good afternoon. welcome to our regular rules committee meeting for thursday, february 7th, 2013. i am supervisor norman yee, and i will be chairing this meeting. to my immediate left is supervisor cohen. and to my immediate right is supervisor breed. and i also wanted to acknowledge the two people that will be staffing the sfgtv, nona mcconian and jesse larson. the committee would also like to madam clerk, and also today s clerk is linda wong. madam clerk, are there any announcements? yes, mr. chair. please make sure to turn off all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and copies to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the february 26 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you. can you please call item number 1? item number 1, motion approving the mayor s nomination for reappointment of diane matsuda to the historic preservation commission, for a term ending december
commissioner cohen. i live in your district, live right up there on the hill in bayview hunters point. i am a former leather neck myself, and i have two issues that i d like to raise. the first one is i think that san francisco, the entire united states can do more for veterans. and one good example i saw of that was wal-mart saying that they would hire any veterans that come out of the service now and that s the best thing i ve heard in the 33 years that i ve been out of the marine corps. but i d like to see employment programs, particularly those that are funded by the city to do more in terms of hiring veterans, and not just your recent veterans from iraq and afghanistan. but veterans period because when i came here in 1981, i was a homeless veteran for a short period of time. but i did get a chance to go to work. and i feel as though since i served the military active duty, honorably discharged, i shouldn t have to go [speaker not understood]. i should have been able to g
further going forward to $120,000. at this point i am not going to recommend that we any lower than we are now. we had a work order with the city attorney for the last five years and the utilization has fluctuated over the last five years and that has depended on a lot of factors and it has to do with the caseload and the volume of the cases and the length of board meetings and the hours that the city attorney has to sit with us and the complexity and uniqueness of the cases and the number of new board members that come on and increase of on boarding those members and also changes in the deputies that we see. so, it seems to me that given the billing that we have seen so far this year, that leaving at $130,000 should cover us appropriately going forward. it depends on the deputy. is it not appropriate. i don t actually have it in my head. but i would be happy to send it to you. honestly, i look at the bills very carefully but i don t remember the billable rate for the
meeting. supervisor yee is new in this chairmanship so we re still working out the kinks over here. can you tell us a little slack here. see, mr. gibbs, how are you? i m good. good, thank you for your service as well. can you tell me how long you served on the commission? prior? probably 15 years. you served on the veteran affairs commission. what capacity were you serving? as president for two years, otherwise i was commissioner. um-hm. and what were the circumstances that lead you to leave the commission? you said i moved to europe. okay. yeah. and you came back and you re looking to volunteer some more time, right? yeah, yeah. i thought it s a position i could be in, have a voice in, yes. 15 years is a long time. that s very impressive. can you point to some successes or some of the things or projects that you worked on while you were on the commission? for me, successes right now, i think the commission is strong right now than it s ever been.
good afternoon. welcome to our regular rules committee meeting for thursday, february 7th, 2013. i am supervisor norman yee, and i will be chairing this meeting. to my immediate left is supervisor cohen. and to my immediate right is supervisor breed. and i also wanted to acknowledge the two people that will be staffing the sfgtv, nona mcconian and jesse larson. the committee would also like to madam clerk, and also today s clerk is linda wong. madam clerk, are there any announcements? yes, mr. chair. please make sure to turn off all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and copies to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the february 26 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you. can you please call item number 1? item number 1, motion approving the mayor s nomination for reappointment of diane matsuda to the historic preservation commission, for a term ending december 31