baseball and athletics in general is about getting outside staying active and healthy while at the same time provides kids a safe clean environment where they can play and learn without any outside influences and pressures and distractions and as previous people said it's hard enough as it is kids can turn on the television and see their favorite major league ball players that do chew tobacco and obviously we can't influence the ball players and tell them what to do in their own personal life this legislation would be going in the right direction so the parks alliance strongly supports the legislation and hopes that the that the supervisors will as well. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> i'm here because it's a good

excuse to wear a jersey in the middle of the day. we are proud to support this legislation and thank you supervisor farrell for this great piece of legislation. you know as a second generation asian american when i was growing up we often searched for things to help us fit in and help assimilate to the culture and of course baseball is america's sport and when we we watched these games to teach us how to act and grow up when we see them using chewing tobacco we were taught that's what we were to do and so particularly as an immigrant community we're affected by this in different ways and role model baseball players in different ways and it's important to have this

legislation here to help the next generation of americans grow up and understand that being american is about being healthy and making the right choices thank you. >> thanks very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon everyone. sports is usually a med a medium that encourages students and kids out of bad behavior but baseball is the only sport i can think of that practices these negative behaviors and i think it's wrong and sets a bad image for kids. baseball kids are role models and children should not be exposed to that kind of behavior so for you to propose this bill -- i very much support this bill thank

you for your time. >> thanks very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors my name is allen i'm a recent college grad local college grad i'm here to support this ordinance because as other speakers said i support not allowing kids to be exposed to the dangers of smokeless tobacco products when they are young and impressionable from either the players or fellow spectators and historical there may have been a cultural a cultural tradition of certain tobacco products and certain sports but i don't think that's the way it was in the past means it has to to be that way now in in the light of the scientific evidence of the harm of tobacco products so i think that tobacco products is not

integral to the integrity of sports and this ordinance would help separate those two without detriment so thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi there. i'm an internal medicine hospitalist at the john muir medical center and i live in san francisco as was previously mentioned a summary of the research on smokeless tobacco from our own san francisco researchers lends strong support to our efforts to ban these products and based on the research the san francisco medical society representing 1600 physicians and physicians in training support to knock tobacco out of the park the proposed legislation will make the game

of baseball safer for the kids and safer for the players and safer for the future baseball is our national past time and it's it's to be a healthy sport for all those involved and we know smokeless tobacco substantially increases the risk of oral cancer pancreas cancer and initiation of cigarette smoking among adolescents and we know kids kids idolize baseball players. supervisor farrell's legislation will send a clear and powerful message to the youth of our state. thank thank you very much. >> next speaker please. >> hello good afternoon. i'm also a physician at the

university of california in san francisco i live in san francisco and i'm training in pediatrics and sfaeg speaking on behalf of all the children out there. the cdc found that 16 percent of -- there's no evidence that smokeless tobacco improves the athletic performance and far exceeds the levels observed in the general population and the last thing i

wanted to mention this will also ban the use of e cigarettes at the field and that's a public health issue as well and for all of those reasons i respectfully ask for your vote. >> thank you very much next speaker please. >> hi good afternoon i'm with the american lung association in california and the lung association urges you to move forward and the use of tobacco products endangers the health of major league baseball players and sets a terrible example for young people who watch baseball at the park or on tv and this use of tobacco products by baseball players is not an accident and something tobacco companies are very aware of and the cdc has said

that athletes serve as a model for youth.

>> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public who wish to comment on this item? all right let's close public comment. >> okay thank you. so colleagues i do have a few technical amendments that we've passed around and thank you for the letters of support and for all of the of the people that came to speak today and i'll say from my perspective i put this item forward because i believe it's good public policy but on a very personal level i'm doing it because i was someone who used to use chewing tobacco and i know how hard and awful it was to stop but more than anything else as a parent now of two young sons and one is playing baseball already i don't want the future of our children in san francisco who

play baseball to be linked in any way to smokeless tobacco it doesn't have to to be that way and i want to thank you colleagues for hearing this item today and please be mindful we have technical amendments we have to pass before we move forward. >> i just want to thank supervisor farrell and the broad coalition of folks who have been working on this and to your cosponsors supervisor mar supervisor avalos and supervisor tang and one of the things that has been very interesting to me was just learning a little bit about the history in terms of the role that tobacco has had in baseball . as an immigrant myself you wonder if it's something that has always been there and in reality that wasn't the case it was something where the tobacco companies made an effort to make this be a part

of the sport and i think it's a great initiative and i'll make a motion to accept the technical amendments that have been put forward by supervisor farrell and again i want to thank supervisor farrell for his leadership. >> thank you and let me thank the coalition the department of public health staff the community members that have come today i really appreciate the elimination of this exemption and also the wise inclusion of concluding e-cigarettes and other devices in this law and i think it's really well done that it's not just chewing tobacco and smokeless tobacco which my dad used as we played baseball together and i tried a few times but never really got onto it as a first base man and is a pitcher in my baseball days but

i'm very happy it's not just smokeless tobacco but looking at other ways to eliminate smoking in stadiums and other places as well and the san francisco tobacco free coalition has been working for many years to create smoke-free places and i know this is an important historical one as we move forward with other places that we can make smoke-free and healthier for everyone and thank you very much supervisor farrell and i'm supportive of the motion on the amendments so -- >> supervisor mar, can i mention one thing real quick and i apologize for interrupting. i want to say a special thanks to everyone that came out today to all of the different groups and for all of your work thank you for being out here and you know this work is not only being done here in san francisco but at the state level and it has been a large effort and i want to thank

everyone for the hard work and advocacy and then also my office as well thank you colleagues. >> okay. can we accept the amendments without opposition. >> now as amendmented. >> i'd like to make a motion to move this item forward as amended and send as a committee report at the next supervisor's meeting. >> can we do that without objection. >> thank you everyone now mr. evans can we go back to item number 2? >> item number 2 has been called already and we have still not yet taken public comment on that item. >> so let's take public comment on this liquor license transfer.

>> we understand that the applicant for this item is not here today we're not quite sure why she's not here. she expressed a lot of eagerness about being here we're very supportive of this transfer. this business has been actually serving the a the at a smaller location for many years they have been a great community neighbor and now they have this opportunity to move to mission street and really vitalize one of the store of the store fronts and actually move from her current location. so we're very supportive we understand she's not here. we did try to

reach her and i know they are frantic ly trying to get their space ready and are really counting on getting this approval as soon as possible so they can proceed with their plan so if there's any way that you guys could consider i know it had gotten a lot of support from our merchants association on the corridor and that's actually helped them in this process because they are limited english speakers and i know there's support from the police department as well and we hope that you will be as well and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you for being here because we probably would have continued the item waiting for the applicant but supervisor campos. >> yes, thank you. normally i think you want to hear from the applicant but i think in light of the presentation by supervisor avalos's office i'm happy to move this item forward , actually item yeah item 2 with a positive recommendation.

>> thank you we should open up for public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. we'll move forward without objection. thank you. thank you so much francis shay and mr. evans is there any other business before us? >> there's no other business. >> then our meeting is finally adjourned. >>

>> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work.

>> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a

week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping.

>> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of

these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day

that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting exciting and i have a creative streak in me.

it ranges from t-shirts jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.

rancisco board of education for the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, april 14, 2015 is now called to order roll call. >> thank you ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton polluting ms. wynns dr. murase santa monica and mr. chin thank you. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance thank you very much next item on the agenda is approval of board minutes none tonight before i call the next item i'd like to remind did members of the p