the treasurer has talked about doing these grants to local credit unions and local community development financial institutions, about $250,000 to support projects they work on. i think that would be something worth looking at. we can go offline and talk about how to engage that. we have in terms that are also interested in working on that. perhaps we can study the scope of work we can do through lafco. chairperson campos: thank you, commissioner avalos. supervisor mar: i wanted to say i strongly support research in that area as well, looking at municipal banks in other jurisdictions, statewide and local jurisdictions, and how they have managed to control municipal banking institutions as well. chairperson campos: i want to echo that as well. i think it is a great idea. beginning a preliminary discussion of that topic, also keep in mind that not only do we have the benefit of having lafco staff look into that issue, but, to the extent that there may be a need to have an outside expert that has specific expertise in the area, we also have the ability to retain that, if that is inappropria

item number 1, adopting and implementing amendment 2 to the service employees international union, local 1021. >> this amendment is an amendment to the current contract the city has with sciu local 1021 to implement a legal settlement surrounding some outstanding litigation. it does not affect the current year budget in any way. all agreements will take place at the close of this. supervisor elsbernd: the costs associated for the out years, the next two years -- there was a lot in the controller's letter i did not understand. the employees have agreed to notice these costs in current negotiations and credit them as such -- what does that mean? >> based on our agreement to start paying released individuals' premiums, it will cost the city approximately $4.80 million, which is about 0.65% of payroll. that will actually count toward the settlement in the city's favor during the current year's negotiations. we are in bargaining right now for a successor agreement. this will count toward the cost of that agreement. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. chairperson farrell: any other comments? with

i know that because i belong to a union, local 2, my husband, 35 years, san francisco policemen, part of the police officers association, and my daughter is a labor organizer. so i know the power of seniority. but it is -- it is a hard decision for me to make, too. i think it is hard for anyone to appear to make this decision. personally, i resent that every year i have had to make this vote, ugly as it is. it is a direct result of what happens when the state under funds education. and it is true, it pits people against people, program against program. and today it pits at labor against board members and also the district, and it is the wrong way to work. as mr. kelly says, it is wrong, and there are many, many things that are wrong, but there are some things i cannot ignore. one is that before i became a board member i was a community organizer, and i worked for komen advocates. a year after year, we saw a broken promise after broken promise to the students. we have cut the red ribbon i don't know how many times. i was there when arlene said, private education for public school child

i represent a carpenters' union local 22. this is a block from my office. i do not know how many times i have driven there and bought some day. now it is coming to light, and it is much needed. we strongly support it, and i think it is a great thing moving forward. i want to point out one thing, however, in that one of the developers in the building we have had issues with. i wanted to bring that up. ongoing labor disputes with them. it has not been going well. we wanted to point that out concerning language, mature your standards and concern for the office. -- not above standards and concern for the office. we just wanted to point that out. we do encourage you to move forward on the project. thank you very much for your support. thank you. >> any further public comment? >> just one quick question. city hall directed us to the area as well. dave fenom with the venture capital group. we were directed to san francisco. city hall directed us to that area. we have only just learned of it. i was curious why there are only two proposals? >> in public comment to g

nfers employees international union local 1021 issues p.a.c. san francisco alliance for jobs and sustainable growth p.a.c. san franciscans for jobs and good government supporting ed lee for mayor 2011. last but not least, city residents opposing ed lee for mayor 2011 sponsored by american federation of state, county, municipal employees, afl-cio and afscme. >> i can see why you referred to double your salary. clearly voice-over is part of your experience. >> and i thank you very much. >> ok, shaking is taking place. >> there's seiu but not --. >> close enough to find the box. >> we'll be selecting three from this group. >> we have ed lee for mayor 2011. >> two more. >> myomoto for sheriff, 2011. let's get a good one. and adachi for mayor, 2011. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your service. >> as a city officer, i am happy to serve. >> thank you. 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

am the civil rights co-chair of the united auto workers local 1981 retired amalgamated transit union, local 1555. you don't have to go to other countries to see the effects of what could happen with the type of detention laws that are possible under this so-called anti-terrorism defence act. you just have to go to brooklyn or to the bronx to see several examples, daily examples of indefinite detention, exercised particularly in the black, latino, asian american communities of new york city. japanese detention under franklin roosevelt's executive order was extended to italian americans and more than 10,000 a italian-americans were incarcerated in definitely under the executive order that allowed that tension. the starting point in its san francisco for those tensions were in the excelsior district, on silver avenue, or the bible college is at the top of the hill at silver ave. one of the first victims of the executive order was the mayor, the person who nominated fdr for president at the democratic party convention of 1932. other examples of the effects of this type of detention law would be

i am with the laborers' international union local 261, on behalf of ramon hernandez and those we representcommunity. i am here to talk about the america's cup. because we have excellent relationships with each of you, we are not here to cast blame. but we are prepared to have hundreds of workers on the steps of city hall this very day to celebrate jobs for the community. we commend the efforts of the america's cup authority. we commend the mayor's office and all of you who worked hard on the original plan. we had a private sector agreement on the table that was going to voluntarily engage in local hiring. we are going to hire people in the private sector with contractors that are signatories to our agreements. that is not going to happen now. i represent awesome men and women. the labor movement in san francisco has an awesome reputation. the america's cup was on its way to be an awesome party that was going to benefit not just the workers, but all of san francisco. we have lost that now. we are here to appeal to you.

contractors, the unions, local government, transit, engineers, there is a vast array of people who are beating a path to your door here in washington and meeu for the money and the recovery act that kept a number of them alive bidding looking forward going from here. i sincerely hope that we can approve the senate bill that at le room and gives them some certainty as we go into a construction cycle and we'll have a chance maybe to vote on that later. a way to fill a serious gap his in the bill produce bipartisan support and give people at home they need. and at this point, mr. chair, i would recognize my friend from kentucky, mr. yarmouth, for a minu m friend from oregon, and i wanted to say that many times we talk about infrastructure and we talk about the need and we talk about ther these become my district this ie than rhetorical. interest september until just a few weeks ago we had a major bridge on our interstate 64 across the ohio river shut down because it was too dangerous to drive across. there were 80,000 vehicles a day that normally use that bridge that had to be rerouted. s

louis and portland, maine, local unions are looking to improve. a final barrier to turning around schools is that parents are supposed to fight change in neighborhood schools. sometimes parents do cling to the familiar, but we're finding that parents and community organizations are in many cases actually helping to drive change and to enhance learning opportunities. community engagement is crucial to successful turn arounds. as dennis points out, you can't spell partners without parents. that's one reason that our administration has announced a new initiative called together for tomorrow to foster and expand community engagement in low performing schools, schools shouldn't and can't do this by themselves. together for tomorrow is already under way at six demonstration sites around the country working with the white house and the corporation for national and community service will be expanding this effort to foster more community partnerships to advance school improvement. in the end none of us can do this work alone. promoting the community cultur

>> teachers unions change state by state, massachusetts, the teachers unions are much more amenable to improving education at a local level than some other state unions appear to be. what is the issue here in new jersey at the union level? not at the teacher level, at the union level with regard to vouchers? >> they have made it very clear to me and to the legislature that that is an unacceptable alternative. and they will fight in every way they can. >> all vouchers. >> all vouchers of any kind. pilot program of any kind. no chance, that's what they've said.

i am the vice president of the international longshoremen's union, and local located next to at&t ballparkwe are very proud of the fact that the new cruise terminal is named after our esteemed past president. his legacy was about protecting and creating jobs along this waterfront for the diverse membership. today, i speak on behalf of the international and for four locals that work is san francisco crews and cargo terminals. we support this agreement because the poor investment at the piers will create jobs for our union. it will create jobs for the races in 2013 in the short time, and in the long term, it will create jobs at the increasing cruise business. the facility can be used for a third cruise is the terminal. we have met with a race official, bob, and we have told him our expectations and to have members work at existing terminals. we are asking that the members work where there will be race boats and spectator boats docked. anything short of this will be a blow to our legacy and a rich history on the waterfront. on a leap of faith, we supported the america's cup altman this proces

our federal grant supports schools, leaders, teachers, unions and local partners in the community to undertake this challenging work. we're seeing some very encouraging signs of progress in this first year of data from our sig schools, which actually few experts anticipated. but before i talk about that data, i want to put in context what we're seeing. the starting premise for the sig program is unfortunately painfully self-evident. the united states simply cannot meaningfully boost graduation rates and prom ace quality education to every single child without ending the cycle of failure in our chronically low lf performing schools. tragically not just for a few years but literally for decades children have been cheat out of a world class education in the underperforming schools. states and district officials have traditionally tinkered in these schools instead of treating them as the educational emergencies that they are. and from the moment i became the ceo of the chicago public schools in 2001, i had so many people tell me that not much could be done to transform a failing school a

trades they would be interested in, so those can be dovetailed with apprenticeships programs at local unions. upcoming in august there is going to be a job fair on the uss hornet that we will be attending to look to connect with potential candidates as well. there was also a job fair at the veterans building march 2 that dog holly from the program management team attended to distribute information on our project and the hellman's for hard hats program. in terms of updates on apprenticeships opportunities in utilization, carpenters have reported to us they have nine apprentices currently working on the project. operating engineers have reported they have for apprentices and city build graduates working on the project, and a labor union has identified they have 36 apprentices working on the project in the month of november and december. that concludes my report on progress to date. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer. >supervisor kim: i appreciate you went to buto highrton high school. i am curious how you plan on recruiting students and how big is selected? >> we have an ope

local knowledge was important to the union army through the end of the war. besides as one federal officer stationed in northern alabama wrote, "the negros are our only friends." the question of former slaves aiding the union advance brings up an amusing argument in academic circles a few years ago. do the slaves become free as a result of white action? abraham lincoln or the union army. or were they self-emancipated. james mcpherson, the author of "battle cry of freedom" writing in 1995, noted a tendency in the previous 15 years to slight the role played by abraham lincoln in the end of slavery and to say in effect, the slaves freed themselves. mcpherson disagreed, emphasizing the importance of lincoln's prosecuting the war successfully. edward better len of the university of maryland wrote a rejoinder in which he said in effect the slaves did too free themselves. i find this exchange very reassuring because it shows that you can become an eminent historian even though you slept through the high school biology lecture where the teacher explained symbiosis. t