taking on the new public access, and providing money to run public access. if i understand correctly, they haven't actually received the money. they have actually started running it with their own money. i could be wrong, but from what i understand they are running it with their own money in hopes that they will get the money from comcast. through litigation with you people. i recommend they get the money. i hope i'm understanding this correctly. and i think there are some people who complain about public access, but they are only allowed two workers and one part-time person to run the whole public access because the rule said, i think comcast has laid down. and there's lots of things that needs fixing with what's been written and i think the bottom line is we have to be practical about this and work with what we have. and if we have a system working, we shouldn't just throw it out and say we don't like this. destroy all the steps we have taken to fix the problem that we have. and i guess that's about it. thank you very much supervisor campos: great. thank y

media alliance has been a longtime supporter of access as of -- access sf. it was ms. rosenberg's decision to move her media news to the berkeley cable access studio at the beginning of the year. this is logistically sensible, as media alliance is an oakland based organization and she is an east bay residents. but i do not understand how she can claim to represent cable access producers with whom she has severed ties. in light of these considerations, asked the rules committee and board of supervisors to reassess the weight they have given to her prior testimony, which i am willing to certify as incomplete, uninformed, and riddled with inaccuracies, which amounted to address on a point by point basis, if you would give me the time to do so. chairperson campos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is ken johnson. i have been involved with cable television public access since its beginning. i have been involved with a lot of groups throughout the city, and the main reason -- what we were trying to accomplish with public access was to put up studios throughout the

libraries accessible. nine more that are in progress will be made accessible appeared most modern accessibility of any new library system i know of in this country. i remember when willie brown went out there -- i will never forget. we had a big celebration. we had our first playground that was made accessible, and that was big national news. now, we have over 80 playgrounds that are fully accessible. 28 clubhouses, 19 rec centers. that is real progress compared to where we were just a few years ago. still not good. we talked about olmstead, and susan was right to bring it up. it is appropriate. ihss and home support services at what is going on in the governor's budget. i do not want to get too partisan or political, but it is pretty unconscionable that it is even on the table, these kind of cuts, but then again, not surprising with all the other cuts that are on the table. but you do not have to worry about those ihss cuts locally. they were not even part of the discussion, and now with the budget for al

public access barely gets any general funding. they do not get the level of funding one would think from the general fund. the distinction that needs to be made clear is what is required for capital intensity or capital funding versus what is programmatic. as frustrating as it is that we are in essence capital well in doubt -- wecapitally well endow, there has not been much dramatically for these services. what we did a year and a half ago is ask comcast, who agreed to provide a one time infusion so we could keep that programmatic funding, moving forward. the agreement before us for consideration is to receive that from comcast. i do not believe that is something that is held indefinitely and that will always be there, whether we decide to do it last year or this year. i do not think we should take this for granted. it is important to note that what they have gone through in the transition -- this is not just on bay back's shoulders. this is on the city and the department of technology. in many ways, the city has removed itself fr

people have access to everything i described. my staff members are working really, really hard to get all of that done. i really want to increase the membership, increase access, and gradually build these programs over time. we are working with the city pretty extensively on broadband adoption and trying to make use of the comcast fiber network that exists. we used a lot of our capital money to equip cultural centers so we can do training there, bring more access into the community, put field here there, and help them produce live shows from their theaters. chairperson campos: thank you, but we do have a question. supervisor mar: with the shoestring budget you are trying to operate -- tracy rosenfeld give us some numbers saying you got a $700,000 grant from the department of technology. is that separate from the 170,000 you're laying out for us? the second question is why did it take a year before a meeting was allowed with video alliance, which i think is a representative group of many local and small media producers. why did it

we provide accessibility to a series of links up to the terminal. the entry would be at the head of the terminal. the waiting area at the front of the building has the benefit of being usable for special events that could open onto the plaza. one goes up into the core to the access way for the gangplanks and directly over to the ships. it should be noted there is also provisions in the site planning for the semis that arrive in advance of the passengers. they have a route over here where they are screened and stored in a way that does not conflict with the other activities in the gta and also avoids any backup on the embarcadero from that process occurring. debark -- what happens is people arrive by ship and walk on the top. they go through customs and border patrol, like the experience one has at the airport. you go to clarence. the collector baggage. if you are okay, you can walk out. that occurs on this area of the building. you come up to the gta and there are povs and taxis waiting that can be staged offsite so you can always have taxis waiting

san francisco was once a pioneer and a leader in public access. i think it has since fallen off that horse considerably. i do not like the wave we have seen over the last few years of trying to deflect this on to bay back or its predecessor. i think the city is moving in a direction of trying to stifle public access because it is not committing the funding they need to do so. the fact that we were able to get this money from comcast for programmatic purposes does not answer the long-term question of how public access is going to survive. what we are trying to settle is an old question of money we were able to extract that has already been spent. when i hear commentary from people saying they are well in doubt, at spending $1 million in budget because they have this capital funding, it is not telling the whole story. i think there has been a disproportionate placement on the fact that the dollars for capital are still not being able to serve us well program radically. there is nothing we can do about it, although we have tried. again, we were coopt

the social service office to get you on services to access, you know, a bed, you know, there's also that in between. a lot of those things take weeks sometimes. and, you know, what do you do in between? if there's a critical time and there's a lot community-based peer support out there, you know, mutual support groups or, you know, online stuff where people can connect with people and live recovery experience so that way they at least have some social support, you know, if they're in need of treatment. and then there's also a lot of young people who may not need, you know, residential treatment and they might be better suited to stay at home or to be in the community and just, you know, work on the recovery from that place. and greg, just one more thing, in terms of finding recovery services, i know that you're familiar with faces and voices of recovery, but can families go online and find similar programs like the one you have in connecticut? it's not so easy right now. i mean, honestly, you know, recovery supports for young people is gravely understudied, underfunded, under suppor

provide access to housing but do not provide access to medication, it will not work. if you cannot provide access to intense services, it is not going to work. you can provide them with intense case management, but without housing it will be a failure. there are core things we need to address all at once. san francisco is one of the few mental health courts in the country. it is a national model. we're quite proud of that. it is adding as many evidence- based practices as we can to what we do. anytime we can, we use something that is been working in another community so that we do not reinvent the wheel. we've been very successful at adding those practices to our program. when we started, we did not have any money. we did not have a penny to start behavior of court -- to start the haverhill held court. we tap into existing mental health services. we learned that we have great and amazing services in san francisco. we just do not have enough. my clients were not able to negotiate the complicated web of social services to get with the needed. we found we had something g

access to it. we want to talk some more about the battle itself and the path through the courts, but if you answer this question-- why in the world does it make sense for somebody who's working in rockford, illinois, to have some money taken from his paycheck to fund your work? why not keep government out of the arts? well, one of the things is-- this is one of the arguments that people would often say: "you know, if the majority of people in this country "didn't like your work, why should they have to pay for it?" well, of course, the majority of people haven't seen my work. but this really goes to the question-- a couple of key questions about what is the role of minorities and minority expression in a majority-rule system that we supposedly have? does this mean that minorities have no rights? you know, and do we have no access to speaking? and it also goes to the question-- i think this whole arts question is about a broader question about public funding in general. and, right now, in the last,

loading and vehicle access -- the corner of second and tehama. the interesting statistic as we are accommodating 58 cars based on the current law that accommodate about 200 spaces. the other thing that is a key part of the open space criteria and after the is the importance of the art. the art will be located within the open space. jerry is currently chairman of the museum of modern art's, so his collection and his desire and his passion is something you have seen in the projects that he has delivered to the city. , is going to talk in much greater detail about the character, what makes the shingling very unique, and i think that is one of the things we find great in the project. there are four issues i want to touch on that i think you have already heard. i wanted to adjust all of them so you understand the context in which the design evolves. first is under section 270 and really talks about the ball on this, and one of the things that we made the decision early on in conjunction with many meetings is how we would deal with the design for the s

there is also limited access into park merced and limited access in the adjacent neighborhoods. we intend to open this up, especially along the boulevard, which will eliminate the con jex -- the congestion that you will find at park merced currently. pedestrian safety is being specifically addressed with these cross-walks, which will be a model for the rest of 19th avenue for this part of the city. one of the biggest environmental challenges we have had in the last 20 years is that water. the water shed, natural system, it has been urbanized. much of our storm water is diverted to oceanside water plants. our proposal is to remove park merced from the city's storm harvest system and harvest rain water into new open green space, therefore replacing the aquifor in lake miller sed. -- in lake merced. chair maxwell: i just said, that's great. i'm really impressed with that. are you working on perhaps daylighting parts of the water shed? >> we can't venture out beyond our property lines, but our intention is to daylight all the water sheds within this department. we've worked with the