-- trader joe's. i like a lot of people was disappointed by this. ultimately, a trader joe's walk away. there were a lot of concerns in the neighborhood about parking and traffic issues, given what has happened with the trader joe's on masonic street. but trader joe's, to my disappointment, walked away. i have been trying to provide support to the tower records site to make sure we get that space filled. another are a number of retail entities that have expressed interest in taking over pieces of its. really, there are three separate spaces. i'm cautiously optimistic we will get the space filled, and that is absolutely critical to the economic development of the neighborhood. it creates major blight when you

have an area like that. as regards to target -- that came from metrion. that is moving forward. there will be a target. target has indicated it wants to open up on masonic and geary. that process is just starting. i am quite confident it will come to the board of supervisors. if i take a position on that, i will be prohibited from voting, and i want to be able to vote on that one. target has a lot of pluses. we also know it has done a lot of bad things, when it contributed money to one of the horribly a homophobic politicians in the country. target has a lot of explaining

to do about that one. i do believe our city government has been more and more proactive about bringing businesses to the city and creating jobs. i do not know if mayor lee wants to talk about our plans for job creation in the city? mayor lee: as you know, i have been going all over the city, and everyone has been asking me to make sure i focus on job creation. jobs, jobs, jobs. no matter what ethnicity, and come. everybody needs jobs. the only way we can merely create jobs, and knowing this fact, that last year in california, not one new job was created. we lost jobs. we lost them to texas, to florida, all the other places. we have to develop a more positive business climate in order for businesses to help us

create those jobs. and that is why i've been working hard with supervisor kim and supervisor david chiu and the board of supervisors to experiment with tech companies, to ask them to create those jobs along the midmarket, one of the hardest things to do. we are going to get those new jobs. it is my strong opinion that this particular move we did recently with welcoming twitter in and making sure they stayed -- [jeering] i know there is some skepticism there, and i have skepticism of my own. but you have to create hope. you have to create help to ensure we have an underlying good economic climate, and the conversations are not just with twitter. the conversations are with every other company that says, ok, we can come in and build a foundation with you.

i hope to work with the board of supervisors closely to help build a new generation of asset businesses better going to open up -- san francisco businesses that are going to open up their doors and create jobs. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. mayor. our next question comes from dennis richards. it appears that' ntnc is attempting to sidestep an order signed by a then-director lee. what's are your opinions of at&t's effort to comply with these regulations? they're planning to place 720

boxes in the public right of way. for those who have not heard about this -- at&t wants their uverse service in san francisco, and they will install utility bosses on sidewalks. the planning department recently clear that. can you answer that question? >> at&t brought this proposal forward a few years ago. they retracted its, and they have come up with what they say is a somewhat scale-down proposal, providing smaller boxes to facilities. it would largely -- it would largely be on public rights of way. a smaller number. few were boxes. smaller boxes.

unfortunately, anywhere in the country, we're fairly limited to the extent we can regulate the utility in terms of their use of the public right of way. they have rights through state and federal law that limit, that constrain significantly our ability to tell them they cannot do it. so we can put conditions on to a limited degree. weaken regulate some aspects -- we can rest -- we can regulate some aspects. but we are limited. where we are in the process -- i believe they are seeking environmental clearance from the planning department. once the planning department makes a determination, the public will have the ability to appeal. that appeal will be heard at the board. in terms of our regulatory capacity at the city and county level, we are assuming they are

able to get their environmental clearance would be very much constrained in terms of what we can do to prevent them from putting these boxes in public right of way. there is a hearing process. the need to come to us for a permit. when they come to us for a permit, there is a process where they would notify people onion -- where we would notify people in the neighborhood. it would be able to come out and express concerns you have about esthetics or placement or anything you like. but again, we will be fairly limited in terms of what extent we will be able to keep them from placing the boxes. they seem to be trying to make an effort in meeting with neighborhood organizations. i do not know if they have met with ptna.

i know they have been reaching out to the board, neighborhood organizations, to see if they confine locations that will work for them operationally -- can find the locations that will work for them operationally. i will look forward to seeing that sometime, probably this year. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, ed. two more written questions, and then we will open it up to live questions from the audience. where do low income use fit in priorities for the mayor? mayor lee: they fit very high. low income use is reflected in all of the programs, whether it is phil ginsberg to making sure our parks are open and affordable for our use, --

youth, or it is muni where there were free passes for low-income youth, and working with bill, making sure we have a fair justice system that reunites youth with family. i had a chance to meet with members of coleman advocates. they told me a serious story about low income youth in the city. there is about 900 kids, primarily african-american and hispanic, low-income, the dots -- that got f grades and were

not going to graduate unless they went to summer school. he no state law is to have to pass those glasses to graduates -- classes to graduate. you're going to see a whole generation of low-income kids not graduate from high school. knowing there is in the generation of kids who will not graduate, who will be idled, will not have anything to do, they're not willing to find jobs. guess what? they are going to be on our streets. they are going to be in trouble. so, we costed that out to the tune of $200,000 in the summer. within days, we found that money.

i said, i am not going to suffer another generation of kids walking our streets. we were able to do that because of the commitment to our city has to low-income kids. that has to be another example, not only that we managed the city with the best of our brains, but with the best of our hearts. we are not going to lose these kids. thank you. >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: would you like to add anything from the school district? >> thank you. i would like to welcome everybody to the high school on behalf of the school district. i want to appreciate the mayor and of the supervisors -- all the supervisors having these meetings in our schools are in the city. we're very happy to be hosting, in a facility sense, the meetings you are having, mr. mayor, with all the supervisor.

with respect to several voter- approved propositions, the public education enrichment fun, commitment of a certain amount of money every year to find cards -- fine arts. every district in the state of california is looking hard cutting those programs. we also have a rainy day reserve. that is always subject to the approval of the mayor. for the fourth year in a row, it looks like we're going to get support from the rainy day reserve to our school. i think there are 8 colleagues

on the board of supervisors supporting the resolution. we are probably suffering greatly. the city and county and a lot of public agencies reject our school district is in great need of financial support and the appreciate the help. supervisor wiener: phil ginsberg has something about the city fell commitment to low-income youth. >> we have a very robust scholarship fund through aggressive philanthropy and fund-raising. no child is denied an opportunity to participate in our programs based on ability to pay. this summer, we will be tripling the number of learned to swim class's we have in our polls. drowning is the second leading cause of deaf for our low in,

youth. -- low income youth. it is our primary mission to make sure the children who do not have as much opportunity as others have a safe and fun place to play. [applause] supervisor wiener: ok, the last written question we will do for now is submitted by a lydia. home care providers have already been reduced to 3.6% of service hours. the county has projected a reduction of the funds that provide health insurance for these providers. we are asking the board of supervisors to restore funds, since we already save the county $10 million compared to the

$184,000 the county is trying to say. the home health-care providers to go into people's time -- homes, people who have trouble taking care of themselves, they provide this critical services. these are some of the lowest paid workers in our health-care system, making around $11 an hour. it is primarily funded to the states and the state determines what the pay rate is. the state has made dramatic reductions in recent years. i know in all parts of the city, we have residents who depend on the services. it is not about treating the workers fairly, but it is also about making sure the president's have the access to the home health care -- residents have the access to the home health care they rely on. i've been talking to the budget

staff as well as the human services agency to do what we can on a local level. it is a $184,000 line item. it is not a massive amount of money. that is something i commit to you i am going to work on. with that, we will open it to live questions. is this the line? this is the line. in terms of how we're going to do this, i would request that any question you ask, that he be as concise as possible. we should richard we are going to time the questions. -- we are going to time the

questions. we want to get in as many questions as possible. >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: thank you, maggie. first person, and come on up. >> hello. thank you for coming here. supervisor wiener: good to speak into the microphone? >> i have a question for mayor lee. i like the idea of how you guys are getting money for the parks and recreation -- but i think the most important

thing is education. i was sitting there the whole time, and the never heard about education. i never heard, "oh, we're going to do this for the high school." i think education is really important. me as a senior, it is especially difficult if you are from another country. i am from guatemala. also, as the youth, we have voices. it is hard for us to be heard by you guys because we cannot vote. i am speaking not only for myself, but all my friends, and i hope you, mr. lee, and you

guys think it is important. [applause] supervisor wiener: i think it is a sanctuary question. >> hello. welcome to mission high school. in from mexico. i am a student here. -- i am from mexico. [cheering] we want to stop deportation for teenagers. now we want, like, a city -- [speaking spanish] we want to stop that.

we have the right. we are people. we have rights. >> i want to say that my friend was deported to mexico and he was supported -- he was separated from his parents for seven months. i know you have children. they did not know anything about their children. the key is studying hard to help his family, and there are a lot of kids working hard at school, and we really need this. we have our rights and we know our rights, and i hope you guys help this process. we are used, and we need this. thank you so much. -- we are youth, and we need

this. >> [unintelligible] [cheering] supervisor wiener: thank you. thank you. i just heard someone shout above "secure our community is," and i know a lot of us in city government are not big fans of a secure communities. we are with you on not. speak directly into the microphone, but not too close, because then it is hard for us to hear. thank you. >> good evening. thank you for holding this meeting in for your service. my question is this -- the

dinosaur. i went to mission high school. i may be passe. i am also a maritime safety officer, retired, and longshoremen, retired. these are from a passe decade, maybe. recently i saw a short video on the need streetcar corridor not closing, including a video of a city official on sides taking no corrective action in what is obviously a very dangerous incident. later i saw the same city officials say, "i felt it was ok, because i knew it was open." if injury would have occurred, it would have been clear negligence. on the part of the driver and

any lawyer could make a case for gross negligence if there was a city official standing there, not intervening in this dangerous situation. and that city officials took no immediate action to ensure the safety of folks standing less than 1 foot away from an open door in a car moving at 30 miles per hour. my question is -- you are the supervisor of this district. i turned off my tv. i have never attended a meeting. i have never written a letter. stop -- scott, my question is, the driver should be cited for gross negligence regarding the safety of passengers and should never again drive any city for

it -- any vehicle for the city. he should be terminated. i think we can agree on that. midwestern is, please explain why you should not be terminated along with him, given you had the ability to make a difference in that critical moment and did nothing. and then when interviewed, questioned the human and sociological responsibility -- putting that on the negligent operator as though that alleviated view of the responsibility required in a moment. if you did -- supervisor wiener: can i answer your question? >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: tell me what you really think though. >> hey, don't be funny. supervisor wiener: basically, just to let you know what happened, i ride muni every day,

rode me every day for the last 14 years. it is my primary way of getting around the city. i thought i had seen everything, but i actually hadn't. the week before last, one of the doors was not closing. that was something unfortunately we see all too often on these cars, the defective doors. i assume, as normally, the operator would come back and fix it. instead, the car left the station with the door open and proceeded through the tunnel. and someone was filming and started filming it about halfway through. there were two guys, for reasons i do not understand, were standing right by the door. i said to them, there is room over here. the operator got on the intercom and ask them to stand away from the door. the operator clearly knew what was happening. my option -- the option any of

the passengers on that train have -- was to hit the emergency brake. i do not know if anyone in this room has been on one of those when the emergency brake was activated. i have. it is not pretty. it throws people around. it enters people. in fact, i have defended losses from muni where people got broken arms and -- lawsuits from many more people got broken arms. i determined hitting the emergency brake would have made it worse. it could have thrown that die of who was standing in the doorway. i think absolutely i and the other passengers did the right thing. the operator never should have allowed the train to leave the station with the door and secured -- unsecured. the operator admitted he did not secure the door properly before he left. i known muni is looking into it inappropriate action will be

taken. i did what i did. thank you. [applause] next question. >> hi. good evening, mayor lee and supervisor wiener. i am a teacher at mission high school. these are my students who have come out tonight. [cheering] the questioning had is, mayor lee, we want you to implement the use policy that was passed last year by the board of supervisors. it would impact so many of my students and their families. what you heard tonight, when these students are separated from their families, and as a teacher, i feel afraid to call law enforcement if i think my students are going to disappear, suddenly gone, and we do not know where they have gone. it is very important.

we want our students in school every day, and we want them to know this place is safe. there is no way they could believe me if they know they could get picked up. please, my question to you -- and you heard earlier from my students -- will you implement the youth policy passed by the board of supervisors last year, 8 to 3? thank you. [applause] mayor lee: i do want to say it is under review in my office with the probation department and the police department, and all the other public safety departments. and i have registered that i do want to see what we can do to be closer to what the board has passed. at this time, it is in review.

it is something i am looking at. thank you. supervisor wiener: ok. next question. >> hi, scott. i am are residents of diamond heights. as you know, i neighbor of ours encountered a pack of eight coyotes. they were not intimidated by him. >> [unintelligible] >> there is a daycare center in the park. these coyotes are now committing what animal control calls unacceptable behavior. as the numbers grow exponentially and they become more aggressive, i want to know what the city plans to do about it? right