we would like to mentioned that supervisor john avalos is a true kayaki chicano. >> (speaking spanishij privilege to represent my community on the board of supervisors sow and to hear the stage with supervisor david coming past and also in the room is richard to share the stage with her husband is here and many, many more in the community. this is not something i've ever dreamed of doing in san francisco that i'd like be able to represent this community >> (speaking spanish.) >> my parents did not graduate from colleges they graduated from high school. my parents sacrificed their education to make sure that i could go on to finish high school and to go on to college and those great sacrifices i recognize. we have seen so many great leaders that have come up of the sfaisz sacrifices that parents have made. i want to call out some of the leaders (calling names) great organizations that have made incredible accomplishments lately we passed the due process for all ordinance board of supervisors that's because of the leaders of this community. today, we're honoring future leaders people wh

david chu for being here (clapping) i might not see them immediately but i know that supervisor john avalose ladies and gentlemen, we're also very rich with latino leaders in our department and to name some of them on behalf of the whole city people like lou our librarian and our director of public health and rich the superintendent of our school district. yes (clapping) and i i know i'm going to miss a few but i want to single out those i've worked with closely and we have so many things going on that i'm proud of. we have a lot to celebrate. this year has been a year of success and there's so much it's going on. you may already know who important chiropractics of our california latino community it's one of the most faster growing populations if the state of california. its also a very young population. and i'm looking around the countryside you're all younger than manufacture me. tonight is a special occasion to celebrate our youth in san francisco because you represent the 1 hundred percent of our city. so i'm glad to be here tonight. guess what we've been able to celebrate our unemploym

supervisors. -- we have been talking to supervisor john avalos from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our ♪ >> hello and "welcome to meet your district supervisor. we're here with david chiu from district 3. that includes chinatown, fisherman's wharf, and part of the russian hill neighborhood. he was elected to the board in november of 2008 and has served as board president since january of 2009. we will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing them. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background. >> my parents immigrated to the united states in the 1960's. i was the first kid born in the u.s. my parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. i grew up in the boston area and lived in different parts of boston. i went to catholic price school in dorchester, a section of boston. -- i went to catholic high school in dorchester, a section of boston. because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. that

and finance committee meeting fo forethursday i'm joined by supervisor eric mar and supervisor john avalos. thank you to the staff >> mr. speaker, do we have any announcements. >> yes. please silence all electronic devices. items acted upon today will be on the supervisor agenda unless stated. >> mr. clerk call item number. the film rebate program >> colleagues that is legislation that i introduced a little while ago. it continues to attract both film and production in the 76 san francisco. the most recent legislation was to rent space that helped to get a series and it's stemmed to have an estimated $12 million no our city. this includes the web series among eligible productions and it's through june 30th, 2014, and authorize additional funds into the program. again, we're not going to fund those budget it will be next year but it will put the cap. we're seeing that the web series are 0 popular and we need to continue to make sure that is adopting to the film destroy to capture all the film in our city. in the about jobs and our after the community and continuing to promote the on screen

and finance committee meeting fo forethursday i'm joined by supervisor eric mar and supervisor john avalosu to the staff >> mr. speaker, d

we're here with supervisor john avalos, from district 11, which includes the excelsior, and will sign, our mission, and crocker amazon neighborhoods. supervisor avalos was elected to the board in november of 2008. we are going to get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome and thank you for joining us today. tell us a lot about your background, where you grew up, went to school, the job you worked. >> i was born in a town called

. >> good afternoon legislative aid to john avalos. thank you for considering that. the commissioner is interested

. >> good afternoon legislative aid to john avalos. thank you for considering that. the commissioner is interested if keeping the maintenance of the 10 year moratorium on the merges. we're interested in having that obey retroactive. we're open to a clear line where the date is easy for the planning staff to apply and you evaluate. one of the reasons for the 10 years is the displacement we're hearing more and more of a need for action. the 5 year eviction rate didn't seem to be slowing down and the merges is more warrant and will have more effect. that's with the rent control that says that apartments have been to offered back to tenants with a 10 year period. i'll be glad to discuss it further >> okay. commissioner borden. >> so i want to clarify. the 5 year is that local implementation and is the board looking changing that. it seemed to be the tenants want to go back into the rental business but isn't the 5 year prelims a local ordnance >> the state law that specifics the 5 years. >> oh, sorry. thank you >> commissioner. >> i understand that not just the amendment

john avalos i believe you're a fair person and i believe you will vote and recommend to the board to approve this proposal. thank you, sir >> supervisor mar. >> i want to thank the reverend for being here reverend. >> could we get the other microphone that's not picked up on our audience. >> hi, i'm carla. i am - i'm going to read from this. myself and my family are bayview property owners i'm 28 san francisco resident i'm fully in support of the homeless population. i'm here to urge you to please strip the address from this proposed homeless shelter and to table the homeless shelter ordinance for the desperately he needed community review. the review should not be limited to quality of life impact reported real once that relate to the city blue color industrial area and the o k park which the city of san francisco has spent billions of dollars and we've spent thousands of volunteer hours to try to revisibility and the october '89 the meeting was a meeting of a few community leaders and the mayors to me e telling them they were going to move forward with the proposal it was not a mee

my name is john avalos, the chair of this commission and joined by london breed and across the room byric mar. our clerk today is linda wong and we are being broadcast today by sfgtv staff, jennifer low and bill dueling, thanks

. >> thank you supervisor john avalos for recognizing our restaurant. we appreciate

(applause) >> our district 11 supervisor and another park champion extraordinary narc, john avalos. (applause) >> our city treasurer who does his work to make sure we've actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. (applause) ~ >> but it's the passion of all of us. and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] >> director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we're encoloneling people to get out and play. that's our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. >> get out and play. >> we say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. this is a real serious issue. according to the center for d

. >> thank you supervisor john avalos for recognizing our restaurant. we appreciate it very much. and you are all welcome to visit us and checkout our food. we are open dinners tuesday through sundays. address 4994 mission street, right at the intersection of italy and mission. [ applause ] >> supervisor, that is our final presentation for today. i think we are all abundantly hungry and we have a lot of places to go in the city. i want to thank you for all in the amazing restaurant world and making this city an amazing place to live. i would like to go back to our special order. i do not see our city staff. i hope you can hold the fork for everybody. we have a number of people on the roster. i have a couple of brief questions. i think many of us know that this appellant is about as sympathetic as possible and i think we all have questions on how we want to address this. just so i'm clear, maybe this is a question to mr. lee or to mr. gibner, under the law that was passed earlier this year, there is not a ground under the appeal to adjust the fee unless we find there is not a relat

since 2003 working with city hall to write regulations, also working with supervisor daily when john avalos was [inaudible]. we're thankful for your continued support. we're troubled by this pro/soez sal and understand the concerned constituents. there needs to be a policy discussion about locations in san francisco. i want to know, and we need to know why we're rushing ahead before the planning didn't concludes their study before even considering this perceived clustering problem in the city has been caused by the restrictive zoneing issues, which needs to be addressed and expanded. san francisco has a history of mcd's around we're an example to everyone, so if we create restrictive policies that will echo throughout the united states. we hope you will delay this ordinance until the planning department makes the final -- on a personal note, please encourage all politicians that have tried to back up the medical aspirations of patients, do not enact dispensaries, strip clubs . >> thank you. just a response. i'm concerned about residents, i'm concerned about conditions and what i did say i'm

my name is john avalos, the chair of this commission and joined by london breed and across the room by eric mar. our clerk today is linda wong and we are being broadcast today by sfgtv staff, jennifer low and bill dueling, thanks for your work. madam clerk. any announcements? >> no, mr. chair. >> okay. if you can please call our first item. >> approval of local agency formation commission minutes from the june 28, 2013, regular meeting. >> thank you, any comments regarding our minutes. public comment? seeing none, we'll close public comment. a motion to approve our june 28th, meeting. a motion from mr. mar. next item. >> community choice aggregation activity report. status update on clean power sf program. status update on proceedings at the california public utilities commission. >> whether we are at the crossroads or passed the crossroads, this has been very shocking year for how there has been incredible effort to kill this program by members of, seems like the commission, the public utilities commission as well as the mayor's office. this board of supervisors and local agency forma

this for over a year in areas like tenderloin, chinatown, the mission district, -- and supervisor john avalos and jermaine polack from avalos office have been working on a growing coalition of public health children and community based organizations and school groups and leaders to address the health impacts on sugary drinks. we are advocating support from african american and latino communities as well. sugary drinks are detrimental to the health of the public. the sugar consumption of these drinks impacts many of san francisco's most vulnerable population. supervisor avalos and wiener and the budget analyst office will be looking at the types of drinks. after that report is done we'll have a hearing on the impact on public health and the economy. the sugary drink distributor fee would pose $0.02 for each ounce of sugary benefits. there is some question about the grams of sugar to be looked at and we'll look into that at the committee level. this is funds being raised for communities that are high in diabetes and strokes and what we known from the best research and center for eating and well

great colleagues from the board of supervisors here today, supervisor scott wiener and supervisor john avalos. if you guys want to come up and say a few words. but before i hand the mic over, just real quick, nobody say a word for a second. that's the best sound in san francisco right now, families playing in our parks. (applause) >> and my little boy jack wanted to wave hi to everyone. hi, jack. all right. supervisor wiener. >> thank you. hi, everyone. i'm scott wiener from district 8 and i'm really just thrilled to be here today. this is just amazing. we dot a brand-new playground in dolores park and this is right in the same claytionthv. so, it's a new generation of active recreation for our kids. ~ got and i just want to say thank you to the voters of san francisco for repeatedly investing in our parks in an off the charts way. and you know, last year we had another parks bond and there were some people who got a little grump pi about it ask started campaigning against it. guess what? we got a higher percentage of the vote in 2012 than in 2008. [cheering and applauding] ~ grump py >> that

>> reporter: the tenants rights groups have already teamed up with city leaders like supervisor john avalos who authored an ordinance to put a ten-year moratorium on developing buildings that had ellis act evictions zif s serve >> we shouldn't be making a living exploiting the housing people have been living in for many, many years. >> reporter: that's the reality michaels says he's facing with prices too high in san francisco. if there's an eviction, he won't be forced out of just his home, he's out of the city. >> as a gay man, living in san francisco, it's, you know, it's the one place in america that i feel safe living in. san francisco's just sort of always been my heart. >> reporter: expect it to be a long fight. the planning commission did approve supervisor avalos' proposal that would place restrictions on developing buildings that have had ellis act evictions served in them. so that's one step, and that is expected to go to the board of supervisors sometime in november. a city leader saying because they an not change a state law, they are taking these steps to try and level the pla

the chronicle reports that john avalos reported on his facebook account that the city is bending over backwards for cheap bucks. mountain dew will display ads all over the city despite the desire for healthier drinks. >>> 7:18. sal is back. sal, how's it going out there? >> i would say it's going okay. there's a little bit of slow traffic out there, dave and tori. for the most part it's expected for this time of the morning commute. as we look at highway 4. it's exactly what you might expect at this time. the traffic is shifted from antioch and pittsburg. the traffic is moving along relatively well. the traffic is also going to be okay if you are driving on the bobb approach. there are no major problems. traffic continues to move along well. i do want to show you the commute in the south bay. northbound 101 traffic all the way up to the peninsula does look good and there are no major problems. there. if you are driving across the san mateo bridge, there's slowing on the hayward approach. but after that, it looks good. however, 880 southbound from leleling from fremont will be slow. b.

avalos. with that supervisor yee from district center. >> thank you president chiu. supervisor yee district have. -- 7. today we are honoring john and efey lopez were here. i think they had to leave because they are opening up the restaurant for service within the next 10 minutes. and what happened was they opened the doors just a little over a year ago in west portal. the place they have called their home for 20 years. rexi means appetite. it offers a warm fine dining experience with distinct flavors from the mediterranean. west portal is a vibrant corridor with a strong appreciation for small locally owned businesses. i can say it a great addition and we are all grateful for it's presence and it's own homegrown roots. earlier this year, we had a water pipe burst that caused flooding and significant damages to homes in the neighborhood. we immediately needed a place for neighbors to convene an emergency meeting with our office, the mayor and the city agencies. without hesitation, john and efey graciously offered their place as a meeting space and hosted all of us. we want to extend our gratitude and appreciation for being so en