the city needs to recommit ourselves to the values that our city was named after. st. francis believed in compassion for those who have less -- had less than others. those of us with opportunities have to give back. part of that entails taking care of the most important among us, the folks who have need, including our homeless. >> let's talk about the transportation situation in your district. you mentioned that transit could be better. how is parking and traffic? is there enough muni service now? >> you are talking to the one member of the board that does not only car. i get around my district by muni, bicycle, or hailing a cab. our transit system is truly challenge. our bosses are late one out of four times. -- our buses are late one out of a quarter times. they're still not as clean and safe as we'd like. we can do better and investing in our muni system. we need more taxicabs on the streets. is difficult to obtain a cab. i support the concept of centralized taxi dispatch systems so you know who you can call to get a cab. i am a big believer in pedestrian bicycling

i have a safe city i want to have, and a solvent city, and finally, we want to have a successful city. the reason that success is there is because i wanted to ask yourself, what brought you to send francisco? what made you make the investment that you made, that got you into a neighborhood? what brought me here was the excitement of being in a city that was culturally diverse. a city that respected all different cultures and ways of life. a city where you could talk to people without being offended by what people brought up. the city understanding diversity, celebrating everything that we were doing in this city. if this is going down the street in a dedicated, green lane, with huge conventions going into town, with people who can speak german and japanese, to find their way into your neighborhood with japan town -- and these great restaurants. a city with great nightclubs, the bring over a million people here on a daily basis, to find their way for jobs and all the other things. this is a successful city. the diversity and the strong neighborhoods in the different languages, things t

this city does it differently. that makes our city successful in different ways. i want our son to be safe, solvent, and successful -- ouone -- i want our city to be safe, solvent, and successful. i suggest to you that we have a new level of conversation at city hall. it is welcoming of a good business climate. weak balance that with the services we need to have. we will make sure -- we will balance that with the services we need. we will balance that with the services we need and the challenges we have. having said that, the three ended $6 million deficit is hard to fill when we do not have all of the economic solutions. -- the $306 million deficit is hard to fill when we do not have all of the economic solutions. we still have nervousness about the state and federal governments will do that might make it worse. we have all of that. i depend a lot on the city staff to help me figure this out to build in some reserves that we can use in case things get out of hand so that our own budget and reading can be presented in an honest way. i know what brought you here to

that is the whole city family of employees. the fear that kind of event occurs -- i think we have an opportunity in our short lifetimes to eliminate fear of seismic activity, if we plan, practice, continue exercising, if we continue the disciplined approach of reducing our risk in every way possible. and it is with your help and leadership that we can do this. thank you very much for holding this forum. thank you for having me today. i appreciate it. [applause] >> good afternoon. it is horrible being the speaker after lunch. stretch a little bit. ed and i are particularly happy to be working on so many different issues. this is probably one of the most important ones, one, that in these economic times, would be easy to forget or say. let's just hope that it does not happen on our watch. the reality is, we do not know when it is going to happen. i do not know about ed, but i answer all the phone calls in the middle of the night, even when it is the wrong number. i tried to remember to keep my satellite telephone charged in case

we need to look at what we do as a city and was services we offer. we have 26,000 city employees. our payroll and fringe benefits for city employees accounts for over 60% of our budget. if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san francisco. in my opinion, it is getting our costs under control but also promoting economic development so we have a financial engine that will continue to promote us year after year. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness in san francisco? >> i am one that thinks mayor newsom did a great job thinking proactively about what we need

welcome to city hall. the great city hall of san francisco. [applause] we have been busy this morning but it has been a pleasure all morning to greet so many people love the city. i cannot think of another 10 people who love this city. i want to thank each and everyone of you because your volunteering -- i know that word. volunteer for one of the greatest cities in the world. what you will be doing, sacrifices in time, interactions with you, with various commissioners, it will be a wonderful experience, one that many of you will continue to do, and some of you about to do for the first time. i see former supervisor bevan dufty is here. david from the department of the barnett. emily. commissioner shorter, thank you for being here. bruce, thank you for being here. tom, roberta from the mta, thank you for being here. please forgive me, i am still young. [laughter] i have so many others serving on different commissions already. thank you. we have city departments that are here. i know we have the department of the environment, film commission, co

of the city. ladies and gentlemen, my dear friend, please join me in welcoming the 43rd mayor of city and county of san francisco, mr. edwin lee. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you very much. welcome to the people's hall in san francisco. i want to first of all say -- i have always wanted to say this. the commissioner is such a wonderful person, and she has been our commissioner on immigrant rights commission, but you could see her when we walked in. she was hustling around getting everybody settled, doing what we needed to do to have a successful event, but she has been a wonderful adviser to me for so many years and a great asset to the city. i want to give you a round of a free shares applause. -- appreciative applause. thank you so much. it is my personal pleasure to welcome all of you here to celebrate nowruz. this has been something that supervisor mirkarimi and i talked about for so many years, to make sure we on this day and make sure all of you feel so warm and welcome, so, we are

oakland is the second most literate city in the nation, the city with the best weather -- sorry, sand francisco. -- sorry, san francisco. we are constantly being named as the most diverse city. that is, like, 129 languages spoken in our public schools. our latest group, the winner of our spelling contest is a young lady from nepal. oakland is a city that is constantly reinventing itself, whether it be in the end of the transcontinental railroad with dozens of hundreds of different kinds of european immigrants across the country, or the home to the borders that gave birth to a jazz movement, or today, as the most affordable place for new immigrants coming to the bay area to live. each of them leave a mark. one thing that i would say, when you come to oakland, is that of lenders -- is that oaklanders are pretty passionate about our city. i was teasing ed that he and i have probably made more public appearances together then my husband and i have in the last couple of months. i can assure you that we work really closely together, which resolves a couple of major longstanding issues. what

we are moving forward as a city. the future of the city is the young people who will get these jobs. we're making certain that we reach out all the neighborhoods to make certain that the shops are open to all of them. they will not do this without a solid education system. i want for the youth to have good lives in the city. thank you very much. >> westfield has been a strong contributor to the economy of the city, and their presence in the city generates thousands of jobs for residents of san francisco and millions to the tax base. the $30 million that is being invested in this facility speaks volumes about their ongoing commitment to the city. this is the president of westfield. >> thank you. i would like to thank ed lee, the commissioners, jennifer, the staff of the redevelopment agency, and the office of economic and work-force development for being here today on a spectacular san francisco de, to support the efforts of revitalization. i also like to thank amy and the staff of the redevelopment agency, for sharin

city other than new york. you ought to exercise your power to protect your city and its residents from planned degradation by refusing to accept this housing element and sending it back to the planning department to be redone. this element has been doctored by spur with the connivance of the planning committee. without environmental review or public street to cater to ideologues, densifying interests to sell the city sold for quick cash. i call on you to reject this temptation and insist that this draft 3 of the housing element be dropped and draft two, the only thevetted by the eir -- the only version vetted by the eir, been adopted. anything would be possible, and it could be totally inconsistent with what was agreed to. only 30 words have been changed. think of what would happen if 30 or even three words were changed in the u.s. constitution. you could end up with dictatorship instead of democracy. 30 words have power. it is very important that they be reviewed and approved by a reasonable and open process.

the city. again, i plead that we consider these cuts and not make them on the backs of the homeless. thank you. >> good evening. my name is connie ford, and i happen to live in district 5, but many of the members that are represented by union works in soma. i am also vice-president of the labor council, and i just wanted to let you know if you do not already that many of the workers who provide the services that are continually on the chopping block here are represented by union and our working poor, trying to make ends meet. many of these workers come from the communities in which they serve, whether it is homeless, mentally ill, drug addiction, all these things. these workers have done the really hard work to get up there every morning and do the work that is required of them to carry out the mission of the services that we all care for. these are living wage workers with health benefits. as you have heard, there have been cuts and cuts and cuts. these contractors have not had an increase in

so a safe city, a solvent city, successful city are the principles i am sharing with everyone while we make tough decisions that are bound to come up, and i want to make them with your concerns in mind. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. that was a brief introduction to some of the key figures in city government, department heads, and everyone else who is here who will just introduce themselves. >> my name is phil ginsberg. i am the general manager of recreation and parks. -- my name is phil ginsburg. [inaudible] thank you. >> [inaudible] i am mayor lee's budget director. it is my job to work with the mayor and board of supervisors to make sure we are going to balance our budget every year, as we are required to do under the charter. i appreciate all of you being here and look forward to hearing your thoughts on the budget. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] i am director of health. [applause] them a good evening. -- >> good evening. i'm from the department of children, youth, and their families. [applause] >> i am from the department of public works. dpw is responsible for designi

i want a city that is successful. what made you come and buy a house? it is because you felt the diversity of san francisco. we have the ability to attract -- we have of events in our parks that just attract so many people, but are affordable to our residents to have a world- class city that can win the america's cup. we have to have those programs and those traditions. that is what brought us. i want a city that is successful. i will stand for a city that is growing old and not paying attention. we need to do all kinds of things to make sure that we have transportation systems, our communications are modern, and i want a city that is safe, solvent, successful. a lot of things we have worked on for many years, we have to work better at them. we can't afford to do the things that we have done. a lot of them are here. i am happy to be here with combined districts to tell us what you think is important to the city. those are the instructions i have given and i think you for spending your time here this morning. if anybod

we want the city to be solvent. and we ultimately want to join you all tonight to make sure the city is successful. our city attracts you and so many other people to state and live here because we believe in the city. we believe in its multiculturalism. we believe in the neighborhoods , that it thrives, and that is what makes the city successful, but i want that city to continue being successful. with that, i am all ears tonight, and you also have my heart open to the issues that you are struggling with because i know there is a lot of issues that people struggle with. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. ok, i'm just going to briefly go down the names of the attending agencies and their representatives. we have farber garcia, director of the form of public health. maybe just wave. that is very nice, but let's hold our applause. let's just hold our applause so we can get through the business of tonight. jim, deputy director of human resources. fred blackwell, director of redevelopment agency. we have jeff g

it is not folks coming from all over the city or outside the city to be able to use it. it is a destination field with a real value to the people in the community. we need to make sure that the seahawks and other folks that are common users feel comfortable and have appropriate space. i am dedicated to making sure that happens. we will continue to work with folks to make sure the field is still appropriately and that we hold back our recreation programs that will ultimately, out of the center as well. that is important to me. we will have it here at hamilton rec center as well as the aquatics center. they will help us dictate how much of the field should be held for community use and the programs their respective to hamilton recreation center. i look forward to working with the community and it is a priority of ours. thanks. >> a number of cards that we have referred to both public safety, economic empowerment, and reentry. "japantown and the fillmore and the lower hate and upper hate -- lower haight and upper haight have benefited from beat officers. once the community,

no other major city does this. it's very easy, as we've seen over the years, for companies to locate in silicon valley, locate across the bridge over in oakland, locate in austin, texas, or in new york or in the carolinas. we need to be competitive as a city in terms of attracting businesses, and in my mind taxing stock options after we've realized that we're the only major city to do that is a bit of an issue. so my goal was to make a statement to say, let's put a halt to this practice, but also be mindful of the fact that we have a big budget problem right now in san francisco and to make sure we craft legislation that does not create a budget deficit, that does not create any budget problems compared to last year. that was my goal. so the legislation itself states that we're going to take the higher of 2010 or 2011, and whatever you paid in payroll tax that year, attributable to stock options or stock-based compensation, that's your maximum going forward. so if you think about private companies today that don't

in the city officials. i want to make sure that we don't shortchange your opportunity to speak. so we will expand our meeting to 11:45 to allow for the full half-hour that we had intended. i will ask supervisor elsbernd to mediate the questioning session. we will be running with the microphone to you. >> i have a quick question. i have the former president of the sunny side neighborhood association. i have worked on a lot of issues out there. i'm currently a transit operator. a bus driver. i understand that cuts have to be made and we are under some really tough negotiations right now. drivers understand that they will have to give back something. that is obvious, the retirement changes coming city-wide. i am not in favor of concessionary bargaining, but the facts will bear themselves out. i think will be really clear about a lot of things, having a debate of a couple of rank and file operators that laissez the consent of the simple debate somewhere and we can confront these issues of the drivers have a voi

parkmerced is an important plant garden city. it is an of a city in and of itself. letters and memos that have been sent state clearly that it is significant on a local and national level. there is no other development in san francisco that represents in such a distinctive manner and with such great integrity, the feeling and character of a modern party city. as an architect, the person concerned about design and concept generation, there are so many other alternatives that can be done here. you are looking at a maros 20 or 30 years in the future. we need those transit connections now. we do not need it five years down the road or 10 years down the road. and we need the housing now, but we do not need to demolish sound existing family units, just to bulldoze them and build up as high as you can without looking at existing towers. those are not retrofitted. what has been done in independent analysis is to look at these projects. i am reminded only of a book that was read to me by my father. i will put it on the overhead. "the biggest house in the world take a simple

we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services, we will pay the price. it works out from there in terms of budget priorities. >> with your plans on dealing with homelessness? >> it is homelessness in general and behavior on the streets. we need to make sure people have access to services. i was a sup

if you are in city college, it would be helpful to hear a similar thing -- what got you into city college, and what made it possible for you to stay? anyone who wants to start is welcome. >> ok, so, when i entered into the united states i did not speak english at all. my first language is russian, and my second is hebrew. i entered into balboa high school, and i had this great teacher who taught me english. i am super thankful to him, but i still need to learn english more, so i am going to city college. teachers, i think -- it depends on teachers, the way they teach us how to speak correctly. i was super shy when i entered the united states, and i could not talk in front of other people. i just could not. i had so many grammar mistakes, and it is super embarrassing. >> yes, so, i first want to go to city college when my parents said that if i wanted to choose a college, choose the best college for me, and i thought city college would be the best place for me right now because i do not really have money to go to uc and stuff. city college opened my doors, so i decided to go year, and i th

city by the john s. and james l. knight foundation called the sole of the community project supports my belief far from actings a barrier of progress historic preservation is fundamental to our city's social, culture and economic life in a way that's not widely appreciated. the soul of the community focuses on what it calls community attachment. it turns out residents' perception on public policy concerns like job, economy and safety show little correlation about how attached residents are 0 their communities. rather people consistently give higher ratings for ratings that relate to quality day-to-day life. the three main quality that's attach people to place are areas of physical beauties, opportunities for socializing and community's openness to all people. across all 26 communities studied, there's consistent anomaly while perceptions of the local economy do not play a significant factor in driving community attachment, those communities with the highest attachment also have the highest rates of economic growth. >

so long as the city has been official used and enjoyment of the assets, to the extent that the city did not have the beneficial use in the assets -- but i think the occurrence of an earthquake or other disaster, the city could not legally make payments without the asset. so, structural payments. the city has historical invalidated all transactions. in effect, the validation was additional for the bond counsel, and the bonds were duly authorized against the city. just as a little bit of an historic backdrop, the use of these came into being after the passage of prop 13. courts have viewed in effect the strict application of prop. 13 and the debt limit as really constrained ability of local governments to foster economic growth and development. so, exceptions have been judiciously created. i think that generated the growth of c.o.p.'s. there was a time when council was not confident that they did not generate debts. i think that time has passed. the city has moved toward validation where once the matter is passed by the board, we let it sit for 60 days, and if the citizen has a concern, t

other cities are doing better than we are. that is an important issue we have the highest rate in the city, and you're probably higher than any other city. " we have spent on pedestrian safety over the last four years is close to $13 million. >> how to balance the needs of the district compared to the city? supervisor kim: it is interesting representing a district and a collection of neighborhoods. for me, it is interesting because i represent the city of san francisco. i mean you represent those who live in the district. i care very deeply about what is going on in terms of racial tension between asian and african american communities in the bayview or whether we're talking about muni were talking about public safety issues in other neighborhoods -- i think it is important for me to support the issue's going around the neighborhood. i think most san francisco residents do not identify themselves by their district. >> once again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including whether to raise taxes and fees or whethe

before i came here, i had the honor of surveying two city's preservation planner, i would chair the city's preservation commission and i would governor gray davis' chairman of the status resources commission. i urged you to continue on your spirit of inquiry but to consider, too, preservation is about managing change, integrating your historic preservation and planning department along with your incredible activities here and having -- making sure san francisco takes its place not only with los angeles, new york, charleston, but pasadena, san diego, riverside, fresno, all incredible cities in california that strive to do preservation planning and i know you can too.s0 we're here to help. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is ryan turner. i'm a resident of the richmond district and practice environmental land use law. i'm strongly in fanger of the program. i see it as embodiment and action of the precautionary principle which the board adopted in 2003, very simple motto, think before you act and choose the least environmentally harmful alternative. r

we asked around the room, were there any other cities, and there was not. this is a special city. we have a community that actually use the children of the community as their children, like the mayor said. and it makes such a big difference, having them step up and be there for the children. it has been fabulous. and to have these advocates, it is great to have a relationship with them. my hat is always of to them. they pushed us. they pushed the school district. they pushed us to do great things for our children. a couple of years ago, we had a conversation to talk about the a-g program for all students. we started with ninth graders. everyone takes required glasses. and as a result, yeah, we have a few kids who do not make it. and so, this summer, we were trying to figure out -- we had some money. think about it -- in california 70% of all the money for summer school has been wiped out. we no longer get the funding. how are we going to do that. we decided to prioritize and give summer school to our seniors, because if they cannot pass, they will not graduate. every year, we have

it is a priority for us and a priority for the city. the reductions we are proposing constitute about 2% of our total spending for mental health and substance abuse. we are not making deep cuts as a percentage of our total investment. however, these cuts will impact outpatient substance abuse, residential substance abuse services, and mental health services. we have been meeting weekly with our community providers who provide most of those services. we have been meeting with the mayor's office and with members of the board of supervisors. we have been completely transparent about all of the proposals we were making and we are working hard with our community partners to find the most effective solutions, to find a way to meet our target with the least harm to the public. saying that, we realize that the problems that we are trying to solve with our services don't go away just because we pull funding away. the problems are still there and they manifest themselves in different ways. all we can do is work with our budget within the health d

so this is not a new tax practice of the city. according to the treasurer's office, businesses have always been liable for this part of the tax and paid it. one of the things we did learn during the debate regarding twitter is that the stock options piece of the payroll tax for person types of companies, companies namely that are as valuable as twitter in the multiple bills of dollars at this this point could be looking at an extremely -- extreme payroll tax payment when they go public, specifically from tax options. twhe go public, twitter would be owing considerably more payroll tax from stock options than its wages and salaries on employees. i will talk about that on the slide. what is it about the i.p.o. event that could create such a tax lie abt for a very valuable company? in the wake of that discussion and and our report on that issue, wreelly determined it was twitter's tax liability related to stock options that was the bulk of the difference in the cost twitter would pay between a location in san francisco and a location

>> yes, that is the city's current practice and pattern. supervisor mirkarimi: in order to support proper have its towards the idea of a practice upper local hiring, from what we can tell in this document, there is nothing that really perfects that particular objective. >> we do have a jobs plan and economic opportunity plan that addresses, based on the first ordinance in the city, it would capture jobs for various developments. the goal being 50% of those jobs being 50% and 25% being the population that tie dye is serving. so, we do have part of a plan. supervisor mirkarimi: as it relates to the commercial side, the local hiring for source components do not kick in until 5000 square feet of commercial space is activated. i wrote that law. that is what intersects with the planning code. what i am trying to get a handle on is what is under the 5000 square feet. is it all commercial developments? >> we comply with the threshold. >>supervisor mirkarimi: being tt there is a healthy orbit of development, you should anticipate the question. super

i worked at city hall for a few years. then lightning struck and was appointed as a member of the board of supervisors in august of 2004. i have been here ever since. the choice to live in san francisco was made for my family about five generations ago. we have been here a very long time. i could never imagine leaving. this is home. this is where i am raising my son and hope that he raises his children. >> what motivated you to get into politics? >> i attribute a lot of it to the jesuit credo to be men and women for others. there is the idea that the best way to service through the political process. i have a love for the law. i found a way to combine that with service through the political process. i have always been intrigued by it and the opportunity to present themselves well. >> where do you place yourself on the local political spectrum? >> i do not like labels like left or right. most people would call me in moderate. >> what did you learn campaigning for supervisor? was there anything that surprised you? >> in my f

welcome to the city. businesstime takes a business lead. welcome to the city. i know you'll get all you need. welcome to the city today. >> hi. i am sumer shields. i am here as a congressional candidate but also a representative of the political action committee. i wanted to give you something to take with you. there are a couple of different things here. i hear the demands and the board of supervisors. a resolution calling on the federal government to put in place banking regulations, glass seigel. there will not be a recovery for the budget crisis without federal regulations separating investment from commercial banks. there is not going to be -- there is not going to be any solution right now for the economic crisis on the united states. san francisco has a budget crisis and you have california, they are bankrupt. the country of the united states is bankrupt. if you cannot have a federal resolution to this crisis, this is to free up the kind of credit that you need. we will not have the united states if we do not go with the kinds of banking regulations. we

city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about your background, where you grew up, where you went to school, and the jobs you have work. >> i grew up in the porthole and neighborhood. most of my childhood, i went to lakeshore elementary school. i love to talk a bell will -- about lowell high school. i studied political science with a concentration in public administration. i worked eight years, largely in the public sector. then, earned a master's degree from carnegie-mellon in pittsburgh pennsylvaniamy work . i spent time as an executive director for nonprofit on the hill. i was assistant to a wonderful person named julie middleton. the park that worked at was formally known as the hunters point community foundation. we did several programming for kids in the neighborhood. i also have a background in politics on both sides of the day here in san francisco and oakland. i have done fund-raising for different candidates. i have work experience with the federal

our city attorney is cheryl adams. i've been advised we will get through public comment quickly and then we will come back to discussion of those amendments. let's open it up for public comment. >> if i could just make two final comments. first of all, thank you for the work. i know that not everyone in this room is going to agree that this agreement is where it needs to be. frankly, i do not think there's anyone on either side that wish is that all the provisions that are in here were in here. i know that the developer would probably have not referred to have considered putting these amendments into the development agreement. i know there are advocates for tenants who may not think this is enough. that said, again, i am a tenant in san francisco. this is a set of issues i've really struggled with, how to ensure that all of the folks that are currently living at park merced get to continue to live at park merced and continue to live the kind of life that we all want to live in san francisco. it's my absolute intent wit

the same is true of our 50 labor contracts in the city. we have something approaching 100 contracts with the mta approaching 100 and the city voting 50. mostly comparable, but still some divergence. supervisor farrell: forgive me, but being newer to the board here, these contracts are the ones where -- are they governed by the other city contracts and therefore there is no flexibility to say we can work hours we know we do, this is inappropriate for our contract, or are you down to these negotiations? >> the controller mentioned the proposition where we can now create our own work rules. we are now implementing the mta work rules. local 6 which we just implemented now makes the work hours different from the city electricians. we now have a seven-day work week and will no longer be getting overtime on a electricians' we typically have been. as we are rolling over, we are renegotiating them. >> what year were those propositions past? >> ea was in 1997 and e was in 1999. the bottom line is the way we manage overtime. very similar -- i heard t

, which is why i think it's important, from my perspective, to create a city wide perspective. president o'brien: commissioner o'connor? commissioner o'connor: how are you? i supported the twitter tax break for the reasons which you just stated, which is i wasn't so concerned with twitter, although i think it's great to see the furniture mark building filled with workers who are going to support all of the small businesses and revitalize that area, which has been struggling for a long time. we all know that. however, having said that, the idea that this city could enter into a quasi partnership in supporting and keeping developing companies staying here with the caveat that we would as a city share a potential gain when that company did go public, that's very attractive in lieu of these payroll stock options that are going to be taxed, correct? but what -- you are against this? >> i'm sorry, maybe you can clarify a little bit. commissioner o'connor: i apologize, i got here a little late. i was on public transportation and didn't get to hear mirkarimi's presentation. >> it was g

our city is a city of innovation. people are coming here from all over the world. they're coming here to build their businesses, to surround themselves with other great new ideas and to forge a new san francisco work force. we are home to companies that change the way we communicate, like twitter. we're also home to companies that change the way we work, like sales force. we are home to companies that change the way we listen. now, more and more, we are becoming home to the way we play. i want to announce today, it should be consistent with everything else we are doing. as hosting more and more of these on-line game creators and engineers, i want to announce one of the most exciting game companies and we will be opening up and 25,000 square foot office in san francisco as we speak. let the games began. [applause] i just met the owners and management team. they have been here since 2006. they have chose san francisco to be their home. that is very exciting. whether it is the businesses that we have, whatever it is that we are doing in san francisco to make ourselves

the multimedia gulch remains a mega center in the city. i would like to briefly respond to some of the policy areas identified for discussion today, specifically two of the areas when discussed earlier by representatives of city agencies. in terms of affordable housing, it's worth noting that san francisco has the highest concentration of historic single room occupancy hotels in the country. the lower knob hill, national hotel registrar district and upper tenderloin district include over 700 historic contributing buildings. these districts were strongly saw ported -- supported by and introduced by the developers as a means to provide access to economic incentives including 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit, property tax relief under the state program and code flexibility under the state historical building code. three affordable housing projects involving historic buildings are currently under way or recently approved, including 240 units that include veterans commons at 150 otis street, crescent manner at 467 turk street and central y

at the same time, we look at renewable generation for city facilities, renewable generation for non-city facilities, and energy efficiency conservation programs for city facilities, which is pretty much a direct general fund subsidy by taking care of lighting, hvac and other types of programs. we cut all three of those programs by a similar amount. in each case, they went from mid-$40 million to about $50 million over the next 10 years. we thought that was judicious. we still think it is. if you look at the non-power side of hetch hetchy, it is basically a flat budget over the next few years. we did not make changes because it was substantially funded through water rates. >> just a question for you, what kind of work would be done for example in the transmission distribution system line? >> we were hoping to upgrade those lines so we could take more power down from the mountains and sell it differently and make more money. we did not leave the money in to upgrade the systems for additional funds and programs in san francisco. supervisor chu: for your powerhouse line, what does the $69.4

i will sit down with jeff and i will say, you want city b or do you want to work with us as one city? i want you to be un-confused in november. you will be confused if you have more than one ballot measure whfment we come forward with you, we will be able to explain in no uncertain terms how our proposals will correct our system. that's what i want for you for your consideration in november and we will absolutely need your help. we will vote on this and we will make sure we've done the right thing. and i have everybody so far. the next three weeks some might peel out. they'll try to get more out of it or less obligation. we'll do our best to keep everybody in play. but our obligation ultimately is to present the board of supervisors with a proposal so that six f. not more of them agree, can put it on the ballot and we think we will have the united family with us and it will be spreving a dignified pension and one that we could afford and one that will not hurt her general fund as we've been doing. that's what we have is our goal. [applause] >> so the next three -- tina moreland, barry

the city posey does not have an inflation adjustment. because it has a more stringent withdrawal requirement, even though we are eligible to withdraw 50% if we ever did it, we will make it less often. the school district has been eligible to withdraw more frequently and larger amounts. the board last year did adopt a financial policy and will go into effect during this horizon assumed in the base case where the general fund will grow during this time until it equals 2% of general fund revenues in 2015-2016.

whether or not to transfer involves obligations to the city, the city still has to be a signatory and therefore has a contractual privity with any future owner of any piece of land on the project site. finally, two substantial revisions were made to exhibit q and exhibit s. exhibit q, per the request of the sf puc power division, we met extensively almost every day last week and substantially amended that agreement to ease the administration clarity so that the sf power staff understood how they were to monitor and evaluate each some middle under the applications. puc will also have the right to validate energy usage projections. if necessary, changes will be made to account for the puc's feedback. supervisor mar: puc does have to approve this, but we can still move forward and they can do that at a later time? >> thank you, supervisor. i consulted with charles sullivan. there are some additional changes that staff at puc power want to continue talking about. we intend to continue the dialogue with the city attorney, charles sullivan, to confirm that they could make them prior to the

as well as businesses and the city. the way we look at it is that our neighborhood, the tenderloin, has a lot to offer the city. we are a very diverse neighborhood. we have folks from all over the world living in the tenderloin. lots of diversity. longtime residents, folks you will talk to have lived in the neighborhood for 30, 40 years. and we have one of the fastest- growing populations of youth in the city. we feel like we contribute a lot to the city. and the future of san francisco, but we need the opportunity to do so. through this advisory committee, advising on revitalization efforts, we feel that we can have a voice in the opportunities that would come through companies being brought into the payroll tax exemptions on, through economic strategies, mid-market, etc. i just also want to thank the district supervisor for following up with this legislation, and please, we support this legislation here at the full board. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. in a member of the mta and a resident of tenderloin fo

class city. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> i am darla bernard and i am a resident of san francisco and wholeheartedly support the cell phone tower. thank you. >> i am actually a broker and i do loans and those type of things which means i am always on my phone and driving and on the road. and with the laws being blue tooth and wires re, i want to prevent on being on the phone and have my calls accessible to that and i find it very frustrating to pull over, park, and get on the phone to find out where i am going and what needs to be done. and in these condensed areas and homeowners as well to help them and get the right place in efficient and quality time. and i am representing for susan mcauliffe of north beach neighbors and president in support of it. thank you. >> i am a working mom pretty much full time and i have two daughters and this is seven months and another four years and goes to preschool and in the daytime my family members or my nanny picks up the other one and i have to

annually, generating $30 million and supporting approximately 400 city jobs. in 2008 the advisory panel directed an economic study. they found that in addition to these local benefits that have worked regionally, that there are 66.9 million with 470 jobs. this would translate to $900,000 annually to the coffers of the city for the general fund. looking at the overall benefits of the project, it will enhance the city's reputation as a tourist destination and increased maritime command. recently, the princess cruise lines combined with [unintelligible] to invest in the dry dock facility. cruise ships will be repaired and maintained in san francisco for crews calls, not only for dry docking. each cruise call at the port would generate significant work for members of the international longshoremen, truck drivers, supply companies and service providers, literally thousands of hours of skilled union jobs utilizing different maritime trades. the project will also continue with no. waterfront improvements, which are quite noticeable. serving as a lasting legacy for th

costa hawkins does allow for exceptions when a city contributes, makes city contributions or other forms of assistance. and the document on page two and three list the various forms of assassins that the city is providing that according to supreme court justice reynosa would allow the city and developmenter to allow to agree on an agreement that would be exaptable to costa hawkins. >> i have just received this opinion for the first time and i quickly scanned it but it does reiterate what we have included in the text of the development agreement, about reliance on the exception of costa hawkins for the forms of assassins given to the city under the state bonus statutes. so it appears to be giving an opinion based on their review of the development agreement and the specific things the city is giving to the developer in the development agreement that we sit with the express exception that's in costa hawkins for contracts with public entity that is provide assassins. supervisor chu: thank you. i certainly appreciate that change is not easy. change is actually scary. what i have been as conc