i am talking to the board and i am talking to the public who is watching the proceedings on sfgtv. instead of focusing strictly on the podium, i think it should be viewed to show how does respectfully the majority of the board tree public comment. some walked out before public comment is over. some are so in tune to that they are not paying any attention to the public. this is supposed to be a country where everybody has equal protection under the law. other people have unequal access to you. they have it -- they can get 10 or 15 minutes of your time. for the people in this city that are not that powerful or rich and they want two minutes and you watch people get out of their chairs and they go out to take a leak, showing the disregard, disrespect, disinterest, whenever you want to call it for what the citizens have to say to you. you are denying people access to their representative in city government. i made two calls to my supervisor. in each attempt i said, could i get five minutes stocks could i get five minutes to talk about something? you get an aide that says no. they do no

of this meeting is available for purchase directly from sfgtv. at this point, we will conduct our swearing-in process. if you intend to testify in any of the hearings and wish to have the board did your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand, reroute right hand, and say "i do" after you have been sworn in or firm. and a member of the public may speak without taking the oath pursuant to their rights under the sunshine ordinance. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony or about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. we move to item one, public comment. is there any member of the public wishes to speak on an item that is not on tonight's calendar? seeing none, we move to item two, which is commissioner comments and questions. commissioners, anything? seeing none, item three, the adoption of minutes. before you for consideration are the minutes of the board's june 22, 2011 meeting. vice president garcia: it looks like there are no comments or suggestions, so i move that we adopt

of this meeting are available for purchase directly from sfgtv. thank you for attention. it if you intend to testify at at any of tonight's hearings and wish to have the board to give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your right hand, and say "i do" if you have been sworn in or affirmed. and a member of the public may speak without taking an oath, pursuant to their rights under the shine shine ordinance. -- under the sunshine ordinance. thank you. the u solemnly swear -- do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony or about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. president goh, commissioners, we have one housekeeping item, appeal number 075, item number seven, which is the building permit that has been withdrawn and will not be heard this evening. we move on to item one, public comment. it is that any member of the public to wishes to speak on an item that is not on tonight's agenda? out -- is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on an item that is not on t

that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58, and we want to thank read your catering for providing some delicious food for us to nibble on today, so will you please join us and say thank you again to mrs. colvin and also to byrin bain for telling his story, but thank you for coming so that we can say thank you to miss colvin for being a living history maker. join us. thank you. ♪ lift every voice and sing

and -- dvds are available directly from sfgtv. if you intend to testify and wish to give your testimony, please stand, raise your right hand, and say, i do. please note any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to the rights under the sun shine ordinance. the solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. vice-president garcia, commissioners, i have one announcement. the july 20 meeting has been cancelled. that is next week's meeting. our next meaeting will be july 27. this has to do with -- one item has been withdrawn and will not be heard this evening. moving on to item number one, is there any member of the public who would like to speak on an item that is not in the agenda? seeing none, item 2 is comments and questions. seeing none, we will move to the adoption of minutes. before you for consideration are the minutes of the june 29, 2011, meeting. >> i would move we adopt the findings as written. thank

we want to thank the following staff members of the sfgtv for covering this staff meetinmeeti. please call item two. >>item 2. approve the minutes of the june 21, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: seeing none, public comment is closed. -- is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, you have the minutes of the june 21 meeting before you. motion by commissioner avalos. without objection. please call item three. >>item 3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. commissioner campos: is there anyone here from the citizens advisory committee? why don't we come back to item three. why don't we stick to item four. >> -- skip to item fo4. >> good morning, committee members. the start of its 17 of the package. the item is to recommend appointment of one member to the citizen advisory committee by way of backgroun. each member of the cac serbs two years. the cac committee and the far east that could not make recommendations as to the appointment of the cac. tha

you can view the entire ceremony and program on sfgtv channel 26 as well as the apa heritage month'ssite. check out asian week's 7 annual street fair saturday the 21st in the street center. little saigon. glass of wine, arts and crafts. on behalf of the apa heritage celebration committee, congratulations to all our recipients this evening, thank you for taking part. thank you to the volunteers of the planning committee, supporting organizations, and last but not least, the sponsors who made this celebration possible. great troubles, everyone. see you next year. -- great tavels, -- great travels, everyone. see you next year. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and rea

>> i want to thank sfgtv for their excellence. the meeting is now adjourned.

you can view the entire ceremony and program on sfgtv channel 26 as well as the apa heritage month'ssite. check out asian week's 7 annual street fair saturday the 21st in the street center. little saigon. glass of wine, arts and crafts. on behalf of the apa heritage celebration committee, congratulations to all our recipients this evening, thank you for taking part. thank you to the volunteers of the planning committee, supporting organizations, and last but not least, the sponsors who made this celebration possible. great troubles, everyone. see you next year. -- great tavels, -- great travels, everyone. see you next year. i'm robert chief and i'm the park's supervisor in the parks in the sunset district. i've been working here for 3 years. we are 60-70 street below street level. the 64 acre park. the park is divided into 2 sections we are in the stern area. when you get over to pine lake meadow and pine lake, pine lake is considered a natural area. in 1847, the green family came out here, back then this was kind of an empty canyon and sand dun area. they claimed this property. in 1

thank you to sfgtv in their excellence of covering the happenings at city hall. please call roll call. -- transportation authority. >> [roll call] we have a quorum. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. item two. >> item 2. approval of minutes of may 24, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: comments or questions? public comments? public comment is closed. approval of the minutes seconded by commissioner campos, avalos. roll call. >> [roll call] there are nine ayes. commissioner mirkarimi: please read items 3 and 4. >> item 3. chairs report. this is an information item.item 4. executive director's report. this is an information item. commissioner mirkarimi: the region is now in the throes of an important policy discussion about the way that growth will occur in the next two to three decades and the focus is on dealing with climate change and assuring we invest in truly sustainable transportation infrastructure and services. this is a debate that has been taking place at mtc and abag. last week, at a meeting, we had a clearer look at how the d

that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58, and we want to thank read your catering for providing some delicious food for us to nibble on today, so will you please join us and say thank you again to mrs. colvin and also to byrin bain for telling his story, but thank you for coming so that we can say thank you to miss colvin for being a living history maker. join us. thank you. ♪ lift every voice and sing >> good morning. quick adjustment here. thank you all for coming this beautiful morning in san francisco. we are honored to have mayor ed lee with us today. senator yi and supervisor cohen is on the way and a special guest marisa churchill from the top chef from the food network. i have been with the company for over 35 years and you can probably tell by my hair color. i have seen lots of changes off that time period. lots of innovative things. this is one of the most exciting that we've been

i would like to thank the staff from sfgtv for televising us today. there are quite a few items today. can you please call item no. 1? >> item #one. ordinance amending planning code section 415.5 to provide for a new land dedication alternative in the market and octavia plan area in lieu of payment of the affordable housing fee; and adding section 415.10 to provide for the requirements of such land dedication; making findings including environmental findings and findings of consistency with the priority policies and the general plan. supervisor wiener: last year my predecessor introduced the first version of this legislation. before of what housing legislation is designed to provide a new alternative to fee payments for projects that decide not to build affordable units on site right now. that is a very extreme decision in that these fees could be used to build affordable housing anywhere in the city. dedicating parcels of land within the market octavia plant area so that we can continue to create affordable housing within the market octavia's own. i

>> i want to thank sfgtv for their excellence. the meeting is now adjourned. supervisor campos: good morning, everyone. welcome to the board chambers. welcome to the july 14, 2011 meeting of the board of supervisors and government audit and oversight committee. we are joined by members of the committee vice chair supervisor mark farrell, board president david chiu. the clerk of the committee today is -- do we have any announcements? >> [clerk announcements] supervisor campos: thank you. please call item one. >>item 1. ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by amending sections 14.1, 14.3, and 14.4 of the health care security ordinance to provide that only amounts actually paid or irrevocably committed to pay for providing employee health care services shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the ordinance, add an employee notification requirement, and to modify penalty provisions. supervisor campos: this is an item that i introduced. before our call the first presentation on an item, i want to begin by thanking my colleagues on

>> i want to thank sfgtv for their excellence. the meeting is now adjourned. >> would you like to call the roll? er jsbr we have a quorum. commissioner perrez is an excused absence. >> thank you. second item -- first item is public comment. members may address the commission on items of interest that are within the subject matter of jurisdiction. members may address the commission up to three minutes. at the time such item is called. is there anyone here to speak to an item or an issue that is not on today's agenda? seeing none, i am going to go forward because we will lose our quorum. i am going to take the calendar out of order. the place of entertainment -- do you want to take that? >> it is an application at 37 mission. in your folders you will find the full application. and original photographs. inside you will find your security plan and a letter of support from the neighbors. we recommend conditional approval of this permit. >> would you like to invite the applicants up to be grilled? >> good evening. i am a business broker

thank you to sfgtv for their ongoing excellence in covering committee proceedings. madam clerk, good morning. please read the first item. >> at one, hearing on the assembly bill 109 regarding the community just this realignment and san francisco of sorting additional inmates into the county jails. supervisor mirkarimi: this is the third hearing administered by this public safety committee over the last seven months, but this is the heart -- the first hearing of its kind since governor brown signed the budget, and there are a number of questions that had remained unanswered in the two previous hearings that we now have more specificity and definition to. we believe that this is a very critical hearing, a milestone, because of all the criminal- justice stakeholders, partners in the city family, who have been working diligently in us preparing for the state prisoner realignment program. we will hear from a number of those stakeholders, and of course, from community members. we're working through the non- profit network as well, because of their ongoing work in excellen

supervisor mar: i would also like to think the staff of sfgtv for televising us today.e have a number of items on our agenda -- eight items -- and i have been urged by my colleague supervisor wiener to move the hearing on the t-line performance so he could hear the action items. could you please call item 1? >> item 1, or is amending the planning could regarding the authorization of historic signs. supervisor campos: thank you for hearing this item, i also want to thank all the members of the audience to are here. just to give you a little context, many of you perhaps have read that in brno heights, there was recently discovered of coca-cola sign, and that is a sign that has been in that location for decades. it has been an integral part of the history of the neighborhood, and rightly many people in the neighborhood wanted to preserve the sign in response -- wanted to preserve the signed. in response to that desire, we have draft legislation before you today. in drafting the legislation know, we wanted to take into account that even though we were responding to a specif

>> i want to thank sfgtv for their excellence. the meeting is now adjourned. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk a

>> i want to thank sfgtv for their excellence. the meeting is now adjourned. >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor -- local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. ♪ >> many san franciscans are not aware that there is a civic art collection of numbers almost 4000 works of art. preserving the collection and maintaining it is something being addressed by a new program called art care. it is a way for citizens to participate in the preservation of the ci

thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor."e have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to help make a change? i'm not really doin' anything. ummmm [sighs] got me on that one... building inspection brown bag lunch. today we have an extremely special event. we are here at paige glass on mission street in san francisco with mr. ken paige. ken paige has generously invited us into his glass shop and gallery. and the paige glass goes back a long, long time, right? to preearthquake, whichever earthquake -- >> all of them. they're all good. >> when did paige glass start? >> the big one, 1906. >> this happened afs in your family, was paige glass back then? >> well, the 1906 was a very important year, of course, for san francisco, needless to say. the bad news was the death a

i would also like to a knowledge our friends at sfgtv for the professional and courteous work they domadam clerk, what do we have first on the agenda? >> the first item is hearing under proposed fiscal year 2011-2012 budgets of san francisco unified school district. >> thank you. are there any conversations you would like to have? any words? anything you would like to say? ok, all right. thank you very much. let's begin with -- actually, i have a few words. we have school district staff that will be making a presentation today on the first agenda item. please step up to the microphone. thank you. >> should i get started? ok. good afternoon, everyone. i am the director of budget services for the san francisco unified school district. i am here to give you a brief update on our -- not just the governor's budget proposal for the state k-12 education, but our status and where we are with our district's budget development. this presentation was provided to our own board members a few weeks ago at one of our committee hearings. so it might be repetitive for you, but bear with me. let me sta

we want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff for covering the meeting, mark and illon. please call item two. >> ifitem 2. approve the minutes of the may 17, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: we have been joined by david chiu. we have the minutes of the meeting. before we take any action, let me ask members of the public if they would like to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? seconded by commissioner avalos. can we take that without objection? without objection. please call item three. >> item 3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> good morning mr. -- good morning, mr. chairman. i was appointed to the committee last year. i have been asked by our new chairman davis to make a report on four important items that are before your committee and that have been reviewed by the citizens of 53 committee. those items are items 5, 7 -- 5, 6, and 7. but i will make my comments quickly on five, six, and seven to say the cac voted 7-2 to recommend your committee approved a fiscal year 2011-20

thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't suppose

>> i want to thank sfgtv for their excellence. the meeting is now adjourned. >> good afternoon. thanks so much for joining us. we are excited to could be here today. the assessor recorder cost of this is excited to announce it again that we have come to the rescue of the city budget. over the years, we have been able to continue to bring in more money than expected. this year was no exception. even given the huge hurricane of appeals, we are able to bring in about $50 million above our projection for the city budget. that will help this year's city budget and also next year's budget. behind me are some of the people who will talk about the very important things that the money will go to. just to give you a sense of what we are talking about, the $50 million is almost 20% of the $300 million budget deficit. we also want you to know, $24 million of that will go to the general fund. if it were allocated exactly as general fund was broken up, then it would be $9.5 million for public safety, $6.5 million for human services, $5.2 million for health services, $4.5 million for the seven

it is a simple process that is approved by both rec park and sfgtv. some new and innovative projects we recently funding include a lego education robot kit to expand their randall museum's robotics course for fifth through 12th grades students in rec center city-wide. also, safety equipment. pads, ramps, and more for the new action sports program. i think you saw some of that today. it is fun to think of all the kids at summer camp who are being protected by this. i would like to recognize bob and his staff for the great work this year. and michael taylor of san francisco parks trust, and our trusty, christine gardner, who encouraged sports basement to keep up their support. if you accept this gift, we can do even more. sports basement provided give certificates in support of a fine contest call the name your favorite rec center, going on now through june 30. these are $250 gift certificates that will go to the winners of the contest. over 125 people had voted for their favorite rec center. all you have to do is go to our website, sfpt.org, and vote f