this is revolving around an additional incident of graffiti, but i want to put my objection on the record. this is something we deal with seriously on a monthly basis. we take care of it as it comes to and i personally find the assessment to our building to be unconscionable. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> my name is kevin gilbert, 21 paterson street. the letter we received, we took care of it a media elite and painted are building a few months prior to receiving the letter. we rode back to dpw with a certified letter and never got any response back. we are objecting against this fine and we keep our building is clean as we can.

we have extra paint on hand and where there monday through friday making sure it is clean. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i represent the owner of 1524 mission street located at mission and geneva. we have also received a notice. we paid on that one on april 1st, 2011 and we got one for the same building, 5128, the same address. we paid the building every month it seems like an now, members in the community have made it known to our painters that the symbol there should not be removed or there will be retaliation against the painters. it's getting tougher and tougher to get rid of this. we have been working with the

police department. officer mccarthy to try to solve this problem. we keep getting $250 fines over and over and unless we want to hire someone 24 hours to stand out there and painted, i don't know how to come to terms with this issue. it's frustrating. this happens all over the city and i think the bureaucracy is outrageous. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. by building is passed pat ritter 42 ninth street. i got the blight citation and states are name but it is not our address. thank you. president chiu: next speaker.

>> my name is larry williams. i met 898 girard street in san francisco. -- i live at 890 girard street in san francisco. i had a hearing in 2008. k williams and i forget who the judge was, but they said if i had an inordinate amount of graffiti, which they said i did, but then they said they did not see i have out -- how -- by letter says i had 15 minutes to prove it is an undue assessment. i can't afford to do it. i've been at my address since 1971 and i've spent over $10,000 painting off the graffiti and now my health is ill and i'm 75 years old. financially and physically i cannot continue to do this and i fail to see -- once they put this on my house call have bars on a window, someone has broken

into by house three times. when they tagged these things on my house, ask them not to put this on my home because it tells sees that i'm not home. then they attempt to break into my house. i have bars all lawyer around is like a prison. then they send me the letters. sometimes they want me to keep it off every 30 days. i have to go to santa barbara. i was diagnosed with an aneurysm and going in june. every six months, they take an mri to see what these to be done about it. i have a june appointment to go to stanford and i have arthritis and what i go up there, i get dizzy and cannot climb or do any of that anymore. financially, it's a strain on me as well. president chiu: next speaker. >> where do i find out about the resolution. president chiu: you can speak to

the jungle and from dpw. staff will speak to you after the hearing. next speaker. >> we have a building at 929 geneva. we are getting these notices consistently and i have complied with them each and every time. i'm assuming the tax money we are sending you guys is not enough or sufficient enough for you to aggressively approach the graffiti gowers and some of coming after the easy money from building owners or property owners or whichever cents. i suggest you should go aggressively after the cause and said of coming after the easy money. that's all i have to say. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is brian mulroney and

i am representing richard schumacher. he got a notice at 1570 hate street and there is no such building. basically, we've had a guy tagging our building for six months. we paint it almost on a daily basis. i have a guy who comes in every morning and cleans up the mess from the night before. i put a note for the sky two weeks ago that if he did any more of it, he would find a baseball bat upside his head. so we have not seen it since. you should go after the people perpetrating this not the people who of the building. some people think it's an art form or whatever. it's vandalism and they should be prosecuted for it. thank you very much.

>> good afternoon. i'm the owner of 275 haight street. i got a notice and after i got the notice for graffiti, i do removed within a short time. i still got charged $250. i don't know why. i write this supervisor to remove that for me. and then to more. the second one is 301 20th avenue in san francisco. what we get the notice of graffiti, we removed it with a short time.

then again, i got the notice for the charge of $250. the third one is on 2853 mission street. same thing. when i got the notice, i removed it. i cleaned up, but sometime in the glass window with a chemical thing that i cannot remove completely. we did our best to remove everything. then of course, i don't know why, i still got the notice of charge to hundred $50. -- of charged $250. i want the supervisors to waive that for me please. i think the graffiti problems -- sometime weekly one day and after two days, it's again.

[tone] i want to ask you to stop that, please. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> of one of the owners at 24 01 fell more. i want to repeat what everyone's been saying, but the building is constantly getting hit and we always corrected. this time it was two days late, but my issue -- i've got no argument -- we still got fined, but the argument is the amount of graffiti was small. less than a foot wide by a foot high and you had to search to see it from the street. either we are getting really desperate and going after everything or -- all want to say is i wish dpw would use some judgment because it's getting ridiculous. for going to start getting down to finding people.

president chiu: next speaker. >> i own a pair of slots at 1001 at 1003 some to go at 22nd ave. we got the notice and we take care of the painting in such, but we are one block from lincoln high. the kids come in from caravel street going to school, to school, they eat at lunchtime or going to or from school, we are just right on the corner and a very visible location. i am understand it's a blight and i don't like it. we do we can to take care of it. i'm wondering if there's some outrage that can be done by the art of building inspection of the police department to go in to a high-school and tell the

what it costs us as property owners to deal with this kind of thing. when we get tagged, it's something we're dealing with. but if you can do something to inform and educate the kids who hopefully going to become property owners in the future, it would give us a little bit of a break. that's all i have to say. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. ♪ blighted by the light i hope the properties turnout all right. ♪ blighted by the light. i hope the price doesn't hit the highest height. ♪ blighted by the city light. ♪ remember don't give up the item fight. president chiu: are there any

other members of the public who wish to speak as part of this hearing? please step up. >> i think part of the problem is -- he said his building was vacant. i think that's one of the major things we need to talk about is vacant buildings. if your building is vacant, chances are much higher you'll get spray-painted. but i think the conversation is very incomplete because where are the police? every once a call the police, but i'm thinking about the incident i had where they spray- painted the area, they must have left 10 or 15 cans of spray paint and i don't think anybody came out to get fingerprints of these cans or anything.

they are probably just getting away scot-free. president chiu: thank you. any other members of the public wish to speak? i'm going to leave this hearing open. i would like to ask the dpw staffer to step outside and convene with members of the public. if there is a resolution of your case, this gentleman will come back and present that to the board later in our meeting or else he will talk to you about how the case will be resolved. at this time, why don't we go to our 3:30 special order? with a couple of colleagues who want to make presser -- make presentations. let me recognize supervisor kim. supervisor kim: thank you very much. as we all know, jobs and employment is a critical issue in our city and its one many of us are trying to tackle through a variety of different legislation and our constituents

work. i want to take time out today to acknowledge some of the good work happening here in the city of san francisco help in our residents find employment. we want to acknowledge the human services agency, in particular the personal assistant services, grew to implement session and job readiness training and job club. we have several individuals representing the program today. barbara allen, just black, charles drew -- if you want to stand -- ramon a gram, julie foster, lynn levy, rebecca martin, alfred s. sanchez -- is in this difficult economic time that human services agencies say to the programs are invaluable to our city. one of our dedicated office volunteers is one such individual that benefited from this program. after volunteering with our office for three months, he was

ecstatic to find. 39. he was so excited at the individuals at this program, he wanted to honor the job club facilitator today. we actually wanted to honor him and he asked us to honor the program that helped him today. while we are sad to lose a dedicated volunteer at our office, we are very excited about his new employment opportunity. he asked us to honor these very special people today and i wanted to have them come up together as a group and talk about the importance of this program and how our city supports employment readiness and connection to employment in san francisco. on behalf of the office of district 6 and the board of supervisors, we want to commend you for your work and doing the action of all we talk about as policymaking everyday. [applause]

>> my name is barbara allen and i may supervisor with the works service development agency under

the direct your of the agency director and my supervisors. we appreciate that. my staff works with a single adults and non custodial parents who are re-entering the labour market. our unit consists of trainers, group employment preparation, life skills trainers, job ready as trainers, job skills trainers and our minister of staff. on behalf of my staff and myself, i want to express our sincere gratitude to the board of supervisors for recognizing our team today. we also wanted to express our thanks and admiration to billy tuttle who attained full time employment with benefits and a career path through our training program. billy represents what we do best -- identifying, helping

individuals identified their skills, working with them to conduct effective job interviews, helping them in a meaningful job search and offering ongoing support when they get hired. billy, congratulations. you work really hard and did everything right. [applause] and you got fantastic results and we wish you all the best. i would all like to introduce lynn levy who worked with billy. >> i just wanted to say a few words about billy because he's the kind of person who makes our job so satisfying and rewarding. he is one of the hundreds of people in san francisco have had success stories to our program. billy was and is and exemplary

person and client. he was very motivated, he got along with everybody, he helped the other students with their job search and the computer lab. he has incredible integrity and is a fantastic guy. he was hired at pier 39 as a security guard, one of these high-level security guard programs. he was hired temporarily. within a week, he was promoted to a permanent position and less than two months, he's about to get a promotion as a sergeant. he likes to spread the success to all his friends. he has recommended several people in the place where he lives to get short-term positions with pure 39 security. because he has been such a wonderful employee, we just found out they're going to hire another person in the program

who is going to get a full-time position because he's been such an incredible employee. thank you to billy and the board. congratulations, billy. [applause] president chiu: congratulations. let's hear from our colleague, supervisor mar, who will make the next presentation. supervisor mar: thank you. i'm very pleased that three of my favorite people in the world are here. the 60,000 students in the school district, they are lucky to have robbed daniels and the

rest -- could you please come forward? if there is any other staff from the visual and performing arts or the arts education master plan office of the school district, please come forward as well. as a parent of an 11-year-old in the school district, i know how lucky we are to have such visionary staff -- please come here, you guys. we are honoring today the san francisco unified school district visual and performing arts project. especially the 25th anniversary of the young at art festival for san francisco. it is an eight-day celebration hosted by the dm museum. it runs through next sunday but i know of the 20th is the reception from 5:00 until 8:00.

this is a free and open possible to everyone and includes the visual arts exhibition which is wonderful every year. it features york and creativity of 2000 students. i love the live performances and i know rob is often playing the piano and directing everything going on. the live performances include musical performance, theater, dance, the jazz ensembles and orchestras that perform -- screenings of student films as well as literary arts events and activities. i have to find out when my daughter's school performance, but there are so many varieties of schools that perform that it's wonderful to check out a lot of stuff. i think the efforts to create a funding stream with proposition h. that many of you help out with and gave the vision for our one of the reasons we have such great art and creativity programs in the schools. but we need much more. i appreciate the vision you had in developing the arts education

master plan. it's a model for other districts as well. one important part is the focus not just on the creativity of our san francisco students, but it supports equity and access for the arts education we all deserve for our children and future generations. i want to congratulate you on the 25th anniversary and invite you up to say a few words. >> thank you very much. i'm robert daniels. i'm the supervisor for the visual and performing arts department of the san francisco unified school district. thank you for this honor and recognizing the importance of arts in the lives of our students in san francisco and for the city itself. we say san francisco is a campus and we mean it. if you come to the deyoung museum, i can promise you you will be inspired by what you see.

the future is bright when viewed through the creativity of our children. for more information, visit our web site. i would like to reach out and give a special thanks and recognition to a supervisor erik mar, supervisor carlos garcia, the board of education for their ongoing support of arts education. [reading names close brackets -- [reading names] the arts education master plan manager and a big thank you to the extraordinary work of the director of young at heart who cannot be with us today because she is hanging art. of course, to every student and

teacher whose work is represented as visual art, creative writing, dancing, filmmaking, acting, singing and playing a musical instrument. we curate 1200 pieces of art and we have 60 live performances in those two days. we salute you all and are proud to see the promise of our arts education master plan made it real. please no and remember you are invited to young at heart which is held between may 14th and the 22nd. look for your invitations. we hope to see you soon. thank you very much. >> education has to be more than turning out really good test takers. it has to do with the creativity, thinking outside the box, working together, and bending and experiencing deep joy. that is what we do in the arts. come see what's happening at young at heart. i tell my neighbors this every

year -- come to young at art. you will feel inspired and refreshed when you see what these children are capable of doing. i always leave the art museum little bit taller and i know you will also. thank you for your support. >> i just wanted to add a was on valencia's street this sunday. i'm so happy to live in a city that supports the arts because that's what i saw on valencia's street. it was full of artists and if we have the hearts and our schools, we can assure we continue to have a cultural vitality san francisco has. thank you for supporting creativity in the schools. [applause]

president chiu: congratulations to our arts educators. if we could now go back to item number five, which we have already read. unless there is any additional discussion, if we could take a roll-call vote on item number 5 as amended. >> [roll-call] president chiu: if you can hang on just a second, i understand there's a question. actually, i was told we do not have a comment. if you could continue. >> [roll-call]

there are a a 11yes. president chiu: this ordinances passed on the first reading. >> the public can address the board for two minutes with in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including items on the adoption without committee agenda and a mayoral parents before the board. speakers using translators will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if you'd like a document be over -- to be displayed on the overhead projector, please say such and remove the document from the screen when we return to live meeting. president chiu: first speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign-language]

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