g foreign language.) >> thanks to the leadership of our rec and park we're here at a major center our for the square to make sure that the education programs can be conducted safely deeply in different languages but also do so at the willie playgrounds where c y c community colleges their sessions between my sessions of playing ping-pong (laughter) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and again thanks to our

leader and department of emergency here collaboration with our fire chief i want to especially thank her and her staff makes sure we're stave 4th of july weekend and we were but we're also working outside find chinatown to prepare young people and seniors and their families to make sure they have all the training and preparation we must do this on occasion every if one or years people move out and forgot we have better technology to help us and better practices as we learn i want to thank everybody that joins us to make sure that everybody is safer and make sure we don't have the devastation but people that are well prepared school sites, parks, recreation centers, sro's

our senior housing complexed our family housing collections and nonprofits all engaged in a very good ongoing dialog to support each other that's why we will be a city that will survive the major earthquake. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so let me now introduce someone that is a fanatic and already shown herself to be a great supervisor not only

working on this but helping to create a lot of senior housing we'll, make those announcement in the short weeks to create more housing opportunity for chinatown and north beach but champion from the district let me introduce to you our supervisor julie christensen (clapping.) just. >> good morning. i think the best time is when we have leadership like our mayor ed lee and our department heads and they're working closely together with nonprofits like c y c and self-help for the elderly and the residents of the community to do good thing for chinatown in district 3 i'm excited bmw this program is a good example of the way city government worked with the nonprofits in the community and we all benefit but especially important that

peep brarpt in this program they come to the train an earthquake will happen you know someday there will be a occasion we'll need the information i want everybody in this room to be among those people that know what to do that have the supplies and the information they need not only so keeping you informed we know keep ourselves save but be helpful to our neighbors and friends in the community i'm encouraging everybody to participate as a volunteer and an advocate in the neighborhood before i was supervisor i was always asking the city for money and support please give me money for this park or street or for that project it is wonderful as a periphery now to be the giver of these things to the community so i'm very grateful to mayor ed lee and to my colleagues at the

board for being so generous this year with chinatown we have money for the nonprofits we have money for safety we're going to make kearny street safer and our situations near lady shaw safe we have money to do do have money for the parks it is a good year for chinatown and district 3 with the budget i'd like to mention it is related to the earthquake safety program we have a project with the fire department and roof deck we'll put free smoke alarms in people's houses you only have to call - sorry.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> yeah, he get excited all that 234u78z very are a free smoke alarm call and basically contact and union contributes will put a free smoke alarm in our house to you and your neighbors will be safer please support in program and please give big thanks to the mayor and the c y c and self-help this is a great program (clapping)

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> first of all, i need to thank you supervisor christensen you know for coming to talk to you today first of all i want to tell you a story regarding myself you you know a person that touched was prepare this is very important for earthquake i joined the city one day before city earthquake as a service as luke the united

nations is a major u.n. loss of the tragedy but i do the training bra i join the city and internet buildings but i helped the other departments how to internet and all those those i feel you know this is my duty to help you when there's a major event you need to do it yourselves that's why we put the fund for you know both like the mayor echo with the mayor said the young generation to help and then you know we don't want let me say people with respect and be treating as our angle to help out to reach out to make sure the public know how to prepare

themselves during the major event but you know this program takes some time more an year with the mayors and supervisors help my department willing to fund the education we'll do more our department efficiently to do outreach before i'd like to ask a person from c y c to come up and say a few words (clapping)

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you thank you tom especially for the department of building inspection to make this possible also especially to the leadership of mayor ed lee and sxhieshgsz and all the department heads to make that possible but c y c we're going to launch this in partnership with the rec and park to offer working groups on community festers and have a display at the clubhouse for seniors and residents and business owners to get more prepared for the big earthquake coming in the next thirty years thank you for all the support and the program to be the presenter and outreach to the owns and seniors and residents

in chinatown in their own language chinese and interesting and others to reach out we really hope the outreach is extended to the rest of the city thank you, mayor ed lee and others to make this possible.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you (clapping.) now i'd like to ask you know annie annie choung. >> mayor sxhieshgz may i announces everyday you're coming to the square clubhouse. >> (laughter) this morning i was kind of worried we captain david has been wonderful every time we have to do something major he sends the officers to gentle talk to the folks outside and

there's a nice environment but thank you to rec and park i wish they were here to see how both sarah and i from the c y c have been able to work siding with rec and park to bring this for the youth and residents in chinatown but today, i want on on behalf of the elderly on behalf of the self-help to ask our seniors today to give a big big applause to mayor ed lee (clapping)

speeding i want to announce that as of july thanks to tom from dbi and mayor ed lee and supervisor christensen we sarah and myself are going to put on weekly education working groups so the idea starting on july 20th we'll have a class every monday in the afternoon and go around you know and sign up all of the residents and all of the merchant and i sometimes here nonprofits workers our city workers may not be living within walking distance to chinatown and so we really need all the residents no chinatown to be

prepared and educated thank you to do police department and department of emergency and rec and park to work on this project together thank you all (clapping.) >> okay. before i end the presentation also i would you know repeat again to people here the mayor that leads here a sxhieshgsz is here and the fire chief kings and the department of emergency and ann is here also bob that rec and park and, of course everybody you know captain lazzaro is here and also i want to mention about.

>> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. choung from david chiu office our supervisor is our senator and assemblyman sorry and thanks to everybody coming to join us and stay over to go through a demonstration to see how to prepare yourselves for the next major event but this is not only earthquake we are aware of fire you know and other hopefully, you can enjoy and learn quite a bit from this thank you very much (clapping)

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sprech of market street between 6th is having a cinderella movement with the office of economic workforce development is it's fairy godmother telegraph hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and better reason to stay office of economic workforce development work to support the economic vital of all of san francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as it's moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for

the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the affordable housing in general people want a safe and clean community they see did changed coming is excited for every. >> oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. >> when we were just getting started we were a new business people never saturday a small business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we

couldn't have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. >> we have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of community back to the neighborhood. >> we wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. >> that sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and

seeing this change is inspiringing. >> we've created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. >> oewd is oak on aortas a driver for san francisco. >> we've got to 23ri7b9 market and sun setting piano and it was on the street we've seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now they're coming to us. >> today, we learned about the office of economic workforce development and it's effort to foster community and make the buyer market street corridor something that be proud of thanks to much for watching and tune in next time for 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 [ gavel ]