>> good morning, everyone, welcome to the board of supervisors, budget finance and committee meeting, for october, 29, i am joined by john amylee howcroft, and i want to thanks charles for sfgovt tv for covering this meeting and the clerk of the meeting, miss wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and any electronic devices and completed speaker cards and copies of documents should be

submitted to the clerk sxit ems acted upon will be on the november 4th, board of supervisor's agenda, always otherwise state. >> could you call item one? >> item one is,resolution retroactively authorizing the public defender's office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $75,889 from the board of state and community corrections for the purposes of implementing local juvenile justice accountability measures through the juvenile accountability block grant, for the term of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2015. >> thank you, we have the public defender's office to speak. >> thank you for having us on the agenda and especially thank you. >> would you speak. >> number one. >> i am patricia lee, managing attorney of the office and, juvenile unit and i have been working on this grant for over a decade and this may be the very last fund that the fcc will extend to us and so we are fortunate to even have this

amount and it has funded partially funded one of our attorney positions who have dealt with reentry of youth who are returning from long term out of home placement or the county champ and as part of a team effort in keeping kids stabilized and in their homes. so it has been a very, very successful grant. we look forward to institutionalizing the funding in the fewer tur. >> thank you. >> and seeing no questions, we don't have any budget analyst report. and so we will move on to public comment. anybody wish to comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. >> we have a motion to move this item. >> take that without objection. >> would you call item two? >> item two is,resolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant of $200,000 from the california department of parks and recreation's habitat

conservation fund to support the youth stewardship program. >> okay, thank you. we have rec and park here today. >> good morning, with the recreation and parks department, the habitat conservation funds allocates approximately $2 million per year for nature interpretation programs and other programs that bring youth, and urban residents into the parks and wild life areas. and the recreation and parks department's youth stewardship program meets to engage kindergarten through 12th grade students and environmental education and service, learning projects throughout san francisco parks and open spaces. yfp's mission is to foster and use the understanding of the important role to help to build the healthy and social and natural communities, and the program is free and available to any school or youth group in san francisco and in 2010, the youth stewardship program received a grant of $165,000 from hcf, it is funding was set to expire in 2015 and with this new grant, that funding will

continue until 2019. thank you. >> also, seeing no questions here, we will move on to public comment. and seeing no public xhept, we will close public comment. >> motion to approve this item. >> and also without objection. >> okay, madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us. >> no mr., chair. >> thank you, we are adjourned.

(clapping) >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon, everyone this is feeling so good to stand before you this announcement is tremendous we'll been working hard in the last year and a half this is a big day you've had personal and long connections to the building on 66 raymond this story of this building has been a rofks story of tragedy and of

loss but today, we come to celebrate victory over one hundred years this building behind me has been in the community a tremendous and the that served generation many of the folks that participate in the community at it have you ever seen venue i want to acknowledge the long-standing community members thank you for being here and many of you know, we lost this exit to foreclosure we've been through many, many community meetings and many hours discussing the future of 56 raymond to today it is with great pleasure and honor i announce the city of san francisco habitation acquired the ownership of this property 66 raymond (clapping) and what's most important this day is not about

reclaiming a building but about reclaiming an important piece of the visitacion valley center community for the community this asset was lost a long time ago due to foreclosure but with the help of the mayor's office the help of my staff and, of course, the tremendous help of the community the members 3 stand behind me their advocacy we won this is symbolic because a neighborhood stood up and fought and we've delivered 2, 3, 4 tremendous interrelation mom it's occasion to the visitacion valley center neighborhood we're here to be here i'm proud to deliver back to the community 66 raymond the city's ownership means the residents will have a health place for activities to gather as a community the cities ownership of this community

center of this building we'll have a place tour our seniors and visitacion valley center thank you to all the community members that have remained steadfast and the next person you'll here from is mayor ed lee he'll share with you his vision after the mayor maria sue between many meetings she and i have met to late out a specific strategy and services that happening happens at 66 raymond mr. mayor thank you for being here (clapping.) i think we want to make sure many have translations let me say something in chinese okay. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> cowen - raymond all right.

i just said to them that supervisor cohen just announced that the 66 raymond street has been gifted to san francisco government so that we can in turn use it according to what supervisor cohen has explained for all the community uses and the seniors here that are gathered are here know this is an important thing you saw them clap they've been for years wanting to make sure they've expanded the services limited at 50 raymond to now the other side of the courtyard filled with the capacity services of the city i know that supervisor cohen has

think been here for quite some sometime and through her leadership that did owners of the building said we have to do this and make a difference we went through some times when we doesn't were not certain whether or not the owners of the building would cooperate now they have i serve as a back up to supervisor cohen and i said this wherever she said we have to do something and certainly the same thing with the board president president chiu we wanted to make sure the funds we at the time set aside with supervisor cohen's leadership those funds would be spent to make sure that the buildings would be rehabbed and make sure that they would get a good level of rehab so that it could be converted to senior use

a lot of champs but welcome everyone to visitacion valley this is a wonderful part of our as you can see xhooufd said the sun is shining on us we have good news and right here visitacion valley we were down here a few months ago opening up the supermarket and across the street you'll see 17 hundred brand new units of affordable housing because of the location here and because of the income that people make around here i know the developers right here is excited about this we support him and make sure this project gets down this community is on the move a lot of things happening in the south crossroad of our city therefore this of 6 raymond is a good announcement and investment thank you to supervisor cohen for her leadership and quite franklin e

frankly wouldn't be done without her tests her persistence as a team i mean team kind of like the team that is going to play tomorrow night and i want to say thank you to supervisor cohen we're happy to share this news with everybody who uses the center and wants more activities and more improvements we're going to be hearing a lot there's a lot of things to get done and thanks to her leadership with supervisor cohen we'll continue to get a done your next up maria sue for families it oversees many of the families at raymond. >> it's a such a beautiful, beautiful day and appropriate we're celebrating if this with the sun and residents and community members i'm maria from

the youth department i'm proud of the leadership with mayor ed lee and supervisor cohen and president chiu for truly bringing back this sister building of this true community interit has been is an anchor within our city and the visitacion valley center for well over 95 years and supervisor you said one hundred years this has been a place for residents this place is a place for parents to come to seek support services for their children to learn how to support their babies a as they develop e develop a place for youth for mentor and place for seniors for nutritious meals for opportunity to congregate and socialize to bring meaning to their lives i'm proud to be standing here with

the city community and our community balances partners to revitalize this center and bring that back to its full glory of what was was before i'm proud and committed as folks to bring the services back here to insure that our young people whether they're coming from school back into they're community there's a safe place to come to if they want that first opportunity for career development come here for the skills tests apartment that need support for after-school program and services they can come here and receive the support i'm really proud the leaderships once again and mayor ed lee and supervisor cohen and president chiu and i look forward to working with them as well as our community based organizations and our community residents to make that as

beautiful and vibrant as it should be thank you. (clapping.) the woman i'd like to introduce is my amy chung providing services to the executive director for the sales help for the elderly thank you

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> so just briefing i want to

thank supervisor cohen and mayor ed lee and maria for helping us get this piece of our community center back when two years ago the seniors were running our center for over 20 years was asked to move to our invitation center a lot of the seniors wanted to program but that was under foreclosure thank you supervisor cohen for listening to our seniors and expressing their needs to have their programs here we're very happy to be partnering are mayor ed lee and supervisor cohen to provide the programs the seniors need and thank you very much it up for listening anticipate protecting our seniors making sure they get a place they call their second home so thank you very much (clapping). >> in closing, i want to say

this is the physical manifestation when everyone has a team effort again, thank you to the community partners and other community partners behind me thank you as the giants pulled together they can pull out a victory when everyone plays his position that's mayor lee's suggestion i didn't deliver it as well, so i'll end with this go visitacion valley center and go giants

>> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place.

you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. >> we get to build the community

here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at

night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we

give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast.

some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose

youth and adults to photography classes. >> the 25 years ago today at 5:04 p.m. a powerful 6.9 earthquake read into the record across the bay area the loma prieta earthquake was probable for deaths and $6 billion in dpaj game 3 was about to get underway due to the media coverage that is of the first major earthquake in the u.s. that was broadcast live over national television traffic on the freeways was vacant and millions were watching ton tv this may have prevented a loss ever life as the major

transportation structures you suffered catastrophic failures the bay area bridge collapsed owe the oakland a one mile europe deck of the freeways collapses and nearby factoryw or workers and public works employees climbed on to the brims and pull trapped people out of their cars and it enclosed the embarcadero freeway never to reopen and all arptsdz closed to inspect damage and muni loss services in san francisco marina district several buildings collapsed natural gas ruptures caused a major fire and the bystanders ran hoses with the firefighters when the water system failed and to engines on the shore the

mayor helped per twoor years ago later san francisco and the bay area are rebuilt better than ever do the think i do too (clapping.) i want to acknowledge the people that came together to create today's event to work everyday to make san francisco resilient and first of all, the san francisco emergency of the american red cross and the safe vacation army and the pg&e give them a nice hand (clapping) then there's this beautiful new structure the moratorium for the today's event for families to learn a science including the science of earthquake let's hear it is important the moratorium (clapping)

then the fire department ned program and police department program they'll provide critical assistance to our forpdz let's here it for ned and alert thank you very much (clapping) we have several members of the san francisco city family that have joined us supervisor mar and supervisor wiener kaurm and sheriff rosenberg and naomi kelly and chief chief joanne hayes-white and lynn and mta director really and dpw mohammed nuru let's here it for those folks (clapping.) i would last like to welcome on the one hand our state and federal zoning administrator cesarean and regional john doe i

didn't traveling sincere thank you (clapping) and staff representing senator d and feinstein and mark lien no right away right now we have at about invocation we want to start welcome warming san francisco interfaith director be michael pappus michael (clapping.) let us bow our heads in prayer oh, mighty educator of the united nations u universe i fixed the earth on your foundation we are humid when the forces of nature temporary shift the ground on which we walk in those moments of vushlthd we're reminded of our limitations and yet having fashioned us in our

lickness we see beyond temporary surviving that through our relationships with one another we like the phoenix rising from the ashes arises stronger with greater commitment to seek the greater good rather than that satisfies our perm vaifrz values on this the 25 anniversary of literally we gather to pause and reflect we pause and reflect brown upon our 63 boggs who lost their lives on this traffic day and intranscribe their names in our book of life we pause and reflect upon those who risked their lives then and now in particular your firefighters and police force in turn we pray you granted them endearment in time to make critical decisions