[applause] where is supervisor scott wiener? [applause] thank you for being here. we have our district attorney mr. gascon. public defender jeff a adachi. and our fire chief, joanne as white. [applause] acting city administrator, amy brown. [applause] port director monique moyer is with us. [applause] and from senator mark lino's office, susan slim. [applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your ge

lottery will be recognized by our colleague from district 8, supervisors got wiener -- supervisor scott wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. before i get to my honor, i would like to second supervisor elsbernd's nomination. no one works harder and expects less credit, so, mary, congratulations. today, it is my pleasure to honor gordon chen, the executive director of the chinatown community development center, one of district 8's most distinguished residents. slightly more distinguished than another distinguished district 8 president, ccdc's deputy director. gordon, as you know, is the founding executive director of ccdc. founded almost 35 years ago. it brings together community organizing, affordable housing, development, property management, and neighborhood planning, all under one roof. during gordon's tenure, which will -- i do not want to say come to an end, but will transition to a different days later this year, ccdc has built or rehabilitated over 2300 units of affordable housing. this is one of the most important and successful community organizations in that city. many of us know gor

meeting, here in city hall, at the board of supervisors land use committee, the hearing called by scott wiener, regarding the hpc preservation survey, among other things. the directors spoke, and number of department heads. i thought it was a very good meeting. i did leave before all of the public folks, or i probably would have been there for another three hours, at least. obviously, the item is continued, but i think it aired a number of questions people had, and number of viewpoints people had regarding that. the safeway at la paylaya has been under planning for four years, reconstruction, enlargement of 50%. they have a huge lot. the planning department told them that they are going to not let them go ahead unless they incorporate housing. i was able to see the now fourth iteration, 3rd architect. this one seems to be getting it right. they are doing a tremendous amount of interactive work with the neighborhood, and that bodes well for the project. it is just very interesting to see how a major business organization can actually interact with the neighborhood. also out in that neighborhood

we're here with supervisors got scott wiener. he started his first term this january. we are going to get to know him and talk about the issues facing the city. welcome. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background, where you grew up, went to school, and what kind of jobs to have had. >> i grew up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey. i went to school up and down the east coast. i went to undergrad at duke university. i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in

i was joined for this event by commissioners scott wiener and david comps on who also represent us on the m.t.c. we also have representatives from the mayor's office, housing and land use as well as management staff. we had a wagering of discussion about the direction of this planning effort for the bay area and had a chance to deliver a unified message. it was consist went discussions that took place at our own transportation authority board meetings. the amount of growth targeted would require major investments in transportation infrastructure and the region will have to make those commitments to san francisco. if the city is to commit to absorbing that growth and if the development of alternative development should be accompanied by discussion and how the funds are likely to be distributed to transportation projects. in other words we signal the city's willing tons accommodate growth would be shaped by the region's willingness to reward us and other jurisdictions that do the right thing and that they should come in the form of more money to san francisco. this is a groundbreaking e

absent is supervisor scotts wiener. could you please give us a announcements? >> please make sure to turn of all cellular phones and pagers. any document should be giving -- should be given to the clerk. supervisor mar: could please call item no. 1? >> ordnance amending the san francisco planning code by establishing the presidio-sutter special use district. >> it is wanted to continue this to the call of the chair. supervisor mar: let's open is up to public comment. are there any members of the public like to speak? cnn, public comment is closed. we have a motion to continue to item no. one to call of the chair. -- seeing at 9, public comment is closed. is there any other business before us? meeting adjourned. thank you, everyone. >> thank you. good morning, everybody. thank you for coming today. we are going to highlight once again the importance of san francisco putting local residents back to work and reviving our local economy. as some of you may recall, last september, we announced the city would have its own modified version of the federal jobsnow progra

i want to thank supervisor scott wiener. you identified what we could have. and the the the mta is going to be a very big challenge for anyone that serves on that. it will be one of those years of service that are very sacrificing for all of us. i know all of you love the city in some anyways had to reflect very strongly what i feel the city needs. with that, i also want to thank our rules committee of the board of supervisors for making it a very smooth the appointment process. supervisors kim, elsbernd and farrell have worked with me on the rules committee to make sure that the appointees are transferred -- the transition to correctly. had received by unanimous vote of confidence that is very reflective of how we are administering government here. and the closeness with the board of supervisors. with that, please stand and we will take the oath and if you could raise your right hand and repeat after me, we will go through every one of your names and we will say that the commission you will be serving on that will go through that as well. [inaudible] i do so

scott wiener and members of the mta board were also at the event which marks the culmination of a four-year process to bring real time parking information to san francisco. it was a great event recognized by the press around country as a major milestone in terms of how technology can structure solutions for common urban problems like finding curbside parking. the entire demonstration was funded with $20 million of urban partnership money which this authority was able to obtain from the federal government in 2007 as part of the negotiations over the funding plan for doral drive, now presidio parkway, which at the time included a proposal. the proposal was a forward- looking idea and this is a forward-looking program, which is now on the run for san franciscans to use on a daily basis to help us perfect. in a few months, there will also be very impressed and components to the program. congratulations to our mta for getting the project on the ground after four years of development, and to this authority, for having the program funding at a time when the local jurisdiction in the country would

regardless, i do look up to scott wiener. the parts i go to, the libraries that i go to are largely in district 8. the department of public works has two main areas of responsibility. one is the design, construction, and repair of police and fire stations, hospitals. that work is largely -- the work we do is largely capital-funded, thanks to the generosity of the voters and past elections in supporting general obligation bonds. we actually have a lot of good work going on. we are opening several libraries this year. we have a week -- we got the second parts bond past eight years ago. we finished laguna honda hospital. we are now building a new police quarters in mission bay and renovating more than a dozen fire stations around the city. good news on the capital front. the other area of responsibility for the department of public works is the design, construction, repair, maintenance regulation of the public rights of way, namely the streets and sidewalks of the city. the picture is not as good. in terms of the capital side st

absent is supervisor scotts wiener. could you please give us a announcements? >> please make sure to turn of all cellular phones and pagers. any document should be giving -- should be given to the clerk. supervisor mar: could please call item no. 1? >> ordnance amending the san francisco planning code by establishing the presidio-sutter special use district. >> it is wanted to continue this to the call of the chair. supervisor mar: let's open is up to public comment. are there any members of the public like to speak? cnn, public comment is closed. we have a motion to continue to item no. one to call of the chair. -- seeing at 9, public comment is closed. is there any other business before us? meeting adjourned. thank you, everyone. >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building un

and we're also joined by supervisor scott wiener as well as chairman of the transportation authority ross mercuriami. we're glad you're all able to be here with us. we're also joined by leslie rogers, regional administrator of the federal transit administration. we also have jose luis moss covitts of the transportation authority, jim lazarus of our san francisco chamber of commerce is here, along with red rifkin of the san francisco city of public works and melanie from the department of environment. we had a strong partnership. there was no way we could do this work without a strong partnership here within the city planning and the port of san francisco that had a strong partnership with us at s.f. park and agreed to participate in the pilot program. we have a great team of individuals at the m.t.a. who worked on this project for the past couple of years and i need to make sure we especially thank them and jape primus and steve lee. -- jay primus and steve lee. [applause] and i think you saw earlier on we had some of our team that works out in the field, our parking meter shops, tho

i also want to thank my colleague scott wiener, who has been a tremendous advocate for transportation. this measure is about safety. it is about the safety of our drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, safety of our seniors and disabled. we need to get this done. we cannot delay this anymore. if we do, it is estimated our costs over the next five years will quadruple if we do not address the pot holes on our streets. as the mayor said, this is a measure that will not increase property tax rates over 2006. it has strong accountability measures, so we know every penny will be well spent, and it is something that will create 1600 jobs for people who desperately need them right now. i want to thank all of the workers who i know will be part of this team getting it done. i want to thank my colleagues who are here, supervisor mar, supervisor mirkarimi. i look forward to moving this forward and working with public to make sure that we have smooth, beautiful roads, for years to come. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. his leadership and support will be bolstered by many of his colleagues.

supervisor avalos: i would agree with scott wiener. my vote was not against reality. >> in response when supervisor chiu starts opening the door and divides was appropriate and what is not. is he simply voted no amendment, -- what did you park at exactly what you agree a way you did not. supervisor chiu: any further discussion? colleagues, if we could take a roll call vote on the underlying resolution as amended. >> chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd no. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. there are 10 ayes, one no. item four, resolution authorizing the exercise of an option to extend the lease of 1449 webster st. for three years for the office of economic and workforce development of foreign assistance programs. supervisor mirkarimi: a little change of tone. -- development employment assistance programs. supervisor mirkarimi: a little change of tone. i want to go very quickly in the fact that we are delighted that our one-stop jobs training center which i had mentioned in the committee

malia cohen, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, and supervisors got wiener -- supervisor scott leonor -- wiener. a number of your friends thought it appropriate to reach out to cover the span of mayors over the last fifth leaders, a small fraternity who you are about to join. leading that is lieutenant governor, who will brain some remarks. it was the man who served as a supervisor and whom the voters rewarded by making him lieutenant governor, and he was received by his colleagues at one minute after 1:00, when his tenure was evicted, and he gave an accounting of himself and the time he has been mayor, and now, welcome to the new mayor, gavin newsom. >> sit down those that have seats. let me welcome each of you for taking the time to be there. it is good to be here, and it is a wonderful occasion, and the people that need to be thanked the most are the people of california, because i would not have been lieutenant governor, and there would not have been a vacancy. i am honored that people have taken it upon themselves to allow for this opportunity and celebrate this milestone

scott, come on up. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. mayor. i represent this district on the board of supervisors. we always talk about how important small business is in terms of creating jobs, in terms of having interesting neighborhoods where we have unique businesses and not a complete takeover by chain stores, but then, we do not always put our money where our mouth is, and we make it difficult sometimes for small businesses to succeed. in my office, at least once a week, we learned of a new arcane regulations or permit or fee or something preventing small businesses from succeeding. so it is so nice and so productive when the city is able to take a pro-active steps to help small businesses financially -- take a pro-active steps -- take pro-active steps to help small businesses financially. we have a real diverse array of interesting small businesses, so i am proud that we have been able to do this, and especially what we have been able to do on valencia's street. so congratulations and best of luck. -- especially what we have been able t