san francisco's chinatown. it will create an impactful indoor and outdoor narrative experience and will enhance the connection between portsmouth square and the new community clubhouse. >> and that this work will also include a community engagement component that will be led by the selected artist. >> the budget for this project is 151,000 which will cover the costs for design fabrication and transportation with a separate installation budget of $30,000. >> to quickly recap how we got to this point of the artist review panel process. so as we all are well aware, chinatown has long fostered a vibrant arts culture and we decided that we were going to launch the chinatown artist registry in order to identify artists that we could consider not only for the portsmouth square or work opportunities but for future and ongoing and upcoming capital projects in chinatown including the public health center and the markham light branch library. we launched our rfq in july 11th of last year. it was closed in october 7th and

it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers an

danny sauter is the new supervisor for district three, which represents chinatown.t can we do to stop it? >> yeah, i think there's two things i think we actually have to look at. making sure that our existing facilities are restrooms are in good shape, that they're not closed, that people know where they are with signage and with good lighting. and then on the other side, if people are doing this, you know, the park rangers need to make sure that they stop that, whether it's a verbal warning at first or maybe even up to a citation. >> san francisco banned public urination in 2002. at the time, supervisor tony hall said the vote by the board, quote, demonstrated we live in a civilized society. anyone violating the ban can be fined between 50 and $500. we asked police if they have ever cited anyone here or anywhere in san francisco. police told us at this time they don't have this data compiled. portsmouth square is run by rec and park. that department issued a statement reminding us that the square has, quote, some of the best maintained and most heavily used restroo

danny sartor is the new supervisor for district three, which represents chinatown. what can we do to stop it? >> yeah, i think there's two things i think we actually have to look at. making sure that our existing facilities, our restrooms are in good shape, that they're not closed, that people know where they are with signage and with good lighting. and then on the other side, if people are doing this, you know, the park rangers need to make sure that they stop that, whether it's a verbal warning at first or maybe even up to a citation. >> san francisco banned public urination in 2002. at the time, supervisor tony hall said the vote by the board, quote, demonstrated we live in a civilized society. anyone violating the ban can be fined between 50 and $500. we asked police if they have ever cited anyone here or anywhere in san francisco. police told us at this time they don't have this data compiled. portsmouth square is run by rec and park. that department issued a statement reminding us that the square has, quote, some of the best maintained and most heavily used re

we are a beach town, we are a chinatown, and not a town at all.et is home to 80 thousand people and we love our dogs. we live in neat row houses, homes with yards, story book homes and every quirk in between. the sunset used to be sand dunes all the way to the ocean. when the city needed to grow, san francisco's future ran through the sunset. we built rows and rows of housing for a great irish population and welcomed a great chinese population. today home to a gowing number of families from all backgrounds and the future starts here. >> we chose sunset knauz we love san francisco but during the pandemic we needed more space and more family focused, so that is where we found the sunset. how walkable it is. we live along iving street along where diana's school is our son's day care is. >> our kids and all the kids we knee in the neighborhood are really the future here and we are really excited to live in the neighborhood. we love it so much. >> nina and alex are expecting their first baby and it first leaders of the newly formed sunset community ban