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are a tests time to our legacy of the japanese communities but now the building has fallen into the hands of an owner who is not interested in keeping marcus books as a tenant in the building. with this resolution i and members of the community join here today are asking the new owners to sell the building to someone who will maine maintain that. i want to thank you all the debt is inspiring and there's truly too many folks to thank. not a day goes bay by when someone is asking me about the bookstore and what they can do to help it. it nearly escaped the demolition
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then as annoy this community treasure will survive with the western sport of the broader san francisco community. our resolution is demonstrating that today and i hope you all will join us in supporting in recessing resolution to do everything we can to try to save this invaluable constitution not only for the african-american community but for the history of our great city >> thank you madam clerk. i'd like to thank inspire breed and cowen for introducing that and i want to be added as a co- sponsor. unfortunately, it's something that's happening throughout the city including neighborhood in
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just about every district. i have one item today and it's with a heavy heart that i am doing a memorial of alicia ross kari she's been focused on historic education in 1983. an architect by trade she's been pioneered by use and was on the preservation board. she believed that historic preservation was is a key to a better life in our city because of the sense of history that the preservation can provided.
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in her firm she brought together addition and preservation planners who share her he unwaiver commitment to practices. based on in san francisco her firm body of work has expanded to include other states like i nevada and utah and wyoming and new hampshire. it's an award winning architecture firm that has won several award. alicia ross keri has had here violation to the rehabilitation of well known landmarks in this city including san francisco city hall this very building the pat as of fine arts and the
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opera house and the mar community building. she's vote and well known and active in the preservation community. she served on the board of supervisors of any historic organizations including the capital commission and the san francisco landmark preservation board and san francisco beautiful and the oakland house board and she was most recently open the boards of the college of environmental destine at u.s. berkley as well as the heritage and the 640 foundation. it's truly a great loss for our community and this city and our hearts go out to her husband of many years so i ask we adjourn the meeting in the memory of
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alicia >> thank you first of all, as i mention before i. introducing the family friendly workplace through the legislative for a vote in september. i'm introducing today a resolution in support of the recollections for local and state reform of changes that were made from the assessable committee which is made up of many advocates working with the mayor's office on disability. many residents have heard stories of placard abuse. i believe those recommendations can increase access while promoting fairness while reducing abuse. i know that people with
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disabilities are paying the price. there are disability advocates and worked closely with the mayor's office. according to the mathematical san francisco has twice as many brakes with hundreds of thousands of brakes issued by other bay city's. they suggest that plagued abuse it common place and they confiscate several brakes every year. enforcement is not enough we need the right rules to stimulate the right behavior. and brakes should help the disabled and that's why we have the number of unmetered blue spots adding many more spots.
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i want to have enforcement easier with increased oversight by the dmv and making the plagued photos available. another recommendation is out of the advisory committee is disability brakes shouldn't mean parking for unlimited time which is law school san francisco to requirement meter payments. i'm committed to working with the mayor's office and office of disability to push those remedies forward and hope when we consider this in september i will as well. the rest of my items i'll submit >> thank you madam clerk. today optimum introducing an ordinance that is upon the data
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performance having more strict deadlines creating a strategy for residents of san francisco to gain access to their own data and protection for the residents of our city. this ordinance is from the president obama ordinance that just wants the data policy. this ordinance takes from and takes data from president obama's strategy that used technology to improve and make a difference in people's lives. i'm introducing this because we know that the resources by making them useable in the community we can help fuel entrepreneurship. and this will continue to create
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jobs in san francisco. plastic one thing a new officer b will be responsible for drafting rules and common technical standards such as data being available and that's in conjunction with the city attorney's office. since the city is also are not only for the data they will be on systems so people can assessing access they're on medical records or permanent plagues. the data is intended to transform the individual data for the services in san francisco. it follows a national movement to give residents access to
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their own data. it establishes technical glz for the data coordinator. this will make the data more assessable. the date will be released and the documents for rp s and licensing requirement. the data will be available in memorandum and other formats using the most update standards. the following deadlines are going to be effected. winning within a month the mayor is going to appoint a chief officer to oversee the policy within his or her department. and they will have access to the
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data. within six months the department should publish a catalog that can be available. within one year the chief data officer shall present a plan to help the board of supervisors and the mayor. those deadlines insure with remain educational to the community so the public is made readily aware. one of the priorities of the united states in office is to improve the efficiency in office. i want to thank all my staff and in a particular to hannah who's taken the lead. and i want to thank other folks
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on this update that is based on the ordinance. i look forward to look at this when we reasonable person from recess >> supervisor mar. >> today, i'm introducing legislation that will help clean up our retail city controls. i know that other colleagues are working on neighborhood based efforts but f this is a citywide effort of neighborhood leaders which of them who worked on the historic prop g campaign that was to protect our neighborhood character and protect small businesses and allow for diversity in our city. this will build upon other issues and it will expand upon
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them. and it follows a recommendation by the planning department that structural issues be applied citywide. and to add in financial decisions is a part of it with small business owners as well. it expands the formula retail to apply to 11 or more outlets worldwide and it expands the definition to expand the definition of 50 percent that are owned by other retail businesses. and to include a series of retail uses that have not been included until now acquit quote adults entertainment toothbrush paraphernalia and other.
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the ordinance requires that for last year big box stores for example, the planning department sees the impact on others businesses in the area so it would require a report. p that would mean they need a report. and finally for retail application it requires more internet notice prior to when the application is considered. so it's maland the form of retail application has been insinuated. this is a work in process and look forward to working on it in the coming months. and as many of us have been
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looking forward to saving the city college and with the involvement of the other supervisors. i've been lincoln to trustees and the city college administration and faculty and staff and the coalition so save city college it serves over 80 thousand stuts students looking to improve their students. but there's critical timing right now. the biggest support we can offer is to encourage people to continue to enroll but there's much more we can do as identified at the hearing and in the community town halls.
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i authored this along r with supervisor cowen to allow the city to support the college through the criticize. a suggestion came up with the working administration and faculty and staff and i'm still interested in completing that work group. i took part in the coalition crisis and there's a clear consensus we work together as one in san francisco with the trustees to keep our schools open. we have to keep the energy going and show how or replaceable our colleges are. i'm going to introduce this it's
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a study of the negative consequences of putting 5 hundred faculty out of work to the general education provided for by the cluj. the last point is important because immigrant seeking workforce training and those are people that are out of work and that also those kinds of number one credit courses are targeted at non-risk population but their among the highest in the city that a that are unemployed. and those who need to get back on track to go to a four-year
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university. so we'll understand the importance of city college. i looking at look forward to look at this when we return in september. i'm also looking forward to keeping our city college viable as well. i'll be at a green store opening tomorrow. another person the balboa that is right there's a movement to move them forward. but in the farmers market this green apple hunt is target for kids at all ages. that will require kids to go up and down the street to seek
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information about the various sophistication y where is waldo. please join us at 3:00 p.m. i think i get to choose the raffle events. also on third avenue there will be a celebration during the farmer's market on sunday but we're going to revitality our project. also on sunday join us to celebrate our opening of ca umbrella plagued between fulton and 38th and 39 avenue it's part of our clean neighborhood program. but the folks have been to involved in the process and i thank the rec department and
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from the input from the community. we have a resolution coming up a little bit later today. and there are grassroots organized that are improving. i want to thank also a couple of ladies for their flexibility to make this is best possible park. join us at this clubhouse and the playground as we cut the ribbon on saturday. i urge you to join us.
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you can always check out the fult fulton playground. and there's having their second walkathon it's this friday august 2nd you can go to or go.com. thank you madam clerk. today, i'm introducing legislation designed to address enforcement issues with massage par letters in our city. we've seen advertisements in newspapers. our office conducted an informal safer of the massage projects and we found 38 operating in our
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district alone. whether or not they are going to vicinity of the state of or local laws we see that their services if their certified which is a volunteering licensing program. i believe the massage industry has created many loopholes. and through this legislation our office hopes to accomplish two things one for penalties for massage parlors and they're only violations not codified and we would like to have the massage
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parlors limiting to where is a photo identification card. and denying an explanation who's been identified for crimes and prohibiting consumption of alcohol during business hours as well as other health and safety requirements. when drafting this legislation we were careful about not pitting victims of trafficking in harm's way and not to negatively effect other establishments. this is a component of a larger discussion that i'm participating in to figure out how we can help address the issue of human trafficking. navigate this friday i'll be
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attending the child sex conference in which 12 victims of the prostitution ring was found in san francisco. i want to thank our city attorney's office and, of course, my staff and i look forward to the upcoming discussion >> thank you supervisor. >> thank you madam clerk i'm introducing today a hearing in question to discuss with the mta of double parking. it's one of those nuisances and sometimes going beyond numerous that people talk about a lot and rip their hair out especially, when it causes traffic jams and cases muni to decay or forces
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bikes not to use the bike lanes. i think it's beyond of those issues where people view is as being effectively very, very little enforcement. and i can say in the 16 years i've lived in san francisco the driver or pedestrian i can't ever remember seeing one getting a ticket. and we're talking about it's policies where respect to double parking how what the impacts of double parking are on vehicular traffic to explain current not just enforcement policies but enforcement strategies and how it goes about enforcing this impact of the law and to report open citations and how many
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citations are given out for double parking and the frequency and where in the city. the rest i submit. thank you supervisor supervisor yee. supervisor avalos >> all right. mr. president, i believe that supervisor breed. >> thank you. colleagues i just wanted to be relieved because i'd like to introduce my resolution for marcus brooks on the actual complif agenda since this board of supervisors has taken a real interest in making sure we move this through and it's effective for the family who is currently struggling to work out the
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details >> the supervisors i want to thank. thank you all so much for supporting this and i'm asking colleagues to move this forward as an item to move on today in the agenda.
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>> madam clerk is that the end of roll call. mr. president, that includes the right to life pr i know there's a number of folks here as well as for general public comment why - >> those items require an 8 vote threshold and supervisors must meet two thresholds with an is the finding and the brown finding. so with the imperfect agenda item we need to make several items first year first, i want to say that supervisor breed has made a motion. first on the motion there is a series injury can i have a
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second to that motion? >> and let's take a motion on the brown act finding that supervisor breed has made. before we adopt the motion i understand we need to take public comment. are there members of the public that needs to comment on that. you have up to two minutes to speak >> hello board of supervisors my name is ken johnson i'm a analyst san franciscan. and i love my city and a marcus bookstore. it means a lot to me. when i was young coming out of school and going to school it was there that i was told and
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that reading is really important and i was screwing around in school and mr. richardson he really i used to like to look at the pictures in books and he asked beme on that but marcus bookstore it the first black bookstore in the nation. you met everybody black people trying to move ahead trying to do something with themselves. it's a real treasure and it means so much. to the black community it means as much as the cable cars are to san francisco and nobody wants the