for the youth and family in soma especially. our kidsment to join sports and moms dancing and there is little to no funds to have activitying like this in soma. i support funds used to the stabilization fund to ensure there is recreational activities and opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm carla and the director of west bay filipino service center and friends of jean friend and wanted to so appreciation to supervisor peskin and the sponsor dorsey and chan and office and allen low and misha for making sure the funds advocates for almost 10 years ago don't get lost. the soma community those that are the most vulnerable and under represented. we serve folks in the soma youth and family zone and either some of the family members there are in the usually talked about but are the ones that as supervisor peskin mentioned have the least aim of open space. we appreciate rpd and the support over the years with united way to use jean friend so kids and families can go there and make sure the fund

we fought heardtory make sure victoria draf an olympic driver from soma who went to betsy carmichael has a park named after her the only park in america named after a filipino. but some of the greatest contributeors of filipino american history reside a few blocks away from city hall the heart of west bay and south of market. i want you to think the significant contributions of the delores, merlet and the [inaudible] and the branos and lauren and the shirley and the hearts the princess pan gals and ocampos of the world. these other mothers this are carrying the legacy of a future generation they worked fiercely and prud low carry their filipino american culture where they g. fiercest mothers i know came to the soma with her 2 sons and worked multiple jobs one at burlington coat factly despite experience in the philippine in finance and a counselling. like other great filipino americans history some achievements did in the trans lay when she came to america and fought for her kids despite growing up in san francisco neighborhood of the south of market ridden with gang violence, homele

someone who has been work nothing soma and owns a small business in soma and live in soma i give you personal accounts times i or my friends have been threatened someone who shut down a bar when i bar tended at night it females unsafe. we had people break in the bar. people destroyed property and it staff that have been threatened. friends hit in the head with golf clubs and arms broken and shot in the leg all within soma. this is personal for me. you know i agree that police are a part of the solution. i have family in sfpd you don't grow up here and not know a lot upon people who are active police officers. i believe we need to hold them accountable. i can't tell you how many times i heard from owners and residents the police were there and did not do anything that is unacceptable. thoo that should not be tolerated and need to get to the bottom of that. i do believe that we -- police salaries will go up that is normal labor negotiations. we do need to hire new officers but we need someone in district 6 seat who will hold them accountability and that person is me. thank you. where m

for the youth and family in soma especially. our kidsment to join sports and moms dancing and there is little to no funds to have activitying like this in soma. i support funds used to the stabilization fund to ensure there is recreational activities and opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm carla and the director of west bay filipino service center and friends of jean friend and wanted to so appreciation to supervisor peskin and the sponsor dorsey and chan and office and allen low and misha for making sure the funds advocates for almost 10 years ago don't get lost. the soma community those that are the most vulnerable and under represented. we serve folks in the soma youth and family zone and either some of the family members there are in the usually talked about but are the ones that as supervisor peskin mentioned have the least aim of open space. we appreciate rpd and the support over the years with united way to use jean friend so kids and families can go there and make sure the fund

my name is desy (inaudible) a soma resident, a soma business owner who's work space is right around thener at 981 mission. it (inaudible) coworking space and executive director of local non profit. speaking on behalf of (inaudible) in support of 5m amendment for the sound permit. [dif ficulty hearing speaker due to audio quality] we need events to draw people back to this corner of south of market to revive it economically and also to (inaudible) i think bringing concert level events like (inaudible) and other events that 5m brings to the table will help revive this community, so thank you for taking the time and hope you vote yes for the amendment. >> thank you very much. >> that was our last zoom comment. >> excellent. i will close public comment on this. seeing no more-okay. public comment is closed. and we can entertain votes. we have a motion. we do. >> alright. [roll call] >> alright. it is granted so can follow up with us at your earliest convenience. congratulations and we can summon back commissioner perez. wherever he is hiding. welcome back. just in time for the next agenda i

soma. thank you. >> hello. my name is bob. i'm the executive director of the leather and lgbtq cultural district and calling in to express our support for this legislation, and we appreciate supervisor dorsey's support of the item. night life and entertainment has been the heart of soma for decades and the cornerstone of the lgbtq community since the 60's. in 1980 there were 40 leather and lgbtq night life establishments in soma and we now count 14. we believe that this legislation and the changes to the night life features will help strengthen and revive those which we view as a benefit to the city, and the district as well, and thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioners. this is tom. executive director of livable city. we are in support of the ordinance and just wanted to commend supervisor dorsey and supervisor haney for taking this on. i served on the soma task force and thought about land used and how to keep the vital use of mixes in soma. i think we made a mistake with the

for the youth and family in soma especially. little to no funds to have activitying like this in soma. i support funds used to the stabilization fund to ensure there is recreational activities and opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm carla and the director of west bay filipino service center and friends of jean friend and wanted to so appreciation to supervisor peskin and the sponsor dorsey and chan and office and allen low and misha for making sure the funds advocates for almost 10 years ago don't get lost. the soma community those that are the most vulnerable and under represented. we serve folks in the soma youth and family zone and either some of the family members there are in the usually talked about but are the ones that as supervisor peskin mentioned have the least aim of open space. we appreciate rpd and the support over the years with united way to use jean friend so kids and families can go there and make sure the funds that we had advocates for 10 years ago used for the fami

focus in soma. we pick a site around the city each year approximate pair that with our opportunity and funding so the reason we picked soma it silent smallest tree canomys in the city. and we want to correct. with the new h r director we are pized speedup hiring and assessment shop and landscaping and tree inspection group we have vacancies across the 3. next year we'll launch a dedicated night time maintenance crew. we asked for had i think 7 years in a row and got approved for it. we believe that will be more efficient in sprucing up when there is less traffic activity. continuing to evaluate our performance when it come to stewardship of the urban foresxeft we convene aid multidisciplinary team to identify stretched goals to speedup pruning. look nothing a pilot to utilize contractors to inspect tree key maps and break down the city. and we hope that will accelerate our pruning cycle. if that is our -- how do we get through that. i will still be here to share our performance measures i want to co

so many am and soma in western soma specifically. and the new community leadership foundation with another organization they sponsor call rbi flux to work in western edition and fillmore and lastly we have the have the san francisco bicycle coalition partner for assistance with our city wide broad out reach. really the fact nayou will see this we have a very aggressive out reach commitment and we need to put a lot of folks out on the street to make sure we are living up to the commitments and reaching people. we can go to the next slide. >> i wanted share what is the work we are doing. and these other tasks we have and the first is understanding the existing cannot bike network in san francisco and that revolves around doing data collection. reviewing past plans adopt in the the city that is an e normous task we have a working document that is over 120 pages at this point reviewing over 80 different plans and policies. that influence the life network or asspekts of bicycling in san francisco. we also are updating a tool calls the bic

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. >> the san francisco senior shares a studio in the soma district. a majority of her social security stipend goes toward rent. >> food and medicine. how can you survive? >> through inflation into the mix, she is forced with another choice. >> limit the portion. >> she lives in a food desert, where at least 1/3 of the population lives at least more than a half mile away from a supermarket or large grocery store. we found it is one of 171 low income neighborhoods that have low food access across the san francisco metro area, the most reported in alameda county. >> it takes two to 3 miles to get food. >> natosha lives in oakland, off of 14th st. we profiled her last year. since our story, the food bank added food distribution sites areas known to be food deserts, now offering a total of 400 sites across the county. >> you will see a lot of our food is going into those cities, in order to ensure those gaps are met. >> according to the california health interview survey, over the past five years, more than 1/3 of adults 18 and older living below the feder

russo has led but soma devotes to still be counted in l.a.karen bass actually put out a statement saying she think she is going to win this race when all the ballots are counted. she feels confident the ballots arriving on election day or after election day will swing in her favor. >> if she says that, what you think? >> i think generally the trend we expect to see is the arriving votes are more progressive. thballots that are dropped off on election day, or the ones that arrive in the mail. but so many, i think over 1 million votes left account in os angeles. s left account in this could drag on for a while. >> the kids seem a little -- maybe even gerrymandering. how did that play out across the nation? >> if you look at wisconsin, the weight in which seats are gerrymandered, lines drawn to favor one political party did limit the gains democrats would make. but we don't have that in california. we draw up a fair map and fair lines. as a result we had so many competitive districts. i think it is one of the reasons why california is perhaps th

officer to take the report more quickly so the officer can be on the street in the castro or mission or somaand addressing the needs ever constituents and making residents and tourists feel safer is all for the good. this is smart. glad to be here and express my support and thanks. i'm going to introduce a colleague who i know works every day with her office on some of the challenges that have emerged in the last few years around illegal vending, drug dealing, drug use on the street. awful the challenges that we hope this announcement and drug use -- that we hope this announcement is going to try to kreas. to address. i want to call up supervisor ronan from district 9. [applause] >> thank you so much. i want to say right now as we speak conditions on the street in the mission district are unacceptable. i want to shout out and thank a couple of people, ryan is here from mission merchant soargs. the small business commission they have been working with us and we have been working with the mayor's office to change that fact. i want to thank urban alchemy -- give them another hand. providing a m

these funds as they pertain to stabilizing communities which is both residents, businesses, in the soma area, the recommendations you can see is provided in the attached document and the areas of focus were informed completely informed by this community. and real experience and we were grateful to have an engaged group of citizens advocates who represent the soma community that's a part of this process and with that, we are happy to answer any questions you may have about it. i would like to note the director of the fund, claudine is also available via microsoft team for questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. i don't believe there's questions so we can open this up for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak and joining this person should line up now. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001. the meeting id24974089634 and press pound twice. once connected, press star three to enter the speaker line. those in the queue, wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. seeing no one in person speakers in the chamber

the central project will extend the metal teeth are linked through soma union square in chinatown. central subway will open on weekends only starting saturday and will increase service to 7 days a week starting in january. coming up on the kron 4 morning news people on the peninsula pitched in for an annual toy and book drive it. >> head of the holiday season. how you can help out. and democrats to secure control of the senate while the race for the house of representatives is still way too close to call. plus, president biden is speaking with china's president amid global tensions and worries of a potential invasion of taiwan. forget more in a live report from dc will be right back after the break. >> well, happening now, a warning for hazardous beach conditions is in effect until 10 this morning. the national weather service issuing the warning due to an increased risk of sneaker waves as well as rip currents. officials are urging everyone to stay off of coastal rocks, avoid state beaches, keep children and pets out of the serves owns and don't turn your back on the ocean day. th

that covers the financial district, union square, embarcadero and soma neighborhood. the downtown commercial properties account for about 22% of our total roll value at $69 billion. as i provided in previous slide, with downtown office buildings accounting for 14% of the total roll value at 47 billion and that percentage amount hasn't changed over the past several years. i want to be clear that the assessed values do not reflect the properties market value but rather the value that's on the roll. under california proposition 13, as you all know a property assessed value may grow only at a -- at a rate that's no more than 2% per year unless there's a change in ownership and unless there's a sale or other assessor events including new construction that may trigger that, that will trigger that new reassessment market rate. in san francisco for several decades, the average value market most properties increased by much more than two percent annually. so i think that goes without saying when you look at the most recent transactions to date. let's go ahead and move to the n

home and wanted to help a guy from his regiment, and he came home with stage iv program grand left soma. we owe a lot of folks. a lot of folks here are veterans of iraq and afghanistan. i visited both war zones as a senator and vice president a lot, and those were some godforsaken areas that you were assigned. i watched and observed your incredible courage firsthand. not a joke. that's why you reinforce my belief that veterans are literally the spine, the very sinew, of what america is. not a joke. 1% of you serve and protect the other 99%. we all owe you. i just met a few folks who work with joe, my wife, first lady. she started an outfit called joining forces when she was the first lady to make sure that we took care of military families while people were deployed. people don't realize there's a lot of folks deployed in those two wars who were in fact not career military. national guard -- we had a significant number of national guard. there were a lot of empty dinner tables at night. she started this outfit, too, in the state of delaware, my wife, to convince people that they should

of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff. [music] tions with our staff. >> hi. thanks for coming today. really appreciate you coming out. this idea of a round table actually i have been wanting to do for many years especially it talk with fellow veterans. i'm excited for today. we get int

i've been soma has always denied altering the killing. sara, leah whitson, is executive director of democracy for the arab world. now, she says the decision to recommend immunity looks like concession by the white house mohammed ben selman has been very clear in demanding from the united states and demanding from the by did ministration. number one, immunity from prosecution from this lawsuit. and number 2, a bilateral security agreement, treaty by which the united states would commit to protecting the saudi regime. militarily the bible ministration has not done the latter, but now it has done the former. it has granted had been some man the immunity he was so desperately demanding from them. i think the hope is that they will gain concessions from him, but clearly the track record of the by and ministration, gaining concessions on things like the oil output have been a complete failure. it's really a humiliating position for the united states to take in front of the whole world to say that it will sell justice for oil. particularly at a moment when the united states is trying to gain the sup

the central subway will have special weekend service from eight am to midnight connecting soma to heren chinatown. so many years, everybody waiting for it took four years to design more than a decade of construction than a year of testing. now it's finally opening. right central subway in san francisco starting this weekend spanning 1.7 miles , beginning at fourth and brandon stopping at mosconi center, union square and market street and ending in chinatown. if you're trying to get to chinatown from anywhere in the park system anywhere in the money metro system change trains at palace st. get on the central subway one stop here in chinatown in 90 seconds, it'll open up the whole region to chinatown businesses here. the tunneling work underground has caused headaches above ground for as long as some business owners can remember my problem problem, the noise, the dust, the constant construction racket. i don't know why they take so long. they heard the business a lot. we are waiting for 10 years. can you believe that? raymond hong has carried on his parents' photo business for 30 years a

stephanie: she shares a studio in the soma district. 80% of her social stipend goes to rent. >> the restd and medicine. how can you survive? >> throw inflation into the mix and she has another choice. she lives in what is considered a food desert. a neighborhood where at least one third of the population is living half a mile away from the closest supermarket or large grocery store. our i team found it is one of 171 low income neighborhoods that have low food access across the metro area. the most, wrote it in alameda county. natosha hartman lives in oakland off 14th street. we profiled her last year. since our story the county food bank added food distribution sites to areas known to be food deserts, offering 400 sites across the county. >> a lot of the food is going into the cities to ensure the gaps are met. >> over the past five years more than one third of adults 18 and older living below the poverty line in alameda county have not been able to afford enough food. last year 57% of those impacted were hispanic or latino. 40% were black. 22% were asian. 20%, white. >> then eat in the

. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from