tv [untitled] June 23, 2011 4:00pm-4:30pm PDT
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community-based safety program to get children safely through the neighborhood. the tenderloin has the highest concentration of children in the city and because of the small spaces, a lot of children need to go to the rec. and access other recreational programs. having a clean street to walk on is critical at times. there's a certain block between high taylor, ellis, and golden gate.
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especially involving them with beautification and artistic beautification. thank you. supervisor campos: next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is douglas. i would like to take this opportunity to thank elaine zamora for her years of service, especially to this community. elaine and i have worked on one project but from my experience she seems to be a very nice person. in regards to the comment of an earlier speaker, i think those allegations and statements should be checked out and if they're true, they're true. if they're false, they're false, but they should be checked out as a matter of principle and i think that supervisor kim would be proper person to at least discuss them with the other parties involved. in regards to the recommendations for this district, i would like to put in a suggestion that maybe the
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district should consider hiring andrew cohen, also known as the video gate cop. i think this would be an excellent opportunity to show that andrew cohen has been unfairly, in my opinion, scape scapegoated for what happened in video gate. when the truth eventually comes out, andrew cohen is not the main person who is to be blamed. so why don't we give andrew cohen a chance to show what a really nice guy he really is, hire him and let him try to improve the tenderloin because he used to be a street cop there. thank you. supervisor campos: next speaker? if there's any member of the public who hasn't spoken but who would like to speak, please come forward. >> supervisors, president, i'm a north of market neighborhood activist. my neighborhood has an
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inordinant amount of business at city hall. i'm beginning to recognize some of you. i was at the hearing earlier on re-districting appointments, as well. there are parallels in the two hearings. for example, paul hogarth sits on the business district board, among other things. i can't believe that given the amount of surgery that's going to have to be done on district 6 that you're not putting someone from that district on that commission. if you sell this neighborhood down the river, what do you think you're going to get? supervisor campos: is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? >> good afternoon, thomas piccarello, last monday i was elected to the board of directors but today i speak as a resident of the c.b.d., and not reflect the views of the c.b.d. first let me say i appreciate
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the oversight. i think the c.b.d. does a lot of good things for the tenderloin, no question about it. but there needs to be greater transparency and there needs to be greater accountability. at the present time, the c.b.d. spends approximately 80% of their budget to one vendor who cleans the streets. this is on a noncompetitive basis. if -- i was given a packet of documents after my election. i was speaking about the noncompetitive contract. again,
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organization since its inception. i happen to be one of the founding members, board members, of the community benefit district. my name is michael nolte and i am a community leader and activist with 35 years track record of community service to low income communities in san francisco. i'm here today to express my disappointment with the operations of the north of market community benefit district. it started with overwhelming support from all parts of the neighborhood including residents with interim board of 22. it slowly became dominated by special interest and entities speaking funding for their agencies.
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time and time again, resident leaders were being discriminated against and left out of the decision making process and there was no accountability. there needs to be some changes including more residents on the board of directors, board training, not only for board members, but future board members, include the contribution of residents to the c.b.d. on their web site, that all their correspondence from the c.b.d. indicate a statement that the entity only represents the opinion of the property owner and in no way speaks for the tenderloin. there are new executive director once hired needs to do outreach to the entire -- to the residents of the neighborhood which hasn't been done in the past and we insist that the c.b.d. stop addressing land use issues or duplicating what other community groups have been doing
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before the c.b.d. was formed without collaborative efforts. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. another founding member of the c.b.d., john nolte. i got off the board after one year because of the infighting, the out-of-control members because i actually got board training a long time ago and they did not know how to run a board. now, five years later, we're finally getting them trained. i asked it back then. also, the office of workforce development is out of sync. she said this herself. state law for every year they're supposed to be coming in front of you annually to be -- their annual report for each c.b.d. fisherman's wharf, annual
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report, december 2010, castro street, and upper market, december 2010, noe valley, tenderloin c.b.d., 2010. all these c.b.d.'s were formed in 2005 and 2006 and their annual reports were all done four years in a row in front of you when they were supposed to be done in front of you so therefore, the mayor's office dropped the ball, the board of supervisors has not done its job of having these meetings every year and this is the first time in four years that we have come here, the community, to be able to have the talk even publicly about what is going on with the c.b.d. so you're out of compliance with state law as was stated by the mayor's office and by june 1, 2011, you'll have 6,640
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properties under c.b.d.'s, 11 of them, citywide. and growing, because you have more in the pipeline and so if you don't get control over the c.b.d.'s, you're going to have problems as this grows. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. i was wondering if i could have a representative from mowd come back. just a quick point of clarification. there was reference on the sunshine ordinance, does the sunshine ordinance apply to c.b.d.'s? >> according to the city attorney, it does not, because c.b.d.'s bids are formed under state law so they have to comply with the california brown act and then the california public records act and if they follow those two rules, they should be able to, you know, follow the
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sunshine ordinance rules, as well. >> not necessarily, because the brown act and the public records act don't go as far as the sunshine ordinance. my understanding is and i think it happened with something involving a c.b.d. and supervisor mirkarimi's district, they have the ability to go beyond what the brown act and public records act requires and i would suggest that they do that here, that they simply adopt the sunshine ordinance. i think legally there's nothing that precludes them from doing that. that would be one suggestion, whoever is listening from the c.b.d., i think that's a good idea. we can have that requirement instituted by the board of supervisors but i think that the more uniformity there is, the better. >> so what we've tried to do, our office, is to train all the c.b.d.'s, their staff and board members, on the rules and regulations, the brown act and the california public records act. i try to attend all the
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different c.b.d.'s board meetings to make sure they are in fact conducting them in a way that's compliant to those two state laws. i think maybe we could have another conversation about the implications of adding sunshine ordinance because there is a difference of opinion from the city attorney's office and i'd like to make sure. >> >> again, i don't think we're saying that the city attorney's office is wrong to say that the sunshine ordinance does not apply. the fact that they're not obligated to follow it doesn't mean they don't have the ability voluntarily to follow it, which is what we're talking about. >> o.k. supervisor campos: on the annual reports, are you legally required to come to the board every year with the c.b.d. reports and are you doing that? >> yes. so this is our attempt to get in front of you to be in compliance. we are definitely behind, and i
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joined the staff about a year ago and this has been my primary role, is to do the analysis of all the c.b.d.'s and their work. almost all the c.b.d.'s have been compliant and on their end they have provided to us their annual reports and their financials and it's now on us to make sure we come in front of you on an annual basis. supervisor campos: my office will put this item on the g.a.o. agenda to see where mowd is in terms of meeting their obligations. >> we're almost done. i've been trying to do this since last year. we have a couple more that are behind multiple years but after that, we are on track. supervisor campos: you can tell us more about it when we bring you back. colleagues, we have a report. i think it's an action item that requires us to receive and approve the report. if we can have a motion?
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>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the
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installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then evyt
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