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i am in active labor. i am surprised you're so calm. i say, i'm surprised you're so calm. 11:30 p.m. dana drives to the birth center. i tell her right now i am not sad to do this. this is a solo expedition. i dark brown blob of slim e falls out. the mucous plug has to fall out. it's the mucous plug. i am in awe of dana. 1:30 a.m. i am naked. i modified downward dog. i think of the view everyone is getting. no one cares. 4:00 a.m., i am nine centimeters. i am pruned and exhausted. you are doing great dana says, i am not interested in being great. it's still nine centimeters. it's not time yet. she says me to blow out with my mouth. i say i might barf. 5:45 a.m. still nine, i hate dana. dana breaks my water. after 15 hours it's time to push. when you are this desperate, it's almost over. push, your pushes are excellent. 7:17. i can feel the baby's hair. you see your baby's head. 7:40. i do what she says. we rehearse. dana is guiding my baby's head. this is called ring of fire. okay. push hard. i moan like a walrus. my vagina tears to my a

i am a resident of san francisco. i lived and worked here for over 20 years. i am a social worker. i work primarily with low income seniors. i want to say without giving away any confidential information that we have an 82-year-old man who swims regularly at aquatic park. and as you probably know swimming is one of those activities that is really safe. and i want aquatic park to remain safe. my grandmother passed away at 82 years old. she wouldn't have been able to swim in the park, but i wish she could have. if she were here today and we could ask her what we can do about this, she would have said why can't we share. i think we can share. i think we can keep this resource for the important people in san francisco's community. >> good afternoon. i am andrew mahone and he i have been a member of the dolphin club since last year. i commute four times per week. i have swum 90.5 miles in aquatic park and a colleague of mine swum around 140. there are sprint competitions, swimming competitions of any kind, kayaking and rowing going on in aquatic park. from that there are also countless

now i am a senior and am fighting again. i am so pleased that open house saw fit to include people outside their own building in terms of affordable housing. if i am a senior, i want to live in the america that i fought for all of my life. everyone should have an opportunity to have decent housing and achieve the things they want out of life. please let this go forward. do not leave us out in the cold. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jesse florez. i want to add my delight and congratulations to the folks of open house who are here. they have wonderful programs better serving the lgbt community -- that are serving the lgbt community and many others as well. my understanding is this project will include others. however, it is about time in this amazing city where people come from all over the world for safety and support, is about time to have at least one place that could eventually serve the kind of -- serve as a kind of cornucopia for other programs to be created for other communities and served as a

i am not a poet. i am not dying. weight loss can still be a choice. i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read anything writing. i like to have cocktails but i do not have a drinking problem regardless of what state i wake up in. i don't need drugs to open up my imagination. i am not a poet. i can tolerate half an hour of spoken word poetry. what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in the mirror. trying to figure out what makes me an american. i see chickens. practicing religions without a roof. i see my own blood. proud american blue genes labels. i see them sits outside with the eyes of an alley cat. i see myself trying to be more like james dean. i see carlos san tanna. more than sporadic latino explosions. as american as bruce spring teen and elvis presley. i see taco bell. i see purple, red, blue, green, orange. i see che

i am not hearing anything in this that i am convinced we need from them. if we're just looking for work to give to somebody, these are lean times. there is not enough money for anything in government that we want to be able to do. there are things we need to be doing. we need to spend more time and need more staff for those. i am not hearing why this is so necessary. $100,000 is a substantial amount of money. i feel like we are being told we need to pay this money to them and are looking for some reason to do it. by understand you are not saying that. that is how it feels from here and from the proposal that local power wrote. i just do not appreciate it. beyond that, i have had my own concerns with the quality of their product in the past. supervisor campos: i think it is really important for me to respond to that. i do not know that anyone can sit here and say that anyone is trying to make work. my role as the chair of this commission is to make sure that we move this project forward in a fiscally prudent way. i asked for a recommendation from staff as t

i am not sure. i'm happy to answer any questions related to that report if i can. >> puerto rican mortar, do you know anything about the sound complain? >> i know that there were complaints coming from the back. president chii do know they hav engaged in conversation with the venue. to try to solve whatever problems and come to a conclusion. there may be something else going on. >> medice ii is closed. the police continue to go back there after hours to find activity there. >> after-hours? >> it is my understanding. there is no permit from us there either. they're trying to work together to keep them from doing things they should not be doing. >> >> these were citations that were issued the saturday before last. i know that the citations were issued after an on view of the sound violations. >> do they have new sound parameters? >> that is possible. and we had the the new in the office and spend an hour on this problem. this is after that meeting. the results of our counseling and it up with citation

i am not here as the founder of burning man. i am representing the burning man project, a new nonprofit. our offices are down the street at 995 market at 6th, right in the hearth of the mid-market district. there is no better place to commence this effort in san francisco, our home town. [applause] we know a thing or two about building a diversity and culture from the ground up. the key thing was expressed by the great jane jacobs. she said cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody. care this is the principle that will guide the burning man project. working with the city of san francisco, we can do many things. you have noticed all of the vacant shop fronts along market street, i am sure. we can begin to change this. pardon me? anyway, we can change this by making it easier for artists to occupy. working with our sister organization, we can install public artworks. if you look behind you, you will see two of them freshly installed. we can also do what

i am proposing that mr. ellison and the city as well as the school district create a marine science career path away as part of this project in order to be, as you have mentioned, cultural and environmental impacts. this program is only for three years. might plan is -- my plan is to address the issues for the san francisco high-school kids and for many, many years in the future. i am asking that all these parties involved take the leadership and build this facility and work with the school district, as well as the commission here to work together with everyone involved. there are many needs, as we all know, many sectors of our country, economically, educational, and our kids need the real world practical experience to go out there and see what positions exist and the cooperation and shared vision that is necessary between the public and private sector. thank you very much. president olague: george robin, jeffrey anderson, daniel osborn. >> hello. thank you to the commission. i am here opposing b the recreat

been known, i am -- you know, i am distressed because everyone comes to san francisco gets some kind of compassion, but the residents seem to be overlooked. i had to drive around and have been prevented from driving by everything from parades, movies being shot, a sports car rally going past my house one saturday morning. a sports car rally from city hall. please, think a little bit about the residents and not so much about the taurus. thank you. president olague: thank you. good afternoon. i am peter straus. in years a member of the san francisco transit riders union. we have been working with the city's team for the past 6 months and very much appreciate the opportunity. appreciate the amount of work that has been conducted in a very compressed period. i hope there are lessons here, but that as a topic for another day. below forward to improving the city fell preparations for these events. in the meantime, i think you heard from other people today who feel there is some concern and frustration that they have not received feedback nor are the concerns we have expressed today and exp

i am terence patterson. what i think i can bring to the mental health board is an ability to further the integration of programs among agencies and to extend culturally appropriate services. i will speak on that a little more, but i will just mention a bit of my background. before i came to san francisco in 1971, i worked in philadelphia as a community organizer and also with delinquent youth gangs. i then was the race relations officer and family therapy director at the presidio. i then worked for seven i then worked for seven years at the family practice clinic. i worked in washington for the national institutes of mental health since 1990, i have been in san francisco. my interest in integrating programs comes from when i was at san francisco general. we would get children and teenagers referred who had mental health problems. there was no coordination between the school, the social service agency, and the mental health system. i was relatively effective in doing that, in having passion about it, for all

i am here to speak strongly against the issue of prime time, peak time, a single operator medallions and speak strongly in favor of full time taxis. we need full-time taxis on the street. i do not know how many people have spoken from the public but if this meeting is like any other, it is medallion holders, drivers, not much from the public. the purpose of the taxicabs is to serve the public. just to give you a quick figures. non-prime time days at yellow cab, sunday and saturday between 6:00 a.m. and noon. we cannot fill 100 calls each day. on monday and tuesday night, the slowest knights of the week, we cannot -- slowest knights of the wenights of the week. over a week, we cannot fill 9000 calls. people who want us, we cannot get the maccallum. i humbly say we need at least 300 more cabs on the street, full-time, let the system operates the way it has been which is to have full-time cabs on the street. thank you. >> next speakers, the last who have turned in a speaker car. >> thank you. i am a

for one thing i am sure. the director has done a phenomenal, great job of bringing together the various acrimonious factors --

for one thing i am sure. the director has done a phenomenal, great job of bringing together the various acrimonious factors -- factions of our taxi industry. she works hard to make things fair and that is important. i thank you for your service to the city we all love. i am here to support the fare increase. i am conflicted about the various issues in item 12. i am not being paid for this endorsement. i thank you for your service. bravo. >> our next speakers. >> i am with a san francisco cab drivers association. i want to support the meter increase that has been proposed and i expect that you will accept that. i am against the 10 medallions that are being sold directly by the mta. i do not think the mta should be in the business of selling them outright. it is one thing to sell to other drivers. there is a rationale for that and giving an exit strategy but there is a conflict of interest when the mta start selling the medallions and getting revenue and the question becomes, do we need the cabs or do you need

i am here in support tonight. i am in support of the brickyard. i am a longtime union street residence. my building is approximately two doors away from the brickyard, and there has been previous businesses that have been worth of brickyard is located now. that business was called the bayside. i do recall the windows being open in front of this establishment, and i do not recall there being any complaints. i do not recall hearing any noise coming from dayside itself. i feel the brickyard owners are much more responsible in controlling any noise that would be coming from their establishments. i do not see 12 tables being on the patio in front of the restaurant of a nuisance or an issue. >> next speaker. >> my name is eric low, and i am a longtime resident, so definitely i am seeing the downturn of the street, and i really appreciate business owners such as susteren -- darren to bring entertainment back in a nice dining forum. i think issues of noise complaint should be put aside because of the fact that if you have a patio it is more of a dining ex

i am it thrilled that you are here. i feel like i am on vacation being in myrtle beach right now. there is no better place. i am think of you are here, thank you want to take the country back. if we are seeing this all across the united states of america. in now just over 50 days ago my candidacy to be the next president of the united states of america. [applause] by the way, you probably do not know, but my name is michele bachmann and i intend to be the next president of the indicted states of america -- of the united states of america. you may have heard last saturday that there was a little election in iowa and i was the no. 1 when are in the iowa straw poll last week. [applause] we were absolutely thrilled. the victory was even more stunning than what was reported because i had only been a candidate for the presidency for 49 days when the election happened. there were numerous candidates who spent several years in iowa and spat multiple millions of dollars in a very sophisticated ground game. our 49 days included the day i announced any day of the straw poll. i spent about ha

i am inning indicated. -- i am educated. i just want to throw this in there. if we had people who knew what they were doing running this government, we wouldn't be spending hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars every year funding the u.n, a body that is completely not accountable to us. commissions run amuck and work against our interest. with this economic crisis, stop funding the u.n. >> i like that. the point i was going say is -- no, i agree with everything you said that i ignored. high school should have, and we said this before the show, real economic -- like theory. they have a thing called home-ec, it should be for real. give them a book and let them figure out what makes sense to them. >> who was the teacher in ferris bueller? ben stein. as a result ferris never went to that class. >> good point. >> creationism is not a science. what will we teach in an economics class? >> you are insulting -- it is simple. the first time i read -- i got it. i am not the smartest tool in the shed. >> the way you teach this basic economics to kids, it is called

i am an accountant. the only way you can really guarantee 900 billion of spending cuts is you better make sure you cut about 90 billion. i have seen estimate of 7 billion the first year maybe 22 billion. what is the control of the fact that we may get 9 billion in the first. there is no guarantee of 1.2 billion in the second. we have to control spending in washington. this is business as usual. this is a spending culture in washington. i came here to see if i could do something about changing this culture. >> is this in any way appealing? is oo anything good in it>> cbo estimated 3.4 million would lose numbers. 50 percent of employers will drop coverage. there is 180 million people that get their coverage through prou employers now. healthcare law alone could eat up any savings this bill creates. >> from what i understand i can't say how you are a yes on this. >> this is totally inned a inad. it may be a step in the right direction but it's not fixing the problem. it's not about the august 2nd deadline i

i am a resident and social worker, but i am speaking more as a resident. in my opinion, we do not need more bars on polk street, but i would also look -- like to look at things from a point of view of seniors to live in the area. i am a member of the older women's league. one of our things is aging in the city. we also support healthy aging, which means getting out there in walking, interacting in the community. i see more bars

i am excited about that. relate to the long-term development plans, i wanted to point out that those developments will meet the port regulations and state land restrictions. so there is some level of asurance there on that part. i think that is it. thank you though. >> commissioner moore. >> i just wanted to make a comment that this commission does not decide what the exact outcomes will be. the only thing that we can do though is support the planning department and deliver an e.i.r. which is responsive to the questions and the concerns of this community. i think that we have the power to do that. and i do believe that the spoken comments which were pointed out to us in and other e.i.r. as prepared by many thoughtful and knowledgeable people should help give guidance to some of the issues and concerns. i would strongly encourage it particularly because it is such a fast track e.i.r. that it is done as much as possible. >> the nepa scoping hearing is august 17th at 4:30, not 6:30. >> sorry. thank you. >> they

i am not sure. the point of which to communicate is that the square footage of the home as established by criteria lengths would be unaffected by the reconfiguration to address at the commission's concerns. let me back a second, if i could. one of the things that struck me during public comment was the tone of the commons. -- comments. it is refreshing to hear from a group of people that are enlightened about the character of their neighborhood and change to their neighborhood, the maturation of their neighborhood. i cannot begin to articulate how unusual that is. it is to be cherished. with that in mind, i need to address some of the things that are mentioned, to state what we are and are not talking about. at this point, we are not talking about building in the backyard. we are not talking about family housing reverses some other kind of housing. we are not even talking about size. what we are talking about is configuration, layout, interior space design. the commission ruled that this project had

where the hell am i? >> bill? >> i am glad everybody wags safe. as far as we know, there were no injure ryes. >> i learned that nature is the best alarm clock. i would have stayed asleep for five more hours if not for the 5.1 -- >> i have to say what is interesting about the quake is that i am trying to find what the corresponding thing is for somebody from calf calf. if it -- from california. if it showed in san francisco you would freak out. peag -- people were making fun of people for freaking out, but i don't think you can. >> i know people who have been hurt and killed in an earthquake, but it was kind of cool. i wanted it to keep going. >> they are scary. i was at the one in -- during the world series in san mateo. >> in san francisco, yes. >> and it freaks the hell out of you. it seems like it goes on forever. >> i lived through the northridge one. i was going pee in my hotel room and i literally started swaying. i sways thinking, this is an earthquake, buts i am in new york city. >> i was wonder figure you were going pea in your hotel room

i am having a pool table permit also. you walk in, and high and cocktail lounge, two pool tables, a shuffleboard table. you cannot move the pool tables out. you cannot move the 900 pound shuffle puck out. we are going with a high and bar with entertainment. -- end bar with entertainment. >>> commissioner meko: good luck. >> i hope you come by. >> can you walk me through the four plan -- for plan? if you bring in a band, i am trying to figure this out. >> we have elevated -- a broad iron fence which is open in three locations with couches and tables up there. you go up 20 feet from there and there is a communal table which is about 9 feet -- 8 feet wide and 4 feet. it will work well for a trio or something like that. on the other side, on the left side, there is going to be a couch. >> is this around here, where you are -- you can put it on the microphone -- microfilm. it should pull in a second. -- up in a second. there you go. >> there you go. over a little more. >> perfect. >> essentially, this is the entrance and the b

[applause] >> i am a gay activist. i am here to talk about the public property at harvey milk plaza. this property is controlled illegitimately by the merchants of upper market. i approached them to honor game marriages. they have refused to work with activist. there is a lot of disappointment in the gay community from coast to coast because -- refuses to cooperate with people on making the flagpoles, the rainbow flag, and occasionally flying a new york state flag. they are not cooperating with us. and all but it is ok the public property has been handed to an organization. we are talking about harvey milk plaza. i assured that that symbolism around the world is a beacon of hope, a peaking of tolerance for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people. right now, because of --, nothing happened in the castro in solidarity with new york this weekend. shame. >> i have come to appeal to this body to get your people off of my back. they have been trying to incriminate me and criminalize me. my family has been under assau

i am a big fan of the concept of community policing.hat is the idea that our local police officers need to establish a better relationship with members of the community, residents, and merchants. through that community partnership, we have seen true successes in being able to combat crime. you have eyes and ears on the street cooperating with the men and women in blue. that helps to reduce crime. i have been pushing our police department to implement that. >> your district is a well-known nightlife destination. how do you balance the needs of the residents with the needs of the restaurants and bars? >> i moved into my neighborhood in part because we have such a wonderful vibrant nightlife. san francisco is famous for our restaurant scene, are seen, club scene. -- are sbar scene. we have had too much violence around these nighttime venues. i have passed several pieces of legislation to address the security and safety needs of neighborhoods. we all support a healthy, vibrant nightlife. but we also support a safe nightlife that complements