music that is currently unheard to have a place to perform will be incredibly powerful for san francisco as a city and keep musicians in town. we have lost a lot of the music community to east bay and other regions due to the expense of working and living in san francisco and with a permit that is low cost and allows businesses that don't necessarily generate massive amounts of revenue to hire a flute player for a small afternoon brunch or a guitar player on the corner or a jazz band in north beach, all of these are music generas that have a difficult time finding places to be heard because of the cost for the venues. so we strongly support this and appreciate you taking the time to listen. commissioner miguel: thank you. alex walsh. >> i am here to represent the views of the musician team 6 and of the united states and canada and we represent approximately 1800 professional mu sooigss in the san francisco area from all walks of musical life include the symphony, ballet, and various regional and metropolitan orchestras and touring broadway showses and major retail theaters and sky walker ranch, re

san francisco has been overlooked as a target for terrorists. some people think that no one would dare to damage san francisco's reputation as a tolerant city, but i, among others, feel like our enemies might be bold enough to use our tolerance against us. this item should be approved, and it would be well-used, especially when there has been some emphasis on the federal level to inspect incoming cargo containers. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will close public comment period moved forward as a committee report with recommendations. item three please. >> item 3. resolution authorizing the port of san francisco to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,612,357 from the department of homeland security, 2007 supplemental infrastructure protection port security grant program for homeland security improvements on the port's waterfront. >> this is a three-part accept and expend authorization. pier 50 emergency power. there is no emergency power at this point. high-security sensing, phase three. that is continued installation of fencing throughout the court. and finally, building occupancy function program. this is a resiliency sys

to in the second, but the other part that is missing is what it does for the city of san francisco to bring us together as a community, as a city. what happened when the 49ers won those super bowls year after year? that was a huge deal for our city and our community in san francisco. what happened with the world series this year when the giants won for the first time in over 50 years? incredible. everybody was celebrating. and that is a huge deal for our community in san francisco, but i think, economically, not only jobs in terms of construction of stadiums and what have you. economically, you know, for those people who do not believe or do not really fully appreciate what type of economic drivers the sporting events and teams are, go down to soma during a giants game. come to the marina when the blue angels fly in town. what it does to the local streets and bridges. come to district 3 and district two and districts 6 and 10 when the america's cup comes to town and see what type of influx of economic activity these events drive to us. i think that is something that is not talk about enough. both the commun

i have been working in serving san francisco for over 10 years. i worked as a city employee working to investigate and mediate complaint oliver san francisco and public accommodations. i live in district 9, probably for over five years. now i live in district 4 for the last year and half which has given me a different perspective of the city. working with residents all over the san francisco i feel has amplified my knowledge of the issues of this city and what is needed in this city as well as well in for my decisions about my work in this city as well as if i were to be elected on the redistricting task force. my work on and zoning and policy has allowed me to understand the impact of citywide changes and be objective and fair and willing to see other positions. we are talking about city-wide changes that are going to affect all people. we have to see beyond our own interests to see the needs of people living in the city. i feel redistricting is very important because a lot of impact on the representation, resources and who will vote where, who cannot vote and who

. >>> some san francisco leaders are celebrating a new financial gift to the city's parks. as rizotto, jr. shows us, the city has a strange relationship with the company making that donation. >> reporter: in a small san francisco playground turned temporary skateboard park, dozens of pint sized skaters angled for big air. soon, they were the backdrop as coca-cola presented the city parks department a giant check for $250,000. to see city leaders shaking hands with a soda manufacturer, students star contrast -- >> during his time as san francisco's mayor, current california lieutenant governor gavin newsom signed legislation banning society de vending machines from city property. he pointed to the links of soft drinks and childhood obesity. today he was happy to help the city accept the donation. i couldn't deny folks saying, all right, what can we do to help support the city. i couldn't say no, why would you say no? you're encouraging people to do the right thing, when they do, you don't turn your back. >> reporter: the city plans to use the money for new parks and equipment.

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a student. she continued that in her senior year. she is going to go to city college in san francisco and wants to go to san francisco state university and serving our community as a nurse. jazzman, welcome. -- jasmine, welcome. adrianna ferrerra ruiz has a situation most high-school students do not. in addition to going to school, she has to work 30 hours a week and is the primary caregiver in her family. she gradually did from abraham lincoln high school and plans to go to skyline community college before transferring to san francisco state to obtain a degree in criminal justice and be a probation officer. you can tell she has been raising our brothers and sisters. she is going to make a career out of it. let us have a hand for her. [applause] nice to have you here. congratulations. we were also pleased to recognize elise, who graduated from the high school of arts. on her own, she challenged herself and those around her, saying she was never afraid to express her own opinions. she will attend city college and transfer to the university of santa monica to study theater. demonte calvin was motivated by his mother. he graduated from civic center secondary school

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something that opens a dialogue to public interest in these ideas. so the work is really made to be seen in this environment. it's been show in museum, in gallery, but never in a public setting. and it's kind

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> 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 stre

i think of san francisco as a safe city. >> reporter: officials say they are working with community groups on safety, reporting live in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> deputies think they may have one of the suspects who was robbing people. a teen has been arrested in connection with a series of robbers that plagued riders. the teen was arrested yesterday afternoon. officers say they believe he may be one of two suspects responsible for another robbery. there have been several attacks near the bus stop. >> twitter says its user set a new record for the number of tweets were second second -- second during the woman's world cup yesterday. that record was elements broken later in the day during another soccer match. twitter says usage has risen from 10 million tweets to 200 million now. >>> the crew of samuel skiff bid farewell to the international space station as atlantis wraps up its final mission. >> that wake up call came from nasa's staff in houston and then they said good-bye to the space station naught naught. they presented with a american flag as the program comes

city and county of san francisco. i made a statement last year that one of our foremost economists started his career as a police reporter. if you have unbelievable services that san francisco state and city college. reporters know how to interview people and they're not used. if you look at that as a resource, you will find this is probably the cheapest that you will have in the division. i bring that up because i have a journalistic background myself. i know that you can in a few people in a timely manner and you can do it cheaply. -- was in my taxi. he was picking up prostitutes that night. he said that they were disappearing off the streets. they told me there is no serial killer in the city. they basically sticking with one murder. most likely, murder 5. i leave you with that. >> thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners. this should be my last time here. when i found out that martin had a criminal record, he told me that policemen were behind the harassment i was undergoing. the first up was to call the fbi and demanded why they were doing this. a couple of days later, this was left for me in my home. the

the new talent to keep san francisco in the forefront of the destination and arts and entertainment and urge you to join us in restoring san francisco as a musician friendly city and where musicians and singers can prosper and rely on the flourishing cultural can benefit and where both residents and visitors can enjoy the gifts musicians bring to our lives. commissioner miguel: thank you. >> hello, commissioners. i appreciate your hearing this issue today. my name is scott kieper. i am on the business task planning force and the selma area is being considered to potentially expand allowing this permit into and i wanted to advocate on the s.l.i. districts that are not currently considered mix use and we are planning on allowing entertainment within the district and would be a natural extension of a trial with this form of permit. i think at the heart of sit a lot of fantastic and wonderful ideas and fully supportive of it. and there are some of the concerns that the first speaker brought up that are points that can be massaged before the legislation is finalized and formed. i am hoping there is still some opportunities to engage with mr. mirkarimi's office and

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go

a skateboard slammed into her. her dad daughter is asking for bert enforcement. city counsel will debate changes to bike regulations as well. >>> a san francisco judge received -- removed a anticircumcision from the city ballot. a small band of opponents were outside the courthouse this morning as he made her ruling. the judge said regulating medical procedures such as circumcision comes under the state's jurisdiction, not the city. >> seems straightforward to us that it shouldn't be allowed but we wanted to let the voters of san francisco to decide how they feel and unbelievably the city has decided to bring a lawsuit to not even allow it to go to the ballot. >> an attorney argued circumcision is not a medical procedure. >>> in los angeles a street party invitation on twitter turned into a riot on hollywood boulevard. >> i got stung. >> it didn't hurt that bad. >> the party was held outside the chinese theater and the premier of electric daisy carnival experience. as they tried to clear the theater of overcrowding a riot erupted. no one got hurt but police police cars were damaged and two people arrested for vandalism. >>> the round up of com

i am a proud at san francisco public school parent and committed to raising our family here in the city. san francisco is our home. as you see from my application, i have dedicated my professional life to working in the community with a variety of backgrounds working directly in social- service programs, to education, women's rights, advocacy and policy. i am the director of community relations at chinese affirmative-action and i'm proud of our work last year around the census. we were one of the leading organizations binding and that yes we count coalition which brought together 13 organizations looking to having deep roots in the community and injuring an accurate count in hard to count communities. in just a short amount of time, 13 organizations were able to reach 50,000 residents and i am proud that in san francisco, we were seen challenging trends and we saw an increase in our ability from 2000-2010, saving the city tens of millions of dollars over the next 10 years. from that process, i was able to demonstrate collaboration between community, the city of san francisco, and working with the u.s. census bureau.

worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >