in district 5 since then. my husband is african american and 15 years older than me. we opened a retail store on eighth street, which we own for 25 years. it is the crossroads of the world. what i learned was that what i learned as a child, i have an obligation to take care of not only my family but to others and to give back to the community. that has informed my work. after our business there, i had a recycling business. now i am so honored to be leading the education at our synagogue. we began feeding people for the interfaith shelter in 1990, when they opened. since then, we have been

feeding 10,000 people -- 10,000 meals per year. every sunday, our kitchen has become the crossroads of the world. not just our congregation, but all walks of san franciscans come to our kitchens. a lot of people find their faith in the house of worship were shipping. what i have learned in that kitchen is that, for many people, their prayer is they're doing the work of their hands and giving back to our community. thanks a lot for the opportunity. [applause]

[applause] president chiu: our final presentation that they will be provided by our district 8 colleague, supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: when i took office, i knew there were a lot of responsibilities. one thing that i did not anticipate was the number of fires that we would have to deal with in our district. it was just a horrible thing. about one month after i took office, an arsonist got loose and started dumping garbage on the front porch of people's houses and setting it on fire in the middle of the night. people were trapped in their homes.

there were five or six of them. it got to the point that i was dreading when our fire chief's name would come on my phone at 5:00 in the morning. in the middle of the year, we had a horrible fire in the diamond heights that resulted in the deaths of two of our fire fighters. in september, we had a major fire on 24 street above the radio shack that we -- that resulted in some tenants being burned out of their homes. it is incredibly traumatic for everyone involved. as firefighters, we came together as a city and mourn their passing. people in the community were burned out of their homes. it is always unclear of what will be able to happen, whether they will find alternative housing, who is going to help them. fortunately, the fires in the

castro and the valley, it was apparent, after the series of courses in the castro, two of my three women of the year came forward and said, we want to help, we want to raise money for these tenants. for one thing we learned is about two-thirds of the tenants do not have renter's insurance. all of their clothing, their furniture, everything goes to nothing. nothing to help them get back on their feet. they came forward and put together a wonderful event. they were able to raise a good deal of money to help these tenants get back on their feet. then we had the fire on 24 straight -- on 24th st. my third woman of the year came out of nowhere and it decided to

was going to do a fund-raiser. there were some auction items and she raised a good deal of money to help the tenants who were burned out. it is really just amazing to me when people who do not know any of these people or have a tangential connection come forward to say, we want to help because it is the right thing to do. to come together as a community and to help the people who are in need. catherine, beth, kate, it is my great honor to recognize you as the district eight women of the year. congratulations. come on up and say something. [applause] and i know that the chief want to be here today because she is also very proud of you.

>> thank you. we are honored to have you here, and a fellow woman. thank you to supervisor wiener and the board of supervisors. we would also like to thank the san francisco board on the status of women for recognizing all of the women here today. we were talking amongst ourselves and we realize the common theme was that we heard of fellow san franciscans who were in need. we thought, what can we do? the only thing that we know how to do is to best utilize our skill sets to help our fellow residents. in no way did we think we would be honored today. it is a nice surprise. after hearing about all of the other amazing women today, we feel a little on worthy and unqualified. >> dramatically so. >> we thank you very much and we are pleased to have you represent district 8. thank you.

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president chiu: that includes all of our commendations. i would like to invite up to the podium the executive director of the status of women department. >> these women are clearly an integral part of the fabric of our community. i love my job. i just returned from new york, reporting on our work in san francisco to the un commission on the status of women and internationally on the work that we do here. of course, we are pushing to bring the world conference on women here to san francisco in july of 2015. 50,000 liters from around the world. we will be asking for your support. at this time, i want to invite everyone to a brief program and

reception downstairs with first lady anita lee and the mayor's honoree for women's month, he the lozano sisters. this reception is made possible by the friends of the commission for the status of women. thank you so much for your for dissipation today. -- for your participation today. president chiu: thank you for being here. everyone who is here for the celebration, if you would like to proceed to the reception. and we do have of additional business that we need to conduct. if you could please exit stage left. why don't we take a three-minute why don't we take a three-minute recess?

president chiu: we are back to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for march 6, 2012. if you could see -- if you could please take your conversations outside, that would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much. thank you. we have no one final commendation to be provided by supervisor chu. supervisor chu: i am proud to be able to speak to the girl scouts one-hundredth anniversary and provide a special commendation for them. it is co-sponsored by a number of supervisors. i should say that supervisor avalos wanted to make sure that he deferred to the women supervisors to sponsor this item. special thanks to supervisor avalos for recognizing the importance of this.

several representatives are here today. the northern california council office is here. as well as several girl scouts. accepting the certificate of honor is anastasia, a delegate from girl scouts usa. there are over 47,000 girls in the northern california council that take part in the girl scout program each year. there are more than 3300 girls in san francisco to take part. it provides programs for the developmental, educational, emotional, and social needs of girls from kindergarten through high school. their mission is to develop confidence, courage, and character in girls to create a better place. it is very coincidental but appropriate that the girl scout 100th anniversary celebration

happens today as we celebrate a bunch of amazing women for women's history month. make sure that you celebrate, by some thin mints, samoas, other thing to support the girl scouts. would you like to say a few things? >> on behalf of the girl scouts, i would like to think the board for recognizing march 12 as a girl scout week. girls doubts bills prominence and character and makes the world a better place. in the next 100 years, i hope we look forward to continuing our mission. thank you.

president chiu: thank you and congratulations. thank you and congratulations. madam clerk, can we go to our adoption calendar? >> items 18-24 are considered for immediate adoption without reference. this will be enacted by a single roll call vote unless it is set -- unless an item is severed. supervisor wiener: item 21. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye.

president chiu: those resolutions are adopted. let's call item 21. >> the resolution opposing restrictions on food trucks proximity to schools. supervisor wiener: i introduced this last week. i have been talking to -- hearing from various folks on it. i think we have good support and i look forward to passing this next week. i do want to continue this one week. i hope we will have a unanimous vote next week. i also have a couple of typographical errors and i apologize for that. i have some amendments here. i move the amendments and i move to continue it one week. i do want to know -- to note that the opposition is a broad and diverse. in the last few days, both the

chronicle and guardian have come out against it. there is a view of how we should locally be regulating food trucks. that is a legitimate debate to have. the fact is, we should be making those decisions locally in san francisco abasing -- based on the unique needs of our city. sacramento should not be imposing a one size fits all solution that applies equally in san francisco and anaheim, and fresno. i showed the map last week where 80-90% of the city would be completely off limits to food trucks. if it were to pass. i do believe there is a possibility of improving ab 1678. i have spoken to the sponsor.

i think it is critically important that cedras is to make clear that the current form of this legislation is not acceptable to us and i look forward to the vote next week. president chiu: first, there is a motion to amend. it is seconded triet can we take it without objection? without objection, that should be the case. he has also made a motion to continue. is there at -- can i get a second? is there any discussion? supervisor campos: i want to thank him -- supervisor mar: i want to thank him for continuing this for one week. the food and department of public health -- department of public health stock fell they meted more time. currently, the student activity task force. supervisor wiener will speak to them on thursday to give them more time for dialogue. i knew that the assemblymen from

carmel does not know the conditions in cities like san francisco and urban centers. my hope is that more dialogue can lead to improvements so that the goal and intent of protecting the student activities have improved over the years. it is seen as a major goal. food trucks -- i am a big fan of them. there are a bunch of them that i go to. often, the food truck vendors do not know about the improvements in the school system. parents raise problems when they appeared outside galileo and mission at sometimes. there are problems that the food truck vendors do not often know about. if there are more problems, the parents and others could see an improved piece of legislation. i really appreciate delaying this for one week.

thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor olague: i'm going to go ahead and support the continuance on this. i do believe that when you look at this type of legislation, that would prohibit this use to 1500 feet from a school, we would be faced with similar issues that we are faced with the medical cannabis dispensaries. which is a clustering effect on this type of thing that would place an undue burden on those types of neighborhoods that do not have schools within 1,500 feet of this type of use. ultimately, we should continue the dialogue around nutrition and food in the schools. we may want to continue that discussion outside of this conversation. i just want to put it out there that i think this is but is not

related. i think there are other venues that we can still have this discussioni'm open to continuint dialogue. >president chiu: any discussion? >> do we have a second? president chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion. is there any further discussion? can we do that without objection? this item is continued to march 13. madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> this meeting will be adjourned in memorial of the following individuals. for the late ms. mary howard, for they wait ronnie montrose come off for the late margaret mccarthy. and at the suggestion of supervisor elsbernd and the full board, for the late supervisor, hal brown. president chiu: i want to thank

sfgov tv for coverage. i know that years ago used to broadcast these meetings and we welcome you back to the board chamber. with that, is there any more business? >> that includes the business for today. president chiu: we're adjourned for this evening. [gavel] thank you. >> welcome to "culturewire."

today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95

professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store.

they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and

conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about

hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel.

what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor,

about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a

structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪