headlining the folsom street fair, people are now looking forward to our entertainment in ways they didnot 10 years ago. >> commander, how do we prepared to assist an outdoor event? what training do the folks on the street have when engaging with patrons of the event? >> i am sorry, i have never heard of little booth. not my genre, i guess. you know, all of our officers receive a lot of training at the academy level and the special operations group on crowd control. you all know the chief was year earlier. an outstanding job, he spoke to everyone, it all comes down to us all, all the way down to the online troops. i believe that we are the best in the entire country, if not the world. [applause] just recently, thank you, i had the deputy chief of shanghai coming over to ask us how we manage events here. i just wanted them to understand how we do it differently and how they can improve. this is not the first time i have had that happen. from what i have observed over my 32 years in my time on line as an officer, i was an officer before my first promotion, i have received, and we have all

these bike tracks now, ones are proposed for 2nd street for folsom street, possibly and for market street, possibly for polk street in addition, to the one that is already in place in golden gate park. i bring it to your attention because we hear sometimes that there are meetings and yet these are held at night, meetings to gather community input and support. so when the night meetings happen, and we're not there, then there is a biased response from the public. and therefore, planners, whether planning commission, mta, public works or wherever, get the idea oh, this is great, because people who came like it. but the people who didn't come are the ones that are going to be at-risk for various reasons that have already been explained at length. i'm suggesting that the disability council might want to have a forum about bike tracks, or just try to get some better idea in the future about what exactly are city departments required to inform the staff about when they are proposing a project? whether it's a building construction, sidewalk expansion, any street furniture or anything else. thank

december 31, this batch had a call that a vehicle was on fire at 1645 folsom street and indicated -- they did not indicate if anyone was in the car or not. sgt espinoza was the first unit on the scene. he arrived on the scene, did a quick survey and then notified dispatch of what was going on. while surveying the scene, he realized an individual was trapped in the driver's seat in the car was engulfed in flames. fully knowing the danger that was in front of him, he did not hesitate. he immediately ran to the car and began to attempt to remove the individual from the burning vehicle. once he reached the vehicle, he realized the person was unconscious and still strapped in his car. at this point the flames began to blow over the windshield. the fire department was still not on scene. even though the heat was intense and possibility of the gas tank could explode at any time, sergeant espinoza did not retreat. at this time, officer ha and solorzana arrived on scene. they were amazed at what they saw. they saw him trying to break a window of the car. they knew the danger and immediately r

the affordable housing dwelling units satisfy the off site market requirement of the project on folsom street and for households earning up to 150% of median income and additional on site bmr units. the sponsor project will give a presentation but i would like to focus on the policy and regulatory issues. in order to proceed it requires determination under the code with grants of several exceptions from the section of the code providing that the commission makes specific findings with regard to rear yard, off street loading and conditions. compliance with the criteria for each exception is described in the motions in your packet. i will be happy to discuss any of the specific exceptions in detail if you have questions, but staff believes the exemptions are wandered and meet the criteria in the code. it requires the conditional use authorization to allow additional square footage above the dwelling area and available to households income is within 150% of the area's median income. i am happy to specific details of this but staff believes that the cu authorization is warranted and priority of t

particularly the well-known folsom street fair. there is a lot of work to do. we are actually a non profit. we donate back to charities. our model is different probably the most street fairs. but we do take it very seriously. i am here basicallyé@ to sharea lot of concerns, the issues of others, producers in the city, regulations, increasing fees. hopefully will have time today to talk about breast practices -- best practices. i noticed that in the opening remarks there were comments made around the entertainment commission in its ability to shut down places that are not doing what they are supposed to be doing. it would be great to explore what we would need for an incentive structure. how can we look at things like reducing as they do what they do in need to do it well. >> i have been a longtime promoter under the name of opal. the earning and community is the opulent temple. i am also a part-time psychologist, working with kids in the bayview, and a father. i was hoping to speak today as a small-business person doing various kinds of events in the city with

have a numb of number of items and the first is authorizing the-off real estate for 17th and folsome street park project and i also have a memoriam for man we will spain rod drying guess and he was one of the district's most colorful andby loved artist and is with robert crumb influenced generations of cartoonists and not only in the mission but throughout the city and born in new york to an italian artist mother mr. rod drying guess dropped his first name in favor of spain passionate about his latino heritage created murals with crumb in the late 1960's and 70s, in in addition, to zap economics his works include biographygraphy and dark hotel online graphic novellings, spain was working on a graphic story for the 2004 san francisco hotel workers strike, so, we would like to ask that we adjourn the meeting today in his memory. i also have another item as you know as a city, we have been working with other cities to deal with the issue of homelessness within our veteran population. we have been involved with the hundred days campaign to house veterans in 2012. president obama established a g

collaboration with pg&e were able to make a very outstanding arrest on metal theft from copper wire on folsom streetit sells for $3 a pound. there were hundreds of pounds of metal that were attempting to be stolen. the suspect in custody was michael o'keefer, 55 years old. the officers recovered five high voltage copper wires, and a second suspect evaded police. on january 6, there was an incident i know many of us have heard about also, a very unfortunate incident the other night. a woman in her 20's was severely burned by a boyfriend. suspect was identified as dexter oliver. it happened in the area of hollister street and jennings. suspect had thrown ignitable liquid onto the victim's body causing severe burns. victim was transported to san francisco hospital burn center where she is now actually suffering from life-threatening injuries. on january 7, mr. oliver -- we received information that area. in collaboration with the u.s. marshals and od, task force responded to that area, took mr. oliver into custody. he is charged with attempted murder and arson causing grave bodily injury. the victim is

spying is working and what we have is we have the schematics of a facility here in san francisco on folsom street. where copies of everyone's internet traffic. is being are being made through a cabinet of fiber optic splitters and one copy is going on its way to its destination and the other copy is going into a room that you can't get access to and last you have n.s.a. clearance and that has very very sophisticated data mining and wiretap equipment inside it so we have the schematics we have a declaration from one of the people who maintains this build a cabinet. internal and external evidence that this is we think how one piece of the spying is occurring and so we have sued. and so we've sued reste in two thousand and eight so now we're suing the n.s.a. to try to stop the spying frankly we think it's unconstitutional we also think it's illegal under fisa you know if i said let's the government do a lot of things that i think should be improper but it certainly doesn't anywhere authorize the dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary americans and their everyday communications there's there's

that he completely failed in his efforts to reach out to those residents on shotwell street, on folsom street, on south van ness and [speaker not understood] and lower bernal that will be impacted by construction of these units. we would like to know, what is affordable housing and what is being planned there? we want to -- we look forward to the development of the theater and the construction of the condominiums on mission street, but we need to know how it's going to impact us. i submit, again, that you please defer a vote of approval on this measure until we have some knowledge about the proposed affordable housing on shotwell street. thank you very much. >>> good evening, commissioners. my name is connie ramirez weber and i've lived in the mission, i moved to north beach in 1931, and my two children, jane and craig, were born right there on shotwell street. it was completely different. we fought 10 years to get the projects torn down on 26th street and shotwell and they built them further down. and we're still having problems with those projects. i call them projects because that's what t

taking up residence around the bay like this tree which appears to be waiting for a phone call on folsom street . over at alice griffith housing projects discarded trees are being removed as quickly as possible to avoid them being set ablaze most cities have a policy for holiday tree removal, the last time i checked. no where does it say take to the nearest corner and dump it in san francisco your tree should go out on your reggular trash day but with a few restrictions first off if the tree is flocked it cannot be recycled. the same goes for decorations and plastic tree stands and if the tree is more than 6 feet tall it must be cut in half but you only have till january 11 in berkeley if the tree is 7 feet tall it has to be cut in half however their restriction are a little more relaxed i can bet you that in the coming days you will see discarded trees everywhere and some will be there until the summer like urban tumbleweeds and did i mention they are a fire hazard, yup people set them ablaze and the wind blows the embers everywhere whatever city you live in please check out how to dispose of