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to think about what we did today will effect seven generations to come. here we have the next generation that has been taught through community love and support. the san francisco bay area has a history of political movement and i all my teachings to that history, to that rich history, we have the black panthers that started the breakfast club and we have the chicano movement. the pacific islanders and the asian immigration ex pans at angel island and the eye hotel and of course the first nation's people, the occupation -- all these struggles resistance happened because of injustice existed. i'll continue to have that spirit running through my blood and i'm unashamed to continue their unfinished work. mission beacon has been a hub of community meetings and partnerships with 30 organizations to
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enhance the youth. some of this is partnership with parent and more than $10,000 in scholarships for extra occur rick lar activities awarded by venture foundation. we have produced bi annual parent university and annual college weeks and career days through our partnership. a direct quote, beacon is not a program. it is family. thank you to you all and thank you supervisor campos for being courageous and honoring me today. thank you all. thank you. [ applause ] >> oh, thank you.
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foundation to help community and residents to help support our san francisco family. in 2004 the support network was founded and i'd like to invite up andrew who is the director of sfssn. and colleagues, all of you have had the opportunity to work with the family support network that have grown to more than 60 organizations that has done ground breaking work in developing our san francisco policy platform creating standards of quality of families. they promote -- provide peer support and lead the development to a state wide family standards connecting thousands of san francisco families to economic benefits and programs providing trainings to cbo's to their success work shop series and assisting families in california and
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across the country for providing strength and support and i would support our efforts lat year to having san francisco to be the if the first in country to establish family and friendly work policies and i want to take a moment to thank andrew and your colleagues for the work you're doing. i'm optimistic because of the work you're doing, the trend that we have seen between 2000 and 2010, a family flight is starting to reverse. so i'd like to thank you and congratulations and happy 10 anniversary. >> thank you very much, president chiu. and good afternoon, supervisors. henry ford once said, coming together is the beginning. keeping together is progress. working together is success.
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as supervisor chiu mentioned t was ten years ago on june 1, 2014, the private foundations and community base organizations came together to explore how to coordinate efforts to support and strengthen san francisco families. they co-founded the network that day. the san francisco network -- the san francisco family network is a key of these stakeholders to work collective toly achieve quality programs, coordination of resources and policies that support all san francisco families. we have kept together and worked together over the last decade growing from more than 20 organizations when we first started to more than 60 today. a number of whom you see here beside me from first five san francisco, richmond district neighborhood center, the childcare planning and advisory council and san francisco human have advices agencies, so that's a
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diverse partnership of organizations that's apart of this strong network. with a team -- with a staff team of three leverages by the representatives of our membership who serve on the network's various committees and the consistent and much appreciated financial support of our funder members we have engaged in dynamic ground breaking work in training, policy promotion, coordination and quality practice. in the area of training, the network innovated unique trainings to meet the needs of family support providers such as the case management passbook training series that covers the fundamental issues and practices for direct staff working with high need families. and creating a training on developing and sustaining effective parent advisory committee, co-taught with a parent leader and the only training of its kind offered in the entire state. in the area of policy, the
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network developed and implemented the policy platform and issued a revised a version in 2012. this isn't a pretty document that sits on a shelf, but it's strategies we'll report back in the community of may of each year at the san francisco economic successful forum which president chiu has been apart of since the beginning and been a speaker at each and every forum and we invite all our other elected officials in showing your support. the network has showed -- key issues effecting san francisco families which lead to the successful economic council in 2008 and they provide backbone support and leadership. finally in
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the area of quality practice, the san francisco family support network created the standards -- created standards for providing, planning and assessing quality practice with families in 2007. these standards have now become the license to drive for anyone working with families here in san francisco whether in family resource centers, early care and education centers, or home programs or community schools. their use insures that families are supported. not only has this worked for the families in san francisco, but has proven much greater in its impact beyond. in 2009 the network co-founded the california network of family strengthen network comprised of networks like us across the state and in 2011, we supported the co-founded the
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national network comprised of state wide network. the standards for families strengthening and support is used coast to coast across the country having been adopted by the national network in 2013. looking forward, the challenges facing san francisco families are great. but they are not greater than our collective will and our potential collective impact to work together with our elected officials, many members and other stakeholders to address them. we invite you all to continue to partner with us in the next ten years to achieve our mission for a san francisco made vibrant by healthy, strong, diverse families who are supported by accessible, well coordinated, high quality resources and services and by policies that value and
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back to our regular agenda. call the next item, which is item 26. >> that's large hospitality employee to retain employees for up to 90 days in the hospitality establishment and have violations for the ordinance. >> can we do this same house, same call. this has passed. >> 27 is revising the health care ordinance to require irr vaultable insurance and the medical accounts are associated with the city benefit program known as the health access program. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you colleagues and thank you mr. president. first of all, i want to make sure that there is a set of amendments that should be
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distributed to my colleagues. no, can we come back to this item. >> i don't think all of us have received so if we can come back to item 27. why don't we move to the committee report, madam clerk. >> item 28 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday, june 5th and was send to the board as a committee report. it was recommended as amended with a new title, it is a motion appointing mark to seat one, ali residency waived to seat two. josh wolf to seat three. andal son to seat five. chris highland to seat nine of the sunshine task force with the terms ending april 27, 2016. >> colleagues, any discussion? can we take this eye tep, same house, same call. this motion is approved without objection. with that, supervisor campos, should we go to role call. >> why don't we go to role
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call. madam clerk. >> campos. >> first to introduce new item. >> thank you. i have one for helen mbodman and i would like my colleagues to end this meeting in the memory of helen. she passed away at the age of 90. she was born april 25, 1984 and she was the daughter of patrick. afternoon graduating from mission high school she worked for the southern pacific rail road. in 1953 she married robert and together they were blessed with seven children and 11 grand children. she devoted her life to her grand children when her
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youngest daughter attended school, she took a job as a bus driver and this allowed her to be home with her children. she had a great love for animal and adopted many pets over the years. after retirement she pursued her interest in painting, and gardening. families may visit at the chapel of the highlands here in mill brea. the funeral will proceed to saint dustin catholics church where a funeral mass will be celebrated. helen grew up in the mission and lived in neighborhoods of san francisco throughout her life. she's beyond the community leaders of john. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor campos. i'm going to move forward to
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farrell. >> submit. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. we just announced this right before the a board meeting, but i'm really proud to introduce minimum wage ordinance, that will be going before the voters on november 2014 announcing the strongest and most progressive minimum wage proposal in the country. i'm excited that we can do this all together and there's an agreement to supporting one measure. we had labor workers, non profit leaders and today the chamber of commerce who had signaled their support for this measure, it's a simple measure and clean and clear measure. unlike seattle which had lots of different wage rates for employers whether they provided health care, depending how big or small they are, our measure is one wage increase for all employers here in san francisco. the proposal today has us increasing to $12.25 on may day, an international day for
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workers throughout the world in 2015 and there after, it will increase to $13, $14 and $15 in 2018. we have wage proposals that workers will be able to take home with them. i'm proud we were able to work together to make this happen. and i just really have to recognize a number of different folks that sat through really long meetings to make sure that this happened. i first of all want to recognize the coalition for fare which from day one has been driving. the fastest minimum wage that the city could absorb. understanding that workers have been waiting for a long time for wage increase and because the city's prosperity and not being able to catch up with the gap between our lowest paid workers and our highest paid workers. i also
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want to recognize the non profit organizations that were committed to getting to $15 an hor u they didn't want an exemption for a slower ray, but we want to make sure they can absorb the rate increases and gail and annie and steve was instrumental in helping us getting there. they were important in pushing that agenda and to the mayor's office, for being committed to making sure that we could get to a consensus on one ballot manages tower bring to voters and be proud of. finally, actually if i could get re-referred for the other measures, at this point, i submit. i look forward to one unified campaign to pass again what i consider the strongest and most progressive minimum wage
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ordinance in the country. thank you. >> thank you supervisor kim and i will re-refer you at the end. supervisor mar. >> i wanted to congratulate mayor lee and the coalition for working together to present one minimum wage for the ballot. and tim is here from the labor council and with business and the grass roots coalition and the coalition for a fairy con mee and united we can move forward to have our strongest minimum wage. i want to acknowledge the four year phase is much quicker phase than seattle, i believe seven year phase in and i think as we move up to the first bump up on may day of the following year, that we could look at san francisco again as a major leader in economic justice and raising wages of low wage workers in our city. i think as lew mentioned in the press conference a few
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minutes ago, we couldn't do this without the strong low wage worker organizing from our city and strong unity built by worker center and labor organizations but also with the mayor's effort to pull business and i think wade rose and others as well for supporting this and the non profit leaders as supervisor kim mentioned. i wanted to say a lot of work is going on now to make sure we have strong transportation 2030 support for funding and i hope as we move forward in november that we'll have stronger transportation measures as well. have i an announcement that my office working closely with the san francisco fire department and the neighborhood emergency response team or the nert team, tomorrow evening at mill ton marks library community room, we're hosting a training in the richmond district to prepare for
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emergency readiness in our neighborhood and in the richmond district. it's a free work shop where my staff and i will help work with nert and the fire department to prepare people for disaster work including risk awareness, disaster supplies, personal disaster planning, nert overview and preparation by block, business or building with sff safe and sff safe is safety awareness for everyone. the sign up list is at capacity but if you wish to be placed on a wait list or plug in at a future time, contact them. the rest i'll submit, thank you. >> thank you supervisor mar. speaker: supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam clerk. so colleagues, as you know there's been a lot of discussion in the last
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number of weeks around the local vehicle licensee. i know you know for ten years, mark worked to get legislation to the legislature to allow san francisco to go to the voters, to ask the voter to restore our vehicle license fee in san francisco to what it was for 50 years before arnold schwarzenegger slashed it in 2003. mayor lee, about a year and a half ago [inaudible] task force. that met for a year and came up with several recommendations, including the general obligation bond that we're all co-sponsoring for this november ballot as well as several other recommendations including going to the voters with our local vehicle license fee. there has been some discussion recently about whether to move forward with the vehicle license fee for this november, and the date has -- and the debate
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has occurred and muni has $2 billion in maintenance and we know our roads need sustaining and we need to reduce accidents and collisions on our streets, and make sure that pedestrian and cyclist and everyone else can use our streets safely and the vehicle license fee will fund all of these things, it will provide funding for our roads and pedestrian and bike improvements and for muni. i'm happy to announce that today mayor lee as well as eight members of the board of supervisors are introducing the vehicle license fee for the november 2016 ballot. and colleagues, i look forward to all of us as a community working together over the next several years to raise awareness about this incredibly important issue and about the important critical -- critical importance of putting our money where our
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mouth is and funding our entire transportation system. we're a growing city and we need to have a transportation system that keeps up with the growth in our city and i look forward to that and the rest i submit. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you madam clerk. i have me more yum request. i'm joined by david campos and wiener to ask for this request. i didn't know sean personally. he really died of tragic death too much of a young age and if sean is anything like his grandfather, john moreland has
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always been passionate and caring, we lost a great person. the rest i submit. speaker: thank you supervisor yee. >> supervisor avalos. >> colleagues, i have two items for introduction. one is an amendment of the hole, of the transit charter amendment that i had introduced late last year. this has been apart of the g 2030 process, about how we can make greater investments in our transportation infrastructure in san francisco. i want to thank my co-sponsors who are apart of this, supervisor campos, supervisor mar, and supervisor yee and supervisor kim. thank you for co-sponsorship. this is a renewal of a new version of the transit equity measure. it puts some real measurements that the mta can provide that they'll submit to the board of supervisors every year and forced to approve that will budget will be taken
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into account how our transit infrastructure can be invested and going to neighborhoods that really need the services most. the charter will also look forward to a new revenue that will come to the city and how that new revenue can be programmed. we know that this will be a quift and this measure will be looking at filling in that gap in funding, once our go bond that was paying for street resurfacing is finished. it would help with a vehicle purchase to make sure that muni can be the -- to be much more reliable and having more vehicles and be reinvested in our fleet and it will have measures in place that will insure we're building
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affordability for riders. we want to extend and make free muni for youth and make it affordable for seniors living on fixed incomes. i'm proud of the work that has been done on this measure and many community groups have been involved in the effort. the transit riders union, walk ssf, chew chew, the bike coalitions and many others and i want to thank jeremy in my office for doing a lot of the work behind the scenes to put this together. and we've done a lot of work as well with the mta in crafting this measure as well with the coalition of folks that i just mentioned. we also sat down on many, maybe five occasions, maybe six occasion to work out how to put matrix together to measure equity in the mta's work and
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the mta also did a great deal of work at measures equity, finding that a big part of the rider ship which is not a surprise to a lot of folks, but rider ship is low income. i live in the part of san francisco where we have not seen deep investments in transportation and transportation infrastructure so i'm looking forward to our go bond that will be on the november and i'm looking forward to greater investments we can make and i'm looking forward to how the city can fulfill its promise to making sure that all boat as cross all san francisco can be lifted, we have new revenue coming in and our economy is thriving. that's not the case in district 11 and other parts of san francisco. it will probably take the city charter to make sure those investments are going to be done in a way where it's needed like in district 11. thank you colleagues for your
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consideration and i know supervisor wiener has a similar measure for the 2015 ballot and we'll work together to see how we can have a single measure that we can agree ongoing forward. my second measure is bringing back a rent control protections for people who have leases and they want to bring in additional roommate within the constraint that a unit will. people living in the unit greater than the number that's allowed, so we'll maintain that level but if new roommates get on, we want to make sure they can sign without the rent going up for the roommates. it's a measure before the supervisors four years ago and i'm bringing it back. clearly the issue of tenant protections is one that
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continues until this day and it makes sense that we come forward with greater measures to protect folks and the right to live in san francisco. the rest i'll submit, thank you. >> thank you supervisor avalos. >> president chiu. >> i have two memorials today which involves my perspective significant tragedies. the first is one for casen. he was the two year old boys whose family was visiting and a statute fell on top of him. i think any of us who know about this situation, i don't think any of us can imagine what his parents and family is experiences so i would ask from the board of supervisors, an exappreciation
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of our heart and prayers and i wanted to mention that. i have a second for someone who was a friend of mine and who passed away as a brain an u rizism. carolyn, i know supervisor cohen would like to be added to this. carolyn grow up in canada. she was a very well regarded public affairs professional, transportation professional, government relations professional who and who was the director of relations. she's someone who we all knew to be brilliant and an amazing activist and someone's life who was cut way too short. she will be dearly
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