last, but not least, marlene tran. now, marlene tran is one of those persons who is kind of a quiet/loud force. she works for the san francisco unified school district and city college for over 35 years, teaching bilingual courses, working to fight for her community, in visitation valley, it is a community on the south side of san francisco that sometimes feels forgotten, feels left out, but marlene doesn't let that happen. she makes sure that everyone who is supervisor, that anyone who is mayor, they are not going to forget about visitation valley and providing this community, and especially seniors -- especially seniors -- with the support that they need to thrive and feel safe in their community. i got to know her over the past years in just watching her run for supervisor in district 10. you didn't win, but you sure did create a lot of heck. and i said, i really was drawn to her because i love the fight in her. he is unapologetic in her commitment to fight for people who oftentimes don't have a voice, especially ma

my name is william reese, and i'm a friend of marlene kramer's. i am not a resident of california. i live in chicago, but i am a registered architect, so marlene is a relative, and we're also really good friends, have been for a long time. she -- you know, i don't want to say consulted. she was asking me for some insight over this whole course of this project as to, you know, sounding board and everything else. i don't -- i didn't have any access to the plans until the other day, when we went down to the building department and reviewed the plans. and they are consistently lack of clear scope of what is actually taking place, and that has taken -- that's over the course of the whole project. so when -- when this appeal for the interior room configuration perplans, that is tweaking of little things of the big stuff they already did, okay? so it's little tiny little modifications. i want to speak to the structural concerns here, also. they did remove the retaining wall at the back of the house. there is no -- they also -- when they fixed the crack, they removed the entire slab of the

ok last but not least marlene tram now marlene tran is one of those persons who is kind of a quiet loudrked for the san francisco unified school district and city college for over thirty five years. teaching bi lingual courses working to fight for her community in visitation valley. we are familiar with that community it's a community on the south side of san francisco that sometimes feel forgotten. feel left out but marlene doesn't let that happen. she makes sure that everyone who's supervisor than anyone who's mayor? they're not gonna forget about visitation valley and providing this community and especially seniors. especially seniors with the support that they need to thrive and feel safe in their communities. i got to know her. over the past years in just watching her run for supervisor and district 10. you didn't win but too short to create a lot of heck am i said you know i really was drawn to her because i love the fight in her. she is unapologetic in her commitment to fight for people who often times. don't have a voice especially many of the seniors who in visitation valley th

rest in peace, marlene and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor ronen and supervisor safai. >> i have two introductions today. and the first one is regarding the much talked about maligned and rolled out scooter process here in san francisco. i'm asking for a hearing, the sfmta's process to create the scooting permitting, how it was done, we believe that it was done in isolation without public input. we'd like to investigate if it was ultimately fair and the best outcome for san francisco sis ad our network. we'd like that to help at the land-use and trpg transportation committee and to have input from all much the affected parties and the applicants and the sfmta and hopefully the commissioners can come and attest to that. secondly, something that supervisor -- excuse me -- president cohen and i worked on together but this is something that's been vexing the residents of district 11 for some time, we're putting forward legislation today for a special use district and district 11 as it relates to single family homes. we had an incident

brinkman: next speaker, please. >> clerk: marlene morgan, peter papadapolous, alita dupree. >> marlene morgan, president of cathedral hill homeowners association. we are in favor of improving transit and involved with development agreements geary and van ness hospitals. we met with mta repeatedly on the geary project and thanks to liz and her team for all the outreach. transit is important on the van ness and geary corridors. we have tremendous amount of eastern and western bound traffic at all times also on van ness, we have to improve through transit. the easiest improvements are on the area from gough to aguello. that is the expressway. that's the part that was created by the redevelopment agency when they bulldozed down the fillmore and japan town and built a major expressway. we could have major improvements in that area without a lot of expense. when you look at the outer richmond i have a lot of sympathy for the people who live out there, a lot smaller streets, more regular, maybe that's something we should take another look at but in our area with the rapid we are in favor of i

especially the first presenter, ma marlene tran, who has been a champion in language valley for language access. about 10 years ago she taught me a lot about working closely with the mono lingual speaking community and communicate with the community and promoting, to your point, supervisor safai, about reporting crimes and making sure that everyone knows that we have language access. so we plan on making that point this morning. the three main areas are language access, the department's response to community engagement and the department's response time f i just want to jump from te bin gg because we heard it today during public comment is our compliance with the language access ordinance. we are very familiar with the language access ordinance as well as the amendments that were made in 2015, and we cover this area and this ordinance in many ways. we utilize bilingual officers and in a moment i will give you the number of bilingual officers that we have in the department. we promote public safety and crime prevention and interact with the community with signage and about language access

marlene cativo, ruth cativo, christine reid. >> i'm marlene.i am here because i want to begging about my dad one more time. please don't let st. luke's close. this is very convenient for us. i feel very hard -- my heart is broken because when i hear about it, it's all about money. you will see my dad over there and<$4zs3; feel him fighting for survival every day. it's hard when you see all these people don't think about the people fights. only about the money. what is our sensibility, your money sensibility? think their families. think about us. we're suffering every day. we're suffering more because now we don't know what is going on with my dad. seeing him yesterday, somebody from the st. luke's hospital said to my brother, i want a meeting with u with you about y. before in the past, nobody contact us. even we have some meeting in september. they community -- the hospital community said we provide the same service in st. luke's, it's not true. my dad has a lot of issues and sores, they have 20 patients. when i go to a sna, they say can you w

i'm marlene, a longtime volunteer community activist. like many concerned residents here, i strongly oppose this legislation. 30 years ago, crime was so rampant and targeted at the non-english speaking victims, that residents pleaded with me to start my safety work. in those early years, crimes could not be reported because of the lack of electronic devices and police contact was in english only. it has always been a concern. our residents consistently requested more surveillance cameras to be strategically placed in high crime corridors. on january 8, this year, our residents were shocked to learn of the brutal beating of mr. wong, but thanks to the work, they were able to arrest the perpetrator given the surveillance cameras. given that the number of victims is high, the city has not seen the input in such important legislation. my reasons for opposing this legislation, it will compromise public safety and create more barriers for law enforcement to carry out their duties. body cameras can bring greater transparency, especially when th

i can vouch for marlene tran's qualifications as a kindergarten teacher at cec. i think we are ten years behind the curve. if i'm not mistaken, new york and los angeles did this a decade ago, so if you look at the nature of the population in sfusd, trace it back to the history of chinese children being excluded from the public schools and the case of mamie tape versus hurley. trace it back before that to the 1 882 exclusion act. there are many reasons that immigrants have been discriminated against. i thank aaron for mentioning the central american wars in the 80's. these kids and their parents deserve full empowerment, so we have three meetings a month in chinese, spanish, and english, and we had the first parent grant from the san francisco education fund when gladdie thatcher was alive. and those parents and their kids i think have come through the system and are in the higher education system now. so of all places, why would san francisco not allow voting rights for the parents of the kids in sfusd? oh, and don't forget ethnic studies in k-12. thank you. >> s

marlene morgans, neighborhood coalition. yes. we are a neighborhood that is basically a good location for an educational institution. the proposal to concentrate a lot of the institutional uses onto van ness is a good idea. we believe that most of the activities of the academy can be conducted in the t zone going from new montgomery through sutter up to van ness. that's the core. and it's a good core. it's because it's a major transportation corridor as well as being a good housing mix and major institutional uses. the problem with the academy of art if you look at what they have done over the last decade is they've ended up instead of creating as the previous speaker has said a vibrant connection with the community, they just warehouse buildings particularly at the ground level. so there's no interaction with the community. when you look at van ness, right now we have three proposed uses for storing automobiles on van ness. no museum license no plan for any way for the community to go in and view the collection like you can at s

says celia lim and norm fong, marlene smith, joe majur and margaret gund. when you're ready. >> good afternoon. i moved 25 years ago. after looking at the presentation on paper it looks interesting but you need to be on site to see what the design really is. first of all, i just wanted to say there's a lot of us here. we are not against building something on the loss. we welcome something new in the neighborhood. we want housing. we know that we are in a part of the city that is dense. that's why i moved there. i knew that would be the little manhattan of san francisco. we all want that. i saw the whole neighborhood grow around us and there are beautiful places, beautiful towers with spaces in between. i mean, it just sounds astonishing to me that a block -- because that building is a block that goes from beale to main from side to side, 10,000 square feet of open space, no, mostly private decks. it's not a building that's friendly to anybody. if you walk to the south and look north, what do you see today? you see three beautiful courtyards, mature trees th

marlene moyer, and mr. james goldman. anyone else that wants to provide public comment on this item, please line up on the left side of the room. >> i guess you can hear me. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is wilma parker, and i am pleased to say that the academy is my neighbor at jackson and van ness. they are the best neighbor i have ever had. it is really amazing what they have done. they have been saving buildings, that the city knows what to do with, wants to do anything with. holdings that have outlived their purpose. i really feel that the academy has been great against the terrible condition on most of our city streets. which brings me to the fact that my life is so much easier with the academy next door. i have in 1881 historic victorian, i'm trying to coexist with six buses idling in that street, the buses are nice. it has been a nightmare on van ness. the academy has kept it viable. i love what they have done saving saint bridget's church. i love what they have done next door to me. heritage is very happ

marlene dynise and chris emmerson.ou are, by chance still in room 263 there are plenty of seats available here in the board of supervisor cha -- supervisor chambers. >> i'm matthew king. i grew up in piedmont across the bay, at age 12 i had access to lsd and cannabis and opioids cannabis has been the least harmful substance i've used in my life. i graduated from harvard university 2008. i spent two years at microsoft corporation and time at morgan stanley, i'm a healthy and functional member of society. i completely oppose the 1,000-foot buffer for schools. i think children would benefit from increased cannabis use. i think it's medicine and something that everybody needs to be educated on. i'm a founder of royal cannabis virses. i work with equity applicants and entrepreneurs. i've seen directly the tangible and wide-ranging benefits for health including physical and mental health for consumers. and i am an outspoken advocate working with a number of businesses based in san francisco as well as the3me east bay. i thin

as marlene tran who has been a deep advocate on this for years continues to push us all to do better. i do want to commend captain hart and his team for the immediate responses to getting bilingual officers on monday and wednesday. with that said, that also tells me the ability of the police department to respond and actually make these things happen. so as we continue to push forward, we want to continue to make sure we have more bilingual messaging and that is not just for the police department but across the board for all departments. i am trying to grasp why all our websites in every city department don't have bilingual messaging. that is something that i really need an answer to. and the city as diverse as ours with the resources that we have able to us. also increase translation services for community events and forums. i do think that you should also have your own translators, etc., available to the department. we often times get it provided within community. but we also need to work on the resources for the department to be able to have their own translation services. and then

you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlenend betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. >> all right. [♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could

you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

thank you marlene tran forgetting the word out as well. thank you, drew, i hope you brought your kids to get them employed as well. i want be to touch on something else. i know this is a job fair. i want to introduce you to james caldwell who is working in the mayor's office now. some of you already know him, but part of what he is going to focus on is dealing with the challenges around violence in our communities. whether it is any of the shootings that occur, some of the issues around the senior community who have been attacked or what have you, we have got to change what happens in the community. it starts with us holding our families and kids accountable to keep each other safe. we have to look out for someone another. anyone wants grandma to walk down the street without worries. we have to start working on the community. james is an important part. he used to work with sdip. he will work with this community. not only do we want you to thrive in the work force, we want you to thrive in life and feel safe in your community. thank you, j

you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlenend betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people. shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses grow. >> it is more environmentally friendly. >> shopping local is very important. i have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. by shoppi