this memorandum of understanding that will be approving today is basically a combination of negotiations between the city and the supervisors in the county. i had anticipated this memorandum of understanding happening much later but because there was concern raise about the local higher ordnance, will quickly to resolve concerns raised by the supervisors. and when we crafted the local higher ordnance and anticipated the concerns that come from the region about how we build the publicly funded construction projects, last april, we have a hearing. and we heard about the water systems improvement program, we realized that we need to have a local hire ordinance that would take into account the workers in the region that would like to have access to the jobs created when we build. those workers come from areas that are impacted by that development in those regions are contributing to funding the developments in that area. this memorandum of understanding while anticipated, i urge you to vote in favor of a. >> same house, same call? >> in this resolution is adopted. >> resolution approving an agreement between

paying to what you paid to this date, but at least having the security going forward and the understanding city hall is looking out for you as well, that this policy is going to talk about all companies here in san francisco. they were on board with that. actually, they need to be commended for that because regardless right now we're going to be talking aboutblic by taxing the income that individuals are making at that public offering, correct? >> absolutely. what we're talking about, what we're all focused on right here is the specific portion of our payroll tax, which i believe mr. egan talked about and we all know, we do not call out the difference between payroll tax or just head count salary versus stock-based comp. so we're only talking about is a sliver according to stock-based compensation. the additional part about being able to tax companies with salary head count or head count salary, absolutely, that exists still. >> i'm going to digest a little bit more. >> commissioner? commissioner kasselman sclon i'm going to throw out the idea it's great you're helping large businesses who are

is an ordinance adopted and implemented of men and four to the 2007-2013 memorandum of understanding between the city and firefighters local 798 unit 1. supervisor chiu: i understand we have to excuse supervisor chu. without objection, she is excuse. roll call vote. >> on item 36, mar aye. . mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: the ordinance is finally passed. >> item 37, ordinance adopted and implemented amendment 5 to the one -- 2006-2012 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san for disco and the municipal executives association. supervisor chiu: we have a motion to excuse supervisor elsbernd. without objection, he shall be excused. >> on item 37, mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim aye. there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: this ordinance is finally passed. >> item 38 is from the land use and economic development committee without recommendation. an ordinance amending the planning took to establish the

city that i was born and raised in. i was recommended to apply for leadership san francisco. i did my homework, and i thought that it was a great opportunity to really understand how the city works. and it was a great opportunity to me. we had like 70 people in our class from all different walks of life, and it was just a wonderful experience. i actually became more engaged in my community, and i really knew who to call and how to get help in different areas that we actually covered. that is it. supervisor kim: thank you. gia daniller-katz. next, we have james tracy. after james, we have jason porth. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is james tracy. usually when we come in front of each other like this, it is usually run partisan politics, different issues that we're debating of the day. i believe that the number one thing that any commissioner can do is to put aside these things and just basically obey the law. there is the city charter. federal civil rights law. there is a host of other laws that we have to obey. and we have to balance the needs of a very changing the city that is very, very complex geographically. we do not have as many ethnic enclaves

i understand the city block by block. before making any sort of decisions, i would first taken to account the law and second -- maybe that is good or bad, i'm not sure. second, my experience. i just remember tracking people, whether by family or whatever, in this city -- every block is different. supervisor kim: i see that you have lived in various neighborhoods in the city. thank you very much. next, we have kathleen anderson. how are you. >> good morning, supervisors. like you, i love our city and have a great passion for making sure our government is working well for the residents of san francisco. i have applied to the task force because i believe elections should be accessible to all people and through their right to the company feel empowered and have the chance to elect leaders at best represent them. i was a political science major at uc irvine and transferred to stanford and studied economics and statistics among other things. i came to san francisco in 1988 to attend do you see hastings and i have lived in five

supervisor kim: a question that came up, since you both live and work in district 9, your understanding of the city as a whole? >> i have the honor of being able to navigate the city very quickly whenever i have a hankering for a particular cuisine. through that, i have been able to explore vary widely different offerings that the city has. so i am actually one of the people that many people call whenever they have a question about a particular area or neighborhood and they want to have some particular cuisine. they call me up, and i let them know what is good over there. besides that, my work in the bicycle advisory committee gave me some curve you on bicycle- related matters for all differ neighborhoods and districts -- some per view -- soem purview -- some purview. i had the privilege of working with workingco-containers -- working with my co-conveners on those issues as well. supervisor farrell: very impressive background. i will ask the same question i have been asking -- is is the first commission or appointment you have applied for? >> no, i am on the bicycle advisory committee. i am distric

i warned the city that the 1994 memorandum of understanding with the navy was voided because the navy was withholding information on toxic contamination. in 1999, we want the city not to lease a building of the shipyard because it sat on top of a pcb dump. mr. cohen argued we should move forward with it. the dump broke the surface and burned from august until april 2000. it caused ongoing cleanup for the next 10 years. we have worked very hard to assure you understand this. in response to comments, the city has stated that the navy has accepted responsibility for all the debris found on treasure island, including that related to incineration site 12. on the other hand, article 12 of the economic development conveyance -- i am going to jump ahead. chairperson mar: i would like to ask you to simply try to wrap up, if you can. >> if you look at article 21, the navy says something very different than that. we have a number of cleanup projects on the island. this product is unstable, with many unknowns. we are concerned these will vastly modify the project proposal. thank you very much for

that our and the rights commission is there to make sure we understand that history, that everybody in this city, whether a company or corporation or police and firemen or fire department understands that the diversity in the city is to be something that is celebrated. you are part of the fabric, so with that, please, welcome yourselves here. this is as much your house as it is ours. have a wonderful nowruz celebration. and we will continue to have open dialogue welcoming all of the families here today. thank you very much today, and have the persian new year -- half the persian new year -- kathy -- happy persian new year. [applause] that my great words of wisdom. we appreciate. now, i would like to introduce the coast of this event. a man who in our community does not need any introduction. he has been loved and supported by our community. he is of a ready and heritage, and he has been an ardent supporter of the iranian american and iranian american causes. he is also one of the hardest working people i have ever known. so with no further ado, i would like you to welcome supervisor ross mirkari

it is important understand the city funding carries less than the minimum cost of the city charter obligation to maintain and displayed and provide security. since we opened in 2003, the museum has sought to curtail the expenditures. we have been driving up attendance from all beijing -- all available sources, contributing to the earned revenue. the ability to maintain the viability and fulfill the public mission is going to remain important with the global financial support. >> we have a few questions. we had come to the board with a restructuring not so long ago. we had a concern -- concentrated effort from the perspective of the board to raise money to be able to supplement that package. >> the process had been going well. we have the campaign consultant, and we're working with the mayor's office. we need for the mayor to begin -- and meeting with several key stakeholders. we have the face of the capital campaign. >> the sales with the revenue, i appreciate the comments that have been made about this exhibit, and it is great to see high praise for this. this is going to be a large piece of

we are all trying to do that, but, obviously, we need to do more of it because we understand the city only has so much money, but we will support for that. we do not want to be told just go out there and go get it. we need support from the city and others to understand that supporting the services is really important. i would say just from my perspective, the san francisco foundation, i give them a lot of applause for focusing on gas services and the real needs in the community. they have really rearranged their funding to fund that, and we need others to look at that the same way because we are serving some of the most vulnerable people in san francisco, and we have been cut and cut, so we were trying to get some fairness and equity in the way things are cut, and we really appreciated supervisor cohen's leadership in moving forward. supervisor cohen: thank you. [applause] okay, one last housekeeping rule -- if you are on the edge, if you could move in and fill some of these center seats in this section or the road you are in, we still have people that do not have seeds that are stand

city. we have them at the apartment building inspections. someone understands what they are. you can look at them and read them and find one in your neighborhood. is that right? >> that is true. many geologists have spent many years mapping the geologic conditions. there are excellent maps of the city. in fact, there are a hazard maps. in 1974, there was a landslide map. >> that's right. that is available at that apartment building inspection. these are excellent maps. >> there is a real legacy of geologists working and now cannot always published. san francisco has a great repository of some of these archives. there is a child just -- a geologist to publish letters that is a great source of information. we are on the coast, they have the definitive work for all of the [inaudible] >> and did they pick up the old [inaudible] and wetlands? >> there was a map of those that weren' off the field. you can see where these are with respect to those that have been filled in with a debris from the 06 earthquake. >> that is one of the things i've learned, the very local zones, exactly w

. >> a resolution to approve the second amendment to the memorandum of understanding between the city and the san francisco that establishes governance structure and procedures for application. >> on from the department of emergency management. this is a request for a second amendment -- an extensive and on the second amendment on the memorandum of understanding for the urban areas securities and a shift. we represent the city of san francisco, the city of oakland, the city of san jose, the county of alameda and the county of santa clara. we request you authorize us to go forward with that second exception. supervisor campos: we have a second extension. i don't know if you have any question or comment, colleagues. thank you very much. why don't we open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing a nun, the public, disclosed. i have a motion to -- can you call item no. 3? >> a motion designating the examiner to be the newspaper of the city and county of san francisco for all official advertising. >> good morning. i'm from the office of

city? i don't understand that. i am a former police captain secretary and as such, i was even made a nut cake. anybody can be made a nut cake. all it takes is money, honey. i didn't have it. so i'm a nut cake. that's so he could have the cheapest divorce in history. great. well, 34 1/2 years of marriage but whatever. i still think it would be nice if we had police administration sitting in on this panel instead of just lawyers so that we have police input not just civilians saying how stupid they are and that we need community policing. community policing, you got your average everyday citizen who wants to file a complaint because he didn't like getting a traffic citation, getting arrested, or whatever, having the right to file all sorts of complaints, they all can file their complaints, but the police should be in policing the police. it's all i think should be the idea of community policing. they're not stupid. we've been around since the gold rush, 1849. this is not a new police department under any circumstance

city successful. i want you to know that we understand that our city is no longer a stagnant city. it is a growing city, a city that's population is growing. companies want to come here. they want to employ our residents. they want to help us grow. so we have focused on what we can do to sustain those jobs and make sure our city is successful. we have our america's cup that is slated to occur here in 2013. what a wonderful opportunity to continue to make that event grow. it is no longer a national event. it is an international event and reminds us how much we are as an international city. we continue to embrace our local hire program. thanks to the before your supervisors, i am working extremely hard to make sure it is not just construction, but we have a spirit of local hire in every company that here. we have apprenticeships programs reflected in our budget that will allow our department of public works, our recreation and parks department, our environmental department to work together to make sure that we hire as many people as possible to fill our apprenticeship programs as we

they have no memorandum of understanding with the city and destroying the benefits of democracy is what the money is for. president chiu: are there any other members of the public who wish to speak in general public comment? madam clark, could we go to our adoption of the committee reference calendar? >> items 37-41 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. they can be acted on without a single roll call vote. president chiu: would anybody like to sever any of these items? >> on items 37-41. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu:. president chiu: these resolutions are adopted. can we get to the imperative? >> we have a resolution commending the international business machines corp., ibm, on its centennial in 2011 and its global day of service. >> we have a resolution with the finding. supervisor farrell has made a motion to adopt the resolution. is there a

supervisor kim: i want an understanding of your understanding of the city as a whole. were you have lived and how long. >> moved here in 1999. my wife and grew up here in the late roy said area. that is what brought us back to san francisco. we looked originally in the richmond district. now live in lakeside. supervisor kim: what are some important principles or values that you would consider their your decision making process on the redistricting committee? >> the primary one is ensuring that communities of interest do not lose any ability to elect a person to the board of supervisors. i -- by community of interest, it can be ethnic communities. it can be populations that are drawn together and lived near one another. it can be merchants' associations and other want to interact with city hall. protecting those communities, recognizing the neighborhoods that make up san francisco and finding value in the strength of the city in the neighborhoods and how they are comprised is a key component of how i would approach the process. i think that would really be informed by a

contributions made by members participating in drop in the city's share on drop funds and and the cost related to the implementations of the program. >> i understand that through that prism, but does the city itself have a definition of costa neutrality? do we on our own operating plane -- definition of cost of neutrality? does that give us a margin of error say 1% above or below whenever the baseline determination is once we enter into these kind of contracts. that is what i am trying to understand. >> in this summary front section to the charter amendment, it refers to a simpler view of it -- shall not impose new costs as a result of the participation of police officers in the drop. supervisor mirkarimi: it is a little vague to me only because i'm trying to catch up and understand our yardstick compared to other cities who are experiencing the same debate. it seems our controller would like to weigh in. >> we do not have a single definition of costs neutrality we apply to all circumstances in this city. generally speaking, absent other direction, our office would apply an absolute rule to take it at its face. i know there has been conversation i

needs of our small businesses in san francisco, help them understand and navigate the complex structure in getting a business opened within the city and county of san francisco. initially, primarily, we were going to be about helping you understand licensing and permitting requirements, but, really, shortly after we open our doors, we understood that we were also, as a government entity, a place for people to come when they want to know about loans, about writing a business plan. where to go to do that, where to go to get assistance. we are also a resourced. when we do see people in our office, many of them are a year or two out from even opening their business, so we will ask them what their credits for is, have they done their business plans, do they know what they're capital needs are going to be, how much money they have, how much money they are going to need to open their business. based upon those questions, we will direct them to the sba for workshops, courses. there is other entities that also provide workshop courses score as well in terms of helping to write business plans. also helping to educate the distinction between

2, ordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 1 to the 2010-2012 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and -- the 2012 act with probation officers association. the organs adopting and implementing amendment no. 4 to the 2007 -- firefighters local 7, and item number five, adopting a minimum number for the 2007 -- for the firefighters local unit. >> i have been advised that this has to be items 2-5 and 7-24 at the same time. my apologies. madame clerk, -- >> item #7, adopting a minute no. 4 to the 2006-2012 for the technical engineers local 21, and the ordinance adopting the first amendment to the 2010 -- institutional police officers association. item #9 to adopt a minute no. 1 to the 2010-2012 -- attorneys association. the ordinance adopted amendment no. 5 to the 2006 -- 2012 manipulate -- association and amendment no. 3 to the 2007 -- the executive association fire. item number 12 to adopt and implement amendment no. 3 to the 2007 -- 2013 association. the ordinance adopting amendment no. 1 to the 2010 -- 2012 and -- operating engineers no. 3. the ordinance