afternoon. i am here to show you. i have three different firelier. the flier here says free thanksgiving day dinner. i hope and i wish that madame clerk could give each one of you a flier for the one i have in my hand. at least i can see you and invite you to serve as food to the homeless people, who deserve it.

i have here three different places. we need your help. and i need your help. and i need to give you a chance to have touched and to know something about the homeless people, who wait for your mayor. ladies and gentlemen, you go to the service. i would like to see you there. there is a shelter on geary street. and there is also a lovely place i have here, as i said -- unity church on brinkman street.

i wish and i hope everyone of you can understand that the people who are waiting for this free dinner of thanksgiving would like to see you. and i would like to thank the people who help them before. they do very much. president chiu: thank you. >> stop the public report of the public library. do not accept money from a foundation. private money used to distort social values is a bigger issue than just the library. private money is used to maintain the class barriers and convert public assets to private goals. that is why the influence of private money always depends on lies and secrecy. it is important to realize how little private money is involved. i could tell you that the library's public budget is $83

million and the contribution of the so-called public-private partnership is 0.45%. last week i talked about the relationship between private salaries and the donation to the library. the week before that i talked about the abuse of public comment that the ethics commission has found to be below the standard of decency. those facts depend on each other. it takes a lot of abuse to make liars and thieves more respectable than an honest citizen. the truth is we are not being enslaved by private money. they are using our money to enslave us. are you prepared for a city hall where you cannot talk them corporations because they paid for the chairs? that is what they do for the library. we have publicly funded institutions to reflect the virtues of democracy. that effort is a trade for a

fraction of a penny. what happens to public institutions when they are used to maintain class barriers and to promote the influence of private money is that truth itself becomes meaningless. what they have done to the library can be done to what you care about, and it will. including city hall itself. that is why i always say the allies cost more than the money. thank you very much. >> supervisors, i am joshua wellington. i have spoken to you before about the police department being overly violent with citizens and how to better make them responsible. what i have found is even in 2001, the ninth circuit found the city was lacking in making

officers tell who they are. still, that policy is in place. at the time, they did not have to put anything on a report. now, although they may have a right to the report, the refuse to give it to them. the policies inside the city attorney's office are so fraudulent and unlawful that allow police officer indemnification. if you would not mind putting the thing here, you know it shows flat out that you guys refuse to hold the officers accountable. you refuse to hold yourself accountable. your officers are supposed to be responsible for things but do not hold themselves accountable. at this point, we the people have no way meeting you or any part of city government accountable to the law you are violating. you are supposed to be responsible for upholding the law, not violated it. yet that seemed to be the majority of their policies. public policy protect them,

indemnifying them from their responsibility without an investigation. the stance of the city attorney's office is to ask them if they did anything wrong. all they have to do is say we did not do anything wrong. we did not violate anybody's rights. we did not falsified a police report. nobody is going to go look into their lives. -- their lies. you can affect not only policy, but police training. that makes you responsible to hold them accountable for their actions. i am currently seeking through the city attorney's office. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> peter warfield, library users association. here we are, almost 9:00 p.m.

at the end for landmarking arena branch last week. it was a disappointment you did not do the landmarking for the north beach branch library. in much of the discussion that occurred publicly with respect to that issue, there was a great deal of discussion about the supposed benefits of a new library that the library wants to erect on the triangle next to the park, to the existing playground. the discussion did not mention, and in a sense acted as though free money was available for that alternative. there was not a discussion about the tremendously increased cost of the new library, and how that would negatively affect library operations for many years to come. a couple of short six levels.

arimstead maupin, author of "tales of the city," well known for his writings, has a new book out. when i inquired about the availability of it, i was told there were four copies available and 63 reserves on those four copies. if everybody takes those up for three weeks one after another, it would be a year before i or anybody else on that line, unless they bought more copies promptly. park branch library closed. replacement is five to eight hours per week of interim service. there are very serious impact that a tripling of the cost of the library building will have on years of library service in the future. that was not discussed. president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> good evening, board of supervisors. thank you for your wonderful vacation here this evening. i am late brother stephen girard. i am travelling to the california coastline, presenting the concept of life piece on behalf of fatherhood, motherhood, and childhood. you'll be happy to know that i spoke at united for life this past monday on this new zoning concept that has been presented, in fact, on the burton road within the last year. in a life peace zone, it is a new zoning law. you have the legislative authority to establish this new type of the zoning caught fire. how a life peace zone works is

that if you have a business district, residential areas, commercial hospitals, whatever you will, you can establish a new life peace zone on a district by district basis. in this zone, you would transform and create a new overlay, a fire so that your business districts -- if they desire, your business districts can be rezoned to become a b3l. what a wonderful concept. you could ratify this new type of zoning code on a wonderful day such as mother's day or father's day, a new net -- another new way of thinking. i am delighted to let you know i have bill white placard labels a would like to give to each of you before you leave tonight. you can put it above your light switch, whether it is in your office, whether it is it your

home, to start considering the possibility of life peace zones. it is a very simple concept. thank you very much on behalf of life peace zones. president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors, president. i wanted to discuss last week's decision that you made against the landmark issue of the north beach library. i find it interesting that completely ignored in the process last week was ignoring the fact that the historic preservation commission recommended this to you, 7 mayor-appointed specialists in the field. we were told by president chiu that many documents from various fields of expertise are opposing the land working.

the sunshine request revealed that there was not one preservationist. in the implication of disregarding the mayors appointed experts for the city, there are 7-0 with regard to preservation specialists. the rest of the list -- one particular focus is architecture and architecture context. there were no historians represented whatsoever. what are we getting for this? if you could project please the view of the bay destroyed, because it is not being covered. it is not being exposed. a 6000 square foot building is being proposed for a 4000 square foot site. it spills out onto mason st., destroys the view. this is being put forward as an

alternative to a landmark, which was not even considered last week. what is the basic story? the north each branch. it was their proposal. no problem with accessibility. no problem with renovation. no problem with re-use. gut wasn't until they got a lot of cash and they decided that there were all of these problems with the building. and they projected a new building to replace it. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm for education. education for people to learn lifestyle changes, yes, health, empowerment, and how to feed their souls so we don't have the anger, the selfishness and the ignorance that makes me scared. i don't know if -- how many

people in san francisco know the difference between right and wrong? we're not rewarding the right, the just, the humane. we're not curtailing the power of people who can illegally 51-50 meet, as an elder and someone who is respected by the buddhist community, invited by the dalai lama's head monks or recognized as a future guru by the thousand--year-old songs of india by barkan, what is this? i know it's maybe a survival page d course but i didn't sign up to be in the nfl. i'm not paid to be in the nfl. and the amount of time being sent to siberia all the time is not acceptable. being on thin ice, skating on thinks -- on thin ice by these

ignorant, uneducated drugged up thugs, you know? where do we get america out of this mix? how do we get this moun tape of garbage -- this mountain of garbage? san francisco can be so much more. it has inside of it to shine. it needs you to get a good process together that's going to get that leadership here and get the answers. because there's no need to reinvent the wheel. emirson -- president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm edmund. i live in district six. and i live in tndc and we also had during the world series and halloween people passing an s.r.o. a week later who had been dead. so at the 55 mason ambassador,

to come down and say some good things about him. ok. right here, this is coming up. a right place and home from south affer could to the bay area -- from south africa to the bay area, sixth and mission, come over to that. and celebrate your soul this sunday, you may need a little blackout. and we have the vapor room around. and this is a good cannabis cup -- and i want to remind the people who have been getting cannabis, you need to be here at city hall on the third friday at 10:00 and 9:00 for the cannabis task force. to let them know that you have been getting section eight medical marijuana.

also, that was medical marijuana, and i forgot the other thing i was going to talk about. but how do you like my jolly green giant -- and we have medical marijuana. and you know what? another great candidate. remember, we have proposition s that our city people have not done anything with. that was about getting cannabis grown commercially accepted for us living in the city and county. see you guys at the cannabis task force this friday. come on out, bay area medical marijuana, section eight medical marijuana, already started. thank you. president chiu: thank you. are there any or members of the public who wish to speak on general public comment? general public comment is now closed. madam clerk. can we move to adoption? >> items 48 through 53 are for adoption without committee reference. these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote

unless a member would like to request discussion of an item, it shall be called separately and the matter considered. president chiu: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? seeing none, please call the roll. >> items 48-53, supervisor maxwell. aye. supervisor mirkarimi. aye. supervisor alioto-pier. aye. supervisor avalos. aye. supervisor campos. absent. president chiu. aye. supervisor chu. aye. supervisor daly. aye. supervisor dufty. aye. supervisor elsbernd. aye. supervisor mar absent. there are nanne ayes. president chiu: these resolutions are adopted. madam clerk, could you rad the in moorms for today. -- in memoriamless. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in themry of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor maxwell, for the late mr. ralph

house, on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the late mr. ray shiran and mr. howard lester. on behalf of supervisor chu for the late mr. william frost. on behalf of supervisor dufty, for the late mr. john mayer, and mr. irwin bayer. on behalf of the full board of supervisors, at the suggestion of supervisor alioto-pier, for the late mr. robert barbijalata and the full board of supervisors supervisor dufty for the late chief medina. on behalf of the full board of supervisors, for the late brother kelly cullen. president chiu: madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this board? >> in a concludes our business today, mr. president. president chiu: thank you. at this time, this meeting is adjourned.

>> the san francisco ethnic dance festival is one of the jewels on san francisco sculptural crowns. this is in its 32nd year of showcasing the celebrated dance

troupes. this year will be one of the past with four new works representing kondo, afghanistan, china, mexico. -- congo, afghanistan, china, mexico. more than a hundred 30 ensembles and soloists auditioned in january for a slot in the ethnic dance festival. in the end, 37 companies were selected to perform. 26 of those performances are world premieres. >> each year, we assembled a panel of dance experts that is made up of academics, scholars, researchers. people have been working for decades in the field.

many of them came to this country in the seventies and have trained the next generation of dancers. they are proud to see many of these students at the these masterful levels. this was one of the best panel'' we have ever had, extraordinary people. at the end of the process, they rank their top groups which are then merged into a master list. >> performers are judged on stage presence, costumes, and innovation. >> the four programs are created around an exciting and dynamic range so the soloists and groups selected each weekend will have enough dynamic range to be a

society overall to are experience. >> hundreds of dancers from different countries need each other, compare stuff, and make new friends. this has resulted in new cross- cultural collaborations'. >> one of the extraordinary things is that it really only happens here in the san francisco bay area. all of the dancers that we are presented -- presenting are from the area. they have full-time jobs and they spend their weekends nurturing their passion to sustain these extraordinary dance forms from around the world. the audience cannot help but be inspired. >> this year, the festival will feature a special collaboration that celebrates the mexican

bicentennial and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the mexican revolution. >> one of the great area biographers has stepped out of that role and we asked them to create a special work working with 6 x ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and

back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information