american and 15 years older than me. we opened a retail store on eighth street, which we own for 25 years. it is the crossroads of the world. what i learned was that what i learned as a child, i have an obligation to take care of not only my family but to others and to give back to the community. that has informed my work. after our business there, i had a recycling business. now i am so honored to be leading the education at our synagogue. we began feeding people for the interfaith shelter in 1990, when they opened. since then, we have been feeding 10,000 people -- 10,000 meals per year. every sunday, our kitchen has

become the crossroads of the world. not just our congregation, but all walks of san franciscans come to our kitchens. a lot of people find their faith in the house of worship were shipping. what i have learned in that kitchen is that, for many people, their prayer is they're doing the work of their hands and giving back to our community. thanks a lot for the opportunity. [applause] [applause] president chiu: our final

presentation that they will be provided by our district 8 colleague, supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: when i took office, i knew there were a lot of responsibilities. one thing that i did not anticipate was the number of fires that we would have to deal with in our district. it was just a horrible thing. about one month after i took office, an arsonist got loose and started dumping garbage on the front porch of people's houses and setting it on fire in the middle of the night. people were trapped in their homes. there were five or six of them. it got to the point that i was dreading when our fire chief's

name would come on my phone at 5:00 in the morning. in the middle of the year, we had a horrible fire in the diamond heights that resulted in the deaths of two of our fire fighters. in september, we had a major fire on 24 street above the radio shack that we -- that resulted in some tenants being burned out of their homes. it is incredibly traumatic for everyone involved. as firefighters, we came together as a city and mourn their passing. people in the community were burned out of their homes. it is always unclear of what will be able to happen, whether they will find alternative housing, who is going to help them. fortunately, the fires in the castro and the valley, it was apparent, after the series of courses in the castro, two of my

three women of the year came forward and said, we want to help, we want to raise money for these tenants. for one thing we learned is about two-thirds of the tenants do not have renter's insurance. all of their clothing, their furniture, everything goes to nothing. nothing to help them get back on their feet. they came forward and put together a wonderful event. they were able to raise a good deal of money to help these tenants get back on their feet. then we had the fire on 24 straight -- on 24th st. my third woman of the year came out of nowhere and it decided to was going to do a fund-raiser. there were some auction items and she raised a good deal of money to help the tenants who

were burned out. it is really just amazing to me when people who do not know any of these people or have a tangential connection come forward to say, we want to help because it is the right thing to do. to come together as a community and to help the people who are in need. catherine, beth, kate, it is my great honor to recognize you as the district eight women of the year. congratulations. come on up and say something. [applause] and i know that the chief want to be here today because she is also very proud of you. >> thank you. we are honored to have you here, and a fellow woman. thank you to supervisor wiener

and the board of supervisors. we would also like to thank the san francisco board on the status of women for recognizing all of the women here today. we were talking amongst ourselves and we realize the common theme was that we heard of fellow san franciscans who were in need. we thought, what can we do? the only thing that we know how to do is to best utilize our skill sets to help our fellow residents. in no way did we think we would be honored today. it is a nice surprise. after hearing about all of the other amazing women today, we feel a little on worthy and unqualified. >> dramatically so. >> we thank you very much and we are pleased to have you represent district 8. thank you. [applause]

[applause] president chiu: that includes all of our commendations. i would like to invite up to the

podium the executive director of the status of women department. >> these women are clearly an integral part of the fabric of our community. i love my job. i just returned from new york, reporting on our work in san francisco to the un commission on the status of women and internationally on the work that we do here. of course, we are pushing to bring the world conference on women here to san francisco in july of 2015. 50,000 liters from around the world. we will be asking for your support. at this time, i want to invite everyone to a brief program and reception downstairs with first lady anita lee and the mayor's honoree for women's month, he the lozano sisters.

this reception is made possible by the friends of the commission for the status of women. thank you so much for your for dissipation today. -- for your participation today. president chiu: thank you for being here. everyone who is here for the celebration, if you would like to proceed to the reception. and we do have of additional business that we need to conduct. if you could please exit stage left. why don't we take a three-minute why don't we take a three-minute recess? president chiu: we are back to the san francisco board of

supervisors meeting for march 6, 2012. if you could see -- if you could please take your conversations outside, that would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much. thank you. we have no one final commendation to be provided by supervisor chu. supervisor chu: i am proud to be able to speak to the girl scouts one-hundredth anniversary and provide a special commendation for them. it is co-sponsored by a number of supervisors. i should say that supervisor avalos wanted to make sure that he deferred to the women supervisors to sponsor this item. special thanks to supervisor avalos for recognizing the importance of this. several representatives are here today. the northern california council office is here.

as well as several girl scouts. accepting the certificate of honor is anastasia, a delegate from girl scouts usa. there are over 47,000 girls in the northern california council that take part in the girl scout program each year. there are more than 3300 girls in san francisco to take part. it provides programs for the developmental, educational, emotional, and social needs of girls from kindergarten through high school. their mission is to develop confidence, courage, and character in girls to create a better place. it is very coincidental but appropriate that the girl scout 100th anniversary celebration happens today as we celebrate a bunch of amazing women for women's history month. make sure that you celebrate, by some thin mints, samoas, other

thing to support the girl scouts. would you like to say a few things? >> on behalf of the girl scouts, i would like to think the board for recognizing march 12 as a girl scout week. girls doubts bills prominence and character and makes the world a better place. in the next 100 years, i hope we look forward to continuing our mission. thank you. president chiu: thank you and congratulations.

thank you and congratulations. madam clerk, can we go to our adoption calendar? >> items 18-24 are considered for immediate adoption without reference. this will be enacted by a single roll call vote unless it is set -- unless an item is severed. supervisor wiener: item 21. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: those resolutions are adopted. let's call item 21. >> the resolution opposing

restrictions on food trucks proximity to schools. supervisor wiener: i introduced this last week. i have been talking to -- hearing from various folks on it. i think we have good support and i look forward to passing this next week. i do want to continue this one week. i hope we will have a unanimous vote next week. i also have a couple of typographical errors and i apologize for that. i have some amendments here. i move the amendments and i move to continue it one week. i do want to know -- to note that the opposition is a broad and diverse. in the last few days, both the chronicle and guardian have come out against it. there is a view of how we should

locally be regulating food trucks. that is a legitimate debate to have. the fact is, we should be making those decisions locally in san francisco abasing -- based on the unique needs of our city. sacramento should not be imposing a one size fits all solution that applies equally in san francisco and anaheim, and fresno. i showed the map last week where 80-90% of the city would be completely off limits to food trucks. if it were to pass. i do believe there is a possibility of improving ab 1678. i have spoken to the sponsor. i think it is critically important that cedras is to make clear that the current form of this legislation is not acceptable to us and i look forward to the vote next week.

president chiu: first, there is a motion to amend. it is seconded triet can we take it without objection? without objection, that should be the case. he has also made a motion to continue. is there at -- can i get a second? is there any discussion? supervisor campos: i want to thank him -- supervisor mar: i want to thank him for continuing this for one week. the food and department of public health -- department of public health stock fell they meted more time. currently, the student activity task force. supervisor wiener will speak to them on thursday to give them more time for dialogue. i knew that the assemblymen from carmel does not know the conditions in cities like san francisco and urban centers. my hope is that more dialogue

can lead to improvements so that the goal and intent of protecting the student activities have improved over the years. it is seen as a major goal. food trucks -- i am a big fan of them. there are a bunch of them that i go to. often, the food truck vendors do not know about the improvements in the school system. parents raise problems when they appeared outside galileo and mission at sometimes. there are problems that the food truck vendors do not often know about. if there are more problems, the parents and others could see an improved piece of legislation. i really appreciate delaying this for one week. thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor olague: i'm going to go ahead and support the continuance on this. i do believe that when you look

at this type of legislation, that would prohibit this use to 1500 feet from a school, we would be faced with similar issues that we are faced with the medical cannabis dispensaries. which is a clustering effect on this type of thing that would place an undue burden on those types of neighborhoods that do not have schools within 1,500 feet of this type of use. ultimately, we should continue the dialogue around nutrition and food in the schools. we may want to continue that discussion outside of this conversation. i just want to put it out there that i think this is but is not related. i think there are other venues that we can still have this discussioni'm open to continuint

dialogue. >president chiu: any discussion? >> do we have a second? president chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion. is there any further discussion? can we do that without objection? this item is continued to march 13. madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> this meeting will be adjourned in memorial of the following individuals. for the late ms. mary howard, for they wait ronnie montrose come off for the late margaret mccarthy. and at the suggestion of supervisor elsbernd and the full board, for the late supervisor, hal brown. president chiu: i want to thank sfgov tv for coverage. i know that years ago used to

broadcast these meetings and we welcome you back to the board chamber. with that, is there any more business? >> that includes the business for today. president chiu: we're adjourned for this evening. [gavel] thank you. after school at 3. . 30 i hop on the bus and go to work with kids. i didn't realize i was going to

get up that early for the rest of my life. >> it's hard to get good jobs. you can get well paid working at restaurants i was making good money that's not my 50 year goal working as a waitress. it would be better to have something to fall back on i wanted something where i would in 10 years accumulate properties. >> 3 months is a long time to be busy all day. i'm putting myself further in debt with the understanding it's worth the sacrifice. eating raman for 3 months. it's not fun but i think it will be worth it. >> we all want to graduate we are all tired of this class. been 11 weeks. one more week to go.

>> i need to get these mraps out. >> my purpose is to get the recruits prepared for the construction training. >> what you do is get a 2 by 6 sitting on the saw horses. we will cut 10 feet. everybody going to get one and you measure up 6 inches. you sure you got 8 feet. >> as a carpenter you have to let them know what's expected and they need to know the stuff to get going on the trades. >> the main thing they need to know is how to carry the stuff on the job and the hussle. >> you can't work with the gloves. >> my part is a small part. my part is the best part. the part that really teaches them how to go out and fish

rather than go to the fish market. my job is how to teach them to fish when the fish market is closed. >> this requires i thinking. when you go on the job site they will pay you 20-15, dollars an hour you have to think and figure stuff out and get the jobs done in a record time. >> one of the things we try to teach with the construction trades is your attitude going to work. how employers look on new workers and it's about profitability and productivity. it's not how much swings it takes to drive, you know, ita about do you have the right attitude? can you show up on time? can you make the company money?

>> 12.5 times 15. >> i don't want you to use the calculator. >> the students go through approximately 420 some hours of training. we operate at the campus of the community college a 12 week, full time program, 7-3:30. >> if you were going to figure out how much [inaudible] you need you rounding up. >> average age of individuals in the trades is in the 40's from what we are told. in the 50's quite frankly those folks are getting ready to retire. we see a void. >> the average is making 60-80 thousand dollar a year more with benefits much it's hard work i will not lie. >> if you like working with your hands and creative and you look at a building and say, i

did that finish and that building is there for a hundred years. come to my program you will work for anyone in the country. >> we send people to the dry waller the carpenters and the plummers. >> we are conscious who we give a job referral to. >> we look at the skills part as far as hayou do with a hammer and nail there are other components to be able to be a team player. be able to take directs and be precise and punctual things like this you need to help you keep your jobs. >> we will looking at the interviews today and doing the critiquing from the papers.

>> i was thinking last week we were talking ask that was so much thinking going on about the interview and how i was going to do it. >> i feel like, me, as an african-american woman and older woman with children i feel i have to set an example. a lot of people don't know how to deal with anger and conflicts. the kids here look up to me. if i do something and don't set an example then they are going to follow. since i've been a positive roll model, coming to school everyday. some of those kids pick up on that and i see the improvement in them. >> one thing that i knew but

the class helped reinstate is that you have to check yourself. we are all grown adults. >> i try to be motivated in everything i do in my life. if you don't encourage yourself to do something or do things for yourself you can't expect somebody else will do it for you. some people didn't make it to class because they have a bad attitude and decided it wasn't worth it. >> when you do something you have to understand why you are doing it and you can't say and come in and say, i will make good money. construction's not like that you have to want to do it because it's not aedz work. you have to want to get up and go to work and do physical labor for 8 hourses. >> i lived next to biotechnology companies and was a recruiter. i was getting tired and felt

sluggish. >> i knew from the first day we were outside being outside having fun, climboth ladder and hammer and the physical labor i knew it was something i would enjoy. to say i put 15 years into this and not retire a multimillionaire but retire healthy and feel good about the work i have done. >> the greatest accomplishment is you drive by a building or bridge and say, i helped build that bridge or helped build the building on market street. the most greatest reward for me is i taught that student to work on the bay bridge.

taught the student operating the crane that student was in my class. >> our goal is to have a core group of people, we are hoping it's over 50 percent of your grads complete and become journey people andup standing good roll models and citizens. the largest public works our city has season in many years going on now the private project that 1 rincon hill. huge project. we had 5 or 6 people work on that project thus far. the rebuilding of the academy of science in golden gate park. the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful