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there is no question that we need more representation for those tenants. there is no question it will result in fewer tenants becoming homeless as a result. however, this is where i depart slightly from the other supporters. we do not need more representation. we need 10 or 15 more attorneys doing tenant the fence now -- defense now. we need a serious commitment, not just a project or a program. a statement that this city is committed and we are bound by attorneys to defend the rights ...

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academic institutions interested in looking at what the impact would be in san francisco. it further states that the evaluation will be submitted to the board of supervisors within six months of the completion of the pilot program and it would include an analysis of data, the impact of the program on demand for services, considering the need for the program as it relates to access to justice. and it lays the recommendations for maximizing the benefit in the future. i know there are a n...

he has been a legal giant for his advocacy in his leadership at bart. >> two minutes is harder than 20 minutes. i am deeply moved by the fact you are considering this bill. if you will be the first city in the united states that has directly addressed, as a municipal matter, the deprivation that the people are experiencing in the courts on a daily basis. i know you are all lawyers, those of us in court see these people like a late-night movie wandering the halls trying to figure out th...

legislation. >> to have had a long committee hearing in his -- hearing this item. -- you have had a long committee hearing in hearing this item. this would make sure that for a candidate seeking election in 2012 we will not certify their eligibility to receive public financing until the redistricting task force has redrawn the citys boundaries which i know we have been involved in. we expect to have this completed by april 15. candidates will be able to apply. there will not be certifi...

it is right now. we had a court case and the name of it slipped my mind at the moment. about a year-and-a-half ago, it placed a landlord-tenant matters and to the litigation privilege. it is virtually impossible for a tenant to sue a landlord for wrongful eviction unless the tenant has moved and been evicted. that has led to a sharp increase in what we see as bogus and serial eviction notices. the city department was notorious for non-payment, someone that has paid their rent and never...

new shafts with 167 remaining. some highlights of the buttress work -- in the picture on the upper left, you can see some of the sound and attenuation in the material we have put up to try to cut down on the noise. the rest of the site is progressing into the excavation phase, as you can see in the far west end of the project. the difference between where we were at the end of december and now where we are at the end of january with the excavation. specifically, we are down to the firs...

commisioner wiener: thank you. are there any other additional public comment jurors? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, is there any final discussion around item 2? seeing none -- supervisor kim. commissioner kim: i appreciate the efforts of everyone has made to come together on the second street corridor. still unsure how this happened, the communication breakdown. i have long been concerned about pedestrian safety management, especially under multiple developments -- ...

that we cannot promise. we are working on a 60% on certain tape. if we do not know the exact answer, we are going to prepare ourselves at that point. or the planning phase, we will be moving for prop k allocation requests quickly to fund the planning stage. dpw will be contributing general fund dollars, i believe, and other fund within the budget to fully fund that. i do believe, over the course of the project, as you get into the detail of the design and construction costs, those wi...

>> welcome to the regular meeting of the government bought it and oversight committee. how want to thank the clerk of the board and the members of sfgtv. >> please be sure to silence cellular-phone and devices. atoms act upon it will appear on the february 20 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. hearing to examine the proposed community choice ever -- aggregation with shell as well as the appropriations startup costs. >> and members of the public, we will be ...