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investigations are permitted in the local policy and so i want to bring that strike out back other than that the amendments are before us. i know we'll continue to talk with multiple folks. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you to supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and thank you to the sheriff. and most importantly thanks to the member of the community that are here. i want to make a couple of points. first, i think i made it clear last week my general view that the types of carve outs are counter productive to public safety. i want to be very clear what we're about to do here today is
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very historic. and i want to begin by making it clear that what's happening in this chamber is a victory for the immigrant community in san francisco and it's a victory for all county's in san francisco (clapping) >> you know, (speaking spanish) what has happened here is that you have seen a movement where people from the ground up people in the community came to the elected lisp and came to the
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powers that be in city hall and said this is what we need and i know they're about to get what we need and it's because of them that are here. speaking spanish). i don't know that that oily i will be supporting the legislation in its present form but no legislation is perfect. and what i think should be the emphasis today is the fact that the elected family of san francisco is sending a very clear message that local law enforcement is here to protect the public and not to be become an arm of immigration. and in the spirit of making sure we speak as loudly and with one
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voice i will be supporting those amendments not because they're perfect but i think what supervisor kim has dunn done in collaboration a has struck the right balance is it allows those of us who want no carve outs and those of us who want them to find a middle ground so the emphasis today is that one side didn't get everything they wanted but the city is speaking likelihood to this immigrant community. it's especially important to me not only because i'm an immigrant i have a situation many my district of people who are afraid to come forward and report crime to the police and
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as many have aspects i have a problem what i'm willing to put that aside so we have a unanimous vote today whether the law enforcement the san francisco police department we want the immigrant to trust us. and so that's the message that i want to send. it's in that spirit that i'm proud to support what supervisor kim has property it's not everything that we want but again kudos to supervisor avalos for the tenacious way he's approached this in the transparency and it makes us proud we're at where we're at and wisconsin i hope we have a collective force i know that the
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mayor has made it a point to send that message and we should be very proud and let's emphasis the common ground we've found because we too often focus on the differences and a thank you very much and i look forward to the vote >> (clapping) and i appreciate everyone's hands. with that colleagues are there any other comments. okay supervisor kim i believe has made a motion for her amendment and seconded by supervisor cowen. can we take those amendments without objection. any further comments. supervisor avalos >> yes. i would like to commit very briefly. i want to make a few tuesday's in people who were structural i
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stroourm. first of all, i want to thank my staff in my officer who has done a lot of work and to usher through the state we're at renew. i think that, you know, i'd be flying blind often if i didn't have my staff so i want to thank you for that. also in my office another intern in the office just got emphasis law degree and thank you so much for your work. and i want to thank the city attorney thank you for your great work. i want to thank all the legislative aids especially in supervisor kim's office ivy chang in particular and other
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folks from norman yees office. the finance committee and for bringing this issue before us. a lot of organizations have a part of them (calling names) many of our labor partners and local 2 and i've heard from the labor council and communities united against violence and the domestic violence consortium and the asian law caucus i don't know your full name and there are many, many other organizations that are part of this effort thank you for standing together. across our deprives immigrant community it's a testament to how power our community is to get that kind of unit thank you.
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it's truly been an honor to work on that legislation >> thank you supervisor avalos. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, everyone. as an early supporter of this ordinance i want to recognize supervisor avalos he said to me ♪ his office this is going to be a big deal and i applaud you are inform your leadership. i believe that a aviate majority - you know we've got to find a better word than undocumented but nevertheless, that policy will provide people with protection. i too want to acknowledge the amazing staff time that's been
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dedicated and andrew has been mentioned in my office and others. i want to acknowledge some of the nonprofit organizations and cfos that helped me to process this information. thank you ladies and some of our allies and also want to acknowledge the equal rights commission i don't see any here but i want to mention them. i spent a lot of time talking about with the african advocacy and thank you for caring and having a kind encouraging word. thank you >> thank you. any final
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comments. the youth commission also weighed in on this ordinance and to make sure we have separate an ordinance plan to the immigrant communities we have the san francisco immigration legal defense and education that would be a outreach to make sure that people are being for the record of their rights as residents of san francisco. and also the city attorney want to make sure we're informing people of their rights >> unless there are any final comments. >> supervisor farrell. fraerl i. supervisor kim >> kim i. spraifr mary >> marie.
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supervisor weaning i. and supervisor avenue loss and a supervisor breed. supervisor campos. campos i. and supervisor horrify ordinance is passed on the first reading. (clapping) (laughter) (clapping)
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(chanting). (chanting) >> thank you very much we willing optional have a minute of bus to do at this time. >> mr. vice president today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of the supervisor wiener and on behalf of important o of supervisor cowen. >> madam clerk any more business in front of the body.
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>> that concludes it. and i want to thank the staff and unless there's no more business lainl we are adjourned for - >> and it's a tradition every year that our mayor speaks as this fire department and shares his vision of san francisco and looking at some of the priorities so we've dmltd mayor lee to have you been us.
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i'm not going to go through his bio i want to thank him for working so trierls less and is growing those jobs. may i mayor lee if you'll come up here i have something from irish it says team port i'm not sure what that's about maybe you can share >> well team port urging to have to approve user at the america's cup. thank you for that efficient introduction. good morning, everybody. to shepherd mulling apprentice listen and thank you for the lights they help me to find my socks in the morning
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thank you. the elected here and to join with argue business community and our folks. i recognize a lot of facts you've been working with us in a constant way and i appreciate that. we have to work better we have to continue working with our business community that's the way our city is and becomes for successful. well, today, we're talking about planning a successful future together. sometimes, it's not it's really what we don't forecast or anticipate that calls us together and calls us for tax. i so want to begin with recognizing the rim fire that grew to be california's third biggest wild tire and talented our region or the asian crash that happened at san francisco.
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we saw our first responders. i'm very proud of our cities rapid response that protected our water and power system and recognized those police and fire and the staff at the general hospital or the san francisco public utilities commission our elementary medical family who are prepared for the necklaces disfavor to come. it's not if it's a matter of time when something like an earthquake will a happy and we need to keep strong relationships with evidentially and i want our birds back i stood on those grounds in new orleans and wondered why people didn't come back. you are welcome in this city you're a part of our lifeblood
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and be with us to rebuild in case third degree anything happens and thank you for everyone that's sobered with the america's cup raises. we're seeing is final races maybe extended bus the september show down continues and really it's about delivering the race sz with thrill and breathtaking images of our bay and that's broadcasted all over the world. obviously we'd like it bigger but it's happening and i want to thank our community and many of us who have joined me to make n this possible. well, today, we're going to do a little look at all the facets we're aware of the visions and
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place before you some of the i think incredible looks at the different corridors of our city. as you all know we're living in an extraordinary city this is an extraordinary time we're seeing is economic recovery and, of course, we've been talking about the cranes we in the the skylines but our residents are back to work. when i took office in john giraffe of 2011 our employment rates was over 11 passenger seat percent and today, it's 5 percent so between 2011 and 12 we netted over 12 thousand jobs it's not just one industry. its not just one we're seeing
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board based growth in every sector that's beating the u.s. growth rate. it's not by pure luck over the past 2 1/2 years with we've build and stregd the economic infrastructure of the city. a key part of that economic infrastructure is how the city's engaged in our growth. as part of creating expensive area plans we asked residents labor and community and businesses to come together and envisions the future of the city and our neighborhood. those plans did more than determined where that would occur but examined how existing communities would grow. area plans laid the great work for new housing for san francisco families and spaces.
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they identified transportation infrastructure and strapping and open space in order to demonstrate to thrive. the success of those plans can be seen in a number of places coming online and the vibrancy of our san francisco neighborhoods. this morning i'm going to take the opportunity to 34 show you how we're royal our cities vision of carefully planned development. the market and obamacare staff plan took on the change of connecting the neighborhood by the railroad it has a walkable community that met a board range of needs from a people to over a car movement.
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high quality development of under utilized sites that encourages us to flourish. projects like 2001 market and obamacare staff yes, ma'am brarsz the scale and character andrew retail educational to shops. carefully planning almost 50 percent of the new opts will be affordable for low incomes while creating neighborhood with award winning architect. and moving down market neighborhoods it's needed to know that when you tweet today your tweeting with a homegrown company. that's kind of interesting.
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well central markets invades is transforming into a place to live and work and play. the arts community is thriving in central market with ac t renovation of the historic strand and it opened a center for new music. similarly our business community as reindividualized like several comes like skier and date of birth i didn't and, of course, tweeter saw the potential and brought the workers to the neighborhood. we're creating more spaces for people to live. 3 projects alone will all add morning 1 thousand 4 hundred units of housing between van ness and market street. their expanding the corridor into central market set to open
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in 2014 it will bring an additional 2 hundred and 50 square feet of retail. a few blocks down another project is almost completely built out it is ran a tlooif district that will include the mexican museum pblg to a unique private partnership. continuing into downtown it the springing up you overnight optimistic the trans bay center. we joined nancy pelosi to pour the concrete foundation that will keep pourp pouring for the next year and a half for the grand central station of the west thank you making sure maria
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thank you for your leadership and sharing your progress. i want to recognize this project to our transit center. this will connect san francisco to the downtown expansion and to the rest of the state as high rail is connected. this project is a huge job creator 2 thousand 4 hundred construction jobs will already been created and this project will have created 8 thousand 3 hundred construction jobs and generate over 2 seven hundred thousand jobs. surrounding the trans bay is the district. more than any other area of the city this downtown area is expanding to provide sacrifice
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so far businesses inform grow in san francisco. we need this space because 201123.6 mile square feet has been leased that's = have an opportunity of 4 pyramids. of the businesses that are choosing to relocate in our city we've got construction around the area and this incredible building will be the tallest on the west coast. the amen of new office space under the construction is simply unbelievable. one 81 fremont will be the taught it building in san francisco and it's set to be complete in early 2015 and if
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you doy square 22 second street and this includes the tore it's 2.2 million square feet of new office space in downtown san francisco. the tuitions it quickly goes to the neighborhood of ring connecticut hill. everyone coming across the bay bridge is giving an up close look at one ring connecticut's second tower. right across the street ring connecticut green completed construction of their building in ermd park. the city is also creating new space to accommodate the needs of our bio tech industries.
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mission bay has become a wield hub of bio technical innovation. uc san francisco is placing their crown jewel of their innovation 83 at bin i didn't hill medical center that will provide care to women and children. ic has acted as a nucleus bringing go together institutions including the department of the veterans affairs. and as robert will discuss later today, the va has plans for building on the success of our research facilities. now south of mission bay hunters shipyard will be an innovation district that will act as a test bed for the latest design in
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smart cities. the navel shipyards closed we watched this lash gibberish but no more. after decades of planning and entitlement work this time next year 2 hundred and 47 home with 67 hundred imply residents will be built at the shipyard. simultaneously we'll be breaking ground for the total revitalization of alice areas folks will soon be living in save energy efficient housing. in fact, such a point is the importance of building and accelerating the development of new housing for people of all income levels. that's right.
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we're focused as much on building new and affordable housing as on the resident towers that grab our headlines. that's why we're building affordable housing throughout the city and keeping pace with the market housing. you should, you know, this. as of all the housing units in the pipeline 24 percent of it will be performly affordable. as a city we're not going to pit one interest against another. market rate development doesn't harm the creation of affordable housing but one cannot exist without the other it's the investigator confidence in our city that our city has the opportunity to do great things. before i include with the discussion of the cranes for tomorrow i want to pause.
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first, as you know san francisco in san francisco we don't undertake development for the sake of development we welcome development careful planned sustainable and in the right places because of the benefits it brings to our city and our entire region. we welcome new places to live by insuring we can attract the most people we can grow our economy and create the resources to make that an even reinforce city. we grow our reservoirs for beautiful parked and public health and all the other needs of our residents. of course, development also puts the buildings back to work. policies including local higher and a first source connects san franciscans with those new jobs.