charlie, we will be joined by sean elsbernd. -- shortly, we will be joined by sean elsbernd. >> [clerk announcements] supervisor avalos: thank you. let's hear items one and two. >> item 1. ordinance authorizing the department of adult probation to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $300,000 from the california emergency management agency for probation specialized supervision program federally funded through the violence against women act and amend ordinance no. 191-10 (annual salary ordinance, fy2010-2011) to reflect the addition of three (3) grant-funded positions (.75 fte) in class 8444 deputy probation officer, (.50 fte) in class 9920 public service aide/probation aide, and (.50 fte) in class 9920 public service aide/probation aide at the department of adult probation. item 2. ordinance authorizing the adult probation department to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $500,000 from the office of justice programs for funding under the second chance act state, local and tribal reentry courts, and amend ordinance no. 191-10 (annual salary ordin

we will soon be joined by ross mirkarimi and sean elsbernd. madam clerk, do we have any announcements today? >> if you wish to submit speaker currents, please submit them to your left. if you wish to submit copies of materials to members of the committee, please submit an extra copy for the file. supervisor chiu: thank you. please call item no. 1. >> hearing on san francisco's public safety conditions, including a discussion of citywide crime levels and crime levels by police district station and/or neighborhood. the hearing shall include a presentation from the mayor's office of criminal justice and/or the san francisco police department, which shall provide all information relevant to the discussion. supervisor chiu: this is our regular item regarding statistics and crime. capt., good to see you. >> good afternoon. during this presentation, i want to present the crime stats. we are preparing an extraction period from august to september. homicides were down from six to 3. rapes were down from 11 to 10. robbery's were even, 236. aggravated as

i am joined by supervisor sean elsbernd. we will shortly be joined by ross mirkarimi. the clerk of the committee is mr. victor young. >> [clerk announcements] supervisor avalos: thank you. please call item no. 1 and 2. >> resolution approving six new airline/airport lease and use agreements between the city and county of san francisco and various airlines, effective july 1, 2011, to allow such airlines to conduct domestic and international flight operations at san francisco international airport. item 2. resolution approving modifications to the terms of two airline/airport lease and use agreements between the city and county of san francisco and alaska airlines, inc. and continental airlines, inc. to allow such airlines to modify the rental of terminal space. supervisor avalos: thank you, victor. we have thms. kathy widener. >> thank you. the airport is here today seeking your approval for six airline leases. the terms of the leases before you are identical to the 25 airline leases that the board approved in may of this year. this is the new agreement. you will see an

i am the one that enhances them with supervisor sean elsbernd. i mean this sincerely, our public employees stepped up. we have fully funded our capital plans. more money will be invested into repaving streets than in any other previous year. god knows we need more money than we have ever spent. my final point, do not support tax increases on the november ballot. there were six tax issues that supervises wanted to advance. there were only two that they were able to get on, but i am shocked that we're having this conversation in this climate. they will be back, i may not, but you need to step in. this is an under taxed city. to increase the hotel tax in this economic environment is suicide. you must defeat this 2% increase on the hotel tax. it is inexcusable that we are having this debate. you just had your property transfer tax doubled a couple of years ago. i guess it was not good enough because they want to increase it again. how does that help us in the commercial sector? i said we balanced budgets without raising taxes and we have more support

i mentioned yesterday in committee -- if sean elsbernd were on the other side of this with have his questions unanswered, we are the tax and spend liberals. he would be having a field day with this. if the impact was an 90% in one of your districts and not one of your colleagues checked in with you before putting their name on it, not a single one -- i know all of you. you probably would not talk about it much here in the chambers, but you would be mad. and rightfully so. because if this little experiment of district elections is going to work and keep working, there has to be some level of deference. it is not like you were going to vote against what you believe in because it is in someone else's district. that is not what i am talking about. but it is the kind of difference for this an appeal on the development project in a district, you would ask to see the supervisor. there has been none of that. for the next three months, i am on this board of supervisors, and when you move this item without these questions answered, without having checked in with the district representative, and you pas

if sean elsberned were on the other -- elsbernd were on the other side of this, his head would be spinning around. since he is a billionaire, it is a yacht race. it was cool when it happened off the coast of ryland, but is as good or is this not good? >> this is like my one opportunity, ok? i am limited to 10 minutes if it clears committee. that is pursuant to the board rules. it would be great if i don't get an opportunity. it would be great if i got an opportunity to see an independent budget analyst report to take a look at the chamber of commerce and bay area's report to see if these numbers are real. 65-75 years. i know that supervisor maxwell, when the issue of home depot was up, they cast votes against it. you felt very strongly that it was inconsiderate of us because we were voting against the will of the home district supervisor. another the president got up and said that he didn't love the idea and didn't love the project, but he loved district elections and he saw the passion for the home district supervisor. that is sort of what carried the day. supervisor maxwell: there were 2