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(clapping). >> i'm really embarrassed arrest first, i look like i came back from hawaii small business put this on me and sxhftd i wear it i don't look like this in court. but thank you very, very much you wonderful supervisors in particular supervisor mar for introducing this resolution many more people deserve to have this honor i'm one of the lucky few to do the kinds of things i love to do and be recognized for it. throughout my career i think you're right supervisor mar that one of the mothering most of the noble was the officer of the
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domestic violence coordinator possibly in all california but i couldn't have done that without the board of supervisors many of you were not there at the time but the tradition is notable this tradition of managing a city well, that was fair at the time that sxhauftd to form the court by passing the resolution in support of the court and appropriating funding in support of the programs that hold offenders accountable we needed that because people of the that maybe a domestic violence court would act in the form of taking away due process rights of the person that were charged of the crime but we proved the zodiac violence was a tool to hold the
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offenders accountable i you're going to to support this court that i think we work closely with the county. a lot of people ask me what i'm going to do i wish i could say i'm going to hallway hue with this lay but continuing to work a as does just so i will be doing exactly what i've been doing for the last 24 years it is a nice way to transition from our retirement retirement is hard it really is and people congratulate me is it something worth congratulating me but i'm fortunate to turn this into a position that's comfortable which is what i've been doing for the last 24 years thank you
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so much supervisors so far the work you've done and the proclamation your giving me today. thank you
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(clapping) >> thank you supervisor mar our final accumulation of the day will be offered by supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much colleagues today, i stand before you to honor the equity and black women's health and the collaborative team over the last year and a half my office has had the privilege to participate in the women's collaborative team the funding comes from the w k cutting-edge kellogg collaborative of local hblts and hair multi partners the partners
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include maternal delinquency health the building department and first 5 the san francisco general hospital ucsf and homeless preunlawfully and adolescence hesitating the day suggests that a 5 fold disparity exists between african-american and caucasian phenomena's that means that the infant mortality rate expresses itself in a way that for every one thousand births 2 point had 4 percent of caucasian the infant passes and for live birth asian-americans experience mortality and a state
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and local government and outstanding 14.5 percent for african-americans. now the group the group studied significant data points and found that the key causes of disparities between african-american and caucasian is pretty simple the social connective and environmental conditions and the living and work conditions have a collective expectancy rate of infants the impacts of stress an african-americans women in the community in general and how the stress going superoto a high mortalities rates within the african-american community it's significant to point out that it has small different results for
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that last year they've come up with a positive way to impact the public health problem and getting ready to take to it to the next level and september a the black infant month if i supporting in cause put your hands together a to hear from our director mary from the department of public health department maternal and adolescence health section and gaga in a the director of the infant department and alien armstrong ladies please accompany (clapping.) these 3 women along with the rest of the collaborative group had led the charge on the issue
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and will continue to do so. i want to invite everyone to attend the opening house tomorrow evening from 12 to 9:00 p.m. >> thank you very much supervisor cohen and the keep in mind group of folks i'm dbe in a the director of the san francisco black health program and i'm joined by an amazing team of multi effective leaders from the preand a half team we were selected one of four cities in the desire community to addressing add to the intreefrnz
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amenity are moerment effects african-american families at different levels in san francisco we have a 5 fold disparity between white infant and black infants dying in the first months of life we've been looking at what is evidence based and we have in san francisco barked upon a program that will look at family planning and impacting how african-americans are tooled to deal with stress thank you for having this important health issue on our radar how we start life makes a difference in terms of how we move through life we're honored to have this
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opportunity to come before you and say hello for you to meet the team there's more of us and really ask you to please look at our e-mails and our postings we're looking forward to keeping you abreast of what we're up to. >> hello, everyone i'm elaine arming strong a public nurse from the adolescence health and i'm on the fit program as gaga in a state on behalf of our san francisco women's health initiative we're happy that supervisor cohen for participating in the commitment to decrease disparities and improve birth outcomes for young
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black women and in particular i want to acknowledge our nc h director dr. mary for pushing this initiative forward and helping to kickoff this. one of the things i want to state as the cooperated for the past years i charge a review team that reviews things and this work is really important for the families so this proposal of bringing infant mortality awareness is great for our city san francisco >> dr. mary. >> okay for one mini want to say the health of the city is as good as the most vulnerable and we do things for the raised of
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mortal it but the numbers are improving african-american babies is still dying at a greater rate at low birthrates. despite all of our best efforts over the last decade much more needs to be done so all pregnant mothers will know that the children can be full term and facing a wonderful long life we're being challenged to draw on the strength and the history of the african-american experience to make fundamental improvements it will take all of us working together from all aspect of life to meet the challenges and this occasion is a wonderful opportunity to recommit and decade ourselves we ask the board of supervisors to support this resolution and take
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the leadership in eliminating the birthing inequalities for birth of african-americans >> good afternoon. i'm the director of the adolescent health thank you for the awareness of mortal in san francisco it's an important issue we continue to work on and make strides with the wonderful collaborative team. >> thank you ladies and also want to recognize my staff that's been dedicated to working with the team. i have certificates for you don't go too far. thank you.
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>> thank you supervisor cohen why not go to the 3:00 p.m. special order and mr. president, can we go back to the roll call. >> thank you, mr. president and
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mr. clerk i'm introducing one legislation and two hearing requests today, i'm introducing the prohibiting of buildings that are production distribution and repair in the area while the process is currently underway our policy goal to encourage the pdr spaces and to support no loss of pdr the south of market is a rich and vibrant neighborhood it was recently highlighted in kelly roadways announcements on significant and brian don no one the flower mart is the second largest in the industry. those will sure that my conversion of pdr use and any pdr use while the city
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encourages in the future long time process we know they're extremely important in the low income and middle school workers i met with the tenant association members we reassert their family members in san francisco. this legislation is the first piece of legislation to come out of the negotiated housing companions back in july. we're working with the mayor's office on the housing action and the neighborhood stabilization to increase the number of affordable housing units that are taken off the real estate market that this piece helps to preserve the pdr spaces insures anti general indication efforts in the street central selma they will help us to look at the land
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use south of market. we also needs housing for the majority of our residents and the selma area is an area to achieve 4 percent of the construction. having the housing is important and we need to be careful when considering land used for the priorities over the next year and we want to insure we're not approving projects ad hoc. i want to recognize supervisor campos and supervisor david chiu and supervisor mar and also introducing two hearing requests one is that hearing request on san francisco pre k and transitional we had a presentation from the department of children's the controller's office and the mayor's office of
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education on the statistics of the city and county of san francisco see prekindergarten program. presentations whether include the demographics of students who are in the programs and the achievement gaps of those who attended pre k and those who didn't. and the second hearing i'm introducing a co- introducing with president fewer is a hearing request on the policies for planning for new student enrollment ems just in the last 10 years from 2000 to 2010 the san francisco population grew. and now sits anothers 8 hundred and 25 thousand and projected to grow to one million the
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accommodates those growth we need the builders who or allocated towards the landscaping there's no considerations for how we look at school enrollment. with the increasing enrollment of over the last few years it's great news for ucsf it hit its rock bottom enrollment we'll happy that more and more families are enrolling their kids but as we continue to grow we need to make sure we don't reach a point we can't accept any new kindergarteners in san francisco with our height we had 86 students and when we hit our height we had local fire code laws that make that more difficult to insert more
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kindergarteners and first grade classrooms this hearing will be the beginning of a dialog on how to better coordinated the projects with ucsf and it's ability to meet the demands of potential school age children we look forward to working with the sfusd and the controller's office to have a dialog before we hit the goal and in our area we are looking at to the building and the construction of the mission bay city hall >> thank you supervisor kim. thank you mr. clerk, call our 3:00 p.m. special orders items 15 through 18 >> the proposed resolutions establishing the transit center and 16 the formation of the
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transbay transit center and the 17 is the bond indebtedness and item 18 a special election for the transit center. >> thank you mr. clerk colleagues, we have in front of us a potential of establishment of the community district known as the transit center i understand we'll have a request for a continuance later on in the meeting but first acknowledge our city staffers for a presentation and then we'll precede from there so is it mr. rich. >> alice in wonderland from the planning department here to discuss the transbay community overwhelm here with other folks and joined by our partners felt transbay joint powers authority
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we have hard copies of the presentation if the board members wants to look at those instead. this is the second protective action recommending to the transit center cf d. the legislation was introduced in gin and there was a first action later in gin and early july and today it is second action there's one more action after is landowner election vote which we expect to happy at the end of the year. today is the formation the resolution of determining the indebtedness and calling the landowner election i'm going to talk about the transbay area and a little bit of detail on the melrose district and scott will talk about the funding for the
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transbay transit and the downtown rail extension >> as a recap your familiar but a long-standing city policy to shift the center of the downtowns growth towards are towards the south of market capping listing on the transit center and building significant new office and residential growth around that area there was is there there's been a decade of planning started with the design in the transbay area with the adaptation of the district plan in 2012 that this is a indirect result of. here's a map of the area the shatd are the redevelopment area that's an enforceable obligation moving forward with the bonds and those are the parcels off the infrastructure that is currently going through the process of the position and
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development zone two is part of the redevelopment areas those are privately held parcels. and the red boundary is the planning boundary of the transbay center we've rezoned as part of the plan it's identical to the boundary for the medical rose district the plan it's created significant additional zone capacity in the transit center area rising the heights on the parcels of seven hundred up to one thousand feet for the transit he turn over resulting in about 4 million square feet of development over what was previously there was the zone capacity for. again, the point of this is to one capitalize on the transbay transit center and to raise
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funds oh, the laptop is not working sorry. sorry i'm just keep talking. the plan had detailed streetscape plan that had a number of different recommendation for complovg the streets it called for 12 acres of open space to serve the people including the rooftop on top of it and identified new revenue sources for the creation of this melrose district we're
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before i today to talk about. which would be a condition of approval of major new development in the planned area so this was without pictures now i'll talk about the district itself. so just as an overview the district it is in the vision of the details and it is consistent with that document major new development is required to join the district as a condition on their conditions of approval when they get theory entitlements i the intention to so raise revenue to pay for the downtown rail extension and the transbay terminal and other
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structures. this is a map of the boundary the future annexation the shaded parcels are the initial parcels and as new projects trigger it come down within the doted line they'll be expected to join the district. what's before you as part of the resolution is the apportionment a special tax added to the property tax on the significant new sdrement e development it didn't apply to existing buildings on a calculation depending on the office eye and residential. the r m a a special based tax and excavation of the tax every year and affordable housing and above marketing units and
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childcare space are exempted. each project will pay for thirty years and the district will expire after 75 years and for the permit for the project it's itself. the city can prosecutor foors for investigators on the bonds for the district. so i'm going to turn it over to nadia from the office of public financing to talk about the program >> good afternoon director for the office of public finance i'll talk about briefing the issuance that will be issued after the formation of the district and with the issuance of the certificate of the occupancy. and that tax commencement will
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occur after the planning commission that economist of various other departments as well as capita planning committee approved the authorization. and in addition, we need to have special tax capacities existing in order to support the debt and requires the board to approval for the appropriation of those proceeds the bonds will be secured by the special tax by the property owners and anticipated in 2015 we have it staggered electro the term of the delivery development. on page 21 addressing the maximum capacity the resolution before you allows for an amount not to exceed $1.4 billion in the authorization this caps the
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authorizations for all issuance including future awning shall think and this will depend on is interest rates as well as the development activities within the project area. so amending the not to exceed amount will require further approval of the vote of the district. the next slide really highlights the assumptions that are feeding the documents that are in front of you including the procurement time based on that an average trick or treat .5 percent and a term of bones of thirty years we expect to issue in the aggregate of 9 hundred and 7 of $6 million with a hundred and 6 of mil