Begin. Good morning, today is wednesday, may 20th. 2015 this is the regular meeting of the the first item is roll call. Clinch here. Mccarthy here mar here lee here. Walker here. Vice president melgar, and commissioner gray are expected. All parties giving testimony today, please raise your hand right. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is true to the best of your knowledge . Thank you, you may be seated. Next item is item c, election of officers, but we will continue that shortly when some of the other commissioners arrive. Item b approval of minutes, i would like to request that we continue those as well as possible. Item e, new appeal order of abasement. Case 6804285 kikz washington street. Owner of record rita har personal opinion appellant mark, gupin. Appellant, contends, that the retaining wall that is the subject of the abatement. On property. 2308 to 231 to. The wall was constructed maintained and controlled by the adjacent owners, appellant seeks edition to
Proud ouf and laurched the store and now the block isthe neighborhood is transformed from there up through the next neighborhood up through nomad. Our contribution to that has been opening the shop. As i said before, the shop which is the model for what we want to do here is not what you consider in 94 new york a package store. It is devoted to small producers, lots of sustainable wines, biodynamic. In particular we have become the advoicate for what people call the New California wine. I dont know if you are familiar with that term [inaudible] called inNew California and this is [inaudible] we have very close relations with many of those producers, a couple submitted letters of support which should be in the packet we may lose our quaurm if we dont move more quickly let me try to cut to the chase. So why San Francisco . Beau or general manager decide to relocate his family here and will tell you about that. Josh was here and another key employee andrew chin is from here and moving bac
Departments are fills our work orders, were projecting, to spend more money and have more million dollars, in salary savings, i know that is still a lot, but its better than even what it was a few months ago, earlier, at this point, had we not hired january through now april, were projected to spend over 5 million, so our hiring plan is working, were starting to spend down the funding, its just that we have to do a balance of hiring, losing people to retirement possibly losing others, to department a lot of times, in the case of promotorcycles, promoting from within you have a vacancy some where else. Were working on that. Im here to answer any questions if you have any questions about the report . Thank you deputy. Thank you. A testimony eight b, proposed legislation . Good afternoon, bill strawn legislative and public affairs, i will mention a few of the highlighted items you will see in your packet the piece of legislation that supervisor weaner passed with respect to doing a seismi
Thank you. Next speaker, please id like to thank the board for supporting the resolution. Im appreciative of supporting the black community as a whole. I know you all have seen a lot of me. But marcus books has been a part of my life and i went to school with colleagues. So for me, you, you know, marcus books has been a place to get out of the madness and karen also has a message or a book that can relate to anybody. I remembered going to marcus books about two months ago. And i said who would the life be like without marcus books then i heard its going to be gotten rid of. I i know thats the corporate interests. Id like to say i hope the city helps out. We have a 8 million budget so i think they want to sell the bookstore for 3 million so thats 1. 5 million and thats chicken feed to 8 hundred million and thank you all thait good evening supervisors. In my opinion this items should have been solved a long time ago. Theres a few facts somehow the Mayors Office and the board of superviso
Bookstore dont get rid of it thank you. Next speaker, please. How is it going. This bookstore has been part of the history of San Francisco its part of the history of the filing more community it runs after school programs. Its hosted events with speakers like rosa parks and danny glover and ophra winphrey. We have to take a moment to the local. They need this bookstore. I ask that the board of supervisors look at this situation and do what they can to encourage the spectaculars to sell the building back. Thank you. Next speaker, please id like to thank the board for supporting the resolution. Im appreciative of supporting the black community as a whole. I know you all have seen a lot of me. But marcus books has been a part of my life and i went to school with colleagues. So for me, you, you know, marcus books has been a place to get out of the madness and karen also has a message or a book that can relate to anybody. I remembered going to marcus books about two months ago. And i said