should take this moment in time and thank in person for their contributions to the city. and i think we have this year's winner epitomizes the kind of person that we should take the time to acknowledge and to go further into that i'd like to actually take a moment and invite now our supervisor district 8 malia cohen who would like to share her opening thoughts on this award. (applause) >> can i just tell you how good it feels to be up here, to look out to see all the people that make everything possible, that really makes san francisco wonderful? and i just have got to give a special shout out. you knew i grew up in the portola for those that don't know. [cheering and applauding] >> right there at the intersection of silly man and colby, my parents still live there. that's where it started for me. but tonight is a night that we have abopportunity * to up lift and support and say thank you to all the people that

certainly provide me support and provide me the motivation to get up and come to work every single day. this is an opportunity to thank and praise the people that call me stop, that e-mail me, find me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. i tell you, this is your day. put your hands together. hang in there, we're almost done. but this is the day that we get to celebrate -- (applause) >> i'm calling it the nen-ers. you know what's interesting? i've been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. so, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. thank you, daniel. (applause) >> also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon,

mayor's office neighborhood services over there in that corner. (applause) >> and for those of you that don't know, i represent district 10, that's the southeast neighborhoods. that's bayview, that's potrero hill, visitacion valley, it's a little hollywood, it's dogpatch. it used to be the portola, half of it. my heart is still with you, but i'm glad like the speaker said, it is whole. and that is what's important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. you agree? [cheering and applauding] cheers >> so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. and it actually started, ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. and it's the thought child and the physical manifestation of

hard work, of a few community leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. and tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the co-founders, his name is jeffery betcher. where are you? get up here. and jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. annette young smith to the stage. this lady, ladies and gentlemen, is a lifetime achievement award winner. please, please welcome her to the stage. (applause) >> i can't think of a more deserving woman. thank you. come on in. jeffery, i love you. >> i love you, too. >> hello, neighbors. good evening.

you know, first i have to say that i "heart" the portola, i really do. [laughter] >> this is an amazing win frankly for the whole southeast sector, from progress park down, and it's a wonderful night. great to be here with all of you. my name is jeffery betcher. i am the executive director of the organization that emerged 10 years ago from annette young smith and carl page's work on the block where i live. annette lived across the street from me and started planting flowers here or there around the block. and that changed everything mysteriously. and we figured out over time what it was that really created the change, and it wasn't the garden. it wasn't the plants. it was that annette was unafraid to cross the street and give a hug to someone she didn't know, who was radically different from her, and she

started to build a personal relationships that have become cusada gardens and now a network of people and places and projects that are really shaping the culture and life in bayview hunters point. it was -- it's been the distinct pleasure of my life, frankly, to careful where you move, it can change everything. but if you're going to move to a new place, annette young smith is the neighbor that you would pray to have. and i can tell you that she has been a terrific friend and mentor, too. she is still the chair of the board of the cusada gardens. we know it's quesada. [laughter] >> she is still the board. she is still very much at the heart and soul of everything we do. she is our spiritual mentor, and we love her. we truly, truly adore this woman.

and i'd like to introduce her to you and i think you'll understand why. congratulations, annette young smith. (applause) >> first of all, i thank god for being here and i thank god for all of you being here. >> amen. >> and i'd like to thank jeffery for nominating me and i accept the award. thank you. that's all. [laughter] (applause) ♪ ♪

(applause) >> what a fantastic way to end this evening. a standing o. that's fantastic. (applause) >> and a woman who obviously practices actions speak louder than words we need here in city hall. without further a do, we conclude this year's nen awards. i want to acknowledge my partner michael pollack back there. (applause) >> not only does he make me look old and fat, but he's an incredibly talented young man. these amazing videos, we'll get all this up on the web for you to share with your friends in the years to come. look forward to future announcements. with that i'd like to conclude the fifth annual nen awards. we'll see you next year. and now we invite you to join us in north light park for a fantastic of food and wine for

you to enjoy. thank you all very much. ♪ ♪ ♪

test, test, test, test, test, test, test >> good morning, everyone welcome to the board of supervisors budget and finance meeting for wednesday, june 9th. i'm mark farrell i'll be joined by erick and scott wiener. i'd like to thank the members of the sftv covering this. any announcements >> yes, please silence any

electronic devises and items acted upon today will be on the next announced u agenda. >> please call numbers 1 and 2 together. >> for all official attorneys for 2013 and fourteen arrest item two the small business exchange for the city and county - for the african-american and chooipz communities hair reported to be the newspapers for the lesbian and gay community. and the neighborhood outreach newspaper for the city and county north side tomatoes be the outreach newspaper for the northern neighborhoods and westport monthly to be for the

west part of the neighborhood for the fiscal years 2013 and a fourteen >> i believe we have someone to speak on items one and two. good morning supervision. i'm here today to request your recommendation and approval of a resolution first designating the examiner as the fiscal year newspaper. the contract term is from july 1st to june thirty 20014. it's based on on the expenditures for of which 48 thousand is for the clerk of the border. the examiner has the highest

point out 0 score. i'd like to give a little bit of the summarize of the process. we invite bids the codes specify certain requirements newspapers must need and the point out by which bids are scored. the

. the purposeer received two bids the evaluations were made the chronicle does not meet the administration requirements and the chronicle scored 2.2 points and the examiner met all the requirement and had the highest

points total scoring 34.2 points. additionally there were no changes in the bid prices from last year to this year. in conclusion the draft has been made and examiner is the highest point score who is responsive to the requirement you, however, the board of supervisors has the option to exercise it's discretion to spent the examiner or if the board so chooses to split the contract between the newspapers. i'll be glad to respond to your questions and a colleagues any questions at this point in time? okay. anything else you want to add >>

the process mirrors the one for the official newspapers and the purposeer is to conduct bids and it sets the criteria and the

point evaluation scores. the purchase has made its recommendations to the board based on the highest point totals. and again, the administrative code goes on to say therefrom the board shall choose and spicket the period of time cancels for the fiscal year. the board in past years has decided to speth more than one periodic article and has split the contracts between most if not all who responded to the bids. now for the bid results. the purifyer he received 12

bids. the evaluation was made. summarizing the results 5 biders were responsive in meeting their requirements and has historically been purchasing requirements only to have the birders who were responsive and they were the small business exchange for the african-american chinese community and the bay reporter for the lgb community and there were no redondo beach bids for the chinese community. in the neighborhood community we're recommending north side publications and central city extra and west protocol monthly for west protocol.

the bid from the other biders such as published weekly. the purchaser has placed the highest point score. the board has the option to spent the recommended periodicals arrest last year the board did award to all of those who submitted bids whether or not they were that responsive. the prices that were submitted are in line most of them are the same as last year with some minor increases. if the board choose to follow the past practice and award to

all of the periodicals who submitted bids then the board would consider adding the following. the san francisco bay view for the african-american community and the daily for the chinese community and for the hispanic community and in the nandz side western addition and the view. and i'm here to respond if you have questions >> colleagues any questions at this time. thank you chair you farrell there are there's a periodical in the san francisco the imperial lighted they're not mentioned here >> they did not submit a bid. i can check

>> thank you. and then just looking at the list of

the same. i think it would be important to have a spanish paper as well. so i would be open to including the non responsive biders as well >> supervisor bred. >> i just wanted to make a comment bye because i noticed that some minority you papers had not been on the contract and i wanted to know why. they said the fact that i guess the reporting requirements or the ability to receive payment was somewhat challenging. and so they just choose not to participate. i was wondering do you have a

process that would work to allow smaller newspapers that actually have is a board reach in various ethnic communities the ability to not only participate but to deal with some of the challenges in terms of their payments as well the requirements that the city may have for them to submit in order to receive payments >> yes supervisor. in terms of we do send out a bid package to over 50 periodicals and we tried to make a concerted effort to reach out to as many biders to cover as many diverse

communities. and if we do invite the birders where we explain the binged requirements and we try to assist in that way. as far as, your thank as to the requirement. the requirements are set by the administrative code and their set in the code and we can't change the set requirements that are published in san francisco or print weekly we don't have a lot of flexibility. certainly we'll be ready to help them comply with those things.

and your last question or your other question about payment i'm not sure about that. that the departments usually handle the payment side of it. i know we certainly wants to make prompt payments to all vendor and especially small businesses in the communities and we would be willing to try to do that and to work with the cloak of the board as well as theirs an agent that handles a lot of the papers and we can sit down with the cloak of the board to shoot even the period >> we're not -

>> you have the discretion to amend the resolution to include the other biders. >> the board has included a number of nonresponsive biders in prior years. >> that's correct. and supervisor the bider were sent a binged package >> colleagues any further questions at this time? >> okay. we don't have a budget analyst report. anyone wish to commit on items one or two please step forward >> good morning. i'm diane of the san francisco chronicle. on behalf of my colleagues thank you for considering the san francisco chronicle as one of

the reciprocates of this type of attorneys. the san francisco chronicle is the leading bay areas information source. each week it reaches had the 8 percent of the population. in addition f f gate.com is the home of the san francisco chronicle is the regionals number one local city reaching more folks. with the single efficient buy the city can engage the readership. we take an active role in including our community. we raised more $6.8 million. the fund is one of the largest

givers to the food bank. this year, the food bank will deliver 8 million meals. we ask that you consider awarding the san francisco chronicle chronicle the full type budget and a thank you very much. is there anyone else who wants to commit on items one and two. seeing none, it's clus closed. colleagues we have two items in front of us here. item one is the official paper and two is the neighborhood outreach any comments at this time new just a question if he were to add other papers for the second item do we have the ability to cover it with our

budget? i guess that's - >> can we have the contract administrators office. if we approve those biders would it add to your budget or would you have the same budget >> it would be diluted among the number. >> but would the budget be adequate you said that would be. >> it's a a little over 20 thousand or 22 thousand plus or minus that 22 thousand is set and that's the amount of money it should be available over the next fiscal year to place adds where if it was with one or 10.

>> so i can cover 10. >> it depends upon i don't want to speak for the clerk of the board. i assume they make an attempt to split it among the various newspapers in the neighborhood >> but i can't say that's exactly what they do. >> okay. thank you. >> okay supervisor bred. >> justice a clarity. so if we wanted to add either nonresponsive or late responsive biders to the list of newspapers to advertise in for purposes of being the official papers to outreach to specific communities we can do that