address residents' concerns, but also the parks and recreation department, the mass transit authority and the other relevant departments to mitigate the different nuisance and noise -- access and how the park is restored after the large events. just as a plague -- a plug from the upcoming bluegrass festival, this looks to be the best one ever, with not just the traditional bluegrass performers but also everyone from led zeppelin, robert plant and one of the best drummers around, the king of funky drums. kris kristofferson, dr. john and his darkstar orchestra. and emmylou harris. it should be a good festival.

september 29-october 2. and from last week's meeting, we honored era with different comments, and i am introducing along with supervisor campos, a resolution dedicating september 25 eric posada day, calling on his work as one of san francisco's great leaders, and i wanted to give a plug for the september 25 celebration of his life. he was a friend of many of ours, but september 25 is at horris man in valencia. for more information you can

contact my office. the oldest non-commercial radio west of the mississippi river. i have to say that kelw has volunteers that work at the radio station. there is a community college district -- i want to thank the colleagues for supporting that effort. and we have several ideas for the future that are being promoted. they are going more mobile with different technologies, and

their supporting more in-depth coverage. they are promoting a new generation of voices and they are strengthening their support. i also want to acknowledge that -- we will talk about the leaders of the richmond district, with alcohol being sold at stores with automated self checkout stands, and the potential for minors -- we worry about them and people under the influence the may be able to get this at stores with self check out some. the assemblywoman, this coming

friday -- this is on ninth avenue. supervisor avalos? >> supervisor avalos: supervisor mar, you didn't mention irma thomas. "time is on my side" and i will be there, if i can. i want to sign on to the in memoriam for leroy, who has done a lot of great work in the tenderloin. his grandson is in my district. a lot of great work in san francisco. >> no other names on the roster, that concludes roll call for introductions. >> why don't we call up the 4:00

special orerder, items 32 to 35? on property located at 3151 to 3155 scott street. item 33 is the motion approving the plan commission's decision to approve the conditional use authorization. item 34 is the motion disapproving the planning commission's decision and item 35 is directing the preparation of findings. supervisor chu: i'm going to ask that we continue this item to october 4 so that the appeal coincides with the other appeal. i also understand that the parties, both the supporters and are involved in negotiations. if those are successful, that it might affect whether or not we move forward with this appeal. at this time if i could ask my

colleague, supervisor campos to chair this. i would like to make a motion that we continue these items. first, are there any members of the public to speak to the motion to continue or wish to speak on this project? please step up to the microphone. every member of the public shall have up to two minutes. let me make clear, you can testify today on your perspective on the edward ii project or you can wait until october 4 or you can speak at both meetings. >> thank you very much. i would like to make a very brief comment. i'm an almost 40-year resident of the marina. when i first moved in, it was like a quiet village at the north end of the city. it has continually continued into criminal activity, homicide, robbery, burglary, assault, and mugging. as a retired federal law enforcement officer myself, to move a group of people which could easily be categorized for

people like me as losers is the fox attempting to guard the henhouse. if this thing passes, i invite you to the fact that you have made a horrible mistake. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you, are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? >> peter alexander. the reason that what i say is applicable because it's applicable to all of these things that are going on right now. just like the gentleman before we stated, i second what he said. it seems that everyone in the public is being picked on or possibly being picked on one way or another and things are only getting worse. so i heard the one person talk about financial concerns and so i'm wondering how many of you have looked up and googled four capital letters, cafr, which

would take care of your financial problems immediately if not sooner and there will be another gentleman speaking on this later. and since i will be leaving, i wish to also address, i believe this ties into all of this that the young woman to my left, jane kim, i was listening and enjoying listening to her speak about the gentleman of the cadillac hotel who put a lot of time and energy into the music engaging the public. i would say on behalf of this sort of effort, that we all get onboard and know that the general strike has already been struck. the media is not letting the public know that there are striking members of labors and schools up and down the coast from washington to san diego more than several, more than a dozen, but the media is not telling us this. and so the power of the general strike has begun. it will benefit us all and during this time, these gardens

can begin in the spirit of the person that the woman on my left spoke of. i'll finish by saying that, again, man in into time shall be standing still, so sayeth the lord. it is the spirit in our heart that must engage and all of us must get on the stage. we were all affected and we were all to be as one. only together do we shine as the sun. we are the power on the west coast. president chiu: thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in regards to edward ii? >> good afternoon board of supervisors. doug millar from santa rosa. you have heard from me before, at least some of you have. i'm a full-time investigator of crimes against children. as a man who has been

successful in the business world before investigating these crime, i want to refer you to what you have just heard. this website stands for comprehensive annual financial report. if you go to this website, cafr 1, number one.com, you will see that every city, every county, every state in the nation has two sets of books. i trust that you folks have not checked into this, so i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. the bottom line is that we're going to hold all of you responsible for organizing voters in every jurisdiction, city and county in the bay area to do recall on at least one or more members of the city or the county board. we're going to do it right away as soon as january 1 roles, we will be launching it. we want to encourage you to do your homework and quit trying

to pass more tax goals. you have a second set of books and you're awash with money. president chiu: thank you. before we continue, i just want to reiterate, this is for public comments specifically with regards to the edward ii project. we will have general public comment shortlyly. next speaker please. >> precisely to the point. so when the constituents come here who live in the area and tell you supervisors that, you know, that edward's impacts in the area and have pointed it to you, some of them being safety, how can we address buildings without addressing quality of life issues? so the point is very simple. when the constituents come here and speak to you, listen to them. do not have a buy as that you all know everything and that, you know, the constituents know nothing. it is time that you get educated on issues.

it is time that this planning department is taken to task. it is time that you supervisors learn to represent. finally, let me say this. it's good that you're supervisors. we need you to be supervisors that we want to represent. don't be here for a short time so that you can jump up the totem pole and aspire to some higher offices where as supervisors you deal with mundane topics like the napkin. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak with regard to the motion to continue of the edward ii item? ok. i have actually made a motion to continue. i'll ask supervisor campos to chair this portion given i have made the motion. supervisor campos: we have a motion to continue until october 4. we have have a second to that

motion. a second by supervisors elsbernd. >> supervisor campos to continue it to 4:00 p.m. supervisor campos: on october 4. we have a motion that has been seconded by supervisor elsbernd. can we take that without objection? without objection. the matter will be continued. president chiu: and if i can call up item 36, madam clerk. i know this item did not come out of committee. >> item 36 was not forwarded to the board as a committee report. president chiu: just so to make it clear to the number, item 36 is the legs with the special use district around the edward ii project. it was forwarded out to next week. we will consider it to next week's meeting. why don't we go to general public comment. >> the next item on the opportunity is the opportunity for the members of the public to address the board on items of interest within the subject matter jurisdiction including the merrill appearance before

the board today. however, excluding the items which have already been considered by a board committee, speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. president chiu: we have many members of the public. again, if i could ask members of the public if you could respectful of each other's opinions. we do have a rule in the board chamber to not express support or opposition of comments that are made. with that we have the first speaker. two minutes per speaker. thank you. >> [speaking foreign language]

ladies and gentlemen, as you know, i am very happy to see that our, the city mayor accepted my invitation i give him and he going with us tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 on market. united nations meeting. i hope and i wish that the rest of our supervisors will show up with us tomorrow. i give him the invitation on behalf of my friend who has established this program for many years.

ladies and gentlemen, as egyptian american muslim, i would like to thank each one of our friend, our neighbor for one they did. i would like to take a special thanks to thank channel 7 and cnn to give good memorial for our people who have been killed in 9/11. you can see muslim and the christian and jew worked together under one point. we need to bring this job to the city, to the country. we need to see middle america like barack obama has said, we're going to make it sooner or later. i would like each one of you who is responsible for his district to wake up and work with us side by side. i have here some idea to make

it and i would like to show you some news but they tried to show us how we are very respectable for our people and we are respectable and we are responsible to raise our own children. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i mean supervisors. my name is robert williams and i'm here today with robert and we are honorable discharged veterans. we come to ask the board's permission or the board's consent, well, not really the consent. we came to let you know what we're getting ready to do. we are very concerned about the polite of the veterans here in san francisco and we decided to

start a west coast swing dance which is the state dance of california. the instigator being robert here himself. he can tell you more about that. but we're going to start this dance and we're going to have this dance, i feel a lot of hostilities in the room today and i tell you, it's been kind of hard for me to sit here and listen to the things that have been going down. i wanted the supervisors to know that we as veterans, we support the veterans in san francisco and we do a program called the appreciating veterans especially on sunday. you can see it on youtube. you can pull it up on youtube yourself. that's the search engine you use. it's on the public access channel and you can see that every sunday morning from 6:00 until 7:00. so what we're trying to do, we want support from the board of

supervisors to do the west coast swing dance. bob. >> in 1988, i wrote a letter to the senate and i said wouldn't it be better that we dance with one another instead of shoot each other. they agreed. they made west coast the official state dance of california. it's time that we celebrate it, isn't it? this is a great thing. we are going to have a contest that's going to last for a year. i was in a contest that lasted for a year and i got eliminated the first week. but the 12th week i entered, the 12th month i entered the contest and i won, ok. you can see me dancing in 1988 and i looked a hell of a lot better than i do right now. what we're trying to do, we're trying to create jobs, we're

trying to create happiness and friendship among people to bring people together. this is the one thing that this country does not have and i think that we need to bring people together. when you dance together, how can you shoot each other? you just can't do that. my plan is, i'm going to make it as brief as i can, when the students and we're going to make it available for people to learn how to do the west coast swing. we're going to ask the teachers that are teachers of dance to come down and volunteer their time and we ask the contestants to pay $100 each time that they enter the contest. this gentleman over here, johnson, where is he? is he still here? >> right there beside you.

>> this is ken johnson. he has been the producer of these movies that we have been making, i call them movies because anything that moves, it was a movie. ok. i want to thank you very much. we don't really need your help, but we do need your approval and if we could get a letter from you then we can get sponsors. president chiu: thank you very much. >> we talked with the wells fargo bank the other day. they were thrilled. president chiu: thank you and happy dancing. next speaker. >> i was sorry to hear about the passing of leroy looper he was a good friend. don't accept money from the friends and foundation. a part of the message of the private advertisization of our institution is how little benefit is received by the public partner, the citizens. there are various ways to drama advertise how the citizens receive, how little the

citizens receive. we can compare it to how little is received compared to how much the flan throw pisses take -- phlanthropists, and how much they give compared to what they promised to give. that is the biggest betrayal of all. the expenditures have reached $149 million, expected to reach $109 million, the friends foundation have expanded $1.1 million. the citizens voted for a bond issue to remodel all of the brancheses based on a commitment that it would cost $105.8 million and be finished in january of 2010. at the time the friends of the library originally claimed that it would be raising $16 million, in other words they would be adding $15.1% to the project.

as a percent of the project, instead of raising $15.1%, they have raised slightly less than 1%. the private fundraisers are allowed by the city of san francisco to present themselves as benefactors of the public. to do that, the supervisors have to ignore the accountability that was created to protect the public and to refuse the arm called by the so-called private-public partnership. what the city has to sell to the corporate businesses is the remaining class barriers. they certainly delivered on that promise. that's why the lies cost more than the money. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, president chiu -- president chiu: are all those standing in public comment? there are folks having trouble seeing the proceedings. i wonder if it's possible for some folks -- good point, i

didn't even see that. thank you. >> good afternoon, president chiu and the board of supervisors. i'm the sponsor of the hill support group. my condolences also go out to mrs. westbrook who was definitely a trooper in the community who was an inspiration to me as well as mayor rogers and others who have gone on and brother leroy from the tenderloin community. i'm speaking on behalf of parents who have lost children to senseless gun violence. we heard two people lost their lives because of the pedestrian situation here in san francisco, but even greater so, we're at 37 homicides. we're at 37 homicides and it's not even september is not even over yet. 36 homicides versus two people that were struck by muni vehicles. that are 37 families that we're dealing with right now in the healing circle that are suffering from post-traumatic

stress. a young man who was just shot recently as i shared with supervisor avalos, shot several times, we're dealing with that family also. i would like the board to really look at the situation of violence in our community. it's on the increase. homicides are up. bullying is up. incarceration is up. and jobs are down and economic disparity is in our communities, particularly in communities of color. so i ask the board to really take a good look at the situation and we incite all of you to participate at our upcoming candidates forum on october 13, 2011 at paradise baptist church from 6:30 to 9:00. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> mr. president, what they were standing for to see if they could give me their time because i have some things in

two minutes that is really short and rather than have all them speak, they came today and wanted to know if they could give me their time. president chiu: unfortunately, the way our rules work, each individual is allowed two minutes to speak. if you have a message that you want to deliver, the other folks can use the time within their two minutes, also, thank you. >> what did you say? president chiu: you asked if you can have more than two minutes. we have a board rule that each member of the public shall have two minutes, but if you don't have enough time to say all that you want to say, other members of the public who have not had a chance to speak, they can also finish delivering your message. >> it's difficult to give them what i'm saying. president chiu: i appreciate that. sir, you have two minutes. >> can we start how? president chiu: you can, yes. well, i was here last week and i came alone. this week, i brought people that are directly affected by this cahill mess.

i ask you guys to do something about. let me tell you where we're at in it. we intend to do from this point on whatever is necessary out in bayview to see to it that the white contract saying that niggers aren't going to work out there, if we ain't work, nobody ain't going to work. that's what we're getting ready to do. so you might as well send the police because we are sure that he can find to hold one of them down and kill them like they did their young brother on the bus, about $2. and i am really unhappy today that the board of supervisors have not seen fit to get in this issue out in bayview on this point. black people have had this trouble for years and years and years and years and we're having the problem severely out in bayview on this point right now that this contractors are stuck on stupid and they don't

want us to work in our own community. so since we can't work in our community, be it known ain't nobody going to work. i'm letting you know in advance that we're going to have a problem at hunter point. whatever it leads to, that's just where it's got to lead to, ok? president chiu: thank you. thank you very much. if i could just ask one member of the public to speak at a timeout of respect to the members of the public here. thank you very much, sir. >> is he running the show? president chiu: excuse her excuse me, excuse me sir. >> they're not going to speak. president chiu: excuse me.

rei think at this time we're going to take a five-minute recess. thank you very much. >> we're going to have one speaker at a time. if we have another interruption, we will call for another recess until we have order. this is how we operate in this board chamber. let's hear from the next speaker, thank you. if could you play what's on the computer. >> i have been doing corporate for 20 years. this year in san francisco --