our study focused on the effectiveness and efficiency of the alemany farmer's market and was conducted in accordance with the yellow book standards. the study took place during the summer and fall of this year and was initiated by a motion of the full board sponsored by supervisor maxwell. the draft of our report before revision on september 24, and the final report went to the full board on october 13. the audit has four main focus areas, including management of the market, current market finances, the government structure of the market, and the market's compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and codes. in the absence of a well-defined purpose for mission statement, the alemany farmer's market has not logically come under the jurisdiction of a specific city agency. as a result, for your different departments have operated and managed the department over the last seven years. we found that the real estate division does not have a formal process for ensuring long-term needs are sufficiently manage and finance. we also found that the farmer's market needs a more effective governan

last year, i applied to get one of the spots at alemany.ast year complaining bitterly that my business plan received daa zero. since then, we have done tons of wine and art festivals. we have been invited to the north street festival, union festival. i just want to make you aware that when i resubmit my proposal, i want to give a copy to you for my participation in alameda -- alemany. as a side bar, the health department. yes, they are overburdened, like everyone else, but in the year and a half that i have been in part of the city, no one has come to inspect me, not once. the firemen have been there three times. they were very nice. as far as the conditions of food vendors at alemany market, deplorable is the way i would characterize it. it is clear when you go through the county's what the standards are for health. you are supposed to have clean water with soap, rinse water, and water to sanitize. i only saw one stall that had those. i only saw one person wearing gloves. of all the festival that we have done, when the health inspectors sh

supervisor maxwell: many of you are supporters and customers of the alemany farmer's market, the first of its kind in california. the market has a rich history and continues to be wildly popular. it is an incredible resource to the city. i called for this audit because i thought there was room for improvement in the product we are providing. being the only farmers market in san francisco that we the city operate, i believe we have a special obligation to ensure that the market is the best it can be. this report has identified some fairly easy fixes and some not so easy that we can make that should lead to dramatic improvements in the operation of the market. i want to thank the budget analysts for their exploration of these issues as well as the leadership of the real-estate department for being an active partner throughout the process. i know that the department will continue to work closely with us as we move forward. i would like to ask the budget analyst to come up, and i appreciate thatth

in the case of alemany, i have not looked at that map. i am sorry, i cannot tell you what the boundaries are. but there is a boundary that identifies agricultural certified and non-certified. supervisor maxwell: thank you. ms. brown? yes, another question. have you looked at the boundary lately, has it changed -- >> if i may. i think we have relatively simple solution. in our next some middle for application, that we provide a seasonal boundaries so that we have a winter season and summer season boundary. that would give us the flexibility to assign certain spaces for non-certified uses when we know we are going to have those vacancies, so we can be in compliance. we can work with the agricultural commissioner. i think there is a solution we can work to worward. supervisor maxwell: ok, thank you. i would like to continue this. i want to ask our real estate department -- i want to have day a check-in -- hopefully, they have a number of items that they would like to have completed or are working to complete by december 31. i would ask that

it lapped last night on alemany boulevard. police found the 18-year-old outside the home e was p ronounced date at the -- he was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> dana stubble field is going to jail for stealing his girlfriend's -- ex-girlfriend's mail. he admitted --'s admitted to g etting a change of address form so her mail would come to his house. that mail included her u nemployment checks. just last year, a judge placed him on probation, this is after he pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his steroid use during his playing days. >>> more police officers will be on the streets in north berkeley after several recent arm robberies in that area. more than 100 concerned community members were given an update by officials last night. police say an armed robber is targeting the area around california and lincoln streets. as many as five days may be connected. a particular -- of particular concern is that it's not h appening late at night but during the dinnertime hours. >> i'm scared to go out right now, especially

that happened last night on alemany boulevard on 280. police found the victim outside of a home he was pronounced dead at a scene. the killing may be gang related. >>> many san francisco bus riders will not like a new report about hewnny. muni drivers more and more are dumping off riders before their stops. kraig debro is joining us live now. he has all the details. good morning. >> reporter: yeah good morning, dave. the process of dumping off riders before you get to the stop is called a switchback. the june know line is one of the lines where it's happening. it has the most riders per day. about 45,000. according to muni drivers are dropping off passengers early in order to eliminate the effect traffic delays that could happen. they want riders to exit the train one step before -- the practice has increased over the past year according to muni. in 2009 muni said there were 236 switch backs on the end juno line. so far this year there have been 378. we will try top talk to riders. very early out here. this is a very popular line. people