and delivered with a positive, diligent and a ethyl point of view. members and chairman i give you had a (clapping) on behalf of the board of directors and the entire agency thank you for your entire work >> thank you, mr. chairman and board members pr i didn't do this alone i had a lot of support with edward reiskin and my supervisor here. mr. inconvenience harris and also the staff that's in the office and my family. thank you to them all for their support >> thank you (clapping.) okay. i think we'll just take it (laughter). >> director reiskin i know there's been a lot of decision about pedestrian safety in the chamber hall and it's fitting that a lot of the great work we're thought of fully able to address the pedestrian safety this is a walk through program i'm going to ask the director of the safety streets. >> mr. reiskin i'm here to present the block first team composed of luke's and others. that demonstrated the commitment to the strategic goal number one to create a safe transportation. f that was to create pedestrian projects that will gui

[inaudible] joshua ethyl who was the owner of drews died in a motorcycle kent on february 15. he grew up in san francisco and worked at drews 26 years ago and became a owner of the business in 2 thousand along with his brother isaac. he was what we want to happen in saf. people to make lives for themselves here and open great small businesses. [inaudible] a dog lover and walked his dogs at the reck center. he was a father to his son justice who is 6 years old, survived by huz mother and siblings and many friends and family members. i know a lot of people are going to miss him a lot and i hope that the business is able to move forward. finally, a great loss [inaudible] a neighbor of mine passed away recently. he was bone in 1981 and moved here from massachusetts to live with his boy friend you have who was the love of his life. [inaudible] moved from [inaudible] to san francisco and made it their home until blakes passing. blake was known for his smile and sense of humor as remembered by his friend aenthany. [inaudible] in a gathering of friends and family this past saturday [i

they only deliberated about 30 minutes on friday and even ethyl kennedy had to bring her back in.they announced the verdict and they were pulled and left. the courtroom started to applaud. people on the side of the defense kerry kennedy, i never have seen that before. she shook the hands of the prosecutors and i don't think i have seen a defendant like that before. they have been acquitted. i asked her myself when she got into the gallery area, if this experience, she was a defendant in a courtroom. if it changed her at all. she said no. the prosecutor had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was driving a car given that she was impaired. they showed that and she knew she had taken the ambien and continued to drive down the roadway and her credibility is what the jury believed. >> you covered many court cases and this came up in the wake of her acquittal. factoring in for the jurors. >> a lot of people say why did this go to kril. there was a lesser included to this misdemeanor. it's a traffic violation basically. they could have said no, we don't want to plead guilty and t