welcome to our regular rules committee meeting for thursday, march 21st, 2013. i am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. to my left is supervisor malia cohen and to my right is supervisor london breed. the clerk today is linda wong. and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, nona and craig burk will be doing the recording of each of these of this meeting and make the transcript available to the public online. madam clerk, are there any announcements? yes, mr. chair. please make sure to turn off all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 2nd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. okay, good. if committee members don t mind, i d like to take item 4 out of order as the first item. can you please call item number 4? item number 4 is hearing to consider appo