tv League of Women Voters SFGTV March 1, 2024 3:06am-3:16am PST
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>> my name is david lee i'm returning for state advisable in 19 and to bring ideas and voice to sacramento and born and raised in san francisco and i grew up got married and started a family here i know that san francisco is the greatest city in the world my wife owns a small business and we all share a lot for the city. i've dedicated too dictates in public gave me and working with the chinese-american program and conduct voter outreach and caucus to the bayview and for 15 year been a civil rights
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education and work in the college support he esl and many oil with api and my goal to empower. hundred years ago people who look like me and now you look at the assembly many of the most powerful voices identify and we had such great legislators and many come from the api community i'm running as a long term api member and educator and if leblth fight to make tuition in california community colleges 100 percent free and cost of living is difficult for students to comfortably attend colonel in the richmond have belittle nefarious and we're failing san franciscans and the next julie christensen i'm running to
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represent my home and building i can make that more equitable for generations to come. >> i'm candidate for assembly be district 19. >> i've been told why i'm running well, i'm running to be here and pack speak when i and before any statements and i remind walking down the road and in the pointing and listen to yourself the person is crazy they've got in their you laptop and this is san francisco don't they know. yeah probably true. would you steer it? >> what is is that made you more superior?
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>> i believe it is possible to build a society where all people in this situation we're people are accents and if you believe the dismantling the next question how do we do it? that my friend is the question of government and it has been the question of government since the creation how do we promote the welfare. how do we do it? >> i don't believe we're going to get there by the writing is on the wall welfare checks or getting ourselves out of the situation we have to be smarter and thank you for listening and at the for or even and thank you, for your consideration god bless you and god bless san
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>> when o'shaughnessy dam opened 1923, there was a grand celebration that was an achievement of ensuring san francisco's new water supply but it was the beginning of a unique collaboration between the city of san francisco and yosemite national park. >> lands around the dam are critically important. we, along with the park service have a very common goal thereof protection of that watershed, both for national park values and water supply values in yosemite is the cub tree's premiere national park visited by millions of visitors but the protection of our watershed and the city provides significant outside funding for the national park, over $8 million a year is for trail maintenance and wilderness education and park
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operations and security keeping the water safe and the park a haven. >> one hundred years ago when the dam was first built, there was a different view of the environment back then, than there is today. and the dam was part of changing that view across the nation. that brings an importance to our work here at o'shaughnessy dam, how we manage this dam and manage our releases and the environment downstream, it's very important to san francisco that we need that challenge. >> for 100 years, o'shaughnessy dam and the park service ensured the bay area has clean water, along with ongoing stewardship much our precious natural resources. >> this o'shaughnessy >> item 50 is resolution calling on department of public health to provide medically necessary transition
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related care for transgender related people and remove restrictions. >> in 2012 gender health sf was born out of advocacy from community stakeholders and local leaders. really as response to providing quality, accessible jnder aaffirming care for the most under-served. (indiscernible) the way i see it, there is two ways of folks we serve at our program. the first wave of folks who never imagined surgery access was accessible to them. many folks who had to save money or par ticipate in underground economy to access the surgery outside the country. (indiscernible) really to make something real in terms of being able to connect with the gender identity and external (indiscernible) and so transform so many lives of many of trans folks who never imagined it was accessible to them. now we are in the different era
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and time where transrights is in the social political and general (indiscernible) and now we are serving young folks to support them and making sure their gender identity is connected to who they are, so providing a space to support transfolks to live authentically and that is the goal to provide the level of care trans folks deserve. >> when it comes to access to healthcare, while we all believe in cost control and make sure we deliver healthcare in a cost effective manner, i dont think that cost is a reason or legitinate rational to exclude people from healthcare (indiscernible) colleagues i ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor wiener. colleagues on this item can we do this without role call? same house same call,
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without objection the resolution is adopted. [applause] >> hello, i'm shanna with the league of women's voters of san francisco. along with the league and sfgov tv, i'm here to discuss proposition j, a ballot measure which will be before the voters on tuesday, november 8th. currently, the city has closed certain public streets to private motor vehicles, reserving the streets as open space for recreational purposes. these closures were enacted in response to the covid-19 pandemic. in may, 2022, the board of supervisors adopted an ordinance called the
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