so, san francisco being the moral class city that it is and i who was born in a world class city, nework, and understands the value of entertainment and music and even music in the streets, would like to move that we recommend this ordinance to the board of supervisors without any neighborhood exclusions and put in my motion that our staff, specifically our executive director, work with supervisor mirkarimi's staff to address any of the concerns that these commissioners -- that the commissioners on our commission may have. president newlin: that's been vocalized tonight. vice chair joseph: that's right. that's my motion. president newlin: all right. any discussion? >> before there is a second, i would just like to point out to commissioner joseph that by no geographic exclusions, is that your language? vice chair joseph: yeah. i think that something that applies for one should apply for all. >> ok, by saying that you are essentially disease respecting the wishes of the western soma -- disrespecting the wishes of the western soma task force and that would make it -- is there other lang

you cannot have a world-class city without will class leadership for the community and world class peoplew hunters point is a world-class community. i thought i would read a couple of versus from first timothy chapters one vs one and two, which will be corporate for this invocation. would you be so kind to doubt your head momentarily. first of all, prayer, and giving of thanks be made of all men. four kings and all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in godliness. in the name of god and jesus, we thank you that the leadership of this groundbreaking for this place of wisdom, the place where they can come and make this community more positive. there are a lot of positives despite the negatives. this is a great positive thing. we can expand our village of knowledge. + mayor lee, supervisors, and those present who had something to do with the state today. amen. [applause] >> thank you for those inspiring words, doctor. today, we have to use our imagination. this is a large space that we will have within the next 18 months a beautiful state of the art library. if you can i

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit i would like to welcome you to the san francisco board of the education regular meeting. to date is june 28. this meeting is called to order. commissioner fewer: here. commissioner maufas: here. commissioner murase: here. commissioner wynns: here. elvina fan: here. >> please join me for the pledge of allegiance. president mendoza: thank you. item a is the approval of board meetings -- board minutes. any corrections tax roll call, please. -- any corrections? roll call, please. [roll is called] >> 5 ayes. president mendoza: the next item is a presentation by the superintendent. superintendent garcia is out of town and we are blessed with the presence of the deputy superintendent. >> you did that well. you have practiced. thank you, president mendoza. superintendent garcia is out of town and unable to make the meeting tonight. he has asked me to share the following thoughts with all of you. regarding the 20112012 budget, the board will be taking action tonigh

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 stre

i think we can have a world- class transportation in our world-class city. the reason i think it is possible -- i think the voters, the people of san francisco really had great foresight and vision, putting all the modes together, which is unique in this country, if not the world. if you need traffic flow -- you need traffic flow to be managed cried. by putting all this authority in one place, i think there is tremendous potential this agency can do. there are wonderful things the men and women of this agency have put in place through tep, sf park, getting the central subway going. the foundation has been laid to spring forward. i also believe and know their are a lot of crete, hard- working, -- great, hard-working, dedicated men and women in mta to have exceptional transit expertise and knowledge they are bringing to bear every day for the people of san francisco. putting all those things together, i see no reason why we cannot have a world-class transportation system. it is incredibly exciting. i am incredibly excited about the opportunity to contribute to

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something that opens a dialogue to public interest in these ideas. so the work is really made to be seen in this environment. it's been show in museum, in gallery, but never in a public setting. and it's kind

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the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culturer more information, visit >> 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 profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in

the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> reporting equipment in the room. would you please stand for pledge of alenalance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic from which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> taking a roll call of commissioners. commission president thomas mazzucco. >> present. >> dr. joe marshall? >> here. >> petra dejesus? >> she's en route. >> commissioner angela chan? >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commissioner james slaughter? >> here. >> commissioner julius turman? >> here. >> we have a quorum of commissioners and also joyce hicks of the office of citizens complaints and the chief of police. >> thank you, lieutenant falvey. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the july 13, 2011 police commission hearing. ladies and gentlemen, tonight is what we call our discipline night so we have some closed matters, disciplinary hearings which by law have to be held in c

i am honored to address the fact that san francisco is a world- class city. that makes the board of supervisors a world-class body of supervisors. i would like to personally thank the chair for this opportunity to speak briefly about this historical moment. i would like one of my colleagues to share the information. a lot of times, documentation beats conversation. what we are going to have it is a brief that is handed out to you that kind of explains who we are and what we are charged to do, and many of the questions that were asked could be answered in this document. while you were getting a copy of that brief, first of all, who we are is part of a collective body of constituents which was recently mentioned in a brief from the university. hunters point shipyard citizen'' advisory committee. mr. jacob moody. that makes up the collective body of our implementation committee. only the core group is legally bound by the community benefits agreements mentioned in the brief that you have. please note the community benefits agreement legally bind as a condition th

the rights of the worker, and the reality of what it takes to create a world class city, straight ahead on "equal time." >> from san jose state university and kteh, you're watching "equal time," giving "equal time" to competing points of view. >> i'm your host, juneively professor bob -- journalism professor bob rucker. manual labor has always been tough, but necessary to build buildings and monuments. >> the arab emirates was beautiful beaches, home to the world's most beautiful hotels, fastest coasters, and the tallest buildings in the world. they were built by the hands of immigrants. they come from india, pakistan, and the philippines, seeking better opportunities than they can find in their own countries. according to the human rights watch, many were are exploited without compensation, unfavorable working conditions, leading to death or illnesses, and horrible working conditions. these men live in these apartments. yet they still stay in the uae, hoping to better themselves and help their families. this 25-year-old has been working as a delivery man for seven years. >> he said he