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ate at school and i want parents to be able to cook it and give it to their own children because we are going to be serving healthy foods and food that is very different from food i serve my children, but it's going to be healthy food and food of value and foods that they want to eat again. that starts a culture that is food that taste good and feel good. those are foods that are healthy instead of foods that are not healthy. this holds the mind-set about foods. when children tell me i can't eat it because it's too sweet. i think the change in culture of food is so exciting to us. the way we look at how they eat, in the atmosphere we
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eat in an atmosphere that we serve the food, that we monitor the food and give the food it is very exciting. i know that we'll always have a financial disconnect waus because it is based on federal subsidies and guidelines and we have we have live in one of the most expensive cities in the nation. we will always be at that deficit. i also want to say to principal chew that also thank you for volunteering your school to be the pilot school, i firmly believe that we have an at some point here to do something very quickly. we are building a brand new school at wiley brown academy. we have a great opportunity to pilot in a brand new school for students
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that actually have very little access to fresh foods in their own neighborhoods. so that can be very exciting. i'm going to challenge because i think this school is a perfect opportunity for us to do something. we have a lot of things on our wish list, but this willie brown school when we know in our bay view we have the highest concentration of school aged children and a disproportionate amount of churn in lower in the matter of households. i think we can learn a lot from it. i love the idea of central kitchens but central kitchens should have the warehouses attached to them to so we don't have trucks going all over the place and then i also this i that this is a really good opportunity for one to collaborate with a couple of groups. the san francisco food
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banks which has been so generous who has helped to feed our very hungry families and children and also about our insurance programs, our cte programs about our culinary foods and see how we can mesh it together and i love the fact that we are not doing it in isolation anymore about foods but we are looking at also food and fitness and i present the challenge of food an fitness committee to look at fitness too because we know that these two are so combined. i think i have said a lot. but, i want to say about the dinner kits, i'm not that hip on the dinner kits unless we can make it financially viable for the low income. so i'm not looking for sort of i guess a service that
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is $15 a person, i'm looking for maybe some way that we can help subsidize these also. actually if you meet those federal guidelines for free and reduced lunch and you live in san francisco, you should get everything free. you should get munis and internet. i don't know how any family can survive with 25 gross with the high cost-of-living here. i want to thank those for working on this. the portal recipe thing is great for me too. i love to look at recipes. it can show case what we are doing and not only teach families but also university students if they want to do it too. anyway. this you so much. this is very
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exciting. this is beautiful and again thank you so much evans williams foundation for making this really happen for us. [ applause ] . >> thank you. i'm going to close up the board comments very briefly because pretty much everybody has said what they wanted to say. i'm just going to echo my thanks to the evan williams foundation and we are obviously very grateful and there are so many ideas. it's good to see that validated and that these are good ideas and i do thinks these are good ideas. i think we need more analysis. i think commissioner wynns, i want to echo her call for a
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deeper analysis and i want to sit down with you to go through some of the financial assumptions because there were a number of then i didn't understand, but i think the most crucial analysis that i want to see done and will help us build out some of these other ideas is the facilities assessment because we really need to know sort of what are we talking about when we talk about building kitchens and wh warehouses and, i just think we need a deeper analysis of that and have for a long time. i'm very supportive of that. i also think i would like to see us working. i see miss miller in the back. i would like to see working with different patterns and different job classifications that are required with that and we should be working collaboratively with them and
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how to do this and hand in hand with the facilities analysis because some of what we do with facilities will be drafting and vice versa and i think it's important to start that work on parallel tract at the same time because there is going to be an overlap. i think finally the discussion of the dinner kits is really, it get to the core because one of the discussions the board really has to have is what are our values around this? if purely selling food to drive revenue were part of our values we would have had kfc in our cafeterias for many years. that's what schools did. they thought if we are going to drive revenues, it's what we did. when we got rid of soda
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machines, we thought we were going to have a loss of money and it was not true. i think we were very strong about our values and not sacrificing our sense of what quality foods should be and i think we need to continue to articulate that and be clear about that and what you said about the dinner kits to make sure they are available to all of our families. first when i saw that, i thought that would be convenient to give my kid $15 and say bring home a kit, but i don't want there to be different levels. i don't want her friend who lives in the tenderloin to not be able to bring home the dinner kit because her mom didn't give her
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the $15 to buy the kit. if we go down that route, we should look into it. let's make them reimburse able. is there way that we can build the kits and sell them ourselves instead of having a for profit company do that. i think while all of this is really important and we need to acknowledge that we have to raise revenues, we shouldn't lose sight of that either because that's who we are. i will close with that. the superintendent i think wants to say a few words to us, so thank you. >> thank you president norton and all of our commissioners. i
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want to say to our absolutely phenomenal students. thank you for your voice. that is part of the game change in this presentation is that we heard from you and we see your ideas in everyone of these pages and to our incredible student nutrition staff. thank you. we see your smiling faces all over here as well. i will tell you for the child that see's your smiling face, you are making a difference and you are an important part of what we have we can do. i couldn't be a superintendent of schools prouder for taking a very strong stance of what's important in our community. not only educational, but health and nutrition and life skills for our students. this is such a personal mission for us because we talk about making our students career and college ready, but it makes no sense for our students to be career
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and college ready if we are graduating them diabeticing, if we are graduating them with heart disease or on the path to heart disease. if we are graduating students thinking they can spend $1.99 or meals. i think talking about the dinner meal going home is a great step. i guarantee you we'll work it out and there are people in this community that have always stepped up in san francisco. and let me give you some examples. post prop 13, when arts and sports programs and libraries were being visit rated throughout california, san franciscans said this will not happen in our schools and they passed a battle bal on the
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measure to ensure this will no happen to serve the most in poverished student and the ones with the least access to resources. they stepped up. way before we talked about universal san francisco, they decided there would be universal health care for every child in san francisco. we have always been ahead of the curve. i am so excited. you can't wipe the silly grin off my face tonight. listening to the comments from the commissioners and the comments from the audience tonight because i have every confidence that the vision is currently meeting the sealing is going to immediate the road and that we will figure this out and that this is part of the values that we hold dear to us in san francisco. i have to tell you ladies and gentlemen, as a public school kid, as a student
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that went to public schools. i wish i had the education to take care of myself much earlier than when i wh i finally came to realize what healthy nutrition is about. we are not interested in boutique learning, not interested in short-term learning. we are interested in lifelong learning. i want to be able to do arithmetic and be great members of the society but we also want them to live long and healthy lives along with our mission along with you. i want to give you a vision. wouldn't it be wonderful that when we think about students in san francisco's public schools, that not only is the vision that they are going to graduate college and career ready, but that elementary school student is going to walk out into their community garden in their school and have the the opportunity to plant fresh fruits and vegetables and have
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an education on how it's growing and do a comparison of the commodities market and at the middle school level those students would do a business plan and do a presentation to their colleagues about if we took that bushel and this bushel and compared it to the ones being grown and what would it cost to be organic and non-organic and let's write that up and present about that and someone may even actually compose a song about that and let's do a song about that and we have an opera in our schools and they will do an opera about our fresh fruit and you go to the high school and take students that talk about recycling and they take that
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repsychable compost and use it to engines that run on alternative fuel and they tweak it and they get the best performance they can and write about it in the paper and they compete and then they go to their internships in their communities and work in our culinary restaurants and go to their chef and cook up what they have grown in their school sites and they are learning about nutrition, economics, science and able to community and able to make it real. isn't that the vision we want for our students in san francisco? what a rhetorical question. >> one of them will win the westing house competition. >> even more important they are going to win chopped. [ laughter ] i want a chopped champion in san francisco. ladies and gentlemen, that's what we are talking about. we are talking
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about connecting all of the points so that learning is ubiquitous. when we think about learning in san francisco we don't think about tie-dyed shirts. we think about healthy children that won't be susceptible to heart disease, asthma, diabetes. that will live to thrive in our best city in this earth. that's our mission. thank you for being part of that. i could not thank you enough for your incredible work to redesign about what's important. you have heard this already. but evan and sarah williams foundation, thank you. thanks for believing in us and i have every confidence when we start making this vision a reality, we are going to have many folks that are coming to
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the table that say we want to be part of the vision that this board was talking about that night. you gave us a lot to digest. no pun intended. this is a bit big bite of information and we are going to chew on this for the rest of the night. so with that, i want to thank you all for being here. >> meeting adjourned. >> >> >> >>
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>> thank you. >> welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee. my name is david campos and we are joined by norman yee and mar is in route. >> we would like to thank sfgtv
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for covering the meeting today. do we have announcements? >> please make sure that silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> we have been joined by the deputy city attorney >> if you could call item one. >> item one is a resolution urging for the creation of a comprehensive pie sickle theft prevention and recovery policy for the transportation agency to develop and quickly implement short and medium term strategies to greatly expand the bicycle parking in san francisco and the standardized best practice and implement a voluntary bicycle registration program. >> this is an item that is introduced by supervisor mar which is a leader on issues
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around bicycle theft and the theft prevention and i know that he will be here shortly, and it has been co-sponsored by supervisor breed and myself and my president chiu. >> unless there say comment by supervisor mar, the thing to do... here we are. supervisor mar, has joined us. but i do want to say that i thought that the prior discussion that we had about this issue was a useful discussion we got a lot of information because there are a lot of bicycle thefts that are happening in san francisco and the complications that come of recovering a bike once it has been stolen from you. and the different ways in which maybe the city can institute a system that allows for a quicker recovery. and with that, i will turn it over to the sponsor of this item and again, i want to thank
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supervisor mar, his officer for their leadership on this important issue. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you. >> and chair campos, i know that a number of us have been working with the bicycle coalition and the officers within the police department on this issue. but this hearing today is really to show how much further we have moved towards finalizing an approach that systematic in san francisco that will help us to curve bicycle thefts. >> in san francisco we are aggressively moving to increase the trips by bicycles quite a bit more than we are at this current moment. the goal, for our bicycle plan is to increase the mode share of bicycle trips, 20 percent of all trips by the year 2020, that is 20 percent by 2020. i think that this is an aggressive goal and this resolution will help us move it in that direction, much has
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been accomplished by the bicycle coalition and the police but a high hurtle for increasing buy rider ship is our ever present problem of bicycle thefts and we stated in the last hearing that over 4,000 bicycles which are worth 4.5 million dollars were stolen in the city last year. >> that is over 4,000 bikes stolen last year to the amount of 4.5 million or more. and that does not, even include stolen bike parts from derailers to other seats and wheels, for example, and so this is three times this bicycle theft problem is three times higher than the rate of smart phone thefts in the city and so it is a problem that might be some what invisible to the general public and if you ride a bike and you have had multiple bikes stolen likevy our my aid peter as well and it hits you right in the pocket book and right between the eyes
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as well. and it will play a big role not only for the thefts but the bike parking and the issue, and to those that have had the bikes stolen. and the resolution accomplishes three major goals, the first, is we call upon the mta to increase on street bike parking from 3,000 to a number that can satisfy the 75,000 trips that are made each day and it is great that we have patel from the mca today. and second the resolution establishes a voluntary bike regulation program to aid the police in returning recovered bikes. and utilizing funds that i and the colleagues have allocated in the budget. third the san francisco police department will be conducting
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out reach on bike theft to help them know how to protect themself from thefts and they have created great out reach materials and sf safety awareness for everyone and really tremendous resources that we have to really push up the amount of educational out reach that we need in our communities as well. and together, this resolution will help us to prevent bike thefts in our city, and in the event that it does occur, it will help san franciscans recover their property more >> i would like to thank them for their leadership and former, a really a great advocate for bikes in the city, mike caswel who has relocated to la and with the sf police and sfsafe as well. and i would like to thank london breed, and president
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david chiu and committee chair, david campos for their work as well. i would like to call up deputy police chief loftus and officer matt freedman who have helped individuals recover their bikes as well. >> well, thank you very much for having me today. it is good to see everybody again. and i can talk to you about some of the things that we have been doing since the last time that we have met. if that is okay? one of the things to combat bike theft is we have started a twitter account. and it is at sfpd bike theft and in doing that, i wanted to try to harass the power of social media and gather the bicycle community together in one umbrella to try not only to get the message out about
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locking techniques and bike theft safety, but in general i saw this grow into something where people were actually tweeting me pictures of bike theft in progress. and of a number of different things that we could use in turn to put cases on people and it has been really a community effort under this tweeter feed and i am really proud of it and it has grown tremendously and we have compliments from other departments all over the world including the people asking why can't the police department be doing what we are doing here, it is something that everybody can be proud of. it is a community effort and in doing that, i decided with talking to our legal department, that in order to i guess provide accurate detailed information to the community about who is doing this is that i started to release the mug shots of known bike thieves and it has helped to identify the
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crimes in progress and again, swre been able to put cases on people where they are in the process of stealing a bike and identify the bike thieves much quicker and so the investigative team can take over and people have responded well to all of this and i am proud of the fact that we are doing something that i don't think that anywhere else in the country is doing this. so, the twitter feed, again has been a fantastic medium to might the bike theft and it has been successful and i can only see it growing in the future. we have done a lot of with the bike chop shops that have been springing up and the people report these to me on a daily basis and i will in turn take the pictures that i get of them and send them out to the 60 station and then the units will take care of the chop shops. and it has been a great medium and tool. >> tweeter, the tweets from your office get retweeted by so many people, from