. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. san francisco is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. . president chiu: welcome to the november 23, 2010, meeting of the board of supervisors. madam role, would you call the roll? madam clerk: [reading roll] all members are present. president chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, we have received meeting minutes from the october 19 meeting. can i have in motion to approve these? we have a motion from supervisor dufty, seconded by supervisor mirkarimi. without objection, that is approved. madam clerk, are there any? could you read items one through seven. madam clerk: these items will be done by a single roll call vote. president chiu: colleagues, would you like to sever any items? supervisor elsbernd? item 3. madam clerk, could you read items one through seven with the exception of item number three? madam clerk: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those items are passed. item

. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city.o is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. .

. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. san francisco is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. . captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor mirkarimi: very good. welcome. i would like to thank sf g t v for their fine work in covering this. madam clerk, please read the roll call. >> [roll call] supervisor mirkarimi: i expect commissioner mar to join us shortly. please read item #2. >> [reads item] supervisor mirkarimi: any public comment that of public comment is closed. that is taken without objection. very good. item #3. >> recommend annual compensation for executive director for fiscal year 2010-2011. supervisor mirkarimi: mr. malkovich. >> this is a follow up your last meeting that took place in june. according to our code, the authority board must provide for the director. the original date or deadline for compensation was june 30. at the september meeting of the board, the board chose of every year. while anticipating a complicated month in september,

. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. san francisco is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. . captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chiu: good morning. it is monday, november the 15th. welcome to the public safety supervisor board. i am joined by a colleague. we will shortly -- we are joined by our vice chair, supervisor mirkarimi. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all pagers and phones. if you wish to speak, please place the speaker card to the rail on the left. please submit an extra copy it for the file if you are submitting to the committee. items considered today will be considered by the full board tuesday of next week on november 23 unless another date is indicated. >> thank you. i want to thank the staff for streaming this meeting live. let's call item no. 1. >> item number one, hearing to review statistics from the entertainment commission and the police department reg

. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. san francisco is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. . ] \ supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. i am supervisor sophie maxwell. i am joined by supervisor eric mar and supervisor david chiu. i also want to thank our clerk, alisa somera. do we have any committee reports? clerk somera: no, we do not. supervisor maxwell: could you read the first item, please? supervisor maxwell: --clerk somera: this is a resolution approving continue designation of eight former temporary selling spaces on 17th street at castro and market streets forestry artists certified by the arts commission. -- " for st. artists -- for street artists. supervisor maxwell: it is that time of year again when we have more spaces. >> this is right where the f line dead ends, so that is what they did. they invited me to create st reet art, and i met someone, and we walked to the area and made this basis, and then the board of supervisors a few months later at the request of the art co

there is no such thing as a sanctuary city. you what tonight say that any other city aside from phoenix or any other city is sanctuary city go for it. it's misleading. >> julie: that is all the time we have for today. >> gregg: neither rain nor gloom of night will stop them. no, we are not talking about julie personal shopper, we're talking about a budget shortfall could stop them in their tracks and why they are asking for help from congress. what may happen to birthday and holiday cards from grandma if they don't come in time. úç>?[ozo >>> you assume a letter is going to arrive when it's supposed to but what if the u.s. postal goes bankrupt. they are warning they need help or they will go broke next year. boy, christmas cheer wouldn't be the same if we couldn't ship the christmas gifts. what the real cause of them going broke? >> the official cause is electronic mail. there are estimates that 17.1 billion pieces of mail have been reduced by the advent of e-mail. unfortunately this internet thing isn't going away. it's an ongo

well, let's take a look at sanctuary cities like chicago and san francisco who not only are sanctuaryfusing to even be involved in any type of enforcement under the superior communities act and getting away with millions of dollars about 62 million of the overall 400 million dollars in the state criminal alien assistance program. so, again, you just have public policy schizophrenia. >> yeah, it's a lot of money, isn't it? here is what the department of justice is telling us, quote, funding under this program is provided to any eligible jurisdiction that incurs costs associated with containing criminal aliens you don't do in sanctuary cities. it goes on. supports the process and on. jd. you mentioned the lawsuit from the department of justice against your state. you also add in this, what is the agenda, did you think, when it comes to immigration and the department of justice. >> well, the about the tomorrow line is this, the obama administration has no interest in enforcing existing immigration law. quite frankly, they want to see amnesty, especially in the wake of the mid term electi

is doing out tens of millions of dollars to sanctuary cities for the cost of jailing illegals. our panel. welcome, ladies to all of you. what do you make of the spending? we are experiencing this money through d.o.j. grants to cities that welcome illegals? >> i think it reality is that we have a serious immigration problem and the federal government has failed in coming up with a comprehensive immigration reform policy. that's something i hope we can all agree. the federal government has too come in and stop state and local governments from having these piecemeal situations happen like we saw in arizona. i wouldn't call them stink wary cities. the reality is there are 10 million-plus immigrants here already. we won't able to get them out in one fell swoop. cities have to deal with those people. they have to deal with the resources that are, you know, that they have to expend. and the federal government is responsible to step up and help with those resources. shannon: could they get their attention by cutting off the money? >> the federal government is broke. if you are a county

my interest is to help secure san francisco as a sanctuary city. supervisor campos: if i could ask a question, commissioner. it is something that i always aske any commissioner that is asking for reappointment, where issues of this type come up. what is your attendance like to the commission meetings? do you attend the meetings, do you get there on time? could you sit a little bit about the work that you have done? clearly, we want people who have the right perspective, who are committed to working with the city, but there has to be a demonstration of that commitment through the work. if you could comment on that. >> i think i have a near-perfect record this year. there have been a couple of times where i was late. there has been a great deal of development. there has been a great deal of work that i have done. i have gone to many, many other commission meetings. i have gone to the middle east discrimination of human rights meeting -- many other meetings. i have been putting in my full effort, as far as i'm concerned. i do not think there is an iss

in their discretion -- the idea is to prevent those people who would previously be subject to sanctuary city policies to make those checks. it does say a reasonable attempt shall be made. >> we encourage them to do that. >> that is a generous reading of "mashal." -- "shall." [laughter] but i'll take it. "externally, you mention the -- thirdly, the point i would emphasize is that particular case addressed whether dhs had the authority to enact those regulations. and did not address the subject of whether the states in the exercise of their police power, as indicated by other cases, could address that particular subject. the national center case also failed to apply the presumption of state law. and they were dealing with an administrative occupation. >> they analyzed the congressional intent as to whether to punish employees as a condition of bonding them out, right? >> yes, sir. >> why is it that general promised not applicable only then? >> they do not have any police powers. it does not stop them from being black. >> i was trying to address your question about even if you agree with me, an

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. >> brian: sanctuary city. what happens with that? here that are essentially sanctuary cities and they will simply not receive any state funding if they continue that policy. >> brian: so no state funding. you understand what arizona has been through. they're being sued by the obama administration and -- >> that's outrageous. >> brian: they won in court. you want some of that coming texas' way? >> i don't believe that it's going to happen, but at some point we've got to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough. look, the crime here is going through the roof. in the past six years alone, the gang-related violence, gang-related crime just here in houston that is connected with mexican drug cartels has gone up over 250%. that's not acceptable. and the people are saying they've had it with political correctness. they've had it had folks just turning a blind eye to the problem. americans are getting killed. texans are getting killed. and we've got to say stop it. and so we're moving ahead and i'm moving ahead with my legislation. >

they include legislation to ban sanctuary cities, audit the cost of illegal aliens, track undocumentedts and require voter i.d. cards. >> immigration because the people of texas are no longer asking, they're demanding and we have got to make some significant steps regarding illegal immigration. >> by being first, her bills will get early consideration when the legislature opens its new session in january. >> meanwhile, on election day, 70% of voters in oklahoma decided to ban islamic law or sharia law from their courts. but a federal judge just put that new law on hold until a hearing later this month. sharia can dictate harsh punishments like stoning but a muslim rights activist filed a lawsuit. he claims that sharia law violates his constitutional rights. >> a store owner in brooklyn, new york, fights off a robber with the only weapon that he had. a plastic trash can. take a look at the surveillance video. a thug with a knife charges into a tobacco shop. when he starts grabbing money out of the register, the owner starts hitting him with a trash can. >> oh, man! >> the thief eventual

concerns, one of them being the notice of violation to access of love which falls under the sanctuary of the city, and also the letters of determination that are being used to grab our native collectives and have outside entities grab the land. this is very concerning. the third sort of irony of this all is that we have zillions of uncharted delivery services that have online menus, membership fees, and are not regulated by our definition of mcd. i think the clarification of the mcd is called for as well as a hearing, and i would respectfully request that the department of public health would be involved in that hearing so we can get the department on the same page and actually create land use of legislation that makes sense to what is happening on the land. i would just hope that what we are in the process of amending the legislation at the task force level that all activities against access of love and hope that and any other dispensary that is being basically pursued by hostile forces with the letters of land-use termination -- we have owners to our project we have owners who are being attacke

other proposed bills would deny state funds for any community that dlee clairs itself a sanctuary citysome bills would force people could show two forms of i.d. before they can note. the aclu says they are ready to start filing lawsuits. >> i think it could be left to a bunch of lawyers. it's a costly fight. a fight that arizona is paying quite a bit for. >> reporter: 150 of the seats in the texas legislature. 99 are republican. that's the largest majority in 140 years. the senate 2/3 is republican as is governor rick perry. though rick perry says an arizona-style law is not a good fit for texas. though he may have his hands full with this legislature. megyn: every day the list gets longer with mitt romney, tim pawlenty, sarah palin. all names tossed around as potential candidates for 2012 for president. michael reagan up next. who does he think is the number one person who has a shot. he hopped on the big yellow bus, unloading on a group of kids bullying his daughter mercilessly. is he or is he not going to jail. a "kelly's court" verdict in an important case just ahead. speak of tie

be the first in line to file bills on the issues come monday, requiring voter i.d., a ban on sanctuary cities keeping track of undocumented children in public school systems. >> the people of texas are no longer asking, they're demanding, and we have got to make some significant steps regarding illegal immigration and in addition to that, border security. bill: several other republican lawmakers filed similar bills on that same issue. the texas legislature will convene in january, we'll let you know whether or not carly simon is there for that! march par good to be first in line. >>> we could hear more harrowing testimony from elizabeth smart when she takes the stand for the first time against the man accused of kidnapping her when she was a 14-year-old girl who hell her captive for most of the year. who can forget this. nobody thought this girl would be recovered, yet she was. today, she stands to tell her story and she told jurors yesterday what it felt like. she said she woke up in her bedroom with a knife held against her neck and the moment of that is what began her nine-month ordeal. kr

able to sue government officials who are not enforcing the immigration law, clearly going after sanctuary citiesike madison, wisconsin who are refusing to abide by federal law, can they do that. >> one of the reasons we have a terrible problem with s.w.a.t. teams, with people being killed when they break down the wrong door, is because the police do not have personal liability when they make a mistake like this. and i'm in favor of being able to sue officials. but, you can no put an impossible burden on them, you can't sue state officials because they will not enforce federal law. that is not their job. gregg: the overriding ruling by the federal courts so far has been that arizona and other states are pre-empting federal law. >> right. gregg: doesn't federal law already allow u.s. immigration officers to stop anybody, any time, anywhere, for any reason, to ask for documentation? >> no. not on the basis of the way they look. it would have to be probable cause of violation of the law, and it can't be appearance. gregg: sentence that what arizona was aig sayisaying, it appearance but can be any ti

city. next door on sanctuary, they make up a huge percentage of. over 60% of them, and there is no case manager at the site. the other challenge is the city has not clearly defined case management, and i feel that is an important component in holding people accountable to what kind of services they are providing. last week, and warren did testimony -- a woman gave testimony about how she was unable to access services for the first 90 days she was enrolled. supervisor campos: if you just look at the numbers, you are talking about 100 cases on average, but eat you take away some of the -- if you take away some of the case managers assigned to individual sites, you are talking about an even greater number. i'm just trying to understand. >> for example, we're talking about the three largest shelters -- msc sells and sanctuary next door. that is 77% of the shelter. there is no case manager on- site. supervisor campos: what? >> there is no case manager on- site at any of those locations. the information we got stated that there are two. again, public test

antiimmigrant is the fad and sa francisco and we enjoy the diversity of the great city and although we are a sanctuaryit many fine difficulties in finding work and a place to li live. >> and i was coming to the mission and because of the latino population and i spoke n english and i spout it wa thoug would be easier if i had those people around me. >> and this is one of the oldes law centers and it was organize in the 70's for the growing nee of legal services and particularly by the spanish speenspeaking immigrant communi and right now the most serious problem among latino workers is nonpayment of wages and injurie on the job and discrimination and those are huge issues and the lack of living wage jobs an the san francisco program has been around for 15 years now an provided a critical service to the community in the city and the gentleman on the corners an waiting for employers to pick them up. >> most are immigrants from mexico and central america and come here to work and picked up people that need a basement or attic to be cleans or lawn to b cleaned and people in the construction business that d

sanctuary that was part of the original design. you can see the article that shows that alteration. the city was largely destroyed, but the church or escaped destruction and it remained open providing spiritual and physical sustenance. the church was basically finished which included the windows, the altars, and the painting of jesus. i have a couple of slides. like the majority of other catholic churches, her heart was designed with the revival style. not to go into details of the style, but the origins date back to the earliest christian architecture. during the course of my resrch -- [chime] i discovered that the design source is probably not this but likely the memorial church in new york city. i'm just wanted to wrap up by saying it is a landmark of the most fundamental way. welch designed it from the heart of teh c -- the city. that concludes my presentation. >> would still be possible to land market? >> -- would it still be possible to landmark it? >> doubtful. the interior was one of the most important parts of the design. >> i am julie welsh, the great granddaughter of the architect

. >> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner citythey signed over their social security checks and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got a job in a supermarket. >> he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat down one time and figured after i got back how much money i gave that man, and it was around 76,000 bucks. >> his youngest daughter tracy learned to fear jones when she started school and was told to stay away from other children. >> if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church, then you would be in trouble for that. >> trouble at jim jones' wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. >> so, i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i was going to be called up and be beaten. >> leslie wilson wa

. >> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city signed over their social security checks and the people's temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got a job in a supermarket. >> he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat down one time and figured after i got back how much money i gave that man, and it was around 76,000 bucks. >> his youngest daughter tracy learned to fear jones when she started school and was told to stay away from other children. >> if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church then you would be in trouble for that. >> trouble at jim jones' wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. >> so i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i would be called up and be beaten. >> leslie wilson was 13 when sh

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. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. san francisco is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. . >> thank you, and welcome to the november 8, 2010, small business commission meeting. we are joined today by president irene yee rile, kathleen dooley, luke o'brien. some are absent. if any member of the public would like to speak and suggest items for consideration, they may. president yee riley: seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners, to make recommendations to the board of supervisors for frontage controls. this is an ordinance amending various parts of the san francisco planning code, detailed in the agenda. commissioners come in your package is the legislative digest along with the ordinance. today, we have a presenter. >> thank you. good evening, commissionaires. i am tom, the executive director, and we have been working with supervisor mirkarimi to put this ordinance together, and we had support from your earlier this year that looks at street frontage and districts that

. >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. . >> san francisco is a sanctuary city. san francisco is committed to providing safe access to public services to our community. . >> 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 li