lastly, the first six members were appointed to the oversight committee by the board of education, and we have eight members, and they are listed in your report. >> i wanted to give a little bit of historical context for what has been going on with the committee. when the board put this hour on the ballot, you work on a lengthy negotiations and received significant public input common and and the result is a spending plan based on projected revenues beginning in spring of the 2008-2009 school year. after the initiative passed. as the receipts are received, spending is adjusted. the spending plan has been updated three times since then you worry of 2009, june, may, as part of the overall negotiations. in may of 2010, there were substantial changes to devote more resources. several items were substantially reduced or suspended for the 2011-2012 school years. there are a few papers that have been written on the development of the tax, and those links are on the document, and we will make sure they are accessible to the public so anyone can read those. >> the review of the first year of th

lastly, it is that time of year. to celebrate the excelsior district native son, jerry garcia, what a long, strange trip and has been. it will be this coming sunday, it is almost the 10th anniversary of jerry day. every day, there are more and more people and i fear in the future we will not be able to hold jerry day in the jerry garcia amphitheater. for this year, it will be in the jerry garcia and the theater, starting at 12 noon this sunday, august 7th. there will be several bands and this is an amazing event, attracting people from all over the bay area. i want to recommend colleagues that you attend and will be a lot of fun. wait until you see what is going on. that is all my items for introduction. >> thank you. supervisor mar: to pick up on a supervisor avalos'point about bicycle theft, on my first day of high school, many, many years ago, i had my bike stolen. my daughter starts middle school in two weeks and i want her to be writing to school as well. but your introduction of this item is really important. i

lastly, there was also another article in a different -- you might characterize it progressive -- paper about the twitter deal, so-called, and the fact that in the development of the agreements, there were -- community benefits were not discussed the front or something to that matter, and it was still on the table with respect to a committee or somebody that is supposed to determine what the community benefits would be for various corporations and others coming in to the neighborhood. since -- who is it? zen somebody or other just moved into mid-market. i wonder what the process is here to talk about community benefits. >> i believe that is something that jane kim's office is working on. >> i will let you know. commissioner sugaya: thank you. commissioner moore: i would ask the director to give us an update about redevelopment and bayview/hunters point, because an article i read seemed to imply that although all the projects were important to us, this will be, because of the change in the development, the last one to be realized. i am very disturbed about hearing as to whether or not wh

lastly in africa... showers and thunderstorms in dakar will start to break out once again... with high heat and humidity. cape town's also expecting another rainy day, but steady rain in dakar will taper off, so only evening showers are likely on tuesday. that's all for today's weather. enjoy the rest of your evening and i'll see you back here tomorrow. 11 and that wraps up this edition of arirang news. thank you very much for watching... and for those of you in korea, hope you have a great rest of the chuseok holiday.

lastly andy roddick beat five seats spaniard david today although they did have to switch to an empty court after water started to seep through the service at the louis armstrong stadium winning this one in four sets to reach the quarter finals. the new n.f.l. season has got underway with reigning champions the green bay packers beating new orleans forty two thirty four and the gang running super bowl m.v.p. aaron rodgers and drew brees threw three touchdown passes at pace brees sending this one thirty one yard reach him to make it fourteen seven but the moment of the game came in the third quarter the saints kicked off packers rookie randall kolb right under it catching the ball in his own end zone and then ran one hundred ninety yards for a return touchdown to equal the n.f.l. right. called speed ripping up the defensive gelati songwriter tackle it almost looks certain to end his run ricky won't be forgetting this in a hurry score gave the packers a thirty five twenty lead they went on to win forty two thirty four to get their title defense back to their winning star. you sprint wor

lastly, we go to public safety, or nearly lastly. through the concentration of efforts and reorganization of resources, we have been successful in reducing crime city-wide by about 6% over last year. this can be attributable, obviously, with the help we get from the community and other agencies, but also due to 60% of the traffic been decentralized to stations. 40% of motorcycle lawyers work downtown. 50% of the honda unit work on part and the control. there were teams volunteering to go nights and weekends. you have to remember that is in addition. in the past, we have taken from patrol to create special things within patrol. that is fishing from the same bucket. these officers were not working nights and weekends. they were outside of patrol. when you put 35 to 40 knowledgeable officers -- it is akin to putting an academy class on night. we lose people to retirement. having officers of this caliber go nights and weekends is on top of what we already had. hopefully in mid-october, we will have the offices open. you can find people m

lastly, from the community benefits standpoint, they have agreed to hire 25 young people per year, tovide internship opportunities in jazz administration, production, digital music. basically provide ought to burn your opportunities for 25 units per year. -- of entrepreneur opportunities. they have agreed to open up community space, 80 hours of community free space per year. as part of the program, they are required to submit an annual report about the measure of how they perform in the community benefits agreement. what we're currently doing is we're looking to talk with the bank about if there is some way to help monetize that. i had that discussion with them two days ago. they're looking into that now to ensure that these things do not happen, that there's some other way to benefit the community. i think, in general, this is a fairly robust community development benefits agreement, particularly for this type of project. we talked to some other non- combat -- non markets, and they're basically taking our lead, the lead which we have taken from other city projects in terms of really

lastly in africa... partly cloudy skies continue in dakar without a chance of rain. heavy showers in addis ababa will slightly taper off as well, but cape town will wake up to another soggy morning on saturday. that's all for today's weather. hope you have a terrific holiday weekend and i'll leave you with a look at your next 3-day forecast.

and lastly, we of the bar association and their resources. they're providing their legal service for you. this last thing i am going to share with you in terms of what we have seen in our office is that with the individuals, that does not necessarily mean an individual will follow up with a lawsuit. what we've seen in our office is the individual's will send you a letter and say there were compile -- compliance issues. where people get in trouble is they ignore the letter. we need to make sure it that your pro-active and responsive. when a business receives a letter, they need to contact our office. the merchants of been very proactive -- have been very pro- active. the businesses that have received a letter and passed an inspection after receiving the letter have staved off a lawsuit. the cap inspection is a very good risk management tool. often it is not as durable as you may think it to be. our office is there for you as our resources. we are able to provide our services, follow-up questions in english, spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. an

lastly, quality in school time experiences. we want to make sure that the schools that are around hope sf, along with other schools, we have the resources to engage with the community around education issues and we have the resources to address the challenges that come from being in a really stressful environment as many of these students are. we can create the programs that many of us heard about that malcolm x to create real world settings. i am going to leave it there. he will talk about some good news we received about choice neighborhoods. >> good afternoon. i am with the mayor's office of housing. school board has an evolution and there is a a little bit of an art to it. that taught us some of the power of involving be youth in the school. thinking big across five sites. what are some of the leavers of change for education? talking about really whalookingt that port in terms of the shipyard transformation in the district. i wanted to talk specifically about the work ahead and how we are feeling excited about going to scal

and lastly, i wanted to make a note that the office has contact with the design group to work on developing a new logo for the office and a look and feel that will also affect the brochure, the web site, and the outreach committee will get a first presentation in august for some preliminary concepts of our identity development. and i am encouraging them to develop a proposal that develops a whole department. jane is working on designing a new website for us that will be easier to navigate. and a bit more sophisticated. this will probably take several months for us to do. that concludes my report. >> i have a comment about the open sightseeing thing. i went on one of those a couple weeks ago. we decided to hop on it and who were around the city. you put it in your pannier, you have the year from things other was no amplified sound. is that on the upper deck? >> i just want to comment on the legislative action and the input from the commission. i am pleased to see that many of the recommendations on the sales tax has been taken very seriously peer ahead, and literally -- has been taken very s

and lastly, is the street level out reach. which is essentially, depending on the neighborhoods. canvassing hot spots. approaching youth on whatever corner block they hang out. try to link individuals with resources. get them information on what is out there. either try to refer them into our case management or try to listen them into a job fair or something they could go to a one-shot approach. >> it's interesting. crn canvases the hot spot neighborhoods to hopefully targeting issues. can you give us an example how you went into a hot spot neighborhood and how they worked and how we can expand that. >> first there are activities. there /sr-f already been identified 10 or 15 youth. we are going to take you to a warriors game. for a president of time. we are going to be with and you let you be kids. so there's some of the preplanned work that happens. some of the other activities within this general out reach has been intervening on gangville. there was one time on one of the friday night out reach. there was a group of 10 men in the mission district 24th and mission. there was ab

of the week as well as our advisory program that each teacher provide services for students, and lastly, we will be able to implement our plans with the rest of the staff as well as providing southern psychological services. go>> good evening, members of te board. my name is hank woo. i am a parent of a senior. i cannot speak as a professional educator, only as a parent to a. it is important to understand my wife and i made a deliberate choices in the schools. we chose to have our children who raised in san francisco, to go to san francisco public schools, and we are very fortunate in our choices. we have fantastic experiences. despite the great affection we have for teachers and administrators, and both children ran into the limits of what the district could provide because of learning disabilities. my daughter was a train wreck waiting to happen. she deliberately flunked eighth grade because things were not working for her, and despite our great affection and dedication, we realized we had to do something else. this is extraordinary. a learning specialist we worked with, one in partic

lastly, i want to inform the board and the public about a couple of voluntary programs. the first is the creation of a voluntary rating system, for those who want to certify their building as burr-safe. this provides recognition for this ordinance. the voluntary program has been described in the document, and we will be developing this with a grant money. the second voluntary program -- this is the work of supervisor david shoe. this program is sponsored by the department of the environment and others. the commission encourages this program and the policies in the document before you. committee members, that does summarize the issue, and before i conclude i would like to acknowledged this photograph, as the city has benefited from dozens of photographs such as this one, that have been submitted by local photographers. the work on this effort has been enlightening, and there is much more to learn on this topic as research continues. we are confident that we have compelling evidence for the adoption of this ordinance. supervisors, the commission recommends that you adopt i

lastly, commissioners, before i bring up alan scott from another planet to offer his perspective on the the best news of the festival, certainly if you are the recreation and parks department. this year marks the first occasion that it will pay the department outside rent and the department will be receiving over $1 million this year. it's over $400,000 more than the minimal rent. additionally, another planet dedicated ticket sales from sunday night's show at the independent, a venue they own, to the department, and they are donating an additional $20,000 of funding from that event. i want to thank my staff, who worked tirelessly with another planet to ensure that the event was successful and that are park is well supported. i also want to think another planet. they have been a terrific partner. they have gone above and beyond the call of duty. one example is their investment in maps and platforms all around the field this year to help preserve the fields for soccer season and they have made a tremendous difference in the condition of the venue. without further ado, i would like to welc

lastly, not making any structural changes without the approval of the department. with these conditions, we're recommending the license for approval. supervisor avalos: think you. thank you for your presentation. just a question about -- you mentioned this is becoming an entertainment district. that is not an actual determination that has been some or provided by the city, is it? >> i try not to speak to the planning department. i believe no, but what i am recognizing is the fact that we have a large concentration of abc licensed establishments in this area. if planning is calling that come i do not know. supervisor avalos: i do not believe that it can't use -- that is the case. what does this mean in terms of services that are concentrated their from police, fire, public health. does the city have a response to concentrate some of entertainment uses and that neighborhood? to go any time we have a high concentration of liquor licence that will operate and to the late hours, especially on weekends, we will increase police presence with passing calls and resources. w

. >> lastly, in memory of one of our graduates, and jackson, who passed away tragically in a water skiing accident. he was a 2010 graduate and had just completed his first year at the university of california, riverside. beloved by teachers and students, here is what an administrator said about stephane. he was an amazing student, all ap class as possible, a perfect attendance, and a star athlete with a maturity beyond his years. he was such a fine gentleman, destined for greatness, and his untimely passing is so unfortunate. the board of education and expresses condolences sooto the families. meeting adjourned. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a

lastly, i want to say that whenever the question comes up, it is always in the context of more cabs. look at measures to improve taxi efficiency and open taxi access. and by all means, take some actions against a limousines. chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> [reading names] >> my name is phillilp war -- phillip ward, i'm a lawyer for taxi companies. i objected to the item going forward because we did not have sufficient time to review of item number 12 and allow me to advise my clients and for a general public to consider item no. 12. we received a response from the city attorney acknowledging that the report was in error. the environmental analysis which was identical of item number 11 was wrong. the environmental analysis to the e-mail response last evening, it was the first time we had a chance to see that there was a different environmental analysis. with respect to the issuance being categorically, we simply have not had enough time to consider the correct analysis. i objected to the matter going forward. for that reason, i believe it has to be announced to the public befo

lastly, i want to end in memorial to leroy looper, who passed away on september 11, 2011. he was an active activist in the tenderloin. he brought the cadillac hotel, which many of us are familiar with and was of the first individuals to invest in the single room occupancy buildings, to give people a second chance in san francisco. when many people were convicted that depended on the source of housing, as low-income housing, the cadillac hotel is now considered a landmark in the city of san francisco. every second friday, if you have not gone, they have jazz bands that play during lunch time. leroy was a leader and a visionary and an activist, believing in bringing the communities together, and he fought for the tenderloin to preserve low-income housing, when many other people were not on the boat yet. he did this by purchasing the cap -- cadillac hotel and proving that this could be done. soon after he successfully renovated this into the most prized property in the building, he began to host an annual party, and he felt the tenderloin needed the of -- the support and atte

lastly, the existing cyanogen the building exterior should be visible, and that would entail removing the proposed -- decorative panel. it should be located in a way that does not obscure, where there are no existing windows. in some, the department report a composed or in as to create a new special sign district to approve the senate and facilitate single use for the subject site. modifications to the proposed signing to better integrate the proposal with the character of the surrounding neighborhood. it would ensure better compatibility. the project sponsor is here to make a presentation as well. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, members of the commission. i am representing in the project sponsor. we were here four weeks ago for the conditional use authorization for the target that was approved. we are back here tonight for this afternoon, showing you the sign ordinance. we had to wait on that. we work calendar couple weeks ago. -- were calendared a couple weeks ago. it will show you some of the design elections we have made. adam miller is the representative of the ownership group