departments are providing equal access to all city services. previously we divided city departments into tier 1 and tier 2 but it's important people be able to get what they need. we are going to be simplifying their complaint process with ocea so if a consumer wants to make a complaint about certain services they cannot access because of language difficulty, we want one place for them to file that complaint. we are streamlining the compliance process so more accurate information is captured. we do know from departments that got back to us about the difficulty of providing access to the city so we are trying to make it more meaningful. we are encouraging departments to translate public signage. this is something that will be new, making sure people approaching an office can see where they are supposed to go. lastly we are requiring that ocea maintain a qualified interpreter pool. in addition today i am offering some amendments, mostly clean up language but clarifying when some of the timelines would be for compliance. just to quickly go over th

other cities combined it with traffic calming measures or slow zones and again these are the different approaches of all of the cities we looked at the london experience has been the most interesting because it's the most extensive there's more than 400 areas in greater london that have slow zones established on the residential streets and no higher than 30 on some some of the main streets. in terms of results, they are is shown here again because the london efforts have been so extensive they have also done the most exhaustive research so of the studies we looked at that was probably the most interesting it covered 385 of the 400 zones and excuse me -- here we go. and found that they had an average reduction in speed in those zones of 9 miles per hour and going back to the formulas i mentioned earlier it it can have a dramatic impact on fatalities and accidents and on the collision rate in general and over the the 20-year period they had a 40 percent reduction and just a foot note on that on that the trend over all of the reduction in speed and collisions in the city of london during that same period h

all. >> >> >> >>> >> >> > >> good afternoon. city clerk: supervisors avalos, breed, campos, present, supervisor christian son, present, cohen present, farrell present. supervisor kim, present. supervisor mar, present. tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. present. madam president all members of present. >> thank you very much. please yoin -- join us in the pledge of allegiance. >>supervisor london breed: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are none today, madam president. >>supervisor london breed: please read the first order of discussion. >> the first item is formal policy discussions; the mayor shall answer the following eligible questions submitted from supervisors representing district 1 and 11. the mayor may address the board and initially for up to 5 minutes. discussion shall not exceed 5 minutes per supervisor. >>supervisor london breed: good afternoon, mr. mayor. >>mayor edwin m. lee: good afternoon, everyone. i think this board knows as everyone else that it's an important event for our culture and c

so it is very important for san francisco and all cities to be firmly on record. i ask for your support. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, supervisor wiener, supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you, i want to echo supervisor wiener's comments and that can him for taking the lead on this. i know it is a resolution but that strong message that san francisco is taking the stand and addressing that this trade should not be happening. so i really want to thank supervisor wiener. he and i are again speaking up for animals again and i hope this passes at the state level. i want to thank speaker atkins and senator lara for being bold in this policy. i was telling supervisor wiener for making mistakes and looking at photos for situation where this happens it's completely devastating and we hope that san francisco leads the way and conveys a strong message as well. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, supervisor kim ? >>supervisor jane kim: thank you. i would like to ask to have my name added as a cosponsor. i thanks those that educated us on this issue when

it's a little harder for large trucks to drive around the city so it is very very important that we all get together and talk about what the best ways that we can do the business that we have to and still make sure that people can get around easily around our city. the large vehicle working group has been around for about a year. it is been formalized today but a lot of ideas have come out of that working group. in fact we take our sweepers to the sunday streets, put out on display and talk to bicyclists about the things they experience when large trucks are moving, so we take those into the working group. the working group is open to all kinds of ideas. i am very, very confident as we move forward we will change the way it is and make it much easier for large trucks to be able to do their business, but with that said there is still a lot of work that we have to do and we at public works are proud to embrace the two year plan of vision zero and i am very confident by 2024 that we will reach the goal of zero fatalities so i want to thank everyone. we still have a lot of work to do but it

of united nations convention on the eliminations of all forms of discrimination against the denies and join me in doing that and you will see a city that continues to invest in education in gender equality, in blaltd poverty and providing the necessary services that will be successful in completing our ending of domestic violence in all forms of violence keep up the great work get up and dance and yell and shout address join the world let's end violence for everybody thank you (clapping). >> thank you, mayor ed lee another round of applause for our mayor. >> my name is marily mondejar i am with the filipinos women's network i've privileged to introduce to you our community partner a partner who has added a lot of resources to end violence against women he's added more da's to this so important prosecution and really be vigilant in ending violence against women help me welcome san francisco district attorney george gascon (clapping) thank you, thank you marily and beverly and thank you to the incredible prosecutors in my office and susan and everyone that has put this event together >> (speaking foreign language.) >> can you hear t

. >>> all city offices are closed today, there will be no trash or recycling pickup all city district health offices are closed along with parks and recreational facilities and libraries. and if you have the time off, why don't you study up on your presidential history at the national constitution center in philadelphia. there are presidential costume contests along with many other things going on. and today there will be a cake cutting and birthday party for george washington. and they will launch a new tour called patriot trails aimed to reinvent the struggle for the nation's independence. >>> it is a frigid start this morning but temperatures are plummeting and the wind is still blowing making for a dangerously cold morning. temperatures feel well below zero. we have seen records already tied and they are about to be broken as temperatures still come down. the bitter winds will be strongest this morning. they will die down some this afternoon, but it will never feel warm. we will see sunshine today, but tomorrow we're tracking snow. in fact, the first snow is going to start falling

families back together again with the public housing families we're residents we're part of this city and allesidents will benefit in this city through the wealth and the things that exist because we're a city that cares taking care of of our residents we care about taking care of of each other i want to thank the mayor he's kept wording and worked tireless to keep public housing starting with the 4. $7 million to help to formerly homeless families they're in those units and the elevator money that fixes the elevators in public housing (clapping.) so this mayor is not just talking the talk but walking the walk that means so much because the way we get it done is work together and make sure that we continue to keep it at the forefront of everything we do in this city no more neglect wire finally doing what we need do to take care of the residents in the public housing development i'm as i said i'll emotional as someone that remembers what it feels like i'm enjoying even though moment and can't wait for the day this place in particular is rehabbed when we do work at west side court and holly co

april of last year we rolled out a change to the annual business registration fees for all registered business in the city. this was a large change for all taxpayers and important for the city to bring in money during the year we're for implementation purposes. the collections of the business registration's fees were designed to increase from $8 million to $38 million and our businesses complied and we hit that target nearly exactly. so before taxpayers even file for the gross receipts tax now at the end of the year the new tax approved by voters brought in over $30 million to the city coffers. during the process we had many of the concerns that the mayor talked about that we needed to know what was in the new law and we worked with the mayor's office of economic development and others to implement the most aggressive outreach strategy around a tax measure. this measure took an eacial of people to accomplish from the tax team in the city attorney's office and thank you to them. our experts at 311 and thank you nancy. the city administrator's office for hiring support and the controller's office and the ma

i don't need to provide interpretation services and we thought it was important that all of us, all city departments have to be brought in line. the second component was that we really wanted to strengthen ocea as sort of the public for where we can access information, seek help for the various departments and so we're going to look to see how we could do that through this year's budget process. so, with that, i know that our nonprofit partners are going to be a huge part of this effort throughout the years, it's not going to end here. with that i would like to actually just make a motion for the amendments that i stated earlier and leave supervisor yee's opportunity to make his amendment at the full board. if we could take that without objection. >> we can take that without objection. >> thank you very much. >> and we will forward to the board with recommendation. >> motion to move if forward to the full board with positive recommendation. >> we will take that without objection and thank you for working on this very important effort. okay can we go on back to item no. 8? i'm not sure we

wanted be and wonderful celebrations in between all of those all the families will have their kids come back if whatever their attending city college and reutility to share in all of the neighborhoods across the city and across the region and everyone will find american people excuse to come to 80 to san francisco and if anything to make sure they get the forever stamp it's my pleasure to welcome everyone here on this occasion of the unveiling of the stamp buy as many as you can and in the celebration but at the same time recognize it that that is part of our history of the history of the itself not only for the asian-american but part of the united states history so thank you, again, for joining us>> (speaking foreign language.) (clapping) thank you very much for being here. (clapping.) >> thank you so much and i didn't pay him to talk about buying the stamps so such we appreciate that mayor ed lee before i introduce our dedicating official i want to mention we have a few honored gifts not that you're not honored gift but honor gift i want to introduce i'd like to introduce cam can you please stand (clapping) cam is the ar

families back together again with the public housing families we're residents we're part of this city and allesidents will benefit in this city through the wealth and the things that exist because we're a city that cares taking care of of our residents we care about taking care of of each other i want to thank the mayor he's kept wording and worked tireless to keep public housing starting with the 4. $7 million to help to formerly

all at no cost and without any increase in drug prices. we aim to have at least five drop off locations in each district in the city. n francisco has actually been operating a small drug, dispose pilot program for about three years now. in that time, our pilot which now includes 12 independent pharmacies and one community center and all ten of our city's police stations has safely collected 23.5 tons of medicine. that's 47,000 pounds of chemicals that will not end up in our bay or in the wrong hands because of this program. clerkly, san francisco will use it if it's free, and convenient. imagine how much more we can collect and properly dispose if we can include more than 13 locations. the ordinance before you today, colleagues, will provide a safe disposal program. this is not a new or untested idea. it is an out growth of our pilot and it is informed by the similar programs in alameda and king county, washington. today is a combination of years of work and there are a lot of people that i want to thank for bringing this program forward. first and foremost, thank you to debbie ralphale and rodriguez and maggie at th

community without u without further ado a man that needs no introduction and poster of all the work with the city is doing but particular stockton street our mayor, mayor ed lee please welcome him (clapping.) thank you. >> well, you you know if mohammed had recommended all the chinese i taught him he would have said josephson we say joe son in chinatown san francisco so i'm glad mohammed thank you. the department of public works for working with the chinatown merchants and working with the chinese-american association of explicit customers the chinese chamber of commerce and all the agencies from chinese development association to the nonprofits to the leader are here and a who have come together at 24 wonderful time of the year pieces and benny were driving up washington street gosh for this day all the graft is done you you know on the corner of washington hopeful that lasts more than one day this is a time when everyone in the chinese community begins to clean up their house and get rid of the old things to get new things the year of the ram means will steadyness and success and collaboration

and parent all over the city support this visitacion valley the mission and bayview and sunset i'll be delivering to the board competing complete lists of the codes of the parent that signed the petition you'll see that parent all over the city support reorganizing algebra in the eight grade as an option where do we stand relate to other backward and forward school districts we're the only bay area school district it didn't allow progression is an jose and oakland two to one in the eight grade and saratoga all over the bay area mill valley and north, south, east all but west that's us half the presentation progression in middle school why have we alone among the district where we sit in the center of technical innovation and have the greatest opportunity especially to advance high achieving girls in stem careers where we sit and evaporate for our high achieving girls to see women in technical crazy and decide to pursue that why are we alone holding them back respectfully i ask you to consider this option to put that on your agenda to take apartment comments it's adorable part o

12 is an ordinance to expanded the administrative code by a language of the ordinance to apply to all city departments that provide information or services to the public and enhance the departmental is complaint plan requirement. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. i wanted to speak on -- are we on item 12? >> i want to really set the bar high for many jushgsz in terms of making sure our city provides adequate opportunities for people of all different walks in life and different languages. this pushes us to do more. what we're doing in particular is we're moving the system that previously existed under l.a. o. we had tear one, tear two and this legislation will remove that tier system to make sure we're really sending a message on all departments, no matter how big or small you are, as long as you are serving the public, you should be able to provide some form of transportation services for people who seek help. that's one of the main components. we're also going to be servicing the complaint department in esee ya. they will be handling all the complaints in this department. we're also going

[applause] and all the representatives of our city departments, especially phil ginsberg who keeps the park nice and we're starting on a new project to keep it nicer. thank you. and to rose pack and all of the members of the community who work hard everyday and not just special days that make chinatown a wonderful place to live. thank you to all of the communities, so as supervisor we turn our thanks into certificates of appreciation, and so this is just a physical way to let people know that we're really grateful for what they do. there are groups that participated today especially on behalf of the community i would like to thank the chinese chamber of commerce for their participation today. is eddy here? eddy thank you very much on behalf of the community. thank you. [applause] eddy, you get two. and let's see do we have a representative of pinuen here? anybody here? you're going to get two norman. you just stay right there because there is one here with your name on it. we're out of order now. here we go. chinatown community development center, reverend norman fong. thank you norman

that is in couldn't ra ensuing of the mayor's executive direction 1301 which asks the board and all city agencies to preserve and promote rental housing so i ask that these permits not be issued so that mr. mccabe can maintain his tenancy in this unit. i also want to point out there is no notice of violation on this property. there is no action from ddi requiring that the property -- that the unit be demolished so the permit holder hand is not forced here and i am certain that mr. warren stein is going to make an argument that this is an illegal unit and no property owner should be required to continue renting an ill laoem unit and i would say to that, that this unit could be legalized, they could seek permits to legalize it and maintain the rental stock in the city, but that is not the goal of the permit holder the goal of the permit holder is to cash in on this real estate market and if it evicts a long term permanently stable tenant, so be it, and that is not just my opinion, that is what the permit holder's been doing for over two years now when they first issued on november 19 2012

for all the good work the city departments do, we can't do it without communities. so, i'm honored to come here and give my respect to the friends of lafayette park and all the community groups around the city to make places like this beautiful place possible. thank you very much, everyone. (applause) >> thank you, jose. all right. we're moving through. we are almost done. next up i want to bring up the rec and park commission is made up of 7 people, citizens, volunteers like yourselves, who support our park system, make very tough policy decisions, listen for hours and hours and hours and hours of public input and they do that because they love their parks. so i'd like to welcome up the vice-chair of the commission alan lowe and megan levinson to say hello. you look surprised. >> the last thing you need on a glorious day like this is yet another speech. so, just congratulations to this tremendous community and to everybody that's been mentioned already. i have a child somewhere in that playground and i have got to go find her. so, congrats. (applause) >> commissione

all. melters, which use flame burners to dissolve the snow, can't keep up. so the city may be forced to dump snow in the harbor, which is normally off limits. so much snow has been removed across the state 10,000 dump trucks all in boston alone, it would fill the home of the super bowl champions new england patriots stadium 90 times with nonstop plowing, shovinging and blowing, many have had enough. >> i think we're all kind of on our last run. and there's more to come. >> reporter: boston public schools are closed again tomorrow. officials are discussing whether to tramp april vacation to get the required number of school days in before the union mandated last day of june 30th. winter budgets are also stretched thin and in some cases wiped out. >> by the end of this week we will more than have doubled what our snow budget was. it was $18 million in the beginning. >> reporter: winter doesn't officially end for roughly six more weeks. now, at 7:00 tonight mass transit effectively is going to be shut down. it will remain shut down all day tuesday with very limited bus ser