so in that sense emma lazarus is extraordinarily important. you could argue that she's more important to our understanding of the statue of liberty than the guy who built it. >> right, and some critics such as james russell lowe even said you gave it a reason dettori and perhaps your work was more important than the sculptures, and at the same time it did forever change the message. i think through getting to know emma lazarus with our exhibition here at the museum, that it's only by knowing her evolution as an american and as a jewish-american who came to understand the plight, not only of jewish refugees but for all those in exile that there wouldn't be an easy answer for everyone, especially in the urban centers, that she starts to really reframe the message. let's take a look. i think most people who know her poem only know those few lines, give me your tired, your poor and i learned it as a school kid singing the irving berlin song for "miss liberty" years later. as i've come to know emma i've come to know the poem a whole new way and com

that's what emma lazarus had in mind. we're not doing that. >> and she started out with a negative statement which isn't what we usually think of with poetry, like let's start criticizing something else. >> not like the brazen giant of greek fame with conquering limbs, conquering limbs astride from land to land. we're not going to do that. we're going to have a milder image. now the image is still going to be a mighty woman with a torch, but it's interesting that the transformation has been from a male warrior image to a female image. it's not a demure woman. it's a powerful woman argues mighty woman, and she's captured lightning, right? is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, and emma lazarus gave her the name mother of exiles. so that she is a mother figure. >> to me that's the big moment in the poem that nobody knows. >> right, right. >> mother of exile, and -- and so she's shifting -- emma lazarus is shifting now from the negative to the positive so we're not going to do the kind of thing that the ancients did with

it is the same format as ann lazarus. >> i am here to ask for your it is the same format as ann lazarus. >> i am here to ask for your conf discussed earlier, the board here is a wide variety of cases. the majority of cases happen to be from the planning and building. my background as an architect and planner alliance itself to resolu the broader mission of the appeals that pits neighbor against neighbor is quite diverse. what we're really looking for is how we do what is fair, how we do what is looking at the law, at the charter, but also looking at the equity that is involved. that is extremely important for the commission that is called the court of last resort. prior to any potential litigation. what we bring to it is a willingness to listen, the willingness to hear all sides of it, to be able to make a rational and fair decision. supervisor kim: thank you. any questions? we will open up for public comment. public comment is now closed. colleagues? supervisor campos: thank you -- i am reading my agenda and correctly. thank you for coming forward. i am pretty familiar with how the com

this is the origins of and the lazarus -- of emma lazarus' p oem. she said i am t a writer of higher even for a good cause like this. i write a poem because it comes fromithin. one of her friends says you have been doling out, you have been going out to wards island, working with the jewish emigrants who are suffering, who have fled a place where they have been persecuted. you are working with these people. you have come to know them, feel for them, and you should then write a poem that represents their plight. emma then _ good that she could connect the plight of the jewish propertierefugees that she had n working witthe with the statue, and she did that. lazarus did this by making the statue of liberty speak, but " give me your tired, your pouor." she breathed life into this and are statue, which is not something that would have occurred to a sculptor. in that sense, emma lazarus is extraordinarily important, you could argue more important than the guy who built it. >> and some critics even said, you gave it a reason for existence, and perhaps you

on our panel tonight is david lazarus for the "los angeles times." and in our studio, christina jewett with california watch. and nanette asimov. the san francisco cronicle education reporter. thank you for being here. nanette, let's start with you and the city college of san francisco. it is being threatened with losing accreditation. this is huge. this is a campus with 90,000 students. how did this happen and how are school officials responding? >> you know, this is really a story of good intentions going awry. the plan for higher education said the community colleges in california are supposed to be open and accessible for everybody. it was an idea in san francisco, the leadership just did not want to let go of. even as the state has cut from the economic crisis millions of dollars from city colleges budget, the school continued to operate and does to this day, nine campuses and 100 or 200. they don't know how much instructional sites. >> they did not make cuts. >> exactly. they did not shrink down. they loved the kids. they loved to provide educa

in that sense, emma lazarus is extraordinarily important, you could argue more important than the guy who built it. >> and some critics even said, you gave it a reason for existence, and perhaps your work was may be more important to the work of the sculptor's, which is hard to believe, but it did forever changed the message. it is only by knowing her evolution as an american, as a jewish-american, who came to understand the plight, not only of jewish refugees but all of those in exile, that there would not be an easy answer for everyone, especially in the urban centers. she starts to really refrain the message. -- reframe the message. i think people only know a few lines of the poem. i learned it from the irving berlin song, like years later. but as i have gotten to know emma, i read this poem in such a different way and see this whole front and that sets up the second half that we know. i will read through with, and then ask you to on pack this. it is called the new colossus. "not like the brazen giant of greek thain, with conquering limbs that stride from land to land, you're at r.

commissioner lazarus. the permits are upheld. >> item 7a and b are rescheduled. there are no other items. president hwang: we are adjourned.

this is the origins of and the lazarus -- of emma lazarus' p oem. she said i am not a writer of higher even for a good cause like this. i write a poem because it comes from within. one of her friends says you have been doling out, you have been going out to wards island, working with the jewish emigrants who are suffering, who have fled a place where they have been persecuted. you are working with these people. you have come to know them, feel for them, and you should then write a poem that represents their plight. emma then _ good that she could connect the plight of the jewish propertierefugees that she had n working with the with the statue, and she did that. lazarus did this by making the statue of liberty speak, but " give me your tired, your pouor." she breathed life into this and are statue, which is not something that would have occurred to a sculptor. in that sense, emma lazarus is extraordinarily important, you could argue more important than the guy who built it. >> and some critics even said, you gave it a reason for existence, and perha

this is the origin of the and the lazarus' poem -- the emma lazarus poem. her first impulse was to say, i do not do stuff like that. i am a poet. i wait for a news. i am not a writer for hire. i write because it comes from within. one of her friends, and esther short quotes this -- shore quotes this in her biograph of emma, says, you have been working with jewish immigrants who are suffering, who have fled a place where they how often persecuted. you are working with these people. you have come to feel for them. you should write a poem that represents their plight. emma then understood she could connect the plight of jewish refugees to the statue of liberty. she did depth. -- she did that. as some top scholars have said, she did that by giving the statue of liberty a voice. she makes the statue speak. "give me your tired." the statue is talking. she breathes life into this in our statute, something that would not have occurred to a sculptor, because that is not what sculptors do. in that sense, emma lazarus, you could argue, is more important to our underst

and ed has worked with us on this exhibition that is on display through the end of 2012 and the lazarus poet of exiles, and i'm very pleased that he's here to share many of the insights into the meaning and history of the statue so welcome, ed. >> thank you. >> so one of the reasons we decided to do next business when we did is that this is a big anniversary year for the statue of celebrity. we're into the year of 125 years past the dedication of the statue, so new york has been celebrating. it's been a natural time of reflection, a perfect time for your book to come out, and i think very few people really know though where the idea came from for the statue, and so give us some insight into -- into how it came into being. >> so the statue of liberty came into being in france in the middle of the 19th century. it was actually 1865 right after the assassination of abraham lincoln, and the group of french people who were behind the idea were emotionally tied to the united states. they loved the american form of government, and they were abolitionists, and so they had particular affection f

i am also very pleased to announce and welcome our new appointed board member ann lazarus. i look forward to working with you. commissioner hillis will be joining us in just a minute. i am the board's executive director. we're joined this evening by representatives from departments that have cases before us. i expect to be joined shortly by the manager of the department of public works. if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request that you turn off all cell phones and pagers. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows. appellants, permit holders, and department representatives have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rare bottle. people affiliated must include their comments within the -- three minutes before rebuttal. members of the public have up to three minutes to address the board, but no rebuttal. members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked, but not required, to submit a speaker cards when you come up to the podium. speake

we have been working with ed and a team of scholars to look at the work of the poet emma lazarus. he has been indelibly linked with the poem at the statue of liberty. he has worked on the exhibition on display until the end of 2012, and i am pleased he is here to share his insights into the history and meaning of the statue. one reason we decided to do this is this is a big year. we are into the year 125 years into the dedication, so it is a perfect time for your book to come out, and i think very few people really know where the idea came from for the statue, so give us some insight into how it came into being. >> it came into being in france in the middle of the 19th century. it was 1865 right after the assassination of abraham lincoln, and a group of french people behind the idea were emotionally tied to the united states. they love the american form of government, and they were abolitionists, so they have a particular affection for president lincoln, so they came together at the home of a man who was france's leading specialist on the united states. toqueville died in 1859, an

commissioner lazarus: aye. >> the vote is 4-0. commissioner hillises' recused. president hwang: we will start with the appellant. because there are to bring appeals, you will have 14 minutes -- two appeals, you have 14 minutes. >> my name is pete ryan. thank you for your time this evening. we are here tonight because you granted our request for jurisdiction when there was a mistake and we did not get notice of the permit and therefore we are here as though we got notice. we think that in addition to the initial mistake, we are going to be asking that you revoke it this evening. there is no dispute that it is within the 300 foot radius and off the grid takes the position that it is considered by agreeing not to serve hamburgers but they are permitted to sell hamburgers. those permits should not be granted because it is an identical food and it is within 300 feet. the fact they asked you to truck them, they will be good citizens. it is irrelevant. the permit should not be granted to that basis. however, as you know, among the 35 food trucks connected to these perm

>> jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. i want to thank everyone involved for the process that has been under way for months now regarding the redrafting of a business tax structure for san francisco. we have consistently supported an outcome we tax revenues and not job creation. i think we are close to reaching a broad-based agreement on reforms. i had a chance to speak a couple of days ago with a colleague of yours from many years ago who was the author of the gross receipts tax in the late 1960's, and that was to replace some lost revenue because of a lawsuit on the city's property- tax formulas for business versus residential property. $35 million was what was needed in the gross receipts tax in the late 1960's. i do want to say that any outcome of this process, which is dealing now with a payroll tax that brings in over $400 million a year, the number two source of revenue behind property-tax for the city, has to be fair and equitable to the broad business community, small business, mid-size, or large business. we have

jim lazarus. we were very pleased to have participated for months and this process with the mayor and supervisor chiu's office and the controller. the city attorney is going to have to go back and start redrafting again by the middle of july when this will have occurred. we believe the tax measures you should support need to be broad- based, fair, and they need to encourage -- continue the exemptions that were in place to drive economic growth in the city and we need to have a reasonable adjustment to a business license fees, which, after all, are a form of tax. which is why in recent years they have not been amendable except by going to the voters. a neighborhood resident of parking sticker will cost you $100 and a business license fee at the low-end $25 is clearly not cost recovery. there is the business feet side of the equation -- fee side of the occasion. -- of the equation. we have to come up with our revenue neutral measure. it is not revenue neutral for everyone. there is going to be twice

commissioner lazarus. the permits are upheld. >> item 7a and b are rescheduled. there are no other items. president hwang: we are adjourned. >> to an afternoon, and welcome to the july 27, 2012 meeting of the local agency formation for the city and county of san francisco. my name is david campos, and i am the chair of the commission. we want to thank sfgtv staffer covering the meeting today. carolyn and jesse. madam clerk, please take roll- call. >> commissioner of a los, absent. supervisor campos, present. supervisor olague, present. chairperson schmeltzer, present. chairperson pimentel, present. we do have a quorum. supervisor campos: thank you very much. please call item number two. >> item two, approval of the lafco minutes from the june 15, 2012 special meeting. supervisor campos: colleagues, we have before us the minutes of the june 15, 2012 meeting. i like to open it up to any member of the public who would like to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. if we could please take a motion. motion by commissioner schmeltzer. second by comm

for that reason, i would think that commissioner lazarus understood, i am of the review in order to make of the grid hold to its promise. i do not know -- >> you would need three votes to condition the permit. >> i would move to uphold those permits with the condition that the permit restrict -- it would essentially restrict the sale of hamburgers were like foods. ok, hamburgers at that particular location. >> we have to the real permits before us. are you asking that condition be placed on both? >> on both. >> for that location. the sales of hamburgers at that location. >> at the 90 broadway location. >> i am not trying to be smart. but korean hamburger? traditional american hamburger, and not ok. >> when i was looking at the menus, it did not appear they had some ethnic related hamburgers on there. i do not know if we need to reopen that. >> i am fine with anything entitled a hamburger being restricted. i want to know so i do not violate. any restriction. >> i appreciate that. i do not know what my fellow commissioners feel about traditional, classic american hamburgers. the menu -- >>

>> item 41 is the motion approving the mayor's deployment of -- appointment of ann lazarus. president chiu: i understand item 42 was not sent to the board. if we could move to item 43. >> item 43 was considered at -- was awarded to the board -- supervisor this item was heard yesterday and enjoyed unanimous support for it to come to the full board of supervisors. this is a long time coming for district four. there are many neighborhood commercial districts across the city, whether we're talking about the inner and outer clement, fillmore, the haight, castro, broadway. the sun set does not have any of them. we wanted to start help that -- to about that committee dictate and provide additional controls. it creates for the first time neighborhood or named neighborhood commercial districts on noriega streets and it does a couple of other things that allows for additional ground floor height. this has been done in other places that help to make the ground floor retail more attractive. there is also a requirement -- we have required that all uses the active -- that are active. if i

not any items of interest to the planning commission, it was the first meeting for commissioner ann lazarus, who previously served on the port commission, president fon would -- so president fong would be acquainted with her. we look forward to working with her on the board of appeals. they are meeting next week on august 1, and they do have an appeal of the planning commission action to approve the local coastal zone permit for the beach l.a. athletic field. that hearing will be next weekend. i will report back to you on tuesday. president fong: thank you. >> if nothing else, we can move forward to general public comment. at this time, members of the public might address you on items of interest to the public that fall within the jurisdiction of the public, with the exception of agenda items. however, for this category, each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes each, keeping in mind the entire category has a time limit of 15 minutes. i have one speaker card. president fong: linda chapman? >> linda chapman, on the subject of 1601 market. you should have be

lazarus earlier. there are a lot of developments happening. particularly on the waterfront, we have a high-visibility project that is the talk of the town, the proposed arena. i'd think it is important to have commissioners that have the time and a willingness to engage in that neighborhood. as exciting as this project can be, there are a number of concerns and fears from the residents in terms of traffic and congestion. i think that our residents will be able to understand that to -- that perspective. i am interested in a number of things that you said and i will be happy to support this motion. without opposition >> item number 6, ordinance amending the san francisco help, by adding -- by adding sections and reauthorize in the food security task force. >>chairperson kim: i do believee had someone coming to present for this item. paula jones? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i work for the department of public health and our work on food systems. we are here to ask for your support for the reauthorization of the food security task force. ensur

. >> item number two, motion approving/rejecting the mayor's appointment of ann lazarus to the board of appeals for

lazarus? >> thank you.ll of the time you and spending on this. -- all of the time you have been spending on this. rebuilding st. louis to keep that hospital open, and this project is good for san francisco. it is good for the medical industry and medical care, which is probably our number one industry. probably historically, we thought tourism was our number- one industry, but i think in recent years with the rebuilding of a general and the good of honda and the expansion= mission bay and the teaching facilities, biotech, and the general growth of medicine in san francisco, it is probably our number one industry, and we need to stay focused on that and stay focused on a site that can deal with the delivery of good medical care and in an appropriate location that has access to the broadest number of san franciscans and the broadest number of people throughout the region who would seek care at that facility. this is not some underutilized site that has not haddú traffic. van ness for decades has been a sight