whether there would be any wind or shadow impact, but what we are asking you to do today is to recommend the general plan amendments and the zoning amendments as they are before you to the board of supervisors for approval and to tell the board you would like them to consider whether we can move the tower to the east, and we will support that, provided the environmental analysis confirms we can go forward on the basis of an addendum and no more for their environmental review would be required, and a lot -- no more further environmental review would be required. we need to go through the steps. that is our understanding. we would ask that you take that action. thank you very much.

>> would you finish your comment? >> i would agree that this includes a recommendation as presented tonight. that would be my understanding and thinking about other places where some businesses have been abandoned.

>> i am trained to -- trying to tweak that. we are recognizing you as the owner. >> there is a on a motion -- a motion to recommend to the supervisors. >> i think it would be worthwhile to have a motion summarizing the discussion we just have a curator -- we just have.

the commission would consider a proposal to move one parcel to the east. the commission urges the board to study such a proposal and to consider such an amendment at the board. the commission has considered this as a referral section of the planning code, which means if the board makes the change, it would not have to come back to the commission. >> in part, what it fails to represent isla the commission recommends approval of the project has presented, that the

commission requests the board of supervisors to consider moving the yerby tower and one block to the east, provided that doing so can comply with ceqa and through the use of an addendum. this would suggest the board can move in that direction with the recommendation of the planning commission, even if it would require further environmental review. we do not want further environmental review. i believe making the point is very thoughtful, but i think we

want to make short is limited. thank you. comissioner antonini: i would agree with what mr. burke said. if this move who were large enough a change that it would trigger further major action, other than an addendum, that is not in the motion. if that language can be included in there. >> to the point that the commission is recommending the particular projects in the motion, i think that is clear. the second point i will add the addendum to the language and provide an additional review

over and above the addendum, it does not apply to your your -- it does not apply. >> i believe the language is a positive suggestion. we all acknowledge limitations and environmental work but must be done, but we are not making any apologies. we are not saying it should involve any further action, and we are recommending to the board to consider this, because it is a rather important issue. >> on the motion and the second as rendered by the city attorney to adopt ceqa findings and

approve -- [calling folvotes] >> the motion passes unanimously. you are now on public comment your your -- public comments. >> thank you. is there any additional public comments on items that were not on the agenda. simenon, the meeting is adjourned. -- seeing none, the meeting is adjourned.

>> welcome to "culturewire." on this episode, the director of cultural affairs takes us on a field trip to the mission district to check out odc's new 36,000 square foot campus, the largest in the region. >> for san franciscans, odc has

a very significant significance. stands for a venerable performing arts organization celebrating its 40th anniversary of bringing fans and theaters to the bay area. standing with me today on "culturewire" is the theater director of odc. thank you for joining us. i mention that this is the 40th anniversary. >> it is indeed. >> i'm standing with you in a fabulous theater that was completed six months ago in time for this anniversary. tell me about how it has been going for the last six months. >> absolutely. in terms of the anniversary, the dance company, which is our founding body, is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and it is the 30th anniversary, so it is historic for both sides, and the completion of the theater

represents in some ways the completion of our entire campus that began in 2005. it has come to its fruition with the completion of the theater. the theater opening was remarkable. one of the things we wanted to do was to make sure that our community really truly -- our san francisco bay area community understood that this theater was for them. we invited 31 bay area companies to do a day-long performance marathon, so we really launched with a feeling of this is for everyone in this community. it was a tremendous thing to bring everyone together around the opening of this building. >> you are part of our creative troika, including the founder, brenda wey and k.t. nelson. talk about what it is like to keep this campus going. >> it is a wonderful thing to be working with someone who is

certainly your co-worker and also largely your mentor. i inherited the theater at a funny time in its life. it needed to make some decisions as an institution about what it wanted to be. whether it wanted to be exclusively a rental facility, it is needed to be a rehearsal space with a really high ceilings -- whatever it was, having that level of leadership that my founding director is also my boss really made that possible. i really felt like i had great stewardship and we were able to make really innovative decisions for how the theater could grow over the decade. >> living with -- living with someone who is both your immediate boss and also a working artist is also a huge asset. that is one of the things that keeps the creativity flowing through odc. it is a campus about the creative process at all times. >> the theater was part of a

second phase of capital fund raising and community support. the previous one had renovated the space where the rehearsal studios are and the school is, sell what does that sort of say about the importance of the odc in the community? >> i think it's spoke to the two very different tracks of our organization. part of what we do is education and outreach. part of what we do is performance on the part of our company, odc dance, and a third part of what we do is this presenting an incubation stage. when we came to people to talk about the theater as a second investment after having built the dance commons, the distinct purpose of the theater really came through. what we were going to do with our venue was invest deeply in creativity, deeply in our regional artists, and we were going to do something that most mid-size san francisco venues have struggled to do. >> talk to me a little about the

group other than odc that have used this space. >> one of the great pleasures in our opening season was to go back and invite two of our former resident artists to launch this space. arab laung was to invite two of the best known -- our launch was to invite two of the best known companies in the city to share in the event, and it was really exceptional. these are companies that i have worked with and the organization has worked with releases they were either newborn or just a few years old, and to go back to that roster and invite two of our really major home town honeys to open a theater and be able to treat them as the professionals they have become with this opportunity, with this menu, and with the resources that were available was really a

full circle experience for both of us. >> now that the theater has been fully renovated, where is it going? >> i believe that san francisco is in some ways to the nation what odc is to san francisco, which is to say that i believe the west coast is the hotbed for innovation. i think it is where major cultural innovations happen, where huge ideas are born and often raised up. it may not often be the marketplace that other major metropolitan areas are, but i do think is the center of where creativity sits. i think that what odc can do by becoming this level of institution is raise the platform of san francisco. i name -- in many ways, it is sort of a death process, but putting an artist in contact with recording artists, with other major areas, with exchange companies around the country and the world will become a central

part of what we do. >> it is clear that now there is a campus that has been built out and filled in, that odc is playing this fabulous supportive and incubated role, both for san francisco, the bay area, and the country. thank you so much for being part of "culturewire." >> my pleasure. >> and for contributing so much to the performing arts of our city. >> for more information, visit odc

supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the public safety committee meeting. i am ross mirkarimi. to my left is supervisor david campos. we expect supervisor coehn will

be joining us later. thank you, sfgtv, for your excellence in covering committee hearings. madam clerk, would you please read the first item? >> item 1. resolution authorizing the department of emergency management to retroactively accept and expend a homeland security grant program grant in the amount of $2,094,667 from the united states department of homeland security, through the california emergency management agency, for disaster planning. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. >> good morning. i am with the department of emergency management. i'm joined by our emergency services manager, who i am very pleased to introduce to you. we are pleased to have him working in our department. the grant is a $2 million grant for department of homeland security. we have two pieces. there is the stay at home security grant program and medical response.

this is basically the bread-and- butter grant for disaster planning for the city and county of san francisco. we get into every year. there are six projects supported in this. you may have seen them as projects a, b, c, d, e, and f. there is general preparedness, strengthening communications, chemical biological nuclear explosives, things like that. the four basic things that are funded are the bread and butter for emergency planning in the city. it is equipment, training, exercises, planning, and a couple of things i want to point out to you that are funded are several of our planning positions that we think do great work for the city. we have a business liaison who does business in downtown in san francisco with the small business community to get them

prepared and offer us resources. two years ago, we had a disaster veterinary planner. a lot of people will not leave their homes if they cannot take their pets with them. that causes a danger to them and animals. this is provided free to us by the government. they financed it. we are doing post-disaster resilience planning in san francisco led by the office. that is what we do three years, three months down the road to get the city back on its feet. this is the basic overall planning grant. it is not just for emergency management. it provides funding for the city. there's money for the sheriff's department. i would be happy to answer any questions you may have. there was no sitting match required for this grant and we are not creating new positions. this is ongoing funding for what we do. supervisor mirkarimi: i'm

familiar with this grant. year to year, we go through this. it makes complete sense. no questions. comments? thank you very much. any public comment? welcome. any public comment on this item? >> and good morning. i have lived in san francisco for 59 years. i would like to speak out in support of this item. my public comment deals with treasure island. i was wondering if any of this money would be earmarked for the future protection of treasure island, since it seems that the city is spending so much resources developing the island. it seems like another concern i have is whether any of the money can be allocated to department of public health so they can expand their programs that deal

with disasters, since almost every disaster somehow involves the department of public health. i was wondering if any of this money could be allocated for the department of public health, especially in regards with dealing with senior citizens or just basically people who are injured in whatever disaster that happens. i would like to pose those two questions. hopefully, some of the money could be allocated to those two areas. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. public comment is closed. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you. good morning. thank you for the presentation. make a motion to move this item forward with the resolution. supervisor mirkarimi: let's do this. before we move this forward with recommendation, maybe we could answer that question. >> i would be glad to. thank you very much for the question. i will take the second part first.

vulnerable populations, seniors, disabled, one of the things funded in this grant is a vulnerable preparation planner. there is a lot of work making sure the shelters we plan for our 88 accessible and we are doing outreach -- are ada accessible and we're doing outreach to make sure we can identify where a vulnerable population is living, who were they, how do we reach out to them. we have a planner devoted to that. we are proud of that. in terms of san francisco, we do work with neighborhood organizations. some of that funding is in this grant. treasure island is one of the neighborhood certainly included in that. training and exercises are funded in this grant. the fire department has one of their facilities at treasure island. some activities they do their support the city and the island, and that is funded by this grant. supervisor mirkarimi: very good.

thank you. there has been a motion. seconded and so moved with recommendation. item number two, please? >> item two. resolution authorizing the office of the chief medical examiner to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $116,589 from the paul coverdell forensic science improvement grants program of the california emergency management association for accreditation support. supervisor mirkarimi: welcome. >> good morning. i'm joan from the office of the city administrator. we also have dr. hart, the chief medical examiner. this grant is from the california emergency management association. we are grateful to be receiving it. the office of the medical resent -- examiner must be accredited under the board of forensic toxicology. this grant will allow equipment to be bought and training to be

given to staff. happy to answer questions. supervisor mirkarimi: i think this is very straightforward. i want to throw a question to you relate it to the previous item we passed forward with recommendations. the monies that we actually accept from homeland security, when they were talking about law enforcement and preparing for those, man-made or natural disasters, is that a segue into the medical examiner's office as well? >> i wouldn't know. the doctor can answer that question. supervisor mirkarimi: good to see. >> in the heart, chief medical examiner. the question about do we receive some of the funding that is available for natural preparedness, the answer is yes. the medical examiner's office

participate in training exercises. one thing we recently participated in was from the department of emergency management. we have a person under grant with them who came in to revise our mass fatality plan, to put it in compliance with regional requirements for the plan. that was recently completed. they made a -- they're going to make a presentation to our department this afternoon. it came from grant funding. we fully participate in that region participate in everything we can for emergency prepare -- we fully participate in everything we can for emergency preparedness. we want to be up to national standards. supervisor mirkarimi: across my mind. i was looking at item number one. i wanted to ask that question. thank you very much. is there any public comment on

this item? public comment is closed. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you. i move we move forward with the recommendation. supervisor mirkarimi: so moved. >> item 3. ordinance amending the san francisco environment code by adding sections 2250 through 2254, to require any business selling prescription drugs to the public to post display materials explaining how to safely and lawfully dispose of unused prescription drugs. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to think the city of san francisco and the mayor's office for working closely with my office in helping build what was an attempt last year when i introduced legislation to require pharmaceutical companies, drug companies, to provide for infrastructure that

allows the citizenry -- citizenry of san francisco to dispose of their prescription and on wanted medications in a way that would be safe and one that would comport with our public safety and health and welfare standards. this legislation was met with significant opposition because it would be a mandate by the industry, but what it did catalyze was an interesting body of negotiation with industry representatives and government officials. this stems from the fact that there are a number of states in the united states where we have borrowed the concept of applying this law locally that of contempt -- that have attempted to compel similar results. that is in the state legislatures in the united states. they also wanted to see a very similar infrastructure create. in every one of those states,

those efforts were beaten back and failed due to the aggressive lobbying efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and others. we believe that that was no reason to retreat from what we think is a very sensible idea, one that has been well-promoted by the department of and garment, but promoted in the city and county of san francisco at our own expense. this is where i take great issue. i think there should be some proper corporate social responsibility in helping cities to be able to determine a shared system of how we discard these unwanted medication so they do not get into the wrong hands or get into our water systems, so we all can rest comfortably that the adverse affects of the tonnage that is disposed of each year in san francisco does not detrimentally affect the kind of help stream that we want to make

sure is protected. this legislation is aimed at addressing the problems of drugs contaminating our water system, including the bay, and waste water treatment plant, which are not designed to filter these contaminants out. the need for this program was further shown by a 2003 pilot program in which the department of environment and our public utilities commission partnered with walgreen's to collect 1,130 pounds of drugs in two days. that came at a high cost at the city's expense, ultimately at taxpayer expense, but one that we have to shoulder. before a final vote was taken, the pharmaceutical industry's said earlier, primarily pharma and genetech, generously offered $110,000 for san francisco to