continue that grant. and that is certainly what i say within my department. when the nutrition education project goes site coordinators are phenomenal at the school and i just want to give a shout out to them. but when that grant ends in june, it is $1.6 million that several coordinators at the schools they will be greatly missed but we knew that grant was ending and of course we are going to look for any other opportunities to bring them back into the schools because we have a new vendor and so it is things like that. we will always have grants ending. and we want to put them on the shoulder of the school district. >> thank you. i just wanted to ask a follow up to that. i know or appreciate the explanation because it is helpful to us who have just heard in that conceptual way, the fewer social workers and more nurses. i do ask the question do we have an idea of where we are going to get them from because the school nurses are kind of rare with the double credentialing requirements and that was why or how

he made no secret of his admiration for grant. >> reporter: grant biography h.w. brands. >> so when he heard that grant was thinking about writing a book-like memoir he thought that it would be a great idea if he, twain, could be the one to publish it. >> reporter: it was an offer grant couldn't afford to refuse. but time was running short. >> everybody in the united states knew that grant was dying. and the nation in a very basic way held its breath to see who would win this race. >> he had a mission because this was the only way he was going to bail out his family from the poverty that he had inflicted on them. >> reporter: the cottage looks eerily like it did during the five weeks grant spent here. this is where he wrote. >> so he would sit on one and he would have a pad in front of him, his legs would be propped up over here. he couldn't lay down because he would choke because of his tongue and throat cancer. >> reporter: many of grant's personal effects are still here. his bed clothes. his hair brush. and of course his cocaine water. >> it's called cocaine wa

. >> you raise money on your own, apply for grants.k about what this fundraising and what these grant awards do for your organization. >> this particular grant is really special to us, because we're a nonprofit, not just a landlord, we go beyond bricks and mortar and really bring programs to our residents. this particular for the nbc bay area is targeted to our seniors but also a program that helps us work with our youth at the same time. it's called generation exchange. we have since 1995 been running technology programs at all of our properties. in 2005 we started a program with our youth to help them get beyond the digital divide to really learn technology. but last year we started working with our youth and pairing them with our seniors and helping our seniors learn how to use technology. this grant will take us from a pilot project of 50 seniors to hopefully a project where we have 160 seniors participating in learning how to use technology. >> wow. >> think about it, social security is now doing everything online. a lot of your d

i have a question on one of the grants. it says here that you are not sure yet the transportation planning grant i think that is the cal transgrant, i wonder if you have any ideas. i know that in the past it has been a funded and it funded chavez and broad way and china town, i am curious because it is a chunk money to do environmental justice work on. >> i think that is a place holder at this point anticipating that we will get something, but i don't know that we actually have the projects identified yet. >> okay. >> projects have to be within their guidelines. it is a place holder because we had good luck getting grants from this pot of money, so we have thrown it in there. >> okay. >> that is what she was saying. >> commissioner sugaya? >> yes. did the hvc throw out a number for you guys on the 05? or did they just... >> they did not, no. they just asked us to increase it. >> okay. >> all right. >> i had one other thing. never... >> to support commissioner moore, this is a two-year cycle. but each year we have to do anot

grant.ere are the headlines for this sunday morning the 17th of february, 2013. russian officials say damage from friday's high altitude meteor explosion in russia could run more than 30 million dollars. thousands of people over a wide area are spending this weekend replacing windows shattered by shock waves from the blast. south african television last night aired a reality show starring reeva steenkamp the model shot to death on valentine's day in the pretoria home of olympic track star oscar pistorius. this morning a minister prayed with pistorius at the jail where he's being held on murder charges. we'll have more on this later on sunday morning. pakistan says at least 81 people were killed and nearly 200 injured were injured when a bomb exploded yesterday at a vegetable market in a mostly shiite neighborhood. many of the wounded are said to be in critical condition. usa today reports that the draft of a proposed white house immigration bill allows for legal residency for millions of ill

it says grant application note. my apologies. grant anticipation note. and the purpose of this is to better align the timing of federal dollars directly applied to the central subway. so, this is project specific and it doesn't involve the agency's revenue. this is a mechanism for accelerating the timing of the federal dollars to better match the construction schedule of the central subway. ask to flesh that a little bit, you currently have a full funding grant agreement with the federal transit administration in the amount of about 9 40 million. the annual amounts you're expected to receive through 2017 is approximately 150 million. your construction needs exceed that in certain years. so, this is a way to bring those dollars forward. >> what about the category, protected rating category bbd? >> yes, yes. now, as noted, this will not involve or pledge your agency revenues. this will -- investors will be repaid with federal dollars as they come in pursuant to the full funding grant agreement. now, as it turns out, your credit is stronger than the federal

do you use grants, tax assessments, et cetera? anybody? >> i think i can take that. >> okay, ready. >> for anyone who depth -- didn't attend my session, i take kids who have committed graffiti crimes, [speaker not understood] saturdays. i get a public grant from san francisco department of public works where we take kids out to graffiti hot spots, we paint over graffiti and they get a reduced fine and probation officers. this is done through a public grant. a very effective program. we have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. we get a lot of positive feedback from the community. a lot of other officers are happy to get the overtime. and as an officer, you're really able to facilitate the program well because you put on a lot of different hats. communicate with probation, communicate with traffic court judges, with [speaker not understood] community referral center. and with station personnel. so, you really are a good communicator and facilitator from a law enforcement background and the grant that we get through publi

i would move to grant a rehearing in this instance. i'm sorry. >> that's okay. >> did you want to say something. >> only that i would normally -- i would feel differently if the requester was represented by an attorney and in this case it appears that she isn't, so i don't cut that much slack for attorneys missing deadlines, so anyway i concur with my fellow commissioners. >> commissioners, we need a date in the motion. >> what do you recommend? >> well -- >> they're loaded between now and april. >> i was going to say for the board's sake april looks best. i know it puts off for a while for the requester. >> april fifth. >> 10. >> tenth? okay. >> okay. >> excuse me, tenth. all right. >> the department -- okay. >> okay. we have a motion from commissioner fung to grant this rehearing request and set the rehearing on the merits for april 10. on that motion president hwang. >> aye. >> commissioner hurtado. >> aye. >> and vice president lazarus is absent. commissioner honda. >> aye. >> thank you. the vote is four-zero. this rehearing is gra

and they said that's a mistake, it's an ongoing grant. most grants for $15-30,000. based on the size of the program. and they said due to the scope of the program and the size of san francisco, they are excited to extend that more, up to $35,000 for that. that's exciting news. and we are going to need a lot of letters and support from school officials, parents and many supporting this grant and other grants that will pursue. you will likely hear from us as we pursue this process. and we are investigating the role of ngo's sponsored programs for our weekend activity days. that will be at little or no cost to the shared schoolyards program. this is a vital opportunity for our city and neighborhoods that it serves. continuing this program through fund-raising events and funding will keep this viable program sustainable into the future. please let michael or i know if you have creative ideas of funding sources. we will excitedly spursue these suggestions. >> one other item, we have two principals to speak and talk about how the program worked at their schools. i would l

i think that there was a grant or an rfp >> i am sorry. why don't you go ahead. >> tom, the planning department. correct we went to the preservation fund a couple of days ago there was a bidder's conference and so we are in the process of selecting a contractor to do that context statement. >> and so, should that be reflected in the budget somewhere? >> so, the commissioner, the historic fund committee that money that came out is already fully appropriate ated so there is no appropriation authority that the department needs all of that money that is sitting in the office of workforce develop and they technically move the appropriation to the department and the reason none of that is reflected in the budget is because there is no need to have all of the budget money all of that money is fully appropriated. >> thank you, commissioner moore. >> we appreciate the work and it comes together quite well. i am interested in asking on detail regarding the funding of the commissions. i see on page 7 of 7 in your first memo that you are going down in

and the performance period for the grant is through june 30th of 2017. the contract period extends well beyond that and that's intended only to make sure that the project is used for its intended purpose through a later date. the second resolution is for the in-kind gift in the amount of $130,000 from the randall museum friends. and that would go directly -- it's to san francisco rec and parks department for the services of a project coordinator. and included in this is a memorandum of understanding between the randall museum friends and the san francisco recreation and parks department outlining the roles and responsibilities for the project coordinator. and basically the project coordinator will serve as a liaison between the randall museum friendstionv and rec and park from design through construction. * friends the design construction documents are expected to be completed by the summer of 2014. construction will begin in early 2015 and it should be complete by fall of 2015. this is obviously a project of great interest to the community and it will p

the original amount of this grant, the grant actually came to us in two parts. back in december 2011 the board approved a first amount of money for this grant which was about $200,000. and then a few weeks ago we got a call from homeland security saying they had an additional $82,000 did we think we could spend it and we said yes we can. so, that is what is in froth of you today. it is the additional 82 that they would like to give us. there was no local match required. it's free money for san francisco. there's no new positions created. and i'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions? okay, thank you very much, ms. alden. again, we have no vla report. at this point like to open up to public comment. if there are any members of the public that would wish to comment on item number 2, please step forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> motion to approve. >> we have a motion to approve item number 2, we have a second and we can do that without opposition. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 3? >> item

configuration does suggest flexibility, in the application of the code standards and what we have granted that with respect to the yard and lot area, and parking. those, regranted variances are balanced by the mass reduction requirement. so we are granting flexibility, but it is important to maintain a building that is ultimately in character with the neighborhood. with that commissioners, i thank you for your time. we do urge you to uphold our decision on the only one of these four variances requests that was not granted. >> could i ask you the question, what is the purpose of the mass reduction requirement? >> in general terms, we have interpreted it in the pass to be the reflection of the very kind of bernal character which is a fine grained small buildings and narrow streets environment. it is very unique in that it is, i think in my view any way, kind of one of a kind. the buildings are very small and the character is fine grained. >> got it. >> very fine grained? >> is that what you said? >> fine grained. yes. >> it was a slightly different reason. >> i might use that on my next mar

a grant that may be restricted. the designers don't want scrutiny of us, of the police department our neighbors. they want to operate to make money. they want to follow the rules. some of them are hardheaded; they either come around to our rules after a painful scrutiny of they go out of business. you are well aware that if you pay attention to the venue in san francisco weather ahoma resident, you can find something wrong. all these things are used. we are talking about the two percent now, maybe not even that high. >> commissioner borden: in terms of inspections, you do a sound inspection. is that done in conjunction % like a friday night or saturday night and surprise people know you are coming. obviously if you know the inspector is coming you will turn your music down. if you don't know the inspector is coming you would not necessarily do so. >>: that's a very good question. there are several kinds of inspections that we do. we do a sound section or site inspection. we set an appointment with the applicant; we

and also i would like to ask if we are going to reapply for the sig grant or reapply to the grants? >> very good question. so, we have spent, there is currently no reapplication for school improvement grants. deputy superintendent and myself and executive director have been burning up the phone lines can washington advocating for another round of that application for sig funding. for this point what we have been told is that is not a federal budget priority. so there is not an opportunity currently for us to reapply. we do feel very confident though, that if there happens to be an opportunity to reapply, we are going to be very well positioned to apply and land another sig grant. but at this point there is no other opportunity. >> okay, commissioner wynns? >> i appreciate all of the work that this takes and as always we are all desolate about having to do this although i do appreciate the attempts to minimize this and particularly not to include any multiple subject which basically mean elementary school teachers. so we are presume and we presume that sounds terrible that they are m

the second part of the grant will go to fund trail improvements in golden gate park. this is in the northeast corner of golden gate park, runs along fulton street from 6th avenue to down to stanyan street. this portion of the grant includes an in-kind donation of approximately $42,000 for signage and in-kind donation of $2,859.24 for design services. and cash grant of $50,000 for construction. this is a significant portion of the project's budget. and i just wanted to say that these sorts of gifts along with the volunteer efforts happening at oak woodlands and other trail projects around the city are extremely significant because they allow the department to stretch its public trails funding to improve a wider network of trails through san francisco, including elsewhere in golden gate and other regional parks, like mcclaren. this is particularly important to the department, trails were identified as the most desired park amenity by san franciscans in the 2004 recreational assessment n. summary this grant will support two programs and help the department fulfill its mi

and actually we have a grant making program separate from the park grant program where residents come together and they identify projects that could use funding. capital projects, safety projects, beautification projects. that actually pulls people together to be stewards of the neighborhood and plan. i think the opportunity grant provides that opportunity for groups to come together and do that. and, so, we're looking at district 11 at doing some steps off of prauge street. those projects have come together because one person has got the community together, martha amahd, to have this community garden go forward. she's done outreach around the neighborhood and got other groups interested. they're looking at long term for real investment that we'll have individual plots and we'll also have, hopefully, a more community space as well that could be used for the garden at [speaker not understood] and geneva. it will make a really amazing change for the neighborhood that typically would be an eyesore, or something that's been completely ignored. it will be something you can actually see. th

and we did not grant that. going to the appellant's point i think about confusion regarding the mass reduction variance, mass reduction is an unusual requirement. it is a requirement that only applies in the bernal heights special use district and i think that it is appropriate that we are straight forward with you saying that it is complex and there were some miscommunications between our staff and the sponsor. we did calculate the appropriate mass reduction requirement and related that to the sponsor relatively recently. i think that it is good to notice that it results in a building that was larger than the appellant was previously under the i impression. how that is and how we arrived at it. it is one that limits the square footage of a building in bernal heights to 650 square feet of floor area less than the hypothetical maximum biggest tallest building on the site. so we arrived at that 1750 figure by figuring out the square footage of the biggest possible building under the planning code that could be bu

not just their pell grants, but grants in general. everybody is doing these surveys. you are right. >> obviously watching your friends get machine guns is not as stressful as getting your mather thesis. it does make people stressed out. you are putting off the theftable -- inevitable which is your entry into the workforce. when you are on your master's degree yes you are stressed out. >> and they are all so baby. they are on their parents' health insurance. 26 years old. >> tom will be checking. >> they are still wonderful people. they are gorgeous. >> i said that. >> and they watch "red eye." >> pretty much killed this whole segment. >> the only issue i have with this generation is that not though of them -- not enough of them call me. >> you are now at the edge. you can no longer sleep with these people, bill. >> yes, i can. yes, i can. >> hold, on, hold on, how old are the millenials? >> that's my question. are you saying he can't because they won't sleep with him or because it is weird? >> he starts looking weird. >> weird has never been a barometer for me. it wil

we have a motion to grant jurisdiction over all three permits. on that basis commissioner fung. >> no. >> commissioner hurtado. >> aye. >> vice president is abcent. commissioner honda. >> no. >> the vote is two-two. four votes are needed to grant a jurisdiction request so absent another motion the jurisdiction would be denyod all three permits. >> i'm going to move to continue the jurisdiction request. >> okay. to what date president hwang. >> let's see. let me think. march 20. >> we have a motion from president hwang to continue all matters, all three matters to march 20. >> all three jurisdiction requests is what you mean. >> yes, all three to march 20. on that motion -- >> hold one second victor. >> yes. >> madam president, i know i am perhaps jumping the gun and i see no reason to keep the parties here to the end of a fairly long agenda, but it's going to be my intent to ask for a continuance on the two permits that are occurring further so there can be some dialogue with them and planning resolve certain issues and get it and have the final

we don't just arbitrarily just grant permits. >> no. >> let me finish. just so -- to be clear, we follow the code. we follow the law. we hold people to standards for noise, for security plan. we continue permits when they have not filled out their application correctly and have not done their due diligence. beyond that, to deny a permit or to not approve the permit without, without just cause within the code is reprehensible to me. when someone says we just approve permits, tell them to read the code because it says shall approve unless certain conditions exist where we're not allowed to. and i've had the same thing. so, i get it. >> you know, i agree with you. but what i'm saying is that obviously there is enough need for neighborhood representatives to be appointed both by the mayor's office and by the board of supervisors. and for it just to be [speaker not understood] to the process and not have any ability to actually engage in this outreach and give -- with regard to members representing community here, i believe that the code needs to be looked at

there were a number of grants that the district attorney used over the last several years to support victim services among other services that they provided. in last year's budget the general fund did come behind and support the continuation of those services. >> do you have a perspective on that? >> our way of looking at it when grant funds go away, it's discretionary and part of the board of supervisors whether they want to back fill the position with general fund monies. that we consider this to be an increase in general fund cost to the department that otherwise those positions would have terminated, which is the case with grant-funded positions. and so we thought that -- we acknowledge that there is not an increase in the number of bodies, but we do say that alternatively those positions would have terminated with the termination of the grant funding. >> thank you. the way i read it in your recommendations suggests that the d.a.'s office received that but it's general fund revenue to make up for the cuts in state and federal funding. from my perspective i think attorneys are obv

this grant will help the juvenile probation department do exactly that. so, that's the first thing i wanted to submit. and today i'm also introducing legislation to create the divisadero neighborhood commercial district. this legislation is a result of months of outreach amongst residents and merchants along the divisadero corridor. and i am proud to help those merchants and residents create a vibrant and unique divisadero corridor. this neighborhood commercial district located between haight and o'farrell streets will strengthen our transit first policies, allow taller, more inviting grounds for retail spaces as well as more retail uses on the second floor. both the nonprofit and philanthropic presence in the neighborhood and give the community a powerful voice in shaping its own development and character. i am particularly proud of the formula retail ban we have included in this ncd. this will make divisadero only the fourth neighborhood in the city to have such control. we have seen the value of formula retail restrictions right down the street in haye