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have done a proposal that will make san francisco better. it will be a you've set a line of integrity that this city will look back some years into the future and saying wow. they think in just an. thank you john and the mayors committee. and i want to thank oewd but i really want to take my hat off and thank where's pat. pat mulligan why don't you come on up here i want to thank patty he dealt with a real circus and got everything done and rachel upper fantastic that's ends it
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let's cut the cake thank you very much >> okay. >> next speaker. >> with briekt line with the mayors we have a quorum construction committee if we're going to get the data around the local hire and the local success we're seeing an average of 38 percent a year ago it was 34 pictures but let's do something we've done something great this is the strongest prevailing wage law perhaps in the western united states and beyond now an expansion of the successful local hiring model that guarantees success for the community and it's been a lot of work, work eave proud to be part of that i want to shout out administers naomi kelly she's
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been working with the staff and working with supervisor avalos and rochelle that's not much to add you have the organizations first, the warriors he made a mandatory local hiring commitment and waterfronts through this process they've made the ordinance better and upped the commitment to supervisor avalos said to increase that to thirty percent meaning more jobs dedicated for the community members thank you for doing that. one thing he's going to get embarrassed but a lot of us have been through here for pat mulligan thank you to city
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director pat mulligan a round of applause. thank you all supervisors this is great >> just in time. >> next speaker. >> jake representing forest city with the development working on pier 70 we're proud to be following the leadership of the board of supervisors in particularly supervisor avalos. and his staff in taking what has been a local hire component that was primarily structured around public works ideally because we get to build things quickly and being the first project to build now housing and parks and places where people live and work. i also want to second all the partnership and support that's come if 9 task force from pat
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mulligan we've had the task force from the intersection v o and bright line and, of course, the unions mike who we work with quite a bit and we'll make the jobs happen >> thanks thank you very much is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? on item 7. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor avalos >> thank you mark farrell. >> again, thank you to all the parties involved definitely to pat mulligan you've worked well, that the office and with rochelle and her you can tremendous delineates and, of course, deputy city attorney ron flynn for your commitment to make that a solid piece of legislation colleagues, i urge our support. >> you think we have a motion
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on the floor by supervisor avalos to accept the amendment as a whole trademark by our city attorney and john gibner, deputy city attorney yeah. i don't believe there's an a second and we have a second by supervisor mar and colleagues, can we take those motion without objection and the underlying item can we take that without objection? do so as well thank you madam clerk item 8 >> item 8 is an ordinance to amend the prevailing wage code for work on the on-site assembly that's temporary inhabits delayed and module especially inference for covering the deck ratify materials with conventions and others special
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events on city property. okay supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. speaker, colleagues this legislation will help insure that workers who are involved in the set up and take down of trade show on city property are paid a living wage. we want to make sure that the people living in san francisco, california live here we have a history of making sure that people are paid a decent wage. this legislation that is endorsed by san francisco labor council says that workers will be paid for take down and set up and others special events when this work happens on city property. the legislation is clear and explicit that street fairs run
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by nonprofits and other community event are not included in this legislation. the legislation is about insuring with the large corporate events the advertising of a product product and service pay a living wage they spill out into the city streets are include like the pride and folsom in free public access are not. when the legislation was introduced there was concern raised they'll be saddled with a new financial obligation they couldn't food that's not the case. colleagues this is the right thing to do and will have a
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benefit to the workers. today i'll be making a cynicism non-adjective action after the board of supervisors adapts the wage so we have a prevailing wage rate created by the commission so colleagues, i ask for your support and i would like to call up joe the business representative from local 10. >> thank you to the board and to supervisor wiener. also to andreas power who has worked with us for quite sometime. this is a big deal furs. i've been with local 510 for 42 years grew up in san francisco
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and the sign delay work is my trade it's allowed me to stay and make a good living in the city. my primary you don't say was tree crossroad with the local i see what it's like to have opportunity to live and make a decent living in a city like san francisco that's tough. we fall in any local a sort of a strange inch we're not part of san francisco building trades but our inch is a service industry in the trade shows some of the corporate events closings down t down the oracle shows there's
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been confusion about it for us whether or not whose jurisdiction is that. it's been in question we took what we saw from our colleagues with local 16 and the teamster's and took that as a prime model to follow suit and avoid conflicts in the future we're working with getting along with each other for the benefit of the city and industry. i really appreciate the opportunity be to be able to put forth this language. i'd like to call forward a couple of members from our union that by the end from the work we do >> why don't they come up
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urging during public comment we appreciate the remarks. >> thank you. mr. chairman at this point we can open up for public comment >> is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? >> good afternoon, everyone i'm affordable housing phenomena's i'm a local 510 sign and union member he i was born and raised in san francisco and recently completely that i apprenticesship program it's made it tougher than ever for the san franciscans to stay here now as a journey mammal it allows me to make a decent
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living wage for my 65-year-old mother and i to live here. i'm concerned that one day i may not be able to afford living here that's why i feel it's important to continue to train and provide living wage jobs for san franciscans so that our community and our local communities my delivery and keeping san franciscans in san francisco we keep our culture alive thank you very much. >> next speaker >> i'm a second year apprentices with local 510 when i started my apprenticeship i had 5 dogs now widow he would it down to 3 to afford to live
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lessor for the first time i have health care and a pension and money in a savings account please approve that measure so we can continue to live here and support our community. thank you. >> thank you is there any further public comment mr. chairman may we close public comment. >> colleagues at this i mentioned that is a good step forward in our city's commitment to earn a wage where we can live in the city and i would like first to adapt a minor amendment i mentioned and ask we moved with a positive recommendation. >> we have a motion on the
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floor it's bs'd been circulated a second by supervisor mar without objection and the underlying item. >> a motion to move forward are a with a positive recommendation. >> okay is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? >> no, mr. chair. >> okay. we're good morning, . and welcome to bike to work today, i'm rita i'm your executive director find san francisco bicycle coalition i'm
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thailand to wish you happy anniversary the 20th anniversary and what a long way we've come how many people have been biking many the city for 10 years. you you know how much our city has changed and the biking has changed our city for for the better i want to share a few examples i remember personally biking here two years ago i was left hand lane i was one of the few women out there biking hold on one second (sirens). i'm not left hand lane biking in
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san francisco anyway those of us biking make up 2/3rd's of the biking on market street in has a valley and the lower hate more than 10 percent of traffic on our streets 0 o is biking we see literally thousands of people ridding literally as for bike to work. 20 years ago biking honestly was an afterthought in our transportation system today, the city leaders know it's important to keep san francisco healthy just last week we've launched the bike to work program and special thanks to bart that lifted it's blackout on bikes altogether last year. we see employers really recognizing the value of biking
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their prior tisz inside biking for their staff and the off-street parking be replaced by bart corals and their 0 no dummies it make sense because people biking and walking and taking transit spend more at local businesses then people driving we can't have better timing unvivid lecture with the best thing for bike on polk street green bike lanes leading to the city hall steps to buffalo designed physically separated with wonderful curb bulk outs and green and you wonderful plants in the medium
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polk street is a game-changer this is the future. congratulation on polk street everybody (clapping) and those changes polk street and market street and bart lift and bike share those changes are pga off already, we've seen the near doubling of bike trips that means that the cities investment is is making it more affordable in san francisco for everyone 90 in every neighborhood. we have a host of leaders and community leaders that are hard working. they know that biking is a key part to making sure our city can grow in an affordable way. our first speaker i'm hoernd or honored to have ridden with mayor ed lee rode from the glen parkway and we're thrilled to
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ride with them i'm excited he's going to talk about the change in the city and constituent to going forward to a better bike to work in san francisco >> mayor ed lee. >> thank you leann happy 20th (clapping) well, i'm thrilled to join the supervisors and the mta and public works and fire and explained we're altogether that rode in today to work that's an jooshl enjoyable day twooths we were with we were structurally with the first lanes and here we are now 96 percent in bike ridership in the last year and the roads are changing we're trying to get traffic to slow
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down and that will make safety even better for everybody and i look forward to that but this morning was an incredible ride i rode from glen park my neighborhood (clapping) and going down san jose boulevard we're going to get that down redone supervisor wiener because i had to learn what posting was all about we're going to make that sxhoorth asker and some of the people many the cars i see sometimes, i get jealousy i think cars people in them want a better lifestyle and the bike ridership and the walkability of the city my slowing down traffic and making it safer for people on the streets that the quality of life we all wish for in the city and that's why the supervisors and
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our office is hard working with mta to investment invest and in october we have a huge opportunity the $500 million bond all goes to safer and sufficient streets will you join us in that movement (clapping.) we need efrnlz corporation it's not easy to say yes, it's easier to see no, but we want our city better if there is any accountability reason the best is the reason for the kids they deserve a better city. thank you, everybody happy anniversary and thank you to the bicycle coalition (clapping.) thanks mayor ed lee we look forward to working with you no november to make sure we have the resources in the city this
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is not an anomaly so the great experience from market street to city hall is though the an anomalously it's the standard connecting the bay area and the excelsior and hate valley and everything else neighborhood in san francisco we've got to the support from the board of supervisors today we've had commuter conveys we're thrilled to have 8 of the board of supervisors are here we've asked them to come up and reflect on what has changed in the city despite they started 20 are years ago and to kick you will i us off i want to welcome supervisor jane kim in districts 6 >> thank you to the bike coalition for organizing 20
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years of bike to work day. (clapping.) >> so i was asked to reflect on the last 20 years i have to say a little bit over 15 years ago i moved here from another major city where i learned to drive sea bike so i felt the pressure here to learn how to drive a car but nobody told me to look into the rearview mirror no one told me to lublt for bikers i come here on a bike and my fingertips in the bike coalition i think some of them are here said you need to ride a bike so they put me on the bike in one of the san francisco play yards i took off
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the who's also and the following year i didn't lead it i followed the contestant of all female bikers in 2012 and last year, i finally biked by myself to work and i'm proud to be able to do that. representing that district that sooshgd many of the city i see the congestion and all the impact of the population growth and if we continue to grow and become a more dense city people have to get out of their cars there's no way to grow in a city and not only to make it necessary over 50 of our carbon people are drooichg their cars we think about urban planning it
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is important to grow smart we have to figure out 0 how to get people out of their cars that's my goal in my district that's important to the residents i represent and 20 years is too long this is where what i want to see up and down polk street and up and down fulsome and golden gate folks like me are not going to get out of their cars by in 20 years vindication zero fatalities no one should die because they're going to work on their bike or walking to work so we have to fight for revenue. we have potential measures we've got to make sure they pass in 2014 but we have to continue to
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fight and i'll be there with all of you thank you (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor kim for your leadership we couldn't have a stronger advocate. i'm glad to recognize my supervisor supervisor campos >> thank you, everyone it was a beautiful ride through the mission and go past the mayors contestant i think people felt fried in that chief of police was they're talking about the diversity of the people that are biking in places like the mission that are people from all walks of life that make biking a part of their lives and i'm
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proud but i want to provide context it is sad though that 20 years later we still s have a number of fatalities in san francisco. so what i would like to see it precisely with supervisor kim talked about that we have zero fatalities on the streets of san francisco. and i think that has to come from city hall being leading the way and making the investment and so i'd like to see more immediately is complete one hundred percentage furlgd u funding for vision zero in our budget in city hall we've not only talked about vision zero but put the money to go into it and i think that we have an opportunity with this bunt coming up to make that happen and if we make the right
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investment we'll see the fruits of the investment thank you very much happy bike to work. thank you supervisor campos i'm proud to invite of supervisor wiener >> happy bike to work everyone so we gather here all the elected officials and department heads we talk about what's going to happen to make the city street safer for walking and biking but, you know, it's not about the words that everyone says that's about the actions and the actions are really, really hard sometimes, it's up to you and the residents of the city to hold all of us elected leaders accountabilityable but doing the hard things. you you know the mayor rode up
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on his avenue and anyone that goes northbound it's a disaster for paragraph and biking we're going to be making go changes it took us years to get through the process it's what way, way too hard in terms of the bureaucratic process to make our streets safer it's politically hard we need to push and get it done (clapping) and we also know in coming here today, i see everyday on bike to work that's not changing there were a whole bunch of double-parked cars i'd like tell you we've been trying to work on this the police department and other agencies need to stop this we have to stop do you only
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parker that's terrible for that muni and this is what people are doing. i want to say we've got to get the vehicle license fee passed for road resurfacing there's still way too many streets that are rough and dangerous and if we pass this we'll have permanent sustainable funding to happy bike to work everyone (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor wiener our next speaker is someone who's no stranger supervisor chiu. >> good morning any cyclists in the house
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