it can put the upper block in the haight. that would leave this half out. thank you. >> evening. i am the president of the diamond heights community association. i want to thank you for your process and let you know that our association has been following your work since the beginning. we were very happy that david who came to our association meeting in october and explain the process. in december we submitted a letter asking to be a community of interest. and that is to reinstate today why i am here. we really hope he will keep diamond heights -- you will keep diamond heights in district 8. someone thinks that diamond heights blvd. would be a great western boundary. if that would happen, that would cut our diamond heights community down the middle and we would have to have two supervisors and it would disrupt the diamond heights community association efforts that we have held together since the early 1960's. diamond heights was planned by the redevelopment agency as a model community. all that development of there is a defined community. we feel we are a distinct community and w

the area, this was a strong neighborhood but there was not much of a real neighborhood around the haight. the lower haight has emerged and at this point, it is one of the most exciting -- developing communities in san francisco. it is essential that the redistricting reflect that by making it the lower hate integral -- lower haight enter roll. -- integral. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you, next speaker. >> i am here to speak about the dividing line. i spoke with you at the irish cultural center not long ago. the rumors continue to continue. continue to exist that there are people that would like to move the district 7 boundaries over to bas fourth street from the proposed line at condo. i would like to reiterate that i feel the boundary is well preserved. if the borderline were to be moved over to buzz words, it would do very strange things. -- to bosworth, it would do strange things. all these things have been associated with the glen park area which has been in district 8 for quite awhile. the second idea is to move that into district 7 because it contains the sunny side conservato

and in many cases grown famous. 55 laguna is on haight street. it is the main artery for the lower and upper hate. the majority who have been fighting for the community have been from district 5. vice-chair lam: i am sorry. >> the task force is splitting the main thoroughfare. we fought this for gary -- kir geary. it could be this area was ceded to the five. even the district 5 supervisor is challenged to spend time here. given that the district 8 supervisor does not spend time or energy in the lower heat and the laguna is located in the lower heat, 55 a good and should be in district 5. there is splitting the census block and i urge you to consider that if that is the only thing. otherwise keep 55 in district 5. vice-chair lam: thank you. >> i am a lower haight president and i would like to address that area. in addition, our community is made of merchants and neighbors. we are one of the unique neighborhood associations that comprise both. part of our merchant district is on fillmore street. it primarily is on haight street but it goes south on

i am the president of the haight-ashbury neighborhood council. you have heard from me before. i do not think i have anything you have not heard before. if i cannot say well i can at least say it often. thank you for your work. you have been one of the most responsive city bodies even if you can not respond directly to public comment. i am here to support the community in a team out. and again -- this keeps getting closer. also i want to support keeping all or part of 55 laguna in district 5 for the reasons you have heard. keeping the heat together -- haight together and keeping it with your organizations that did the most work in planning the -- lower haaight. would like to see more of the eastern part of golden gate park in district 5. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you, next speaker. >> good evening. i am a native san franciscan. basically a native of district 5. i speak to you tonight in the context of the community unity map. i want to talk about district 5. i want to raise two points. both of which were raised at the ivers cultural center but i want to repeat them. ther

. >> i am richard ivanhoe, the president of the haight-ashbury neighborhood council. and i also want to thank each of you for all your time and your work. i am going to focus on the northwest panhandle and on golden gate park. you have heard from many residents in the northern panhandle area. the bylaws which were adopted in 1960 have our northern boundary as fulton street and the greater haight-ashbury may have a lot of neighborhoods with a net -- within it but nopa it should be made whole. there is a few institutions i am aware of that have a connection to the haight in the few blocks on hayes street, within that area. there is mr. natural's is a studio, new traditions school, and sacred ground coffee house which has the longest running open mike poetry in the city. so again, keep northwest panhandle in district 5. as to golden gate park, i have heard the district one supervisor said that golden gate park is too big for just one supervisor. you have spit mclaren park in two different districts. the district between -- connection between golden gate park and the haig

our libraries and stores, everything we participate in is in the haight. we are a number of the panhandle. we're not a member of the richmond. [tone!] we're asking you to consider the other residences. they have 391 people. we have 309. their 64% white. we're 74% white. they are 27% asian. we are 9% asian. they are 4.8 hispanic. we are 6.8%. [tone!] their neighborhood more closely reflects the demographics of the richmond and they would be a better fit. we're not related to the richmond and like to remain a part of district 5 as we have been from the beginning. >> thank you. >> gillian gillette? >> thank you so much for the opportunity to make comments. thank you for all of your work. it is extraordinary the san francisco has so many citizens willing to step up for hours of testimony. my hat is off to you. thank you for the action you took earlier this week to close the block into 8 and into 9. i think it was a mistake you corrected. we're all grateful for that. i want to suggest today that you make another move, that you consider not continuing to gerryma

parnassas haights. i hope you will put that back into district 7. thank you. >> my name is mary helen briscoe. i want to thank you for all the hard work on a difficult task. i want to thank you for restoring part of district 5, where i live, along the panhandle, to continue to be part of district 5. thank you very much for that. i am here today because of another isolated block. it is the block bordered by hayes and cole. it is the left hand arrow. it is surrounded on the west by st. mary's hospital, on the north by usf. this neighborhood has been beset by these institutions. there also isolated from district -- they are also isolated from district 1. our neighborhood group was formed to fight the encouragement of these institutions that did nothing for our neighborhood. the people on this block were involved in the fight and other struggles we have to keep our neighborhood intact. [tone!] please do not remove an integral part of our neighborhood. do not isolate this block. please restore this to district 5. thank you very much. >> thank you, ma'am.

keeping the heat together -- haight together and keeping it with your organizations that did the most work in planning the -- lower haaight. would like to see more of the eastern part of golden gate park in district 5. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you, next speaker. >> good evening. i am a native san franciscan. basically a native of district 5. i speak to you tonight in the context of the community unity map. i want to talk about district 5. i want to raise two points. both of which were raised at the ivers cultural center but i want to repeat them. there has been some concern in the inner sunset which has historically worked closely with folks in the haight in dealing with golden gate park and in dealing with the university of california medical center because it impacts our lives on a regular basis. it was suggested the university of california had asked to be put into one district. dennis santinori had double checked and found the administration does not want the university placed in one district, district 7. i do not know where that came from. he has double checked and he wil

i want folks to know that that is a big part of who we are serving in the haight. everyone has a story and we should give them the opportunity to share with one another. thanks. >> thank you very much. now, speaking about families and children, from district 1, from the richmond district neighborhood center, we have patricia. >> thank you. she and her husband were instrumental in the beginning of the richmond district neighborhood center. that was 36 years ago. totally a grass-roots effort to save the school district law from being turned into condominiums, and turning it into social services for the richmond district, which there are very few social services. we now have served over 3000 people per week in all of the schools and other sites around the richmond district. we do that on a $3 million budget. our main focus at the neighborhood center is that we are trying to keep families in san francisco. all of you have read over and over again how we lose our families. you see corridors of the city where there are many strollers about, and then you say, happens to a

we have gotten a number of letters from the lower haight, particularly around the commercial corridor and 55 laguna. we're wanting to bring it to your attention that there is a significant amount of interest in bringing 55 laguna into the district as well as keeping the haight street recorder complete. we have received correspondence from the [unintelligible] and want to be sure to highlight that sunset feel connected mostly to the haight and panhandle. they feel like they would be disconnected if they were cut off and included interdistrict for. -- into district 4. we have received several letters in the past few days from residents on grove and schrader. [tone!] we want to make sure we support the constituents who have reached out to us. we want to encourage you to hear the proposals they have presented in terms of including that block in nopa and making sure they are part of district 5 as well and connected to the panhandle. thank you very much. >> thank you, ma'am. >> hello, task force. i am super short. i m and in turn at the south of market committee action network. part of our

i am peter strauss from the lower haight and district 5 and district 8. it looks like i will be staying in district 8. we have reached the bottom of the night. i am. -- i am sure it feels more like the bottom of the 54th. baseball analogies aside, there are a bunch of us here to make one last pitch. in 55 laguna into district 5. we have talked about community and compromise. we have gusty to recognize haight is the spine of the community and should not be treated as a border. we appreciate what you have done in the commercial destroyed by moving the boundary down. the closest to a win win would be able to split the property. i understand that is beyond your purview because it involves changing precinct boundaries. it may be that is the direction we need to go. most of us would be willing to work with supervisor wiener to achieve the closest to a win- win, but we may not be in to do that at this time. i urge you to establish the baseline at the most logical and consistent place with their review your purview. we believe that would be to establish 55 laguna

our haight street referral center and we also have our diamond youth shelter which serves the cities most vulnerable you, an emergency shelter for temporary stays. i want to speak recognizing that there is lots of priority that are being made around the budget process, recognizing also that our city has as a fundamental belief and value that we will maintain services for families, seniors, and i would like to advocate and urge that you also maintained its services. currently we have the eight st. referral center that operates on limited powers due to funding restrictions, staffing capacity levels. additionally, we have our diamond youth shelter that the upper during the day simply due to some of the neighborhood relations issues around having that site there within the panhandle districts. we want to see some of that change. reebok to see the funding maintained. as we look at making these are decisions, our needs are also being met. i'm also going to turn the mike over to steve, a case manager. so she can speak more to the specific needs of the homeless youth population in the haight

i know that there have been times when i've gone down haight street, which is where these tour buses frequent and it's 1:00 in the afternoon and you're dealing with delivery trucks and you're dealing with tour buses, and you're dealing with pedestrians, and you're dealing with all these different people who are just trying to move around haight street in the middle of the day. so i just think that we have to look at it more comprehensively than just d-3 or alamo square or whatever, because i do believe that it has to be looked at in a more comprehensive manner. i'm happy to be part of this conversation and look forward to finding solution sthass would ease the burden on residents who live in neighborhoods that are attractive to people who are visiting our beautiful city. dd supervisor mar: thank you, president chu and supervisor olague. i wanted to add also that a number of residents from eighth avenue and 15th avenue on the richmond side have often over a period of time complain beside the loud amplified sounds and also the increase, it seems, in the number of tour buses going throu

ww- 502, laurel heights/haight districts sewer replacement and pavement renovation, in the amount of $2,432,302 (of which $1,709,169 is funded by wwe and $723,133 is funded by dpw), to the lowest, qualified, responsible and responsive bidder, harty pipelines, to replace the existing sewers and street pavement on various streets in the laurel heights and haight districts of san francisco. >> thank you. is there any item that should be pulled off consent calendar? commissioner? seeing no one, do i have a motion? motion? >> so moved. >> moved and seconded. all of those in favor? aye. opposed? the item carries. madam secretary? item number 10. >> item number 10. authorize the issuance of a principal amount of $692 million in a new water revenue bonds under propositions a andy to fund the water system improvement program and settlement costs and achieve ratepayer savings and refunding is related to outstanding water enterprise revenue bonds. >> we have a total of 22 series a bonds over the last four years totaling $4 billion worth of borrowing at what has been some of the lowest cost borr

this is with me haight and inner sunset. the big rack. the children's playground carousel. the tennis courts. but there probably are a couple of other things, but, yes, they are a major feature. this is reasonable. a little odd to look at, but i am wondering if there is any population in this highlighted area. a at -- the deviation of district 5 would be 1.3%. it would be -4.99%. >> i so propose. >> thank you. mr. mr. leigh, mr. alonso. [reading names] who did i leave out? ok. ok, phase two, and i am not as supportive of this, but i am thinking about this on the west side, north of four. select certain blocks, so starting at 19th and lincoln /crossover. north of there. south of their headed west. yes? yes? keep going. and let's try that for a moment, and then we can talk about it. these are the areas just inside the park on the south, and it seems to me that this is in an interest, and this does not include the polo field. not even south lake. there you go. rock and roll. >> mr. pilpel, this would be moving from district 1 to four. >> correct. >> miss tidwell, ms. mondejar,

this is with me haight and inner sunset.

this is with me haight and inner sunset. the big rack. the children's playground carousel. the tennis courts. but there probably are a couple of other things, but, yes, they are a major feature. this is reasonable. a little odd to look at, but i am wondering if there is any population in this highlighted area. a at -- the deviation of district 5 would be 1.3%. it would be -4.99%. >> i so propose. >> thank you. mr. mr. leigh, mr. alonso. [reading names] who did i leave out? ok. ok, phase two, and i am not as supportive of this, but i am thinking about this on the west side, north of four. select certain blocks, so starting at 19th and lincoln /crossover. north of there. south o

spread over your brains from a rumble doubt of gang bang wooden zips where the real thing went down on haight then ran in torn threads of a dead dawn to bring hot rolls and milk to 2 kids in a dump near palieu. 3, chalk it up like the gutters and walls of our breaths. between tilted ties singing the day is night and the night moves inside this long, lonesome bread of glues. don't climb to the top. you can fall in and we'll never again find you. so many come at the midnight taint. paint the world where the sunshine aid ain't. go back to what beginning? a serial suck. a kick in the butt. oh, derelict devil in this hell's night. stay carton. be full of disstress. you can pull the race are card out of your hat. see the mother of memories. the ors slide of the richness. know and your can't pull the race card out of the-bra neither. if she pushed you and kicked you, curse and spit you who touched her raped her mother and grandmother. you can't do this . we the thunder that never stopped shaking rooms. we are born to hate. hate. learn to hate. was wife and then that white didn't mean. or shinola. ju

the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over

and he got out and went to the haight.ng girl came by and handed him a flower and said love and he thought things have changed. >> he said he couldn't imagine in his wildest imagination this type of life there. >> he became a self-styled guru. most of the kids in the haight were in their late teens, early 20s. he spoke to them in his line of meta-physical con and prison jargon, street rap. >> you got a circle that man lives inside of. he lives inside this circle. he's responsible for this circle and this circle only. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> he could sit down with a guitar in front of people, co-sing. he would charm your socks off. he would sing about the flies around his head or the shirt he on. >> this was impressive to these young kids. before you know it, they were following him. >> began to collect young people. >> greta: school buses were popular with hippies. before long he had this one. >> he went up and down the coast from san francisco to l.a., picking up youngsters forming what would become his family. >> their lifestyle was se

i am with the haight ashbury neighborhood council. your definition of financial institution should be broader than banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. there is much more amalgamation going on in the financial industry and things are getting bored. i would prefer you to have a broader definition. -- things are getting blurred. financial institutions wreck the local and national economy and demanded bailouts. the privatized profits and what the profit to -- the public to pay the bill. visito-- they want the public ty the bill. visitors do not need more change or starbucks. residents want local, diverse businesses and business districts. they do not want identical strip malls from area to area. we want to have small business owners, as many as we can live in san francisco pay taxes and spend their money and their time here. they did not shift their profits out of town. -- do not ship their profits out of town. i would say keep the sales and service language in there for now until we see some good reason. we need to have broader