i strongly support this as well. i'm calling for a hearing on a related note to look at the challenges of the vacant store fronts that are throughout our city and the basic practices of keeping the corridors and striving throughout our city. they represent failed businesses but will is create the perception that an entire district is abandoned. we can focus on large companies and bring these sorts of businesses to san francisco. however it's a small business sector that creates the greatest number of jobs in our city and lends character and vitality to our neighborhoods. in the richmond district, areas like the inner clements street corridor. yet vacant fronts still exist in this area. they have pop ups to use for these store fronts. that's temporary usage to encourage foot traffic and encourage people to come to targeted neighborhoods. we need to look at strategies like that. today this hearing that i'm calling would look at strategies our city has implemented for filling vacant stores around our cities and keeping

that is alongside the report you're getting on the fund-raising as well as the economic impacts. to similar comments made at the outset of this issue, it's certainly not my office's place to try to recast the agreement. the words are what they are on the page and we're frankly moving ahead to implement the agreement the board approved last march and again in september. we have been trying to do this in what everyone talked about as the san francisco way in terms of upholding the considerationses around workforce and small business that we already heard about today as well as through the environmental review process and really creating a sustainable event that becomes a leader. all of that obviously requires resoartiones, but i realize -- we realize very acutely that it requires smart application of resources. we never looked at our $32 million as a blank check to write $32 million of checks. it is an amount to be fund raised and endeavored to be feud raised in best practices and best efforts. but we want to do this in an efficient way. so, on the screen here is a slide sort of lo

and as commissioner lee stated, the rents go up as well. it would make it more difficult for these types of establishments to open in the city. and so, in the city that has dot coms and tourists as the primary residents and having food and drink available especially since the demographic is getting younger all of the time, for a longer time, would be beneficial to the city over all. and i do know that some there has been some optician to these other ruds. that they are being looked at to be changed to be dissolved and no longer be ruds. so then, polk street would stand out as being one of a kind, you know. just to be as lenient as you possibly can. and still satisfy the residents for what they need is my comments on that. >> okay, okay, thank you. we very much appreciate that feedback, commissioner and i do i think that we have a similar objective and i don't think that we disagree. >> anybody else? >> i was going to make a comment about they are looking to dissolve, in the mission, the rud there as well. i mean, i was just wondering if they

age wise, for me age wise as well as ethnicity as well as cultural income, you know, like life line sanncisco is very welcoming of people. people socialize that are -- people on disability, people that are poor folks and people that are wealthy folks. i find it's way different from i came from new york. it's very different from new york. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> is that it? >> um-hm. >>> thank you. >> is it helena? >>> helene. >> helene wenzel. >>> good afternoon. the next thing you have to fix is the parking around city hall. i am helene wenzel. i'm say senior, a lesbian, in a committed relationship 24 years, we are married. i've been in san francisco enough years to see a big change in the population and the growth of the eldering community from san francisco, the lgbt elders. i'm an elder law attorney and my focus for a good 50% of my clients is on lgbt issues, financial, health, estate planning, et cetera. and what i see there is a great deal of focus on aids, on invisibility, questions on living alone or together, outliving a partner, on illness and death within our communit

we are part of that community as well. just like the guard, we have an interest in protecting our friends and neighbors. sustainment is, it's important to us and we'll maintain it especially on the region side. we're able to have these long-standing relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the on-going efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. >> just to follow on that, the navy squadrons that provide fire fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. one benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in the squadrons. you may have people who have been there for 6, 7 years and have seen multiple fires. that mutual trust is absolutely essential to this capability. >> a couple things that come it mind real briefly, we're talking about wild and land fires primarily but rest assured amongst the group here we're always thinking in an all rest capacity. cal fire's mission is we are the state's fire department. we are thinking about a

as i said, we tried to do that at our office as well as the station permit officer as well. so there is a couple of different ways that we asked them, and encourage them and i agree with you, if it is not conducted then, we can continue the approval of that application. >> thank you very much. why don't we now turn it over to public comment. i have a couple of speaker cards. michael nolty, monet and any member of the public who would like to speak please come forward. you each have three minutes. >> good morning again, supervisors. i would ask that you continue it. because i don't see the rush. and then at least it can be able, the owner could be able to learn what to do in this, yeah, i would ask that you continue it because there needs to be some out reach done especially since it is going to be off-sale. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> overhead? please? >> wow, not going. >> any way my name is michael nolty and again i am going to read a statement from the land use chair. the alliance for a better district six would like to request a continuance on th

kpoo is a tremendous community institution that also broadcasts our board of supervisors meetings as well. so, poor people's radio as i used to call it, kpoo when i was a broadcaster in '84, learning quite a bit from j.j. parsons, the general manager, but also joe rudolph, i think donald, one of the broadcasters calls kpoo the house of [speaker not understood]. that is fair to many others that have built the station over 42-year history or longer history. i wanted to say that kpoo has always been my family and my mentors, learning about black studies leading to the third world strike at san francisco state and leaders like arnold and terry collins' leadership of kpoo building broader community and unity among other low-income communities as well to give a stronger voice so kpoo is seen by some as black radio station or african-american radio station. i've always seen it as united people's radio station that really broadcasts the best of our arts and culture and histories of struggle in our neighborhoods as well. i wanted to also say that harrison [speaker not understood] and many of the b

i will update you on facebook and twitter as well as the air. the map shows you the net effect on your commute. we see things bogging down towards 680 on the interchange. right there. it is making things lighter as you are heading north. you are experiencing lighter traffic over there. 680 has cleared with that crash. still has activity and cars are on the shoulder after the earlier crash slowing things counter commute. that is usually very clear. plan for that minor slowing there around the interchange as well. we are looking toward the east bay. we have some slowing. from 580 north and south on 880. we will hopefully clear some of this. foothill, mission, funneling down towards jackson as well. that bender is where they are instituting the loop hoping to smooth things out. we will track that next week. the bay bridge and toll plaza camera shows you the backup in all lanes. lights turned on a few minutes ago. you can see okay at the toll plaza. you see the low clouds for the east shore freeway. i told you i would show you a look at that. it dri

as an area outside the property as well in terms of clean up on civic structures. so we're taking that sort of scientific approach in terms of the analysis that's going to happen and we're running it as a project and we want to find out because you could have a community that's saying, fine and great, you are getting rid of the graffiti and in 6 months it's completely different. >> you are going to monitor the area for two years? >> yes, for two years, then we'll do post-audit. i'm hoping to be able to do two audits on this area as opposed to one year. how are we doing for time? any other questions? >> i might have missed this in the beginning, but i was curious, how do you guys get funded for this program. >> capital city clean up is a city of edmonton program. it started in 2005 as a litter reduction program and when our bylaw changed in 2008 our city council was very thoughtful in determining they needed to put their mouths were. basically they were going to require the property owners clean their graffiti, then they needed to put some effort into cleaning their

entertainment is really bunched up and as you know it is very much in your district and so, as well as supervisor campos and supervisor weiner it is bunched up where is visit ors come and plans allows it and so when i do put it in that form, i am sure that we will see quite a bit of it in your district. and as far as inside and outside, and again, this is anecdotal but i am 99 percent sure this is right, is it typically is outside, it does not mean that it is outside of the sphere of influence that a club has to control. and definitely parking lots as you know, the parking lot legislation was informed by that information. that these for the most part are things except for where you see the 16 suspension, that happens, you know, within positive control or there was a nexus that was solid to the nightclub. but not necessarily inside. we don't have much patience, i certainly don't, for things that happen inside of a venue that are very violent that include, assaults and weapons, and so what i will do tha. >> that is not perfect but that is what i know. >> i want to acknowledge that the nu

how do we craft the rates that are going to lead to customers setting in as much as possible as well as having money left over to build out. next time we meet, i want to encourage we meet again as a sflafco with the public utilities commission that we get an actual vote the not to exceed rate moving forward and that would give us some certainty about how we move forward for a planned build out. we also heard a lot from commissioners about a plan if not outlined if not planned for the build out and we could not wait longer than the next meeting between if we can have a joint meetings by the end of april to have a report on more concrete build out plan. i think part of that should also look at the different scenarios by the next meeting. clearly, we really want to have a great deal of certainty about how we get to our build out as quickly as possible. there has also been discussion about how we bond. i know we have discussion about a billion dollar bond. do we have really that type of bonding capacity. it would be good to have perhaps the controllers office does a lot around the financi

easy drive here as well as 280 up and down san francisco and palo alto. 92, picking up that volume. no delays across that san mateo brid bridge. back to you. >> mike, thank you very much. >>> 6:49 right now. big changes are on the way for students returning to centerpointe christian preschool in pleasanton. that school reopening in a few minutes from now after being shutdown because of child abuse allegations. "today in the bay's" christie smith is live this morning. you had a chance to hear from the school. the request bbig question is, w be different when these students come back? >> reporter: good morning, jon. the staff has had extra training and the management here has had a chance to review their policies and procedures. the students may notice a slight difference when they return after the stunning accusations that a former teacher here actually taped up a little girl's hands and feet as punishment because she refused to take a nap. just a little while ago, we received a statement from a spokesperson for centerpointe christian preschool, saying tha

reductions to funding at the school district including funds for nutrition programs, head start, as well as individuals with disability act funding, ada. for the housing authority the effects are both the capital and the operating budget and at least 1.$6 million. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed. >> just for clarity i thought you said that the potential shortfall would be 25 million, and i'm not hearing 25 million from the numbers you provided for those two estimates. >> sure. so i have a detailed sheet which i am happy to provide all of you with. the cuts -- the reductions that are implemented by the sequester are across the board in nature so they affect our public health department, our human services agency, criminal justice programs, energy and environment programs, so of the total reductions that we are currently tracking approximately $5 million at the house authority and the school district and the remaining 20 are within the city and the county. >> thank you. . >> colleagues any other questions? thank you very much ms. howard. we will continue item two to the call of the chair

i know that they have a program as well. but the clear channel proposal before you does also have an lbe component to it even though it was not required as part of the rfp. >> thank you. thank you very much and i think as i mentioned before, i think that the questions that i like to understand are more around the other contracts that you have concession contracts at the airport and whether they have this dual structure and i would like to understand some clarity and other advertising contracts in the city of san francisco not just the airport as well as other major airports throughout the country, i want to get the list of the top ten and see how the bigger airports are handling this. >> supervisor mar? >> i appreciate your efforts to answer our questions, today. but i know that having mr. martin if we continue this, would be valuable as well. but i did want to just echo supervisor avalos comments that i think that local and disadvantaged contractors are really important in how you insurance that contract maximize the partici

we need to single out ken rich for the millions of hours that he spent working on this as well as with many department heads and, of course, our mayor. and then i want to take a moment and just thank supervisors campos and farrell. i know that campos, farrell, chiu are three supervisorial names not discussed together in a sentence but each of our colleagues plate a critical and equal role in the success we saw here today and it was an absolute pleasure to spend all the time that we did getting this done. to continue to add to some of the details of the deal, in addition to the basic structure of a st. luke's that is 50% larger and the cathedral hill that is half the originally proposed size, there are significant community benefits. so, in addition in the area of health care to the health karin ovation fund that supervisor campos has spoken about, and other measures that have been discussed, we have a commitment from cpmc to continue a baseline level of taking care of charity care in san francisco. this is a need, we know we're going to have to continue regardless of what happens with

we've seen increasing prices as well as sales.ere has been rhetoric from the government saying they would clamp down on this sector. the recent news, higher down payments, higher mortgage rates, that got investors spooked. it affected shares in hong kong and affected sentiment all across the region as far as australia and certainly in europe, as well. it will play into your trading day over there. now, all this, as i said, on the eve of the npc where property is certainly to be in focus as well as pollution, corruption, economic reforms. the new set of leaders coming in not exactly known for their political reform agenda. but they are known for their economic reform being a little bit more aggressive on that side. so we are going to be looking ahead and, of course, kelly and ross, as you saw, it had a big effect on the stock market here. so investers are certainly going to be looking. and you know what? honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if property shares saw a big rebound yesterday because that's the nature of this market, guys.

including the rhine white, hiv reductions as well as the cdc reductions you've heard about earlier as well as direct nutrition program that supports low income moms. and on economical and development a similar situation our best estimates based on the way those formulas are described this would be a $335,000 reduction to the city. this includes those public safety grants that are provided by the department of the justice that includes domestic violence and persecution related fund. those funds typically pay for equipment for the police department, fire department, sheriff's department and other. on energy and transportation the big impact is potentially on central subway >> thank you i'm sorry i know this is about the sequesterer and the impacts because - so under back to public safety under the federal d o g grants that was already award and it was anticipated. it's not potentially new grant revenue for the city? >> that's right in the current year those are grants that have been awarded. each of those grants are received by a number of different agencies many of them are with the ci

so we invited the department of planning as well as the successor with the redevelopment and we gave them a briefing on the transit center district plan as well as the redevelopment area and so that is encouraging to see that much interest and the tours are very informative and productive. >> that concludes my report. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay that leads us to item 6, public comment, which an opportunity for the members of the public to address you on items that are not on the calendar. i and have not received. >> if any members would like to speak please approach the mic. >> i'm jim patrick with patrick and company i requested several times to get a copy of this agreement with heinz. i had an e-mail from the general counsel who said that won't happen until such time that agreement is complete. i understand that the agreement is going to be complete and they are going to pay the check and do everything else, at the end of this month for the first of april. i would like to request a copy of the agreement effective the first of april. the notion that we have waited all of this t

i'd like to speak will the list and sidecars as well. these guys are currently operating over a thousand unlicensed and uninsured taxis and cars in the city. they prey on the city's ignorance for the point to point transportation. those companies promote he heavy to their drivers to work the busy times. this makes them taxi companies and they're not. their promoting ride sharing and they're saying that their fares are donations. their claiming they meet interesting people that's why i'm a cab driver. i've seen focusing other side of extortion on focusing. there's 3 people driving under one company paper. these drivers are actively soliciting business around bars and so forth. this is

conducting burning operations and vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u.s. forest service. so two-fold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a public education stand point. what we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be self-sustaining and self-supporting. they need to be prepared. we try to educate them in respect that we say we'll provide the offense, you provide the defense. we talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure against wild land fires. a lot of it is public education, survivability, building standards, but predominately our focus is putting the onus on the land owner, putting the onus on the private property owner, we will attempt to protect your home but the days of staying and defending your home and killing our fire fighters are done. we will not stand and defend a house that has not been prepared by a land owner and die for it. we don't do that any more. that's one of our doctrinal

the news describing chavez dead as intensely painful and he's through tragedy for the country when as well as mildred t.v. life on state television to pledge their loyalty to my new role who chavez named as he's successor one of the world's best known socialist leaders and is still in the united states chavez has undergone surgery four times and had a number of sessions of kenya turkey in the cuban capital haven't or despite his ailing health chavez was reelected in october last year to enforce term however he was not able to attend his inauguration ceremony casting doubt on the succession of power new elections in as well and now have to take place within so two days. now as i mentioned lucy catherine of is here but before we talk about chavez let's just remind ourselves why he was such a colorful and unconventional later on the world stage areas a few years back talking about former u.s. president george w. bush. who was just today the devil came out here. right here to the moon and it smells of sulfur still today. well confrontational unconventional on the global scene but i was i was h

as well as the homeless center i can tell you right now the numbers continue to rise, including people who are not getting replacement shelters and, of course, supervisor kim can talk about it because she's helping us with our shelter access. putting that aside, the prices are going up at this moment, make it impossible for someone who is on ssi disability or otherwise poor to find rentals anywhere else. so, it's not a good time for conversion and i'm coming to oppose it. thank you. >> thank you, ms. guzman. next speaker. and let me call, i have two additional cards. michael lion and marion wallace. next speaker, please. >>> my name is mary wallace and i'm a renter in san francisco, long-time, over 30 years. and i think the rent control is very important in san francisco and any unnecessary legislation which endangers or chips away at rent control is a detriment to the city. now, many people may have prudently not bought a tic due to the known difficulties. people who did buy a tic knew of the difficulties and knew that uninvestment is a risk. there is no reason to put rentesers in a h

access, our cell phone is always successful and always responsive and we have attended the meeting as well as out reach to the neighbors as well as the immediate merchant in the area and we also will be attending an abc training class. again we are experienced night life business owners. we are also accessible and we also abide by the san francisco entertainment commission, good neighbor policy. we are fully aware of that as well. >> thank you. and correct me if i am wrong, but, they are not required to have security with the billiard permit? ; is that correct?. >> that is correct, the security is not required with that permit. >> commissioner hyde. >> could you go over the community out reach again because it is not in our packet >> there are 13 items on the good policy neighborhoods. one of them is being to have well lit premises. >> i know what that is. i know what the good neighbor policy is, you said that you did out reach to the neighbors association, since i don't have it in my packet i was wondering if you could revisit that quickly for me and kind of zbrao*eb describe. >> we made

today i'm introducing an ordinance i've been working with with the neighborhoods of the bayview as well as the community department to establish a neighborhood notification requirement for parcel zone pdr1b. i'm sad to say this legislation was actually borne out of an unfortunate incident. late last year the old berkeley farms milk plant on oakdale avenue was demolished with no notification to the immediate neighbors and resulted in numerous notices of violation and a stop work order. when we went through -- when we went through nearly a decade long process to create the eastern neighborhood plan, what we established a special zoning category that recognized a particular area of the bayview where we have heavy industrial uses immediately across the street from single-family homes. the contractor in this case clearly made a calculation that if they needed to share their plans with the neighbors before they began their work, that they likely would have a very different project and certainly a different process. so, this legislation that i'm introducing today will require a neighborhood no

as the leader of an as well it decided to use the oil wells the benefit of the lower classes a bit as well this is something unheard of in the persian gulf main question now who will become venezuela's next leader eric draitser says it will suggest it will be hard for u.s. backed opposition to overturn chavez's policies. despite his lack of charisma in comparison to cha basma duro is in many ways a very very popular figure in venezuela and one who would naturally win election in the new presidential elections were it not for meddling from the united states i do think that there are up and coming there coming generation of leaders inspired by and brought up in the system the hope is that the progress that was made under the chavez government has now been institutionalized that it was not simply held together by the power of the character of chavez but rather that it is now forming the bedrock of venezuela and that venezuelan politics and institutions will be forever shaped by chavez rather than simply held together by him and as well as former president was known for his bombastic spee

those are included in your packet as well as 58, 59 and 61. three key things to think about is project redness to make sure these projects are coming from project processes, that they have a strong funding plan. that they have identified a lot of the design issues that need to be identified before they move forward to the federal aid process. prioritizing projects. in december the board adopted an initial pool of candidate projects. that brought our application amount from $62 million to $54 million. we have $34 million available. it describes those projects and rank and the project reduction if we run out of funding at the project question we are at now. the point where we are now is we created a 2-prong process where to spend december through april really going through those projects again to see if there are other sources we can use and making sure design issues are identified and public outreach and we are right in the middle that have process right now. with the expectation that renewed applications will be before the board in may but bac

talk about in a bit, spectators are obviously a driver of economic and tax benefits as well. [speaker not understood] from my office is handing out a slide presentation now. i apologize for not having copies sooner. so, as you see at the bottom, it's $4 million here. i want to go to a summary slide now. here's a total budget adding together the three slides you just saw of $22.5 million. i don't have anything to add to that. basically the sum. you'll see cash escrow is zeroed out between the funding to begin with and the credit back of those funds go back to the city. so, this last slide is the break even funding analysis that i talked about earlier. again, it's by no means meant to recast the agreement, but i wanted to give a clearer picture, especially with recent reports and committee outlets about a $20 million hit to the general fund. i think -- i take it very seriously, the idea that the general fund funds a lot of services for people in the city and certainly a special event like this one should ben if youth the general fund and not create shortfalls elsewhere. ~ benefi

writing the book was a very maturing experience as well as i digested some of what i had seen and tried to come to some of the conclusions i was trying to get out. but when it comes to the secretary of state and the people around her, i think that what i found striking is her ability to stay focused at all times as much as possible on what is happening. she doesn't get distracted by the details if they're not important and the details that don't matter but she has an ability to stay focused on the big picture. how is what is happening in afghanistan impacting what they are doing in the middle east and how is what is happening in in the middle east impacting with airtran to do in asia? she had a good sense of what is the strategy here and she's surrounded by people who are helping her. i have to carry my own suitcase but she has staff and that allows her and i talk about that a little bit, that allows her to stay focused on road really matters. she doesn't have to worry about whether or not lynch is served or not. it will just arrive while she is thinking about the bigger picture. but of

the sale of beer and wine is very critical to our store business, as well as something that our customers have come to expect from us. we respectfully request your support in the transfer of this license. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> sir. >> if we could now hear from the police department. >> rich vancorw representing the san francisco police department. whole foods has brought an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 20 that is off sale beer and wine in the type 86 that is structural tasting license for 2001 market street. in the calendar year, july, 2011 through july of 2012, there were 21 police calls for service, which generated 5 police reports. premises is located in plot, 403, that plot recorded 428 police incidents for 2001 and located in the high crime area, the premises is located in 0203, and applicant currently in undue concentration area. and there were no letters of protest or support. no opposition from mission police station and the alcohol liaison unit recommends approval and the following conditions recommended t