we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k,

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, >> please call the roll. >> commissioner benetti, you have to move your sign. are you here? [roll call] we have a quorum. no word from commissioner cavellini. hopefully we will see him soon. president newlin: we have a request, so i think i will just move to item no. 4 because we don't have anybody from the police department anyway. in that, i would like to introduce mr. john gallagher that is retiring after i will say how many years of service. he and i came from the police academy together. 41. >> good evening, commissioners. i will be the permit officer for two more days and then my place will be taken. this place has had a lot of negativity over the last years and a lot of criticism. how to save the think we finally got in. we are on the same page. i've been working very closely with the last year-and-a-half for the had the power to suspend and we sent to police

find all the different suppliers of restoration services and/or hardware so that the typical san franciscoanho doesn't have the knowledge base that the 3 of you have can do his own research. >> i'd say start on e bay. quite frankly that's where you could say find this in 5 minutes can you say the, g, word. google. if you type it up on the web it's out there. there are other resources to mention. san francisco architectural heritage is a place you can call they can point you to good things. do you have the number. >> 441-3000. a lot of knowledgeable staff and volunteers quite a library of things. the museum of the historical society, victorian alliance people who fix up their victorians for years. a craft guild in san francisco called artistic license. around for 25 years the cream of the crop as far as period artisans go. there are people who can pull plaster moldings in place. people who do arts and crafts tiles and stained glass. painters, architect designers. there are people in that group who are in the trenches everyday helping ordinary people. they have a web page, artist artisticlicen

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, >> good afternoon. thank you for coming out here on this beautiful summer solstice day with a phenomenal view. you can see mount diablo from here. you can also see our beautiful city. i am the director of public works. i am very pleased to be year. -- i am very pleased to be here to speak to this great community project. i will start you out with this fact, speaking of our beautiful city. 25% of our beautiful city is taken up by public right of way, streets, sidewalks, and scraps and parcels that the city leaders laid out to convey people and vehicles. the public rights of way are important. that is what we stoeward. a lot of it was designed more for utilities and vehicles than people. what you have seen over the last few years is a rethinking of the public rights of way. we're here to talk about one small example of movement in a positive direction in terms of how

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k, >> good morning. welcome to the budget and finance committee. my name is carmen chu. i'm joined by the supervisors. mr. victor young is here. we actually had two recess meetings. the meeting that was supposed to start today at 1:00 and another that was supposed to star at 1:05, so we are combining both of those meetings at this time. mr. young, the 1:00 schedule and agenda, items 1-5. >> item number one, consolidating budget and annual appropriations. fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 and 2013. item # two, the annual budget. [unintelligible] >> and would you call from the 1:05 scheduled meeting. >> item #one fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 and 2013. item #2, fiscal year ending june 30, 2012, fiscal year ending in june 30, 2013. item #3 no, -- >> mr. clerk, we have to the bill agendas. 1:00 and 1:05. can i take a formal motion to combine the two? >> motion. >> ok,