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team leader mr. morales and i want to urge us to close our meeting in honor of the amazing person and celebrating 100 years of her life. i'm talking about richmond resident fanny shirley who passed away at 99.5. she almost made it to 100. she was loved by her parents, her sister, evey who is deceased. brother murray who is also deceased. her son richard rothman an advocate from the richmond district. his wife nikki and his daughter and husband marty who also passed away unfortunately and granddaughter emily and brother-in-law and nieces nephews and cousins. she was a proud native of san francisco. fanny, she was born in 1915 and grew up in the fillmore
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district. and in the russian neighborhood. sandy met her future husband a new york native on muni. they were married on june 1, 941. they lived on webster until richmond in a home built by her father. they lived there happily only half block from golden gate block and a mile from the golden gate bridge for their lives. sandy was part of the community activities and a member of the sister god sisterhood and a member of the san francisco chapter where she served as treasurer. she worked at the memorial blood count bank and she and bob worked at the scene -- senior center. she
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lived a long century of a life from 1915-2015 among loving family and friends here in the most beautiful city in the world. although she will be deeply missed she couldn't have asked for more than living in this great city. thanks to her family for raising attention to her life. the rest i will submit. city clerk: thank you, supervisor mar. supervisors tanning -- tang. >>supervisor katy tang: in regards to what i will introduce today the family violence council to increase awareness and understanding of domestic and family violence and it's consequences. so the three primary goals of this is that we are supposed to be coordinating services and improving communication between those in domestic violence and child abuse and
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elder dependent abuse and secondly trials and data related to family violence in san francisco statewide and nationally and last to advise the board of supervisors, the mayor and courts about these trends of violence and family issues and addressing child abuse and domestic violence. it was created in 2008 and since then the council has sparked really great improvement in san francisco. no. 1 advocating for the children's advocacy center national tr for the art and center for abused children. the council also helped to establish for people who are convicted of child abuse. one other thing the council did was it helped with the department of emergency management to help in specialized codes for family violence when dispatch received call they are able to easily and clearly note the
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type of emergency. prior to this effort there's though process and method for distinguishing those who may need specialized help. so the council is in its fourth year. in our conversations with those who work very closely or part of the council there has been an expressed desire to update this council and this legislation i'm introduce today will add six new members from the following departments to the council. this includes juvenile probation, public defender, animal care control, the san francisco unified school district, human resources director and the fire department. in addition to that, other changes we are making to this will help ensure rotation of steering committee members and be able to foster new leadership on this council. i do want to thank my cosponsors breed and cohen. with that i will submit.
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>> thank you. supervisor wiener? >>supervisor scott weiner: thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, a few things. first as supervisors cohen and farrell mentioned we are doing a few things around public safety. first, we've requested that the city controller analyze what full staffing of our police department means in san francisco. we know that many things impact public safety but one important factor is how many police officers we have. and one of the most common things that i hear from constituents is why don't i see police officers in my neighborhood. and it is a frustration and a lot of parts of the city and if you, as we all know that department is under staffed. the charter sets full staffing at 109 1 officers due to years and
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negligence that was dropped to 1700. we would like to bring it back up to 2000 officers. even before it was put in the charters in the 80s. we have a larger city now and neighborhoods that didn't exist and more larger events in the city and it's not g egg to stop. we are going to continue to add more population and will have more events in san francisco and i don't think 2,000 officers is going to cut it with our new san francisco. so we ask the controller to work on an analysis of what full staffing really means not just now but in the future so we know in 2016 we don't necessarily stop, that we actually keep planning and we know with need to plan for the future in terms of growth, housing capacity and capacity in our
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school system and public safety and structure. i look forward to this situation. the current situation is not okay in san francisco and is in a lot of the parts of the city that are sometimes considered "safe" in my district two murders, just in tiny triangle in the last 6 months. bank robberies in the castro and knowey valley and arsenal second in the 4 years, castro, robberies. just yesterday the police had to respond to warner plaza ten times in 1 day because of the fighting with the backpacker kids. we really need to work with our police department. they are short staffed they have a very hard job and we want to know what are the crime trends, how are they working with that staff and how can we help the department get the
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staffing it needs. it's a very important conversation, colleagues. i also call for a hearing along with supervisor campos on a looming issue in our community specifically the population of long-term hiv survive ors and we have a very significant income drop that could cause them not to be able to pay their rent and may become homeless. we have a population primarily gay men who became hiv positive in the 1980s and went on to private insurance through their employer. some reentered the workforce and some did not. as with almost all private disability policies it only last until you are 65 years
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old and move to social security. this is a problem we need to grapple with because the last thing we need is hundreds of thousands of hiv positive people who are stably housed who cannot afford to pay their rent anymore. i would like to thank the budget analyst for doing this excellent report for quantifying it for the 1st time and we'll hold a hearing to determine the next step. i want to thank my cosponsors supervisor tang. we attend many animal facilities. pending legislation in sacramento to effectively crack down on the illegal atria ed -- trade in ivory
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and rhino horns are causing a mass extermination in rhinos and poaching happening. they are now poisoning the vulchers. it's a terrible trade and unfortunately san francisco is one of the centers of this rhino horns trades and we have to be very firm in san francisco that it's not okay and we are not participating in the extermination of these animals any whenever in the world. so the legislation does support this important piece of legislation. then finally two in memo memoriam. the first is greg gut nick, a fix you
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are -- fixture in the neighborhood. he was a homeless man. he was able to pull himself up and became housed and no longer living in the valley and continued to participate in the neighborhood and volunteer for over a decade in the farmers market and just a wonderful person and beloved in the neighborhood and he suddenly passed away recently and it's very very tragic and as mentioned by a few colleagues i am submitting a memoriam and requesting that be on behalf of the entire board, bob morales, the great leader for the teamster and film commissioner. he was born in el salvador and came to the u.s. in 1958 and served in the u.s. army, a member of the
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plaster union and business representative for teamsters local 350 as secretary treasure. he also served as the teamster joint council secretary treasure for a number of years. he was the president of the national teamsters hispanic caucus and the california spanish teamsters and the welfare trust for the bay area teamsters and teamsters retirement plan. he's been recognized by so many organizations, by congress, by the state legislature, and by the city of san francisco because he was such a great human bean -- being and on a personal level bob was a laborer that i got to know really well when i got involved in politics years ago. he was just a solid person and one of those
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leaders that really politics can be so hard sometimes as we all know and he was one of those people that was so straight forward and sincere and just a great person. late last year in october or november, i called him and he e didn't return my call which is very not like bob. he's usually one of those people that calls you back within an hour. so i was able to learn that he was very sick and had really gone into effectively conclusion. -- seclusion. he was with his wife and he passed away. >>supervisor london breed: colleagues can we do this in memoriam for bob morales without objection? >> so moved. >> today we are calling for a
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status implementation of the selective participatory budget process for fiscal year 2014. last year my office organized a participatory program yoing district 3 and 10 last year. the residents were involved and submitted funding and they were working with the staff to finalize the project and selected the projects that would receive funding. district have sought the highest number of the voters cast, thousands throughout the district voted online demand person. nine projects were funding under the safety category for a total of 160,000 and six projects were funded in the general project category totaling about $100,000. the projects included funding for park
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improvements, interactive radar speed signs and scholarships for teens. this year, we will be supporting the continuation for the second year of this part icipatory program. we are really excited about it. however one of the things we want to make sure is that people don't get disappointed with the implementation of these projects. so with this hearing, i want to ensure that we keep our promise to the residents who spend hours and hours preparing the projects and getting people to vote. 6 months after the vote, only handful of projects have been completed. i want to ensure that we keep our promise to our residents and deliver these projects as soon as possible. i hope you schedule this hearing soon and hear from mta, recreation and
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parks and office of economic and workforce development and library and san francisco unified school district toll on our lives for -- on a time line to complete these projects. i normally don't make announcements on what's going on in the district. i wanted to highlight this particular thing. there is going to be a new senior program that will be starting and will have their kickoff on monday. we have over 22 percent of our residents 65 and older and yet we have one program in the whole district which is why ymca is serving seniors. i worked with the elderly and said please come and have a program. it's sad that we have so little services for seniors. i'm
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happy to say we are starting that and in fact we have a partnership with recreation and parks because as you know their playground club houses are primarily empty because they don't have the funding to have staff to operate it like they use to. we are going to use the portal clubhouse for 20 hours a week for programming. i also want to close this meeting in memory of two very outstanding city . dorothy adams who passed away january 3rd rd. i really want to thank the chronicle reporter lynette for bringing this to our attention. as you know we celebrate many heroes
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in our city nation including martin luther king jr. and many other people that deserve a lot of attention in dealing with and in fighting racism. well, we don't necessarily always recognize those that do things in our neighborhoods and in which they also contribute to that fight. dorothy had already broken one color barrier when she became the first african american to manage the business and she also modeled the macy's and san francisco jewish center and world magazine. she loved tap dancing and loved jazz and married one of the san francisco's first black
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police officers. mr. adams. in 1959, this story needs to be told because as you know someone that were here, well, a few of us that were here in 1959 in san francisco remember when willie mays tried to buy a home. he thought he could buy a home anywhere and his authority was a super star and tried to buy a home and was rejected because he was black. well, in 1959, like many other young families in san francisco dorothy adams and her husband ended up owning a home. unlike their children, they had to do house hunting at night. they found a home in westwood park where i live but like many other
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communities across the country, the park has racist restrictions within their ccnr's. believe it or not, these racist restrictions were on record until 1992 when myself and a few of our neighbors stood up and said we have to change it and even though there was resistance we were able to get it done. back to dorothy. the help of their agent, they cured a loan and bought the property but when the seller realized she sold the house to a black family, she wouldn't give them the keys. so for six months6 months, the couple continue to pay rent on their plat while paying mortgage on a house they couldn't move into.
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after months of waiting, the adams talked to a lawyer and the couple's friends used a tire iron to jimmy the side door to get in the home. so the excuse me. the family broke the barrier to get into their own home and the first neighbor welcomed them into the neighborhood and he served in the neighborhood and she held a dinner every 2 months for more than 4 decades. the adams lived on their plymouth
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avenue home. i'm sorry i never had the opportunity to meet her in person. but within a week of the couple moving senior residence in san mateo. ms. adams died. today i would like to remember ms. adams. the second person who passed away in december and because of breaks and everything else i couldn't get this together, that is laura eli. she was born in china january 7, 1933, and second child and only daughter in her family. her father emigrated in 1921 where he worked as a cook and later opened a restaurant. in 1949 she and her brother joined her father in san francisco. her mother and young brother
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followed suit in 1952. i didn't realize the connection but alex was a classmate of mine in school. he she had very little schooling. thanks to a large part to pair tutoring from chinatown youth club where she met the man she eventually married and the late historian and former long life friend. outgoing and up beat laurel enjoyed drama and good food especially when shared with friends all of whom shared her kindness generosity and she gave to many organizations in the community including the
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chinese society of america, chinese culture center, chinese for affirmative action and friends of roots. laurel died peacefully at home on december 10, 2014. her grace in comparable. i hope she rest in peace. the rest i will submit. >>supervisor john avalos: i was very surprised to hear about the clean act program and very proud to introduce the ordinance today. this ordinance describes the
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features of the aggregation program that we urge the san francisco public utilities commission to designed and approve. 100 percent green gas option and light green option that meets pg & e's rates while providing gas free power. customers should only be automatically enrolled in the light green program and they would have to opt for the 100 percent renewable program. this will ensure that no one pays more for their electricity bill unless they sign up for the 100 percent clean opposite. the san francisco public utilities commission should one the program in-house as opposed to running with a contractor outside of the program. the success of marin clean energy
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not risky and controversial. the program that came out of clean energy also had energy provided by shell energy and now they have discarded shell. they have moved on to their own production program as well as power participation agreement that we had with shell energy. i know we had a program that we could have had built before us. i asked to draw a consultant report and that report showes that we can create thousands of jobs and hundreds of mega watts of clean power for san francisco. all we need is the political will to make power sf 2.0 a reality. i do want to raise one concern that we heard from the mayor's office yesterday. the mayor said the report lacked a detailed plan to build a local renewable energy projects and create jobs in san francisco. we all need to be clear on
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this point of fact. we could not make a detailed plan until we do two things. we need to set rates for cleanpowersf and we need a launch date. without those we can't do anything. that is what stalled the cleanpowersf in 2013. the san francisco public utilities commission and commission refused to set rates for cleanpowersf with a detailed plan for how it will raise jobs. we can get caught in this catch 22 again. at 30 mega watts with clean power what we had before us in 2013 would have saved 49 tons of greenhouse gas. if we approved that program back in august, it would have saved about 70,000 tons of greenhouse gas since that time. we could not wait much longer we need urgency to move as quickly as possible this year and we
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need the san francisco public utilities commission to move forward onseting rates for cleanpowersf and set as launch date as soon as possible then we'll be able to make a real plan for renewable power projects on creating jobs and build initial efforts just as marin clean energy and contra costa county and napa county and even sharing power with sooner or d sooner soelano county as well. i would like to thank my fellow members for their work past and presence for this program and for this ordinance my cosponsors in particular president breed, supervisor campos, kim, mar, wiener and lee for your
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sponsor ship and we'll have the san francisco public utilities commission meeting to discuss how we can move forward on the recommendations that came from the report. the rest colleagues, i will submit. city clerk: thank you supervisor avalos. president breed in >>supervisor london breed: okay. i will try to be a brief as possible. it's been a long evening. today i will introduce a resolution as it's san francisco restaurant week for creating restaurant week to celebrating our local restaurants. san francisco has more restaurants than any capita in our city. it creates almost 5,000 jobs and almost $5 billion in taxable sales
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more than any retail category in the city. restaurant week is a great way to celebrate small businesses in san francisco as well as the cultural and culinary diversity they em body. since we are in the restaurant week, i'm introducing this as an imperative item and purely commendatory. the other thing i wanted to talk about today which i'm really excited about, yesterday mare -- mayor lee and i announced the launch cleanpowersf this year. this is a huge victory. after more than a decade of work and effort it seems we have won an unwinnable fight. clean power is what san francisco can do to combat climate change and one of my highest priorities as a supervisor. over the last few years i was
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