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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  January 11, 2017 9:30am-10:01am PST

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probably not, but-- >> there is another group in here at 6. i have to clean the room after our meeting, so--i need time to do that. >> to be continued. any other commission? >> i have one. it is long meeting. so, i got a couple of phone calls the other day about the practices and connection with legislation passed by then supervisor now center scott wiener related to gray water systems in new development projects greater than 40 thousand feet and there are concerns related to me that
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there is something going on where people are uncomfortable with it so i like to get a briefing or i want to just investigate some of the concerns maybe with somebody with the sierra club, but i like to meet with staff to have a conversation about the gray water systems ordinance and how we are performing pursuant to that moving forward. >> sure staff will accommodate that. >> we will definitely bring in the right people to give a update but i want to let you know it was something that wiener was pushing and we try to work with them and a lot of the developers come with a compromise so think the legislation was a compromise but will sit down and give the backdrop. >> being no further business before the commission this meeting is
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adjourned. [meeting adjourned]
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>> (speaking spanish.) >> i work as the director donor today i'll start off with why we're here today san francisco today stands as one against hate like to thank the police department and the human right and the immigrants or the and the city attorney's office and all the city departments here today. >> thank you to all the advocates community agencies and individuals that sits on the commission dedicate in their time day to day to the victims of hate crimes hate violence or the threat of violence of hate viewpoints is illegal it can be verbiage or written or physical assault or 25e789d assaults hate related graffiti disturbing of religion and vandalism that because of something that that is tear down
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due to race or national origin and any other sort of ethnic types of represents today we're standing as one letting everyone know we'll not tolerant the bigotry and racism in our city today we would like to let you you know we have tremendous leadership here in san francisco and san francisco stands as one against hate today i'd like to introduce to you some of the leadership here in san francisco that about speak to some of the contradict nichtsd and resources available for any victims enemy victims of hate during the holiday season without further ado, i'd like to introduce someone that has demonstrated leadership in leading the charge around ending hate in the city and county of san francisco i'd like to introduce our honorable mayor, mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you deanna act welcome
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to the tolerant, compassionate, loving city of san francisco these holidays are just beginning there's going to thousands of people coming out our city the next few weeks to joy our city enjoy our diversity, enjoy our neighborhoods, enjoy shopping and shop and dine in the 49 we also want them to understand where they are this is a city of tolerance and compassionate and diversity and understanding we all stand together against hate and any of those incidents we want to do first and foremost educate ourselves, prevent them from happening but if if they do happen respond effectively and so i'm very proud to stand
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together today with the police department, that will be very protective of everybody's rights making sure that everybody is safe in the city and thank the immigrant and human rights commission their staff and commissioners making sure that we have good language to treat each other and programs and policies to allow for conversation but also to make sure that we treated each other with respect we will is a donna district attorney that will strongly set any acts of violence will be responded to immediately and effectively and even more going out to make sure that people are prepared so that they can report in and that we could prevent incidentss from happening more importantly i thank all of the people that
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live in our city together young people and families and immigrants and people in our african-american community you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders and queer community guess so our of color and all the communities stand together to make sure that our tolerance and diversity are protected and values we've been on the forefront of protecting the values of that diversity the values of tolerance the values of quality of equal marriage, of abiding by the law but at the same time of making sure that we all the enjoy those frechlz equally all those neighborhoods and people are represented here i want to say thank you for coming together and especially our young people you will eventually inherent what we do and don't do. >> (clapping.) >> and i want to give you the
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most important megacity of hope for everyone and i want to make sure we all do our part together to keep this city tolerant and loving and compassionate that is what we have this is the butch beauty of our city today make sure to stand together as one against hate against message of hate and acts of hate and that we will not tolerated it seek it out and eliminate it the right way we do this altogether as one great city of diversity thank you for coming together today. >> (clapping.) >> thank you to our mayor for overseeing power words and leadership he demonstrates i want to move on to another leader someone that has worked are worked with all the offices
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to be clear in san francisco despite the post-election we'll moved in protecting all communities despite the gender i'd like to introduce acting police chief. >> (clapping.) >> first of all, thank you all for joining us with that power message what we will not tolerate in the city and county of san francisco nationally hate crimes are up and signs are burning in san francisco and the bay area the san francisco police department has seen and 10 percent spike in the hate crimes from are a to this year a 28 percent from two years ago now i don't want to muddy the water we saw a nice drop prior but an uptick as in the newspaper the san francisco police department is taking pro-active measures to combat
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those crimes and putting officers like we did that the teams made it it the playoffs we're to do that in our neighborhoods so someone times to attack them because of their, their wearing they may be attacking on duty police officer put that warning out to the public and housing ability for prejudice has occurred and anti crime operations it is unacceptable and - simple crimes from challenging to fights more rigorous crimes or that's and a assaults will not be tolerated bias and hate have no place 2004 san francisco o or anything else we want to commend - thank you, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> in a moment you'll hear in the district attorney and we promised when we find those
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crimes we'll investigate and have prosecution to the district attorney's office for those who treat violence the person you may be altercating maybe an undercover police officer it is today, we'll be amongst the people walking reason i'll go anyone is invited to attend and as an incentive to come dinner is provided. with the officers buses at the same time be vigilante the sfpd encourages everyone to report hate based crime and we will investigate every incident and i say that to say this had with we have crimes people feel it not necessary to report many people are painting over the graffiti and saying continuation something that happens it is not we need to document so because if may end in a finally violence and any hate a wrong and track
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it and hold those accountable thank you. >> (clapping.) >> our next leader is someone that, of course, has been shaping the prosecution to move forward in san francisco please welcome our district attorney george gascon. >> (clapping.) >> thank you first of all, i want to thank our mayor for your leadership in this area mayor that is a dark side your leadership means a great deal thank you to the police department and the entire city family the commission and everyone last week the federal bureau of investigation report an increase of 67 percent of hate crimes against muslim-american last year 67 percent and the law center recorded last friday that as long as the election seven hundred crimes of
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hate to veterans in this country monthly be targeting immigrant community today as you hear from the mare and police chief we stand together and join forces to send a message that hate will not be tolerated in san francisco we stand together regardless of race and our gender regardless of ethnicity and religion or sexual orientation to say a crime against one is a crime against all of us we have no tolerance for hate we starting here to say not here, not now not ever thank you for your support please make sure that you report. >> (clapping.) >> we you'll have several hotlines my office has a 41 b
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5511919 a multi language hotline and enactment we tasted activated the arabic but make sure you call 9-1-1 let's stabbed together and say it will not be tolerated in the city of san francisco thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you da again and again i want to reiterate if there are any emergencies are victims hate crime please, please do not he's tattoo call 9-1-1 our next speaker is an individual that did tremendous work and we've been fortunate to have been appointed to the human rights someone that worked tirelessly throughout the western edition and the community here in san francisco please join me in welcoming our new director the human rights commission sheryl davis. >> (clapping.)
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>> good afternoon. thank you to my partners here the mayor chief of police and also the district attorney george gascon we really want to make sure and we have those hotlines and make sure today, we have the parts to raise awareness and how to talk about to deal with the violations and people are committing hate crimes bureau pasturing many people know the support in place we're excited to be able to partner with the school districts, with the mayor's office, the district attorney's office and the police to actually do a workshop in the community as well as working on complaints people are fully supported today we want to highlight the face and it is office space so important we address this together this is a about how we as a community find the strength low
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love and hope this final side not only today we've seen up ticks in the schools happening in the transportation and seeing it on the streets and making sure we are doing preservation and not just had had retroactive trying to deal with that after we had a young man he's the bayview hunters point gregory as well as another gentleman from care to share as well about the impact of hate crimes and why we should be doing something about that and thank you for being here. to raise awareness we're a city of one working together to make sure that everyone is important and valued thank you. >> (clapping.) >> good afternoon as a young man of color i sometimes feel targeted because of my age and color i know i go to the hsr or the college track
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or even college 100 percent college those are programs of advocacy so with this i'm glad we have those - ultimately i hope they help any community. >> (clapping.) >> thank you all so much no more being here i'm the executive director of san francisco bayview office of care we're the largest mum civil rights organization you've heard the numbers and the need for everyone to report what is going on i want to share a story with you the day after the election we received a notice in our office that a young woman at a local university was xhofrtd in a parking lot by a man who in broad daytime pulled at her head scarf and took off they were
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unable to find him she encouraging came forward and talked about the trauma, the physical pain of what she experienced and the fear she had for so many 09 others in her community in the week after the elections we documented over one hundred mum incidents across the country including many in california and several right here in the bay area the caveat we share about the number is that for every person that come forward and reports we hear of so many that post on facebook who tell their family pay friends by not you file an official report the support we see today no, from the city leadership is critical they can only serve us if people are coming forward and providing the data of what their experiencing otherwise, it looks like there is no trump effect we know in
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un2ku789d and light and muslim communities 9 trump assess has changed the way we will our daily lives people are looking power their shoulder a not walking alone at night the data critical we need the numbers and story thank you for being here. and thank you to the leadership of the city and county of san francisco for saying we will stand with everyone that is targeted that we will not let our rights be stripped way and we will provide additional resources to protect each other thank you, again. >> (clapping.) >> thank you so much for the power stories and resources i want to highlight we actually have cards that are distributed around our support the support we would like to go forward in joining force to see that the combat against hate and the the
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san francisco hiv has gracely produced the cards we'll produce more and the resources are all the departments some of the resources they offer and again, you, calls 9-1-1 in case of an emergency reminding remind everyone today is about san francisco standing against hate we'll not tolerant hate or support hate we'll stand as one and continue supporting all the exists community here in san francisco so i'm going to ask our partners the criminal leader the president of the interfather basis council to lead us. >> (clapping.) >> this city is about love you have a cowboy standing up here on city hall and be able to play we'll do ourselves good dear friends let us love one another love comes from god
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everyone that loves is born of god and loves know god is love that's love our city thank you >> (clapping.) >> thank you, again we'd like to go forward and thank you to everyone for making their way and before bacteria to you to our human right and the san francisco unified school district the city departments including the san francisco police department for taking leadership thank you, -
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>> san francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where spectacular views are by piers and sight and sounds are xhanl changing we come to the here for exercise relax ball games entertainment, recreation market, exhilaration a wide variety of contributions easily enjoyed look up the bay the waterfront is boosting for activities boosting over 25 visitors every year the port of san francisco manages 7 may have million dollars of waterfront from hyde
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street and fisherman's wharf to the cargo terminals and name shoreline the architecture like pier 70 and the ferry building is here for the embarcadero and a national treasure the port also supports 10 different maritime industries alongside with the recreational attractions making san francisco one of the most viable working waterfronts in the world but did you think that our waterfront faces serious challenges if earthquake to damage the seawall and the embarcadero roadway rising seawalls will cause flooding at high tides and major repairs to a safe many of the piers the port is at a critically turnl
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point time to plan for the future of san francisco's waterfront this year the port is updating it's marts plan the plan working group to invite a wide variety of poichdz from the city and bayview and other advisory teams to share their expertise if intense and maritime operations the waterfront land use plan has guided the use and development of the lanes for the last 20 years major physical changes take place along the waterfront and now is the time to update the waterfront plan to continue improvements that will keep our waterfront vibrate, public and resilient the biggest challenges facing the waterfront are out the site
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an aging seawall along the embarcadero roadway and seawalls that will rise by 21 hundred to provide and productivity of tides seawall is built over weak soils and mud the next earthquake will cause it to settle several feet without the urgent repairs that will damage the promenade and other things we've been fortunate over the last hundred years less than one foot of seawall over the next hundred years scientists say we'll have 6 feet of seawall rise imagine the pier 30/32 will be floated, the embarcadero will be flooded our transportation system is fog to be heavy impacts unfortunately, the port didn't have the financial resources to
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repair all the deteriorating piers let alone the adaptations for sea level rise. >> it is clear that the port can't pay for the seawall reinforcement or deal with the sea level rise on its own needs to raise money to take care of the properties at take care of the maintenance on the properties no way absent anti funding the issues of sea level rise or the schematic conditions of seawall can be development. >> as studies talk about the seawall challenges the working group is look at the issues please come share our ideas about recreation, pier activities, shoreline habitat, historic preservation and transportation issues and viral protection. >> we know this planning process will not have one
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question and one answer we need the diversity of the opinions how people feel about san francisco waterfront and want to hear all the opinions. >> the challenges call for big decisions now is the time to explore now and creative ideas to protect and preserve san francisco waterfront. >> now is the time to get involved to help to shape the future of our waterfront. >> we need the debate please come forward and engage in the process. >> this is your waterfront and this is your opportunity to get involved be part of solution help san francisco create the waterfront we want for the future. >> this is really to dream big and i think about what our waterfront looked like for all san franciscans today and generations to come. >> get involved with the planning process that will set the fraction for what is coming
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at the port. >> find for in upgrading dates on the ports website. >> (ship blowing horn in distances)
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