face and their neighbors take action against banks to try to save their homes. every single day the board could have done something about that. this is a chance for to you do it today. please move forward with this. please [speaker not understood] it should have happened a long time ago. i think supervisor avalos's plans for public banking and public resources are right on, we need to invest in those. we have the money to do it and it's a very rich city. if we can't do it nobody can. thanks for listening. >> thank you. (applause) >> next speaker, and if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment, please step up. please step up. my name is grace martinez. i am the lead organizer for san francisco ace and of many of the people that you heard who are facing foreclosure are people that i talk to and even seek out knowing that there is a way to fight back. i think that one thing that many supervisors -- and i, you know, personally i don't ever, when i think of city hall,

nothing good comes to mind. and it's mainly because of the frustration and bureaucracy. and i think that right now, considering how many people this program can help, i'm just hoping that bureaucracy doesn't get in front of it. we have been fighting this foreclosure crisis. it's not a new problem. it's been since 2008 and we have a solution in front of us. the foreclosure crisis hasn't stopped. right now, numbers that we've gotten from the city, there are 283 homes that are in the foreclosure pipeline in addition to the 300 under water homeowners. that's close to 600 people that will lose their home unless someone does something. and right now in san francisco the board of supervisors, the city that leads everything, is in the position -- in the position to do something. we have spent three years lobbying the state in regard to putting $57,000 against

homeowners who are lobbying for themselves. we continue to pressure the federal government and today the board of supervisors has the ability to actually help people and do something about it? it would be unfortunate, sad and a line would be drawn if we can't see the supervisors today take a stand and actually side with people instead of banks. [cheering and applauding] >> final speaker. hello. it's now 6:20 p.m. so, good evening, supervisors. it changed from afternoon to evening at 6 o'clock. my name is jakkee bryson and i am here to give you the next chapter in the continuing saga of my identity theft with irs

and ftp, the franchise tax board. i received, although i received it on june 21, a letter dated june 30 of 2014, but it's irs. i don't care. we have verified your claim of identity theft, yea. actually, the state of california moved faster and verified my claim of identity theft and this related to someone filing a false federal 2011 tax return in my name of jakkee bryson, using my social security number and my birth information. the only entities which had that information were my landlord and support services

at the time. because of recertification, you're required to give all of your information. now, the further good news about the irs, irs doesn't like it when people file fraudulent tax returns, so, there is an irs criminal investigation underway. i only wish that i would be able to put the cuffs on myself. so, i'm doing everything in my power to provide the information on this form 39 49 ~ of the who, what, when, where, why and how, tndc lutheran services, it's on. >> next speaker, please. supervisors, mr. president, my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm a neighborhood activist. i would support the kind of progressivism that's represented by s.f. cares [speaker not understood] clearly the situation that we have right here in san

francisco, we are not doing enough for enough people. and naturally enough, the worst kind of pain and suffering is going to come down on the working class, low-income people, and people on fixed income, seniorses and children, of course. what i would suggest is almost impossible to change that equation when you have a board composed of people who are attorneys, high-paid, not only are they high paid, but they're looking at the kind of income you're earning. you're looking at entry level income that you're going to do better on, not the kind of pay that you get at the end of a lifetime's hard work final reward. no. it's going to get reversed. i was talking to a young lady here and she didn't want to hear me. that's what i wanted to say. it's going to be very hard to change things. laura's law, the leading cause of death amongst youth in san francisco is homicide. what are we going to do, we're going to take -- ask more

people to move into that? >> any other members of the public wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the adoption committee reference kayedv? >> item 74 through 78 are being considered for an immediate and unanimous adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote may enact these items. if a member objects, an item can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would any of you like to sever any of these item? >> supervisor avalos? >> 74. >> supervisor mar sf. >> [speaker not understood] i'd likev to send to committee. >> supervisor wiener? supervisor campos? >> 76. >> and with that, madam clerk, could you call the roll -- i think that just leaves item 75 and 78. >> items 75 and 78, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar?

mar aye. supervisor tang? tackv aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution -- that item 75 is adopted and the item 78 is approved. [gavel] >> item 74. >> item 74 is the resolution commending the city of richmond for their work on creating a local principle reduction program and declaring san francisco's intention to explore forming a joint powers authority with richmond to prevent foreclosures. ~ principal reduction programs. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you, president chiu. i will be motioning to send this item to committee. mostly because a lot of the work that's been done to secure what's happening in richmond, the program to keep it continuing in richmond was done last week. and, so, a resolution in support of richmond's work is not as timely as it was and i want to make sure i can work with you colleagues about the

relationship around how we can actually have an ordinance to join jpa with the city of richmond and have all of our questions answered as we're going through that process. and, so, i'm hoping by the end of this month to be able to have that and working with the controller's office and the city attorney to answer a lot of questions that still remain. colleagues still have regarding the open principal reduction program. first i want to thank my colleagues who are co-sponsors, supervisors campos, mar, and kim, and i want to acknowledge that in san francisco there are many communities, especially on the southern and southeast part of the city that are experiencing the kind of economic boom that is happening elsewhere. we have many, many households that are still under water. we have many households that have predatory loans and they're still mortgages that they're still paying and not able to get out of, not able to have any real relief of the high rates that are there. and we need to have some tools

in place that can really help that. we'll go principal reduction of the s.f. cares program or the cares program joining with richmond and jpa would help to enable that to happen. [speaker not understood] a discussion over the years and we heard it today about the outmigration of african-americans in san francisco. i live in a part of san francisco, the lakeview neighborhood, that -- that's my district. i live in lakeview. lakeview is part of district 11 where there's been a great loss of middle class african-americans just like in visitacion valley, just like in bayview. there's been a huge loss ~ of middle class african-american households and the few that remain are working really hard to make sure they can maintain the wealth they have that is in their homes and to make sure they can maintain that property and pass it on to future generations. that's something that this city has really neglected, an effort to support both the outmigration -- (applause)

>> -- and the many, many households that hader under water. we have programs for down payment assistance loan programs. we have programs that provide support for first responders to be able to buy homes in san francisco. but for many of the working class and even middle class household in san francisco, african-american, latino and many asian household, we don't have a very strong program in place that is helping to maintain that wealth that people have in their household. this program can do that. but also like swimming against the tide, we're swimming against the institutions of our banks that have a strangle hold on how loans are -- mortgageseses are kept at high interest rates, ~ homeowners have to renegotiate loans, how they're able to move the actual principal of homes so it's more affordable for household to be able to maintain their property. we have to do something as a city. we can play the game and let the banks would like us to do and ask a million questions that are never going to result

in anything happening and the banks will prevail and we'll see the continued outmigration of african-americans in this city. we'll see many households lose their wealth and leave this city as well and we'll see san francisco turn to what is all too often becoming a place that is only going to be where the wealthy can survive. we have a responsibility to do otherwise. and, so, i will look forward to, colleagues, bringing forward an ordinance that would help san francisco join the jpa to make sure that we can actually do the work of maintaining our wealth in our homes and help other communities across california like richmond that are actually dealing with the worse crisis around under waterhouse hold to force foreclosures. joining jpa will enable us to be able to do that and also enable us to actually have some leverage over what the banks are doing, what they offer for us in term of relief from the predatory loans that many of us are under. so, colleagues, look forward to that discussion with you when it come forward to the full board.

hopefully by the end of this month, i will have an ordinance for introduction and we can move forward. i want to thank members of the ace and member of the community who came out tonight. (applause) >> to discuss their concerns. the idea of people losing their homes, where they stay, where they bring generations to the city and it's very, very troubling. it's very, very disheartening. there are communities that i also feel a certain type of violence not being able to maintain their homes. that is a trauma that we have and many of us live with. we have a responsibility in the city to deal with. i hope to join with you, colleagues, in that effort later this year. so, i'll motion that this item 74 be moved to committee. (applause) >> supervisor avalos has made a motion to send this to committee. is there a second by that? seconded by supervisor campos. colleagues, can we take that motion to send this committee without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> and madam clerk, can you

call item 76? >> item 76 is a resolution urging the newly elected government of the republic of el salvador to respect and uphold the rights and protectionses of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community of el salvador. ~ of el salvador. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. president. on the prior item, i do want to thank all the members of the public who came and especially homeowners who shared their stories. not an easy thing to do, so, thank you. i just want to note that this resolution on el salvador is actually very timely. and unfortunately, since i first introduced this resolution we've had a number of incidents against members of the lgbt community in the last few days, we had transwomen, three transwomen in el salvador that were murdered for being transgender and one gay man that was murdered for being

gay. at the same time, we had a young bisexual mother who i know is fighting against the state in that country who is trying to take her little girl away from her just for being bisexual. so, just wanted to note that. look forward to your support. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 77? >> item 77 is a resolution urging for a moratorium on redemption center closures in the city and county of san francisco; and for supermarkets in san francisco and the state agency calrecycle to meet their statutory obligations by convening with the department of the environment to find solutions for a more evenly distributed network of recycling centers and ensure that a recycling center is located in their parking lots or redemption recycling is provided immediately nearby. ~ city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you, president chiu. on this epidemic of the evictions of recycling centers in the city, i'd like to move that we send this to committee. i'm still in the process of communicating with safeway executives as they have closed not only the market street safeway, but also the ocean

beach safeway, and also with the head of our department of environment debby raphael and her staff on how we can create more of a city-wide plan. and i think going to committee would allow us to have a fuller discussion. so, i motion that we send this to committee. >> it just takes one supervisor to send it to committee. supervisor mar moved that we send it to committee, that is what we will do. we have one final item. we called item 6 related to the 2014 update of the recreation and open space element rose. [inaudible]. back to discussion. supervisor wiener. >> i thank you, mr. president. thank you for delaying this till the end of the meeting. so, this is as i mentioned at the beginning, it's very challenging because we have to vote up or down and i know that department staff spends a lot of time putting these documents together and it goes through a

lot of years of process and then it comes to us and we vote yes or no. and we can't make any amendment to it. and, so, i question that process. i understand, i imagine why it was implemented, but i don't like it very much at all. the vast majority -- i am a big fan of the vast majority of the rose. the overwhelming majority of the item in this document i think are relatively noncontroversial, are well thought out, are really excellent. i do have a very targeted concern about policy 4.2. i do think it is different than the 1986 version with the combination of the inventory that apparently is everything in san francisco, at least until we've combined with the planning commission's power to place conditions on projects where something has been identified in an inventory. it's caused a lot of confusion and a lot of anxiety in the

community. and, so, i will not be supporting the rose tonight. my concern is very focused on section 4.2, policy 4.2. i don't think that -- i'm not sure what's going to happen tonight if this goes back. i'm not sure the entire rose has to be reopened, every aspect of it, the vast majority of the rose in my view is perfectly okay just as it is. i do want to thank and appreciate staff. i know -- i have great respect for the planning department and for rec and park and i've voted with the department, both departments on many hard issues over the years. i think they're terrific departments, they do a terrific job, but on this one particular issue for a very narrow focused reason i won't be able to vote with the department this time around. thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> i just want to note i appreciate supervisor wiener's comments. and i know that it is challenging when you have to

vote a yes or no, but i do think that when there are concerns, with you i think a number of my colleagues have that the only thing we can do is to send this back. i think that the reality is that there is a reason why the rules work the way they work. we're not in the business of micro managing departments. and if there is a policy concern, as i know there are with a number of items here, i think that you send it back and you let the department do it right this time. thank you. >> i want to say a couple questions to the planning director. could you give us a sense of what might happen if this were sent back, what that process would look like, how long it would take, and what you might be able to do that might be different? >> [speaker not understood]. the board's vote today is either yes or no. there is no formally sending it back. you either vote yes on the language or no on the language. it would then -- if the

planning commission chose to ask us to change the language, then we would go through a process of -- like we have for several years. we would have to have some community discussion about t. i don't know how long that would take. the challenge that that creates for us is that it's very, very challenging in these kind of documents to only focus on one or two sentences. when you're talking a document that in and of itself had this type of discussion, this type of controversy over many, many, many of the policy issues. my suspicion is that it would take, if we did that it would take several months of time. and i don't know if the planning commission will want to do that at this point. i honestly just don't know, but it's up to them to make that decision. the board's decision today, as you all pointed out, is either yes or no. there is no formally sending it back saying, please do this when it comes to an element of the general plan. >> could you have give us a sense, this has been in the works for years, give us a sense of what has gone into the outreach that i think many of us have had questions around and -- >> sure.

there has been 7 years of discussion on this. take out my list of public process which began in november of '07, there was a draft release in may of '09. the outreach there, if you recall, the mayor had an open space task force back then in 2007. there were 22 neighborhood-based community meetings. there were open houses, there were focus groups all over the city. we went to the recreation and park commission five times -- excuse me, four times -- five times. been to the preservation commission twice, planning commission five times. there were many, many, many community discussions, focus groups, individual meetings in neighborhood -- with neighborhood organizations about this that dates back to mid 2007. >> thank you. colleagues, any further questions or discussion? okay. madam clerk, why don't you call the roll. >> on item 6, supervisor cohen? cohen aye.

supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener no. supervisor yee? yee no. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos no. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 8 ayes and three no's. >> the ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> and with that, madam clerk, could you read the in memoriamses? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor cohen for the late ms. omega harden. on behalf of supervisor farrell, president chiu, and supervisor wiener for the late reverend anthony turney. on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late young ayal [speaker not understood], frank el, [speaker not understood] mohammed [speaker not

understood] and on behalf of supervisor yee for the late dr. james wilson, ms. layton dong. and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late ms. edna eileen flores lagunte. >> take a meetv to thank sfgov-tv's crew tonight hal kremenak and jim smith. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business in froth of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> welcome to "culturewire."

today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great

educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area

and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility,

adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third.

there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel.

what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster.

it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans

be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in >> thank you for including us in "culturewire."