[gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for the city and county of San Francisco home of the National League champions San Francisco giants. It is tuesday october 23, 2012. Madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Present. Supervisor. Go giants. Supervisor cohen. Cohen present. Supervisor elsbernd. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor olague. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. And mr. President supervisor chiu is not in the chamber. Thank you. Given that supervisor chu just got married we will excuse her this week and will be excused and will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge one and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Colleagues we have board minutes from the meetings. Could i have a motion on approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Without objection that will be approved. Madam cl
Supervisor. Go giants. Supervisor cohen. Cohen present. Supervisor elsbernd. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor olague. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. And mr. President supervisor chiu is not in the chamber. Thank you. Given that supervisor chu just got married we will excuse her this week and will be excused and will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge one and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Colleagues we have board minutes from the meetings. Could i have a motion on approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Without objection that will be approved. Madam clerk do we have any communications . There are no communications mr. President. If you could read items one through six. These item are from the Consent Agenda and if want to called separately we. Colleagues any separate . calling roll . There are ten ayes. Those ordinanc
Summarizing the two action items before you today. In the first item we are seeking your approval for the release of 34. 9 million that is currently on reserve with this committee. And 27 million from Program Reserve to six projects. In a previous appropriation board put on reserve funding for Program Management that was after june of this year. Now we have reached and are past june we need these funds in order to complete the program and shown on this slide are some of the Program Management services that are being covered by that funding. In late 2011 the board of supervisors approved the creation of a wsip Program Management reserve, where we could set aside some of the savings at the project level. We had initial balance in that reserve of 144. 5 million. That was put on reserve with this committee. Recently our Commission Approved the increase in budget for six projects, as shown here on this slide. What we are doing today is seeking your approval for reallocating a total of 27. 4
Certain things. And then, they have to go to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and fight for those rights under the sunshine ordinance. Then to get enforcement, they have to have it referred to you and you simply allow mr. St. Croix to dismiss them all. And you wonder why i am a little ticked. I have four things on the 150 word summaries that i mentioned before that have all been approved by the Sunshine Ordinance Task force, and mr. St. Croix spent 134 pages dismissing against you so that you would not have the guts to hear it. The discuss on items for future meetings . On the executive directors report, the list of the whistle blower complaints, is this something that we used to have that and we have taken it off . It goes into the confidential report, dont we . We do. We get those in the confidential listing. I will see what we can add back on again. Okay. Public comment on number 8 . Could i ask you to repeat what you said about the whistle blower complaints . Will they be in or no
Lynn and the director of the grant frs the San Francisco Arts Commission but its also unveiling a new piece by john chang and one key piece will be a portrait where i am narrating part of it and a chance to work with the jazz and improv community and also that support the cultural equity in the neighborhoods and i will narrate a key piece with that. Thank you. Thank you supervisor. Supervisor avalos. Thank you. Colleague i want to recognize two that have passed in the nation and George Mcgovern and my first election then when i was paying attention to anything and his significance under the campaign in the country gave a lot of strength to millions of people in this country that still last today although people dont always see the results we expect. I want to mention the passing of Russell Means and from the American Indian movement and from the bay area and his contributions to the United States is significant and the 60s and two individuals who have made a great difference in our nat