yvonne has been coming to me for many years, i want to work, i want to work, i want to work. the mayor and all these officials have made a commitment to kids in this city that they're going to be working and they're going to be thriving and we have to make sure -- it's our responsibility in working with you to make sure that you have an opportunity. so, don't play around with us. we're not here to play games. we're here to make success stories out of each and every one of you. (applause) >> so, today is a beginning of those success stories. congratulations and i'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you. thank you all so much, family and friends, for being here. (applause) >> and now mayor lee. >> so, who inexpires you? who makes you think about what's going happen tomorrow for you, yourself, what you

want to do, what you're thinking about? ~ inspires in this room there's a lot of people with a lot of inspiration. whether it's london and how she went through in her life, or malia or scott, whether it's our school district superintendent who has been doing great work. this year there were a lot of people on teams that inspired me, and that's the role of professional sports, i think, is that they play this wonderful game, games -- whether it's football or baseball or basketball -- and they get past the regular season to be outstanding for ourselves. and we watch them. we watch the confetti come down during the roofs. we watch through inspiration when they score baskets. we even see some unique poses this year after some scores.

some poses that i don't think i can do and get the same kind of reaction this gentleman is doing. he's been an inspiration. graduated from purdue, played basketball there, basketball association six years. and came to the warrior, and my first year, boom, everybody is a warrior because this gentleman not only on the court, not only communicating with the fan, but becoming an inspiration for all of us. and for me, i finally found somebody taller than supervisor scott wiener. [laughter] >> carl landry, inspiration, power forward, sixth man on the team comes in. not only does he make room underneath, but when he scores, you know it. and then everybody's got to pay attention, and that's why the

whole national basketball association paid attention to the warriors, because individuals came on the team. they showed what they can do and they contributed every night, every game whenever they were called on, whatever role it was, and usually for mr. landry, it was get in there and make some room, clear it out. and then everybody takes notice. and this is the inspiration that he had coming off the bench. he is recognized as one of the great team members to come here. and i want to ask for his inspiration going forward. let me introduce to you golden state warriors forward power tom landry! [cheering and applauding] >> thank you, mayor lee.

on behalf of myself and the golden state warriors organization, i want to say congratulations to you guys. i mean, you have already beat the odds. it's not easy, but again, i want to say congratulations. i sat in a similar situation as you guys in high school where a lot of people around me, you know, it just didn't look good, you know. but i continued to fight and i continued to do the things that it took to be successful and i made it through. so, i'm standing here as a living witness to say that it is possible for you guys to be successful and do whatever you want in life, you know. you need to continue to set goals. if i had an encouraging word to tell you continue to set goals, i know you have goals. keep working hard and don't let go of the rope because the sky is definitely the limit and you can be whatever you want. you can be an nba player, you can be a doctor, a nurse, you

can take the mayor's job. [laughter] >> you can do whatever you want. don't let your past determine your future. if i had something to tell you, plea don't because no matter how it looks around you, that's not who you are. you're special and you can be whatever you want. and just continue to work hard because you can do whatever you want. and again, on behalf of myself and the warriors organization, i just want to say congratulations. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you, mr. landry. and now we will hear from the director of government affairs from comcast, mr. hong chang who graciously under wrote the projection of today's event. (applause) >> thank you, christina. thank you for allowing comcast to be part of this celebration and to the class of 2013.

you know, you have every reason to be proud of what you have been able to accomplish today. you know, there's a great future for you. and the message from me is pretty simple. just be mindful that you're not on this journey or in this fight all alone. you always have your families, have your, you know, friends, have the mayor, have the elected officials here, have everybody in the community behind you to achieve your dream. just, you know, congratulations. always remember, you know, it's not always going to be just moments of celebrations. there will be moments of you feeling very tired. you will feel you have setbacks, you have heart breaks. but, you know, you have a village here. the village by the beautiful name of san francisco working to be here for you. thanks again. (applause)

>> annow our last speaker who is the superintendent of san francisco unified school district, mr. richard karanza. (applause) >> so, good afternoon, good morning, congratulations to the class of 2013. how about another round of applause for them, huh? this is great. (applause) >> anything that i could add would just be redundant. i mean, when you hear the mayor speak, when you hear supervisor breed speak about her experience, i just want you to understand that where you start is only where you start, right. it's how you finish and how you finish strong. we are so proud of the fact that you're all leaving here today, you already have a diploma that says san francisco unified school district, right? that's your gate -- that's your ticket, that's your key to the future. and only you know what that future is going to be. i want you to come back and

take my job, seriously. you need to do that to give back to our community. now, a couple of you asked, so, what happened, why are you on crutches? i could tell you, except i promised carl that i wouldn't talk about our audition game when i had to go one on one with him. [laughter] >> aside from that, mayor lee said he's somebody taller than supervisor wiener. well, he's met somebody shorter than supervisor wiener, too. so, all i want to say to you, is somebody gave me great advice once when they said, when you give remarks, keep it real and keep it real short. so, i'm going to keep it real short and we're looking forward to giving you your certificates. and again, congratulations. we're looking forward to you taking the world by storm. congrats. (applause) >> and we now have two announcements. i'm going to have ms. linda martin from the housing authority and mr. justin davis come up to the stage. (applause)

>> good morning. the san francisco housing authority would like to present five graduates with a scholarship to assist with the expenses of higher education. these graduates have been accepted into two or four-year colleges. a big thank you first of all from the housing authority does go to our graduates because you are now examples, both in your families and your communities and in san francisco. so, without further ado, the first scholarship goes to mariana sanders who has been accepted to sweet buyer college in virginia. (applause) >> the second scholarship goes to juan, attending a two-year college. (applause) >> the third scholarship goes to gregory sail bury who has also been accepted and

attending a two-year college. (applause) ~ >> the fourth scholarship goes to deja moore who has been accepted and attending san francisco state university. (applause) >> okay, juan has to be here. juan jones who has been accepted and attending city college. [cheering and applauding] >> the other checks will be mailed. thank you. [cheering and applauding]

>> congratulations. and now we will hear from mr. justin davis who is the program manager of the college bound brotherhood [speaker not understood] for social impact. (applause) >> congratulations, lauren. wow. so, this announcement is really for you and some of your other fellow african-american graduates. [speaker not understood] formerlyedth mission k-4 foundation. we are based in oakland, california. we just moved there from san francisco. i actually make the community -- not really. but nonetheless, in san francisco, i'm glad to be here to make the announcement. june 19th we're going to recognize african-american young men who have graduated high school and are going to

college. this is an annual event that we host. we are very proud to be putting it together and recognizing young black men. so, this is a call announcement for all the young brothers who are graduating from the college, your friends, family to come out, support these young men. juan, we have something special for you and all other young participants, a $100 gift card just for coming out, participating. (applause) >> [speaker not understood]. so, i know how much $100 can carry you when you're hungry at night, pizza, laundry, whatever, whatever you need it for, we have it. we just ask that you participate. i'll have more information in the back. for folks who want information, it is the url brotherhood grad celebration 2013.event.com or you can go to the website, k4 center dug.org, june 19th at the oakland museum in california. thank you.

>> and now we will do the distribution of the certificates of honor. so, if superintendent karanza and mendosa who is a member of the board of education and the senior advisor to education come up. oh, and mr. landry, i'm sorry, you need to stay here, too. >> good morning, everyone. congratulations, graduates. what a wonderful day today. so, we're going to go through. come on down. we've got some hands to shake, if we can get david and london, do you mind coming over and shaking some hands with us, that would be great. don't stand near carl, though, because he's really tall. [laughter] >> so, our first graduate is

alicia amagan. come on over, alicia. (applause) >> our next graduate yatzia f. chan. congratulations. (applause) >> our next graduate, franklin buchanan, mr. buchanan, congratulations. [cheering and applauding] [laughter] >> yeah, nice hat. (applause) >> our next graduate, joseph cain. where are you, joseph? come on down, mr. cain.

(applause) >> congratulations. our next graduate, stefana cobb. ms. cobb, where are you? congratulations. (applause) >> take that applause. our next graduate, quincy collins, mr. collins, congratulations. (applause) >> our next graduate, juan jones. mr. jones, recipient of a

scholarship, congratulations, mr. jones. [cheering and applauding] >> our next graduate, chaie louie. did i pronounce it right? did i pronounce your name right? come here and tell me your name. i'm so sorry. >> [inaudible]. >> [speaker not understood]. sorry. (applause) >> our next graduate, john mcdonald. [cheering and applauding]

>> mr. mcdonald, congratulations. yeah. (applause) >> that's wonderful. our next graduate, chantelle mc neil. ms. mc neil, come on down. congratulations. (applause) >> our next graduate, ashley nash. ms. nash, congratulations. (applause)

>> our next graduate, francois palette, congratulations. (applause) >> that's great, congratulations. our next graduate, caitlin perkins-council. ms. perkins-council. (applause) >> our next graduate, maurice ross. mr. ross, congratulations. (applause)

[cheering and applauding] >> nice. our next graduate, naja skinner. ms. skinner, congratulations. [cheering and applauding] >> smile for mom, that's great. our next graduate, yesinia valez. ms. valez, congratulations. [cheering and applauding]

>> our next graduate, alana waldron. ms. waldron, congratulations. (applause) >> our next graduate, angela garape. ms. garape, congratulations. (applause)

>> and our next graduate, anye she. ms. she, congratulations. (applause) >> ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the class of 2013! [cheering and applauding] >> can you guys stand up? stand up, show us, yeah! [cheering and applauding] >> we have one more graduate i want to bring down. mr. landsers, willie landers, come on down. [cheering and applauding]

~ [cheering and applauding] >> another one? one more, one more. wait a minute, they keep coming. they keep coming. more and more graduates. mr. eldon, andrei eldon. my bad, andrei hilton. congratulations. (applause) >> all right, for real, though, this time, let's give it up for

our class of 2013. (applause) >> i want to thank superintendent karanza, our golden state warrior carl landry and our supervisors breed and president chiu. thank you, christina. your staff for an amazing event. we want to kristine johnson all the parents, teacher, principals who came out to celebrate our kids. congratulations, everyone. please stay and join us for refreshments and congratulating our graduates. good evening and welcome to the june 19, 2013 meeting of

the san francisco board of appeals. the officer is chris hwang and lazarus and commissioner fung and honda. hurt hurtado will be absent. the attorney will provide any legal advice today. i'm the board's executive director. we are joined by representative from the city before the board tonight. scott is here representing the planning department and the planning commission. duffy is here, senior building inspector representing building inspection and marcos and permit bureau and i believe we'll be joined by urban forester representing the department of bureau of urban forestry and the director of

san francisco entertainment commission and rebecca from the arts commission. at this time mr. pacheco if you can go over the boards meeting guidelines and conduct the swear in process. >> the board request that you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceeding and please carry on conversation in the hallway t board rules and presentation are as as follows.. department representative each has seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the 3-7 minute periods. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes each to address the board but no rebuttals. to assist the board in accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker card when you come up to the podium.

speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium. the board also welcomes your comments and suggestions. there are customer satisfaction forms on the left. if you have a question about rehearing, please speak to board staff during a break or after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow morning t board of appeals office is located a 5050 mission street. this meeting is broadcast live on san francisco government television sfgtv. thank you for your attention. at this point in time we'll conduct our swearing in process. if you intend to testify in any of tonight's hearing and with issue to have the board give your testimony evidentiary wage, please raise your right

hand and say i do after being sworn in or affirmed. thank you. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. thank you mr. pacheco. we have one housekeeping item this even this has to do with item no. 6. item 6: appeal no. 13-049 jacqueline harris, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 744 carolina street. protesting the issuance on april 19, 2013, to william wiebe, permit to alter a building remove cooking facilities [free standing gas stove/oven] to re-establish building as singlefamily dwelling as authorized by dbi; see attached floor plann. application no. 2013/04/19/5010. housekeeping item this even this has to do with item no. 6. sf 61234 that matter has been withdrawn and will not be heard this evening. >> we'll start with item no. 1. anyone would like to speak on this item? >> seeing none. we'll move to commissioners comments and

questions. commissioners? okay. then item no. 3 which is the consideration and possible adoption of the boards minutes for june 5, 2013. >> i move their adoption. any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, mr. pacheco please call the roll. >> on that motion from the president to adopt the june 5, 2013 minutes. commissioner fung, honda, the vote is 4-0. the minutes are adopted. >> thank you. we'll call the item 4 a which is a hearing request. item 4a; rehearing request: subject property at 611 buena vista west avenue. letter from susan brandt-hawley, attorney for matthew & kristine leffers, appellants, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 12-171, decided on may 15, 2013. at that time, the board voted 3-2 to uphold the permit on condition that there be further setbacks at the front and back of the addition; four votes being required to overturn or modify any

departmental action under the city charter, the permit was upheld as is with no new conditions. permit holder: martin roscheisen. project: one-story vertical addition to existing two-story residence; roof of 3rd story addition will include green roof; project will have a basement addition; bpa no. 2011/05/04/5332s.request. item 4a; rehearing request: subject property at 611 buena vista west avenue. letter from susan brandt-hawley, attorney for matthew & kristine leffers, appellants, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 12-171, decided on may 15, 2013. at that time, the board voted 3-2 to uphold the permit on condition that there be further setbacks at the front and back of the addition; four votes being required to overturn or modify any departmental action under the city charter, the permit was upheld as is with no new conditions. permit holder: martin roscheisen. project: one-story vertical addition to existing two-story residence; roof of 3rd story addition will include green roof; project will have a basement addition; bpa no. 2011/05/04/5332s. 1234request. item 4a; rehearing request: subject property at 611 buena vista west avenue. letter from susan brandt-hawley, attorney for matthew & kristine leffers, appellants, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 12-171, decided on may 15, 2013. at that time, the board voted 3-2 to uphold the permit on condition that there be further setbacks at the front and back of the addition; four votes being required to overturn or modify any departmental action under the city charter, the permit was upheld as is with no new conditions. permit holder: martin roscheisen. project: one-story vertical addition to existing two-story residence; roof of 3rd story addition will include green roof; project will have a basement addition; bpa no. 2011/05/04/5332s. 1234 the permit holder is martin . we'll start with the requester. you have three minutes. >> good evening, president hwang and members of the commission. i'm susan rembrandt es -- i would like to request a continuance. there was a 3-2 vote on the appeal when we were last here. we have a substantial new information and believe it's very important to have a full board here which we

believe we respectfully request at this time. there are members of the neighborhood who are here today to testify and we would ask they be allowed to present testimony but the appellant could defer until commissioner hurtado can be here. should i proceed with the rest of my time or do i have a response about that? >> have you spoken to the permit holder? >> no. i just found out. >> your request for continuance is raised for the first time and the responder should have an opportunity to respond. >> thank you. on behalf of the permit holder. we don't believe there is any cause for a rehearing and certainly no cause to rehear this matter. we would object. thank you. >> the board's practice is that we would continue if it an appears based on our discussion