people. that is what makes me so proud to be the mayor of this city. i am willing to sacrifice everything there is to do what is good for the city. i do not care about the politics so much as i care that we can bring more people together under this big tent we call the city of san francisco. triple the effort to help so many other people change their lives, and if we can have a moment and their lives to suggest there is a way out, venues in which we care for them, it isç represented in the way you do things today. çthe way you talk to people. the way you communicate.ç i love these efforts come at these efforts for we can demonstrate all the humanity we have. people watch us and they think about san francisco and they think that is the place -- you

can get lonely in manhattan. when you come to san francisco, it is not law only. bottom of my heart. thank you for coming out and sharing with us your skill sets as we go and do what we're supposed to do to solve the chronic and long-term needs. we enjoy these moments where so many of you as sure your resources, your time, your character and personality. congratulations, thank you to çthe 43rd homeless can act. thank you for being here. -- connect. thank you for being here. >> we have never given the mayor a t-shirt. i think to date is the day. [applause] they are one of us, right?

[applause] i want to close today by thanking -- you see if the people up here, but there are hundreds of people getting things set up. have a wonderful day. we also have a very new committee that will be here today. çthey will be walking around to make sure that you, the volunteers, had everything indeed. if you need something&j, let us know. ok? have a wonderful day. [applause] >> the question when i started

11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets. it is a two dimensional image. it is stretched out into three dimensions. the device is part of the experience. you cannot experience the image without the device as being part

of what you are seeing. whereas with the tv you end up ignoring it. i make gallery work more self and budget and public art work where i have to drop this of indulgence and think about how people will respond. and one of the things i was interested in the work and also a little fearful of, it is not until you get to the first and second floor were the work is recognizable as an image. it is an exploration and perception is what it is. what are you seeing when you look at this image? one of the things that happens with really low resolution images like this one is you never get the details, so it is

always kind of pulling you in kind of thing. you can keep watching it. i think this work is kind of experience in a more analytical way. in other words, we look at an image and there is an alice going on. -- and there is an analysis going on. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could

be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice of waiting for it or perhaps doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee. it also gives a greater sense that they can count on you to get to their destination on time. the next bus our arrival information is also transmitted to bus shelters around the city equipped with the next bus sign. riders are updated strictly

about arrival times. to make this information available, muni has tested push to talk buttons at trial shelters. rider when pushes the button, the text is displayed -- when a rider pushes the button. >> the success of these tests led to the expansion of the program to all stations on the light rail and is part of the new shelter contract, push to talk will be installed. check out the new technology making your right easier every day

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city.

the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog

themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater.

the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in

san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k, >> and the morning and welcome to the public safety committee. i am john avalos, joined with supervisor olague and supervisor mar. gale johnson, can you share your announcement? >> people attending this meeting are as to silence their cell phones. if you wish to submit a speakers

card, but this in the container in front of the. if you submit the copies of the materials to members of the committee, please have another copy for the file. this will appear on the february 28 board of supervisors agenda. >> if you could please call the one item? >> the ordinance amending the san francisco environmental code, section 400, and adding 402, for the existence of the existing commercial buildings for bicycle parking that will allow the tenants to bring their bicycles into the building, providing that the ordnances operative date is january 30, 2012, making the environmental finding -- >> thank you. colleagues, at long last, this legislation was first introduced

back in september, this has come to committee. i am happy to be moving this forward. this is up to 20% -- by bicycle. i fully support the goal. we want to get to this important goal, part of this is establishing the infrastructure for the bicyclist in san francisco so we may have community benefits for people working in san francisco, to cover the cost of cycling. one incentive is that we can make certain that bicycles have greater access to the buildings that people work in, especially buildings downtown, where a lot of the bike trips go.

with market street and folsom. we need something to make this happen. currently, the new buildings that are built, they provide space for by cyclists, during the day. this legislation will work with existing buildings, to require that the people who manage the building allow the bikes to enter the building. either through creating a bike parking area in the building itself, creating space in the building or allowing the tenants to allow the bikes in. this legislation is something new. i am excited to move this forward. if you are an employee, in a building that would fall subject to this piece of legislation, it is not like you have the ability

to move your bike into the building, but you have the employer who could make certain that there is space in your office to park the bike, and how space can be created. they would be able to decide on the space being available, and how this can actually fit in the space itself. the building owner and manager would have to make certain that the building was open and available for that relationship to happen between the tenant, and the employees who are cycling into the city. if, in a building owner or manager is not able to fully comply with these limitations -- and set limitations on the access to the buildings, they would have to be required to create a bicycle access plan that would go to the department of the environment, to be

positive -- this would be reviewed by the san francisco metropolitan transportation agency to make certain that we are being compliant in ways that access can still be managed by the building owner. and this will be done by the liveable streets, or part of the mass transit authority, or the bike platers in the mass transit authority department. i don't think this legislation is very complicated. this is something that moves the city forward on the 20% by 2020 and has the support of the building owners, and we have done early at reach to help create this legislation. these are people who are responsible for looking at the commercial sector of downtown

san francisco, and to have their input on this was very valuable. this legislation could not have been created as well without the support of the san francisco by coalition. i want to thank mark for his work on this, and the director -- and of course the members -- a couple of them are here today as well. i have a lot of females from the members who are very excited about this legislation going forward. i am happy we have the opportunity to move this forward today. we have several co-sponsors for the ordinance. supervisors kim, campos, and olague has expressed that she will be a supporter as well, a co-sponsoring. david chu is also a co- sponsored. for this radical piece of

legislation. with no other comments from committee members, we can go to public comment. >> managers association of san francisco and in -- we represent the commercial real-estate industry in san francisco. i am here on behalf of the membership to support this legislation. i would like to thank the bicycle coalition and john avalos's office. this helped to craft the ordinance in a way that we could implement affectively. i am here to answer any questions that you have. thank you for your support. >> supervisor olague? supervisor olague: is there

anything that would prohibit landlords from charging fees for storing bicycles in those buildings. >> currently this legislation does not have a prohibition for that, i think they allow for that to happen, without expressly stating the opposition to that. i think this may fit -- the way that parking is handled in commercial buildings -- as long as this is a reasonable fee, this is something i am open 2. are there any other members of the public who wish to comment? >> i am mark as well-- caswell. thank you for being co-sponsors. this is a smart and cost- effective way to make certain that san franciscans will have a

safe place to store their bicycle during the workday. those who are discouraged because they don't have a secure place to park their black right now will be helped by this bill. i want to thank the building owners and managers association, who worked with to create the solution to help keep employers in san francisco like oracle and twitter, to make certain to keep them in san francisco. 20% of the trips by 2020. they allow for them to have a place for their employees to store their bikes. people who are helping to keep the economy going in san francisco. as fighting continues to grow, we hope that many buildings will invest in by grooms, and as large employers consider this we

will see building owners do this more and more. i think this is a great interim solution to make certain that there is secured by storage as the real-estate market catches up to the demand we see in the next few years. this is a very elegant and effective way to do this and i support avalos crafting this. and the employers talk about where they will store the spikes in the rental space. t encourage more people to bike. someone may say, i want to store this in the conference room or somewhere near their desk. i want to thank all of you for your support of this. >> we have a question? supervisor mar: thank you for

your great work on this. we are lucky to have a good bike area. i should try to do this more like my colleague. this is modeled after a law in new york city. what do we actually do more than the ordinance provides, looking at other cities, not just in the united states but across the world. >> to speak to the new york legislation, this is limited to buildings with freight elevators, which is a small amount. the building that my office is in, i would have had about a quarter mile to my trip to go around the back of the building, to a not well-lit area, where the garbage is, and the compost. we worked hard to get this at the office. if i leave late at night, one of my colleagues, there may be some

safety issues there with the freight elevators. this bill goes a step forward by saying that -- it does not only say freight elevators. this improves people's ability to ride. beyond that i am not aware of any other city with legislation that would allow them to bring their bikes in. >> hopefully other cities will follow as we hopefully pass this. i want to thank them for being visionaries, looking forward to a transit-first and sustainable city. >> and other any other members of the public who wish to comment on this? >> i am douglas yap. i lhave lived in san francisco 60 years.

i would like to speak in support of this ordinance. i would like to put a reminder that bicycle-writers are supposed to stop at stop signs and red lights. i see this all over town and i know this is not my job to say anything, but sometimes i am very tempted -- to tell them they should stop like everyone else. i want to question, as a public safety issue, if the city requires by writers to have lights at night, because when i am out i see a lot of people sitting around with no lights or reflectors. this is an obvious public safety issue. in this large room today, i would like to bring this out for the record, why there is only one item on today's agenda. if you need something to talk about, i suggest talking about

the freedom fighters in syria. >> we will keep this directly on the legislation before us. >> i have no problem with that. as a public safety matter we should focus, to remind the bike riders that they have to stop at stoplights, and stop signs. thank you. >> the next speaker? >> i would like to start by thanking you for giving me the chance to speak. i am a marketing director in the high-tech injured -- industry. i have written my bicycle to work for 15 years at four different companies. at all companies, my employer was very supportive, of my desire to ride my bike. and i could keep my bicycle in my cubicle. in one company they set aside a

" rigid set aside a clause that not only for myself but the other co-workers could keep our bicycles in their, protected from theft. this definitely impacted by continuing to commute. if there was the risk of theft i would not do this. i want to make certain that my bike is secure. i go for the building and makes certain that she is not damaged. and the building is not damaged. by having my bicycle in the office, this inspired a number of my co-workers to start commuting. especially since my last job, i could wear an outfit like this. if we will meet the goal of 20% by 2020 we have to raise the awareness of having blacks in the workplace. i would like to thank you for

listening to me in supporting this legislation. i am grateful. >> thank you for being here and your comments. >> excuse my voice, i am losing this. i have lived in the city since 2001, biking to work every day since i have been here. all of my buildings and company has been supportive. my bikes are also my babies. they have a great sentimental meaning to me. my company moved into a new office building, downtown. the first day of work there, i am one of the first employees to show up. i am prohibited from taking my bike up.

we found another accommodation. this was one of my babies, i could not lock this up. i switched to riding a bike i could afford to get stolen. the building does offered by a parking facilities inside, but they are simply sub-standard. you cannot remove the front wheel and lock the frame, there is not enough space. the building manager said that this is first-come, first-served until 9:00. there is no way to secure these, and many of them are not locked up. i have been working with the building manager to offer alternatives. they are making steps forward. to accommodate more cyclists. hopefully more safely.