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tough to endorse against someone that you are sitting with. they were there from the very beginning and i'm so proud to have supported sandy fewer and hillary ronin in their campaigns, they have been such extraordinary supervisors. if they would be willing to come up and sort of keep me company as i get sworn in. and then the other person i would like to invite to stand with me is the former supervisor for district 8. [applause]
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devin has been a prince over the last year. he has been so helpful with so much good advice. it has been sometimes rough road, this campaign, but he has been wonderful and calling me almost on a daily basis since the election with more helpful advice. thank you. i wanted to have city attorney herrera swear me in today because he is a an an exemplary public servant. i spent my life working with and for local governments and the last three years was the deputy city attorney in oakland. i have so much admiration for the work that the folks in our
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city attorney's office do. whether it is defending tenants against the worse of the worse landlords doing terrible things to standing up to trump, to ensuring that we enforce sensible regulations of new industries to all the other things that dennis herrera and his fine office do. last but not least in anyway, oh, by the way, saving city college. [applause] so, i wanted to have dennis swear me in today. he knows how to do this a lot better than i do. i'll just put this up here. >> just make sure everybody can hear. >> all right. >> everybody here? all right. here we go. raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> all right. >> i, rafael mandelman.
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>> i rafael mandelman. >> do sol emily swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. and the constitution of the state of the california. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. and i will be bear true faith and allegiance. to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of the california. >> and the constitution of the state of the cost. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any reservation or purpose of ovation. >> and that i will well and healthful' discharge. >> the duties which i am about to enter. >> during such time. >> and during such time. >> as i hold the office. >> of member of board of supervisors. >> and san francisco transportation authority. of the city and county of san francisco. >> of the city and county of san francisco.
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>> congratulations. [applause] thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. a few brief remarks. they will be brief, i promise. very brief. one thing i want to make sure i do is acknowledge some of the extraordinary public service talents we have in this room. my incredibly able staff to be as given me a list. i want to start by acknowledging
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gina masconi who is here with us. thank you so much for being here. [applause] for your wonderful children and for all that you represent for san francisco. thank you for doing me the honor of being here for this and thank you tom horn for bringing your good friend here this afternoon with us. we also have with us assembly member phil tang. [applause] assembly member david chu. [applause] >> supervisor fewer, who you just saw. [applause] supervisor peskin. [applause] supervisor jane kim. [applause] i left out katy tang and i left out katy tang.
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[laughter] [applause] and catherine stephanie. hillary ronin we just saw. and i do want to thank president cohen for opening her office for us for refreshments afterwards. for allowing us to use this room. i want to thank our sheriff, vickey hennessey. [applause] and a day like today is a major challenge, i know for all, for the sheriff and the deputy sheriff and i want to thank you for all that you've done with us today. our treasure jose. [applause] >> our district attorney george
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gascone. [applause] our public defender jeff adache. [applause] we have -- our bar director, of course. [applause] we have our chancellor from city college mark roacha. [applause] and our board president -- >> right here! [laughter] >> brigitte, not to be unacknowledged. [applause] our vice president alex randolf. [applause] past president sia sellby. john rizzo. carmen chu, i didn't acknowledge carmen chu. thank you for being here. do we have school board in the house?
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matt haney is here, thank you for being here. [applause] our former mayor art agnus. [applause] i think they like you, art. and i think that is it. have i gotten the former city college christie timwolfbridge. our first gay city college trustee tim, who paved the way and our constitute trustee simmons is here as well. there are some folks who worked on this campaign without whom i would not be here. they are led by my campaign manager, kyle she'lly who is going tsmealie.mckenzie ewuing d
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director. brendon shucard who did great work for us. and our fantastic interns i hope many of you will be coming into city hall with us. i know some of you are. scott carlson, john tell, jackie, jock steinberger. amelia -- i can't say her last name. and then i also want to acknowledge mark leno's campaign manager who will be coming in as another legislative aid in our office, aaron mundy. [applause] and last but not least wrapping up his business as a small business owner, bar owner, tom
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te mprano could not be here but starts next week, he will be my third legislative aid. [applause] i am not even going to try to acknowledge ever single neighborhood, leader, c.b.d. head, labor leader, so many folks, the leaders of alice and milk and there are so many fantastic folks in this room, i'm going to stop there. but thank you all for being here to share this special, special day with me. i also have another cheat sheet i have to check. we are so lucky to have an amazing city clerk, angela calvillo. [applause] and her staff, not only the sheriff, deputy sheriff but a
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clerk office. a day like this is a lot of work and you have been so accommodating to us so thank you all for that. so i wouldn't be here without a couple of folks who are sitting out here. i just gott got emotion a two pe who took me in when i was a kid and i did not have a place to live. that is bernie and elinor burke. [applause] >> they're pretty great. i'm very lucky to have you in my life. to have you two in my life. but i do get easily re. i would like to acknowledge and
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talk a little bit about two women who are not here today, but who have influenced my life in profound ways. my mother was a very important character in this campaign. i talked a lot about her. she died actually during the course of the campaign. my mother struggled with mental illness for most of her life. the reason i did not have a place to live as a teenager was her struggles with mental illness. many of you know this, you read the heath nights story or live in strict 8 and had her show up at your doorstep, she spent time in a homeless shelter. when i was older, i was able to intervene in her life and get her into a slightly better place. a much better place. the experience of having that
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person in my life and seeing the reality of the mental health challenges to folks struggle with has left me with a real certainty that there are people in this world who cannot take care of themselves and it is our job to take care of them. [applause] housing is necessary but it is not sufficient. and so one of the first things i did after being elected as supervisor was to go up to sacramento, along with our mayor elect to testify and say we're 1045 which is a bill that will expand conserveto rships. it is a tool. it's controversial and complicated. my colleagues have different feelings about it and i look forward to engaging in conversations with them overtime. i do believe if we chose to
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implement this tool locally it will call our bluff. it's not enough, of course, to say we're going to do conservetorships. do you make the resources available to ensure you provide care for the people who need it? we know and the folk folks who e concerned remember that when we institutionalize on a mass basis people who were different or unwell that is not a history we should be proud of. i think the san francisco in 2018 can do better. i think we can do better than we did in the 50s and we can do better than we're doing now. [applause] that is a strong commitment of mine. the other person who i think got short shipped in this campaign was my grandmother. my grandmother, esther, is the
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strongest person who i have ever known. she was a holocaust survivor. when the war broke out she was young. she had a child three months before the war broke out. that child was my dad. somehow my grandmother kept herself and my dad alive through those six years of hell. at the end, her parents were dead, her husband, my grandfather was head and most of her brothers and sisters were dead. she lost her home, her farm, everything. she had lost basically her whole life except this one little kid who she loved very much, my dad. after six years in displaced persons camps in europe, they came to the united states and my grandmother had that typical american immigrant story where she worked and scraped and saved and built a new life for herself and her family and ultimately for me.
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i learned many things from my grandmother. i learned about and this corny but the promise of this country and what it's meant here in the united states and around the world to so many people. i also learned she loved this country. she was also very aware of its challenges. she con understand as a county as wealthy as this country and a country she loved so much could have so many poor people. this was at a time when the gap between rich and poor in the united states was narrowing as opposed to now when it's expanding. those values have been passed on to me from my grandmother and they're very important to me. the most important lesson that i think was the experience of my grandmother's generation shows us is that the fabric of civilized life of decency and civility and human beings treating each other well is surprisingly tenuous. it requires people working
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really hard ever single day all of us to keep this thing together. now we know that there is a world around san francisco and around california that is getting stranger and stranger and more and more chaotic and hostile and difficult. and i believe, we heard a lot from the mayor elect this morning about the need for san franciscans to come together to get beyond historic difference and to try and make a future based on the vast majority of the values we share and we do not share with some of the stuff going on out there. i really believe in that. and i take from my grandmother's life and her experience a real commitment to working every single day to try and take the values that we share and make them real and make sure city actually a shining example of what we want this whole country, this whole world to be. i think we can do it and i'm excited to do that work. and i'm looking forward to
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joining the folks up here in doing it. i have worked, as i said earlier, with a lot of elected officials in my lifetime over the last 20 years, folks around the bay area at city council and lots of places. this body is well above average. [laughter] [applause] >> this is a very impressive set of folks. they don't get treated necessarily always so well. as people and their commitment and their intelligence and their passion, i've seen elected official who's don't share those great talents, so my pledge to all of you is to be someone who you can trust, who is reliable. and who is a good partner for you and the work we want to represent our diverse constituencies and the city we love. to our new mayor, i want to extend my great congratulations and enthusiasm for her
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mayoralty. how extraordinary this city is going to be led by an african american woman who grew up in the projects. [applause] >> it was everyone out there this morning could feel a pride in this city and a pride in what we're going to represent in this era that unfortunately will be known as the trump era. but i am so excited. i know we are excited to work together to solve homelessness and build more affordable housing and give san francisco the 21st septembe century transm we deserve. to the voters of district 8, i want to give them my extraordinary thanks for being willing to take a second look. [applause] >> and taking me at my word when i said i wanted to try to get
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beyond the petty differences that seem to have divided our city politics for too long. my pledge to them is to everything i can to make good on that promise from the campaign and keep true to that. that's what i'm going to do. thank you all so much for coming and being part of this and i know there are people who i forgot to acknowledge and i shouldn't and i apologize. i hope you will join us over in president cohen's office for some beverages and some fine foods. thank you, everybody. [applause]
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for broadcasting the meeting. mr. clerk, can you please call the roll? [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. i will begin with the chair's report today. and i just want to highlight recently as we test out different technologies on treasure island that the metropolitan transportation commission, which i also sit on, effort to update the clipper transit fare payment system. clipper has made great strides in integrating bay area operator
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transit fares to a single fare card but the system is decades old and in need of renewal and enhancement. clipper 2.0 is a critical opportunity to achieve excellent customer service experience, bring technology to transportation payment and improve administrative effiency for operators and agencies including timma. as we move forward with the next generation of clipper, we need to ensure that clipper 2.0 will be nimble and advance forward. new york city, who is going through a similar process, has chosen to do away with paper tickets altogether and introducing a mobile option for phones as well. los angeles is piloting a platform that allows passengers to pay transit and toll with a single account. we want a system that is able to integrate with other transportation services. i want to urge us to help ensure clipper incorporates the innovative ideas and ensures
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seamless transitions between multiple modes of transportation. i look forward to working with my colleagues here at mtc to look at clipper 2.0 and making transit more convenience and affordable for current and future residents alike. i want to -- i apologize, mr. clerk. could you call items 2 and 3. >> clerk: item 2, chair's report, information item. item 3, executive director report, information item. >> supervisor kim: i would like to bring up our deputy director to present. >> good morning, eric cordoba, area director capital project. happy to deliver the executive director's report. let's start with the good news, regional measure 3 has been approved. that's good news for timma, especially when it comes to a potential $300 million ready and available for ferry, transportation, capital projects across the region, including treasure island. we expect funding will be available in early 2019 and we
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look forward to working with mtc and the water emergency transportation authority on accessing this prague rachlt let's move on to the regional mobility as service opportunities. we've had discussions and participating with mtc and the bay area transit agencies related to the clipper fare payment system that you just mentioned. the clipper -- there's a clipper executive board that oversees the system's next generation upgrade known as c2. the clipper executive board discusses the role of the clipper system in supporting mobility as a service or moss. you will hear a lot of that term here over the next couple of years. month is an alternative to vehicle ownership where people can access shared mobility, with trip planning, payment and
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navigation. timma staff will participate in follow-up discussions in that regard. we provided a letter of support just recently to the contra costa transportation authority for an application for federal transportation management, technologies, grant funds. the grant award would support the region alamos platform with initial deployment in contra costa. let's move on to water transportation, which is a major potential benefit here for the island. and that we as staff are starting it focus on. at its march 1, 2018, meeting, we authorized staff to proceed with an exploratory study of smaller vessel explorations. they would look at the cleaner vessels delivered relatively quickly for initial service for locations such as treasure island. from our perspective, treasure
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island is probably one of the optimum locations to have a pilot in that regard. if you have had the opportunity to move back and forth between treasure island and the ferry building, it's only about a 10- to 12-minute run, so we think there's a lot of opportunity here. the study will be overseen by a committee of the board comprised of directors. we're working actively with a scope of work that includes treasure island as a case study for smaller vessel service and will participate on the technical staff advisory committee. let's move on to federal highway administration. national congestion pricing conference. there's a spotlight on treasure island. fhwa invited staff to present at the pricing conference at the u.s. department of transportation in washington, d.c. there was on may 22 and 23. the conference covered a range
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of pricing strategies, for example, managed lanes, computer incentives and parking, pricing. principal planner rachel hyatt presented on overhaul of housing, pricing, travel demand management. the conference host has provided funding for timma policy analysis in the 2013-2016 time frame. moving on to local issues, we're right now actually planning a tour of the island for the commissioners. we had hoped to do it this week. the weather looked like it was going to cooperate, but we'll go ahead and do it a different day. so we'll work with your schedules, to do that, commissioner ronen, as requested. next item, advanced transportation and technology deployment. once again, the grant as reported, sfmta and sfcta have
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been awarded $10.99 million. of that total, $5 million is being utilized by timma and will support the toll system design and implementation. $300,000 will support the piloting of an autonomous circulator shuttle on the island. at its june 29, timma meeting, we provided an update on grant award and are ready to move forward with utilization of of funds and are excited to that opportunity. related to that, staff will speak at the upcoming automated vehicle symposium scheduled for july 9-12. the annual symposium is organized by the national transportation research board and so hes yugs for unmanned vehicle systems international. on the project delivery front, as it relates to construction here, there are numerous construction projects that are just starting right now on yerba buena island. let's talk first about what was
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recently completed. as you all know, the efforts that we led the i-80 westbound on and off ramps is complete. also completed vista point. we're working to make the vista point facility permanent. so working with mtc in that regard and also with the u.s. coast guard. we're really excited about that opportunity. future projects include mccalla road widening. and moving on to the next phase of work, the i-80 south gate road project, which we hope to bring to construction in spring, 2019, which transportation authority will lead. and, finally, to complete the roadway network, the west side bridges, retrofit of seismically 7 deficient bridges on the western slope of the island. we want to brung that to construction in 2020 time frame
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with the goal of having all of the major roadway infrastructure completed by the summer of 2021, including the toling systems as well as enhanced transit, a.c. transit, and in particular initial ferry service. so that's the goal. a lot ahead of us over the next three years. and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> supervisor kim: all right. at this time, see nog questions for mr. cordoba, we'll open up for public comment on items 2 and 3. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, can you please call item 4. >> clerk: approve the minutes of the january 23, 2018, meeting. this is an action meeting. >> supervisor kim: do we have a motion? a motion from sheehy and seconded by fewer. at this time, open up for public comment on item 4.
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seeing no public comment on item 4, public comment is closed. can we take a roll call, please, on item 4? [roll call] >> clerk: we have approval. >> supervisor kim: thank you. would you please call items 5 and 6 together? >> clerk: item 5, amend adopted fiscal year 2017/18 to decrease revenues annex pend tours by $2.1 million, action item. item 6, adopt the proposed fiscal year 2018/19 annual budget and work program. this is an action item. >> supervisor kim: thank you. i want to bring up cynthia fong,
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deputy finance administration to present on the adopted proposed budget amendments. that's what's in my agenda. if it's not you, i can call up somebody else. >> cynthia fong, deputy director finance administration. both items were in past timma meetings. if it's the desire it have a full presentation, staff is more than happy to, otherwise, i can take any questions that you have on this item. >> supervisor kim: seeing no questions, we have the annual budget and work program action time. and eric cordoba is available to answer any questions that committee members might have on this item. >> if there are any questions, eric and i are here to answer them. >> supervisor kim: all right. seeing no questions. at this time, open up for public comment on items 5 and 6. see nog public comment, public item is closed. can we take 5 and 6, same house,
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same call? we do that without opposition. mr. clerk, can you please call item 7. >> clerk: authorize executive director to accept on the treasure island mobility management agency's behalf all interests real property action. >> supervisor kim: any questions? we'll open it up for public comment? seeing no public comment, close public comment. can we take this same house, same call? without opposition. can you please call 8 and 9. >> clerk: item 8, introduction of new items. item 9, public comment. >> supervisor kim: any new items? seeing none, we'll open it up for public comment for 8 and general public comment. seeing no public comment, we'll close for 8 and 9. mr. clerk, are there any other
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social activities oil stephanie the vice president of operations for this. >> in 2016 an initiative called the service center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and community partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. >> my name is a - i'm with the program manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. >> the city approached us to provide food and beverages at the event kind of the core anchor to encourage attendees to food gives people a reason to stay i really like this like it is really nice like everybody is having a good time. >> our goal to enjoy the space and eat and drink and listen to
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music we wanted to inspire people with the un plaza as a place to hold they're community events. >> it is a great way to get people to know about global music and cuisine a great way to bring people together. >> a natural beautiful backdrop the asian art museum and . >> it is welcoming. >> two more events left in the series so, please come and enjoy and check it out we're having a great time. >> we love our city being a san francisco based on company it was important to engage request san franciscans and tourists alike. >> we want to inspire people and everyone interested in providing and coming out for a large or small-scale event reach
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>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and
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redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year,
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$160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day.
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no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight
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ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight
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ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how
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welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways
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