city hall. i am blessed in district 3 to have a rich network of neighborhood associations, merchant groups, and nonprofit organizations that i interface with regularly. they often had difficulty navigating city hall. i am trying to help develop neighborhood councils that bring together these various groups to interface with city hall and city staff as a model to foster partnerships between and our neighborhoods and city government. it is a model we have been working on for a couple of years in district 3. i hope to replicate it to out san francisco fairly soon. >> we are out of time. thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> 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 increas

city hall. i am blessed in district 3 to have a rich network of neighborhood associations, merchant groups, and nonprofit organizations that i interface with regularly. they often had difficulty navigatingity hall. i am trying to help develop neighborhood councils that bring together these various groups to interface with city hall and city staff as a model to foster partnerships between and our neighborhoods and city government. it is a model we have been working on for a couple of years in district 3. i hope to replicate it to out san francisco fairly soon. >> we are out of time. thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪

city hall. i am blessed in district 3 to have a rich network of neighborhood associations, merchant groups, and nonprofit organizations that i interface with regularly. they often had difficulty navigatingity hall. i am trying to help develop neighborhood councils that bring together these various groups to interface with city hall and city staff as a model to foster partnerships between and our neighborhoods and city government. it is a model we have been working on for a couple of years in district 3. i hope to replicate it to out san francisco fairly soon. >> we are out of time. thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor carmen chu from district four, which includes the central and outer sunset and park side neighborhood. supervisor chu was elected to the board of supervisors in 2008 and reelected in 2010. we will get to know her and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. let's start by talking about your background -- where you grew up, what kinds of jobs

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navigate this far. it has been a long road to come before you today. our business is music, special events and event management. we very much rely on our partners at city hall as we strive to keep the masonic alive. we currently have 12 conditions on the interim permits, and approximately 40 conditions on a conditional use permit, including conditions on the of all sales, curfew, maximum number of events, the security conditions, cleaning standards, load in standards as well as traffic mitigation standards. we appreciate your time tonight. we're certainly interested in any of your questions. >> commissioners, and the questions? >> with all of the conditions being placed on there, how do you feel about -- i mean, are you happy with the conditions being placed there? [laughter] >> i'm not sure happy is necessarily the best word, but again, we appreciate many of the neighbors' concerns. and we value our neighbors at all times. i understand a number of their concerns. we believe that what we have documented through the planning board of supervisors has addressed these issues. we know there are others that feel differently. >> i mean, are you willing to accept t

here we have inat the den pens hall or new york city in the early 1900s, we have the savannah, amazon, san francisco. >> how easy do you find it for kids to be able to navigate this? as adults you look at this and say, i might have a hard time doing this. for kids it's more intrinsic. >> having a touch device is changing -- teaching technology. you're not teaching technology per se but you're teaching content. so the touch device makes everything accessible. kids can go in, drag, drop, and there's a koocoordination of th mouse. they can navigate this on their own. >> have you done any studies that demonstrate what kids are actually learning from this rather than just -- because people say, they are just fooling around on be a ipad. are there studies that show that they are actually learning? >> we haven't done a lot of quantitative studies. we've done more qualitative work which is going into classrooms and hearing from classrooms around the world about how their kids are changing their story-telling habits, how the structure is evolving and their oral literacy is developing and how they are learning about stories not just about things that they create but w

city hall but at the end of the day, you don't know what is happening. especially from people who often do not get an opportunity to speak or they don't even know how to navigate the system to convey their concerns so, in that sense, i think that that is something that will serve you well. other than that, i look forward to working with you. thank you very much. happy to support the motion. >> thank you. i also want to say few words. are a number of pedestrian safety issues that i would love to partner with you on as we increase making our city safer for our pedestrians, which all of us are. you can probably interface with some of the individuals in the room today. i highly recommend attending a meeting to learn more about the we are engaging in and the priorities that the pedestrians would like to see. but another priority for my office is cigarette out how we can work with the mta around tokens and with a clientele that come into our centers. this is so that people can go to shelters, their house and appointments, job interviews. that is initiative that we would like to work with you and the mta on and as we discussed, many of our homeless clients are disabl

navigate it all. we will have a live report. and an occupy san jose demonstrators return to campus city hall but this time they have announced a departureow clouds are around parts of the bay but still sunshine and filed temperatures are to come.

before mayor schaefer left city hall, he nominated bailey to serve as president of the baltimore city school board. in that role she helped parents and a navigate the school bureaucracy, suggested workable solutions for teachers and brought a commonsense approach to the baltimore city school system. but bailey's knowledge and expertise goes beyond knowing how government works. she has had her pulse on baltimore and on maryland. she knows the key players this the city and state, many on a personal level. for many years bailey has been the go-to person when people need to get things done. without a doubt she has been an invaluable resource to my entire staff, to me and the people of maryland. but she is also a tireless advocate and a voice for families and individuals who may not have had the understanding or resources to access the services they need. what whether it's working with the mayor of oakland when spring floods threatened the dam near the town or getting services for a homeless veteran or working with community groups to improve their schools, bailey is a relentless public servant. there also is no deputying her energy and enthusiasm a