on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day.

my name is carmen chu. why don't we get started. with a marking up with the department of small business -- we have been working with the department of small business. this project started when we heard from neighborhood merchants. unfortunately, they had access issues, visibility access issues. we have been working closely with many of our partners year today to educate about these -- many of our partners year today to educate about these issues. also in terms of board guidance. i want to thank all of you for coming. many of you may have assistance. i know many merchants could not be here. please do it share this information with other merchants in the area. we have virginia from the office of small business. we have roger from the bar association. no carla johnson from the office of disability. -- we have carla johnson from the office of disability. i want to especially it acknowledge my colleague to help us get the resources and brought legal expertise to the table. i do not want to take too much of your time. thank you for comin

[applause] [applause] president chiu: our last commendation will be provided by supervisor carmen chupervisor chu: if you could come up and stand here behind greg, that would be great. today, i would like to ask you all to join me in paying tribute to a man who has devoted the last 10 years of his life managing the largest general fund apartment in this city. greg joined the department of public health as a chief financial officer for the department community health network in june, 2001. by the next year, he was already serving as the chief wenzel officer for the entire department of public health. this task is not an easy one. every single person on the budget committee and every single budget chair has always gotten to know greg very well, especially in the month of june. while it has been said that one dog year is equal to seven human years, it could be said that once cfo year at the department of public health is equal to at least 10 human years. thank you to devoting at least the last 100 years to overseeing the san francisco department of public health budget. his last day will

a motion by supervisor carmen chu? did you want to speak to that? supervisor chu: we are undertaking this, an area surrounded by three different schools, and it has become a community gathering place, where in the morning, you see people doing tai chi, and then you see kids after school studying, so through a lot of community meetings, a lot of fund-raisers, and a lot of work, we can finally celebrate the opening, but i do want to recognize and thank two people. friends of the sense that playground and recreation and public works and others for this project, in particular art and michelle and others, the friends of west sunset, and jonathan from dpw. they really work hard to see that we could have a playground. finally, to the friends of the public library, in particular, one person for being injured while to make sure that the ortego library is built into for being integral -- one person for being integral to make sure that the ortego library is built. thanks. president chiu: supervisor chu has made a motion, seconded by supervisor elsbernd. without

on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day. >> hello. 9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city's population. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand

commissioner carmen chu? commissioner chu: i will be supporting the allegation with the caveat that the money will be reserved until proper approval of the concourse a party and the rec and parks commission. i appreciate the comments made on the importance of having a great experience, but i think, as supervisor weener mentioned, there is a need to make sure that we have access for folks who may not able to get to golden gate park very easily, folks who have families, seniors who might be disabled. we definitely want to make sure that we are looking at all sites when moving forward with the project. comparable supporting at this time, given there is a caveat that those funds are there. commissioner campos: can we take that without objection? without objection. please call item seven. >> item 7. update on the san francisco transportation plan. this is an information item. >> principal transportation planner of the traditional party. i will be presenting this item. you should have a copy of the presentation in f

on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day. >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profe

on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day. if you would like to make general public comment on an item that is not on calendar, that is item four and continued again on item 15. last, please address your comments to the commission during comment on public comment. neither commission or staff will respond to public questions but will respond after public comment is closed. with that, i think there was announcements about items. >> yes. the basketball court renovations will be removed from the consent calendar and be heard on the general calendar. items, 10, 11, and 12, have been removed from the calendar and will not be heard today. if anyone is here on those items, they have been taken off the calendar. we are now on item number two, the president's report. >commissioner bu

my name is carmen chu. i am joined by supervisor kim. we will be joined by supervisor mirkarimi shirley. the clerk today is mr. victor young. we have jennifer and mark from the sfgtv. do we have announcements today? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak, turn out a speaker card and turn them in. it please provide a copy of documents for the file. items will appear in the board of supervisors agenda on september 13, 2011 unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. just so folks know in the audience, we will be going down the order, item one, two, and three. before we get into the mou items, i would like to wait for supervisor mirkarimi, because i need to recuse myself from one of the items. so if you can call item number 1. >> item number one, or it's a proven in the grid with nonstop music library to license the use of the music library and waiving certain requirements of the administrative code with respect to the license agreement. i believe we have a potential amendment. supervisor chu: thank

on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day. >> ok. we will get started. i'm the senior communications manager for the california department of trorbgs spokesperson for the san francisco oakland bay bridge. we have invited the media to give you an update on construction progress for our new bridge. a number of things are happening right now and will continue to happen the next two years as we get ready to open up the new bridge to public service. first, we have a transport ship that recently arrived during our final segment that will be put in place the next couple of months to complete the main deck for the suspension bridge. we also, the past few weeks, have constructed a cat walk system that is very visible to the public that will act as a platform for our construction tea

on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day. >> welcome to your school. how're you doing? we are lowering the speed 2015. we are going to do it all over the city. thank you. good morning. welcome to your school. we are posting the new signs for the miles per hour zone. we will lower them all to 15 around the school, just to keep it safe for the kids. i get to announce that today, so i thought i would welcome the kids. , on up. come on up. are you excited? thank you. good morning, everyone. i am happy to be here. you are going to learn a lot today. we are here to help make sure that you are safe. we want to always make sure that when our kids go to school it is safer. sometimes, as your parents will tell you, they will see a lot of cars and sometimes buses will go too fast on

on august 3, carmen chu's office assembled a panel for the merchants of district four, along with the sf bar association. the opportunity fund gave a presentation and carla johnson from the mayor's office talked about cash. that panel was televised and is now running periodically on sfgtv. we have linked it to our website. on october 16, the mission in lower 24th merchants are having a meeting. i will be working with them to bring together a panel. their meetings are from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. from 1130 until 1:00. it is on tuesday, midday. if you are available, i invite you to come. i want to a knowledge of the merchant's association. they were extraordinarily proactive with the video store, and there will be inspections. they did do their cast inspection. i want to applaud them that monthly, they are assembling a meeting so that businesses that may have received a letter can come and talk to them. i attended a meeting last week and there will be some new business that received a letter and had it not been for their consistent information education through the emergence newsletter, she

every supervisory district gets a fair share of those dollars so that you do not have people in carmen chu'sistrict saying, how about my streets? it will be equally distributed. there is a geographical equity clause in the bond that says everybody gets a fair share. we just will pick the worst streets in their district to work on. the benefits of working on those streets, or threfor three years it is at a total capacity for what dpw can do. after three years, we do not want to come back with another big bond. what we would like to try to do is get the street repaving back to the general fund. build up the general fund so that it can cover the streets. it may at the 100%, so we are looking at taking back the vehicle license fee that the state now has. they use it for everything but our streets. we need to take that local decision and get our vehicle license fee back to our streets. the combination of those two will colon -- continue to allow us to have a good pot of money to continue maintaining the streets at a high level. but these three years will only keep us at the current level. it will

on behalf of carmen chu, for helen mcdonald on behalf of mirkarimi, on behalf of -- >> if we can have miss westbrook for the entire board, without objection, that will be the case. and leicester's any business and from the this board, i think we are returned for to -- unless there is any business in front of this board, i think we are adjourned for the day. supervisor kim: good morning and welcome to the special rules supervisor committee. we have just one event today. today i am joined by supervisor johsean elsbernd. are klerk today is linour clerk. could you please call item no. 1. >> item number one, ordinance amending the students go campaign and government section. it is capping the amount of public matching funds. i believe we have the department head for the ethics commission here to speak to us today. >> good morning, supervisors. on june 27 the supreme court issued a decision, which struck down arizona's public finance law, in particular because having reached certain thresholds public candidates get additional public funds in response to independent expenditures. the supreme

commissioner normandy, supervisor carmen chu, thank you. good morning, everyone. larry, good to see you, great to be out there with the new labor center. wonderful. friends, family, emily, judy, good to see you. everybody, thank you for coming. entertainment commission, of course. thank you for being here. and commissioners, human rights commission, as well. we have 11 commissioners representing eight different commissions to swear in today. and i want to, again, thank each and every one of you for both new appointments and reappointments to our wonderful commissions. this is a very, very proud day for me because we're welcoming back people who have done great jobs in our city and running our airports and our arts commissions, our civil service, our commission on the status of women, our environmental commission, our entertainment commission, our human rights commission and of course our rent board, something that i grew up with here at city with our rent board. i want to thank everyone here for coming for this wonderful occasion to ask again for a recommitment an

even sometimes in a district -- i always use carmen chu as an example -- because she has a flat district. she says her streets are in pretty good condition but they have some pedestrian issues where they could use money to make sure that the long crosswalks are safe for seniors and kids to cross all the way. that is in there. almost $50 million is focused on pedestrian safety projects. so it is not just the roads. it is also a road-related work that is important for pedestrian safety. bicycle lanes are in there, signal lighting. but may look at geographical equity, it is spending the same amount of money in each district, not because of the size, but what is most important to that district? we have different categories for different things. some might want more money for pedestrian projects because their roads are in ok shape. then there are others who just bought it for the roads. my streets are narrow, people get across, not all lot of history of pedestrian accidents. >> [inaudible] are you going to bring them back? >> yes, the budget does contemplate a police academy. the budget has p

we are here with supervisor carmen chu from district four, which includes the central and outer sunsetnd park side neighborhood. supervisor chu was elected to the board of supervisors in 2008 and reelected in 2010. we will get to know her and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. let's start by talking about your background -- where you grew up, what kinds of jobs you have work. supervisor chu: my parents immigrated to the united states about 30 years ago, and i would say that is probably the most formative part of my background. growing up in an immigrant family, you learn many things. my parents raised me in southern california, and i grew up in the restaurant business. they had a small restaurant at the time, and i was there every weekend, working -- well, not working, eating. having a fried egg roll, wanton, something good. it taught me the value of working hard and what it meant to be part of a small business, a small business -- a small business, small family, and an immigrant family at that. really being impacted by the lo

my name is carmen chu. why don't we get started. with