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owners themselves have done a great job in trying to mitigate they don't want to n will be in bad situation it's a whole new 2015 a continual education for the owners and the neighbors are working with us and lieutenant as the l u and knowing what we go through help a lot helps a grateful so it's a great time for the commission i hope we continue and be better in 2015 and your come back right. >> no although although this is the best thing i've ever done so thank you any public comment on that item on commissioners commissioners questions or comments? all right. is there any further agenda items? (laughter)
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>> yeah. >> sorry i know we've talked to the commissioner president about cancelling february 17th so obviously we'll put that in writing so you have that in our calendar we won't it's - the day after that holiday weekend and obviously we won't be scheduling permit application to expect march third to be long. >> all right. good luck guys. >> all right. that brings our commission meeting to a close. >> yeah. >> do we greeting get to keep that, of course, you get to keep that. >> have more cupcakes
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having coffee with any grappled. in the old days myelogram ma get together >> i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. >> when i was younger i know it did something to my body. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've been drinking coffee since i was 17 really the only thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life.
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i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh they come from a fruit. >> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost
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because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so that's my pleasure. each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i can't buy. people love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. >> fell in love with coffee and
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went to the coffee shops the community aspect i really enjoyed. >> i think it's important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission i've lived here the whole time and the
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community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and san francisco. or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪you.
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>> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food
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to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to do is come to a place fill of chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the best. >> can we get a little tour. >> absolutely (laughter) ♪ ♪ >> so first on our tour. >> we have the clock we like to call it. >> this is coordinating it is
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made in san francisco. >> what about the customer presence. >> we like to get the permanent farther i love the cappuccino and you have to go to multiple places for the cupcakes the cup a cakes from kari's people want to live here they're longing phone call for one thing in one spot in you know anything about san francisco the cheese the most popular cheesy think a lot of the people from the west coast say so this the real san francisco sour dough and they're curious. >> you find people respond to the idea of organic and absolutely. >> this is autumn. >> thank you, thank you and there's a lot of personal touch. >> i see san francisco. >> it's very hands on.
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>> what's the most popular items. >> this is quite surprising our fresh jotting this is the chronicle special a bowl of warm oats and coconut that's mites farther. >> and speaking of drinks tell me again the cocktail scenes is that one, the things your known for . >> the cocktails are fantastic. >> really. >> fresh ingredients we don't have a mixture it to order this is our marcus bloody mayor. >> farmer's market bloody mary the bloody marys in the airport
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are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk of selly. right on. >> we like (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create
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something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e
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he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to
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contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and
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theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way
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we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use
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those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for
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granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. >> good morning, everyone. we're going to wring you a respites of blue skwie and sunshine with a great announcement this morning we're grateful our endeavored to be here for an important day and announcement i want to welcome mayor ed lee and supervisor london breed and supervisor jane kim to be here we're here with good looking they are focused on being a great neighbor and 1r6789 they believe in big bets
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when they get involved they want to do big things as a director of hope in changing homelessness it san francisco we need partners to help us change a dynamic it seems unchangeable those investments are a step forward goldstein's wllness to invest in organization to affiliate some of the struggles is absolutely essentially we are grateful they believe in san francisco and the mayor without further ado our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> scl thank you beven and our hope program for san francisco i told you it would rain (laughter) i told you it would rain and now
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i alsoal predicting that this city will ring with a lot of photograph as we experience success i want my affirmation working in concert with the board of supervisors and i the two of them are most enthusiastic about a reasoning emphasis of philanthropic is supervisor london breed and supervisor kim i'm happy to be here with google we've been together on several occasions with good reason i want to put it in context we're are and there's no doubt we are a world-class city and time and time again, we also have a world-class heart and we have a world-class social safety net that everyone vflts in and more and more as this city's economic success becomes
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a good foundation we want to bring the economic success to more help and assistance too on the which are most vulnerable we want to continue that's essence in my opinion of the character that this city it that we share in incredible wealthier that's good friend of mine and want everyone to be participant in it whether it is what we're doing today which is shelter hundreds of people from increment weather with solutions to their needs or whether or not responding with strong city government services or 9-1-1 or 311 or whether it is introducing and constantly supporting our community basis organization that are the heart of the service provider and 3 of them are going to be granted today with some keen support from google as a result of this
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philanthropic focus but also in strog recognition that homelessness is something that is not going away no one solution e.r. 10 year program that is a solution to it is an ongoing thing to do to build enough affordable housing and until we deal where of affordability we're willing to work hard a lot of the people in the room standing behind me and in the audience are part of the service to the homelessness populations on after a an everyday basis kin street and hampton have been at forefront for years i know with sherry run and jeff hearsay been gratified
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of the announcement but thought support our city family has seen to give and also in the private sector that as we try to give them support we also have told them we'll try to fill every gap and the private sector has stepped you big time when you ask them to go through the private foundations have a chance to help you'll see a long list could i we're adding to the list and we're whether those welcoming one the newer companies if i may say of organizations that are helping homelessness and that is a company called hand up a company that used innovative technology to create memberships among
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those would be homelessness and asked specifically if i need a glass of water let me get that for you but specifically those individuals people whether on our streets in a shelter what's in their very need and hook them up with the services including i few and far between found out today is services for dental it is so important i'm proud of the private partners we have in the community and proud that today they get to join he me with the supervisors to nuance google is donating $202 million to each of the organizations (clapping) duis intensive to you and i know
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your title is a great title called the bay area giving lead i'd like to adapt that title (laughter) i know you participated with rebecca she's a seasoned person in the community i know she's there making sure the ways of the government i want to say a personal thank you for those donations it will go directly to the programs larkin and hampton working on with hand out to make sure we're assessing housing and financial support and career training that larkin is focused on increasing their odds of conceding in our city and this dpoomgs is in many ways
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an unprecedented one google is is great partner we've announced their help they already are funding in their first year is $6.8 million contribute to help our next door youth for the next 3 years get them on muni and get them to the jobs and education centers all over the city not 42 just a contribution to the city but to the families in which they help it is helping their patterns and brothers and sisters and i have late google helped us with over 31 urban parks and senator edwards and supervisor kim joined me yesterday in the lastly park that opened up with the whiff service that's beg your pardon in the middle of the tenderloin and google thank you for
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reviving in our youth and families and seniors in our infrastructure and now in our city's homelessness population i'm very proud we can have companies like yourselves step up in the contributions hampton family center will use one million dollars of this donation to lead a partner with our san francisco unified school district to address family homelessness in our city this is innovative this is the first time that a partnership has begun to help a service provider in our school district it is a need and i look forward to the ideas and the things they do that might spark even more interest in our kids that are homeless that are attending school that are challenging situations is larkin street services will use
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5 hundred thousand to fund a multiple purpose center to help with the advanced legislature of 11 of of programming for life skill sets for the youth and finally, there's as i said earlier crowd is ours for low income folks they'll use one half million dollars for google to support in their kickoff in a gift matching campaign that doubled the use and this is innovation this is all about thanks and about a city that continues to lead the city in one hundred percent and while i get the privilege of announcing those groonsz grants i want to thank you for the opportunity to thank everyone who is paying attention in the small
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businesses to larger businesses and health care and tech from those who have been here to end the struggle of homelessness to those who are showing up i showing up how can they help and do something more to the companies not only their ceo's but the workforce the talented companies more and more as i get around the country employees want to know they don't have the wealth but they might have skill sets and may be able to service a meal or help the youth gain skill sets or considering our schools to help the public education kids survive and succeed i want to be thankful to all of them we've seen the examples in the year
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