are there other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. icles being purchased. it typically is in terms of this equipment program. i wonder, after your thought process and your evaluation, generally, has it been that you are authorizing the purchase of cars to replace those that are out of service? i know there has also been an effort to reduce the size of our fleet as well. >> that is right, supervisor. we are using this process to purchase replacement vehicles as vehicles go out of service. but we have also been over the last several years making a concerted effort to reduce the size of our fleet. if we were to take a look, we would see that although we are replacing some vehicles, we are not replacing all of them. that process is something we are continuing to look at this year with fleet management. to figure out if there are better ways for the city to share vehicles, to find other kinds of cost savings so we do not need as many. chairperson chu: thank you. we have heard public comment on this item. do we have a motion to send the item

partnership is the friends of the public library. on the front page of this it says, did you receive any and funding from any governmental resource? no. if you turn to page 15, the question is, "did you receive anything of value from a governmental entity without charge?" again, zero, zero, zero, for the past five years, they contend they've received nothing of value in services or facilities from the san francisco public library, which, of course, is nonsense. they use the facilities for all kinds of things. they sell naming opportunities, they gather books, they gather donations. what they get from the library side is this lack of disclosure. this is a scandal that a department like this is basically privately run, all of their policy determinations are this private entity and in fact this is the essential idea of every con artist. it's called hubris. as far as they're concerned, responsibility is for fools. i hope you understand that these two things go together. if corruption were not synonymous with responsibility, abuse would no

>> the timeline is march 6. we will have a public hearing on fares, fees, and finds, including all of the items in this presentation. the latter part of the presentation has been number of slides on possible revenue measures. we're not recommending any of them, but we will be holding a public hearing to hear public comment and feedback on all of those ideas. we will be doing a series of town hall meetings in march. we will be taking something similar to this information out to the public and soliciting feedback and we will bring our first proposed budget to the board on april 3. we have a deadline to get the proposed budget to city hall by may 1. so if we do not get a consensus on the budget, we would have a second crack at it on april 17. possibly it would be voted on april 3. at the latest, april 17 before it is transmitted to city hall for the may 1 deadline. in the meantime, i believe we're scheduled for the budget committee on april 13. supervisor chu: march 6 is the first public hearing and there'll be a series of town halls an

[laughter] the struggle is that we're both public trust agencies. the mandate is narrower than the public port responsibility. initially i think we look at it more as a clash, and now frankly i think we're looking at more as a reconciliation and compromise. previously if you had proposed a project that was a maritime project, bcdc would not give credit recognition to the public trust of value in the same way by being willing to share that space along the pier 27 apron or in the provisioning area of pier 27 as a shared maritime and public access space. they are willing, and they have embraced the idea that the port needs to use the space for some of its functions. they accept the security requirements to close those areas are real. there is not a penalty or not a direct offset we are having to seek out because of that. our experience has really been very collaborative, and i think that both of these agencies has gained a richer understanding about the in the relationship of our public trust responsibility such that we can work together, and at this po

any members of the public? secretary boomer: david pilpell. >> there is a lot of information here, so let me be quick, and maybe i will ask a question at the end. these require a little more detailed explanation, at least to the public. the $2 million in management reductions, not clear what that is, the determination of the leases was not clear what and where the operating impacts would be. i want to be clear, on page 11 of the operating hand out, that charging for transfers i think it's a bad idea. similarly, charging for the clipper, that is bad. there could be a discount for multiple rides on the clipper, similar to tokens, so if somebody wants to load $40 worth of cash, i would give them more than 20 rides so there is an incentive to use multiple rides using clipper, tokens, but i would not charge more overtly for a cash there unless we are increasing cash fares generally, and we have had some discussions about ratios between the cash fares and the ratios. on slide 12, the automatic indexing, one of the box

i'm with the public controller's office of public finance. e certificate of presentation. -- of participation. a related ordinance was adopted by this board in october of 2010 that approved the issuance of the cop along with the finance of the various transmission documents, not to exceed $40 million, of which $38 million would finance its three acts as an improvement. since october of 2010, the projects that have relied on the city's commercial paper to provide interim financing, and as of march of this year, approximately $10 million has been drawn upon and expanded by the project. with the cop, the current plan is to refund the commercial paper and then balance -- and then the balance through the project completion, around may. the city's disclosures, but that we call attendance -- that we call appendix a, the results of the november election, several bond measures that have been approved and issued, along with updates to the current fiscal year budget and finances, and the related agencies. those details are provided in appendix 8. -- appe

is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, please call item five. >> item 5. increase the amount of the professional services contract with wmh corporation by $4,300,000, to a total amount not to exceed $5,900,000, to complete preliminary engineering, environmental analysis, and design services of the yerba buena island bridge structures and authorize the executive director to modify contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. commissioner campos: thank you. items five through 11 are items that were heard and considered by the finance committee. i do not know if commissioner wiener has anything to add, as chair of the finance committee, to any of the items. commisioner wiener: no, mr. chair. commissioner campos: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. roll-call on item five. >> [roll call] the item passes. commissioner campos: please call item six. >> item 6. award a two-year consultant contract

. >> stop the public rape of the public finance -- public library. as i said last week, the careers of politicians based on vanity and abuse of power disappear as fast as they arise. where is the progress of democracy comes from the sacrifice of many nameless individuals, it is built up slowly over decades. national sunshine week was last week, but it needs to be emphasized because it is no secret that open government is under attack in san francisco. you give someone a title and already he thinks he is an aristocrat who should be able to make his self-serving deals at the expense of the public without interference or annoyance from democracy. you will notice that in san francisco, no one recognized note -- national sunshine week. there was a time when open government and open records laws and the public library were involved in serving the right to know and empowering the people. that was before the library and government decided that serving the interests of the so-called aristocrats could be turned into a private income stream. you have become so e

there is a meeting in the richmond that the public library at 6:00. it is about entertainment and what not out in the richmond area. >> your turn. >> c-mac's security guard training went well. they had 27 students from a lot of clubs around the city. i think it is a good start. i think c-mac will do another training in maybe six months. that looks like there is interest. >> commissioner lee, a quick question. they did the power to arrest. does c-mac intend to do the additional 40 hours? >> they have been informed that they have to do the continuing education. there is continuing education on the other 32 hours. >> some people ask me that question and i didn't have an answer. >> they can do that on their own time. the information was sent to us. all the forms and everything, those are the next steps. >> anybody else? seeing none, that concludes the tuesday, march 27 meeting of the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco. thank you for coming. >> hello. the welcome to the creditor meeting of the budget and finance committee. my

any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? >> out of respect, we're going -- we have some video presentations and we're looking forward to the conversation. thousands of young people have been working with supervisor campos and the board of the mta to address the needs of low- income youth and access. we are excited about what we can do to really increase resources for public transit around the clock and it needs and it needs for equity for low income families. that is what we are excited to be partnering with you about and we look forward to when this next conversation happens and to catching you before the upcoming budget discussions on march 6. supervisor chu: are there other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. i know you are doing a lot to talk about the ongoing issues and actions coming before the board in addition to items at the board of supervisors. in terms of a time line, could you and let us know about that? >>

i am with the comptroller's office of public finance. the item before you is to put -- approve the issuance of a tax- exempt basis, a federal tax dollars that require borrowers to get approval from your local jurisdiction before issuing tax- exempt obligations. our office has held duly noticed public hearings, requesting approval of the financing. i believe that mrs. spitz will answer any questions you have on financing for the project. there is no -- the city is not a party to the transaction. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor avalos? >> i support the rest -- supervisor avalos: i support the resolution in terms of school financing. it has provided a lot of great community benefits in terms of meeting space and in our space for nonprofit organizations that train young people as well. on top of being a great school. i offered to sponsor this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor. i believe that given that there is no fiscal impact on the city, there is no budget analyst report. let's open the item for public comme

thank you. >> are there other members of the public who wish to speak on item #3? -- item number four, please. >> a resolution authorizing the department of public health to retroactively accept an extended grant in the amount of $137,933 from the public health foundation enterprises inc. to participate in a program entitled "viral hepatitis surveillance in the city and county of san francisco" for january 1, 2012 through october 31, 2012, and waving in direct costs. >> on the project director for the chronic hepatitis viral surveillance project and i am here to formally request -- i am formally here to see if we can have this excepted. >>supervisor chu: if you could explain the grant and what would be done with it? >> we have been maintaining a chronic hepatitis registry of all the positive lab tests that come and annually for chronic hepatitis b and c. that funding has been through the sec the of that public health foundation and we're a subcontractor for the grant. they are putting out a new funding opportunity announcement later this year, but this is a one time

other public employees throughout the state have this. san francisco employees do not have this as a result of proposition c, which you all voted for. commissioner campos: thank you. this is public comment on the 2011 annual report. thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. please call item 16. >> my apologies. this is an action item. i know that the house has changed. >> [roll call] the item passes. commissioner campos: thank you. again, we want to think the executive director and his staff for the work that went into the annual report. please call item 16. >> introduction of new items. this is an information item. commissioner campos: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any new items that you want to reduce? madam clerk, please call item 17. >> public comment. commissioner campos: this is an opportunity for the public to revive public comment on any item within the jurisd

the proposed project will provide public benefits in the form of new public open space. amounting to approximately 25,000 square feet of new open public space. jackson commons would be developed between the residential buildings and the help and aquatics center along the jackson st. alignment. -- the health and aquatics center along the jackson st. alignment. landscape and meandering pedestrian path will lead to a more hard skipped area with cafe seating at the embarcadero. pacific park totaling 11,500 square feet would be developed at the northern end of the project site and contain approximately 4500 square feet, children's and -- square garden and a cafe building would be constructed adjacent to the park, which would include a rooftop deck. the existing guard and what would also be widened, adding an additional 2890 square feet of public open space and connecting the park to bomb -- and jackson commons. the shadow is very small. approximately 0.0067% of the theoretical ana billable sunlight. this would occur for 15 minutes in the morning and evening for june and july.

copies available to the public. finally, you can't delegate work to more than one member of the task force. as you were thinking of different pieces that you might delegate, delegate to one person and the person can request help from other individuals so long as it is not a quorum. and finally i just want to remind you, the agendas have to be posted 72 hours in advance. is the best practice to include all information that will be discussed. it is probably not going to be possible given some of the tight deadlines. anything you have that you know will be discussed in the meeting has to be included in the agenda packet. materials that are not -- the first time you have something, give it to the clerk. >> can i ask you to repeat the items you set for each district? >> population and a variation, a relevant and demographic information, a list of recognized neighborhoods, i think that is really key. communities of interest as applicable. any specific findings regarding continuity. the san diego redistricting taskforce has

president chiu: why don't we hear from members of the public. you have two minutes unless you are translating into another language. let's hear from the first speaker. >> [speaking foreign language] we have problem -- [speaking foreign language] it is my pleasure to talk with you about what is going on here, in san francisco. as you know, i am [unintelligible] in the last month, the u.s. has lost a great singer, whitney houston. you can see her picture on my t- shirt. i am a fan. i want to tell you the truth. it is our time. i include myself to take care of the homeless. we see them. many of them, they take drugs. i hope to see many of you have courage like many of our supervisors, such as former supervisor fiona, and [unintelligible] the grateful supervisor, jane kim. they have been with me to the shelter. some have courage to stay there one night to see, it is shame when you see or ask one of our supervisors, have you been to the shelter in the district. he does not know how many shelters you have. i try to save the lives of the poor people who

at the department of public works colleagues. it over to the mayor lee for a few comments. >> thank you, michael, and a thank-you for your stewardship. you and barbara, ed harrington, you have done a great job. when i was city administrator, asked mayor newsom if i could do the ev's. i liked working with our department of environment, with melanie, with bob and others. they sat down and spend some good time talking about innovation for the city as to how we can get off of oil. i am glad the day that -- today that the chairman is here. a year ago, we announced that we wanted 100 of these charging stations placed throughout all of the public garages. that was the strongest signal that we could give that we were going to pave the way and be supportive of the national movement and be the bay area leaders of the ev revolution. we have 49 of these stations placed. does a wonderful goal. before the end of this year, we'll have them -- an additional 33. we see that the private sector has also joined in. we have hotels, parking garages th

>> ordnance amending the codes to provide a contribution option for the establishment of a public art trust fund. supervisor mar: if i could ask people to please leave the room quietly if you can. thank you. i would like to ask people if you could take the conversations outside the committee room please thank you. we are going to resume at that meeting. you have already called item #4. we're going to resume with item #4. the item has been called, so let me introduce the supervisor and our president, david chiu. could we please reconvene? thank you. we are resuming. thank you. >> if you remember, this is a piece of legislation to provide more flexibility to our city currently uses the 1% public arts the. there was only one outstanding issue the last time we met and that had to do with an amendment i have just offered that is supported by the mayor. just to remind you, the city currently requires developments over 2500 square feet. as this piece of legislation moves through the process, the planning commission an arts commission wanted to expand this citywide. the legislation expands re

the next item on the agenda is presentation of the public finance report. as noted here, after each election cycle involving publicly financed races, the staff assists us in reporting on execution of the program and answers many of the questions that we have about patterns and trends that may be taking place and provides some very helpful information. i want to thank ms. shaikh and the staff at all levels for bringing us another helpful and comprehensive report on the limited public financing program. is there anything you want to add initially, i will then ask the commissioner fist they have any questions or comments. >> it was a very interesting election. we had many complicated questions. we didn't have an idle moment. it was the first time we administered the public financing program in a mayoral race and it was a lot more work than we expected. >> i think those words are apparent to all of us and we watched during the season and i for one simply want to note that you all -- and i mean the entire staff -- handled an extremely complicated and unprecedente

any member of the public -- >> thank you. just a question to the staff, what is the relationship between this and the broader western proposed plan that is moving forward in the process now? i say that because there are some of us that have significant concerns about that plan and i just want to say that i fully understand what the ramifications of this item are. >> let me let planning answer that question. this is a transportation plan and it is a subset of the larger western plan which is a larger land use plan so what this study did was look at specific capital projects in terms of alleyway improvements and then a sheriff street design and this advance to the design to community outreach and established the analysis that will be cleared as part of the larger land use planned environmental report. this work is strictly transportation-related and it has designed an average and cost assessment for the next page of work. once it undergoes a full environmental review and approval, these will be ready for implementation. does tha

i think the perception of the public was they had a right to see the video and understand what happened in that incident, at least as star as you could from the video. but i think in terms of trying to get away from all this, i don't think if what you described again, i think the public has seen information which they think should be released but wouldn't be released under the current regimen. i realize it's an impossible question because of the issues of national security. but could you just tell me how congress responds to that, what i think is a wildly held public perception. >> anyone. >> i think -- i mean, it's difficult to address outside of the particular facts of any one particular incident. i think that there's certainly -- i mean, it's an important balance to ensure that we're protecting generally national security and properly classified information and that that's not compromised and then on the other hand ensuring that information isn't being improperly withheld. i mean, that's no news to anyone, but i think that's just the balances that has to be given. in terms of respond

what did they have to hide from the public? last year, this committee approved a 2011 work plan that included research reports as requested by individuals and the board of supervisors. these reports may be kept confidential at the discretion of the requesting board member. the same statement is in your 2012 plan. this type of secrecy is against open government. please do not approve a work plan that allows for secret reports. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i would like to thank the board of supervisors for approving an audit for the department of public health. it is a start. if you are serious about saving money to help the poor in san francisco, and you'll find plenty of waste and inefficiency at the department of health. the budget which analyst the did the budget analyst did do a report on the department of public health and 20 -- in 2003. my own department was involved in that report. i would like to recommend that the 2003 report be read before the audit plan is done so you will have an idea of wh

they're many the public file and the intended audience of the public disclosures is the public at large. any member of the public who wants to see that information can get it. they have to go to the station, knock on the door and ask to see the public file. >> i don't agree with you on that. for example, our media buyers gave us all of that information in the last campaign instantaneo instantaneously. we knew within ten or 15 minutes. i sure you my media buyer was not able to go to a tv station when they were in st. louis in 15 minutes. i think a lot of that information is available now. i guess i'm confused as to why you all are doing this when i can still get the information from the federal election commission. let's say it says emerson for congress made this buy. i can go online and find out who all my contributors are. i'm just -- i'm confused by whether is there a problem? >> the information that's in broadcaster public files and broadcasters have been required by statute and commission rules for many years as part of the obligations for public trustees to maintain certain informa

are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? >> i am the president and co- founder of better world telecom and we just moved to market street and are contemplating moving our headquarters as well. i think we would follow some of the interesting points from the commodity industry and so i will come back to that. the companies that have been certified, which is the certifying agency, benefits corporations. if you look into the website and the information there, you will see that these corporations are providing back to the community. we volunteer two employees per day per month and we donate our topline revenue to children, education, and fair trade. we have enormous amounts of energy that we put into this. the companies that qualify are doing an enormous amounts of giving back in their communities. the transparency is very high. you will see all of our profiles that we have filled out. any company that qualifies has to do that as well. this really raises the bar of transparency and giving back. we are strong support of this legisl

is there any other member of the public? public comment is closed. >> item 20, adjournment. >> meeting adjourned. >> 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 >> good morning, everybody. i am the manager -- we will kick it off first with a message from our cities librarian. the director of the san francisco library system. [applause] >> thank you. this is fantastic. good morning to everybody. i am a little jealous. i said, this is not my house. it is your house. welcome to all of you. this is indeed your house. i am a little jealous because i did those of green t-shirts. -- dig those green t-shirt. we are proud to be part of youth advocacy day. that is where it begins. congratulations to each and every one of you for being here. i cannot say enough about our great librarians. we need your feedback. today is going to

it was not an attempt to hide anything from the public. there were just a lot of concern from members of the board that we are doing the right thing here. as someone who has come here before, an advocate for public financing, i am not 100% happy with everything in this, but, on balance, it is a good effort. the standard that you are charged, to look at changes like this, does this further the goals of the campaign finance reform ordinance? that is what any changes meant to do. looking at it that way, this document does that. it does a number of good things, including dealing with the zombie candidate issue, and will make the program itself more stable because it is making us more conscious of the use of public dollars. it is going to make sure there is enough money in the fund, we hope, to finance all the candidates based on past elections, but it is also going to make it a love it harder to get the public financing, as we know. on balance, we have struck a good package here. i would urge you to support it. we know we need a boat from the b

the department of public works did follow the old process. but the granting of the request is a broader-based request of whether the city did something intentionally or not intentionally to provide notice. when you look at an ordinance that did not provide notice, even

is there any other member of the public? public comment is closed. >> item 20, adjournment. >> meeting adjourned.

is there any member of the public who wishes to speak? public comment is closed. can we take this, same house, same call? if we can call item no. 17, out of order. unless there is any objection to that. >> this is the information item. we have this on the request of commissioner winner. what's the metropolitan commission -- and the sustainability project is a very important project in terms of assessing how the transit operators can improve their operations, with more cost- effective and efficient way. and squeezing more service out of the limited resources that we have. the transit operators around the region, they have been involved in this process, with the working group. and obviously, there are some disagreements -- to provide some incentives and accountability measures to make sure that they are addressing the cost structures. i will present an update about -- -- >> good afternoon. >> is the microphone on? if you can get close to the microphone, thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. it is good to be here, with the trans this inability project. this is a

likewise, from the other key public spaces around telegraph hill. pioneer park, for example, you can see that there is no encumbrance of views on these pieces. preserving light and sun lights basis, this is part of the project design. we are including 30,000 square feet of new sunlit public spaces. as you saw this morning, the effect on sue bierman park. by computer, you can identify two rivers. previously less than 1/1 thousand of 1% of any effect. believe me, this is imperceptible from the point of view of us as human beings using the site. design excellence. the project requires the highest level of design. to this end, we are designing a building which is quiet and elegant, designed to be a strong urban edge, defining the civic space that it fronts. the intention is to withstand the changes in fashion and trends over time and make this a project that wears well in terms of aesthetics but also in terms of materials used. we are using limestone, naturally patinad materials. hardwood with a buy the building of high quality end age naturally over tim