[applause] >> thank you, nick, akiko. i knew akiko was the president of art, but she is so more than that. nick, you sort of scare me. you intimidate me. he is tall, a british accent, used math. people like to stress me out. without further ado, i want to invite our director again to explain some of our upcoming directions. i want to challenge to all, soap ceramics. >> just to follow akiko's interesting example, before i provide you with a preview of one of the exhibitions, art and science has always been together. da vinvi was a great artist but a scientist as well. sometimes, when i speak to people in the valley, i say, when you have a first-rate product, how did you describe it? of course, there are several phrases you could use, but one of which is, state of the art. when you reach such a quality, you can get the expression, but you need art to describe the utmost excellence of what you do.

[applause] >> thank you, nick, akiko. i knew akiko was the president of art, but she is so more than that. nick, you sort of scare me. you intimidate me. he is tall, a british accent, used math. people like to stress me out. without further ado, i want to invite our director again to explain some of our upcoming directions.

[applause] >> thank you, nick, akiko. i knew akiko was the prent

akiko, tony, please come and make your mark. please come up and put your mark on the asian. >> good afternoon, everybody. i would like to welcome everyone to rickshaw badworks. i am the director of the san francisco office of small business. week -- 85% of san francisco businesses are small businesses. san francisco small businesses are not only excited about the unique opportunities of the america's cup, but they are very excited about the economic opportunities san francisco will experience in hosting america's cup. mayor lee has understood the importance of maintaining and growing our environment. is due to the vision and leadership that san francisco is becoming known for its dynamic business environment. wally city and the america's cup advanced and authority -- while the city in the america's cup -- america's cup advance in authority, mayor lee has authorized me to add the america's cup to san francisco's rich and the verse business community so they can help the -- make the america's cup truly a san francisco environment.

akiko, tony, please come and make your mark. please come up and put your mark on the asian. >> congratulations, chief. as you may well know, we were named the top in 2005. i thought that was wonderful. >> that is the top irish- americans in the country, not just san francisco. >> they knew they could fire chief when they saw one. we thought we would do a nice irish song for you. we will not take long, we promise. ♪ , over the hills my money-eyed irish lad come over the hills to your darling you choose the road love and i will make the balancvows and i will be your true love forever red is the rose that beyond the garden grows there is a lily of the valley here is the water that boasts from the spring but my love is [inaudible] ♪ ♪ down by killarney the moon and the stars they were shining the moon shone she was sure she would be my love forever red is the rose that beyond the garden grows there is delayed of our valley there is the water that flows from but my love is better than any ♪ [applause] >> over in the corner, and john'

akiko, tony, please come and make your mark. please come up and put your mark on the asian. >> good morning, everyone. we're coming up of a busy weekend. our efforts have been validated from huge crowds over the weekend. highlight clip. ♪ >> a hit the ways. ve. >> it was very exciting. we had over 100,000 watching on the shore. that really helped to solidify the idea that this would be quite exciting. i have incurred all of you to have a look at the pilots that are online from yesterday's final day of racing. we had another capsize which is not shown in this video. there was a crash before the start. we also have some pretty spectacular performance on the water by these guys. lots of positive comments coming out of this event. getting you some background on the concept, more death of mayor we are going with this, -- depth, where we are going with this. being in newport, rhode island this past weekend, there is a whole community of jealous people that wish that they were in your shoes. as we talk about the concept, it has always

akiko, tony, please come and make your mark. please come up and put your mark on the asian. a hundred kids actively participating in our programming. it doesn't stop here, we're continuing the momentum and continuing to grow. and like those students, we want to make sure that college becomes the rule and not the exception. so i want to thank everyone here who is gathered here today. and because of all you in the room, you have contributed time, resources, advocacy, energy, to make this dream a reality. so thank you all for coming. i want to introduce some -- everyone here is a v.i.p. and i thank people for coming. they are behind me. first of all, mayor lee, mayor of san francisco. please give him a round of applause. [applause] >> and supervisor malia cohen from district 10. thank you very much. who is doing an awesome job representing district 10. we want to make sure she is on board. she's been a great supporter since she was elected to the board of supervisors so we thank you, again, supervisor cohen. with that, and one last person i want to introduce is randy lenit. ran

akiko, tony, please come and make your mark. please come up and put your mark on the asian. >> good afternoon. i would like to call the meeting of the commission of the environment to order. >> [laughter] >> wow, that popped up. >> back to the future. >> san francisco public utilities commission. >> to order at 1:46, october 11, 2011. next item, please. >> roll call. president vietor. commissioner moran. commissioner caen. commissioner torres. i believe commissioner courtney is here and will be joining us momentarily. the next item as the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of september 27. if there are any additions, corrections, substitutions -- president vietor: you have the minutes before you. >> move to approve. president vietor: there is a motion. is there a second? second. questions are comments? all those in favor? opposed. thank you. the motion carries. next -- >> the next item is public comment, an item for members of the public to speak about items that are not within the commission's jurisdiction better no

akiko, tony, please come and make your mark. please come up and put your mark on the asian.