campaign. her greatest asset, according to many famous friends, was her personality. she was short, no more than 5 feet tall, but exerted a subtle dynamism that drew people to her. she had an eccentric eye when it came to fashion, furniture, and art, and web hosting dinners and other gatherings, she would mix things up, bring the aristocracy, tattoo artist, and boutique clerks to the same table. she truly was a one-of-a-kind and for many of us who have paid attention to san francisco, history over the last 100 years, she was a huge part of it. she was close friends with my grandfather, and she will be sorely missed. i would like to give my condolences to his two sons -- to her two sons, her two stepsons, her 10 grandchildren, and her two great-grandchildren. those conclude my remarks. >> thank you. mr. president, unless i have missed someone -- pardon me, you would like to be re-referred. supervisor chiu: i had a number of items today. i would like to echo the sentiments of our colleagues for the cunny family. our hearts go out. i also have an in memoriam for a resident from my district, who passed away also from a horrible tragedy last week. she was a dream of a woman. well loved by everyone and knew many of us within the community, and our hearts go out to her family as well. i have two items related to technology today. first of all, i have a hearing request on the status of the implementation of the justice project, which as everyone knows, was a project that was supposed to help consolidate our city's criminal-justice data. this was a product that began in 1997 with a budget of less than $1 million. 13 years later, $22 million later, the project does not have an end date. has been subject of numerous studies and reports. we need to get this done. the last time we look at this was a number of months ago when we were told that the mayor's office and criminal justice would provide us with an update. has been many months since we received that update, and i would like to ask for the status of where the project is. i have a resolution i am introducing that calls on san francisco to join with 31 other california counties in supporting the work of the california emerging technology fund, which is setting a goal statewide of an 80% broadband internet access rate for all californians by 2015 and embraces a goal of the broadband internet access rate of 90% by that same date with a focus on connecting seniors and low- income households throughout our communities. the resolution also requests that the department of technology report back on strategic actions that are planned to help remove barriers to the deployment and adoption of broadband. the final item i have is a motion that directs the clerk of the board of supervisors to propose a process for the nomination and selection of a successor mayor. obviously, with last week's election, the city charter states that when there is a vacancy that occurs in that office, the significant responsibility of determining the success rests on us here at the board of supervisors. at the request of the clerk of the board, introducing a motion that was drafted by our outside counsel to direct the clerk to propose a process by which we select an interim nature. the goal that i think we all share is to create a fair and transparent process. i think the goal is we do everything we can to ensure the orderly and smooth transition during these unprecedented times. this motion directs the court, which is an unbiased office, to propose the process. numerous questions have been raised about specific details around nominations and conflicts of interest, and i would propose that is irresponsibility that our clerk helps us move forward with. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chiu: what we look to general public comment? >> the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address the board of items within the jurisdiction of the board, including those items on the adoption without committee reference portion and excluding those items that have already been considered. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. supervisor chiu: each speaker shall have up to two minutes unless you are translating in a different language in which case he will have equal time for that other language -- you will have equal time for the other language. >> [speaking foreign language] mr. president, david chiu, our supervisor, i am here to ask our president -- are you strong enough to present to me and my city [inaudible] mr. david chiu, do not worry. i will be beside you. i do not blame you for my health problems. i am going to give your office help. you can come to me any time you want. i wish you could work together. a lot of people in the city, including myself, i do not like what it is to cut the budget, here, there, school, whatever, but [inaudible] finally, for the lovely day he makes for us, and he makes me happy like many million people for the day he makes with the giants. i'm here to tell you thank you very much for making me and millions of people happy all over for what you did with our team becoming the best team in the world. thank you, god, and thank you, mr. mayor. mr. president, do not worry -- we will be behind you, and we need to see you in room 200. god bless all of you guys. supervisor chiu: next speaker please. >> thank you, supervisor. stop the corporate rate of the public library -- library -- the corporate rape of the public library. operations use the public library to raise private money. it is important to recognize how little they pay for their privileges and lack of oversight. this private group has filed its financial report with the california attorney general that was due last november. the filing with the city shows that in the current year, this private group's expenditures for all purposes benefiting the library was $373,000, down more than 25% from the previous year of 498,000. have corporate fund-raisers encountered hard times? not a chance. the salary of the executive director is up 18% from $179,000 last year to $212,000 this year. last year, the foundation reported the salaries of their top seven employees, who made $189,000 were in average of $127,000 each. this year, they reported the salaries of their top four employees, who made $653,000, or an average of $163,000 each. yes, all of them got a raise. what happened to total expenditures? yes, annual expenditures dropped 10%. the good news, if you want to call it good news, is that the donation to the library now represents 6.5% of annual expenditures. the trouble with this donation is that it represents only 57% of those top for your employees and 176%, less than double, of white the executive director makes -- of what the executive director makes alone. yet, we are supposed to have gratitude sufficient to destroy democratic institutions? in fact, the why is cost more than the money. thank you very much. -- in fact, the lies cost more than the money. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. walter paulson. ♪ so governor-elect california is a place i love and here i will stay and i know the budget has been a bad thing but you will make it better they will stop there crying and make the birds sing so, let governor jerry across of mercy because the state california is a place i love and here i will stay i will stay and i know the budget lately has been a bad thing but they will stop there crying -- their crying you will make the birds sing jerry is coming he knows what you are going through standing here looking at you ♪ sfgtv, for the picture ♪ standing here looking at you don't you know the budget made me feel so bad it made me feel so sad it made me feel kind of glad to see jerry again >> good afternoon. board of supervisors. my name is iai and i'm with the student council of the city college of san francisco. i would like to thank supervisor mar who introduced the resolution of steve li and president chiu, supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor avalos for co-sponsoring item number 34. as a student who graduated who has -- to be a nurse. and by serving back to the community after his graduation as a nurse. so what's the point of being -- going back to peru where his family cannot take care of him anymore and he cannot be together with his family? so i would like to ask that the board of supervisors pass the resolution, item 34, to bring steve li back home with us, with the community, to give him a