before the taxes will possibly squeeze the older people out from living in this fine city. i would like to request that everybody realizes that the police department was not born yesterday. they have been a very dedicated crew, even though i've got a rap sheet compliments of my ex-husband with his creative notification to the local district police station crew. because he happened to transfer there as a civilian employee. but i would think it would be very nice if we had retired police captains sitting in on the police commission instead of just lawyers who seem to feel they're smarter than the average everyday police officer. why is the police officer to be considered stupid just because he puts his life on the line for the public of this fine city? i don't understand that.

i am a former police captain secretary and as such, i was even made a nut cake. anybody can be made a nut cake. all it takes is money, honey. i didn't have it. so i'm a nut cake. that's so he could have the cheapest divorce in history. great. well, 34 1/2 years of marriage but whatever. i still think it would be nice if we had police administration sitting in on this panel instead of just lawyers so that we have police input not just civilians saying how stupid they are and that we need community policing. community policing, you got your average everyday citizen who wants to file a complaint because he didn't like getting a traffic citation, getting arrested, or whatever, having the right to file all sorts of complaints, they all can file their complaints, but the police should be in policing the police.

it's all i think should be the idea of community policing. they're not stupid. we've been around since the gold rush, 1849. this is not a new police department under any circumstances whatsoever. i was proud to have been working for the police department as a stenographer, secretary, doesn't mean i'm surprising the world but i did do my job. i came forth. started in the traffic bureau which has been dismantled lately, suddenly they're not important even though they're the first ones on any calamity or happening that took place in this city. suddenly they're not important. i don't understand that either. the police department was set up a long time ago and know what they're doing. they didn't suddenly turn stupid. thank you.

>> hello, my name is tom sellhorse, i'm back and have a couple comments. number one, community policing invites corruption. you have some community police in this city, particularly in the mission statement, chief, sir. the gay community liaison under lieutenant michelle jean particularly folks like sergeant chuck lambert who brags of being friends of some of the people in the community they're working on behalf of. that's not equal protection under the law when you defend some people's rights at the expense of other people's rights. that's number one. number who two, when you look at community policing is that another euphemism for different legal standards. there are certain communities, as you call them, that are treated as if they're special. the law doesn't apply to them or laws are applied differently to them. they have their own private police forces and community liaison who work on their behalf and brag about being their buddies.

that's not equal protection under the law. that's illegal. and finally, patrol specials who are another form of community policing. only they're private police hired by individuals secretly so that they know for whom they work and we don't. >> i've been doing research on them, some of them have been child molesters in the past. i had one recently who was going and hiring a hooker and you let him off. these patrol specials are criminals in some cases and you've had almost a year to respond to the patroler's report telling you that they should be out of business. how long is it going to take before we get some action on the patroler's report? those of us being victimized cannot wait any longer. it's taking too long. it's taken too long. former commissioner hammer is no longer here to apologize for them and commissioner dejesus isn't here tonight. you have a quorum. why don't you vote. thank you. president mazzucco: next speaker. >> commissioners, good evening.

for the record, my name is emil lawrence. very briefly, i was going to discuss the pros and cons i've been reading in the paper on the selection of the new police commissioner. i know the board of supervisors has selected a gay activist, claiming that the spot on the police commission is now a gay spot. i don't believe that's true. i think they should have picked the best man for the spot. i think a police officer was running for it and several other people were running for that spot. secondly, i have no objection of a gay person being on the commission. my problem is that the way it's set up now, that spot is always going to be allocated to some gay activist attorney and i don't think we need one. i think if we're going to have a gay person, we need a gay accountant. most of the commission just set

up as boards of directors. there's no physical or monetary accountability whatsoever from this board or this commission or most of the other commissions that are picked by both the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. and i've already run up against the san francisco tax commission with the civil service selected me three times in a row as the director's position where i was the only taxi driver in m.a. in accounting and corporate math, only to have gavin newsom bump me for an attorney from his inner office. it happened three times in a row. i think you need more accountants and less attorneys on these commissions or more laymen and less attorneys. and i think we don't need an activist who wants to change the constitution into his or her image. that's all i have to say on the

matter. i thank you for your time. president mazzucco: any further comment regarding these items. hearing none, public comment is closed. line item number 3, please. >> item 3 is public comment on all matters pertaining to item number 5 below, closed session disciplinary cases, and whether to hold number five in closed session. president mazzucco: any public comment in hearing the closed session items. hearing none. call item five. >> a vote on whether to hold item 5 in closed motion. >> so moved. >> second. pres president mazzucco: we still have a quorum.

>> item number 6 is a vote to elect whether to disclose any or all this kirsch -- discussion item five held in closed session. all in favor? before calling line item 7, next week, we will have our new commissioner present, who was approved by the board of supervisors. also an attorney. he will be here with us next week after he is sworn in. >> [inaudible] >> welcome. >> item 7 is adjournment. president mazzucco: do i have adjournment? so moved. so moved. we are adjourned.

>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world

should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents

artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it

becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now.

you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store.

can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only

one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur.

really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints

by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team.

>> good morning and welcome to the dedication of westbrook plaza. this is an unusually beautiful day for which i'm sure we are all very grateful. i am the interim president of mercy housing. this event, which celebrates the creation of 49 units of affordable housing and the state of an art community health care center is the result of a strong partnership between mercy housing and the south of market health center. more than 12 years have worked -- of work. the dedication and commitment of

numerous, talented, hard-working people. participation of a lot of public and private partners and a lot of money. it does not take just a village to create a community facility such as this. it takes an entire metropolis. we will take the opportunity today to thank many of the people and institutions who have contributed to this stunning facility and because there are so many to thank, i will be brief now so that we can move the program along. at this time, i am particularly pleased to enter is the director -- the executive director of the south of market health center, an extraordinary community leader, fabulous partner, and a great person to share the podium with. [applause] >> thank you. i really appreciate everyone being here today. let me first of all give you a

little history. some of you may know mrs. westbrook and some of you may not know mrs. west work. but she is a dynamic leader in san francisco. her history is outstanding. it is so outstanding that we did not hesitate in naming this the westbrook plaza. she has done a lot for health services, not only in san francisco, but throughout the nation, and she has done a lot for housing. she served on a lot of commissions in san francisco. so because she has spent her whole life looking out for those who we sometimes must reach out to give a helping hand, she always did that and made sure and reminded all the politicians, all the directors and exactly what our responsibility is in taking care

of the needy. with that philosophy, that is the reason i came to this organization. and because of her, that is why we push -- we really started this project almost 20 years ago. i came in 1990 to this organization and in 1991, the board and this community wanted a new medical facility. so out of that, it took years. how many mayors? one, two, three, maybe four. it was four. and it was under willie brown who put the first amount of money in the redevelopment budget to deal with side acquisition or at least to look for sites. it was not enough to buy the site, but at least we were looking for it. so we found this site. i appreciate everyone being

here. this beautiful two buildings out of half an acre of land. it is amazing what can be done in san francisco with creativity. i want to thank everyone, including all the people here that have been involved. there have been so many. i could never named everyone, and i appreciate that. i would like to invite our first speaker up. it is our mayor, mayor edwin lee. it is nice to have a mayor that comes out to the community. this is a community facility for residents of san francisco, and being the mayor of san francisco, i'm sure his heart is as big as mine in terms of what this means to the residents of san francisco, so i want to introduce the mayor to everyone. [applause]

>> thank you very much. i want to also continue the very important attribute that we have for eloise westbrook. when i was just a young workers never trying to cause trouble in the city on behalf of low-income residents, i have already heard of ms. westbrook. she was already helping lead the effort to improve housing conditions for all of our public housing tenants. my today, it is just really appropriate to make sure that our city honors mr. westbrook, her family, who is here today, i know. thank you very much for being here. this is very appropriate that this new project be in the name and westbrook loss of the

another great place for people to understand and know about the history of the city. i am so happy to be part of this great city when it names and after people in the community who have done great work. i recognize that, and i know doris, our supervisor, was there as well. she recognizes that. thank you very much for being here, too. i want to also continue to congratulate mercy housing. the south of market health center, for working so collaborative we with our redevelopment agency. this $47 million project -- over 1/3 of it is the contribution of our redevelopment agency. thank you, redevelopment, for putting this together. [applause] it just shows again not only the fantastic collaboration with very reputable housing builders like mercy housing and they're wonderful financial participants

-- i know wells fargo is here and u.s. bank and others, who are just a key to so much of our great housing we're doing -- but we are also combining it with some fantastic health provisions, which i know miss westbrook would be extremely crowded here. that combination coming together in the middle of our city and once again exemplifying how redevelopment works in our city and how it becomes yet another example for the rest of this state to understand the role of redevelopment. [applause] wonderful contribution. with that contribution, you can make a successful project but also fulfil such an important objective of this city, affordable housing with the support that the tenants and residents here will need. again, i want to thank all of the collaboration that this represents. the communication to the rest of the state that even in the

hardest of economic times, when we pull the right entities together, when they are focused, and we rebuild community around the objectives we have, we have the winning combination, and we have a redevelopment agency and mercy housing and south of market health center to prove it. i want the governor to even come here to see what we have done. i want all the other officials to come, to recognize how we do it here in san francisco and how we can do it elsewhere throughout the state if we have a focused and do not give up on the old promises that this city has always made, that we will take care of the most needy and do it the right way, we will do it together. thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity. >> well said.

well presented. also in this project, not only in terms of the redevelopment agency, mercy housing, all the bankers south of market and all of our founders -- and we had a lot of people do in private donations for this project -- we also reached out to washington, d.c. to bring some of our money back to our community. it is a nice feeling when that happens. so both of our representatives have significant involvement in the success of this project. i would like to bring to the podium represented nicole rivera from nancy pelosi's office -- representative nicole rivera. she called me and said she may year by -- she may be here by the time was that the program. ok, well, we will go on to