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next level of training we are hoping to see the department under grow, and we are interested in seeing that as well. >> now that we know these top three priorities, i think we need to keep that in mind. good >> dr marshall. >> i would like to say thank you see you for a dressing of three recommendations. it was read to us in 2007. it was ugly. it was not a happy day.
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you had to do it within the budgetary constraints, so i want to say a great job. >> thank you for a much, dr. marshall. she put a lot of time into this. you are a consummate trial lawyer, so thank you for your presentation. >> you are welcome. thank you. >> line item #3c, commissioner reports. >> i have one quick items to report. actually two. furs are what to say dr.
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marshall followed up on our meeting, and i watched it on line. i was one of 14 people watching. these kids saw the camera, and they took off. and we have all new personalities. it was great. you have to be proud of these great young men and women. my second announcement is i want to thank the mayor and his staff. the secretary was confirmed for another four-year term on the commission. i also want to thank
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supervisors. goowe have to be confirmed by the board of supervisors, so it is a great experience to talk to all the members of the board of supervisors. >> they are very intelligent people who really care about our community. i enjoy sitting one on one with supervisor kim and wiener. it is a great experience. i have to tell you this is an honor, and i want to thank my fellow commissioners who came to the rules committee. thank you for your support, and i have to tell you i am honored to serve on the commission. you are not just associates. you have become good friends,
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and i have learned a lot from those who served with. it is an honor to serve the city, and i am humbled by the experience, so thank you. >> commissioners? if i could add one more about our youth commissioners, they were wonderful. at our joint meeting it was all business. i thought they did a great job of explaining. a surly explain the youth commission, what is is for and what it does. in particular, the last segment was about the work we have done together and the recommendations
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put forward that were affected by the chief, and by what other jurisdictions -- i wanted other jurisdictions to know about. it was a great program. we ought to get some future supervisors from the group somewhere. those kids really like what they do, so it was great to be able to showcase them, so for all to listen, thank you. i am cold air the program will be broadcast on television -- i am told the program will broadcast on television at 9:00. we will be on 29. >> you can watch and see the program, because we are doing
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great. >> further want to congratulate you for getting reappointed. you spend a lot of time going to a lot of community meetings. you put in so much service, and you deserve to get reappointed, so i am glad that happened. i listened in. i detected to let him know i heard, and you specifically talk about high school dropout issues, what their experiences are and what would keep students in school, and i particularly enjoyed talking about what
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brings out leadership, and several of them said they do want to get into politics. thanks for that. >> that young man will probably be the next president of the united states, and the young woman will be on the board of supervisors in no time flat. good >> for him to turn his life for round completely and be on the youth commission, you cannot ask for more than that. >> i want to join in congratulating you on your reappointment. i was glad to be there. i also want to thank commissioner marshall for your engagement with the youth commission, providing another opportunity, and i certainly want to say the rules committee.
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i was impressed by our newest commissioner. goowe are hearing your backgrou. we are so lucky to work with you. thank you. >> we can move to line item 3d, scheduled announcements for future meetings. good >> just as a reminder, next wednesday night we will not have a meeting, and on may 30, 2012 of 6:00 p.m. we will hold a medal of valor awards ceremony
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at mission bay campus at 0 in st.. the public is welcome to attend. >> thank you, and items for future consideration, following up on my meetings, supervisor jim had an item she is working on, and it is a joint project where we work with the school district and have all high school program for the students train while in high school to become police officers. it is an rotc program supervisor came is very interested in, and i talked to the chief about it, too, so i would like to schedule for us to have an exploratory conversation, going into high schools and encouraging her students to graduate and getting them to the next level. it would be a good thing. a lot of you talk about local
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hiring, and i would like to see the ranks come from men and women who understand the city and how special it is. somewhere down the road i would like to schedule that and give maybe a month, may be the first week of june. how does that sound? also, i would like to reschedule a date for line item 4, the discharge review board. when you think we would have everybody in line for that discussion? >> any time. there are only a couple of things we need altering, and we have accomplished that tonight. >> the week after next, how does that look? >> we have a couple of items a.
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>> we do not have a community meeting that day. good >> the ceremony takes place. >> in lieu of that, the medal of valor. price and last but not least, we need to schedule election of officers by the end of may, so if you want, we could schedule the for the 23rd. it does not have to be by the end of may. we could do that by june if you want your good -- if you want your good now we have a new commissioner -- if you want. we have a new commissioner. is everybody pasquale, so you tell me what sounds best for you. >> how about the 23rd? >> i am fine with the 23rd.
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i am in no rush. >> i think the first week of june. >> thank you for reminding costus. that is all i have to live. >> i want to follow up on policy changes, and i want to ask about the use of force change, if there is a way for us to calendar that, even if it is pretty far ahead, just so we have an action response to these changes. do you need some time to report back to us to? >> i need some time. i know they are in the process. >> could you let us know on may
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16 of three of them, since they were all recommended? >> yes. >> thank you. >> just a reminder, i think april is a month we do the chief's review, so we have heard the annual report, and perhaps we should schedule the review. >> when you want to do the chief of review? by flow through the on the 23rd, since the election is -- >> let's do that on the 23rd, since the election is in june. i think april is the anniversary date we are supposed to be doing it. gerd >> i think it was april 28. >> there is no sense of urgency.
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i think you will get a good report card. >> that is a good opportunity. good >> are we set for may 23? >> sure. that is fine. >> anything else commissioners would like to add to the calendar? hearing none, it is now time for public comment. no public comment? public comment is now closed. lead item #4 is off calendar. the one disciplinary matter that was going to be handled by closed session, there have been paid for that matter. we do not need to do that on record. all council have agreed to those states along with the officer, so we do not even need to go into closed session.
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commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. president fong: aye. commissioner wu: aye. we have a full commission. items one through five make up the consent calendar this week. they are considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single roll-call vote of this commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless this commission, the public, where staff has any matters that will be removed from the consent calendar for a future hearing. item one is a request for a conditional use authorization to establish an automobile and scooter repair business with in the basement and second floor of
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an existing building located at 1528-1540 pine street, with accessory automobile and scooter sales located at the ground floor. conditional year's authorization is required to establish the automotive repair business at the basement level and the automotive repair years at the second belt. the project sponsor is requesting that the zoning administrator eliminate the of street parking requirements for the uses. the project is located within the polk street neighborhood commercial district. although tenant improvements are proposed for the building, the size of the space will not change. item number two is 20 12.0038c. also request for a conditional use authorization. this one is to allow an approximately 1500 square foot
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dog day care center for between 12-30 dogs. item three is a case number 20 12.0273c. a request for a conditional use authorization to convert vacant garage space. previously a parking facility now a vacant convalescent care facility, to turn it into a commercial parking garage. item number four is 2,011.0468b. it is a request for office development authorization to establish 48,007 under 32 square feet of office years under the eastern neighborhoods legitimization program.
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item five is a case number 20 12.0169cv. a request for a conditional use authorization to modify prior conditions of approval to extend the time to construct a five- story, 36-dwelling unit multifamily building to january, 2014. commissioners, following any public comment, which would automatically remove these items from the consent calendar, these items are before you for your consideration. >> is there -- president fong: is there any public comment? seeing none, commissioner borden. commissioner borden: i move to approve items one through five on consent. >> second. >> items one through five, there is a motion to approve.
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[roll-call vote] those items are approved. are there any other items? >> i would like to congratulate the planning department for receiving these special achievement award regarding the payment to parks project. -- pavement to parks project. it is a wonderful achievement. and i would like to include the citizens of san francisco in winning this award. it is not just policy, but it is really the attitude about how the city is embracing this. it is a very forward-looking idea.
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>> i have had meetings and conversations for requests on the calendar, 2507 larkin. i just wanted to mention that. congratulations to the city and the bayview hunters shipyard for the funding that was obtained. the mayor just had a press conference for that moment ago. commisioner miguel: i was just at that press conference. the lead developer at hunters point, candlestick point compoun -- candlestick point, a check was received for the foundation to disperse the public funds.
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regarding that dispersal, $7.2 million goes along way in this regard. the entire community there was rep and very appreciative of this coming through. this is something that is not happening in the rest of the country. i talked to planning commissioners in various areas in california as well as other areas around the country. they are having a very hard time with things. they're not in the more optimistic anticipatory mode that san francisco developers and officials are. we are in a very rare position here. we should take time to appreciate it. >commissioner sugaya: last saturday i had the privilege of being part of a program sponsored by the bart station.
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it was a celebration of 60 years of the japanese-american evacuation. the station was on the side of the racetrack, which was used as an assembly area for the people in the east bay, where they were first assembled before they were sent to the internment camps further inland. most of the evacuees winter topaz, where i was born. -- went to topaz, where i was born. the exhibit was of dorothea elaine photographs that she took at the center. jackie spear was a speaker, and stayed, surprisingly, for about an hour and a half. with representatives from san bruno, foster city, san francisco, and others. representative mike honda and
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nancy pelosi also had representatives there. it was a really great event. the exhibit is open if you are ever traveling on bart and want to go to the san bruno station. it is up for the month of may, which is the pacific islander america -- whatever it is called -- heritage month. it will be up for the entire month of may in the station. the organizers are hoping that we will be able to get bart track a permanent memorial there. commissioner moore: i want to acknowledge commissioner sugaya for what he just shared with us. my understanding is that this exhibit was to be in the san francisco library. is that incorrect? commissioner sugaya: there is a separate exhibit at the san francisco may library -- main
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library through june 24th. it is slightly different. there are about 30 to 40 pieces of art that were created by internees while they were at the topaz internment camp. it is on the fourth four and is free. during the month of may and june, the library is sponsoring a number of evening lectures and events. commissioner moore: the other thing i wanted to share with the commission is that the mayor in doing the signing ceremony for the america's cup thanked at this commission for its support. -- thanked this commission for its support. it is up and running, although we have not seen the final version of america's cup light.
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>> thank you, commissioners. we can now move on to directors reports, directors announcements, and a review of the board of supervisors and more appeals and the preservation commission. i wanted to thank the commissioner for the nia award. and related to that, i was part of a group including supervisor avalos that cut the ribbon for the 27th part what, which is in the excelsior district. this was actually built by a group of students, designed and built by a group of students through an organization called the out of sight youth center in excelsior. the students were all there and
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very proud of it. the 27 parklet and there are about 40 more in the pipeline. it is really exciting. and also in terms of award, and i do not think i got to mention it at the conference in l.a. last month, the department received a national award for the hard-1 victory category. -- hard-won victory category. it was nice to get that recognition any room of about 3000 people during the awards ceremony. it was gratifying. the board of appeals did not meet this week, so there is no update on that item. >>commissioner moore: would be possible for you to give us an update, where you are supporting
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it, where you're holding back, what you are seen to create creative diverse solutions. >> i will put some things together for you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm here to present a summary of the board of land use. last week ran a little long, so you did not get to hear about this hearing prepared there's a hearing on the impact the furlough program and its affect on affordable housing. a presentation was made by the office of workforce and economic development.
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