of the public that would like to make the comment at this time? >> seeing none, the public comment is closed and i just want to make a few comments, and i grew up in this city, and i have been actively engaged, and trying to help, support members of the community, and change lives, and yes, i represent district five, and i do it, but i do take offense that i am not someone who is thinking about members of the african american community, all over the city. a couple of weeks ago a friend that i grew up in the western community, who lived in the bay view hunter's point was killed in a tl. and african americans who i grew up with, many of them who grew up in the western edition, sadly have ended up in the tl, and substance abuse, and drug

abuse, and homeless and sros and other places. and when i am in that area, and i am driving by or catching a bus down in that area, there is never a time that i don't see, a lot of the folks that are out there, that i don't know. that are not my friends that i don't say hey and wave and so on and so forth and in many instances i interact with those, i need a job, i need support, what can i do? well the job one stop, in the western edition, community is not just for the western edition, community, it is for anyone who is a san franciscan, who is looking for an employment opportunity, and i am out there, on the corners, and pushing people, to show up for these opportunities, and we have through the eoc and townsend and his work and getting the people the job opportunities who basically decide, you know what? i am ready and i want to do it and i am going to show up, what do i need to do and we have led them step by step, and not only that, we have city job

opportunities funded readily available for them, and if they basically get to a point where they being employed, the point that i am making is, there is a lot of work, that is being done. and it is not just specific to a district, this is a city wide problem, there is a problem, when many of my friends, who i grow up with are dead are in jail, there is a problem in the city, when it is really difficult, when i am talking out, every single day and someone is looking for a job opportunity, or wondering what they can do or where they can live, in the city and county of san francisco. and this is not just a board of supervisors, problem, this is a city as a whole problem and this is a leadership problem and we can't be greety about me me me and my my my i want to basically do well with my business and not give back to do anything for anybody else. that is bigger issue here, when we are talking about the solutions we need to put it all out on the table and talk about what is happening now, and in the organizations that are funded and not doing the work, what is happening with those

organizations and the poverty pimps who are getting millions of dollars to take care of our community and they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing we, have to all put that stuff aside, and figure out ways in which we can come together, as a community, and be responsible for making a difference for the people who need it the most. no, we can't, help everybody, and there is some people who we know, there are amazing workers out there, but can't pass the drug test in order to get a city job, and we know that we have folks in the community that need a little bit more help and a little bit more support and guidance, we need to figure out ways in which we can invest those dollars, appropriately, to get those folks ready because we don't want to send them to the hotel and have them fail, we want them to succeed and we want them to be working when we and the folks get off of the plane we want to see a diverse group of people and african american and we want to see them at the restaurant and hotel. business and business people all over the city, representing

the african americans community, and so, when we talk about it we need to get the population ready, it is what i have actually been working on as a supervisor and i am proud of my work and i am proud of the fact that all of those folks that are out there working and advancing and cleaning up and doing things and dpw, some of those folks are from the hunter's point and some of them from the tl and the fillmore and they are from all over and we have a city wide problem that we need to address, and i think that supervisor cohen and i, we have been leading the way and doing what we can, and money is going to a lot of programs, all over the city. and we are trying to hold them accountable, but we are only two people and when you are bringing forth, information, and ideasing and solutions to this problem, we are open to that and we are toep to that but we will not be dictated to, we want to be a partner in this

effort. we want to figure out how to work together to resolve this you. and we want to do it with facts and information and do it as a real partner. and so, i just want to make sure that we have to look at ourself and say what is the problem or the real solution, and so the opportunity is now. we have a board of supervisors, not just we have two on the board, but because we have other sympathetic members of the board who care about this issue and the time to deal with legislation is now, and the time to deal with the appropriate funding and appropriate planning and data collection and all of those things is now, but a big part of what is going to help us achieve that goal is strong leadership from the mayor's office, and strong support from his various departments who have the ability to effectively

not only, implement this work, but hold folks accountable insure that the numbers meet the need and specifically, with the western edition, neighborhood access point, which is the job system in district five, which i know, many of you know about, we are checking, every single month to make sure that those 61 people that have gotten jobs through the problem and how many of them are employed after the next month and after the next month, and after the next month and yes we have lost two or three folks through this particular opportunity, and but we can't just say, here is the money, i got 61 people employed and all of a sudden we go back and none of them are employed because they are in temporary jobs, that is not what we should do as a city. we have to hold them accountable do the work that we are there to do and the funding that they are doing to get the people jobs or my job as supervisor it make sure that they are getting people jobs and people are keeping those jobs, one step at a time, one thing at a time and i appreciate you all being here

and i appreciate the feedback and so now i want something tangible that i can work it as a legislator to pass the policy and figure out where we can get dollars from and how we can and where is the plan and where is the detailed plan as it relates? with that, i thank you all, again for coming, and i will turn it over to supervisor cohen. >> i want to close out and, thank you for those thoughtful remarks and i want to acknowledge a few people, i saw rhonda, and i want to acknowledge, moss and miller, and we have got fred, and casey and i don't know, thank you for leadership on this and helping me to coordinate all of this and i do have a request that this committee, continue this et em to the call of the chair to be sure that we can bring this back in a few months to be

sure that we are meeting our goals, and that we are and we have an opportunity to continue this dialogue so that we can determine how much we have progressed and how much we have not. i would like to make that motion, and ask that the body make that motion. >> and thank you for hearing this item. >> okay. >> and so, thank you, so, president chiu? >> so, i am happy to as a member of the committee to make the motion, and let me just add the thanks to the members of the community, and to the important critical conversation, and this is not on the shoulders and not just on the shoulders of our african americans colleagues and i am happy to partner and to do as much lifting as needs to be done. >> and we, as a number of folks have said that we talk about this issue, but it is important for us to move beyond the talk and actually go through the results and see the progress and look forward to that work,

that we are going to do and offer it the next time, and we will be able to report back on what has happened, and i am happy to make the motion for us to continue this item at the call of the chair. and thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. the item, and the motion has been made to continue this, with the item is the call of the chair. without objection, and item passes, thank you so much. all right, madam clerk, is there any other business before us. >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

>> yaerth preparedness is a way of life in san francisco san francisco we hope the new law requiring the upgrades is soft story building will help keep residents safe and sound. so bill tell me about the soft story building program what is it >> it's a program the mayor signed into law a year and a half ago the whole idea was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so they wouldn't collapse. >> does the soft story program apply to all buildings. >> it only applies to buildings built in a timeframe of 1978 and earlier it's aimed at wood framed building 3 or more

stories and 5 are more units but the openings at the garage level and the street level are not supported in many buildings without the support in a major earthquake the professionals sent them to flatten and many are under rent control so everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they're protecting their investments and tenants. >> nos have gone out to have thousand owners but fewer one one third have respondent and thousand might miss an important deadline in december let's talk worse case scenario. >> so first soft story walls the building will collapse and be a total loss. >> can you talk about the

sfrelg in the retrofit. >> you want to think of this building like a rubber abandon in the upper 3 floors are a rid i do box and the earthquake the garage tends to really over the first floor is a very tough but flexible e flexible rubber abandon you would not drive the forces to the upper force so it goes into the plywood or steel frame. >> so here we are inside a soft story building can we talk about the kinds of repairs property owners might expect and it's a simple process we try to keep it that way so what's involved whether you install plywood to make a wall and cover it with the gossiping so many stellar it

adds underneath e flexibility so during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse it gets strengthened more when we go to the doorway to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so potentially the wood and steel that sound like a straightforward process takes our odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in thirty. >> that's exactly right we're hoping people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great let's take a look at. >> so let's talk extremely frame talk about that. >> we have a extremely frame there are two of those and go up to the lower floor and a beam that goes 0 across that forms this it's a stiffer and stronger so during the quarter the upper

floor won't clarion and according the engineers and contractors it could be done in two weeks time easy. >> if you're a property owner with questions about the soft story retrofit program signs up to this on august 11th from 3 to 5 at the main public library and the dbi staff will be there the deadline for applications t is september 15th. for more informationyou. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm brad i'm a soccer dad here in

san francisco who's going to win. that's right we have great soccer at 3 o'clock the usc usc u usa is going to play these kids need a place to play those a ballot measure coming up we h we need to have a soccer fields at the single most important place today from hemminger gonzales who got their start they might not be in brazil we're grad to have 7 members of the board of supervisors and the mayor to support this ballot

measure. without further ado, let me introduce two important soccer moms. (clapping.) >> good afternoon. i'm amber wilson a san franciscan native i grew up playing on this fields i got married in the city and my wedding photos were at a beach let and now we have two children a 7 and 3 years old it's greatest great to see them out on the fields i hope to see my children play on a safe fields we don't worry aboutism hurting themselves and have the support of their families and joy those communities as well. so thank you very much for having me here (clapping.) >> hi i'm from ccii i didn't

pray a place of business play on the kids i find myself as a parent following my children. i want to talk about a soccer field it looks like a pier of grass or turn over but actually, it's some more powerful and beautiful and true to what being a family it is itself it the narrative spot where people write their stories and hold your kids where they cry i celebrate their victories and when a child goes down and you look at the awe of the dads and moms every authorized or friday bringing they're kindness for our children where the children learn how we where they can be

and find compassion. it's not a green flat space at all it's bigger and powerful for families not only for families but all people in san francisco we need more spaces that fill with imagination and kindness and losses to the not only the kids that play but a poultry place for kids to learn lessons i'm a thousand percent sure we need more fields and support the supervisors i mayor to create the spaces for everyone and everyone's imagination and look at a green plays and s see what is happening. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you kirsten it was beautiful ambassador i'd like to start introducing some of our important supporters supervisor

farrell. >> thanks brad. >> all right. kids who loves playing soccer and thinks the u.s. is going to win. i'm supervisor farrell the supervisor representing district 2 i'm proud to be here with the mayor and the board of supervisors and the rec and park department i'm proud to be here as a supervisor but i'm proud to be here as a father 3 small children here in san francisco i'm excited to be here with brad and amber and kirsten thank you for your for coupling i had the opportunity to coach my sons soccer and this initiative couldn't be more important if we're to continue to attract families to our great cities and counterfeit the lives of our playing 2350e89dz is a no brainier a that's why i'm so

supportive of this initiative at the board of supervisors we join with the mayor being champions of creating new playgrounds in san francisco and making sure that the existing praugdz are available for all year round this gives us our children experience and fight obesity and builds community in san francisco. you know, every weekend with my children we go out and their placing support we go out to all sport fields we have to go to treasure island are different part of town but we need to do better as a city this initiative is key and i hope you join me and get our kids out there playing thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor farrell before i introduce the next sponsor supervisor supporting this initiative i want to

acknowledge and thank supervisor yee and supervisor tang and supervisor mar who are up here as well (clapping) we can't say enough of thanks to this one spooert who's been here to improve playing fields is is supervisor wiener that's out ahead of that from the very beginning (clapping.) thank you. i'm scott wiener and the honor of representing sdribltd 8 we have if you're been at the mission bay pools or soccer fields we're doing great work for opportunity for kids and daylights deputies for everyone to get experience to play and have a healthier city we can't afford to backslide to

make sure we have enough playing fields we have a sporj o shortage of baseball fields we need to do the work to make sure that everyone who wants to play sports and to engage if recreation isably to do so it's about kids and young kids and older kids and about adults and seniors and people in college everyone in this city having access to good recreation. we know that even though san francisco was recently rated as one of the top 5 biggest it cities in the u.s. we have an above average rate of tyrone type two diabetes we have to be focused to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to

have visible recreation so let's win. thank you (clapping) >> we are also thankful to have the support from the leader of the board of supervisors. i hope you'll support him here's president chiu >> good afternoon kids is is the usa going to win and are we going to win in november. >> yeah. >> all right. let me tell you a couple of thing what we're doing today, this notice not just about your future as world-class three of those we know you're learning teamwork and cooperation and leaders someone who played soccer balanced what i was a kid in you don't play soccer well, you can grow up to be a supervisor or

the mayor or a world-class soccer player i want to thank all the parents and coaches and taefbz you know how important is it is to move forward those young people in front of us represent the diversity of san francisco and the world. that he are in the and i city with the density it neighborhoods west of mississippi with the least amount of open space and fields it's important to move forward. identification proud when our san francisco board of supervisors move forward forward our playing fields in the beach of o lay we need to move forward so kids i have 3 words repeat. let kids play >> let kids play. >> let kids play. thank you very much.

(clapping.) >> thank you, supervisor. i'd like to acknowledge hydra mendez from the board of education and maria prosecute the children's department of family and the rec and park department and other directors that will take us to the future. (clapping.) is a man that needs no introduction we're here because of him we're excited to have him the mayor that will fight mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, thank you. well, i wanted to join our board of supervisors the parent but the most important thing our kids any public comment? let the kids play. yeah. (clapping.) well, i want to thank city

fields for working in partnership base this is a unique partnership you look across the city country how many of our cities are reinvesting in claurgsdz and doing it in a smart way you, you know, for every fields we work with to reinvestment in there's a possibly of saving one million gallons one million 5 hundred goggles of water is saved when we do those paris parks and this past year 2 thousand 4 hundred additional kids got to play in our parks how about that? 76 additional hours (clapping) those kinds of things are important we're only a city of 49 square miles and we can't build you enough parks for all the kids we've got to

reintensity and reenergy them i want to thank the board of supervisors i want to thank our rec and park director and the leadership of our education leaders and thanks all the people in the private sector susan thank you for leading the efforts with about city fields and the public (clapping) that i private partnership is important as we make sure we do our best to preserve what's best but allowing thousands of more kids could use them how about more hours of soccer kids >> yeah. >> so from garfield to correcter amazon to sunset to the mission all parks are welcoming kids we've got to do a better job let's keep visiting in our infrastructure make that

a private-public deal go kids let's all do this. >> let kids play. let us play. let us play. let us play. let us play. let us play. thanks kids. two brief outlines before i turn it over to the big screen on the safekeeping plaza. first ma'am, grady member of the parks hallway lines thank you for your support and last but not least is you guys the kids because while we're up here working hard it's our excitement and your commitment to the neighborhoods in playing supporters that matters thanks guys >> thank you all for coming

>> [gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the july 28 meeting of the san

francisco ethics commission. i will take attendance. chairperson mr. hur has been excused for personal reasons and calling the other commissioners. renne. >> here. >> commissioner andrews. >> here. >> commissioner keane. >> here. >> before taking public comment on item number 2 i just want to call everybody's attention to the fact that the regular meeting for august has been canceled, and there will be a special meeting on august 18 at 10:00 a.m. in room four one six to consider the report of the civil grand jury and the commission's response thereto. at this time i will take public comment on matters of not appearing on e