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the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor s application. you can go to the assessor s website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor s office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor s office. you might be doing things more efficient. they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask, how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map thanks for coming today. we are announcing are temporary homeowner s property tax reduction program. this is what most assessor s up and down the state are doing. homeowners are reliable of all property owners are eligible for a temporary, 1-year property-tax assessment reduction if they believe or if we believe dave the assess the value has fallen above their market value, which means that the value would be lower than the market value. in general, homeowners who are eligible, chances are, they purchased homes after 2003. we do get applicants who have owned homes since 1995 or earlier. in general, anybody who is owned their home prior to 2003, they are doing well, which is good news. chances are the market value is higher than the assessed value, meaning the property appreciate it. people we are able to offer little relief for, the sad news is, their homes have depreciated. there will be a little bit of relief for them. in general, last year, we saw 6400 applicants in comparison to four years ago when we had 248 requests. the form a simple. it is one page. name, telephone number, e-mail, and the address you are applying for. if you can give us sales in formation of similar types of homes, we do hope you can give us that. if you cannot come maternity leave blank and sign it. e-mail or fax it to us if you cannot give us that, leave it blank and sign it. e-mail or fax it was. tenderloin downtown, south of market, mission bay, and south beach. those were many of the new high- rise condominiums that went in to market the last four or five years. we have seen a significant amount of depreciation in those areas. gaviria that has seen the largest value drop is the other area that has seen the largest volume drop is the outer mission, amazon, those areas have seen the largest percentage drop. it is where we have been hit hardest with foreclosures. we make sure that we take an extra look. we proactively have been reviewing every home that was purchased after 2000. even though we think eligibility is for people up to 2003, we review any homeowner who purchased after 2000. that was roughly about 15,000 homeowners. of that, reduced no one had to apply or call us. we did this on our own. we reduced 10,000 of those homeowners. roughly, you have 10,000 reductions that we did on our own. 1700 reductions were done through this application process. 5000 time shares is how you get to the 17,000 number. just to give you a comparison, it is quite a bit in san francisco. these are huge numbers, larger than the dot com bust. alameda and santa clara did about 1000 come a tenfold. 1000, tenfold. we are doing better than our counterparts in other parts of the bay area. i feel fortunate. the tax reduction was about 21 million in taxes that were not collected. 21 million in taxes were not collected. that is a significant number. it is out of a $6.5 billion budget. overall, the difference to the city is still rather small compared to what it meant to many of the other counties in other areas. let me stop there and take questions. [inaudible] 6462. of those, we actually reviewed only 4177. many of those were already reviewed. we have actively reviewed them. some of them were not eligible. [inaudible] anybody who has gotten a reduction, they don t need to apply. we will look at it again. if you have gotten a reduction through an appeal or through our office, they don t need to apply again. they will be reviewed. they may want to apply because maybe they want to give us information we don t know. they are free to do that. that will be reviewed as part of that process. in general, they don t need to submit paperwork if they already got a reduction last year. [inaudible] well, i think because it is just flat, the market has not rebounded and gone up. we will probably see the same number of people deserve reductions last year. i think it will be comparable. traditionally, an economic recovery is like a v. this is more like a u. we re at the bottom of it right now. my feeling is we are going to see, you know, a very unusual real-estate market in san francisco. it will be flat and not appreciate a whole lot right now. the number people who are eligible is probably similar to last year. i bet we will give about the same number of reductions this year as we did last year. it will not be that much different. [inaudible] anybody that was reviewed everybody in san francisco got a letter from us in july. they were told what their assessed value was. there were told that they got a reduction. if they got a reduction based on the letter, they don t need to reapply. what people do is we will review applicants. the deadline is march 31. all 17,000 who got reductions will be reviewed automatically. everyone will get notified again in july. we will not talk to anybody prior to that. everyone else will be getting the standard notification in july. [inaudible] you review these every year. every year. the reductions we review every year. as the market appreciates, we may take their assessments up based on what the market value is. they may go all the way back up to the factor value. it may go up partially higher. obviously, that is what he would see. you would see a step over the years to include the appreciation based on what the market is feeling. right now, we are not seeing a whole lot of appreciation. chances are, the assessment will be a little bit different than last year. the original purchase applies plus whatever the inflation factor was on an annual basis. in general, up to 2%. we had a negative inflation factor for the first time last year. everybody got a reduction last year. [inaudible] this year, cpi based on the final number we saw, is. 5% positive. it is still well below 2%. is .5% positive. it is still well below 2%. the economy is still rather flat. [inaudible] everybody who does not get a reduction will get a .5% increase in their assessment. that is just a proximate. it will probably be pretty close to that. we can show you the website. we follow the same website. it is the state cpi. it is a tracking mechanism for the state. [inaudible] i think there will vote to finalize in the next month or two. i think the number is done. overall, when all is said and done, what is the amount that you re going to receive [inaudible] for reductions, it will really just depend on how much your property might have depreciated or appreciate id. some areas where maybe there was a 5% or 3%, the good news in san francisco, we have not seen a few drops we saw in other parts of the bay area, like solano, or properties dropped 50%. you don t want that. you want your property to appreciate. that is the goal. it might be $50, $100, maybe a few hundred dollars. it and will not be anything huge it will not be anything huge. [inaudible] over last year, it was a $21 million difference. because of the temporary reductions in homeowners values, there was $21 million that was not collected by the county. let s put that in context of the $6.5 billion budget. [inaudible] the total property tax collected is about $2 billion. overall, we are doing quite well. [inaudible] overall, property-tax as have done extremely well the last five, 10 years. we have seen huge increases overall. [inaudible] no idea. if i did, i should be in las vegas placing a bet, or should be in new york making more money than i am here. the controller s office is probably tracking it more than us. we don t know. we have seen we have seen several governments pumped $1 trillion into the economy. it is a huge amount of money. we have seen some improvements, but not the ones they were hoping for. great. ok. thanks, everybody. i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal to you have something you want to get rid of? why throw it away when you can reuse it? it can be filtered out and used for other products. [speaking spanish] it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. supervisor kim: welcome to the rules committee. the clerk is linda wong. we would also like to thank the staff who record our meetings and make the transcripts available online at sfgov.org. the items are recommended will go to the full board on tuesday, february 15 unless otherwise indicated. supervisor kim: call item 1. to increase the compensation for the members of the board of education to 50,000 a year. establishing professional development requirements and require the city to appropriate an amount sufficient to pay the salaries and benefits. supervisor kim: will there be a presentation between the first draft and the second? no? should we open up for discussion? any comments? i would like to open it up for public comment. supervisor dufty: a love, former colleagues. hello, former colleagues. from the time i originally introduced this measure, we got feedback from educational leaders and organizations. it would reduce the compensation to $25,000 and not look to have a qualified for pension. the purpose is that we can compensate and recognize them work of the members of the board of education. several members of the board have been compensated $6,000 a year or $5 a month since 1983. in my opinion, they spend at least half or 3/4 of their time attending to duties and responsibilities of overseeing the public education system that will soon be serving 50,000 students. their involvement in meetings, phone calls, contact with parents, and school visits, working on policy papers and other briefing materials and elsewhere to provide educational leadership in a time of great crisis. i want to indicate that i have a couple of letters of support from current school board members that i believe have been shared with you. i am pleased that the person that leaves leads indicates his support. dear supervisors, it is not unusual for a union president to comment on the pay of his members losses. but the charter amendment compels me to do so. i remember when the position you currently serve and was essentially an unpaid. serve in was essentially unpaid. likewise, the board of education is entrusted with the most precious of all commodities, our children and our future. they do their work for $500 a month and for the most part, without staff. now there is an opportunity to see the baseline of competition for members of the board of education. he has proposed a reasonable approach to solving the problem. i urge you to support the measure when it goes to the voters. supervisor kim: thank you. any other public comment? for the sake of the minutes, can you say if you are in support or in opposition to the charter amendment. the support is 50,000? supervisor kim: it has been amended to 25,000. i thought it was amended. walter paulson. clock strikes upon the hour as the bell begins to ring they want to thank you for this $25,000 that you bring and in the winter, spring, and fall, they want to thank you for awhile it all the field to help you give so much they feel the help you give so much supervisor kim: thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. it is hard to say whether i am for or against without seeing the second draft. what i sought in the first draft, there was language about the board of supervisors from july of 2000 being put into the san francisco retirement system. it is not clear to me what the relevance of that language is regarding compensating school board officials. if the city is going to fund the salaries, they should take more control of the school board. finally, let me say this. if the school district is cutting 50% of the school buses this year, it will be difficult to pass this proposed charter amendment. you ought to think really seriously before putting this on the ballot, which will be an additional expense for the city. supervisor kim: is there any other public comment at this time? if you are speaking for public comment, light up now. line up now. i am in support of the amendment. i can speak firsthand just as an observer, the fact that it should really be recognized to give some money for i think a lot of what i would be repeating, if she is not at a point i was thinking of giving a copy of the google calendar for this month. it is kind of stressful on the family. i go to sleep before her in the evening, and she is off every day if not during a school touring a school, trying to help some parent out. she worked over 40 hours a week and is incredibly dedicated. it should be recognized on a micro scale. she is marketable in other areas, and it is hurting us