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the legislation i am introducing today has gone through a number of revisions. this legislation will be first in the nation creating a program -- building -- if passed this program will be the first of its kind. developers, rental projects will have the option -- to be dedicated to these child care programs. we have a need for quality child care and this would be a way to start addressing some of this.
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i believe that this will create dozens of family child care homes. i look forward to working to have the support of my colleagues. and will be used to help address the need of the cities children and families. >>: thank you supervisor. >>: mayor lee and i don't always agree. but we do agree that development benefits should stay in the neighborhoods where development
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place. i also want to acknowledge the work of sheila -- who worked to make this possible, the rest i submit. >>: one of the organizations that is separating 20 years -- i wanted to ask if colleagues can join us in celebrating an organization that really believes in democracy and access for every one. i wanted to say that the founder was one of the original founders of -- to have a digital libraries
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fascinating stuff that they use at the internet archive. join us if you can, i don't have the url for the website. you can google internet archive. >>: thank you. that concludes new business. at this time the public may address the entire board for up to two minutes. items 34 through 40. direct your remarks to the board as a whole. not to
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very much want this to happen. we pray to god and this board of supervisors. my dad brought me up to respect politicians. we want to put in this park a green roof studios. gardens and lush vegetation maintained by the dwell ers themselves. all of this connected to the garfield school. have them come up and have a childrens
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garden. we will be in touch with you with further written strategies. we're also doing a documentary so that you can see the public and locals want and need this park. thank you for listening. >>: next speaker, please. >>: i was really glad to see, it looks like 3000 of the -- i was listening to michael savage, i said you should call and get in your story with him. and i remember he was interviewing donald trump and i
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to call to a couple of things that pertain to us all. i think the campaign -- the nations representatives need to address the fundamental problems -- if there has been increases of -- people don't belong in prisons they belong in the work place. contributing to the family, community and nation. climate change is happening.
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the manager is taking them some how, some way. it's very wrong. i have a lawsuit i'm filing against them. i want you to assist me. i have paperwork against her with me. whoever is ready to do this. thank you sir. >>: before the next speaker, are there any more who would like to address the board. >>: i am here for the residents of treasures island. i personally got together all
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of the voter registration list. we asked them were you aware of this resolution before the board of supervisors today. >>: i'm going to pause your time. you are not able to speak on items 10 through 14. >>: i'm not talking about those items. there was no comment section on the items when they were read. . so i'm here to talk about the residents of treasures island. there lack of voice and access to complete ignoring by our own district supervisor. i have
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struggled to meet with her. on very complicated matters you can't get anything done. it seems to me, i'm begging the board of supervisors to consider giving the residents, rent ers rights because the rules that were -- i ask you to consider this and i know i can't go to the district supervisor because she doesn't do anything for us. >>: seeing no other speakers. >>: any other members of the public? now closed. ma'am clerk. let's go to the
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defer to another colleague. >>: at this time we will recognize supervisor er rick mar. >>: first on the list. i'm happy of all -- the person i have chosen has had an impact on childrens lives and the education system. can alison come forward? alison was recently promoted to -- in the college of ethic studies. i'm going to veer off
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elementary school. he works carefully with the transition and early warning to help students who are in need. he was also the driving force for the students at lincoln. prevent, make sure that the support is appropriate and make sure that the faculty knows what is going on. he also dances hip hop. he
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helps teach the students how to dance. he is also a professional dance instructor. they will be performing at city haul on friday november 4th. so for everything that he has done to help our community and beyond, i extend my deepest gratitude to you. thank you. >>: i'd like to thank the board of supervisors. one thing that we were talking
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about in the back -- we are a very invisible community. when i started in the district i worked at franklin. they said to me where have you been? nobody knows that we are here. nobody talks to us. and working with the kids at lincoln they show me their essays and i ask them why are your heros white? why recreating stories about the dominant culture. it starts here with recognizing a community that is doing great
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the supervisors and there is an effect that can happen. that happened with me in the mission. and sometimes you are a victim of your own success. because now you stay in a place for 25 years and it's difficult to continue. i would hope that this would resonate with this board that it's difficult for me to continue. it's difficult to build a team and i know with some of the board over here are doing a great job of making the city affordable for small business. and thank you for this honor.
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i know that there needs to be a lot of work to be done. that is why i feel that her -- with my sister having worked for the filipino education center, and for myself working with the cultural center, which advocates for workers rights, i know -- she would always encourage me to always meet her other
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contacts. i would look forward to meeting with you or working with you in the future in the different avenues that she introduced me to. it is about helping and giving back to the community. thank you again, board of supervisors. thank you again. >>: thank you for being here on be half of your family and your grandmother. it was a big loss for the bay area to hear of her passing.
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i wanted to take a moment quickly to thank all of the staff members that put together filipino heritage month this year. it's important for all to recognize. given the diversity -- we have filipinos contribute in every level to our city. i have worked where many of you to fight for more affordable housing, schools, -- i also want to recognize the staff that put together todays fest --
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building community s. my work in the tender /hroeupb is here to my heart. i feel like the work that we do for the project ask really there to have resources for those to succeed. it's no small feat. i feel very honored to be able to keep doing these projects. they're like painful births. but every project that i do and my husband participates in has been a joy and pleasure to
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began documenting post war america life in san francisco. from a close knit group from the philippines -- janet discovered his photographs and now documents and preserves more than 3000 images -- one of their exhibits which my staff and i had an opportunity to visit is showing right across the street. a filipino experience. what an,
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amazing collection. not only do these photos look amazing every one is dressed to the 9s. it includes black and white photographs playing pin oh jazz. filipino america military service. social clubs where african-americans and filipino americas gathered. her work within the community highlights the need -- for all of her
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it was no surprise because what i hear about you is that your well known by not just the executive colleagues but the front line carriers. she believes in collaboration, team work and a can do attitude. frequently she is attending meetings, she believes in a residence center approach. including well , and well being. including being a staff
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nurse, charge nurse, nurse manager, to work where she is today, which is the top nurse. she is a great nurse leader and a great colleague. she has taken care of thousands of patients there. so please join me in welcoming her. >>: thank you so much. i'm grateful to be the recipient. really what keeps me going every day are our 780 plus patients who count on
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least he feels there is no more rewarding experience than to spend time with the seniors, so thank you for your service as a community leader. congratulations. >>: thank you very much. i'm very honored because all of these honorees i think are more important than i am. i'm lucky, when i came to the police department i think there were only 3
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and san diego. we have an office in the philippines, we help train the officers over there. we bring used equipment that they need over there and we try to do the best we can with giving them as much support as we can even though we're here. we have been doing that since 2000. as far as -- we originally started thank giving and christmas we would feed them, serve them, talk with them. a lot of them were soldiers that needed our help just trying to get social security and stuff like
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been an active member of the california nurses association serving as a c n a represent for the past five years. i can tell you from my experience in this field. it's a tough job to be a representative. she was an active participant in the fight to save saint lukes. district nine, i want to thank you for that alone for helping to safeguard such an important institution. tina is the daughter of filipino
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>>: thank you. this is such an honor. it's an incredible honor to be part of this filipino community and stand with all of these leaders here today. i feel like kind of when you're a nurse and you're working every day or you're knocking on doors on saturdays and sundays to help your community. this reminds me of what i do every day. i love my community and the people who i work with. thank you again.
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>>: i'd like to now recognize the supervisor from district ten. malia. >>: we have an opportunity to recognize -- we have asian pacific island er. i want to pay my respects to -- when i got the news that she passed away my heart broke. she sat with me and she told me to practice my -- and coached me through
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a couple phrases. i had the great pleasure of growing up with some of her nephews. today we really have come together to recognize an every day hero. we look into the community and we look for people that we know, people who we have established relationships with. today i decided to help someone who helps us every day in a tremendous way. as you can tell from
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the expression she's not pleased being in the lime light. but i think it's time to recognize people who help us every day. this woman has helped me run the -- community , she has cleaned up messes along the way, messes that she has not made. this is an opportunity to pay our respect to an incredible woman. i'm going to share some information about her. a third generation fill pin
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the city of berkley she obtained her degree. she is an incredible woman and i want to say thank you for your work. /phraf paragraph. >>: i'm not even sure what that means. thank you supervisor cohen. the work we do it can be thankless and you guys don't usually recognize it unless something is going wrong. i couldn't do any of this without the stuff of the clerk of the
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providing workers, immigrants, youth, women. through his work it's become an important part of the city. in just the last few years they have helped workers win over 2 million in owed wages. terry has also been a leader in our district. working with other community s to bring about grass root victories.
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are here today. thank you for spending the afternoon with us. we have some amazing people in the filipino community. thank you all so much. and again congratulations. with that madam clerk let's go back to our agenda. >>: todays meeting will be /a /skwrourpbed -- /a /hreurb /a pen i can't -- tom hey den.
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you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special >> well, we have a we have food and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of
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san francisco for our passengers. >> i like this it's is (inaudible) i thank my parents for bringing me here. >> this the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. >> i have a double knees burger with bacon. >> i realize i'm on a diet but i'm hoping this will be good. >> it total is san francisco experience because there's so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. >> are repioneering or is this a model. >> we're definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at
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least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the food option in san francisco airport are phenomenal that's if it a lot of the airports >> yeah. >> you don't have the choice. >> some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the
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life. >> we definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how
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people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of
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the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if
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scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not city. i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here
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at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer
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concepts out in san francisco and what our passengers want. >> i look forward to see what your cooking up (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> today we've shown you the only restaurant in san francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you don't have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating.comyou. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businesses do have the resources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things
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we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract >> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popular to you can win a professional services job or how to put together a quote it's all those technical pieces. looking at the contracting assistance center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so
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you're ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. i can't say enough about the center it's a blessing. we do business all over the country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the center is here to train and make you better qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. >> that will give people the competitive edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services
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here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5
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welcom. >> hi, i'm frank jorge golden go up a utility supervisor for the distribution system i offer seizing see the personnel that install water maidens and water carbon monoxides i've personal proud to work with city and distribution place whether a fire or main break those folks come on scene and get the job done 3450r7b9 what time they're here to take care of each other and make it so a safe and secure way i was encouraged to learn to deal with the services and breaks and i wanted to move into understanding how to do main connections one the great things that the sfpuc to move to different sections in if you're
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tdr in learning a different job you have the ability to move up i courage anyone to step out of their comfortable zone and work on a system as large as a our water system we started from one end and keep on going it's a fascinating job and i'm going to stay here because i'll never learn everything to learn about this system
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