i will also talk about polk street. we have been meeting with members of the safe polk street and the biking coalition. we need leadership to reduce the polarization and the negativity and we are looking at this as an opportunity to do something positive, there could not be another opportunity for another 30 years. satisfy the needs of the bicyclist, merchants, pedestrians. like to see more leadership in producing that positive framework instead of focusing on the negativity. thank you. (applause) >> hello. my name is janine lockard (sounds like) mayor lee, supervisor chiu and supervisor farrell. i'm not asking for money. i am asking you to cut. i am amazed at how many cars are provided to city workers. how much are we paying for this fleet of cars, gasoline, maintenance andinsurance? most city employees use their cars, that cut that ridiculous expense and say the money and provide more meaningful programs. thank you. (applause) >> (speaking a foreign language) >> good morning everyone, my name is -- i am a homecare wor

i will also talk about polk street. we have been meeting with members of the safe polk street and the biking coalition. we need leadership to reduce the polarization and the negativity and we are looking at this as an opportunity to do something positive, there could not be another opportunity for another 30 years. satisfy the needs of the bicyclist, merchants, pedestrians. like to see more leadership in producing that positive framework instead of focusing on the negativity. thank you. (applause) >> hello. my name is janine lockard (sounds like) mayor lee, supervisor

i will also talk about polk street.

our customers are the local merchants on polk and the residents nearby. and the people who are coming home from work and want to grab something quick. we have grab and go dinners and salmon, and bbq chicken and flank steak, and all of it, we use a chef called ryan scott who is a legal xhef on television and it has a couple of restaurants in town and his team cooks for us and it comes up and the wine is beer is meant to go home with those meals. and i will not allow my store to become a destination for alcohol. that is not the point. we sell about ten percent of our sales are for beer and wine. >> >> i have had the discussions with the supervisor chiu and with officer david. we are giving sort of the deals and the gift certificates that sell $100 each to the elementary school that is nearby on polk street and i have an ongoing relationship with sherm an elementary and the teachers and the principal. and saint vincent depaul on green street and the people in the area of the store have asked me to contribute and i am glad to. >> so... >> thank you. >> thank

folks for polk advocate for the infrastructure for public space and public discourse. despite i have years of outreach by the smta, hundreds of thousand dollars have already spent for almost no progress. delays will further drive up the cost to both the economy and to civil society. we are demanding to maintain an effective status quo which is simply not an option. the current rate of coalition costs an average of 23 million dollars a year not including legal and administrative costs. apart from the terrible human toll -- the actual rental value of the land use for polk's on street parking suppression three -- the year. the city collects -- for parking on polk so we are subsidizing almost 1,000,000 dollars a year to the very few who get there by car. it has the potential to become ion for san franciscans and visitors alike. it's a wonderful opportunity that we won't have again for another 30 years. if we ignore the trend about future needs, will not be able to maintain a competitive edge and liability. finally a part of the local economy that is overlooked in the stree

street could have a place to go because then otherwise people just circle around polk street. i forgot to ask that question before public comment. that was just -- >> absolutely. i will say the one thing i think all neighbors were united around in the immediate neighborhoods, both cathedral hill area as well as the middle and lower polk areas was that right now there is -- we have a lot of folks who come to this area and the idea was we didn't want to incent because there could potentially be close to a thousand parking spots, we didn't want to send the message out there are a thousand parking spots, come drive, come in after 11 o'clock, after you have your fun, get in your cars and leave the neighborhoodv. ~ neighborhoods. there is already a lot of [speaker not understood]. there were issues raised for current needs of residents as well as nearby institutions for the church that have dozens of organizations, usually sunday through thursday, that use the facility after 9 o'clock. and, so, my language is really to address that. >> okay. again, i know this is not our neighborhoo

you are right, polk street is very vibrant right now. but i look forward to working and solving that problem. >> thank you. >> so i think i have a follow-up question. you are aware of what the situation that supervisor breed is describing? >> i believe so. i believe that you are saying that there are some clubs that don't have adequate security, or that are hiring security that are not well-informed. >> let me give you a real-life example. i am on the southeastern side and club kokomo will have a promoter that promotes and people come to the club and it's right in the residential area and several cars have been broken in and shootings in the area, one that resulted in a homicide several years prior. and there is a discrepancy between the neighbors being frustrated between the type of the security, the quality. so the party promoter and the people that own the property feel they should not have to pay to hire an sfpd officer who is off-duty, because they are very expensive. but if you go through a private security firm, there are varying

save polk street which is save polk street.com. district 5 diary. that's district no. 5diary.com. meter madness which is meter madness do the word press.com. eastern neighborhoods united fronts which the sfenuf.org. and then also sf info which is sfpar .info. thank you. miss jackie. we are going to ask if you would limit your comment to 2 minutes because we still have a lot of stuff on the agenda if that's okay please. we are still on public comment item 7. >> thank you. i'm allergic to labs and i was thinking being in the bathroom was far enough away that i wouldn't leave in an ambulance. that's how sensitive i am. going from there to the blue placard thing. very quick placard story. i live at the apartment between folsom and howard street. i heard a loud commotion, loud music one day and i see two latino males who are discussing one having a flat tire and need to get a ride to have the flat tire repaired. one of them had a blue placard and his friend said, where did you get that from? he said never mine, i want to use it. he said you can't use that. he threw it in the gutter. i

it's conversations with great minds i'm joined by congressman mark polk and congressman polk and represents the second district of wisconsin a small business owner union member and life one advocate for progressive causes. has been committed to using his experiences from both the private and public sector to fight for policies to promote job growth and support the families of south central wisconsin and of america on capitol hill congressman polk and serves on both the budget committee and the committee on oversight and government reform and has been appointed an assistant minority whip or spoke and joins me now from the house recording studios at capitol hill and welcome oh welcome thank you great having you with us. i want to get into you and your life a little bit but first to give the supreme court just this week. most of it. back prop eight as a married gay man i'm curious your take and as a politician as somebody who it watches all these things very carefully your take on this well we were static to see that the nation now recognizes that two people who love each other and want to mak

street. 2c is located half outside on polk street and half inside in the building lobby.er the final polishing, the water flows to the disinfection room of the basement of the building. there the water goes through two disinfection processes. first ultraviolet light, and second a dosing of chlorine. the treated water is stored in a 5,000 gallon reclaimed water tank where it is pumped throughout the building for toilet flushing purposes. the treatment cycle is complete and the water is reused again and again. this new building features a rainwater harvesting system. rainwater is captured from the building's roof and the children's play area along the side of the building and sent down to our disinfection room where there is a 25,000 gallon sis tern. the rainwater receives minor treatment and is used to irrigate the building's trees and landscaping. >> when we're resues using water we have on-site, we're not purchasing new water and we're also not putting sewage down into the sewer system which is costs money. this is a demonstration project of 5,000 gallons a day. it is th

and so, this is not in my district and i am here to support a safer polk street idea and i think that is a very valuable corridor for all users and currently as the road user myself and a pedestrian at first and a cyclist second and i feel like i have encountered sometimes hostile conditions on polk street and i just wanted to bring that to your attention and i know that you are all very aware of it. and i wanted to throw my support behind it too, thanks. >> thank you, and thank you for your service on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. >> the last person who turned in the speaker card is annette brown. >> thank you. >> i do numbers as a living, i am a concerned citizen and i live in north beach and i have been doing budgets my entire life. the tunnel is 70 million apparently right now. the estimate. the extraction that we have the estimate is 9 million dollars. and the machines are worth 4 million dollars, and so that does not make sense to me already. so, if there are two tunnels already in place, and you are going to bore out to north beach for whatever reason, why bore out

it speaks to me that they should certainly get a good route on polk street in the next block over and i also noticed that the bikes are not going to be comfortable in the neighborhood on 19th avenue. maybe you can find, one of the parallel streets, 20th or 18th will work better for them and get more green on your map. and be cheaper than maybe some of the other things that you have to do and also, as you think of these things, each group comes to you as bikes, bikes, bike and like a transit, >> we want a group that is the adults in the system and we look over all, and we see everything. and now that is my point of view when i have to write your forming, city charter change. you see that people, and they want, you want teenagers and you don't want to give up fraoet parking at the same time that we had a reporter struck me about 82,000 for a parking place near the ballpark and so i sent them stuff, showing that in downtown london someone paid $22,000 to park and someone responded to me when i put that out and said in boston, they paid $560,000 for tan tum two parking places. and so, you