we're joined again by rachele and connie. we're going to finish up, connie with the conversation about california dreaming. also, there's an element about houdini. >> we have two fantastic exhibits. they'll be on view for a year as a great resource to the community. we have a special exhibition of houdini. he was the son of a rabbi and an immigrant from hungary and he came here with his father and family. it was the story of an immigrant trying to find his way in the world. he took up the place of the stage. he's intrigued generations upon generations of young people and old people, exploring the whole notion of the body and illusion and everything. it's a remarkable exhibition. it has original footage. he came to san francisco three times. he has a remarkable way of performing outside in front of a newspaper building. these are the days before facebook and twitter and everything. so he wanted to be sure he was covered in the news. if he did it right by the newspaper station, he would be able to be covered needily -- immediat

daily who might be getting texts from me so connie will get the call i mean, i'll introduce connie who the reasoning as the deputy director program. (clapping.) >> she's going to be directing the program to outreach for all the fundraiser if you have any questions with everyday connect or any fundraiser go through connie 10 years managing homeless services and then kate i have you will know one of the events leader an amazing kate (clapping.) we have added additional duties she's the deputy director for marketing and fors of you who have seen the market changing our website has made it easier for people to do better but also changing it for we've participant that don't need to leave the library it is online we're doing a lot of great work and thank you to the staff and say good by to emily and excited cit can you come up he's our new events manager so i'm going to have her end with the closing and want to thank you to kate she put on a wonderful event as always and we're excited to see

connie knows that story, she has lived it for 65 years. connie's first language was chinese. that's because chinese children went to this school where they were thought in chinese. >> i was only nine or 10 years old i had to take care of my two brothers and my sister at that age when my father and mother were away looking for work. sometimes we don't have anything to eat. i would just give them a piece of bread and sprinkle some sugar on top. that's a sandwich. >> reporter: the chinese came to build the railroads. back breaking work that nobody else wanted. but it paid a dollar a day. later hundreds of chinese came to the delta area to pick fruit. or to pack fruit for shipping. connie king got her first pair of new shoes in the seventh grade. she grew up to be a beautiful young woman and got married but when she and her husband tried to buy a house in the area they were told they couldn't because they were chinese. they had no choice but to move to loch. a town built by chinese. here the chinese could own the houses they built but the land was owned by a farmer named loch and

. >>> and i see connie ford. would you like to come up and present? thank you, chair ronan and supervisors. my name is connie ford. the first thing i want to say is i highly recommend win mah. she is exemlary in exemptlary. in the bierpg o beginning of the 20th century, this country made a good decision to decide to include education, k-12 for every citizen in the country. that was really a wonderful thing. during a lot of that time, if you got a high school degree, you had access to the path into middle class, working class jobs so you can thrive. in the last couple of decades, things have changed. and now that is not adequate. you get a high school degree and it doesn't mean much. you need to go on. and so the -- so that's really what started the whole discussion of free city. and president obama started it during his term in 2015, saying that he thought everybody should have access to a free community college. and then a few states took that up. tennessee, portland, oregon, and minnesota, i think, and it was at that time that we at san francisco st

i saw you at farmer's market and get text message in all times of the day and night thank you connie that means something you're a public school parent you believe in the system i'm a product through your leadership and vocalcy from my parents from jill wynn's from a long been incredible to watch you have an incredible amount of leadership ability and don't horde it you share it whether your teaching classes and license as your climbing it is notable i want you to know that this is a fantastic legacy you and the team have inspired some people and other municipalities will be cooking up next. >> thank you supervisor ronen. >> i also want to begin by congratulating my colleagues supervisor kim. >> thank you. fighting so hard and for winning with that incredible team you're on inspiration and this is truly one of those rare piece of legislation that inspires us and makes our city one of the best in the world so thank you and to you all afp 2121 what a few years you had you've been on the forefront of figuring it out to regain accreditation of the college and contract for fair wages and

>> i'm supervisor connie chan. over the last 4 years i worked to make district 1 stronger and safeer for all families. first generation chinese immigrant, i aserved the public over two deck ades to give back to it the city that gave my family new opportunities. it was haneer to be elected in 2020 and day one i worked to be a voice for district 1 residents. i believe every san franciscan deserve clean and safe streets. and pushed city hall to admore patrol to richmond, retired police ambassadors to neighborhood commercial cordize and expand street crisis response team. worked graffiti removal and street cleaning and supported working families. i fought budget cuts to programs for seniors and families. advocated for traffic safety measures for pedestrian and cyclist. today coming alive with night live, [indiscernible] help people connect and support small business, but there is more to be done. i am running for reelection to continue to hold city hall accountable to make sure government is working for you, not big mo

thank you, supervisors, and let's start with connie thank .ow, i'll start with a greeting in chinese. [speaking chinese language] >> supervisor chan: i wish you all a happy and healthy chinese lunar new year. we know if we continue to stay vigilant and celebrate virtually, then we better protect all family members and make sure that the year of the objection is happier and healthier than the year of the rat. thank you, everyone, and happy new year. >> supervisor mar: hello, everyone. i'm very proud to join with my city leaders for this virtual lunar new year celebration. like everyone, i wish we were starting the year of the ox with the annual festive event at city hall, but we've had to find creative ways to continue our cultural traditions during the pandemic. for many asians, lunar new year is the most important holiday of the year, and despite our continuing restrictions to protect public health, lunar new year traditions peel more important than ever. thank you for following our health guidance in finding new ways to gather and celebrate

michael and connie, as i mentioned, have lived there over 29 years. and we are very concerned that rather than trying to reach an appropriate agreement, the project developmenter went ahead and played an ellis act card on them when they refused to take his buy-out offer. recently, there has been some progress in that the project developer has been willing to agree to mediation as a way of hopefully settling this. but if michael and connie are out of their house on april 28, it is obvious that the mediation is going to take a much different form. so it's very important that the parameters that the commission establish via discretionary review hearing be held before that session. and we would like to ask the commission to please help give some direction to the planning department staff, to schedule that discretionary review in march so that the project developer really has an understanding of what will be possible as well as hopefully reaching an accommodation with michael and connie so that they can continue to live on the project -- at 79 28th street.

. >> mary lee introduces us to connie, whose grandfather moved to san jose when he was just 11 years old. >> reporter: in downtown san jose at what was once the fairmont it is easy to walk by and miss this small placard. it is right on the corner of the building. it is a reminder of san jose's pass. it says in memory of the burning of san jose chinatown. >> this is a picture of my grandfather , and there is my father. >> reporter: connie yong yu is a third-generation chinese-american whose roots are in san jose. san jose's loss chinatown used to be just a few blocks away from here. the city was once home to five chinatown's. the most well-known was market street chinatown. >> this building is a replica of the temple that was in the chinatown. >> nice to see you! >> reporter: connie and her family donated most of the artifacts inside san jose's chinese-american historical museum. >> i'm going to show you the archaeology case. the roots of the chinese community were really in the market street chinatown, which was destroyed by arson fire during the anti-chinese movement. >> reporter: h

we also have san francisco supervisor connie chan. san francisco human rights commission executive director dr. cheryl davis. san francisco human rights commission chair, karen clapton. san francisco status of women commissioner (inaudible) status of women commissioner (inaudible) zuckerberg san francisco general hospital women's option med ical center dr. eleanor drake. that was a lot. [applause] we also have marin county health human service director (inaudible) i will let our da come up and then start the list again. madam da. >> thank you director and thank you mayor breed for putting not only this coalition together but bringing us together today to promote the awareness of the issue and i'm glad to be a member of this coalition to do what i can to make sure that women and others have the right and access to this type of healthcare that they need. what we know is as much as we can try to protect the right, we have people who are working as we just heard to intimidate women from gaining access to the healthcare that we have made l

also want to say a quick note to connie chan. the chinese newspapers, a great resource and i've enjoyed her tenure here and she, too, will be sorely missed and hopefully you will also come back for the ground breaking of portsmouth square. >> president buell: dawn and connie come forward. >> thank you very much, commissioners. i wanted to have an opportunity to come and say farewell after all this time working together. some of us have been working together actually longer than 12 years when i started in the mayor's budget office as the analyst for the recreation and park department and recruited by the deputy director at that time, katy, and this job has been an amazing experience. it is the job i never knew i always wanted and that as a policy person who had been reading design magazines since she was 15 to finally have an opportunity to do both things in one job, and has really been amazing, and i really, we worked on hundreds of projects at this point and i wanted to say my favorite project is my team that i built, and please

i will ask connie to come up. >> connie ford, vice president of san francisco labor counsel, one of the partners. i just want to supplement a little bit about what the reverend said. we have been meeting night and day since we receive the money, which was in december of last year, six months, to try to figure out strategically where this money could be spent and how it could be spent the most effectively. supervisor cohen: for the record, could you state the amount of money received? >> the first pot of money we have received from our community benefit agreement is half a million dollars, $500,000 -- $500 thousand. there are some problems structurally with a lawsuit, etc.. if the lawsuit is resolved and the project goes forward, we will be getting the $8.50 million to continue the work, plus another $27 million we will get for affordable housing. those are the components of the community benefit agreement. targeting the half a million dollars, we decided strategically to target youth, youth in district 10 who needed the services right now, as fast as possible. the really exciting part o

i also have had the pleasure of working with ada, conny, adnd judith by attending meetings. we were requested to do a program where we will be serving recently incarcerated individuals, helping them establish their own businesses in the neighborhood. supervisor mar: i just had a question about the -- i guess about renaissance. you mentioned you work as an incubator for 13 small and micro businesses. can you talk more about what you do to support those businesses? >> since i have started at renaissance, i have taken it upon myself to have a large part of my job be to work with our businesses compared to coordinating programs and more higher level things. i spent a lot of time with those entrepreneurs because, again, my office is located right next to theirs. hearing their concerns, generating solutions to the problems they might have, i do a lot of work directly marketing our businesses to our network, visitors to our building, to the surrounding community, so i do a lot of face-to-face work -- supervisor mar: it sounds like you act as a liaison to the different business and

connie: we were e-mailing. tom: from that moment on, connie ones one of us. connie: we were e-mailing back and forth and he said he had a story. nice and i have no memory anymore. i forgot it. i had to develop a little repertoire because there were so many of these things coming out every day read one time, i have to tell you roger mudd reminded me, he called me and he said, new york times, let's see, another one. at the time was working for la times. before he came to the post. i was i think at the biltmore hotel in philadelphia on the phone, on a phone. the old-fashioned payphone with the accordion glass door. in a big black payphone estate. so i was sitting there. i was actually talking to somebody who had been dating. they came up and pressed their noses against the glass and they were harassing me, that they were harassing me. they pushed their way in. i was sitting here, i could see the belt buckles. they were at that height. so to get rid of them, i pulled the flies down. [laughter]. roger said to me, did you do that. and i went, i think so. edwin: on

connie moye to the podium. [applaus [applause] >> supervisor kim: connie is one of our residents in the tenderloin neighborhood. she was born in 1930 and immigrated to the united states from hong kong right after the world war, world war ii in 1947. because at the time the u.s. had a law that mandated that gis could only marry and sponsor wives from outside the united states who were at least 19 years old, connie was, quote/unquote, 19 when she entered our country and married her first husband. this was an arranges marriage. she had six children with her husband. after 12 years, connie divorced her husband and met and fell in love with her second and last husband in reno, nevada, who she had her seventh child with, a daughter named lavita. connie has lived all over the united states. she was a black jack dealer in reno, nevada for over 30 years. [laughter] >> supervisor kim: she eventually came to san francisco where she made the city her home. she's the president of the tenderloin chinese organization twice. t

connie: well, the other thing was to be a merchant in chinatown.ather was so fortunate, he became good friends with a man named walter haas. walter haas was in his family's business, which was wholesale grocers. and my grandfather being, you know, a us citizen, he could travel back and forth. he was the agent for the haas brothers. every chinatown, a store represents a family. in fact, represents a clan, in fact, because it meant that the proprietor was a merchant. he could afford to have a family in america, and also for going back and forth, for immigrating and for traveling. he was a merchant, but he was early. he was here in the 1860s. his son was born in 1878 before the exclusion law, and he had other children born in san francisco. so they were american citizens, and still because of this anti-chinese feeling and the law against chinese laborers and the fact that in 1882 it--the law stipulated that "hereafter, no chinese is allowed naturalization to us citizenship." this has been the biggest cloud in all of, you know, american--chinese americ

connie: that is a tricky question. he wants to be in the new cycle and he wants people to pay attention to him. he has accomplished that. he wants that twitter border to be in a frenzy. should he do this, shouldn't he do this, it is causing cycles. he has done that. does he want twitter? he has a prolific twitter user and lots of people are and there is power to that platform, it is a place where a lot of people go. his claim is he believes in free speech and does not like the fact that twitter has put in place moderation. they do not want covid misinformation, they do not want election misinformation. if he were to hypothetically buy it and take it private and remove restrictions in the name of free speech, people have been debating whether that surely means that it will be a free speech platform because as we know, there is a line that has been crossed in the past several years between free speech and disinformation propaganda. is it going to be good for consumers? that is an open question. i think know because i thi

also here with us today bob and connie laurie. peter and debbie mc clawlin. bill and sally newco. and now let's give it up for your giants training staff. david, mark and carl, and harold. [cheers and applause] [inaudible] your assistant coaches. shawn dun can, dave stone and the there will will clark. [cheers and applause] . and the manager for the past 54 years the legendary one, mike murphy. [cheers and applause] and we would also like to extend a warm welcome to all of the giants alumni that we have here today including former giants manager feleap laua and five of our hall of famers. gay lord perry, orlando si pirra, jaun, lily misconnie, and willy mays. [cheers and applause] we also want to acknowledge congresswoman nancy pelosi along with her husband. thank you so much for being here. we know how busy you with the election just a few days away so a round of applause for all of our vip and special guests. and now at this time we would also like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners. we must acknowledge them. can't do it without them. bank o

. >>> one of the seven people hurt in the berkeley about connie collapse is now out of a coma, now the update was posted on the friends of berry facebook page, she had slowly started to awaken from the in doused coma, she started communication with her parents and doctors. authorities say the cause of the collapse was dry rot in the wood beams that supported the about connie and connect fire department to the building. >>> police in san jose are searching for a man who held a 10-year-old gun at gunpoint while the family's apartment was robbed much the family answered a knock at the door be the middle of the afternoon, then two armed men entered the apartment, police say one pointed a gun at the girl's head while the other stole jewelry and a money. they call what happen disturbing. >> the fact that they pointed a gun at the 10-year-old victim's head, possibly could have gone off, fortunately nobody was injured, we are thankful for that, obviously we are going to need help getting these violent criminals off the street. >> there were seven people in the home when the robbers made their

. >> reporter: in the quiet confines of her kitchen in fairfax, connie segenthaller is preparing for a meeting six years in the making. >> this is the one last detail of this whole ordeal. >> reporter: she's about to come face to face with two strangers who are instrumental in identifying a man responsible for her daughter's death. >> i'm excited to meet them finally. i've never met them yet. >> drivers sped off after hitting a young woman on 101 southbound in mill valley. >> reporter: in 2018 her 29-year-old daughter, marie, was riding her motorcycle when she was struck by a driver who fled the scene. lying on the road, she was then hit by a second car and killed. that driver stayed and waited for police. >> she had been hit by a chevy suburban. they figured that out the next day. >> reporter: the siegelthaler offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to arrest of the hit-and-run driver of the car was eventually found in a petaluma auto repair shop owned by the driver's uncle after two different women turned him in. the driver identified as frank barone jr. was found guilty o

thank you, connie and jen. people that take advantage, people that can afford to pay that take advantage of these programs, it can be really hard to catch them sometimes. and so one of the things that we need to do is we need to have harsh penalties for when you do get caught. we need to do what we can to deter this bad behavior and have adequate reporting systems, whistleblower protections, and then if you are found to be using section eight vouchers when you can afford a multi-million dollar home, you the punishment should fit the crime. there should be a harsh financial penalty for that. thank you jen. mahjong. so i think we're talking about two different things rent control and section eight. right. when we're talking about rent control and the need to preserve rent control, you know, rent control is a lifeline for so many people. now if there is an abuse of section eight, obviously we need that to be there with transparency and mechanisms in place where there's a penalty for that, when you look at how peop

so thank you, connie. also, connie introduced us to captain, captain, caning. mayor, captain was to special. i need thised space and manson called captain and he said done, i'll personally go out to make sure you have the space. thank you captain. and also our seniors feel much more comfortable coming to you to your offices to report the crimes because now they treat you as a friend. thank you, yeah. so we mentioned that eric supported this project and also all the affordable housing. and i have to mention, a few past former supervisor, under the president norman ye, he started the investigation work on the lack of affordable rcf for san francisco. and thanks to kelly and other city department, they did a really comprehensive report, stating that the city and the state and the government really have to step in to protect the diminishing of these homes. so thank you for doing that, norman ye. i invited him, i invited cindy and gordon mark, gordon, i forgot to mention besides the acquisition and the renovation, the third part is the subsidy. so gordon work with u

i'm gonna know connie, you're coming.so i invite tony and connie to lily dale's weekly drum circle. i believe lisa that you may owe us for this motley band of visitors and locals that meets by the lake at sunset. your name is lisa. lisa. okay you have to say your name and make a gesture. my name is lisa . my name is tony. good morning is chi carney. welcome. everybody. it's all your chance to express yourself. play anything you want. nothing is incorrect. i'll start a basic rhythm and then kind of enhance the rhythm. as the cave ins builds more drummers join in each bringing a different sound and a different heartache to let go of. this is for that very special percussionist. if you want to be the loudest in the group, i can tell this is easier for some than for others. there's times when i'm feeling good, and i almost feel guilty for feeling good because i shouldn't because of what happened to my son. after what he's been through. i can't imagine the courage it took for tony to even come here and tomorrow, whatever he fi

thank you, [applause] >> thank you, very much, connie and thank you for coming out to join us on this beautiful friday. i'm going to go through a quick few slides to introduce you to lafco and give a quick introduction to the work that lead to this panel on green banking. first question i get asked to people that i tell what i do, what is lafco, is it a comedy club or what? everybody city has a lafco dealing with making sure as we're building new developments that we have all the services that they need. we're unique in california, the only consolidated, when there was a proposed ballot measure because between brisbane and san francisco to take over pg&e's service, and that lost 49-51 at the ballot but that was a part of lafco as being kind of venue where supervisors pursued democratic, there was a lot of work of ticking over pg&e equipment and that lead to community choice aggregation which lead to clean power sf, where they were able to buy 100% renewable power. and yeah, dha was largely the focus of lafco's the number of years. we've broad end out into a few other topics in additio

i would like to call up connie ford, who is the vice chair of the cac. >> supervisors, connie ford, vice chair of the soma stabilization. our chair works for the city of oakland and was called out to a special meeting, so here i am. this has been an exciting process for the committee. there are seven of us. we were approached by the emerald fund as their project was pursued. we are actually very excited about the resolutions that we have come up with, the idea of 49 rentals for people who earn 30% or lower in ami. it is exciting and within the goals of the committee itself because it will create an integrated economic committee in the 333 harrison. the local hire is a more advanced local higher than we have seen in other areas. we are very excited about that. the idea we will have ongoing discussions with the developer on a quarterly basis and the accountability of reporting is another important aspect to it, along with some of the funding going into supporting a new credit union that we are helping to establish in soma to fund a training, community outreach, and support. i am here to te

connie: well, yes.ell, father hudson who started the parish is buried there, along with some nuns. actually, martin murphy jr. had a little chapel and cemetery in san martin, but the priest saw that the center of population was moving to gilroy, so he bought 15 acres of land and established the parish in gilroy in 1865. and 22 of the bodies from san martin were moved into this cemetery in gilroy. so, we have john gilroy, that our town is named after, and father hudson, and josé maría amador, who had a mexican land grant in the san ramon valley. later, he went to gold rush country, and that's how come amador county got named after him. damian: there you go. and you started a gofundme site, right, to kind of help-- debbie: yes i did, to help raise funds to restore and beautify the cemetery. and we would like to get a 6 foot tall wrought iron fence to prevent homeless people and vandalism to go into the cemetery, in addition to the stuff that has already been done. we already removed garbage and overgrowth