that's enough. >> supervisor ronen, good morning to you, supervisor walton, good morning to you, supervisor martin, good morning to you. i would like to talk with you about some of the issues that are happening in the east slope where i live. and you are my supervisor. please keep up the good work you are doing, certainly i admired the things you were doing, keep it up. your brother is a friend of mine i'm glad to see all appear doing your job. i'm here to support mr. chan who has been a long time friend of mine. i have watched him do extensive work with, pauls around veteran issues, raising funds, and reaching up across multicultural lines to support individuals that are veterans that are in need of help. i'm a proponent of not what people say, but with what they do, and i have watched him do extensive work around veteran issues, and that is why i want to support him. i hope you taken into

consideration. >> thank you so much. please reach out any time, by the way, to my office, i would love to meet with you. okay, good. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is george, i'm the current secretary of the veterans affairs commission, and although i am here obviously supporting the president and vice president, mostly because i don't want to get stuck with any of the work they do, i also wanted to speak out and support today of mr. douglas buller to could not be here because of a family emergency. i have had the honour of knowing doug for about 20 years. he is an exceptional person and one of his strengths, i think as though he is an engineer by trade and has technical and detailed ability, he is really a people person. he engages with people tremendously across all sectors and across all walks, and he has been, up till now, a staunch advocate for lgbt groups as well as for newly commissioned and

listening personnel that occur in the military, and as a vietnam era veteran, that can be a strength for the commission in that he can serve as a bridge between those folks that have come in -- or have needs from the vietnam era, to our post- 911 folks. i say i would like to make fun of him all the time and tell them he is old, with the fact is he brings wisdom and skills that i think could be beneficial for the commission, and could help generally for everyone, and i think most of you, there are a few of you on the rules committee here who are aware of his work and the fact he has been very active in policy here in san francisco. he's been a long time residents, 27 years in the city. i met him when he was at the university of san francisco, and i just wanted to make sure you knew that he does have very strong support here to receive a position on the commission. >> may i ask you a quick question, how many vietnam that's our own the commission currently? >> actually, i think we only have to watch what right now,

three? >> three, great, thank you so much. >> thank you. good morning, as our next speaker comes up, if anyone else would like to speak, please stand in line over here. thank you so much. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is al, i'm a friend of hanley chan. i'm a retired police officer of 34 years for san francisco, and i know of handley and his work as a private investigator. also, as a law enforcement officer, i have been very compassionate towards the veterans. one of the things -- one other thing is i have to say i applaud the service of all these veterans behind me. i've been very enlightened today just hearing all of these different issues concerning the veterans, and i applaud their work also in what they're doing. everyone has a little niche -- in each -- has a little niche in this field.

i'm also a charter president of the san francisco unified lions club. i have been a member of the lions club for 20 years. the lions club is the world largest service organization. we are vested in doing a lot of things for veterans, homelessness, meetings, different projects that are lions club does. also in this district, there are two lions club his that are mainly for veterans. i want to say that lien hanley chan has been a line for three different lions club his and he has followed me along three couple of clubs and done a lot of work with the lions. also, i am a friend of a chinese-american veterans organization. handley is with them also and hasn't a lot of work with them also. he is a parent, he is involved

in a lot of community organizations. i'm also a business owner, a restaurant that i have run for 18 years. he is all around a community advocate for a lot of things. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much hi, good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is linda and i am no stranger to this community. i am a foster parent of 30 years that deals with children with autism and disability, mental disability, i am here because not only because of my background, 42 years in the community activism, but i have a daughter and her husband to served in the navy for 17 great years that my daughter has been separated from our family and her children. i basically raised the grandchild because of the mental

torture that a child goes through. i am coming here as a parent, and as an advocate for hanley chan. i know him personally, i know what he is capable of. my family has a strong history in law enforcement, in military background. my relatives served our community and our nation as well on all levels. i know what mr. chan's background is all about. i know his capabilities, and i know what he can do all around in community services, activism, and his leadership, and i didn't hear it being mentioned today about how the children of military parents are effected, and i am on the level of all veterans, but overall, on a lower spectrum, i know mr. handley would be the person

that could cover all the bases for the needs of all of our veterans, all of our families and their needs, and i want to thank you today for hearing me out. i had to come as a mother of a daughter of 17 years, she and her husband in the navy, the difficulties that they are going through with their family, mental disability, placement of schools, relocating from place to place. please give him that opportunity to be that advocate. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. next speaker. >> hello, my name is raymond, i am here to say that i wholeheartedly support hanley chan for the veterans affair commission. that is it. >> thank you. [laughter] is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed.

okay, you have given us an impossible task this morning. first of all, i just wanted to thank you all so much first for your service to the country, it is complicated because i am a person who does not like to cs go to war ever, and i am a peace activist, and it pains me to see sometimes the reasons that our federal government sends us to war, and then i am deeply, deeply concerned with how this country often treats veterans when they come back from war. i don't think we do nearly enough at any level of government for our veterans after being recruited heavily

into the armed services, and then putting your lives at risk and separating yourselves from your families and your communities and your children to then come back and not be welcomed and given any and all support that you so much deserve , is something that pains me, and to hear you all speak, and your brilliant ideas and your willingness to serve yet again your local government and community by applying to be on this position, and use your knowledge and your passion for the veteran community to make sure that everyone is okay, and that nobody is left behind is really absolutely inspiring. i just want to thank you all so very much for everything that you have done, for your country, and now for san francisco by willing to serve on this commission.

i would appoint every single one of you who spoke today. i wish we had enough seats because, the talent in this group is extraordinary, and it is not something that we always see when we have applicants for commissions, that we have a list of people that literally i could appoint at every single one of you, but -- i want to turn it over to my colleagues, but i would just say that i would personally love to see the reappointment of our two incumbent commissioners, "i think who have been doing an excellent job and having that continuity on the commission i think is really important, so that is the one thing i will put out there before i turned it over to my colleagues as we are faced with this incredibly difficult decision before us.

supervisor walton? >> thank you. i just wants to, of course, accident -- extent may thank you to all the veterans here today, and also say it is good to see so many people interested in serving and supporting and helping our veterans, if this is not an easy decision to make, but i did want to thank everyone for coming out today. >> supervisor mark? >> thank you. i just wanted to echo my colleagues' sentiments in sincere thank you to all the applicants and the veterans here today in all of your service to our country and your willingness to serve our city and the va commission. as somebody who is family a lot of veterans, and many of my close friends are veterans, the issues that you all spoke spoke to today very close to me

personally, and they're also so important to the city, like supervisor walton, i'm about three months into this new role on the board of supervisors, and we have been dealing with a lot of big issues here in the city, from the housing affordability crisis, homelessness, public safety, and our justice system, and i think the issues, and especially the veterans community, your issues aren't -- haven't really been identified and prioritized at the level that they really should be in our city, and all of your issues are very connected to the other big issues that we are dealing with, as you spoke to so eloquently today, so again, thank you so much, and this is very much a learning opportunity for me, just to starts getting more of a deeper understanding of the issues for the veterans

community, and i look forward to following up with all of you on working on these important issues. thank you. >> thank you. can i suggest we do the easy part and if i can make a motion to reappoint victor to seat one and david chastain to seat four, if we can take that without objection, without objection, that passes, and then it looks like supervisor walton might have a suggestion. >> i do want to make a motion and i want everyone to understand that a big part of this motion also is a relationship to diversity and making sure that we do have a diverse commission as we move forward. with that said, i would like to recommend positively george for

seat eight, agreement for seat 11, and please forgive me if i'm mispronouncing your name, stephen pinto for seat seven, and hanley chan for seat nine. >> i am looking at supervisor mar, do you have any thoughts? >> i think those are very good recommendations, supervisor walton just put forward. i guess, again, reflecting the difficulty with having so many great and really qualified applicants, i had a little bit

of different notes. i felt like christopher mcdonald's really would bring important life experience around housing that i think are very important, and then even though he wasn't here to speak for himself, doug bullard, the applicant. i think he also brings a tremendous amount of experience here in san francisco, and also his leadership with the jrotc program within our schools, being such a leader on that important program. >> okay. [laughter] >> i was also blown away by mr. tucker. this is an impossible situation.

so i'm trying to figure out how to move forward. it sounds like we have at least two commissioners who are supportive of sorry, so in addition to christopher mcdonald's and doug bullard, who are the other two commissioners? >> i had stephen martin pinto and hanley chan bring a wealth of experience. >> got it. so let's do this. it sounds like we have agreement to move forward with positive recommendation stephen martin pinto to seat seven and hanley chan to seat 11. am i getting this right? >> nine. nine is what i recommended. >> okay. >> but if it is 11 --

>> let's do that, seat nine. there is a motion to move forward with positive recommendation stephen martin pinto to seat seven and hanley chan to seat nine, and we will take that without objection. that motion passes, so now we have two more seats to a point, and that is seat 11 and to seat eight, is that correct? sorry, if -- let me walk through that, supervisor mar is supporting mr. mcdonald and bullard, mr. mcdonald for seat 11, mr. bullard for seat eight, and supervisor walton is super -- is reporting -- supporting, can you remind me? >> i had mr. aubert. >> and for seat eight?

>> okay. what i would like to do then is make a motion to move forward christopher mcdonald to seat 11 and george chan -- george chung to seat eight. >> i'm okay with that. >> are you okay with that? okay. then that motion passes without objection. again, this was one of the harder ones that we have faced up here, so i know that there is going to be many more opportunities for you all to serve on this commission. i would really encourage -- the

mayor has more appointments, and if you reach out to me, that i can put you in contact with the mayor's appointment advisor who i know is wonderful, and i know who would love to meet you because this was impossible. as i today, so i would ask you not -- to keep engaging, because we need your brilliance in this county, and then i also want to end by saying that i really look forward to working with you all much more closely. please feel free, any time to reach out to my office. i want to be supportive of your work and really help move forward your agenda. so thank you so much for everything. >> i would just like to repeat to make sure i have them all.

>> sure. >> i have mr. hanley chan to seat nine, david chastain to seat four, george chung to seat eight, stephen martin pinto to seat seven, christopher mcdonald to seat 11 and victor olivier to seat one. >> yes, that is correct. thank you so much. thank you, everyone for your time and your service. mr. clark, can you please read item number 3? >> item number 3 is a motion appointing a member of the board of supervisors for an indefinite term to the association of bay area governments metropolitan transportation commission legislation of -- legislative task force. >> thank you. because i have applied for this position, i'm wondering if someone can make a motion to excuse me. >> so moved. >> second. >> i believe that motion to excuse supervisor roundness pass

without objection. >> without objection. mr. clark, thank you. supervisor mar, do you have any comments on this item? >> no. >> no. no comments from my colleagues. any members of the public would like to comment on this item? public comment is closed. no public speakers. with that said, supervisor mar,. >> would you like to make a motion to amend the motion to insert supervisor ronen's name as the appointee? >> yeah, i move that we amend the motion and insert supervisor ronen's name as the appointee. >> agree and move forward. >> i also would make a motion that we move supervisor ronen's appointment to the association

of bay area government and metropolitan transportation commission, legislative task force with positive recommendation from the full board. >> that motion passes without objection. >> thank you, with that said, anymore business before us? >> would you like to bring the chair back in? [laughter] >> that completes the agenda for today. >> meeting is adjourned. >> perfect.

[♪] >> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here.

[♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪]

>> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond

is a great place for families. the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the

neighborhood. this is what we love about the streets. the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new

owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over

29 years. we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper

ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered.

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>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi.

so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling

here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals.

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