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accommodations starting with supervisor wiener. >> yeah, exactly. great thank you mr. president. i have a very happy accomodation to present today and this is to the mckinley elementary school i think we know and have had a sense i know you work with public schools in our districts there the public school system has experienced a taller than turn around and maybe they were not doing well, it's flushing that's happening with the high schools and other schools its exciting in san francisco it shows what happened when the community and when the parents and the teachers and the staff and the students all come together and work to improve our
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amazing public schools so today, i'm honoring mckinney for one of the turns around in san francisco not that long ago they were on the closure list on 14 and fast forward mckinley received the distinguished award that's only given to 5 percent of schools in california the thing about the award it's based on the schools achievement of the students but not only the overall achievement to get this award you have to show achievements among diversity of the ask the in the demographic groups to make sure that
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everyone in the school is psyching not only on average so mckinley has earned this award by pulling together the school community and moving forward and moving up as an elementary school i love going to the schools it's a happy place to be with the teachers and the students and the parent but mckinley really does a lot of great work i love going for the olympics and i was there for the bike to school day last month it's a tremendous place i'm pleased to recognize your work if you want to accompany and make a few remarks
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(clapping) >> thank you very much. i've been at mckinley a few works or years it's definitely as supervisor wiener t mentioned that was slated to close but the fester of the entertains and the staff it was a community that came together and able to commit to fundraising to enrich the curriculum with arts enrichment and science enrichment so to fill the fourth and fifth grade to have an additional teacher to support the students in need and mckinley has disable students and latino students and
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the school theme that supervisor wiener started i wanted to honor an amazing principle and parent from the inner richmond district but i want to thank all the students and teachers and administrators for a great school year per today, i'm proud to be honoring an outstanding principle from the sutter elementary school please come forward so andy has served for the past 10 years at the elementary school on clemente and 12 avenue in the richmond district been a strong academic leader he's a tremendously caring person that neurologists the parent in the inner richmond
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suzette restraining order is a title one school where more than 2/3rd's the students are eligible for free and reduced lunches to its extremely deprives i've worked with andy to help our protecting students and especially english learners to succeed this year because of andy leadership and the organization and the teachers sutro elementary school was honored by department of education only obtain that a few
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schools were honored in district 3 as well as supervisor chiu's district i want to acknowledge if he helped to lead the rebuilding of the school but in a pilot project with our public health department and department of environment lead the tap school is one of the four pilot programs to raise awareness of the water systems in our cities and regions but on the height impacts of dpring more water like the drinking foundations in educating people on the health we're trying to expand that now from suzette atrocities experience to many other schools in the school system i'll really miss andy prune and his leadership but i want to acknowledge he's being promoted
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to the central district office still be counterfeiting the lives and education of students throughout the school district. i expect him to accomplish other things in our district. i have a proclamation here i'll give to him after he's said a few words to conclude this as the principle of this school his commitment and everlasting to the children's and youth i want to thank him my acknowledge him and board of supervisors meeting can we give him a round of applause (clapping) >> thank you so much supervisor mar and supervisors. looking back i see supervisor yee and i see supervisor kim and
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i see the legal council supervisor david chiu i feel like i'm in a school board meeting thank you all congratulations. i knew supervisor yee kwhe he was looking for a school for his daughter. and i also think of him as a supervisor we called supervisor yee the number 2 bus he was sitting behind oh, supervisor mar and the number 2 bus was sitting behind the school idling thank you for moving the bus it's named after a deposit in a small district and the school is over one hundred and 40 years old and we have some graduates that have came back and become
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lawyers and teachers and every sandra fewer is an alumni of the school i'm a manager of an all-star team of parents and teachers that internal revenue about sitting electro and the principle conceive of the elementary school so we have 70 percent of our students getting free lunches and going to school full-time we have got 7 title awards and an api of '906 it's between 2 hundred and 8 hundred that's outstanding schools on the west side and california ranks us as a 9 out of 10 but our small pta is where eric helps us we have a working
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budget of $40,000 other schools have $100,000 we balance that with p grants and garden grants and even with the supervisorial grant so thank you. so keep calling the school and keep complaining we have finally painted our school it was dirty brown now, it's painted it was for free for work entities i want to thank my wife and kimberly my daughter i'll be a parent on the pat pats side and putting up with my work and so thank you very much.
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community leader that's fighting everyday life and death situations across the country genevieve colleagues ems help it's b and c are the leading cause of liver transports that effective million dollars of americans and part of the reason the infection of liver cancer is for asian and asian pacific islanders and they account for 50 percent of all americans knowledge with hip it's b including the first screening for hip it's b for the first universal infant vaccines by the general hospital. in 2006 this body naming passed
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a resolution establishing the goal of hip it's b for the residents in san francisco and our health commission unanimously passed the resolution hip has at the time set as a goal to e racked hip it's b we want to be in the forefront of protecting our residents and protecting our health and starting trends around the world that's why i've asked you to declare this month to be the hip it's awareness month with the goal of raising the awareness of hip b and c to make san francisco the first city in the world to be the hip free i want to acknowledge
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invention verify and your volunteers including our former supervisor thank you before you say that i want to acknowledge supervisor cowen >> thank you very much mr. president, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the leadership of genevieve but other it has been on a effort and supervisor tang leading the charge of the hip free and folks that have been effected it's incredible to be a partner watching the hip free movement grow it's an incredible to see you making strategic partners partnership with the clinics and more importantly that people have the information so we're
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eliminating class and language barriers to insuring that san franciscans have the information and also the access and the resources to keep themselves healthy so thank you very much. >> supervisor mar did you have something to say. >> i wanted to thank you for making the hip free campaign such as a grassroots fester president chiu and i were at the campaign we saw people wandering around the street fair access and visibility in many neighborhoods so its popular listed the issue for asian-american and people that emerged from the 60s and 70s that hip it's c is a potential threat but asian-americans for
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the hip it's b thank you for your job. >> with that, the lady. >> i want to see thank the leadership with the asian-american foundation and the round table and the hip c task force it was a united front and a collaboration we're able to do and move the needle in removing hip it's in the city without the partnerships we have i wanted to thank you all for your support in moving the needle in only hip it's b and c and looking forward to working with you guys in the future. >> thank you very much.
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(clapping.) >> we have one fireman accommodations by our district 10 supervisor cowen. >> thank you, mr. chair that ladies and gentlemen, i remember we disabled phased one of hunters view the first of our revitalized housing projects under hope sf and the completion of one hundred and 7 homes for the san franciscans and delivering on that promise to rebuild when completed hunters view will economist of
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integrated mixed homes and 2 hundred and 67 affordable and market rate homes equipped with wonderful community space and playgrounds and parks that will not be for the vision of our very talented architect about the same time of paulette tagging efforts designed little first phase her design was thoughtful and it gives something the entire bay area community can be proud of her work one the american institute of architects award so put your hands together in welcoming and acknowledging the hard work and thank ms. tagging right for her
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team for their contribution to san francisco but we want to acknowledge you for your award thank you very much (clapping.) if i may have a brief moment i want to read the short paragraph asian pacific islander let in honor of and appreciation of your pronounced architecture work on phase one of hunter's view the whole community can be proud of the city and county of san francisco board of supervisors hereby extend their highest accommodations and went to you thank you very much (clapping.) thank you very much supervisor cowen and the entire board of supervisors. i like to say thank you on behalf of our entire team that
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included a lot of people the lead developer jon stewart and mr. solomon we really appreciate many award but we're gratified by the housing seems to be building a acceptance of community for the hunters view residents so thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor cowen. with that, why don't we go back to the rest of the agenda we'll pass our 3:00 p.m. orders so colleagues go to roll call vote
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>> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i only have one thing today. last week as i'm sure you're aware of we lost an amazing literary figure a renaissance person dr. one of the beloved writers and poets she transcends many african-americans but a woman that will continue to transcend legacies of men's in general her legacy will be part of our heritage although she spent her last year's in carolyn we should be proud she spent most of her years in san francisco she attended george washington high school where she
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took drama and dancing classes and soon dropped out and began her streetcar construct job. ms. andrew reflected in her streetcar 10 you she loved the uniform that's why she did that in 1960 she got her first dancing at the nightclub she used the name andrew even as her recognize continued she remained a close relationship with the church who described her as at the conductor where she broke down barriers from her performances to her short
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stories and novel mia will be part of our rich heritage i want to conclude with mississippi judge's own word i've learned i shouldn't go through life with a catches admit on both hands you need to throw back we ask you adjourn today's meeting in honor of a literary hero dr. mia angelo >> thank you supervisor breed supervisor campos. >> if i may ask the adjournment in memory of dr. mia angelo on behalf of the whole board. >> colleagues we'll take that without objection. that will be the order. >> thank you, mr. president i have a very small item just to provide clarifying language about the resolution involving
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the latino cultural corridor the purpose is twofold to recognize the landmarks in the neighborhood and second to create a framework for addressed protections with respect to the small businesses and cultural institutions in the area and recognizing the surrounding areas in the latino district was the first step in making that happen. i want to provide clarifying language that two folks have played a role in 24th street and it going back many years the lack of architecture and the cultural insinuations within the borders make if preside park meaningful therefore the
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resolution of the committees work perhaps the use of a designation district we're happy to present clarifying language that will move those two parks from the district thank you >> thank you supervisor david campos. supervisor cowen >> thank you very much madam clerk. today i'll be introducing a hearing to discuss equality and inclusion and hospitality in san francisco the hospitality and traffic industry are some of the largest in our city in 2013 we benefited from a record of 16.9 million visitors that spent over $79.4 billion in the city we spent r expect those to grow, however, we have the african-american community that have not xerpd those benefits or
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inadequately experienced the benefits. many of you heard earlier this year a coalition of leaders representing industry civil rights and business and government and education announced the launch of the city's equate and inclusion in our entity and it includes members of the naacp and the members of congress center and local 2 and s c i you community organizations as well as multiple city agencies additional the african-american diversity in traffic and hospitalities issued their final report that outlines a fraction and a tangible commitment for african-americans in the industry the purpose is to discuss the recommendations in this report and shed light on the collaborative effort that's
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take the opportunity in an effort to increase access and diversity and joining me in this introduction for a hearing request are supervisor breed and supervisor chiu i'd welcome any other members thank you the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> can i be referred after supervisor mar. >> yes. supervisor mar. >> i have a sad heart two memoriams the first one is one of my friends carl the second one is a historic member in the asian movement i wanted to first say that i want you to join me
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in recognizing them. first of all, carl was an amazing journalist and intellectual person in san francisco he was a journalist a civil activities e activist passed away from cancer and raised in south central san francisco he was a leader in the senior action we call the senior and disability action another one called the economy of correspondence i knew him from many, many meetings and loved his easygoing character and his hearing and his smile. as a teenager carl participated in civil rights activities with the youth organization in los angeles his involvement in early
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civil rights movement activities brought him into members of the communist community and others like angela davis after moving to los angeles to participate in northern california he joined the staff of the west coast that included communists and non-communists he founded the chapter of the boys clubs composed of youth that shared the civil rights leader and later in 62 carl went south to cover the civil rights movement becoming the first they were journalist to report from a south on the full-time basis on the countries movement and carl was the founder ando-
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