so the circuitry was appealing. also ilived on an electronic junk street, canal street in new york. so a lot of old stuff, you would try to fix it and make it do something that it wasn't made to o. >> in fact over time you invented a lot of things that became part of your performancess you know -- >> yeah. >> famous [indiscernible] violin and talking stick. can you talk aboot that, developing these things and incorporating them into your work. i think a lot of people associate that with you. >> well, the talking stick i did a -- something called songs and stories rom moby dick. ú&d it was -- i guess i fell in love with melville. the talking stick was a way to give musicians something very physical to do. because i love the physical instruments, you know. the ones, keyboards and laptop things, it's pretty dreedful to watch, sit there watching ppople play that stuff, you know. you are watching somebody play keyboards, it's kind of like watching somebody iron, you know. [laughter] it's like that -- you know, so when you throw

i love that, so it has influenced me. for example, in london, i saw a black trench coat, and in the front, you say black is not for children. black is bad, and everything like that that is ridiculous, so i told them. i must say that one for me was a learning experience. i love it. >> london has changed, as every city has. you certainly will not have any of those bankers wearing bowler hats and numberless. more to the point, london out is tremendously diverse. paris is becoming in admitting that it is more a diversity, and there's a little line for me quite hidden away the says i'm very much a parisian or i'm interested in parisian women, but not quite sure that i ever met a parisian woman. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that my education, i have been looking at old movies that i love. we speak about the reputation of the parisian, which was supposed to dress very well. i think that, you know, in france, the eccentricity -- for me, eccentricity is very chic and it is what i love. it is so much about the good ta

so i appreciate president chiu taking this on. and i think and i know that you know this, that it's important that we treat folks equitably. so i think it would be important that if we're going to allow, say, tenants to have certain ability to rent out when they are away for vacation, that we treat tenants and owners equitably and don't do something that favors someone because they are a tenant to be able to do something that a property owner can't do. i do see the [stk-eufrpgs/] between keeping units vacant, so that they are permanently hotelized, if that is a word. but i want to make sure that we're treating folks equitably. i also want to make sure that landlords should have some role here. so i know that i have heard is of some property owners who will see their building listed on air b & b, because a tenant is renting it out and they had no idea. and that is something that i think needs to be addressed. by the same token, i already had a recent situation in my district, where a woman had went on vacation and rented out her uni

>>> i don't think so. ybe they told me to -- if i had too many finches in a cage, i said i'll move the finches. the regular thing a store has. you also get people who like to call, you know. >> mr. yorck, you're not instilling a hell of a lot of confidence in the guy that just put your name forward. >>> i'm sorry. i never -- >> if you want to be -- if you were an animal store owner, you would be able to tell us exactly how many times you received a citation. >>> i don't think i ever. >> finches? >>> no, someone would call the animal control would come out, and they wouldn't cite me for it. they would say, yeah -- no. sorry. >> i was looking for a stronger answer, mr. yorck. >>> i'm not good at this. >> again, i have no reason to know that any of this is true. that's why i wanted to simply ask. >>> do you have a name or did someone give a name or anything? was it just a nasty rumor? >> what i think would be best is perhaps if we can take -- continue this item till a later portion of the agenda and we can --

did grew up around these stories i didn't really make the connection that they were so instrumental in the fabric of the middle class and america in general but i was fascinated you know i did early age by just the storytelling the thing the impressed me is is how few people know these stories. i just most of my life just assumed everybody knew this having gone to elementary school in lansing michigan and in the in the late fifty's we actually took a labor class there was actually a class the history of organized labor in like porth great i mean we we knew the story we they had news reels and things that i'm assuming the u.a.w. probably provided to the schools at no charge but i remember watching you know the great flint sit down strike itself we knew of we knew the time line of things and it seems that with the reagan revolution and taking over their part of education and just this whole change in america's attitude toward organized labor at least much of america's attitude toward organization that history has vanished. my sense of it and you're much younger than me tell me if this

en know at i would do that. so you just have to go with if. >> something else you said was you said i tried to emulate the english because i was so impressed by their work and their style. but it was not really me. >> it's tough to be somebody else, you know. people are always asking me what would you suggest a young photographer do. and i always say find who you are. because we try to be like so many people. i remember when i started being a photographer i wanted to take photos like richard, but i wasn't them, you know, so how could i take them. and very bad at copying. some people manage to reproduce other people's work and they do it beautifully, sometimes even better than the one before. but for me, i'm not good at that. so -- >> you had always said i take this was-- before i met corine you said i didn't rolize that i'm not english. i am not french. mi peruvian. so what does am mean to you to be peruvian. >> i grew up in a society where we used to look up a lot at europeans and americans, you know. erians and e

so i want to thank supervisor olague for putting this legislation forward. think this is something that we should have done a long time ago. and i think that the longer that we wait to do it, the more difficult it will be for us to meet our objectives. >> thank you. supervisor wiener? >> thank you very much. thank you supervisor campos for your perspective. you know, i actually think that the reason we have not met our goals is not because of the lack of information. i think there is a lot of information, but because no. 1, we don't have nearly enough money to be investing in creating affordable housing. i think that is something that we all agree on. i'm assuming. and we have a lot of zoning rules in this city that frankly discourage the creation of enough housing. it's always interesting to me where there are some people, who are proponents of affordable housing, not all, but some, who then oppose any and all creation of new housing. and any kind of density and fight the housing element. and oppose in-law units and all of the kind of things that we can be d

so i appreciate their service. i think that even if you disagree with their conclusions, i think they were thoughtful and pretty thorough in their analysis. so i would ask those colleagues who believe that the legislation that was passed did not address the underlaying objective of closing that loophole as i think this report demonstrates that they vote no on this resolution today. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. and i agree with supervisor campos that it's good for citizens to participate and express their views. but so supervisor elsbernd's comments aren't misconstrued. this is not just a citizen discuss group where people come together and express their views and put out statements. this is the official civil grand jury with the title "civil grand jury," with the title "superior court" above and i think that brings on an added responsibility beyond what a neighborhood association or a discussion group may have. so i think supervisor campos is correct that people should be encouraged to express thei

so, i think that should go to the bottom. and as commissioner dooley said, some of these others should be rising to the top. >> i think it could be reworded to assure that you provide the support, because if this here is showing there is a completion that really your responsibility is to provide the support. >> yeah, i agree with that. also, you know, the fine timelines are pretty in flux to some extent, just depending on how things are going situationally. so -- >> you don't manage us, you manage your own staff because we have our day jobs. >> right. and i'm thinking it more in managing us so that you can achieve what you want to do. should you make any changes, that's your prerogative. but if we're not providing you with things in a timely manner to achieve those things, that's more of the focus that i'm trying to get at. it's not about what -- the decisions you're making, it's about us getting you the information to make your decisions. >> you should change it as mark said. that's not quite what it says. right now what it s

so i would love and i have not veted this idea, so i don't know if it's possible or not. i think we should require nert training. we're in a city that the first-responders, even if you had a gazillion firefighters, first of all, most of them don't live here unfortunately and secondly we're going to need all of us when it comes to a big earthquake. when you get this training they say 80% of the people will be needing to be helped. very minorly injureded and then we'll have the training to help them. so i think that would be a really awesome thing if we could all be nert trained and require it. >> mr. resignato, is this time card 3 or 4 for you? >> this is 3. >> from what it sounds like, Û: think i need to become a nert, because i'm a nerd already, but i could become a nert. i love the prevention questions. keep them coming. i'm passionate about prevention. there is a simple thing to make sure that when our earthquake hits we can do what is called "shelter in place." we can keep people in their homes. basically we have lot of multi-family homes with soft understories with a

i am not french. mi peruvian. so what does am mean to you to be peruvian. >> i grew up in a society where we used to look up a lot at europeans and americans, you know. americans and europeans came with culture and heritage and history. and peruvians we were like third world. this is how we used to see ourselves. and it took me a long time to-- because i went to england to look for something different, you know. and i didn't really realize that being peruvian was the most wonderful thing that could have ever happened to me. and how difficult it must be not to be peruvian. but i had to really understand that i couldn't dot english style nor the french style. and i needed a woman like coreven to really point it out at me and say you know, do your pictures. don't try and do anybody else's pictures. the promise that i didn't think my pictures were that great. and like this i have heard so many advice from different people that have said to me, you know, look at look at your life. i used to do really boring pictures. we a

i have no money so see you later. hey! so go to this. go to the east. [birds chirping] any way i'm safe as long as i still with birds. okay. wow. what's that coming towards me. okay. i should grab it. a kind of pole. hey, hey! i'm safe. so, any way, let's get to the - got to get out of here. go. get out of here. where am i? whoa this morning the sunrise is very beautiful. that mountain. i'm still in japan. wow i'm lucky. and there's a place to the temple gate. oh, it's my neighborhood. very lucky. so, where is the five story building. there's the point and this is the main hall and there it is. i'm on the top of the story, tabernacle. i'm in trouble. how am i going to get down. what's that? where? on the top of the temple? it's a bird. no. i don't think so. i think it's a man. [laughing] no one could climb up - climb - up. [singing] something is happening in the temple. whoa what's that. i think it's a performer. i think it's a man. man! what's he doing up there? i don't know but he must be in trouble. let's help him but we don't have a ladder. okay. so,

so i pay for parking, even though i don't own a car. so i don't have a lot of sympathy for people who complain about the loss of free parking. the other issue i'd like to bring up is safety. there are thousands of people riding on this street every day. and the alternative, some people have said the alternatives are haight and page. page has a huge steep hill going west from divisadero. ever since the bike lane was put on fell, i've never ridden on page ever again. i'm 60 years old. i'm not going to -- you know, i'm not going to ride a heavy loaded bicycle full of groceries up a steep hill if i have an alternative. so i really think -- i've been riding a bicycle for about 42 years, since i was 19. i'm going to be 61 soon. and i know that that bike lane on fell is not safe. if a car door -- if someone were to open the passenger door, that door takes up nearly the entire bike lane and would knock someone into traffic. so we need a wider lane, it's not safe. i don't think we can continue to put the lives of thousands of people at risk for

but since miss herrick did not, so i guess... first question is could miss herrick see the ethics commission files? i understand that miss ludichu, am i saying that correct, did not... understands that the whistle blower's files at the controller's office would not be available. miss herrick, could you or did you review the ethics files and maybe you know the answer to that as well. >> i don't know the answer to that. it sounds like the answer to that is no but i will let miss herrick speak to it but i could answer your question more generally commissioner studley. i do not advise the whiesle blower program on sunshine issues there are other lawyers that do that. nor am i familiar with the process for reviewing files in response to the sunshine requests. or advice to the ethics commission when they receive a request for materials related to a complaint that involves, conflicts lobbying campaign finance and gofmal ethics is to review the entire file and determine whether any documents in it are must be disclosed under state law. an

so i actually do agree with this very much so from a public safety perspective. >> thank you. there are a few others who want to join in. mr. davis? >> i just wanted to echo that diabetes as well obesity is a crisis in america. and we do need government to start taking leadership around the issue. regardless of the merits of this particular proposal, one thing i want to bring to city hall is a locally sourced healthy food insurance. santa clara county recently band all vending machines from their county facilities and i think we can lead by example, whether it's city hall, hospitals or our schools we should insist on healthy foods and healthy food choices and teaching our children how to grow their own food and cooking. so i would like to see an increase in community garden and an increase in the city with leadership around this issue. >> mr. everest is this your third or fourth use of the time card? >> i know i am out of these. [ laughter ] well, if we finish early i will come back to you. >> all right. >> now a question for miss breed and mr. resignato. san francisco currentl

so i wouldn't try to limit discretionary review. i think it's an important part of the process, of planning in san francisco and a vital example of community input and planning in san francisco. >> miss olague. >> christiana olague. apologies for being late. we' hearing on achievement gaps between african-american and the discussion was such that i didn't feel i should leave. that being said, the booker t. washington was definitely a very contentious project that i sat on the commission at the time. a lot of opposition may be classified as nimby opposition, but this is not the case of a discretionary review. discretionary review are usually initiated by neighbors, 311 notice. your neighbor wants to add a deck or do something to their property and anyone in the city, not just your neighbor, but if you feel like you are going to have a significant impact as a result of the changes that they are making, then you can file a dr. i think the department is attempting to make some reforms so the work at the front-end is better [thr-fpt/] are

so, i want to just go on the record a little bit. i'm all for this if you're willing to pay, but i don't want to see a situation where other workstations within that department suffer so that somebody can get expedited. so, i don't know if anybody wants to talk to that. >> [speaker not understood]. i appreciate your comments on the staffing and the ability to respond to the increasing numbers of records requests, whether they be 3r or not. we are trying to get down to the envy of five days. we currently are on eight days. we started on 15 days about a month ago. we met with the realtors, the board of realtors, talked to them. they were expressed interest in having an expedited 3r report process. when i asked them what does that mean to them in terms of numbers of days, they said five days. our nbo is five days also. so, assuming that after we get staff and we can bring it down, we will be able to meet our nbo with the, you know, with the regular process rather than going for the expedited. but because there are so many -- i don't want

>> well, i mean, i think so. d, again, i wish i, i wish, i mean, the system, the way the reality of the situation, um, i just don't see -- i just see it continuing. everyone seems to muddle through. i mean, scott shane is right, virtually all media outlets, journalists, reporters when they have a story and they know and they understand it contains information that may be very sensitive and classified, um, they all virtually always come to the agency first and say, look, this is what i've got. um, and, you know, there's back and forth that goes on. um, even when, you know, even when the stories are sensational and actually, you know, bad news for the agency. journalists are willing to horse trade. and the agency historically got us involved in a number of these discussions, you sort of negotiate. you try to figure out a way to get the worst stuff out, you know, or reset so that true damage isn't done. on the other hand, fully realizing that, you know, we may not like it, and we certainly didn't like it at cia. but

so i worked up to that amount. i had a clerical job in a church at one point. so, and then i was teaching. but we were still existing partly on benefits. i couldn't wholly support us. and then the miracle happened. harry was published. and we really didn't look back after a few months t changed my life. but that period, that period of my life was a formative experience for me. and it shaped my worldview. and it always will shape my worldview. the experience of having been part of a mass of people who are very voiceless. the experience of being scape goated and stigmatized because that was the political climate at that time, really has coloured my worldview ever since. and i don't think i will ever lose that. >> rose: define you what mean. i think you know what you mean by worldview. >> well n that, it's a frightening experience to become a statistic to almost fall off the radar of what people think is important to discuss. and to be talked about in terms that you don't recognize. and i think that something i felt very powerfully after emerging from that situatio

so, i signed up immediately. and these guys and girls have made the smartcar smart, and i'm not just talking about their all-electric fleet with solar charging on the roofs. i think that's brilliant. they have about 300 of those cuties parked around the area. and in the cars they have guest cards for the charging station. if you park at a charging station you can charge it. when you're done, this is really important, you just park in any legal parking spot and you leave the car for the next person. you don't have to feed the meter or anything. car to go, of course, has a website and app to help you find and reserve a nearby car and i just love t. of course they can describe the service better than i can. so, i just want to leave you with two important things. one, i don't use services where you have to rent a smog machine and return it to the same place you started from. in san francisco we thrive on one-way, zero emission transportation options, at least i think we do. >> thank you. >>> and secondly, my last sent

so i think that's i think it would be a huge issue in determining the future of israeli iranian relations so if israel has a stockpile of nuclear weapons as many have reported and iran has not even if you're on board to build one wouldn't there be somewhat of a deterrence policy in place why would israel consider still striking iran the belief is you know if both sides have nuclear weapons no no no one side is going to be foolish enough to use them knowing they're going to face retaliation by the other side so the us soviet union the idea of mutually assured destruction i think the israelis are deeply uncomfortable with this because it doesn't take. hundreds of nuclear weapons to functionally destroy israel as i said israel's a very small country a handful of nuclear weapons maybe even only one nuclear weapon some people refer to israel as a one bomb country could do the same damage it would require hundreds of nuclear weapons to do to a much larger country so i think their concern is why take any risk that maybe the current leadership in iran is completely rational but maybe a future one

so i go to san francisco state university. i am treasurer of the pre-law society and i am vice president of students for economic justice. i use balboa park station aphid everyday. i believe that my familiarity with balboa park station has come with me going to and from there everyday and will provide invaluable experience that will be beneficial to this committee. and that is about it. >> great. thank you, mr. mauroff and a plied only for seat 3? >> i would like to amend that to seat 1, muni riders' interest. >> thank you. would you still like to be considered for seat 3 as well? >> yes, i would. >> seats 1 and 36789 thank you, mr. mauroff and we have william walker. >> i'm sorry, that is mr. hogan. sorry about that. >> seats 1 and 36789 >> hello. i live about six blocks from balboa park and homeowner and have been in the neighborhood for about six years. we formed a group of neighborhoods called the friends of balboa park playground. a lost family families with kids in the neighborhood that resulted in about a million mrs. do

>> yes, i do. and so that is part of the reason. as a kind of backup, when i wrote the first draft, i hired historians and had them read the first draft and look for mistakes. i paid him quite well because i want them to take it seriously. mind you, academic history is largely read about, so it's not that much money. [applause] >> but i want them to read my book carefully. they don't have all the information in their head what that means is that when i am writing the first draft, i can be a little bit free. if there is some kind of information that i can't find, i can make a guess at it. i feel confident that if i have guessed wrong, at least one of my historians will find it out. >> there are quite a few characters. the book is over three volumes, that there could be something that you forget about. >> oh, i forget more fundamental things and how tall they are but i make a spreadsheet. that is how i deal with that problem. every time i introduce a new name character, i put in a new spreadsheet with the age and the spreadsheet to cal

so, i mean, i know we have to hear from the public on this before we really discuss it, so, maybe we should [inaudible]. >> comment? >> andreas becker for the record. i'm the representative for james t. wong, the owner of the downhill residents at 17 37 12th avenue. and i'd just like to confirm what ms. sarkesian just said and join her request for a continuance. i agree that a permanent timeline may need to be established, but the two parties are in agreement that we're making progress and i just wanted to support her request. >> is there any further public comment? the commissioners can deliberate. >> i would actually like to make a motion that we uphold the order of abatement and hold it as the consideration is moving forward so we can give maybe a 90 days to do the permit and, you know, six months to do the -- considering that we are entering a rainy season, allow for that. but i think we need to draw -- i mean, it isn't usual that we extend these things over and over again like this. so, i think that it might be helpful to the process if somebody draws a line. it can get done and

so i actually do agree with this very much so from a public safety perspective. >> thank you. there are a few others who want to join in. mr. davis? >> i just wanted to echo that diabetes as well obesity is a crisis in america. and we do need government to start taking leadership around the issue. regardless of the merits of this particular proposal, one thing i want to bring to city hall is a locally sourced healthy food insurance. santa clara county recently band all

so very long story short. idecided to organization the community and so instead in the following tuesday, the hospital had to have a plan to tell them how we are shutting it down, and relocating all of the patients. i have every bureaucrat that dotted and signed on the line facing us, facing the community and i demanded that they answer how they are going to help the patients by shutting down the hospital. so instead of us telling them what we plan to do, i reversed the role and had them tell us how they are going to help us resolve the problem. and that was how i learned to organize the community and use the political power of elected officials. at that point, i had leo mccarthy who was the speaker at that time of the assembly because it belonged to the state. and then they told me, you know, since we are building the next building with the hill burton grant from the federal government for an out-patient facility, and i said, yeah, very nice. we are building a clinic, but they are shutting down our main hospita

before the commission very soon was going to be something that supported the needs of the community so i think it's really important that we recognize that shadows and other conditions of the park are really important to consider. however, what i think is important is that the benefits that the plan before you really does provide is the tradeoff, in fact, we're talking about investments for affordable housing, we're talking about additional investments to open space which in fact will expand the reach for low-income folks in our city, so i think it's important that we not minimize the impacts that we can mitigate but in fact celebrate those and really figure out a way in which to elevate access and opportunity for our most vulnerable residents in the city and i do believe that these commissions are the stewards in evaluating those tradeoffs and it's important that both be considered but on the whole, the transportation investments, the affordable housing invests in addition to the open space investments will not only better provide an opportunity for our most vulnerable populations but a

i do not want to do anything that would hold up these proceedings any further. >> okay. so the draft as currently amended and i'm sure there will be other amendments, contains a one-sentence concurence from commissioner hayon. do you have that language in mind. >> the language i have is commissioner had aon supports a finding that the official misconduct in this case merits the sheriff's removal from office. is that accurate? >> that is accurate. >> okay.lp >> there were some additional edits proposed by the mayor and i think that they are accurate. so i would propose that on page 2 lines 1 and 2 should now read, "this matter presents the first time that the ethics commission has provided a recommendation to the board of supervisors regarding charges of official misconduct under charter section 15.105." >> did you get that? >> no. >> one more time, please. >> this matter represents for the first time that -- and strike "the mayor has presented the," ethics commission has provided a recommendation to the board of supervisors regarding charges of official misconduct. so you w

so, i welcome the comments. but that's really more importantly why i'm here tonight is to hear what people have to say because i've been meeting with some groups, but i still need to -- we need to collect some more input on the expired m-o-u because the way that the current m-o-u that is expired is written, i predict that probably 90% of it will be rewritten. that's how much of that document needs to be revised. >> my suggestion, then, would be why don't we begin by taking public comment from the youth that are here, everyone that's here. and, so, why don't we i'll read some of the comment cards, the speaker cards. laura [speaker not understood]. leah white, violent vazquez, tina [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood]. kevin bogus, and then anyone who would like to speak, just come on up. you each have two minutes. >>> good evening, members of the board of supervisors, board of education. my name is leah white. i am the program manager for bernal hoods neighborhood center, [speaker not understood], th

so i did the collection with my interpretation. i tried to understand the base, the concept, so it is good. you have to read, definitely. >> creativity is so difficult to define by creative people because you just do it instinctively. you were telling me that last night, something inspired you, and you went back andrew your next collection until 4:00 a.m. what inspired you? do you know what set it off? >> i think it is image sometimes. one that you do not expect can be also a surprise. it was not the case here today. yesterday during the night, it was more like an image that i have seen or received little and i did not know how to treat it. something making me think about it yesterday. after it came and i wake up, instinctively it came like yes, i could do it like that, so i wrote that to remember, and after i was into it, it was very exciting. yes, i find it because always, you are looking for something, you did not know what. until it becomes more concrete, it gives you -- i need to have that direction. it is a real pleasure. some

and so i ask you for your vote, i ask for your support and i ask you to go to www.elect michael bryere.com and we are challenging the politics as usual. so thank you, again. >> i would like to sincerely thank both of you for participating on behalf of myself, the league of women voters of san francisco and our partner organizations the jr. league of san francisco, the university of california, san francisco and the san francisco public library, and our media partner, san francisco government television. thanks to each of you, for taking the time to inform yourself about your choices on november 6th. good evening. [ applause ] >> >> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with

so i am a supporter of public investment in affordable housing. i was active in the formulation of prop c, the housing trust fund before we put it on the ballot and have been an allege advocate for that ballot measure and, in fact as some affordable housing developers will tell you, i sometimes pester them to build more affordable housing in the market area. he have been supportive of the projects that have come before this boor, for example for transition-aged youth. so i am a strong supporter of that and that is part of the solution for our affordability crisis. but it is one piece of the puzzle. it is not the entire puzzle. the market does matter when it comes to housing. you know, supervisor olague referred to supply and demand before and econ 101. and supply and demand does matter with housing. and the fact that is that we haven't produced much housing in the city. we have quite a bit in the pipeline coming up, but in terms of actually producing market-rate housing, we have not produced very much. and then when we do, we sometimes do things, l

i will be traveling so i will miss the two meetings -- if we have two meetings i will miss both in november, definitely the second one, so as long as we're not backlogging permit applications i don't see a reason to have a meeting on election date. >> i think the commission's views is people do what they do on election day. >> do you want to make a motion then? >> yeah. i move to cancel the meeting on november 6 which is election day. >> all right. do we have a second? >> i will second it. >> all right. call the roll. >> yes. that's okay. any public comment -- >> wait. follow up on both of yours -- on glendon's thing. i walked broadway street on friday and i don't know maybe it was closed and there is still a lot of police presence there which is great, but seems like the crowd has changed a little bit. it looks encouraging that broadway street -- in fact i talked to a couple of neighbors when i was inside one of the clubs and i think your christmas party and i think with the new commander we can get back on track and try to clean up broadway. i think it's manageable now. i think we're in a