have written him a letter but almost for six months now i have not heard from him. >> (speaking foreign language). >> i really want to know what the events is going to be resolved and i asked the authority to maybe convene some kind of a hearing so we can make this matter more open for all concerned. >> (speaking foreign language). >> well, the matter of - we have not seen any result from the investigation nor do we see - >> sir sorry your time is up. >> oh, thank you and a thank you very much. >> we'll have the captain look into that for us. >> good evening commissioners. >> good evening. >> i'm daren a long time resident of north beach and live along the corridor. >> i can't hear you. >> okay. i, speak closer to the microphone. i'm here to address the ongoing issues particularly this large group of chronic offenses that the sf pd team are aware of. they live in the neighborhood lawlessly. this group gets move forward from neighborhood to neighborhood. their behavior goes inbaited and it covers public urination and i've photographed a gentleman your nate in washington square pa

i was crying. and to my mother -- [ speaking spanish ] and so i said, [ speaking spanish ] so i practiced, luis portin -- louis vicente, gutierrez are a her row. [ applause ] [ speaking spanish ] >> what a wonderful name that i found. the next day -- the next day i went back to the classroom and there was a young girl in the corner. i walked up because i had practiced all night, right? i said, hola, hi. my name is -- -- my name would be there, right? she raises up her hand and said -- they call the teachers in puerto rico. mister, milser? she said, whatever you want? [ speaking spanish ] >> i'm happy you all laughed because that's exactly the reaction of the 30 other students that were in the classroom with me. they all laughed. now, i can laugh ant it today. but it really informs me about how i live my life and who i am. because while everybody was laughing, i never felt so small, so insignificant, so disconnected from everything around me so humiliated. it's difficult to describe how alien ated i felt everything around me. how alone i felt. but you know something, when the laughter stopped, [ speaki

i speak corporate, i speak kid. i have a 5-year-old. he is safe all day in the home that i have created, not the one i grew up in. my wife is an afflicted convicted lady. she actually did more jail time than i did she has seniority at home. [laughter] >> normal people don't laugh right there at all. don't the wives only have seniority? yes, especially in the penal system. but that was a double-edged sword there, i hope you got it. some of your pot smokers or ex-pot smokers, the jokes won't kick in for a long time. marijuana retards the ha ha muscle. three months from now somebody will go they're all different dads. sorry, your honor, i apologize, i wasn't laughing at you. [laughter] >> the concept here of humor as a basis for approaching a topic that is awkward to discuss has never been a mystery to us. the art of that is sometimes awkward, especially on a public level because there is a risk, god bless jeff who took a risk. i called him on friday, i heard a radio ad, i said, hey, i can help on tuesday. i love what i get to do now. i wo

i said can i speak with him or have a lawyer from the guardian sent in. he said you cannot speak with him and he does not have the right to a lawyer. i asked their intentions how long he would be held and they said they had no idea and that is all they told me. >> david, you said they took a laptop, memory sticks, your external hard drive, cell phone

i'm a pretty quiet person so i don't really speak up a lot but i feel like this is important so i wanted to make a few comments as well. i want to reiterate what some people said. it's really difficult helping [speaker not understood] inter disciplinary studies. i'm helping out with enrollment. you can check online and see how many students are enrolled. we look at it, and it's discouraging. why would anyone want to go to city college if you think you can't finish your studies there. that's one point. in any way you can assist. i'm sure you have a peer department or whatever. there is much to be done with like this kind of damage to an institution's image. also wanted to say i'm really disturbed by the appeals process and that i don't know if you're aware of this, but actually the same people who came to this conclusion are also going to be the ones who review the conclusion. so, i don't think -- i think it's doubtful they'll change their mind. and then also the next step which i think is called the appeal, i'm not sure, would be another review, and that is the person -- the chair of the

i am a botanical garden society volunteer. i'm speaking as an individual. i want to briefly go into my personal archive. i found a photo of me in a bunch of head start kids visiting the japanese tea garden. please consider the lease agreement to make this a reality of supporting children into the future. whatever direction the budget committee goes please approximate the welcome mat of the past into the future. thank you. >> thank you next speaker. >> hello. i am ramone gonzalez and a student at san francisco university and here representing san francisco state college -- [inaudible] and i have been and because of me going to the garden i did research on plants and seeing how the upkeep of the plants and i would hate for that to go to waste and i urge you to approve the lease management agreement and approve the fee. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> and addition be being i beautiful place there are programs that provide san francisco residents that are valuable for our future and again i hope you renew the non resident fee. thank you. >> than

obviously, i cannot speak to any particular one, but we have always complied with them. is important to note, i have always complied with all law. it is just in the case, i felt complyingh the law -- with the law -- >> and we do have to be careful at this point. i think he can speak -- hisphically philosophy behind lavabits, as to why it will lead to his decision. >> jesse, how difficult is this for ladar levison, what he can say, what he cannot say? how high are the stakes? .> very high it is a very unfortunate situation that, as americans, we are not supposed to have to worry about. ladar is in a situation where he has to watch every word he says when he speaks to the press for fear of being in prison. we cannot even talk about what the legal requirements are that make it so that he has to watch his words. the simple fact is, i am here with him only because there are some very fine lines that he cannot cross, for fear of being dragged away in handcuffs. that is the exact fear that led the founders to give us the first amendment in the first place. it is high stakes. le

i can't speak german. i can't speak portuguese. i can't speak spanish. i took spanish, $100 an hour for 8 hours. at the end, i knew one word. "si." [laughter] $800 later, one word. but somebody speaks spanish. somebody speaks spanish. this part of the gospel, some people don't know. that when i get involved with god's dream, he gets involved with my dream. when i get involved with something that's on god's mind, he gets involved with what's on my mind. what i make happen for god's family, he makes happen for my family. you have every right to expect a supernatural reaction from god. you have every right to believe that what you make happen for others, god will make happen for your son, your daughter, your family, your marriage. in a single day, god can change your world. god can change your world. holy spirit, we have five minutes to this part. and i do not know who the 300 people are. all i know is there is 300 miracles waiting on the other side of this telephone call. i have shared with our family, inspiration ministries, i have shared with our family,

the other -- i wasn't planning on speaking today, but i really wanted to get up here and share with you something that i found very distressful. i think it was like the second semester when our interim chancellor was at our college. it was a staff development day and all of us were called in to a huge auditorium and we had a speaker that sang the praises of university of phoenix. and we were told that we needed to offer more classes like them, online classes, putting more students so we could offer -- we serve more students by offering online classes. so, although that might be appropriate for some of our students, that's not representative of our whole student body. and i would like to keep city college accessible like the rest of my father and provide opportunities for people who otherwise would have none. thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >> next speaker. >> next speaker. >>> hi, my name is angela mitch em and i'm a student at city college. the experience i had in the last two semesters since i started city college is that the teachers there are amazing. they care about me as an in

about what i know, the interaction i had, but i couldn't speak for them about what they feel about it. now, just about then i'm just the printer, when i started that people told me why are you giving your secrets away. why are you telling how you print? you're printing for the people, sending them photos so they're basically copying you and i say no, the more you give, the more comes back and the people took ownership of them, they own it. >> rose: what comes back? >> inspiration. since the last two years i've been printing photos, photos, photos and sending them. and when i see what people have done, in tunisia during the revolution they covered all the portraits of ben ali by their own photo. >> rose: they put their photo on top of the posters of ben ali, the former leader of tunisia who was overthrown. >> exactly. and i was like even if i had the balls and the idea it wouldn't have made as much sense as them doing it, the people. that's why i was like okay, as an artist i have to accept that. for me it's just magical a-to-see this art going around. sometimes i'm going in a

i was informed by council there was two 2 minutes i have to speak. i tried to convince some facts into for you this evening. first of all this is not the same nancy lou that i know. in december of 2012, i received a direct of exit from the chief of police that we have problems at 311, 12th avenue which is a blue sky center slash clemente street service parlor and could you check it out? so i began an investigation that day. first thing you do is certain public computer queries. numerous indicators, hundreds of indicators which led me to believe this is a commercial sex establishment fronting as a massage parlor in the county of san francisco. i established myself along with other members of the sfpd and as the gentlemen mentioned this is an on going multi-investigation which i can't speak to certain facts of that investigation. we established electronic surveillance of that facility. nancy lou was there everyday after 2:00 p.m.. we also established surveillance at her house and we can pretty much time where she would wake up about 2:00 and go to the f

i am steven tennis and i want to thank you for allowing me to speak supervisors. i am going to deviate from what i was going to say. i think there is an aspect that need to be talked about that hasn't and that is wheelchair accessibility in corner stores. by their nature they're very small and when i think of wheelchair accessibility i think of a person in a wheelchair that can get in the front doors and maybe up to the sales desk. okay, the counter, excuse me, but when the person has to look down the aisle or beyond that they can't so they need help and i mean unfortunately the stores are small and i don't have any idea or m that othe lageof your bi in the stall to consideration i tt has be but i think it's important because they're thpart mi afor sis cisco, aerve that ideahow [inaud] eat i food leader woto of the >> good.years th as you know oblem e fasiving in the nd many exposend smoking anasa result i got issue was he and it was anissue for my ui make a positive chge to the com this policy has given me the rson to y lower tobacco sut k you. >> thank spear. >>

>> i am sorry, could you speak into the mic? >> okay. good afternoon, commissioners, my name is (inaudible), and i am a member of the latin o (inaudible) and club, and i am here to speak on behalf of the 706 mission street mexican museum project. our organization represent the interests of the latino community in san francisco, we have followed the various city processes before the various commissions. on the vote and the supervisor relative to the appeal before you. and they have been a fair and open process, of all levels of city government from the planning classes to the historic preservation to the mayor's office and the board of supervisors. for example, the eir, for the project was approved by the planning department and the opponents appealed to the board of supervisors and the board rejected the appeals and the er r, and certification by 11 to 0 vote, and just last week, and just yesterday, they were against voted (inaudible) to approve the height of the project. please, do not be fooled by the opposition false allegations before

have lived a block and a half for approximately the next 10 years, i speak this evening who cares deeply about the mission district in particular and as someone who has invested a great time in energy to define those positives things that i believe makes san francisco special. when i heard jack spade moving into the area, i wanted to get involved. after investigating the matter, it became crystal clear that jack posed precisely the same sort of situation that our city's formula retail regulations were intended to address. as one of the majority of san franciscans who voted for the city's formula retail ordinance, i was frustrated that neither i or my neighborhoods or anyone else in the neighborhood or the largest community was going to have a say whether this corporate chain store should open up on a special stretch of 16th street, many local residents and organizations were unaware of kate spade's intent and made aware of what was happening, they would want the opportunity to offer the input, the input that is the right under the city planning code, i reach

since i have been in san antonio i was homeless -- speaking out for the home silence my number one issue and we need funding for the homeless also. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am josh and i work for the mission collaborative on dolores street and have been for the past five years. i support everything i have heard so far. i feel like there has been -- you know in years past my heart has been broken by listening to the community -- so many good community programs come and fight over the left over crumbs and i am more hopeful with the state of our budget and i am hopeful that the board of supervisors will pass a principled budget that preflekts our values and really looks out for some of the low income communities here in san francisco. i talk about low income communities because i hear folks talks about sro's as affordable housing and that's something i don't subscribe to and i am trying to change the way i speak about it. housing is not affordable and it's $800 and your income is 932 a month. affordable housing when you 8910 room and basically paying $10 per square f

and they are dead zones, i speak from experience, on the block where i live on fulsom there are two big ones and they are soulness and personal and the occupants play no active role in the neighborhood and utterly unengaged and the amenities are crumbmy and the impacts are bad. the key issue is the rules for open space and other requirements where you can at least mitigate those neighborhood deadening consequences and what you have now in these neighbors is almost useless. there is no requirement even for open space at street level and if you do have public open space, at street level, your requirement is cut by one-third that is all of the rules that you have today. and the central corridor plan says very little about this and in fact needs a great deal of work between now and the final full development in a year or so. what we have presented to you, our recommendations for that plan which we believe you should start applying for these projects right now, starting with 333 branum and the projects will be coming to you in the next couple of months, clearly the open space must be a great

i speak of china, i have to tell you, in "business week" things it chinese want. one of the ten things was anything trump. wanted anything trump. isn't that crazy. i knock the hell out of them. for it.pect you i have friends in china. they can't believe what they get away with it. 45i respect their leadership for it. then the president of china an s over and we give 4i78 incredible dinner. a state dinner in washington. i buy them a mcdonalds. when they say they want anything trump, they know how i talk and what i say. but they respect it, they respect it. country is really -- we're losing jobs by the millions. have jobs. we don't manufacture like we did. and if you look at china, if you look at what they do with boeing, with caterpillar, secrets, ey take the they take the patents, they make there.ld plants over they don't want caterpillar tractors built in bee your yeah the united states. they want it built over there. why are we doing this? this?e we doing it's no great secret. and if they're going to manipulate their currency and badly, and this is, whyn, other

for now. >> commissioner antonini, sorry to interrupt you, could you lower your microphone. >> i better speak up a little bit and otherwise, the secretary search subcommittee will continue to meet and will meet again on the 11th of september. commissioner sugaya. >> yes. i ran into former commissioner yesterday, and he reminded me that i promise that i would do something about the academy of art. and i promised his wife and so i thought about it and so could we get a status report on the future memo or something? it would be fine. >> typically on it. >> no just on the academy. >> yeah. >> commissioner borden? >> yeah, there was an article in the business times about the transbay park and now that the boston property is in the and i forget the other... i can't remember the other project sponsor there and it is not and it is refusing to pay for the park and i understood in our hearings when we asked the questions about it and the main nens of the park would be under their jurisdiction and i would like to find out what is going on there must be continuing negotiations and i feel at that hearing

i speak little english. [speaking spanish] >> good afternoon. i mamary marin. i am speaking on behalf of this group south of market district. if youth programs are cut single mothers like myself have to worry about where the children spend their time when i'm at work or after school activities and most of the youth are low income youth. a lot of them are sro's and i am asking for funding for sro's and asking you put money back in toward the youth. she wants me to say that this part she has written down. even with the incredible growth in the mayor's budget and the city has unmet needs the supervisor ask and to make the budget whole. the current proposal is balanced on top of the vulnerable communities, seniors families and people with hiv/aids and others and the impacts impact the entire family city. more homeless on the street, more families can't keep their accessing and youth with access to jobs and health services creates instabilities city wide. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello good afternoon supervisor. my name is charm. i am with

i. should speak. we have the situation someone had been shot the night before there was a heated discussion everyone was saying kill all georgians i said short time tell that to our engineers george and do we shoot him too with you know they said what's he got to do with it. you see there are different attitudes to georgians with. the new bodies they've lived with us all these years. in the cellars and started with us i think georgians are much closer to us than the a city and who got away. there were some georgians here during the war hiding in the cellars i guess in your house a cellar yes there were seven of them we didn't hurt them we fed them first and then we ate. as they say don't kick a man while he's down. why not make friends. and it's only the politicians who wage wars not ordinary people. it's a sensitive question of course where afraid what guarantee is there that future georgian governments won't come for say. how many times have they massacred the. people three times that's why the inter

i can speak far more clearly to you now. in very humble being with these folks because these folks are architects. architects of technology and architect of cloud computing technology in and of itself, so i am humbled to be here with these gentlemen. i can speak from a -- i am release a purveyor of the technology that they implemented. i can speak from my role with the city and county of san francisco and how we are leveraging cloud and the benefits we are deriving from the cloud and why we made the choices therein. certainly, as tim alluded to, the choice to go to the cloud was primarily cost-driven, economically driven, no question. but also, we began to see that the city business, the city government was changing and the role of the city government was changing. the constituents in the city and county are very savvy, savvy computer users. san francisco is a gateway to silicon valley. for the constituents within the city and kept -- so the constituents demand more change, more availability, more accessibility. so while the

since completing the city build academy, i like this change. personally speaking, i now have a life long career. and i'm thankful for that. >> personally, excuse me, professionally, personally, speaking to the city build academy is such a great program that people from other cities and states have come to observe and to ask students questions about the program. and i think that is huge, if you have someone coming from another city and another state to city our program, that means that we set a standard by far. >> when we say to someone interested in city build. i would say, if you are serious about changing your life in the best way possible, i would stay and try the city build academy. i think that it would be great. i would like now to thank some people involved in this. i would like to say thanks and then i'm very honored and humbled to be the student representative for city built academy cycle 16. for me to be standing here as a great privilege and i will like to thank all of you for that. thank you very much. i also would like to say thank you to mission hire

i speak the languages very well. it's good for my writing as well because i want to observe. so i've become a regular person. >> now, "radiance of tomorrow" is coming under january 2014. had he finished the book click >> yes, i finished the book. we are to have some surveillance. this is just a mop. the macbook we see here in this little booklet is not going to need a cover, correct? >> to tape you have fun there will be the same thing in this picture will be in the back and then there'll be another cover. so this is just the first chap to your. but it's done, so it's coming out. >> is this written more in the tradition of sierra leone rather than a long way gone? >> everything i may to me. when you write about any human next. , i am a political scientist at background. you can read about it in big terms and kind of take the humanity out of it. or you can have a sub roll, miracle story and people can draw those conclusions you want them to draw. you don't need to give them the theory about xyz. i would never say that in my book. i would just describe how the public and the pe

speak? mr. chairman can we close public comment? >> public comment is closed. >> i want to thank everyone for speaking. i am sorry for rushing. we still have quite a few items and i want to thank the folks and the grass root community efforts and labor and community alliances and small businesses for being here. i said it earlier but this is a win-win-win for health, for small businesses and healthy future for the neighborhoods. it's amazing and inspiring they want to help other neighborhoods as well so it's about neighborhoods supporting each other but i am proud to be working with supervisors cohen and kim and our president david chiu on this and thank you to the coalition and i urge your support colleagues. >> thank you. is there a motion ? yeah. >> motion to move this forward with recommendation. >> okay. and colleagues can we take that without objection? so ordered. madam clerk can you please call item four. >> item four is a hearing to review the parklets and impacts to merchant corridors and the proliferation. >> my apologies. supervisor mar is the sponsor of