the aforementioned meeting, the advisory board, there wasn't a very good type of pilot project. they had wanted to have cost the economy. i understand that golfers and fissures want to be supportive -- [unintelligible] considering that there is also the complication of the zoo that is using ground water that should not be used, it is contaminated as well as synthetic fertilizer and other things that accumulate over the years. they might try to have another water tank underground on the left side. it would come from the west end of the park. i thought if you are not going to come recycle water to the zoo, you would have to bring in tap water. i will be going to the other tuesday meeting. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> linda cutner, please. >> ladies and gentlemen of the commission and everyone else concerned, expect to call me sunshine, it's true. that is what most people do. i bring the best of what i'd do to the city of san francisco. i am here to address a different item. having to do with first amendment rights in the parks, town squares of san francisco. i wanted t

i am a resident for the last eight years, and i am also a member of the advisory board for treasure island and your vote away not island. i am very much -- and year balbuena -- yerba buena island. he has been an active residence, and we work on these new additions. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am a six-year resident of the yerba buena island. i support the appointment of mark dunlop. for the first time in all of treasure island's development of doherty activities, yerba buena island will have a voice. i think he has been the only one who has given voice to the people there. they are two separate communities. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> thank you for letting me show my support. my name is rebecca lee. mark dunlop has the background that can support what we need as citizens of both your balbuena -- yerba buena and treasure island. it is important for us to be heard and express support. >> next speaker. >> we are very much in support of mr. dunlop's appointment. he will represent the community and represent it well. his long experience will serve the commun

the finance corp., the golden gate bridge district, golden gate park concourse authority, graffiti advisory board -- and there is a story attached to that -- housing authority commission. small business commission, and the south east community facility's commission. briefly, i see p.j. johnson is the president of the arts commission who is here, and i'm pleased that kimberly striker is more publicly going to be sworn in, and my old friend who is going to move over from the department on the status of women and has long had an artistic bent and passion and history and background, and it seemed appropriate that we took this opportunity to appoint dorca to the arts commission. i happen to think that our public arts scene in this community has improved dramatically. i was pleased to see something highlighting one of those pieces, but i'm very proud of the work that has been done over there, and i certainly hope and expect that we will be doing all those wonderful things for this neighborhood, but never forget the quality and imagination we strike when we probably right and opportunity to access in an

the board of examiners. item five is discussion and possible action to approve and swear in members of the code advisory committee. do you wish me to read their names? ok. on the board of examiners, the appointments or reappointment are ken cleaveland, and i received it and note -- received a note from him yesterday that he is going to be appointed to the finance commission, so he will have to resign from the board of examiners, so that will be an open seat. mel cammisa, robert ruller, dick glumac, kevin mirkovich, armin wolski, james reeed, patrick buscovich, and jane martin. the season set to expire september 15. for the code advisory committee, recommendations are jerry cunningham, mark cunningham, eileen dick, ira doerter, edgar fennie, fredric freund, rene vignos, stephen harris, shane o'reilly, arnie lerner, zachary nathan, lee yvonne phillips, jim reed, tony sanchez-corea iii, kevin wallace, tony lau, and robert wong. seats to expire august 18, 2013. before we nominate or whatever, there are a few new people. most of the people on here are people who reapplied or were reappointed. we got very few applicati

we have this position somehow that was vacant on the graffiti advisory board, so we said how about that? she said yes and went on to tell me more about the -- anyway, she was already on the job. i thank you for your hard work on this appointment. kind of, i don't know, interesting circuitous way onto this board. but good luck. but now, you are part of the problem. not just books at city hall. housing authority commission, dorothy smith. this was interesting -- we had a public process for this commission. there is always a public process, so we decided to dig deeper into public housing, and we had a very specific slot for a certain type of commissioner, and we interviewed a bunch of folks, and we found the perfect person to serve on our housing authority. you all know how exciting housing authority is, right? they are going through a complete reinvention, out there, starting at hunters point and moving out to sunnyvale, and eventually alice griffith. completely real imagining public housing. -- completely real magic in public housing. we keep putting band-aids, and is just failing more e

i serve on the citizens' advisory board and work on a separate committee for -- focused on graffiti alone to understand more about it. the businesses have seen a difference. it has been able to save them money. they are not having to do it. some of the doors to see that come down in our district, those are the ones hit every day. they are smaller businesses. they have seen a reduction in their personal expense. some of the larger properties, it is part of the actual work they are doing. i would say it has definitely helped. in the city, especially, it is a continuing issue. supervisor mar: thank you. >> thank you for your time today. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? i have one card. jay edwards. anyone else, please come forward. >> morning. supervisors, on behalf of the board of san francisco, i am the senior property manager. this jurisdiction is my responsibility. i am part of fisherman's wharf community district board. the board enjoys a tremendous working relationship with the benefit district. the board members are highly they managed two publi

i am a member of the graffiti advisory board. i enthusiastically support the establishment of the community garden and the relocation of the recycling center, and the hopeful extension of the nursery. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is denise. i want to ask you to please reconsider the proposal that is going to, you know, harm hanc. i want to support the recycling center and the native plant nursery. listening to the arguments, i want to add a suggestion. if the concern is that the homeless are attracted and the park workers are in danger, why don't we ask hanc to accept the recyclables only from people with a driver's license or some idea that shows they are not homeless? right? also, i think the audience really needs to hear from you that, yes, you are aware of the sunshine ordinance. thank you. >> the sun shine ordinance. >> my name is sue. i am in instructor of history at the city college of san francisco. i was here to speak recently. i have been recruited to the hanc cause. in this

today the state advisory board met in sacramento to discuss bringing the 911 system up to date with howeople c ommunicate. they say photos and video of disasters or accidents could provide important information to dispatchers to pass along to first responders. there's no timetable on when the state would adopt this new policy. >>> law enforcement agencies are giving people a second chance. starting today and running through the end of the month, people charged with certain crimes can turn themselves in and avoid being booked in jail. maureen naylor is live with two specific impacts this program could have. >> reporter: frank, law enforcement in santa clara county hope more than 300 people will walk through their doors to get the apartment want -- to get the warrants cleared. the department says it will save them time and taxpayers money. >> in this system here -- let me see if i can get you a rollup -- i mean this -- so -- come on in. >> reporter: the santa clara county sheriff's office this afternoon took us into the classified records. >> this is where we keep the warrants in this sys

i serve on the citizens' advisory board and work on a separate committee for -- focused on graffiti alone to understand more about it. the businesses have seen a difference. it has been able to save them money. they are not having to do it. some of the doors to see that come down in our district, those are the ones hit every day. they are smaller businesses. they have seen a reduction in their personal expense. some of the larger properties, it is part of the actual work they are doing. i would say it has definitely helped. in the city, especially, it is a continuing issue. supervisor mar: thank you. >> thank you for your time today. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public who would like to speak?

i serve on the citizens' advisory board and work on a separate committee for -- focused on graffiti alone to understand more about it. the businesses have seen a difference. it has been able to save them money. they are not having to do it. some of the doors to see that come down in our district, those are the ones hit every day. they are smaller businesses. they have seen a reduction in their personal expense. some of the larger properties, it is part of the actual

the george w. bush institute advisory board and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. and the 46th vice-president of the united states dick cheney. ♪ >> it has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as your president. there have been good days and tough days. but every day i have been inspired by the greatness of our country and uplifted by the goodness of our people. i have been blessed to represent this nation and i will always be honored to carry a title that means more to me than any other, citizen of the united states of america. they put a presidential center that will be a policy institute, a place to promote the ideals of freedom and personal responsibility. ♪ >> today, we renew our commitment to a world without malaria. we're helping the people of africa turned the tide against malaria. ♪ ♪ >> ours is a country where citizens decide to help somebody in need one heart and one sold at a time. -- one soul at at time. -- at a time. ♪ >> and now, please welcome the 43rd president of the united states, george w. bush and mrs. laura bush. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and

some cases he served on the organizations with communists, there were actual communists on the advisory board at the time to read and frankfurter realize you couldn't just sit in his office and hope this went away. so he went, but what he did is also amazing in the contras in the way that the nominee is going today. you know, a senator said to him or you now or have you ever been a communist. and instead of just answering the question happily the way that one presumably would, frankfurter essentially says sir, i would pose my americanism against yours at any moment. i'm an immigrant to this country, deeply committed to my american values and ideals. how dare you ask me that question and the entire chamber person to a walls. you can see the senate record disturbance. and he got confirmed. and then he went out and he got reporting the trunk. and this shows the different things work. he went out with dean acheson leader secretary of state who was his proxy. they got drunk frankfurter said i think we should go tell roosevelt the story of what happened. and acheson, who was by the way of roosevelt

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members of the presidential advisory board are also going to be part of today's meeting. >>> immigrant rights activists plan to take to the streets of oakland today in support of the dream act, marchers demanding congress pass the federal dream act before it adjourns for christmas. now, last week the house did pass the act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented children of illegal immigrants. now it's stalled in the senate. demonstrators also calling for state lawmakers to pass a california version of the same act. that would allow undocumented high school graduates to apply for state financial aid for college. similar rallies have been held across the bay area over the last couple of months. >>> the plan to build a ballpark near the oakland estuary cleared its first financial hearing. the city council voted 3-1 on committee yesterday to pay for an environmental review. the vote was pushed up so the full city council can decide tuesday whether to pay for the report. councilmember has reservations. he wants a guarantee from the a's co-owner or the league that they w

advisory committee in the past. it was at one time the investment -- the investment advisory board. tment issues. it has been, as changed over time. it has been subject to wide the director once said to be to a great extent. having a more connected to the board might be something to consider. >> thank you. you testified that pbgc has developed corrective action plans to address weaknesses in information technology security and other areas. however, critical details of those plans have yet to be developed. would that pbgc benefit fromy7 hiring a risk management specialist to better prepare for futurep?u? risks facing the agey and the retirement community? >> that's an interesting question. certainly,9 pbgc has hired external expertise to help with addressing many of the areas of persistent weakness. for example,ssñ! in its inforn technology security work. i am not aware of the needç!ñ3! 9ñssuch a selection, but that't something i thought about. know)don't really -- i1))ç! pbgc has reached out to get the expertise it needs and they have reached out frequently throughc contrac

in the 1970's there was a citizen advisory combat -- panel to the board of supervisors. i was on that and i remember discussing things about muni in general. now we have a committee coming up that is specifically for the 38, which i use all the time. although that is a big, articulated bus, it is still crowded. whatever i can do to advise you -- i have time to look things up because i do not work for a living. i have access to the private mechanics institute as well, which is also served by the 38. i do not know what the committee members will do -- maybe i will never have to research anything, but i have time to do this. i also helped out on project open hand. what else can i say about myself? i have a college degree, a philosophy major. i am sure that relates to nothing here. commissioner campos: you would be surprised. thank you. are there any other applicants who have not had an opportunity to address the committee? i think that concludes the list of applicants. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is cl

there were actual communists on the advisory board and frankfurter realized he couldn't just sit in hisoffice and hope it would go away so he went but what he did is also amazing in this contrast the way that the nominee is go to date. a senator said to him are you now or have you ever been a communist, and instead of just answering the question happily the way that one presumably what today's frankfurter essentials and yelled at him and said i would pose my americanism against yours at any moment i am an immigrant to this country and i am deeply committed to my american values and ideals. how dare you ask me that and the antiyour chamber burst into applause and you can see the senate record disturbance and then he got confirmed. >> host: and then he got reporting drunk to >> guest: this shows how different things were. he went out with dean acheson with his proxy, they got drunk this is i think he should tell a story of what happened, and acheson was by the way of roosevelt school and the old-line said i don't think we should sure drunk of the white house and frankfurter said we are go