real thing the city wants today ♪ ♪ after all these years, it is still peace and love, gov ♪ ♪ it is supervisor's ladies night ♪ ♪ what a city night musi♪ ♪ what a night i was in "america's got talent," it should air in may. ♪ please do not lose that number. you do not want to use it for

anything else ♪ ♪ why do city birds sing so gay, why do city's fall in love ♪ ♪ why do they fall in love ♪ ♪ why does my heart beat a crazy beat ♪ ♪ tell me why do cities fall in love? ♪ ♪ gov? president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, members of the public.

we are putting families in san francisco and we are bleeding children. we are bleeding the very essence of what san francisco foundation was built on. day 4324 the equestrienne activities have ceased and yet, the firman, the rats from harvard and and why you have done nothing to ease that situation. we're going to change the name of san francisco. we will call the attorney -- it attorneysville or progressiveville, progressively less tourists, progressively less families, less family

values. well, where are we going with all this? how much longer can the city and county of san francisco hold on to its dearest, most closest values, which is anti-family, anti-equestrienne, anti-human, anti-western. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. if you could please pull the microphone closer. >> good evening -- afternoon. i live on commerce street. i came for [unintelligible]

first of all, the city [unintelligible] because some of the homeowner got the transfer for some don't -- but some don't. the city pick up two of them. we do not -- plant it there. it has been there for a long time. we were not notified that tehran. there is a huge liability hidden there. it cannot be estimated or forecast. if the branches follow the people or on the car, they will sue us. furthermore, if the [unintelligible] or find it -- out it is the only

reason, they will sue us. simmer or later, we will become a homeless person. -- sooner or later, we will become a homeless person. that is why it is shifting responsibility to the homeowner. but if our homeowner have financial burden, who will be shifted to? our higher property tax is already covered like this. i hope my voice can be passed to the mayor. [unintelligible] before he makes a decision. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have lived in san francisco

for 60 years. i would like to thank the supervisors present. you guys look pretty sharp, and i guess that is a response to a letter written to "the examiners," a letter -- whatever it was. i am glad everyone is paying attention instead of talking. i think the writer was very accurate. secondly, i thought the lady this afternoon during the noon hour spoke very briefly. it is a great spectacle seeing everybody gang up on a certain couple. we will make the odds a little more fair right now. where is the fairness? who do you really trust? we have the mayor that sacrificed his personal word of honor for political expediency. secondly, i would like to know

what ever happened to their written -- the written allegations against a certain supervisor sitting right here. why is there a dead gay man -- which city -- the city ignore since his mysterious death in 1999. in san francisco, is ok to sacrifice one dead game man. i am predicting his case will become another stonewall, especially if certain leaders on the east coast will have a say as to why the leaders in san francisco turned their back on a dead gay man. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon.

i am a member of americans for safe access, the nation's largest nonprofit advocacy organization on medical cannabis. i represent patients, dispensary owners, other advocates and we're here to ask you to protect and defend safe access. while we appreciate the resolution, we would like to see something concrete and one of the strongest actions we think you could take is to re- permitting the dispenser is that have already been closed. this sends a message to the government that their tactics are a waste of our resources and hopefully, they will stop these tactics. we have others as well -- i hope you guys will all join us in this. i know you support medical cannabis here in san francisco. thank you for your time.

>> i am also a medical cannabis patient. i wanted to ask you guys to help continue to be a model for safe access on the national and statewide level. there is several things that you guys can do to help us achieve that. you can introduce and pass an ordinance to file an amicus brief in support. introduce and pass an ordinance directing the city attorney's office to join the petition to reschedule marijuana and this one is important because you could be that first city or county to sign on with that. i want to thank you guys for time and hope that you take some action. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> hello, i am a delegate to the san francisco labor council. i would like to speak in favor

of -- i was looking, it may not be on the agenda today of the new ordinance, proposed ordinance of foreclosures, calling for more -- a moratorium on foreclosures introduced by supervisor. the san francisco labor council is long in favor of a moratorium on foreclosures. in the 1930's, there was a moratorium on foreclosures enacted in the state of michigan and then several other states adopted it. i think this is a very important thing that we need to do today, and i think actually, there is the governor, the president of the united states, and possibly the mayor could declare a state of emergency because in many neighborhoods, it is truly a state of emergency affecting our cities. and rural areas.

right now, 75% of mortgages are guaranteed by either fannie mae, freddie mac, or the federal housing authority. president obama could declare a moratorium on foreclosures based on the emergency provisions that he is empowered to enact. i believe the state governor should do the same and the city of san francisco should do the same. i was out -- at a demonstration at the bayview on friday. it was very impressive. 100 people came out in the rain. a longshoreman, his home was being fraudulently taken from him. i believe i have seen the study in which 90% of the foreclosures being done in the u.s., there is one irregularity or fraudulent part of it. thank you. president chiu: thank you.

next speaker. >> hi, i am morning star, a resident and voter. i have lived in my apartment since 1985 during the aids epidemic. i lost all my neighbors through aids and i am the only one alive who is still there. a year ago i came to you because i needed help. i have not been slipping for a long time -- sleeping for a long time because it is too noisy. there are 22 restaurants, that is too many. there because of public health because -- they're not willing to give us information about what is going on. when we went -- there is 365 calls within one year, when paul -- one call per day.

we had called the police department because of the noise. they put a [unintelligible] on my roof and i had to hear the compressor. i ended up sleeping in the park because it is too noisy, i cannot sleep in my house. i almost got raped because i needed to go somewhere i can sleep. i don't know anybody who can put up with this noise in the city. the city works for us. thank you. president chiu: thank you very much. man asked if there -- may i ask if there are any other members of the public who would like to speak? the seeing none, -- seeing none, public comment is closed. >> 16 and 17 are being considered for immediate adoption.

these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any of these items? roll-call vote on items 16 and 17. >> supervisor olague, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. there are eight ayes. president chiu: those items are approved. if we go to the imperative agenda. >> supervisor avalos has offered an item. proclaiming march social worker month. president chiu: is there anything else you'd like to say about it? supervisor avalos: no, i would

be -- i would like to have your support. president chiu: you are making a resolution to adopt the brown act finding? is there a second? let me ask if there is any public comment on this item? any public item with regards to this imperative resolution? if not, can we take without objection, that should be the case. there is a motion to adopt the resolution, is there a second? can we take that same house, same call? without objection, we will adopt the resolution as proposed. at this time, all we have left is the four-o'clock special order which will be continued if we could temporarily recess until 4:00, hopefully it will take a moment or two to move through

president chiu: welcome back to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. would you please call the special order? >> items 12 through 15 comprise the special order. a special hearing. approval of a conditional use authorization located on property at 1111 -- the masonic center. approving the conditional use authorization at the california street address. a motion disapproving the

planning decisions -- commission's decision. president chiu: thank you. as is stated, i would like to continue these matters to next week given that we are lacking 3 colleagues today. if i could have a motion to that effect? is there a second? seconded by supervisor campos. let me see if there are members of the public who wish to speak with regard to this motion to continue. seeing none, at this time, colleagues, if we could take the motion to continue without objection. this item will be continued to march 27. with that, madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the board? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. for the late clarence saki. president chiu: thank you. unless there is anything else in front of the board, the meeting

is adjourned for today. thank you, colleagues. [gavel]

>> 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.

when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise

in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to

determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family.

we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here?

what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group

education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more

patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors

who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effectiti