at city hall. he said, great idea, let's do it. here it is eight years, 8-1/2 years down the line inviting you all to come outctionv down to dedicate this [speaker not understood] whose birthday it is, san francisco's great poet bob crawford. [speaker not understood]. the poet says the poem is not to explain. it is what it is, a fish with frog's eyes, creation is perfect. thank you, brothers and sisters. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, president chiu and members of the board of supervisors. i am [inaudible] -- thank you. i am [speaker not understood], and it has been an honor, a privilege and pleasure to organize palms under the dome

since 2006. i have had poetry spoken inside city hall contribute to civic engagement for youth and elder and contributes to the increasing awareness of ourselves that we must be -- that we must achieve to be creative, informed, and active members of our local and world communities. especially in the face of violence and inequality in the world. in thanks, i'm going to offer you a poem. and i am a public school teacher, so, this is something that i wrote for my students. it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. our deepest communications are via metaphor. the meta poor are always at a disadvantage when the word don't mean what the words mean together. teacher, mulch my imagination

so brain flowers bloom, butterflies migrate ear to ear and bees bring pollen out of my mouth. thank you all so much for your support. please come downstairs at 5:30 on april 18th for poems under the dome. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. hello. my name is valerie ed bera. i'm a poet, a fifth generation san franciscan. i went to [speaker not understood] -- supervisor farrell stepped away. my brother went to sacred heart, my mom went to rear don and [speaker not understood]. i want to read a poem today and thank you for welcoming the poetry community into city hall to celebrate national poetry month. this poem won first place at the beat museum poetry contest in 2007. it's called the pain of progress. simple world covered over with glitz and grit and greed, pleasure of plastic paradise

[speaker not understood] and driving us up the walls. new buildings have to bring in trees that fit the look of industry. [speaker not understood] day correspond um blocks the views and creativity. what doed good to metal facades do for boxed in metal transplants and [speaker not understood]? [speaker not understood] making room for modern money making market, serving up slices of privilege bread. no hope for the hopeless. no mind for searching eyes. [speaker not understood]. distant tips of the mountain tops. but what can we do to stop it? corporate cops prevent criminal pursuits. phone calls can't get through customer service to the real suits who obviously could careless for taste or class. or the world of brass unless their gold plated [speaker not understood], and the new patrons will be smoking up their [speaker not understood]. cappuccino cups piling in the

trash, just another heap [speaker not understood] passed. just think, not everyone gets to sit on such green grass as ours so we're lucky by far, [speaker not understood], hanging out standard and gift certificate covers. [speaker not understood], keeping up appearances for their other shallow males and the prepared graves from which they hail leaving their graphic flags [speaker not understood] good graces just ugly carpet bag intentions [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, i'm virginia barrett co-editor with bobby coleman with the an theology occupy s.f., this seems to be the afternoon for poetry. i didn't know this day was coming but i'm supporting him as well along with alejandro [speaker not understood] fellow revolutionary of the [speaker not understood]. i host open mic at the haight.

i'll be here tomorrow for thursday for poems under the dome. i offer a short poem. this relates to unused public spaces. the garden of humanitarian. the garden of humantarians in golden gate park is deserted. the wooden green benches and tables sit vacant. where has all the ben he have lance gone? i enter the grove and find a crumpled up pack of cigarettes and orange peels scattered on the ground. as far humanity goes, this place is forgotten and forlorn. still, the birds sing from tree limbs over the yellow of these ever present flowers. thank you. and i encourage each one of you to visit your district branch

library and look at the shelf for poetry. it's usually only about this long. and i think that can be expanded and each neighborhood branch library should have books of poets from that neighborhood and the city in general. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. let's hear from our next poet. next poet indeed, supervisor. bobby coleman from the tenants union and other groups where i organize poets, writers and artists. i want to thank the supervisors for their support of poetry literature and the great history of cultural arts in san francisco during national poetry month. i want to thank supervisors mar -- supervisor mar for his kind comments, and supervisor avalos for fine reading of a wonderful poem and the haiku to the mayor during question time which i saw. and all the supervisors for

considering that the legacy of san francisco in a way depends upon the continuation of the legacy of the poetry arts in san francisco. also to my fellow poets and other kind comments and contributions today, and to the laureate alejandro magia, i poem today is a third of the traditional trip let of haikus that form a traditional haiku, just a small one, written after i read the agenda. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. one more time. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker.

hello, good afternoon. my name is douglas [speaker not understood]. just for the record, the sacred heart teams were staring at you. i did notice all 11 of you were properly seated and looking, looking like you were paying attention. so, thank you for doing that. just for the record, i went to sacred heart, graduate of 1970, and the dead gay man i always refer to mr. joseph [speaker not understood] who is also involved in the dead man's curse was a sacred heart graduate in 1966. so, that's why i keep harping on the subject because the kids of sacred heart, we fight for injustice no matter how long it takes and sooner or later we will defeat the government sooner or later. secondly, i'd like to note down examiner 2sfuc worker filed for

porn e-mails and gambling. whatever happened to the so-called pornography going on at san francisco general hospital? i was told it started before 1989 and it might still be continuing to this day. for the record, none of the supervisors and the mayor's office has publicly done anything about it. and i would like it known that if you keep delaying, eventually the federalies will march in here and do something if you don't. also, i'd like to encourage everyone to speak out about suspicious behavior, especially after yesterday's fiasco. and if you feel uncomfortable talking to some of my folks, then i would encourage everyone to speak to whoever authority you want to speak to and pass the information because every

league will be avidly checked out as fast as possible. let's put it this way. we don't want to see any innocent blood shed in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, my name is annie elizabeth cromwell, i live in district 6 where we have undergrounded utilities. i'm here in support of that. i believe for our safety and for our tourism industry that it would best serve our community to have the entire city underground utilities. thank you. >> next speaker. mr. president, members of the board, as i sat there a few moments ago, i listened attentively to representative for district 9 and the nice

words that she spoke about that lady who, in my humble estimation, [speaker not understood] to help [speaker not understood] people arrive at their destination in life. what came to me was a poem, part of it say that life's great men all remind us we must make our lives sublime and leave it -- and part and leave behind us such faith in [speaker not understood]. that lady that was spoken of, she surely did leave a great legacy that although she is not with us today, she can be

highly be spoken of and i compliment you, supervisor, for district 9. thank you very much. >> thanks. next speaker. tom gilberti, [speaker not understood] apartments. last week i came out against the tenants in common that were trying to move forward for cost of living rental for the city. and i thought maybe we can make a deal. isn't that politics? if you get your 2000 plus rental units to can cost tenants in common, why can't we get rent control for every

apartment built since 1979? anyway, also i mentioned something about the 88 condos of sc ford, beautiful hilltop, dolores market. and in keeping in the same vein, i'd like the overhead, please. i would like to develop a fictional piece of property or piece of property in the fictional sort of way . what we have here is stockton street ~ and the new muni metro. and i would like for the board of supervisors to eminent domain me all the property around it so it kind of looks like that. i would like to build an 80 story, 70 story, 50 story apartment towers. we will call it the global birds nest village. i can sell it all the way across the world. dubai. people buy whole floors. it will be wonderful.

we can build bridges across from one building to another building. [speaker not understood] dwelling right around a muni central. of course these will have limousines down at the service, down in the basement, exquisite underground shops, the whole nine yards. and the question i want to ask is, this is easier to get task and had built in this city than 26 units of a condo, 26 units of rent control cost of living apartments, 26 units -- thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] and i live in the district 6. i harped on for months about hiv services and blah, blah, blah and all that stuff.

what i end up doing is jumping into it and actually getting involved and doing stuff. and, so, i got involved with the hiv prevention council, okay. other issues that i feel like are important to me, i jump into head first sometimes. some time overwhelming myself. but i see that sometimes to be able to get stuff done, you have to actually get deeply involved in it and that's why i missed the days of all the supervisors running at large. i'm not a great big fond person of district election because i spend so much time trying to figure out what's going on in my district that i don't know what's going on in other parts of the city because it's so much going on in my part of the city. and i'd like to challenge the supervisors, take a walk with me down to valencia and market at that bicycle light and sit there with me like i do

sometimes in the afternoon and just actually count the bicyclists that actually use that stop light down there that was put up. i don't know if it's a pilot light or, what but it can be easily moved down to sixth street, sixth and market if that wasn't used correctly. please, i'm more than glad to walk down there with you. i don't have anything to do sometimes. but the gentleman we're talking about earlier about how the library fines and stuff like that, so, muni lets you work off your tickets by volunteering. so, what's the difference in the fines? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. oh, thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed.

let's go to our adoption calendar, madam clerk. >> item 33 is being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote will enact this item. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. colleagues, there's a simple typographical error so i'd like to urge you to support the amended version that's in front of all of you. and this simply pro claims san francisco's 2013 as the year of the child in coordination with many different statewide organizations from the first five commission to the california state association of counties, which i am the rep to. so, i urge your support. thank you. and support for the amendment and as amended as well. >> colleagues, supervisor mar has made a motion to amend his resolution. can i have a second to that? seconded by supervisor campos. and if we can take that motion amended without objection, that should be the case. and on the underlying resolution as amended, madam clerk, can you call the roll? >> supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye.

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted as amended. madam clerk, could you go to our imperative agenda and do we have any items today? >> we do, mr. president. we have 2013 as the year of the child in san francisco. >> we have a founding as well as the brown act finding -- >> mr. president, mr. president, please excuse my interruption. that was not the imperative item. that was the item -- >> tia margarita. >> yes. it was a resolution declaring 2013 as it a margarita day. in the city and county of san francisco. >> colleagues, we have the

resolution described by the clerk purely recommendtry brown act finding. supervisor mar made a resolution to adopt the resolution. second that, seconded by supervisor campos. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor cohen for the late mr. robert chris man. on behalf of supervisor yee for the late ms. becky lee. on behalf of supervisor mar and supervisor campos, for the late carlos ramirez. >> and is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel]

>> april 16, 2013 before we call the roll just like you to take a few seconds and in consideration of what happened in boston. okay. call the roll. >> commissioner lee. >> here. >> commissioner hyde. >> here. >> commissioner akers. >> here. >> we have a quorum and for the record commissioner tan is absent. commissioner perez is

absent for the moment and commissioner newlin is absent. >> item number one pent comment. this is the opportunity that the public may address the commission on items that are under our jurisdiction which are not on the agenda. i have one card. marsha garland. >> [inaudible] >> hold on. >> try it again. >> [inaudible]

>> try it now. >> live from new york. my name is mashie garland and i am here to address you during public comment to announce publicly to the people who watch this on television that live at the razz closed a couple of weeks ago. a lot of people have asked me the reasons why, and i would say without all the back stories really are nothing in my view but gossip. they were overwhelmed by the bureaucracy, but they most importantly went into a building that had a readapted use. i see you nodding your head commissioner. i have seen this before with piena and at the theater complex where a business went in as a restaurant and as soon as it changed to have entertainment it

didn't work because the building wasn't designed to house anything like that. this beautiful show room where live at the razz went had the same problems. when i went there -- i went there for the lot of four months as patty lapone. the food was good and security was great and i don't believe there were complaints about those performances and you were mag nammous to give them and show case her for time she was here but it wasn't enough to save the business and they are leaving san francisco or i suspect they are and either this commission or the planning commission has to find a way to project applicants like live at the razz from this happening in the

future. there is a lot of buildings that get reused. ghirardeli square is another one and i believe they were the first in the country and it's great to see them get used but not when we lose businesses like this so thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] >> item number two review and approve the minutes of march 5, 2013 and april 2, 2013. okay. commissioners. is there a motion? >> i move to approve. >> we have a motion. do we have a second? >> second. >> we have a motion and a

second. is there public comment on our minutes? seeing none call the roll. >> commissioner. >> i. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner ache. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> next up report from the executive director. you're up. >> thank you commissioners. i didn't write anything down. this is going to be a short report. there is legislation to address as a item today and there is nothing to report new on that order. i wanted to introduce you to the woman sitting across from me who you may or may not recognize. our secretary crystal stewart has left for her maternity leave and you will have to assist me with

your name. nidar. >> [inaudible] >> she will be filling in for crystal in the office and at the meetings, and she's smart as a whip so say hi. >> hi. >> and lastly i just wanted to update the commission relative to a seven day ses spens under the headings of corrective action that we issued to sloane night club at 1525 mission street. we put out a seven day suspension that went to appeal and that was withdrawn and with negotiation and we were able to do a suspension of the entertainment permit from april 10-16, 2013. mr. granelli may report further but i believe they did remained closed during that time and we hope to see improvements in their operation

going forward. i think that's all i'm going to talk to you about at this time. vajra did you want to pick it up? sorry. >> commissioners i will also keep my comments short. you will see in your binders my report. a few things. one, you will see the complaints of brick and mortar. we have been receiving complaints for a while under the commission knows and they have received three citations in six months so we're talking to the management of brick and mortar to come in for the next commission meeting so they will come before you for possible recondition of their permits and possible suspension. under the code three citations in three months for the same

offense each time automatically puts them into possible citation or suspension so we're bringing them before -- ms. cane and i felt beyond just doing the suspension it a recondition could come in handy so i wanted to give this commission a head's up and hopefully if things go well it's next meeting and you will see cafe cocoa mow and continues to be a problem and we are working on that sound complaint and rocko pocko and we have met with the management and ingle side station so they are changing some of the security protocols and working closer with ingleside station and ours