and louth for the siefrt issues 4r0ug9 for people that may not be uss the street properly we have to use our streets smarter n this is why it's important to place that vision zero and there are month activities in our streets we're encouraging walking in the streets when i get through with this job i'm going to walk more and i want to feel safer and join with all the people that want to join me in walking the streets to be safer we won't ghetto there without vision zero by january 2016 all 24 projects that ben is in favor which to cooperate throughout the city have to be done and spend down this $300 million of

the $500 million that will not raise property tax in the city and spend that down because we not all of those improvements whether their signal consortiums traffic improvements pedestrian safety bulb outs or signage sloan traffic making people more aware and big thrust in education because everybody has to be more aware so i will want to say this we have to move together on this and noted pointing out the fingers it's not just infrastructure or education it's not just one or the other all i have those things have to work in concert with each other and we have to talk what the bicyclists and the car drivers and talk with people that are moving supplies in and out for all of those crosswalks projects and talk with people that walk our streets in multiple

different languages we have a lot of visitors from all over the world they're not use to the intense use of our streets as we grow as a city we have to center the conversation with all our partners and kids and look out for each other in addition to louth four users so vision zero is our goal and fraying will help get us there we're not going to wait we're beginning the projects we'll be you announcing them as time goes on as and a we get the projects done and need everybody's help the biggest advocate not only in the neighborhood is our supervisor jane kim she's brown on this (clapping) walking and talking and making sure that we incite the fund for this to happen and i time to say again, thank you supervisor for your leadership and thank you to

you all the different allocations public works and the police departments to all of the infrastructure groups and to the advocates you know we don't want to be crying over the next accident but slshlt we saved for lives so each one of the traffic signal are these is important to the community thank you for being here (clapping). >> thank you, mr. mayor this is the kind of leadership we need to make our streets safer i want to thank the mayor for van prop a $500 million in education bonds for $300 million will be invested in advancing vision zero making our streets safer and it's not not only coming from the executive branch but the elective supervisor kim and all the 11 members of the board of supervisors unanimously

supported prop a on the ballot and with that kind of unanimous support if city hall that we'll need in order to get even though 2/3rd's vote for the high threshold for the unif i had city hall and community to the chamber of commerce this is an investment that san franciscans will understand and being willing to make but it's not just with the bond as supervisor kim experienced her leadership which winner running for office she made pedestrian safety one of the top issues and this is a top issue her district is the most challenging foyer pedestrian safety and that's why laugh of the folks are here please welcome supervisor kim (clapping.) >> good morning many of us in the community that

have been working on this for many, many years this morning is so existing this signal an sixth street is something the community has been fighting for about i was in office and to be here today on a community driven process to see our residents that fought for this is rewarding i want to recognize the south of market action network (clapping) who represents many of our families in the neighborhood the united players and city crossroads that rounding u run our youth programs across the street and walk sf has been a strong partner in making sure we advocate for this and, of course, any entire office is here ivy and sunny it took a lot of folks to make this a realty 4

years ago our residents actually organized a walk on significantly street that included edward reiskin and is ta and dpw and we started on significantly and market and walked to ross and to fulsome to talk about the needs that the community needs to make sixth street a safer place for the youth and seniors and mother jones and the collaborative to talk how the intersection was unsafe and we even crossed the crosswalks at significantly to see whether cars would stop for crossing when we walked across the street from that experience the following year the mayor's office actually worked with our office to fund a pilot we knew it would take a look at to get the prong we the first bulb out

on significantly and howard number one and 3 on the top collision intersection in the city to shorten the walking distance for our pedestrians before you to remind drivers that those curb outs are an important place of safety for our walkers and finally opened the signal an ross for many families that walk across the street to go to betsy carmichael and now we're here today to open this signal (clapping) is it so exciting that improvements that we've been able to make on the last 4 years to make this neighborhood a safer place for you'll have us and remind the people 3 walk and commute through the districts that seniors and kids live here

on isle on fulsome and howard and significantly again, this wouldn't have been possible without our residents that took the leadership to make it a realty want to thank our city agencies for working hard to put this on the ground as quickly as possible tilly chang the prop a dollars that helped to fund this today and, of course, edward reiskin but also with an night the engineer that put this on n place an significantly street the sf pd side commander is here oh, my god oar commander ali and commander and i will i is the traffic commander to make sure you're increasing the enforcement in the tenderloin and the south of market and the city to make sure we're telling

the chiropractors and pedestrians what how we can share the road altogether so a big congratulations and thank you to everyone that was involved in making this a realty (clapping) >> thank you supervisor green again, that's the kind of leadership we need to make 24 happen and finally you've heard a lot from the supervisor and the neighborhoods this was built from the grassroots up and the strong support from the folks but it is new to make those things happen sometimes we don't have the level of support but the stronger support the easy to get this into the ground and no one epitomize misses this and relay people in the neighborhood to make things happen please join me in welcoming mother

jones. >> (clapping) >> well, you guys its opinion 8 years i've been working on this project i'm ms. jones a head of organizers working with the city collaborative that is a great day for the community traffic is real bad down be significantly street this is a day i learned a new word collision so embodying i want to thank mta oh, united players those are the soldiers that keep our babies safe thank you devices so much and the communities it is our community and what we do with the community to help our kids in the future but god it is just amazing i never thought i'd see this day we recent the highest rate of collisions in significantly street and it is really hard especially, when you're a senior we need to widen the streets we

need to fix those trees for wleerz can go by without getting stuck we need work on significantly and howard and work on howard and kidnap i'm so glad it is finally will happening i can see my dream obviously the kids in the community marching down the streets it is amazing thank you guys so, so much you have absolutely no idea what this means to me and my united players all right. now (clapping) thank you, thank you the mayor. >> thank you jane kim and the staff i want to thank each and every one of you i might want to hug everybody thank you (laughter) (clapping). >> thank you mother jones

every community fluids a leaders e leader like this before we through the switch i want to acknowledge our executive director nicole schneider and advocate for making the streets safer and one of my bosses a member of the board of directors from the san francisco mta raul ramos one of the biggest champions for delivery of those projects and a lot of mta staff i want to acknowledge tom maguire (clapping) and our manager of liveable streets probable for making streets safer for bikes and pedestrians and people in cars mr. smith one of the engineers and the folks at p, and folk see that made it happen at this point, we're ready to through the switch our engineer should

be on standby and ask the mayor to lead us in a count down to activate the signal. >> (laughte (laughter). >> jane. >> mother jones. >> come on up here. >> let's do a 3, 2, 1 must show ready 3 example 2 example 1 go (clapping.)

thank you, everybody don't forget to vote (clapping) >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she

struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat.

>> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function.

>> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the

software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording

of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally

there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years.

my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear.

>> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. . >> good morning, we are about to start the department of aging and adult service commission meeting today. thank you for coming. secretary, could we have roll call. >> president james. >> present. vice president seriina, here. commissioner itani, here.

commissioner loo, here. commissioner ow, here. commissioner roy, here. please note executive secretary ann hinton is present ?oo ?a we have the agenda and i have been informed that item c under new business will be taken off the, has been requested to be taken off the agenda. could i have a motion to approve the agenda with that change? >> so moved. >> second. >> it's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda removing item b under new business. all in favor, aye. opposed? ayes have it so the motion is carried. thank you. next we have approval of the consent agenda with all items. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> it has been moved and

seconded that we have approval of the consent agenda. all in favor? opposed? the ayes have it so the motion is carried. thank you. next item on the agenda is approval of the october 1 commission meeting minutes. is there any changes? has everybody had a chance to look at the minutes? >> i move we accept the minutes as submitted. >> it's been moved and seconded that we approve the minutes as circulated. all in favor? opposed? the ayes have it so the motion is carried. next item on the agenda is the

employee recognition. preston sullivan, adult protective services. so it's an opportunity, preston, to talk a little bit about the program that you represent, the program that you worked so hard in. so we'll just start by, if we can have everybody from adult protective services stand up. got a big group here today, don't we? (applause) don't look at those flowers over there. nice, nice. there are more folks in the aps, they wouldn't all fit in this room,

but it's nice to see so many of your colleagues here today. always, you know, really look at the write-ups and one of the things that this particular person wrote about you and wrote about actually the work was how intense the work is. and i would think that probably everybody in the room, if you've been a referant to aps or if you work in the program, you know this is true. this is one of those program areas that there's always a difficulty every day, right? there's some really hill that's got to be overcome, there's always some barrier in the way, and that doesn't even include the circumstance that are presented to us by the folks who seek out our support and, more importantly, our protection. because these are some of the most vulnerable people in our community. they primarily are

older adults and younger adults with disabilities who have either been threatened with abuse, have been abused, have self-neglect, have any number of issues and are, it looks from at least most of those referrals that these are people who just can't climb that hill alone, right? they can't just solve it on their own, which is really a sad set of circumstances in and of its own right. so what i want you to know about preston that i know about preston before i even read any little write-up about you is that one of the things she brings to the department and to the program is that she's fun-loving. she's fun-loving. and i think in my very first weeks of being on the job -- well, weeks, might have been months because i came at the end of june and i guess halloween would have been the first holiday, then there would have been christmas, right, all of

these holidays coming. and we used to be on one floor and i used to make the circle and i would get to your cube and i'd always have to stop because the fun-lovingness of preston was so evident and her -- really a generousity of sharing that with the folks on the floor. so we all got to benefit from that (applause) and it says that in here, that you really -- well, they say it's kind of time out, helping people to take time out, but i think of it as fun-loving. so preston gets very involved in the annual retreats, she helps, i think, lift the spirits of people through sometimes maybe heavy discussions but also bringing this other element of her personal personality to the job. so in addition to being fun-loving, though, it says you are, provide a quality

service, you go the extra mile, you are timely in the work that we do and frankly in the work that we all do that's really essential. and finally that you are committed to protecting the most vulnerable, which is really the ultimate thing that needs to be said in this program. so i thank you very much and here you go. >> thank you. >> i don't know if you want to speak (applause). >> first of all i just want to say thank to you all of my friends at aps that make this job so worthwhile to me, not only the clients but it's because of you. i love coming to work, i love doing the party, the decorations, the parties, everything. my ocd really pays off because i get things done in a

timely manner. i now can retire early. >> that's tlaupk she said that. >> i have achieved all my goals for aps, i don't need the lcsw, i have my clock and i'm a happy camper. i do want to say thank you to whomever nominated me and again all the support and the streepktd -- strength that i get from my co-workers because they are there whenever i need them for a work issue or a personal issue or anything. they are like my family and i really love and appreciate each one of them and