locally. after the initial success, they finally decided to start their own independent, family-owned business. it has been over one year since the initial opening and they have been getting accolades for their delicious recipe on yelp, 7x7, and they're being recognized as one of the best cookies in san francisco. congratulations. in addition to their hard work and keeping their business running, they are both rooted in serving the community and sharing their compassion. prior to becoming a small business owner, she was an intensive care nurse for three decades. she remained active in the community and volunteered regularly at the catholic church and shelters. today, we commend them for their work and for being trailblazers for women of color entr

epreneurs. i also want to commend the work of nancy. i was reminded of the importance of faith-based communities to the health and well-being of this city. we are in an era where fundamentalism and spiritual arrogance seem to be the focus of the day. we forget sometimes that faith is where -- and faith-based communities are where people learn their values, around family, around compassion for others, where they develop a sense of community. and where we frequently will see values and actions. they are the ones making it happen. i wanted to honor you. i was there for a brief time but it was incredible to see the work you were doing with children and their families.

also, you work quietly and holly getting boxes of food ready for delivery to homeless shelters. i just think it is important to remind ourselves that there is a very positive contribution that faith-based communities still land to our city. i did not realize that when we added you to our list of honorees. all three of you are very involved and very committed to creating a better society. when i mention this to phil, a member of your congregation, and i believe his children attend your religious school, he used a word that stands for "repairing the world." i want to honor all three of you

for your work, not just with your families and businesses, but trying to repair the world, making it a better place. i am happy that you will receive these awards carry -- these awards. [applause] >> i am not one to stand during ceremonies, so i'm going to sit down. but i just want to thank you all. >> thank you to supervisor olague and to the board of supervisors for having us here today. we are humbled.

every day that i get up, i think of ways to serve others. it is an honor to serve our community. thank you to our friends and family that showed up to support us today. thank you. [applause] >> i would like to thank you, supervisor olague, for shining a light on the work that is so important to me. i would like people to know that when i moved to san francisco 44 years ago, i have been 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. [applause]

[applause] 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.

>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale

paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and

literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the

bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it?

>> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." >> good morning. supervisor carmen