us to this point. and to our department heads and folks in the community who have helped us to get to a place where we can feel good about this budget. overall, the budget, again, we spoke in high levels and allows for restoration and adjustments to the budget, that's worth $17 million. many of the things that are important to us, making sure that we support small businesses is emphasized by allowing us to add additional resources to our office of small business, something that is very important to many of our businesses in the community. not only that, we have been able to add and will take a look at public safety in other places where we are seeing different supervisor and different boards having decisions to layoff officers. in san francisco, this board, we have prioritized making sure that public safety is a significant concern and is a top priority of this board. we cannot do that without the leadership of members of this board and all the partners to make sure that we do fund the police academy class in the coming year. again, republic comment before on the drop program and what we would expect

we found that lets us not only to compare the quality, but it allows us to compare the outcomes. we significantly reduced what we used to be charged for. we have to preapproved the attorneys, and we also require a budget, and this gives us the ability to control costs superior -- control costs. >> you have 1.5 million plus $500,000 for special ed. >> yes, it is through the county superior -- through the county. >> you're asking for asa and -- permission to spend 300,000 out of the 500,000. >> that is correct. >> i want to say i appreciate the way you are approaching the contracts with outside law firms compared to what you used to do, and i ask this question earlier and was not going to question it, but i do appreciate the fact that you have a bench. i keep thinking interests -- jurists, but i think that is a good approach. we can pick and choose, and depending on some of front contract, it feels like you almost have to use amounthem, so thank you. >> i also want to thank you for your approach and how you are going to undertake the work they need, and also i'd appreciate her you have really taken the view on how we can get things done, but i w

have to come before you. we have no recourse and no way of having this explained to us and we have nobody to get too to be ableo say to them, wait a minute, how does this even happen? each time this division has put up a report of any sort that talks about money, and believe me, none of them say the same thing, we have responded back and sent hundreds -- spent hundreds of hours responding and we have not once got a reply. we are being told this does not have to go before you because it is a j.o.c. we started out with $150,000. i think we should have a public opportunity to discuss this. from everything that we know, these so-called -- the so-called level of detail is not looked at or examined by this division, although the project manager gets the opportunity to do that. this project manager has not uttered a single word to us in person in two or three years. she will respond to an e-mail only if she is instructed to do it and she charges us for it. how do we have this discussion? we scheduled meetings again count -- to get -- that it canceled. we are told there is some opposition to what you want. we examine

use others. the major thing we have to look at is prevention. we have so many different levels of things we have to use. we can't just say, okay. drop your gun off, you're cool. that's not a shot at the program. we need that problem. but we need these other programs and dealing with the parents and families. we just first grader at cleveland. i worked at cleveland. he probably found the gun. stuffed it in his back and went to school. >> nobody knew >> all my friend that is have guns. it's because it's for protection. because they don't want to be caught without a gun. if you're without a gun, there's more of a chance you're going to get hurt yourself. >> i guess the question is how do we make people feel safe in our communities? the issue is how do we need to get people to feel like they don't need a gun. >> you got video games that allow them to placate the attitudes. we have movies that make millions of dollars of that attitude created from our community. yes, we must do this, we must look at all the components. as reductions took place. man if

to $50 million. by approving this transaction we have allowed the department to spend the dollars, allowing them to use the commercial program to front costs without allowing us to sell today with the use of commercial paper that is very efficient at this time. in addition we have also added some documents. we ask you for that. we have looked conservatively at the numbers we are showing today. we have an interest rate of 5.6%. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer them. supervisor chu: ok, thank you. >> a good morning. it is my extreme great pleasure to be here before you to present the veterans building project, which i have been working on for over 20 years. the department of public works manager, without the capital planning program we would not be here today. we have a presentation that we have passed around for you. certainly the president did go over the historic significance of the veterans building. it is internationally significant as the birthplace of the united nations. the city and the state landmark, currently we have data that over 300 performances for year. we have city o

people are not used to having cars anymore. they sometimes use a car and go to a car sharing club or something. it is socially acceptable to cycle. 30, 40 years ago, you would maybe be seen as a loser if he came on a bicycle, -- if you came on a bicycle, but now it is for everybody. everyone is cycling. it is not, the former generation in the 60's, denmark, they could afford to buy a car and they really enjoyed it. they wanted to show it, and all trips they made or made by cars, the the new generation has a completely different view. >> i already gave my answer during my presentation. it is everything, especially if it is business or businessmen, it is money driven. show it is comparative in cost or it is less cost for business. because if you show that, there is a discussion. >> let me ask before i go to the next question, what in your experience the you believe was the most influential and excepting the different stages of the car and its role in the city? i am sure over 40 years, your attitudes toward the automobile have chan

have questions. we would like to say -- and you can say to us -- thank you so much for coming. [applause] >> good evening i am the director of the culture association and devoted to the program and here we have master of arts. (applause). (speaking spanish) (speaking spanish). >> what he is saying that thanks to the bant. bante he got funding for of the peru vaifian culture and got approved. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. >> good. (speaking spanish). >> so we have a variety of instruments -- that we're going to be showing you. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of the instrument is called tale boheha. >> (speaking spanish). >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the surroundings and big jars and they used to have water or other type was drinks. >> (speaking spanish). >> covered with leather skin. >> (speaking spanish). >> and they make the drums. >>. >> (speaking spanish). (drums). (applause). >> (speaking spa

we used to have three. we have competition from all sorts of places.try to keep our business in the city. when people come in, they see signs allover saying that our product may lead to cancer, this kind of stuff, it makes it really hard for us. if there was harm that would be done, this ordinance would be in place all over the united states. supervisor avalos: thank you. if there are no other members of the public, we will close public comment. i would like to call the director backup. just a few things the responsibility on the merchant selling cell phones, is that correct? >> correct. and back to the department of the environment is responsible for that most of the coach. it's simply -- it simply says that cell phone exposure, as stated by a number of studies and there is metalwork to -- under in the is there any consolation how that might protect themselves? >> one speaker spoke about her manual. it is true, and consumers have to be at and from asia collects for me of the good to know our profit. it unknown and -- i will protect myself. using hands

use. that leads to my last comment on that. accessory use generally applies to something someone having a beauty parlor in their home and the law restricts them to using 25% of their home space. it can't be any bigger than that. so that the primary purpose of that building is a home and -- ru sure, i understand. >> and the conditional use is beauty parlor. >> sure, i understand. >> and the form of entertainment, it's difficult to say that even if it's on a stage that it's only -- what is it? 25 by -- >> 200 square feet. >> ok. a 200 square-foot stage, you're not confining the entertainment to 200 square feet. the entertainment bounces off all the walls and out the front door that's -- unless somebody tells them to close it. so again, you know, i think, you know i'm positive about this, i have good feelings about this working in general but it's the unintended consequences that i'm talking about tonight and that i'm just hoping stays in the conversation as this goes to the planning commission and then goes through committee and thin through the full board, the unintended consequences. so in the case of the principle use being a

obviously the goal at the end of the day is to make sure that over time that we have is used well. and bringing them from 30% to discovering more folks using over and being the most efficient way to go at it. and given the past where we have had situations and i think they can continue to use that and that you can streamline reporting we have been -- supervisor chu: we have a motion and a second. can we do that without objection? item #seven foul please. >> item number 7. -- item number seven, please. >> item number 7. motion approving and exercising the final option set forth in january 1, 2012, and this is an item carry forward and do not have a report with a budget analyst about this, but it is a way to contract services for two years, a carryover from if not, let's open this up for. and members of of of

the skype software that you used to have to leave facebook to use. now, you can do a skype video chat or call without leaving facebook. this is big for facebook. this is not so revolutionary for the users. >> are these the kind people that actually want to have video chat and video conferences? i thought that was more of a work scenario. >> with any audience, this kind of a video chat behavior is for the minority of your interactions because if you are in a certain place, once you introduce visual and audio cues, you have to have a controlled environment. i cannot have a video chat with you while i'm on the bus. this is by definition a rich interface for a minority of your communications. nonetheless, they spoke with like this to happen within facebook and not have you leave facebook and have you use your skype program. >> one thing that seems to be clear is that the business side, this comes in the same week that google has announced its social network is try to take on facebook as well. who was winning that battle? >> if you measure this on sheer nu

us, go to a full-time position. in effect, my employees leave us and they will be double dipping. this amendment is unfair to us who have complied and have the good spirit of the hra. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is adam levin. i run several pizza parlors in the city. we cannot pass on any of the health care costs in additional fees. just an example of one store that does not make enough to pass on -- to take on additional expenses. one-third of the crew is full time, two-thirds is part time. in the past, before the city passed its mandate, full-time employees got health insurance, dental, paid time off as a benefit. we spend about $250,000 for our crew. then the city passed its own minimum-wage and paid time off. that added $30,000 to our cost. most of that money went to the part-time employees, the tipped employees. full-time employees were already making more and had benefits. then the city passed health care benefits. without the hra option, it will cost another $25,000. with the hra, which i use for part-time employees, we were able to manage that at a considerably lower number. now

to lend. >> thank you. hopefully, people have their question cards. i am going to open it up to the audience. if you have written a question down, please give it to us so we can start compiling them. if i see a repeat questions, it will help to expedite the process, answering those questions that people want answered. we have some of the best and brightest minds here. don't be shy. if you could do us a favor and use the microphone so that everyone can hear your question. >> you had mentioned about assistance in public contracting. for small companies, one of the issues is bonding. what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, similar to what we do. it is a guarantee to be assured the in the event of a default, that is a guarantee. so there is a charity bond guarantee, structured differently than the sba guaranteed loan program. >> i am a big fan of marketing. let u

the skype software that you used to have to leave facebook to use. now, you can do a skype video chat or call without leaving facebook. this is big for facebook. this is not so revolutionary for the users. >> are these the kind people that actually want to have video chat and video conferences? i thought that was more of a work scenario. >> with any audience, this kind of a video chat behavior is for the minority of your interactions because if you are in a certain place, once you introduce visual and audio cues, you have to have a controlled environment. i cannot have a video chat with you while i'm on the bus. this is by definition a rich interface for a minority of your communications. nonetheless, they spoke with like this to happen within facebook and not have you leave facebook and have you use your skype program. >> one thing that seems to be clear is that the business side, this comes in the same week that google has announced its social network is try to take on facebook as well. who was winning that battle? >> if you measure this on sheer nu

have to do. and so, that is a tremendous sacrifice that they have been willing to do on their own. i absolutely believe that they deserve the praise for helping us get to where we are. with that, colleagues, if there are no other further comments, we have to move a few items. items one and two which have been combined from the two agenda is representing aao and aso. we have made amendments to that. can we movie studio itee these e or july? >> tso moso moved. >> we have the two-year budget and apa resolution. >> there have been a couple questions on this and i would like to have a conversation with the budget analyst about desperate. as i discussed with the city attorney, one thing that might be appropriate at this time possibly is to continue this item to the next budgeting. we do have to resolve this motion by the end of this month and potentially as sparkler to explore an option of a one-year exercise options. just throwing that out for conversation. to see it that makes sense for us to continue this out and we can have a conversation in the next few weeks about that possibility. >> order motion is to send this item forward to the full board w

have something that would make you want to vote for it. so to the extent that you have questions or concerns, that would allow us two weeks to answer some of those questions or come back with a more definitive response. we would love to hear that today. between now and then, the goal would be that if you have any kind of concern you can tell us about today, we can try and get the information to you by that meeting. >> recently had the first question from commissioner torres on how many commercial accounts we have in the city. >> i did not capture the schedule you are anticipating. it is a term sheet for july 26. >> correct. >> then what? >> we will be going to the board with that term sheet and contract for consideration. we will need to opposite -- also bring the contracts with noble. >> just a minute. term sheet and contract with and go to the board. so do we see the contract? >> the idea is you it's about the term sheet in contract. the term sheet first of the contract later. >> yes. commissioner torres: ok. and then and noble follows? >> yes. and then as we bring the information forward to the board, through the commission to the board