i urge you to remember we are a unique city. a unique city in all of the world. we attract enormous numbers of tourists because we are not like shanghai, and but, -- shanghai, dubai, london, or new york. >> the evening, supervisors. i am howard. i want to bring up two issues that were not adequately covered. one is that for some reason, about $2.50 million per year that would normally go to me, that is funding, money from parking decks, commercial spots on the island, and all of the meter fees that might be collected on the island is going to stay with the developer essentially. this is money that muni needs. we know they have problems. they are looking to provide less service, and there is the transfer from the 108, and that should be theirs. but this problem gets worse, because the developer wants to use this money to subsidize a ferry for some of the higher- priced people, and the people using the very are not the ones having trouble paying for muni. they are the ones that have ligurians rides. no, if the money that was too early for muni went to munich, the d

i urge you to remember we are a unique city. a unique city in all of the world. we attract enormous numbers of tourists because we are not like shanghai, and but, -- shanghai, dubai, london, or new york. >> the evening, supervisors. i am howard. i want to bring up two issues that were not adequately covered. one is that for some reason, about $2.50 million per year that would normally go to me, that is funding, money from parking decks, commercial spots on the island, and all of the meter fees that might be collected on the island is going to stay with the developer essentially. this is money that muni needs. we know they have problems. they are looking to provide less service, and there is the service, and there is the transfer from the 108, and that

the first quarter, maybe a third of this year, but also to begin by telling you this is a very unique city. and i continue to be so enthralled by the wonderful people who live here, that work here, even though i finished the ninth of tin budget town hall meetings, numerous meetings with community-based agencies, inviting people who have not been there for years, as they tell me. i am hearing so many stories, stories about white people came to san francisco. and just -- about why people came to san francisco. and just so many stories about whether or not their dreams or conditions were fulfilled, or they are here working were living with their families or they are trying to conduct business here. it has been wonderful. a lot of people have been asking -- i really -- to i really enjoy it? the word " julyenjoy -- "enjoy" is a little strong. i set out on a commitment that i would do this for a year. i made a commitment i would try my best to unify the city and then set out to do at least five priorities. at least one of them has been fully accomplished, but the five priorities were budget, bal

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> good morning, and welcome to the continuing meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am carmen chu, with chiu, mirkarimi, and supervisor kim is chairing the rules committee. victor young is the clerk. we have a substitute. do we hvave announcements? >> all people add -- attending this meeting are required to turn off telephones and pagers, and if you have a document for this meeting -- >> just a comment to members of the public, we have been making comments every day that we have had budget committee hearings, and a budget hearing will begin on friday, and those who are interested in the testing, public, will be on friday. we will finish with all public comment on friday. the public comment is on friday. can you call item, item one to 12. >> the annual salary ordnance for the fiscal year ending june 1

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture

this city is unique because of small business. thank you. commissioner clyde: i also want to thank everyone for being here and showing such a great solidarity with this issue and with the small independent stores. the effect of predatory pricing is, and has been demonstrated repeatedly -- one small shops go out of business, then the prices increase and increase. i have some experience with a local safeway that is exponentially higher than other safeway's simply because it does not have any competition in the area at all. this has been happening for years. it continues to happen. there is that time where a community might enjoy lower prices, and that is great, but once those little shops close, then the price goes to what the market will bear, and prices are often higher. in san francisco, with high incomes and high disposable income in many of our neighborhoods, we know why these companies want to locate in our neighborhoods. we have high disposable income. that would be death for our city. it is not our value. one of our great values is all

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something that opens a dialogue to public interest in the

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> 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 m

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to bet of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building. >> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architec

city. i guess my question to the commission is you have to figure out where we go as a unique identity of this city compared to other cities. we are known to be a vibrant city with uniqueness and independent stores. if we proceed with this opening, which i support, we are putting another nail in the coffin. that being said, we already know we have had our fights with pet food express, a major chain. it was the second-largest chain store. down the road, we are hearing rumors of pet smart wanting to move in. now you have three giants who are going to be battling for marketing dollars for that particular business we all enjoy, my colleagues and myself, as independent stores. we attract people from across the nation. people from l.a. come up to the stores because they do not find it where they are. do we want to be like l.a.? or do we want to be san francisco? president o'brien: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jesse think. i am here as a retail store owner. i am here as a parent. i am here as a resident of san francisco. i totally support iraq m-- eric mar's legislation. you have to realize

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture supervisor chu: good morning. welcome bit -- welcome to the second day of budget hearings. our klerk today is mr. victor young. mr. young, do we have any announcements? >> please turn off all sell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment or are spending -- sending documents to the clerk -- to the committee, please submit copies to the clerk for the file. supervisor chu: this is day number two of the hearing process for the budget. we have heard a number of apartments on monday and today we have a host of the apartments. mr. wagner, do you have any opening comments for today? >> no, i do not. supervisor chu: let's go straight to departments. retirement system? >> item #one. annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fy ending june 30, 2012; fy

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> 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 sc

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> good evening. welcome to the june 22 meeting of the board. we can do some of our routine and housekeeping items. the presiding officer is michael garcia. chris long will be present. kendall goh will be absent. at the control is the board's assistant. i am cynthia goldstein. you wilscott sanches is here. the building inspector is here and dr. johnson is here representing the board of health. if you can go over the guidelines and conduct the swearing-in process. >> the board requests you turn off all funds, beepers, and pages of that will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentations are as follows. each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for a bottle. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the se

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> this is the june 21 meeting of the m.t.a. good afternoon and welcome. call the roll, please. [roll call] item three, please be advised that the use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off may be removed from the meeting. cell phones put on the vibrate do cause microphone interference. item four, approval of the minutes. >> is there a second? >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> item five, communications. i know of none. >> i just wanted to give a congratulations and shoutout to the new express which has been running for a week and two days, one day. i just wanted to say i've been getting tons of rave reviews from my co-workers. one fellow came up to me and said it was the first time he'd been on a bus in the city in about four years. it

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> 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. th

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> it has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and so supportive of what we're doing. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting married. it's just been an absolutely fantastic experience, so wonderful. >> by the power vested in me, i declare you spouses for life. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step. it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a her

unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to beart of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> thank you very much for coming this morning and welcome to the rededication of the reservoir. we are happy to be here today. this represents one of the milestones in our project. we are happy to share this with you. this reservoir has been empty the last two years and today, you will hear the sound of water rushing to fill it again. it makes the city safer, provides water for customers, for firefighters, for after an earthquake. we will be updating our systems. this was originally built in 1885. 125 years old. it takes care of a good part of san francisco, places lower than this. it is an incredibly important part of our system in san francisco. it was a $39 million project and it came in under budget. we are doing it effectively and efficiently. we do appreciate the folks who worked on it. it is part of the