resolution adopting the master plan and running and so can we have a motion to approve the resolution so motioned by supervisor yee if we can take that without objection thank you very much. >> mr. clerk if you can please call the third item. >> the resolution of the city and county of the city of san francisco's plan for 20 three. >> great and here we have a presentation from bill widimyer from hsa. >> good morning supervisors. the item before you is a resolution approving san

francisco's fiscal year 2012 and 2013 refugee services plan this plan is submitted to the board annually as a requirement for funding. the allocation totalled 186 thousand and 235 dollars the services provided under the plan are targeted to single adults or married couples without children who are not eligible for other programs. the refugees social services funds will be used for refugee cash assistance and achieving economic self sufficiency. and offered for 12 months maximum. the funds would support services that would aid refugees and

maintaining employment developing work related skills and earning a wage with benefits where possible the employment services funds will be used to provide skills training and english language training and job readiness embedded in the language training. second, the older refugee discretionary grant these funds will provide supportive social services for up to 44 disadvantaged seniors aged sixty and above to access existing mainstream resources and or obtain citizen ship services to increase their level of self sufficiency and independence and integration into the community and third targeted assistance discretionary grant funds to subsidized employment for 4 refugees for 4 to 6 months

learning basic job skills following instructions critical thinking adapt ability and judgment and decision-making and will be performed at a san francisco non profit agency that provides clients with basic job skills for 15 hours a week these services are for refugee participants who have difficulty in obtaining employment due to at least one of the following criteria experiences social or psychological conditions suffering medical conditions that impede the ability to find employment. i'm available to answer questions and the refugee coordinator is here as well.

>> colleagues do we have any questions? >> supervisor yee. >> just a quick question. what's the refugee population look like now these days? >> the refugees in san francisco are about 15 families and they are settled through a catholic charities agency and the reason it increased in the past 2 years is because of housing and the office of resettlement determines how many are coming to san francisco but eighty percent of the population we serve is a asylums. >> i'm sorry where again? >> they are coming from 26

different nationalities but we're serving the main ones in san francisco are from five different countries. >> which are what? >> we have some russian, mongolians and china, and ethiopians and some. >> i've been out of this picture for a while it seems like the numbers have really shrunk from -- >> yes used to be managed by the private industry counsel and in $200,0006 we took over because they dissolved and the reason it was transferred to us is because of the limited funding and we were not considered one of the counties that were settling most of the

refugees so we're one of the 10 impacted counties and not receiving as much money as in the past so decreases from 2 million dollars to 156 per year. >> okay thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any member of the public who wishes to speak? seeing none we'll close public comment. >> without objection the resolution is approved. thank you very much to the entire staff for the work they do thank you very much. >> mr. clerk do we have any other business before this committee. >> we have no other items. >> thank you very much the meeting is adjourned. thank you very much and enjoy your day.

>> (clapping) great that's correct. as i was saying i'm the chair of the yerba buena community and the neighborhood that's home to the highest concentration of that's right we don't think there's a better place. we're here it stretches to harrison and fifth street on the west and we that it's really a place that welcomes people to the city the culture institutions and we see the living zone as a welcome mat. the neighborhood is known for its insdunt and this is a fun

way to combine the science and arts. the yerba buena benefit district is dedicated to improving the life of folks. ? how the district is working with the city in partnership on the yerba buena street life plan. it's a plan and violation road map for large projects. this is one of the larger projects. we've done artful bike racks their cool and creative. we're going to have a bike core wall relay. our plans will have a cleaner air doc station. for free were going to improve the alleys and adding after the ethics sidewalks.

the goal of those projects is to facilitate action and promote pedestrian life and ultimately community pride. the yerba buena is proud to work with the city and the composure to your memory to design and implement this important project. on behalf of the yerba buena and the property owners that fund it i want to thank mayor ed lee and supervisor kim and their amazing support for the yerba buena work to help improve the quality of life. i want to thank spur this gentleman has been an amazing companion and deserves the credit for the violation and implementation of those projects. i want to competence my appreciation to the staff our director of neighborhoods projects that do heavy lifting

to fte get those projects implemented. the amount of work you can't imagine. i want to thank our friends at the mrorp tomorrow. one of the skeptic things we've worked with this gentleman shawn. didn't if you will please welcome shawn (clapping.) thank you we've been out here for three or four days on market street. i want to remind everyone what an amazing place this is. this looks like a design but it's about people and creating a zone where it's a circumstances. it's a circumstances because the things are get people out of their shells.

we joked this is kind of a a lot to do it get people to hold hands but here on market street it seemed like somehow we've boxed ourselves in this is a place for people to be themselves. and when you talk about innovation it's about a mindset and a way of seeing of world. i think about this as a tradition of innovation. those dishes were developed 30 or 35 years ago and they were a brilliant idea and all this light we've been repreponderance of the evidence in a unique way of evenly lightning market street. the tinkering beverage was an experiment 3 started with in the lab but if i could touch one and

touch each other i'll have more fun. and so we want to bring the spirit of that kind of cremation into the world. i think of neil and i were talking about this he's been a big proponent of this project that is in the greater market street project this innovation is important. we were thinking about a time when libraries had closed. if you wanted something from the library maybe you got a book may not not but now you can walk into a library and pick up a book. the goal for this is to make this the new normal how you

interact with each other maybe is that a before were locked up. i want to thank my team we work in a studio model we have four or five people to the engineers to the designers to josh back there he's spent missouri most of his design work say volunteer. we have those amazing volunteers that help us turn the corner on projects. i want to thank dennis for an green lighting this. this is an estimation of what we've done an innovation and it requires champions. they trust their people so i want to thank dennis specifically. and on this note i'll introduce

the director of the x platform >> wow. look at all the energy in people here in a zone that's already - i'm so exfoliated to be here. when we moved the "x" tomorrow down to pier 15 it was never meant to stop it here. the opportunity of moving into the urban environmentalists into the neighborhood was part of our community illness when we got started ease move forward into pier 15 pr i want to thank shawn to be the head he thought spear to start building those x tomorrow ideas. it's been our belief also the "x" tomorrow isn't just a place but a way to see the world and to be part of it.

it brings, you know, part of those experiences ease grab someone on the side of the street and enjoy it. that's not the first time we've done this. the project represents one of the x particulars of a new kind of relationship in working with our hometown with the mayor's office and the living innovations idea with the make our own market street idea. this is a vibrant vision that is recreating the capital here and it makes it exciting. i have a number of people to thank. just to say the x tomorrow is proud to be a part of the city. it's an experiment we want to see how it resonates were but this wouldn't have been possible without the mayor's office or

the city planning department a go up we've gotten to know the architecture the urban benefit district the transportation ultimately alternatives but the greatest thanks goes to a man i've gotten to know and have the deepest respect for its our mayor edwin lee who's can do spirit and this new ways of evenly lightning the city that we couldn't be more proud to be a part of it and our champion is mayor ed lee (clapping.) well dennis thank you for that wonderful

introduction and to you and the "x" tomorrow and a shawn thank you for your leadership here and for sponsoring this wonderful effort to demonstrate the connection between innovation and one of our most precious streets in san francisco. you know, i was with supervisor kim a couple of weeks ago in soul korea we were celebrating how wonderful american people innovative capital of san francisco. he was looking at our city and wondering how could we be engaged in the activities and what ideas we could come out with. this innovation was another great attempt that will be successful. where else could you sit here

and engage in chips dishes i did that with people in between you could hear people whisper or educate a song and connect and create a song yourself or for probably the next week have your image carved into a pumpkin. but this is what we wanted to do in the living innovation zone. i want to thank planning and public works with other agencies to connect up with the yerba buena community district to bring out the spirit. and think about those experiments being the first of many to bring out the innovative spirits in all corridors.

market street is a wonderful beginning because we want to signal how important this street is to our city. this is an international street. i know when john have the conventions all people will come down and experiment with all our local people. but if you can imagine when we started this with an accelerator with green start we signaled a year ago we wanted to bring this innovative spirit out to pause and suggest that maybe clean tech companies or solar companies or university or a sister city can actually demonstrate this on third street or maybe a corridor on howard street or carr developing value and bring this innovative spirit

right to the local spreadsheet. you can have ideas whether it's a university or another klein company to bring it and excite people and have all kinds of good spirits. this is why we have an innovation spirit. this should be a great openness to this idea. i want to thank all the entities for bringing this spirit out for reflecting what we can do what we don't create boundary but invite more people into this. we did this a months ago when i had some san francisco students help me to create something on added 3/printer. they were saying this was a time

when it's kind of like all a draft or report for them we're able to make some mistakes but create some things along the way so this spirit can thrive in our city. this is an experiment as dennis and a shawn said and we're allowed to make mistakes but allowed to created things at the same time. it's kind of like government in the private sector this is a pro to type. so that creativity can be reflected in everything we do. we're allowed to do that when we come together in the public and private sector we should suggest to your science partners and all that this creativity can be reflected in so many parts of our city bringing out people to open their minds to other ideas.

this is i think the gift that san francisco has with all our partners. i want to thank you for all the participates in producing this diversity so we can produce other equivalence for the rest of the corridors and the rest of the neighborhoods thank you and congratulations

(clapping.) we're ready and a okay. here's to liz. 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, >> yeah. man: 60-inch screen, high-definition. football season is coming up. you can watch it right here. what do you think? i'll take it. huh! huh! now, that's what i'm talking about. you're right. i don't need it.

>> hello, hello. let's gather now and start the mayor's hear all about dignitaries like you. what a beautiful sunny day i'm president of the board of supervisors of the chinatown community development center and welcome to this wonderful opening of that magnificently project. marilyn fighter fiery firebrand that was mary helen rogers. i first met her when i was a that commissioner in the 1990s. i was parted of the first activist commission for the

agency from the urban reluctant days to an agency that put affordable housing at its forefront. i want to recognize commissioner leroy king who's the long time lasting commissioner. whose heart has been in the western edition and i served with him a commissioner for many years and leroy is 98-year-old. thank you la roadway with all your years with the agency. i think that everything that mary helen rogers figure out for abnormal housing and protection for those who are dispolice department because of what happened she was the true

advocate for the affordable housing. i hope mary will be part of our new affordable housing for seniors. i'm glad this is being done under the item of mayor ed lee who's legacy he he's known as the housing mayor. he's done more than any mayor before him. he will speak later. i would also like to recognize the community advisory members. thank you (clapping.) and the community development corporation is hear from reverend mckay and the director whitney thank you to you and to urban core and to the

staff that developed this project and our unsung hero our property manager he's the person who's going to be operating this wonderful housing. he got the residents moved in and settled and finally, there's to the organizers of this event janet and the supervisor and other folks of urban core. >> now to introduce the e d of chinatown development center who's passion is about reaching across neighborhoods and across races and the whole city. he does it with music and love our director of the chinatown

reverend. wow. we've got a lot more reverend's. they were involved in the community outreach and we did pretty good but reverend where are you hiding rooend a.m. most brown. it's in the spirit of calculation we rebuttal this with the additional community. you all raise our hand if you've met mary. you you know why she - you know, this is like a feast i didn't community project. we need to celebrate on this day. reverend brown townsend please come forward offering you're fine over there. i heard from reverend mccrepe he did a heck of a great job.

we have supervisor and the mayor. the mayor is in a rush but reverend cal jones is something for green to give us the invocation >> i have a wonderful high school called balboa high school. >> we were in the same class but i couldn't play football lord have mercy i placed football and i'm praying pr it's a blessing to see you all here. we're trying to make things happen. as i look at reverend brown and side third paint and we figured out if preachers can get together we can do things across

it or this city. we must continue the work that's been doing. we need to work on housing but i have to work on my brothers and sisters coming out of the prison. we all did something that we should have gone to jail. but the grace of god and so that's it. so we got to continue we've got more work to do and we thank god. reverend mcwhy a he's here. all right. that's good let's pray. god we thank you now as we come and celebrate this time together. first of all, lord we thank you important the great souls