they come to the bayview opera house. last summer we had about 300 op last summer, we had children take classes from everything from dancing, healthy cooking and gardening. we had at some live chickens there and created some nice ambience for the children. we offered an after-school program all year round and it is going to be limited by the funding we have for such programs. the bayview opera house is surrounded by quite a bit of blight, unfortunately. improving the facility as far as we have already gotten has done wonders to improve the whole situation, not just for one building, but for the entire community. last year, we spent $150,000

that the organization raised for the -- to restore the 122-year- old douglas fir. we also restored at this stage, so things are looking good there. if you have not been to the opera house recently, i would encourage you to come visit us. a good opportunity to do that would be this coming may -- [tone] president chiu: next speaker please. >> ♪ god bless you. ♪ you make the brand new opera house in new. ♪ thank you president chiu

you may get redevelopment lead speak during a brand-new. ♪ president chiu: this is not the general public comment -- this is about the bayview opera house. this hearing has been held and closed. item number 10 is in front of us. can we take a roll-call vote? >> [roll-call]

there are a 11 ayes. president chiu: the motion has been adopted. i understand we have a commendation from member mar. supervisor mar: i would like to ask the following to come up -- [reading names] i think some others from the community boards. i would like to, along with a supervisor mirkarimi, recognize an incredible 35 years of work in the communities building peace. their slogan i think is building community through conflict resolution. their big 35 is coming up with their peace center.

the community board helps over 1000 people to peacefully resolve conflicts through innovative mediation model that has been adopted nationally and internationally. they have 300 committed volunteers who go through extensive training to help the volunteers. there has been an army of 16,000 people, trained mediators in our community and the mediate conflicts with organizations and schools. it has been the department of environment, the police, the san francisco unified school district, there has been a lot of conflicts. many community-based organizations. you are a great example of multilingualism as well. i, along with my colleagues, are

greatly to have the successfully mediating and resolving conflicts throughout the city. we need to edit time when there are limited resources and communities are pit against each other, often fighting for crumbs. it is my honor to acknowledge 35 years and the great people in the community boards. if you would like to make a few comments? >> of the community board is a uniquely san francisco institution. we started off on the back of a napkin 35 years ago when someone thought there had to be a better way to resolve conflict in san francisco. we were the first community mediation institution and 400 others have followed under our motto. we do not take money from the city of san francisco. we are funded through the courts

through people who choose other means of resolving conflict. we are here to serve the city but not draw from the general fund. we do have one request -- we ask for you to send the conflict to us. much of it comes to you and we are here with 300 trained mediators and facilitators who standby ready and willing to help you come to decisions and resolve problems. we are here as a resource and request you take use of us. i would like to introduce our executive director. >> it is an honor and privilege to receive this recognition. community board has been supporting the board of supervisors for over 35 years, working in almost every district, helping to resolve thorny disputes and facilitate

community dialogue. we would love to be on your radar to make sure you call on us when you need to. conflict resolution skills are not things most people are born with. we perceive these skills to be progressive and part of the values people in san francisco have the capacity for. we look forward to 35 more years of your support. thank you. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: i am quite familiar with the work community boards does. if we were a more enlightened government -- when we talk about public safety budgets, there should be an assigned for the public safety board for what

community boards does. the service they provide is considered an afterthought. that's a mistake. considering how effective they have been through many pockets of san francisco, especially communities where there is chronic distress by crime and other conflicts, instead of it being police-driven, community boards is found to be more effective. it would be nice to consider the san francisco local government would not to apply their services in a way that could be budgeted. [applause] president chiu: why don't we go to general public comment? >> at the next item on the agenda is opportunity for the community to address the board including items without on the

calendar and items that have not been considered by a board community. citizens using translation would be allowed twice the amount of time. if members of the public would like to have items displayed on the overhead projector, please say so and remove the items after the meeting. >> [speaking foreign language]

ladies and gentleman, good afternoon. i am here to thank the egyptian leader, who refused to give forgiveness to former dictator hosni mubarak. he said our government, the new government is going to put him in jail and return him back to us. ladies and gentlemen, i am here in america for a long time, but i think of my country every day and i am happy to tell you the leader of the egyptian young men here in san francisco, i would like to invite him to come here with us.

i would like to let you know we have a nice young lady, the supervisor from my district, jane kim, she came to visit us on the 21st of april. she said she would come back. this was a picture made for her in english and chinese to remind her some people, 110 people live in my building and they love to see her. in by hand, i have a card -- she told me to be sure to give her my business card and let me know when she is coming so we can

give her another warm welcome. ladies and gentlemen, open your eyes because she is going to -- [tone] president chiu: next speaker. >> stop the corporate rate of the public library. a crucial aspect of the corporate rate of the library is how little the private-public partnership continues. i have pointed out in previous presentations of the original program of 105.9 has almost doubled. they have only given one plane $1 million or 7.1% of the pledge. the branch remodeling began in 2000 and because they were required to report money for

its benefit, which collected donations over time and find out over nine years, a library has reported receiving $3.1 million. because the pilings from the attorney general look of the same time in terms of revenue, we can see they took in $31.7 million. the friends have given 10% of its income for the benefit of the old public library. if we compare this filings from the attorney general to the report regarding the branch library improvement program, the friends foundation has given 3.4% of its revenue to the program. the public reports designed to create accountability are ignored because private money is its own justification. friends and foundation would not answer questions about their finances before your finance committee, said there were allowed to operate without any agreement to the city.

nothing dramatizes so effectively the domination of private corporate interests and our society and the are not ashamed to tell of a public- private partnership. yet we are supposed to be grateful for the privatization. that is why i always say the allies cost more. -- the allies cost more. [tone] >> nancy schaefer exposes the evil cps. you see what a large letter i have written to you in mind and. there should be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter when the powers fall. the light of the moon shall be of the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven

days. that comes from isaiah 30. god is talking here about the twin towers. the does not establish when this will happen but he says in the day of a great slaughter, the taller -- the towers will fall. as i have said many times before, months before 9/11, i predicted the sixth trumpet would, on that day even though it was an inside job. there are elements of a government and israel involved and of blaming the muslims and they had nothing to do with it and iraq yet nevertheless because it is in the bible could not be prevented. we read that these rivers are waters of connectivity. we now have the internet and we all know what happened on that day. god is speaking of a light -- criminals onto their crimes and

the dark. every politician that says the fires bought the building down knows that the people know that they're lying because the fires could not have brought the building down. but jesus said this -- you think they were worse than anyone else? no. unless you prevent, you shot -- and the shoot repent, you shall perish. if you are not born again -- [tone] president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. ♪ and i want you to stand tall at city hall. ♪ at roll-call i want you to have a hall. ♪ stand tall, don't you crawl, don't you fall at roll-call

come halls of medicine and have it calls. ♪ 1, 2, 3 -- playing golf with mayor lee was not easy for we. ♪ he hit three golf ball hole in one and it was not so easy. ♪ it was like taking candy from a golf baby. ♪ it was not easy, he hit holes in one. ♪ hungry city is -- i've got a graphics -- hungry city eyes. ♪ won a look at year end i fantasize. i want to be given money and

better things. ♪ and -- [tone] ♪ the budget is slip sliding -- the budget is slips sliding away. ♪ slip sliding away. ♪ end of the money and the destination is all slip sliding away. [tone] president chiu: thank you. next speaker. the >> good afternoon. i want to speak on issues

involving the environmental impact report and the lack of the simple, old-fashioned aspect of dimensioning, leaving out dimensions and leaving out the whole picture. in the most recent north beach branch library, there is never one place where an entire width of the street right away is shown. there is never a chance to consider the relative size of the building being projected there. i use this as an example of how from a simple dimensioning system, which as been used for a millennium at least in architecture, what is being called an edge masking in this

case is perhaps a misrepresentation of that, given the full width of the street is never compared to the 19.5 feet. when dimensions are given, they cannot add up to the dimensions included in the text elsewhere. we have a case in that same report where a spotted a group of dimensions do not add to the depth of the projection into the view corridor that this building is going to be making on the mason street right of way. in fact, the dimensions given here in desperate eir which has been moving forward is over 1 foot short. [tone] president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker.

>> my name is as washington and i'm coming from a different perspective today. for all the politicians positioning themselves to move on to higher office, community reform is something that must take place. there is a big disconnect from city hall to the community. how can you say that? i've been in city hall over 20 years, longer than most of you sitting over there. i'm here to tell you there's a big disconnect from city hall. i'm going to bring some solutions -- if you see all of these city agencies infiltrating

my community, all of these agencies as the around and make decisions that affect our community -- on the community side, we do not get to sit down with the decision makers. that has to change with this new generation coming up here. i am going to bring some charts to show you more. there is a community blueprint and going to present -- and informed community is an empowered community. unity in our community -- could i did not know particular, i'd be able to be in city hall as long as i have? that comes from empowerment of information. if i had not been informed, they would have kicked me out and

from the under the bus like they usually do. but because i am informed, i am empowered. i am going to empower my community. get ready for a community informed. [tone] president chiu: are there any of -- are there any other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing them, can we go to the next item? >> items 19 through 21 are being considered for adoption. they will be acted upon by single roll call vote. facially called separately in the matter considered. president chiu: could you call will roll on items 18, 19 and 21?

>> [roll-call] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those resolutions are adopted. item 20? >> item 20 is supporting california homeowner protection act. president chiu: i have a motion to continue that -- to a have a second? if we could continue this item until may the second, this item

shall be discontinued. colleagues, we have five minutes before our 4:00 special order. why don't we recess for five minutes and start. .