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s to some stent the decision of the mayor and the board of supervisors but in my time i would like to say to each of you thank you for your support we stand on the shoulder that many, many people that precede us and if i'd be able to do anything it's because i was in a group the advisors board program in a group that was my own team in the sunset and with other crossroads and teams throughout the city i know that you hear that many, many times it's better to be prepared than not be prepared we keep saying that we want people around the city to venting it's been my distinct privilege to push that program so i thank you for this honor
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(clapping) >> thank you diane i'd like to visit the chief again without objection to say a few words. >> thank you supervisor tang and members of the board for this opportunity i want to motional or echo supervisor tangs act clads for diane she's been a contributor to our nert she was born out of an earthquake and when people want to help the first responders we need to have a formalized training program diane is a champion of nert and relocating to carlos bad i was visiting and said that carlos bad will be better off we'll truly miss her great citizen we're both lifelong residents she took her role of being prepared and
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having a plan in place of an emergency seriously and diane we'll miss you thank you (clapping) so much has been said as a program coordinator i'm guiding the program between the fire department and the people that live and work in the city diane has boost me up as well as i tried to booster her thank you diane. >> thank you, very much for being here today and colleagues next, i have an memoriam to present which i would like that we asking do so on behalf of the full board of supervisors it's an incredible shock and sadness that today i'd like to acknowledging a dear member of our family we lost over the family jerry lee the sf board of directors incredibly well known
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for his contributions to the community i apologize - and he served on so many nonprofit boards which is where we got to know him the united way of the elderly and the development center and angle foundation he has done so much and he joined sfmta board of directors in 2008 he was reappointed in you 2011 and he served as the vice chair of that board for many, many years i have a served on the policy and governance committee he was director lee the son of a restaurant cook and grew up in chinatown he went to all the schools here in san francisco and married his high school sweetheart in 1975 today he's he survived by 3 children
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over 4 decades dle worked at ups worked as a loader and unlowered while he attended college an incredible employee and became the manager the community affairs he becoming began his charity work and assist with the establishment of the department of traffic he served as a liaison and developed the manager structure for a pcos as they transitioned from the sfpd we'll certainly remember him for his kind and generous spirit on a personal note, i came to know jerry when i worked as a elective aid i invited me to many events i believe that he's
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like an angle on earth his passing was a shock i want to wish his family and colleagues and mta board and department again we'll miss director lee very much. >> thank you supervisor tang it's indeed a great loss we lost jerry when i thought about back about his background i also thought him as anybody in the same neighborhood i grew up in and how much overlap i actually know more about the community more so than being at city hall and like he went to washington irving and we were probable having overlap there i'm a little bit older than him i
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didn't have any overlap of junior high at the time when we went to galileo and we offer los angeles police department there and went to city college when i was probably around when he first started we overlap i never knew him before being an adult i met him working in the community in the chinese new year parade he was your how do you say you can't have a parade without jerry he's been there ever sense he was in college he kept on doing this is type of commitment someone from the community that didn't turn his back from the community and continued to as he served citywide continued to be
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serving on a lot of boards in the community in chinatown and when i saw him at events when i was working in the community event after event i finally asked who's this guy i was at every event i want him on the board i was accident executive order on the services at the time and eventually i convinced him to be on the board i was so glad he was a bundle of energy and cared about our children and parent and families and i went the first time i was able to and this is again, this describes he worked at ups loading trucks and climgd the all ready and be the law son with community members although he had a pretty large portfolio
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in terms of the region he'd have to pay attention to in regards to the ups he needed to get the community where he came from one day he said we're going to do something for children's services so i go down to ups he's in his brown uniform and starts talking about like i didn't work there before i said oh by the way i'm coming home today, i worked in the late 60s loading trucks i'm really going to miss him i think people in the community and a lot of people added city hall will miss him, i want to send my condolences to his family dead on arrival lane one of the sons went to school with any daughter and his wife i knew the family
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her sister and so forth so, yeah like i said we're going to miss him thank you. thank you, supervisor kim. >> i also met jerry when i was a youth organizer one of the first years he actually organized ups to do a fundraiser and we volunteered at this great event in many ways how we met jerry was because of his service to his neighborhood and community and his investment to making sure he was also given back to the neighborhood i grew up in pr i was prickled to work with jerry all those years and when i joined the board of supervisors he was already serving as a director on the board of sfmta
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and what an incredible service he's provided to our city and communities we fight for individual like jerry in the private sector and fight for folks in the private sector to be like jerry someone that understands the city they're part of jerry is also committed to you making sure they're hiring locally and ups really, really good jobs whether in the tenderloin or chinatown or the bay area jerry would e-mail our office and asked us if individuals needed an incredible opportunity to be employed in our city and he was also looking for organization to fund that were doing good work he did a lot for glide church in the tenderloin and it was in his heart he didn't do it base the
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community pressured him or to push for that that wasn't his job area but ups is an incredible partner in san francisco because of jerry lee there's a huge void a huge void we'll see in his passing and leadership i will really miss his heart the most he - was so sincere and dedicated in his mission to make sure that everyone could enjoy the opportunities and privileges he fought for in his life i want to thank him for his service his passing was a huge shock we depended on on his voice in sfmta to fight for public safety and to fight for muni for our
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low income communities our youth and seniors and i wanted to thank him and his family for his work and just recognize the loss that we are feeling thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor katie tang for allowing us time to talk about jerry i'll miss him as well pr i think no greater example of jerry condolences to his children and family i think i met him during the agreeing in his administration over 25 years ago but seeing him supporting all the community-based groups on a leadership level that the city the amazing work with the mta and the board to the cracking of the original ta c and the taxi work in the lasts 80s and 90s and i'll miss him
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tremendously i really thank him and his family for the contributions to this city. >> thank you supervisor mar i wanted to monopolies there will be a memorial service for director lee this sunday on january 11th it will take place at is it fair to say middle school from 10:00 a.m. to 330 people the family asked if you have funny steroids come and bring those and he has a giant fan with that i submit it. >> thank you supervisor tang supervisor kim. >> roll call for the introduction of new business. >> oh, submit okay. >> supervisor mar. >> submit. >> supervisor tang supervisor wiener madam president that concluded the roll call for new business
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madam clerk if we could get oh supervisor cowen. >> my apologies supervisor cowen our staff took you off roll call today submit. >> thank you very much. (laughter) madam president >> thank you and now if we can madam clerk go to general public comment. >> the next opportunity is the general public period to speak will matters in the jurisdiction of the board. >> first speaker please. >> good afternoon, members of the board and fell residents first, i want to introduce myself i'm larry blake i've acknowledged in san francisco for 35 years of my life residing
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in the castro since 19983 and the issue i'm bringing forward i have e-mailed a letter to each the supervisors and the mayor and it regards the program i know my district supervisor supervisor wiener is part of first of all i'd like to read the letter i sent and here it is where does that go. >> sfgovtv please. >> so recently, i received a pamphlet in the mail addressed to postal customers several facts this year in are observations by opinions their instead opinions i wish to rental my disagreement the idea concentrated in the pamphlet
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that a neighborhood is allowed to buy city services including the san francisco police officers and ours i find such a policy is entrenched of inequality that can tear a neighborhood apart i see my time is running out quickly the letter is before you specifically as i said you dedicated police services to be not privy to this kind of funding i support many of the other programs like outreach to the homeless and drug addicts of the neighborhood thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. please.
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>> supervisor tang and other victims of the ca ball i'll christopher i live on - i rise to comment on the price of our roof in the city and county of san francisco for the last 40 years more or less i've been listening to a litigate necessary of choir of complaints about the amount of money be to put the reef over ones head in the 40 years santa the population is $2 billion to 8 billion it's reasonable to assume the progression of those people want to live here the housing is grown by a factor of 4 hundred percent at the same time the price per bedroom is 4 hundred to 16 hundred a most an increase of 4 hundred percent the same as the demand is it a
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coincide i don't think so it's an issue of supply and demand we're watching the price of oil fall we could watch the price of housing go up after a major earthquake or the price could stabilize the problem in san francisco is that the supply of housing is only gown up thirty percent no where near enough to satisfy demand how week he supply the supply side we can turn treasure island development authority board into manhattan or deck or buyer the streets and increase the area by 40 percent or build 5 story buildings longer than our coast or wait for the next earthquake and let it work on the demand side thank you supervisor tang. >> thank you.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you so much supervisor tang and the members of the board i'm jackie a worker living in the goldberg building in hayes valley it is proposed for designation and on our agenda today as a proposed ordinance i want to thank you for your consideration of this beautiful building for a landmark designation it was the price winner it was designed and a theatre architect bernard joseph in 1911 i am privileged to live in the building it has the name engraved in the top of building i live alongside my different neighborhood a fellow tenant and beverly is the executive director of the
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domestic violence and we've been in tough with a grandchildren and she pushed a book about the grandfather and they're in support of the landmarking this treasure of a building thank you so much for your consideration and thank you thank you any other members of the public? >> thank you excuse me. tom two townsend all the times which opened 26 years ago last august my parents moved in november of 1988 i moved in december of 1988 and been there ever sense 10 years
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ago my rent check increased that i $390 and last year $390 they took $100 off because 2 townsend was illegal and this year my rent check will go up $400 those are robbery one hundred years theodore roosevelt they're living and doing well in san francisco yes high rents across the nation we don't have to follow the nation you don't have to study we need to do something a little bit better and it looks like the economics from silicon valley are just going to continue unless we do something to help us thirty
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years ago the apartments got $44 million from the state issued by the redevelopment in the city and in january 1st of this year the 60 units of blow market rate units will expire and of the 83 we have we'll only have 23 left those are the only people that have stayed in the area for a long time do we want to have housing or make investment for rich people and folks that live outside of the area i believe we need to make a turn around and help the people that are living in homes thank you. >> thank you very much any other members of the public that want to speak during public comment seeing none, public comment is closed madam clerk read the moirmd. >> today's meeting will be
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adjourned on behalf of supervisor farrell for the late mrs. merry la and at the suggestion of commissioner tang on behalf of the board of supervisors for the late commissioner jerry lee. >> i'd like to thank sfgovtv jonathan and jessie larson and madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you. this meeting is
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>> welcome back to the three time world series city and county of san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] >> i just want you to remember that phrase because whenever you have residents or people at your commission complaining about something, let them know you are the commissioner of a city of three time world champion, so please take it down. i'm going to welcome everybody here to this wonderful event where i get to rewelcome and also welcome new members of our official city family who are going to spend personal hours of sacrifice and time to help me manage this wonderful wonderful city. today we have some 21 people who are joining
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the ranks of a variety of 11 different agencies that assist and you are invaluable to this administration. let me tell you that i truly believe that it is through all of your capacities that provide us with the necessary with the necessary public input to run this incredible agencies that is so successful and i impose this with a great deal of seriousness in that we are a city of people, it has always been that way and as we celebrate the centennial what happened back in 1915, the world series and recovering from the world's fair, i have the world series in my mind and recovering from that 1906 earthquake we are innovating and people
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were innovating in their ideas and foraging ways to recover. we are still recovering from a great recession, but we are doing much better than other cities because of you and i want your ideas, i want your input, i want your inclusive way with the way we've always governed this city. never forget the people and also never forget the diversity in the way this happens and the incredible talent that we draw by our governance of the city. with that, i want to say thank you and congratulations and if we can get on to the oath, i would like you all to stand as i introduce you to this oath, please state your name and the body to which you are being appointed and then we will get to that oath. if i may, we will begin with
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this right hand side and this is your opportunity to speak loud because you will be spoken to very loud after the oath is taken and before i do that, i just want to say thank you to all of the friends, the family, your acquaintance and other department heads who are here today to witness this and support you. if i may, please raise your right hand and repeat after me with your name. i, agency thank you. >> [inaudible]
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>> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> [inaudible] do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic. that i will bear true faith allegiance to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california, that i take this
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obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter during such time as i hold the office of for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. thank you very much. [ applause ] . everyone, happy holidays! thank you for the hours, i really appreciate this and we'll see you at the various events that go on. i appreciate it. thank you. let's go to work. >>
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>> >>. >> 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