I am sorry to report that Norm Rolfe has passed away this last weekend. Norm was San Francisco's long-time top Transit community activist - never missing a meeting.
When you "google" Norm you come up with items about the Transbay Joint Powers Authority Citizens Advisory Committee, SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council, Presidio Parkway and of course his continuing involvement in San Francisco Tomorrow, SPUR and District Three Democratic Club.
Memorial service information pending. I will post information as soon as possible.
San Francisco was honored to have Norm Rolfe as our friend.
Picture above was taken in July 2009 at the Geary Bus Rapid Transit meeting - Sue Vaughan, Norm Rolfe and Supervisor Eric Mar.
January 18, 2010 - Monday
Martin Luther King Day
Politics and Technology
When: January 18, 2010 - Monday
6 to 8 p.m.
Where: The University Club, 800 Powell Street, San Francisco
What: Join the Harvard Club of San Francisco for an enlightening discussion on the use of technology in politics. Confirmed speakers include:
San FranciscoSupervisor David Chiu
Brian Behlendorf, founder of Apache web server
Theo Yedinsky, former New Media Director for Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign
Jude Barry, CEO of Catapult Strategies
$15. general admission
Information: ryan@b2gmedia.com
*Middle Polk Neighborhood Association - Monthly Meeting
When: January 18, 2010 - Monday
7 to 8 p.m.
Where: It's a Grind, 1800 Polk Street @ Washington, San Francisco
What: Ed Reiskin, Director of DPW will speak about litter abatement (cigarette butt litter, Examiner delivery practices, door hangers and handbills). SFPD will also be there to speak about crime abatement. Also - 2010 MPNA Leadership Team elections.
Youth Speaks 13th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When: January 18, 2010 - Monday
7 p.m.
Where: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
What: 13th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrate Dr. King's birthday
with the Bay Area's leading youth spoken word artists as performers as they remember Dr. King and the other unsung heroes in the movement. $16. ; $6. for people under 20 years old .
January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
San Francisco Gray Panthers - "Don't Call it Reform. We still need Single Payer!
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
12:30 p.m.
Where: Unitarian Center, Fireside Room, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco
What: Monthly meeting. Health reform and its effects on Medicare.
SPUR - The Complete Street: A new plan for Cesar Chavez
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
12:30
Where: SPUR, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco
What: See an example of San Francisco's new approach to street planning with the redesign ofCesar Chavez Street. The project is a laboratory of public support, interagency challenges, creative funding, stormwater management and good urban design. Hear Andres Power, project manager for the Cesar Chavez redesign and other city staff as they share lessons learned from this work. $5. non-members
*Richmond District Police Department Forum Meeting
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
1 to 2 p.m.
Where: Zephyr Cafe, 3653 Balboa Street, San Francisco
What: Join Captain Richard Correia in discussion of public safety issues and learn about community safety programs. This meeting will focus on the Richmond Station's best, traffic, homeless outreach, and school officers.
Information: Officer Connolly 666-8000
*Middle Polk Association/Police Chief Gascon Prostitution Abatement - "Bringing our Neighborhoods back to the Neighbors!"
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
2 p.m.
Where: Corner of Larkin and Pine (or if it is raining - SFPD Northern Station at Turk and Fillmore)
San Francisco
What: Press conference - Police Chief Gascon, Supervisor David Chiu will speak "Bringing our Neighborhoods back to the Neighbors".
*SFMTA - Regular Meeting
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
2 p.m.
Where:Room 400, City Hall, San Francisco
What: Regular meeting. Items from agenda:
- Election of SFMTA Board Chair and Vice Chair.
- Citizens' Advisory Council Report
- Public Comment
- Presentation and discussion regarding FY10 year-end budget.
- Presentation and discussion regarding options to reform the taxi industry.
Information: roberta.boomer@sfmta.com
*Muni First
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
2 p.m.
Where: City Hall, Room 400, San Francisco
What: Possible additional service cuts and fare hikes. Come to SFMTA and voice your opinion.
Staff will introduce proposed reductions in service (increased headways between buses of from 1 to 10 minutes). Members of the Board of Directors will vote on the proposed reductions in service and fare hikes on March 2nd.
SFMTA Board of Directors: Tom Nolan - Chair, Dr. James McCray, Jr. - Vice Chair, Cameron Beach, Shirley Breyer Black, Malcolm Heinicke, Jerry Lee, Bruce Oka. Executive Director/CEO - Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr.
Write letters to Board of Directors through Roberta.boomer@sfmta.com
Plan C Membership Meeting
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
6:30 p.m.
Where: St Mary's Cathedral, Cathedral Center, St. Francis Hall, 1111 Gough Street, S.F.
What: Guest Speakers:
Theresa Sparks - former President of the San Francisco Police Commission
Police Chief George Gascon (tentatively)
Following the member meeting there will be a Member Social from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Meet board members and other members of Plan C. The program will be an informative opportunity to network and meet those who share your concerns about the future of our city.
*Ingleside Police District Policy Department Forum Meeting
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
7 p.m.
Where: Visitacion Valley Community Center (VVCC), 66 Raymond Street, San Francisco
What: Monthly meeting
Information: 415-467-6400
Randall Museum - Public Meeting
When: January 19, 2010 - Tuesday
7 p.m.
Where: Randall Museum, Buckley Room, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco
What: Discussion - review the past year. Announce plans for the coming year. Answer questions and get feedback.
January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
*Date Change - See January 21, 2010 Compstat Meeting
When: Date Change
10 a.m.
Where: Scottish Rite Memorial Center, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd., San Francisco
What: Compstat meeting - San Francisco Police
Homelessness Ends with a Home! - Protest
When: January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Justin Herman Plaza to Federal Building, San Francisco
What: Win affordable housing and civil rights for everyone.
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce - Supervisor David Chiu
When: January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 235 Montgomery Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco
What: Hear President of the Board David Chiu.
*San Francisco Police Commission
When: January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
5:30 p.m.
Where: City Hall, Room 400, San Francisco
What: Items from agenda:
Public Comment - Item One
Chief's report:
- Update on significant policing efforts by Department members
- Presentation of the Fourth Quarter FDRB Findings and Recommendations
- Status report on preparation of SFPD's 2010-2011 Budget.
Information: 415-553-1667
Commonwealth Club - Tom Campbell
When: January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
5:30 p.m.
Where: Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco
What: Tom Campbell - Republican Gubernatorial Candidate will discuss "The Economy: What Government Must Do to Promote Recovery". $18. non members
Coalition to Save Public Health
When: January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
6 p.m.
Where: SEIU, 350 Rhode Island, San Francisco
What: Coalition to Save Public Health meeting. Discussion on budget restructuring, public education and revenue options.
Information: Alysabeth Alexander alysabeth@yahoo.com
Ocean Beach - Grocery expansion
When: January 20, 2010 - Wednesday
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Richmond Community Center, 251 18th Avenue, San Francisco
What: Safeway grocery store representative will talk about long-term plans for Ocean Beach locating including some housing developments on the property.
January 21, 2010 - Thursday
*CompStart Meeting
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Scottish Rite Memorial Center, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd., San Francisco
What: Compstat meeting - San Francisco Police
100th Anniversary of the US Immigration Station, Angel Island
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
10 a.m.
Where: Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
What: The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, in conjunction with the California State Parks and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will commemorate the opening of the immigration station on January 21, 1910.
Program:
A naturalization ceremony for 100 new U.S. citizens, with the Oath of Allegiance to be administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas.
California State Parks Director Ruth Coleman
San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar
Past and present San Francisco poet laureates Diane DiPrima and Janice Mirikitani
Buck Gee, President of the Angel Island Immigration Station Board of Directors
Eddie Wong, Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station.
RSVP info@aiisf.org
*Town Hall Meeting with Castro Country Club/Baker Places
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Where: Castro Country Club, 4058 18th Street between Castro and Hartford, San Francisco
What: The Castro Country Club's building will soon be put up for sale. What is being done to make sure that the Club survives? What can Club patrons and supporters do to help.
Jonathan Vernick, executive director of Baker Places and Club manager Terry Beswick invite you this Town Hall meeting. The mission of the Castro Country Club is to provide a clean and sober gathering place in the neighborhood, and to help foster a strong, healthy and diverse recovery community in San Francisco. Bring your questions, your ideas and your friends.
Streetsblog Anniversary Party and Fundraiser
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Where: LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, San Francisco
What: Streetsblog turns one year this month. Celebrate the successes and look ahead to 2010. Music, food and drinks. Valet bicycle parking will be provided by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Music by B-Haul of Tasty. Event is free - but will be making an appeal for donations to help us expand our reach in the coming year.
Supervisor Eric Mar - Coffee hour
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
6 to 7 p.m.
Where: Simple Pleasures Cafe, 3434 Balboa Street (between 35th and 36th Avenue, SF
What: Come and share what's on your mind with Supervisor Eric Mar.
Information: eric.l.mar@sfgov.org
One Year Later Photo Exhibition
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
6 to 8 p.m.
Where: African American Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton, San Francisco
What: Exhibit "A Year Later'. A community photographic exhibit of the 56th Inauguration. Opening Reception one year later from the 56th Inauguration festival. "One Year Later" seeks to recapture the energy, emotion and enthusiasm that swept the Bay Area as we collectively watched the first African-American President be sworn into office.
Exhibit is from January 20th to March 21st 2010.
Information: info@aaacc.org
*NOPNA - General Meeting
When: January 21, 2010 - Thursday
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Poleng Lounge, 1751 Fulton Street, San Francisco
What: Monthly meeting. Agenda:
- Meet and Greet
- Introductions - 2010 Board Members
- Breaking News: Planned Pot Club at 350 Divisadero, San Francisco
- Speakers:
- Friends of the Urban Forest - Greg Harrell-Edge
- Breakthrough SF - Heidi Erbe
- ESER measure - Matthew Beagle
- SF Bike Plan Update - Marc Caskil
- Featured:
- MTA: Fell/Oak Signs and Arco - Cathal Hennessy
- Park Station Update - Capt. Barrett
- Supervisors Office Update - Vallie Brown
- Events and Announcements
- NOPNA Logo/IconicPictures Contest
January 22, 2010 - Friday
SPUR - The legacy of Livable Streets: Four decades later, what have we learned?
When: January 22, 2010 - Friday
12:30 p.m.
Where: SPUR, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco
What: Hear Bruce Appleyard, who is working on the second edition of his father's book "Livable Streets" and Joshua Hart, who will discuss his plane-free journey from San Francisco to the UK, where he replicated Donald Appleyard's study for the first time in Europe. $5. non-members
Supervisor David Campos and Supervisor John Avalos - Art Party
When: January 22, 2010 - Friday
5 to 7 p.m.
Where: City Hall, Room 272 and Room 244, San Francisco
What: Art party. With the help of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, the District 9 office will be showcasing the work of painters Kelly Ording and Jet Martinez, mixed-media artistsRichard Nyhaeen, Rafael Vieira and Michael Roman, silkscreen artists Gina Contreras andMarshaw Shaw, and the prints ofJose Guadalupe Posada from the James Nikas collection.
Information: camposstaff@sfgov.org
January 23, 2010 - Saturday
Planning the Future of Sunnydale - Mercy Housing/HOPE SF Meeting
When: January 23, 2010 - Saturday
10:30 a.m.
Where: 1654 Sunnydale Avenue, San Francisco
What: Community meeting discussing the rebuilding of Sunnydale Housing.
Information: Ramie Dare - 415-452-9744
A Bomb in Every Issue: Ramparts Magazine
When: January 23, 2010 - Saturday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Main Library, 100 Larking Street, San Francisco
What: Hear author Peter Richardson discuss his book "A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America".
Buena Vista Park Southeast Hillside Project
When: January 23, 2010 - Saturday
11 a.m.
Where: Buena Vista Park, at the intersection of Buena Vista East/West at Upper Terrace, San Francisco
What: Ribbon-cuttingh ceremony for the Buena Vista Park Southeast Hillside Project.
Information: info@BVNASF.com
Planning meeting for new open space in the Mission District
When: January 23, 2010 - Saturday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Marshall Elementary School, 1575 15th Street (Capp Street) San Francisco
What: Public is welcome to discuss proposed open space in the northeast Mission at 17th Street and Folsom.
Light refreshments, childcare.
Information: susan.exline@sfgov.org
January 26, 2010 - Tuesday
*Eliot Spitzer: The Cataclysm of 2008-2009
When: January 26, 2010 - Tuesday
5:15 p.m.
Where: Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Stree, 2nd Floor, San Francisco
What: Former Governor and Attorney General of New York, Eliot Spitzer will speak.
$18. non-members
*McLaren Park Park Improvement Workshop
When: January 26, 2010 - Tuesday
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: Louis Sutter Playground Roundhouse, (near corner of University & Woolsey Street) McLaren Park, San Francisco
What: Recreation and Park Department working with Neighborhood Parks Council and Parks Trust are holding public workshops to discuss the improvement of McLaren Park. The McLaren Park Needs Assessment and Action Plan Workshops will gather thoughts and ideas and priorities from the public and then come up with an action plan.
Information: Karen Mauney-Brodek Karen.Mauney-Brodek@sfgov.org
Important: Items change - please check before attending event for any changes. (especially because of the rain!)
Please email any items or comments to sfpostnotes@gmail.com (I need your help in providing events for this calendar - the more information - the more informed weallare)
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