Comment, is someone following with me sorry. Bottom of page 3. Under Public Comment. Mr. Ng stated that he needed clarification, i believe needed would be better. On page 4, Public Comment, towards the top, my comments stated that the term qualification should be included perhaps in the definition, not into. On the bottom of page 4, item 5, the closed session evaluation of director st. Croix i believe that should also reference the brown act and sunshine ordinance provisions that permit such closed sessions. And there was one other one moment. Well there was one another thing and darned if i can find it now. I will try to find it and communicate it to staff, but just minor typographical things. I did try to read the minutes. Thank you. Is there a motion to adopt the minutes as amended by mr. Pilpel . So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Hearing none, next item on the agenda is the executive directors report. I just want to throw one thing on top of the report. During Public
Good morning everyone. Its a great time of the year to unveil happy new year actually. My name is claudine cheng. Im speaking as a past president of oca, organization of Chinese Americans. Every year is special; this year is specifically more special because historically the first year honoring chinese heritage was in 1993, this is the twentieth Year Anniversary of that; we are proud and happy that the happy new year series is continuing by the United States Postal Service. Oca is a National Organization 20 years ago urge the Postal Service to issue a series of stamps to honor the contributions of Chinese Americans and we have the support of many local organizations, the Chinese Chamber of commerce, the chinese consolidated benevolent associations and many other National Organizations and National Leaders that joined asking the post office to consider doing that. We see the stamp as an important part of the american cultural heritage; chineseamericans are a big part of it. This is a sp
The renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of San Francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of San Francisco. Through our partnership, and because of Public Investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. We have it safer, happier, more joyous. 3, 2, 1, [laughter] [applause] it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. This is an amazing park. We have not revitalized it without public and private investment. The critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. We reached out to everyone in this community. We love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. What you see is what the community wanted. These ideas all came from the residents of this community. As a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along w
Merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago board of supervisors president david chiu and i and members of the community discussed how we can continue the Economic Vitality of the city and clearly we registered a big support for Small Businesses. I wanted to make sure that everybody neighb
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