again, there areas are cycle of operations and beautification. that takes the majority of their budget. district identity and landscape improvements. and funds for administration and contingency expenses. the other sources of funding -- they are required to have at least 5% of their budget come from other sources. during their first two fiscal years, they did not meet the requirement, which was 5%. they raised 1% to 3%. however, the last two fiscal years, they raised 7% of their budget from other sources. in terms of budget vs actual expenses, 2007-20000 -- 2007- 2008, projects like the merrill were not finished. in the last fiscal years, they were very close to what the budgeted. lastly, each year the receive two big transfers from the city comptroller's office. that is when people pay their taxes. the money they receive in may is referred to as deferred revenue. really, that money takes them through the first six months of the next fiscal year. at the end of fiscal year 2009- 2010, they deferred 430,000 from their budget to get them through the

we basically provide cleaning, beautification, and safety for the neighborhood. the san francisco city coalition provide the cleaning services. we use san francisco clean city as our service provider because i have a strong job training and placement program. they train and place about 150 people every year. about 75% of those people that are placed actually retain their jobs for the full year longer or after. that was important to the neighborhood when the community benefit district was forming. the services provided -- every property gets hand swept daily. they get sidewalk scrubbing with a machine twice a month, and power washing once a month. clean city also provides graffiti abatement. the service hot spots in the neighborhood. they also help us with hazardous waste -- needles, human waste, and a large trash items. they do not, unlike other cds -- other cbd's, we do not operate on a dispatch system. in other places, someone would call in. we do not operate that way because it is a large district. we kind of schedule the district to make sure that the cleanin

and the local arts district beautification. chairperson campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is douglas young. i would like to think this -- take this opportunity to thank the lane for her years of service, especially for this community. elaine and i have worked on one project. from my experience, she seems to be a nice person. with regards to the comments of the previous speaker, those allegations should be checked out. if they are true, they are true. if they are false, they are false. they should be checked out as a matter of principle. i think supervisor kim would be the proper person to discuss them with the other parties involved. with regards to the recommendations for this district, i would like to put in a suggestion that maybe the district should consider hiring andrew cohen, also known as the big deal gate cup. i think this would be an excellent opportunity to show that andrew cohen has been unfairly, in my opinion, state voted for what happened in video date. when the truth comes out, andrew c

so is our storefront improvement and streetscape beautification programs as well as the safety and marketing efforts. the vision is to connect fillmore as a destination for business. we moved one step closer to renewal for the next seven years and the continuation of the economic revitalization efforts. and the legacy of urban renewal. the reverend will now help to provide an overview of the outreach to the district property owners and the community at large. >> good morning, welcome. >> thank you. these are just work clothes. i wanted to give you with the outreach. this is not difficult. i know a young man who sells these. this was really twofold. i have been here for about 40 years. and this is sadly not even all of my life. this is about two-thirds of the spent there. we are excited about what is going on, and one reason we are excited is because we can live in the past or try to make something out of the future. it would be a long presentation if i tried to talk about this, to not let the legacy with a history died. we have to get behind these programs. they may not be ideal, but when th

i am also the co-founder and coordinated to local neighborhood beautification organizations. one works on graffiti in the richmond and another one called the grain and the geary planted over 30 trees on the geary boulevard median. i am here to ask you to please reconsider this issue of ending on the maintenance of trees to individuals from dpw. my work with dpw -- [inaudible] especially as president's initial anticipate they have to take care of. the present dpw president said they must monitor trees that are currently owned by home owners. now they are proposing to increase the responsibility another 50%. i suspect if he did a cost- benefit analysis, it might be more expensive for dpw to start monitoring another 50% of the trees in the city as opposed to maintaining them. this is also a protective trust. when dpw planted many of these city trees -- and i know that this was the agreement reached on the above. they asked property owners for their permission to plan on their property on the condition that dpw would maintain the streets. suddenly, people will be hearing that tha

understanding that art is an important component, is there a way to work with beautification around certain areas and could we utilize some of this with a particular project? >> one thing that we're looking at is if there are city projects, and there are fewer and fewer resources, this is something we would like to see happen. has your staff and working with the project with the city department and otherwise, to look at how hard will function, with the project design. 2% does not always go on the interior or invisible arts commission. we have the international airport them balls the floor, for instance, that the users walk into. this is the entire entrance to the hospital. with the facility, this begins with the outside. we are always looking for opportunities for how the improvement -- it is limited to the site, where ever decide improvement is, that is where the 2% gets to be spent, so this includes the approach, the exterior, the public interior of the spaces, so we think of it as a continuing for the user experience. supervisor chiu:

beautification of the park, accomplished. >> yes, accomplished, yes. >> these gentlemen are just making sure that nothing weird happens. >> sure. >> just kind of patrolling the park. >> okay. >> oh. >> i'm sorry, no, i don't. sorry. >> do you have cigarette rolling papers. >> nobody, i don't. >> no, we don't. >> you know what else inhibits my enjoyment of the park. >> what? >> this giant undulating pile of human sorrow. i have to go home at the end of being in this park and scrub myself with a metal barbecue brush just to get all the sadness off. are you [bleep] kidding me, smoking! no matter how just the law, there will always be some reprobates who insist on breaking it. >> how are those drug addicts supposed to tweak properly with all of your secondhand smoke blowing in their faces. >> i try not to get near them when i'm smoking. >> that's kind of you. what am i supposed to call that hobo man over there who is washing his bum in the water fountain? okay, oh, oh -- >> there are just some things that nobody should be exposed to in a public park. >> i can't smoke in this park. >> no, yo

i think this kind of notion and the notion of signs and beautification is also an issue. >> this picture shows both the general advertising. this used to be the buy it yourself casket company. you could beretail caskets. what a loss to the city. it says on the window for lease and there is a provision in the planning code when a business is gone the sign has to be removed within a certain lent olength oftime. do you know th? >> no not off hand and the business sign goes with the business and once it's gone not considered a business sign. >> and it's in the code and it says how long you have and i think 90 days and the business code says that as well. here is another one of the corner signs and it's interesting it's not a modern starbucks kind of institutional sign but independent individual sign and a great restaurant too by the way. here we go. we're in another district here. we have hand painted signs and in some ways around the city you see these signs and made by people rather than contacted out to the sign paren paint are but it coue the sign painter. do these count as part of it? >

in conjunction with the reconstruction of the m-line and the beautification of ocean avenue, we had aget to commission art work. we hired an artist to create three large sun spheres made from beautiful golden-colored ceramic tile. and they bring this beautiful, radiant sunlight to ocean avenue. it's sort of a bright moment in the fog. >> one of the things

the trading blows but the me i could go and play with hey happy birthday ahead of saturday's beautification fight in germany. first to tennis and maria sharapova has stormed into the semifinals after thrashing micus a bulk about in straight sets on a rain expected day at wimbledon it looked like a walk in the park for sure after who also won the grass court grand slam back in two thousand and four but the city russian needed just one hour flats to brush aside the slovakian track of the real the eight straight games to see an easy six one six one when has become one of the favorites to win the title she has yet to drop a set and has since said that this has been one of the easiest way for them so far . and standing next to young german sabine lisicki he was watched by u.s. open golf champion remark arroyo the twenty one year old while called shell shocked number nine seed marion bartoli the french woman had knocked out last year's winner serina williams in the fourth round but lost the opening set before backing back to win the second on the hard fought time break but she lost that momentum

just trading blows that evening i could go on david haye happy birthday ahead of saturday's beautification fight in germany. as a tennis and re-assure out of the house stormed into the semifinals after thrashing got me can see both about in straight sets on the rain affected day wimbledon it looked like a walk in the park for sure but who also won the grass court grand slam back in two thousand and four but this seeded russian needed just one hour france to brush aside the slovakian track of the real the eight straight games were still in easy six one six one when has become one of the favorites to win the title he has yet to drop the sets and since that this has been one of the easiest will them so far. next is young german sabine lisicki who was watched by u.s. open golf champion rory mcilroy twenty one year while call shell shots number nine seed marion bartoli the french women have not lost is serena williams in the fourth round but last night they sat back to win the second hard fought tie break but she lost that momentum to see the side of six one. maiden ground semifinal up in a stu

that i had, and i could not find us in the report, was there was a reduction in neighborhood beautification. that was the one thing that i was curious about. >> that was due to a decrease in the voluntary checkoff donations through payroll and is unfortunate. we were sad to see that as well because that is a program we were very proud of that really leverage as contributions from non-city entities to improve green space and beautify, but we have a as a result of a decrease in his contributions have to cut back a little bit this year. supervisor chu: -- supervisor kim: thank you. supervisor chiu: i want to thank your department for helping to put together the department's's database, and i want to thank you for that, allowing san franciscans to know how they can take part in our city government. one question around grant city arts. i understand there was a decision to not fund the api and queer cultural centers, and i wondered if you could talk about that. >> certainly. thank you. there were several reasons for that. similar to the community challenge grant program. some of the voluntary don

you are providing not only all the beautification that you are going to get, but the reason the epa -- and when the president talked about winning the future, this is what it is about. it is about investing money in communities that have not had that investment. about making sure that local people are deployed where they are not employed today. it is bringing all this together. people say what is happening in newcomb of it today, and i say that you won the lottery, but he should have won a long time ago. we're thrilled that you are getting what you deserve and what you need. thank you so much. [applause] >> next, i would like to invite supervisor cohen to say some words. as you know, she is your newest supervisor. this area has a very bright future, i think, and one of the reasons is you have a great supervisor who has just been elected and is already taking the mantle for a variety of issues that i think are of real importance to this community. supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: thank you. it is very apropos where we are, and for those of you who know the history of the bay view, t