vice-president yee: aye. >> item p is the consent calendar resolution for board discussion. that is the sacrificial lamb tonight. this was our item k2. i said that he did not have to stay for this. i just wanted to use this as an example for something that drives me crazy. the resolution is something that should be under the selection process. it should explain how the selection process works. the selection process is actually why this is a retroactive resolution. the challenge that i continue to have is that there are items that come before us that are often grants that we have been given. they have not dropped into our account. they come to us after we have already started service. the challenge is, are there any of these richelieu's since -- resolutions, which are retro, we have been given the grant, it did not drop into our account. what i want to try to avoid is this idea that we are having services move forward without the money being identified or the money has not been approved for the money gets shif

president o'brien: commissioner yee riley? commissioner yee riley: how many homeowners will be affected by this? >> i have not studied it myself, but we know that there are 7000 lots affected. we can assume that the majority of them are residential or retail or industrial and haven't become office. as to how many or converted to office? i have heard different figures. i would say probably 1000 buildings just because i have spent 20 years in the city doing permit and development law. i am speaking from my experience. how many small businesses in each of those thousand buildings? i don't know what you consume, but the number of them are owned by the tenant, owned by the user, sorry. they are single-user buildings. another large portion, they have multiple businesses under one landlord. that is the best i can answer. commissioner yee riley: it has been three years, why do you think it is only currently in the enterprise that applies for this? >> like most things in life, it is never one or two things. people haven't understood th

vice president yee: what would trigger the increase? i'm trying to get a sense of how that is done. >> the fee would demonstrate that there is significant residential growth. and impact to those things which would affect our schools and our needs to do things either with new schools or within our schools to accommodate that growth. that is what the study would have to demonstrate a. if it demonstrated a need in excess of what we are currently collecting, then we could raise the rates. if it went the other way, our rates would be lowered. vice president yee: so for treasure island or mission bay or whatever, this starts ramping up more. it is probably going to help us collect more fees, percentage- wise? >> those developments, no matter what the rates were, would collect significant fees. also, for any high-rise construction in san francisco or large residential and commercial developments throughout the city, on top of remodeling homes, collects significant change for us. if you look at the developer impact fees collected throughout the

vice-president yee: aye. president mendoza: yes. >> it is unanimous. >> do you want to have a deadline by which you give us your comments? should we say january 15? we are about to launch into the holiday. >> the second? >> how about that monday or tuesday. over the holiday, if you could skim through this and get your questions to kathy. >> does everybody have the red line version electronically? >> i sent it through pdf? >> do you want people to give your comments on the redline or other version? >> whichever is easier for the individual commissioner. thank you both. thank you all for your work on this. item r is a board member's proposal for first reading put on by commissioner yee. comment on what you like to do with this. vice-president yee: by the time i received it, we do not have enough time to look at it carefully. i might want to reword it. president mendoza: he is not ready to submit it for first reading. we are going to postpone first reading until next meeting. is that correct? ok. everybody get o

. >> thank you, commissioner yee? vice president yee: besides the teacher's evaluation, there was -- i went to a workshop for superintendent evaluation, too, so i'd like to share that information with you. the -- this is kind of interesting, the cohn institute, when we listened to him a few days later, i was in austin, at another meeting, and the topic was scaling up. it was interesting. >> commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: . i did not attend cfba but i was part of hosting a workshop on keeping safer school environment for lbgq youth. i'd like to thank our partners, transgender law center and gca network that they both presented and used our resolutions in their presentation as really good examples of keeping our schools safe. and then i also just want to say congratulations to gate weeder college, our partner program with city college of san francisco, they will be having their graduation this friday and i believe they're graduating three students. thank you. >> thank you. go ahead, commissioner lee. vice presi

i want to thank lizzie hirsch, richard yee, marvin yee, our capital planning director. i want to thank courtney representing the parks alliance. steve courier is here. thank you for being here. i want to thank the rec and park staff, bill o'brien, our new gardner. perhaps the biggest thank you and acknowledgment is to our beloved retired gardener at the cayuga playground, demnny. he immigrated to the country in 1973. he worked in the law firm became a gardener and singlehandedly took over the park. you can see some of his work scattered throughout the trails and beautiful urban landscape. he crafted about 350 beautiful sculptures and characters. some of them have been safely tucked away for the renovation project. he will still see about 100. -- you will still see about 100 of them out here. you are a demigod to this park. thank you for being here. when the project is done, you will see a beautiful new clubhouse with a living roof. there will be landscape improvements. the street behind you will be part of the park. pavement to park. i want to introduce the park champio

commissioner yee: yes. president mendoza: no. >> proposal for a forced reading. this is item 111 in support of a permanent name change for the high school to john o'connell high school. i need a motion and a second. thank you. this item is going to be referred to buildings and grounds. item r, none. item s, board members report on the school district select committee. commissioner fewer or norton? >> we heard a report about the summer program at the candlestick shipyard benefit agreement. it was very successful. it served many of our ninth graders with a very high rate to its participation and success. >> thank you. a report from the budget and business commission? commissioner fewer: the budget and business committee met on october 27. we heard an update on the state's budget, are there any updates about this budget? i think it was pretty much the same we have gotten. >> yes, it was pretty consistent with previous reports. staff gave an update about state revenue collection. the key question is whether the state will project there will be a large enough shortfal

first up we have debbie yee. debbie yee is an attorney and poet and supporter and organizer of the nonprofit asian american arts community. she's received her undergraduate and law degrees from uc berkeley and bolt. born and raised in sacramento, california. she continues to call northern california her home. and now lives in san francisco. so, with that i'd like to introduce debbie yee as our first speaker. >> this is called jasper john's wagon. >> i have an idea of how the fifth star was killed dear empire not by gunfire at close range, not in the study with the pen knife, not by the umbrella, crushed by the revolving door not jostled or hemorrhaged the narrow drain. we caught the tar and the bullet we came to the body encostic casement of skin rig motor us framed the opened mouths scream. wail for your mother wrap our sons in silken ribbons in a galaxy. the cause has been perp traited. we are adrift on a baron sea. the fleet diminishes me. who shouts for us now, dear empire? this next one is a postcard for a r

vice president yee: i appreciate that. i do not know if you want to go beyond the district programs. if you want access to any preschool, i will open the doors for you. i know pretty much all of them. commissioner murase: i have a few points of light to make in regards to the report. first of all, i want to thank all of the bcc members for their long hours of work to. i also want to acknowledge cristina and jen for supporting the committee. the staff played an integral role. in terms of the request of commissioner wynns about the makeup of the bcc, i would suggest you get in touch with the parent advisory council. they do a superb analysis about how the demographics of the council match or do not match the suited demographics of sfusd. he always provides graphs, how many kids are from the different schools, how the racial ethnicities are reflected. that is a good model. secondly, i want to echo commissioner fewer. coons on your english guide. it is very valuable. i want to read one of the most valuable sections. free trans

reporting live in san bruno, linda yee, cbs 5. >>> despite the trouble at sears, americans are gaining faith in the economy. an improving job outlook sent consumer confidence to an eight- month high. the index rose by nearly 10 points in its second consecutive monthly gain. but analysts say the numbers are far below where they would be in a healthy economy. >>> governor brown says the key it convincing californians to raise their own taxes is to convince them that the alternative is much worse. he is pushing a plan to raise an extra $7 billion a year. he wants to increase the state sales tax by half a percent and raise income taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year. an okay from the legislature will send it to the 2012 ballot. brown says if the voters reject it the cuts would be drastic. >> in my opinion, this is the