treasure island board of supervisors hearing

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liberty and justice for all.

>> President Chiu: colleagues,

we have our July 31 board meeting minutes.

Motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objectionthose are approved. Madam Clerk, any communications?

>> Angela Calvillo: I have no communications.

>> President Chiu: could you call our 3 pm special order.

>> Angela Calvillo: first item of business is policy discussion between mayorand linley and board of supervisors.

This week representing the even districts, specifically district 4. The mayor Mayaddress the board for up to five minutes.

the President Will recognize the sproofers who will present her question to themayor, as long as the entire discussion does

not exceed five minutes per supervisor.

>> President Chiu: Mr. Mayor,

welcome back to the board.

>> Mayor Lee: thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, and to the public, thankyou again

for inviting me here to present answers to your questions. Before I begin, I wantto welcome everybody back from the August break.

And, also, just to add to the

moment of silence, we had

earlier for 9/11 victims, if I

might just ask you to remember

our local heroes, as a part of

that, and in addition to the -- some almost 3,000 people who


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lost their lives for us in san francisco, one of our many

connections, is betty yong and mike bingham for saving the people that they didand struggling with that tragedy. Thank you, Mr. President and the board. we're

back to work, and appreciate the question.

>> President Chiu: thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Our one and only question for today was provided by our

colleague from district 4,

supervisor carmen chu.

>> Supervisor Chu: I am pleased to offer the one question. The question is the

area you

have to support economic growth in our neighborhoods in March we invited youto participate in a

merchant walk on taraval street

where you saw blocks of vacant storefronts and saw thought of city investment.What specific physical improvements have your departments completed in the

naks six months on taraval, and what specific actions has the office of smallbusiness or the

office of economic workforce development take in in the last

six months to reach out to property owners and business

between 31st and 33rd avenues.

>> Mayor Lee: thank you for that question.

On our merchant walk on taraval street, it really did emphasize to me theincredible potential

and opportunity for transform in change in neighborhoods. I'm pleased to sharewith you

that as part of the 2011 repavement and street safety

bond, that the department of


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public works is implementing, we

prioritized 1.6 million dollars for improvements along taraval, particularly betweenthe streets

of 46th and the great highway. These improvements are based on a conceptualplan that was prepared by one of your community members, and was given tome while we were on that walk

with you in March. The next steps will be to work closely with your office andcertainly to organize a series

of meetings so that we can confirm, with feedback from the

community, and then refine this conceptual design, and we would

be prepared and dpw and the other agencies will be prepared

to start construction pursuant

to that agreed-upon plan as soon

as summer of 2013, which is next year. in addition, the office of

economic and workforce

development has funded the sunset neighborhood beacon center. In fact it'sfunded, that

center, since 2009, in terms of

hosting a part time corridor manager that specifically dedicated to assessing andaddressing the unique needs of

that street and that area.

This corridor manager talks to property owners and businesses

along the street, encouraging

them to upgrade the storefronts, what were they see fit, to be

able to utilize effectively the

311 system, fill, and have ideas


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to fill vacancies, as they occur along that avenue, and

participant in the neighborhood cleanups. Because I believe we can do

more, I also made sure that taraval street was part of our new invest inneighborhoods

initiative, which will leverage resources from the various departments, and all ofthe economic development tools that

are currently available to us. on public safety, we are also

working closely with our police department to increase the

number of patrols along taraval, particularly in response to the uptick in criminal

activity,

especially in front of that

seven-eleven store on 31nd and taraval.

You know, although it's slightly outside of the few blocks that you've identified inyour question, supervisor, I want to mention that we have partnered with thecommunity and your office, to increase visitors to

the area, including the

promotion of movies in mccapen,

a series that had great success

this past month of June. In fact it had such success that

we intend to provide funding for a second series of movies that will begin everyfriday night during the month of September.

I'm also pleased to report that

we're laurening a new ad -- launching a new ada improvement program in district4. For you other supervisors this might be something you would be interested inas well. we're partnering with the the asian neighborhood design and

mayor's office of disability to

complete free assessments for


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businesses around ada compliance.

Some of you have deliberated

around what the businesses are

facing to ada compliant matters. So providing this free assessment would behelpful and I would be glad to entertain other requests from your supervisors aswell to help our small businesses. And then after these assessments

are done, supervisor, the businesses will then be encouraged to apply for grantfunding through the sf shines

program to make these improvements. I would like to invite everyone here tocome and continue this conversation at the community coffee, which will be held

this saturday, in district 4, saturday, September 15.

And I know supervisor, your concern about your constituents

as the others are, and so am I.

I look forward to productive working relationship, both this community coffee, aswell as the community clean team effort that's scheduled for this

saturday for both district 4 and district 7.

Thank you very much.

>> President Chiu: thank you, Mr. Mayor. I think that conclude today's questiontime.

>> Mayor Lee: and I want to especially acknowledge and thank the othersupervisors for their questions as well.

thank you.

>> President Chiu: with that,

Madam Clerk, why don't we go to our consent agenda.

>> Angela Calvillo: items 2 through 5 compromise the consent agenda, andwill be ablthd upon

by a single roll call vote. If a member would like to


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discuss a matter it shall be removed and considered separately.

>> President Chiu: colleagues, anyone want to sever any of these items?

Roll call vote on 2-5.

>> Angela Calvillo: supervisor farrell, aye.

Supervisor kim, aye.

Supervisor mar, aye.

Supervisor olague, aye.

Supervisor wiener, aye.

Supervisor avalos, aye.

Supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. Supervisor chu, aye.

Supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor elsbernd, aye. There are 11 ayes.

>> President Chiu: those ordinances are passed. Items 6.

>> Angela Calvillo: an ordinance amending the police code to eliminate certain

requirements for secondhand and antique dealers, modify permit

requirements, and to set the secondhand dealer permit

application fee at 200. >> President Chiu.

>> President Chiu: thank you. First, I want to thank the sponsor of thislegislation, supervisor wiener, for his work in moving this through and I think he'sdealt with a lot of the issues that were raised, both from the public safety

community as well as from the secondhand community. There was one questionand I have an amendment to address the situation. I want to appreciate the factthat this legislation really

does help to minimize

bureaucratic hassles for secondhand dealers interacting with city governmentand to

focus on goods that are more often than not the subject of criminal activity. One


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of those goods that was

emoom rated in supervisor

wiener's legislation vosms jewelry. I was approached by several small business

folks within my

district, who asked to ask that

we exempt out jewelry that involved minimal amounts that

typically would not be involved in criminal activity.

So I have circulated a brief amendment that states that jewelry and watcheswould be encompassed by this legislation unless they have a fair market

value as a secondhand good of $40 or less.

This was a number arrived at after conversations with the police department,looking at

these activities, as well as by secondhand dealers dealing in jewelry andwatches. I want to thank supervisor wiener for his engagement in thisconversation and ask for your support.

>> we have a motion by p

President Chiu. Supervisor eastern.

>> Supervisor Wiener: I wanted

to note I support the amendment.

>> President Chiu: can we take that without objection? Without objection. Canwe take this item, same house, same call? Same house, same call.

This ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, can you call item 7.

>> Angela Calvillo: an ordinance amending the administrative code toauthorize the airport commission to enter into leases with entities providingaviation support services without competitive

bidding for a term not to exceed 10 years.

>> President Chiu: colleagues, same house, same call. This ordinance ispassed on first read. Item 8.


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>> President Chiu: same house, same call. This resolution is adopted.

>> Angela Calvillo: item 12 resolution authorizing a

contract amendment increase with alliant insurance services for

an amount not to exceed 15.1 million.

>> President Chiu: same house, same call, this resolution is adopted. MadamClerk, could we call a number of items related to treasure island that came out of

the budget committee without recommendation.

>> The Clerk: item 13 a resolution the amendment to treasure island masterlease to

extend the term to November 30, 2012.

Item 14 resolution approving the 37th amendment to the treasure island masterlease.

Item 15 resolution approving the 16th amendment to the treasure island masterlease.

Item 16 resolution approving the

eighth amendment to childcare master lease.

Item 17 amoving the 24th

amendment to treasure island event master lease.

Item 18 resolution approving and authorizing the treasure island developmentauthority to enter

into a modification of the cooperative agreement with united states navy toextend the

agreement from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013.

>> President Chiu: I understand the director of treasure island is here to makea presentation but I'd like to acknowledge the district supervisor, supervisor kim,to make some opening comments. >> Supervisor Chu:

opening.


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>> Supervisor Kim: thank you.

Given the new concerns regarding

tida no longer as a redevelopment agency and the

city attorney's memo regarding potential increased liability on

the city's general fund, we did

bring this item to the board of supervisors without recommendation so thatcolleagues could take additional time to read through the items

and to feel comfortable with

supporting these items which we actually have been routinely bringing before theboard over the last 15 years, I believe.

we did also request hearing just

because there has been new news potentially radiologically

impacted sites on treasure island. Of course there have been

concerns AMONGst residents and we want the board to have opportunity tolearn more about these reports and also ask any questions as necessary.

So we have the director of the treasure island development authority here topresent on both items before us and to

answer any connective questions that we might have regarding the

navy which is the party we are contracting with, as well as questions aboutliability. So I did want

want to introduce merriam from the treasure island development authority.

>> President Chiu: supervisor

avalos.

>> Supervisor Avalos: thank you.

And, yes, that's exactly how we had our discussion last week, colleagues, thatwe had some


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concerns about the recent

reportings of potential radiological contamination that still remains or May stillremain on treasure island. Actually, it does remain. We're trying to figure out what

level it is.

And I have concerns -- there were different reports that have

come out over the years and most recently from california

department of health that there

are some known unknowns about what exists there on treasure island. And whatI wanted to make sure is that we could get a report

back from what is the latest discussion from the california department of publichealth which seems the last entity that's really involved in

looking at review of potential radiological contamination that's there. last week aswell, there was an article that came out in the

east bay express, probably the third or fourth article that

came out, that expressed a lot of concerns as well and I would

like that to be touched upon by Ms. Sons of the treasure island developmentauthority. And if you want to go on with your presentation, be able to touch uponthose concerns, and I'll probably ask follow-up questions as we proceed.

>> President Chiu: supervisor

kim, last comment you want to make.

>> Supervisor Kim: I wanted to clarify what is before us today. We have twoseparate issues before us. One is the items that we actually are voting on today,

items 13 through 18 which tida will walk us through the master leaseamendments along with the cooperative agreement.

One of the concerns that has come up through that process is

with the aging infrastructure on that site, owned by the navy,

who is then responsible for improving that infrastructure, whether it is the navy,the future developer, or the city and the puc. So I think that is one of the issues


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that I think members of this board will have questions

on because that directly relates to the agreements that are before us today. Buttagging along with that, because the navy is one of the

parties to which these -- the master lease and the cooperative agreement arewith, we certainly have concerns now that there is

news that there is additional sites with potential radiological impact.

What is the city going to do to

ensure that we are doing the

proper cleanup and the safeguards that need to take place to protect ourresidents and of course our workers on that island.

I wanted to separate those two issues out.

>> President Chiu: why don't

we go to the authority, Madam Director.

>> mereian sighas, director of operations at treasure island, President Chiu andmembers of the board.

I just want to first just make some remarks with regards to the

items before you today, and then

quickly get into the issue at

hand with regards to the recent media report.

so with that, 15 years ago, tida -- the board of supervisors approved theresolution establishing tida as a single entity focused on planning, theredevelopment, the reuse, and

the conversion of treasure

island for development.

Concurrent with the base closure

the city and county entered into a co-op agreement with the navy for servicesincluding operation of maintenance and utilities, police and fire, grounds and


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street maintenance, property management, and care take services.

Then tida entered into master leases with the navy to sublease properties andbuildings for

commercial use, maritime use and special event use, specifically those are themaster leases

before you today, the southern waterfront master lease, the

childcare development center, events venue, land and

structures, and maritime leases.

Tida, in turn, subleases these properties and -- to generate revenue to offsetcosts associated with the property

management and municipal service obligations of the co-op agreement includingleases for

housing, commercial, and special event.

Some subleases are for public service and do not generate income like to ournonprofits,

little league, boys and girls club, were to open spaces. housing and commercialleases generate millions of dollars each year for tida's operations

to pay for the day-to-day spending.

Both the co-op agreement and master lease expire annually and indeed theyhave been before you

for 15 years.

But as the supervisor avalos and supervisor kim said last week during thecommittee meeting, there is a request for tida to

present on the most recent media

account of the navy remediation.

So for that today, we have amy brownwell from the san francisco department ofpublic health who

will speak to the regulatory process associated with


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remediation, and then bob burns,

who is tida independent expert

on radiology with over 15 years of experience.

>> May I ask a question to director sykes.

>> President Chiu: supervisor kim.

>> Supervisor Kim: before we

move on to the radiological issues which there are a lot of questions concerning Iwanted to put to rest some of the issues around the cooperative agreement.

So some of the concerns that

have come up -- now that tida's

no longer a legally separate entity, I think there are some questions that havecome up around some of the aging infrastructure. And I was hoping that maybeyou

could touch a little bit about what the discussions are

currently today around the aging infrastructure, what discussions are headedtowards in terms of

who May be able to invest and fund for some of this work to

ensure we aren't having electrical outages and some of

the aging we're seeing in the wastewater treatment. if you can address some ofthose

concerns and move on to the radiological issue.

>> it is true that the infrastructure is old and that it continues to be repaired, and

we've had some recent outages.

But I must say the puc has been very responsive in their

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the repair done, but proactively inspecting all components of the

infrastructure so as to prevent

repairs in the future. The infrastructure is part -- will be part of discussions in

the future, and puc -- I need to

turn to the puc family who is

here today, and also to michael time-off, who will present -- who could present toyou those issues that are part of the

greater development plan. >> good afternoon, President Chiu, members of theboard, michael carlan, deputy general manager for san francisco public utilitiescommission. We currently work with tida

operating the utilities on the island. It's something that we have done

for numerous years.

As the director has stated, we do proactively look at trying to maintain the utilitiesout there, but as time progresses,

we see that there needs to be an investment made in some of the infrastructureon treasure island to keep it going in the future. And that's something that we'rein discussions with tida at this point in time.

I'm not here to discuss great

details of all what that might be, but part of what you need to do today is actuallycontinue the cooperative agreement so we can continue operating the utilities inthe manner we have in the past for residents out in treasure island. we can comeback and discuss with you, in detail, sort of what the infrastructure needs mightbe out there. In the interim period between

the period of time when the city accepts perhaps treasure island and when thedeveloper actually starts replacing all the infrastructure on the island. I'll be gladto answer any questions.

>> Supervisor Kim: I just want

to say I'm hoping we can get an

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fund, versus puc, enterprise.

>> so it's a very good question. I'm going to try and give a simple short answer.

But it deserves a lot of attention. We've kind of identified that in

the next year, and next two years, that there's an investment need of about $5million a year that needs to be made in the infrastructure on treasure island. AndI'm talking about the four utilities that we actually operate.

We operate the water, sewer, electric, and gas systems on treasure island.Those are capital improvements.

Right now, we collect money to cover operation and maintenance

costs but we're not collecting any moneys to cover capital cost. Tida -- ortreasure island is still a federal facility. Those people who live on treasure islandare city

residents, but the actual utilities still belong to the navy. So liability and such, thisis where the caretaker agreement comes in.

Some of it is the navy, some of

it gets passed onto tida.

In the future in the city were to accept the utilities in the state they're in now, itcould

be that you would have to make overriding considerations of accepting supstandard utilities

and how do we invest in those, whether it's the puc or the city's general fund andthat's

the question we haven't answered yet.

>> Supervisor Avalos: so we could very well have a significant impact to the

general fund, and if not, how -- what constraints are there for

the puc to be able to take over

such utilities, and have the financial wherewithal to do that? >> right. that's one ofthe issues that we need to discuss, especially on the water and sewer side


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because

we're constrained by -- unless

the city actually owns the

utilities about capital fund on the utilities because of state law.

We can't have our ratepayers

subsidizing other ratepayers thp

they're not puc ratepayers.

>> Supervisor Avalos: so that's still being worked out. >> that's correct.

To supervisor kim's questions there are two federal ent itself, department of laborjob center and coast guard and they're starting to engage on some of thesediscussions about how they will get utility

services in the future which May affect on

how we discuss capital

needs with them 16r789s.

>> Supervisor Avalos: how do

you see the city, and tida and

developer come into -- is that when the agreement comes before us? Is thatsome other time? That is something that would be important for us to knowhopefully today. I don't think my vote is contingent on knowing that informationbut I think it's important for us to have some sense of a timeline moving forward.>> I think I'll leave that to the development team, when the developmentagreement comes to

you but we're engaged in those discussions and we're willing

and able to kind of stay engaged

and get those resolved.

The development agreement at least.

>> President Chiu: supervisor campos.


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and we anticipate bringing

forward funding solutions and an operating agreement at the same time as webring back amendments

that we have been working on, on

the edcmoa, which is the transfer agreement between tida

and the navy to confer the property and we anticipate doing

that in the next couple of months. To supervisor campos' question we have a fullpresentation on the radiological issues so I'd

like to turn it back over to amy

brownel to address those.

>> President Chiu, supervisors,

my name is amy brownel an environmental engineer with

san francisco department of public health. I have 19 years of reviewing navycleanup. As you're aware the navy has

been conducting and is operating the facilities at the -- they're in charge of thefacilities at treasure island, and they've been conducting cleanup at

treasure island since the mid-1990's under protocols

established by the comprehensive

response compensation and reliability act. The oversight agency for this workmonitoring what the navy is doing is the california

department of toxic substances control. and with respect to radiologicalprotection, the california

department of public health oversees that aspect. There are two other regulatoryagencies also involved in overseeing all the navy's work and they overseevarious aspects of the cleanup.

Those are the regional water quality control board and the united statesenvironmental protection agency.


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these agencies review the navy's work plans prior to them conducting the work.They review all the data after

the work is done, and verify that it is correct.

And they verify that air monitoring and fences and controls are in place when thework is being done.

In addition, they also conduct

independent scans, which our radiological expert will speak to you about in just amoment.

For the past 10 years, amack, environmental and infrastructure has providedindependent oversight and review of this navy's cleanup program on behalf

of tida. They also have a consultant who

works with them, ngts, and they provide independent review and

analysis of the navy's radiological cleanup activities for tida.

Mr. Bob burnsis here.

He's the chief executive officer

of ngts and a certified health fizz sift and he has over 20

years of experience in radiological assessment and will give you a preparation onthe raid

radiological issues at treasure

island.

>> good afternoon. i know you've all been provided

a briefing packet, I believe earlier today. There's a lot of information

there, and you May not have had ample time to digest it all at this point.

So we have just a few brief

slides summarizing the high points of that presentation. I was going to go overthose


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with you today.

as you know, radiological characterization and cleanup operation -- I'm sorry.

If we could bring up the powerpoint please.

>> President Chiu: it's on.

>> great. Radiological characterization and cleanup activities have been

going on at treasure island for

roughly six years now.

To date, areas of known radiological contamination -- there's only three areas

identified with no radiological contamination. We have a map here.

I'm not sure... >> excuse me, could you speak directly into the microphone.

>> I'm sorry.

Okay.

If we could switch to the overhead, I'm told.

There we go.

The three areas with known

contamination to date are site

12, the building 233 site, which

i can't see because I just

changed glasses, building 233 site, and then the site 31,

which is in this area here.

And that's the extent of known

areas of known radiological contamination today at treasure island. It's importantto recognize

there's extensive oversight by


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all the navy's cleanup activities there.

And through all its oversight activity they have not identified any human health

concerns or human health issues

at treasure island.

Likewise, they have consultants

to tida based on our independent evaluations and reviews of the documentation,and the investigations performed out there, we have never seen

anything that would question or

contradict cdph's conclusions.

Right back to the powerpoint,

the second slide.

I'm reminded just today we were

provided a letter by cdph, summarizing some of their more recent investigationsand i believe you all have been

provided a copy of that.

As you all know, the navy recently released what it turned

as supplemental technical memorandum which is an addendum

to the 2006 historical

assessment of impacted and non-impacted areas on treasure island.

And this supplemental memorandum

they identified some -- some --

identified some newly identified

impacted areas that had not been

identified in the previous hra. But in digesting that information it's important to


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recognize that the radiologically impacted does not

mean there is contamination present.

so to understand... Going back

to the letter we received in cdph today we wanted to make it

clear that the quote, a direct

quote, no health and safety

concerns were identified in our

surveys in or around the five locations at treasure island.

And I'll administer on those additional locations in a moment.

Going back to the impact versus non-impacted I think that's been

a source of a lot of confusion. I wanted to start, the definition of a non-impactedarea, which is simply an area where there is no reasonable

possibility of residual contamination.

So for a non-impacted area we

set a very high bar for being

able to -- once an area is deemed non-impacted you're done. You don't doadditional investigations, no surveys, no nothing.

In general some sites you don't necessarily identify non-impacted areas. Oftenyour non-impacted areas are off site used for so-called reference areas forbackground.

what then is an impacted area. An impacted area is an area that you cannot callnon-impacted.

Those areas are impacted by default.

Impacted does not mean contamination is present.

It means the additional scoping surveys are warranted.


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So some of these additional impacted areas identified in this latest tech memo, ifwe go

back to the overhead, there's usf pandemonium site one, used by the navy forradiological training exercises and decontamination. Wastewater treatment area,

building 3, also building 342.

Too small for me to see.

In response to the tech memo

coming out, the cdph has gone

out and performed some

investigations in the vicinity

around site 31, around the boys

and girls club area, childcare center, community housing partners facilities. Theytook both direct measurements and what are known as white surveys whereyou're

looking for removable contamination. That's the subject of those surveysdocumented in the letter we received today. In addition to those, there areadditional investigations that are going to be performed with cdph at the requestof tida and using prioritization requested by tida, specifically the sites identifiedabove, pandemoium site one, wastewater treatment plant area where there'spublic utilities workers, and also building three and building 342.

It's my view there's little likelihood of finding anything of public healthconcern in these additional areas.


>> Supervisor Kim: thank you, Mr. Burns. Thank you for the memo that wasbrought before us. In the memo you said that you

were confident in the data that

cdph has provided and measures

that they take to assess human

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confident in the processes and

the measures that cdph takes and

go into a little more detail about what they do.

You mentioned surface wipes. To a layperson that doesn't sound very scientificand is not very reassuring. Maybe you could talk more about that. >> I would say

just looking at

everything cdph has done today I

think their reactions or responses have been timely and appropriate under thecircumstances because you have an ongoing cleanup action as you know, butyou also have

residents and workers in close proximity.

So they've been very proactive and diligent in the actions

they've taken, which included so-called direct surveys, where

you're making direct measurements of exposure rates in these residential areas,also

you mentioned the white surveys.

When you talk about surface

contamination you can take a detector and take a measurement on the surfaceand say there's a certain activity level there.

in addition you want to know if they're removal activity because that couldpresent a greater hazard to individuals and would

also be indicative, if present, would be indicative of activity

that would have been say wind blown or something of that nature.

So if it's removal, it's readily dispersible, and it's something

that requires a greater degree

of care, and also means it's easier to clean up if there. White surveys are anothertype


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of assessment that cdph has performed.

>> Supervisor Kim: could you

talk about what surface wipes is. Are you talking about the ground, the soil? >>no. They're looking, as i understand, I think as windows, window sills, things ofthat

nature, you know, just -- cdph would have to provide more detail but, again, whatthey're screening for, what they're looking at is was there any wind

dispersal or anything of that nature.

>> Supervisor Kim: I'm sure

you understand the concerns that our residents have. >> crm. >> SupervisorKim:

particularly the cield care

center and boys and girls club because that was listed by the navy as a potentialsite. You've made it clear just because it's radiologically impacted doesn't meanthere's actual contamination present but

it also does not mean there isn't contamination present. >> that is correct.

>> Supervisor Kim: so the

early assessments of cdph that

these sites are safe for use by our children and families, I hope you can go intomore detail as to why that is the case. I personally have concerns. I understandwhy our residents have concerns given that this is what we're presenting to them.So kind of speak to that. >> okay.

Again, I can't go -- I can't

speak on behalf of cdph, I can't

go into great detail about their measurements, other than my

outside review, I guess, or just looking at the work that they've

done, like I said, everything --


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out lately? >> not all, but some, yes.

>> Supervisor Kim: what would

be your response to some of the concerns from previous residents of treasure

island that say that they feel like there's a higher

rate of cancer amongst their

family, and their neighbors, and some of the concerns that have come up throughthose articles?

>> I'm not aware of an elevated cancer rate. As far as that being -- but I'm

also not aware of any

radiological exposure of anyone on treasure island that -- of

that background, of a -- you know, distinguishable from

background and that's what cdph

and -- have said all along. Again, I'm not aware of any elevated cancer rate but Iwouldn't think you could draw any correlation, if there was such a thing, I can'tsee drawing a correlation to elevated radiation when there wasn't been any.Radiation is a fact of life we're exposed to it every day, it's a natural thing, it'snothing to be afraid of.

>> Supervisor Kim: would you feel comfortable with your kids

being at the boys and girls club? Is. >> yes.

Given the -- I have two children. My kids are 5 and 3. They're my whole world.

>> Supervisor Kim: I do want to give opportunity to my colleagues to ask somequestions

as well.

>> President Chiu: supervisor avalos.

>> Supervisor Avalos: thank you, supervisor kim. Thank you for yourquestioning.

I think they're real good questions you were asking.


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identified impacted areas.

>> Supervisor Avalos: cdph are

they doing any other kind of assessment done by --

>> I don't do assessments, I

strictly -- 16r78g9s but you do oversight. >> I review what the navy

contractors are doing, what cdph is doing. i have not performed any independentassessment.

>> Supervisor Avalos: who could talk about that?

>> either -- well, cdph would

have to talk about their work, and...

>> Supervisor Avalos: so last weekend, the east bay express,

they talked about radium wells, talked about disks that were

found in different places, in

some of the areas that have

had -- where there's radiation

that's been potential contamination of radiation.

Can you talk about those -- that were found.

>> the foils and disc are commodities as they're called out there.

they're deck markers, they're radio loom nes sent devices used

back in the day like I said for marking decks on the ships.

They're used for marking gauges,

marking ditches.

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waste disposal areas.

>> Supervisor Avalos: where there have been known -- you

talk about it as known areas of radiological contamination, in those areas they

were found? >> correct.

12 primarily was my

understanding.

>> Supervisor Avalos: we're going to have a hearing on the whole thing lateron.

So I will be cosponsoring that,

and will go into further discussion.

>> President Chiu: supervisor campos.

>> Supervisor Campos: thank you. I know the items before us

involve a master lease, and a cooperative agreement.

but I do think it's important in the context of the siting whether or not to supportthose

items to have a better sense of

the safety issues that have been raised. I think -- I know that there's going to be apublic hearing on this, which I think is a great idea.

And I want to thank supervisor kim, supervisor avalos, for

sponsoring that. What worries me about this is the fact that, as you said, you

know, there is no guarantee that

that in fact there is no contamination that could create a health hazard. I mean Ithink your presentation

is a carefully drafted document

that, you know, leaves open the very possibility that there could be healthimplications here. Isn't that correct? >> that's correct, recognizing


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there's these additional investigations that cdph is

still going to be conducting.

I don't want to be me mature.

And I believe in, you know,

never say never.

>> Supervisor Campos: and that's the question.

I mean so I do have a question about the wording though. In your report, it saysthat

there is a little likelihood of

these areas representing a health risk.

In terms of definition of likelihood, what is that definition?

i mean what percentage, what...

>> it would be difficult to quantitative. Again, me being a scientist, that's how wespeak. We don't look at things in black and white but in continuum of probabilityand such.

So when I say little likelihood again I can't assign a probability to it but certainly

no more so than -- like I say i think what we already know out

there is the low-hanging fruit. I don't see these additional

areas, you know, for whatever quantification you want to

assign to what we've encountered and assessed out there, I don't see theseadditional areas presenting any risk, certainly

not any greater than that.

>> Supervisor Campos: would

likelihood be like 40%? Is that lower? >> lower.

>> Supervisor Campos: 20?


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estate expert but usually those

are deed restrictions that can

be -- my bad.

>> again, amy brownel from the san francisco health department. All of theseareas that were

identified in that supplemental

technical memorandum are navy

areas that navy is going to investigate. They are doing their work, andinvestigating them. There is not going to be any development until the navy hasfinished all their investigation, and then all of the regulatory agencies have signed

off that everything has been done correctly. During the investigation phase,

the navy will control the area,

have fences, do air monitoring.

The cdph and the other regulatory agencies will verify that they're doing that.There is no chance of contamination going outside of the area, that the navy willcontrol during their work.

And then when it is all done,

and signed off, and cdph will give a free release letter that

says all the work is done, there is no contamination left, everything is same asbackground, basically.

That's called a free release. Only at that point would the

property then transfer, and be

used by tida and developed. There will be no development until the navy hassigned off on

all the radiological issues.

>> Supervisor Campos: well I appreciate all the work and I think that it's goodto just follow up on these issues through the additional hearing.

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I think a 95% likelihood that we are right about no health implications is prettygood but I don't think it's good enough.

so hopefully we'll get to 100% at some point.

Thank you.

>> President Chiu: supervisor mar.

>> Supervisor Mar: thanks, Ms. Brownel, Mr. Burns for the presentations. Iwanted to say if I were one of the parents of the child development center I thinksupervisor kim was raising this questioning, Mr. Burns, whether he would havehis kids in a spot

that we weren't absolutely 100% sure was going to be safe would make me

nervous, given some of the press reports.

And then I know in 2003, and the department of public health is

aware of this that we passed our cautionary principle policy that

states where threats of serious or irreversible damage to people

or nature exists lack of full scientific certificateity about

the cause and effect shall not be viewed as sufficient reason

for the city to prevent the degradation of the environment

or protect the health of its citizens.

I really worry that of the 2,000 residents that live on the island, that some of thekey kind of new potential sites are very close to many of the residences. And theboys and girls club, and many areas where young children, who might be evenmore susceptible live.

But I just wanted it know, could you give us more certainty that the sites aregoing to be safe. Because I would be worrying if I were one of those parents orone of those kids.

>> thank you, supervisor mar. Again, Mr. Burns was talking about the areas andhow the investigation was going to happen, and the question was asked abouthis certainty on those issues. Again, that's for the areas that

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not live there, and they're not going to be allowed to live there. There will not beany development there.

Those areas will be properly investigated. The -- as we already mentioned, and is

in your letter that you received from california department of health -- public

health, the boys and girls club, the childcare center, the

school, the winery, and the

trailer, were all scanned by cdph and have been cleared, that there is no publichealth risk, based on their scans that they have already done.

There are other areas that -- as Mr. Burns was mentioning, are

going to be investigate by cdph. In fact I'm aware that they went out there todayto start that, and to do their scans. So all of those areas and those issues ofuncertainty, they're

not areas where people are living.

Thank you.

>> President Chiu: supervisor olague.

>> Supervisor Olague: I just have a quick question.

I know that sometimes during

these periods of members of the public residents are probably reading a lot ofdifferent

pieces of information, in the newspaper, and it might be creating anxiety or fearamong them.

So I was wondering how are there going to be community meetings out there?

I know even when we do wire or

towers for at&t the department of public health, or there's

some kind of allowance for some

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I'm wondering how are we reassuring the residents that live out there that they're

safe, or, you know -- what kind of outreach is being done to the residents? >> Ican answer that question for Ms. Unbrown. Our office is cohosting a

meeting with tida and the navy

next tuesday, September 18 at 7 pm on treasure island. And I'm not sure if wewill be able to address all the concerns residents have but we will be there toanswer questions and get feedback on where we would

like to see the efforts the city makes to advocate on behalf of our residents at thatmeeting. I don't know if Ms. Brown if you have anything to add to that.

>> thank you, supervisor kim. Yes.

The meeting will be held next tuesday. Representatives from the navy

will be conducting the meeting and representatives will be

there from cdph and dtfc. I will be there. In addition there was a letter

sent to all the residents with this information, and maps, and information aboutwhat's going on. So tida has been keeping the

residents up to date and this additional meeting will be

another venue for them to hear

the information. >> Supervisor Olague: transparency is important, obviously.Thank you.

>> President Chiu: colleagues, any additional questions to city staff?Supervisor kim.

>> Supervisor Kim: no additional questions.

I do want to speak a little bit

to the item at hand, and also

some follow-up to the

contamination impact issues.

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our residents to live and work. But the set of items before us

are really just to allow tida to continue to subleases buildings

on site, and also to allow us to

deliver fire, police, and other

gas and electrical services, wastewater treatment services, to the island. And Ithink that we should move forward and support these items before us today. If inany case we find that we don't want to continue this

relationship with the navy, and

really the the only case I think that would happen is if we

decide to relocate all 2,000 residents we have 30 days notice

if we decide to move forward in that direction. Supervisor campos did mention itthough and I will talk more

about it at roll call but supervisor avalos and I will be

cosponsoring a hearing on the radiological impact at treasure island and I'llspeak a little

more to that at roll call.

>> President Chiu: colleagues, any additional discussion? With that, why don'twe take a

roll call on these six items. Madam Clerk.

>> Angela Calvillo: on items 13 through 18, supervisor farrell, aye.

supervisor kim, aye.


Supervisor olague, aye.

Supervisor wiener, aye.

Supervisor avalos, aye.


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ceo of seas canneddies a beloved san francisco institution. He worked there as amanager in

the packing department and in

1972 selling the company to warren buster among

buffett.

As a philanthropist he was a

generous person in town. He loved jazz.

he served on numerous boards of san francisco nonprofits including gracecathedral, san francisco traditional jazz foundation and the children's health

council. More importantly, in district 2 he and his wife brought together a numberof people to raise money to restore the palace of fine arts to the jewel that it istoday raising over $16

million in private money.

he served our country as a

paratrooper during world war ii.

They had -- after her passing he

married and is survived by donna hug begins who was with chuck for 15 years.

He is survived by his sister,

ruth, sons, peter, charles, and

daughters, ann and shelley, nine

children and a nephew.

A tribute is planned for

saturday, September 28 at the

hetious theater from 1 to 3 pm. I would invite everyone to come out.

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>> Angela Calvillo: supervisor chu.

>> Supervisor Kim: I

chu.

>> Supervisor Chu: first is

norah patricia spears known as

patsy to many of her friends and family, passed away September 1.

She was a sunset resident and

active parishioner at st. Gabriel's.

she volunteered at laguna honda hospital and was always involved

in the neighborhood and stayed current. We very much appreciated all the workshe did on behalf of the neighborhood. She was here many times to testify at theplanning commission, on behalf of the sunset district.

And we will all Miss Her but she will be especially missed by her

husband, sean, her children, and their spouses and many grandchildren. I alsowant to adjourn today's

meeting in memory of celia rodriguez, she passed away surrounded by herfamily.

She joins her husband and her

son in heaven. Her husband immigrated to

san francisco in 1955 and celia

joined him in 1956 but it was in san francisco that they raised their family andrealized their dream of opening their

restaurant in the outer sunset district. Her restaurant opened its doors

in 1962 first as a simple coffee shop and later becoming mexican foodrestaurant. Over time she brought to the sunset her unique style of

cooking, and her hard work and dedication eventually led to the establishment ofmore than a


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dozen celia's mexican restaurants in the bay area.

They quickly became a bay favorite and many remember going there and still donow. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends.

she is survived by her sisters,

her children, and her

grandchildren. The rest I will submit. Thank you.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor chu.

Supervisor kim.

>> Supervisor Kim: thank you. the first item that I'll speak

to is just the item that we most recently discussed. Supervisor avalos and I are

cosponsoring a hearing to -- related to the radiologically impacted areas thatneed further explanation before the land is

of course transferred from the navy to the city of san francisco. i think thepresentation, while

it answered a number of questions also raised additional

questions related to this issue.

We're having a hearing to follow-up on the radiological

issues to ensure we're doing

everything we can do to intur the

ensurethe safety of those on the island. As representative of this part of our city,this is an area

where we do actually place many families, working class and low incomefamilies, formerly homeless individuals, and of course our veterans, as well as

other population on -- that are particularly vulnerable.

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These alleys are the life blood of the community.

So the alley ways are often used

as routes for pedestrians and often play areas for children

and sitting areas for our seniors. we do have many seniors and families that relyon these

alley ways as thoroughfares through the neighborhood. Project improvementincludes more street lighting on something we've heard a lot about from ourconstituents, special roadway

roadway paving, raised sidewalks, all of which enrich the pedestrian experience.As many of you know we have a lot of pedestrian safety issues in the south ofmarket area,

some of the highest incidents of collisions between vehicles and

cars and we are hopeful this will continue to do a lot of the common work that weare seeing

and the city is engaging in, in the south of market area. The rest I submit.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you. supervisor wiener.

>> Supervisor Wiener: thank you.

I have several items today. First, I introducing legislation

that will ensure that new

housing developments in

san francisco are able to

include car sharing spots, accessible to the general public. Car sharing is part ofthe future of transportation in san francisco.

If we truly want to get people out of their private automobiles, then in addition to

improved muni and bike access we

need to provide people with high quality taxi service and

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Being a transit-first city means

making it easy for people to use these various transportation options.

my legislation will help move us

in this direction by allowing developers to include a limited

number much car sharing spaces without counting those spaces

towards their parking maximums.

These optional car sharing spots would be an addition to the one

or two car sharing spots that certain larger projects are already required to

provide.

In many parts of the city, developers require to build

projects with less than

one-to-one parkinging, constituently one parking spot for every two units.

Currently any required and any optional car sharing spots are included togetherin this

maximum parking allotment, even though easy access to car

sharing, as we know, makes it easier for people not to own a private automobile.As a result, particularly in

smaller developments, developers May forego having car sharing spots becausethey don't want to

reduce the already-low number of parking spots for the residents

of the development.

My legislation would allow an optional car sharing spots, with

up to five optional spots for

developments up to 49 units, and

eight optional spots for any developments 50 units and above. In exchange these


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spots would have to be deed restricted and could never be used for private

vehicle parking. So colleagues I look forward to a discussion about this importantaspect of our transportation system. I'm also calling for a hearing

on the city's urban forest, with the specific focus on the city's plan to care for ourstreet

trees and park trees. We have hundreds of thousands of trees in the public realmin this city and it's one of our

greatest assets that makes our

city green, cleans our air and beautifies our streets. Yet for a number of yearsbudget

cuts have severely reduced dpw

and urban parks budget and their ability to maintain these trees. Dpw hasproposed a tree maintenance transfer plan, transferring tens of thousands oftrees to property owners who May not want them, who May not know how to carefor them and May not be willing to spend the

the money to care for them properly. Rec and park on average is able

to prune its trees once every 50 years. Which is not acceptable.

I believe we need to find

sustainable source for our urban forest. I'm asking the department of publicworks, rec and park and the planning department to participate in this importanthearing which will include discussion of the forthcoming

urban forest master plan. Then I'm also introducing

legislation to approve the mta's purchase of -- contract to

purchase 45 new 40 foot long low floored diesel hybrid buses and

the rehabilitation of 80 existing buses.

Muni has the great need for new and rehabilitated buses and it will help improvethe system.

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>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor wiener. President Chiu.

>> President Chiu: first of all as someone who regularly uses car sharingservices in san francisco and as legislator

in this area I want to cosponsor supervisor wiener. I appreciate what you're doingin that area.

i have two in memoriams, Mr. Fabs served our san francisco police department

for 27 years from 1966 to 1993. He was known by former members

of this board for his service, in protecting the public safety of our neighborhoods.

There will be a memorialal

service this friday at forest city.

also would like to make an in

memorium request for andy lee

leecokeus a local small business

owner who ran the sports bar at the ferry building for many years.

he was also known as the mayor of golden gateway based on his closerelationships in that

neighborhood and that neighbors

told me no one had more friends

or more generous than andy.

He served as a army ranger in the korean war.

We will Miss Him dearly. Colleagues,'m also introducing a resolution today tocongratulate the city college of san francisco on the upcoming

completion and opening of the

chinatown north beach campus. This is a campus that has been 40 years in themaking in the northeast neighborhoods that I'm honored to represent.

we've had a number of disoperate and unconnected sites that have not been


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adequate for meeting needs of higher education for our residents. I know that weare all looking

forward to a ribbon cutting happening in a week and a half to open up thiscampus which will be educating 6,000 students

a year, many of whom are recent immigrants, and working folks in

the northeast neighborhoods.

The completion of this campus

will exemplify the end of a 40

year dream for so many education activists, and neighborhood

activists, and folks that have wanted to see with the financial support of thecommunity, the creation of this campus. I want to take a moment and

thank my colleagues -- our

colleague, supervisor mar, and -- for their cosponsorship. The rest I will submit.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, Mr. President. Supervisor campos.

>> Supervisor Campos: thank you, Madam Clerk. I wasn't planning on saying

anything today, but after

watching the exchange in question time today, I think it's only appropriate for usto say -- for me to say something about that.

I appreciate the question from

supervisor carmen chu, but I don't know that I'm the only one who feels this wayabout question time.

But my own personal view is that

question time is no longer working. I don't know that it ever really worked.

i think that it's too scripted.

And from my perspective, the intent of question time when it

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discussion between the board of supervisors and the mayor.

And I think that the way that it's currently structured in my

view, I don't think that that meaningful discussion is really taking place.

So I'm certainly interested in

pursuing and exploring different ways in which we can modify question time tomake sure that

it is more interactive and not as scripted as it's become.

So I certainly will be thinking

of ways of tweaking it, and with the hope of bringing something

to the board, and I would encourage my colleagues if they have specific ideasabout ways

in which we can actually create a process that actually allows for that meaningfuldiscussion so that the public really benefits, I think it would be something that willbe of service, not only to this board,

to the mayor, but to the public.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor campos.

supervisor olague.

>> Supervisor Olague: I have

two in memoriums.

One for james mccray sr.

He was born March 12, 1927.

The third son of johnny and rosie hughes. Mccray, on the family farm,

located at dennis mills louisiana. He grew up surrounded by five

brothers and three sisters.

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san francisco, and in 1949, he

married gloria irving.

To this union, one son was born,

james mccray Jr., who some of you might know.

He's a commissioner on the building inspection commission,

and a long time pastor and

community advocate in district 5.

James mccray sr. Lived as a

self-starter and was quite entrepreneurial. Operating an evening janitorialservice, while working by day

for the ford company.

After extending his educational background, james went to work

for standard oil, which

eventually became chevron.

Becoming one of the first african-americans to manage

service stations in san francisco.

After retiring in 1989, he spent the remainder of his life

working in his yard, and chatting with those friends he

met daily while running errands.

Mr. Mccray sr. Is survived by

his loving wife, gloria h.

Mccray, his devoted son, james

mccray Jr., three special sisters, his four grandchildren,

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grandchildren, keith, justin,

james iv, sophia and grayson.

He was a special part of the jones memorial united methodist

community and he will be greatly missed.

also, I would like to close the

meeting in memory of

Mr. Jonathan bullock Jr., who passed away last week.

He was a well-known member of

the westside courts community,

and he will be missed. Mr. Bullock's death is a

reminders of our individual and

collective responsibility to keep our communities safe and free from violence.

I send my condolences to his family, and will remain

committed to working with groups

like the healing circle, and

west side community services, to provide assistance to to victims and familymembers that have

experienced loss and trauma.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you, supervisor olague. Supervisor mar.

>> Supervisor Mar: thank you, Madam Clerk. Today, I'm requesting a hearing

on the series of theft scams that have targeted chinese elders.

As a member of the public safety committee but also the district 1 supervisor, I'mconcerned

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elderly members of the chinese community were victimized by several scamartists and nearly $2 million has been made off by the scam artists this year.Several of these cases were in

the richmond, but also other

areas like chinatown, the sunset and other district in the city. The scams havetargeted the chinese communities of other

major cities like new york and chicago. The san francisco police department andthe district attorney's office have continued to receive reports from many

elderly chinese seniors in our communities. My office is working closely with thepolice department, and the district attorney's office, but also safety awareness for

everyone, sf safe and members of

our community on key strategies

to stop these scams that target the vulnerable in our communities.

There's a cantonese and -- tip

line, 415-a 553-9212.

I am cosponsoring the resolution

congratulating the city college chinatown north beach campus. It's been a 10year struggle for that campus to be built and I wanted to congratulate the new

dean, and kind of the outgoing dean for their tremendous work and students andstaff members.

I plan to be there on friday,

September 21, to celebrate with everyone the victory of the

campus and a brand new place in chinatown and north beach.

Also this morning, I was joined

by our city librarian, luis

herrera, and adrian pawn, to

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for the public library system. It's very important, every five years, under the librarypreservation fund, we're required to listen hard to representatives and

residents and users of libraries. We're starting the first of 11

public hearings on improving the libraries. I'm very proud that our office is reallytrying to help with

getting more of the immigrant

communities and non-english

speakers to weigh in on the

hours, the types of materials,

computer labs, number of

ebooks, even issues related to improving our libraries.

There's a whole list of the 11 different supervisorial hearings

but I wanted to raise awareness

on thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 at

the branch library on 9th

avenue at geary and clement we

will be holding the first of 11 hearings.

I also wanted to alert people

and congratulate the chef at assiza restaurant one of the

best in the city on geary and 22nd.

He's been named by the U.S.

Government in a ceremony recently by U.S. Secretary of

state hillary clinton as one of

the american chef corps chefs. He's called a state chef now and


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from low income neighborhoods

have as good and possibly better arts education than kids in the more affluentareas where it's

an equalizer goal of the arts education master plan.

We have to fully fund it so supporting the schools through

proposition h for example is one thing hopefully we will all

support in the coming years. Assemblyman tom ammiano and leaders from theschool district and our communities were starting to get together to discuss thereauthorization of

prop h so that we have a fully funded arts education master plan for all children inthe san francisco schools. The rest I'll submit. Thank you.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you. supervisor avalos.

>> Supervisor Avalos: thank

you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues,for introduction I have a couple of items related tothe passage of proposition b

that was on the ballot in June.

Prop b is related to coit tower.

It was passed by 53.4% of the vote.

And was a declaration of policy

to suggest strictly limiting commercial activities and

private events at coit tower and

to prioritize funds generated at

coit tower for maintenance of

the tower's murals.

According to the city charter, around declarations of policy the board ofsupervisors shall,


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within 90 days of such approval,

take such actions within their powers as shall be necessary to

carry out the declaration and to effect.

And I'm requesting the budget analyst and park department to

work together on identifying how funds have been -- revenue has beengenerated at coit tower and how they have been expended over

the past five years, and looking forward about how we could actually get a senseof what spending has been like and how we can better program funding that'sthere.

So I have a letter of inquiry to the rec and park department to

that effect and a request of the

budget analyst to carry out analysis about funding and how it can be used and

recommendations for the board to

begin to enact new policy. That is mine. Thanks.

>> Angela Calvillo: thank you.

Supervisor carmen chu.

>> Supervisor Chu: I wanted to adds my comments to the resolutioncongratulating city

college for the chinatown north beach campus.

Again I know supervisor chu and supervisor mar spoke to it about the importanceof the campus, especially to the chinatown and chinese community but I alsowant to say this is such an important step for us.

I won't be there at the opening unfortunately but it is a place or institution wheremany of our newest immigrants are able to go, to learn the language, to gain newskills. And it's something I think will

really help to revitalize the chinatown area. I want to simply say how importantthis opening of the campus is, and again of course I am absolutely supportive ofthe resolution. Thank you.


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>> The Clerk: thank you, supervisor chu. Mr. President, seeing no other nameson the roster, that concludes roll call for introductions.

>> President Chiu: thank you. I understand supervisor cohen

had a motion to rescind.

Supervisor cohen.

>> Supervisor Cohen: I'd like

to make a motion to rescind

items 13 through 18.

>> President Chiu: I think

it's 13 through 19.

>> Supervisor Cohen: 13 through 19.

>> President Chiu: yes, 13

through 19. Supervisor cohen's made a motion to rescind those items. There is asecond? Seconded by supervisor chu. Any objection? Without objection thoseitems are rescinded.

If we can take a roll call vote

on items 13 through 19.

>> Angela Calvillo: supervisor farrell, aye.

Supervisor kim, aye.


Supervisor olague, aye. Supervisor wiener, aye.

Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor campos, aye.

president chiu, aye.

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Supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor elsbernd, aye. There are 11 ayes.

>> President Chiu: those items are passed.

And why don't we go to our 3:30 special commendations. I know our first

commendation

will be offered by supervisor avalos.

Supervisor avalos.

>> Supervisor Avalos: thank you, President Chiu.

Colleagues, I would like to call

up ameal deguzman, a resident in

my district, and has been a great public servant in it

san francisco for a number of years.

Coming up now.

Colleagues, I'm excited today to

honor emeal, on the occasion of

his retirement from the scoin of san francisco. He is retired after almost 15

years of service, with the human rights commission. He's been a housingrepresentative there.

Before the human rights commission, he was employed by the san franciscopolice

department for 12 years, to provide protective services for

the elderly, who are vulnerable to street crimes.

He has a bachelor's from uc-berkeley, a master's of

public administration from harvard university, john f. Kennedy school forgovernment, born and raised in san francisco

and grew up in the fillmore district. He's an active resident of district 11, wherehe's done a


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lot of great work residents.

He lives with his wife and two kids. His daughter is with him as well. she's filminghim as we speak.

His wife maggie, teaches elementary school for the

san francisco unified school district. Emill has a long history of public service tothe city but

on top of that he has also a long history of social justice work for decades in sanfrancisco.

as an undergrad at uc-berkeley,

he was involved in the 1969

third world strike and was very active with united farm workers. As a student hewas also involved in the historic

struggle to preserve manilatown.

As President Of the international hotel tenants

association he fought along side the ihotel residence and a coalition of studentstenants and community activists to stop

the demolition of the "I" hotel.

He was among the tenants on that

notorious night back in 1978

when the courageous tenants were dragged and forcibly removed

from their place of residence. After the eviction he continued to fight along sideother

community members to rebuild the

"I" hotel which was rebuilt and reopened as affordable housing

for seniors in 2005. He is currently on the board of the directors of -- board of

directors of the manilatown heritage foundation which is promoting social and


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economic

justice for -- and preserves the

"I" hotel legacy advocating for

equal access and advancing filipino arts and culture. You have done tremendouswork in the city and county of san francisco in your touch and

mark on the city is around in so many different ways. I want to congratulate youon your great service and I look forward to all the work we can

do together in our district in the years to come.

>> well thank you, supervisor.

I just wanted to thank President

Chiu and honorable supervisors, and, you know, my colleagues

from the human rights commission.

this is sort of a 180 degree

turn from when I was an advocate

and not working for the city.

Because hostility in the board of supervisors was more kind of

what things were like in the 70's. And to the point where we

gathered our cockroaches in the "I" hotel and threw them at the board ofsupervisors because

they were so hostile to us. So I have many friends on the

board, and I'm very happy to be here.

Having, you know -- I'm at the quorum, always an activist, and I will alwayscontinue to be there. But I was also a city official and I worked for the city. and Itried to do my best of providing public service.

And I will always encourage

people to work for the city, to make it a better, to make it more affordable, to


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make it so that it serves the most lowest

income and the most deprived individual.

So I want to just kind of get that across as to what I think is -- what the spirit of

many of us in san francisco. We come from an era where so

much was done to make it a great city.

I don't want it to just purely

be for, you know, a world-class

city for well-off people. It's got to be for working people. Thank you very much. >>I know a couple of other

folks want to speak but emeal, as you know, you have been someone who hasled so many efforts in the city, particularly within my district

and the international hotel.

Colleagues I should let you know when I don't have a district

chart in my office I have a

photograph of emeal as a

slightly younger man in 1977 as

he was being dragged out of the international hotel during that

protest by our city deposit deputy sheriffs. It became symbol not just of

that fight but the beginning of

the asian-american political mobilizations that have continued to this day. And Ivery much want to thank you for your service over the years.

Thank your family for their

service and thank supervisor

avalos for recognizing one of his great district 11 residents.

>> thank you, honorable President. >> [Applause.]


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>> President Chiu: and that's not all. I know supervisor olague and others havea few things to say. Supervisor olague.

>> Supervisor Olague: I want to thank you for all of your help. When I wasworking at the mission agenda we used to call you frequently, asking for help

with some of the habitability

issues, with that residents of single room occupancy hotels had to contend with.And then you were also very

helpful when I was working at

the senior action network.

We'd call you all the time, me, tony robles and others. And just want to thank you

for

all of your wisdom and your openness, because you never turned away a call,and you always did everything you could

to help the residents, especially the ones we were working with, particularly, verylow income residents.

So thank you.

I know -- is here, but we're

glad to have lupe, but we'll Miss You a lot. >> thank you, supervisor.


>> Supervisor Kim: I just wanted to dhiem chime in and also thank you for allof your work. As a college student I remember watching the fall of the "I" hoteland learning about you and

the story of al robles.

It was inspiring to me as a student to be committed and dedicated to working onbehalf of our communities, and also just learning about the history

of our activism, and of asian-americans who stood up on

behalf of our neighborhoods and our most vulnerable members for a population.your work is inspiring. When we were finally able to rebuild the "I" hotel 30 years


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later it was amazing to see both

you and al, and al was serving

up food just like he did in the 70's. It's amazing to see that continuum and to be a

part of that now and to work with you

and your family, maggie of course is a really important part of the south of market

community and bessie carmichael. Your family does so much not

just in the manilatown and cheentown

chinatown but south of market as well. >> thank you, supervisor.

>> President Chiu: last but not least, supervisor mar.

>> Supervisor Mar: thank you,

for your leadership in our

movements from the international hotel tenants oh, and the spirit of the "I" hotelto the work on housing justice and even for seniors and so many others. I knowyou as a great parent too. I remember immigrant pride day events with you andyour children. And for you and maggie and your

family I wish you the best of everything. But I know that you're going to stayinvolved.

And you have nurtured so many

young activists to many other organizations.

And I hope you get some rest, and recuperation, and then get back out there andhelping to build our movements. But thank you so much for your

service to san francisco. >> thank you.

Thank you, supervisor.

>> [Applause.]

>> it's kind of rare I do two in

one day but I've got another


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commendation for another amazing

person, lilie haskell who i

would like to call up to the

podium.

Lilie haskell is a moroccan

american organizer who has been organizing a community based organizationhere in

san francisco since 2007. Lilie has contributed to and led arab communityorganizing youth

development and educational initiatives through cultural and

political work as well as antiwar coalition building for over 10 years.

She is a graduate of wellesley

university with a bachelor in sociology.

She cofounded a foundation providing training opportunities for civic and politicalengagement.

Since she joined arock she has helped build a member of low income andimmigrant members of

the arab community, empowered to

provide mutual support in issues around the arab community.

She helped to grow the

organization threefold, providing immigration services to the local arabcommunity as part of the san francisco immigrant legal and education network.Lilie has been a leading committee member of the coalition for a safer

san francisco, a strong advocate

for for on and -- immigrant and

civil rights issues impacting low income communities. She joined with sanfrancisco rights defense community to pass a policy to help protect immigrant


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It is an honor to welcome you to the board chambers and thank you for yourservice and look forward to our future work together as well.

>> thank you, supervisor. >> [Applause.] >> I just wanted to say I look forward to

arock continuing their work with the board of

supervisors to ensure the human rights and services for all of san francisco'simmigrant and working class communities.

Thank you.

>> [Applause.]

>> President Chiu: thank you.

>> lillian is joined by her mom from georgia.

>> President Chiu: welcome to

the chamber. >> [Applause.]

>> President Chiu: now, I'd like to acknowledge our district 6 supervisor,supervisor kim, who has a commendation.

>> Supervisor Kim: thank you. I have a separate commendation but I want toacknowledge lilie

as well, and your work with arock on behalf of the city and county of sanfrancisco. Our office got to work really closely with you, and I can't

tell you how immensely proud we

were to work with you, and the organizing work that you were

able to do in the arab-american, muslim, and south asian community to bring tolight some

of the issues and racial profiling that had been ongoing in this city. It was reallydifficult work. And you brought up a lot of members of our community that werenot used to coming to city

hall to speak and speak on very sensitive stories. And you know, really requireda lot of courage and I know you

were key in supporting that and I'm glad to see you go.


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I know arock is currently in district 6 and we will Miss Your presence in arock andin district 6.

Thank you for all of your work. I'm actually -- I have a commendation and I'm

sure that many of my colleagues will want

to speak on behalf of this individual.

We were waiting for our emergency preparedness month because we couldhonor this individual every week. But we wanted to take time to recognizesomeone who has been a steadfast presence at the site of every singleemergency call

in our district and in our city.

I want to bring up ben ames up

to the podium.

>> [Applause.]

>> Supervisor Kim: whether

it's a major fire, in a single

family home, a residential

apartment building, a gas leak,

he has become a familiar face as he is often the first person on the scene andusually the last person to leave. He has been the emergency responsecoordinator for the

city's human services agency

since 2002, so over the last 10 years. This past decade you have been servingour city.

Since I took office in 2011, he

has responded to at least 10 significant fires in our district, and worked with

residents to find both temporary

and in many cases permanent housing, after those incidents.


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Many of us that have gone on the

fire of these scenes, it's scary. Families and individuals and seniors often don'tknow where

they're going to go next, have

lost a lot of their belongings, but most importantly, have lost their home and theirsecurity. It really takes an individual I

think of a high level of caliber and sensitivity to be able to work with so manyindividuals who are scared, and who don't

know

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