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a giant, grandiose staircase, coming down.r way. but then we thought, "you know what would be good? if we tried to figured out the best way to make an entrance." so we spent the next 20 minutes -- just for ourselves -- nobody else was paying attention to us. >> jimmy: nobody even knew who we were doing -- [ laughter ] yeah, no one even. >> like, "do it again. do another one." >> jimmy: no, cause it's funny cause you would, like -- you came down like, "i can do it on this step." -- you come to the top of the steps and it's like -- survey the party a little bit and then start to just come down the steps and then it was like -- [ laughter and applause ] just little -- and then we kept doing it. "do it again. do a different one, do a different one." >> now boogie, before you come in. >> jimmy: all right, i'll call you back. [ laughter ] [ applause ] we did it like 30 times. >> what i loved is that nobody else in the party was even looking at us. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it was so good, man. it was great. >> so good. >> jimmy: oh god

leaders are working on everything from a little graffiti problem or staircase gardens saying that they want to get beyond neglect and bring it back to what it really is -- is paying attention to our neighborhoods, making them stronger, building community and building partnerships. that is what these street parks are all about. it is never about just the concrete or the flowers. it is about the life and increased value we bring to our neighborhoods. that is what being a neighbor of the great city is all about. that is what i love about the city. my neighborhood is doing the same thing with our street. we want to pay attention to it. we want to get a little help. they get it. we bring the bureaucrats out to the neighborhoods. we make everybody that much more appreciative of what kind of city they are a part of. i want to emphasize the strength of our city relies on the strength of people likfrom the community. you build it here, in glen park, the mission, chinatown. it builds up the strength of the city. it comes back to our department's opening up their resources, not protecting it like

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has a staircase from church across the trail, working with the mta to control pedestrian, with the help of the supervisors leader's office, working with the mta to discuss the removal before -- removal below the bridge. moving toward a 18th street and church, we have mentioned this but we have significant challenges with the two. essentially, pinched points where it is hard to get maintenance vehicles through those areas. we have just begun working with john on a redevelopment plan for that stop. which, i should mention, as we work on these, they are seen as huge, welcoming interests to the park. that really is the front door of the park for the castro neighborhood. we are focused on that as well. we are at the point where the design team does not have details yet, but we will be happy to come back on that. any questions? supervisor mar: anything from either the apartment? thank you. i do not have any public comment cards. if anyone would like to make it public comment, just lineup. public comment is two minutes. you will hear a quiet bell when you have 30 seconds left and a loud bell w

my favorite of all is in the staircase. it's almost a miracle masterpiece how he could manage to not only fit everyone, of course, a lot of them i recognized from my childhood -- it's how he juxtaposed and managed to kind of climb up that stairway on either side very much like you are walking down a street. it was incredible to do that and to me, that is what depicted the life of the times in san francisco. i even like the ones that show the industrial areas, the once with the workers showing them in the cannery and i can remember going in there and seeing these women with the caps, with the nets shuffling these cans through. my parents had a ranch in santa rosa and we went there all summer. i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch. i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to s

design i really wonder what he would have thought of this breathtaking elaborate a stone marble staircase maybe stalin had a sense of humor after all but at the moment still this room the dining room is a perfect example of the stalinist style it can be used as a period piece film set it's furniture including the cardboard table chairs and the grand piano come from the nine hundred thirty is the full right to mix in gorky moved into this house several soviet organizations were located here one of them was a kindergarten for top party members and stalin son bacilli was one of the kids who spent time here during his childhood believe it was extremely meticulous over who he allowed to write or paint the whole creative world was under his thumb and any mistake could mean certain death that sent sal and suppression didn't stop other writers from producing famous works. for instance was forced to write his masterpiece the most remarkable in secret. so other venues are located. in the capital connected with joseph stallin stallin had several residences outside moscow as they called russia his fa

coming into the rotunda, seeing the staircase, it is very mesmerizing, very memorable, and powerful. it was at that moment i decided i wanted to work here in this building. i had a short conversation with diane feinstein, the mayor then, and she spoke to the entire class. she spoke for a couple minutes. she planted the seed of public service, and to give of yourself selflessly, the giving of your time and talent. it was something my parents instilled in me early on. serving district 10 is an extension of who i am and a general desire to help improve the quality of life for people in san francisco. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? are you left, right? >> i am more forward-thinking. for me, it is less about being left or right, or moderate or progressive. it is about the issues and creating policies that will have a sustainable and lasting positive impact on the families that live here. it is costly and difficult to do business in san francisco, to raise your children in san francisco. i would like a voice at the table to create policies that will minimize the

the other thing is i can build an elevator but not a staircase, and that is crazy. it does not make sense. personally, i cannot afford to build an elevator. the other point is that you could say that our building is higher than the other buildings that are shorter, and so we enjoy and advantage because of that, but that is not really true. our building has something taken away, whereas the other people that are building and know that, going forward. vice president garcia: you are continuing your argument. i thought you had something. at any rate, wait to see where this goes. not that i know. commissioner fung: i will start with a couple of points. i am sympathetic to them wanting some open space that is directly accessible from their unit. a couple of things, just from a purely technical basis. even with the change in height, you could not get an elevator that conforms with in the 16 feet in this high limit. you cannot get a stair penthouse, technically, to conform with this height. i have to do this to commissioner peterson. 25 years ago, there was a very famous na

personally have seen some of the effects that have gone on such as folks being able to walk on the staircases and stretching rooms, on the great programs that have been implemented, like zumba and really focused on heart health. i want to thank you and present this class to the sfmta. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here to present this lovely award. >> absolutely. >> thank you. the next item i need to brief you on is related to the board of supervisors who last year requested that management audits of each m.t.a. division be conducted. the first of these audits was related to our sustainable streets division, and i'd like to ask the director of the sustainable streets division to give you a quick briefing on the audit. vaughn? >> good afternoon. good afternoon, mr. chair, members of the board. as mr. ford has mentioned, a management audit of each of the sfmta divisions was requested by the board of supervisors in 2010. mr. ford and his office and also the city services auditor from the controllers selected sustainable streets as the first of the divisions to be audited.