but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >> although it was obvious we would appoint an interim mayor, there was no time line for the two to occur. we looked to outside counsel for answers. they researched those questions. while they researched the legal angle, we began the research on the parliamentary level. at the beginning of the calendar year 2010, we started to craft a generic process for a successor for mayor. being a parliamentarian of the board, i have been working on the process itself. i have been working with two one and parliamentarians in the city. we did some role-playing and tried to contemplate all of the different variables that the board would encounter in appointing a successor mayor. >> the first time i became aware of the process as when my editor and myself asked us how the process would work. we quickly became tongue tied and did not have an answer. you went to the clerk of the board of supervisors to ask, the difference supervisors, the city a

i urge you not to bring this amendment to the full board. it does seem to violate the rights of the voter. i know the board of supervisors is -- and the mayor are unduly burdened by many initiatives that are passed by voters, but this is not the way to correct that. i can't believe that if this did go forward that it would not be overturned by a court at some near future daytime. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. chair kim. judy berkowitz. supervisors, where's the beef? show me the money. there's no -- on this. this as is, as mr. welch said, a solution in search of a problem. there is no ordinances or declarations passed in the past 25, 350 years. mr. welch came up with numbers but where's column a with the exact ledge. column b where has it gone to the voters to change in any way and column c, what the outcome was in that? there's no evidence anywhere that there's a need for this. it is reported to be good government, but it's taking away all -- including the signature initiated initiatives, it's taking aw

members of the board of supervisors. it would in franchise as many of our individual electors as possible in the decision making. >> this vote we will be taking is without question the most important vote we will cast as members of the board of supervisors. >> alioto-pier, there are 11 ayes. this motion is approved as amended. >> there was a lot of ambiguity run the process. to have the board to settle on a process felt really good, that we had to tackle that part of it. >> if you are a supervisor, you cannot vote for yourself. if you are nominated for that office, you cannot participate in the discussions, so you have to leave the room. you cannot text people, you cannot get on facebook. you can watch the process in your office, but you cannot let anyone know what your thinking or doing. the most you can say is i accept the nomination, and then leave. if you do not accept the nomination, and you can participate, and then you will be out of the process for consideration. >> with the process agreed upon, board member chris

so is the board. in terms of the recommendation of it being one time in nature, i would categorize it as that, as the savings are only going to accrue for not paying the salaries for one year. you're number two, will not have the savings because it will be a full-time individual by that time. >> first of all, i do not think that we have attrition savings in the port. we do have it in the airport, quite a bit. historic way, madam chair, since we have been reviewing the budgets, attritions savings has been a constant and ongoing savings for the city. i understand your point. we could look at this either way. but certainly, historic way, the mayor's office takes a certain factor of attrition savings. historic with a budget analyst reviews that and comes up with either an agreement or recommendation on an increase, so that is why we have kept it in the ongoing account. supervisor chu: i understand that point, and you are correct, it was referring to the airport before the end of the port, but i think that

the board can condition approval of that contract. they cannot force the developer to address those -- to accept the changes. it would require that the developer consent to change the contract, ultimately. the question is are the changes being proposed something the developer would accept. if not, the board could pass a resolution approving an agreement that never enters into. supervisor avalos: since the developer has already accepted that agreement -- >> the developer discussed the changes introduced by president chiu and agreed to those. supervisor avalos: and on the tenants side, they do not have a say? >> we are entering into an agreement with the developer, not the tenants. supervisor avalos: that is some catch-22. supervisor campos: let me first of all respond to supervisor elsbernd. that is one of the fun things about having all of these lawyers on this board. for me, in terms of deciding the level of risk or uncertainty that one is willing to take, we have to listen to the tenants to have been exposed to that risk. we have hea

any items removed from first reading by the board? seeing none, any item severed for discussion tonight? commissioner norton: can i severe the resolution about the summer school funds? president mendoza: that is k-14 through 33. commissioner norton: i am sure we can address them all in one. it is basically the same question. president mendoza: thank you. the roll-call vote will take place now. commissioner murase:-- commissioner maufas: k seven and k eight -- k-7 and k-8. president mendoza: any others tex seeing none, item h is the superintendent's proposal -- and the others? seeing none, item h is the superintendent proposal. commissioner yee? i am sorry. this was the resolution of the board of education ordering an election to authorize general obligation bonds, is publishing specifications of the election order. -- establishing specifications of the election order. vice president yee: we had discussions of what it would do, and also had a discussion of our earlier bonds and what that has done. for this particular bond measure, the t

met again for the last in the meeting of the board. still without a mayor selected or even nominations made. time was running out on the current board, but december 14 seemed like a rerun of december 7, with supervisor maxwell again making a motion to continue to the last board meeting in early january. >> colleagues, i ask that we continue this item. i think we have three weeks to have somebody floating out there for that amount of time is not going to be to our best interest. it will give us an opportunity to really think about, in the next few weeks, what is ahead of us. it allows the board to step back and take a breath and wait this heavy decision that we were just about ready to make. >> there was no one lined up. that was one of the most fascinating and frustrating things about the process. no one knew what was going to happen. everyone was asking. it was amazing. do you know what is going on, do you know who has the upper hand? >> after the holidays, and jerry brown was sworn in as cal.'s next governor. but the tenant gov. elect

comments from the board? commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: i just want to clarify or ask the superintendent to clarify that not only what's in our budget projections that we've looked at, but just to be clear for me that the budget numbers that we presented to the administrative law judge include spending all that $18 million. superintendent garcia: yes, it does. i mean, maybe i should elaborate a little bit. i mean, i keep hearing this all evening. the reality, folks, as much as i hate saying this, if you add the $18 million from both the rainy day fund and the jobs bill and luckily we didn't use it because we're carrying it over for next year. even with that, the amount of cuts that we're going to have to make in the next two years will be $84 million in addition to that. so, you know, i hate this meeting every year. i think it's an absolutely deplorable meeting. but the reality is that we don't even know what our budget's going to be for next year. that's just the fact. there's the main revised comes out monday. unfortun