we bring in investors and entrepreneurs and executives to coalesce around different emerging tech companies and other opportunities. we're bringing in some top pier one b.c.'s and also entrepreneurs. everyone knows this location. they know the pier. people like dave and ron who are very famous investors know this place very well. what this creates is a culture in the community that you can't replace. you can go down the street and open another pier, put us there instead. i hate to see that happen, but you're not going to have the same kind of atmosphere that you would have here. it's like taking sand hill road and putting it in berkeley. it's a difference of culture and atmosphere with the surroundings. i both invest and mentor and advice companies, so i see a lot of companies from spain, italy and south america coming here, some wonderful talent and they love the culture and the

support network they have at pier 38. short story is this event has to take place. it would be a shame to close it. a lot of people here will be adversely affected if it did close. i would hate to see that happen as well. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i work in an italian company. we moved to there in january because we wanted to expand our business. we have been lucky to find a place like pier 38 thanks to the great people we met at the pier, they enabled us to start doing business in the u.s. and to -- and gave us a lot of business opportunities. all of these could be lost. thanks very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> i came here from france to start my business here. among many places i chose pier 38 because i believe it's the spark of innovation. hundreds of companies are created at pier 38 for the past few years. some of them saw wonderful exits ranging to up to millions of dollars. this is a unique place that a lot of international people are coming to start their business. i have been to london, paris, madrid, amsterdam and tel aviv and any of those international cities would die to help us if they could. this is really sad that this is happening. thanks. president chiu: next speaker. >> hi, my name is glen jones.

i'm a resident of pier 38 as well. i have two businesses as well. one we do environmental restoration work. another is a contracting company and we build homes in san francisco. i would like to say i don't think we have been treated very fairly with the eviction. we have been associated with carl and have taken the tenants to carl on that we are, as has been stated, really a great group of people there creating jobs, making jobs for san francisco and the community and at large, we are doing a really good job and we would like to stay there. i'm a general contractor, like i said. i can repair everything on the list within a month easily and pay for it. so i would plead our case to stay and continue giving revenue to the port and the city of san francisco. with us leaving the pier in

their 25-day notice to depart, the city is going to lose a significant amount of money due to our departure and rent loss. then the pier is going to sit, from what we hear, from two to three days while these minor repairs are taking place while it degradates as does the pier beside it. the waterfront is the gem of the city and needs to be taken care of. we're there to take care of it, run it and help the economy of san francisco. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> good >> good afternoon. i would like to speak to some of the concerns raised about the construction project and the

give a little bit of background and a couple of ideas for strategy's going forward. we have a lot of history here in the room. the bayview, hunters point, agencies have existed and there were commissioners who were right here on the left. eloise westbrook who passed away. here to be with us to highlight the challenge is the good faith efforts and local hiring project. good faith did not work in the sixties and it will not work now. the city had this local hiring process as well. the city chose this through legislation and this was supported by the board of

supervisors. the ship from a good faith type of approach that measures success and outcomes and actual results is what i think might be really important because i don't think that the concerns will go away. the redevelopment continues to have a good face policy. to build upon the relationships that are developing that led it to the passage of this law. the board of supervisors can consider using their influence to influence the redevelopment agency. thank you. >> thank you, my name is oscar james. the one thing i want to bring up

first is that i was like this session to clothes. -- to close. there will be a meeting on the 20 it and they're talking about capping. we don't want any of the shipyard to be capped. i have seen the radiation roberts, i have seen the lead, i have seen the toxic -- back there. i have also served on the hunters point shipyard. i talked about the toxins being there, and they denied it.

the city of voted on it. they wanted all of these moved. do not allow the navy to come in and cap the shipyard. we're talking rectifier that they started. all of this is a total lie. we can give you an update on what happened. please come to this meeting and voice your opinion. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors.

we are going to to lose out on a big advantage. all have asked for this space. we have brought some of the clients that we work with to san francisco where they ended up spinning off their own company. and we think that that opportunity will go away. we also echo the sentiment about the timing. we have 15 employees, we have several contractors. this is not a trivial thing to do. we have not yet secured a new location. we have worked with the port and

other commercial real estate folks. everyone confirms that will must see anything for 10 months. we would like to offer a plan which is some way of staying in our current situation. think you. >> i want to reiterate what other people have said, obviously this represents a lot of jobs and revenue for the city of san francisco. we are working on various boats. in the past, there is a lot of options for the public to have boats there. we're hoping to turn this around and reiterate that this

could happen with more access. time is short and i encourage you to see what happens. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i want to say thank-you to all of you for your willingness to be crossed out, talked dirty to. don't get worried. i want ology to know, what you

are seeing is years and years of frustration. i just pray that they're different than what we were in the sixties and they don't want to comment blow everything up. let's give the lot on opportunity to work. i am 100% with mr. jackson. one of the problems that we have had is that there is no teeth to these. i would say do you to get someone in their to ensure that these contractors are not getting wealthy on city jobs.

thank-you and got less all of you. >> i am the founder and ceo of -- a year ago, a venture capitalist friend of mine who are talking to about to and the start of said that you need to come out of the bay area. when i came, there was this energy that emanated and it was here 38. this serves as a nexus for venture capitalists, very talented people call law and businesses and risk takers. if you look at san francisco as the speaking, pier 38 was the filament of that.

this is a shame to see this go this way. >> i have been told by the court staff that there is a meeting that will be convened likely by the end of this week with various city staffers. we hope that everyone will be able to come, i know that we have visited pier 38, this is an incredible place. we want to make sure that we do everything we can to figure out a good resolution. we want to let you know tuesday

to end and you can call supervisor kim's office. >> there is someone here to speak with the people at pier 38. we have been speaking closely with some of the tenants to coordinate this meeting. if you're not in touch with our office, that is our way of keeping in touch with you but we have been in touch with the mayor's office of the finding a resolution. >> thank you very much for being here.

next speaker. >> i live across the street. they have been a good neighbor. they bring healthy people coming and going to work in our neighborhood. the overhead is not seem to be working. i will switch the subjects and i will ask you to choose between two neighbors. here is bayside village, it has been here. the parking spaces are ventilated. this is about the size of a

space. across the street, we have the water mark. that is a parking garage. this is tied to the power grid. it blows fumes. on the front side, it blows noise. this is equal to the bridge. which would you like to have in front of your neighborhood, in front of your home where you live? to have noise in a building, it gets dumped. the noise is garbage.

thank you. >> thank-you. >> good afternoon. i am from a district 10. i started to work as an electrician because of the program that they had back in 1977 to get people in the area to work.

bill local six electricians are good at that. if they don't like you, they will bankrupt you. there should be more emphasis on hiring people in this city to keep this function in. if people cannot get a job, this goes to people in livermore, modesto, santa rosa. there seems to be a lot of collusion and ways to bust the system.

i would like to thank you for the up to 80 to have people come and speak on their causes and to represent themselves. thank you. >> are there any other members of the public that bush to speak in general public comment? general public comment is closed. why don't we go to the adoption without committee reference calendar? >> these items will be acted upon by a single vote unless a member requests a discussion of the item. >> would anyone like to sever any items? could you please call the roll?

>> those resolutions are adopted. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor kim, wiener, cohen, and avalos, for the late mr. would burn. for the late mr. cox. on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of --

>> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day.

>> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked

plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that fed on

white snake root faced severe pain. milk sickness, as it was culled, resulted in vomiting, tremors, delirium and death. one of the most famous victims of milk sickness was nancy hangs lincoln. she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the wooden petition himself. >> we transformed the gallery to and eerie victorian garden. my name is lowe hodges, and i am the director of operations and exhibitions at the conls tore of -- cons tore of

flowers. we decided it needed context. so we needed a house or a building. the story behind the couple in the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is supposed to be barred off and locked up. >> the ole andersonner -- oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill

them. a southern california woman tried to collect on her husband's life insurance by putting the leaves in his food. she is now one of 15 women on california's death rowan the only one who attempted to murder with a plant. >> people who may haven't been to their cons tore or been to -- do serve tore or their botanical garden, it gives them a reason to come back. you think let's go and look at the pretty flowers. these are pretty flowers, but they are flowers with weird and fascinating stories behind them. that is really fun and really not what people normally think of when they come to a horticultural institution. >> "wicked plants" is now showing at the san francisco conserve tore of flowers. unless next time, get out and

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