when someone needs resources, they lead us to district 10 and then go down to district 6. district 6 isn't generationally that way. the tenderloin wasn't that way when i was a child. it was a small group of people that wear down on their luck. but now it's a hub because there are not resources. we need to bring the resources and let san francisco be the model city for other cities in the united states that finally start caring about people that do not look like them. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. mr. walton, this is unfair. how do you plan to address truancy? [laughter] >> i don't know if it's fair or unfair. first, i want it have a moment of silence for joe tatuey, who was murdered. he's a member of the street violence prevention program that provided out reach and connected our young folks to safety and he was gunned down a couple weeks ago. the last two days we've been spent remembering him and memorializing him. i want it ask for a brief moment of silence for him. thank you. with that said, there's -- there are things that we've done that have worked in the past

districts. of course that's what here to learn about today so let's get started. i'm pleased to introduce the for today's discussion, david yepsen. david is the host i will public televisions weekly i would press public affairs program. party that he served as a director of the paul simon public policy institute at southern illinois university carbondale. he also spent 34 years with the "des moines register" serving as the papers chief political writer, political editor and political columnist. david's knowledge in the distant up i will political landscape is matched by very few and lucky for us i think they may all be here on the panel with him today. so please welcome mr. david yepsen. [applause] >> thank you, joseph, i think all of you for being here. i want to also acknowledge c-span for their presence here and all they do for americans civic life. appreciative. i i want to thank the speakers for taking time to make the journey here and to talk to us about this and particularly thank joseph

of its district and not have any navigation centers in the borders of its district. this is what's going to keep the character and the safety of the sunset intact, and we want that for our current residents and for our children. >> thank you very much. and mr. kim? >> so the sunset is definitely very residential, and it has historically been very family friendly, although the up tick in crime has put that in question. like mr. murphy has said, we have a lot of investors holding onto property, trying to make a quick buck off of them, renting them out for a week or a month at a time. we have this constantly shifting tourist base, and how are we going to be able to keep an eye -- like, make sure we have a consistent neighborhood if we have new neighbors all the time? so we need to make these vacant units actually apartments so that people can live in them. i'm lucky to live right by ortega library, but we need more facilities like that in our district. we need more libraries, and we don't even have a ccsf campus in our neighborhood, and that's something that i would lov

charlie: it is district by district. that's why this cycle is so interesting that way. the trump dynamic in congress and washington, it operates differently in different districts. i think if i say another public polling in northeast iowa, a democratic district, there are districts, suburban districts that were competitive in the newly competitive, whether it's against rosscum or kauffman, who we've been competitive against before, but not to this doctor, the western suburbs of minneapolis, you know, ashington, places like that. in addition, there are these noncollege districts, rural, places we have had representation before, and so it cuts many different ways. in northeastern iowa, a terrific labor background, running against rod blum, she's ahead in a recent poll by 11 or 12 points. she's over 50%. that is a district trump had success in last cycle, but obama won twice. i just see sort of -- there's democratic d.n.a. bruce was elected there for a period of time. but you are seeing a shift back. in addition, in northern maine, for years in northern maine, and jared go

it is district by district. that is what is so interesting. the trump dynamic in washington and what is happening in the republican congress, it operates differently in different districts. a poll in northeast iowa -- there were suburban districts that were competitive before, but not to this degree -- the western suburbs of minneapolis, washington, places like that. in addition, there are these non-college districts, rural, some of them places we have had representation before. it cuts many different ways. in northeastern iowa, abby finkenauer, she is running against rod blum, she is ahead in a recent poll by 10 or 11 points. that is a district trump had success in last cycle, but obama won twice. but you are seeing a shift back. in addition, in northern maine -- those are places where trump has had success. maybe from a job performance perspective, he is middling in maine, but we are running a competitive race. there is increased turnout. certainly there is increased motivation. at the same time, there is a shift among independent voters bac

--re are 57 districts bridges in the district that are failing. i drive over one every day and i look at the rivets in the side and i think, i really hope they fix this bridge before tomorrow and i have to drive over it again. theave not seen transportation and infrastructure funding that was promised. this is something i actually agreed with president trump on he was running in 2016, he said we needed a massive dose of infrastructure. but after he got elected, the biggest and for structure problem he thought about was privatizing air traffic control. biggestthat is the transportation problem we have the valley. we have a lot of commuters, as the congressman said, and we have a lot of ridges. -- of bridges. but congress is not doing its job. we have members of congress in this district sitting on their roads who have let our and bridges deteriorate further in the eight years he has been in office. we need to make sure we are doing it the right way, which is paid by washington doing its job. >> i have a record that i am proud of. in 2015, and infra

districts. , the first time i will have five congressional districts. so, wedown to four and have 25 house districts. not,u look at the i will you can look and see that senate district. that substantially constrains our options and then of course and i was is famous for what the i was supreme court focused on is prohibited this factors.- prohibitive check to a cursory make sure there are no voting rights issues. the smallest sisters we have or about 30,000. notminority population is and so weough basically don't utilize that information. thing that is not is therily a standard building blocks for redistricting. understand int to regards to a lot of states and how iowa uses a different approach to limit the ability to manipulate. a census bureau is going to give you information. units.s a variety of sense -- cities, towns the statessome of can establish some of the districts. citiesect the things and and then tell the census bureau to combine the cities that are 20,000 or less into one. the censu

districts. 11,000 residents, and 80,000 come in and out on daily basis. c.b.d. has three color areas, cleaning and safety, parks and open space management and public communications and economic development. in our public space stewardship program, which again, 16-17 was the first full year of operations, we implemented a cleaning and community guide program, which runs from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. we also had an overnight security program from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., and operate 24-hour dispatch line for residents, workers, really anyone in the district to contact the c.b.d. about safety cleaning issues. during our first fiscal year, we removed over 1700 graffiti tags, responded to over 3,000 calls for homeless outreach assistance, picked up over 130,000 pounds of trash, responded to another, almost 1200 calls for cleaning issues or safety issues. and then topped off about 2,000 city trash cans overflowing in the neighborhood. these are some images of our team at work, sort of cleaning up one of

the fairmont district is one of those. when i heard that the name of fairmont school was about to be changed, it's basically the last physical landmark with the name fairmont in the district. when principal rodriguez had a meeting, i attended and shared some of the history that we have in the district. and in learning more about their reasons for the name change, it became clear that a lot of miss huerta's histories and activities are reflected in the histories of fairmont, including the route of the el camino real immediately adjacent to tendery street. and also a resident who made aviation history, being the first to fly in a fixed wing craft at high altitude. nearby, the home that is associated with mary ellen pleasant who is considered the mother of california civil rights. and even a former resident who amazingly went onto become granny on the beverly hillbillys, which -- who attended fairmont school, but whose father was working as an immigration agent in the federal chinese exclusion act. so there's many things to c

the executive district or of the expansion district towards improvement district. >> chris, office of workforce development. we're here for the fiscal year 2016-2017 annual report for the tourism improvement district and mosconian expansion district. the program is governed by two sets of laws. the state law, which is referred to as the 1994 act and local law article 15 of the business and tax regulations code. this resolution covers the annual reports for fiscal year 2016-2017 for the t.i. d. and m. e.d. they ensure all c.b.d.s are meeting their management plan. they conduct a review of the report and c.p.a. review and provide the board of supervisors with a summary memo. unlike many of the c.b.d.s are city wide business space zones so you have two different zones. first is zone one which is along the downtown corridor. there's zone 2, which is the rest of the city, for a lack of better terms. both are business based. the assessment budget of the t.i.d. is $27 million. the assessment for the m. e.d. is $19 million. t.i. d. was formed in january 1st, 2009 and m.e.d. february 5th, 2013

so please, pay attention to what's happening in the district, because the excelsior district -- i don't know much about the district, but it has a lot of history, and pay attention to what's happening to monroe. pay attention to the families, because what is happening is not good. [ bell rings ] next thing we know, we are going to organize in the community so they can come over here and tell them from the community perspective how they feel about how you are keeping the education of our students in the excelsior district. thank you very much. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good evening, my name is eric meyers. am i speaking -- [ inaudible ] -- my son is -- i just want to say -- [ inaudible ] first grader at monroe. two boys at monroe, and it's been -- [ inaudible ] -- and just our family. [ inaudible ] really sobering and sad, the exodus of teachers and exodus of children out of room 227 because they don't have a teacher. and really, i -- we got an explanation from the district and statistics about how it's going to be better to unbundle

one district, district one is looked at by the federal government as one neighborhood, one community. we need more leadership that unites the district. in the course of this campaign we've already done that. we soon came in the building, neighbors looking out for each other. we've given them microphone if not a megaphone to meet of the folks in the real district. i've talked about and will support and prioritize bringing internet to the rural communities making sure that access to the health care they want. i sat in on a conversation at the mohawk trail high school about the struggles and challenges of the rule school district. these are the types of initiatives and this is the type of leadership that these committees want. >> moderator: congressman, $46.3 million federal money was spent at union station. how does that benefit rural areas united states let me tell you something else. i done than six of the best and last five years in the first congressional district of massachusetts. that's what almost every three days. considering the washington aspect of the job requires me to be th

farming is important to the district. soul of thearm bill following problems, farmers making a living and families having access to that food? one of the problems we have for the trumped tariffs. wish, twiceto during the campaign, tahirah amatul-wadud suggested i was wrong because i voted against the bill. let me tell you what the farm bill did. it cut women's health care programs, cut back on subsidies for poor people, and the opportunity for local farmers to enhance their own economic thoseements and make sure in the pioneer valley would derive nutritional benefits from the farm bill. i was baffled during this campaign to hear somebody say that my vote against the farm the was inconsistent with principles of farmers of western massachusetts. when you look at the people who need food every single day -- one person, a member of the agricultural committee, he voted against the farm bill. every member of the house voted against the farm bill. it was poorly done, cut $20 billion from nutrition and supplement programs for wom

so we're not working in a vacuum and we have district support. so thank you. >> commissioner norton: thank you for being here. it's nice to see you. i wonder if, you know, the last few years, the c.a.c. has talked a lot about reading interventions and about improving training for teachers on reading interventions. and i wonder if -- because you've been paying close attention to this issue over the last few years, what changes do you see? do you see any positive changes in the district preparation and ability to intervene on reading disorders, dyslexia and others? >> yes. the curriculum and instruction department implemented a pilot program that brought wilson reading method into 10 schools. did a lot of data collection. they've been working with stanford in particular to develop early warning indicators so that students in kindergarten and first grade can be identified on indicators, not necessarily assessments, to potentially need intervention. and schools are trying to address this on their own. some schools have hired then own to address it. t

it's the last one in that district, and that district and apparently there is nine in my district, who knew. but we got to get this thing right. those are the words of the sponsor for item 25. supervisor peskin, who, during a seven and a half hour meeting on october 3rd regarding a c.u. appeal for the apothecary in sunset said in emphasis, his vote on the evening was the last time he was voting for district specific carve out to exempt an entire neighborhood from providing access to legal cannabis purchases. so, colleagues, i must say with all honesty and sincerity, i'm appalled to even be sitting here with this piece of legislation before us today. supervisor peskin said this is the last one, which i understood to mean the vote that day was the last time he would support a geographic carveout for dispensary free neighborhood. now, he does not want to take on his fair share of providing legal access to cannabis. and quite frankly, this undermines the city's goal of geographic equity, respectfully to all of you, i find it not only irresponsible but wholly inappropriate that any member o

i am wondering about other plans to come out to my district to let my district to know let my district know about we are proposing here. >> we can certainly make plans to do so. we have had several citywide meetings. we can go out to your district as well. >> at pleas work closely with my office. if you are holding meetings, we are happy to send out notices. we have a huge e-mail list that we can send it out to and advertise these community meetings. as you no kak my neighbour george my neighbours are very interested in transit. if we can work together, that would be great. thank you, very much. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner cohen. >> looks like supervisor fewer and i woke up on the same side. i was actually wondering overall what was the larger strategy on how you were engaging with the neighborhood. i am aware you have reached out and got a lot of work within district ten, but i was curious how the largest city was being folded into this. although the infrastructure and the changes are happening in the southeast sector, it will have an impact on every corner of the city. ev

and the ad hoc district school district city college meeting is to be determined as well. section m., other information items. there are no staff reports tonight. section n., memorial adjournment there is no memorial adjournment tonight. at this time we will take public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for closed session items. there will be a total of five minutes for public comment. and i have baptiste montenegro. >> i do have a request from a member that i audiorecord what i say. i am asking you for that request is that ok? good evening, board members. thank you for your time. i am a rep and i represent 36 elementary schools and i am here to talk about your closed session subject number 1. i am here to make sure that the due process rights of our members and the members in particular about the case is respected. and i will be the representative representing the members from now on. thank you. >> thank you. section oh, closed session. the board will now go into closed session. >> we will now resume open session. i have a read out from closed session of

charters be approved in our district. when folks in oakland -- they have over 35 or 40 charters in their district and, you know, we have good relationships with many of our charters. we have challenging ones with some of our charters. and with the resolution, i think a lot of what we are asking for it, or many of the issues that come up during renewals anyway. so that they are things that we had concerns around with regards to fiscal management and so his you emotional impacts on students. and then how that relates to us as more traditional schools, is something we have never been able to lay out. so we would like to -- there is also some things that really impact us that we are not -- that are not part of the conversation. and that is when we have charters that are contemplating expansion. but we are not part of that conversation. so that creates a lot of really challenging situations for us because we have an ongoing planning through facilities on where we will be between now and the next 2-70 years. we don't take into

and the first place i went to in san francisco was district 8. we didn't call it district 8, we called it the castro, and i wanted to go there. i saw it on the map, and i didn't know. all i knew about it was castro, that must be where the cubans are. true story. and i went to a place on castro street to get some cuban food. it was called the castro cafe, and just as i arrived, they were throwing a bearded gentleman out of there who was wearing a beautiful red dress. they were throwing him right out on the sidewalk, and i'd never seen a man in a dress before, and i thought, wow, that's unusual, and now it's my preference. i'm going to keep my remarks short, but i do think it's kind of weird that i'm here with this group of people that protect san francisco and protect this community in this very special, spiritual place to me, and my building, my rent-control building, is on the market. and it's been on the market for a few months, and so i'm here today, and at the same time there's a realtor tour of my building. because it's been many, many month

the third district of west virginia kind of buried there by that head, but the 3rd district of west virginia, southern west virginia, used to be a generation ago democratic stronghold. it really loves trump. it won't for him by 50 points. but guess what, it's an open seat there. and check out this poll. richard ojeda, trump voter. says he's turned on trump, running as a democrat for an open seat. you take the incumbency factor out, you put the volatility of the local political culture. there are a couple of these on the board where democrats on paper would have no chance but there are some peculiar local circumstances. so you've got to take that into account too. >> when you think about the tiers of competitiveness here, right? to me the first tier of competitiveness is probably, you know, clinton districts that are open, where you've got a retiring -- you've got no incumbent. right? would you say that's probably like the top tier? >> yeah. in fact, i can show you right here -- i can show you right here on the map a perfect example of this. make sure this thing is selected. i williana ros-le

district facilities. and we did talk about the request for interest to try and invite ideas about public oriented use opportunities for those piers. and in the court of going through the south beach area, we also spent time looking at pier 3032. pier 3032 is one of the few piers that is not within the embarcadero historic district. as this slide shows, it lost all of its historic shed, and so the rules and conditions under which can can be improved really do not follow the same set of conventions that are set forth in the working group's recommendations for the embarcadero historic district piers. and so we walked through, in quite a bit of detail, what are some of the opportunities and the challenges for pier 3032. i think people recognize, as the port staff has expressed to them, that there are important uses as represented by the mass and ship in this image about its deep water berth and its maritime berthing and operational value, the revenue value of the use of the parking lot now is an important fin