>> mr. steel. >> i'm sorry. i want to follow up on your report for [inaudible]. i sent you an email on monday at 9:07 am regarding the multilingual pathways presentation. it was supposed to have an attachment including that powerpoint, i neglected that powerpoint, i'm going to forward it to you right now. i want you to know they sent you the information, i just did not attach elt. i apologize and will sends send it to the board right now. >> on behalf of of president fewer the board will go into clo >> report of closed session.

there is one correction as follows tchl board by a vote of six is, approve the contract of one general [inaudible]. the read out for may 13, 2014 existing litigation the board by a vote by a vote offics is. including a monetary payment to the district. this corrects the previous read out of the the board's march 4, 2014 action which erroneously said the board authorized a payment rather than choose a district. other informational items. posted in the agenda is the

staff report on the william's uniform complaints. meeting adjourned. >> you have to read tonight's closed session. >> it's right there. >> okay, the read out from this evening's closed session, public employment, may 13, 2014, the public employment by a vote of six is approved the appointment of one principal.

>> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge

of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained

for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator

access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a sudden, he was excited about the coit tower. it became almost like a daily destination for him to enjoy the atmosphere no matter what

the politics, that wasn't the point. as long as they fit in and did their work and did their own creative expression, that was all that was required. they turned in their drawings. the drawings were accepted. if they snuck something in, well, there weren't going to be any stoolies around. they made such careful little diagrams of every possible little thing about it as though that was just so important and that they were just the big frog. and, actually, no one ever felt that way about them and they weren't considered something like that. in later life when people would approach me and say, well, what did you know about it? we were with him almost every day and his children, we grew up together and we didn't think

of him as a commie and also the same with the other. he was just a family man doing normal things. no one thought anything of what he was doing. some of them were much more highly trained. it shows, in my estimation, in the murals. this was one of the masterpieces. families at home was a lot more close to the life that i can remember that we lived. murals on the upper floors like the children playing on the swings and i think the little deer in the forest where you could come and see them in the woods and the sports that were always available, i think it did express the best part of our lives. things that weren't costing money to do, you would go to a

picnic on the beach or you would do something in the woods. my favorite of all is in the staircase. it's almost a miracle masterpiece how he could manage to not only fit everyone, of course, a lot of them i recognized from my childhood -- it's how he juxtaposed and managed to kind of climb up that stairway on either side very much like you are walking down a street. it was incredible to do that and to me, that is what depicted the life of the times in san francisco. i even like the ones that show the industrial areas, the once with the workers showing them in the cannery and i can remember going in there and seeing these women with the caps, with the nets shuffling these cans through.

my parents had a ranch in santa rosa and we went there all summer. i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch. i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to see it when the initials are scratched into everything and people had literally destroyed the lower half of everything. >> well, in my view, the tower had been pretty much neglected from the 1930's up until the 1980's. it wasn't until then that really enough people began to be alarmed about the condition of the murals, the tower was

leaking. some of the murals suffered wear damage. we really began to organize getting funding through the arts commission and various other sources to restore the murals. they don't have that connection or thread or maintain that connection to your history and your past, what do you have? that's one of the major elements of what makes quality of life in san francisco so incredible. when people ask me, and they ask me all the time, how do you get to coit tower, i say you walk. that's the best way to experience the gradual elevation coming up above the hustle and bustle of the city and finding this sort of oasis, if you will, at the top of the hill. when i walk through this park, i look at these brick walls and this lawn, i look at the

railings around the murals. i look at the restoration and i think, yeah, i had something to do with that. learning the lessons, thank you, landmarks meet landmarks. the current situation at pioneer park and coit tower is really based in public and private partnership. it was the citizens who came together to buy the land to keep it from being developed. it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side. so san francisco sm

business week we've been doing it for 10 years about inspiring and educating and connecting small business week to have them thrive aim leslie the co-chair of small business week along with the small business week commission steve adams and together we've been involved for since its inception and it's really about being for impressive and more resources full to and we're going looking forward to today and this is special, in fact, the top ranked part of small business week a day you'll get great information and interaction and to join me to kickoff the conventional is the executive director for the city and county of san francisco

regina. (clapping.) >> thank you leslie this year's theme to small businesses they're the vitality no our corridors and neighborhood and shape our community. the small business convention has became the most popular of offering during the week and this year we're featuring free educational and inspirational workshops success panels and a procurement panel in expo. the last session ends up at 430 are a reception overland it's hosted by a hardworking committee including our honorary mayor ed lee. mark convincing the district many of the for small business administration and emily from

behalf it compromised of the team tom and marlow and hannah and kathleen bustling and the san francisco chamber of commerce and leslie and karen. the renaissance center and the san francisco development alliance and sharon miller and the district organization henry and the golden gate association sf entrepreneurs and the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce and sf city jeremy and adams and alison now, it's my direct pleasure to introduce to you, your presenting sponsor bank of america for this year's small business week bank of america small business regional executive on the west coast is

emily emily i'd like to invite you up >> good morning it's a real pleasure to be here and small business week is is an exciting week for all of us we're thrilled to go be the presenting sponsor we understand power and significance of small business tloos across to city and really exciting to celebrate the entrepreneur spirit behaving has a long his in san francisco over a one hundred years no california and our founder opened the doors of the bank of italy in 2004 and came bank of america in the 1930s since then a lot of influence we've had and participation with the city to build it to what it is today.

we were part of the funding the governmental and golden gate park and the funding the renovation at the ferry building we are on the ground individually helping people person to person making their financial lives better everyday. the heritage commitment lives on through the floifb work and the effort we have everyday working with small property owners hocking to help them and mayor ed lee has helped to support the small business community and encourage entrepreneurship like sunday streets that's the most popular open street project in the united states this increases the foot traffic to the small

businesses see more business everyday and last year with the help of the white house they brought silicon valley to the public it be tangibles programs concluding health care and open government and transparency and finishing. during the small business week 2013 they announced the loan fund that made $12 million available to support small businesses boost the local economy and create jobs. the merging business loan program extends fund to institutions it focuses on lending to the entrepreneurs and growing industries like manufacturing and apparel and industry sector to create jobs

for local folks. in this city small property owners have a terrific opportunity and and team bank of america loortdz to our continued work with the mayor in partnership and support of the local enclosures please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you for that introduce emily good morning, everyone what a great time to be in san francisco weather wise my economy wise i've been thinking about the loiter seeing if i could win the loiter but one of the reasons if i could dream about that winning that i'll spend all the money in san francisco because we have such a rich con gorgs of businesses of

people making things in 0 san francisco i couldn't think of spending it anywhere outside of the great city that's what i think about spending it all in the city. well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and county of san francisco go that's on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 small businesses in san francisco. they compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs that's the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences there's a statistical appreciation but ufo our strong

economy is reflected in the small businesses. while everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons why one of the reasons great 23i7b8 institutions bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this great convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting today's event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a that's a story it continues to resonate throughout the rest of the country businesses helping other businesses and helping our community. i've added a number of things to my busy i didn't agenda on a weekly basis every tuesday, i visit is a business in the city and talk to the ceo and cfos and

people working with the businesses but get to talk to the employees and find out what's attractive and try to meet the challenges and usually it's about transportation or schools now those days it's about the price of housing and building more housing thaitsdz that's where we generate our ideas i added to that meeting not because i want to get out of city hall but on fridays now i've added an hour to get to go to the commercial corridors of the city and walk and feel what people are doing and stick my head into the local restaurant and the eyes cream particularly that takes along or the local toy stores and futile iowa we

can do. and listening to them and talk with them and react with all the policy decisions with regina and others tisk with our economic development office and awe our small business programs and those ideas turn into immediate reality so we create 1, 2, 3 license ability where small business can get our licenses or permits quickly we're going to open a single portal for small businesses that wyoming want to have one place to go rather than stand in line for different permits and attitudes we'll have >> prayer by the chaplain. >> that online and open 24246 so 7 so entrepreneurs in our pa gambles can do thing. but there's also things that are

big picture things i'm glad to see the gentleman helping me to really out a new business tax system in the next 4 years we've done it will help with the talking to the small business county and see whether an outside tax will help the city small businesses weighed in we know our new business tax will support the small businesses in the city and we'll do more along with our assessors office we've got loans and grant we're matching them up with our 12krik9d captains and mrovs to make sure the corridors are safe and we've got neighborhood grants that are visiting in the programs that are working hard to get out there.

it's no longer in any estimation about money known e money it around the city there really is harnessing that in ways to help people succeed and get the jobs. i'm going to thank the small businesses and large ones you're helping us with jobs helping me so much we can go out and tell the folks how about a paying summer job 7 thousands of them we did that saturday to help small businesses and we're going to have a big meeting with all the businesses and they'll be raising their hands over a question who helped you get our first job and all you have so to do is send the lovely thirty seconds someone helped you, you to get our jobs for the

recreational managers and institutions. as we relive that i hope to create another generation of kids that appreciate how when i become conceive you taller than and help accountability pr this is the culture of san francisco this is why i came in and decided to live and sacrificed my golf free speech to be the mayor of san francisco. but it is more than a dream it's visiting in each other this is what small businesses do they ask for help and invest in others help and this is the huge kwenlz that come to the town the big conventions don't want to ride the cable cars they're asking where are the real neighborhoods in san francisco y where can i go out and see thing

and experience things that are very strong in our neighborhoods because they're coming from places it's a lot of vanilla the same thing over and over but they want to see the cultures and that's why we have 25 neighborhoods we're investing in. i'm proud this welcome to announce our small business honorees and you'll see the diversity when i go through the names the sushi and the automobile repair shaping shop that is changing the shops in the past the has a valley and the hampton creek foods talk about a new maine nasal egging free and the electric bike super

store the triple 52 do brewery and, of course, i added in matt restore their special in our city their pete's are a that was started by two deaf business leaders that are taking orders because of the technology and the ability of the blending the technology with their small business they're taking live orders in their restaurant and their entire staff is deaf. so those are stories that others are going to tell over and over again, the diversity of the city this is how we're successful and those continue to draw the biggest conventions around the world to come to san francisco and see how the businesses are helping us and, of course, they're helping government as well. so again, this is a way of me

saying thank you to all of you working together you, you know, we've got sf made and i can't leave the stage without thanking mark and katie they're leading some 4 thousand people in sf merchandising and working with the small business community saying we can give back to great manufacturing and the offer lay that's happening there. they petroleum pump in 3 hundred and 95 thousand dollars a year gas station to the small business week and to the partnership with s b.a. you and part of the entire obama administration set the tone for the country and next year i get the privilege and honor of

hosting the conventional of mayors in san francisco 2015, 3 thousand mayors and we're going to add 3 thousand mayors around the world to the convention to come to san francisco to create jobs and maintain good requirements and help our kids and create jobs and keep our city safe all of this is part of a whole network of relationships and the ones that know how to create the relationships are the ones in business that's how you survive and succeed in the city with that, take the opportunity the proclamation that signals that small business in the city and regina please accept this and to all you have who you are part