i see taco bell. i see purple, red, blue, green, orange. i see cheetah revera on broadway. as american as the lee's, the kennedys. none sound american to me. i am not a shamed. jose can you see. i pledge allegiance to this country. land of commercialism. if i can win gold medals. if i can sign my life away. ain't no language. this is my country too. i believe in free dom and diversity, need to get the hell out. [applause] >> i have one more performer. can you believe that? i am so excited. he is a very kind man to be here. he's a total icon. tales of the city. his book that was made do a city. he's here on his book tour. thank you very much. well, i would not have missed this evening for anything. you and i both know these things can be boring. not tonight. i like to read, since i'm back home from a tour. i would like to read the chapter that my editor wanted me to remove. i have to set it up for you. michael toliver is 55 years old. they have gone to florida because his mother has died. and they have been out to the rest home, to the bear bar in orlando. they meet a black

turned around and as the south -- and i see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of -- a little bit of architecture but they couldn't tell what they were. and they decided they are just not going to put the

i do not have time to talk here, but i see you guys wasting government time. sk the president to give me two more minutes to talk about crucial issues in our community, which is district 5. you could do it. it is in the charter. if you cannot do that, how will you decide who will be our next mayor? do not play with me right now. i need two minutes. let me continue on. the city and county which passes your money on to redevelopment work support. that is in my community, and you have a director that is about to be resigned, but that office does not do anything for our community. i have a million things to say that i cannot say enough. there needs to be oversight in city government. there is a disconnect with our government and city hall. there is a disconnect between you and the mayor. he does not care. a lot of you do not care. i happen to be an african- american. commissioner chiu: thank you very much, mr. washington. >> ok, listen to this, ask you -- commissioner chiu: unfortunately, i need to provide everyone a uniform time for public comment. >> everybody is

i can't believe it? you see? i am capeable. don't call me dummy.ow who do you think schnur i am a girl with just good grades. >> the morale of this story is that no matter what people think about you, all you have to do is show who you really are. even if the situation isn't good for you, you must make the best effort you can and you will succeed in this life. jenny chuasiriporn did -- life. [cheers and applause] >> all right. yell about the shooting, about the killings. mothers don't remember reality. phone call. angers, her client. who the media pictures fighting and screaming. wife drops the bottle. neighbors. let mep put some ink in your mind. blue, red, purple, green, black, so many colors of ink i'm going to start an art gearly. google me. violence is my silence. >> all right. i see a room with darkness. i see the color white. poems are made in darkness. poems are p white. poems are shadows. all poems are what you want them to be 79 all poems ar another -- another way to express yourself. i stay active. if i see something i like i'm snatching

i have the opportunity to see this happen while i am still lives. i look at this award as an opportunity for me to find a place for my craft and keep the art program going. >> the director of the program address the crowd and ask for each member to consider donating funds to help save some of san francisco's most important neighborhood landmarks. >> as one of san francisco's living treasures, we respect you and, frankly, we are in off -- awe of your 50 years of tireless effort as an early art on from for north. >> i would like to be perhaps the first donation to our care and present you with a check to get the ball rolling. >> because i know that the arts commission is very sincere about this, i'm going to make a personal commitment of $10,000. [applause] >> what is significant about the program is the way it is set out allows us to treat the artworks that have the most need, the ones that our conservative have pointed out as the most vulnerable as opposed to ones that might be the most popular were the most miserable -- the most visible. >> it is a

i do not see it in the paper work. g the possible excavation, juin one of these pages that was associated with the package, i am seeing iand i emcea point, which was no. 1 in the package, and it shows a site plan. the front right corner of the curb, and that is 00, so everything is related to it 00 -- to 00 elevations. this would be about 19 or 20 inches above the reference point curb,e2mñ and thero references for the rear yard. it seems to be an up sloping lot. the only thing i can assume -- it seems to be an up-sloping lot. the steps to the left-hand side of the property, it shows8dsá-juj5ei0 which would typically be#q about 7.5 inches, so it seems weg climbing above 5 feet to get the rear yard, so that would suggest that is that much excavation. commissioner fung: at a minimum. the problem is that we do not know how it sits on the site. thank you. president peterson: commissioners, the matter is submitted. if l bring you up. commissioner fung: commq&ujjá$5e against a permit that has been çissued. at least in the bas

now i cannot see you. want to thank the commission, organizers, and tell the panelists how great we are for your insight and advocacy. my name is melanie nathan. i am a personal advocate and conflict resolution specialist. i serve as vice president on the board of fair housing in marine and was recently reappointed to the marin human rights council. i practiced law in south africa before moving to the u.s. in march of this year i was faced with a choice. i could stay in the united states with might call-year-old daughter in a shared custody arrangement or i would have to leave her behind to go into exile with my same-sex spouse and our four-year old. our nightmare involves navigating the complex immigration system to keep our family together. had we not been of the same sex, we would have not had any problems. after receiving help from senator feinstein, i led the drive to introduced private bill 867. when my advocacy became public, scores of bi-national couples began contacting me for help. not a day goes

i am just watching to see if i can see flames hit further. i don't know. i can not see it. >> has anyone come by and any authorities come by or told you what is going on or that you have to go back or are you pretty much safe where you are right now? >> right now, i think we are okay. we have seen a lot of fire and ambulance and different emergency vehicles driving up san bruno avenue. and i see planes flying over the area. i just see one going straight through the smoke right now. there are a couple of them up there. three of them i can see. >> how much has the fire spread? >> i can not tell. i can't really tell. it looks like it is all continuously from the same spot. so -- >> so that initial spot was just so you know we are watching live right now on the air that one spot just keeps going and going and going but it is not -- if we take a different example such as oakland hills firestorm that was a fire that traveld and grew and multiplied. this just looks like from what you could see that same spot keeps going and going. >> it is a big spot but it keeps

maybe i misunderstood. >> i like the solution, but that is not what i am seeing documented here. commissioner fung: framed in, it did not say a one-hour window assembly. that is what i read intimate commissioner -- that is what i read. commissioner garcia: is that legal for him not to have any light? >> that is not something that would be required. this'll be to provide light. if they were to provide light where the building is, they would not have any light. commissioner garcia: but would that room remain legal the for the purposes of a bedroom? there would be another building built there? or no window at all? >> in my package, i am seeing that there is a light well, which seems to be an exterior wall. what you see in the second picture, the exhibit b, has an exterior wall. commissioner fung: we asked for that information. >> it seems to be a budding that room there from what i see in that picture. commissioner garcia -- it seems to be a budding -- about -- abutting the room. commissioner garcia: putting a window in that spot? >> it would require another permit. commissioner garc

. >> see, i told you? mine was the best. i told you, dummy. besides, let me see what you guys have. >> you know, i'm leaving. after school, alice and delores park thinking about human behavior. >> i don't know what people want to -- from me, for real. i have to say i think people just want me to be perfect. but you know what? i am capable of doing anything. it doesn't matter who i am or the way i look. what matters is the effort. i will study more. >> alice studied hard. she gets automatic a's. she's on the honor roll! -- she gets all a's. she's on the honor roll. >> oh, my god. i can't believe it? you see? i am capeable. don't call me dummy. now who do you think schnur i am a girl with just good grades. >> the morale of this story is that no matter what people think about you, all you have to do is show who you really are. even if the situation isn't good for you, you must make the best effort you can and you will succeed in this life. jenny chuasiriporn did -- life. [cheers and applause] >> all right. yell about the shooting, about the killin

commissioner clyde: my only comment is -- is that i would like to see -- i would like to see us move forward on some exemption for -- for some kinds of entertainment. -- you though, i believe that we should be crafting a teixeira hold and -- a -- above which threshold, a conditional use is required and under the threshold -- it is not required. entertainment is allowed. we just draw rules that prescribe creativity, that people -- people put in creative interesting business plans and then all of a sudden, someone objects out there and it is just -- very difficult. i mean, that being said, i agree, i don't see much wrong with it but i would -- would still like to see concurrent movement on -- >> such as a cafe that wanted to do music. then they got to go to the planning commission in order to -- to make it happen. >> they got the girl with the guitar singing for 2 1/2 hours -- >> why a girl? >> i'm just making -- i'm just trying to appeal to our male dominated board of supervisors, i guess. i don't know. >> but -- you recommending there is a threshold? >> i'm saying that it is -- when i

i cannot see if anyone else is here. we will also have a representative of the department of public health. i will go over the meeting guidelines and the swearing in process. the board requests you turn off all phones in pages -- pager so there will not disturb the proceeding. please carry on conversations in the hallway. appellants, permit holders, and permit responders each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include the comments within that period. members who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttals. please speak into the microphone. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, you are asked to submit a speaker or business card to me when you come up to speak. speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium. the board welcomes your comments and suggestions. their satisfaction surveys on the podium for your convenience. if you have questions about requestin

as far as i can see, the permit holders property is due north. if there is any impact from that, this is probably a relatively small sliver. i don't even think that would be the case. this would be the reverse situation where the appellant really has some kind of shadow on the project therefore the question of a shadow steady is really a moot because there is no shadow. secondly, in terms of sustainability, the home faces south. how she chooses to balance her heating and cooling is up to her. this is really not impacted by the addition. lastly, i find that the position is very modest, as mr. sanchez has said. i think that this is sensitive and sent back on both the front and rear of this small-scale and i am prepared to uphold this permit. >> my comments would have been exactly the same. it seems as though the same issues, i agree with this. the shadow has been dealt with, the orientation is that there was never a need for a steady and there is very little need for an impact given the orientation of the houses and therefore on the sustainability i

there are some other things that i see. a look at buildings all the time. sometimes i look at them with you guys. one of the things i see that seems to be -- it to add tremendous fight to a building is interior moldings and tramp -- crown mold, baseboards, chair rails, ceiling rails. do you find that to be the case? >> it depends on the style of the house. if it is a traditional house, edwardian, victorian, certainly. but not just everyday ordinary home depot crown molding. probably something in little bit nicer, more traditional. but i think the contemporary -- in the last 10 or 20 years, you probably want to consult with an interior designer before you slap of a molding. >> i suggest an architect. these are people who are trained to look at the appearance and make decisions. but i have seen it to great advantage, especially in the older buildings, victorian and edwardian period >> i agree with you to go with a professional. but is there a particular group? another list in the yellow pages and all that. for the exterior, you talk about the curb appeal, some

i see, you know, the larger picture, you know. things have been rocking, you know, in this country as far as the arts are concerned. but specifically, for me, i think i'll always have my supporters and detractors. are there occasions when critics see things in your work that you haven't seen, and you walk away and go, "you know, i buy that; i--i embrace that"? absolutely, you know. there are times when that happens. there are times when, you know, the man or woman on the street comes up and sees something that i didn't see. and i must say, one of the things that i enjoy about my work, and it's very rewarding to me, is that i--i get a lot of good responses. and by the good responses, i mean open responses from the popular press, from, say, the new york post of all places sometimes, or daily news, you know, magazines and media that attracts an audience that does not know much about art, that does not know anything about my work. and yet it draws these people to the work. and those are the people that i listen to, the man and woman in

that brings us next -- i do not see the number on here, but i believe we need a -- >> that is correct. commissioner marshall: motion to disclose or not disclosed. >> nondisclosure. >> second. >> public comment? none? let's look to item 8. >> item 8 is an adjournment, for which we also need a motion. >> so move. >> second. >> the meeting is adjourned. >> de police commission concludes business at 8:41 p.m.

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i see her all the time. she was in my office just yesterday. i don't have that kind of sway. i don't have tenure yet. but everybody listens to you. you're my advisor, my mentor. can't you fight for me? look, you have to understand. falsifying your data was a serious breech. oh, come on. everybody does it. yeah, well, not everybody gets caught! cardoza: you know if she touched anything when she was in there? i left her alone for a few minutes when i talked to the department secretary. all right, we're gonna have to process everything that's in your office. tripp: and you and i are gonna spend some quality time together, till we get this thing figured out. i don't need protection. i have a lecture this afternoon. it'll be a... i'll be in a room full of students. i guess i'll be auditing that class. we've been looking for you, ms. walls. you weren't looking hard enough. i wasn't hiding. prime suspect in a double murder and an attempt at a third. you still think i'm you're killer. you had motive and opportunity. delko: innocent people are usually c

i see amy here from the office of economic development. a lot of different folks worked together to -- to make these projects happen i want to make sure to acknowledge them. one that i haven't yet mentioned, though it has been referenced, has to do with public art. public works is -- is you know, typically a profession of civil engineers and hard tough stuff, pipes and asphalt and concrete. we realize that in order to -- to really make the -- these projects attractive and inviting, that public art can really be an important element to do that, to compliment the great work our architects do. i want to ask joe maddon from the arts commission to come up and say a few words about the beautiful public art that you may have noticed. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> good morning. good afternoon. it is a pleasure to be here. congratulations to the residents of -- of visitation valley on your beautiful new streetscape. i want to say that it has been a measure to collaborate with our colleagues from d.p.w. and p.u.c. on the project. and i also w

i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch. i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to see it when the initials are scratched into everything and people had literally destroyed the lower half of everything. >> well, in my view, the tower had been pretty much neglected from the 1930's up until the 1980's. it wasn't until then that really enough people began to be alarmed about the condition of the murals, the tower was leaking. some of the murals suffered wear damage. we really began to organize getting funding through the arts commission and various other sources to restore the murals. they don't have that connection or thread or maintain that connection to your history and your past, what do you have? that's one of the major elements of what makes quality of life in san francisco so incredi

i would like to see a larger radius when we are dealing with unique stores. en smaller places like about 2 miles away, but i would like to see idifferent methodology. >> the quarter mile radius is only one thing to look at. we looked at a quarter mile radius but also looked at the adjacent village. this is just one criteria we looked at. that is not the only factor. i wanted to clarify. supervisor chu: i know you indicated this is the site currently vacated. i just wonder if there were other projects that had been proposed for the site. >> this is not a difficult fight. this particular shopping mall has been difficult for the owner thule's, -- for the honor to lease. region owner t -- the owner to lease. >> how long has it been vacant? >> about a year. supervisor elsbernd: the predecessor, was it a formula of retail? >> it was. >> how large a space? >> 5500. >> it is already a formula of retail spot in that location. supervisor dufty: it was a video store, so it was priced out of the market by technology changing. it was something that changes. for me the ques

and what i see happening is i see a thrust in renewable energies and also in infrastructure development. so when we talk about infrastructure, we're talking about high-speed rail. we're talking about different modes of transportation. we're talking about new ways of seeking to reduce our carbon footprint but also looking realistically at how to cut off dependence why to foreign oil and making the investment here and putting back the workforce in the manufacturing base. i think that's been our strength traditionally in the united states and we have to go back to that model, to nflt here in our manufacturing base. we have to be able to develop and create things and sell those abroad. right now we're not in a position where we'd like to be. but we're making those important investments and i see it happening as i travel around the country, whether it's now creating lithium batteries or creating a new hybrid vehicle or new assembly plants that went down that are now producing solar panels or wind turbines. all of these things are encouraging because they're manufactured here in the u.s. or a

i see oliver north. sharron angle, i see an oliver north. >> be careful.ry hasn't been able to shake her. weeks and weeks of getting whacked and whacked again. with the evidence of her fringeness and she is even with harry. >> to me that is almost a triumph for reed. not he is ahead by 15. he should be losing by 15 or 20. rand paul is ahead by seven points. he is probably going to win in kentucky. that is a race that ordinarily the republicans should win by 20. if rand paul -- >> let me ask you a question, before we get to the question of what they are going to be like in the senate, it is about who can get 50. after all is said and done and they shoot all they have, who has a better chance of winning the thing? is harry reid capable of getting up to 50 when people want to throw the bums out? is anybody running as a democrat capable of gets 50 in these times. >> right now that is the question. we have been living inside the republican bubble dominated, infested, whatever you want to say, the tea party. it is not the gop. it is the gotp. the question is whe

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vice president vietor: i see at the october meeting that we are going to talk about environmental construction and compliance. i assume that is a continuation of the green contracting. >> at this point, it would seem to be able to get a quorum. we would be happy to get our next morning on the morning of october -- our next meeting on the morning of october 14. i was going to go back and look at that meeting, assuming we only have three commissioners and a limited time. there are some items of ongoing timeline that would benefit with a full complement of commissioners. i will focus that meeting on anything that needs to happen that day. i believe there is also don pedro, a variety of things on going of interest that i will have to move to a meeting when we have five commissioners again. vice president vietor: that sounds fine with me. there is one other item on there, the cac report. they have been working on this land policy question. we did go on this tour of the laguna honda site. if we do not have the report, and i believe they're working on a resolution, could that defaulted index >> ok. -

i am not seeing that. we lived in a few city. all of those things can be put into play i think locally. i asked that you look at this again. i know that this has been in a process and people have devoted time but this does not fit, it is not seem like these things are being considered so i asked that you do look again at this. >> is anyone else don't like to make public comment on this item? seeing non, public comment is closed. >> i got involved in the selection committee, i have been on this commission for at least a few of the previous iterations that we then had to withdraw. i effort frustration from the committee and i volunteered to be on the selection committee. selfishly, i want to be involved with this at snow lake. -- stow lake. we would like to know what this will look like. in san francisco, we are very open-minded and progressive. if you try to change something, everyone says do not. one side says, it is find a way it is, don't change it, it has character. the other side says, we can do this. i don't see why this is u