in fact, we had to redo the ramps. it actually came up in the record, do not touch this place until you call me. what do you want to do to my crosswalk? i became very possessive of it. there was money available to upgrade the ramps and the city is still working to reduce the yellow striping, but it all but put back. supervisor mar: the crosswalk almost feels like it is brick. >> it is correct. there are several ways to do this. we could have done something in the middle. in portland, they did a cool design in the middle of the street. that prevented people from barreling through an intersection. in philadelphia and baltimore, they used duratherm and it worked well. the upkeep on duratherm -- it is embedded in asphalt. essentially, you have to route out four inches of asphalt, and then they embed the duratherm in the asphalt. this is similar to something they do in london. supervisor mar: i think they do this in hong kong, too. >> it has been well appreciated in the neighborhoods. we put cameras underneath the intersect

going to sell this to the public and go ask for a bond issue or whatever to have annual program to redotreets and bring them up to contemporary standards. that's a simple strategy and we hope it works. we'll talk more about that at one of our next monthly meetings because there's a lot to talk about. i was going to ask these fellows, do they really believe the london congestion feed for the central area of london would work with a city the scale and infrastructure of san francisco but we'll save that for next time. marshal. >> thanks, dean. thank you so much for being here. i think just to pick up on a couple of dean's comments. one thing i wanted to let all of you know is this greening program, we call it the liveable city initiative, is very new to san francisco. and as someone who's worked as an urban designer an planner, we'rality a unique moment no

going to sell this to the public and go ask for a bond issue or whatever to have annual program to redotreets and bring them up to contemporary standards. that's a simple strategy and we hope it works. we'll talk more about that at one of our next monthly meetings because there's a lot to talk about. i was going to ask these fellows, do they really believe the london congestion feed for the central area of london would work with a city the sc

going to sell this to the public and go ask for a bond issue or whatever to have annual program to redotreets and bring them up to contemporary standards. that's a simple strategy and we hope it works. we'll talk more about that at one of our next monthly

mimic the beaver area, and the next area thanks to a friend family -- they have provided a gift to redo our youth zone. it, too, will replicate various conservation zones in the world. just an example, this is a tree native to asia. it replants itself. it is hundreds of not thousands of years old, and this will be sort of the centerpiece of the playground. you will see that it will be play activity for both the young and growing and disabled children. and another region, for example, is the polar region. obviously a great conservation issue for all of us. here, we have tunnels, slides, and other play areas in the polar region. again, the playground, trying to connect children to nature conservation issues in the form of fun and play. that is the next phase of our capital campaign. and i welcome any questions. commissioner buell: do not see any. thank you very much. >> is there any public comment on this item? richard. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the parents of telegraph hill, when they were lying around. they are quite numerous now. it is about the avery they are going to be rebui

commissioner hammer: my observation is i don't propose we redo all the great work you guys did but i think it is important in this process we set up a few public forums in different areas of the city so people can come forward and speak out. we just did have a chief for 18 months. we all worked close with him. people in the community have something to say about it, things they think can be improved upon. i'm proposing a very limited public forum where people can be able to come speak about what they want. the second part i would like to hear, a forum for officer to see what they are looking for in terms of the direction of partner. we talked about some mechanism in relative rapid order to let people weigh in how they feel about their city. >> thank you. commissioner dejesus? commissioner dejesus: we need a candidate that will meet the criteria to serve the community as a whole. how we do that, i know we have some criteria from the last time and it was relatively just a short period. but i think if we're going to -- when we look at the criteria that we are going to agree on, it is inc

i do not want to redo it over again. we have heard it all. >> neither do i. chair nolan: that would be like in two weeks? >> that would depend on being able to resubmit the materials because the deadline for the next meeting is already passed. >> one quick thing. this has gone through the tac? ok, this has gone through the taxi advisory committee. chair nolan: so we think we can do something substantial over the next two its? ok, thank you, director hayashi. secretary boomer: so the motion is to carry this to the next meeting. chair nolan: with a streamlined meeting. secretary boomer: item 13 has been removed. we have item number 14, a presentation and discussion of the fiscal year 2011 first quarter services standards report. >> will present this item to you. -- we will present this item. chair nolan: i am wondering if you want to have a break or go through to closed session? ok, so we will be backed by about -- backed by about 28 after.

you don't get light maybe as much coming down this direction are you looking at ways to completely redo l.e.d. lighting so that you don't have to have such a bulky radiator industry itself is very rapidly changing day by day i think maybe even up to one year we'll have another design beefed up sort of the different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing to look like you mentioned at a deed silva get in small and small and for example they can demolish your which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and thin element and they implemented in that but not you know the common you could wait any shape whatever you want really looking forward to some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous a first glimpse but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. to traditional shapes in the name of variety. to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny. multiplying in devices possibility. and the. russian billionaire. is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twel

. >> whenever i had writer's block i do research so i thought i would redo a section which started as writer's block and it took place in a library. i think all you need to know is my narrater is 19. the object of affection is 21. max's mother is a piannist and also polish. >> i saw little of rose after she moved her 2 valises into the nurses room on valentine's day of 1939. she did not allow a gust to drive her to the louve. she did not pause to look at me when i went to the gallery wearing a new shirt. nor did she take meals to my families. sometimes this was the best. at the dinner table my parents argued. father had been unsuccessful in keeping the newspapers from others. she practiced less and less. germany is not poland said my father. there are no contacts in berlin. >> he's a crazy man when i hear him on the radio. i can barely understand the german he's speaking he's an austrian, no, but his accent is fake. the geshel speaks perfectly. he must be the envy of singers every where. my father reached across his dinner plate and laid a hand on hers. she snatched it away. you know

i need to redo the staff needs to know to prepare and we need to get an agenda out tomorrow. i need to know if your preference is to cover those items next week along with initiation or if you want to cover just one of the items. i just need some direction on how you want to proceed on that. >> it is hard for me to speak for the entire commission. some may disagree with me. i would think we should attempt to cover those two items next week. we may have to put off initiation. we can put it on the calendar, but it may be continued. >> i believe that is a wise direction. i would strongly support you. initiation at this moment with a number of unresolved issues -- i think there will be more questions coming from the commission on particular aspects that i feel have not been touched on. i think that is the perfect lead in into working on the project in more depth. >> as long as it has been scheduled, leave it there with the thought that it may be continued. >> we will be prepared to present the two topics that were on tonight and leave the possibility for initiation on there. >> i

i do not want to redo it over again. we have heard it all. >> neither do i. chair nolan: that would be like in two weeks? >> that would depend on being able to resubmit the materials because the deadline for the next meeting is already passed. >> one quick thing. this has gone through the tac? ok, this has gone through the taxi advisory committee. chair nolan: so we think we can do something substantial over the next two its? ok, thank you, director hayashi. secretary boomer: so the motion is to carry this to the next meeting. chair nolan: with a streamlined meeting. chair nolan: with a streamlined meeting.

commissioner slaughter>> if i to talk about redoing our priorities, we spent a whole they doing this.>> any public comment regarding these matters? >> good evening again. i assume the document you are talking about is this one here. my question is -- is this a combination of all the representatives of the commission that put this together? did the son of somewhere that this was produced by the commission itself? or is it just a piece of paper in a folder that no one pays attention to? what happens here? commissioner kingsley: the commission met back in october 2010 at a retreat. during the retreat, we reviewed the mission of the police commission and established these to a great deal of discussion and brainstorming. we agreed to setting priorities after a great deal of discussion. we also generative the prioritization of -- generated the prioritization of matters you are holding. we have many items were addressed during the retreat. tonight we are revisiting this to formally adopted, allow public comment, and, of others before adopting it, as well as to propose that we included on our

i think they are going to have to redo some of those slips because those boats are big. >> that's right. >> thank you. well governor brown presented his budget plan today and as promised, every sector of the state is being asked to scale back. among the cuts, $1.5 billion from -- by reducing limit on welfare. that means the maximum monthly cash benefit would drop by $90. state subsidized childcare would be eliminated from parent of 11 and 12-year-olds. doctors services would be lowered and patient copays would go up. the governor says it's time to face the budget music. >> it's better to take our medicine now and get the state on balanced footing. >> he also proposed cutting traditiional housing for foster care kids. he is asking for a five-year extension for taxes that are about to retear. >>> gavin newsom begins his first full day tomorrow. in his inauguration speech, he says he hopes to renew the state's entrepreneurial spirit. >> california is a state of dreamers, doers, a state of entrepreneurs. >> he was sworn in by his father, a retired judge. >>> gasgone brought him in to be his

commissioner moore: i want to share with you and observation about the transformative values of redoing trees. i always hated to drive down a street. it was a street i avoided at all costs. but last night, i drove down divisadero

i live there before this 1991 redo of the fence, it and it is fine. that has been fine. commissioner peterson: thank you. >> is there any other public comment? seeing none, we will move into rebuttal. mr. rabbitt, you have three minutes. >> thank you, commissioners. i want to address the retaining wall and commissioner fung pointed out something now wanted to follow-up on. this is a blown up drawing that mr. o'brien showed you. the yellow here is the outer chain-link fence. this is the part near the western edge. at the short answer, there is a distance here between this retaining wall and the outer fence. this portion of the fence, you could bring it in without any effect, as far as i can tell, with the retaining wall. again, i have not been allowed inside, so i rely on the drawing that usf submitted. also, the changing grades is something that you hear dpw from and usf, but what they did not mention is this is an area where the field is essentially level with the sidewalk and there is a retaining wall. there has been no explanation from dpw or usf why defense cannot be

we would have to redo the nexus study. [inaudible] >> no, no, i know that. i am questioning the commissioners. and if that is the case, this won't happen until 2012. >> exactly. >> and in the meantime, the original $4.58 and whatever it applies to is still on the ordinance, and that would just continue to roll along. then we will miss the opportunity to impose a higher fee for broader public benefit. that is what the commission wants to do. >> supervisor maxwell, thank you for coming. >> thank you. i am understanding there is some confusion about this, and i just wanted to kind of give you an idea of why and where. the purpose of this ordinance is simply to modernize the vis valley fund to bring it into greater consistency with the other impact fee programs in the city. with great community involvement and support, the original program was adopted in 2005. since that time, several similar fee programs have been established, and the city, including the eastern neighborhoods and market octavia areas. most recently, planning staff has been engaged in an ongoing

they have to be able to break or redo the pension obligations, which are destroying them. >> can youimagine congress voting to bail out california? >> the only alternative -- >> a political decision that states will have to make. >> to be continued. this is one of my pet peeves here. a visit from the president of china. what is in it for us? president obama held a formal state dinner for chinese president hu jintao. very, very fancy. general douglas macarthur is rolling in his grave. colby, who got what out of this deal? >> both sides got something to it is a recognition of what china is and the world today. i this is 28 talk radio show or somebody like rush limbaugh -- to a talk radio show where somebody like rush limbaugh was talking 1950's cold war rhetoric. china has opened up to a bill market economy -- real market economy. the time i see is not the time i sought last year in -- china i see is not the time i saw last year in beijing and shanghai. this is a vibrant economy, top of the game in foreign exchange, a tremendous influence throughout the world. the united states is righ

as we start to redo this place, let's make sure that it creates jobs. it is a place we can be proud of as it creates this new life, and i hope to be your celebrating the new life of all of us. people who work here and can live here with a good job. next, from the california puc, without them, all the stuff that was going on here was pg&e doing their transition upgrades, and we have two commissioners with us today. >> thank you very much. many people have already been thank, and i will just _ that i appreciate their work as well, but i especially want to acknowledge and congratulate the residents of this south west corp. of san francisco, the environmental justice advocates who worked so hard to ensure the plant's closure. without your steadfast dedication to this effort, and along with your patience, we are here to be able to celebrate this moment today. mike agency played a relatively small part in making this happen, though we like to think it was a crucial part. where we stand is to help ensure the other side of the equation, which was helping make c

those standards on their retrofitting efforts, that they will not be asked down the line to come and redo the work they have done. three is evaluation criteria when buildings are evaluated, and i can go into that a little bit more if you wish, and then segue into the permit tracking system, we would certainly like to have the results of the evaluation and retrofit activity's been publicly available on a permit tracking system. and by the way, if we have -- i do not want to call them inspectors, but he evaluators go out and evaluate buildings for seismic capacity, i think it is a one time in a lifetime or more than 10 lifetimes to actually have a human set of eyes on the inside of the door, and i think we want to give some thought on what non-structural issues we want to be looking at to populate this new database, which we are all looking forward to having. but there are these four items that i think that we felt were important for the bic/dbi to act on. they kind of go down in terms of the lowest hanging fruit is at the top. the things that might be a little harder or not this time sensi

commissioner moore: i want to share with you and observation about the transformative values of redoing trees. i always hated to drive down a street. it was a street i avoided at all costs. but last night, i drove down divisadero and it was late at night when you don't want to go there, but it was beautiful. is one of the streets that has good pavement. the lighting, the landscape -- it pulls together the street as a space. it is remarkable. i want us to remember that as we move into our discussion of our better street plans. i think it is a wonderful it simple. i hope it will be one of many to come. >> that puts us under the director's report, item 5, directors announcements, and six, review of past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> let me add my thanks to all of you for getting through another year last year. happy new year to all of you. i look forward to an interesting new year. we have a full year ahead of us, as is already showing up on our calendar. a couple of things the last few weeks. as president miguel menti