February 2013 Next Meeting February 26 Potrero Hill Neighborhood House 953 DeHaro Street (at Southern Heights)

6:45 pm 7:00 pm Social Business Meeting Introductions / Welcome to New Members Police Report Treasurers Report Neighborhood News and Updates Green Benefit District brief update The Bay Lights request for support New Developments Cafe Cocomo and 3rd/20th Streets, with Build Inc.
The Bay Lights Coming March 5

The Bay Lights is an iconic light sculpture designed by internationally renowned artist Leo Villareal, designed to live for two years on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, starting with the Grand Lighting on March 5, 2013. (You may have already seen it from the Hill during tests in the past two weeks!) The Bay Lights is the worlds largest light sculpture, 1.8 miles wide and 500 feet high and inspired by the Bay Bridge 75th anniversary. Using 25,000 white individually programmed LED lights, Leo Villareal will create complex algorithms and patterns in a dazzling display across the bridges west span. (Villareal is a pioneer in the use of LED lights and computer-driven imagery. Known for his complex, rhythmic artwork composed exclusively of points of light, his art is part of the permanent collections of major museums worldwide.) The Bay Lights is a monumental tour de force seven times the scale of the Eiffel Towers 100th Anniversary lighting. Shining from dusk to midnight for two years, it will impact over 50 million people in the Bay Area, with billions more seeing it in the media and online. Well have a representative of The Bay Lights at Tuesdays Boosters meeting, to tell us more about the project before the Grand Lighting. Theyve raised more than $5.7 million so far, and still need more than $2 million to cover the full cost of the work through April 2015; the Boosters Executive Committee has already voted to contribute $200 to the project, and we urge individual Boosters to join in as well. For more information: http://thebaylights.org/
Executive Committee nominations are open

7:25 pm

8:00 pm

Presidents Message
Take the Potrero Hill Transportation Survey!

As a big wave of development and a population boom come to the Mission and Potrero Hill, and the MTA pushes for parking meters on our sidewalks without improving Muni, the Potrero Boosters have been looking for a way to create better public transportation in our neighborhoods and get cars off our streets. We're conducting a survey to determine interest in a community shuttle service. The results will be used to design a service that is responsive to your needs. It only takes a few minutes, and could make the difference in Potrero Hill's public transit! To take the survey, go to:
survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e73i9712hdhj1b5y/start

Survey responses are due by Monday, March 4. Thank you!

Tuesdays Boosters meeting: new Dogpatch developments

The wave of Eastern Neighborhoods development proposals continues this year at the Boosters, with building projects on the agenda for this month and next, followed in March and April by major presentations on the Boosters responses to all the planned apartments and condos our public transit/ shuttle study and the Potrero/Dogpatch Green Benefit District. Well have a small update on the Green Benefit District meetings at Tuesdays Boosters meeting, Tuesday, February 26 at 7pm at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. Anyone who wants to visit or participate in the Districts formation is welcome to attend the meetings, which are on the first or second Tuesday of the month at the Potrero Hill Library or at various sites in Dogpatch. (Email [email protected] for more information; the GBD website with full meeting schedules and notes will be up soon!) The two development projects at Tuesdays meeting are both located in Dogpatch Build Inc.s proposals for the ProCamera site (at 3rd and 20th Streets) and 650 Indiana, the current site of Cafe Cocomo, which has its share of neighborhood-disturbing incidents over the years. Join us, and weigh in on the future.

The Executive Committee of the Boosters step up every year to make the Boosters more visible in the neighborhood, and to make the neighborhood more visible in the City. There's much more to come in the future, as the membership of the Boosters grows, and as the City looks to its southeast neighborhoods to solve more and more of its problems. We've learned the hard way that when it comes to local advocacy, city planning and environmental issues, no one looks out for us like we can. I bring this up because its time for Executive Committee nominations for the coming year. We are always looking for new active members to join the Booster leadership. Candidates for Executive Committee posiare interested in becoming a member of the Executive Committee, please contact me or Dick Millet (contact info on the back of this newsletter).
Save the Date: The Boosters Dinner: May 28 at the California Culinary Academy tions must be nominated by the end of the March 26 Booster meeting. If you have been a Booster for a year, and you

The annual Boosters Dinner, the most social Booster meeting of the year, is all set! Tuesday night, May 28 at 5.30 pm, is the date and time, with dinner served at 7:00; and we are very excited to be returning to Technique, the California Culinary Academys restaurant on 16th Street at Rhode Island. This is a full catered three-course dinner, prepared by the California Culinary Academy, with wine donated by local merchants.
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Heres the menu: 5:30 pm - No host bar 7.00 pm - Dinner is served, with complimentary wine Family style appetizers and Caesar salad Choice of entrees: Spring lamb stew on polenta Pine nut-olive crusted Halibut, with fingerling potatoes and asparagus Roast chicken with herb gnocchi, baby vegetables and pan reduction Polenta or risotto with assorted vegetables This is always a fun event, where we install the new years Executive Committee quickly and efficiently and recognize some of the hardest working among us for what they do in our community. Its a great chance to bring a neighbor and show them what the Boosters are all about!
This event sells out every year, and this year, theres only 120 seats available. So we are sure to sell out in advance!

COMMUNITY RESOURCES
City Hall Web site: Mayor Ed Lee 1 Goodlett Place Rm 200 SF Ca 94102 www.sfgov.org ph: 554-6141 fax 554-6160 [email protected]

Supervisor Malia Cohen / District 10 (which includes Potrero Hill): ph: 554-7670 fax 554-7674 [email protected] Bayview Police Station SFPD Web site: Capt. Robert OSullivan Anonymous Tips Community Liaison Permit/Code Abatement Abandoned autos Potrero Terrace/Annex 201 Williams St, SF 94124 www.sfgov.org/police/ ph: 671-2300 fax 671-2345 robert.o'[email protected] 822-8147 voicemail, 575-4444 live 671-2302 (Sergeant Newbeck) 671-2313 (Officer Robinson) 850-9737 (Officer Rodriguez, M-F 7am-3pm) 509-1408 (Officers Rodatos & Leong) 987-6389 (Officers Cader & Talusan)

Get tickets online soon at potreroboosters.org. Or, mail your check today to Potrero Boosters Annual Dinner, 1459 18th St. #133, San Francisco, CA 94107. Write the number of reservations requested on your check and include a note with your choice of entree. Tickets are $45 per person in advance. Your ticket will be held at the door.

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Potrero Boosters Executive Committee President Tony Kelly 341-8040 [email protected] First Vice President Dick Millet 861-0345 [email protected] Second Vice President Daphne Magnawa [email protected] Treasurer J.R. Eppler [email protected] Recording Secretary Monisha Mustapha [email protected] Corresponding Sec. Keith Goldstein [email protected] Sergeant-at-Arms Ellen Kernaghan 824-5065 Auditors Robin Talmadge Joe Boss 826-2515 Member-at-Large David Glober [email protected] Webmaster: [email protected]

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