so i want to thank supervisor ahsha safai for being here.rves on the budget committee, and he was a strong supporter of the budget and the work that we had to do to get to this place. now as i said, it's a major city. we have challenges, but we are going to continue as we see those challenges, as we see the data, as we see covid, to be proactive in those instances to ensure that we can do everything we can to keep the visitors and the people of this city safe. i want to thank everybody here for their work and their advocacy. as we reopen, i want to see anything but smiles -- i don't want to see anything but smiles on people's faces. we don't want to go back to masks, and we don't want to see any sad faces because of your experiences. we only want people to walk away from san francisco with a smile on their face, so thank you so much, everyone, for being here today. >> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we ha

today, san francisco supervisor ahsha safai said the board sent district attorney chesa boudin a letter of inquiry, asking him what coordinated strategy he may have to stop these kinds of thefts. >> this is not crimes of opportunity. we are not asking him to target someone that's down and out. where asking to target people that are recruited by these organized crime outlets, so we're going to see what happens in the rese is. >> a statement from the da's office says that they want to focus on the criminal networks that fence the stolen goods, and today neiman marcus said that they're relieved no one was hurt physically in this incident, and they are cooperating with sf pd. police tell us that they believe these shoplifters are part of an organized crime ring that then sells these goods domestically and internationally. >> betty yu reporting live from union square. >>> san francisco police say a suspected shoplifter nearly killed a 75-year-old woman in his hurry to get away with a stolen sandwich. it happened friday afternoon in the outer mission.suspect knock the woman to the ground as h

san francisco supervisor ahsha safai. i e wants to take about 25 million dollars from the city surplus. >> to establish a fun were by small businesses that have been operating for 5 years or more have gross receipts of 2 million dollars or less and are not formula. retail could apply for grants of $25,000 to help pay back rent. that's over 1000 businesses. >> and each business is average about 10 to 15 employees. you're talking about somewhere between. >> 15,010 to 15,000 or just directly employed by the small business would be great because then that way i can focus on that money going directly towards paying back my landlord. >> tracy silvester says that would give her the breathing room to build her business back. >> it definitely is something that makes me feel like that there's a little bit of a sigh relief in a way that i can free up my mind to think about back to operations in moving forward and knowing that there's some support and help, especially for a small fitness business like this the supervisor is hoping to

. >> reporter: ahsha safai request of the police department and district attorney provide him with information about organized retail theft. police chief william scott and attorney chasa boudin responded with letters. sfpd keeps records of repeat shoplifting offenders. into does anything, there are 208 repeat offenders, 20% of the rearrested. in 2019, 290 repeat offenders, 29% of the rearrested, and in 2020, 116 repeat offenders, 33% rearrested. >> that had everything to do with businesses being closed in covid. 2020 was more of aberration. i think when we look at 2021, it is back here >> reporter: supervisor safai points to this video abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez took of an alleged shoplifter on a bicycle. >> that individual had a series of prior arrests and prior offenses for the exact same type of crime. >> reporter: lieutenant tracy mcrae is vice president of the san francisco police officers association. >> right there on the spot, you're able to catch up in the spot. we have to go steps of the investigation. it may take a while. >> reporter: spokesperson for the da's office of the

. >> reporter: ahsha safai request of the police department and district attorney provide him with informationganized retail theft. police chief william scott and attorney chasa boudin responded with letters. sfpd keeps records of repeat shoplifting offenders. into does anything, there are 208 repeat offenders, 20% of the rearrested. in 2019, 290 repeat offenders, 29% of the rearrested, and in 2020, 116 repeat offenders, 33% rearrested. >> that had everything to do with businesses being closed in covid. 2020 was more of an aberration. i think when we look at 2021, it is back here >> reporter: supervisor safai points to this video abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez took of an alleged shoplifter on a bicycle. >> that individual had a series of prior arrests and prior offenses for the exact same type of crime. >> reporter: lieutenant tracy mcrae is vice president of the san francisco police officers association. >> right there on the spot, you're able to catch up in the spot. we have to go steps of the investigation. it may take a while. >> reporter: spokesperson for the da's office of the da was

a supervisor, ahsha safai, asked to be provided information on the theft.am spot and district attorney chesa boudin responded. in 2018, there were 238 repeat offenders and 20% of them were rearrested. in 2019, 219 repeat offenders and 29% rearrested. at 2020 timeframe, 126 reap repeat offenders. >> businesses were closed and covid-19. 2020 was an aberration. if we look at 2021 it's on the increase. >> the san francisco police officers association says that unless offices catch offenders in the act, police have to go through other steps of the investigation which sometimes takes a while. we got a chance to ask district attorney chesa boudin about repeat offenders. >> we have half a dozen ongoing investigations into different areas of retail theft and we are committed to continuing that to address the issue. >> he added that last year the retail theft task force recovered $8 million worth of stolen goods. >>> developments in surfside, florida a month after the deadly building collapse. the condo owners who survived are now divided on how they want that land t

san francisco supervisor ahsha safai.ts to take about 25 million dollars from the city surplus. >> to establish a fun were by small businesses that have been operating for 5 years or more have gross receipts of 2 million dollars or less that are not formula. retail could apply for grants of $25,000 to help pay back rent. that's over 1000 businesses. >> and each business is average about 10 to 15 employees. you're talking about somewhere between. 15,010 to 15,000 or just directly employed by the small business would be great because then that way i can focus on that money going directly towards paying back my landlord. >> tracy silvester says that would give her the breathing room to build her business back. >> it definitely is something that makes me feel like that there's a little bit of a sigh relief in a way that i can free up my mind to think about back to operations in moving forward and knowing that there's some support and help, especially for a small fitness business like this the supervisor is hoping to get the m

so i want to thank supervisor ahsha safai for being here.the budget committee, and he was a strong supporter of the budget and the work that we had to do to get to this place. now as i said, it's a major city. we have challenges, but we are going to continue as we see those challenges, as we see the data, as we see covid, to be proactive in those instances to ensure that we can do everything we can to keep the visitors and the people of this city safe. i want to thank everybody here for their work and their advocacy. as we reopen, i want to see anything but smiles -- i don't want to see anything but smiles on people's faces. we don't want to go back to masks, and we don't want to see any sad faces because of your experiences. we only want people to walk away from san francisco with a smile on their face, so thank you so much, everyone, for being here today. >> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home

. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley templeoo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a

. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley templeinfluence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our sho

so i want to thank supervisor ahsha safai for being here.n the budget committee, and he was a strong supporter of the budget and the work that we had to do to get to this place. now as i said, it's a major city. we have challenges, but we are going to continue as we see those challenges, as we see the data, as we see covid, to be proactive in those instances to ensure that we can do everything we can to keep the visitors and the people of this city safe. i want to thank everybody here for their work and their advocacy. as we reopen, i want to see anything but smiles -- i don't want to see anything but smiles on people's faces. we don't want to go back to masks, and we don't want to see any sad faces because of your experiences. we only want people to walk away from san francisco with a smile on their face, so thank you so much, everyone, for being here today. >> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and agingchief nicholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and commissioner kelleher. [applause

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and agingrvices martha knudson, we have chief nicholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and c

. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he cam

. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley templefluence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and agingief nicholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and commissioner kelleher. [applause]

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and aging services martha knudson, we have chief nicholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> an

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and agingave chief nicholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and commissioner kelleher. [appl

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and aginghe office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and commissioner kelleher. [applause] >> for providing institutional and historic knowledge. i a

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and agingnudson, we have chief nicholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and commissioner kel

manu raju, supervisors ahsha safai and rafael mandelman, commissioner mark keller, disability and agingholson, h.r.c. director sheryl davis, director of the office of transgender initiatives, clair farley, and jason pellegrini, who just gave our land acknowledgement. thank you. [applause] >> we are all extremely excited to join mayor breed to officiate this new relaunch of the lgbtq + launch. i see amazing leadership in front of me, i see amazing leadership beside me, and without further adieu, i'd like to introduce karen clopton to introduce the mayor. >> i'm going to ask our vice chair, joseph sweiss, to stand by me, in response to all of his amazing work, maturity, consulting the elders in how to do things and how to go about things because he's one of those that knows he doesn't know everything. we love you, we appreciate you and we want to give you this present. >> oh, thank you. thank you so much. frz frz [applause] . >> i also want to acknowledge commissioner amhon for all of her work on this revitalization. >> me, too? >> not yet. >> and commissioner kelleher. [applause] >> for