, and i got inspected and it turned out that i had lice. nd i was so, i was so afraid to go home and tell that to my dad, because i didn't want him to think that i was still the dirty little girl he had left behind in mexico. and i thought he was going to beat me as well. because that was his favorite way of disciplining us. and it turned out that my father was not angry at me, and he didn't blame me, and he didn't beat me. and it was a beautiful moment because he took me out to the yard, and he looked for lice, and he cleaned out my hair and he spend like two hours looking through my hair, looking for lice, and he was so gentle when he did it that it was just like, like such a painfully beautiful moment for me. and then he was telling me stories about when i was a baby, but, of course, i didn't remember, but it was before he came to the u.s., before he left me in mexico, he told me that every time he would come home for lunch during his break i would be waiting outside with a bowl, and i would tell him coming in, to give me a basket and i w

see and i am scared if this pass what is is next and i love san francisco and the diversity and the castro. >> thank you very much. >> hello. i amanda conda and president of the harvey milk democratic club and we oppose the ban and we feel it's adding a draconian measure to something that is isolated problem in an isolated area. we feel as supervisor wiener said that the law on lewd behavior is not encompassing enough to be able to take actions and instead of creating a ban and censoring people's behaviors and beliefs and we should look at that law, and see if we can make it more effective law. i don't think and the club doesn't think it's appropriate to act lewdly in public. however, we do see this as an opportunity for a better conversation and it has started a conversation in the gay community about the body face sm that we already experience and we don't think a ban is the right end to this discussion. thank you. >> thank you very much. mr. alexander. >> hello i am josh alexander. i live in the castro and i'm not a nudist but i oppose this ban. people say we need it because they'

i come from the private sector and i can be as innovative as others and granted i don't have certain challenges and i don't have shareholders breathing down my neck but i have other challenges and remember that most organizations that centralize to do it to save money. most are about the performance they're achieving and they out source to inch krimentally save more money and a cost savings discussion and if we use technology as a driver and this is from the department's perspective i think we're kind of squeezing blood out of a turnip at that point. i think the question is are we getting our money's worth? do we clear clee understand for the money that we spend on it in the city are we achieving what we want to achieve? for that money should you be on the old email system or a new one? i think one the challenges is how much are we spending all the time are we making wise investments and getting our money out of spend something and when we compare to other cities and we are spending about -- a little less than other bigger cities and do than per capita, per person, per population, per

understand government and how this works". i spent time educating people how government is today and how we're trying to change it and streamline it and maybe it more efficient but it's a challenge and it's a transition for a organization. i think like a battle ship city government is not easy to turn quickly. it's going to take us years of hard work and partnership and dedication to make that happen. i think we are forging those partnerships. i think there will be debated about centralize and decentralization but in the interim period or department heads make a determination about that i think it boils down to partnerships and i think department of technology and cio and coit we spend time creating these partnerships and the consolidation project is a great one. i also want to acknowledge the airport and the emergency management center and we have a great partnership with. we have a great partnership with labor and reclassify it positions and training program whereas in the past it was done on a department by department basis s

and so i killed him. it was years later that i was driving down i-5, which is the interstate that goes through oregon and washington. and dark, middle of the night. and, you know, i love country music on the radio. and nobody bothers you, you know? you're just, everything's under control. and his eyes appeared in the windshield. and i'm psychologically aware enough to know that, "uh-oh, this guy is coming back. and he's coming back. and you need to deal with it." and that was the genesis of that second book. i started to write down what i was really trying to think about to reconcile, "what was that?" i mean, there we were. he would have killed me. i would have killed him. and both of us probably didn't want to do that. i mean, as soon as we got out of that situation, we'd go, like, and especially the vietnam war, you never knew what that was all about. he at least had the moral, whatever the word is, side of saying, "well, these guys are in my country. and we want them to leave." but it astounds me how yo

a dozen and never visibly aroused. i am sanded that my representative, supervisor wiener, brought this legislation without open community meetings and consulting who is affected and the residents and the nudists themselves in an open forum. instead supervisor wiener you treat local business groups as they're a plenary and that doesn't seem right to me. san francisco and growth and respect for innovation and the only city founded by prospectors. we have been a welcome home for sexual minorities for 150 years. censoring the bodies of these people would run against the course of the history and have damage to the area. i ask to you vote against the proposal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi supervisor wiener and elsbernd and carmen chu. i oppose this legislation. you can't have it both ways where you say you want nudity at the fairs and the parades and the festivals, but and you don't want nudity in the castro. i have supported you on a lot of things, but i feel that this is a war on gay men. the republicans hav

and she uses bad words" , so i met her and i immediately liked her, and i immediately admired her. i have enough experience and i don't give a dam about the packaging. i want to know what is inside. this woman was so smart. she helped me so much to navigate the board of supervisors. you have to realize now coming out of the navy and into san francisco politics is like coming out of a convent. you know it is. it was not easy, and so -- that woman helped me. she knew the clerk of the board. she knew the president of the board. she knew everyone. she knew how to write the memos and we became fast friends and that's when -- in fact she just wanted to get enough time to retire and get health benefits and i liked her so much i had a party for her in my home. anne kronberg was there and head of the mayor's office on criminal justice, and her name was eileen maloney. she was terrific. assistant police chief by the name of frank reid tried to dissuade me from taking the job. "don't take it and two weeks later if something happens they will blame you" but i like to take on jobs. well, he kin

i have said before, and i will say it again. this is -- and i hope everyone on both sides of the issue can acknowledge this is a difficult issue. this is not an issue that i sought. i did not wake up one morning and decide "hey i have a great idea. let's ban public nudity". this is an issue that developed over time and what some say is a real issue in the community. there are people i respect and like very much in the other side of this issue and it's always challenging in politics where people that you like and respect are on the other side, but i do believe this is the right way to proceed. it has been suggested that i somewhat about this for media attention or political gain. well, let me tell you i don't exactly like my name in the media in the same article as cock rings and all sorts of other stuff. it's not why i did it. i do enormous work around transportation and housing and that is by far and a way what i prefer to be doing, but when you're a supervisor and an issue arising you can't bury your head in the sand and preten

i lived here for 12 years and drive a taxi. i went to college and i did and finished. i started driving a taxi and there is nothing absolutely like -- i love my job. i love serving the public. i was para-transit of the door. i help little old lady to the door, put wheel chairs in the back of my car. i started working again at night and somebody needs to wait until the 22 year old girl gets into her house and it's two okay in the morning and she lives at 18th and cap and that's the way i look at my job. it's more than transit but the issue today is one of fairness. we're asking that you take a look at how things have been going. my understanding from what i have seen from 10 years in the industry the sf mta has no authority to who what they have been doing. san francisco the medallions always go to drivers and not companies and there are millions of dollars being made by a part the government -- like we're expecting them to regulate will themselves but they're gaining millions of dollars on our behalf. there are people on the list and i have waited eight and now just bec

doing what i do, and i believe wholeheartedly and i believe it was the soft power -- yes, i love it. i think it's effective in so many ways, so i had luckily teamed up with the right people at yahoo who were really amazing and just the foresight they saw, and believed in the concept that law enforcement needs to be a piece of this puzzle and have some solutions. we have a unique part in the schools and with kids and this did get certified for the peace officer standards and we get credit for that being police officers and our training and our curriculum -- i have a slide. hopefully -- it started as a diversion program for the restorative justice and sort of a piece of the pie, almost geared towards probation and after a kid was in trouble for some violation i asked what happens to these kids? what programs are out there for them? when i am dealing with kids in possession of naked pictures of other kids. what are they going to do when i cite them? i didn't have answers or ones i didn't think were a comfortable fit when kids had these problems and started with kids after they were alre

and impact. i also have ancasion and personal passion for transportation and urban planning. i have a minor in urban planning. my major was in communications and i worked for their communication urban action while i was a student there. lastly my frents and colleagues will tell you have a passion for transit, particularly bus lines and rail in this city. if you were to look in my room right now you will see a board on the wall with a map of the city and lines of string leading to different projects. geary is at the top of the list. it's something i have been following for a while and interested in and has the opportunity to improve the life for san franciscans and bikers and muni riders and others as well and with that i would be a great member of the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizens advisory committee and thank you for your time. >> thank you. what do you see as the main challenges and bringing bus transit to geary? >> one of the main challenges is awareness for business owners and reside

i of going to nudist places for a long time as i said and i have seen lots and lots of children and it doesn't harm them at all. it is a cultural thing, yes, but i fully opposed to mr. wiener's bill. strongly suggest that it would be nixed in committee over here and pardon my stutter and i will be a nudist as long as possible and as far as the exhibitionism is concerned i don't think it's that. i want to go to jane warner plaza and sit on the chairs there and read my book and talk to people, have some water and all that stuff. i don't go up and approach people and all that stuff, and yet i have been harassed at times. once a guy -- i was looking for shade and a guy came out of his shop and really harassed me very, very verbally. okay. thank you very much. >> thank you very much sir. next speaker. >> good morning. i am ralph and i live with my wife in woodside. i am here to ask you to vote no on this ban on nudity and i don't go to jane warner plaza myself but i support those that do. there is no property damage. there is no logical argument for the proposed ban and it comes down to one

and these are... i would like you to turn to page 2 and i am not going to be able to have time to go through all of the items. but this for parents who were telling hec and park what they wanted and didn't want. they were addressing the playground. i am going to go through not in any particular order. there is an item that said that they liked the location away from the street and they liked the experience of coming along a path and discovering the playground which is what we have now. two, they said that people generally like that you have to walk a little ways into the park to get to plate ground. three, they say that the playground works well and they like it and is seems that it is safe enough and they like the slides and the rings and they love the slides and the stairs. four, it is not their stop priority, it was of course, the actual rec center and finally. they do not want another playground, they prefer the children play in nature. now, i think that the nature that they are referring to is >> w

garcia. >> when i was school i took operation research and i was a math teacher and i found it difficult and it was area map and dhl, ups come into existence and had to deal with routing and i talked to him and we don't have that and that's one thing we should do and drivers not providing notice and not show up. t

knew where i was going and i had to put on mental blinkers a lot and think i know where i am going uh i must not be influenced by this. so in a sense, it was liberating to leave that weight of expectation behind and know i could just do what i wanted to do, it was very freeing, but i must say that i spent the first two years work opening the casual vacancy telling me you don't even have to publish that and you don't even have to publish this book and that was a way of bringing down my own awareness that, you know, people, it wasn't going to be what some people wanted it to be. because as we both know i could have kept writing harry potters forever pretty much. >> rose: and why didn't you? >> because i always envisioned it as a seven book series, i had enough plot for seven books, and when -- i always knew i would stop at seven, and i am not going to lie it was heartbreaking in many ways because harry was with me through a very turbulent period of my life, and it was always a place that i could go and you talk about regis, readers able to go there it was a place i could go and to cl

want you to know what i am doing right now and i am working with boys and i finished the porn section and honest i'm doing all of it and why do girls send naked pictures and this week we're creating concrete strategies and scenarios so they can picture what to do when they are up either way against these dynamics and if we work together this way and really name it. sometimes kids with aspergers can do things that are off putting. i sat with a kid in a class that put his leg over class during the -- over the head during class and 17 years old and it's off putting. we can own it and now what do we do about it? it's not distracting to everybody fine but how do we do it in a way we're honest with everyone in the room and reaching out to each other appropriately. >> you have a project and working on a thing, a whole school based project. >> yeah, well -- anyways thank you guys. this is really a great conversation. just a little bit about where we're going. "bully" the movie is backed by a team, the bully project, and we have been bringing the film and educating, training professional devel

i think mary miles and at least one or two others, and i don't know maybe they're going to revise things between now and then anyway, but perhaps it's good to have some response to the various questions, and thirdly i think starting it is fine. i would imagine that the supervisor is not going to move forward until he gets input from the planning commission, so i don't have a fear of extending it out in the first place. >> commissioner with you. >> i am also supportive of the continuance to the 29th. i am open to the 29th then and continuing it further but agree we should start the conversation. i wanted to echo commissioner hillis' request for examples. i think that would help and something we have already seen and how it would be different under the new legislation or something we anticipate coming in the future. >> commissioner moore. >> i would be happy to talk to ms. rogers about typos, uncertainty about use of word, vagueness in order for that to disappear prior to this group hearing it on the 29th because i do not think this document is clear bec

and answer period. i want to visit a few of points and give context to the conversation and like you i am fascinated by the title of the report and we should revisit a little bit and after being here for five years now where we have been and where we are coming to. in terms of deja vu let's reflect back where we were as individuals with technology or as an organization with the city. when i joined the city we didn't have a plan or a governance structure or coit and sun shet and talking about creating this structure and we were struggling how much money were we spending on it in the city? when i came here there wasn't a report? and so it has been a long and complex journey, and i think it will continue in these hearings and going forward to be one of the challenges. i think we use technology on a daily basis and work and we are engaged and are we getting our money's worth and getting the service we want? and i wanted to revisit and my staff will tell you it's easy to hammer on the things not going well and

enjoy each other, i can't say that. >> my brother and i argue overffing, a little of that. >> sometimes things happen that are a little tense. >> the crazy uncle, and the grandmother. >> the dunken uncle that brings up past memories. >> and i think every family has a few of the people going in the room. >> and any tips for dealing with the relatives. >> you get drunk yourself. >> reality is, everybody you have tells it's a-- >> love is crazy, every day on "the five" at fox. >> that's all you can do, right? >> all right. so, bob. >> happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. so does anyone in the beckel family drive you a little bit crazy or are you the person that drives everyone crazy during the holidays? >> and mentioned the crazy uncle. >> that's you. >> they used to put me at the kids table when i was drinking. >> good idea. >> around the children. >> now i'm sober they still put me at the kids' table and i'm sort of the one. >> i had an uncle that was slashed the second he showed up to the second he left, the problem is he didn't leave for three

i could look at something and say, she would kill me if i did this and i would change it. there are all the things. it's a constant process. no book falls on to the page and the words don't just fall on the page. they may fall on the page and you delete half and start over. you take the one line that works and write around it. that's basically a lot of the way i write. i want to read you some and i guess i should read a little and i want to open up for questions about this book or the other books or what i'm doing now or not doing now. basically, for me i think samurai's garden another reason why love this book. everybody says, what's your favorite book? i think, they are like kids. you wouldn't say johnny is my favorite son. we all books at the time we need to write that book. it's hard to be an author because you have an audience and they want you to write particular books. if you don't write the book they want you to write then it's something else. but all the books are different in that way. because samurai's garden gave me the japanese culture and to a large extent sam

i disagree with that comparison and i think most people do. public nudity is currently legal in san francisco except for the parks and ports and restaurants and the suggestion that we should use the lewd behavior laws and the indecent exposure laws is problematic and ineffectual. it's unclear that cock rings and other behaviors that we see would qualify as lewd. i think it's border line as best and it's a terrible position for police officers to enforce the following. is his penis slightly erect or not at all? i don't think any police officer is ever going to make that determination and i don't think we want them to. is that adornment lewd or not? did he shake his genitals to make it lewd or was it accidental? no police officer is going to make that determination. in addition if we start encouraging to treat border line lewd behavior as indecent exposure that is a automatic misdemeanor conviction if convicted and lifetime sex registry. i don't think we should do that. this legislation would not lead to sex offender registration and unlike the p

and i am a gay man and man with aids and i resent it's two straight people here and not from the cast ro. i have been in the castro for 25 years and constantly when legislation comes up we go to the various associations, the same people are here and i like them personally. i disagree with them politically. there are hundreds of thousands of residents not part of these groups. you are responsible to everybody. have a dam community meeting. we just had the flag on city property and merchants and never half mask or the leather or bear flag up because we can't come to i compromise. we had the bunches taken out of the park because we can't deal with the homeless issue because a few vocal people rally and legislation changes and changes the fabric of our neighborhood. i work there helping the owner. we put things on the roof three years ago. no one complained. the nudists walk by the cafe and best in the area -- [inaudible] >> thank you. thank you. next speaker. [applause] next speaker. >> [inaudible] taking the time. where to start? first of all this whole situation [inaudible] sensational

leavitt and i am running for district five supervisor and i am also an attorney here in san francisco, and to quote, another late attorney, the great oliver holmes. as life is action and passion you should engage in the action and passion of their life in the peril of being judged not to have lived. i am here to tell you that i have been engaged and passionate about the issues shaping san francisco and district five at every step of the way. now, is that engagement and passion for me comes from my up bringing. now, i never fought in the vietnam war, i never experienced it. and i wasn't even born until it was all over. but, nonetheless, i cannot help but feel, that most of my life has been shaped by that war's battles. my father was a combat soldier, he returned from the war with many of the same ailments as other veterans including posttraumatic stress des order which left him 100 percent disabled. folks i watched my father, who was a very proud man, beg, with the government for the benefits he deserved. and i watched my father, again a very proud man, have to raise his family in publ

i'm a johnalists and i went to my sources and i keep collaborating this and i keep finding that answer and i see people nodding their heads out here if we could get social literacy training into every school in the country we would put an unprecedented debt into this problem. it would really be remarkable and what i am hearing you say this is really also confirming the whole community school roof rick was talking about this morning and not just about teaching kids. >> i want to say two things based on what you said. i have a another slide after this and little graphic about -- so there has been quite a bit of emerging research on programs in schools and the benefits that you get from it, so the kind of positive behaviors that you see increasing. the negative behaviors you see decreasing, so one of the things i really want to point out is you just don't think i have to do something about bullying. it's do social emotional learning. if you're doing that you should expect academic outcomes up to what they say and 11 percentile points is what they found in the research. you should see a de

and i had difficulty sleeping and, can't eat and i wanted to tell him how i felt and i thought i couldepair the relationship and that wasn't my goal, it was to call him an sob and he'd all me a name and we'd have a five minute conversation and instead the conversation lasted 8 hours and he went from being a mean sob to an inspiration and i learned so many things about him i never knew and when i unloaded the things that bothered me, he said i was a better father to you than mine to me. my dad never said a word about his father and i found out about his up bringing in the conversation. >> harris: you wanted to make contact and you had the 8 hour conversation, who broke the ice? you or him and started bringing a little actual conversation into this, rather than just a confrontation that you were expected? >> i think i did. i'm the one who decided to talk to him. i lived in ohio at the time and my dad is in los angeles and i didn't tell him i was coming and i walked into the restaurant and he was a janitor and worked two full-time jobs as a janitor when i was a kid and cooked for the fami

i think that it is remarkable work and i couldn't be happier that you were joining our staff and thank you, deeply, from me. >> so, i'm just going to echo what everybody else has said, i am so appreciative with the work that you have done with the pack and just how the facilitator and the staff person you just have been really so respectful of different parent voices and it is a very diverse group and just how the pack has managed to continue on in a it provides really important information for us on the board and your facilitation and support of the pack has made that continue to happen and so thank you and i look forward to working with you as a member of the district staff. >> thanks so much. you are stellar on the outside working with us and you will be stellar on the inside working with us and i want to just thank the pack for letting her go. you will continue to work closely with her and we are looking forward to having you on board. >> i have the privilege of meeting you and working with you when i chaired the pack. and i just wanted to thank you so much for your doged persist t

i know to my friends and colleague i have been a pain and to one guy i need to say a special thanks and step up here for a minute and this is important. i spent 18 hours on a plan and bugging him about the grants and we're in the middle seats and six and a half ride from dc and all he did was smile so i want to say thank you for believing in us and going after the two grants and everyone thank you very much. it's our absolute pleasure. yay giants. yay 49ers, the commissioner is here as well and thank you for being here. i really appreciate it. >> good morning and welcome to the plans and programs meeting of the county transportation authority. my name is john avalos chair of the committee and joined by supervisor kim. supervisor kim is the vice chair and joined by commissioner mark farrell and ms. cohen. we have sfgtv staff helping today. thank you for your work. madam clerk can you call our first item. >> item two approve the minutes. this is an action item. >> okay. we can go on to public comment. and seeing none we will close public comment. colleague do we have a motion to approve t

and i did not rise until he got next to me and then i rose and gave him my hand. i said, mr. lincoln? and he said, mother, which is what they called each other. i felt this audible hush in the people around us. they fell by the wayside. i never saw them. we went down to the same screening room. we did some sort of bizarre im prov. afterward, i said thank you, both of you, for this generous gesture. i will let you talk. i got in my car. i took mary off me. when i arrived home, the phone was ringing. the two or on it, saying, will you be our mary? tavis: and now there is oscar buzz. that is how that works. i did not want to interrupt. i am so glad i did not to hear the full breadth and depth of how this came to be. there are so many things you say now that i want to get you to contact me. it is a shame that i only have two and nights with you. to set in of in this first answer that intrigues me. let me go back to this first. i promise we will get back to the lincoln conversation -- mary todd specifically. your referenced earlier this inner voice. everyone of us has that. some of

i will vet you intensely and get in your face, and i will question your beliefs, and i want to make sure you're serious about service in education, and it's funny as milton was he was very serious about service to his city. for some people the call to politics is great. for some it is ego or path to money or power or corruption. some people are called to politics for service, and the political arena it's hard to know a person's calling. in milton's case it was his genetic makeup. it was his everyday. it was as much a part of him as his receding hair line. his great love and commitment to making city college a fine institution for every person in our city was part of his circulatory system, and yes he was a politician, and a fine one at that, but his calling was better serve the future of san francisco to save our institutions for his children and our children and your children. oh this is loss. the loss is great for our city, but the greater loss is for abbey and nathan, theo and will. abbey, you know my great affection for milton, and you know why. even though i'm just a campaign manage

i believe what sets me apart is the integrity and problem solving i have in my years and i have a record of efficiency and infrastructure and fiscal responsibility. i have a passion for the people in the neighborhoods that i have known all by life. that's i didn't am supporting by the democratic party and diane fine stein and the firefighters and thousands in the strict. this campaign isn't about who is the best politician it is. it's about the best problem solver and with they am asking for your vote on november 6. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. i am andrew blie and running for supervisor for the most important reason why someone should seek office and that is my love for san francisco. is there room for an idealists? i'm a father, and a political nobody. my wife and i are graduates of san francisco university and my life is about the betterment of the city and i run my own firm and conducted analysis and mapping for private firms, public agencies and for nonprofits. as a volunteer i was appointed to the advisory committee and i worked with police, and fire and doing pro bono ma

garcia. >> when i was school i took operation research and i was a math teacher and i found it difficult and it was area map and dhl, ups come into existence and had to deal with routing and i talked to him and we don't have that and that's one thing we should do and drivers not providing notice and not show up. that doesn't work well and it's difficult to weigh in on the issue of children should be provided with free passes. i think joel is right and why can't kids go to school in their neighborhoods and you have to weigh it in reality and whether children can eat or go to school on muni and that's a difficult choice and if we do it we should mean's test. >> all right. ms. gavin. >> well, it's very interesting. i think that muni does need a lot of work and i have used muni, public transportation all the while i have lived here for almost 15 years, you about i can compare it from other places where i lived so there are -- i think management is one of the biggest issues because it's leadership and i think muni really can work, but you have to want it to work. it is your voices that are ve