volunteer. i have been a volunteer at 826 for seven years now. it has brought tremendous joy to my life. get back so much more than we are able to give to our students. supervisor maxwell said, we were founded in 2002 by the author dave eggers. we now have chapters in seven cities around the united states, and we continue to grow and provide services around the country that we provide you. supervisor michael mentioned that we have about 1700 volunteers on our roster. we actually have about 1000 volunteers at him at any given time, and we are able to provide services in school, after-school tutoring to more than 6000 of san francisco's schoolchildren throughout the year. i just want to upset this on behalf of those students, on behalf of the teachers with and we work, on behalf of the staff. we only have a paid staff of 10.

i want to give special tribute to our students. they are in school all day, they rushed to our tutoring center and spend three hours working with our tutors. i think is extraordinary that they are willing to do that, and i think it is a great testament to them and their parents dedication to their education. this is a great honor for us, and we cannot thank you enough. [applause] supervisor chiu: congratulations. what we go back to public comment? >> i'm not a lawyer but i read the law.

i have been a member for six months, and we have a women's group every monday. what i feel this serenity, love, peace, and happiness. they also help me with cannabis medicine when i cannot afford it. they are not a it. they're not a dispensary and you never see cash flow. everything is free, given from the heart. now, they have volunteer workers that are called interns. they put a lot of work into the plan that we have every week, like chess playing shall the monday group, h.i.v. class and shawn is a very nice, honest

person. she's a very good facilitator and she puts a lot of hours into her work and she does a very good job of it. and it is a health department of assistance over not planning. thank you for listening to me and supporting us. thank you. president chiu: president chiu: next speaker? >> good eve ash afternoon. thank you, axis of love operates as a gift economy, which makes it fundamentally different from a medical cannabis dispensary.

it is not even an exchange system. we all contribute to the collective well-being of the collective with the unspoken understanding that each member will receive unspecified amounts of materials and social services, thus making it always different from any profit or not for profit medical cannabis dispensary. thank you. president chiu: next speaker? >> good afternoon, speakers. way like to speak on at larming spread of government power. the mayor, supervisors and police chief all took an oath to the constitution. our rights come from god. they are natural, not graptd by constitution -- granted by constitution, meaning they cannot be taken away by men. sobriety checkpoints, police sobriety checkpoints, are ansumption of guilt.

they also frequently ask for your identification which they shouldn't be doing. that's "your papers, please." the police are using tasers on the sisters -- citizens of san francisco and firing electrical charges into human beings. we're not cattle. red light cameras with excessive fines. fines for red light cameras i believe are over $500. for many people that would put them in a pretty bad way. also the newest edition -- addition to san francisco are dome cameras which according to my inquiries here in city hall are from some other government agency. they can't even identify where the cameras come from. they're in low or no crime areas. there are no buses or muni going by these areas, yet you're watching the citizens. i'd like to know, you know, what is your role here? we did elect you to represent us. you are upholders of the

constitution and the law. we asked you to be office holders, honorable good men and women who hold office honorably and not be the greatest enemies of free men, and that would be politicians. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker? >> my name is yvette fernandez. and i'm a cancer survivor of three months. i joined axis of love three months ago because i was able to receive compassion and a meal when i badly need to do and the camaraderie of people who had overcome other things such as h.i.v., etc. you are asking them to get a license when there are two dispensaries up on ocean that already have licenses. we do not sell any products of

any kind. what we give, we give for free. we are a collective of people who help each other, work in the community and do political action. what axis of love does is satisfy a viable need in the community, helping the very poor an indigent of san francisco. if the license law is applied to us we will be forced to end our food programs and some of our outreach programs. why would you want to destroy a program that helps people? you can never destroy the love and bonds create in this group for over 10 years. we will stay in contact with each other via our phone tree and continue to distribute compassion even if it means dispensing it on the steps of city hasm you may try to disband us but we will come back like mold or the plague right under your nose forever. this is a lifelong commitment and we are here to stay.

thank you. president chiu: thank you, next speaker? >> hello, my name is teresa cooper and i'm a teacher and laider in the community. i've worked for a cannabis dispensary and most of the duties that i had was around money. doing bookkeeping, personal assisting. some of the best jobs i had was carrying around money, getting money orders, paying bills, money, money, money. everything we did was about the money. no one ever actually gave me cannabis when i worked there. i did get a discount on my medicine. i did sit on the cannabis task force for one of the members, the seat of 12, and shona wasle -- was the one person seen me sitting there and reached out to me and supported me. i paid attention to that woman, who is friendly, informative,

gave me her number, and remembered her so when i was fired from my job due to money issues again, it was all about the money, i found shona on 420. i went out, i went to almost every cannabis dispensary because i only ever hung at -- out at my own dispensary and bought it with my paycheck. being unemployed now, i con afford it. i was actually pushed out of the office. i found shona. as a healer i've learned to stick up for my rights. i've learned to -- i've been harassed in my own building. i've had so much social support i'm actually successful. i actually have a dog from hope net. my whole life has changed.

i've been told my shona the difference i've made in this community center when i'm unemployed and think i have nothing to offer. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker? >> i'm here to tell you that i support axis of love and help net and the ocean street dispensary. i really support everything that offers, everything at this center. it's like a community center. everybody just comes together and love each other and there's a lot of groups throughout the week that support everyone. and i'm not a lawyer, but i can read the law. thank you very much.

>> hello, my name is floyd, i'm a part of axis of love. one of the main reasons why i'm a part of this is because of all the good things shona has done for a lot of people. there she is. the key is that, i'm from a small city, ann arbor, michigan, and i was raised to always help those who cannot help themselves. when i first got here in 2006 i started volunteerle -- volunteering at project open hand. once again for nothing. i didn't even have a job. eventually i did get a job but i lost that job because it's in the mortgage industry. currently i'm doing all i can and everything i can for shona. right now i have on these dark glasses. the key is that i have migraine headaches that are so bad i have to go day -- lay down in a dark room. when i leave out of here and head home it's always in a dark place because the light is

extremely irritating to my eyes. not only that, i have such a bad back my kisks -- disks are just constantly crumbling. so to not be able to go some place and get the medication i need, and it is true medication. that's the key word here. medication. she is helping us with our medication. she is bending over backwards for all of us and for all those people who don't go out or even go to our club, it's crazy to take something away that's not costing you folks anything. president chiu: next speaker, please? >> hello. my name is linda. i'm part of axis of love. i'm part of the women's health collective. axis provides a clean and sober environment for women to discuss their health issues and

various problems. it's a safe environment. it also offers various groups five days a week. veterans groups, cancer survivors groups, women's groups. so -- and as you know, axis of love has been in place for more than 10 years creating these various services ongoing. and i can say axis of love improved my life more than 50% with the counseling. usually in the main stream communities when you go to a health center it takes two or three months for any type of services, whether it be mental, emotional, or physical. so i would like to ask axis of love, that ack action continue to operate on the same premises that it always has and you

reconsider. thank you seven. -- thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker? >> my name is frank boldin and i'm here to speak for shona. i used to work at a place called champs which was a cannabis dispensary. i've known here -- her for 11 or 12 years and her work hasn't changed. she's full of love, as you probably noticed. it hurts sometimes but they still fights. just please give her what she wants and make our people happy. thank you. >> yes, my name is tony. i'm not a lawyer but i do know the law. i been with axis of love about two months and we are a family and shona is a good person.

we, you know, we play bingo. we play chess. and shona is, you know, like better than my doctor that i had at general where i would be sitting in there for six or seven hours waiting to see a doctor for my, because i got a bad leg and bad back and the med cain -- medicine i do get from axis of love does cure me and it is a nonprofit organization. and that's basically all i got to talk about. but keep axis of love going, please. president chiu: any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment? >> i'm kathryn valdez, a

patient of axis of love. the center is a outreach place. i am not a lawyer but i can read the law. let's see -- the center is not a pot club but a harm reduction, social service -- let's see -- axis of love -- i been in axis of love for 10 years. the center is not a nonprofit resource, medical cannabis. i support axis of love center. they helped me, my housing, my food, my medicine, my public medication. i have to -- i go to the women' -- women's group. we have the best women's group in san francisco thanks to

shona, thanks to axis, i mean hope net, 1944 ocean and ms. smith. president chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speam in public comment? ok. at this time seeing no other speakers, general public comment is closed. thank you for coming today. colleagues, could we move to the adoption without committee reference calendar items 56 through 64? >> items 46 through 64 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. they willing voted on in a single vote unless a matter is called out.

supervisor elsbernd: will you remove item 56? president chiu: any other items? ok. if we could take a roll call on items 57 through 64, please? supervisor daly: aye. supervisor maxwell: aye. supervisor alioto-pier: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> 11 ayes. president chiu: item 5 -- 56?

president chiu: roll call vote please? >> supervisor elsbernd no. marray, supervisor mirkarimi aye. supervisor alioto-pier? alioto-pier no. supervisor avalos aye. supervisor campos aye. supervisor chu aye. president chiu no. there are eight ayes and three nos. president chiu: that resolution is adopted. madame clerk, are there any in memorandumorians for today? my apologies we do have a special 4:00 order. if you could please call fms 46

through 53? >> items 46 through 53 constitute the two special orders at 4:00 p.m. 46 through 48 pertain to the appeal for determination of exemption for environmental review referring to bernal heights neighborhood president chiu: supervisor campos? supervisor campos supervisor campos thank you. we have been meeting with both parties to this item and are asking tore -- for a continuance to november 11 to kind -- find a resolution. president chiu: any public comment on supervisor campos' motion that we continue this

item to november 15? seeing none, can we take this motion to continue without objection? without objection these items pertaining to 10 bernan -- bernal heights boulevard will be continued. do we have in memoriams? >> yes. today's meeting will be adjourned in honor of the late paulina, matthew douglas good, allen cohen, the late ms. gladys jones joubert. excuse me, that is on behalf of the full board. on behalf of sproiment the late lauren marie nelson. on behalf of supervisor chu the

late nick blatunic. the late nia. on before of supervisor elsbernd for the late elaine mckenna and supervisor mar for the late derek allen. president chiu: do we have any other business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business. president chiu: before we conclude i would just like to congratulate the giants and san francisco. with that we are adjourned for today.

>> welcome to the october 19 meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. please call roll. [roll call] . >> mr. chairman, of a forum. chairman nolan. thank you. >> electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for the ringing of or use of the cell phone pager or a sound producing electronic device may be removed from the meeting. please be advised cell phones set on vibrate do call microphone interference so the board respectfully requests that they be placed in the off position.

item four, approval of the minutes of september 7, 2010, regular meeting. chairman nolan: can we do the 21st as well? >> yes. chairman nolan: is there a motion to approve the meetings? >> motion to move. chairman nolan: second? all proved say eh. approved. >> item five, communications. chairman nolan: this morning i would like to ask we do the special recognition awards that we move right to item 11. our controller is here to make the presentation. at that point we can return with the board members report and the rest of the agenda as planned. also one item on here is the card scheduled for 12:00. until then there will be a closed session before that time. >> mr. chairman, in addition, please be advised that two items in closed session have been removed from the agenda at the request of staff, that is anticipated litigation and the performance evaluation of the

executive director. item six, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. chairman: i think director heinicke. commissioner heinicke: yes. thank you for following up on the issue of peak-time cabs. i'm informed by our counsel that we do not need a formal pc&n study with quasi judicial findings like we may have in the taxi commission days to put out peak time medallions, but we do need to make a sort of legislative finding as a board that there is a need for this. will i personally am convinced there is a need for it. but i think this is something the whole board should do so with your direction, director ford, and deputy director's permission and permission of the chairman, what i request is that we ask staff to propose a timeline for how we act and

review a peak time taxi proposal and maybe i would suggest that one of the first things we do is actually to schedule a hearing as to whether there's a need for this or not. if it turns out i'm wrong and there isn't a need in view of the board, we can stop it there and consider other things if there is a need for it as i personally believe, then we can make the legislative finding that we need to, to go forward and handle that all in one fell swoop, perhaps with the direction of the city attorney's office. the second issue. chairman: board member's sconet? ok, director. commissioner heinicke: the other thing we have talked about briefly of offline and i wanted to bring to the board's attention is for those of you who ride regularly, there's been some significant service interruptions. recently director ford and deputy director haley and i. i was unable to make it because i was stuck in the tunnel. say that for levity reasons.

know director ford and deputy director haley are aware of this issue. it's my understanding we are getting a comprehensive memo reporting on the issues that i know he's on top of 78 and what i suggest again, director nolan, so we can have a public airing of this and let our constituents know what our staff is doing to address this is once that memo has been sent to us so we can explain our remedies. >> second. director heinicke: i'll leave that to you. this is a -- i do think the public should hear about what the problems are and what we're doing to address them because they are very noticeable as i talk to fellow riders. director nolan: well taken. director ford: our plans -- there are few issues we are dealing with right now in terms

of the age. director nolan: thank you. director brinkman? director brinkman. . i wanted to call attention to the article. i had a phone call with one of the parents who haze child at that elementary school and there's a proposal to do some traffic calming on monterey boulevard. i understand they are already working with staff in the group and that they do have support of supervisor elsbernd to do some traffic calming and lower the speed limits on that street. know as director beach correctly pointed out that we do have to take into account the speed of muni service along there with any chankse that are made. wanted to bring that up because it's so important that according to the scammer, 50% of the students live within a mile of that school, which is really what neighborhood schools are about, but only 20% walk probably because of the safety issues. director nolan: would you like report back from the staff?

>> sure. we will put together a memo in terms of solutions and a timeline for when they will be implemented. director nolan: i was happy to read about -- i guess starting today, the new taxi stand over at the ballpark. >> yes. director nolan: 10 spaces. is that right? director ford: exactly. we're trying to make sure we support all modes of transportation for anybody who's attending the game. director nolan. . is that monitored by someone there? director ford: yes. director heinicke: and we'll be out in time that we can inspect it. director nolan: yes. zoif do i have i think some of our folks have been there since the wee hours of the morning. director nolan: i look forward to seeing how that works. i also want to say a personal thank you to ms. beerm for rearranging this meeting. this is no easy task to get all the folks involved. thank you for doing that >> thank you. director nolan: anybody else? director oka? director oka: i have