City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, October 18, 2011

>> good afternoon.

Welcome to the board of

supervisors meeting for October 18, 2011.

>> supervisor avalos?

Supervisor chu?

Supervisor chiu?

Supervisor elsbernd .

Supervisor farrell?

Supervisor kim?

Supervisor mirkarimi?

Supervisir weiner?

All members are here.

>> can you join me I nthe n the

pledge of allegiance?

>> mayor lee

and members of the public, I want to welcome you to the chambers of the board of supervisors. We'

re on our way to a fully accessible city board chamber.

Now when we have a legislative

aide with -- everyone will be able to get here quickly and easily.

When the goal of this

conversation came, with access

to this historic building to

maintain the chamber, they will

have finally -- file postings

during December, this is no 18 inches lower and the clerk' s

desk has been lowered and moved forward.

You can still see echoes of the

old stairs visible in the works.

I also want to point out

that the historic preservation work

was done with this, and we have

fiber optic wiring to improve the sound quality and lays the

groundwork for future audiovisual upgrades.

We will have a small ceremony and invite everyone who did the

hard work to make this happen to a celebration.

With that, why don' t we go to the approval of the meeting' s minutes?

You should have copies of the September 6 the board meeting.

The motion by supervisor

elsbernd and are there any communications?

>> I have no communications.

>> item 1 is the engagement in

formal policy discussions,

representing the odd districts, 1, 3, 5, 7 and 11.

The President Will recognize the supervisors and the odd district

will have their own questions

for the mayor and this will not exceed five minutes for the supervisor.

The public comment will take

place during general public comment.

>> the questions will come from

a colleagues from the even- numbered districts.

>> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors.

Thank you for coming.

I wanted to express -- express

my appreciation of the questions asked this month.

These questions for this month, covering pension costs and

health care costs and first

amendment rights are very important and we should get started.

>> for the first question, we go

to supervisor farrell . >> assuming proposition c passes

this November, the city is

anticipated to save $1.30 billion from the higher pension

fund contributions among other changes.

This will continue to be an

issue as projections indicate

the pension costs May be over

$700 billion by the year 2015, according to the most recent estimates.

What plans do you have to continue the conversation with potential reforms?

>> thank you for that question.

Retiree costs include pensions and health care.

As daunting as these costs are,

we are in a better position with

the pension benefits than retiree health care.

We have the unfunded liability

for retiree health care to the order of $4.40 billion.

This will create a balance on the health service' s board that we expect will lead to more

responsible designs that will

slow the rate of cost in the near future.

We also require that active

employees work towards finding health care.

Not with the minimum contributions but allowing the

city to negotiate the on the minimum.

More specifically, changes to the pension system can only be

made by san francisco voters in the city charter and we can

manage the workforce in ways that help to control pension

costs and one way to control

pension costs is to control the cost of salaries.

In the labor negotiations in the

near and long-term future we

must not grant wage increases that are not justified by the labor market.

The other way is to have a lower

salary base, and for us to learn to live within our means.

As health-care costs grow, we cannot afford to provide those

benefits to more and more employees.

For that reason we have a strict

approval process for all of the

vacant positions that impact the general fund.

The request to fill vacancies

are scrutinized with cost and necessity and public safety implications as well as classification and level.

We know the hard freeze does not

work but the diligence and robin

for full process can help us to trim the size of the work force.

All of these efforts will

require cooperation and

collaboration with you, the board of supervisors.

The whole board has been a

tremendous partner so far with your unanimous vote to put

pension reform on the ballot.

Thank you very much.

>> the next question is from

supervisor carmen chiu.

>> this pertains to health care in san francisco.

The health the san francisco

program has experienced steady increases in enrollment over time. What impact has this had on the

health impact on the city in the

utilization of this and reducing costs.

Given the new requirements of

policies at the federal level, will you recommend any adjustments or changes to that program.

>> this is a complex issue. Bear with me.

The health the san francisco program was implemented several years ago and has a steady increase in roman over time.

At the end of the fiscal year,

54,000 uninsured residents were

enrolled in health the san francisco.

This was honored by the harvard

tennis -- kennedy school and is premised on the notion that by

providing participants with

primary care, or they can receive preventive and primary

care, over time, you will see changes in where they seek

service and provide care more affectively to slow the growth and cost.

And this is working.

We have completed an analysis

that find out -- found out the following.

85% of south -- of san francisco

members -- the rate of people

with diabetes or asthma with the insured medicaid population

-- when asked on an annual

survey, participants of the program state that their health

status improved when they

received care from health the san francisco.

One of the key service questions

was, to what extent has held the

san francisco lead to a decrease

in emergency and non-emergency visits and avoidable hospitalization.

It is more

likely -- we wanted

to reverse this trend and we are doing just that.

We see a steadily designing

emergency group, and most did not make the emergency room visits.

They have the routine primary care.

We have the eye exam and adults with these hospitals.

And the avoidable -- we want to provide care more efficiently and effectively.

We have our participants go to medical homes for care where

they went to the emergency rooms before.

Meaning less emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

This May lead to

hopscotch -- to

those who are more in tune with the medical home.

It is important to distinguish

between a reduction in cost and reducing the rate of growth.

They are not premised on the

program that will reduce costs,

and the federal health reform is not seeking an overall reduction in costs.

From fiscal year 2000 -- 2009-

2010 to 2010-2011.

There was the additional cost.

There was the employee spending

requirement, so why -- this

remains a great thing for the city we have a lot of work to do. We have the affordable care act and any changes we need to make

in light of the federal level.

>> thank you.

Excuse me, sir. You are out of order. [Applause]

[Applause]

>> I want to remind members of the public that we have rules of order in this chamber.

We want to do this officially and have public comment.

There are times in the agenda

for this and time for public

comment by anyone who wishes to speak.

There is a rule that states

that in times and are not public

comment, that individuals from

the audience May not express

support or opposition to any statements that are made here.

We need this in order to conduct the meeting.

With dignity and civility and respect to the public.

The next question will be asked

by our colleague from district 6, jane kim.

>> first, Mr. Mayor, let me

thank you for keeping this time, and having your staff work

with our office, and I want to knowledge that many members and

participants that are here today

as well, share your response. And also speak of public comment.

Thank you for being here.

Please describe the plan that our offices have been talking

about given the projected long- term nature of this protest.

How can the city including the -- the department of public

health and recreation and caught

-- parks address public health

concerns and the costs associated with that as they

approached the first amendment

right supporting people' s right to speak and assemble.

>> let me remind you, from the

very beginning, I have supported the.

-- the spirit of the occupy movement.

This is their real for the country in the city and that is

why I am wanting to create jobs

and opportunities in san francisco. I have partnered with all of you.

We don' t want to see the residence in the economic hardship.

We were to fund programs like

you if programs cut by the state

or launching jobs that employ --

employed 200 people of san francisco last month.

The city services are stretched

thin and we need to target our scarce dollars to keep family

strong, and helping the 99%.

I began my career as a public

advocate, fighting economic

injustice and fighting for the

civil rights of people in dire need.

That was in san francisco, a

city that protect protect the

right -- protect the right of people to assemble and protest.

For those who have come every day from this movement, let me

say that we stand with you at

expressing outrage at the large financial institutions.

We are working -- >> you are out of order. [Applause]

>> we are working with you, to help raise your voice

peacefully, and we will protect

your right to protest and your freedom of speech.

That is not the same as lighting

fires in public places and parks.

But we can make accommodations and we have.

And we can do this without

jeopardize in public safety in any way.

This is for the safety of

protesters and the general public.

Cities across the country are

responding in different ways,

and the very real question of strange city resources is a good one.

We spent $100,000 of, that -- accommodating protest.

We give protesters the ability

to continue their protests as we know what is it good -- what is needed and not needed.

A March was facilitated --

facilitated by the police department without incident.

After receiving requests from

participants, the police have

clear rules about how to protest with them block.

We also made littering

receptacles available, is it -- it is unfortunate that all a

small number -- a small number

cannot comply with a reasonable request like removing their tents from the public right of way.

Longstanding loss on the books do not interfere with the right

to peaceably protest and occupy space.

Let me reiterate to the

supervisors and the public, I support the spirit of this movement and not believe that

the intention is to negatively impact the city in any way.

We can support this movement as

we have done in the past month safely and with them along.

We look forward to continue the

support of members to do this.

>> the rest is from superb --

supervisor scott weiner.

Supervisor weiner: we will never

truly get people out of their cars without reliable taxi

service but this has been over a

decade since we significantly improved service.

The current levels are inadequate and unacceptable.

There will be approximately new

-- 85,000 new permits.

Understanding the california

environmental quality act -- analysis May be required to

have a larger increase in the number of taxis.

How will you make certain that

the look into the amount of taxi service.

Will the support a significant

increase in the number of taxi permits.

>> thank you for your sustained

attention to the issues of the taxi industry.

The taxi system is a critical

part of the transit network and

a key component to the transportation policy.

Having a robust taxi system

allows people to travel around without having to hold a car.

Our taxi fleet is a key partner in reducing city-wide carbon emissions.

In the past three years, this

has resulted in 35,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions

savings, the equivalent of

taking 400 passenger cars off the road.

it is clear that the tax system has room for improvement.

And I have spoken to people who

have a hard time getting a taxi when they need one.

Including senior citizens and

those requiring accessible vehicles.

How do we fix this?

We have to improve service in a

way that works for writers and

taxi drivers -- rider sand s and

taxi drivers.

This public convenience and

necessity study -- it will

determine the number of taxis required for an adequate level

of service to the growing

population of san francisco.

We will have stakeholder

interviews and the industry best

practices, recommending changes in how we calculate the meter

rates, and the contract is

expected to be approved and

awarded by January 1, 2012, completed by the end of next year.

Once this is completed, the level of environmental

clearance can then be determined. And the mass transit authority

will make certain of the

adequate funding -- and I know you continue to watch this issue and I am happy to let you know I

will be held at any time on this issue.

>> the final question will be from supervisor cohen.

Supervisor cohen: good afternoon.

The approach to code

enforcement includes the department of building

inspection and the police department and the city attorney' s office.

Throughout the city we

continually see the vacant and

occupied properties with significant housing and other

code violations that go

unaddressed for months, and

quite frankly, in my case they go unaddressed for many years.

How the you propose to improve

the response to complaints to inspection citations and the

enforcement of code violations,

and additionally, what strategies can be used to

increase the efficiency in addressing these issues and the

capacity to take legal action against the egregious property

mayor lee:   thank you.

What we are addressing code enforcement issues, we need to

divide the conversation into two conversations -- vacant buildings and occupied buildings.

For obvious reasons, we --

within the occupied building

category, we prioritize by buildings that pose the greatest risk to health and safety of the occupants or neighbors.

For a vacant buildings, the city provides to pathways -- we give building owners and opportunity to register with our vacant building program.

To register, building owners

must pay $795 in annual fees and bring their buildings up to code.

Once registered, we do not enforce any more violations.

Because of this program, 85% of

the buildings on the vacant and the banding building list are registered and in good conditions.

For buildings whose owners refuse to register or do not qualify for registration, they

can face a fine of almost $7,000.

If the building is not up to code, we initiate code enforcement process, which begins with a notice of violation.

After issuance of the nov , we

work with the owners to quickly and voluntarily solve the problem. This resolves the vast majority of cases.

It also leads to quick, cost- efficient resolutions. But there are always those

owners who refuse to and cannot take responsibility.

For those owners, we refer them to a director' s hearing where we

issue an order of abatement if

the building is non-compliant.

If the owner refuses to

cooperate, dbi can refer cases

for -- to the city attorney' s office. As of the last report to my office, the city attorney has

over 100 cases that he has not yet resolved.

Yet the city attorney continues

to build dbi for these cases, discouraging departments from

sending additional cases for consideration. My staff has already been

talking about code enforcement issues. The leadership understands the need and are willing to work together on better identifying buildings that are structurally

compromise and wrapping up code enforcement. As we move forward with this,

let me point out a few things.

In this atmosphere of dwindling resources, we will have to prioritize the list of what we can do. Given this, I fully support the

focus on buildings that impose a

fee -- that impose health and safety risk to existing occupancy neighbors. Any solutions will have to continue to support this priority, but I' m happy to explore.

I want to point out there is a

category of homeowners who, due to social or economic reasons, are not able to pay for the repairs necessary to bring the buildings back to full compliance.

To address this, the mayor' s

office administers a program which assists low-income homeowners in bringing their

buildings backed into compliance

with loans up to $50,000.

Not enough low-income residents know about this program, so I

would their June -- I would urge

you to revise your constituency. Thank you.

President Chiu:   that concludes today' s formal policy discussions with the mayor. Mr. Mayor, thank you for being here.

At this time, why don' t we move

to our consent agenda, items to the six. Let me again but members of the

public know we will have a time for public comment period that will come after item 26.

Items 2 through 6.

>> items 2 through 6 comprise the consent agenda. They will be acted upon by single roll call vote.

I must member should object, it will be removed and considered separately.

President Chiu:   roll-call vote

on items 2 through 6?

>> [Roll- call]

There are 11 ayes.

These items are adopted in the motions approved. Item seven.

>> item 7 is an ordinance amending the administrative code

to prohibit a limited service pregnancy centers for making

false or misleading statements about the services of center offers or performance.

Supervisor cohen: first, I want is a thank you very much for those of you who have come on

board to serve as a co-sponsor for this legislation.

I worked very hard on it and would like to acknowledge their

many -- the many community

members who worked on this of

with me and offer the many -- also, the many women, it' s a difficult topic to get women to

give voice to, so I wanted to acknowledge and thank them for

giving voice to an issue that is sometimes often taboo.

I want to remind you the purpose and intent of this ordinance is to protect consumers of

pregnancy-related services by

prohibiting limited service pregnancy centers from

knowingly disseminating false or

misleading advertising

information about the services they provide.

In addition to stipulating a

prohibition on false or misleading advertising of

pregnancy-related services, this

ordinance provides a remedy to the city attorney to enforce the ordinance.

By -- prior to filing a lawsuit, the city attorney would be required to give the pregnancy center a 10-day notice and an opportunity to correct the violation by changing its advertising. I would like to take a moment to

address what this ordinance is not and what it does not do. I think there is a lot of misinformation out there. This ordinance does not regulate the licensing of limited service pregnancy centers nor the types of

services that can or cannot be provided.

It does not require limited pregnancy service centers to post notices in their waiting

room detail -- detailing the services they will provide. This legislation has been carefully crafted by our very

own professional and competent

city attorneys to withhold a legal challenge and it does not

trample on anyone groups -- any

one organization' s first amendment rights. Thank you for time.

President Chiu:   any additional discussion?

Supervisor elsbernd: I rise to

explain why I will be opposing this ordinance.

In committee, we sent afford without recommendation. I think we did that unanimously because we felt the committee hearing, there had not been a

presentation of the evidence to a problem in san francisco. There was a great deal of

evidence for a problem

nationally, but we only have two of these centers in san francisco.

There were only five or six documentations of people commenting on the web. Correct me if I'

m wrong, in committee, I believe that was all we had for san francisco. Subsequent to that, we received any mail from the sponsor of the legislation that added two

additional pieces of information on this item.

First was an e-mail from a

doctor at san francisco general hospital who reported a situation that she heard from a

colleague that she remembered from three years ago.

Respectfully, probably not the best piece of evidence.

Probably the kind of here say that would not be allowed in court.

But this is not a court, let' s use what we have.

What we heard was the situation

involves a center that wasn' t even like this.

I met with the proponents of this legislation has made clear

their target is a first resort.

First resort is licensed.

This is evidence of a situation that had nothing to do with first resort.

The second piece of evidence offered into the record

yesterday in that e-mail in our

public record is the testimony

from one woman who came across

first resort on a website.

She called the number, did not

like what she heard and within five minutes had hung up the phone and moved on.

There has been no testimony,

documentation, no affidavits of

any woman, any service, someone

seeking service who has been misled.

There is nothing in the record documenting that.

What I fear we are doing today

is passing a solution in search of a problem.

I fully recognize, especially

with the report we received that

documented the issues in other

cpc' s are on the country that there May be false advertising around the country.

We only have to of the centers in san francisco. I continue to believe after the hearing to weeks ago up to today that the legislative record remains empty.

The documentation I believe is necessary to stand up to a

cautionary memo sitting on every

one of our desks that tells us

we have a high burden to cross to get this passed.

Four cities have passed ordinances like this. Three of those cities have seen those tossed out.

The fourth is in the middle of litigation right now.

I do not believe the record is sufficient to beat that threshold.

I think we are striving again -- the best way to describe my feeling is we' re putting forward

a solution to a problem that in san francisco has not been documented. [Applause]

President Chiu:   I would just like to gently remind folks that we have a role in this chamber that we asked folks not to

express support or opposition so

we can move at the meeting ford. Any further comments?

Supervisor wiener:   I am proud to be cosponsoring this legislation and I will be voting for today. I did meet with the folks from first resort and I appreciate

and taking the time to come in and meet with me.

This is not about who is a good person or who is a bad person.

This is about san francisco

working to protect a woman' s right to access reproductive choices.

We have seen throughout the

country a lot of efforts to

overrule roe vs. Wade.

They cannot do it to the court

system or the constitutional amendment system, so instead, we have seen a whole range of ways

of denying women access to reproductive services.

When you look at what we do have

in our record, including marketing material, website

information, it is apparent to

me this is misleading.

And can mislead a woman to

thinking day -- she is going to be receiving a certain services that she is not going to be receding.

To me, I think it is appropriate

for us to be protecting a woman' s right to choose.

We are obviously balancing to

constitutional rights here. I know we' re all very conscious of the first amendment.

This has been a narrowly drafted ordinance. I will be supporting it today.

Supervisor campos:   thank you, Mr. President.

Our into a bank supervisor cohen

for bringing this forward. I'

m proud -- I -- the necessary

evidence when passing something

like this, I understand the point, but I believe the author of this ordinance has worked very closely with our legal

counsel to make sure this is a piece of legislation that passes

legal muster and I will defer to

the judgment of the city attorney' s office who was really

involved in the crafting of this legislation.

With respect to how much

evidence of an injury or harm is

needed, I think we do have a

responsibility to consumers as a

whole that when we see language that is misleading, that we take a position and make sure that

information is correct.

In fact, accurate information is provided to consumers. I don' t know that we have to

wait until there is an actual injury to make that happen.

In terms of the injuries that

could come because of this information, I think it is

something we have to be mindful of.

I can tell you even in progress of san francisco, we still see

efforts to intimidate women who are trying to exercise their

legal right to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy.

I know that in my district, in district 9, one of the most progressive districts in the city, there have been a number of examples in the planned parenthood clinic that open

their where individuals have taken upon themselves to intimidate women.

The reality is even in san

francisco, these problems are rise. We have a responsibility to make sure accurate information is provided and I' m proud to sponsor this legislation.

Supervisor avalos: thank you.

I will be voting in favor of this legislation. I did have a move out of

committee without recommendation hoping to get more information

that would back the legal record for it.

I am not totally satisfied with that but I do want to believe, I

do want to support legislation

that is fully in favor of a woman' s right to choose and as the overriding concern for me

today why I will be supporting this legislation and I want to thank the sponsor for bringing

it forward and thank all of you colleagues who are supporting it as well.

Supervisor

kim:   I also want to

thank supervisor cohen and I am a co-sponsor as well. Even if we do not have documentation of women who are misled by potential false advertising, it' s an important measure of prevention.

I certainly appreciate concern from colleagues about unnecessary legislation.

I, myself, do not want to spend our legislative process these on problems that do not exist.

I think this is an important enough issue for many of our

women in san francisco, and if we are able to prevent women

from being misled into coming into pregnancy centers that do not offer all of the choices

available to women in their

first trimester, we should set some regulations around that.

I appreciate this legislation is

different from other ordinances passed in other cities and

counties which regulated the clinic itself. This regulates the advertising of the clinic.

That difference is important.

Also, as we know, san francisco can be a model for other cities and counties for legislation

that works and is effective in protecting the rights of our citizens.

I am hopeful that other cities and counties will look toward

supervisor cohen'

s legislation.

Supervisor farrell: this has been a tough one for me and I will be supporting the legislation.

First, this is not about first resort. I know lot of people have insinuated that. I have a lot of friends involved

with the organization and I have great things to say about it.

Second, this is a cautionary warning. At the end of the day, I don' t

have a problem or regulating advertising and saying false or misleading advertising is wrong.

I have no problem doing that and

why I will be supporting this today.

I have seen a lot of evidence in e-mail change going around

looking at google search results and algorithms. All lot of that stuff is not controlled by people to advertise.

A clear warning -- I think you

could go down a very slippery slope.

Google has a provision against false or misleading advertising.

To say that by buying certain key words you are doing false or misleading advertising, you' re going after google itself, and

we need to take a hard look at the ways we' re going to enforce this law going forward, but I will be supporting it today.

Supervisor chu:   I simply want to thank the co-sponsors as well as the sponsor for bringing this forward. I did take the time to meet with both sides of the issue and I

appreciate the time they both spent with me. Given some of the comments I' ve

heard from the folks at first resort, want to say what I have heard is a conscious effort to

make sure folks are educated about the options are there, but I think this legislation is not

one that says whether or not is a bad organization. It' s about truth in what people say they' re offering.

At a stage when someone is at the most vulnerable going in for

services, outweighing all the

different things before us, and the comments I' ve heard and the testimony addition to the

compelling reason to protect women' s choice, I have to say will continue to support this legislation.

President Chiu:   colleagues, any additional discussion? Will call vote.

>>

[Roll-call]

There are a

a 10yes and 1 no.

President Chiu:   this item is passed on the first reading.

>> and ordnance amending the

legislation, to clarify only amount that paid to provide employee health care services shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the health care security ordinance.

Supervisor campos: I was hoping this would be part of the consent agenda.

[Laughter]

I want to first of all thank my colleagues on the government audit and oversight committee for forwarding this matter to the full board. I don' t want to belabor the points that have been made.

This legislation was introduced five months ago.

I want to once again thank my colleagues who are cosponsoring

the legislature -- the legislation.

As we are now at a critical

point in terms of the history

of health care in this country, the rest of the country is following the lead of san francisco in moving toward universal health care.

This piece of legislature and insurers san francisco continues

to lead the way on the issue of

health care -- this piece of legislature insurers san francisco continues to lead the way on this issue of health care.

President Chiu:   any discussion? Roll-call vote.

>> [Roll call]

President Chiu:   why don' t we

proceed to the vote -- you want to rescind -- why don' t we restart at the vote. I' m sorry I did not see you on the roster.

Why don' t we finish the vote and

we can rescinded if you want --

>> [Roll- call ]

There

are six ayes and five nos .

President Chiu:   this ordinance is finally passed.

>> I want to say why I am

supporting this particular piece of legislation. I think it' s most consistent with the legislation enacted five years ago and is an effective way of closing the

loopholes of disproportionately impact of low-wage workers who live in district 10. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

This has been an extremely

difficult and often times contentious measure.

I also want to publicly to the folks on both sides of the aisle on this particular issue that no matter -- I' m not sure where this process will take us.

If it ends up on the mayor' s desk, either way, I' m here to

say I am committed to work --

this is our first, second,

probably third step to go into legislation to fill a loophole.

And this year to offer my will be continuing to work with the mayor' s office, with the

business community, with the small business community as well as with labor leaders in the city and county.

Supervisor

campos:   I simply want to add one point out that this legislation was passed.

I want to thank my colleagues for their consideration on this item.

It is -- I would like to

specifically ask the mayor to

not veto this legislation.

This legislation does about

providing -- about fighting economic injustice. He talked about his background

today in fighting economic injustice.

to me, that means making sure the right of workers to have

access to health care is provided and protected.

I look forward to continuing to work with the mayor' s office and

make sure this becomes law. Thank you very much.

President Chiu:   next item, please.

>> item 9 is from the land use and economic development committee with our recommendation. An ordinance amending the

planning code to create the

lombard and scott st. Affordable group housing specialist district.

president chiu:   roll- call. >> [Roll-call]

there are 10 ayes oneno.

President Chiu:   the ordinance is finally passed.

>> item 10 -- an item amending the code for the city to

provide -- for filing economic statements it to death city administrator.

President Chiu:

roll-call.

>> [Roll-call]

there are

11 ayes.

Item 11 --

an ordinance authorizing the department of environment to accept and expand

at funds in the amount of

$100,000 for installing electrical vehicle charging stations.

President Chiu:   this item is passed and the first reading. Item 12.

>> --

president chiu: same house, same call. Item 13.

>>

a contract amendment for

western state oil not to exceed 78 million. Thousand dollars.

president chiu:   same house, same call. The item is adopted. Item 14.

>> -- >>

hot President Chiu:

president chiu: same house, same call. The item is adopted.

>> item number 15.

President

Chiu:   same house, same call. This item is adopted.

>> item number 16, authorizing general obligation refunding

bonds in an amount not to exceed approximately 1.3 $6 billion.

supervisor chu: this item came before the budget and finance committee. We sent that now with authorization for the city to refund the bonds should the interest-rate environment produce savings. However, there is an omission inadvertently on page 30. You see that item before you. We have copies we have distributed already. I would like to motion we amend

into it to include the branch library facilities improvement component.

That should read series 2002-be

in the amount of $23,135,000.

The 2005 series -- that' s $34 million as well as the 2008

series, $31,065,000.

I would also move that once we

have taken the amendments that

we refer the items to the budget committee to allow for public comment.

President Chiu:   supervised

herchu has made an amendment.

We have a second.

Without objection, the item be amended.

We can take the underlying resolution to be amended and adopted.

We refer to committee.

motion to refer back to

committee, without objection, this item will be referred back to committee. Item 17.

>> a resolution authorizing a public utilities commission

general manager to enter into to long-term interconnection agreements for renewable energy generating facilities.

president chiu:   same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

>> item 18, authorizing public

works to control the insurance program I' m for the laguna honda hospital replacement program.

President Chiu:   same house, same call. The item is adopted.

>> item number 19, authorizing

the issuance of multifamily

housing bonds not to exceed $8.1 million for the purpose of providing financing for the

acquisition and rehabilitation of an atm multifamily rental housing project known as the fell street apartments.

president chiu:   same house, same call. The resolution is adopted. >> item 20, a resolution urging government agencies to work

together to develop a free muni fast pass for san francisco use.

President Chiu:   any discussion?

supervisor campos: I would like

to thank my colleagues who are

cosponsoring this legislation and bank all of the community

members who have been working diligently on this issue for a number of months. I also want to take the

opportunity to thank the mayor' s

office and the mta and the county transportation authority for the time and energy that has been spent in looking at this issue.

Finally, I want to thank the metropolitan transportation commission for the dialogue and conversations we have had,

including with san francisco unified school district. Colleagues, I ask for your support.

President Chiu:   any further discussion, colleagues?

Roll call vote.

>> [Roll-call]

there are 7 ayes and 4 nos.

president chiu:   this item is adopted.

I feel like there is a delay --

and

>> I wanted to explain why I was voting against a the resolution.

i wanted to acknowledge that

some dreiser campos it -- that a

supervisor campos is trying to increase use usage of muni.

Has got more expensive, but I

have given be significant

expenses this would entail and there' s a debate about what that

expense would be and given me any pause very dire financial straits and structural operating

deficit, -- giving her -- given muni'

s dire straits. It is a zero sum game and it

said mtc devotes money to that,

that is money we will not be --

it will not be going to maintain buses. That' s why I did vote against this. Thank you.

Supervisor campos:   thank you, Mr. President. Want to acknowledge the points that have been made by my

colleagues to were not on the supporting and of this resolution.

I certainly appreciate the perspective and what you to know I am committed to making sure

that as we proceed with this

proposal that we take your concerns about the impact on the

system and making sure it' s done in a fiscally responsible way into consideration.

I know I am committed to doing

at and those of my colleagues who are supportive of this also want to make sure it' s done right.

I look ford to continuing the dialogue and continuing that

discussion with my colleagues,

whether they support this item not. Thank you. -- I look forward.

President Chiu:   let' s move to item number 21.

>>

supervisor chu:   I wanted to

explain quickly why I voted against this. It' s consistent with my vote previously. There is a value to having

individuals pay for a service.

So fundamentally, I think there is a conversation to be at about that.

I agree with supervisor wiener that there could be different

price structure that could work, but I think there is that value.

Second, I believe given the big

financial problems we see across the state, the city, locally, that there is many priorities

for muni to fix their existing fleet so it does not break down.

i just wanted to express my willingness to work with you.

President Chiu:   why don' t we move now to item 21.

>> an ordinance amending the

planning code to provide the reconstruction of buildings damaged or destroyed by fire or

acts of God and provide a

retroactive date operative of August 1st, 2009.

Supervisor elsbernd: this one caught my eye late.

I have unfortunately had -- I

have a connection to this issue.

A home that my mother owned as a

residential piece of rental property burned down about a year-and-a-half ago and I had to

go to the building inspection issue.

But far more, I had to help with the insurance company.

The way this is set up, it seems

to be an insurance company' s dream. The way the code is currently written, you don' t necessarily need to get your building permit within 12 months if you are still working with the insurance company. The way the amendment as written, you have to get the

building permit within 18 months.

I can tell you it took me a very

long time, had to hire an

adjuster who I had to end up

dealing with the insurance company representing me because

I could not handle the insurance company.

there going to now tell the

insurance company that they get the permit in by 18 months, they' re going to set things up for themselves.

I get the point that we want to give buildings that have been

burned down rebuilt, but this screes the consumer.

This is at the insurance companies and dream and I would strongly suggest this be rethought. I' ve read through the file and don' t see one mention of this point. I'

d be very concerned about this ordinance going through.

supervisor cohen:   given the

issue it supervised herelsbern d

has brought to my attention, I

would like to continue this item --

President Chiu:   we continue this two weeks to which state?

>> della be November 1st.

-- that would be November 1st.

President Chiu:   without

objection, this item is moved to November 1st.

>> item 23, to urge the police commission and chief of police

to review as necessary the

police department policy and procedures for consistency with the community policing policy.

Supervisor campos:   thank you, Mr. President and colleagues.

want to thank my colleagues who are cosponsoring this legislation.

Often times in the city hall, you only hear about legislative

proposals when a legislative proposal becomes controversial.

But I am very proud of the fact

this is a proposal that though

not controversial is significant

in terms of what it means for

policing and the city and county of san francisco.

We have talked for many years about the importance of community policing and get the

definition of community policing has been a moving target.

What this legislation does is that working closely with members of the police

commission, working closely with

the police department, we are codifying a definition of

community policing that not only

provides a threshold of what it

means to conduct community policing, but also strikes the right balance in providing the

flexibility to the chief and each district captain to make

sure we have uniformity in terms of implementation,

recognizing each neighborhood is different and the community policing May mean something different depending on the neighborhood.

I want to especially thank the chief for working so closely

with my office and members of the community who have been working on this for many months.

What we have seen in terms of

the chiefs willingness to work

on this issue, it is truly unprecedented. Where we have now situation where we are about to enact a piece of legislation that in fact has already been implemented by the police department.

I am proud to announce and to

say the san francisco police department has codified

community policing and actually

written a department general order that specifically addresses the issue of community

policing and defined community policing for the city and county

of san francisco and it May very

well be the only police department in the country that has actually done that. That' s something I' m very proud of. I also want to thank the members

of the working group who are

working with hillary in my office.

They have been thinking for a

number of months about what it means to have community policing

and have provided a great insight into what it means to

having community policing in a given neighborhood.

Again, I would like to thank the chief for the unprecedented level of collaboration and

cooperation he has provided to

his staff and members of the police commission who have adopted the community policing

department general or and again,

thank you to my colleagues for the co-sponsor ship. I ask for your support today.

>> --

supervisor

mirkarimi:   thank you for your leadership on this.

This conversation has been ongoing for many years.

As I have often remarked, I think san francisco talks a good game about community policing, but it is poorly practice.

That culminated into some very

heated commission hearings

between 2005 and 2007 which resulted in a comptroller' s study which was well funded by

our cities controller,

especially on the idea of foot

patrols because this is a thing

that has been well practiced pin the past but had been abandoned

by the san francisco police department.

we noticed more middle-class or affluent communities would benefit from foot patrols, but

not all communities of its own economic diversity.

There has been a percolation of the need for community policing, but many in the police department would subscribe to the idea that they do community

policing, but it would also say when it comes to various

features and strategies, whether

foot patrols, a signing people who would be multilevel in communities where english was

not the -- would be multilingual in communities where english is

not the first language or engage among the 10 different stations,

those were all variables that

helped compose what a community policing strategy is.

But most often, when we heard there were budgetary restrictions or limitations or

staffing deficits, the ultimate conclusion, most often by the

mayor or police the park was community policing is a luxury we cannot afford.

Now, what makes this a very,

very important milestone us committing to the department general orders that for any paramilitary organization, and that is what police departments

are, in this -- it' s the police departments are paramilitary organizations. Their bible and manual is known

as the dgo' s.

For those to be amended so has a commitment toward community

policing is an important step of accomplishment. It' s also important to note the

dgo'

s have not been upgraded since 1994.

Most often, with the police department, like many police departments, they will say well we all want to hear, that they' re committed to foot patrols and community policing, but it is always those strategies that are the first casualty in the budgetary

discussion and that is what I have never liked, even as chair of public safety.

I want to say this is important.

Might go unnoticed in what the passage of this vote May be, but

the dgo was the last stop to garner the commitment so thank you to those who helped us arrived at this particular place.

Supervisor kim:   I would like my

name added as a co-sponsor and

out like to thing my colleagues and co-sponsors for working on defining community policing in our city.

President Chiu:   I am also going to ask for my name to be added as well.

supervisor cohen: thank you, Mr. President.

I just wanted to publicly acknowledge supervisor ross

mirkarimi taking leadership on this and helping this body develop a solid definition of

what exactly community policing is and I want to thank you,

supervisor campos as well.

President Chiu:   any further discussion?

>> [Roll-call]

there are 10

ayes, one no.

President Chiu:   this item is passed.

>> item 23, ordnance manini san francisco health code by adding article 35 to greeter

registration scheme coffey said requirements for biological agent detectors.

[Roll-call]

there are 11 ayes .

President Chiu:   this item passes. Item number 24.

>> --

president chiu:   same house, same call. Why don'

t we go to our 3:00 P.M. Special order.

>> items 25 and 26 are pursuant

to a motion to sit as a committee as a whole for a public hearing of persons interested in a proposed resolution establishing a property based community district to be known as the fillmore community benefit district by removing an expanding the previously

expanded filmore jazz cbd , ordering a levee and collection of assessments against property located in the film more community benefit district for seven years.

President Chiu:   this public

hearing was open and continue from July 26th, 2011.

Today, we will continue of public testimony on this matter.

I understand our colleague

supervisor mirkarimi will make a

motion to continue this soap committee members can conduct outreach about renewal processes

for the -- so committee members

can connect outreach about renewal processes.

Mail will be sent to all property owners who were mailed ballot in this matter.

Supervisor mirkarimi:   I am going to make the motion is be continued to December 13th and

realize as process provides

people to speak to this in

public comment, I also wish in

my preferences that if we could

send this back to committee, I would.

That is not allowed for, so that is why remains in the committee of the hole here.

December 13th, I expect will be

ample time as this continues to

twist and turn in the hope the

committee comes to an agreement as to the next iteration of the cdb.

President Chiu:   supervisor

mirkarimi has made a motion to continue. Is there a second?

Are there any members of the public who wish to testify on the proposed continuance or wish to speak in favor of or in

opposition to the renewed and

expanded to fill more district? If you wish to speak on behalf

this, to the police lineup on

that side as -- if you could

please aligned up on that side.

If a property owner wishes to

change his or her vote, you can

speak with the department of elections just outside the board chambers and it will provide you with an affidavit and ballot. Each member of the public shall have up to two minutes to speak on this issue.

First speaker.

>> good afternoon, board of supervisors.

We, from the community, have

built up a new agency called the film board member association. We have been having some really

good -- the fillmore member association.

We would like to have you come out and hear from the community

about the cdb.

We are in support of it but we don' t know exactly what it means.

Is a community benefit or district benefit. a lot of the businesses and owners have came out and talked about the benefits of the

community, but overall, the

cleaning and safety of the whole community has not benefited.

It might look nice on

filmmore

street, the businesses are not thriving, so I don' t think the community overall has adapted to

the cdb, but we' re willing to

come together as a community and see what we can do.

We originally had day cac through the redevelopment -- we

originally had a cac through the redevelopment agency.

Hopefully in the next come -- the next upcoming meeting, if you can book it on your schedule, I know you have a busy one, but we hope to get you out there and maybe some of the

other supervisors that have cdb'

s in their district and speak also.

>>

for the record, Mr. Chair,

supervisors, real quick, I want

to thank the cd

bd members of the community for our efforts to come to some kind of an agreement. i personally support the

continuance of this matter so we can discuss further on how we can bridge the gap between the

community and what our organization. I think this is part of a bigger picture.

We have been trying to bake a community take for a long time

to unify the area and speak with one voice. I look at this as a golden

opportunity for all of us -- whatever the organization going

forward to represent our area. When we do speak to city

government, we can speak with one voice and the things forward in a timely manner.

The cbd and many other

organizations like cac, we have had issues in the past. But people are coming to the table and I think is a good start.

We want to say in san francisco come all of these cbd'

s and

communities like the fillmore

area, we should all celebrate when a community sits down to

start a discussion when not

speaking out of sync but speaking with one voice in

making sure we have the right people at the table. I personally support the continuation and let us bake this community cake.

President Chiu:   next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is randall evans.

I represent a corporation, but I' m talking as a community activist. It' s ironic because number one, we would not even be down here it wasn'

t for brand new

leadership at the cbd with black leadership.

When it was just, excuse my friends, white folks in charge

at the cbd, there were just fussing. Natalie have black folks and

control, we have somebody come down here who I think was a conflict of interest. When you send a letter and are on the board and don' t take it

to the people aboard, but the problem. The other problem is you have the two biggest holders trying

to pull out -- safeway and the fillmore center.

As you know, they came down here talking about how they' re doing business.

Right now, they have a four

million-dollar job jumping off there, waterproofing.

nobody is can -- nobody is patrolling it at all. It is unacceptable.

Most importantly, I support the continuance because I did time for us to get together and talk about what does it mean to have

a cbd.

In my opinion, the black community in san francisco is under a state of emergency. Nobody is looking out for us.

Our leadership has issues in it.

With a black President, we need to be talking about leadership in san francisco. If we' re going to talk about a

community benefit district colleague to talk about a black leadership. Bottom line. I support the continuance.

president chiu:   are there any other members of the public who

wish to speak to this motion or

speak in favor of or in opposition of the new and

expanded cbd.

Seeing that no more, we have a motion in front of us to

continue this matter until December 13th, 2011. can we take this motion without objection?

Without objection, this item is continued, open to December

13th, 2011 at 3:00 P.M.

Colleagues, why don' t we proceed to roll-call and I will note

that 3:30 we have to special commendations. Why don' t we go to roll-call.

supervisor avalos:   just a comment about the recent events

are around occupysf.

I have been there on occasion. The first time was about two

weeks ago, late wednesday, early thursday morning.

I was concerned about the action that was going to be taken by the police to separate the belongings from the

demonstrators and I was trying

to prevent that action from the police from happening but it seemed clear the police were moving headlong into that.

I think these actions against the demonstrators do not do it is necessary to build trust with the movement.

I see the movement not just being here in san francisco, but looking at countrywide and perhaps worldwide is how it is

growing, I think we have to have

a real flexible way of moving as

a city to recognize people' s rights to free speech and assembly and I don' t think we' re doing that. [Applause]

Sunday night was a case in point.

I was at my home and at 11:30 at

night, I was getting frantic

texts and phone calls from

people of the demonstration which had moved to justice herman plaza and I saw a live feed and was happening on the

street was very alarming to see both people who were there protesting as well as police

confronting one another in a way that is very chaotic.

I believe unsafe for a bomb both sides.

-- un safe for people on both sides. We have to figure out as a city

had be flexible and now are response. It' s about public space and what it means to have free speech. There are different tools you can have for free speech.

When it comes to the occupied movement, having a sleeping bag

could be a tool for free speech. You' re going to be occupying space and using that occupation as a way to denounce the current

economic system and try to put

it in favor of the 99%.

i think he should have the ability to practice that free- speech right and the city should recognize that as well. [Applause]

I am hoping we can figure out as a city to accommodate that. I'

m not sure -- there has been discussion about permits and

discussion about having resolutions made. I' m not sure if those are the right things to do or the necessary things to do, but it clearly goes up to the mayor of

this city to figure out how we

will have a response to the

executive to make sure we have a

response that meets the needs of

people, residents, people who are part of the occupied

movement, the police, recreation

and park, public tell, to make

sure we have and a proper response for free speech and meaningful change here in san francisco and the country. I' m willing to hear public

comment, what comments going to come from the committee and think about how we can work

together to find than adequate response.

Supervisor mar:   on wednesday and for many other today' s, marching

with the occupysf people, I' m proud to say we are the 99%. [Applause]

i was introducing a resolution today with support from

colleagues, but I will pull back

in deference to the supervisor

avalos the says he is going to

work >> what demand there are in the diversion groupings of the occupied

y sf and occupy wall

street movements. They' re focused on many of the same things that supervisor

avalos mentioned.

the resolution is strongly holding the police accountable

for the crackdown. [Applause]

I did want to say that the

issues, whether in oakland or san francisco or the 1500 other

cities are around the U.S.,

several thousand places, how to

bring an end to suffering with the end of the foreclosures and

other issues and the suffering of food and security.

We were trying very hard to make it focused on allowing people to

organize and rise up in the

neighborhoods, to hold banks and big business is accountable to the mess they have made this country into at this point.

It was an effort are around the country. I will defer to supervisor of

los -- avalos.

Introducing today a resolution that has been with the

california safety alliance and food access groups.

like the head of systems to take

steps clearly label foods that have been genetically engineered and to give preference to organic food vendors.

The

sfusd, regarding the hazard

of genetically engineered food. [Applause]

A couple weeks ago was gmo

awareness week put on by places around the state.

Many other of

s organized for the dangers of the children and the elderly.

I also join a panel of activists that were highlighting this global report on the dangers of genetically engineered food.

Scientific research has shown that materials could have

serious impacts on the level of toxins in our food.

and maybe particularly threatening to people and the elderly.

Her will have more information,

and the city to make every choice possible.

genetically modified food represents the corporate and industrial food system that we need to change.

These goals are not new, and the commission on the environment

has unanimously adopted many of

these principles in July of 2000.

I want to urge my colleagues to support this.

and supervisor mirkarimi as well.

The rest I will submit. Thank you.

>> President Chiu?

President Chiu:   thank you.

I have a couple of items for today.

first, I have an in memoriam

request for howard grayson.

A tremendous activist with the

democratic party, progressive, labor. He is someone that was incredibly passionate and for

the causes and issues that we share. And if someone who was an incredibly nice and gentle man.

I have a resolution that comes

on the same topic that the supervisor just spoke about

relating to the importance of

food policies on the state and local level.

today will be nationally

recognized for those that raise awareness on food issues to help

strengthen the sustainable food movement and give a platform to

organizations to talk about them and raise awareness.

along with supervisor mar and supervisor mirkarimi.

I am also introducing legislation I have been working

on for a better part of your to

help address the layers of

bureaucracy often confronted by

the 80,000 small businesses in san francisco.

one area is the fact that many

of our small businesses receive annual license renewals.

There are hundreds of different types of licenses. There are four different

buildings cycles for every

location that often creates enormous and bureaucratic hassles.

Thanks to the work of the fire police, health, and department

of emergency management, I am introducing legislation that simplifies how businesses are

built to consolidate the

building into one of due date, March the thirty first to that

they go to a licensee rather than a variety of locations.

And such that apartments are

actually required to post a fees on web sites.

I just wanted to say a few words about the occupied

y sf movement.

I think I speak with my

colleagues in sharing and the sympathizing with the frustrations of the protesters here in san francisco and through the country.

In san francisco, we need to

allow the protests to occur, the right to free speech at the right to assembly that is consistent with city laws.

I hope that we are able to do that.

I ask folks during public, please respect the rules of the

chamber and cannot express applause or opposition to comment that come through.

nothing in the board ruled prevent the silent hand clapping that I saw, welld one. -- well done.

Respect what we are trying to

do, to write respect everyone' s right to speak.

we will be here all night if need be. We want to give everyone a

chance to speak, be heard, and hear the proceedings. Why don' t we proceed to the next colleyville?

Supervisor

mirkarimi:   I would also like to thank supervisor

avalos and supervisor mar for their comments.

As an elected representative of city government, there is

nothing more deflating and more

disempowering than local government and municipal legislators not being able to

have the ability to respond in a way that we would like.

the outrage that is now occurring throughout many cities

in the united states and even abroad, it doesn' t surprise any of us.

I asked the city to be measured and smart in recognizing the frustrations that continue to

accommodate in a way that none of us should be surprised.

that we have been subverted in our ability to attend to the needs of the people.

We rely on the people at state and federal to do what we think is right and it should not be a surprise that people are taking to the streets. [Applause] Don' t applaud.

i rise because I am submitting a piece of law today that comes after many years of us trying to

figure out a way that we could really make an impact on

reducing recidivism in san francisco.

we have tried many different strategies, and thus trying to improve public safety by getting to the core of what continues to exacerbate the challenges of public safety.

The 7 it is police department and the san francisco district attorney prosecutes.

when you recognize that fact, the reality that san francisco has the unemployment rate,

general population unemployment

rate hovering between 9% and 10% as we try to get around the economic woes.

In many areas where there is the highest concentration of ex-

offenders, felons, especially of around public housing, the

unemployment rate is over 50%.

Nobody should be surprised that

when we front loaded nearly half

a billion dollars -- nearly $500

million, to continue to see them are wresting the same

people, it is time that I think while we recognize this ongoing reality that we have another

strategy that also intersects with the private sector, city government, and the criminal justice system.

we have never done this in san francisco.

What I would like to do is

provide a tax incentive for private sectors that hire ex felons.

People have had a hard time finding work and keeping work.

once they recognize the fact

that public safety is compounded by the reality that there are

many people, there are a majority of black and brown

people in the system returning from the neighborhoods where they came, they are likely to repeat their crimes because they are not getting the kind of services or access that I am

hoping that the private sector

will hear the call instead of us

imposing upon them, that we incentivize.

This is a pilot, it is voluntary.

it is not like a lot of

businesses came rushing to the gates to do this.

Any empirical data helps us.

Those that we' re providing for

the x offenders are a construction trade job, little

information is beyond the non-

profit sector . We'

re asking to step up the game so we recognize why there

is this crisis of helping

people that are not to fall off the wagon of rehabilitation and

held them in the continued

pursuit of entering restorative justice.

And recognizing what started the past October 1 is realignment.

700 inmates will be returning to san francisco.

At one point or another, they will be incarcerated for part of

their time or sentenced to alternative means.

They are all going to eventually come out.

And they are going to meet the means so that they are less likely to repeat their crimes.

we have a recidivism rate of 70%, and it should not be a surprise to anybody that we need

to upgrade our strategy.

I hope this ordinance helps provide just that.

The rest will submit.

supervisor

campos:   let me begin

by joining in the in memoriam

for howard greyson.

Those of us that knew him a proceeded the passion with which

he approached issues and the active participant member of the

democratic club, he will be messed.

Our condolences to his loved ones.

It is certainly a loss for the entire community in san francisco.

Let me also say that I want to reiterate the importance of

dealing with the issue of occupy

sf to make sure that these first amendment rights are respected as much as possible.

It is key to the functioning of any democratic society.

It can be an example for how to

deal with the situation, and I want to thank, in particular,

supervisor kim, supervisor

avalos, supervisor mar for

their work around this.

I also want to thank the mayor' s office and the chief of police, the people that have been working closely with me on this matter.

The people of san francisco can be an example to the rest of the

country to make sure that we recognize the importance of striking the right balance

between the needs of the public and also recognize the important of the first amendment rights.

I look forward to continuing that dialogue and that conversation.

I am introducing a hearing a

request that has been ongoing for a number of years.

Supervisor mirkarimi has been an integral part of that effort.

i am calling for a hearing

requests to discuss the proposed

terms for the community choice

aggregation program.

It has been proposed by the local agency information commission, the public utilities

commission of san francisco.

it is a very exciting prospect that we can finally make community toys segregation a reality.

-- choice aggregation a reality.

We' re working closely with lafco

to begin to put together a proposal to make community

choice aggregation a reality.

The lafco and public utilities commission have been doing that work and are now at a stage where they have put together a

set of proposed terms for the program.

And not to only focus on the terms but to begin the process

for a robust build-ou. T.

So we can have as much control over the generation of power and energy as we can and in the process, create job

opportunities for san franciscans.

I request that the hearing be

made available to the government ought an oversight committee. The rest I submit.

Supervisor wiener:   thank you.

I have several introductions today.

The first, I am introducing

legislation to amend the health

code and establish regulations for commercial bought walkers

that uses city parks to limit

the number of dogs that the

personal bob walker can talk at once.

Providing training and safety

standards for the profession.

i have been working very closely

with the number of

stakeholders, the parks council,

several doctors as well as the

impacted departments.

I look forward to discussion on this issue.

i am also submitting legislation to s

for ongoing controversy of vending food in the park.

There is a lease for a food truck that has been quite controversial in the neighborhood.

The legislation would allow the department who plays the food

truck on 19th

and delores, but

would still be able to get revenue instead of transferring

it over. The rest I submit.

>> thank you, supervisor wiener.

supervisor kim.

Supervisor kim: first of all, it

is good to be back in the chambers.

I hope that we never make fun of our colleagues that have public policy degrees.

It is good to be back and i wanted to and knowledge the upcoming wedding of one of our

legislative aides in less than

two weeks.

I wanted to officially congratulate her on this occasion.

I want to announce the opening

of the studio on sixteenth street between mission and howard.

it is the only filipino

performance venue space here in the country.

One that has long served the use

of the south of market as well as the emerging artists.

They finally opened in their original space.

We want to welcome it back to

district 6 and think the urban development solutions and

community for working so hard in

the last eight years to rebuild this state.

We did not have our good

friend

who passed away a few weeks ago.

He is a member of the united players and it isn' t -- it is unfortunate he was not able to see the ribbon cutting with us.

I will also be speaking as many

of my colleagues have.

our office has been getting tons

of the males and phone calls in support of occupi y sf.

We have not gotten a single one asking us to regulate more on the protesters or demonstrators.

I had the opportunity yesterday

to spend about four hours talking to participants of occupy sf.

The one thing that I have to say

is that it was incredibly peaceful, respectful, and very quiet.

I got to see folks helping to

clean, compost, recycling, things that I want to appreciate as someone who represent our city on a public capacity.

On a personal level, I do personally support the intent of

occupy sf and occupy wall street. [Applause] We'

ve all seen and

are finally expressing frustration with the

increase in equity -- inequity in our country.

As the research

has shown, in

1968 when ceos were only paid 51

times more, in 2005, ceos make

121 times what minimum wage makes.

As a public official, I want to make sure there is no harm done regarding any type of protest.

Even if it was the tea

party, i would have been there as well to make sure that they were also

safe and that their first amendment rights were also being protected.

That is really important to know.

I want to a knowledge that many members of our city feel that

they are in a difficult and tough position.

i have heard from folks that a

sexual assault takes place or if

people get sick or if there is a drug overdose, they will be the first to be blamed.

I want to acknowledge what

people haven' t really seen before.

i believe that there is going to

be hits and misses as we move along in this process on both ends.

I want to reiterate the letter

to the participants that was often stated this morning.

It is not specific to any kind of geography.

the parameters are those that participants have been familiar with.

For the continued cooperation in

having other open flames, and what cannot be present because it is a significant fire hazard.

The wooden pallets are not to be within the demonstration area.

tables and chairs -- that is not

something he is against or having food on site.

This will continue as well.

Park and iraq will abide by those parameters.

-- park and rec will also abide by those parameters.

It is something I look forward to hearing from public comment today.

Folks stay within parameters,

sfpd is not expected to take any action.

our office looks

forward to

continue working for the portion that I represent and I will

continue to be on call as well as the office to come down and

speak with folks and continue to cooperate.

It is a unique situation for all of us and we are struggling to

figure out the best way to accommodate.

We need to figure out how to be flexible.

A first amendment is something that I cherish, we don' t want

anyone to feel restrained in

their ability to speak out and represent their opinion.

one other thing, I don' t think

it is a good use for the demonstrators to be focused on

sfpd when the focus is on the

top 1% and the wealth occured there.

i spent time talking to

residents, at any given time we have six to eight police

officers in south of market and I don' t want to see three at the demonstration.

If it continues to go on as it is currently.

Last, I wanted to touch on another issue that the office is

working on, pedestrian safety.

I had the unfortunate circumstances of actually witnessing a pedestrian get hit

by a car.

It really reaffirm my commitment to working on increasing

pedestrian safety, particularly in district 64 we have the highest number of collisions between vehicles and cars.

and also of howard and full sun, I continue working on this.

I want to thank the chief' s wife for being here.

Last night, one of the participants collapsed.

the fire department came immediately and was able to serve him as a patient.

Everyone really appreciates your service to our city. The rest the submit.

Supervisor cohen:   we have something very simple, I just wanted to honor the memory of a man by the name of Mr. Henry carter who passed away at the

age of 90 on sunday, October 9.

It is important for us to remember the lives of those that

go on before us as we continue

to work at a fight for our struggle here.

mr. Carter was a father and husband.

I would like to ask that the supervisors close in his memory.

>> roll call for introductions is concluded.

President Chiu:   1 of removed to

the 3:30 special order for special commendations.

After that, we will move to public comment. It will be provided by

supervisor cohen.

Supervisor cohen:   I don' t see Mr. Blackwell.

President Chiu:   the second commendation will be provided by supervisor mirkarimi.

Supervisor mirkarimi:   this was

well reported on

--

approximately 4:00 P.M., the corner of eighth and fillmore.

In fact, we were engaged in closed session.

we got a number of calls as many of us do.

I simply jetted right over

there

, and it contained a three ilan that moved to a for alarm that is a bit of a rarity, considering the fact that we

lost to fire fighters earlier

this year .

And red cross and the other service providers that came on

site to lend assistance, I have

to tell you that when its core

to the story as to how we are

here today, recognizing three

particular individuals and entities.

Pierre megaron gustavo and the

lower merchant neighbors association.

this is a great example of community pulling together.

In the business that he is a

partner to across the street

from the three-story building

that burned down and displaced 24 residents was across the street. he heard a loud bang.

It went to the building itself.

Gustavo was a painter who

happens to have a key and both

of them went inside the building, knocking on doors.

I think people thought that they were crazy solicitors.

They kept at it persistently to

get people out to evacuate them out of the building.

They were successful, I think, because no lives were injured.

No animals ha were injured or

lost.

What we saw, pretty amazing

the way the damage was contained. It couldn' t have been a more

proud moment in the way the

community pull together.

i like to bring

up gustavo.

[Applause]

Just so you know, this is not a

unique situation, although it is

in our commemoration of what had

happened -- of what has happened earlier today.

When I took office earlier today

-- and I took office early on, we had a significant problem in the lower haight.

A one of the ways we addressed it was we ask the people in the

lower haight to form a kind of a block captain because we also believe in the community policing led by the community.

here happens to be one of those people earlier on that we in listed that would help us.

And there was one time where we had two homicides in the breeze

and part of day -- in the brazen part of day.

We really needed to pull together.

once again, it heighten my complete respect and appreciation, both in city

services and, of course, community leaders and citizens that came together. And then a response to their

incredible work that the merger never association put a fund- raiser together. that fund raiser, it is not easy to help 21 people who have been

displaced. We are trying to do everything we can to get people back to the

building or at least relocated until the building is rebuilt, which they say could be two years.

It concerns us about how we will be able to take care of our

people, but they raised $12,000.

We appreciate the money they had raised. Obviously a lot more needs to happen. But it was a good day,

considering the tragedy that

engulfed lower haight. We'

re celebrating life and community, and I want to thank everyone for being part of why we argue the day, and I would

like to get an opportunity to representatives of the lower

haight merchants association. You have our complete appreciation. Thank you. [Applause]

>> thank you for that introduction.

Purslane, I would like to thank -- personally, I would like to

thank ross, the city of sand and cisco, the fire department, and

the lower haight street merchants association.

i believe we all have capacity to achieve goodness.

On September 27, that is exactly what I did. My neighbors, friends,

associates were in danger, and I simply reacted to a bad situation.

I am very thankful that

everyone all got off.

I was asked if I would do it

again, and my answer could only be yes. When ever I can assist someone who is in danger and someone who

needs a helping hand, I am their help.

In closing, I would like to say that you are all heroes and heroines in our unique way.

so to you all, had a lovely day, and thank you again.

>> I really was not prepared to give any speeches or anything like this. I did not know what was going to go on here, but I just want to

say to everyone that if I had to

do it all over again, I would in a second do it all over again.

Without pierre -- we had each other' s back on the way in and on the way out, so I want to

thank you for recognizing the spirit it that -- I had my

mother with me,, so that makes me happy. It has been a good day.

>> hello, everybody.

I want to thank ross mirkarimi for letting us tell a little bit of our story. It was quite incredible.

I spoke with the vice president

of the lower haight merchant

association who watch them run into the building and turned to

enter, who is also on our board,

and he is a blogger.

He said we had to do something. Seconds later, it went up.

Seconds later, the nation' s started coming in.

-- donations started coming in.

we are accepting this on behalf -- this is part of the lower

haight board.

There are many more who were not able to make it today, but I want to say we are accepting this on behalf of our neighborhood because we have a

very special neighborhood, for anyone who has lived in the

lower haight.

We had 310 people packed -- we were a little worried the fire department was going to come because we had 310 people packed into this room for the fund raiser that we did.

If not for the generosity of the merchants and the neighbors and the friends, the folks who love

the lower haight, we could not have raised -- we have raised close to $20,000 now.

I would love for liza to say a few words.

Lisa and andrew were absolutely

instrumental in making the fund- raising portion of this happened.

>> a few quick words. i am pleased but not surprised that we are here commending these guys.

I am opened a small -- I opened a small business in the lower

haight earlier this year, and they were some of the first to introduce themselves.

Pierre was quick to volunteer tools and supplies and bring

over shovels and supplies, but

again, I am not surprised that he jumped to action when the fire occurred. The response that we have seen has been incredible.

Coming together, I think

everyone has the sense of when you see a devastating fire like that, we all know that it can

happen to any of us. the community really came

together.

I am very proud to be part of that community.

Supervisor mirkarimi:   I believe the chief would like to also add to the discussion.

>> good afternoon to all the

members of the board will have gathered. Thank you for allowing me the

opportunity to join you in acknowledging the great work of two heroes right behind us. I would love to have you as a

member of the fire department. Not without the benefit of training or equipment, you put your lives at great personal

risk to save others and to

notify others of a huge fire.

It is very rare that we have a four-alarm fire in the city.

We were challenged last month.

At great personal risk, you entered the building to notify

other people to evacuate. We pride ourselves in the fire department to getting on seen as quickly as possible. We had a great response time,

but without them bringing into active -- springing into action, there May have been injuries and there May have been dead. We appreciate all they do.

I was very appreciative of how everyone gathered together. it is our job to put the fire out, but it looks like you are

helping pick up the pieces to the residence that had suffered some property loss and damage. So we are very appreciative. Thank you again to supervisor mirkarimi.

I know you were at a meeting that day and you came to the fire. So thank you.

for the neighborhood to succeed, but the legislative branch of government and the executive branch of government joining us at the scene was very helpful and supportive and comforting. Thank you.

[Applause]

[Applause]

Supervisor chiu: congratulations.

our next special accommodation of the day will be provided by

our colleague from district 10, supervisor cohen. Thank you very much.

Supervisor cohen:   thank you very much, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen and friends today, I want you to take a

moment to acknowledge a man that

has worked for the city and county of san francisco.

This man is spread blackwell.

-- fred blackwell. He served as the executive director of the redevelopment agency.

For a moment, I would like to divorce yourself of whatever

feelings you have for the agency and the history the agency has

had for san francisco, but understand that it was had by a great man and a man we have come to honor today.

This is Mr. Fred blackwell, ladies and gentlemen.

I think relentless capacity to achieve greatness is a very

profound and fitting phrase to

describe my friend.

Those of you that know the history of san francisco know

that the redevelopment agency has an interesting and sordid

past, one of which that has

disrupted many communities,

particularly the african- american community. And just for a moment, I want to

acknowledge the man, not the

agency, but a man that has tried to reinvent and recommit

and bring to life the true

spirit, that of which the redevelopment agency was created for.

Fred blackwell has played an

integral role in the into -- implementation of a number of development projects, many of

which have touched all of our district. In particular, the southeast part of sand francisco. It is under Mr. Blackwell' s leadership that the redevelopment agency undertook a number of affordable housing projects, and I think that we would all agree that affordable

housing is a paramount issue

here in the city and county of san francisco.

He has been critical in the city' s efforts to revitalize public housing sites.

It is under his tutelage that the public housing unit received

a $30.5 million grant from hud.

In the wake of governor brown' s signing of legislation to dissolve the redevelopment

agency, Mr. Blackwell has been a

vocal supporter .

a commitment to ensuring that products that revitalize some of

our most challenged communities can continue.

You' re so eager to publicly

acknowledge you and thank you

for your steadfast commitment to improving the living conditions for thousands of san franciscans. congratulations to you and thank you for all the you have done for us.

Ladies and dillon, he is going to be transitioning on to a new position to serve oakland.

I have here just a simple token

of my appreciation that I am presenting to you on behalf of my colleagues.

It is a proclamation with about five or six snazzy whereas

clauses. I will not bore the public with what they say, but I would like to bring you to the podium. You might like to share a couple of words and reflections.

>> thank you very much for those kind words. I do not want to take up too much time.

I see the gallery is full, which

means there is a long afternoon and night ahead, but I did want to say a few things.

I wanted to first say thank you

to prior mayor newsom and

current mayor lee for giving me

this opportunity to give it a tough assignment but most importantly to -- the support to implement them and employment them in a way that, as you said,

not only brought in new

investments and new opportunity in san francisco but to do in a way where people live through

the years of disinvestment and neglect also had a chance to reap the benefits associated

with the new development and reinvestment. I want to thank all of you all on the board of supervisors. I did not have to work with everybody year because redevelopment is not in everybody' s district, but I wanted to publicly say thank

you to supervisor mirkarimi , who

are work very closely with hear

the project area expired, and I thought it was important to end at work in a way that was

responsible and respectful of

the community there .

supervisor kim and before that,

supervisor daly , in south of market to help the people achieve the things they wanted to achieve for their kids and families in the neighborhood. The development commission has always been supportive.

The staff of the redevelopment agency are amazing, committed, technically proficient people

who get up every day thinking about this stuff.

I was not the only one at that agency the thought that it could

do better by the residents of san francisco. There was a big group of folks who also felt that way, but

wanted to close by saying a big, hearty thanks as well to all of

the citizens who are members of

project areas, the project area

committees, and citizen by azeri committees. These are people will volunteer

their time to provide advice to

the staff and the commission of the redevelopment agency.

They missed dinners, and they

Miss Doing homework with kids,

and they do a great job as well, so I wanted to say thank you to all those folks and thank you for the opportunity. [Applause]

supervisor chiu:   we have one final commendation that will be offered by supervisor supervisor

kim:   -- oh, supervisor avalos .

Supervisor avalos:   I did not

want fred blackwell to go away

without my saying something nice about him. He is right here.

I want to thank you for your service to the city and county of san francisco. you have worked in -- I would

say a lot of difficult environments trying to create

change, and your vision for community development has been

strong wherever you have been .

i know what is a great loss to

san francisco is a great game to oakland. I believe he lived in east bay,

it is probably a greater gain for you as well, but I want to

thank you for a job well done.

We did some work in my district, looking at how we could use resources of the redevelopment

agency to support prevent a lot of the plight or discourage a lot of the plight in my district.

We also worked together on

trying to restore the notion of community development work in san francisco when there is a threat to that a couple of years

back.

We met at 8:30 in the morning or

even 7:30 in the morning several friday' s in a row to help come up with a plan.

I want to thank you for that effort, and I think the city is better for it and my district is better for it. Regardless of your not representing any redevelopment

area in my district, you have helped tremendously, so thank you very much. [Applause]

Supervisor campos: thank you.

my apologies, I had to step out

to appear before the mta board of directors, but I wanted to

take this opportunity to thank Mr. Blackwell for his service to the city and county of san francisco. I have had the privilege of working with him and have found

him to be, besides being

extremely intelligent and

capable, hard-working and fully responsive to not only what happens here in city hall but to

the needs of the community, to the very diverse communities we have in the city and county of san francisco, so thank you very much.

We wish you well, and your contributions are greatly appreciated.

Supervisor mirkarimi: director blackwell had referenced our relationship, and it should not go unnoticed because the fillmore in japan town was the original development project

area.

It had a very up and down past,

to say the least, and Mr. Blackwell came in towards the

latter part of the 45-year reign of redevelopment' s governance

over land use in the film more

western addition in japan town, and I have to say I know there has been a number of directors

over the four and a half decades, but I appreciate the level of sensitivity, the level

of humanity, and the level of

innovation that I know fred blackwell tried to apply despite

the bureaucracy, and then take.

We did not always agree on everything, but I absolutely

appreciated our conversations. Sometimes spirited, but always knew that his heart was in the right place. I very much appreciate everything that you have tried to do, and I wish you great success.

Supervisor chiu:   our final commendation of the day will be offered by supervisor kim.

supervisor kim:   thank you, and I

also want to acknowledge fred blackwell. I have long respected your work

and your families work, and I am is sad to see you go.

The area most well known by justin herman, who once said that the land is too expensive for for people to park on.

You are certainly -- you certainly have not led that type of vision, and I thank you for all of your work.

It is

incredible .

it shows they continue to be relevant and have a voice in

that process.

I also had a certificate of

commendation and an in memoriam

for a community leader in our district.

Her father.

On October 9, a few weeks ago,

as some of you have heard, we experienced the untimely passing of paul gilman, the

father of gail gilman. We have seen her a lot in the past couple of weeks, while we

were setting up a special U.S. District for traditional ag use housing, which I am really excited about. unfortunately, with that

victory, we had a loss in our community as well, which is her father. He was a lifelong advocate for

social justice, progressive

causes, and was very active in

community housing partnerships, even while living across the country. I know he was a huge supporter

of edward ii, making sure we had

affordable housing for our traditional agents in the city. We are all deeply saddened by

his passing but are inspired by

his energy and his continued

dedication to our community.

Just a little information about colorado. Paul was someone who was actively engaged.

He was a labor negotiator.

He was a cab driver, a schoolteacher, and a financial planner.

He has really had a varied career, but during that whole

time, was very active in his community.

He ran a women' s homeless shelter at the temple in new york city.

He was active in lgbt issues and

worked as a volunteer with individuals who had aids, to help manage their finances.

He also several times volunteered after hurricane katrina to support the residence

there and was also a huge

supporter of free clinic usa as well as community housing

partnerships. Family is asking for their nation to community housing partnership, an organization that provides support of

housing for the formerly homeless and traditional age youth. We' re so lucky to have senior housing partners here. You are our solution to homelessness, and we want to honor you and your family here today. I want to invite gail to it that the commendation, and I know

that President David dot chiu --

President David chiu, because you are a resident in his district, wanted to present this with me.

>> I also wanted to say a few words. Why don' t you come up to the podium?

also -- obviously, we want to thank you and team memory of your father. You are a tremendous hero we have worked with closely, and we

know the values you have to take care of our pork, our homeless,

our youth who are in transition truly embodies values of st. Francis.

your father will be greatly, greatly missed.

I was honored to work with you in carrying the legislation

around the edward ii project we passed last week, which was a tremendous victory for what we

are all trying to do the data, and we know we do this for our

transitional-age youth --

tremendous victory for what we

are all trying to do together. Congratulations.

>> I just want to thank the san francisco board of supervisors for this incredible honor.

My father would be so proud, and

he did in new york and he fully

does support occupied -- occupy

sf and wall street. [Applause] All I can hope is that moving

forward all of us remember we have an obligation to all of our members of society, especially

our poor and disadvantaged, to bring them up. Thank you.

[Applause]

Supervisor chiu: ok. That ends the special accommodations for this afternoon. Why don' t we move to public comment? >> the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address the board for

a ticket with zero minutes of items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including the mayor' s policy discussion with the board.

Items on the adoption without committee reference portion of the agenda and excluding items which have been considered by a board committee. Speakers using translation assistance will be about twice the amount of time to testify, and a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector,

please clearly states that and then remove the document when

the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting.

Supervisor chiu:   I want to thank everyone for your patience in waiting for general public comment. As I said before, we will be

here and hear from anyone who wishes to speak.

We do not allow individuals to vocal support or are express

opposition for individuals testifying during we also do not

allow for the bringing in or display of signs in the meeting. If we could ask folks to line up and, again, on the far right wall, we will be here as long as it takes. Each member of the public shall have up to two minutes. Why don'

t we hear from our first speaker? Thank you.

>>

[Speaking foreign language]

fire chief white.

I would like to give her and every one of you a salute.

Not for her good looking, but

for her great job she did to the city. Every time when I have heart

problems and I fall down, I call the fire department, and the ambulance takes me.

when I open my eyes, I tell them

thank you.

I tell her I will not defeat the homeless. She is coming by herself.

not only that , but I asked her

to take it to homeless to the movies. She donated it for her own pocket.

She told me if I wanted anything

coming back, please, if any one

of you have the courage, and you

can cut any money from the fire

department, the careful because

she will give a hard time more than you think. [Laughter] I believe her.

she is woman, and she is a great woman to work day and night to save our lives.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would

like to ask her if she has time

with our supervisor jane kim and my sister to feed the homeless this year. god bless you and God bless her.

Supervisor chiu:   thank you.

Next speaker, and I really do

appreciate the respect less of the crowd. Next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

Stop the corporate rape of the public library. Not give money to the friends and foundation. Do not expect -- and not accept money from the friends of foundation fewer people are

starting to figure out what it costs to allow corporations to run our society for our own benefit.

Part of the import is how

>> the branch library improvement program was a bond

measure that the corporate friends and family foundation have been raising money all over

the city based on a commitment that they would raise $16 million for the furniture and

fixtures that as part of a public-private partnership.

The most recent quarterly report

shows that the public has spent

145% of its commitment and is

expected to spend almost 180%.

The same quarterly report shows

that slightly over $1 million has been extended for fixtures

and equipment the credits to the foundation.

If we look at the actual budget report, we find that even this

is a lie, 26% is public money

and they have expanded only 870,000.

This means that not only of the

friends barely given 5% of their original commitment, but they

have only given half of 1% of the total branch program.

some public-private partnership.

If you go to library openings, you would think that all of the benefits fell from these private fundraisers and their donors.

The private fundraisers are allowed to present themselves as

benefactors of the public when privatization is paramount.

being exempt from responsibility

helps the privatizes and the mindless politicians.

The lives cost more than the money.

>> hello, supervisors.

I have been released following you around.

I am great to hear your support

for a

occupy sf against the 1%.

What happened sunday night, I can' t imagine how that could happen. The crash is coming.

People around the world are starting to become a way that it

is the 1% trying to set up a one world system right now.

very soon, this event will grow.

People don' t have it.

This will be known as the great wall street freeze.

This will make this event look like a walk in the park.

I advise that you guys take full

advantage and to be aware of

what the event is really happening about.

We are trying to do what they don' t want to do.

Which is to learn how to live off of the grid.

We are sharing, we are caring, we are coming together as one world.

This is the start of something

good, and I would devise a that

for the cops to show us

respect, we did a March of away

from downtown here peacefully.

as things start to get harder,

the cops are part of the 99% as well as you.

[Applause]

President Chiu: we do have a

rule that of their seniors or disabled individuals or parents with children that wish to speak

before others, if I could ask for that courtesy.

The microphone I don' t think is working.

>> get red bull, I think it will be a long evening.

the answer of why certain people

are allowed to do certain things

in the city, the answer is that certain people have a lot of access.

They will pay insurance and get permits.

That is one of the issues that

we are raising, that we as a people generally don' t have the

same access for the same financial resources.

I find it very interesting that one of the statements was that

he was against erecting tents

that would have obstructed the public right of way.

If you look down here, there is a giant structure that looks

significantly like a tent that has been erected in a public way.

That happens frequently, I am sure there will be wooden pallets. I will bet you that there will be some kind of flame.

That is an issue number one.

The fact that it can happen and at midnight, the riot police can

go down and try to craft a

handful of people because it can stay, it has to be a matter of money.

I think that is wrong.

This is the comment against the

level of news reporting that we have in this city.

More reports are between 5000 at 10,000 people, the chronicle had

no mention of that whatsoever.

They can go down and they can cover a police raid in the dark of night and they couldn' t cover a March in broad daylight.

why is a ramp suitable for us to

get out there and there is hope in a few weeks.

>> his been awhile since I have

been here, I was here in 2009 and I asked for a hearing.

most of your new now. There was never that hearing.

I want to make sure that the people are allowed to continue

to occupy wall street.

I have been in some action and i

am here today because I am very sad.

I am very hurt about what

happened a few weeks ago with the people getting killed.

This is a black people shooting

brown people, and of discriminating against each other when we all should be in there working together.

we have to deal with racism as far as like people cannot get jobs.

Black people pay a higher price.

A Dr. Martin luther king and all those people for everybody to have certain rights.

Now we just want to be able to

work, and for people to allow you to work.

There is one man I go to my church have said that he was

working on the construction of heat of fire and because of the

supervisor told him that he needed to learn how to be finished.

That cannot be a prerequisite for us to learn how to speak and

if you have of than the city and in this country.

Thank you, and continued with operational of three.

Not my name is elizabeth, I have

a reproductive rights-and tenth of though.

before I speak, I wanted to

women that have to deal with the allies, a native of him by the

anti f with community, who held that whenever possible, I of

the of violent movement the

health care in this country and

being cut, when the health care of latin and shout out to you.

I am and woman that has an abortion. I had a legal abortion.

Have access to scientific facts.

and had access to non biased counseling.

Because I was able to legally

access abortion, I want to cut -- command

end supervisor cohen for

her belief and my moral angency.

It means more to me -- agency. It means more to meeting you will ever know. You' re not interested in my

health, and you have never made any sizable investments in my

health when you lie about breast cancer and when you attempt to

claim the abortion, israel.

You manipulate and you live. This is antithetical to public health.

please continue working with reproductive rights activists in

the city to find solutions to

reaffirm this city' s believe in women' s moral agency and the right to decide their life.

Thank you.

President

chiu:   I want to remind folks that we have public comment related to every piece

of legislation that we have, often times we have several times of public comment.

Once an item has been voted on, and we can' t allow public comment after the fact.

We have already voted on this

item having to do with false advertising and around a certain centers of the city.

Individuals that wish to speak on the issue of choice, you' re

more than welcome to do it as long as you don' t address the

specific legislative item today.

>> I' ve asked to be placed on

the -- >> the overhead projector will show up momentarily.

>> I am a member of occupy san

francisco, exercising our first amendment rights to legally assemble and speak out against

what we believe are injustices

inflicted on the majority of the people by the predatory financial institutions that ruthlessly are causing undue suffering to hard-working americans.

One in five people are unemployed.

Millions of people over the city, state, and country are

being foreclosed on and and evicted from their homes and cannot procurer implement because of the outsourcing of jobs by corporations.

This is why I am a member of the movement.

As an american, I cannot sit back and allow these injustices any longer.

Sunday night, our camp was rated causing the destruction of food,

clothing, and personal property of can' t members.

The real outrage comes from the brutality, violence, and

terrorism of the police department of this sunday night.

We are a peaceful and non- violent people. We don' t deserve to be treated this way.

This is illegal, an american, and unacceptable.

I was threatened, terrorized, and physically assaulted by a member of the police department for holding up a sign.

I am not the only victim of police brutality and violence.

What I asked of you is this acceptable?

President Chiu:   thank you. Next speaker.

we provide two minutes so we have equal time.

Why don' t we hear from the next speaker?

>> I am thrilled as a lifelong

activist to be part of occupy sf.

John avalos, david chiu, jane

kim, I have the opportunity to

speak with each of you and you offer your solidarity. Thank you.

I have clarified the fact that we are not supporting any

political campaign, nor are we asking your permission.

Rather, we are inviting you to

join in the greatest experiment in the history of the world.

An experiment in deep democracy that empowers all people to

participate.

people are so hungry to be heard, cared about, to be able to live with dignity in their communities.

A whole new wave of young

people will not be coopted and are courageously together reading a new paradigm.

The city of san francisco has a proud history of leading the way in the rights and freedoms of all people.

It is outrageous and inhuman to see our camper rated in the middle of the night by the police.

Like thieves and thugs, they are

ordered to come to our space and beat us.

Brutally thrown on the ground and dragged our young, our

precious future across the hard streets in stolen tarps and food.

The police need to decide if they are going to protect the

property, the elite, or the rights of people.

The problem is this, it is a new

kind of activist and you' re dealing with it in an old way.

we are not focused on issues and demands.

We are reclaiming the commons from corporate takeover. We are feeding the homeless

because we recognize in no way we are all homeless.

No matter how many civil rights you stack -- [Chime]

We have been cruelly pushed.

President Chiu:   thank you. Thank you.

>> we will not back down.

President Chiu:   thank you. [Applause]

>> a dime and dave, strangers becoming friends. Of friends becoming family.

A family becoming community.

A community on the move.

It is so good to find ways to

find alternatives which we just described.

i want to find each and every

one of the supervisors to come

down and check us out.

Our ears are open and our hearts are open.

The police can come down and say they are down here because they' re worried about health issues.

Let the sanitation committee at the health department get together, discuss, take a look

at what can be done to feed the people.

We went through that 20 years

ago, some of you know, feeding the people. What are we doing? Feeding the people.

Food for the body, mind, and spirits.

we want to have class is, we

want people getting together, going out about the city,

reaching out, finding the common thread and realizing that we are

part of the 99%.

If not us, who? If not now, when? It is a new day.

we can connect and make sure

that san francisco can be a great example.

To the importance of supervisors

and city governments, each town in california and mostly around

the country, this is a worldwide movement.

it is a local movement, it is brothers and sisters, let' s do it and give me a good reason why not.

Yo, yo, yo, brothers and sisters. Get on the box. [Chime]

President Chiu:   thank you. [Applause] next speaker. >> hi.

Yes, I have to paraphrase my comments because I did not realize there was a rule about something already voted on. I want to thank supervisor

elsbernd for no reason in particular.

one thing that san francisco, I keep hearing from the news that

the family -- the city is losing families at a rapid rate.

I would ask that the board of supervisors, please not burden the organizations that are

working hardest to reverse that

with legal bills, no matter what the issue is in the future.

A group is trying to supply

mothers with health care and with food and with shelter, with close, it goes out of their way to not burden them with other problems.

I heard members of the board expressed concern about how a

genetically modified food might harm our children.

.

The first place we get food is in the womb.

I want to work hard to get nutrition to youth when they are at their young this point.

Everyone came from there.

Please don' t be so firm on the ideology that you forget the real impact of your decisions have.

>>

I will use that in a minute. While to thank the board of supervisors for hearing me

today, and of like to thank

supervisor kim for staying with us last night at the plaza.

I think everyone else when agree

that it was nice not being raided and brutalized by the san francisco police department last night.

I have missed class, I probably don' t need to get kicked in the head twice.

there were three concerns.

Walkways be clear for a wheelchair, the makeshift

shelters that I would add it would not be up if it were not

for the police department breaking tarps.

and to have a litter clean up.

We worked with the department of

public works on all three issues and have them addressed in an hour.

It has been a long day.

Working with dpw,

we have recycle bins to keep our park clean.

Referencing the letter right

here, the police chief issued a letter stating that we had to

have a permit for various other things that we the necessities for life.

I am proud to announce by the board of supervisors that individuals have applied for

that permit, and we eagerly await a response from the city.

>> I have lived in district 8

for almost 20 years and I vote in every single election.

i am here to ask the city if the board of supervisors are serious

about san francisco being a progressive city, the police make demands that even they don' t take seriously.

They raided the plaza because ,

they said, fo te

of the tarps.

They stole our food and left the tarps.

It is the most progressive movement of the last two generations.

If san francisco would like to

be taken seriously, I call upon the board of supervisors to pass

a resolution in full support of

the occupy movement in general.

I am here to make a personal commitment.

I hereby promise to only vote

for politicians who support the movement of wholeheartedly and not just with lift service, but with action.

thank you, and that is all I have to say.

>> hello, my name is cody.

that is what happened on sunday

when police were stealing our food and tarps.

I had a need put on my head into the street.

It was painful, it still hurts.

I was held in a police van, cited a few hours later and released.

i am appalled that this type of police action, police brutality

and excessive force was used.

It is in direct violation of our

constitutional and basic human rights. I would also like to bring to

your attention that the police department has spent over $2

million in policing occupy sf.

We have a right to privacy and because most of us can' t afford

rent or to buy a house, hence our our privacy and we need those.

>> I want to say that you guys look very interested.

-- disinterested. You look bored.

I have been working here for over three years.

I work at 4:   30 in the morning.

This is been going on for over three years.

I am not necessarily living in the occupation, but I work near there.

Every day between 3:00 at 4:00 in the morning for the last

three years have been of arresting people, kicking people

out at the department of public works comes with the big cannister between 3:00 at 4:00

in the morning and start in the parks, they water homeless people. It happens all the time.

you guys are full of shit, by the way. [Applause]

>> next speaker. >> I'

m a franciscan.

I have been around this town for a long time.

The oldest survivor of the

earthquake, 106 years old, you

have long roots in san francisco and I have been proud of the

fact that is a very progressive city.

I was glad to see from all the studies that they said that san

francisco was the city that had

most negotiated of any city at that time, the relationship of

different groups, different

crimes of -- different kinds of groups coming together.

San francisco led the way through the gathering here in the financial district.

There is a man that I should get

his two minutes because he

wanted to be here tonight.

He was there 10 years ago, a military officer that became head of the exchange and he came

in to us 10 years ago and the said that he is sick with the way the country is being run.

He led us to shut down the financial district.

He was the head of the stock market and he wanted to be here tonight.

He came and said, what can we do? This is what has to be happening.

I want to go to the 1% have been representing at say that this is what has to happen.

About what was going to happen,

i am sending all the officers tom. We are at peace.

They are negotiating new ways of relating.

The consensus decision making

said we all ought to be doing it here.

You have to find ways to talk together. They were waiting to be talked to.

we have seen it happen too often.

Thank you. Let' s do it together. [Chime]

[Inaudible]

President Chiu:   thank you very much.

>> I would like to thank

supervisor kim for coming o to the cmap

amp from 10:00 until 12:00.

Thank you, other supervisors that supported us.

i am somewhat disappointed that the mayor is not here because I like to address some of my

comments in regard to the

behavior of the police and the chief that I spoke to yesterday morning in front of city hall.

He was saying that he believed

that we had a right to

associate and together, and he

thought that we should do so in

front of 1 01 market street and

we should not be occupying the

additional location that we have now.

I expressed to him that we have

too many people to sit in front

of market street and if you try

to cram too many people into a

small space, it creates a public safety and health problem.

He did not seem to have concerns about that.

He did not seem to respect the need for this number of people

to have the and expanding space and everybody has a right to associate the, not just those

that come next week and next month, they will keep coming.

>> thank you for the moment to

speak, I am a 15-year resident of san francisco and I want to

say that I have the most immense

respect and gratitude for the people that are holding it down.

They' re doing a great service to

this city, and a great service as part of a global movement.

I couldn' t help but notice earlier the contrast of the democracy that takes place in this room with the mayor coming

in with prepared statements delivered in monotone with no

passion curses the democracy

that I have seen take place at

justin herman plaza.

It is real democracy, it is something that you May have never seen it.

I really recommend that you go down there and you see this.

he will be inspired, you will

learn something and you will realize that something extraordinary is happening in the city and in this world.

You can be on the right side of

history or be lost on the wrong side of history. I have a feeling that when you

see this, you will do the right

thing and you will support the movement.

I recommend you watched this video.

It shows the secretary of state

clinton and obama talking about the response of government to

the middle east to the movement

of peaceful demonstrations there, contrast that with the

response of state power in this country.

I watched it right after the

video of the recording of police moving in on sunday.

I could not help but think that

we are watching the response, and it is time to support this.

>> I want to thank supervisor

can the -- supervisor kim,

supervisor mar, and one of my

personal heroes, supervisor mirkarimi.

I am in support of the occupy sf movement.

I am a graduate of san francisco state, so I have had the unique

experience of starting a business and dealing with some of the struggles that a lot of these other folks have.

What I am here to talk about today is I want to remind you guys about some of the

leadership that folks in this office have given this city at

this nation, the civil rights

movements, equal rights, health

care reform, as well as a

plastic bag initiative submitted last year.

One thing I would like to say personally, this movement is

about

-- you guys control the

budget of our money, you guys spend our money.

What a bank is our money in?

Are you holding our money in bank of america?

We would like to see you guys move it out and put it in the

credit unions and loan it to

people that work here and support more jobs.

It is revenue neutral.

O it is is a shifting of accounts.

It is not something that you guys would have to pass anything else on.

you can take that momentum and to be an example for other

cities around this country to take money that is rightfully

ours and put it back in the community. [Chime]

President Chiu:   thank you. [Applause]

Next speaker.

>> throughout this meeting, I' ve

heard a few things about low city funds for services of projects.

A lot of ways that can be dealt

with is cutting down behind the scenes siphoning for whatever reasons that might have been going on.

corporate taxes, things like

that, community credit effort

services, restoring the vacant

buildings or salvaging whatever materials we can get.

Those are ideas that might want to help out.

I also want to inquire as to why why after showing that we can

demonstrate time and again on several different accounts of keeping pathways'

clear, following an ordinance, regulations, rules, that the

cops have rated us four times now.

I hear the most of present

time, the dtw wasn' t part of this one.

the cops through all the stuff in a dump truck.

I was wondering about that.

And also why there have been

several meetings with various

city officials and they all have been behind closed doors. Why no one can take

responsibility for who actually finalizes the decision for the

cops to move then on tearing down our campus and pretty much

raping us in so many words.

Everyone claims that our public health and safety is our concern.

we are not able to have tents and medical supplies because they keep getting stolen and rated by the police.

This does not make sense. [Applause]

President Chiu:   I just want to reiterate and ask for your respect for the board rules.

i appreciate the comments that we have had.

We have rules in this chamber for reason, so we can facilitate democracy.

We want to be able to do this efficiently. Higher appreciate your respect. Thank you.

>> I am a public servant, my name is robert benton.

in 1999, when class stiegel went

out, the economic forecast was so rosy that they thought we

would pay off national that in 10 years.

9/11 came along that happens to

be my birthday, and five years

later, I began investigating for myself what had happened.

All honest investigations come

up with the fact that you

consider building 7, this was an inside job between israel and the neocons.

building seven was to get rid of

the evidence of the savings-and- loan debacle.

Our economy has completely plummeted.

These are egregious matters that need investigation and prosecution.

Our government woefully is in dereliction of its duty to do just that same thing.

we are here to protest

corruption between government and corporations.

Our cause is just. Everyone knows it.

The 99% is a misnomer.

It is 99.99 repeating.

That is who we are.

the assault on our first amendment right is egregious.

The city needs to stand down,

let us speak, let us organize,

you have been harassing us, and this has been a course of

conduct to suppressed our first amendment right. You need to stop.

>> I am with occupy sf.

Many people would like the

movements to maintain a laser

beam focus on a wall street and

on the over 3500 million mayors

of san francisco, but there is an urgent and dire need to deal with what has been happening for the past 22 days.

On sunday night, we nearly became the first place where a

city killed in occupier.

it May sound melodramatic, but I

would like to take a quick poll.

Who was genuinely afraid that they would be run over by a truck on sunday night?

Who is genuinely afraid when they had a grenade launcher with multiple barrels pointed at them? we did not know what was then that multiple barrel grenade launcher. We hope that with teargas.

There was a bizarre tactic at charging through a crowd, knocking people over when they

were not able to run fast

enough while trucks raced behind them at very high speed.

A friend of mine was severely

bruised when he was knocked over and rolled just out of the way

of one of those trucks that gunned its engine passed him.

People were nearly killed.

People after the fact were shocked that no one was killed or put an end, by what happened.

Over 22 days now, every single night, the police are harassing people.

at this point, it is not

possible to consider the police

as bargaining in good faith or genuinely being concerned about the health and welfare.

You have to proceed accordingly.

>> I work with out -- and I

discovered the movement a couple days ago. I am not an activist.

I have a long history of working

with non-profits and by a volunteer.

I have always voted but I have

never been called into action like this.

We all know what caused it.

My curiosity is why there is some much pressure for this not to exist.

The kind of behavior that we are

getting is meant to russell and our morale and our results.

That is what is concerning.

i was there the first grade and I could not believe this was

normal behavior for our city.

The gear was phenomenal.

My job is to facilitate things, and we have tried to do that.

I understand that we are not a leader led organization, but we have people that can facilitate and we work with a general

consensus, so it would not be a timely process, but the government doesn' t work that way either.

I ask for your patience, your focus, and I would like to work with your momentum to resolve

problems in a very cost- effective way. we' re taking pressure off of the public sector. We would like you to take part in the process instead of allowing the powers that be to put this kind of pressure on us.

>> my name is howard williams, I

am a native of cleveland ohio, a longtime resident of san francisco.

An american citizen.

And in my lifetime, I have seen the power of multinational

corporations grow so large and

at the expense of our public

good, to the degree where we can only rationally come to the

conclusion that the multinational corporations are a direct threat to the american

independence as real as george the third, the king of england was.

In consideration of this fact, we have to do everything we can to support the occupied movement, which is the only

movement that I see that has

stood up against a multinational corporation.

accordingly, next month, when I

go in to vote as I always do, I will second the previous comments.

Many of you who do not support

this movement, I will have to consider to be aiding and

abetting the multinational

corporations and that you are a threat to the independence of my nation.

I will take it out on you regardless of everything else you have done.

This will be a make or break a vote for you.

>> I am a defacto psychiatric

social worker since 1997.

i have seen, first hand, the hollowing out of the working and middle class of this city.

My own caseload has increased by 50% since 1997.

Anyway, I just want to say that the mayor said that he

supported occupi y sf in spirit.

I wasn' t expecting it to, but this movement grabbed my

imagination and I am not used to being very political. A lot of other people will be soon, too.

I want to challenge the board of

supervisors to support it in

fact, and not just in spirits. Thank you.

>> I would like to thank those

supervisors that mentioned

passing a resolution support.

I have the text of the city

council resolution that might be useful to you.

Ok.

I would like to remind you of your public servants.

You are here to serve the public.

It is your obligation to protect the right first free speech and assembly.

the police department has forced

the arm, they have harassed the movement, confiscating belongings. This must stop.

The elected officials must

decide, are you public service, or are you corporate servants.

If you don' t provide a safe and

stable place to exercise free

speech and peaceable assembly, you' re telling us that you have signed with the corporation that

have caused massive unemployment and throwing people out of their homes.

Therefore, I call on the people

of sentences go to vote out of office any elected official that doesn'

t support occupy sf and

pass a resolution supporting occupy sf. Thank you.

President Chiu:   thank you. [Applause]

Next speaker.

>> hi, I'

m barbara cummins, and I'

m and full o support ofccupy

-- in full support of occupy sf.

We need an open discussion about how we make money in this country.

It is really unfair that some

people are investing and making money, and people leaving

college are taking years to burn off their debt.

There are people investing with all the drugs that are being researched, and there are people that can' t afford to buy these drugs. I applaud your efforts for opening up this discussion for the public.

It needs to go on as long as it is needed.

And to the board of supervisors, asked you to pass an amendment or resolution as soon as possible, and full support of this movement.

These people are here to make our lives better.

Thank you very much.

President Chiu:   if you turn

around, the microphone was not get picked up for television.

Please be cognizant of that.

The visual aid will appear momentarily.

>> that is a pixilated view of October 15, a crowd of thousands in front of city hall.

there are thousands of people there, take my word for it.

I am a retired teamster and a longtime resident of san francisco.

I helped organize a rally that helped address some of the same issues.

Stopping war, funding human

needs, saving the environment, and it is a privilege and honor

to be here in front of this public space and have your

attention on this significant issue.

I have heard so many great

thoughts, as elegant as we can possibly be.

This movement has to be reckoned with.

In hearing about the tactics of the san francisco police department, you weren' t in the

room when the day described police using equipment to run

people down, sunday night?

It is important to take note of that that might need to be referred to the district attorney for prosecution.

it reminds me of the civil rights movement.

The sentence is going to be remembered for that legacy?

Really want to be remembered for that kind of city that we feel that we are.

The compassionate city that tolerate public pension and not

only tolerated, but encourages it, on earth it?

And to be the kind of the valley and be proud of. Thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

this is my best one.

Come on, come on

touch me, city.

I will help you till the

heavens start the rain

and we see a better change

you know that I would be untrue

you know that I would be a liar

if I was to say to you

city, a city couldn' t get much higher

come on city, light my fire

gonna set the night on fire

the time to hesitate is through

and get some of these items in style

we can only lose, and cet a

funeral fire /

gonna set the city night on

fire

fire

don' t you love

the city madly don'

t you give your heart gladly tell me what you say don' t you like the way you' re back int

the chamber through the floors

like youd id 10 -- you did 10,00

times before you'

re glad to be back [Chime] [Applause]

President Chiu:   thank you.

next speaker or singer, please. [Laughter] >> I' m not going to sing.

President Chiu:   you don' t have to.

>> my name is tom rivas, I' m a

native san franciscans s.

.

I grew up across the street from the chief of police in the richmond district.

I think the straw that broke my

back and my frustration at what

I saw happen around May was i

found myself, in June,

fortunately, I am now housed.

But I saw the video feed.

I hope everyone here has seen

the video feed of the police

repression on monday morning, and I am just appalled and a very saddened by it.

And I don' t understand why that

had to happen in the city of brotherly love.

Thank you, very much.

>> I was there on the night of the things that the law

enforcement came man, and I feel

like if is a broad example of how military and corporate

organizations control and

command every aspect of the the human life. I don'

t think that family and industrialization goes together.

It can be the redevelopment agency, we spend $500 a second

on the war on drugs.

You will not stop individuals from using what has already been exposed.

We are encouraging and a legal

lifestyle, and illegal treatment anytime individualistic think outside of the box, because

children are getting written prescriptions before they graduate from high school.

veterans are coming back and

snapping on their families.

For those that fall in between

become inmates and we are dealing with a cocktail

situation that we are not

treating like responsible parents or responsible citizens like we are supposed to do.

99% represents different aspects

of different individuals dealing with basically the same kind of command and control issues that you can' t raise humanity on.

I cannot keep an abuse of lifestyle going, it has to stop at some point in time.

Somebody has to deal with 52 weeks or whatever type of punishment is in order.

I believe the city is in

violation of the geneva code and conventions. We'

re turning our communities ,

and our children are absolute examples of that with the video games, killing, music.

i believe that occupy sf- - [Chime]

President Chiu:   thank you very much. Next speaker.

>> my name is -- I' m part of the

99 that has occupied san francisco and throughout the world.

I will be straightforward and candid, you know.

I hear people say that I grew up

with this and I remember this. Middle-class america is losing

what they thought was part of the american dream.

the people -- we will learn how to get over it and we will learn how to be strong.

Supposedly, representatives of each district.

I have seen nothing from you, and I will give no thanks to any of you.

It is not to be disrespectful.

he made me feel good in camp last night, but you should of been there a long time ago.

This was important long before

today and before the citizens have had to come here with this

many people, some people taking off their jobs that they May be at risk of losing the tell you what you should already know.

being elected by the people, you sit on your butt and you don' t do nothing for the people.

You worry about what the lobbyists is going to say, who is going to vote for you because of transparency?

You will cease to become humane and you should not be in a

position that you are and if human value and the strength and

the production of that citizen with society, but valuable human

beings for this planet, for this family of humans.

You have failed in rural

society, and it is time.

It is time for the people to

change, overthrow, and remove the government. I think you should be part of

that higher echelon.

Like someone said before, set the stage for what politics should be. You know? [Chime]

[Applause]

president chiu:   next speaker.

>> hello, board. How are you? I'

m an active member of the community as well as the san francisco occupation.

i want to say that my heart is

broken.

I am not much of a political

figure, more of an indigenous spiritual factor.

I see everyone here, you are human beings like me.

i just wanted to say for

everyone that is watching this, you are all humans and you all have hearts.

And you all have moral conduct, hopefully.

To look in the mirror every morning, we have to eat and sleep. We are all the same.

I love everyone of you equally, non biased to what life has

presented us with our with the

system has put in front of us.

I want you to know that for

everything that you do, it comes back to you.

And you have a heart, and I want you to please, for the goodness

of all of us that are not as

fortunate as maybe you are, to

help us out and to get some

tents, maybe just be comfortable in this movement so we don' t

have to face what will happen on sunday were a person like me was

getting the stock, plunged, and kicked while I was trying to save people.

It happened about 56 times.

I' m still standing here to say

that I love you had to help us out in the movement.

That is all I can do for myself and you right now. If God bless you.

>> mic check. I'

m bill peterson, I have been living and working as a

carpenter in san francisco since 1987.

I haven' t been sleeping there because I am too old and too

much of a pussy to slep

I want to say, thanks to the members of the board of supervisors, thank you for being to us.

And I want to thank the police.

they have been respectful and they' re escorting us here.

At night, when they cause the

problems, some as giving them in order to do that.

Find out who is giving them those orders, and make them stop. [Applause]

>> thank you. The next speaker.

>> thank you for having me and I thank you so much for all of your hard work, also.

I am a participant in the marches.

I am of full-time volunteer for a yoga organization that has been here for four years.

we live communally, and it works. The time I have spent and seen them out there, we' re all

educated on how to share and meet the requirements that you have asked for.

this is not causing a problem, and this is a way to live in the

future and they are trying to demonstrate this in their message and their actions with how they live and how they share.

It is important in the symbolic nature as well.

I feel that everyone in the board has to realize that this is not business as usual.

This is not a musical festival. And this is a protest.

It will be a different set of circumstances and this is a

worldwide protest, and this is a conscious movement and you shouldn' t buy yourself to join

in with this movement that is

happening all over the world and not just in san francisco.

The people here who came in, who

say to people from a fire, they are heroes.

The world is on fire.

and they are alarming the world to this. We need to honor them.

Thank you.

>> the next speaker.

>> good evening, supervisors.

I am susan church.

i am here for an effort -- and also pregnancy center.

You voted in favor of

-- ideally

noted that you were allowing the

free speech of occupy san francisco but I was disappointed because I would have hoped they would have

supported the free speech of crisis pregnancy centers as well.

And also, in spite --

understand that occupy san francisco is concerned about how

funds are used in san francisco.

Entering into a court case

against crisis pregnancy centers

would be improper use of citizens fines.

In 1981 I became pregnant, I

went to a city health center, to

get a pregnancy test and in

1980, the thought was that women should just get rid of

their baby, because there was

no, how exciting for you, there was no congratulations and nothing.

10 years later, I had a

miscarriage, and the doctors

sent me home with no compassion

that I was concerned and wanted to have that baby.

I ended up having that

miscarriage in a public restroom

in a hospital, and I was all by

myself and no one came in, the baby came out in my hand and I

wanted to run down the halls and

say, this is a human being. And I wanted it.

It really upsets me.

>> thank you very much.

the next speaker?

>> one speaker in the chamber and that is the next speaker at the podium.

>> I am ryan, I was occupy wall

street from the 17th to the 19th.

i love everyone who is there and

everyone who is organizing the marches and the other actions that they see themselves doing.

My concentration is on building a structure to meet people' s

needs for free and we are

providing food for people, with

three hot meals per day, giving people access to cellular phones

and the internet, through direct democracy and voluntarily.

I would like to make this a

sustainable model, with

community pizza ovens, where people can meet each other' s needs and we ask that you do what you can to make certain that the police don' t come in and destroy what I will try to

make in the next few weeks.

If you would like to help me do

that, or other individuals to

build a sustainable model of living, please get in contact with us. Thank you very much.

>> I am terry jones and I have

been marching with occupy san francisco.

i am so happy after going to so

well arranged demonstrations

against the invasion of iraq, all of those demonstrations did nothing.

I am in all of the members of

this movement that just take the

space, and take the time at a

time in history when corporations and the rich are

taking all of the space, and taking all of the time away from us.

I am just amazed by the members and appreciate listening to all

of them and have been so deeply

shocked at hearing what san

francisco, the rulers of san francisco are doing.

It is out of the spirit of san francisco.

These people need our support.

These people need to be nurtured.

They are involved in an

beautiful experiment, trying to

envision a just world and they

need to some support, and they need to have a roof over their

heads, even if this is just fabric.

It is shocking that our city

will not allow us to have this, and that the mayor, who is responsible.

whose side are you on?

>> the next speaker?

i am carolyn miers, a citizen in

support of occupy san francisco.

We saw all over the world how the people of the world were

rising up and they were fighting for what they think we have

here, which wheat -- which is democracy.

it is something that all of us want to have here.

What I would like task is, everyone involved in a political

party, urged them to stop taking corporate donations.

But I look at congress and I

feel like they are too far

gone, the two main parties --

when you have someone you love,

democracy, they are a drug addict and you have to have an

intervention and occupy san francisco is that intervention.

I joined the green party, the party that takes no corporate donations.

Like many people of my

generation who are activists --

we got stuck in protests and they are moving beyond just protests.

I hope we recognize that we have

the right to real power, to have

the elected represent us and represent our people.

what stands in the way of that is that we are afraid of what

the monied interests will do to

us and we all have to support each other until we are no longer afraid.

>> the next speaker?

>> no one has come to me.

You have spoken to everyone and made a mess of things.

What do we hear from the mayor and the police chief and

everyone who says anything.

We have the first amendment rights, but what?

We have been treated to a system

that is broken, through

nepotism, and this is in the tail on the mayor day.

This is executive.

And this is failed.

not only is this an executive' s

failure, but the police can go

robe, where every change of the watch as their own rules.

They come down in the middle of the night based on their own

desires, causing these things to go on.

I have been there, watching this.

my take on this is we have a first amendment right.

Griswald vs. Conn.

This gives us the right of privacy.

You cannot have reproductive rights if you don' t have a

place to reproduce.

we deserve all the public

services and we are no longer asking, we are demanding.

You see to apply for permits. And we did.

What is the answer that came through today.

We have no process to give you a

permit for this demonstration.

When are you going to start

acting like the legislative body that you are, instead of the

self credit -- congratulate

people that you have become to me over the last year and a half.

>> thank you very much.

and the next speaker?

>> I was attorney in this town

for almost 20 years and I know what this town is.

This is a town that hates poor

people and does everything it can to incarcerate people.

I would like to give props to terry.

The best thing about her is that she is not a democrat.

Will not endorse you or endorse

candidates, we are non- political.

Please do not use footage from occupy san francisco in your ads.

thank you, councilmember, for appearing at the protest.

I know your history as a

radical, and I wish that he would return to this.

Mr. We know -- Mr. Wiener and

Mr. Compos, I did not appreciate you laughing when the man was

talking about 9/11.

I would like to say to my people

that it is never appropriate to say that someone was just following orders.

That is what the nazi guard said when they killed the jews.

this is not an acceptable

defense under any law and the

human rights intervention.

And this is for certain.

I would like to read as much as I can from thomas jefferson.

if the american people ever let

banks control the currency, the banks and corporations will deny

the people of all property until

their people wake up homeless.

Thomas jefferson. [Applause]

>> good afternoon.

I am here as a member of the --

>> I am here to support the

protest against police

repression, and the criminalization of police brutality.

I am moved because another world is in birth. This is what is happening.

People are taking back the world.

We have to see the connection

between what is happening, the people who have occupied san

francisco, we want to see the

connection between what is happening there and what is happening in the black

community, where there has been occupation of people' s lives.

We talk about the killing of can

if harding, and the killing of charles hill and what has been

going on daily in this city and across the country.

We need to draw connections between what happens in the

occupation of san francisco and what happens with a different

occupation in the bay view and hunters. . We'

re asking people to come out to this area to support people

of the bayview, and people

around san francisco will have a protest against police brutality.

We will have people supporting

the occupation, with the bayview district as well. And I salute you.

>> the next speaker?

>> good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public.

I think this microphone should

be adjusted so that they can turn around so people want to

speak to the people who have

come in here to the people who have come in under their own

time, they should do this.

I would like for you to adopt

question time for the public, to

force the mayor to come in to

have direct questions, the public should have the ability

to make you answer direct questions from the public.

This is accountability and democracy.

A lot of you have said good things about occupy san francisco.

on behalf of view -- the

libertarian party of san

francisco, I thank you for your

support of the party -- but I want for it -- I want for you to

tell that he did not act against occupy san francisco unless there is a complaint from a member of the public in you will look into that documented complaints and that complaint

should be delivered in writing to the protesters.

And the protesters should act on this before any police action.

And people need to be able to

express their sentiments in this room.

There should be no prohibitions

on people clapping were expressing their sentiment.

And we need to take the money, one of every three city

government employees, according

to the san francisco chronicle

-- make over $100,000 per year and the rank-and-file police

officers make $92,000 per year,

not including overtime. It is probably higher today.

Jeff is right, we need pension

reform to get the money back.

>> thank you very much.

next speaker?

>> the best message I can think

to communicate through this particular form is to the

people of san francisco, in

north beach, the financial

district and the embarcadero and all the other areas of the city.

Come out of your homes and down

to this area, so that we can communicate compassionately and understand what to do with this extremely dangerous situation.

This is a global resolution for

peace and direct democracy.

When the police were wearing

riot gear, beating us, some of

them were weeping, and that shows me the possibility that people can change in their

hearts and we can change minds

here and get together and heal this thing. We don' t want this to get ugly.

As far as the people in this

room, you people doing things

with these particular rules is not democracy and has caused the

extreme poverty in specific

neighborhoods, and others have an extreme abundance.

The model for the true form of

democracy is taking place in occupy san francisco.

We' re asking to help us fix this

thing and save the planet without any more violence.

>> the next speaker?

>> I, on behalf of the President Of san francisco and I am a

supporter of occupy san francisco.

There are questions about what

these demands are, corporate

greed and unemployment, the

corporate influence on politics and the war.

These are symptoms of the madness that the political system we have has given birth to.

There are no demands or compromises.

This is about the love we have for each other and the needs we have as human beings.

greed is squeezing the life out of 99%.

We have to show the world that

we are progressive or as progressive as we claim to be.

Occupy must succeed. This board and the people of the

city

, please support these efforts.

>> I am eugene gordon.

the nations of planet earth should the constitution of exchange for labor and basic needs, called capital currency which gives people the ability

to meet and impose life, with financial cause.

The antagonist of class rank

divide for using security forces and the protection of these

means, with the exchange -- human rights are speculation

market, thinking to labor with

the class rank divide.

law enforcement and the

contradictions with the political economy exposed peace

and friendship, and the

geography needs to find natures need for a safety security

force, not interfering with the mutual labor exchange for basic

needs, about planet earth

interacting in intercourse with

the capital currency as a means for label -- labor needs

exchange challenges public ownership of means of

production, which approached the

collective community labor, and

the united effort to resolve conflicting movements.

>> thank you, next speaker.

>> I

am part of the 99% and so are you.

I have been down to occupy san

francisco every day since

October 6, and also occupy san

francisco and santa rosa. this is through the union that

was supportive of the union.

I want to speak directly to what

I have seen in san francisco regarding police conduct.

This is about intimidation.

I was there October 6, and thank you, john of a

-- john avalos.

There is nothing not

intimidating about showing up in riot gear.

And then walking over people and separating people from their belongings and not allowing

people to get their belongings.

My housemates and I slept over there on saturday night.

These were not blocking any pedestrian flow and then we

were locked -- woken up to remove these.

And I was not present for sunday' s action but would like to speak for today.

it has been very polite here,

but if you step outside the door as you will see something I have

never seen, which is right here, and when I walked into

day, there were sheriffs in

black uniforms and I have never seen this.

throughout the entire city hall, locking arms and people have been trying to come in.

If this is not about intimidation I do not know what is.

I have never seen sheriff' s blocking this and not allowing people to come in. [Applause]

>> thank you.

>> I am the native of san

francisco in solidarity with

everyone in this room but I am here to talk about another

subject, the medical campus task

force and I am here because I need your help.

In 2009 I thought with new federal leadership I would not have to worry about helping

patients find medicine the following week.

I was hoping I would stop

getting phone calls of rage that

friends and acquaintances were

providers and being dragged into federal court to show that they were legitimate.

These worries and threats are just as prevalent today.

We have seen federal movements

against doctors and dispensaries, landlords and

banks and city officials,

newspapers and media, testing labs, and the recent

announcement targets the

dispensaries that are permitted by our city and county.

Staying silent means that we are ok with people who have

never touched the medicine.

By staying silent, I am sang it

is ok to permanently close

these, and buying staying silent

we say it is ok to go back to the black market to get the medicine.

I am begging you to stand up

with me, with myself and the state legislators of the city

of san francisco to say that we

will not let this happen in our

city limits and help us pass a resolution to protect the community.

We have a resolution coming

before the task force and we

expect some changes and I will

present you with what ever changes we agree on but I hope that you will stand with us to

pass this resolution. Thank you.

>> the next speaker?

>> good evening.

I am here before you as a medical campus patient and

worker as well as an advocate , locally.

I want to say the same thing, we want the board of supervisors

to reaffirm the sanctuary

status for medical cannabis, not just for the dispensaries but the community and would like for

you to send a message to the department of justice by doing so to say that state rights should be upheld and she should

preserve safe access for the medical cannabis patients.

>> the next speaker?

>> I am one of the owners -- who recently received a letter from

the federal government, our

landlord did, threatening them with imprisonment.

we offer dental insurance and -- people in the streets don' t have jobs.

We have donated over -- over 140 charities.

And they are trying to put us out of business.

the state factors -- we need your help.

>> good evening, supervisors.

The medical campus task force will be meeting on friday morning for the resolution

declaring san francisco a

sanctuary city for the medical campus community.

After operating with absolute transparency and standing in our community and in total

compliance of local and state

law holding a permit to operate by the san francisco health department, we are now under attack from the federal government and we need your help.

Please vote on that resolution. [Applause] >> thank you. Next speaker.

>> good evening. Supervises or.

I'm corey doningham and I'm damn

proud to be a part of the family of occupy san francisco.

I came just days before the

occupation of wall street ended.

I got here almost two weeks ago.

I am proud to be part of a

family that is creating a new world for everyone. We need you guys to stand up. We need you guys to be the politicians, the leaders of this

community that we elected you to be. I believe you john avenue lose, I believe that you tried everything you could the night

of the riot, the night that the police went against us. I believe you tried to get the

mayor on the phone to get to stop this. I understand that you don't have the most influence -- you weren't able to stop it. I get that.

but all of you, the 10 of you, no, the nine of you, you have the power to stop what they're

doing to us on a daily basis. Please stand with us.

We are growing daily.

1,500 cities nationwide. Thousands worldwide. We are getting bigger by the day. we will do nothing but get bigger. We will not stop.

When we win -- when we have taken our power back and we have changed this world, where do you want to be?

Where do each of you want to be?

I would like for you to stand with us. Thank you. [Applause]

>> next speaker. >> I was going to say good afternoon.

But I think it's good evening, supervisors.

>> my name is rachel achison.

I wrote a short statement so I

wouldn't ramble on.

i grew up in the city. And I love san francisco. But right now I'm a shamed of

this behavior towards this peaceful group who are showing the courage to finally speak truth to power.

We must show the same level of respect for voices of defense

that we have done for corporate

and other interests.

video footage from S.S.P.D.

Raids on October 15th and 17th sickened me.

I would urge you all to pressure

the mayor for greater restraint

and to show more open mindedness

for the elements that constitute illegal protest actions.

There should be no curfew on free speech. Thank you.

[Applause] >> thank you. Next speaker.

>> good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is joseph demarius. I'm from the twin city and a current resident of san francisco and an employee of the city and county of san francisco.

I'm a member of S.C.I.U. 1021. I'm sure if not all of you are bored out of your minds right now.

But my friends, I worked on the re-election campaign minnesota senator of paul well stone before his untimely demise.

I mived to this city with my

wife in 2010 because I believed that the city would be a great

city to raise a family in.

With a virtually unrifled record

in human rights and I appeal to

you, I implore you contemplate the worsdz of the late senator wellstone a politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and

circumstances of people's lives, apolitics that does not speak to

and include people is an intellectually arrogant politics and deserves to fail.

Do not be arrogant. You've been placed to do good for the people you respect.

And to fail to do so would be

tragic, tragic for all of us,

tragic for yourselves, tragic

for the future that awaits your children and mine. Be an example for the rest of the country. Follow the example of the city

of los angeles and support this movement not based on whether or

not you personally agree with it but because it is the democratic thing to do. thank you. [Applause]

>> thank you.

Next speaker.

>> hi, my name is carol harvey.

Thank you for listening to this, supervisors.

I saw -- I've been, by the way,

made myself an embedded reporter with occupy san francisco from the beginning, September 17th

because I am one of the 99% as well.

I watched the footage of the

attack on the camp the other night from home.

I wasn't able to be down there. I would have, if I could have.

I want to ask what on earth were

they trying to accomplish by

this attack on this camp?

These people, we are not going away. Is san francisco trying to show

that they can be as brutal as

the n. -- nypd.

They were shouting the whole world is watching.

And in fact, the whole world is watching. What is san francisco trying to do? Align with seattle and show how

brutal they can be to the occupyiers?

Again, let me repeat, they are not going away.

the modus operandi of the P.D. Has to change.

As the occupyiers pointed out, you are one of us. You're in the 99%.

57ped I watched them say to

these officers, what would your mother think of what you're doing.

And I thought, wow, the whole

world needs to hear about that.

Thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> next speaker.

>> that's better.

>> good evening, supervisors.

my name is charlie pappas. Congratulations on returning to your chambers. I'm here tonight because I would

like to occupy the chambers I

have as your neighbor seven or eight blocks away.

I'd like to continue my lease

and that would be a divinity co

op.

We are a medical can biss dispensary. The reason I'm worried about

continuing our lease is because

our very supportive landlord has

received a 45-day notice.

They got it 25 days ago.

We May close in 25 days not

because our landlord wants us to close because they are fearful

that our 2,500 patients won't be

able to be served. We're very fearful.

It's 50/2450 we'll close, if not

more -- it's 50/50 that we'll

close, if not more.

there is a time line for us.

I'm hoping with all the strong, eloquent, intelligent words you listen to, you might come up with some yourselves and get a

resolution or please reply to

melinda hague or so and support

the use of medical cannibus in san francisco and respond to

the, you know, unfortunate federal government attack on us. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> good evening, President Chu

and the board of supervisors of san francisco.

My name is mary sanders.

I'm a native of san francisco.

My parents were native of san francisco.

My grandparents came here from

ireland to escape prosecution, certain imprisonment and death

because of their beliefs.

I am employed by the unified school district in san francisco.

I have actively supported many

of you in your campaigns, stood

by you in your beliefs. I want you to stand by us and our beliefs.

We have to change this country. That's what occupy san francisco

is all about, changing the

corporate greed of this country. They got bailed out. The banks got bailed out.

The people did not get bailed out.

My grandfather built a home here

in the avenues of san francisco

and we watched it get sold on

the steps of city hall right out

there for taxes, for nothing .

And if we have do anything to stop this from happening to

another family, we will.

[Applause]

>> my name is vi ngyuen.

I am shocked on the treat these

occupiers received.

The reason why the occupyiers

chose September 17th is because it's the anniversary of the

signing of the U.S. Constitution. I was a former census worker for

the bureau of the U.S. Census and as a government employee, we

have to defend the constitution. We had to swear in before we could work because it's a

federal job even though it's temporary. right now, I am unemployed.

I have not lost my home yet. I'm fighting eviction and I'm

standing here to represent tall hard-working people that work to

contribute to the welfare of the

community but gets nothing in return.

I want you to think about that very carefully about the

thousands of homeless people in san francisco.

There are about 20,000 vacant

units that are sitting there empty. But there is -- there is all these unemployed people and some of them were workers. 10,000 of them deserve to live in homes.

So I want you to not only stop

the police brutality and the

oppression and the harassment of

the occupyiers but to provide adequate housing for all the people that have lost their

homes. [Applause] >> thank you.

Next speaker. >> government brown signed A.B.

499 recently which gives children 12 years old the right

to decide whether they're going

to get the vaccination. Terrible thing. Sad, very, very sad. I mentioned in a speech about a

year and a half ago that it's

very well documented the

catholic church murdered -- you

think it sounds crazy but it's true. It's actually true. A lot of things that we don't

know are true and well substantiated.

but you know, the thing is this. Whoever is in charge and

whatever evil or good that they

do, there's coming a day of judgment. Now a lot of christians think it's going to be friday, as a matter of fact.

And if it is, abraham lincoln john wilkes booth and all the dead are going to be raised up

and if they weren't saved before they died it's going to be judgment, wrath, the wrath of God.

I think about the story about

how these jews came to jesus and

told him that some jews had been

murdered by pontius pilot.

He knew that they all died lost. He must have. because he's the son of God.

And so he said do you think they

were any worse than you are.

He said unless you believe in

me, you will perish.

Jesus is the roughest preacher there ever was.

He said look, there's 18 people on whom the tower fell. You think they were more evil because they died like that?

He says unless you repent and

believe in me you'll all likewise perish.

He didn't say a tower was going to fall on them.

He said God's wrath was going to get them.

Two minutes, unbelievable.

>> thank you very much.

next speaker.

>> good evening, supervisors.

I'm an eight-year resident from sfwran.

I graduated of U.C. Hastings.

I'm here in support of occupy S.F.

i haven't taken a part as most of the people here. My contributions have been limited to taking a walk on a beautiful saturday with them.

And telling my friends to take

their money out of the banks and

put into credit unions and

arguing with my ultraconservative brother-in-law in facebook.

But these are the people who are

sustaining the movement. The reason people are paying

attention is because the people in new york took that part and they're staying there. And in order for this movement to be sustainable, I just want

to urge the board of supervisors to do everything within its

power to prevent the police from taking down what they're trying to build there. So thank you. [Applause]

>> next speaker.

Good afternoon, board of supervisors.

i see some very familiar faces here.

I worked on campaigns for you or

not, I stood by your side a little bit on facebook and posted things for you and

invited people in the community to come out and support you guys. You have done great work here. We know you're not against us.

We know you are a part of the

99% here with us. And so is the police.

It was really crazy to see the

pain and some of the police

officer's eyes before they

literally arm robbed us and

kidnapped us and came like swine

in the night and took the

actions that they did upon us, you know?

It was -- it was unjust.

It was unconstitutional. But we know that they were not -- they're not here to do that to us.

And I just -- I urge you all to please just join in support with us. You guys are wonderful.

I mean, you guys are here right now with us.

And I think that really goes to

show, you know, the beginning of

steps towards creating a better

world for everybody when where we have social justice.

Where we have equal human rights, period. And I just want to say thank you

all so much for being here and

on behalf of occupy S.F. And myself, yeah, just thank you.

Thank you.

[Applause]

>> next speaker.

>> good, afternoon, supervisors.

My name is philip O.J. Thank you for hearing us and y

lowing our hearts to reach yours.

You've heard many statusics and stories. You are now presented with an

occupy to assist occupy san

francisco to become the model

for this unstoppable global movement. You are part of the 99% and we are here for you as well.

So there is nothing to fear from us.

Let san francisco shine as an

example of unity for the rest of the world. Be a part of the positive change

so you can tell your children, your grandchildren and your

great grandchildren that when you had the chance you helped

oufer specie reclaim our humanity.

I'd like to leave you with a

quote from franklin delano roosevelt, the task of our progress is whether we provide those who have too little.

Thank you. [Applause] >> thank you.

final speaker.

Or next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisor, peter warfield executive

director of library association.

In terms of silencing the public

library is on a project to

implement the snuffing out of a

multicultural mural that

includes as a key feature victor

hara, the image on the branch

library also includes words in english and spanish.

Words from holly mere.

All of that is going to be wiped out in the mural that is planned

as a replacement. Someone close to the original mural which was a community

process that was contributed to

by lots of people over a

two-year period called it a sanitized gentrified version of the mural. In all of the meetings that I

have attended at the library commission particularly recently and at the art commission, there

has been no discussion of the

specifics of what the images

were in the existing mural and

what they respect nor what specifically images are going to

be in this sanitized replacement.

who was victor hara, a voice

filled in the "new york times"

December 2002.

General augustus were so intent

on eliminating all traces of the

leftist singer victor hara that

torching and executing him was not enough when they seized power in 1973.

They also had master tapes of his recordings and concert appearances destroyed. I'll read near the end.

I guess it shows that you can

kill the singer but not his song. Well, in san francisco, the library plans to do just that and that is to kill off the image and the memory and the

words of this person. [Applause]

>> thank you.

>> hi, would a real america

medical marijuana cheerleader, occupy san francisco step up. I am here. Listen, I am glad that these people are here in san francisco

because what they don't

understand is we are in a May oriole election.

And they're messing with President Obama, all those crazy people. They said we lost our soul. And it is so good because what you all don't know a lot of

people are in shelters and in S.R.O. Hotels. They cannot come out. And we are glad you are in this city to let the people know that

we have a federal reserve bank in this city.

And my other thing to talk about

is about the last May oriole

candidate we would talk about aids.

they want to keep you negative.

We want you to come out to the

state building from 5:30 to 7:30

on thursday for the last day

dealing with aids. Medical marijuana is the last 15

year of the aids crisis. And it started in this place here.

we need to have the people

really rise up and know what san

francisco -- we have 18 states that come out of here. You know, I also voted when you

all were just making $33,000 a

year to take your salary up to $125,000. See, we want green backs for everybody.

and that's really where we're at .

30 more minutes. And with marijuana and the

President And the mayor and occupants. Thank you all, and we think you

will do the right job because

this is the last part of america

before you fall into the ocean. Where else are you going to be?

i look forward to see you

thursday in the state building

because I did get an official

candidate vote. $10.10.

Thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker. >> my name is alex.

i'm with occupy S.F.

Probably would have guessed that by now. On the night of the 16th, I

stood in the human chain in the

street to prevent police from

illegal stealing food and other medical necessities from

peaceful protestors and I

witnessed this horrible violence from the sfpd.

In an attempt to remove them by making them think that they

would run us over.

What have we done?

We are a small occupation gathering in a public park.

We didn't have means or hurt or

harm anyone or anything. I saw people being beaten and

then arrested for protecting

property that originally we felt belonged to anyone, that anyone could have come and used that property.

But instead the police chose toe basically throw it in the dump

truck and run off with it.

I feel that the trust has been broken personally. This is not me speaking for everyone in the movement. But I feel like the trust has

been broken before the sfpd and occupy S.F. There's been a particularly interesting aspect in this movement to me.

One that questioned my preconception about police. We have worked with the police. we have been trying to comply with city codes and so on.

We've been trying to make this a

movement that is not disrespectful or harmful to anyone.

But when you assault us and

arrest us and you refuse to let

us have basic human rights, you are not showing that you are with us.

i told many of the riot cops

that were there that night that I believe in personal responsibility. That we all choose our actions and we're responsible for what we choose.

So my question to everyone here

as well as to the police is are you part of the 99%? are you willing to support us or not? [Applause] >> thank you.

Next speaker.

Good evening, city officials.

It's been a rough night. An entertaining night.

my name is ivan velez. I just wanted to say three things.

A lot of things have been said.

The mayor has been on many, many times tonight especially about

occupy S.F. And the new movement that we are all part of.

And I would like to hope that you enjoy it.

You gathered a lot of information from us.

And you appreciate what's going

on on this day.

You can use all your powers and

not be detered by obstacles to

help to help everyone and

ourselves move forward.

the 99% -- the 99% help us, help us move forward.

Thank you for listening and

being here with us.

>> 99.

>> thank you. Next speaker.

>> I just want to thank you all for listening to these incredibly well spoken people. I have not been a part of the

movement but last night I found out a little bit more about it. So I went online and I watched

what happened on sunday night

and I was just so shocked and so

incredibly upset that I had a difficult time sleeping last night. And I wanted to do something to try to help these peep. This is something that's been going on for a while with the police. I noticed this when I was

protesting against the war, you

know, back in 2002.

And the police takes such an antagonistic stance against everybody. I mean, there were children,

there were families and grandparents, you know.

Everyone is extremely peaceful,

yet, the police just had this --

I don't know -- smears on their faces. the riot from the other night -- I don't understand riot gear.

It only equates to me violence

and violence begets violence. And this is something that I would hope that you can do something about. I don't know if you can or not. I know it's the police department.

And, but please do whatever you can. Maybe find the person that was

responsible for ordering the

attack on sunday night and see if they can be accountable for it. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> are there any other members

of the public that wish to speak?

seeing none, I want to thank everyone again for your patience and for your respect during the public comment period.

And with that, the general public comment is closed for

this evening.

Colleagues why don't we go to

our adoption.

Would you please call items 27-21.

>> these items will be acted

upon by a single roll call vote.

It will be called separately and

considered. >> supervisor?

>> 27.

>> supervisor avalos? >> Madam Clerk would you please call the roll on the balance of the adoption calendar.

>> on items 27-21 --

>> supervisor avalos.

Roll call vote on item 28-31.

>> cam? >> aye.

>> supervisor chu? >> aye. >> owen, aye.

>> supervisor else burn? >> aye. >> ferrell?

>> aye. Supervisor kim?

>> kim, aye. >> supervisor wiener? >> aye.

>> there are 11 ayes.

those resolutions are adopted. Item 27.

[Reading]

>> supervisor else burn? >> thank you.

And I'll be very brief because I understand supervisor avenue lose is going to move to table this item because the governor has signed this bill.

I couldn't let the opportunity to go by.

This bill is exactly why I think is wrong.

Why in the world do they pass a

bill telling city can and cannot do.

why are we doing this? San francisco hasn't passed a new contract proposal in about 25 years.

The public library has never even talked about doing this.

This is such a pandering piece of legislation that the

democratic caucus and the legislature did to placate the service employees. It is absolute pathetic and

rather than focus on how abysmal

our state budget is, they're passing legislation like this.

It's embarrassing to be a californian while our

legislature is dealing with this kind of tidly wink stuff.

Focus on the real issues.

Sorry, john, but this one more than anything, this session

drove me the craziest. And if we're going to support anything like this, let's just pull ourselves out of the league of cities.

Why are we here? Let's just let the legislature

tell us how to run our budget. This bill is asinine. Thank you.

>> supervisor avalos? >> well.

>> I got egg on my face, don't

I?

This bill was important to me to support because I'm really concerned about the

privatization of our public institutions. It's something that we grapple

with over and over again here in

san francisco about public

services that have been looked at to privatize. So I thought it would make sense

to support efforts against privatizations even at the state level or adjusting places around the state of california.

We grapple with the idea of

privatizing our jail services,

going from a profit model to manage health care for people who are inmates in our jail system.

So I actually was, you know,

interested in -- to urge the

governor to sign, clearly not

everyone was onboard with that idea.

and I'm actually -- since the

governor did sign it I was going to say to table it.

It doesn't relate to the resolution here in the room.

>> supervisor avalos calls to table. Without objection the item is tabled.

>> Madam Clerk could you read the me mother yum.

>> the late Mr. Howard grayson on behalf of supervisor else

burn for the late thomas beganlynn. On behalf of supervisor kim for

the late Mr. Paul gillman and on

behalf of supervisor chu and

else burn for the late tina --

>> can you put howard grayson for me as well, please.

>> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi.

>> is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned for