legislation that will be in front of us, the development agreement, is that the waiver or is it the density bonus exemption? supervisor campos: i don't know the extent to which we can discuss this, but the problem, supervisor elsbernd is that there is no case that specifically addresses the issue before us where density bonus actually satisfies the exemption this is -- which the issue here which is there is no case that specifically addresses, how do you know what you're doing is in fact enforceable? supervisor elsbernd: when you said you wanted to put on the record these cases are the precedent, i wanted to be very clear, they're not the precedent because there is no precedent on this issue. and i think we agree on that point, there is no case law specifically on whether or not the density bonus exemption in costa hawkin

there will be a county or state, or city that's doing this effectively and we can take that's an a template to our own environment and a slow kate that. i would love to hear more from you about regulatory and legislative issues and how the legislative regulatory and planning issues tend to cluster together. so if you have things you've done that have been helpful or strategies you are thinking of trying, or things where you think regulators are impeding important climate issues you can speak now which i would very much appreciate or write to the website if you think about it a little further. is there anyone that can speak today? yes? >> hi i'm will travis and development commission or if you watch,cnn, i'm travis mills. but that's okay. as a regulator, i think it's important to listen to the rhetoric of cutting through regulations and streamlining them, i think it's important to remember those regulations were all put in place in reaction to some abuse. they are advancing veryly get mate enlightened public policy. what you may see as an imped meant is really a regulation put there to prote

the port or its tenants, a public agency banner, which is announcing an event sponsored or supported by the city or its departments or other government agency, and that furt

no neighborhood, none in district 8 or in the city or country is stuck in time and frozen. evolve, things change, there are dynamics and pressures whether economic or new housing and you have to respond to this. one of the things i see as my mission is the sustainability of the castro. i think there is concern that the dynamic of the castro is changing. >> a lot of families are moving to the castro a lot of gay families. and district 8 throughout district 8. what that has meant is i think that fewer people want the street fairs and parties. even john stewart in the daily show made fun there are straight families moving to the castro complaining about the sex shops with dildos in the window. it was called. there goes the gabor hood. there is truth to that. its sad that the the castro is losing its character. >> once every 3-4 years the issue of sex toys in windows has a flair up and dies down. i don't think that that is an on going problem. i have a daughter and she's a real fast learner, started her terrible 2's a 15 months. down the road we will be walking downcast row and

historic documents when you come across them. >> so, learning history go to the assessor office in city hall or a title company and have them search for all the documents recorded against your property and if you're city hall you look at adjourning propertys so see if they have east meants or ease meants. if on page 29 you see a notice of special restrictions under the planning code and we would ask you record it and it would be on file that assessors recording office and you can look it up and print this off and you would be surprised and who has the rights to drill on your backyard or exit across your front yard there are many, easements. >> i would like to add when the as see sore is taxing you on what's physically out there and not what's legally out there, many people come to us and say i have this apartment and this room in the basement -- they get the history of their building from our records management department and say say, there is nothing in the building department that says build this but i'm being taxed on it and again, that's more money for the city because it's more square foot

the majority of students are housed in jail or as part of other program or city agencies, the regular meal service for majority of their students is through the jail. they do not collect revenue from the state for school lunches or meals but at their independent high school one of their locations in the bayview hunters point and maybe steve is going to correct me, the executive director on that, there is a breakfast program that is providing and supporting, again, they do not collect state revenue for that. and that is the budget report complete and so i will read the amended resolutions for the record if that is ok with the board. ok? so for five keys and i'm going to them both. one after the other. so the first resolution is concerning five keys adult school and that's number 112-22 sp 2, authorization to grant the renewal for five keys adult school. whereas san francisco unified school district is a chartered authorizer for five keys adult school which is set to expire on june 30. 2011. the petitioners subsummit mitted on february 11, a charter renewal petition for the renewal and

the city has failed to provide adequate resources, either directly through city departments, or three city- funded services and nonprofit organizations. most recently, we had a proposal to eliminate funding for the lgbt transition aid services for the fiscal year 2011-2012. can you speak to your commitment for this hon. population -- vulnerable population? question mark. [cheering] >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: i am going to take this question as a member of the budget committee. excuse me? >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: ok. i am going to answer the question. it is an important question. i would like to answer it. so -- >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: thank you. it is an extremely important question, particularly in district 8 and other districts as well. we have provided woefully inadequate support for our transition-agf. when we do not provide that support, we cause other problems. it is not like it disappears. these are our youth who are here in our community, and we need to make sure we are providing services for them. yesterday, we had a hearing on the bud

i don't know how those cities -- i truly don't know how they proceeded, what evidence they had and where the locations were or how many of the boxes were needed. we really don't have the information. what i do know is the fact that other cities didn't do it doesn't mean that the law doesn't require it here. it's not really relevant. supervisor elsbernd: ok. let's talk about the categorical exemption and the class three, two arguments here. one that you're suggesting they're applying the wrong type, that they should be applying the first type within class three, as i understand it there are three types within class three. what i heard you say is the first type is the appropriate one and planning and the project sponsors are inappropriately applying the second type? is that correct? >> yes. even to say a little more. there's a preamble to class three where it describes the kind of things that are exempt. then it lists, there's six things listed below. none of these that are the specific types of projects include a project like this. we're talking about the general -- supervisor elsbernd: that lists of examples

the future, because we may be able to do something other counties cannot do because they are not a city or county. also there was some mention about the oversight. i think commissioner dunlap said we have more oversight now because the planning commission will have a say in the treasure island development authority will have a lot of say as to what is going on there, as opposed to the situation when the redevelopment agency did. i think there may be more oversight. i am very supportive of this project, and i am going to make a motion to certify. president olague: commissioner moore, did you have any more comments? commissioner moore: yes i do. the question about substantive changes. staff has so much to do today that i wanted to put to the record, looking through three documents simultaneously, it is not easy to spot the changes. i think it is a bold move out in the middle of controversy the developer is suggesting lowering the height in four buildings. that is perhaps a different impact as to whether or not it mitigates the impact. the tower height of the most prominent building, block c-

nobody could argue against greater analysis or a city-wide plan. you do not have one yet. stop denying micro sites while you try to find the funding for a citywide plan. what a massive failure you are admitting to. they cannot provide mobile connectivity for a year or so. i heard the argument that the opposite of cumulative, this power is not essential. i do not understand how that could be a suitable guidelines in this area. i would urge you to deny the appeal. san francisco is not the leader in cities for this type of business. it is an urban legend. in new york city, they put these on the building appeals. >> next speaker. >> my name is james bishop. i am san francisco native born and raised. i come here on a daily basis. people come to my store saying how much they love t-moblile service. we do not have service in my house. we are working on it and we are trying to provide service. i ask you guys to reject this. >> my name in asregina. i live over in north beach. not too far away from where this dummy antenna is. you can barely see it from the street. t-mobile is a gre

snyder's plan to reduce his state's budget deficit by putting cities that are struggling financially on a fast track to his idea of a libertarian utopia or a nightmare the first victim of governor snyder is the city of but harbor michigan as of friday the powers of the city boards and commissions of benton harbor have been usurped by a financial manager appointed by governor rick snyder that financial manager although not elected by the people of baton harbor now has the authority over. all alike that city officials have been are there and can break union contracts cut city services sell off large chunks of the city to private corporations without any oversight so how can something like this happen in a democracy and the united states of america or more are joining us for more on this i'm joined by beth and harbor city commissioner dennis knowles and editor of the michigan med messenger ed braden and us ed welcome. really appreciate both you being here with me ed if first if you could just give us an overview of what happened. i mean yeah as far as the reporter here. well if your story state legislature passed a super tuesday mayor for a