supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. the other big shock is that the moderates seem to have won this round. people thought, progressives have themselves on the board. there is no reason that they will not get together and take a noted leader who is a progressive to be interim mayor, and then stayed there for another term. the great thing about being in ter
new term. item 3 is a motion to ratify the appointment of a successor mayor due to the occurrence of a vacancy in the offense of a mayor expiring january 8, 2012. i am hoping for is, as we look forward to the confirmation of mr. lee, that we will also, leaving behind the kind of tactics that were used last week, that i thought really made the process feel more clumsy than it should have been. this is ed lee s day. i have said a lot about my perspective of this man who comes from the community, who is rooted in our community, who has a tremendous breath and death of city experience. colleagues, at this time, i hope and ask that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. supervisor campos? president to? supervisor chu? supervisor colon? supervisor elsbernd? there are 11 ayes. the motion is approved a [applause] . colleagues, i am going to move that we recessed the meeting and we conduct the swearing in ceremony of the new mayor in the rotunda of city hall. [
just to pray or attend one of our dinners. it is to a point where many of the members don t want to come to our center. they go to santa clara, fremont, or elsewhere. they say they don t want to be spied upon. you have to do something to increase the trust between the community and the san francisco police department. also, what i am really upset about is while this hearing is going on, why is the fbi not present? as a coordinator, i go to many commissions. i have gone to the entertainment commission hearing were the fbi serves no purpose. they were there. maybe we should have free food next time. please, they should be here. this is something that relates to them. the entertainment commission has nothing to do with them. they should be here discussing with you. if we are wrong, they should address that in front of us. thank you very much. [applause] good evening. i am an iranian american attorney. i came to this country about 16 years ago to go to college. until the point,
these are added allegations, but they are not complaints. many of them should be brought to the attention of the commanding officer of the station said they can deal with it appropriately. president mazzucco: any further public comment? i will announcing that how this will be taken off calendar because they had a death in the family. move to line item #6. public comment on all items pertaining to #8 below including public comment on whether to hold a closed session. we are going to move into closed session. these are disciplinary matters and confidential and privileged. it is the california supreme court decision and the bill of rights. we move into closed session to handle these matters. any public comment regarding the closed session? next item. a vote on whether to hold closed session. seconds. president mazzucco: we president mazzucco: ok, we are back. secretary falvey: we are about to open session, and we have the same forum members. president mazzucco: i no. 9.
hi. how are you? so nice to see you. that looks like a great play yard. i know you re anxious to get out there and take part in all of the findings today. i wanted to introduce myself. my name is cates kate. i am a commentator for the golf channel and i really want to welcome the over 300 students to our golf and leadership party here. [applause] can we did but cheer from the students from lafayette school? [cheering] how about a cheer from monroe elementary school? let s hear it for sheridan. [cheering] and a big hello from the students of jefferson elementary. wow. you guys have a lot of energy today. glad to not be in school, right? i know i liked to take a day off from school. we are thrilled to have familiar faces on hand for the celebration, which is the culmination of an effort by pacific gas and electric and the unified school district to teach leadership and call skills to students in golf skills in 21 different san francisco elementary schools. that is a wonderf