by we came we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. it is an amazing spot.
nice, quiet, cultural sit-down environment with the option or flavor of vibrant live entertainment. i do know that there is a concern for loud noise and security issues. but i believe that that s all been addressed and dealt with, with the local neighbors. again, i thank you for your time, commissioners. it would be my pleasure if you would all support and approve, keeping the experience legacy and live and grant the entertainment permit. thank you. president fong: thank you. thank you. my name is dan al lard. i m here today to pledge my support for the restaurant and the baros family. i am very familiar with the restaurant as it was one of the first restaurants i ever went to when i first moved to the city about 25 years ago. i found it to be a lively place. the food was great. and the band played a very integral part in making it such a fun atmosphere. i met the owners, and in discussions about their business i find them to be serious and determined business people, w
come to us about outreach. we did encourage them to get out to the community. where they are situated tends to be a little muddy water. sometimes you get mud when you are in muddy water. however, i could see them saying this is part of the solution, not part of the problem. right now type 42 wine bars don t tend to be problematic. i have opened quite a few citywide. they tend to bring in a better clientele. somebody that is looking for something a little bit different. some of the other establishments who are type 48s or what have you tend to you know, there could be fights or this. this is not the case here. this is a husband and wife and a family trying to survive and operate a business in san francisco, deemed a tough area. i m encouraged the police department has put down conditions they believe that will, you know, make sure there isn t any issues with the space. i also wanted to thank michael for his outreach in giving him pointers. i think if he has points he would l
having experienced a flooding and the gates of their water barriers having melted down a couple of times, even before then. so when ed harrington obviously knew that history as well and he took up this leadership, five years ago. he had a very focused determination of getting this water system improvement program, not only up and running, but the education of the rate payers has to go along with tthe people, along, not only in san francisco, but all the way up to hefp ety has to be a part of this because it is a whole system and then five years later have completed all of the six other reservoirs and this being the last one in the city, to know that we have done 16 miles of water main, or restoration and reinforcement of the valves and everything that goes along with it. some 21 pump stations, and infrastructure that have been part of the system have already been completed. we have honored what i saw was not properly invested in new orleans. we have honored our public, we hav
retrofits since 2004 and this is the last one. we have completed work on every other reservoir and pump station in san francisco. sister reservoir is the last one and we are celebrating that today and also celebrating the finish of the whole city park, and the water improvement program. you know the whole program is a $4.5 billion and there are still projects happening in the bay area and the rest, but this is it for san francisco and we want to celebrate that. and when we finish this, this reservoir, actually handles about 15 percent of the water of san francisco. and so we will just be that much more secure in terms of our water supply for san francisco. we have a lot of people that are with us today and i will be introducing them as we bring them up here to speak. i do want to make sure that we without a lot of people involved. we have the supervisor and the people from labor here and it comes together to makes the projects work, and the sj amoroso and this is the projec