in north carolina after more than 20 years in prison. i was an active member of the u.s. army second air born division serving as infantry squad leader. i have taken notes of multiple attempts to establish programs for youth to teach skills that would show them an alternative way of life other than that of the streets and crime. none of these programs came to light because of lack of funding from either private or government sources. when this board and the future looks to ways to prevent mass murders like those that recently occurred in the hayes valley neighborhood it should consider allocations to places like the watc which planned out radio -- outreach the

hard to reach gang members. >> public speaker: president breed and other victims. i rise to review my previous remarks on your on going validation and support for nicotine addiction industry. i appreciate your respect for due difference to the district supervisor even i might concede that it might prevail. but for the fact there is no such things in the atmosphere. separate and in viable from all others it is all of san francisco as one breathing hole you must consider. you will get the same free flawed argument supporting them and you will be able to counter them. the first t connection

to lung cancer. that argument is good because that connection is weak. however nicotine in whatever form is strongly and favorably associated with heart disease. it's the tar heat that is associated with lung cancer. the second answer is that no nicotine escapes the user. we normally breathe in air that is.04 cash diekdzrbon dioxide and 16 percent oxygen. it's on views -- obvious that a useren inhales the rest. exercising choice is to be valued as long as your choice doesn't diminish mine.

secondhand exposure is first hand abuse. by the way, people who live in seismic zones should not live in glass houses. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> good evening, i'm john from san francisco. this is about the funeral of a young black boy. i was walking by the church and little old church. upfront a lonely couple sat. in the casket was a child. i can picture him living curly hair and smiling face i have seen perhaps a thousand in my

early. then rose a black preacher from a little wooden desk and he said don't be weeping for this pretty bid of clay. for the lord didn't give thank you baby by 100,000 miles and he keeps it's until your hearts are grown and until what you are setting now has an interest on the loan. so let your hearts in heaven rest and don't go criticizing to the one that knows the best. he has the right to take away and in conclusion, i add he has the right to take away, not you, me not anybody else. this is an american icon hank

williams senior, the father. this you for listening. >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much. next speaker. please. >>supervisor london breed: in your face. >> queen bee i would like to thank ms. cohen and supervisors. i just want to show you. i'm glad she's our supervisor and we are supporting. my name is ace and i'm on the case and the corridor ambassador. let me show you what we have going on in fillmore. we have a building owned by yoshi and now with all the closing businesses i'm representing a group that is known as the fillmore bay area media group. we have the community

component there now. michael johnson met with us and he says he supports us. we are the community entity. so i have arranged my first corridor and i'm inviting the whole city and county and the mayor if he cares. i'm inviting my supervisors ks i know she'll be there. and we are going to talk about things that happened down at fillmore and explain some of the things about that current building there. it is operated by a gentlemen a little older than me, we are going to have we may that are going to be using that space like social media. yours truly. i'm at the bottom of the garage and art gallery. we are going to have a black history month. everyday we are going to have issues there to raise money. supervisor, we are hoping you will be there

tomorrow at 5:00 p.m.. we'll let you go e in the next few men's -- minutes after that. i call it the feel no more. in fillmore. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, ace. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: >> tom. when you know your gems are protected and the shoe fits you even if there is a glass wall involved it's easy to take a good vote. a year 1/2 ago about a spokesman was on television talked

about high rises and i said that doesn't fill well with me. i brought a show and tell. yes. okay that's sarah from the office, south beach, 19 years ago. that's sarah with her son. he's now 19 in santa clara. robbie and his daughter when he brought his daughter home from the hospital, the mother went back in an ambulance because she was in a coma. couple years later, there is our little girl. same day there is mom. these are stories these are our gems. they had to leave. their second $400 rent increase

sent them traveling. here is kay. below market rate apartment dweller. she's going to be losing her spot possibly. here is kim, another below market rate person, 20 years living in south beach. she is vulnerable and ready to go. here is a courageous woman 81 years old. she's moving down scale because her rent went up $600 to apply admiral. >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: >> as you know while this is my answer, we want to fight racism and homophobia and and

dr. brown letting people know what xenophobia is a because you don't like the way people talk. district 6 often and when you go bayview they say we are not part of black lives. when you go to district 5, they say we are not part of black. we are the unfor gettable people in district six. we deal with it in the tl. i want to show you, this is a 10-year report, this started 51805 where racist and hate crimes. this is a guy that through coffeen my face because i was singing in my lobby. before christmas

someone went in my apartment and burned my apartment. the lady told me i was getting too comfortable and september me to my burned out room and we have burn outs in castro, the mission, hotel, ambassador in. when we call the police and they don't take us serious. when we are getting beat down in the tl. the blacks in san francisco, sometimes i feel like we are in shanghai. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment

is closed.. mr. clerk, before we call the adoption without committee reference, supervisors mar can we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar. motion by supervisor farrell and tang approved. motion to continue item 35 motioned by supervisor wiener and seconded by supervisor tang. without objection item 35 will be continued. mr. clerk can you please call the remaining items in the adoption without committee reference to agenda. city clerk: items 34-36 are being considered for immediate adoption without reference. a single roll call vote. as such matters can be removed and discussed separately. item 35

is being removed until the february 21st meeting. >>supervisor london breed: would you like to approve items. city clerk: campos, crist stan stop sign, >>supervisor london breed: cohen, aye, farrell, aye, kim aye, supervisor kim, wiener aye, yee aye, avalos, aye. there are 10 ayes. >>supervisor london breed: this item passes unanimously. hold on colleagues. we have an item on the agenda. mr. clerk can you please call the item for the imperative agenda. >> we have declared january 21st, as san francisco restaurant week to encourage all san francisco to support their restaurants. >>supervisor london breed:

let's take the first finding to find this resolution purely commendatory moved by supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen. we can take this without objection. and also before we approve this imperative item, we must take public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to provide public comment on this particular item. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take the other item that we need to move forward came to the board after the agenda was posted. can we have a motion to move that forward. moved by supervisor farrell, second by supervisor cohen without objection. can we take both of those findings, we already did that and now on

the substantive imperative agenda item, can we move that item forward without objection. without objection the imperative agenda passes. mr. clerk can you read the in memoriam. city clerk: on behalf of the late rosy lee and on behalf of the full board for the late morales and for the late dorothy adams and laura lie. >>supervisor london breed: okay, colleagues, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> as registered voter in san

francisco before each election you receive a voter information pamphlet in the mail it has the digest for each local proposition on the ballot how does a context sometimes proposition get semido if i had. >> inning. >> i don't know the specific process. >> it's done by a committee a

ballot tim simplification. >> 3 steps the city attorney's office create a working digest the ballot committee holds public meats and creates final digest the simplified is published in the guide let's look at how this work after a proposition has been approved the sxhoofz drafts a city digest each digest we prepare has a couple of different saektsz the first is the way it is now provides an overview of the state of the law before the measure goes into effect addressed the second section is the material turn of the measure and finally at the bottom there are two sections one is called a yes vote and no vote means and

if prep those we try to tell me the voters if the measure passes are not passed uses the city attorney's office delivered it is to the 5 member committee created in 192376 the members are nominated business the leak of women voters two members are appointed by itself may and 2 by the board of supervisors the committee holds public meetings for two weeks before each election arrest you the chairman has the sterilized ability to direct the meeting and lead the discussion. >> there's no politics involved at all because we're all journalist or people that worked with communications that has our goal the free right to communication without agenda or

boys or political involvements all. >> before the commission meets each member reviews the digest along with the material. >> we get the protective technicalities and the actual yaurgd background and letters from different departments and from the advocates and perpetrate for the meeting sometimes for and 5 days in japs sometimes someone will sigh did you understand it no one understand those bond measures of one hundred and one hundred owe 25 packages down to three or four had found words. >> amendments and the general obligation bond members it is marred to explain what a general obligation bond is. >> wow it gets interesting sometimes. >> we'll talk about it but we talk about it in session we don't talk about it before we

get here. >> the committee acceptance the city attorney's draft or edit it. >> the reason we rewrite the city attorney's digest is because it oftentimes in more legalize than the voters see understand we're quick to ask questions we don't is this is the way it's going to be we come in as journalist questioning exactly which that is to put out into the digest exactly what the legislation means. >> the committee may hear from drafrt of the digests and they consultant with the committee educational specialist to make sure if meets the requirement to be written as closed those as possible to the eight grade level. >> we say is that really an

eight grader words sometimes yes and sometimes grab the addicts and find substitute and it requires the city to maintain all the golden gate park. >> during the editing of the digest it's displayed on large monitor. >> there's no mystery of what the public sees. >> they hear outline your discussions they know what we're thinking and after the committee makes the changes the proceedings radio on inform the public for comment. >> poach have a right to voice their opinions in democracy people come before us are dead serious depending on obtain on the side and their passion is strong. >> july 4th with 9 committee there's a lot of airmentd argument pro and con and well, you could take out the voter

initiative. >> i want to address someone that was mentioned. >> i take exception to the previous comment. >> 0 hopes 0 provisions thank you. >> after public comment the committee discussed all the points in an open session. >> sometimes, we change our draft sometimes, we literally tear our draft apart. >> after the possible changes made the committee takes a final vote to adapt the digest. >> i move we adapt the measure. >> at least 3 members must agree. >> all in favor, say i. >> the public hearsay twenty-four hours hours for the submission of a reconsideration to the department of elections. >> the following week the committee meets publicly to discuss the appeals and take public comment and decided wloovr whether or not to adapt

the final digest. >> what we really want is for the voter to think for themselves read what we say and read for themselves and look and make up their own mind we're in their corner ready to fight for them and the administrations fight often it didn't matter your obligation is to the voter we want them to be able to look at it and understand it. >> learn marrow missouri bhr the committee at sf election.org before every election find a ballot simplification in the ballot it is rankle 1 english chinese spanish and filipino it is mailed to all voter and can be found at sf election.org

>> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where

people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled.

>> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. >> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. competitions in ireland scotland norway, japan, russia each year the facilities here in the park are second to none. there is no complex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free

lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an

international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature. almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique

scenery. until next time get out and play!

>> good afternoon and welcome to the joint san francisco public utilities commission and local agency formation commission meeting of the board of supervisors and commission. my name is john avalos chair of lafco and joined by public utilities commission ann caen. and lisa. we are