and attacked and then later there was an elderly cripple man who was -- he was attacked and from what i'm hearing is they had to clean the blood up off of the property. and just before i left they -- there was another lady possibly transgender, she was attacked in front of 550 eddy, i'm wondering if we can get some serious action from you. i mean, is it possible -- do we have to -- just because we're poor and impoverished, do these have to be breeding ground and a pool for violence? do we have to carry guns to be safe? >> thank you very much. any other members of the public to speak? seeing none, general public comment is now closed. >> madam clerk, could you read

the adoption calendar. >> [inaudible] if a member objects a matter can be removed and considered separately. >> 66 i'd like to briefly sever item 67 as well as 73 and on the balance role call. >> supervisor kim. >> i. >> kim i. mar i. tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are 10 is. >> >> item of 6 is a resolution to prioritize [inaudible] up to the amount of 3.4 million

during fiscal year 14, 15 [inaudible] contract with the sister. city. >> i'd like to make a motion to continue this item for one week. >> second to that. second by supervisor mar. >> without objection this will be continued to the 25th of july. >> item 67, resolution to urge the ongoing bay delta planning process of the delta stewardship council and protection of the health of san francisco bay delta es chow air. >> i want to mention this is a resolution that has been passed by five counties tarnd bay. we would have joining them. i want to thank friends of the bay delta estuary and other groups and ask for your support. madam clerk, with this can we do this item same house same call. without objection that should be the case. and if you could call item 73.

>> item 73 is [inaudible] and opponent ballot arguments at the november 4, 2014, consolidated general election. >> colleagues, as we do before every election, we have to authorize the preparation of supporters and opponent ballot arguments and i wanted to mention a couple things. what i'd hike to suggest after a couple of changes i understand colleagues would like to make is that we continue this item for another week because next week we have some decisions on the final ballot, but in the meantime on page one i'd like to indicate that the children's fund and related measures, that the [inaudible] arguments would be controlled by supervisor yee and on page 7 the declaration of policy regarding transportation, two changes i'd like to make to that, supervisor mar would control the opposition arguments and then the change the language so it simply refers declaration of

policy aud sud [inaudible] so you will know there have been a number of supervisors who have been indicated as the perspective proopponents and a number of blanks and i ask you to review this before next week's meeting so we can have our assignments clear. so unless there are any questions i'd like to entertain first a motion to amend and then also a motion to continue this item for one week as described. motion by supervisor mar, second to that? second by supervisor farrell, without objection these items will be amended as described and the motion continued to july 29. i understand there's an immaretive item. >> yes, the concurring in the continuation of the revised of a local emergency, the rim fire by the mayor and in the actions taken to meet the emergency. >> we have received from the

clerk a resolution [inaudible] could i have a motion to adopt these resolutions. motion by tang, second td by cohen. is there any public comment that concurs in the continuation of the revised declaration for the emergency rim fire? any members of the public wish to comment on this? >> [inaudible] i'm always here to at least always continue to have citizens and residents to comment and to know really what's going on on anything that come by the board of supervisors if you don't really know. i spend a lot of time fighting for hue juan rights in the city and i think that san francisco, you have to honor the small people in this city and it's showing that with these [inaudible] the votes are not

reflecting human rights and civil rights. i hope that this will be -- we found the cure to aids, i think we can find the cure to convict to the eviction because violence it reaches us all and there's no reason we should be left africa and [inaudible] that's part of violence that you see. every time someone is killed in your neighborhood they say i'm not no punk and they shoot, you all need to understand that black and brown are shot on turf territory. white and chinese are killed -- they go to safeway, they go to [inaudible] georgia tech, virginia tech, santa barbara, they kill [inaudible] movies and we need to look how violence affect us all. there's something different about how we let violence in the black and brown neighborhood be unchallenged, but white [inaudible] all in

this city because i don't want to die on august 4, that's the president's birthday because i know that jim carter started habitat for humanity and that is what we don't have. i hope you can talk to the president in that supposedly. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of this wish to speak in this public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to recognize we have [inaudible] here in the chamber, he's up from la. thank you. >> welcome to our chamber. with that, colleagues, can we take this -- actually, let's take a role call on the imperative item. >> kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, campos i,

chiu i, cohen i, farrell, there is ten is. >> with that, madam clerk could you read the in memoriam. >> yes, sir, on behalf of [inaudible]. i want to take a moment and thank our sfgovtv crew. with that, madam clerk is there anymore business in front of the body? >> that concludes the business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

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>> wow, are the beetles here or are we just reoping the playground? i'm not sure which. thanks to the 2008 parks funds, where you're standing is the home and all of you san francisco voters gave a $20 million investment in this

neighborhood. i was born and raised four blocks from where we stand today. i came and played in this park, on the equipment, in the you know what i mean you know jim gym and structure today. >> to make this a park that everybody can enjoy, a diversity that would show the city that this is what san francisco is all about. >> what we got here is 3,000 new square feet of places for people to be healthy and be active and the community to gather. >> if you see /kaelly's mural in the building, there cannot be an imagery that's more related to this place. what people told us about what the importance of the windmills and the green houses and the flowers that used to be grown here and the wind, let's not

forget the wind. >> we have to continue to invest in our city's infrastructure and creating new. this is a recreation center for the 21st century and for the 21st century communities. >> we finally made something after somebody that everybody needs and this is the park. (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn

your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons

all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have

organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place

to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on

stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story

combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can.

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>> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild

west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground

writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who

come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage

for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently

ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but