tv Mayors Press SFGTV November 1, 2015 9:40pm-10:01pm PST
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and chinatown has been one of the leading communities of which we are able to boost that we are now as a city at 80 percent diversity rate with our garbage but we're theory to say we want to get to 100 percent and we want to do it in a way in which we his own the foundational work your communities are participated in this not led and so we've come to chinatown to really start a community-based process to get to the other 20 percent we think that going to 100 percent percent waste krooerlg is achieve work or able in our lifetime and if we concentrate to the blue and black benefits we know from what
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the department of the environment and ecology helped us attitude study we know the next 10 percent literally be people not placing things go the black benefit although it got land fortunately fill the data the intersections that work us with to concentrate people are throwing away the next 10 percent babe resulting in better education and cultural education and existence that there is that are dense and as court reporter active as chinatown so we're here to announce that but also to announce that this consultant based approach working with supervisor christensen and working with our department of the environment we're create a community-based council, if you will, a community council where a number of members of the
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community and small businesses will give you direct input to the ideas the best ideas they have to continue our effort to reduce wastes and to make sure that if we have some good ideas how can we do that and implement those ideas in ways in which they will honor and support our small businesses and reciprocates who live in congested neighborhood in a way they'll be proud and not take anything wautd away from the quality of life but every improve that i suggest that all of our quality of life in this deserve city if fwe recycle 100 percent of our wave this is working divisible with you are department of sdriement was the chinatown youth organizations as well as the senior organizations
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our family associations, our business communities we can lit 51ly have the opportunity next 10 percent and 90 percent of recycling in a short time with implementing those ideas with the leadership of communities based councils we're suggesting today, we want to recruit people that live here and involved in giving us their ideas and advise and want them to tell us what is going into those bins not ought to be going in and how to prevent that from happening the restaurants and stores in chinatown have been great participates when it comes to the compost efforts thank you for doing that that's why we're in chinatown making this announcement our time and climate challenges that serious it should be serious to every city across the country was we felt the rain today but may feel
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the effects of the coming and we're prep residents for any diversity that may occur our climate challenges and climatic change goals are simply reflected in 3 numbers zero, 50 and one hundred and zero for the governmental zero waste and 50 represents the fact we want 50 pep percent of people's trips by public trams arrest alternative trespasses to their individual vehicles and 100 percent of our empower to be from renibble energy resources we are work with offense managers and our partners to getting to solar and wooden pour and take advantage of our clean power initiative we'll be now and then with the zero and 50 and one hundred
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we'll lead did nation in modeling the efforts in world-class cities like san francisco thank you for participating we'll walk a good portions today so he can do our 50 percent as well >> (clapping.) >> now i'd like to have an opportunity to introduce a very effective supervisor who has been working hard open hss goals but on housing and supporting small businesses, helping to make sure that chinatown is clean working with partners lake the newcomers service center and other partners that is, of course, our district 3 supervisor julie christensen. >> we come out and into 9 neighborhood and do those statement to let people know that something important is happening we want to highlighter the commission and department of the environment the zero waste
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to bring people's attention to it is one of the important goals the city has i was at a conference the public works had this morning and they were talking about the fact that san francisco is a.d. administrative code in so many places cities call to find out how our leaders are able to accomplish and certainly our waste program and krooerlg is a model for the country there is more we can do and this program and how we take that extra step you know in chinatown the space is at the premium we struggle to find places to live and businesses the stank is true where we send our trash and refuge we can't produce more and more waste and have to cut down on the millennium of trash we put into our environment this program is
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a way we can all do our part to try to help to reduce the amount of material in our landfill to make santa fe san francisco a leader the other reason he like this before i was a periphery i was a neighborhood advocate i was used to work with my neighbors to try to make things better in my he district and city it incorporates the input from the business leaders and toiftsz in coming up with ways to work with the city and e dissolution colon to do a better job so i'll supportive of this project i was happy to partner with the mayor in providing the budget for this this year and graph that chinatown will an pilot program and hoping for everyone's cooperation so we show we know how to do it i want to introduce the owner the
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business we're floocht of today to tell us about many project from the prospective of the business owner ms. marissa (clapping.) hi i know that you know chinatown needs a lot of recycle i know healthy cleaner environment i'm happy to say we're doing our deft of best and part in this program to g make a better environment in chinatown (clapping.) >> thank you and we know the mayor and supervisor christensen will agree that program the first of its kind we've seen will take a lot of partnerships thankfully a lot of the patterns are participates at the greenest ecology and partners with the few weeks the department of
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public works and mohammed nuru and the men and women of our department the department 6 environment including the program now and i do everyday to make that successful to mr. rodriquez and others from supervisor christensen office as mayor ed lee said we'll walk it through the businesses to talk about greening chinatown in san francisco we have materials for the guests we question do we invite you all and in closing we want to is let's do this and let get to work and zero thank you, everyone
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>> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks
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projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or focus groups or other stinks that allows you or your neighbors to provide feedback and ask questions the best way to insure you'll be
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>> we've never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. we send verizon's it out to the
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wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. dismissals is a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old he's 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose monopoly on the chemotherapy. this particular wish the parents wanted to wait until he had energy. i began assigning this wish with
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the family in march and started to understand the two miles how are we going to achieve that i made a bold statement into turning this into goth am city. it codify catapulted. so, now it's a much for ininaccurate indicate from the divorce. people starting twoet and reposting and it went viral. it was incredible about make a wish he wanted to be thinking about being batman. there's been a lot of super issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in san francisco the
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mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about
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every child who has a severe an right. >> those are the outlet daylight saving time thank you for your correction commissioner adams i'd like to thank media services for trifz the small business commission today i'll move into item one roll call. >> commissioner president dwight commissioner adams commissioner dooley commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner yee-riley commissioner tour-sarkissian mr. vice president we have quorum. >> item number 2 general public comment. >> item 2 general publi
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