reaching out to other city officials and department heads. and i want to thank you for the teamwork in seeing the value and strength in each of us and help develop that. i hope i can do you justice and you will definitely have to keep in touch but i thank you for being the incredible leader that you have been and please stay in touch. i congratulate you and i'm very excited about your journey going forward. >> it starts with small steps, small steps lead to big waves. never do you have to tackle these big standings. small steps and that's where i started. thank you for bringing it up. i don't mind grilling people and i'm so appreciative at the

time and that's a challenge but not one that over kwips your abilities. start small and work off within small goals and build yourself up. that is how you will get where you need to be. there is no need to try to save the next day, try to reach exact lau e what i have done. i'm just a humble person who has a couple questions. so, thank you. >> don't forget to e-mail us and let us know when you arrive. >> i think i already have a couple advocacy videos and they do great works and it took some effort with their local networks to get some paving done. there is a park in taipei that has a water fall that is very beautiful that for a long time it

was unaccessible. they worked out with other advocates to get that park paved from all the way to the water fall and have beautiful ramps to restrooms and a bridge, a ramp that goes all the way around so someone with a mobility device can go there with a loved one and share that moment of the water fall. so yes, i will get back in touch with you. >> i have a comment. derek, it's really been a pleasure working with you as a councilmember of mdc and also even with the independent living resource center. i really admire you as such a young person that has so much talent. i really admire

you and i'm going to really miss you. i'm hoping that you will keep in touch. you know taiwan is a very long ways but there is always e-mail and skype. >> i can't get away from skype. i thank you so much, roland, when i first started, when i first met you, i heard about your reputation and all the hard work that you have done. so, just right back at you. >> thank you. > thank you

very much. i appreciate it. >> now on to the next item on our agenda. we'll be moving the report from the disabilities disaster preparedness committee meeting to our january. >> [inaudible] >> not a problem. >> the disability disaster preparedness committee meeting met on november 7, th, at the beginning of the month in room 421 of city hall and one of the most important items of the agenda was actually a demonstration of the video remote interpreting

system offered through language lines solutions. it is a technology that allows an interpreter to become available simultaneously to interpret in realtime when there is a need to do so in an emergency. interpreters are located throughout the continental u.s. at all different time zones and they are able to connect via skype type of technology requiring a broadband width so with you do have wifi or internet in the event of a disaster, you are able to essentially dial an interpreter through an ipad, iphone, or a simple desktop

with a webcam and provide immediate access to emergency information such as evacuation routes, shelters and places to go for an emergency. parts of the communication and emergency management was also present at that meeting along with other individuals who are asl users. they were able to provide feedback on the quality of interpretation and to also explore avenues to integrate this newfound technology or this newly procured technology for the department of emergency management until realtime interpreters an arrive in our shelters in an emergency situation. the committee also talked about creating a depose depository of list

which you will hear more about in our next report. i just wanted to give a reminder to our viewers that the next disaster preparedness committee will be january 2, 2015, friday from 1:30 p.m.-430 :30 p.m. in city hall. we would invite members of the public to participate. we'll see you next year. >> thank you for that and on a personal note i'm very pleased that you did a presentation on vri. that's such a cutting edge technology that is going to help provide much

more increased accessibility. next item is public comment. do we have any public comments from the audience? how about on the bridge line in ? >> moving forward. information item. no. 13. correspondence. >> there is no correspondence. >> thank you. moving forward discussion item councilmember comments and announcements. item 14. >> for once we have nothing to say. >> i would just like to go ahead and let everyone know about the current advocacy efforts being under taken by

the advocates of the independent living resource center in san francisco. one particular is here in the audience, vona hensley is the sunshine advocate and independent living council program. if you would like to know more about i lrsc about the advocacy and model cars. please get in touch with her. >> to the chair, i hope you can stay after the meeting to join us for some cake in honor of john paul scott and derek zarda. >> that put a smile on my

face. item 15, adjourn. thank you for coming. see you at the next meeting in january. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

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affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food.

so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community

and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to

get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular.

she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to

accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh

ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪

>> good evening and welcome to the november 19, 2014, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the prosiding officer tonight is ann lazarus and joined by frank if you think and honda and commissioner wilson. there is one seat on the board that is vacant and pu su ant to the charter, the board may over rule the action of a department on appeal by a vote