to file support letters from the lgbt center, san francisco architectural heritage, the castro neighborhood association, castro area planning in action, and the san francisco chamber of commerce. thank you. >> good afternoon. i come as a private citizen for once. i will be brief. my interest in this is somewhat selfish in that i am a very strong supporter of this project. it is largely because as a native of san francisco who is lived here for almost 60 years i am very familiar with that location. i have been a market street thousands of times. it will be immeasurably enhanced by the development of this project. a lot paraphrase the eloquent words of our representative -- i will not paraphrase the eloquent words of our representative from "spur." i have spent a lot of time on 24th and have seen the impact of the whole food store on noe valley. i must go to the street three or four times a week, sometimes on my car and sometimes to shop at the whole foods. i want to assure everyone in our experience whole foods has been a model never and has very effectively and assiduously -- and modeled neighbor and h

but organizations like the castro neighborhood association, sunset, park side, education action committee middle post neighborhood association, all parts of the city. there are 46 organizations now in coalition. money is tight. this project is now supported or justified by the citizens. however much it might be supported by the city staff. neither the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods nor any of the speakers, save one, have a course in the race. rather, we are deeply concerned that this will be a colossal waste of funds. supervisor campos: next speaker. thank you. welcome. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is malcolm. i am here with cindy from the chinatown community development center. we are here to express strong support for this project. i want to address the points made, it embraces a lot of concern for me. the primary characterization that concerns me is that this project will somehow not serve chinatown. this is a project that chinatown is asking for. [tone] supervisor campos: our fault, my apologies. i know that i talk quick, but i did not realize it was that quick. [l

. >> i am the president of the castro eureka neighborhood association. many of you might be familiar with me. i am the one who wrote the 47 conditions for the cafe and worked closely with the cafe. and that has been a model relationship. it has been fabulous. there are no complaints from the cafe. there's been a couple of problems here and there, but the owner of the cafe and the manager worked quite closely with the neighborhood and is very responsive. the experience with greg started when he -- i'm not going to rehash a lot of what was said -- but my experience started with greg when he wanted to open up trigger. and he reached out to us, so i, again, wrote the conditions of use. i seem to be good at that. and we actually revised a number of conditions and felt after the success with the cafe and based on the fact that greg reached out to us, we weren't quite as stringent. i regret that now because it's been nothing but problem after problem after problem and i know the project sponsor wants to portray this as a couple of neighborhoods or neighborhood a

there will be a hearing on december 15th to iron out differences between castro resident and the neighborhood historic association. later in this broadcast, gay teens singled out. the new report on how police and school leaders treating gay teens. >>> california is in a fiscal emergency. that declaration today by governor schwarzenegger, who called lawmakers into a special session to deal with the problem. the governor's plan to cover the current $6 billion deficit relies largely on cuts to health care and social services for the poor. then there's the healthies program will pay more, and medi-cal patients will get prescriptions and doctors visits. >> having cut billions in the past we flow are no more long-hanging fruits an the longer we wait you can the hard ter will get. anyone that thinks differently is i think the legislators nosedive and the governor-elect is painfully aware of all those problems and challenges. >> some democrats were reluctant to take the budget crisis until governor-elect jerry brown takes over but governor schwarzenegger says it is still his job and his responsibility. >>> three adults a

the castro district. flags have been on the post for a decade, but the mission delegeros neighborhood association contends that they would be put up illegal. a city ordinance only allows temporary banners on the posts, which were designated city landmarks. the conservatives and fasteners could rust and damage the ornamental lamp post . supervisor dusty is calling for legislation that is designed to save the barnes while keeping the posts safe. >>> state officials in rhode island say they are definitely in the running to hold the next america's cup. reports of negotiations with newport, rhode island came to light shortly after san francisco changed its proposal from the saffir-simpson to southern waterfront. the race site is expected to be announced before the end of the month and there is also word that ellison bought a multimillion mansion in newport earlier this year j. san francisco bay's craigslist is pulling prostitution advertisements from its websites in canada. website has opinion under pressure by canadian politicians to remove the ads. leaders say they were especially concerned about child prost