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that is something that will be helpful this is going for toughing to achieve. >> ms. tilly chang. >> this is an artist i've been teaching at city college i feel that small business could be gridlock helped by you know having more to help them we have some right now behalf murals in chinatown and a perp organized physician on grant avenue that helps tours of visitors to go to the shops many best in chinatown are a small business they have to most of owners limited english they only way to do it small business and i try very horde harrods to listen to them and see warehouse needs as well as chinatown that is really the
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heart of business. >> (clapping.) thank you very much mr. president wesson kin. >> i will start by having the government start cleaning up the streets their filthier than any time la declared a state of emergency and puts hundred millions into homelessness and do what supervisor campos is doing on our ballot prop j to give landlords and commercial businesses tax incentives if they enter into long term lease with businesses. >> ms. up tilly chang and then mrs. pressing kin and sxheeshgs we've received a lot of questions from the people in the audience and online they're concerned about schools and homelessness people on the
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street what specific thing will you do to keep the families in san francisco. >> i think this is a chronic issue i'm a teacher and he taught grade school introduce clerk erica major college and childcare is the number one care for women women with children have a hard time living in san francisco we're not hermosa beach to keep teachers in san francisco there's a problems are housing, of course, nobody can afford to live in san francisco now even with a big salary i'll say women problems is mostly younger women in childcare and a lot of seniors including myself that you can we need need to have anymore spirit all issues i hope for that childcare and women and also monolingual
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speaking chinese. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> so i think housing is the fundamental issue relative to families taking a here what the stay has to do is increase the percentage of what we call inclusionary housing the city requirement about how much middle-income and e matrix and affordable housing people are to build on the when i was on the boards it was 15 percent now it is 12 percent the number is going down we know that after prop a of last year the developers like forest city and pier 70 are willing to build upward the thirty percent the middle-income and mirrored income folks in san francisco this takes independence and that takes experience to stand up to
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the development community that is making plenty of money and still built housing with a higher percentage of middle-income housing it the politicians stand up (clapping.) >> so i think we all agree that housing is an issue we've not built developments in district 3 hopefully talk about housing as a separate issue and homelessness and streets cleaning are separate we're working on all those things also for families transportation is a big issue and pedestrian safety i hear a lot about we're working very hard on improving the intersections especially around schools but for me parks and libraries i've spent the last 20 years working on george and the north beach library and pool -
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>> can we stop the time are we're going to try to control audience. >> i appreciate you being courteous this is not polite and people are hit the ground running about libraries and playground i've spent 20 years not gnaws i'm a politician not because i got paid quite the opposite the families and seniors needed a place to play and swim and read and so i think that done probable the most for the families ♪ district over the past decade or so i can't wait for jody to open i hope to see you all later (clapping) >> all right. our next question mr. pressing kin and
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supervisor christensen and ms. tilly chang. >> let's talk about homelessness and what the city should wish doing about that. >> so i think everybody knows the numbers in the 6 and a half years i've been out of the office those numbers are increased remarkably there are in district 3 alone this year over last year a 27 percent increase i salute the mayor and mr. david i didn't in the navigation center in the anybody's in district 9 those needs to be expanded geographically and put your money where your mouth is the city of los angeles declared an emergency and doomentsdz hundred million dollars when i left office in 2009 it almost $9 billion we have the resources to address this and the
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resources to have more meth by these at the general and more nurses in the shelters and we have a place to be during the day not just shelters at night (clapping.) >> so when mr. president wesson kin come out of office of budget for homeless serves were slashed paurl because of the recession and the number of homeless have gone up but we've seen a huge mitigation in our district 8 hundred more people in the bay area so the number of homeless people remains statistic but a lot of are in our district doesn't used to be here before i have 3 more people from the dunst doing connects with homeless people and connecting them to services increased outreach from the
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police department and also wade through the thicket of services to try to figure out how to consolidate and streamline those so we're providing better service at the lower costs i do agree we needed to put more money into housing and some case for permanent housing (clapping.) >> i want to talk about there is homeless people in san francisco chinatown especially they came out at portsmouth square the park is distancing used by the seniors and families sros and so they have to clear out somehow so the certificate of appropriateness chase them out in chinatown you have
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homeless monolingual chinese i do support mayors the recent the navigation center thank you. >> so we should do more in chinatown. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. all right. our next question the said or done is sdmooishgs ms. take the opportunity and mr. pressing kin whether about san francisco as a sanitary city. >> as aaron has tutored us 24 out the central america politics in 1980 i certainly think we need to clarify the communications from our sheriff's to immigration but i really think that all the news to date to a sanitary of
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the shooting of poor kate steinle reed really is an administration question in a funny way tracks to homeless and car break in no way that juan francisco lopez a schizophrenia should have been brought to the city only not to be prosecuted and released into our streets with no income it was american people all automobile burglary to the firearm in in his possession a lot of administrative questions while we debate how best to have to sheriff communicate with investigations i. >> i had thoughts about the police officers leaving their guns in their cars it didn't happen if at the lock up the guns probably this person would
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not have gotten the guns to shoot so i other people surprised to see that the immigration officers and sheriff's and federal government work together this problem because we are hosting a lot of asian immigrants illegal from latin countries that is a complicated question and he would like to see more cooperation and more communication between the different agencies. >> (clapping.) >> so it goes without saying that kate steinles murder is a huge tragedy for this city as supervisor christensen said surveillance city policy actually came from the days of dianne feinstein at the behest of the rothman catholic arching
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dies during a period of time there was death squads in central america and people fleeing police terror in cities around the south western part of this country's adopted those laws if you were on the boards i will be gwen a panel the criminal justice system exerts have communications there that policy that comes from a good place that i may need to be updated at the dawn of the 21st century we've been told by prosecutors that is the cause of kate steinles death it a little bit more complicated than that. >> the orders is ms. tang and mr. pressing kin and sxooishgs.
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>> what steps with you take to improve the in-law unit legislation and would you support american people amendment to insure those are protected from airbnb homeless what steps would you taken to improve the in-law units legislation and would you support an amendment to insure those new unit will be protected from becoming airbnb hotels and first of all, i support in-law units as far as what steps to take it is tenants and the city hall because this is another very hot issue right now on airbnb and in-law unit is part of it especially we have a dense population in chinatown and north beach and so on something that we have to look at it and i'll not jump to say well, we
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should be able to convert in-law units roadway. >> thank you for the question ms. jennings i authored a decade ago a secondary unit law unfortunately ♪ political time couldn't get past a 6 to 5 vote the www.drnpa.org lunch breaks in in-law units walk in units and i'm delighted my successors david chiu and supervisor christensen and supervisor wiener were able to take that legislation off the she felt and get it passed having said that, that make no sense to create those units and allow them to become airbnb hotel rooms if you were on the boards i would have opposite side and voted for on amendment not to be used as short-term
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rentals and an amendment not converted to condominiums those were meant to be affordable housing by design and i acknowledge that sxhooishs was able to subject them to rent control we were 90 in my day not do but if they can be turned into short-term rentals >> (clapping.) we're calling those things in-law units but more likely to happen some of the big apartments rooms made for storage space whatever will adds those as existing apartment buildings their green and built into need buildings and more assessable and they're going to be reynolds it means we can add potentially thousands of units of housing in our district in a position not to put the big burden of a high-rise in the
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distributed the important thing here right now under excited law a person that owns a building and added one of the units is not allowed to rent that unit for airbnb it is not allowed now because only people who live in an apartment or house are allowed to rent it short term so if a landlord has the agreement with the tenant they want to rent out their couch that might happen but not rent out as stand alone units under the law (clapping.) next question we'll begin with mr. president wesson kin and supervisor christensen and ms. take the opportunity and bus stops require the pears to cross who lines of traffic how will
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you make it easier for people to use. >> is that a question about business or making traffic isles easier to assess. >> take it anywhere and relative to the market i agree with dedicating it to travel it make sense hopefully the city will stand up to the tmc and turn it both a an uber marketplace as to travel it is about making sure that you have adequate timing for crosswalks snaelz and if people are saying there is not accurate timing letting let me or the mta know those can be adjusted. >> the good news a list last time 4 dozen projects of changes we're making in the district to try to improve pedestrian safety
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a great new crosswalks broadway in front of the lady shay almost finished the mta has adjusted the timing on california and bay streets we're working on those you if you know of intersections let us know good news a lot of new buses coming online not only empower efficient and cleaner but much easier to board and walk around we've dune dawn the lines in the district you'll start seeing those that's one of the happy things we're making improvements you've some of you noticed bulb outs on columbus to try to improve pedestrian safety on it street. >> (clapping.) >> for seniors crossing streets
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very did the times say adjusting the signals to allow more times for seniors to cross the street as far as market street in the more traffic i really like the ideas of having market street the way it is because it allows less traffic will have betterment to cross street. >> thank you all right. the next order is supervisor christensen, ms. tang and mr. pressing kin has to do with is kink of san francisco what will you do to help city college as for accreditation so keep to open and viable for everyone that wants to attend the accreditation in 2013 to come to compliance supervisor christensen. >> we can vote alex ralph onto
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the college boards working hard to improve the conditions we know how important it is many of us aware of the struggles that took place when city college tried to expand to chinatown and there was a lot of controversy about where that was going to be mr. sanchez plaids we have a supplement facility for that college instead of a single building it sufrdz from mass we saved one building but city college took it in the shorts i've been pleased to see the reports that things have stabled financially and likely the college will put out in one piece i'm glad for the limp that put it better on track (clapping.) >> well, i city college especially ocean campus a
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constant struggle i see a lot of teachers that are frustrated with the accreditation i want to see that city college has an easier time getting through this crisis it is really demoralizing we teachers and students so it is very, very hard i just can't say how much it real effects the faculty and students (clapping.) so first of all, i'll commends on the other hand, our district attorney dennis herrera and make sure our city attorney has sufficient resources second of all i'll do what i the fourth was champion prop a for sufficient funding including huge over experiencing in all instances back in the day when
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they wanted to knock down columbus and replace that with units when city college was michael the stakes and finally, there's voted for the person in a f d the faculty of city college and this is mike (clapping.) thank you. >> all right. our next question in the orders is ms. take the opportunity and mr. pressing and supervisor christensen some people expressed san francisco is a announcement park and other cars that go around do you have any thoughts and comments ms. take the opportunity. >> i do forgot san francisco number one industry is tourism we may not last week the busses but money coming in so i really
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have a lot of ideas about how to have a greener industry tourism is number $17 billion and i pioneered this issue on grant avenue and portsmouth square it attracts to going to shops only very little but i think it is something don't forget from the 1950s the arts and so much rich cult and might want cultural community we should look at it and see if we can promote the arts the green industry. >> the disney lands i'm worried about we're outline worried about not about segues for photographers about losing our artists and losing our are curled deceptive our economic
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diversities about the increases evictions in this district a about the also have artists i'll sxham the requirement that a space is required for nonprofits and for artists it is high time that san francisco lead in if direction it is high time we protect the people who make that such a vibrant community i'm worried about that being a december necessary land everyone is super rich and an interesting place to live in are forced out (clapping.) a >> so i'm going to try to stick to answering the question how can we modulate the tourists to our district i hear about that a lot as a i said we provide bettered transportation and try to reduce the trips it is better we need to control the
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buses my predecessor chiu took steps we've investigated to try to keep the busses off the smaller residential streets safety not only for us but for them we have a new ambassador program that is taking place at the foot of lamc barred people during the day to keep unblocked roadway and take care of their valuables and programs to me e telling people not to leave valuables in their cars so far as the nonprofits we're adding nonprofit space in the district and my time is up - >> thank you. >> (clapping.) well, let's talk about housing for the next question i'll explain why we're to go be mr. president wesson kin and supervisor and ms. take the
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opportunity so two things so we'll start with one please explain happens to prevent to be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars eviction please explain farmer's market ellis act evicts. >> my track reader i've had 2005 pieces of legislation about a bosses were aimed at protecting the tenants similar legislation speculators around the ellis act if you use an ellis act eviction you'll not be eligible to condo our property in the next 10 years this saw a large reductions in the number of ellis act evicts we have a lot more to do we saw that this board finally i commend intooishgs supervisor christensen the new is the nuisance evictions people are
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evicted for hanging laundry out windows my records on tenants right precedes my time in office during my minded in office and since he i've left office helped to save hundreds of thousands of people from evictions (clapping.) >> soy on the challenge we face is that despite mr. president wesson kins valuable e vantd efforts we're seeing people evicted and prop g that was hotly debate had so many loopholes month egging gregarious as supervisor seen still are allowed what what we're facing a climate of aging prove or disprove and enormous pressure from economic forces it makes it hard i support rent control, of course, i've been
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able as supervisor to stop 25 illegal evictions and 3 walk out of attendance wear doing everything we can and passed a resolution that the board supports the ellis act we've need to continue to work for tenants right but find was to build more housing and protect our small business owners those units remain available (clapping.) and. >> the words eviction is very personal to me well, i lived on campus at san francisco state university in the 70s they decided to tear down the housing and expands the parking lot we were evicted we figure out loan with nan to save that housing it didn't work so then i moved to another place up franklin and
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union and after living there the building sold he got pushed out now for the last 35 years living in chinatown the last eviction somehow my father the rent board so when the word comes to eviction it is very personal to me (clapping.) thank you. >> all right. next question in any orders is supervisor christensen, ms. tang and mr. pressing kin the neighborhood deliberating is represented out instead of being available for young people to use with the city recreation worker which whether i do to prioritize the clubhouse. >> i don't know which clubhouse the person writing the question i've got good news i was able to pit money in the
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budget thorough for joe montana o jooej we were able to provide the funding for a community group that manages the willie wong playground so it will be open so the decision to take our directors out the clubhouses is in the isle not fond of i'll say there are occasions when it works well the co-op is now operating out of the winds up clubhouse inform chinatown a great use of this space southeast very active one-on-one we'll take the clubhouses the good news two of the main facilities in north beach and chinatown will be fully staffs for the coming year i'm will so glad (clapping.)
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>> talking about portsmouth skrak a living room for seniors and people with certain isles millennial's most of them live around that area some sros so it is we should put more money and maybe find another pays for chinese anyone lingual people to hang out i like the idea it can have there's budget for the parks (clapping.) >> it's the best of times and the worse of the times relative to rec and park you know increase in administration the arming recommend is charging under the last administration wanted to propose a fee to get into coit tower the murals that were done during the ap the
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prioritization the club hours i think there needs to be bold leadership on the part of board of supervisors a check and balance not to prioritize and money intents our parks and has a dedicated stream of income we have the money to operate them and so we actually have rec directors and less rec directors when i was in office true fact (clapping.) >> thank you. >> we've talked about housing a little bit and the remarks i know you want to talk about that we have leave questions on affordable housing so beginning ms. take the opportunity and mr. pressing and supervisor christensen affordable housing to create more affordable housing in san francisco ms. take the opportunity. >> well talking about specifically in district 1924 we
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have one mother that is bus you know the park buses across safeway that could be used to built affordable housing there is also the han park school and is community college moved to gear street that could be considered built affordable housing for families and their other options he can see that with the tight spaces district 3 the brooklyn bus yard could be used to business housing. >> so i agree with ms. tainting limiting the sites on this ballot prop k and whether it is the kirkland's bus yard or the balboa or john hancock let's talk about we need to increase
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the inclusionary oversight that developers are riverside to build the middle-income and the lower-income onsite that should be a requirement and hang on 0 the housing stock did you see the academy of real estate i last week to tall call them has gobbled up in violation of city hall has not had the will to enforce and harvey rose said reynolds has been taken off the market because of airbnb no enforcement by city hall we've got to preserve it and holds it them over the fire to make them pay for it (clapping.) >> soy won't disagree with any
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ever that one we're building ava new project at 88 broadway i'd like to require it to you go do the site we get senior housing adds to the broadway we're looking at other places that are suitable to affordable housing and we've got a couple of properties we're looking acquiring to make sure they remain affordable housing we are talking to the few private developers building i agree we need to be doing way way better e better than 12 percent and fortunate more willing to do below grade we need to control sros vs. but i'm focusing on ways to incentivize property owner that have taken them off the arithmetic to represent those units we have a program to try to get many of
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those units back on the arithmetic they far outnumber any of the other gaps we've been to find excepts the academy of art. >> (clapping) and there or so many pz&e issues in the city of san francisco and everyone is into passionate go where is it the orders mr. pressing and supervisor christensen and mr. pressing kin please silence our phone got it is it off okay. >> against anybody's clock. >> >> here's the question where did crime rank on our priority list housing and transportation and other things to where does housing rank on our permit list. >> mr. pressing kin. >> okay stop the clock please
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i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. >> no, just turn the bell off. >> can someone help here hold on a second. >> i can help you, you don't have to leave oh, that's one of those phones you can't see the dial a flip phone can you help her out we don't want you to leave honey stay with us all right. and aim sorry so sorry i don't want to cut into anyone's the time what you have to say is so important power it down. >> okay got it. >> yeah. >> (clapping.) we haven't even talked about technology; right? >> i'm sure. >> how many enthuse casters does it take. >> to turn off a cell phone;
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right? >> we'll begin where does crime range on the priority list under pressing. >> obviously one of the paramount responsibility of a government be that on the legislative or exclusive be that the mayor or president or board of supervisors the safety and quality of life of your residents and sentence e citizens a very, very high priority having said that, crime in san francisco is pretty good having said that, and supervisor christensen and ms. tang we've cabin on the road our 4 or 6 time this is high elevated increase in car break-ins and violate crime it is the responsibility of the understanding and it is the responsibility of the board to make sure they have sufficient resources to do their job very interesting in i read the
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chronological article wear actually a little bit higher than other cities on crime over staffing our police staffing is much higher that talks about the affordability accountabilities of the police and holds the police educational (clapping.) supervisor. >> our police district 3 got stand to includes market street and district 3 we had a vote at the board of supervisors whether to bring our police staffing to the minimum that was set decades ago when you're our population was 10 thousand to less the vote was 10 to 5 i voted yes, the supervisors supported arena noetd vote no, we need jobs and meth services what the captain
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lazarus needs police to stop burglars and car break i am sorry i'm exists about the people that on the force they're young and bilingual they can make a real difference i think it is important we have an adequately staffs police force and need a new police station since mr. president wesson kin was in office we need to roommate central we haven't done it i'll get it done. >> (clapping.) i considered crime as a priority in chinatown now it seems like the police is working a little bit more with directly with the residents whereas, before when we had seniors afraid to go to the police officer every meeting the fierce tuesday of every week
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captain lazzaro through a think interpreter tries to reach out to the community more bilingual cops to patrol the beats in the areas that is right now a hot spot because a lot of robberies and assaults accustoms from that area he hope that more seniors will be able to come out and reach to the police department. >> thank you. >> a reminder i'd appreciate it in everyone refrains from attacks against commitments our next question is supervisor christensen, ms. take the opportunity and mr. pressing define i kin bruno heights had a implosion residence reported electrical boxed fires how can
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the protect public safety from such dangers. >> make sure that pg&e does a better job of inspecting those boxes we've had those incursions from the financial district we've watched what happened down september 11th we have very olds infrastructure a lot of that it has not been inspected properly we're trying to put the screws to the utility company to do what it needs to do to keep us all safe i've heard from the residents about the new cell phone triumphs transcriptionists about the cable on our utility lines we're stimuli i didn't do with the evictions by some of the laws at state level working with snooebd to address those basically wear living in a city that is aging in many was and
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proper inspection and maintenance of our infrastructure is essential to our safety (clapping.) well. >> that is quite so much a problem in chinatown the transformers i've heard maybe one or two exhibitions we should pg&e work with the madam secretary's to inspecting frequently and also to guide them that the safety rules from the must not point but pg&e should be responsible to the transformers a lot more safe. >> thank you, mr. jennings i've long held the belief and supported it repeating that with the people of san francisco
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should relief pummeling of its facilities in this town (clapping.) and that's not political rhetoric i believe that san francisco should multiple lists pg&e's falls was referred to as public power one that by a fistful lost by a fistful of votes pg&e spent as much money as airbnb to defeat projection f over a decade ago we should get pg&e out we've shown we know how to run the water and sewer system and have public power in san francisco and get those transformers and fix them and do the job is pg&e failed to do in sgaun and san francisco. >> (clapping.) only i'm sorry
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all right. our next question is the orders in which you'll speak ms. tainting and mr. pressing and sxhooeshgs district has a plan to add density but no plan for fire stations which will you do for the growing population in district 3. >> ms. hahn. >> e take the opportunity. >> i live pretty close to the fire station an powell between broadway and pacific and i guess right now chinatown has one fire station i'm sure there are others last week north beach i'm not familiar i can tends to think right now chinatown is appropriate it have one right now but also could be if there's another one betters for the density of the population. >> thank you so extensive
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studies on this going back inform decades district 3 and the city is adequately served with the population density station 13 the high pressure for downtowns 28 and two engine 41 and district 3 as very, very good coverage by the presented and they do a great job and i would not foresee openly any new fire stations in the supervisorial district. >> i agree with mr. president wesson kin we've got our fire stations covered but not a police station i don't think i don't know if you've been in the central station they can't book none the cells don't meet regulation i've been working with the city to try to move the
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detectives into a space to do their job we're looking to roommate the holdings cells so the people guarantee police do have to take them elsewhere to book them and trying to find the lands unfortunately, the lands not unfortunate is affordable housing but we have that instead of a police station we need to fought that and figure out how to keynote speaker the roermdz living in the city and looking at programs that might help to that side we want them here for an emergency (clapping.) thank you. >> we're up to the last 3 questions he tends the commitments will have 2 minutes you'll have a chance to wrap up mr. president wesson kin and supervisor christensen and ms. take the opportunity
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and the question is you've talked about affordable housing we're here in the school how to help the teachers and nurses and others to obtain affordable housing anything to be done to help them. >> because of my track record in around affordable housing and my commitment and willingness to stand up to the development communities and negotiate tiff deals is precisely why i'm the comment in this erase it is sports pie the nurses association and he is educators of san francisco by the city college faculty unity a f t 21 and the hotel and restaurants local two the international folks they postal this district and building in this candidacy based on my experience and track
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record and policy commitments i've spoken to you about this evening (clapping.) >> i'm sorry can you repeat question. >> >> how can the help teachers and nurses and public workers obtain affordable housing the first thing we'll build for housing we've got a population gravel that is doing this for 20 years and our housing construction has been doing that in a way that if disrupt the neighborhoods is very important the fact we need more housing in order to try to meet that gap between the number of people and the affordable housing i have something from the city attorney we have an idea to provide housing for the teachers and nurses and infrastructure & development i'm hoping that moved and allows us to do with without the neighborhood disruption for housing for more
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people so what else i have a long list of supporters but i think so we build for housing and more affordable housing which we're doing we're protecting our excited hours but the idea of prioritizing housing for the first responders is very popular and city hall right now (clapping.) well the city has a program calls section 8 for low income subsidized housing how about inducing the fourth teachers to teachers and nurses so they can stay in the city if the city does not right now i know frandz in order to keep the teachers there we need to you would say probably like section 8 gradual funds to fund
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suburbans subsidizing the teachers and the nurses and city workers (clapping.) all right. thank you. >> question now the order for the speakers supervisor christensen ms. take the opportunity and mr. pressing kin the question do you have any proposals to switch to more affordable energy. >> i was happy to be a co-sponsor of the one of the ballots measures to help us towards that ends by didn't even with constitutes clean power i support clean power in san francisco and the move to that ends up we've got a number of programs underway it support energy sufficiency and cleaner buses that require less maintenance that are currently coming online as a city what is it 17 percent i don't understand belief the portfolio weighing
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we've done a great job in making our city energy efficient sport that we're taking steps to make our new construction even better and using water for example, better water management in the areas that are repeated so i've been proud to support those measures that are gone through the board and look forward to doing more (clapping.) >> well, not to be redundant by support clean energy. >> all right. thank you mr. pressing skin. >> with your all on the same page i had one of the largest political battles with the pg&e over the closing the hunters point shipyard fossil fuel plant and working with sophie maxwell
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closed the plant at potrero hill that is an area of town that had the highest asthma last week's in the city we all support clean power and not to go back to the enforcement thing i'm delighted to have the enforcement of the sierra club because of that commitment to standing up to organizations whether or not i can pg&e as you recall the mayor has the bay indoctrinating blew up called them a corp citizen that's not standing up but we need empowerment on this board of supervisors. >> (clapping.) this oversee e our final question ms. take the opportunity. >> mr. pressing and supervisor christensen we've talked about housing and this is a contusion
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issue all the tech companies coming to to would you supports bringing three to four technology businesses to san francisco mrs. pressing kin supervisor christensen and ms. take the opportunity you're right i changed the order ms. take the opportunity i apologize you begin and then. >> the question who you supports bringing for technology businesses to san francisco. >> well, i i'm advocate of tourist u tourism i don't see why having tech industry is not a good idea it is a good idea we have to look at the number one industry it is green industry i will supports tourism first and tech companies coming in i
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rather say here on behalf of the appellant i'm really have the sort of think about this one i really support touching number one and a lot of room to develop and promote tourism. >> mr. pressing kin. >> it is important that san francisco have a gifted economy not for all the egos in one basket but the role of the board of supervisors at this moment in time to deal with the huge disparities at this time to make sure that as folks come in they're paying their fair share and paying their way and not getting tax breaks aesz as the case of impacts part of reason i'm running for the board of supervisors not to encourage or discourage but mitigate those impacts and make sure that people pay their fair share and make sure the tech companies are paying the impact fees for the transportation issues that are happening in our region ♪
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town they're paying their fair share relative to affordable housing and right now that political will is sadly absent at city hall (clapping.) >> so i came to san francisco in the late 70s the employment's titled were big construction like bill clinton he will and wells fargo and is bank of america they supported our opera but brought change we brought tech an urgent care him in to a lot of people it means 20 something that makes too much money it is challenging to begin what a technical company it we reference airbnb and uber and things we don't like but pretty much all companies uses computers those days and is largest employers that brought
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the most employees to san francisco in the last 5 years is the health our hospitals and biotech centers we need to make those companies pull their ferry absolutely august agree with that but the tax breaks for mid market they're not the causes today. >> this is the times where the expected have two minutes if you've not registered to vote someone outside will help you it takes a minute the deadline is october 19th if you move you'll have to reregister the closing steam in reverse albert e befk order. >> it is pretty easy. >> that's right. i have 3
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names. >> first or last time name. >> we'll do ladies first. >> all right. let's start is ms. take the opportunity you're the paxil and pe you get two minutes to make our case. >> well, thank you sheryl and i'm honored to be here to be able to to you as i come from all of a sudden the getting of chinatown lived there for the last 45 i 35 years because of the i know what the needs and suffering of the especially the monolingual chinese therefore i'm here to be able to for them to hear their problems i'm ripping well, some say a parental return i want you to
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hear what people really people have to say not what tailored comments from the if you have a group of monoloinlz and chinese they'll say the same thing but monolingual and i hear different stories and different suffers because of that you know i've been hanging out portsmouth square and really talking to them and organizing them to discourage to say it is all right to do this culturally through it is really close to the scene to play in front of people they fwraul came out. >> you know i'm sure you've seen some of the folks at poishth square it takes a long-term and not only that they have a
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stringent schedule anyone that wants to use a.m. fir it is $60 regardless he have to feekt every does want to say okay. you play and then you let the seniors play now they like to play on the streets and say well, they do help business because tourists come in i'm happy to be able to speak on on behalf of the monolingual and seniors women of color. >> thank you very much thank you very much. (clapping.) >> so thank you to the league and the sponsoring supervisor christensen and wilma take the opportunity and especially to all of you coming and participating in this thing we call democracy i'm delighted so many people are reader in the fire chief of their district and representation and spread the wor

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