chairperson campos: can we go back and redo it? >> we met in closed session to discuss pending claims in litigation involving the city. the city will move items 8 through 14 through with recommendation. chairperson campos: that is correct. if we can have a motion not to disclose? a motion by supervisor mar. we take that without objection. do we have any other business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson campos: thank you. the meeting is adjourned.

chairperson campos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is jen gilliman. i am the director of media strategies and managed the commons program at bay bak. we have had quite a year. it has been a challenge merging these two communities and trying to start of the programs at market street, undergoing a transition, getting things up and started, and trying to welcome more people into public access. that has been our goal. i hope you will look at the cover sheet and that entire report, which chronicles an entire year of good faith efforts on our part to be more inclusive with public access, to bring more people in, to use the resources the best we can, to deal with this $170,000 to pay my staff members, one of whom is funded through the stimulus jobs now program through the end of september. without these $375,000 we will probably have to let them go. to tell you a little bit about the day-to-day operations of what goes on at the station, which provide free field gear to all of the producers, whi

chairperson campos: can we go back and redo it? >> we met in closed session to discuss pending claims in litigation involving the city. the city will move items 8 through 14 through with recommendation. chairperson campos: that is correct. if we can have a motion not to disclose? a motion by supervisor mar. we take that without objection. do we have any other business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson campos: thank you. the meeting is adjourned. the meeting is adjourned. [horns honking] [siren wails] announcer: big dreams and goodrades aren't enough to get into college. there are actual steps you need to take. finding someone who can help is the first and most important. for the next steps, go to knowhow2go.org. [gavel] president peterson: good evening, and welcome to the september, 2008, meeting of the board of appeals. presiding is vice president kendall goh, frank fung, michael garcia, and chris hwang. president peterson is not here tonight. i mdc give director of the board. we also have secretary

chairperson campos: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is howard. it has come to my attention that members of the borders of -- of the board of supervisors have seen a stumbling block in the media alliance. as the media alliance treasurer, i want to thank you for your deference to this fine organization. however, in my opinion you have been misled by the testimony of the executive director of our organization in putting forth her personal opinions as those of the organization. before i get to that, i want to say i also serve on the san francisco commons community advisory board. i have been a producer of weekly shows on san francisco cable access since the beginning of 2006. i would rather spend my time telling you the reasons that i feel the bay event deserves our thanks and congratulations. but there are many reasons i feel compelled to deal with a more negative issue, not the least of which is my regard -- excuse me. because of my unique position of serving on both boards and my years of involvement with both communities, i feel it is incumbent o

-- chairperson mirkarimi? commissioner campos? commissioner dufty? commissioner avalos? supervisor mirkarimi: i like to welcome commissioner pimentel to her first meeting. i would also like to thank sfgtv for producing and carrying this event today. the key to all the staff. can you please read item number two? >> approval of minutes from the july meeting. supervisor mirkarimi: any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. without objection, move. item number three? >> report on community aggregation activity. supervisor mirkarimi: mr. campbell, welcome. >> thank you, commissioners. i am part of the program, referred to as clean power. . we will talk about the actions we have undertaken. in particular, we have seen a lot of efforts in coordination with the staff to maximize the potential pool. the efforts began prior to august 6. to discuss the forthcoming goals of the city and the types of things we're going to be doing. in the maintenance team kicked in the high gear. -- and the maintenance team kicked into high gear. they had an ad that ran

campos. >> present. >> commissioner dufty. dufty absent. commissioner avalos. >> here. >> avalos here, commissioner schmeltzer. schmeltzer absent. chairperson mirkarimi. >> present. >> we do have a quorum. president crowley: michael. present. >> commissioner ellis. >> here. >> commissioner moran. here. >> commissioner caen is excused today due to illness. >> thank you, michael. coich very good. next item, please. >> excuse me, i didn't hear my name on the roll call. >> commissioner dufty. >> here. >> next item please. >> opening remarks. item number three, opening remarks and discussion of expectations for this joint meeting. chairperson mirkarimi: i also noticed that there is not a line item for the minutes on this agenda from last meeting. minute approval is usually routine. >> jayson fried, lafco staff. we didn't include this on this agenda partly because it was a joint meeting and we didn't want to go through the whole process. we will have the minutes at the next regular meeting in february. chairperson mirkarimi: let's make sure that always minutes have to be established on agendas and have to be approved, joint or not. >> ok. chairpe