Peskin joined to my right by norman yee our member london breed is in the nations capitol today and wont be joining us. Madam clerk do you have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and 21 Electronic Devices and all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you ms. Major. Fiscal year can we have a motion to supervisor yee can we have a member to excuse supervisor breed. inaudible . That is moved. Madam clerk can you read item 1 and two. Item 1 is a hearing on the recently published entitled San Franciscos crime lab promoting confidence and building credibility. Thank you madam clerk. First i would to thank the civil grand jury for this report acknowledge our interim police chief tony chaplin is with us and with that turn it over to the foreperson of the civil grand jury to present. Thank you chairman. I would like to introduce katherine coffee and Chuck Thompson who are presenting on behalf of the
10 to 20 kilometers down wind think of the map you just saw and think about the fact that it totally did not account for a 10 to 20kilometer down wind blowing on these materials its absolutely ridiculous to think that we could do an implosion in an urban area and think its a safe and good idea. So this quote goes on to say that could extend 10 or 20 kilometers down wind suggests that implosions that implosions should be prohibited in metropolitan areas. We should not do these kinds of implosions in metropolitan areas period. You can read the full pdf or click on the web link and the deal here is that mechanical removal creates more jobs and local jobs i think that lenare is trying to accelerate its process and save money and we need to protect the public and tell them sorry. And the final thing is a mechanical demolition makes it much easier to reuse materials we need to save those materials not blow them up. Thanks. Thank you. [applause]. Mckenzie. Thank you. Commissioners im Dennis M
This is San Franciscos official holiday tree and the cypress are over one hundred and thirty years old and despite losing some of its limitations its standing at all and supporting over 5 hundred and 50 lights lets give a big round of applause for uncle johns tree clapping. so this is the night that offers up the time to get together one of the most important aspects of parks its sense of place; right . An opportunity to get together to create community and think about our tasks and to see our past, present, and future and people that are going to help us light the trees and brought kids this is something of San Franciscos fabric and we remember its Pretty Amazing this Holiday Season offers the opportunity to reflect American People things we are theyve for im thankful to work with our amazing staff everyday and help to manage our 2 hundred and 20 parks around the city and most porcelain importantly on behalf of the rec and Park Department we are thankful for caring about our parks and
Comment on this item. Commissioner mar and yee . There were a lot of take aways for myself, and i mean, that it was nice and comforting that we had really the largest con tining ent and i felt like we were in San Francisco, even though we are in brooklyn and it is one of the boroughs that are larger than San Francisco and it was interesting to hear some of the streets and the pedestrians itself and the message that they are trying to get across is that the human beings make the mistakes and pedestrian ans will make the mistakes and they can be distracted and we should Pay Attention to that. And one of the things that was interesting, was the opening sort of keynote address, in which the professor there talked about streets in a very different way, and just prior to i guess, in the maybe, in a 1920s or so, and the streets were, quickly changed because of the auto industry. And in which they made and they basically had a campaign, the tree belongs to the car rather than the pedestrians w
Different you know the passing ourtd open from one generation to another i wanted to commend the incremental foundation and the San Francisco State University were blessed to have them here i want to thank the foundation for your work and what i youve done. So commissioners, i know its late so you may not be but this is food for thought it is there are different ways to go about constructing around the registry a couple of thoughts businesses would submit an application and come before the commission for final vetting and approval to insure that some of the quantitative components in the legislation in terms of the Community Involvement and i and their impact so im going to be looking at direction from you to help create some of the definition. So i really appreciate dr. Is bells thoughts i will have to start putting this together for you so but i would feel free to give me input for recommendations you have at at this point in terms of direction id be happy to you know take microwave