of this meeting is available for purchase directly from sfgtv. at this point, we will conduct our swearing-in process. if you intend to testify in any of the hearings and wish to have the board did your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand, reroute right hand, and say "i do" after you have been sworn in or firm. and a member of the public may speak without taking the oath pursuant to their rights under the sunshine ordinance. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony or about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. we move to item one, public comment. is there any member of the public wishes to speak on an item that is not on tonight's calendar? seeing none, we move to item two, which is commissioner comments and questions. commissioners, anything? seeing none, item three, the adoption of minutes. before you for consideration are the minutes of the board's june 22, 2011 meeting. vice president garcia: it looks like there are no comments or suggestions, so i move that we adopt

we have members from sfgtv here. do you have any announcements? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, turned in a speaker card to myself. if you present documents to the committee, please provide a document to the clerk. items from today will appear in the board of supervisors agenda on june 21, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. call item one. >> and to consider release of reserved funds for the supervisors in the amount of $34,515 for the temporary relocation of the board of supervisors meetings. >> madam chair and members of the budget and finance committee, i am the deputy director of administration, clerk of the board. on february 2, a hearing was held at the budget and finance committee. placed on committee reserves, funds in the amount of $51,054, pending additional details and the temporary relocation. based on a new quote and estimates for media services, the revised costs or between $34,515 for poorer meetings -- for four meetings. san francisco government tv

government television, cable channel 78, and dvd's are available for purchase from as of the tv -- from sfgtv. if you intend to testify, please stand, raise your right hand, and say i do. you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give an will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> and we will start with item number one, which is general public comment. is there anyone here who wishes to speak to an item not on the calendar? seeing none, commissioner's comments and questions seeing none, we will move to the adoption of minutes. this is for the board meeting of may 25. any comments? >> my only comment would be that on item number five it would seem reasonable that because four votes were needed to overturn, it was up held. maybe that is a given. >> we can and that. -- add that. anything else? >> any other comments, commissioners, i will move to adoption without amendment. >> as their public comment on the minutes? phenom, and we will call the roll. >> on the adoption -- seeing none, we will call the roll. >> on the adoption of -- [calling votes] 4-0, those ame

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i would also like to a knowledge our friends at sfgtv for the professional and courteous work they do. madam clerk, what do we have first on the agenda? >> the first item is hearing under proposed fiscal year 2011-2012 budgets of san francisco unified school district. >> thank you. are there any conversations you would like to have? any words? anything you would like to say? ok, all right. thank you very much. let's begin with -- actually, i have a few words. we have school district staff that will be making a presentation today on the first agenda item. please step up to the microphone. thank you. >> should i get started? ok. good afternoon, everyone. i am the director of budget services for the san francisco unified school district. i am here to give you a brief update on our -- not just the governor's budget proposal for the state k-12 education, but our status and where we are with our district's budget development. this presentation was provided to our own board members a few weeks ago at one of our committee hearings. so it might be repetitive for you, but bear with me. let me s

thank you to sfgtv in their excellence of covering the happenings at city hall. please call roll call. -- transportation authority. >> [roll call] we have a quorum. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. item two. >> item 2. approval of minutes of may 24, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: comments or questions? public comments? public comment is closed. approval of the minutes seconded by commissioner campos, avalos. roll call. >> [roll call] there are nine ayes. commissioner mirkarimi: please read items 3 and 4. >> item 3. chairs report. this is an information item.item 4. executive director's report. this is an information item. commissioner mirkarimi: the region is now in the throes of an important policy discussion about the way that growth will occur in the next two to three decades and the focus is on dealing with climate change and assuring we invest in truly sustainable transportation infrastructure and services. this is a debate that has been taking place at mtc and abag. last week, at a meeting, we had a clearer look at how the d

of supervisors, i come to you today to talk to you directly but also to the voters were watching on sfgtv. last thursday, an amendment was put an, an initiative, which would allow the board of supervisors after three years to change all initiatives including voter initiative the- initiatives. it was after seven years which would allow them to appeal those initiatives. is this an attempt to gather signatures from our fellow citizens and or an accident at -- or organizing and putting something on the ballot and i think that this is really kind of a slap at all of the people over the 20 or 30 or 50 years that initiatives have been available where they went out, organize, and made an effort to change something. public comments were made which i thought was disingenuous. one was that this would be for minor technical changes. this is not preclude them from getting certain things like enforcement provisions that would basically change or make a lot on workable. also, the person who put this forward said, well, i don't have any particular thing that i am looking at but i have a hard time thinkin

supervisor mar: i would also like to think the staff of sfgtv for televising us today. we have a number of items on our agenda -- eight items -- and i have been urged by my colleague supervisor wiener to move the hearing on the t-line performance so he could hear the action items. could you please call item 1? >> item 1, or is amending the planning could regarding the authorization of historic signs. supervisor campos: thank you for hearing this item, i also want to thank all the members of the audience to are here. just to give you a little context, many of you perhaps have read that in brno heights, there was recently discovered of coca-cola sign, and that is a sign that has been in that location for decades. it has been an integral part of the history of the neighborhood, and rightly many people in the neighborhood wanted to preserve the sign in response -- wanted to preserve the signed. in response to that desire, we have draft legislation before you today. in drafting the legislation know, we wanted to take into account that even though we were responding to a spec

the committee would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record the meetings in the transcripts available online. i want to thank jennifer and nona. are there any announcements? >> yes, the items on the agenda today will go to the full board on tuesday, june 28, unless otherwise indicated. supervisor kim: thank you. please call item one. >> sent to consider appointing one member, a term ending january 21, 2013, to the veterans affairs commission. there is one seat and one applicant. supervisor kim: i believe the one applicant has withdrawn her application. >> that is correct. supervisor kim: thank you. we will open it up for public comment. seeing none, public, disclosed. is there a motion to file this item? without opposition, this motion is not file. madam clerk, call item two. >> considering appointed one member, a term ending december 31, 2011, to the western soma citizens planning task force. there's one seat and one applicant. supervisor kim: the clerk's office informed us that this appointment does not require a hearing, because it is an appointment by the district 6 supe

we want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff for covering the meeting, mark and illon. please call item two. >> ifitem 2. approve the minutes of the may 17, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: we have been joined by david chiu. we have the minutes of the meeting. before we take any action, let me ask members of the public if they would like to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? seconded by commissioner avalos. can we take that without objection? without objection. please call item three. >> item 3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> good morning mr. -- good morning, mr. chairman. i was appointed to the committee last year. i have been asked by our new chairman davis to make a report on four important items that are before your committee and that have been reviewed by the citizens of 53 committee. those items are items 5, 7 -- 5, 6, and 7. but i will make my comments quickly on five, six, and seven to say the cac voted 7-2 to recommend your committee approved a fiscal year 2011-20

we want to thank sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> i would like to announce to please turn off all riinger volumes on cell phones. and--- ringer volumes on cell phones. supervisor campos: thank you. if you could please call item one. >>item 1, hearing to receive regular status reports on the america's cup. supervisor campos: this is something i introduced with supervisor mirkarimi. we want to make sure that we provide the necessary oversight in the implementation of this -- of the various agreements that are implemented, and more specifically to make sure that all of the interests of the city and county of san francisco are protected come into the extent that there are certain obligations that those are met not only on the city part, but on the part of the cities involved. we have been joined by committee vice chair supervisor farrell. with that, i will turn it over to stop. >> good morning. mike martin and office of economic and work force development. i am pleased to come before you toda

it is a simple process that is approved by both rec park and sfgtv. some new and innovative projects we recently funding include a lego education robot kit to expand their randall museum's robotics course for fifth through 12th grades students in rec center city-wide. also, safety equipment. pads, ramps, and more for the new action sports program. i think you saw some of that today. it is fun to think of all the kids at summer camp who are being protected by this. i would like to recognize bob and his staff for the great work this year. and michael taylor of san francisco parks trust, and our trusty, christine gardner, who encouraged sports basement to keep up their support. if you accept this gift, we can do even more. sports basement provided give certificates in support of a fine contest call the name your favorite rec center, going on now through june 30. these are $250 gift certificates that will go to the winners of the contest. over 125 people had voted for their favorite rec center. all you have to do is go to our website, sfpt.org, and vote f

thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor."e have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he w

commissioner mirkarimi: i want to thank sfgtv for their fine ongoing coverage. this now concludes the public safety committee. thank you all.

thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor."e have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to help make a change? i'm not really doin' anything. ummmm [sighs] got me on that one... building inspection brown bag lunch. today we have an extremely special event. we are here at paige glass on mission street in san francisco with mr. ken paige. ken paige has generously invited us into his glass shop and gallery. and the paige glass goes back a long, long time, right? to preearthquake, whichever earthquake -- >> all of them. they're all good. >> when did paige glass start? >> the big one, 1906. >> this happened afs in your family, was paige glass back then? >> well, the 1906 was a very important year, of course, for san francisco, needless to say. the bad news was the death a

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thank you sfgtv. i've included a six-slide power point in the online packet. in february you approved the department's budget. at that time it was $10.78 million. what was before the committee submitted by the mayor was slightly more than approved in february based upon cost associated with final benefits and the true cost of work orders charged to us by other departments. the budget now totals $10.83 million. this chart provides an overview of the budget proposal by division. as shown the proposed budget does increase the general fund allocation by $300,000 or by 3%. it makes up the majority of this increase which is more clearly shown on the next slide which is our projected salary costs. the committee is aware the proposed budget does not include any new positions, upgrades or other increases in staff support. the proposed salary budget is $7.7 million or 5.4%, higher than the current year. and again, it's the fringe benefit increases that are driving over half of this change. the factors resulting in the remaining increases are a decrease in attrition savi

thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor."e have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in t

thank you for your work at sfgtv. supervisor cohen: this session is closed. >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor -- local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. ♪ >> many san franciscans are not aware that there is a civic art collection of numbers almost 4000 works of art. preserving the collection and maintaining it is something being addressed by a new program called art care. it is a way for citizens to participate in the preservati

supervisor mar: thank you to the staff of sfgtv for broadcasting this today. we have nine items. there's an overflow room. we plan to be recessing this meeting shortly at a little bit before 10:00 a.m. for about 10 minutes to 15 minutes. 4for the five items on our agenda, we should call the first item first and the next items altogether. could you please call item 1? >> item 1. supervisor mar: do we have a representative from the mayor's office? >> good morning. good morning, supervisor mar, supervisors cohen, and supervisors wiener. i'm here to request your approval to move it from the city to the san francisco housing authority. alice griffith is undergoing revitalization as one of the five developments. this community is also one of the six finalists in the initiative. the goal is to transform distressed public housing developments into vibrant communities and enhancing the lives of the residents. once revitalized, alice griffith will replace 256 public housing units and approximately 700 below market rate and market rate home ownership. the hope of hope sf to connect resident