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

there is the beautification of it. it lets keep the waterfront beautiful. it brings in of a lot of money from events. this report has all the right things. please listen to the people. it they live here and work here. they know what is best. thank you. president olague: [reading names] everyeone elone else i called b. >> my name is nancy shanahan. the luxury condo project that requires the inclusion of a publicly owned a lot held in public trust for the people of california is not what comprehensive planning is about. but that is what the planning department the study did. we participated in good faith in the department's planning process and grew more and more frustrated as it became clear that the comprehensive process was being used to respond to a single private development proposal. this frustration is the reason that the telegraph hill dwellers and other community organizations decided it was necessary to engage in an alternative planning process. by approaching development of the comprehensive lot, our plan shows that economically viable and politica

. >> will work on the beautification and safety for the neighborhood. we have seen that small businesses play a vital roles in the revitalization of the neighborhood. the would-be -- the small businesses are among -- for the world. there are very familiar with the landscape, the history, the resources of the neighborhood. we have seen them raise concerns. and have asked for help adequate parking for their customers. i am currently working with the owners and operators. it is part of the phoenix hotel. they have had. we have also been working with the vendor at the heart of the farmers' market that is looking to open up the tenderloin. the revisory committee, i would advocate who represent these concerns of small business owners. and also provide a list of benefits to the community stakeholders. i also think that there are endless possibilities for larger corporations and small businesses to provide reciprocal benefits to each other. especially in an area that is rich with community resources and significant challenges. they encouraged and exchange resou

right after 9/11, the neighborhood tried to create a beautification district and it was denied by the irs twice. we talked as a merchants association and decided to give it a serious ago. we met with the neighborhood association, property owners. we raised money in all three of those groups and we started the plan. we initially sent out petitions in 2009, and that was a bad time. the economy was not doing well. it was clear that no one wanted to spend extra money. we looked back at our plan and we've dropped the assessments by $50,000. half we tried it again. -- we tried it again. i had no idea it would take almost two years to get to this point off off. because it took so long, i'm not sure if this is on the record or not but this is a letter that went out with those bright before they submitted petitions to the board explaining that it is taking that long. -- this is a letter that went out to those right before they were submitted to the board. we had different meetings. one was the merchant specific. there was one where everyone was welcome. we set up a website that had articles on

irish you to work with the department -- i urge you to work with the department as far as the beautification of the building itself. >> president olague: commissioner antonini? >> commissioner antonini: what was talked about earlier, a formula retail, the fact this is formula retail. it is the type that people like a lot. they go specifically to target and leave san francisco, taking their dollars and employment and taxes with them to other places. people will do this if we do not put it here. it will be somewhere else and people will commute to it. this is long overdue. it sounds like a great site. as was also pointed out, everyday clothing is unavailable in san francisco except for downtown or stonestown. just for everyday needs, it is hard to pull into summer and by these types of things and this will establish a third site where you can purchase these types of things. architecturally, i think you are doing a lot of the right things. i disagree with the other commissioners. you have to work with staff to make it appropriate. international style and midcentury modern are sort of euphemisms

would become and they run one through another the new regulations allow the so-called beautification boat instead of asking for permission for takeoff from the authorities in theory the pilots can now use the internet for air traffic control of their plants but in reality it rarely works. as you can see there are many would be to know restricted zones around most go so it's impossible for us to use notification mode anywhere within a two hundred kilometer radius of the capital or even with the new law dozens of government organisations issue all sorts of contradictory instructions for pilots it's a major disincentive for clients to make the effort to take to the skies and that means that russia is missing out of the potential pot of gold will some countries like the us get julien's of dollars for small aircraft fees and taxes russia doesn't get a sense. of current regulations are in chaos and in a mess we're losing around five hundred billion rubles annually. from. however many pilots like let's assume that what's under this year's scoop on air show are optimistic about fighting the

q: now you spoke up during a . a discussion that was largely devoted to the beautification of america. ek: well, her idea, and according to the ladies there, too, was to plant wild seeds along route 66. (laughter) ek: and i thought, that's all very well and good. but what we need is education for everyone, equal education for all, and why is it that our schools are so dilapidated and our educational system so much at fault? because i believe that if you get an education, you can cross anybody's line. because it's your intelligence that counts, not what you look like. (applause) q: did you have any sense as you walked from the white house that day what was about to hit you? did you have any idea that you had jumped into boiling water? ek: no. because i have a feeling of freedom in my country, and we are on grounds that says you have that freedom of . freedom of speech, freedom from oppression, freedom from . all sorts of oppressions. i still feel that way. and as i said, we in our country can solve our own problems on our own home grounds, and therefore what we feel in our own country

. >> probably will start with more beautification. >> but not everyone is making the leap just yet.tin is waiting it out and sticking with what he knows works. >> just a regular go g.old american cash and checks. >> and if addition to fairfax and vernal heights, the town of point reyes started using a local currency. >> a survey suggests which internet browser you use could shed light on your iq. a web consultant company gave 100,000 people an iq test while monitoring which browser they took. found internet explorer users have lowest average scores. chrome, fire fox and safari users were slightly higher and obscure browsers like opera had exceptional iqs. experts caution results are not scientific. i hope they are not. >> phew. >> yes. >> we know sandhya patel is an opera user, of course. >> right. never wrong, either. and i'll show you the forecast for tomorrow morning. we're going to see fog and around the bay and it has been going in last couple mornings, fog will pull away a hill bit at times. 60s at beaches. we're going to see 90s inland. a good 30 degree span. here are the tem

learn from each other about all the issues including transportation or parking or just urban beautification or whatever of urban design. c-span: your book is endorsed by at least four people. andrew tobias, who is he? >> guest: he is a columnist for time magazine and also an author in his own right. i don't know him. c-span: so you had nothing to do with that endorsement? >> guest: no. c-span: endorsed by andrew heiskell, former publisher of time. do you know him? >> guest: i'm acquainted with him. i know him to occasionally have dinner with him. c-span: "the death of common sense is a wildly important book which should change the direction of public debate in this country." do you think it has? >> guest: not yet, but it's striking a chord. i've just gone down to florida to visit the governor, who's invited me down to talk about ideas for remaking his government around the ideas in my book, and several other governors have also called. so i'm hopeful that it may make a difference. c-span: it's endorsed by arthur schlesinger, who you said kind of started all this. >> guest: right. he was ver

the highway beautification project that was part of the 1960's, she was very involved in that. and again, also had of her time. we are very focused on protecting the environment today, but in the 1960's, lady bird johnson was putting her mark on that subject. and was very focused on raising her family. after they left the white house and she went back to texas and again continued working on the issues that were important to work, she worked on, -- that were important to her, she worked on conservation. pat nixon, we know very little about her, but she was very involved in efforts related to volunteerism. she really wanted to make sure that people who needed help had people in the community who supported them. then she was a graduate of the university of california, which was something that many people did not know about. and she worked in that community while her husband was serving in the military. she was ahead of her time, i had of her career, and also became supportive of it through her husband as well. host: there is a biography in the works of pat nixon right now. she was