we will be doing a joint promotion to help promote sf- made products. and the sidewalk sale as well. they're hoping to bring additional energy and attention to marketing. also, we will be highlighting shop-your-neighborhood day. >> director? what kind of outreach effort do we have of the then other than g the communities? [inaudible] >> other outreach is pretty much done through other merchant organizations. >> in your packet is an email we sent out that talks about how to market its. this year, wells fargo will put it on their atm's. it is really unique this year. they will be promoting shop- your-neighborhood. we are really doing targeting and outreach to the business owner. we are really targeting the consumer to support small businesses. we are working to find ways to really reach out to the consumer. lead to the sidewalk sale, the marketing and promotion that we will be able to do, the ability to partner with sf-made. because of staffing capacity, we rely on the merchant organization to organize how they want to construct their merchant corridor ac

i do have someone here from sf general, should you have any specific questions about the sf general portion of the project itself. other than that, that would be the information we wanted to present to you this morning. >> thank you. >> i do have public comment. >> do you want to go to that? >> ok. >> i represent potrero del sol and when all thbuneneno vista p. he has come to a lot of meetings and he has been very supportive. victor reyes is a well-known artist throughout the country and he is doing this all for us for free. he also has very close ties to the community around the parke. we're looking forward to a big celebration. hope you come out to the park. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. president buell: commissioner bonilla? >> yes, i am looking at all the letters of support for the project, i did not notice that there were letters from some key stakeholders in the area. i'm referring to the good samaritan center, the horizon, mission neighborhood centers, and there's a list of other organizations that i did not

just the other day, celebrating with china sf. some 13 companies have located their offices here and sel. we celebrated even the small companies like -- who announced they are moving from their office and tripling their office space in 21 market street. in that span of two years, a solar company tripling their office capacity, that has to tell you something. within the very first weeks of going on the job, you heard about twitter. thanks to david chew and his counsel and guidance, we all met the top three officers of twitter and would down to the offices and not only met with them but we also met with the engineers in closed-door discussions and talked to them about their commitment to being here and the reason. then for them to tell me, 65% of their current work force are san francisco residents, 25% come to work on their bicycles every day. by the way, we love those little dedicated lanes, can you do more. we felt we could offer as an anchored to the mid market area an exemption the payroll taxes. i think, along with some other

. >> it sounds like we need to get an update on where the sf park program is and, you know, where it is. we've had a presentation anywhere from eight months to a year ago when it was first implemented. the second is probably to have an mta representative to deal with the meters different from sf park. commissioner clyde: i want to bring of the health department and the site and requirements. there is a new sign that is being passed around and required to be posted about no dogs in a food facility. i like to talk them -- and talk to them about their site requirements. where they are required to be posted and why? the front door of my business is looking pretty jammed with no 21, no smoking, now no dogs. and there are dogs except service animals, documentation, can we ask for documentation? i would like to hear from them again in a future meeting about their signage guidelines and requirements. are they really necessary there? is it a staff training issue? [talking over each other] president o'brien: i've mentioned before, but the impact fee we talked about before. i mentioned the poss

currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is wha

i have been skating in sf for 23 years. i never thought i would receive an award like this. i appreciate it. i have been doing it for a long time. i just appreciate you guys acknowledging my hard work. thank you very much. president buell: thank you. >> all right. last, but certainly not least -- with the help of one of our interns at san francisco university, and we have catherine in the back room -- we had eight fantastic intern's from sf state as part of the rec and parks tourism program. they have been doing a tremendous variety of projects for us. this is the second year in a row. we will show the work of one of our interns, ginnie hopper -- jaime hopper. if you of been to our website recently, you would notice we have launched our recparktv. there are a number of basically guerilla videos about what we're doing in our parks. i have a very short two to three a video for excerpt about some of the things that's been happening over the last month. i am supposed to cue the overhead. i do not know how to do that. [laughter] volume tax -- volume? it is an ode to the silent mo

it's under the jurisdiction of sf general hospital. has become a very large graffiti targets.ro del sol park. the wall we are talking about is right along the northern boundary of the park. it's the southern boundary of what is the community health network building owned by san francisco general. there has been a very robust neighborhood and community process that was sponsored by the bueno vista elementary school pta and sf general. they came

before i get to the recommendations for you today, i want to just mention the upcoming sf park launch. an issue that has been closed or hard for a long time. project goods in early stages of development, something we are very enthusiastic about seeing in the first rollout of the program this week. i just wanted to say that it is going to be important to communicate to the public what this is. i think there is a misunderstanding in the public about how this works and why this is a win-win program for people. i think that that is a real challenge that the agency is going to have to confront. this is a very good development for the mta and transportation in san francisco. something we have been a longtime supporter of. i have three recommendations for you and then i want to

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it isn't going back to 2008 is on data sf now. this is just to orient you to the look and feel of the barometer. it has the standard comptroller's office cover sheet. we recently introduced a one- page narrative to pull out some of the highlights of the report. hopefully, that makes it easier to read. this is the general presentation of the data and the barometer. we have the measures, of which there are 40, grouped by major service areas. for each individual measure, we have the prior year's value, the prior period, two months ago, and the current period value, just to give people a sense of how things are changing. whether these trends are preset relative to our judgments, whether going up is good or bad. a couple of highlights from the february 2001 version. serious violent crimes declined. the wait time at dph for a new patient's appointment shows a lot of variability. 30 days compared to 13 in december, 25 a year ago. complaints are down from a year ago. you will be happy to know the value of construction products for which p

they took me to what was sf love. this was a huge part in creating a.m. and helping me to heal in my life. i was lucky to be protected, because i would like to see future generations of immigrants be able to come to san francisco and enjoy this culture. i would say that more than 90% of my friends are a part of this community. everybody in this room and downstairs, we share a passion for the culture and music and art. i do not feel like it is something of vlogger -- people should be discriminated against. where i go to school at uc- berkeley, some people may and do not like mate because of what i do -- like me because of what i do. president newlin: i would like to call the next speaker, but also samantha, a mckinsey, .-- samantha, mckinsey, [reading names], they view. >> hi, name is stephen, and i am would save the rave. right now, i am a full-time student. i currently work in retail, and i am also the son of someone on the s&p. that being said, and never really understood the allure of the rave scene, and doctrines, and even a majority of the music does

and the city has to do a policy, like the sf parking thing is the first comprehensive and to look at parking as an issue. and not just say no one have a vehicle, but there is a balance between pedestrian rights and walkability and the needs for families and other people that need vehicles. there needs to be that flexibility and we need to be a community that believes in the quality of life and green and can't be abusive to tourists and too many people have gone back with stories about towing. >> and i emphasize the need for balance, and i assure that one goal behind the livable streets group was to integrate the modes and a comprehensive and integrated way. and i share that concern, and we need to remember that pedestrian planning needs to be integrated through all aspects. >> i want to voice my concern about eastern neighborhood and that transportation planning, i think this is a really important part of our urban planning, the eastern and industrial areas. and so many of the decisions made in the early days was to maintain industrial and lower land value, was the guiding principal

drivers in san francisco can now track where parking is available and how much it costs by using the sfapp. >> we are installing new meters that have technology that makes it much easier to pay and deman responsive pricing to charge the lowest price possible to make it easier to find parking in the city. >>reporter: of course using the phone while driving is illegal. >> we have acknowledged that all of the world faces a challenge of mobile technology when you are mobile. so we haven't quite solved that problem but we have made it available to on line to look it up before you leave. >>reporter: other feature of the new program will allow to you pay meters with the cell phone and 7 text messages when the meter is about to run out. high tech parking system was implemented in redwood city few years ago and gotten mixed review. >> it is difficult for the elderly community to kind of figure out thousand use it. it's not every machine you can use cash for. >>reporter: according to san francisco mayor, parking can't get much worse than the current state. he's optimistic the new system will save

requested to them to incorporate the block of mission street and tree planting, sidewalks, street cleaning sfs and would also provide community guide to that block of mission street. we have worked very hard with the neighbors to work in the project and last count it was over 25 stake holders and interested parties along fifth street and mission street. and i think this is a unique situation where we are forming a partnership with the community to see direct result from us coming in there and when we first went in, we were with an area that needed someone to take a risk and go in there and open up the retail shop and realized that we could do a lot more to commit to the neighborhood. and we request you approve this project and thank you for the time. president olague: thank you. we have a couple of speaker cards. >> good afternoon. i am speaking on behalf of this project which, of course, my son just spoke, so you can figure that, but i want to say that i have worked with these people and that space for a number of years from before the five-year period and it wasn't until dan took it over and

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sf park will be launching. >> reporter: the idea use demand based pricing to influence where and when people park. the goal to reduce traffic on the street. >> by steering you as quickly as possible to either on street parking that's available or off street parking in our municipal garages. so by clearing up the traffic, automobile traffic we reduce traffic, and more importantly we speed up nummi. >> reporter: six districting, 6,000 parking units and municipal parking will be part of the system. sensors will track at realtime where parking is and will not be available. the data is up loaded to signs around the city and cell phone applications. >> the nta feels that our baby, we're the one city in this country. and i believe internationally that is doing this type of pilot. we've attracted attention around the world to see how this technology could be used in urban environments. >> reporter: nta officials anticipate the prices to fluctuate from 25-cents to $3 an hour. >>> the price of oil could rise this week on word that saudi arabia has slashed oil output. that news is expected to dr