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years, the numbers of prisons have increased so dramatically, there have been four times the number of people incarcerated, get public universities have been cut by over 50%, and when we are making those kinds of decisions, and i do not -- i know we do not control state decisions, but we do control some of the city funding on the secondary level, and as we are excited -- we are deciding on enforcement policies, i think we have to understand every decision impact public education, access to education, and a human experience, so i would like to encourage that as we go forward, to focus on that in a much more strong way.
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>> i want to thank the commissioner for his notes on tonight's hearing. the speaker was going to speak specifically around drug education and how when she was in school the only education she received around drug awareness was just say no, and she was going to speak about the need for drug awareness education. the human rights commission plans to undertake education as a human rights as a topic and to follow up on that a little more in depth, so just to clarify and distinguish what the topic of tonight's agenda was. >> i would like to express thanks for all those who gave testimony as well as members of
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the public to raise important points, and i would like to make a brief request to get a composite list of all the recommendations so we can review them and see what steps need to be taken. >> we will absolutely have those given to us. anyone else from the commission have any questions you would like to put in the record so when we move on to the next steps we have more information that might be useful or necessary? at this point, seeing no further questions from the commissioners, i will call for the next item. >> item 5, adjournment. >> is there a motion for adjournment from the commission?
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all in favor? >> aye. >> the meeting is adjourned. thank you. i'm robert chief and i'm the park's supervisor in the parks in the sunset district. i've been working here for 3
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years. we are 60-70 street below street level. the 64 acre park. the park is divided into 2 sections we are in the stern area. when you get over to pine lake meadow and pine lake, pine lake is considered a natural area. in 1847, the green family came out here, back then this was kind of an empty canyon and sand dun area. they claimed this property. in 1892. george green who's a second generation built the truckdaro club house. there was a hotel then. it was said this was the place to go if you were weary of the dirty city and the police. there were a couple of gun fights the front door has bullet
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holes. i don't ever repair them. 1931 stig mond bought the property from the green family. she donated it to the city of san francisco and had a specification, i'm giving it to the city that will be used forever for the enjoyment forever of the people of the city of san francisco. it has ever since. every summer the stern grove association in san francisco rec and parks put on 10 free concerts. usually people come out at 10 in the morning it's a family affair. everybody is on the lawn with picnics and it's free. anybody can come out. it's a great way to spend a sunday. >> goes to 1-2 in the afternoon and runs until 5.
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[music]. thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can't see the music they hear it. i walked into the meadow several times and they don't even care. we do have literally events going on day and night. the concert association has kids days during the week. the performers come out for hundred 200 kids. now, the truckadero truck house gets rented out for weddings and
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retirement. the croquet clubs and horse shoes. 2 play grounds, tennis courts. we have from 25 to a hundred dogs here. it's like bisons going across the mid west. there are so many dogs they are covering the ground cht it's a get together. all the dog walkers know each other. if you go to pine lake day camp now, you will see 50 kids there. the r directors are wonder. >> the pine lake is natural. they take of the area around the lake. they plant natives that are drought tolerant. one that stands the dry summers
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here. the whole park is under going quite a bit of reconstruction. they will renovate the trails around the lake. and the big project is the capital project for pine lake meadow. they are going to returf the dog run and the meadow by the day camp. we are looking for a very busy fall. by the spring of next year should have major renovations to the mark thal make it an outstanding park. i don't ever refer to it as my park. all the parks belong to all the people. this park belongs just as much to the families in the bay view sdrishth as it does to the gentlemen that lives across the street. i'm happy and proud to be the caretaker for them. i wake up every day and thank that i have
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>> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice
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of waiting for it or perhaps doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee. it also gives a greater sense that they can count on you to get to their destination on time. the next bus our arrival information is also transmitted to bus shelters around the city equipped with the next bus sign. riders are updated strictly about arrival times. to make this information available, muni has tested push to talk buttons at trial shelters. rider when pushes the button, the text is displayed -- when a rider pushes the button. >> the success of these tests led to the expansion of the program to all stations on the light rail and is part of the new shelter contract, push to talk will be installed.
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check out the new technology making your right easier every day >> we are very pleased to be meeting here in san francisco. in this facility is named after a distinguished member of the california senate. it is our great honor that the mayor of san francisco is here to address us great mr. mayor, thank you so much from taking time -- is here to address us. mr. mayor, thank you so much for taking time. >> welcome to san francisco.
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thank you for meeting here. the northern california mlu that you have before you charts ecorse of our caltrain -- charts a course of our caltrain corridor. i just want to give the nod to the empty seat -- mtc for putting this together. in san francisco, we consider caltrain to be the transit spine that connects the city to san jose and san francisco to silicon valley and all of our partner cities. caltrain electrification has had a broad regional support for many years. caltrain is the most important thing we can do for generations
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to come. here in san francisco, i am working hard to make sure we continue to be the innovation capital of the world. cities across this country and other nations are looking at its cities for solutions to everyday problems. transit is our number one concern because we are a growing economy. we cannot increase roadways and airport runways there. that will not be a part of solutions for the future. you have a good solution. it is going to be affordable, it will be faster, and it will be better. i want to welcome you. as i came here this morning, i ran into a lot of great people. i know they represent a lot of generations of people.
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i hope, as i think many of you do, i hope to see the trains pulled through all the way from los angeles to our valley, through our peninsula all the way to our transbay terminal. thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor. [applause] i also want to recognize, i appreciated the way you and your staff reached out to ensure that our business plan we are looking at today fully incorporates the service all the way to the terminal. and does not push that to the back of the line. we have tried to embrace that.
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you certainly have represented the people of discriminative very well. we have tried to listen to that. >> i do not regard myself as simply the mayor of san francisco. i want to be a mayor that works with all the cities that are also concerned about the way we do this. we will exhibit our collaboration with them. >> thank you. >> >> hello. good morning. you can do that after the party
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tonight. let's try that again. good morning! here we go. welcome back. it is our 16th year in san francisco. we are thrilled to be back. those are not the slightest -- slides. there we go. i wanted to start with one colorful slide released last week. what happens in an internet minute? it shows the incredible velocity of change we have in our industry and society. the internet is the biggest thing to happen to the species in generations. it is much bigger than television will ever be. look at what happens in one minute. amazon will be joining us on stage. they sold $83,000 worth of merchandise in one minute. how many people are checking
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into facebook? 6 million. nothing is changing the world as fast as the internet. you have made the right choice in terms of where you are today, in terms of your career. it is staggering. it is deserving -- dizzying. we are here to help you understand what is going on. there is a conversation happening on tour. please join it. you will be astonished at how many people are contributing to the conversation that is this event. we have a free mobile app. please download it on multiple platforms. we had a staggering seven concurrent tracks in the conference today. let's resume in a little bit. we have tracks on mobile, brand, video, display, rli and the two tracks. it is extraordinarily exciting. it is deep, and your head will
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be exploding with information by the end of the day. a special thank you to our marketing masters for today. these are industry thought leaders who have worked with us to carry two-hour tracks, plus presentations in the exhibit hall. we have our marketing master in mobile, affiliate's, a media strategy, and e-mail, and these people have dedicated an extraordinary amount of their time to this, and we thank them for that. this is our advisory board. it takes a village. it is like an amish barn raising to get these events together, and we lean on these people everyday, and we could not possibly do this without our sponsors. they make this happen, guys. thank you so much. [applause] the exhibit hall is going to open at 10:00 a.m. we have two floors. you have to visit both. the joint will be jumping, and it will be all sorts of fun. i want to talk in particular
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about innovation valley, which we launched two years ago in san francisco. a bunch of start-ups, really something. some of them just out of the garage. some of them have a little more time under their belts, but they are all new and exciting. please visit the innovation valley on the exhibit hall to the conference. we also have a startup spotlight. we chose 16 different companies that will present. our sections in the conference are mobile and video today. a special thank you to our advisory board and judges to the conversation that will be happening over the next couple of days. by the way, we do this all over the world. i was very pleased to see a delegation of our friends from tokyo this morning. they are right up in front. could you guys stand up and wait? they made the longest plane flight to get here. [applause] all right. this afternoon at 1:15, we are
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really lucky to have our keynote presenter. you have all seen the slide, right? we call it the slide. it is the prodigious mapping of exactly how complicated things can be in this industry. he is doing more than anyone else to render order from the chaos. right after that this afternoon, we have a fireside chats about social media and advertising -- fireside chat about social media and advertising. later today, the author of "and outsmarting google" is going to have a book signing. later, another report exclusively to adtech -- "the digital revolution: a look to the marketers lens."
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we have a couple of exciting networking events tonight. this afternoon and tonight, we have our networking pub crawl. all attendees are welcome from 4530 to 6:00. get your mug and trouble to the different floors of the expo. tonight, starting at 6:00, the totally awesome 1980's party featuring tainted love. later, over the course of these high-speed remarks, i talk about technology, talked about innovation, the industry. there is one man who embodies the commitment to those three things in san francisco, the man we are about to bring to the stage. we are very lucky to have the mayor of san francisco, the honorable edwin lee. big welcome. mr. mayor, please join us. mayor lee: good morning,
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everyone. welcome to san francisco. thank you for being here. wonderful place to be. as i just was listening to brad, you have an awful lot on your agenda today, but it is exciting to be here. exciting to be the mayor of san francisco when we are on the verge of working so well with our technology companies. it is very appropriate for you to be here in san francisco, evil and digital media and blending that with marketing and advertising. i think you have the the right place to be here, and i hope to be here for another 16 years. for this conference to be here and for me joining, whether i am the mayor or not, i think it is exciting to be part of this effort. i have been the mayor for a very short time, but i learned very
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quickly how important and how valuable the technology world is to how we do business in our city. not just because i announced it during my campaign and put out the 17-point plan and economic growth plan for our city that involved an but right there the technology and innovation world for our city to see. you are creating jobs out there, making people connected every single day, probably every hour, more than any other industry i have seen, so it has to be part of the way we run our city. i cannot think of a better way for innovation and technology to be rewarded them by challenging each other as to how we can improve our city. before i end this morning on the stage, we're going to launch this new platform, this innovative connectivity, this online ability called improved asset -- sf.
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before i do that, a little history -- this year, we are celebrating the centennial of our san francisco municipal transportation agency, munich -- muni as many of you might say who live here. it started out with streetcars and cable cars, and now, it is one of the most complex transit agencies in the country. we are building another subway, connecting with our bay area rapid transit. hopefully in the near future, it will be connected with high- speed rail so that some of you might not have to take the airlines between l.a. and here. you will get on high-speed rail and be there in a couple of hours. but while we are doing that, the next hundred years of muni needs to engage our public as to how to improve. as one of our 60 apartments, they have asked us to use
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launch sf -- or improve sf to help them. how can they get better? how can they be on time? how can they be a better agency in the city? they are one of the most talked- about topic. as i go around every tuesday, i am asked by the employees, "can i help with improving unique? can we get on time? can we make it more accessible. kelli utilize new routes and intelligence in the data we produce? we are putting that on the improved sf platform this before i do that, i want to thank this collaboration of local businesses that have helped us design this, designed the process for it. we have burgeon airlines -- virgin airlines as part of the prize-giving technology. when you ask people to help
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improve government, you have to have a reward. maybe not as much, but at least as promising. , and then i have another company, sf bay, the bay area innovation group that has helped us -- sf big. you will hear from a small, local filmmaker, he will remind us where we come from as a city. then, we have another local company, a local person who helped us design the logo. and another company -- bold italics, who will help us look at the whole process and invite, hopefully, winners, and identify them for us. this platform will allow for the first time an online engagement of the public to help us with challenges in our city. not about just working with our technology companies.
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i want to involve our innovative mud -- minds as to how we can improve delivery of service. if you can locate in san francisco, you can get all the talent for your companies. we may as well use it for the broadest burke as possible, which is helping our city become a better city, a city that knows how to do everything better by using technology and encouraging the brightest minds in innovation to help us. i will be there. i will be watching all the ideas that come forth. we will ask you as part of the audience to help us with the challenge, and then we are going to ask you to give us even more ideas that you might have as to how to improve our system. muni is on the front line today. we launch it today. then, we invite the audience of the whole bay area to submit their support for the best ideas possible as to how we improved
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our city. with that, thank you, and congratulations for your 16th year in san francisco. let's roll the video. [applause] ♪
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>> well, all right. isn't that exciting? let's give the mayor another round of applause. thank you very much. >> welcome to the tuesday, april 10 meeting. hopefully, if appropriate,