sfgov. org there is a phone book where you type the last name and you can find their phone number it's called the street parks program much the sfpt. org has a link on their web page about street parks and what kinds of possible and what some of the resources are. it's quite a rebust set of possibilities. >> thanks very much. one last question? which school? monroe. uh-huh. >> no. yeah. it has to be a physical improvement we expect you to figure out to get somebody to volunteer that. we will not hire people. what happens when the grant runs out? you don't have continuous funding. we will fund the improvements. we have done that at james middle school to help them with their garden. [applause] thank you. >> thanks sorry for the delay. i'm valerie brown with the lower hate neighborhood organization. we are here today at the neighborhood empowerment network to talk about safety on your streets. this actual workshop is what we call a 30,000 feet aerial view of what we do. the lower haight motd w

there is a website on sfgov. org/acs to get information about ham radio communications in san francisco. all right. other questions? >> i was curious the difference in red cross and nert idealy you would want both. would i start getting 20 people together for red cross? >> it depends on your community. if they are ready to go and say, we want to go all out go to the fire department and get the full nert training. if they are like, i'm not sure and you are just getting to know each other the red cross training is great because it's an hour we cover the personal preparedness much the first step if you want to say, let's get everyone in the same room and look at everyone and know their names. you can invite us both. you can invite the humane society and they'll do animal care and control. >> and they will come out and do something. you can have your miniresource fair depending on nature of your community. >> cpr? >> yes. >> right. we do first aid/cpr and shelter training and case management and damage assessment. th

. >> also filmed and on sfgov. including yourself. >> you will be on tv. >> great. >> [laughter]. >> can you use the microphone, please. >> the requirements for eligibility keep changing. is it true that if a building was elis acted it can't be converted? can you speak about that? is that -- >> well, in my time with the city the requirements for qualifying to participate in the lottery i don't believe that those particular requirements have changed it's always been 3 years owner/occupied if a building is elissed it may be converted dependent on the evictions that might have happened. >> because it was elis act does not mean it was disqualified as long as no one had protected rights. >> right it does not mean it's prohibited from converting. there are other issues but elissing is not one. >> say there is a vertical and horizontal encroachment by one unit into a common area and putting aside questions of electric or plumbing or building. legitimacy of that encroachment. say there has been an arbitration awarded the o

check it out if you go to sfgov. org and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many are interested in getting money to improve their neighborhoods. we usually have applications along the order of 2-1/2 times the funding that we have. like we will have 500 thousand dollars available to give out ask and we get 1.3 million dollars worth of applications. it's competitive. we are not hard and fast about breaking down the money between small, medium and large. we are pretty flexible. we like to look at good projects. we always try to fund one large project if it's a hundred thousand we may be might not fund 2 large projects. so, with that, i will quit and invite david and neil and joseph to talk about some of their projects and how they have looked at their neighborhoods and tried to figure out who the stake holders are that can be really activated to produce a l

we are talking about it in different forums and if anybody wants to get a hold of me go to the sfgov website and go to northern station. again, going back to this program i really want to encourage to you what you hear today really take advantage of the resources because they are there for all of us. thank you. >> thanks. [applause]. >> also in your packets you have the resource information back there in your packet so you know who your police where our police station is and the contact information. you might want to check that. the next 2 people i will introduce are our beat officers. you know we are talk about how you find your liaison in the different departments but they actually i didn't find them they found me they hunted me down. and like i said in the last workshop if you knew my background i didn't have trust for the police. i didn't step forward much to meet them. they came after me. that was really amazing and so i said, okay let's try this context in relationship. anybody else can contact their captain and who they might suggest to be the liaison for the street officers t

as we are taping this with sfgov tv i will ask you to ask your question into the microphone so they can pick it up. and you, too will be on tv. now nobody wants to. i will ask a requequestion, wha you working on now? >> does that sound planted? it wasn't. i just finished a monster of a book it's a huge book, set in japan and covers the earth from 1939 and 1966 about 2 brothers and the title is a street of a thousand blossoms. if you haven't noticed we are talking about themes that run through my book. one of the things i like a lot is exploring subcultures. the lepercy. the silk working women. i like to write about groups of people who persevere and make a life on their own aside from what the general culture is doing. i find that i don't consciously sit down and do that but it happens. in this particular book something that has fascinated me is sumo and sumo wrestlers and how they get so big and what it's like in their culture. one of the brothers becomes an sumo and that's why it's a big book! [laughter]. >> do you think that -- being a woman who is in women have been oppressed -- i d