The author is supervisor kim. Thank you chair wiener i want to make sure that the introduce comments here today, you know, today were talking about Pedestrian Safety is important. The closer of shaw alley was part of the Center District plan and shaw valley represents a entity for the Transit Center to Market Mission and which of our market buildings it is in keeping with the downtown transit hub centered around the new terminal the scombrd idea with shaw alley is to connect the Cities Cultural and retail designations in the areas its a new office within Mission Street win first and second. The developer has genocide to develop the plazas and this ordinance allows for the ordinance of the gift to the city it creates a spatial part of the city and it has the futile it and smallest park we have dpw here to introduce and this is for the fees 16,080 a month i know theres a few memos in the document were allowing a waiver order to january 15th is when the construction of the plaza coincides
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Explore it, but when cost came into play and it made it cost prohibitive, that ultimately was the determinant of you not doing it, different than its just something as a policy we are not going to do. So, you did entertain it enough that it was an idea. Absolutely. Explore it and brought it back the commission engaged in a conversation and explored whether it was a policy decision. As i mentioned, its was not my call. I did Due Diligence and bring it to the commission for full discussion on whether they were willing to spend the funds to reconfigure to allow for that. And also weighed in on the City Attorneys judgment whether we were violating or abridging any public right of speech by not allowing to engage in Public Comment. And based on those factors of the commission took action not to allow that. And their recommendation was to allow for any of the presentations to be printed, copied, and made available at the back of the room for the public. So, again, we feel strongly that it do
Arent going to be supporting us. I understand what youre saying, commissioner. Its not a matter of supporting. Its not taking a stance on any given issue. Its simply providing the information that then the commission lib rates on. So, can i ask well, first of all, i want to bring this up as a former member of the Library Commission. First, i think were being misled a little bit, the language of invited presenters i think is misleading. My recollection is that av presentations are only used to inform the commission on the business at hand at the library. And because so much of what the library does has to do with construction or, you know, architectural renderings, the budgetary presentation which you make, you know, thats how the av equipment as i recall has been used. So, i think its misleading to say that youre invited people who use it. So, if youre inviting outside guests to make presentations thats one thing, but i dont ever recall you having outside presenters just doing a presen
I did just that. Thats why it came back. And i also felt that because of the expenditure involved, it would be their judgment, their call and policy determination to do that. So, i felt that was, again, doing Due Diligence in having a full public hearing on that matter and they did that. And, again, it was a 60 vote not to do it because they felt they were not in violation and they got some attorney, City Attorney advice and also i mean, the brown act and sunshine ordinance did not prescribe a specific method of allowing the use of av equipment during Public Comment. So, they felt that they were going even beyond that by allowing the printing of any audiovisual equipment. And i want to qualify that. When we invite and its really not an invitation. Its a described agendized item for any presentations. For example, during the Branch Library Improvement Program when we had peer reviews and we had a contractor sitting in the dais reviewing ski matt ictiontionerctiontion, those are allowed