was there that i was told and that reading is really important and i was screwing around in school and mr. richardson he really i used to like to look at the pictures in books and he asked beme on that but marcus bookstore it the first black bookstore in the nation. you met everybody black people trying to move ahead trying to do something with themselves. it's a real treasure and it means so much. to the black community it means as much as the cable cars are to san francisco and nobody wants the cable cars to leave san

francisco. i'm here, no port of london breeds and supervisor breeds and supervisor cowen who support this. i want to go a little bit further and ask the board of supervisors to write a letter to the wanting to ask him how we can use eminent domain to hold onto the marcus bookstore and turn it into a museum or a landmark. this bookstore means so much to the black community and to san francisco thank you thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you board of supervisors for hearing our story. i'm co- owner of marcus books. i'd like to talk about two

listens. one vertical and one horizontal. the vertical line lovingly referred to as the bottom line that we consider in point of view of our decision making things applies to the material a impacts of reality like money. the vertical line has a different purpose. it's the line it differs our quality and the hard part about the vertical line it has to go beyond boulders. so people who come into the store are a wonderful group of folks who are interested in the truth the truth is the vertical

line and for marcus books being 50 years of anti grave shul it's become a well, that people go to quench their thirst on materials. >> next speaker >> i'm linda thomas i've lived in inform since 1975. marcus books is important to me because i don't want to go into the store and spell i want to go to the shelf and find a celebration of books.

i don't want to have to special order so i want to find is on the shelf available, easy for me to give it to somebody to read when they're trying to understand something and i'm trying to talk about that comes from my past. a lot of young people those days don't understand anything about black history. a lot of young white people don't understand much about market street. they hadn't had an opportunity to experience some of the things i've had an opportunity to experience. mixing the different razes that have ground up so i try to turn them on to literature and without marcus books i won't have any place to get them books

to tell them to read. so i'm on the printer on this special icon for myself selfishly and for others. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. . >> thank you for staying late. i'm gail i'm the director - that's better right reporter and a of the meadows school which marcus bookstore is the only african-american bookstore in so far. i'm here to urge you to grant marcus bookstore preservation status. as you've heard this evening it's a cultural icon.

this community only services to make san francisco more of a special and interesting place. please help us to preserve their legacy. please go on record that you support this icon and you're working for the african-american folks in san francisco and i understand their migrate >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is ms. hawkins and i'm a native of san francisco. been here my entire life. i want to thank supervisor breed and cowen and the other supervisors.

and thank you for staying to late. i bring you greeting from the black lawyers an organization that i belong to in the anti apartheid headquarters and the fillmore district is known as the harlem of the west and marcus bookstore is very well known where bill clinton went after he left the white house. they admired the bookstore. i would buy literature for their grandchildren. their young adults and temperatures very astute and very well - they understand their cultural and they're going

on to college and i thank marcus bookstore for that. marcus was born august 17, 1887. he gave us his identity and he hooked united states up with our motherland african where we found out we all came from. okay. and that history in that store is where children can learn. not only ourselves but yourselves too. it's worth saving. redevelopment was tearing - >> thank you. next speaker. . i live in the western edition.

marcus books needs to stay in fillmore. i grew up and was living in chinatown. it looks different from chinatown but right now, i'm living in the west edition are i see that fill more is very much different than when i was the. there's hardly any remedy in advance of a black business are the chicago barber shop is gone and this is the last black business to the past. i'm also my immediate issue is housing affordability but i see that horrify but i need to - i

need to empower those folks and marcus books provides that kind of presence. i saw the spirit and it's different having the children walking in there and that's different for the black communities in the west edition to connect them to the past. thank you >> thank you. i'm very active in the japan community. i've defltd into the history and

the culture information we're not just japan town we're fillmore western edition and we've shared so much and one of the key places we've shared is the city believe. the building started out on post street. it was a hotel with a pool hall underneath. and in those days the pool hall would be a place they would wait for a job. it become a drug company. a place that served the medical needs of our community and who's family is still active in our community today. jim cities i've been working with the reproblemistic

committee for their status which will come up on august 1st. we've been circulating a petition and people have been telling me their stories. they've told me how they stood outside in the cold listening to jazz all night long and told me about what marcus books means to them as educators and students in the community. this is a great land marble we can't lose it >> i'd like to compliment all the supervisors of san francisco. i'm not trying to scope but i'm asking is to try to save marcus bookstore. i went through as a kid.

i was going out of state and have books sent to me. i've had people do that to me there's books you can't get no where. and i think it ought to be as a landmark anyway. it's the last landmark in san francisco. everybody has been helping out youngsters getting the real books that you can't get nowhere else but marcus. it needs to be kept in fillmore and i wish you all could vote for it. >> next speaker >> ladies and gentlemen of the

audience and supervisors good evening i welcome my opportunity to speak in behalf of the marcus bookstore. i'm a taxi drive with a medallion i know his wife and his two sons. i think this is the wrong opportunity for this gentleman to take vaguely of the african-american community and this bookstore which is a historic landmark. it's also a source of a lot of african-american literature in this community. i think with a little bit more push or shove from this board mr. weiss maybe going forward

with his name being recognized or without being pushed into the stands that causes lawsuits on both sides. i don't want repercussions where we fires me or something speaker i think the bookstore is a library of sort of and i think it's good for the community at large but a source you have historic documents and books for the city and county of san francisco. so i think you can do what you can by talking to the man and his wife instead of pushing and knocking on doors. some of you should gept together and talk with him personally. i can help you with that

> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm betty i couldn't help but come down and speak out for marcus bookstore. as a teacher at a school that was a multiple culture school a lot of white students doesn't know a lot of the black history from 1985 to 2003. the history book was excellent when i taught on black history. i said why don't you go to marcus bookstore there's a wealth of information you can

find all types of stories of present-day authenticity. and my students white and asian went to marcus bookstore and said teacher i didn't know there was so much information about black people here in america. and they showed me the books they bought and i want to say marcus bookstore would you get rid of a gold mine. it's beneficial to all people. i bought my first black. and so they have a little library. thank you for supporting this bookstore don't get rid of it

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> how is it going. this bookstore has been part of the history of san francisco it's part of the history of the filing more community it runs after school programs. it's hosted events with speakers like rosa parks and danny glover and ophra winphrey. we have to take a moment to the

local. they need this bookstore. i ask that the board of supervisors look at this situation and do what they can to encourage the spectaculars to sell the building back. >> thank you. next speaker, please i'd like to thank the board for supporting the resolution. i'm appreciative of supporting the black community as a whole. i know you all have seen a lot

of me. but marcus books has been a part of my life and i went to school with colleagues. so for me, you, you know, marcus books has been a place to get out of the madness and karen also has a message or a book that can relate to anybody. i remembered going to marcus books about two months ago. and i said who would the life be like without marcus books then i heard it's going to be gotten rid of. i i know that's the corporate interests. i'd like to say i hope the city

helps out. we have a $8 million budget so i think they want to sell the bookstore for 3 million so that's 1.5 million and that's chicken feed to 8 hundred million and thank you all thait >> good evening supervisors. in my opinion this items should have been solved a long time ago. there's a few facts somehow the mayor's office and the board of supervisors found the sources to save the gay center ton market street. somehow the mayor's office and the board of supervisors get the resources for the infamous america's he cup and now the city has the resources to try to

snatch the golden state warriors from one city to the other. if you have the resources and abilities to do those 3 promotions one simple bookstore should have been done a long time. and i'll offer you a friendly reminded just in case everyone hadn't forbidden. turn this one down and you might have al sharpening panetta even though standing where i'm standing and i'd like to see you deal with his bus loads of folks. many people would love a site in of good ole black folks (clapping) >> any members of the public that wish to speak? seeing none,

this public comment is closed. colleagues supervisor breed has several motions in front of the of us. any comments. so on the motion for the serious injury finding. can we take that most without objection. and with regards to the brown act finding periphery breed has made a motion. and then let's take a roll call vote on the resolution itself. mr. president, on a resolution supporting the preservation of the historic marcus books and the building and urging the owners to sell it to uphold the contingency serving purposes

(calling names) >> the item is approved. colleagues, ladies and gentlemen why don't we go back to general public comment and a at this time the public my comment up to 2 minutes including on the adoption. please notice that public comment is not allowed please direct our comments to the board as - and if you need a

translation you will get twice the time >> (speaking foreign language)

madam clerk i have here as you see a living supervisor i'd like to give them one copy for my second invitation for them. i hope to that you understand today is the last day for you and we're going to waiting for you until you come back. supervisor kim our supervisor is grateful campos you agree with me and she agree to me to be hostess of my mite. your mayor he going to be there and our smart going to be there. what i tried to show you i want to let you know that i tried to make love with family people. to allow you to know that you can come to us and you make good

relationship between the chinese and black, white whatever we have in our believe and you can come to us in our district. i hope to do that sooner or later. we have supervisor we have several war in egypt and you can see how they kill innocent people. people can be killed for that because he make that mubarak i hope to say that my children and grandchildren you see them here in my picture and i want worried about any innocent people who've been killed or get injured in egypt.

i want to see how we can force our lovely american wanting to stop that war. and i hope to see what you going to do to stop and a thank you. >> stop the friends of the library. every year the friends of the library is required to file a report. the report covering the year ending june 2012 that was required by state statue to be filed is now finally available. and we now know that in the 12 years that the friends have been raising funds the friends of the library had income of 44.8 million.

during that same period the friends of the library extended over 4 had the and 50 millions. what is most interesting is that the friends of the library x'd alone made 3 hundred thousands of that and executive salaries were 6 hundred and 32 thousands nearly 3 times the donations to the library. they think because they put the money in their pocket the friends and you are in the same office. what you get for keeping our eyes tlosz closed is a tiny rip off.

note especially damage to the faith of our citizens and the good well, that holds our communities together. david chiu having me arrested doesn't have any effect. in fact, what you've seen here are the original documents first year don't see you have a nice vacation >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> we work with the people. >> excuse me, sir we have a rule that under our boards if there's an item that's received public comment you can't speak on it and that's the wireless appealut