president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. >> mr. president, we have 11 aye. president chiu: those are passed and resolutions are adopted. colleagues, we had countered items 11 through 13 until 4:00 p.m. today, if we can pass over those items until those time. i am sorry. items 11 through 13. >> item 14 adopts findings reversing the planning department determination that a project on sansome street is exempt from environmental review. president chiu: can i have a motion to continue item 14 for one week? without objection. to november 8. next item. >> item 15 is an ordinance amending the administrative code regarding the health care security ordinance. president chiu: thank you. on item 15, supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: today, i am introducing a series of amendments to president chiu's legislation, the result of many months of conversations with many stakeholders -- labor groups, coalitions, business groups, small business groups, health access organizers, and community-bas

supervisor chiu: good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, november 8, 2011. happy election day. hope everyone has voted. madam clerk, could you please call the roll? >> [roll call] mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. supervisor chiu: our 2:00 p.m. special order will be scheduled until november 15, next week. could you please read items one through 11? >> items 1 through 11 constitute the consent agenda and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. unless a member requests separate discussion of a matter. it shall be removed and discussed separately. supervisor chiu: would anyone like to sever anything from the consent agenda? madam clerk, please call the roll. >> chiu aye. chu

supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. supervisor chiu: our 2:00 p.m. special order will be scheduled until november 15, next week. could you please read items one through 11? >> items 1 through 11 constitute the consent agenda and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. unless a member requests separate discussion of a matter. it shall be removed and discussed separately. supervisor chiu: would anyone like to sever anything from the consent agenda? madam clerk, please call the roll. >> chiu aye. chu aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor campos: those items are approved. could you please call item 12? >> item 12, motion reversing findings that a property located at 117

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to show you a picture of my mother. she worked for the city as a meter maid for 10 years, and as a gardener in the san francisco zoo, gray summary -- grace murray. this is her in 1972. i sure miss her. thank you. ♪ i feel the set -- the civic center wind blow by city hall it calls your name this city's dawning the budget is spawning you know how i feel you know i wish you had the tv show "tjhhe view" and a tv movie shows too the city would be worth living if you had better things too i can't stop loving city you and president chiu what happened to the city i knew? we can think about yesterday's and where it might be again but i can't stop loving city you and tell me what what happened to the city that i grew and i was going here, -- was born here, too and i can't stop loving city you ♪ president chiu: next speaker, please. >> i just wanted to thank supervisor weiner for reaffirming that the role of police officers is not to prot

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president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> overhead, please. president chiu: if you put something on it, the overhead will come up shortly. there it is. if it is possible to assist him with the microphone? perfect. >> we have been here a couple of weeks now, at 18th and mission. i have been trying to use this as a reference point for noise. it is a brutally beautiful, a brutal example of where the city is going. it is 3 years old and pumps a lot of noise about. it is like a niagara falls event. i am going to go from something over the top to something under the bottom. over at third and townsend, the old borders, up a block from willie mays plaza. there is a couple walking right here. they are not even aware of the noise coming out of the garage and the event of but the top. it is a continual noise. the best time to hear it is at 2:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the morning. continual noise. what does it dumped on but another building across the street -- new housing? we can do better. wrong direction. the noise i

president chiu: aye. >> there are 11 is. president chiu: item 7? >> providing that selected non- recurrence is the only be spent on the occurrences. >> same house, called? >> item 8 -- appropriating state revenue loss reserves in federal prison -- revenues for adult day health centers of human services agency for fy2011-2012. president chiu: same house, called? >> item 9 -- police code ordinance amending the san francisco police corps -- police code section 12 15.2. president chiu: same house, called? item 10. >> memorandum for understanding regional agreement for the disbursement of government structures and procedures for application in the bay area. president chiu: same house, called? item 11. >> ordnance and ending the san francisco and minister of code section 2a.190. president chiu: same house, same call? let's skip over our 3:00 special order. actually, several 3:00 special orders. why don't we move to roll call? >> supervisor chu, you are first or roll call. supervisor chu: [inaudible] >> supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i want to request th

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> afternoon, board of supervisors, president chiu. ♪ they work hard for the health care so hard for it, city so i hope you treat us right we work hard for the money and health care so hard for it, city and i hope you treat 'em right and some have worked for years and they have lots of health care security fears they work hard for the health care so hard for it, city they work hard for the health care so will you please treat them right and when will we see good health care once again ♪ thanks. supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> i will read mine. jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. we thank supervisors chiu and cohen for presenting the amendments today. we have attempted to reach out to the labor unions and supervisors since last may to work on alternative to the original proposed language, which would have resulted in a $15 million tax, mostly on small businesses in san francisco, putting many of them either out of business or having to reduce their payro

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker please. >> i would really like to commend the previous speaker. i am a worker. we need more business owners like her. the problem, as the situation stands right now and as the proposed amendments would make it, is that she is placed at a competitive disadvantage for doing this. these amendments do not fix the loophole, and they do not help me as a worker. if anything, the possibility of a legal challenge places the amendments as having the potential to make the situation worse for me as a worker. it does not matter whether it, january 1, a rolling year, as long as employers have an incentive to take the money back, they will. right now, they are taking 80% back. i am working for my third catering company so far this year. the employees do not know about this benefit. i asked my boss. i asked my boss' boss pierre they told me it does not exist. i ended up getting health care reimbursement by marching into the vice-president of hr's office and demanding it. since then, i fi

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am here to thank you for approving the funds for the adult day health program. i was on the committee that started the first adult day health program in chinatown in 1972, and then, we knew it was very unusual but for the first time, people could get -- supervisor chiu: excuse me. there is a rule in the chamber that we do not allow public comment i items we have already voted on. you want to speak about adult day health center is more broadly, that is permissible. >> the adult day health centers, what i was in washington in april, i noticed that the national organization of areas on aging was talking about how important adult day health would be to their work and transition from hospitals, and it certainly is important, and i think it is how you get out of a hospital earlier and how you still get the therapy you need, and i think the governor has forgotten that people get physical therapy. i would like to mention the example of one person i know who

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i am a representative from district 6. 99.5% of the residents of our city our guests find some sort of legal housing to sleep under. there is no reason we cannot push that to 99.9%, which was the norm before homelessness became a problem and identifiable issue in the late 70's and earlier 80's. there are ideologue to "notions and detached, abstract beliefs -- their art in the logic -- there are ideological notions and detached, and toward beliefs. but we need mathematics. we pay over $2 billion to health care every year. a medical savings account is a drop in the bucket. it would have an economically on measurable effect by any tools we have to measure it today. -- and president chiu: thank you. the next speaker. next speaker for writ -- next speaker. >> yes. i will be filing to have my papers deemed timely in san francisco. i have to the up and lost my baran this assault from the s.f. deede. you could hear the heart wrenching torture. me being hurt. >> york or to get

. >> president chiu, your first. supervisor chiu: submit. supervisor campos: thank you. at the election day, colleagues. i am requesting it -- happy election day, colleagues. i am requesting a hearing before it to the government and oversight committee on the ethics commission's handling for violations of the sunshine ordinance. the hearing should include consideration of the sunshine ordinance task force recommended changes for handling those complaints. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor avalos? supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you. i have a couple of items. a new coalition has come together of food access groups but also small and middle-size farmers to support a fair farm bill. every five years, congress goes through this process, but what we are worried about is the back room deal process going forward by a so-called super committee of 12. we are working with advocacy groups, our food systems director, and others to challenge this back room process and to fight for a fair farm bill that hopefully will help move forward a s

supervisor chiu: thank you. unless there are any other introductory comments, what we open this up to public comment? actually, before we do that, i would like to give an opportunity for city staff from our office of small businesses, if you would like, to say a few words about your office's work on this. >> thank you. earlier this year, as supervisor campos noted, we identified a flaw in the ordinance that provides a loophole for dishonest businesses. there have been varying opinions on recommendations and solutions on how to best remedy this loophole. as noted, we have had many meetings with stakeholders on all sides. the commission wants me to take an opportunity to thank supervisors campos and the labor counsel for raising the issue, for caring deeply about employees and their ability to access health care. would you, many small businesses are equally as frustrated with many small businesses taking advantage of this loophole. the small business commission also wants to take the opportunity to thank the mayor

president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening. i have authored several of the attachments to this presentation. i am here to answer any technical questions you may have. i would like to speak on a couple of things. you were shown a picture of a smoking power. this happened in texas about six years ago. the tower is not owned by verizon. it is owned by american tower. verizon had nothing to do with the cause of that fire, nor did our equipment. someone else talked about a fire in san francisco at 15th and valencia. the fire department had not come up with an answer for this, they said. but the chronicle put it out the fire marshal reported it was due to someone falling asleep in a chair while smoking. that was started in an apartment two floors above our equipment, not started by our equipment. the rise and wireless in my 17 years with them -- verizon wireless in my 17 years with them has never had a fire. our equipment is made in the united states. some of it comes from sweden as well. other things i wanted to stress is the capaci

supervisor chiu: good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, october 25, 2011. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> [roll call] mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu:, luke's -- colleagues, you should have copies of the september 20 meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve this? those minutes are approved. are there any communications? >> i have no communications at this time. >> could you go through our consent agenda items? >> items one through five comprise the consent agenda and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless and member of the board or public requests an item discussed separately. supervisor cohen: item three. supervisor chiu: on the remainder. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. superv

supervisor chiu: thank you. why don't we start our public comment on this topic? if members of the public wish to speak on this, please line up on the right side of the chamber facing us. why don't we hear from our first speaker, please? >> thank you, president chiu and board of supervisors. i am a member of doctors for america, a physician activism group. as independent organizations committed to analyze the impact of policies and protecting and improving the public's health, the equal health network and doctors for america strongly support healthy san francisco. the program is important for providing coordinated health care for women who often work in service sector jobs that typically do not offer health insurance including restaurants, health care, child care, and non-profits. a small number of employers deliberately misappropriate funds contributed by customers that specifically cover san franciscans for the health care they need, averting consumer payments designated for health the san francisco back into

supervisor chiu: thank you. why don't we go to general public comment? >> the next item on the agenda is for members of the public to address the board on items within the jurisdiction of the board including -- speakers using translation assistance would be allowed twice the amount of time. a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly states such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. supervisor chiu: thank you. why don't we hear from our speakers today? first speaker. >> [speaking for language] what i said -- i said happy holiday for each muslim in the world. today is our holy day, and i would like to continue to use my arabian language. [speaking foreign language] ladies and gentlemen, i would like to extend to every muslim in this world happy holidays. as you see, we have last week, 26 of october -- you see our plaque, for each of arabian country has been down there in the city hall. supervisor campos, as

president chiu: thank you. our next commendation will be provided by supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: we would like to call up ellen and island -- and alan marck. over the past three years, ellen marx and her family have championed the need for people to know how to reduce exposures to microwave radiation from cell phones. she has turned the story of her husband, who underwent a massive surgery and cedar -- who underwent a massive surgery, into something which gives people the right to know. ellen works tirelessly to educate legislators about ways to protect brains and bodies from potentially harmful effects of radiation. just last month, she was in washington, d.c., where she testified before congress and several state legislatures. she continued to do it advocacy work with the department of the environment, and was instrumental with the board of supervisors to promote public education, and insured that the cell phone right to know legislation was passed. she has been featured on many national television

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> overhead, please. president chiu: if you put something on it, the overhead will come up shortly. there it is. if it is possible to assist him with the microphone? perfect. >> we have been here a couple of weeks now, at 18th and mission. i have been trying to use this as a reference point for noise. it is a brutally beautiful, a brutal example of where the city is going. it is 3 years old and pumps a lot of noise about. it is like a niagara falls event. i am going to go from something over the top to something under the bottom. over at third and townsend, the old borders, up a block from willie mays plaza. there is a couple walking right here. they are not even aware of the noise coming out of the garage and the event of but the top. it is a continual noise. the best time to hear it is at 2:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the morning. continual noise. what does it dumped on but another building across the street -- new housing? we can do better. wrong direction. the noise in this is kind of like a theater, a

president chiu: is that a motion? supervisor mar: my motion is that we tabled items 11 and 13 and move to item 124 with a positive recommendation. -- move to item 12 and forward with a positive recommendation. president chiu: seconded by supervisor campos. supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: last week, i was unable to stay for the entire proceeding. i believe that is one of the reasons why this matter was continued. i just want to make it clear that i have studied the material and review the rest of the tape, which is why i will be proceeding in this deliberation now. president chiu: our clerk informed me that for this motion, if you are or to reverse the certification, we are talking about approving items 11 and 13 and tabling item 12. can i ask a question to the deputy city attorney? i know there has been discussion about whether or not we should consider an independent study with resources provided to an independent engineer. how could we handle that situation if that was something we wanted to do? >> today

president chiu: the cu passes. and with that, madam clerk, could you please read today's in memoriam. clerk calvillo: the in the morning is for one woman. president chiu: is there any more business? clerk calvillo: there is no more business. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. there is no more business. there are so many ways that the internet provides real access to real people and resources and that's what we're try to go accomplish. >> i was interested in technology like video production. it's interesting, you get to create your own work and it reflects what you feel about saying things so it gives perspective on issues. >> we work really hard to develop very in depth content, but if they don't have a venue, they do not have a way to show us, then this work is only staying here inside and nobody knows the brilliance and the amazing work that the students are doing. >> the term has changed over time from a very basic who has a computer and who doesn't have a computer to now who has access to t

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i do not know how i will get this done in two minutes. i will try my best pure first, i want to congratulate ross the boss. congratulations. we go back a ways. first, before i go into this little thing, i want to invite you this thursday to the west bay, the human rights commission is coming to the western addition. wild, wild west. ♪ here in city hall i want to invite you all to come out. they are going to talk about what i have been talking about for the longest. the mayor, the one that really did not care -- he could go up to sacramento, but it has been institutionalized. because of the efforts of all of us, the commission is coming. you get silly down here in city hall. i am telling you all because i have been here. the thing about it is all these department heads that have been here -- they do not even coincide with each other. but i am going to tell it all because i have been here down in city hall. in city hall, it gets silly, y'all. in city hall, it gets sil

president chiu: i have a number of items. i want to thank supervisor weiner for his work on prevailing wage a decision. i would like to add myself as a co-sponsor. there is a piece of legislation that i will be introducing. i want to thank supervisors can and wiener for your car sponsorship -- kim and weiner for your co-sponsorhip. we discussed this with the bar association. it will declare the first right to civil council city in the united states. this is a recognition by local government that we need to move toward a fairer and more just system. when president jimmy carter was the president of our country, he stated that 90% of the attorneys in the country served 10% of all americans. put another way, only 10% of attorneys serve the remaining 90%. that statistic has gotten worse over the decades. there are 4.3 million civil court users in our state that are self represented. for family law, 90% of child support cases were filed by individuals representing themselves. when it comes to eviction defense in san francisco, the

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> mr. president, members of the chamber, first of all, i would like to congratulate the new sheriff in town. i would like to let him know that it was a measure that he had put before this board that is working to get people coming home from incarceration gainfully employed. with my ability as a craftsman, i am quite willing to share that expert knowledge with you. we would be able to have someone made by the hands of people considered people of no good. once again, mr. scherer, i am willing to work with you. call on me. -- once again, mr. scherer -- sherriff, i am willing to work with you. call on me. i will answer. >> hello, supervisors. thank you for your time. i am and occupier. i wanted to bring in my poster to show you what i normally march with, but apparently it is a weapon, so they are holding it down at the checkpoint. up until this saturday, we have had peaceful marches. every saturday, they have gone off at 3:00 with an escort from the police. for some reason

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to show you a picture of my mother. she worked for the city as a meter maid for 10 years, and as a gardener in the san francisco zoo, gray summary -- grace murray. this is her in 1972. i sure miss her. thank you. ♪ i feel the set -- the civic center wind blow by city hall it calls your name this city's dawning the budget is spawning you know how i feel you know i wish you had the tv show "tjhhe view" and a tv movie shows too the city would be worth living if you had better things too i can't stop loving city you and president chiu what happened to the city i knew? we can think about yesterday's and where it might be again but i can't stop loving city you and tell me what what happened to the city that i grew and i was going here, -- was born here, too and i can't stop loving city you ♪ president chiu: next speaker, please. >> i just wanted to thank supervisor weiner for reaffirming that the role of police officers is not to protect the rights and safety of human beings, but

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i made some comments earlier. i just want to touch on some of the last few points. the virgin shall be with child and give birth to a son and they shall call him emanu-el, a name which means, "got with us -- "god with us." an open letter to the ambassadors of the united states. scholars arrived one day to jerusalem acquiring, "wears the newborn king of the jews?" on november 18, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in san francisco, a marriage ceremony has been planned. in 1978, when harvey milk was assassinated, joseph, an upright man, decided to divorce his wife quietly, unwilling to expose her to the law. this is how the birth of jesus came about. when joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the lord directed him and receive marry into his home as his wife -- received mary into his home. he had no relations with her before the time she bore a son, whom she named jesus. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am w

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i would like to give some support to peter, the director of the library users association. he has shared with me a lot of ways where this has been handled, and it is basically a joke. if you look at the minutes, i would guarantee any of you would be unable to tell us how they came to the decision to eradicate the historical nature of those murals and to simply pays them over with something eradicate the history of the latino community in the brunell heights area. the fact that you have a process does not mean that the process results are going to be good, and i think it is an abomination. the second thing is, all of you and the california constitution take the amendment for the legislative bodies, where you swear or affirm to defend the constitution of the united states, and those are easy words to say, and most of us would like to be judged not by our actions but by our intentions. it is all good to say to occupy wall street or occupy san francisco or anyone else who

president chiu: the cu passes. and with that, madam clerk, could you please read today's in memoriam. clerk calvillo: the in the morning is for one woman. president chiu: is there any more business? clerk calvillo: there is no more business. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. there is no more business. president o'brien: good evening. public comment will be taken on each item. speaker cards are available at the front table. as always, we would like to thank sfgov tv for their constant support of our meetings. roll call. [roll call taken.] president o'brien: all members are present. item two, discussion of possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file number 11104, administrative code, health code, regulating commercial dog walkers on park property. this is an ordinance, by adding article 39 through 39-13 to license and regulate commercial dog walkers operating on park property. today we have a presentation by supervisor scott wiener. in your pa

president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, everyone. i live on leeland street for more than 20 years already. i didn't want them to install the cabinet and antennas on 199 leland straight. -- street. she would like to have it installed by the recycling center. the purpose of at&t installing the cabinets and antenna was to improve the coverage for the people on highway 101 and 280. in our area is a residential area, we have libraries, schools, around that area and it is not going to benefit us. so we hope that you guys can help me. president chiu: next speaker? >> [speaking foreign language] good afternoon, everyone. i'm resident over in the valley at 775 [unintelligible] and over where we live it is mainly residential. there many students and schools there. we don't hope any of the antennas or equipment will be installed right there and we ask sincerely of the support and help of the supervisors. i strongly oppose the installation of the antenna is right there because there are three schools and because it is not

supervisor chiu: thank you. before the next speaker, let me ask other speakers to please line up. if you could all please line up on the left-hand side. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, supervisor chiu, thank you for a moment to say few words. i am an attorney and an author. i live at the golden gate way. i am the past president of the golden gate we tenants' association -- at the golden gate way tenants association. one of the issues was when i first became aware of this idea of putting a children's playground at sue bierman park, it was late in the game. i contacted supervisor chiu and asked if he could get it continued for me briefly. i am here today to emphatically support a kids' playground in sue bierman park. i am here to report that i think i can tell this committee that agreements have been reached whereby the support for this children's park is unanimous as far as the golden gate way tenants are concerned. last thursday, i believe it was, and that with the board of the golden gate tenants' as

president chiu: aye. >> there are 11 is. president chiu: item 7? >> providg that selected non- recurrence is the only be spent on the occurrences. >> same house, called? >> item 8 -- appropriating state revenue loss reserves in federal prison -- revenues for adult day health centers of human services agency for fy2011-2012. president chiu: same house, called? >> item 9 -- police code ordinance amending the san francisco police corps -- police code section 12 15.2. president chiu: same house, called? item 10. >> memorandum for understanding regional agreement for the disbursement of government structures and procedures for application in the bay area. president chiu: same house, called? item 11. >> ordnance and ending the san francisco and minister of code section 2a.190. president chiu: same house, same call? let's skip over our 3:00 special order. actually, several 3:00 special orders. why don't we move to roll call? >> supervisor chu, you are first or roll call. supervisor chu: [inaudible] >> supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i want to request that

president chiu: thank you. on item 15, supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: today, i am introducing a series of amendments to president chiu's legislation, the result of many months of conversations with many stakeholders -- labor groups, coalitions, business groups, small business groups, health access organizers, and community-based organizations. the amendment will do the following. it will increase the time by which employees can accrue fund is in a reimbursement account from one year to two years, require that if employees have a balance in their account at the end of the year that those funds are rolled over and made available to them the next year, so they are not starting with a zero balance the beginning part of the year, increase the protection for consumers are requiring businesses that impose a surcharge to cover the cost of health care, but spend less than the amount on health care for their employees, to pay the difference to the employees for care for health-care costs. third, require businesses to report to olse not only the

president chiu: i will ask our next question. earlier this year, i requested that the budget and legislative analyst perform a review of the frequency and cost to the city of contract order changes for large construction and professional service contracts. the report found that half of the contracts had modifications, which totaled almost $300 million, which was close to the size of the city's budget shortfall last year. the report also found that there is less public scrutiny of contracts in our city than other jurisdictions, and contract information is not kept in a uniform manner by various departments. i would like to know what your reaction as to the findings in the report and whether you agree that we need to reform the way we approved, monitor, and report these contracts? mayor lee: thank you for that question. i am unsure whether the report tells the entire story. additionally, i have not seen the report. when i know from my time as the director of public works, not all change orders are bad. if you move forward with this

president chiu: thank you. i want to thank everyone in this room, who i know has been thinking very hard about the events of the last few weeks. i want to thank all the members of the public who have been engaged in these very important discussions about our community, our country, and the inequalities we have today. i appreciate the comment about the 99.99%. i want to say that having visited the joseph herman plaza cite a number of times, i have been very impressed by the conduct of the individuals involved in this movement. i certainly think that what happened last week in oakland was deplorable, and was absolutely praetexta will -- and -- was absolutely pretextual. the reason i join my colleagues is always concerned, as i think all of us were concerned, about the possibility of an unnecessarily the violent confrontation between folks trying to get a message out and others within city government. i want to thank the folks who have participated, and the department heads that are looking out for the public heal