aiello. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you so much for having this conversation, supervisor wiener. i think it's going to take a long time but it's way overdue. i'd like to say my name is andrea aiello [speaker not understood] and we've been working with dpw for over a year now in trying to consolidate those newspaper racks. there are so many empty newspaper racks in the castro/upper market district and we've been working very closely with the city. we did get one removed and i can't tell you how many likes on our facebook page when we got when it was taken out and personal thank yous. so, i think people in the neighborhood really understand that these -- this kind of furniture is not being used in the way that it was intended. it's mostly advertisements. i'd also like to say na we worked very closely with j.c. de coe with the -- i forget what they're called -- the kiosks and the bathrooms. they taken credible care of the bathrooms. they're really, really great. they're wonderful in helping us to -- we utilize those

and andrea aiello. you can just line up. you don't have to speak in the order that i called you. let's line up along the wall on the left. >>> supervisors, my name is alex, president of san francisco bay distributors, inc., and publication including 11 [speaker not understood] graffiti, [speaker not understood]. i'm here today to offer your committee information data obtained from 30 years of distribution street publications abating graffiti from newsracks. [speaker not understood] and been serving there for over one year. graffiti is a team partner with community clean team volunteering to clean newsracks. i'm the senior [speaker not understood] serving since the inception 30 years ago. [speaker not understood]. i'm proud to say that you have my [speaker not understood]. i was the chairman of the foreman's newsrack [speaker not understood]. here are my suggestions. approximately 250 pedestals available for installation, i have identified over 200 location that would totally complete the ad zone jackson street to king street, and commuting corridors [speaker not understood] withi

andrea aiello. >>> good afternoon again. andrea [speaker not understood]. and while the board has not taken a position on this, it it kind of came up quickly, i just wanted to comment that the cbd and other planning organizationses were involved with supervisor wiener in talking specifically about this property on noe street and there was a strong consensus that the new retail be broken up into small spaces, small spaces that would accommodate small privately owned businesses, retail businesses, and not, you know, have the space be another financial institution. i just wanted to say there was a lot of community discussion about that and kw in the end that this space was to be divided up into small spaces for business use. thank you. ~ agreement >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item number 2? hearing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, i have a motion to forward this with recommendation. sorry about that. supervisor kim. >> i wanted to make a motion to pass this with recommendation or send this forward to the board w

. >> and this is so interesting when dan nun goes up to danny aiello and says, i need two slice slicesfor coming in, spike lee. >> thank you, everyone. >> and check him out on kicksta kickstarter to get to the $1.2 million. >> simon. >> in the meantime, when apple and google are competing, we will talk to the ceo of the iphone to take a look at the smartphone industry. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." i'm bertha coombs, and bearish number coming in on the inventories after four weeks of decline we saw a slight build of crude supplies up 430,000. we also saw an inkrecrease in ts of the gasoline of 770,000 barrel barrels. however, there's one bit of a silver lining that we continue to see a drawdown from curbing, oklahoma, which is the delivery point for nymex crude down 1.9 million barrels and refining was down about 1%, so it is a very mixed report. we are seeing now crude giving back some of the day's gains, but holding in here, and that cushing supply remains to be a draw. >> and we had the fastest growing quarter of the year and a major beneficiary is british arm holdings