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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  May 10, 2016 1:00pm-1:31pm PDT

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>> supervisors i'm jim i'm on the board of the civic center i want to make a couple of comments and in the civic center historic district now the historic district is not a bunch of buildings but includes the 1912 plan by john howard and has restrictions it calls for all the buildings facing city hall to have a 70 foot cornice line above and architectural requirements what i'm getting at that property can't be used inform build a cheap building because of the requirements of the historic district so that is a concern so i want to bring to your attendance safety they're growing in the area and includes the housing
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people many of whom or older and some from out of the town and the area at night is insurer secure and that corner is trouble so many it is dark and your honor, development later in the evening a criminal syndicate operational a facility they pay cash for cans and bottles that property need to be developed in a way that accommodates all the different requirements including housing our nblgd has written a letter because of the odd configuration of the private and public lands and other things that is a tricky situation you can't impose any particular percentage of what you you require there it requires working through the design. >> what not and coming to a consensus of what can, appropriate in terms of affordable i urge you to get on
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with this project because that corner sits there vacant and insecure and needs attention thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors peter cohen, san francisco council of community housing organizations. i too just want to remind folks great leadership supervisor kim you had that measure last november and passed 75 percent folks like the idea of using the resources for public housing under the nuts and bolts of implementation certainly what we're looking for a current list of sites not recycling it repab habituates the department go through a process of comping through the vicinity and make sure that list is updated and current and thorough and not just recycling as we go into this next cycle we hope it is
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done but the kraeltsd of underutilized site i like to hear the departments talk about that about but we need to be creative we are in had 49 course of the trial city we have to maximize the efficiency so let's figure that out we have two properties we have affordable housing an bart illegal let over the garage it fits nicely and a third point get the enterprise agencies to work with us to do the annual reporting if we can sink that up wee bit we're doing the same with the same process that treats all the departments and enterprise is not only part of family but the civic project and lastly the public needs to know what is going on one of the things in working on the measure we treated more transparency it is a bureaucratic process that
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people don't follow having a notification list it is automatic sent out it key and establish that list with automatic notification and lastly to the previous speaker balboa is an example why not to approve its on this 17 percent is scheduled for that i have housing market-rate those are precious opportunities thank you. >> thank you, mr. cohen. >> seeing no further public comment chair wiener close public comment. >> yes. public comment is closed. >> thank you to the members of the public coming out to speak on our surplus property ordinance list the purpose of today's hearing to have a public housing on what is recorded as surplus and underutilized by to
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get community input how they want to see the properties utilized i want to thank the different residents how they want to see the sites utilized not only more affordable housing perhaps for community center and openly small property owner open space i want to recognize some of the affordable housing advocates who did work with us on crafting the surplus property ordinance last year in 2015 thank you for your work this is an ordinance that is many places in 2002 and work to strengthen but also articulate some of the specifications of the process so we can have better outcome with our existing property our existing pubically owned properties we know we're in the midst of a housing crisis
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despite building more housing since the 1906 san francisco earthquake and an vast and majority of residents all the way to middle-income san franciscans that make good income can't afford to live here in fact, 75 percent of san franciscans are shut out of houshth so administratively that earn between 80 and wofdz are not confident they can live in the city i want to address one comment in regards to this ordinance we do prioritize first housing for the formally how else so we offer a range on a property a that's the first priority and move on to affordable housing at 55 percent of average medium
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income and middle-income housing in the senior in the i'm going to turn it over to they have seated a parcel within their ownership to be built for low income seniors and it would be available to seniors at a third of their income regardless of their income so housing for senior that see not f d e to average income and seniors on fixed income and only expected to pay a 3rd of their income for rent on the site and friendly quote if from the san francisco business times that didn't always agree but an article quote affordable housing developers have an easier time building on public land the city what transfer the land and have affordable housing on privately owned now private developers
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have to compete end quote it is a come down we should be thoughtful in terms of how we utilize it and maximizing this use to consider multi uses on a site whether housing public purpose or community centers so i want to thank everyone for their involvement and the enterprise department and the school district for attending and the deadly weapons and john updyke and, of course, the city administrator naomi kelly we know as we move forward with the exempt surplus property owners we looked to working and making our vision a reality chair wiener may i suggest we make a motion to file that item. >> we'll entertain a motion to
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file can we take that without objection? without objection item 2 is filed and mr. speaker, call item number one >> item one resolution for the addition of the street name to the one hundred with the anniversary of the turning point for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders questioning and entering sex people with the transgender women. >> thank you, supervisor kim is the lead sponsor i'm a co-sponsors supervisor kim. >> thank you customer service chair wiener and thank you for your co-sponsorship and supervisor campos the resolution that is before us is to rename the one hundred block of tucker in the tenderloin neighborhood the jean compton's cafe commending the
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august 1966 uprising of primer transgender leaders this sparked the remove the compton's marks the hoengs where an all knitted the jean compton with the tenderloin neighborhood where 50 years ago exactly a group of outraged transgender men and women set up and marked a transgender liberation this commemorative signage on this 50 anniversary is designed to immortalize the compton event to remind us we have much more to do how far we've come and how much to combat the thinking sufficient institutional infrastructure and lack of tradition for the trains women the staves e statistics are
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stalling 41 percent of transgender yields report suicidal thoughts and 26 report losing a job over their identity and 97 percent are recorded abuse and in the realm of lgbtq transgender women especially transgender woman of color the brunt 72 percent of victims of anti lgbt homicides are transgender women and 67 of anti lgbtq victims are transgender women of color and this is a statistic that is held true every year transgender people of color 6 times more likely to experience violence from the police compared to their white sister
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jaerndz survivors the number of states are placing protections for transgender individuals other state governments are explicit impacting laws for transgender law by preventing transgender oriented i discrimination bills passed in their states i want to recognize chair wiener for his work that dan says all of the states are not accepting our brorlgz as the compton riot approaches and as our transmark approaches in june we wanted to commemorate this event by renaming the one hundred black blocking of turk to jean way and recognize the public works in their efforts to
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34e7 to expedite this in time for the transmarch in june of this year and want to recognize many members of the public in particular felicia flames here today and for her leadership in educating the members of the board on this important event and in fact, my first year in office they came with an poster to equate me on this site of the district i represent along with other members of the board so colleagues if there are no comments comes. >> thank you (calling names) thank you for taking the lead on this rename which is really a positive step forward embracing
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any community like the present and past how the past led to today an extremely for this recognize which generations of san franciscans going forward will be able to see and remember and go educated is critically important i agree particularly what is going on in other parts of country in terms of attacks on transgender people it is more important than ever for san francisco to remain in the lead embracing the transgenders brothers and sisters and we know that now that we won in the supreme court on marriage equality those who want to determine con news are that i haveing to other issues that is attacking transgender people we need to rally and show unity and
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this is a step forward. >> open up for public comment. >> thank you chair wiener. >> hi my name is felicia i'm a screaming queen a pioneer a 29 year survivor the aids and last year 2015 lifetime achievement grand marshall and this year, the brother kelly collins serve award by tndc i want to thank supervisor kim and supervisor wiener for being here it is important for the transgender community and it would a transgender community but queers sister i didn't and chair female impersonates with
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the jean riots we were thrown out like trash we were sick we were mental and non-nobody wanted us so the tenderloin wasn't a words of mouth not in the media it was word of mouth girls could be who they were were without be screwed we were murdered and raped, beaten up, thrown in jail because of who we were meant to be and not going on millionaire but the tenderloin and very happy to be there although we had toe do prostitution they wouldn't hire us for work i wanted to jean compton's cafe we want to commend give memento all the girls and boys that
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stood up for all of us at one time to be who we were meant to be we were fighting for our rights and fighting for who we were meant to be and i want to honor all who died who have been killed murdered and raped because of who they were i am the only one other than tomorrow susan cook and oh, my manager i forgot her name got a senior moment i want to make sure that our history as queers sister i didn't see - we were the gay
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community blacks asians afghans and latinos fighting for the right to be who we were were and meant to be regardless of who cared for us and who didn't care for us we had to be who we were meant and hopefully, i get to celebrate the biggest anniversary at city hall thank you. >> thank you for your leadership and also for your leadership of the renaming of vicky in the tenderloin two years ago a historic street renaming and proud to work you and proud to present you next tuesday you'll be awarded - >> hello i'm jasmine thank you for
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hearing us i heard the one hundred block of turkey it was renamed as one hundred taylor. >> yes. i'm sorry this was the one hundred block of twair thank you. >> a friend of mine of felicia and work with john one of the vice chair and also part of community that having conference in this lows two weeks the howard elderly conference on the jean compton cafe so we're getting the word out to people know about compton's and not
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just stonewall so we want the whole city ate bay area and the country to know about compton's cafe so thank you for getting this done for us. >> thank you and thank you for your leadership on the marlene way as well vicky mary lane. >> good afternoon. i'm a transgender woman is lives in the tenderloin obviously a lot younger it happened before i was born and support the rich women by name a street of the compton roitsz yet riots because the freedom fighters has in terms of trained rights, however,
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transgenders women of colorfast too many initials library murdered and unemployment and criminalization of sex working, working and not asking for a surgery program and gentrification and incarceration and police violence i believe if we take a lesson from this event that it is relevant so there was a time and place for diplomacy when we're pressed we are willing to put our digit over your decorum liquor jeanette did in the interruption of his speech the builders folks that will not support lgbt rights no matter but comment come to the support of racism and age of don't come to any transit marches and i'd like to talk
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about the fritz could 5 and it is happening outside those two events 50 years approved or disapproved by police violence thank you. >> thank you, ms. davis. >> my name is austin i want to get up here and is or is as as gay man that is queers and people are make up that i was able to get involved with supervisor wiener and on the more research he did there are no sfpd files on the case moving i can't they paid off the sfpd to destroy the files on behalf of what is coming in other stats but what was happening outside of city hall right now the fact that transgenders women are
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murdering 346r79d in the tenderloin and people in the city don't know what jean compton's cafe is representing in the community mission bay anything else we can do from inside oswald's we can remember the history thank you for supervisor kim and for her leadership on the com ration. >> thank you supervisor kim and members of the committee. >> thank you, mr. pa did i. >> i'm a proud transgender woman and currently a line attorney in supervisor jane kim's office thank you for entertaining this proposal it is important to have a in memoriam for the site in the tenderloin because it is important to
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memorialize what transgender women have done and i hope you pass that thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. any is there any additional public comment on item one. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay supervisor peskin can i have a motion to forward item one to the full board with recommendation. >> so moved. >> can i sorry. >> sorry supervisor my apologies i didn't press the bottom i want to thank chair wiener for your co-sponsorship and supervisor peskin has joined on as a cory want to thank public works for expediting this and recognize sfmta did i live on here and working closely with our office to expedite this so
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we can do this in time for tran march and led by supervisor peskin for renaming the chinese hospital and able to utilize this to expedite this and finally i want to thank bobby lopez and others from my office to make it happen we look forward to doing much more to commemorate this important event and certainly in the tonight and thank you committee for your support. >> okay. on the motion to forward number one with the objection mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> just to restate the recommendation without objection to supervisor cowen being absent tlbz there's no further business. >> to ford forward with a positive recommendation. >> okay we're adjourned thank
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