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approximate come up with wonderful ideas and volunteer professionle architects to look what the we can do in the area and looked at 529 other ideas come out of that workshop and so i want to thank you all for the work that you have done and so colleagues we have put together an additional $15,000 from our district pot of money to help implement the ideas that come out of this community led event and so if you could put your hand together and help me thank these wonderful folks. (applause) . there are a number of people who are here but i think dianaa is going to say a few words on behalf of the group. >> well thank you very much. i'll speak for the whole group in the sunset, there are a number of citizens who started this project a number of year ago and it was the dream of
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steve ward, he carries the dream with him. and he has brought this group together. it's been a fantastic journey for all of us, especially for me since i was born and raised in the neighborhood and i continue to live there and it has also been wonderful to be a part of this lovely group and their technology was amazing to us. we made a promise at the end of november that we would get it finished by the pd of christmas and we kept that props. so, carmen chiu that you so much for your support and all of your work with us and to daniel who also carries this dream with him, we thank you very much. (applause) .
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accommodations for today madame clerk why don't we go to general public comment. >> now is the opportunity for the public to comment generally within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including those at some times on the media dopings calendar please note that public comment have not allowed on those comment which have already been subject to comment in a public committee and speakers needing translation will be allowed twice the time to testify and remove the document when the screen returns to the live cognitive rage raj of the meeting. >> thank you let's hear from the first speaker i want to welcome a new supervisors. you will find that being sworn in it only takes a moment for you to become encumbent politicians and folks that were citizens no longer make sense to you the citizens
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in u.n. the mainly city scandal of the san francisco public library it's an indictment of city how the city work in the city more than that it's an indictment of public assets are converted and distorted by public fund racing and corporate interest. the president of the library commission has been found guilty of misconduct and yet re-elected and reewe recently believe that the library than guilty of the violated the sunshine ordinance and the most notorious -- in the past the library brairch library includement program has raised over 40 quadrillion and accident happened over 38 million and during that period under the sunshine ordinance reveals that
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they only attached 4.9 million for any purpose benefitling the public library even indirectly. now, the friends of the library are trying to claim that the required contemporary reporting is all wrong with know documents to back it up. the public library is cooperating with them because lack of accountability is what they get for their money the privatization that we have in the public library is a direct attack on democracy money is so powerful that lack of accountability is what it buys even when the money is pistollen. having me arrested does not solve societies problem please and the lies cost more than money. thank you. >> thank you next speaker. members of the board and supervisors ray hart. sprocket in san francisco and open government i have something on the overhead and i would like to have up while i read. this is
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from the citizens general obligation bond over site committee minutes of september 2012. " there was must be comment from james chafe fee ray hearts and party war field regarding branch library improvemnt program and the friends of the library their reference material are a den dams to the material and there was also a significant exchange between committee members and library staff regarding this issue as well. with particular inquiry and concern over how the braver pretend financials suggesting that moneys spend by the friend were included in the program totals. there were legitimate questions as to whether the city ever actually actually controlled these funds. the answer up here to be no which was not clear from the documents. the committee gave direction to staff, that the document should be revised and provided to the
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committee and public again. going forward, more rigorous account standards should be used in presenting city financials," now the previous speakers spoke about this same issue i have been coming here a long time about this interstated between 2,000 and 2011, the group raised over 40 million-dollar and now, we find out that the library or the library commission neither has any documents to support the claims of the friends as to what made it through to the public library. they spend all the money on themselves and their own operations. it's like that united states navy guy who raised millions for veteran and is ended up giving them one%. this is an official government report. you should pay attention to it..
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>> hello supervisors, my name is m o n e t i had the pleasure of sitting in on a meeting with barbara garcia last night. it was real good and i got to ask her a question because this is something that i am working on i'm not just bringing it up to the board of supervisors i'm actually acting on it as you know san francisco is a very harm reduction city which, is very good. i like that. and with me living in sr o in the harm reduction sr o, that have i guess a contract with the department of health, and one thing that i'm working on is making sure that hiv testing and s ti testing is conin those buildings that are being contracted with the department of healthed because, of one push-back would probably be is that a lot of the agencies that
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are working with hiv and aids, will lose money. but, if we really look at the bigger picture, what better way to help people make sure that they get hiv testing s ti testing is starting those h r o's that the department of health is contracting with and so i hope you look at this very seriously and take seriously that if people don't woman come to these different agencies to get help, may be going to those places that people live live in start testings and get the s ti testing done and get help. me being an out gay african america man take this very seriously because there is a lot of issues going on -- and all of these other issues that we can help stop spread the 'em demic and
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so really look deep in your hearts and think about this and i'll have that information for you tomorrow. >> thank you next speaker? good afternoon supervisors, especially the new supervisors, i would like to welcometoux you it's nice to see you all here in the center of chamber surrounded by this beautiful man chairian oak in the chamber here. incidentally the man choirian okay was used in this champ better because it was softer and they could carve it better. and it reflects what the city's about. it's more about the finer details rear than the rough objectives that you are focusing on i see you folksing on bike theft and don't
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worry about the equestrian horse theft stolen right from under the city and not one supervisor did anything about it. that is theft of a magsive scale and for the president of this board of supervisors to get up and say that this type of activity is going to be transferred to the state and to the rest of the united states well, we are in for a lot of big trouble. because my culture just doesn't disappear. it doesn't disappear from san francisco it doesn't disappear from california it doesn't disappear from the united states you folks may disappear but my culture doesn't. thank you. >>. >> thank you next speaker? my name is eugene gordon jr. and we dress for democratic
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party leadership for over two centuries over constitutional law gave states right so they would not be confused with federal law and in the next amendment which i would like to address the being we the people be the legislation and use of a social and cultural and political economy and education schooling and worket igand based upon the rank divide given as birth right and invention. obliged by law and protei toposition and forged in death. the -- [inaudible] said use language come together, this is our democracy not public ownership of the means of production. again, we just expose public party and is leadership as racial chawive in this and pro vacuum tour and is
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-- surrounding planet earth with military bases and media advertisement and stwaiment and exercising in a tetrakefort of terror and recent forgement about owned and within 17 suffix victory of so many african america slave owners to the declaration of independent and amendments and constitution for the fictions of the nations this departmentive timing for heart [inaudible] to close 2012-2013 and inflections market explanation, second term newly elected president 2013, implies for trust ... . >> in the accident speaker
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please. graphics like i shown before my mother gaveth george mars conian a parking ticket ticket and he auto graphed the book if you could show it. sfgtv. my mother grace murder aye control one 11 parking control woman and today, i'm giving a harvey melt a ticket. supervisor harvey i got a surprise especially supervisors for you. good afternoon president chiu some things some of you have wanted to do, waited so long ... wait so long i'm going to take you on a trip so far from here i got two tickets in my pocket, you know that old
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airport name is going to disappear ... waited so long waited so long ... i got two tickets to harvey airport pair dyed dies. two pack your bags we will leave tonight. you are going to hit the highest high. height. i got a surprise for you and they are two tickets are going to fly you all the way through and you waited so long. waited so long you got two tickets to ticket to harvey practice dies and you are going to my it right and you are going to make it mighty kind and nice. and in my mind i'm going to
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harvey carolina and in my mind i'm going to go ahead i'm already gone .... >> thanks next speaker ... i'm going to be talking on two issues today. in district nine, to doctor martin luther king academy an employee that was there for the san francisco unified school district and was fired. we went to the union, aide scaly hearing which some of you know what that is about and he was given his job and today, some are gonna go to the san francisco board where we are going to ask what is going to
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happen to the principal from doctor martin luther academy school? now some of you know about this principal and some of you know about the school. but, none of you of the bored of supervisors have taken a stand on this issue. the second issue i want to talk about is a wellness center that is going to be built in the bay view hunter's point. this is my subjective opinion. when it comes to children, innocent children, we have to give them the best. so we have an area here on third and cargo which, is the most contaminated area and the city administrator knows and i even found about 500 toxics hot spots this is one of
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the worst. we can't look the other way while a wellness center is built in the most contaminated area, we cannot afford to look the ear way. never mind it's california pacific medical center give is $4 million or even more. we cannot look the other way. >> thank you. neck speaker. . next speaker. >> mr. president, members of this board, in my memory, lies the statement of one man and that statement in four words "the four words were "i had a
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dream," today, i stand before you sharing that sentiments. that i permanently have a dream. because, i was able toen impure en endure late hely as an african a senior, i come before you today to tell you that (undistinguishable accent or words) that it's high time that you get up and represent seniors who time and time again you !kung before and ask them to work for you and they have worked for you. the time is
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more than right. i further ask ask you to give us decedent, proper housing. that is a gross insult to seniors who have worked hard in this country. i do tell have a tremendous amount of intelligence and diggity. thank you so much. >> thank you very much next speaker. >> my name is calvin and i'm speaking for the hash burden aye counsel and there are other members of the on the board of counsel and we would like to give you a report on the resolution of this board passed resolution one 2111 regarding march 82011, the neighborhood
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recycling center at sen 08. as you well know we were evicted what you probably don't know is the violence that involved the post eviction activitied in language believe because of the failure of the department to follow the resolution of this board. on march 8, 2011, the board passed the resolution that asked the mayor and the department of environment is to create an independent recycling master plan that outlines the recycling need of city and curb side pick up and support anden senior sure san francisco's program for the city to reach zero waist in 5020 and developing and implementing a recycling program for got golden gate park. and the
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resolution recommended that the department work in good faith allowing to serve golden gate park and continue to provide san franciscoians the capacity to recycle the material and eligible for curb side pick up what was a response? no response. no meetings no answer to our letters no attempt to discuss. three weeks ago, we left, there was such concern in the neighborhood, 100 people testified for this resolution that people began to go to the site there is no process established by recognize and park to determine what will happen on this site or do recycling this will happen as a sequence --. >> hi my name is michael ash burn and i'm a residental of the richmond and i would like to show you what i witnessed two
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days after the orderly eviction allegedded by our current sheriff and again this happened january 7th and what you are seeing here is captains cor value lows that is a [spelling?] volunteer and he makes an attempt to grab people and some miscommunications happened as they were moving plant and he used to work for us as an assistant for gregg gar and you will in the to the right a greenhouse communication here is broken down and what we have really just seen here is gardners who are not part of the community planning process that was started when the meeting were hamming with margin at the mc children lodge and we need to start that process again to avoid violence like this and we urge you folks to put pressure on parks and reek to start an
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orderly community discussion on this to avoid ugh lieness. i have never seen the force in our neighborhood have to do something like this. it was clear to me, watching this process that they were uncomfortable. i had a long discussion with captain cor valuest afterwards which i did tape and i did ask him did you feel like you were cleaning up up a mess here and he said no comment good and so i encourage you to clean this up so we don't have this ugh lieness happen in our beautiful beautiful park thank you. >> next speaker. good afternoon president chiu, members of the board. and the public. my name is richard ivanhoe. also, a board member of the haden ash bury neighborhood counsel and i'll try to address a couple of
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concerns in the two minutes. first, there is work going on at the site at 780 frederick. there was asphalt being jackhammered, we believe that underneath is toxic the site prior to go to being the recycling center is a railroad yard and we believe there should be some kind of environmentle review before further work proceeds there has been nothing beyond an initial conceptual design for a garden without a specific address. and we believe there should be a process do more. secondly, as you know the reek and park commission is one of the few commissions who's divisions cannot be appealed to you. reek
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and park pretty much is unanimous in approving whatever the department sends to them. one thing you can do is look at their budget when the budget comes before; you. two items of concern first, is how much are they spending on legal fees or charging to other departments for legal fees this could be greatly reduced if they cooperated with neighborhoods, with community groups, and with the public as a whole. secondly, we don't know how much they are spending on the site at 780 frederick or where the money is coming from we have heard 250,000 .... >> thank you very much next speaker? . >> good afternoon president
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chiu and supervisors i'm where the neighborhood counsel and 8pm one thousand to a million dollars is the amount that we have heard that, that acre site may cost to be convert to a community garden from a community garden and so please look into the money that you are trusted with guarding for us. second, i don't think that our police department should be breaking glass and then dragging people through it. perhaps you can send a message to captain corrallest. [spelling?] third, i would like you to follow up on what calvin said follow up on your resolution and get an independent recycling center committee setup because this is a resource that can help the city reach the 20/20 zero waste goal and lastly, i'll like you to ask to work with the mayor so
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that heads of commissions like reek and parks are san francisco residents and live here and care about what goes on here thank you.. >> supervisors aids and public members. and i'm also a board member and long time residental. i would think that the next issue would be again, just to remanufacture what they said. where is the money coming from a quarter of a million dollars or more and where is the money for the upkeep coming from and these are real numbers and then the impact that this closuresure is going to have in the community and if it's in forest it's going to be great and if they don't take recycling and there is no other autopsies in the neighborhood now there isn't and everyone is waiting for
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somebody else to do something so nobody else has to plan and they are talk with ri verse inventorying machines there is three in the whole city they don't work they breakdown and it's not a viable option at this point and gone remanufacture the process for the new community garden who's in charge of that, who gets to say who's going to have a plot or not none of this information is coming out of park and reek and we want know what is going on as a community and if you go to the park and reek commission meetings sometimes they are cancel would move around and so beyond that getet willing the community know some outreach would be go. and i believe that that was my time so thank you for your time, appreciate it. thank next speaker. >> thank you supervisor i notice that you guys are listening to
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