and it was at that point that the police department requested a formal premises expansion, which rates before you today so that we allow for disclosure of what is happening and everyone the opportunity to speak on the matter. the license was reviewed by planning. it is an allowable use. the premises was posted for 30 days on the building and subsequently, there was a 500- foot malar conducted to the neighborhood. to the best of our ability, we feel due process has been served, and that brings us to today in the conditions we are proposing with this approval. >> thank you. -- supervisor chu: thank you, and in terms of conditions being proposed here, whether it is the hour or the noise, were any of these in place beforehand? >> no, they did not have these conditions in the past. supervisor chu: thank you. are there members of the public

that wish to speak on this item? >> madame chair, commissioners, -- supervisors, excuse me. i and the attorney for -- i am the attorney for playbar. this is a tough quarter at the corner of mission and six. downstairs, a single-story building with a basement underneath. the basement was always listens to hold alcohol in storage. it did not have public occupancy. reuben solutions and some city money, some redevelopment, they put in sprinkling systems, a second staircase. it was all approved. there was a certificate of final completion. detainment commission actually already allow the expansion, and with the abc, there was over chilly in informal expansion with a new map, and during some tough times between the

entertainment businesses south of market and the police department, it was decided that we did not want this to go forward as an informal. we want this to be a formal expansion. we have done all that, and we are ok with the conditions. you should have before you a letter from urban solutions that was helpful in putting a loan package together through the city to make this happen, so if you have questions, i would be glad to answer them. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? >> ♪ woke up this morning with a license in my hand whose wine white wine what it thickly place design must have been a dream do not believe where i have been come on, item three let's do it again ♪ supervisor chu: thank you.

are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor dufty: make a motion to send this item forward with the requirements as defined by the police department. supervisor chu: we have a motion to move the item forward with the conditions as proposed without objection. thank you. >> item four, hearing to consider the transfer of an off-sale beer and wine license to bobby vardakastanis 1530

haight street will serve the convenience of the people of the city and county of san francisco. >> the license would allow off- sale beer and wine, a long- standing family store that has been in that location since 1981. there are no letters of protest, and we are recommending the license for approval with conditions. i would like to share those conditions with you now. sales and service of alcoholic beverage selby permitted between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. daily. condition to the wheel, no more than 10% of the square footage of the premises will be used toward the display of alcoholic beverages. next condition -- no noise shall be allowed beyond the area under the control of the licensee. next condition, loitering, as defined as standing about, lingering endlessly without lawful business, is prohibited on a sidewalk or property adjacent to licensed premises.

next in addition, there shall be no cuts, glasses, or similar receptacles, lease for the drinking beverages sold, furnish, or given away at the petitioner was a premises -- the petition opposing premises. i shall be sold at or above prevailing prices in the area in the quantity of of 3 pounds for sale and shall not be given away for free. no person under the age of 21 shells sell or deliver alcohol beverages. no one shall be sold with alcoholic content greater than 15% by volume except for dinner ones which have been aged two years or more and maintained in a cork bottle. , one shall not be sold in bottles and containers smaller than 750 ml -- wine shall love is sold in bottles and containers smaller than 750 ml. -- shall not be sold in bottles

and containers smaller than 750 m.l.. no beer shall be sold in quantities less than manufacture prepackaged presale, which must be sold in multi-hit a quantities of four or more. with these conditions, we are recommending license for approval. briefly, i would point out that the spirit of these conditions is to allow the businesses to continue to support their customer base but not provide the more problematic product as we have experience in the past, so we think these conditions are reasonable for the location, and fine balance to allow the application will forward but not impact the community. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you, inspector. do members of the public wish to speak on this item? >> i'm here with my client, the haight street market. as the inspector indicated --

noted, the business goes back almost 30 years. there was a moratorium for many of those years for any new alcoholic licenses, so they sort of came at the wrong time. that moratorium is no longer in effect. i have before me -- we have over 200 letters of support, including from the haight- ashbury neighbors. this is a much beloved business. like most businesses, they have gone through some economic hard times in the last three years, and we believe adding some good alcoholic and one beverages will help serve the customer base but also will help improve the financial condition of this small business -- we believe adding some good alcoholic and wine beverages. if i might take 20 seconds of your time, i would like to tell for probably talk about the

inspector and how the entertainment commission has -- is so relieved that he has now been brought into the office with the staff. he is probably the most knowledgeable person on alcoholic beverages in the city by a factor of 10, and now it seems as though he has sort of got himself a way of looking at every district with an eye and not towards -- with a captain of the police department with their own agenda, but looking at the city as a whole and what is good for both the neighbors and the businesses. i know i'm speaking for myself, but a whole lot of my clients and a whole lot of the indicated in the streets in san francisco is really thankful for this. supervisor chu: thank you. you wanted to submit those letters of support? are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on

this item? >> ♪ if you are calling to san francisco summer time, there is going to be a new liquor license their if you are calling to san francisco you are going to get or have a drink on their vacation all across the nation such a drinking vibration you are going to have an item for motion people in motion so if you are going to have a new license on haight street summertime will be is going to be have a drink on there

if you are going to the city by the day you are going to have a drink on haight street there ♪ supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? supervisor dufty: i make a motion to send the item forward with recommendations with the conditions established by the public. supervisor chu: thank you. there is a motion to send the item forward with recommendations. without objection. thank you very much, inspector. item six, please. >> items 6, or events amending the san francisco administrative code by amending section 21.40 to authorize the department of public health to contract for behavioral health services to children in foster care system

under jurisdiction of the city and county of san francisco and located outside of san francisco, utilizing contracts -- contract language and form as mandated by the state of california under california welfare and institutions code under section 5777.7. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have ann from the department of public health. >> thank you. the department is requesting that we use the state contract low of the city boilerplate, and this will put us in compliance with sb 785. this legislation, in regards to delivery of specialty mental health services for foster care children, and it mandates the use of standardized contracts statewide, so this would be for children that are placed out of county, and i have our director of children, youth, and families for the system of care for

community behavioral health services. thank you. >> supervisors, this should give you an idea about the extent of the need. 534 children in foster care are facing -- are placed in san francisco. with the largest percentage placed in alameda county and san mateo counties. the reason they are placed in those counties is because half of them are placed with relatives, and the remaining in foster homes. they all actually have a right and need to access and services when they have the need. right now, it is not easy to enter contracts for services with them, so the change is to create more timing access for the children living with relatives outside of san

francisco. supervisor chu: could you explain a little but why you think the california state code would be better than using our san francisco code? what is it that we would be changing? >> it is the contract thing language that all counties are expected to comply with, and also a sense of time line in terms of authorization timeline and also a timeline for setting up payment schedules so that it has statewide application. supervisor chu: from a statewide perspective and the use of those funds, is it a requirement of san francisco? >> it is in our contract with the state department of health services. supervisor chu: are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. questions from the committee?

we have a motion to approve and send this item forward with recommendation. thank you very much. madam clerk, are there any other items before us? >> no, madam chair. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. we are adjourned.

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look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way.

>> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something that opens a dialogue to public interest in these ideas. so the work is really made to be seen in this environment. it's been show in museum, in gallery, but never in a public

setting. and it's kind of ideal for both myself and the works to have this real dialogue with the public not only in san francisco but people coming from all over the world. >> since the dawn of electricity, that light is something that people feel connected to and inspired by. personally, there is space to keep that alive, just finding balance. the key is to find some balance.

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announcer: big dreams and goodrades aren't enough to get into college. there are actual steps you need to take. finding someone who can help is the first and most important. for the next steps, go to knowhow2go.org. >> good morning, welcome to the budget and finance committee. my name is supervisor john avalos, the chair of the committee. i'm joined to my right by supervisor sean elsbernd, and my left supervisor ross mirkarimi. the clerk of the committee is mr. viktor young.

mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. if you turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and turn them in to me. if you provide documents to the committee please provide one to the clerk for influential into the final. it will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on september 14, 2010 unless other weiss stated. commissioner avalos: please call item number one. >> item number one, resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health, community behavioral health services to enter into a negotiated amount and drug medical recommitment with the state of department of alcohol and drug program. commissioner avalos: very good. do we have a presentation from d.p.h.? >> good morning, supervisors. i'm dr. alice glickhorn, i am the county alcohol and drug

administrator. this is our funding for medical from the state. it comes in the form of a three-year agreement. the negotiated net amount. the combined amount is approximately $60 million. and i'm happy to answer any questions that we have on this. >> great, thank you. mr. rhodes, share with us the report. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, this agreement with the state is required. it would provide reimbursement to the department of public health. we recommend that you amend the resolution to retroactively approve it since the agreement starts on july 1 and we recommend you approve the resolution as amended. commissioner avalos: thank you. just a question about the prognosis for state funding. what's the range that we would expect that we could receive from the state based on what could happen with the state

budget? >> we expect to receive this full amount because it's a federal requirement. commissioner avalos: but we are talking about part of this is state funding the block grant from the feds and part is state funding as well? >> i don't anticipate this will be affected. we still don't have a budget. commissioner avalos: ok. little different from what i had heard and read in the report. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, monique smuda from the controller's office. the agreement is under the medicaid program and so long as the city and county provides the services, and consistent with the substance abuse, mental health, and so on the funds should be coming in. the issue may be one of cash flow. and again pending the approval of the budget, the cash may be interrupted. however within the controller's office and our cash flow work,

we ensure that departments have sufficient moneys to be able to pay their employees, their contractors, and so on in the interim. but we have not heard that this particular program was subject to any reductions at this point. commissioner avalos: ok. great. thank you. we can open this up for public comment. any member of the 3ub lick like to comment on item number one? seeing none, we'll close public comment. and motion to accept. taken without objection. full forward with recommendation. wait, we have -- with the budget analysis recommendation. ok. mr. young, if you could please call item number two. >> item number two, ordnance authorizing the department of emergency management to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $231,000 from the california volunteers for the grant period

of 18 months following passage of the fiscal year 2010, 2011 california state budget. for volume tour management and training. san francisco fire department. a good morning, mr. chairman. members of the committee. i'm here on behalf of the fire department to give a brief summary of this grant. grant from california volunteers organization to train 200 individuals to the level of disaster corps volunteers in the state of california. california volunteers is a state-run organization by the government's office that's responsible for ensuring coordination of volunteer activities related to disaster response and recovery throughout the state, including the training, equipment, and transportation provisions that

are required. the purpose of the grant from the state's perspective is to increase the pool available to them of volunteers that are trained and incorporated into the state's disaster corps program. the disaster corps program is a more advanced level of volunteers fully integrated into the state's emergency management system. as the members in this group have a higher level of training, they can be called upon by the state and deployed to event as needed by the state. san francisco currently doesn't have the disaster corps level of training offered to volunteers. the level of training qualifications required exceed current curriculum of programs and includes requirements such as c.p.r., first aid certification, as well as comprehensive background check. the goal of the grant at the further request of the state is to train 200 individuals to be eligible and have the requirements to be incorporated into the disaster core program to be called as a resource by the state if needed. these individuals would be made up of combination of both

current nert volunteers that were interested in enhancing their response capabilities, and individuals who had no prior training who would incorporate into the program before completing their disaster corps training. there is a planner f.t.e. as part of this grant. this person would be responsible for coordination of additional training and background check for the 200 individuals. worked closely with both nert and d.e.m. to accomplish this. it covers all costs to provide this additional training as well as background checks funding and any additional materials and supplies that would be needed. the scope of the grant is limited to the enhanced disaster corps training and could not be used to complement or supplant any current training. if you have any additional questions, i'm more than happy to assist with them and also have representatives from nert and d.e.m. to answer anything. thank you. commissioner avalos: this grant will be for 18 months? >> yes. contingent upon the passing of

the california budget. but it is federal homeland security funding. it's not necessarily directly related to the budget issues at the state level. commissioner avalos: in terms of longevity of funding for this beyond that time, is there a long-term plan about how this type of service will be continued? >> management will be if you can sess isful incorporate into our efforts to seek grant funding for the position. probably through additional state or homeland security funding. commissioner avalos: so then we would expect there will be overall the state and federal level there will be funding that could go for this. we have to apply for it. >> that's what we are hoping for. that's the expectation they'll continue the program. commissioner avalos: just relative to other counties, areas, is this -- >> we are assuming this goes one of five jurisdictions that were selected. i think los angeles, san diego,

riverside, and/or rang county. i think we are the only one in northern california selected commissioner avalos: great. ok. if there are no other questions from the panel here, thank you for your presentation. we'll open this up for public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment on item number two, please come forward. seeing no one come forward. we'll close public comment. >> motion to accept the recommendation. commissioner avalos: motion from supervisor myrrh car reamy. without objection. we move forward. mr. young, if you could please call items number 3 through 7, please. >> item number three, ordnance providing revenue and levying property taxes for city and county purposes in establishing pass-through rates for residential tenants pursuant to chapter 37 of the administrative code end something up june 30, to 10. >> item number