native san franciscoans like myself and we remember the past. i think this city, people are representing their jobs basically and the preservationists like myself, we're representing the character of san francisco. and thraze good -- there's a good reason san francisco is one of the most popular destinations in the world. we basically stayed the same and that's what we like about it. i want to you think about that. thank you. >> thank you. although i would disagree about city staff, i think they're all incredibly committed to the city and a lot of them can be making a lot more money in the private sector and they're doing it because they love san francisco. i respectfully disagree with that comment. >> several or newcomers to san francisco also. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is marilyn cohen. i simply want to address what a wonderful idea it is to turn golden gate park into an historic district. the current president of the rec and park commission has stated that parks are assets from which we must extract value. i think

san franciscoans are interested in quality of life issues. and so we need roads that do not have large holes where cars get stuck. we have a $300 million backlog on our roads. those are the things we use daily. originalally -- originally we all should work so that we have -- [tone] less cars on our roads. am i given two minutes? thank you very much. i'm the only one for public comment here, and i'm given two minutes. chairman chu: thank you. >> the rest is in writing. and i think my comments will not be very favorable. chairman chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion on this item? ok. we've got a motion to send this item forward with recommendation. without objection. thank you. >> item 7, recommend appropriation of $55,000 in prop k funds with condition for the u.s. 101 scandal stick interchange project study report, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution. >> good morning. this item begins on page 113 of your packets.

yes, i am going to be speaking for treasure island but i'm a native san franciscoan.nd i just heard all of this been waiting here three hours. i couldn't help but get into this different subject. garages. one of the most attractive and interesting aspect of the city -- of the orlede parts of the city which we all take for granted but tourists go gaga over should be definitely thought of very creatively. they are possible change of use to things like flower shops, assembly, poetry readings and art studios but even housing. example from sutter, from steiner to fillmore, there is such a place, garage was turned into a condo. but you go through this archway and it's all part of the garage. then behind it where you can't see it too well from the street, our housing and there's a beautiful courtyard there, wonderful use of it. i think we miss these garages. they give so. texture to the neighborhood. main thing is they were used -- my great grandmother used to reminisce about the stable boy. they were stables in the 19th century. >> thank you. appreciate it. next speaker. >>

i am a native san franciscoan and retiree of civil service. we have a wonderful project for the island and we are so excited to work toward this knowing the island will be developed. the treasure island museum which closed by the navy in 1997 when they left and stored all of the cleckedses. the museum association of which i am president managed to put on exhibits using other resources. we want to show the challenge of the island in the past to build it, the navy, just to save our country from attack and so forth all of it will continue with understanding what is a sustainable society. we have a model out there and our museum will challenge the visitors. in the past we hired volunteers people living on the island. imagine what we will do once there is a center and a population. we are the people that can answer a lot of questions about what happened here. we are thrilled the development is going forward as quickly as possible. >> thank you. we are almost done with public comment. >> i am here to tell you how jazzed i am about treasure island. t

find all the different suppliers of restoration services and/or hardware so that the typical san franciscoan who 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 artisticlic

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, everyone. welcome to city hall. the great city hall of san francisco. [applause] we have been busy this morning but it has been a pleasure all morning to greet so many people love the city. i cannot think of another 10 people who love this city. i want to thank each and everyone of you because your volunteering -- i know that word. volunteer for one of the greatest cities in the world. what you will be doing, sacrifices in time, interactions with you, with various commissioners, it will be a wonderful experience, one that many of you will continue to do, and some of you about to do for the first time. i see former supervisor bevan dufty is here. david from the department of the barnett. emily. commissioner shorter, thank you for being here. bruce, thank you for being here. tom, roberta from the mta, thank you for being here. please forgive me, i a

i think san franciscoans as they always have done, try to stand together and work on what is going to be happening throughout state. >> another thing i want to point out in the appendix -- as much as i know, i made the statement, in the past. felt like it was a weak link of our district, the fact that so many of our -- are entering middle school, not proficient at all, it is -- is this really a callout to the elementary school come opponent, they got some better -- it is really hard for us to excel in middle school or anywhere else. as you're moving along -- as we're moving along with our middle school strategies, the elementary school section needs to look at their strategies also. >> thank you. i have a few questions, one, i want to -- start with something. it seems like a clarifying question. on page 17 where you discuss the current conditions, that there is at least one elective course and then the first subsection says elective courses are determined by -- choice patterns and demands. i do not accept that as a reason to continue being that way. that is one of the main things that

i think san franciscoans as they always have done, try to stand together

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,

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, >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor carmen chu from district four, which includes the central and outer sunset and park side neighborhood. supervisor chu was elected to the board of supervisors in 2008 and reelected in 2010. we will get to know her and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. let's start by talking about your background -- where you grew up, what kinds of jobs you have work. supervisor chu: my parents immigrated to the united states about 30 years ago, and i would say that is probably the most formative part of my background. growing up in an immigrant family, you learn many things. my parents raised me in southern california, and i grew up in the restaurant business. they had a small restaurant at the time, and i was there every weekend, working --

we really fundamentally believe parks are too important to the quality of life of san franciscoans and recreational programs is too fundamental to the health and public safety of our communities to cut anymore. every dollar we've been asked to reduce and what's been happening in san francisco, by the way is no different than what's been happening in a lot of major cities with parks and generally, obviously. we've been focused on preserving vital services for those who need it most. by increasing the amount of revenues that we earn. and for those of you that art has been a leader in the park community and i want to thank you, art, for all of your involvement with the neighborhood parks council and there are other park advocates here. you have been following some of the noise and the noise is because we don't want to cut anymore. we want to earn revenue. we're open to partnerships. we've been working closely with the philanthropic community. not to support the fine arts but we have philanthropic support for some of our operating programs. literally we have a gift from a family foundation

upwards of about $50,000 was spent just in the two-day project, where san franciscoans donated over 1,100 pounds of pharmaceuticals just in that two days at city expense, which is derived from rate pair expense, money that came from discretionary use to the department of environment of water are garbage rates. since i believe that there should be a practice of shared responsibility with good corporate partners, i legislated that we should insist on there being a public/private collaborative effort. pharmaceutical industry, like in the legislative examples, depeffeded on city hall with great -- descended on city hall with great might and i believe was able to influence previous administration to not go down this road. i held a number of meetings with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry and with representatives of the city government, and we decided instead of legislating this particular mandate, that we would try an 18-month pilot program. the industry has agreed. they are shouldering the cost. that cost is being generated by a consortium known as pharma and then genentech of $