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with the projects relied to the prop k funds. >> one thing we've built into that was useful i want to thank the authority staff the process we went through this year, the cac we spent 3 hours on special meetings going through each category and projects and questions they had it will give you a better sense of the strategy and we'll know what we're doing through the global process we've committed we're very transparent and have ever opportunity to answer all questions. >> thank you anyone from the public wish to speak on this item anyone want to speak please come forward. >> tomorrow wednesday not morning or afternoon but evening 7:30 the american culture center
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so some u.s. taiwan relationship of culture matter some people speaking in the buchd temple i think that is as i said we have to have all the wholly talent to extend to people not only for politicians but the educators and the church personnel we have more talent and having about wholly talent on one body so we been boundary so we have to engage in more areas to enforce our position to extend what angle more area so we'll be more fulfilled position thank you. >> thank you, sir you have to focus on the issues on on the
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agenda for your remark. >> you want to have the mta point out in the packets where the list are because we have some a big list ace the tuesday supervisor campos in regards to the citizens advisory committee concerns over the public and how money is being spent on the capital projects like the caltrain and what went on there and the concerns it is changing the scope of the project against maybe what the public may approve as a project same thing with the central project how we're spending money on the design and completion of the promotions so the public's input is critical and sometimes the public puts forgot persistence things on the bike planning that
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has combats on buses and transit and you've got to look at more than one thing it is in regards to throwing throwing out paint we don't want to rush it that fast we want to see that citizens have a right to see the implementation and the best solutions are taken into consideration. >> thank you anyone else 0 from the public seeing none, public comment is closed we've got a continuance from the supervisor campos to the call of the chair, sir a roll call. >> on item 9 supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor kim absent supervisor mar supervisor yee item is continued. >> thank you sir call the next item which is
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an informational item. >> draft neighborhood transportation planning guidelines an informational item. >> ma'am, can we get through this as quickly as possible. >> again, this is an informational item as part of approving the prop k 5 year program you have a approved funding for the neighborhood transportation program i'll call this is out of recommendations from our county wide plan the transportation plan and your and public input there be more of a focus on neighborhood type projects and social and economic and justice analysis that said we need a stronger pipeline of promotions like in head projects at the neighborhood scale so long story very short this is now approved one hundred thousand for each district
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supervisor to with regard to a neighborhood level grant up to 6 hundred thousand from 2014-2015 and the guidelines you have in our packet are guidelines we've developed with the project sponsors but i'll say the cf b didn't discuss this last month the intent is not a board cost of projects each district supervisor can there will the efforts they want to fund to their district so the guidelines are to provide guidance on the one hand on how to have a robust strategy and you need a fund plan with that, i'm happy to take comments and we'll have a presentation next month.
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>> colleagues this is great it creates a participatory planning process anyone from the public wish to speak on this item we have one card aaron goodman. >> i was very interested in this item because of the transportation that was suggested in district 7 so hopefully supervisor yee your issues of the alternatives simpleminded by members can change the ideas of how the transit exist in that district. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment. >> actually for the past year since 2013 june and sometimes, people that are preclassed sfo and i started to gave me on to
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my holy pathway to you talk to people about they're meeting every monday or tuesday e.r. wednesday or thursday or if i or saturday or sunday about the wholly way and the way to what you of walking with an objective action for anyone people in san francisco so how it's been one year already sufficient influence over my from my side wholly study and onto the people's new thinking see because we don't talk there's no reaction about talking so we talk a million billion people everywhere see i'm continuing to do that into
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otherwise something else happens. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment sooibd so colleagues, i see no other comments f this is an informational item next. >> item 11 introduction of new items anyone from the public wish to speak on this item seeing none, public comment is closed call the next item. >> item 12 public comment? >> wrap up quickly it was mentioned early on t buses but in general overseas they replace business every 6 or seven years that mid door idea of opening up doors because the front entrances are blocked about his but it's something to look at in
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the study of egging ingress for business on brt so when we increase the housing we increase the capacity of people to load and unload people. >> thank you, mr. goodman is there any additional public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 11 adjournment. >> thank you, everyone meeting is adjourned
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>> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of
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any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1
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hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent
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bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished.
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desperate, near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. sound art is an artistic and
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event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because san francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. ♪ looking into meridian's future, she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. to enlighten and disturbed. >> i really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. ♪
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