approximately five of these restaurants in each category. then we would have a committee to make the final selection. then those selections would be given to the board for recognition. supervisor chu: supervisor dufty? supervisor dufty: thank you for being here, mr. lee, on behalf of the bureau of environmental health management. we have heard support for this legislation. i just want to add, since supervisor alioto-pier cannot be here this morning, she asked that i offer some words in addition to the value of having restaurant appreciation month. i certainly think it gives all of us in our districts an opportunity to celebrate the importance that restaurants play

to who we are, the identity of the city, a an attraction that an attraction that people from all over the world come to visit for. i think this is a good way to a acknowledge the work that restaurants have done for the city. we established rating systems, a lot of requirements that they have met us on. i see that stephanie is here from supervisor alioto-pier's office. if you would like to add some words -- >> thank you, supervisor dufty. this is just supervisor alioto- pier's idea to recognize the restaurants and the vitality that they contribute to san francisco. it is a symbol ordinance. dph is thrilled to participate.

it is quite simple, the criteria that will be developed. we look forward to developing the application process. supervisor chu: thank you. just a question from me to dph. i appreciate the sentiments of restaurant appreciation month. it certainly adds a lot to the economy and many people from many places no of san francisco and they're wonderful restaurants. so i just wanted to ask how we are paying for this process. it is just one more thing on top of the work that you already do. help me understand how much work you anticipate running this award program, is it something where the benefits would outweigh the staff requirements to participate? >> i am not exactly sure what is

in the ordinance, as far as support, but i do not think it will take a lot of time. essentially, we will probably just put something up that says, if you want to be nominated, fill out the application. then we would work with a committee to make a selection. i do not see a whole lot of additional work. we may work with other agencies, maybe the golden gate restaurant association, but right now, i do not think it will take too many resources. >> we did ask about this to make sure that any cost could be absorbed. we are adamant about no extra fees to see that this can go forward. what we envision is what we do with small business month. the cost would be absorbed by the work that dph is doing, and they could work with the board

of supervisors to provide an accommodation 330 special order, if the board sees fit. we do not see it in telling a lot of work. supervisor chu: thank you. do we have any members of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor dufty: if i could make a motion to send this to the full board with recommendations. supervisor chu: i would be willing to do that if i could have dph follow up and share their plans with us. i know that they are taxed and have a lot of things to do. i just want to make sure that we are not adding on a lot of things to this. without objection. thanks. item 6? >> item 6. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend retroactively two grants

(agreements nos. 10-0347 and 10- 153) totaling $128,916.32 from the california department of food and agriculture (cdfa) to fund the pierce's disease control program for the period of july 1, 2010, through june 30, 2012, and the organic program for the period of july 1, 2010, through june 30, 2011. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning. you have before you two contracts from the department of agriculture. i am the agricultural commissioner of weights and measures. these are continuing contracts that we receive every year. the wind sharpshooter is a past that is extremely damaging to several types of crops, especially grapes. it devastated to machiavelli in

1986. obviously, we know that grapes are of major importance to the bay area. -- to macula -- temecula in 1986. the second contract that we have is the organic contract. that is also an annual contract. we conduct spot inspections at farmers' markets and at the producers, and we also register and others, which we have two in san francisco. we will carry this out with current staff. there is no other staff that is hired to do the work. supervisor chu: pierce's disease is a kind of lyme disease spread by this insect.

do we have any of those in san francisco, is this just a preventive, monitoring grant? >> we do not have any in san francisco. all plant material shipped into the county is treated at the origin, which, generally speaking, would be in ventura or san diego county. they notify us when the shipments are arriving. we are also notified by the receiving handler and we will send an inspector out. supervisor chu: so this would allow the department to recover cost for that inspection work done at the supervisory level. >> yes. supervisor chu: any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed.

i move forward with recommendations. thank you. item seven. >> item 7. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend retroactively a grant from the united states department of health and human services in the amount of $631,739 to fund the project entitled "project for assistance in transition from homelessness" for the period july 1, 2010, through june 30, 2011. supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello, i am a program manager with the san francisco department of public health, a better health services. i am here to present projects for assistance and transition from homelessness, known as the past grant. we have three recipients of the

grant. it comes from the state of california. with this grant, we provide case management services. the grant is focused on people who are homeless and have mental health issues. with this grant, we provide primary care, case management out reach, mental health services, substance abuse services. there is also assistance for clients to help with moving expenses, if they are going from homelessness into housing. also, money to prevent eviction. supervisor chu: it looks like for this grant it would require a matching fund level of about $210,000. do you know if the department has already included that in the budget? >> yes, we provided that through

our contracts, and anything else could be made up through staff time. supervisor chu: thank you. any members of the public that public to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor dufty: i would like to forward this with recommendations. supervisor chu: without objection. item eight. >> item 8. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend retroactively a grant in the amount of $49,995 from the bay area air quality management district, to support a project entitled "community risk reduction plan" for the period of july 1, 2010, through december 30, 2011. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning. tom rivard, department of public health. this morning we are asking you to allow the department to

except funding from barrier air quality management district for the purpose of developing the modeling aspect of a community risk reduction plan for san francisco. the money will specifically be used to develop exposure condors for all of san francisco around a variety of mobile and point source of air quality emission sources, and to integrate that into an analysis of potential health risks, health outcomes, specifically try to identify areas where we would consider hot spots, areas within a community that would be considered hot spots, where we could craft mitigation or strategies to improve the air quality exposures for existing population as well as protect

new residents in newly developed communities, newly developed residential facilities throughout san francisco. this process is part of the air district's more recent air quality guidelines and air quality threshold that were released earlier in the year. it is more of a san francisco specific guideline that was established for the region so that we could identify our specific, unique problems and cultivate unique strategies to improve air quality exposure and to improve health outcomes. supervisor chu: thank you. what are some of the areas in san francisco that would be considered hot spots, does 19th

avenue come across as one of them? >> 19th avenue -- parts of it are undoubtedly going to be parts of concern. 19th avenue and judah with the filling stations, high traffic volumes --fueling stations, high traffic volumes, homes that face the fueling stations, will probably be at some risk. supervisor chu: is it primarily the fueling station or the amount of traffic? there are about 80,000 cars that pass through on any given day. what has been some of the work -- maybe this is just a question offline. i would be interested to see some of the efforts around 19th ave. >> we have done something for the park merced initiatives.

i think when we are completed, looking and diesel particular matter, looking at a cumulative risks with other chemical exposures, like benzene, other chemicals from fueling stations, we will see that those risks extend to multiple dwellings off of 19. the problem pretty much dropped off within 300 feet. 500 feet for sure. 19th avenue is a problem. when you drive down the street and you see the particular matter, on the face of the buildings, it is fairly evident that all that traffic has exposure problem with consequential help involvement. supervisor chu: what are some of the mitigation that could be used for a location like 19th

avenue? >> 19th avenue is a very challenged location. the only thing that occurs to me is more aggressive tree planting, specific types that may not down particulate matter. obviously, reducing the amount of traffic, which would be tough. there are some parts of the city that are more difficult than others. for new construction, we might want to discourage new construction, or set it back from the edge of the sidewalk. sometimes even an additional 20, 30 feet will result in some improvement. i cannot imagine a sound wall on 19th avenue, but something like that could be helpful. for example, on the excelsior along 280, you could have some

sound walls, sharif, trees that would knock down the particular matter, and toward some of the chemicals loss from automobiles. -- absorb the chemicals from automobiles. also keeping trucks off of 19th, trying to keep them on 101, 280 would certainly be a good idea. trucks that close to residents results in fairly aggressive exposures. supervisor chu: thank you. any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? the seeing none, public item is closed. did you want to say something? >> i strongly support you excepting this grant. the board passed the seqa

guidance earlier this year looking at impacts of toxins. the reason we went ahead with a community reduction plan was to look at more city-wide exposures, rather than at night project by project basis. that is what tom was saying. it gives you the chance to look at the majority of forces in a community. much of that is roadway traffic. it allows you to understand what would be appropriate medications that the city could pass that could be local ordinance. it also allows tearing off of the community risk reduction planned. if you have a project that is complied with the plan, you would not be required to do another analysis. so it has benefits for local businesses as well. we are also offering this grant to san jose and other communities that have been

identified as impacted, which includes oakland, richmond, alameda county. many of these places where you already know has these air impacts. i urge you to support this grant. >> thank you. any other members of the public? supervisor chu: >>thank you. item is move forward without recommendation. are there any other items before us? thank you very much, we are adjourned. i've been clean four years!

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today i'm at the presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, because the presidio trust is really a national park in the center of an urban setting. it dates to the very founding of the city. national park. toting me today to talk about this amazing exhibition at presidio habitat is cheryl hanes. can you tell me a little bit about the idea of the presidio habitat? >> succinctly, i have been long involved in the presidio.

i was here when it was still a military base in the 1980's. i remember driving down walmart to the golden gate bridge and seeing the military guard at the gate and being utterly fascinated. >> so presidio habitat is an exhibition where you have invited, how many artists to think about the habitat? >> we put together a list of possible participants, local, national, or international, of people who are concerned with environmental concerns, made some sort of contribution to the landscape and conversation we're having here. we said that broke -- proposal requests and we received 25 back. from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the

landscape. >> including this building, which is an amazing example of recycling. >> we are proud of this space. it was designed by a local architecture team. we said, we need something that is a temporary structure, something that can be brought onto the presidio in pieces, act as an exhibition space for one year. we came up with the notion of shipping containers. it was important for us that we made this project for the place, of the place. what i mean by that is participants would also used repurchased materials. >> we will be speaking to one of the artists that you selected. what excited you about his idea? >> have many things.

first of all, i am a fan of his architecture. because of that creativity, i knew that he could come up with something unique. i love the fact that he was specifically addressing the landscape around here, and it was also about the human interaction with this place. >> what are your expectations with the people coming to presidio habitat? >> we really hope people will come with their family, dogs, and come back a number of times the works will change over the year. the feedback we are getting is you cannot do all of them on one visit. it is really better to come back and have different experiences. >> thank you.

i am with mark jensen of jensen architect. he was one of the architects to be chosen to do the presidio habitat. when you heard about this project, what inspired you about that call? >> our inspiration is a great blue heron. it was the site itself that attracted us. this is an incredibly beautiful outdoor room. we did a bit of reverse engineering once we knew we wanted to work here. which animals live here? the great blue heron jumped out at us. we walked around, and quickly, you get into another pace. you slow down, leave the city behind you. you can feel the wind and the breeze. in our increasingly frenetic,

fast-paced, connected life, the chance to be of here and slow down a bit was part of the agenda. as part of the installation, it was suggested that this would be deliberately not mowed because it would allow the sustaining of insects, plants, that would graduate -- that would gravitate to the area. >> that is right. i think you quickly notice that. >> thank you for being here. presidio habitat is an exhibition at the presidio trust. it will be in san francisco through may 2011. we hope you will come out to experience this amazing exhibition and great natural treasure. >> to learn more about the other habitats installations in the presidio, visit

chairperson mar: good morning, everyone. welcome to the meeting of the audit and oversight committee of the board of supervisors. to my left is supervisor ma xwell, and soon will be joined by supervisor chu. >> please be sure to turn off any cellular phones or pagers. items discussed -- item submitted today will appear on the october 15 meeting. chairperson mar: please call item one. >> an ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code,

chapter 10, by amending section 10 to change the gift fund category for the animal care and control welfare fund to authorize the department of animal care and control to accept gifts of cash, equipment, property, and services not to exceed $50,000. >> i am the director of san francisco animal care and control. this item came up when we received a request to the department -- a bequest to the department as part of the settlement of an estate. excepting it ended up a lot harder than i realized -- accepting it ended up a lot harder than i realized it would be. we were not properly designated for donations. we asked for a change to the fund designation