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some of the off-ramps and on ramps around the station that will enable transportation to flow and enable cars to have choices going you outside of the transit bay area hub to drop off people or heading to our freeways that are right increase in the system it is the greatest concentration of the transportation from bart and muni from light rail to bus and also our caltrain highway system so we spell need to find ideas for unclogging that the transportation study has been part ever that i'm happy to have it before us today and supervisor yee. >> thank you even though the
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balboa park station ♪ district 11 where it comes off the freeway and the path to district 7 and i've been keeping abreast in terms of the alternatives and so forth i'm really looking forward to implementing those this study mainly because what i'm seeing in the last few years is worsen traffic conditions and there's more and more people also taking either muni or bart so you have the competition with the traffic and pedestrians which is just going to get worse and i know this is in implementing this study or new prongs will take many years i'm anxious we ged get going on this i'm supportive
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of this report >> thank you. i've often joked how difficult it is to get around balboa park station this study can actually help me to change my motto to something that's helpful to transportation. with that, we can go to oh, supervisor mar >> yeah. i wanted to say supervisor avalos and supervisor yee that i didn't realize how sdauvenlgs dangerous it was until the supervisor tang and the mta staff took us to look at the muni yard and other conditions but it's definitely different corners like san jose and geneva i'm sensing how the
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schools around there it is impacted by especially dangerous for seniors. >> thank you on to public comment is there any public comment? seeing none, public is closed and revolt. >> item 10 arrest supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> great the item passes. >> next. >> 11 allocate in prop k funds and appropriate 39 thousand and 1 million in prop k funds
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attached to the fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule. >> go on to public comment is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? please come forward seeing none, public comment is closed we'll have a roll call vote and item 11. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> great on to next. >> item 12 approve the prop k programs. seeing none, no comments from the commission we'll go on to. and seeing none, public comment is closed and have a roll call vote vote
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>> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. commissioner chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. i have a quick question for the staff in my office we've fielded a dozens of calls from elderly folks about street maintenance since the maintenance the trees have been transferred to the property owners clarify which trees are included in the 5 year prioritization plan? >> through the chair the trees
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that are included in the 5 year prioritization project the maintenance category have under trees dp w jurisdiction not relinquished to the property owner. >> thank you very much. thank you for your questions >> okay. we had a resolved vote and the item passed next. >> item 13 this is an informational item. >> colleagues new comments on matter of authority or future items to discuss seeing none, is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? seeing none, public comment is closed and go on to 0 next item. >> item 14 public comment. >> general public comment is open for any members of the public seeing none, public comment is closed.
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>> (yelling n what a beautiful day a day for a celebration we've finished 12 years in inform we toward is two folks and now opting 6 hundred with our commitment and have the pleasure of this beautiful building because of you the employees in the for you part of the spirit is the technology is a start up and this event helps to catch this this is part of the culture we want to have going into the future. (clapping.) we're in san francisco because it's as toxic place our business technician is a daily war for top talent and even though people want to be in a beautiful
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city coming out have to integration i've lived in second amendment and new york and miami and los angeles san francisco is the place to be. >> yeah. (clapping). >> so his our great honor and pleasure we have the honorable mayor, mayor ed lee here to see a is a few words about the city of san francisco as well and jerry congratulations and thank you very much how sufficient riverbed team? well, your wearing great colors because there's only two team that concludes my report i know is the world-class giants champions and the riverbed team. yeah. >> yeah. >> well, i want to say emigrations again, it was almost
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a year jerry that we kicked off the construction of the building now to be here open opening day for riverbed on of the united states street this wonderful sign we're a city that's strong how about 4.4 percent in unemployment we've been a part of the nation capital of the world san francisco i want to thank you because right here there's going to be over 4 nine hundred jobs at the site thank you for a being a great community partner as well not only are you celebrating the success of our company you've joined me in making sure our youth of the future begin this summer with 7 thousand 7 thousand paid jobs thank you riverbed for obeying being a partner. and as part of this wonderful
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announcement i want to say thank you, again four showing you your great community and passion for this city by making sure our workforce is part of my workforce in helping people in this city succeed by nominating to our san francisco food bank that's a wonderful contribution $68,000. 69 that is >> 6 hundred 80 cans of food and cash my i got the numbers all right. that's a great way to celebrate our food bank needs it you're showing your graciousness in doing this thank you, thank you on behalf of the city and if i may take the honor, you know, the mayor gets to proclaim days when i know it's special to the city and on
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behalf of the city that recognizes community passion and growth we would like to proclaim today riverbed day in san francisco. >> (clapping) >> i proud to say thank you to supervisor jane kim who's here that will be recognizing this always with you i'll be proud to we are wear the orange shirt and orange hat the next time i go to the giants. >> i didn't think he was going to wear orange anyway, i get to introduce supervisor kim who's the supervisor in our district thank you, ms. kim (clapping) >> thank you. well i'll keep it short i was here a couple of
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weeks ago but thank you to raise your hand to join south of market community it's high honor to represent this district where we are this is all part of the amazing growth it's happening here we're creating jobs and building how's this is where san francisco is dynamic dynamic and exist that is a beautiful edition i don't know if you remember the building that was here before fwhu is a amazing attraction f to fultd and south of market it's not about just creating jobs but kickoff engagement so thank you for your volunteering and being a part of a larger community we have diversity we have low income residents and high income residents we want to build one san francisco and go giants.
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thank you >> (clapping) thank you supervisor kim fantastic and now before we cut the ribbon we have one chairperson of the san francisco blue bank we've been involved that the food bank for almost 10 years now and our employees volunteer there and in fact, i was a boy scout master for 12 years i would take my boy scouts to the food bank and we thought it was woody allen a great thing to do since what we have new officers on 640 faculty we/have 6 hundred and 40 cans of food there's a marketing brand and another check one in a long series of many checks that we've presented to the food bank so - >> gary why don't you get not
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middle (clapping) now know that looks like the accomplisher sweepstakes but it's really, you know. >> well, thank you jerry and mayor it's a pleasure on behalf of everyone i want to thank jerry and riverbed let me hit you with some facts this year, the sf food bank will distribute 46 million pounds of food it's fresh produce some that's the eventual of one hundred and 5 thousand meals each day.
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it's a one hundred and 47 thousand people get food from the food bank every week (clapping) 11 thousand school children everyday get a healthy snack every school day thanks to the food bank and more importantly thank you to the folks like you and riverbed. there's one last thing to mention i heard the volunteer word a second ago. the food bank is blasz blessed to have 25 thousand volunteers every year and its people like jerry and many of you i've seen you at our facilities thank you very much that's incredibly important to our mission (clapping.) so one last shout out to the riverbed team we're glad our
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>> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i
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have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society specifically for this project. we were charged with beginning
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work. marquez and i spent a lot of time addressing our own position on the death penalty, our experiences with people who had been incarcerated, family members, friends of friends. pulling our information. beyond that, we did our own research. to create a picture that resonated with humanity. it is the shape of a house. in this context, it is also small and acts like a cell. i thought that was an interesting play on how these people make these adjustments, half to create home. what is home for these people? the home is their cell.
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people talk a lot about noise -- very noisy in prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here? [singing] i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others.
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>> good morning and welcome to the board of supervisors san francisco land use & economic development committee i'm scott wiener little chair tomato is supervisor jane kim and our supervisor cowen will be here mom will i i'll note we're not in our standard room this is the temporary room there's a lot going on and we're
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