hello and welcome to the special rules committee for december 8, 2011. i am joined by supervisor elsbernd and sebree is our faro. the court today is land that -- linda wong. we would like to acknowledge john ross. >> the items that are recommended to go to the full board unless otherwise indicated. >> can you call item 1? >> appointing malia cohen. supervisor kim: is there any

discussion? i would like to open for public comment. is there any public comment on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to help -- thank you for making this happen to make sure that malia can be on the board. supervisor campos: thank you. -- supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. is there anything else on the agenda for the 125 pm meeting? no. this meeting is now adjourned. we will began our special committee for the 1:30 p.m. meeting. can you please call item no. 1? >> appointing to the term -- a point to the treasury oversight committee. supervisor kim: we have a

representative from the treasure is office. could you please approach? >> this motion is to point peter goldstein to the city college seat on the treasury oversight committee. this is the seat that is reserved for the chancellor of the community college or his designee as per administrative code 10 baht 80-3. mr. goldstein is the vice chancellor for city college and he apologizes he could not be here today because he is in labor negotiations. supervisor kim: thank you. are there any questions or comments? we will open up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion to move forward and a second. we can do that without

opposition. thank you. would you please call item no. 2? >> hearing to consider appointing one member term ending november 19, 2012 to the bicycle advisory committee. there is one see. >> -- seat. if you could please come forward. we ask applicants to speak briefly about their interest in serving and maybe some things you would like to accomplish on the advisory committee. >> i am an avid cyclist. i am also a new member of the california bar. i spent a lot of time studying law and policy. i find when i am on my bike there are issues with safety, with traffic laws are obeyed by motorists and cyclists for it i would love the chance to be able to work somehow toward whether that is increasing by planes or

any other safety measures -- bike lanes or any other safety measures. i would like to encourage people to ride bicycles rather than drive. it is better for the health of the city and people tend to be healthier when they are cycling more. supervisor kim: thank you. any questions? thank you so much. >> thank you. supervisor kim: i will open up to public comment. seeing none, public, and is now closed. [gavel] we have a motion to move this forward as a committee report so this can be voted on next tuesday at the full board. this is an appointment made by the district supervisor ross mirkarimi. i believe we can do that without opposition. all right. [gavel] thank you. could you please call item 3?

>> hearing to consider appointing four members terms ending october 19, 2013 to the eastern neighborhoods citizen advisory committee. there are four seats and 4 applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. we have to of the applicants here today. i will be calling both of you. we have first fernando marti for seat five and similar to the previous applicant, i am asking you to spend a few minutes to talk about your background and your interest in serving. if you would like -- something to like to accomplish. i know that you are applying -- reapply for the sea. >> thank you for nominating me. i have been on that dniester -- eastern neighborhood cac. it is interesting to see how we accomplish creating infrastructure. we have been very excited to start the process moving forward for our new park in the northeast mission area. at 17th and folsom.

as well as having discussions about a variety of other funding opportunities. my background as i am an architect and planner. i work for small non profit in the south of market neighborhood. if you have questions i would have been -- be happy to entertain them. i look forward to working with my colleagues for another couple of years. supervisor kim: as this continucommittee continues, do e any feedback? any feedback on continuing to keep this committee relevant, anything that we can do to support eastern cac. >> we go between the small issues of how do i deal with funding issues, but then there is pretty large and complex issues. the biggest one we have been dealing with is how to interface between physical development and

transportation development. we have interfaced with the eastern neighborhoods troops process. there is a lot of work to be done. and to work together to create a robust transit system for the area. supervisor kim: thank you. i will call chris block but he is not here. next, wendy phillips. >> that afternoon. i am wendy phillips, i work for community-based nonprofit in the mission district. we are involved in providing services including affordable housing. we have also been involved in land use issues in the neighborhood. as an organization for five years and i personally have worked on it before that with other organizations and efforts. the sea that is vacated was held

by our executive director who passed away earlier this year. we definitely as an organization are committing -- committed to engaging in these issues especially around the relationships between housing and how we can over see the planning efforts we worked on for so many years. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you for your willingness to serve. are there any questions? our next nominee is oscar grande, he is not here. i will be opening up for public comments. seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] we have four nominees appointed by the supervisor of the district. is there a motion to move forward? we have a motion to move forward and we can do that without opposition. thank you. we also have a motion to move this forward. we can also do that without

opposition. thank you. [gavel] can you please call item 4? >> ordinance amending the administrative code to expand upon the minimum notice requirements prior to approval of a city project that are mandated by the citizens right to know act of 1998. >> supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: i request we continue this item at the request of the city attorney's office. we can work to put this on the agenda hopefully in january timeframe. supervisor kim: we have a motion to continue at the call to chair. we can do that without opposition. before we do that, i will be opening up for public comment. i am seeing no public comment. public comment is now closed traded -- clothes. we can do this without opposition. thank you.

so at this time we will be taking a motion to convene a closed session. before we do that, is there any member of the public who wish to speak on items 5-9? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, may we entertain a motion to continue in closed session. we can do that without opposition. to the members of the public, we will be entering into c supervisor kim: thank you. we are reconvening into open session. our city attorney. we met in closed session to

discuss litigation involving the city. i understand the committee will move items five, six, seven, and eight forward to the board as a committee report. we can do that without opposition. number nine did not end up getting introduced. i suppose technically it is not before you, so there is not -- i thought maybe continuing at but there is not an action for you to take because it is not before you. we will be moving items 5 through 8 as a committee report to the full board. thank you. are there any other announcements? >> you need a motion during -- regarding disclosure. supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. are there any other announcements? >> no. supervisor kim: seeing none, meeting is now adjourned.

>> i came out to san francisco about seven years ago. i was trained as a carpenter.

i got sick of the cold weather and the hot weather. i wanted to pursue art. i thought i really be here for about three years. here i am, 7 years later. ♪ i have problems sleepwalking at night. i wanted to create a show about sleep. a mostly due painting kind of story telling. these are isolated subject matters, smaller studies for the larger paintings. i fell in love with it and wanted to create more of them. it is all charcoal on mylar. it is plastic.

i was experimenting and discovered the charcoal moves smoothly. it is like painting, building up layers of charcoal. it is very unforgiving. you have to be very precise with the mark-making. a mark dents the paper and leaves the material embedded. you have to go slowly. the drawings are really fragile. one wipe and they are gone completely. it is kind of like they're locked inside. all of the animals i am showing are dead. i wanted them to be taking -- taken as though they are sleeping, eternal sleep. i like to exaggerate the features of the animals. it gives it more of a surreal element.

it is a release subtle element. -- it is a really is subtle elements. the range of reactions people get is that normally they get what i am trying to achieve, the sense of calmness, it's really gentle state of mind -- a really gentle state of mind, i guess. ♪