to try a accommodate a number of policies and make them work the neighbors wanted offends and if you ask some of the neighbors that would have had strung barbed wire at the top that's how bad the situation but the police department and fire department that uber you'll bees batting the problems the ones that shouldn't be in there wouldn't be there and you'll have the law breakers inside and if that an accident or fire or someone slipped and broke a bumper-to-bumper you couldn't get anesthesia it with blocking that off the general manager advised us a park policy to connect folks that's probable in part why this unauthorized trail

existed ever attempt to get rid of it was soon back operating in my opinion serving all the issues i've said that before lisa should get a badge in going beyond the call of duty there's no simple solution i don't want to discourage the community from tweaking this to the point it might satisfy more of people but i'm of the firm belief that moving the location to satisfy 4 out of 70 steps didn't make sense that is a compelling argument the buffer zones mean a lot to the neighbors and they're the once or ones that have to agree to moefksz that meet trail

criteria what started this was security criteria i want to keep the priorities and context in place with that i want to commend commissioner bonilla and ask here her to say a few words. >> first of all, i voluntary to express incredible appreciation for the amount of flexibility that lisa has demonstrated or experienced in this whole process i know all along the way when more meetings have been asked for were new individuals have come in and new groups have come in to ask to be considered in the solution of this trail and

where frustration has been expressed time after time in terms of still having no trail having no project i think she's persevered and bent over backward to get additional input and last evening she said this is still a work in progress this is a concept we're voting on and to much to my amount time she came up with another idea of a meeting after this action taken today so she continuously really

bend over backwards to try to accommodate as much input as possible i agree with you commissioner president buell there is no perfect solution there are some fundamental issues that may never be addressed but the clock is ticking and we've spent a lot of time on this and this money we have allocated it is hundred and what it is. >> $347,000 if we delay this for another year or two it is going to dwindle down to having a pot of money that may not be sufficient to deal with this issue and see i think we're with what

you've proposed having another meeting to finalize more of the concerns that were or some of the concerned that were combresz expressed at our walk through i think with that i think we should be able to go forward and start getting this project completed. >> thank you seeing none, no other comments i'll entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second all in favor, say i. so moved thank you very much. >> item 10 is removed from the agenda we're on item 11 the urban agricultural program.

>> great good afternoon, commissioners nice to see you i'm here as ordinance of the city of chicago presenting the urban agricultural? a great first year and happy to show you what we've been up to this year the interagency supports and supplies the community members to grow food on public and private land it encompass

animals and vegetation and people are happy about that we believe that the growing of animals and vegetation educates people will the eco system and connects people to nature and engages people in our spaces you can find that in the annual report and this members of the public it is available on sf rec and park.org to helping to a lot of pro bono work on this report. >> the urban agricultural program from all walks of life and volunteer almost entirely driven effort we'll r really, really work in participating thank them for their partnership as well this is a brief map of the urban cultural over hundred

and 23 of them you can find this as sf park website a quarter are on the properties that participate that the education out loud of the school yard a quarter on private prospered and quarter rec and park and other public properties likens the department of public works and the commission i get a question i don't want to wait for a box there are 16 gardens across the city that will let you come volunteer this week one the many requests the program was to create a one-stop shop for member of the public you been public members to see what is happening in the agriculture we've created a website that has information about getting started and city

resources like water meters and access grant and other reports that are been recorded culminating my position that is one the guides inside the one-stop shop this is the graphics one the things we do was start to pile our education classes we did 8 classes from compost and other tops a taufgz we have enthusiasm that is for this year 2014 we start the research center a place for the public to come and get compose or mulch the ecology company produced the com possess to give you a sense of how many

pound and tons of compose we gave away from alamo's square we could have filled up this scare people are about excited this of the at golden gate park and the second at a farm additional third we partnered with the puc and other organized to do a pop up in the bayer look at mobile locations trying to develop the best location for this year 2014 one of the things we did last year over 60 site visits and accommodated technical assistants from what is happening to my peach tree to what am i supposed to do with this compose we continue to work with the other city agencies that participate in the urban

agricultural we point to the ab 551 the urban ordinance and the picture on the be upper right is rhode island the first site in the city of san francisco and the staifktd e state of california to benefit from this bill a past incentive for agricultural aon private property this is the first site in the state to get it going we work closely with other agencies supporting them and starting new projects brotherhood way and the public works future project at the amazon facilities one request from the urban agriculture was to develop a wastewater for the parks program over hundred gardener on hundred part of our city properties we want to make sure that as many

people are getting access and getting in quicken we developed an online place to provide for a community garden it helps us of the garden to track the numbers and kind of peoples that are interested we worked with them and decreased the waiting list by 12 percent in conclusion we're excited about the 2014 automatic program and looking forward to doing on the 2014 skis thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> can i have (calling names) step up. >> hello my name is keith the

co-coordinated the agriculture alliance working to promote the growing of food throughout san francisco and the society goals of dozen organizations tiled recognize the many individuals who turned out for the alliance and if they will stand all to call out from the support that the urban add program many of who are wearing green to support this program thank you so additional to thank the commission for providing the opportunity to comment on a program we think are violating important to san francisco we are fortunate to live in a city that supports public institutions that has a designated your honor, correspondent and we're encouraged to learn that her position is fully funded for the

current year as well thank you for that from the recent released annual report it is off to a strong start and 5 suffocates we would like to highlight from the first year the first is as you saw a very clear popularity one-stop shop on the website for information on the urban for users to assess and two the formation of those garden resource centers throughout the city and 3, community garden coordinate our meeting and the incentives on the ordinance that has i've said is the first in the state and providing a beacon for others 71 and on the other hand the dialog between our alliance and the city

this is a great foundation for our first year and we look forward to building upon this work with hopefully 7 more years to come there are many key priorities we would like to highlight going forward and hope to see one of which is is a strategic plan laying out the program priorities for hopefully, the next 5 years as at inner add program and at the least a one year work plan showing the timelines of the program we would like to see the reservoirs centers made for viable available through extended hours perhaps open longer with apartment staffing resource centers additional urban architectural

and better understanding the neighborhood needs through a survey the urban participants thank you. >> eli. >> thank you good afternoon commissioner i'm eli the food and agricultural supporter and one of the coordinators at the clipper garden in noah valley i'm going to echo a lot of things that were said i want to run through also at spur we're pleased how the program is up and running the west portal i think you can ask i know who to tangle to this is fantastic there were many agencies and still are working on urban and working on a way we didn't see previously because this work and this annual report is the first time the city laid anti metrics

with budget and resources that's helpful for our prospective and looking forward to seeing that in the future years building on what is going on there are a few things we can see in the years to serve the gardeners with an is the availability of the resource centers there is 2 inches of compose an alamo's square i'd like to side two maybe increasing the frequency so the centers are open seeing that once a week and seeing how their utilized it will not take much to have people there a few times a weekly over 7 hundred people on the waiting list for community garden that under represents the garden to create new sites that could included reaching out to

people upon the waiting list we have sites we think could work are you interested in doing fundraising for that and lastly with the community garden hat i have on the community project manager there are far more demands open her time we highly recommend the department have more staffing resources we have a great acceptance of what happened then in the past year but we don't know the plan for this year but having this published a work plan a budget timeline from our prospective it is hard to know what we should expect and whether or not budget resources that matched to the goals we ask the the president to plastic surgeon a budget timeline and lastly this was in the letter a more clear accounting of how the money was

spent in the last couple of years and using the resources efficiently and going forward trying to make the best we're pleased that the progress and love working with the department so looking forward to continue to doing so thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm yolanda the environmental justice and land use program manager i'm going to keep it brief you're probably hungry part is to manager the agricultural project we're trying to dpw develop and as such i serve on the working group with yolanda she referenced in her presentation one the preliminary urban

program is to insure that, of course coordination the puc as it comes to resources we're all working on similar projects or the same projects is it so that goal i wish to speak to today, i feel it is a goal that under the leadership this promissory note program is really, really meeting that goal 0 some works how we're krorld going beyond the working group that is a pleasure to serve on another example a series of mobile research centers we've highlighted in partnerships are rec and park and through community-based organizations like bayview hunters point we were able to leverage foundational dlrdz so san francisco fixed up helped to fund that in partnership that the puc we served a difference

community a pilot program i'm proud of and hope to see more unique partnerships under this work as a way to leverage all the city resources and, of course community support as was mentioned we've been working together with the coordination with the puc land that is managed by rec and park that's another ongoing coordination effort in short i'd like to say from a city staff prospective this program is successful and helping function and this will bring many benefits to the city and community i thank you for your time and continued support of this valuable work. >> thank you can i have

(calling names). >> gvenlg commissioners i'm maggie the program manager at guardian for the environment we operate and run a urban gardens school for adults and youth on a half acre located on san francisco public utilities commission property this is our 25th year we're proud educate over 5 hundred adults every year i'm here to show the support of its agricultural program and continue funding for the coordinator position we know first hand the benefits this can provide for the citizens many train graduates are in the

audience here are politically their skills in service the garden teaching and you literacy and growing frubldz he can we've excited about the sustainability of san francisco through the; is that right of urban agricultural program we benefit a lot from the coordinations and gives us additional resources and wider community we support so thank you very much. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, commissioners thanks for this opportunity i'm with global exchange we have been here for 26 years i volunteer in high school we teach the kids inner augural it was city money that

took out 2 hundred feet of sidewalk cement between 7 by 7 and 18 a lot of foreign investors oh, it's 80 so beautiful just a few days ago we banished u launched this we harvested and prepared a 3 course meal that was restaurant quality us adults were crying they served it you'll that's because of this cooperations between the private and nonprofits and city agencies so we are very much in support of urban program i'm proud to say that san francisco urban agricultural does it's mostly meeting in my office your you'll invited to the second tuesday if to 8 above the mcdonalds i'll

generally disapproved of collins but if you could clone your colleague i'd be in support. >> thank you very much. >> is there any additional public comment. >> mr. ginsburg. >> i'm sorry, go ahead i didn't see you. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm sorry is a.d. before i begin i doctrine an agricultural engineer and my family owns a farm i joined the lions recently and i'm fully supporting the program and excited about it just as a enterprise might have as well i think there is a lot of pro tem opportunity for improving the urban environment through the agricultural i was at the silicon valley meeting and there's a lot of exciting things going on some are

critical farms going up in chicago and japan and los angeles in order to advances the technology we need the city and government support in other words, to do so. >> thank you. >> now, mr. ginsburg. >> oh, you might ask for more people. >> any other public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> still want to take mr. ginsburg. >> the third time is a charm i want to suggest i was going to move we clone anna shulman (laughter) i really wanted to thank her for her amazing leadership and depositing and anonymity for their support in our urban agricultural program it is a team effort so our operation staff have played a role and this is something i want to see

to the community thank you for your support and guidance as we have taken over cooperating role and leadership role we do that with you no fast or slower with you rely on our expertise but the department is extremely commented to we'll continue to build we're able to add resources in our budget this year and not everything we need more sure but hopefully, the giving up of fundamental steps to increasing both you know access and pragmatic opportunity and community access to garden and hopefully developing a farm or two so we're committed to it so thank you for anna's working relationship (clapping) inasmuch as this is informational i want to thank

you for 15 years i've shared the boards school project the more you equate children around food the better they take care of themselves it is vitally important and appreciated thank you. >> we're on item 12 general public comment continued from item four at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest injured afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. is there any general public comment? seeing none, that item is closed we're on item 13 commissioners matters >> seeing none, item 13 is closed item 14 new business agenda settings.

>> item 14 is closed 15 communication? any comments any public comment we're on item 16 adjournment union second >> moved laughter moved and seconded thank you establishing for all the work you did for today's meeting ready to begin.

good morning today is wednesday, may 20th. 2015, regular meeting of the building inspection commission, i would like to remind everybody to please turn off electronic devices, the first item on the agenda is roll call. president mccarthy here. mar here clinch here, lee? here mccray present. melgar here. walker here. >> we have a quorum next item is president's announcements. >> good morning web to the may 20th. 2015 bic, meeting, forgive me if i mispronounce any names, as follows, tom hui briefed san francisco committee may first, and gave them