tv Mayors Press Availability SFGTV April 23, 2017 11:45am-12:01pm PDT
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supervisor sheehy was appointed this feeling of oh, my god we are going to be sown and heard over and over again throughout the meeting we want to say we know what is it like to have an ally it is important and critical but critical as a marginalized community to have the in place at the table to know from our heart and from our own personal externals what a community needs as a queer person and a person that is amp and a person with hiv there are such personal imitates niece i want to say thank you. thank you to everybody ♪ room for the work you're doing it is incredible thank you >> thank you any other
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speakers. >> all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. is there a motion for this hearing. >> i'll make a motion to file the hearing. >> seconded by supervisor sheehy and we'll take that without objection. is madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there's no further business. >> all right. we're adjournedhe
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>> happy opening day here at the park everyone this is great to be here if you watch as i did with the padres did with the giants did it the right way to make sure that our president was here on opening day i'm joining thousands of other fancy asked larry if he wants me that pitch i think he can get it across the plate by join larry area and you are partnerships for opening day it what we get to do this is great baseball is back more the world is at peace i'll at peace and i know all of the fans are going to be a great season a
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winning season and i can't wait for the first pitch in addition to that today, we're joined with a lot of great partners on this program called heading home campaign i know are many families in san francisco that are suffering and want to also be successful they want to be here in the city and our school district we counted about 18 hundred kids that are part of families challenged with living here the expense and the lack of housing we're doing everything we can he to build affordable housing we have to be working with the groups helping people stay where they are and have stable lives and places to be this is all for our kids their education so we're working with the school district we're working with hampton services and the giants and airbnb who put all it together
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and you know what, you'll have more runs coming in san francisco another the at&t park we're noungsz a new program i love it larry it is the giants score more and more runs and every run they score we'll have money for more families to make sure they survive and do better here in san francisco this is called the heading home campaign and remarkable that is remarkable how the giants and and/or before got together with family hampton tom ton and came up with a solution may not be the total solution but part of a $30 million program that we're launching with san francisco to end homelessness homeless families right here in san francisco this is a wonderful day of opening day with all of our partners doing the right thing to make sure our city is
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more successful to every run that is scored at the another person will be another thousand dollars up to $3,300,000 i think we'll get more people you do 4 hundred runs we'll get more people to cover to we have partners that wanted more runs for the giant do not we counted last year, we have about three hundred and 41 home runs like pension fund and probation officer i didn't and panic and every madison square garden got a few home runs it will be hundreds of thousands of dollars for hamilton to make sure we have more homes for the homeless families we have a big heart i know the biggest heart is with our giants with our home run kings and hampton and uber working together to make the
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city even greater i'm here not just on opening day but to introduce someone i admired got a chances to work with him we enjoy the home runs after the giants scored i'm ready to make sure that the giants win that whole game and, of course, our president of our giants larry. >> thank you, thank you very much and thank you, mayor ed lee thank you for your leadership ♪ program from what i heard from the mayor sounds like we have in the city a executive order your in favor the executive order to the giant for 10 runs a game every home game how about that >> as the mayor said we're really proud really the collaboration with the public
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and private sector collaboration with wonderful work of the department of homelessness and jeff a tremendous leader to embattle homelessness with the hamilton family and nonprofit which is a fanatic status quo leader in homelessness addressing homelessness with unusual our corporate partner and the giants put tote this program and as the mayor said $1,000 for every run scored will be depended on to the cause and we think equally powerful a year long program we'll be making announcements upon the run being scored the giants run scored that the fans can text in the ball park can text to a number and can dependent a dollar hundreds dollars or thousand
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dollars to the cause over the years will be meaningful i grew up in san francisco and went to the public schools and what i leaders about the issue this is in a solvable issue of first names homelessness one child on average in every classroom/15 is homeless at the end of the school goes to a place other than a home to sleep at night that is something we have to solve and fix we have a wonderful as the mayor said a $30 million goal a wonderful fee funding $10 million that we're well on the way and with our help and support we will get there and end family homelessness in this city over the next several months and years
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i want to introduce our partner as i wanted has been unbelievable in their leadership and hamilton family jeff who is the mayor's office came from the leading nonprofit in the country dealing with homelessness i want to welcome him in the hamilton family. >> thanks everyone i'm really honored to be here representing that hamilton families i want to thank the mayor of san francisco the san francisco giants and uber a few years ago we embarked on a campaign that is now called the heading home with the vision of ending family homelessness in san francisco it was a very bold decision by jeff the director at hamilton and calling out to the city to unit with them and raise $30 million and bring us back to a
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rent-controlled place we can say that every child has a place to call home at night it is our tag line is san francisco strong it is wonderful to see that have he very strong community we're uniting with the unified school district and salesforce and twitter many individuals and now the fans of giant are going to have a chance to join in the community and partnership along with the giant and uber to make many a reality we have a way to go to get to the $30 million and all of the community and gientsdz are make that happen thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> oh, and more importantly our last speaker how can i forgot go todd a former parent in the hamilton program with his daughter will share his experience with us.
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>> (clapping.) >> thank you you know how they say save the best for last i'll projecting not do that anyway, thank you to the mayor for ending homelessness during the recession i lost my job senile all my investment because of length of the recession was not able to main the stabltd of home life for my daughter i i haven't had became homeless and ended up in hamilton and was assigned case management they got me directed to the mayor's office of housing where i was able to secure a below-market rate unit and salesforce granted me a subsidy which was important allowed me to not have my daughter suffer not be able to do the things and get the things she needed they were able to
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deliver the services with a human touch everything from school backpacks and presents and all that i really am grateful today, i'm in the same apartment have a permanent job and things are looking up my daughter will be in high school invocation and it is my dream to live in san francisco so this allowed me to stay here i'm from john rahaim. >> to the mayor and uber and the giants and i hope this story helps other families and please join us in 2017 to end family homelessness and honored to be the first one at the home opener this year to say go giants. >> (clapping.) >> all right. that's it let's
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>> good morning, and i'm sitting in on edna is no longer on the dos commission and sarina is on vacation and so i am going to sit in as an interim. and i think that we need to formalize that in some way and i am going to take the guidance from the secretary. with he need to open a nomination. >> all right. >> correct. >> and i nominate commissioner sims to be the interim president for today's meeting. >> i second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. so roll call? >> vice president is excused, itani. present. >> loo. >> ow. >> here. >> roy. >> here. >>
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