came into office we had half a billions of we were debating whether to close down first stations and trying to figure out where to cut hubt i publicity and services i want to thank dan roman field in 149 we passed two year bushlt. >> hydrahave a healthy budget due to our budget wizards i want to congratulate us was likely the easily budget to move forward because our economy is healthier but we're working together to fourth our top priorities and what we're going to invest in i want this thank

obviously there's a tremendous amount of work that happens at the board of supervisors i want to thank the staff and the budget committee their hard work led lbe their fear also leaders supervisor farrell and he can go home earlier to spend time with his kids in the evening supervisor farrell. >> (clapping) >> thank you president chiu and mayor ed lee it's maiming two years in a row we've passed this out of the committee and the board of supervisors. when we started this process i think mayor ed lee and i had a commitment to have an open and transparent process that did as is mayor ed lee respect to every be district to meet with the committee heads and we had a town hall online meeting so people could weigh in we want to

make sure our budget protects us for the future it's not talked about we're the only city in the united states that passed pension reform and things at the battle we're setting ourselves up in terms of our physical headquartered we wanted to make sure we worked with the board of supervisors and my colleagues, i want to shout out to all my committee members supervisor avalos and supervisor mar and supervisor london breed and conserving who pickup truck in the countless hours and lastly we wanted to make sure that the budget we passed was also rehabilitate of the things in our entire city the mayor prioritized things in his budgeted a lot of money towards affordable housing or continue

the road repaving making sure we invest in our infrastructure critical things we've done and the board of supervisors coming on top of that food security so our seniors and protecting residents don't sit home hunger i think we can be proud of you want to say a special thanks first from 0 my staff katherine to the mayors team kate howard she is indescribable to our team and the whole city of san francisco for her entire team thank you kate for all you do (clapping) and as was mentioned to the inspire controller's office dan rosen field and late nights

they're here past maintained this doesn't happen so thank you ben and your entire staff for all you've done (clapping) and from the boards prospective obviously hearing rose thank you for your hard work this was haurz 40th budget inside city hall thank you favoring and to our own city attorney's office john gibner, deputy city attorney and all their hard work and certainly to the mayors other team and staple jason and the entire team that works closely with the board of supervisors. thank you all we're all proud of the budget two years running we passed it this year earlier and on time and passed consensus on

time thank you and thank you to all for being here (clapping) >> and let me add my personal thanks to harvey i asked for the county of los angeles we question got it. this is just a budget document i know it reflects a lot of what we worked hard at planning for. what we do do outside this budget document can challenge the dedicate balance but i have faith the people that carry out the budget most of who is standing here are going to do us proud i ask not only celebrate the budget but the people who are going to carry out the budget to the city departments you're going to make sure we

carry this out. are we ready to sign. all right. let's do it (clapping) want up close? (laughter) all right. and today is july 23rd >> 23rd. there you go done

>> yaerth preparedness is a way of life in san francisco san francisco we hope the new law requiring the upgrades is soft story building will help keep residents safe and sound. so bill tell me about the soft story building program what is it >> it's a program the mayor signed into law a year and a half ago the whole idea was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so they wouldn't

collapse. >> does the soft story program apply to all buildings. >> it only applies to buildings built in a timeframe of 1978 and earlier it's aimed at wood framed building 3 or more stories and 5 are more units but the openings at the garage level and the street level are not supported in many buildings without the support in a major earthquake the professionals sent them to flatten and many are under rent control so everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they're protecting their investments and tenants. >> nos have gone out to have thousand owners but fewer one one third have respondent and thousand might miss an important

deadline in december let's talk worse case scenario. >> so first soft story walls the building will collapse and be a total loss. >> can you talk about the sfrelg in the retrofit. >> you want to think of this building like a rubber abandon in the upper 3 floors are a rid i do box and the earthquake the garage tends to really over the first floor is a very tough but flexible e flexible rubber abandon you would not drive the forces to the upper force so it goes into the plywood or steel frame. >> so here we are inside a soft story building can we talk about

the kinds of repairs property owners might expect and it's a simple process we try to keep it that way so what's involved whether you install plywood to make a wall and cover it with the gossiping so many stellar it adds underneath e flexibility so during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse it gets strengthened more when we go to the doorway to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so potentially the wood and steel that sound like a straightforward process takes our odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in thirty. >> that's exactly right we're hoping people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great let's take a look at.

>> so let's talk extremely frame talk about that. >> we have a extremely frame there are two of those and go up to the lower floor and a beam that goes 0 across that forms this it's a stiffer and stronger so during the quarter the upper floor won't clarion and according the engineers and contractors it could be done in two weeks time easy. >> if you're a property owner with questions about the soft story retrofit program signs up to this on august 11th from 3 to 5 at the main public library and the dbi staff will be there the deadline for applications t is september 15th. for more information

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room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work.

in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society specifically for this project. we were charged with beginning work. marquez and i spent a lot of time addressing our own position on the death penalty, our experiences with people who had been incarcerated, family members, friends of friends. pulling our information. beyond that, we did our own

research. to create a picture that resonated with humanity. it is the shape of a house. in this context, it is also small and acts like a cell. i thought that was an interesting play on how these people make these adjustments, half to create home. what is home for these people? the home is their cell. people talk a lot about noise -- very noisy in prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here?

[singing] i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others. we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation.

thursday, july 24, 2014. i'd like to remind members of the audience that the commission does not permit outbursts of any kind minutes and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll commissioner president wu. commissioner fong. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioners first on your calendar are items proposed for continuance at 9 west portal affordable housing discretionary review authorization to augu august 7, 2014, there are no speaker cards >> any comments on the items

proposed for continuance seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner johns >> move to approve. >> move to continue. >> sorry. on that motion to continue. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under your consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item 2 case at 19 through 28 clyde street request for condominium conversion and next

at 39 alamed billboard and case four at 499 laguna street request for kwufrgs third reading >> any public comment on the consent calendar seeing none. commissioner antonini >> move to approve items 2, 3, 4. >> second. >> on that motion to approve ail matters under content. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and placed you under commission matter item 5 for the draft minutes of july 10, 2014, >> any public comment on that item on the draft minutes?

public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya >> i'll move probation officer to adapt the minutes of june july. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes for july 10th. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson abstention >> even when you're not at a particular hearing you need to render a vote. >> i then. >> commissioner moore. >> commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. and places you on item 6 commissions comments and questions and commissioner moore >> i'm sure everyone has read that i was upset that the flower mart sold fore $27 million there

are one hundred and 4 businesses that didn't have any idea i regret that and hope the department will closely monitored what the next steps are. commissioner antonini >> yeah. i have a couple of items i agree with commissioner moore and heard of that and very involved with the last time and was helping to keep it but certainly are there accommodations made for the relocation of that facility and i'll encourage it to be used for other assets a lot of the businesses are doing extremely well and it's historical we'll work on that. first of all, a couple of matters stu thank you to

commissioner sugaya for many years of service this could be his last meeting i want to acknowledge it's service to the city and sitting next to him >> thank you (clapping.) my final is an unfortunate incident but the public should know last tuesday and i were meeting a couple of people on a street and we took transportation on mission she didn't want to get off on that station i said okay pick me up i'll take mini to my office we found a place on geary restraining order and we get between guerrero and valencia a

packageer gets in our path of where we were walking and, you know, was asking for things and not moving he didn't move finally, i yelled at him and yelled forcefully enough and then a woman popped up in my face don't yell at my people we don't want you here that was disrupting i think their misguided and encourage the mission district to look at the community benefits to take some control of the streets i know your optional a block from mission station but the officers are busy with more serious offenses but i feel sorry for someone not from san francisco in some of our tourists and have

that kind of thing happen they wouldn't come back and you read it all the time people are accosted by packageers and we lose our reputation and this kind of thing has to be controlled. >> snaring. >> yes. thank you. to start on the flower mart the commission went through a lot of hearings last time the flower mart was up for sale and being purchased and got feedback but the complicating factor the flower mart is not one place there's a japanese american ownership the last time they are

not involved in the academy of art situation i don't know what the situation is but it's probably more complicated then we think this is my last meeting probably i've severed as a planning commissioner for 8 years and tried to bring some objectivity to my decision making there were a few indiscretions along the way you can google it and find out (laughter) made better forensics with supervisor kim and other in the process anyway, that's water under the bridge. i think objective activity wise is one it is one that i kind of like to characterize it as an

unbalanced advocacy here and there i think the staff can bring us things that is a unbalanced but they're kind of forced into doing that one way or another as commissioners we should look at interests that we have passions for that we believe in strongly. i know certain commissioners like commissioner low is strong on urban design and others on housing etc. i don't have a lot to say other than to leave comments about things i've gone through the commission still probably should consider giving us attention to one is discretionary review authorization reform we went through that i believe at that time, i was a strong anti doctor

person i've come around thinking that it's something that the city has this unique state maybe in the nation but i think the planning commission is the wrong place to have this done. i advocated at this time for a hearing officer sort of like the zoning administrator who i believe does a good job and has over the years or a smaller committee maybe a 3 person panel. i also think we need to expand and continue to be vigilant about the loss of pdr spaces in the city that goes along with trying to protect the western selma plan and balanced against the central corridor plan and lastly my plan for the culture

presentation slightly different word but we went through many, many years of hearings on the japantown better neighborhood plan that was moderator into the dhs which is a culture document that document i think forms the basis for other discussions going on in the lgbt word and in the latino community and the filipino community. so i hope those things will continue and the planning commission will continue to support the work of the historic preservation commission. lastly i want to thank the planning staff they do a tremendous amount of work and this commission couldn't well, i think we could get along with all the stuff we're going i want

to thank the staff for the support i've received over the years >> thank you commissioner sugaya. >> commissioner fong. >> i'd like to offer my thank you and congratulations. i don't think this commission is necessarily supposed to agree the way we're set up we're supposed to offer views i appreciate you and have learned a lot from you i've learned different aspects and comment on your line of questioning sometimes, it's very thorough and unique from a different prospective and our attention to daily it's been great sitting here for 5 years and good luck going forward >> i also want to thank you commissioner sugaya all our service at the planning commission and the landmark and

maybe sometimes your comments maybe unfiltered it's a breath of fresh air many commissions can be overly careful you believed things and meant them and being thought of so again wish you the best in our future endeavors and maybe see you again. >> commissioner moore. >> having sat next to commissioner sugaya 8 years it's more than having a think a informed voice but a great appreciation for the thoroughness in the profession and before we really had the historic preservation fully established i've learned a lot and will miss you a great deal i refer to you as my comrade i