>> i am 22 years old, a member of the queer youth community. i go to the hospital there whenever i needed. i also work at the lgbt center. i also think it is an opportunity for people to feel safe in their community. my question is, i distinctly remember not being able to go inside. why is it open to the san

francisco unified school district high-school? what was done differently? >> un to the recreation center and there is a wrestling team using the space at the moment? >> it was closed to people like myself. i am wondering what was done differently. >> i am not sure i know enough about the specifics about that particular day. >> it was not a particular day. >> let me repeat where we are at the moment.

we are firmly committed to a youth space. we don't support an unstructured for unsupervised where there is no supervision. what we want to bring to the space is a healthy, safe, fun program. some of the programs that i think are being offered include crotty, dance, spoken word. there is a dodge ball and street hockey program going on in the space. >> again, our recreational programming really does want community employment and to deliver the programs that they

see in that space. [applause] >> we're running short on time, becausso i will ask you to be as concise as possible. >> thank you for picking up the pieces for the rest of the year. you have a tough job, and i am sure time will not permit you to do all the things that we are asking you to do. we're very proud and we're very pleased that the supervisors gave you this. i have lived in the city for 50 years. i've retired from the university of california at san francisco. one of the big concerns i have is that there is no respect for

seniors. i am a senior now and i have to use a cane. the streets have drivers with bicyclist and skateboarders. the sidewalks are not safe for seniors or children. we can't work collaborative lead to bring some respect for each other? the design of the city streets with the bicyclist have been crazy. it is crazy. there is no respect for the drivers. i have a vehicle and i can't ride a bike throughout the city anymore. bicyclist take up the whole street. it is not safe for seniors or children. we need to change the plans of the city.

also, i want to mention that it would be good to make in the whole mission historical district has was the western addition. we need to develop those and to save our history. i have been doing that for the last 10 years. we need to preserve our past. we can't forget it. if we depend on bureaucrats, it will never happen. >> this is for you. city pools, all but one are closed on sundays. and of his open on sunday, and there doesn't seem to be much of a community outreach to get

people in for swimming. the pool would be packed as well as garfield, and i am hoping that you will rethink your hours of operations for the pools. sunday is the only day that people can get together as a family in it. >> the question wreaks of too much common sense. we would keep all of our pools and are recreational facilities open seven days a week if we had the resources to do it. we have to make some tough choices. one daily, the pools have to be closed for maintenance. we have come leaps and bounds in

our aquatics programming. we have a new manager in charge of aquatics that comes from the city of oakland and has some excellent experience. the suggestion is a good one, to rotate the days off so that more are open during the weekends. we're also aware of a desire for families and kids that have family pool time. our tools are very heavily used between labs swimmers, recreational swimmers, and the swim leagues. we're working this budget season with our aquatics staff on some changes that we think are likely to result in increased access and increased hours. in to sort of more of the ideas that the gentleman was talking about.

so stay tuned. >> right now, i just found out that we have problems in the building. we have no funds, we have no generator. we have issues and budget cuts. we need your help to rebuild the building. it is awful. i want you to help all of us get our building and then. in case there is an earthquake, how to the building people -- we need your help.

we have 130, and in the air. that is why i came here. i just came from our meeting. go tell them that we need funds for our building. >> i submitted a card, but i don't know if you will get to it. i wanted to express my gratitude for the support of the memphis model for crisis intervention training. i am on that committee to formulate the training. i have just spent told that the major cuts are now coming from behavioral health. there was a loss of 22,500 business.

we could have the best training for the police in the world, but if there are no services, how are you going to prevent tragedies and, says and everything else? it is just unacceptable, and it happens in good times and bad. [applause] >> if people could be as concise as possible so we can get through as many people as possible, we don't have to leave people waiting. >> i was an outreach worker route substance abuse issues for

three years before i lost my city funded job last year. i want to let you know that i still have people call and ask me to check in on other young people that are not doing well. they will check in with other young people. it has really affected young people in this neighborhood. i hear you're concerned about wanting to have a safe and secure home-place. it doesn't explain why it has been so hard to receiver apply from your department. if we can generate a good faith effort to make sure that this remains open to homeless in the transitional period and

continue to need access to that space. i am concerned that the new recreation model is not actually going to be accessible. i was as concerned that the time as i am out that there are not things for young people in this neighborhood. a number of people have some pretty good ideas about how we can actually continue to see that your needs for revenue armets and that we have a space where there is a safety, community agreement, and young people are taking responsibility. and to make sure it is open for those that can't show up at a specific time every week. i would really like to hear a commitment from you to sit down with people to use that space

and to generate registration policies that he had used at that space belongs to. [applause] >> we have been trying to get them to provide better security and a long-term solution. and we were promised lighting in february of 2010. and the last the herd, there was not any money for it. but they spend a greater amount of money fixing a tree. what was the thinking behind the choice of that security?

gosh where were of the challenges of the areas under the portion of market street and around grand view. the money spent on montgomery street home by telegraph hill was to repair a street, it was not in a safe condition. we did work with members of the committee to identify ways that we can better address the area. i know i have seen the drawings for lighting and fencing. we don't have the funds available to do the kind of work. we're doing our best to address graffiti and illegal dumping. we tried to intervene there as well. it is one of many challenging areas around the city where we have recurring problems.

>> we are past time, so we're going to take three more questions. if you have a question that has already been covered, as someone afterwards. >> i moved here from chicago in 1977. lived in this beautiful community the has been richer than any house i might have done. i eventually had a career in the mainframe and hai lived there 27

years. i was forced to move into much more humble circumstances. this is happening all around me. i have friends with modest jobs , others who are on disability that are barely surviving. on their rental housing is going to be privatized. we are surrounded on water -- surrounded by water of all three sides. what we have is being turned into condos and forcibly displacing people of modest means. it is almost like class warfare. for people to be able to get caught bill permits unlimited

numbers, all of the rental housing, and the justice of it. i love you like to be able to celebrate those caught the conversions. i would like to let you know what effect that has on people, and there is a reason why there is opposition to that. [applause] >> i appreciate that. in terms of right now, there are a large number of owners that are in the lottery and the length of time under the 200 unit cap has become longer and longer. we have owner occupied buildings that are struggling with their financing. i support providing relief to

those people, but it should only apply to owner occupied buildings where there has not been an eviction history. about four years ago, the board of supervisors passed an ordinance that would greatly restrict or ban, the conversion when there has been evictions in the building. just being clear about what my position is. >> i have a quick question about commercial vacancies. can you talk a little bit about what you think the outlook is? dodge the question was about vacancies on market street and

whether restrictions on chain stores are part of that. we are starting to see some of them get filled, and i think it will continue. in terms of the restrictions, i support the current restrictions that allow the storage ago and only if you get a conditional use permit from the planning commission meeting that the committee has a say. there have been some that i have supported. it will be a case by case a situation. you can ask me or anyone else in question. but we are past the end time. >> i am a victim of foreclosure where a company forged a loner that i paid off and has successfully gone to the

foreclosure process. a question is, how are you going to stop this? what are you doing to prevent this from happening enforcing it? the other question is for the police chief. they have proceeded either steal or sell my belongings. the police say they are doing [inaudible] >> in the restructuring of the office, we're looking at a mortgage fraud and inappropriate conduct by lenders. before we leave today, i will talk to you and take a look your case at. for the larger audience, if you

are where they want as being foreclosed and you believe there are inappropriate lending practices, we have created a unit to deal with mortgage fraud and want to get those cases so we can look at them. i would like to get your information before we leave today. >> give me your name and number and we will look into it. before you leave, and give me your name and number. >> everyone, i want to thank you for coming tonight. i wanted to thank all of the city officials for being here tonight as well. thank you. [applause]

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>> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities that it is behind the sphere of dominant gay and lesbian culture. the curator fills us in on the process of creating this thoughtful exhibition. and what she would like you to take away from it. >> i co-cureated with danny, a chicago-based writer and

curator. the conceptual framework is what it means to be clear and radical for our generation. clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities, not necessarily related to institutions of gender and swam formativity. danny and i wanted the show to feel funky and to have a really tangible quality to it. so part of that was incorporated handmade objects and installations and beautifully printed photographs and videos. there is also a lot of opportunities to participate and to take postcards or to get the photo taken or sit within a tent made out of afghan blankets to watch videos. the exhibition is organized in

three distinct galleries. in gallery one, which is the gallery designated to clear activism, there is an installation by the oakland-based collaboration and it's called "unleashed power." it's all focused on one protest that happened in chicago in 1991 with the activist organization act up, which was protesting the inadequate health care for people living in aids, and specifically it focuses on an act of police violence that occurred at that protest. the thing that is really interesting for me about that piece is that it brings us back 20 years to what clear activism looked like at the height of the aids crisis. gallery two features work that is related to intentionally communities that exist both within cities, also in rural

spaces, and transient communities as well. the return features a no madic clear tribe, the people who join this tribe are often in various states of transition themselves, whether it's leaving behind previous gender assignments or corporate jobs or a life within cities. a lot of the work featured in the exhibition and a lot of the installations are handmade objects. there is a lot of do-it-yourself aesthetic and that handmade do-it-yourself feeling is something that mimics the idea and the reality of the alternative world making that we're trying to represent here as far as the self-sufficient community goes. gallery three features work that relates to the ideas of

self-determinenism, alternative world making and utopia. visits can still participate in this -- visitors can still participate in this project. during the opening, we invite visitors to come in and try on these costumes, pose in front of the backdrop. he was really inspired by comic books that he read as growing up and thinks of this space as a post-apocalyptic monster portrait gallery where people can remain genderless once they put on the costumes. we think it's important that this be happening in san francisco, which is considered an ekpe center of the queer actual cure. the majority of the queer cultural events happen in june which has been designated as