[cheering and applauding] >> thank you very much, assemblyman ammiano. i am now going to introduce jonathan moscone, who is the youngest son of mayor moscone who was really just a young teenager at the time his father was assassinated. jonathan, i've heard you speak before. you're always so inspirational. so, i turn it over to you. thank you so much. (applause) >> thanks. i apologize, i had to write my speech so i was running out of time and i'm sorry that i directed such a bad production of wizard of oz for you at the turtle creek round in dallas. maybe you'll forgive me one day. listen, on behalf of my family gina and rebecca and jennifer and christopher, i want to thank you for inviting us to speak today. and although i am the only member of the family to speak today, i'm not speaking on their behalf. the truth is i just like to talk. [laughter] >> in fact, as i am happy to see so many people here as i do, as the comedian paula said, even if you weren't here, i'd still be up here talking. but despite my tendencies towards reliving the admonishment of

that community advocates that fought for the childrens' fund, the rainy day fund with assemblyman ammiano as well and it's wonderful to have increases in budgets that really, really need it. i did just want to say i look forward to the dialogue about the rfp process for how you allocated the distributions to various community based organizations. that's tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. and i did want to reiterate i called for the hearing because of concerns from some groups that didn't get funded but generally people wanting to know how the process worked and some initial analysis by some youth advocates pointing to drops in funding for district five at the highest amount of half a million dollars. district 1 a quarter million dollars, and district 6 about $181,000 while all other districts went up so just different questions i think will be posed about the process and i know you have shared information to all of us about that, but i wanted to thank you for the budget and always putting equity and social justice first as you look at the children and communities with the most need, but i wil

. >> assembly tom ammiano is here. (applause). >> and our state school chief tom torlichman is here and he is making his way to the podium. thank you all for being here. rob, i want to start with you. you are a los gatos man. how old was jill when this started happening. >> it started happening when jill was about 14, it started in december, she turned 15 in february and then less than a month later, she passed. >> i can't even imagine what that was like for you all. you have another daughter so you just couldn't fold so how did you deal with all that? >> that's one of the greatest challenges. you know, the devastation that jill went through, the pain, doesn't stop. families will testify it continues. it hits the community and now we have to continue to pull ourselves up and help our other daughter and the challenges of raising and parenting another child. you know, we can't just pull up in a shell. she has the right to have a childhood. she deserves to go to go to college. she deserves to be happy. we need to teach he

joins us now is california assembly man and activist ammiano.re were you when this ruling came down? >> i was here in sacramento, missing san francisco a lot. we managed to celebrate. we feel very strongly it's time to say yes to the dress is what one of my friends told me. there's a bit of a bittersweet too. you know, at my age, you know there were a lot of people who are not around anymore who i worked with shoulder to shoulder and i wish that they could be here to see the fruition of this. we also know that we're they goered to other groups. harvey milk's message was lets not forget our friends allies, people who could always use our help. i thought the ruling, and i thought you got scalia really good, about his double standard. the ruling around the voting rights act was very, very upsetting, and the affirmative action ruling was nothing to take to the streets about with joy, so even though we are happy today, we also know that we want to join with all our brothers and sisters on these important civil rights issues. you just can't have an ap

open for public comment but i know the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 split done by brad benson when in supervisor ammiano's office and this is a good split and we had them talk about how preschool for all tremendous for all and using the money wisely and i want to use -- i think the acronym slam and arts and libraries and in kind support is really critical for the school district but also the community based groups that really benefit as well as the students in our school district, but i wanted to ask we pulled the trigger for many years and how much money was not funded to the school district and community based groups and the first five over the period of its life the past 10 years? do you know? >> i knew that number last year and we didn't calculate it this year -- >> is it about 70 million or something like that. >> i don't think it was that high. i think we pulled it three consecutive years. we will get back to you by tomorrow on that. >> can you comment i know reauthorization of prop h or the enrichment fund people are building a coalition to reauthorize it for next year but you could talk about that

. >> also represent state mark malone's office tom ammiano.omentarily, i'm sure. paul henderson, representing mayor ed lee's office. [laughter] >> and to my right, i have the open house, our state association vice president and i'm sure other names, past president san francisco chapter. we have lots of our membership here including a couple of board members, kerry greenberg from fresno. [speaker not understood] is here. we have two representatives from san mateo county, barbara arieta and mike miller. i know people. at this time i'd like to say a few words about the california grand jurors association. it's an all volunteer group, 501(c) (3) dedicated to promoting the participation in the grand jury system, qualifies applicants to be grand jurors, bidthv awareness so we have consumers of the grand jury's product, report. at this point i'd like to turn it over for some lengthy introductions. >> thank you. thank you, keith. welcome, everybody. we're glad to see so many friendly faces. as president of the chapter in san francisco now for 3-1/2 ye

then when tom ammiano ran against willie brown, i got inspired. i thought, someone with integrity and honesty, if they can run for mayor, maybe i can be somebody who represents what is true about our people. that is what inspired me to run and be a candidate. one thing this year that i really tackling, and i expect to for a long time, looking at me and how it operates in my

then when tom ammiano ran against willie brown, i got inspired. i thought, someone with integrity and honesty, if they can run for mayor, maybe i can be somebody who represents what is true about our people. that is what inspired me to run and be a candidate. one thing this year that i really tackling, and i expect to for a long time, looking at me and how it operates in my district. san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city, but it does not mean a lot if transit is not very well thought out in places away from downtown. my district is where we need to create better options. all the way down to randall street, there is no accessible boarding areas for the church. there is a woman that lives in a wheelchair on santa rosa. she has to go across to glen park to get out transit. >> those new stations, those are the ones that we are going to have to depend on. >> along balboa park station, near geneva, i have been pushing hard to get ramps for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street. i want to insure the department o

supervisor ammiano very brilliantly brought up harvey was tremendously impacted by world war ii.s ring from high school. he graduated in 1947, just a couple years after the end of world war ii. he could never understand how communities could turn on themselves. and he was, i really think he made a sacred intention to light that message to the world, that we can't go back. >>> in the u.s. today we have so much to be proud of. the last door that i knocked on on november the 5th campaigning for president obama, a dignified elderly 92 year old woman named bernice opened the door in my get out the vote identification, identified her supporting equality. and she looked at me and she looked at my official obama pen that said lgbt for obama and she looked at me with tears in her eyes and she said, our time has really come, hasn't it? we both cried. that moment with bernice takes some of the pain of this day away. on this day i always feel a heightened affinity with my uncle for this was that night 34 years ago that i had to first reflect on my own conversations with harvey. anyone who ha

. >> in our remaining 6 1/2 but i'll say 8 minutes, i want to recognize tom ammiano who walked in, tony, i'm going to put you on the spot first just because i was so upset you left us when i was mayor and we tried to keep you, but i'm so happy for oakland. but, tony, you have any comments or questions for our two esteemed panelists, particularly ruslyn who has been saying so many nice things about you. you should reciprocate. >> we also have a really big investigation going in oakland. i'm not sure -- tony is right. be nice. >> thank you, yeah, good morning, everybody. thank you very much. so we are pretty deep in an investigation about the disproportionate suspension of african american males and the reason we have been able to engage so deeply is because of the understanding that unless we take a really deep healing approach, unless we look at the root issue, bullying will persist. so we said you need to have a universal goal that you can eliminate bullying but it's really about creating a caring school community. what i would ask, this question of definition, can you, though, ask for

because the last board that was here who voted for medical marijuana out of here, the last board tom ammiano, they did the work. willie brown and the mayor did the work. he set up the bca when i was in rafiki house. i know what's not only should the money be put there, but we should make sure that hiv is wrapped around and works well in this country because we have russians, we have chinese, we have middle eastern, we have more than just black, white, asian pacific who has hiv in this country. and we know today sexual [speaker not understood] and rape [speaker not understood] no to me even if you're in the military. and i call upon you all to do the right thing for america. [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi, supervisors. my name is collene, i work at st. anthony's. i want to start off by talking about how grateful we are that we're coming in to the board's part of the budget season with some really great restorations to potential cuts to department of public health. and this is my eighth year doing this work and the shortest line i've ever seen at a bielenson hearing is a testa

. >> reporter: at the same time, san francisco state assemblyman tom ammiano is proposing to expand rightsransgender youth. with a bill that would allow children to decide how they want to be identified as a boy or a girl, including which sports teams or bathrooms they want to use. >> so this clarifies that and addresses equal access based on the gender expression of the child. >> reporter: again, republicans are saying, wait a minute! >> i guess one of my questions would be, if they are allowed to try out for another team because they have perceived themselves and i've got a 6'4" son at home that weighs 225 pounds, i don't, but if i did, can he try out for the girls basketball team? >> this isn't just something that happens when we turn 18. this is who we are from a very young age. i know myself it was clear on my identity. i didn't have a name for it going back to age 5. >> reporter: both of these could be on the governor's desk in a couple of months. any signal from the governor how he might go? >> not yet. >> reporter: and it's clear that these next two steps are going to be interestin