we pay the same rates as glen park. it is more affordable, and it works. i would also like to note that in the newspaper yesterday or this morning there was published a letter -- [bell] patrol specials can help the police department meet their needs. i think we can all pork -- work together and be really creative force -- president marshall: sorry to stop you. thank you. >> hello. my name is ken craig. i fill a number of roles. one of them i lead a martial arts organization and have been for a number of years. i recently got a number of different events. we are a civilian organization. which actually patrols the streets of the castro. we do that in association with the san francisco mission police station. we work with supervisor dufty. support for that entire program. we are a lot of what -- a lot of what was in the report was factually accurate. it shows a complete misunderstanding of what the special officers do. what i do in my neighborhood is i am part of the n.a.r.c. team. i was talking to some neighbors down there, and they see low priority crimes t

the canyon market in glen park does that. buy rite on 18th does the same thing and most of the other small markets have a deli component because it is a very profitable thing for them and helps them make extra money. their main thing is selling groceries. >> i guess my question is more of the mom and pops that you see throughout the city probably do in fact have a higher than 15% beer and wine. >> typically they don't unless they have additional authorization for liquor sales, they tend toing within the parameters. and if we know about it, we take enforcement. obviously we are not in every small and pop convenient store in the city. but i think we need to distinguish between convenient stores and the small stores that sell a few thing and beer and wine and liquor is the main component of their sales. this is a larger store. it is almost 6,000 square feet. it would not make a good convenient store. >> there is no restriction that convenient stores have to be below a square footage. >> you know it is a legal non-conforming situ

we need more of these neighborhood police and not less. >> it is not just in glen park. there are 38 patrolling the streets of san francisco. now, this report will be presented to the police commission tomorrow night. but this debate is just getting started. he tellses me he wants to hold a hearing to the public can have its say. live in the newsroom, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thanks, amy. >>> the gang member accused of shooting a fremont police officer says he didn't know his victim was a cop. that's according to court documents filed today while andrew barrientos was being arraigned on murder charges. officer todd young was in street clothe when's he went to arrest the 20-year-old on friday. officer young is in serious, but stable condition after undergoing a third round of surgery. he is a married father of two. barrientos was arrested on saturday at the u.s.-mexico border crossing. if convicted, he could face life in prison. >>> as we continue, were deputies justified in tasing this marin county man? next the sheriff's department responds to an only on 7 report.

i wanted to let you know about a community meeting in the glen park neighborhood regarding the glen park community plan. taking place tuesday the 14th at st. john's elementary school, 925chenary street, 6:30 p.m. again, tuesday the 14th, 6:30 p.m. i just wanted to mention to you that i will be out next week on vacation. the commission is not meeting next week. i will be talking the week to visit family. i also wanted to mention that there was no board report this week, because the board is still on break. the historic press preservation did meet yesterday. they proposed landmarking of the north beach library, that vote, 4-3, and there was also another discussion on the article 10 changes as part of the legislation that you had fish eighted. they did not complete their discussion on article 10. they did continue that to their next meeting on september 15th. and i think that's it. >> just for the record, that was item 8, review of past week's events of the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and historic preservation. >> you didn't call that i rambled. >> that's ok. commissio ner moore

then, it is about one block from glen park elementary. it is one block from sunnyside elementary. i also believe on the clarendon's doorstep. also, there will be enormous environmental benefits to have. however, is one of only about four new routes that run every 30 minutes in rush hour. only every 30 minutes. i have been trying to take my two children? -- my two children, and it is a real challenge. i encourage the board to think about leveraging dollars to work with existing routes, even if you could just increase the frequency from every 30 to every 50 minutes in a few critical hours per day, 7:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. it would make a huge difference, particularly those parents in the underserved areas, bringing kids to the undesirable schools, we're right now, a lot to do not have helped. commissioner: you may not like to hear this, but this is something we have been trying to do for decades. the thank you very much. -- i thank you very much. >> hello, and i am a parent at buena vista. i thought it would be useful to suck in the day that ms. o'keef

diamond heights, glen park and the san jose gererro area. because it's such a large area we can only scratch the surface in our half-hour program. we will will introduce you to the beautiful attractions, vexing issues and unique plans for the future that make district 8 a special place to live, work and visit. >> i view district 8 as being a little like maybury in the castro it's gaybury. our neighborhoodses are tightly woven. there is a lot of connection of people and awareness of what's going on in the world and the state and locally. >> there are so many things about it. its beautiful. got great views. of the 3 places i have lived 2 had spectacular vistas of san francisco which we appreciate. >> initially when i came here it felt very warm and friendly and welcoming to all kinds of people. >> close to transportation. >> not just the castro. the most of the district is not the castro. >> the neighborhood goes up to the hill the. fancy houses in the hills down to delores park and the mission. >> noe valley is where the kids and families are

glen park residents hired him to watch over their homes and businesses. >> they operate under a section charter but what they are really is security guards. >> the controller's office commissioned a consultant group in boston to study control specialists. the recommendation of a lengthy report is change the city's charter and eliminate them. >> they're not police. they're not operating under our jurisdiction and control. they don't have the training. >> just like getting hit in the gut. all the people that i know, people who i take care of think it's unfair. >> both sides point to a fatal shooting at suede nightclub in february to support their argument. one man was killed, several others shot. a patrol specialist shot and apprehended the gunman before police got there, but the city is now being sued for what happened. >> in the long run we would hope that the city could defeat this charter section and stop overseeing what's essentially security guard functions. >> they'll have to deal with some passionate residents who are ready to fight to keep them on the streets. >> i think it's out

we then looked at the glen park area.in designed, not taking into account that there are these overpasses and underpasses, which do make it impossible to cross over, so when and ends up being a relatively small attendance area given the densities that are there. -- so it ends up being a relatively small attendance area. mission street, and cut it across here, and by doing that, it would create an island, so we are proposing to put this part into monroe, and this attendance area actually becomes smaller. it is a very densely populated area of the city, so it would actually alleviate some of the attention of those who live near it and the site of the school. this is

there are a wall sculptures in the lobby of the glen park branch library. and then there is an illuminated book on the wall of the mission bay library. >> "ocean current." we are on ocean avenue, so there is a connection to that. that is what this is about. culmination of all lot of dialogue, processing over a five-year period. that is longer than most art projects take, but i really feel like the product was enriched from that. making the sculpture involves forging and fabricating steel. we used to deal to create this flowing, central sculptor, heating, bending, grinding, painting, bending, and adding a patina to it. layers and layers of craftsmanship that went into this. >> of the artists who participated in this project are all bay area of projects. they work in a wide variety of media. metal, glass, natural elements, photography, just a range of different approaches and aesthetics. so we have created a nice collection of art work that is reflective of the current date. art scenes. and we invite everyone to participate and to see the unique art works tha

we then looked at the glen park area. is again designed, not taking into account that there are these overpasses and underpasses, which do make it impossible to cross over, so when and ends up being a relatively small attendance area given the densities that are there. -- so it ends up being a relatively small attendance area. mission street, and cut it across here, and by doing that, it would create an island, so we are proposing to put this part into monroe, and this attendance area actually becomes smaller. it is a very densely populated area of the city, so it would actually alleviate some of the attention of those who live near it and the site of the school. this is what we are proposing in terms of modification to the attendance areas, and i will go back to my microphone. commissioner norton: is that a revised map online, on the website? >> that is a good question. as you can see, we have done it by hand. we are trying to be economical. it is very expensive to hire cartographers. this incorporates all of that into a

he owns a place near glen park called critter fritters. he's been a competitor of pet food express for 25 years. he says, look, the competition for this pet specialty food is grocery stores. the small boutique stores in san francisco, myself included, benefit from pet food express because their advertising calls attention to the fact that there's higher end, better quality food that's available. they take customers away from the grocery stores. so within those confines, if they're using their market par to shift people away from the grocery store competition, it can benefit the small boutique industrials who are also trying to find that niche. but the point is, no one knows for sure whether pet food express will impact a store on geary street or, you know, on sacramento street. it takes a lot of money do that kind of economic analysis and we haven't done that. i'd like to introduce someone whom i don't think the formula retail contemplates, the bank of america, the gap. michael levy founded this company in san francisco, he gives back to t