i came here, finish elementary in san francisco.fter that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.

maybe you do not need to be in san francisco. we need people who care about san francisco, not for african-american people but chinese people and other people also. for many months we chinese have been targeted. [please stand by] >> -- or even -- i'm still here. i hope more police and more safety, you know, in our community, all the community, we appreciate it. >> president hirsch: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is paula williams, and i'm homeless in san francisco right now. i've been homeless since december of 2018. i've made numerous police reports. i've been harmed numerous of times by staff in the shelters. the police have did me no justice. i've went to the city attorney, i've went to the d.p.a. it's just plain corruption. it's five police officers that don't want to take a police report, made false statements in my police report. didn't want me to file a police report and just was lying. i liked when miss taylor said they wanted to take a look at the shelters. every morning, i walk-through t.l. and encourag

i've been living in san francisco for 20 years. i love san francisco, and i love chinatown. i'm compassionately supporting the naming of the station chinatown station. that's the best fit for chinatown which has over 110-year history. >> -- already changed names. why don't you learn a lesson from that? >> your name is up. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, m.t.a. board members. thank you for your time. rose pak obtained housing from mayor's office of below market housing in san francisco when she already owned a home in oakland. the rose pak trust was opened last year. that's $1.2 million. you can do a title search on-line. here's the house. 143 saratoga drive, oakland, california. this is one of the reasons we don't want rose pak named in chinatown. thank you. thank you for listening to my voice. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, board of supervisors. my name is doria lu. according to sf gate news report, former mayor art agnew said he was shocked to hear of the trust for rose pak's sister. for those of you who say she was your friend, do you really know h

rent in san francisco. that's why we need more affordable housing. we need more affordable housing for all of the reasons stated above. we also need this bond to create union jobs for all unions to build more affordable housing. right now, i'm working for o'brien mechanical in the mission street housing at 1950 mission where we are building 157 100% affordable housing units. [applause] >> so what i'm really trying to say is we need to build this housing so we can support more people like me, more stacey provosts. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, stacey, and thiank you to all the members who came out today. and thank you to all the supervisors who came out today. i know you've got to run back to get back to business. i know we are all looking for a unanimous vote at the board. right, supervisor mandelman? you heard it from supervisor mandelman and president yee first. we're going to get a unanimous vote and we're going to get it on the ballot. we're going to knock on doors and talk to people so they know

, went to public schools in san francisco, served on the school board in san francisco, and still doinghe hard work for the residents of san francisco. so we have a lot of work to do. 55 years is just really about hopi opening peoples' eyes to knowing what we need to do i'm grateful for susan christian sson and ma keller and others who serve on the commission because they really care about getting the job done, they really care about not just equity in about how you talk about it, but what our small business community. thank you, nicky for being here. there are three generations continuing to support and feed people in the community. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: our business community, what's happening in our public schools, what's happening in our cityies, and making sure that our programs serve various populations is something critical to the needs of making sure that we are a more equitable and inclusive city. i lastly want to point out and thank supervisor few er and supervisor valley-brown for their leadership in establishing the office of equity, to really dig deep into the dis p

san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying t

san francisco is in earthquake territory. and it's not a matter of if but when the next big one will be prepared. so we have to be prepared. more importantly, we have to make sure that our public safety officials are in seismically safe facilities so that when they're trying to help the citizens of san francisco, they don't necessarily need help themselves. we know that the traffic division and the forensic services division are located in buildings that are not seismically safe. especially with the traffic division and motorcycles and their need to get to people and help protect people throughout san francisco, that's going to be critical. if we have a next earthquake and something happens, how are they going to get their motorcycles out? we have to start thinking about the future and ways to protect all of our citizens, especially making sure that our public safety officials from the police and the fire department and other departments can get out there on the streets and protect and save lives. this project, along with so

as a respected broker in san francisco. through his countless efforts, he has truly transformed real estate in san francisco for the better. he can drive by many of these developments and find out how he has improved the curb appeal of the subject properties as well as assist us -- statistical value of the neighboring properties. i'm passionate about real estate but also have hobbies, too. i enjoy playing golf and i'm a member of the presidio golf and concordia club. this is where i met john a few years ago. also a very respected and honourable person, as he and myself and the 250 members of my club. john is a loving family man and has gotten to know me well over the years and saw me growing my career. he knew he would be able to help me get to the next level by introducing me to tim as a candidate to join his team. i have been working with tim brown now for over two months i can testify what an incredibly ethical and straightforward businessman he is. i was raised on strong ethics and principles, and after working along hi

i am a resident of san francisco. if you say the name trump the whole world will know that trump is the president of the united states. if you say the name rose pak chinatown most of the world won't know who she was. hopefully we don't name the station after her. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, board members. i am janice leo. did you notice that rose pak supporters from non-profits or personal friends. they got favor from her one way or the other, some even got paid to come. we got through. last time they used free food and transportation to get them to come. some got paid. it has got exposed. this time they paid 25 to some young people as their job for the day. it got exposed again. the point is they are here to support because it is enough money for them. people on the other side, mainly merchants and the rest of us and 16,000 san francisco support it because the practical business impact and believe in moral standard. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. ladies and gentlemen, i s

i come from san francisco. i come to your meeting, a lot of my friends, they support chinatown station. now, i show you a video of one of them. [video playing] >> excuse me, sir. you are not allowed to translate a video, the speaker's time is allotted for the speaker themselves. if that individual would like to translate the video, she is more than welcome to. but this is not your time to speak. >> next speaker, please. [speaking native language] >> my english is not very good. sorry. [speaking native language] >> she is the owner of a trading company, i does not have time to come up here. they asked me to come here to play this video for him. [video playing] everybody says no rose pak. i hope every supervisor to think about why. nobody likes it. chinatown only. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is alan, i live in on bernal heights. i just want to share with you what we went through the last couple of days. we know how the merchants feel about that, and the resident which had persuaded t

we have hosted all demographics here in san francisco. many fundraisers for all sorts of organizations and we continue to be proud of the work we do here in san francisco and we hope you will approve this measure before you. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> will durst followed by nicole christine. >> hey guys, i am a comic, good to see you. thank you for even considering this. i don't know how to explain to you what a comedy club means to a comic. it's a cathedral. it is a classroom, it's an incubator. it so many all of those comics that richard spoke of, all grace that stage. i swear to god, not making this up, you go around the country and talk to headliners everywhere, they will call the punch line to one of the top five jik comedy clubs in the country. a lot of them will say it is a top one along with me. it has meant a lot to me. i was -- it was the first stage i hit when i moved from milwaukee. i had to leave because comedy was illegal in milwaukee. i came to san francisco, i met my wife there, the funny o

i have bounced around san francisco because of the permit process that san francisco has in place. so when andrea reached out to me , i could not resist. my grandmother has lived in -- i have lived in bayview all my life. have patience. so the decision to be part of bayview was not hard to make at all. we are facing our challenges, but with the support and the help of our community, as well as bayview with big h., i hope we have high hopes that high dreams of how far this space can go. again, i like to thank our mayor , i'm like to thank everyone for coming out, and i see my son back there in the back. love you so much. thank you for coming to support your mom, as well. [cheers and applause] >> hello, everyone. my name is harold. i own big h. barbecue. born and raised in san francisco , bayview. i have been kicking for a long time with my grandfather, my mom , it's been a beautiful thing i want to thank you all for coming out and supporting us. bayview bistro got me out here and it has been a beautiful thing. getting my foot in the door, trying to move up and go farther places to s

i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco uniqueh just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and >> it had been rain for several days. at 12:30 there was a notice of large amount of input into the reservoir. we opened up the incident command and started working the incident to make sure employees and the public were kept were safe there is what we call diversion dam upstream of moccasin. the water floods the drinking water reservoir. we couldn't leave work. if the dam fails what is going to happen. >> we had three objectives. evacuate and keep the community and employees safe. second was to monitor the dam. third objective was to activate emergency action plan and call the agencies that needed contacted. >> the time was implement failure of the dam. w

i'm a ten-year resident of san francisco. i'm here today to offer my personal recommendation for ruby bolaria-shifrin to the treasure island development authority. i've been lucky to know ruby over 20 years. we grew up in sacramento. ruby takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world and inspires those lucky enough to be around her to do the same. i know she would excel as a board member because she represents everyone in treasure island. her determination and passion to make a difference, and her commitment to use housing as a tool to create opportunities in san francisco, across california, and as you heard internationally where she worked to approve housing settlements in johennesburg, south africa. i know she will take this position seriously and create a treasure island that is equitiable and offer opportunities to those who face the greatest barriers. i ask that you support mayor breed aways recommendation and appoint ruby to the treasure island development authority. thank you. >> supervisor walton: thank you.

i live in san francisco. i know there has been a scare lately with people posing as public work individuals, electric workers and so forth. i think there is a trust issue, especially in my neighborhood. in the bernal hill area, it has been happening quite a bit. you know, places where this has been, people have taken advantage of posing as a service worker, or city worker. i understand, if people don't have access to the internet and there's an issue, and you're trying to get counts. how do you get them into a place to be counted? it is something that, you know, we cannot force people. i understand it is a desire. just thinking about looking at the northeast, there is a sign language group under the u.s. government -- sorry, in the northeast area of the united states has a person who is skilled for her census county. that is in that region of the united states. i know we don't have that here in san francisco. i'm putting that out as a possible way to get the deaf community involved. especially when you are ta

not just for some, but for all of those in san francisco. thank you all so much for being here today. we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪ 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the pho

san francisco, 78 degrees with no ocean breeze. that's pretty warm inside an apartment without many fans. and oakland, you're checking in at 80 degrees. but relief is on the way. this is not tomorrow. this is not saturday. where it will be color, look at today visit sunday in concord. 25 degrees cooler. the high on sunday, only 79 degrees. to get their, the first step is the return of a little bit of an ocean breezed it and tomorrow. 59 in napa. 58 in san francisco. want to check in on the air quality. hasn't been great over the past couple days. equally as moderate to unhealthy tomorrow. so the pat's beginning to change. it takes a lot of thing in the atmosphere to be exactly in the right place to give us an off- shore wind or cut off the on- shore flow. all those things were in place yesterday and today. ridge of high pressure, like a hundred more miles away. this low over canada, heading down toward us just enough to turn the wind and crank up the wind that it does make it into the bay area and we will begin to feel relief from

i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco uniqueh just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and >> here we are responsible to oversee the drinking water distribution system. in san francisco changes in the fire code required anyone doing representtro fit to the home to get a new fire service this caused the need for new water services to spike. we used to do 200 a year. now we are up to 600. >> if you are building a new house you need fire protection. you have to make application to the water department for that. if you go through the process we come out and install the new line and the new fire line. >> the project got kicked off by two of our a gms, steve and eric. they recognized the need for improving this process. they pulled together the projec

we worked together to fully fund free city college for san francisco. [applause] so i just want to say, to all of our senior folks who are here today, you don't have to be a young person to go to city college, you don't have to be a kid living at home with your parents to go to city college. city college is for all san franciscans. so let's take advantage of the amazing classes that they have. in one of the things i want to mention before i turn this over to supervisor fewer, as i know that, as mayor, i don't necessarily have complete control over our board of education, but i went to public schools here, and we know that supervisor yee and supervisor fewer also went to public schools here in san francisco, and the challenges that sometimes exist as certain schools versus other schools is something we need to address when we talk about equity. so for the first time ever, this city is making significant investment in addressing what we know are the biggest challenges at those schools. and includes teacher retention at certain schools in the southeast sec

in san francisco, it's no secret. we live in earthquake country.re's a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we don't have to be afraid. these are going to be your first responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, first responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. by getting to know your neighbors, you're going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. one of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, san francisco neighborhood emergency response team. it teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. san francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. if there's some kind of an emergency happening in san francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. all you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is

san francisco's environmental code applies to precautionary principle to all san francisco officers, boards, commission and departments including public works, health and planning departments. they're also advised to this board's consideration of environmental health and safety issues. and approving a cell tour site permitted 2620 laguna street, the article 25 city departments violated the clear language and intent of the precautionary principle ordinance in numerous respects. for example, their decision-making process for approvalling the cell tower was not made in an open and transparent manner with public participation. instead, it was decided during an 18-month private communications between city departments and verizon attorneys and engineers which completely excluded any required citizen participation or notification. before deciding to grant the permit, they failed to inform the public about potential human health and environmental dangers of the proposed cell tower. instead, they accepted biased health and safety opinions of verizon engineers and attorneys without consulting

and the san francisco community investment fund, or as we call it sfif.hout them jumping in and p putting their projestamp on thi project, i don't know if othes s would have joined as easily. we just wareally want to thank e sfif for supporting us. along side of the sfif, san francisco sfif was california loan fund who in vvested with u early as well. the group that put us over the top is an organization called community impact partners which is more of a national partner and they came in to push us forward as well. the irony is that two of these organizations are doing more than just giving us credits. they're actually funding our construction loan and that's community vision and community impact partners. we want to thank you for keeping us sane and giving us that option. we really appreciate it. i mentioned only the the back et a bank investor partner usually comes into a project like this, that partner is j. pvmentep. mo chase. we want to thank them to chase bank. lastly, obviously you know that in order to put together a complex transaction you have

san francisco is a world-class city and a beacon of light. i am totally in support of it. >> thank you. thank you so much for this report. i just have a question. the volume incentive discount, is this the first time we are doing this or have we historically done it? >> this is the first time we are putting a discount like this. what we're doing is putting it in the port tariff so it applies to the large client that it is applicable to right now, but we are hopeful that other cruise lines that are coming to the west coast with large fleets, it would be applicable to them if they got up to that level. >> great. and then the fee increase, i'm just wondering why in 2022 it is only a three -- a 3% increase went other years it is over 5%. >> we came up with the fee -- basically, we raised the fee by 50% from $12 to 18 in 2015. what has happened over the past five years is we have established 27 particularly, and 35, but as a very high ranking destination. the crews lines have seen it in action, the ratings on the passengers are very high. we wante

you are the ones who make san francisco san francisco, and even though i used to live in dogpatch formany, many years, and have witnessed the changes that are happening there, and even though they are changing, that is why we want you all to be part of san francisco for now and into the future. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i too want to thank you. it is tough, tough to be a small business person in this city. and for you to have the courage and the tenacity to keep going, especially when you are faced with a tremendous rent increase, is something really admirable. and as a former alumni of hastings, i used to work very closely as a law student with those students, and we weren't lawyers at the time, but we try to do as much volunteer activity in the legal services community as possible. your particular organization is needed more now than ever with what we are facing in today's world. thank you for doing what you do. moshi moshi, it is my former boss' favorite place. he had no idea what moshi moshi meant, but would call it all kinds of names and say, you know , it is that pla

got a couple wind gusts into san francisco as well. we did hit a high of 74 in san francisco. and right now at 67 degrees the wind speed's at about 14 miles per hour, and take a look at the temperatures throughout. so remember i said you that might need to kind of kick up that ac in through tomorrow morning. well, you definitely will because we're not going to drop by much overnight. we've got that ocean breeze right now. we've also got some fog rolling through half moon bay the return of the marine layer for san francisco. this could bring some patchy fog as well into the early morning hours and tomorrow's morning lows look at in the 60s. we're not going to drop down below into the tri-valley. we will be in the 50s, though, for san francisco but aside from that once the high pressure goes from offshore and then kind of trucks its way over the bay area we're going to get a loot less marine air inland and then the values still expected to warm up into the 90s. so the greatest difference in terms of temperature and the moat noticeable will definitely be up through the north bay

we're in san francisco this morning.e'll tell you what can happen to stores that don't obey this new law. >>> and it is day 2 on the democratic national committee's meeting in san francisco. what party leaders are doing to get voters engaged with next year's election. >>> from ktvu fox 2 news. this ison 2." >> good morning to you. it is friday august 23rd. happy friday to everyone watching. i'm cristina rendon in for gasia mikaelian. >> and i'm dave clark. it's a little cooler this morning. and rosemary orozco, you're in for steve. i say much obliged. >> it is cooler. hopefully you're noticing. we have a little more cloud cover out there. a beautiful look there into san francisco, with the low clouds and the fog. along the coast and inside the bay. partly cloudy for the east bay shore. and mostly clear for the rest of us. so we have seen a transition over the last 12 hours or so. and for today, temperatures cooling off some. santa rosa right now, 55 degrees. 60 to start your morning in san francisco. low 60s oakland, liv

>> the san francisco puc, yes. >> supervisor fewer: the san francisco puc. you don't jointly own poles with the san francisco puc? >> no, we would rent space. >> supervisor fewer: you would rent space. >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: so the san francisco puc that owns these poles, they only rent space, they don't have co-ownership; is that correct? >> right. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> yeah, i know it's all confusing. i'm grateful for this hearing because i learned quite a bit about my own company because i don't normally do all this engineering stuff. yes, then there's the abandoned equipment question which i know that is very important to you, supervisor fewer, yes, so the definition under go 95 is if it's considered to have no future foreseeable use. in san francisco where we have so much churn as far as residents and there's a lot of renters and i actually have friends who change their cable provider every year just to get a bit more miles for their flight programs, people change all the time. so as long as that technology is still something that we'

happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [♪] >> welcome, everybody. it is such a pleasure to be able to welcome you to our event to commemorate not only the acquisition of 270 turk street and the barcelona apartments, but to recognize the partnership among the mayor and city, the san francisco housing accelerator fund and others. the barcelona apartment is important, not only because of the accomplishment itself in this building, but also because it represents an important policy direction, and a bigger attempt to address the housing crisis in san francisco. please join me in welcoming our mayor and partner, london breed. [applause] >> thank you, don, and thank you for being an amazing partner in the effort to acquire welding his all over the safety to keep them permanently affordable. because we know that having affordable housing isn't just about new construction, it is about making sure that we preserve existing affordable housing, whether it's property that we buil

as a san francisco fellow. as a sf fellow i was in financial planning where i had the joy of working for a me. >> part of the financial planning that sets rates. >> amy is just incredibly kind. one of the most generous and good-hearted people i have ever met. having her assume pe as as supes very helpful. this was my first job out of college. amy supported me every step of the way. i felt like i can do this. >> i have a staff i manage. we have a complement that joins us once a year to help us. they give them the chance to learn financial matters. >> amy would it is for an hour or hour and a half going through these complicated financial things with you, patient. >> i find my strength in sitting down and walking through the project, how can i help you? they appreciate that. it means that you are giving time to them. i hope or interns will be the new leaders. >> amy made should be we were well trained. >> she gave me mangoes. i went home and ate them. the next day i said i like these. two days later there was a c