we have jennifer and mark from the sfgtv. do we have announcements today? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak, turn out a speaker card and turn them in. it please provide a copy of documents for the file. items will appear in the board of supervisors agenda on september 13, 2011 unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. just so folks know in the audience, we will be going down the order, item one, two, and three. before we get into the mou items, i would like to wait for supervisor mirkarimi, because i need to recuse myself from one of the items. so if you can call item number 1. >> item number one, or it's a proven in the grid with nonstop music library to license the use of the music library and waiving certain requirements of the administrative code with respect to the license agreement. i believe we have a potential amendment. supervisor chu: thank you. we have an amendment of the whole, but we also have representatives to speak about the amendment. >> good morning. i am from the department of technology. al

b d -- dvd's are available directly from sfgtv. at this time, we will conduct our swearing in process. if you plan to testify and wish to have your testimony given evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your hand, and say "i do" after you have been sworn or affirmed. there are rights pursuant to the sunshine ordinance. thank you. again, if you intend to speak, please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. director goldstein: thank you. moving to item number one, which is general public comment, is there someone who would like to speak on an item that is not on our agenda this evening? seeing none, commissioner comments and questions. commissioners? and item number three which is the adoption of minutes, those are before you for the august 17, 2011 meeting. commissioner goh: comments, commissioners? i move their adoption. director goldstein: is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing n

, cable channel 78, and dvd's of this meeting are available for purchase directly from sfgtv. thank you for your attention. at this time, we will conduct our swearing in process. if you wish to give testimony and have this be given evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your right hand, and say, "i do," after you have been sworn or affirmed. please note that any member of the public may speak pursuant to the rights of the sunshine ordinance of the administrative code. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. thank you. director goldstein: thank you. commissioner peterson, commissioners, -- president goh, commissioner, some of these items will not be heard this evening, and those are with respect to the property on mason street, item six. also, items 7, regarding another property, they have jointly asked that the meeting be rescheduled. with a board vote, we can move it to that date, december 17. president goh: do we need a motion? director goldstein: we do. president goh: so moved.

chairperson mar: i would like to thank the staff apart -- of sfgtv, as always. i have had a recommendation from supervisor weiner to move to item 32 the last item. without objection, that is what we -- item 3 to the last item. without objection, that is what we plan to do. >> item 1, approving the jurisdictional transfer of property on 17th street and folsom st.. chairperson mar: i know we have a number of rock -- we have a number of speakers from recreation and park that are here to answer questions if needed. there is linda robertson and alex randolph. thank you for providing the information to our office. i also want to acknowledge the members from the community that are here. mr. updike? >> members of the committee, john updike, real-estate. this is a jurisdictional transfer of a property at 17th street and folsom from the puc to the preparation and park department and the mayor's office of housing. it facilitates the park project on the southern part of the property and would allow for possible future development of the northern portion by the mayor's offic

the meetings are available for purchase on dvd directly from sfgtv. if you plan to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony, please stand, raise your right hand, and say "i do," after you have been sworn in or affirmed. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you will give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. we will move on to item number one, which is public comment. is there anyone that would like to speak on an item not on the agenda? we will move to item number 2 which is commissioner comments and questions. >> item number3 is the adoption of minutes. before you are the minutes of the meeting of july 27th. >> if not, i will move the adoption. >> is to any public comment on the minutes? >> on the motion to a job the minutes to launch on the motion to adopt the minutes. -- on the motion to adopt the minutes. thank you, at the vote is 5-0. >> the next item on the calendar is a special item, this is a presentation of a resolution honoring of florence corn field for his service --

we have mark and bill from sfgtv. >> please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please provide a speaker card and turn them in to myself. if you present any documents, please include a copy to the clark. items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on center 20, 2011 unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi has requested that we recusing. we can take that without objection. call item number 1. >> resolution authorizing an increase in the assessor- recorder's base recording fee for recording and indexing the first page of every instrument, paper, or notice from $3.10 dollars pursuant to california government code section -- section 27361(a). supervisor chu: thank you. this is brought to us by supervisor kim, and the ss r is here. >> good morning, supervisors. i would like to thank supervisor kim for carrying this legislation. it is fairly simple. pursuant to senate bill 676 in 2009, it allows us to increase the fees for the first page that we file on vari

supervisor mar: thank you, and i would like to thank the staff at sfgtv for broadcasting us today. mr. young, gratefully we have only one agenda item today. could you please call that? clerk young: this is for dedicating them to public use. supervisor mar: thank you. and we have a staff presentation. quickscat afternoon, supervisors, chair. i am with the planning department. today's resolution is before you. it is a resolution that gives the improvement, and i have a quick slide show for you powell street. it gives the improvements that the union square business improvement district t install on powell street, thanks to money they receive from audi. unfortunately, the image on the screen is cut off. i would just cycled through this. basically, what we did is an extension along powell( street ellis to geary, abobo two blocks, along that corridor. powell street enjoys about 1000 pedestrians. it is one of the most active pedestrian street in the united states. we removed or re-purposed the sidewalk parking zone, which was not parking but just loading, and we were able to identify a l

getting cameras on him, doing more demonstration projects, other thing that we can put on the web, sfgtv, and other places. so for those who cannot attend meetings, they can access the information and learn simple and cost-effective ways to make their homes more seismically safe, for example. commissioner walker: thank you very much for the implementation work you are doing. a lot of us have been working on this for a decade or more. it is really gratifying to see some of this move forward. i also want to remind commissioners and folks

>> we will catch up on sfgtv. >> the agency perceived 77% before. during the last quarter, nine of the 37 lines evaluated achieved on-time performance of 80% or greater. in terms of the mandated goal of 85%, the bay shore express', and of the 88 aboard shuttle were all over 85%. next, scheduled service hours delivered, the agency continues its steady improvement in this area. to 97% 2011. presidio led all divisions on service delivery in the green division delivered 93.1%. the charter mandated goal is 98.5%. on a quarterly basis, 97.6% of services levered in the third quarter and 96.2% in the fourth. the last of the metrics is a late pullout, the percentage of vehicles leaving the yard behind schedule. performance improved incrementally from 0.8% 2.7% of the party after schedule. the goal is less than 1.5%. -- from 0.8% 7% traded the level of collisions decreased, dropping to 5267% grade the goal is 5.29%. -- dropping it to 5.7%. the crosswalk, continued to improve on an annual basis to 16% at 2011. in the most recent quarter, 17.7% of the networks

that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58, and we want to thank read your catering for providing some delicious food for us to nibble on today, so will you please join us and say thank you again to mrs. colvin and also to byrin bain for telling his story, but thank you for coming so that we can say thank you to miss colvin for being a living history maker. join us. thank you. ♪ lift every voice and sing >> so it's a tremendous honor to be here today. we've got a tremendous program for you. this is our annual black history month kickoff. it was started many, many years ago. dr. carter g. woodson had participated in the founding of black history month. he was involved in the group known as the oh, -- association for the study of african-american life and history. the local chapter of that group is what is now known as the african-american cultural and historical society. so it's an honor. we'v

we want to thank the following members of sfgtv for covering this meeting. we want to thank them for their continued good work. carolyn and nona. do we have any announcements? >> yes. i would like to ask that all cell phone ringers be turned off. if you wish to speak during public comment, fill in a speaker card and place it at the podium. items acted upon today will appear on the october 4 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor campos: pete -- please call item number 1. >> hearing on the 2010-2011 civil grand jury report entitled "hiring practices of the city and county of san francisco." supervisor campos: thank you very much. in the next few weeks, the government audits and oversight committee will be holding a series of meetings on various reports from the civil grand jury. i want to begin by thanking the members of the civil grand jury for their service to the city and county of san francisco. this is important work, and we know it is very time-consuming. again, we want to thank you. with that, i will turn it over to the civil g

>> we will catch up on sfgtv. >> the agency perceived 77% before.ing the last quarter, nine of the 37 lines evaluated achieved on-time performance of 80% or greater. in terms of the mandated goal of 85%, the bay shore express', and of the 88 aboard shuttle were all over 85%. next, scheduled service hours delivered, the agency continues its steady improvement in this area. to 97% 2011. presidio led all divisions on service delivery in the green division delivered 93.1%. the charter mte

>> we will catch up on sfgtv. >> the agency perceived 77% before.ing the last quarter, nine of the 37 lines evaluated achieved on-time performance of 80% or greater. in terms of the mandated goal of 85%, the bay shore express', and of the 88 aboard shuttle were all over 85%. next, scheduled service hours delivered, the agency continues its steady improvement in this area. to 97% 2011. presidio led all divisions on service delivery in the green division delivered 93.1%. the charter mandated goal is 98.5%. on a quarterly basis, 97.6% of services levered in the third quarter and 96.2% in the fourth. the last of the metrics is a late pullout, the percentage of vehicles leaving the yard behind schedule. performance improved incrementally from

that panel was televised and is now running periodically on sfgtv. we have linked it to our website. on october 16, the mission in lower 24th merchants are having a meeting. i will be working with them to bring together a panel. their meetings are from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. from 1130 until 1:00. it is on tuesday, midday. if you are available, i invite you to come. i want to a knowledge of the merchant's association. they were extraordinarily proactive with the video store, and there will be inspections. they did do their cast inspection. i want to applaud them that monthly, they are assembling a meeting so that businesses that may have received a letter can come and talk to them. i attended a meeting last week and there will be some new business that received a letter and had it not been for their consistent information education through the emergence newsletter, she would have thrown away the letter. nashua be able to respond. i appreciate the merchant's association being very proactive and responsive to their merchants. and katherine who is the in tur

getting cameras on him, doing more demonstration projects, other thing that we can put on the web, sfgtv, and other places. so for those who cannot attend meetings, they can access the information and learn simple and cost-effective ways to make their homes more seismically safe, for example. commissioner walker: thank you very much for the implementation work you are doing. a lot of us have been working on this for a decade or more. it is really gratifying to see some of this move forward. i also want to remind commissioners and folks that heidi and i actually were invited to present in vancouver, canada to 150 professionals from the building industry there. their city is, unfortunately, dealing with some very challenging buildings, a lot of cement construction there that is problematic. their risk is maybe less of happening in the near future than ours, but they have expressed interest in partnering with us, that we could share our process that we have worked on for so long, and provide them a template to help them define their inventory, setting forth a similar recovery program. that

i just want to thank sfgtv for their ongoing excellence and thank you for the expeditious meeting. is there anything further? >> item 13 is the adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: very good. meeting adjourned.

supervisor mar: and i want to thank sfgtv for being with us again today. madam somera, could you please read the first item? clerk somera: i'd in number one, planning code, the zoning map, establishing the lombard and scott street affordable housing special use district. supervisor mar: i have heard that something has been filed against this. we can conduct a public hearing as we are expected to, and as an administrative meeting, we can pass it to the full board, continue the item or table the legislation, so i suggest that we move forward with the public hearing, keeping these limitations in mind. also, and, again, cheryl adams is our city attorney. she has advised us that eight used appeal has been filed against this. today's hearing is not about the merits of the project. -- she has advised us that a u.s. appeal -- a use appeal has been filed. we all have to keep an open mind until we have seen input from the conditional use hearing, which will be held before the full board. today is about a special use district, a piece of zoning legislation that could

we want to thank the following members of sfgtv for covering this meeting today. mark and nona. madam clerk, do have announcements? >> yes. i ask that you turn off all or ringers on phones. please fill it is bigger card. you may turn it in to the right side of the podium. we want the motion for the committee report on the october 4 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. as was indicated, this is a special meeting of the government audits and oversight committee. those of you who are here, thank you for your presence. we're working on getting an overflow room in the event that we needed more space. once we know what that overflow room will be, we will announce it. let me simply began by noting that this is legislation that i introduced, and i want to thank my colleagues on the board of supervisors who have been co- sponsors of this legislation, beginning with supervisor cohen, supervisor mar, supervisor avalos, supervisor kim, and supervisor mirkarimi. i also want to think it the very broad coalition that has worked together in the last few

i just want to thank sfgtv for their ongoing excellence and thank you for the expeditious meeting. is there anything further? >> item 13 is the adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: very good. meeting adjourned. he >> you can see that it is amazing. you can hear that it is refreshing. you reach for it because it is irresistible. and the taste. simply delicious. san francisco tap water. it engages the senses. 311 is an important resource for all san franciscans. should >> ok, thank you. thank you, everybody, for being here. local 261, thank you, laborers, for being here. mr. harrington, thank you. john martin, our airport, thank you. d.e.m., of course, ann, thank you very much for being here and our human rights commission director, thank you very much, terese afor being here. it's a large city family. >> dennis, thank you. thank you very much, dennis, for being here. commissioner normandy, supervisor carmen chu, thank you. good morning, everyone. larry, good to see you, great to be out there with the new labor center. wonderful. friends, family, emily, judy, good to see you. everybo

thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor."e have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ ♪ >> hello, and welcome to the department of elections right choice voting instructional video. it is part of the department of elections right choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco rig franciscoht choice voting. today we will learn what it is and who is elected using this voting method. we will also talk about with the ranked joyce l. looks like and how to market correctly. finally, we will see how the ranked joyce voting process works and to you an example of an election using ranked choice of voting. so, what is ranked joyce voting? in march 2002 san francisco voters adopted a charter to implement ranked choice of voting, also known as instant runoff voting. san francisco voters will use it to elect most local officials by selecting a first choice candidate in the first column on the ballot and deborah second and third choice candidates in the second and third columns resect to do -- respectivel

be between now and tuesday you could work with my staff and we could work with the good folks from sfgtv to make this happen, but i think that the importance of this is such that i think we need to move expeditiously -- whether you agree or disagree with the specific findings or recommendations, the one thing that is clear to me is we can all benefit from that added transparency. maybe we can work together between now and tuesday so we can introduce something at the next board meeting to move quickly to make that happen. >> we intend to make it happen. if this will make it happen more expeditiously, i am sure my commissioners will be grateful. fifth supervisor campos: please continue if you like anything else to be continued. i think doing that has helped to bring about a lot more transparency and community support for the decisions of the commission, and i hope and think that might be the same with yours. whenever my office can do to help with that, we have gone through this discussion before with regard to very similar issues are around budget, and we figured out a way to deal with tha

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 san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed