My wife, and children. Anger, disbelief, depression, anxiety are these emotions. I ask myself, why me. When i entered my profession, i knew it was a stressful job and i needed to take care of myself. I ate well and exercised and kept a well balanced of friends. My doctors were shocked, not only of my diagnoses but how it progressed to stage 4. Genetic testing revealed nothing significant. I think about the countless hours working traffic controls and responding to car, house fires and walking through poorly renovated hotels that were poorly renovated. And walking through areas that produced drugs. I think about the times i worked in a bes tuesday building for the better part of 10 years while assigned to the narcotic division. It took me 2 years to accept my diagnoses. Im currently in remission and enjoying each day im here. But the reason im here today is not for my personal benefit, but for my wife cindy and children. And im the sole provider for my family and im here to provide. What about a year from now. The legislature before you had passed will give me another option on how i live the rest of my life, but it will give a since of comfort knowing my family and children will be better take care of once im gone. Aside from my family, theres nothing i enjoy doing more than serving the citizens of this great city. The legislation before you is important not only to me and my family, to all families of Police Officers and firefighters that serve this city. I respectfully ask that you pass this legislature thats before you today. Thank you for sharing. Next speaker, mr. Donahan. Good morning, my name is dan and im a proud member of the firefighter. Firefighters local 798. I have served San Francisco, i served on the San Francisco democratic central committee, 2002, 2004, 2006 and i certain under mayor gavinson from 2005 and 2011 and im devoted to the county and city of San Francisco. I was born here, i work here and i have and will continue to have every intention to continue to serve just like you folks serve your district and the city and the county. On june 12th, i suffered a seizure. On june 18th, i had brain surgery to remove a brain mass later to learn it was grade two im one of the lucky ones. Im a cancer survivor and i have a new perspective on life. I look at things differently. I look at my health and my family and i look at politics differently. Shall it return and i hope it doesnt, because of this ordinance my family will be taken care of. Im one of lucky ones. This is for firefighters and Police Officers are here at the right time. Today, and hopefully next tuesday the category will change. The importance of this legislation is really big, really significant, and its going to help people that have lost hope, that have given up, that need assistance, so please move this important legislation forward to the full board. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Dan and i want to take the leadership for their legislation. Any other members of the public that would like to speak. I would want to acknowledge supervisor supervisor breed wanted to be here and her aid wants to say a few words. She did want to be here for this item. She had an emergency and i think she is on route here, so hopefully shell be here shortly. On her behalf, i want to say thank you president chiu for bringing this forward and thank you mr. Oconner. She was a firefighter before she was on the board. The men and women behind me and their colleagues, they risk their lives everyday on the job to protect us and the least we can do is protect them when their Service Makes them sick, so i would just request that you add supervisor breed as a sponsor for this legislation and thank you again. Thank you, and i want to thank supervisor breed for her cosponsorship. With that, unless theres other members of the public that wish to speak. Madam chair, i think Public Comment is closed. Thank you for your service and for sharing your heart felt testimony with us. Im just surprised it has taken this long to make it to our board. So with that, would you like to thak a recommendation for a deposit of recommendation to the full board. Absolutely. Thank you all of you, not just for your service, but for your work with my office to move this forward and i want to thank my aid who is watching this. This is her last piece of legislation shes working on and hopefully to all of our points, this will get done quickly. And i want to thank all of you who shared your perspectives and your stories. These are difficult topics and i think it is important for the public to know what all of you have had to go through as you have been protecting us and i do think this is so important that we get done and i very much appreciate this being brought to my attention but for that, we have so many heroes within City Government that may not bring this to our attention, but because you have, were able to do something about it. I do want to say and i think it was something that tom oconnel mentioned, in addition to the work were doing, we have so many new toxic chemicals we find in our central 21 communities and i hope to work with our firefighters and our Police Department to do whatever we need to do to prevent future cancers by going after new sources of toxic chemicals. I think thats the next front and i look forward to that work, but with all that, again, i want to thank you for your leadership and thank the retirement system and the budget analyst and yes, madam chair i would like to move this forward with full recommendation to the board for its consideration shortly. Without objection. So moved. Thank you president chiu. And with that, madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. Resolution authorizing the mayor, or his designees, to cast assessment ballots in the affirmative on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, as the owner of three parcels of Real Property over which the board of supervisors has jurisdiction, that would be subject to assessment in the proposed property and Business Improvement district to be the Lower Polk Community benefit district. Resolution authorizing the mayor, or his designees, to cast assessment ballots in the affirmative on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, as the owner of three parcels of Real Property over which the board of supervisors has jurisdiction, that would be subject to assessment in the proposed property and Business Improvement district to be the Lower Polk Community benefit district. Thank you, and again, our sponsor president chiu, i would like to turn it over to you. Thank you madam chair. This is a simple item. A number of months ago, we moved forward the preliminary legislative work to establish a Community Benefit district in the Lower Polk Community. Those and those initial pieces of legislation will move forward. This will authorize the mayor or his designees to cast assessment ballots in favor of creating a Community Benefit districts for those parcels of property of which our city has jurisdiction and given that that declaration was something we did closely in conjunction with the Mayors Department hoping we can do that, and i know we were suppose today have a couple of city staffers to present and im speaking for them and i ask that we move this forward with recommendation to the board as well. This has been Long Time Coming so im happy to support your efforts here. Id like to open it up for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Would you like to send this forward . With positive recommendation. So moved. And madam clerk, is there any other item before board today . That concludes our business would you like to i apologize, well need to excuse supervisor breed from our meeting today. Happy to excuse her. Without objection. Supervisor breed is excused and with that, our meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Im your host of culturewire, and today, here at electric works in San Francisco. Nice to see you today. Thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. My pleasure. How long has electric works been around . Electric works has been in San Francisco since the beginning of 2007. We moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. We do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. We will look at all of that as we walk around. It is incredible to me how many Different Things you do. How is it you identify that San Francisco was in need of all these Different Services . It came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. I wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. It should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. It should have a retail store. In 1972, i wanted to have art sales, pointofsale at the grocery store. So you go through the manifesto. With the bay area should have. You are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. Lets take a walk around the facilities. Here we are in your gallery space. Can you tell me about the current show . The current show is jeff chadsey. He is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. I do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. It is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. Your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. How to use some of what you look for in artists you represent . It is dependent on people are confident with their materials. That is a really important thing. There is enough stuff in the world already. You also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. Lets go over and take a look at that. Here we are in a smaller space. Project gallery. Artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. I noticed a lot of artists doing really sitespecific work. This is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a childs balloon. In this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. Or a nightmare. May be a nightmare. This one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. This is made out of puffy paint. Often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. She has made all these lines of paint. For the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of . Im not telling. Ah, a secret. This silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. Her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. Their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. This is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. You have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. Is that something important to you as well . Very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. Now lets look at other aspects of electric works operation. Lets go to the bookstore. Ok. In all seriousness, here we are in your store. This is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. It has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. This was the project for the berkeley art museum. It was this is from william wileys retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. It is not just a bookstore. It is a store. Can you talk us through some of your favorites . These are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. These pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. We do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. They are probably not for prime time. You sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. Maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. Lets go. Before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. What are we standing in front of . This is william wiley, only one earth. This is a print edition. There are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. This is really an art object. There we go. Besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition . There is the slot machine. If you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. What about work . The right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. The cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. Really special. Lets move on to the print shop. Ok. The core of what we do is making things. This is an example. This is a print project that will be a fundraiser for the contemporary music players. We decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. So nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. The return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. This is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. You also make prints for the artists that you represent. Over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. He writes these beautiful things. Anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is has only appeared through the windows. This is from all over coffee. We are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. Thank you very much for showing us around today. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our culturewire team. Being a pedestrian in San Francisco is not easy for anybody. [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. I have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. It is very hard. Sometimes people get half way across the intersection. You have to be alert because there is always something coming up that you need to know about. I learned to listen to the traffic patterns. Sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided im going to cross, too. I get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. We need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. The world needs to be open. People on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. When we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. For people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. It can be hit or miss. At hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic it helps people cross the street safely. Now we have a successful pedestrian signal. I push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. When it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. So it tells me it is safe. There is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. I am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. It brings San Francisco from one of the major cities in the u. S. To what is going to be the lead city in the country. City working on all sorts of things. We are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. Disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. With regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12inch wide border. For people with low vision to get the same information. The shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. We have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. Detectable ramps. They are all detectable. Nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. Smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. Our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. Here is another problem we have with street trees. If i have i was a person blind, this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. We dont want to create hazards. Sometimes vendors put sidewalk cafes where people push the chairs too far out. Sometimes it can be impassable. So much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or walker to go by. San francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well. They have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. If people can find thraeur way around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. We dont want anything special. We want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books now. People can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have 48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. We will all get along better. Although San Francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. That doesnt mean we cant continue to improve upon ourselves. The public has a clear are of travel. We cant be every to make sure that is the place. We have to rely on the place. Call 311. Give them your name. That goes into a data base. It is difficult, still, um to make the case that the disabled community isnt being represented. In some ways we are not. We have a long way to go. The city of San Francisco is using the most Innovative Technology available. These devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. It is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let me please call this meeting of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission to order at 1 39 p. M. Madam secretary, would you please call the roll . President courtney . Here. Commissioner moran