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0 brand new era supervisor president breed if that means anything the other thing i want to talk about at the city hall the politics i started publishing my newspapers the washington post california i'm not going to go into the bathrooms i've got you already but i want to know what the hell is going on with city hall with may i and the boss their smoking 3 years and all of a sudden the nation is talking about what is going on here at city hall i call is silly hall let's tell the real story i know who is in control right here in right here in san francisco and people will say well ed lee who knows me
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we work at ed lee was with the hr k c's and it is no mystery x ed lee he'll probably is a still it is city who what's going down, down, down in his town the black population is going down what is might be >> thank you very much mr. washington. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i want to thank supervisor farrell important bringing attention to the architect to eradicate gun that will allow people to line us behind as us
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and commissioner avalos for affordable housing in the mission on van ness for the market street studies into affordable housing that's a milestone in the history of san francisco in saving the mission i'm deeply grateful and jane kim for making sure we have 1/3rd of affordable housing at the giants stadium in my neighborhood i appreciate you accomplishing that commissioner avalos has gotten the most votes he ran for mayor he came in a close second and become close to be the mayor ed lee he's gotten more votes of anyone in the chamber thank you very much thank you all. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> >> i am a stupid white person well in room temperature anyways my issue is the decision
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making that's my issue formerly president tom ammiano said there are other issues but i've not found them wasting our times perhaps for instance the decision making in the election process that is one of the big issues the possibility of a candidate getting elected without a real system but you learn as a neighborhood activist if it looks like it takes 3 years to get accomplished take on 3 years we can have a better election process and the issue runs across political lines in this room you know so i go to the tmcs board meetings there's one vote that is deservant going back to the committee that is like thirty years you know smfr my
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issues on the location form as we get a more subsequence board we'll see more of a board thing when the decisions with inaugural crafted it is better we get one more vote and make is that to 4 people are obviously skateal plastic it doesn't take that much to get one more vote a procedural or more to we have mayor ed lee and leading and we owe it to them. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> are /* hi larry juicy edmond
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i want you to see this here this is city hall san francisco we do city hall we do enjoy okay- we do at city hall we do love justice and peace and love for all of us that's what you see think the cover we're tenaciously i'm looking at san francisco and our world as they look at us an their resumes as supervisors house man how they contribute to guns and kids to say is and kids on drugs and coke and african-americans in san francisco chicago and battling citizens and non-sirp
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everyone fingertip and social security and we know what terraces is in our city and country it's up to us to set those standards about marriages one more thing i want to read about marriages that is one of marriages in all 50 states it used to be like get in book it is called in their own words it talks about marriages that says when it is dissected some- old nigger no good news master are going to pave all he wanted was one that was healthy whether she was ugly and lead you to the gun i'm your master we have to know where we are today in this
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country it all about - >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tom gilbert we can't outlaw tragedies of the unique and random set of circumstances that create those awful situations hoping help to evict them and improve systems and thankful we're not drinking from a cup of - remember sanctiony was created because of the i think humane dedeplorable conditions easing was created to
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make a brand new ha, ha between the mayor again is silly and petty i said before i didn't want this mayor building thirty affordable units and ask the bonds i still don't want him to do either of them going i don't want a bonds to pass did you on san francisco's public bank but i don't want the mayor to do nothing i'd like to see him combine with supervisor wiener's office and to put a name on every campaign dollars that comes into the city this mayor has externals in funding building it would be great to clean up the campaign funds
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rather than the mayor that turned the san francisco into a bedroom community for silicon valley going to a new mayor next year he say we outlaw ellis act evicts and froze market rate renters those are against the seattle state rules and regulations we have to go against the regulation to have a healthy communities thank you very much. >> are there any public comments seeing none, public comment is closed madam clerk can you please read the notations o months ago for adoption. >> they're being considered for immediate adaptation a single roll call vote vote a member may sever the item and have it
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considered separately. >> supervisor cohen. >> i want to sever item 61. >> supervisor farrell and 52. >> supervisor yee 42 madam clerk call the roll on items 54 through 57. >> on items commissioner avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar commissioner hwang i supervisor katie tang pursue supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 11 i's oversee o months ago are approved unanimously madam clerk item 51. >> resolution to commemorate the asphyxiating port chicago dispatcher and urge the
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president of the united states toes rate with the designation of honorable discharge. >> supervisor cohen. >> you heard earlier my special xhoopgs accommodations i like to have the port incident and also recognize the brave soldiers involved including the chicago trial resolution acknowledges the anniversary and urges the president and others to exonerate the soldiers in this trial thank you for your sponsoring and lloyd i'd like to go recognize the rest of the board for their corp. on this resolution i'd like to request that your support for this resolution. >> colleagues, same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. this resolution z is adapted unanimously
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madam clerk please call item 512. >> resolution to declare july 24th as dr. joseph berry step outside the box in the city and county of san francisco supervisor farrell. >> thank you, colleagues. i want to take a few moments to honor the life and the commitment of awe leaf with our community dr. joseph burdening at the scene that passed away he served as a soldier and dedicated person born in brooklyn and graduated from the al message from the honorable sorority in terms of before drafted into the korean war as a doctor he was a fight surgeon and closer to the front lines and he returned to san francisco after
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meeting helen and implemented his life residency at sf ucsf to a trains vietnamese doctors and treated patients in the hospital he is survived and loving father and grasp he loves art and literature and golf and was the football teams physician and the club president he and his wife received an award for the service a vociferated husband and father he put himself in harm's way as well as tirelessly serving his communities and faithfully fulfilled his life and i want everyone to consider
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this as dr. joseph day. >> colleagues can we take that without objection? same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. that is adopted unanimously madam clerk item 53 >> to request the planning department to develop a white paper for family-friendly housing in the city and supervisor yee. >> thank you very much this is a fairly simple request the reason why i pulled it just to change. >> a term to make a slight amendment after talking with director ram i hoped that the task could be implemented in 6 months he felt like he would be able to do it in the months i'd like to make an amendment to delete it and make it 9 months >> you want to amend it to
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change the time period under the guidelines from 60 to 90. >> from 6 months to 9 months. >> yes. thank you okay supervisor yee has made a motion to amend is there a second cowen objection? we'll take that without objection. we'll take that without objection. the amendments pass colleagues, same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. item 53 is the resolution is adapted unanimously as amended madam clerk can you please read it in memoriams >> today's meeting is adjourned in the following on behalf of the supervisor tang's for the latest ms. bridges. >> madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> that concludes our business for today. >> colleagues thank you for being here and members of the
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and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.
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>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong
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everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to
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be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are
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interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very.
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we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to
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carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world
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is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ . >> good morning, everyone yeah. today, i'm very proud to you know have this meeting because we are very luke in our you know
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city history we have the best leader you know leading us you know we've even though i feel everybody agree with me our mayor is the best you know working and dictated that's why we learn from him the department of building inspection our mission so to protect life and property for the public that's why today we are proudly to have our honorable mayor mayor ed lee to come over to you know make that announcement please welcome mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> director i'd like to give a quick interpretation.
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) (laughter). >> i just want to say thank you to the young people here to the family people here and not so young folks that are here to come together to receive this very good news of our city's willingness to support grants that are aimed another residents small business owners are property owners as well and
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visitors get educated about the very strong possibility of the next big earthquake i wanted to first of all, say thank you to tom when i was a young attorney many, many years ago my for at a in chinatown was to do hours i want to venture have an active department of building inspection speeding i also wanted to make sure i always had is strongest district supervisor
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as we have in julie christensen. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and i do have now as the mayor very strong representatives of very important departments like our fire chief our department of the emergency services and our police department and whitens our rec and park department that are all here together to join not only in this announcement but in the various roles they'll play in preparing people so for the expected earthquake in the next
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