commissioner, good afternoon, my name's victor lim, i'm one of the legislative aids to supervisor mar and i'm here to deliver a statement on behalf of the supervisor, many of you may be aware that pet food express has attempted to open a store on lombard street four years ago, this committee voted 5 -2 based on the competitive advantage of retail, i urge you to consider the concerns of a business model that has had a se vaoefr detriment impacts on small businesses. there are currently over half a dozen pending policies and ordinances that seek to address the proliferation of formula retail in san francisco, this indicates that as a city, we are concerned that we are not being fully -- sufficiently careful in the way that we regulate formula retail. according to planning staff, 75% of the conditional use applications are approved. i'm sure in some cases, the applicant businesses is appropriate for the neighborhood they seek to move into. the other case, i do not believe the commission examines and gives weight to the financial impact that is these businesses have on small locally owned

. >> vice president lim? >> present. >> supervisor farrell excused. commissioner fraser? >> here. >> commissioner er

. >> vice president lim? >> present. >> supervisor farrell excused. commissioner fraser?>> commissioner fraser excused. commissioner scott sf >> here. >> commissioner shlain? >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> thank y

. >> vice president lim? >> present. >> supervisor farrell excused. commissioner fraser? >> here. >> commissioner fraser excused. commissioner scott sf >> here. >> commissioner shlain? >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. ~ item number 1, please. >> item 1, action item, approval (with possible modifications) of the minutes of the meeting set forth below. regular meeting of june 13th, 2013 combined with rates and benefits committee. >> are there any corrections? no corrections. >> i move adoption of the minutes as distributed. >> i second. >> any public comment on this item? having none, all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? it's unanimous. >> item number 2. >> item 2, discussion item, president's report, president breslin. >> we are now on sfgov-tv, channel 26 and 78, i believe. and we want to thank sean tai who prior to this has done the videos for the board meeting. and would you please come up to the podium? thank you. the health service board would like to thank sean tai the founder of zty media for his excellent service documenting health service board meeti

there was a brain imaging study published where my colleague, charles lim, a narrow scientist, put somers in an mri machine. if any of you have had an mri to see if there was a broken bone or cancer detection, we have a special version called functional mri, wary can track the flow of blood in your brain. we put people in the scanner and we had people mentally practice their tennis serve, catch a late meth problems, or think or listen about music. you can see which regions of the brain are active by following the blood. what charles found is by people improvising or composing, you would expect for something that is that complicated, would require so mineral resources, you would expect a primary finding in his would be lots of activation in particular areas of the brain. paradoxically what he found was deactivation in the prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that is the editor, tell you that is not good enough, inhibiting you from blurting things out. the great improvisers had turned that part of their brain off. from your intuitions as a composer, science is a step behind art, but

i provided those to darlene lim in the enroll em placement center and she worked with those families to place them. i'm sorry. >> essentially, this was may. so, they were actually well passed the assignment process and were already in second round by then? >> that's correct. >> that was somewhat irresponsible for them. >> i thought that i had read in one of your memos, mr. davis, they were also offered enrollment at the city arts & tech as well. >> that is correct. yeah, i left that part out. they were offered enrollment at city arts & tech or to go to another sfusd school. >> so, do we know where the students that were at metro are and did many of them go to city arts & tech? or where are they? >> they are expecting that about 80 students will transfer over to city arts & tech. they had about 120 when they closed. >> and do we know where the others were landed? >> i have not received a report on that. when i saw the applications at the outset of the process, many had requested lowell and other schools, but i could get you a report on where they went. >> i would be curious to see whe

i provided those to darlene lim in the enroll em placement center and she worked with those families to place them. i'm sorry. >> essentially, this was may. so, they were actually well passed the assignment process and were already in second round by then? >> that's correct. >> that was somewhat irresponsible for them. >> i thought that i had read in one of your memos, mr. davis, they were so

lincoln memoriallina lim and khin min were chimp. >>> continuing coverage on -- were killed. >> continuing coverage on the bart strike. they have four days left to try avoid a strike. the unions contract extension ends at midnight this sunday august 4. as the negotiations continue hundreds of thousands of very nervous commuters who depend on bart every day are trying to figure out what they are going to do. ktvu's cara liu is following that and the negotiations that are continuing. >> reporter: just in the last 10 minutes i heard from two union negotiators who were here. one tells me they are still negotiating. the other has no new developments, this as thousands are watching and waiting. >> reporter: the possibility of bart coming to a halt for a second time this summer is fueling anger and anxiety. >> not fair. do you know how many people ride? >> reporter: frustration. >> frustration because i have kids and i have to get them ready extra early. i have to get them off today care. -- off to day care. >> reporter: many are thinking about plans if another strike is called. >> most of the tr

conclusion no criminal negligence on the part of the driver or the owner of the lim limo. 7 news reporter vick lae with story you see only on 7 news. >> stretched limousine burst that flames on the san m te'o bridge on the night of may fourth. fire killed 5 women. fore others survived by crawling out of a narrow opening to the driver compartment. >> this cell phone video shows the fire started in the rear of the limo. witness say the back of the lincoln town car was extremely low to the ground. traveling across the bridge. sources with knowledge of the probe told us that the air springs called balloon in the rear of the limo somehow deflated. setting off a domino effect that led to the fire. this man manage as garage that services limousine. he explained what most likely happened. when the balloons failed. >> these are air spring not air shock air spring they carry the weight of the car. so now when there is one of them has rupture on it the whole car drops down to basically almost on the tire sought car with the weight bounce down too hard and ended up hitting the gas tank which is right

his name is greg lim from the state mediation service. he's really doing excellent work as were the other mediators, but i want to clear that up so he's properly credited for the work today. we're going to keep on moving forward. when we have something more to tell you, we'll be plaid to come back down and update you. >> and this is -- . >> listening live to the heads of b.a.r.t.'s two biggest unions, atu and sceu. both reacting strongly to the news at the beginning of the forecast. the governor will seek a court order for a 60-day cooling off period. sunday night, if b.a.r.t. and the unions couldn't reach a contract deal. of course, there has been one strike earlier this summer, and now the unions are saying the 60-day cooling off period essentially holes the public and b.a.r.t -- holds the public and b.a.r.t. workers hostage, in their words, saying they need the pressure of the sunday night hard deadline to get the deal done. the unions will keep on negotiating. at this point, we're still waiting to hear from b.a.r.t. again, union heads