should not be expressing their support for public comment her with applause or their opposition to anything city -- stated. thank you. next speaker, please. >> the afternoon to the president and members of the board of supervisors. also to mayor and laid -- ed lee and our wonderful police chief. i am here as a mother and grandmother. as a neighbor, a concerned citizen. with thousands of tourist visits, [unintelligible] a couple of years ago whose case was solved within six months. i stand here in place of those who cannot be here who have lost their sons and daughters because of violence. to the families who lost their loved ones out there. i stand here for them. i stand here for the fine young african-american male who lost his life last night in district 5 where we know sheriff ross mirkarimi would have been there doing his true civil duty to that family. we lost a young man last night, his name was lawrence, he was 21. >> stop reading. the president is not even listening to you. >> we also lost another victim in district 10 and another one in another area. recently, we have also loss s -- los

anything the city can do to work together with the community, everyone in this room, they are small builders, architects, there are no large firms that are having 10-unit project. it makes a difference. 5000, 10,000, $20,000 makes a difference to keep this community employed antt

association, and even so, we were paying rent the entire time and unable to open our business, so anything the city can do to address, just as supervisor wiener said, are frankenstein code, to do it as quickly as possible, it would be appreciated. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. and i have two additional cards, janice and rock. and those are all of the cards that i have. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is janice clyde. we operate a establishment. i want to thank you because i just completed four years on the small business commission where we had this. it is very important streamlining legislation, and that is one of the charters of the small business administration, to streamline this for businesses, and all streamlining, but small businesses, obviously, so thank you for this. i would like to speak just very briefly about creativity and why it is important to collapse these definitions into just three, because businesses are dynamic. neighborhoods are dynamic, and businesses need room to maybe change their business plans up. sometimes, they are going to grow. sometimes, they are go

anything the city can do to work together with the community, everyone in this room, they are small builders, architects, there are no large firms that are having 10-unit project. it makes a difference. 5000, 10,000, $20,000 makes a difference to keep this community employed and putting money back. $30,000 makes a difference of whether you can start of procter down market street, start a project in bayview and visitation valley. it does not matter where it is. that is a lot of money to everyone and it is important to keep this deferred program. supervisor mar: thank you. >> over the years there has been a lot of conversation about building communities with the verse incomes. i would like to -- while i agree, i would like to take it a step further and we need to build communities of blue and white-collar workers. that includes those who like to walk with -- work with their hands or might not have college degrees or not speak english as a native language. i certainly

it will not cost the city anything, and it increases the quality of life, and it makes the whole city. hopefully i will be back. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. executive director of library users association. i certainly wanted to second the previous speakers -- some of the previous speakers, but particularly ray hart. it seems as though the supervisors and the city seemed to be continuing in an unfortunate tradition of literally calling the cops on critics. the rest of my comments, i would like to address toward the bernal heights library branch miro. last week, i reported that the sunshine task force had ruled in favor of library uses association unanimously on a number of cases, including one concerning supervisor david campos' violating open government laws by redacting contact information and providing information late. we requested his bernal heights branch library mural file, and he responded unlawfully late, and also, more importantly, unlawfully redacted information from the file. there is some good news with respect to th

if san francisco is anything, is a city of opportunity. i salute you. anytime you need anything, you can call me. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. and thank you, president chu. before i go further, i would like to take care of a little more. i would like to recognize a few more people. harry it from the office of speaker pelosi. forgive me. dominique from the office of congresswoman barbara lee. thank you for coming. office of congresswoman barbara lee. office of congressman mike honda. thank you for coming. the juvenile probation department. thank you for coming here this evening. thank you for coming. ok. we are now going to begin tonight's program. first we'll hear from one of the nation's leading legal scholars on the long-term economic impact of immigrant rights policy and reform. we will hear from a panel. after the panel discussion, we will have time to hear from the local elected officials. then we will open the meeting for public comments. if you would like to speak during the public comment section, please fill out a yellow card an

they're tearing down damaged buildings as they begin to clean up >> there's hardly anything left >> the city manager says 89 homes and 13 businesses were destroyed. casey rush to our mothers' house and got into a shelter moments before the storm destroyed her own >> we are so fortunate, i have no complaints >> at least six people including three children died when the tornado hit just after midnight on sunday. woodward is under a state of emergency and you can see why. the win to toss this truck into what remains of that store. oklahoma was one of the hardest-hit states during this weekend's tornado outbreaks. there were reports of at least 120 tournedos. officials say almost every home in firm in iowa was damaged. in wichita people are boarding up broken windows, many homes were flat in there. >> we have nothing >> the kansas governor says most of the storms in his state hit in the areas where few people live >> i'm amazed about what didn't happen with that size of a system >> the national weather service will send crews to confirm how many tornadoes struck and just how strong they were. >>

that they could get anything to the city and be locked up. i encourage you to approve the eir for this project, move forward to the next stage where we have to wait and see if we can get through that, until this project can be built. i hope, on behalf of myself and all other members, that we can get these things build and get to work. thank you. >> [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is john wang, a member of local 6. i agree with what mike just said. on top of bringing revenues to the city and creating jobs that are much needed for our members, also i wish one day i can bring my two little children to come to the park and be able to play. you know, in the open space that is much needed in the area. is about time to replace this eyesore -- it is about time to replace this eyesore with a beautiful building. i urge you to certify this er and move forward with this project. -- certify this er and move forward with this project. thank you. >> i appreciate all the commissioners giving me a couple of minutes to speak at this p

city college. those who have not registered for anything, we will register them for city college no matter what. there will be a large group going to street mary's -- st. mary's. then mission day has opened their campus for all of the kids going to a uc system. this will be an opportunity for them to burn about the transition from high school to college. -- learn about the transition from high school to college. the asia-pacific celebration is on may 8. there is a challenge to submit a community service or art project that relates to asian heritage. that deadline is april 13. a club can win $750 for their club, which is a pretty big deal. we have over 90 nominations for the teacher of the month award. it was probably one of the largest we have had. we will be narrowing down those nominations and we will be making an announcement at the giants' game on may 16. the mayor has been hosting a town hall strauss san francisco. there are six of them. they were being posted throughout the city. i have attended the last three of them. it was nice to be part of the city family. there were several questions

they think, is the city is doing anything for me so that i can get a job in richmond, so i can get training? and because i look at these high-tech jobs. the future economy is going to demand higher skills. what do we do about that? not only are we enriching the lives of our kids, but we are a listing all of the downtown members of our chamber of commerce, all of them to join us and to create miniature ships and and skill sets so our kids can have a foundation for these -- to create mentor's ships -- mentorships and skill sets so our kids can have a foundation. we have extended those summer opportunities and when we knew there were gaps. we found that last year when advocates said there were going to be 400 or 500 kids that were going to fail in math and science, and we said we were going to offer summer classes so they would not fail. we are going to continue doing that. when we create the jobs that thing for them to have those skills they are going to need to be successful. that is how we are going to have to go throughout the state. in every opportunity you provide, we go well beyond our

city. if anything comes in front of us to prove statistically that there is a nuisance, that there is a crime problem, that there is any other kind of major problem, then we are absolutely open to listening. we have said this week after week after week. no one has come forth. there has been no information whatsoever other than, we do not like it. that is not good reasoning. vice president wu: thank you. i also, in considering the question of if there is an oversaturation, i think we have talked enough about the oewd plan and can put that aside. on the mission mcd's, i was very concerned about the two locating on the same block. again and again, we have asked for the board of supervisors or another entity within the city to help us with tools, with legislation to use clustering or oversaturation or another indicator as a reason to make decisions. without that tool, it is very hard to use it. when i compare this to the mission situation, i do feel like there is a two on one block, but the third was 1 mile away. i see that there are four located around. common sense wise, there is some sense of

arrive anything jefferson city, churchill and truman were greeted by missouri governor phil donnellywho gave churchill yet another box of cuban cigars, as if he really needed anymore, but he appreciated the gesture. also there to meet him was the man whose audacity and never-say-die spirit had made this day possible, frank "bullet" mcclure from westminster college. after the men shook hands and exchanged a few kind words, they hopped in the governor's brand new, shiny black packard coup which was big enough, i believe, to accommodate half of jefferson city at least. [laughter] during a brief parade through the streets, churchill honored a request from the town's mayor by waving to a chronically ill. doctor who was propped up his window. things were not going well, though, for frank "bullet" mcclure on his big day. smoke billowed from the car carrying churchill and truman, and not just from the endless supply of lit cigars inside. they clambered out as the car ground to a very unceremonious and unplanned halt. churchill's secretary and his butler got out of their vehicle, too, and aft

anything. i know the city is a strong partner with the school district. obviously, we thank dcyf for all the support they provide for schools. we know you are very involved. we want to thank you for that is well. supervisor olague: i guess the question of resources is one we really need to look over again. obviously. supervisor campos: absolutely. one of the things that i also think that we need to think about it is also how do we bring another city agency, or local agency, to the picture, which is city college. i would like to hear from said the college. i think all of us probably have had a number of informal conversations about the level of preparedness that some of our students bring with them when they enter city college. and even though it is a different set of requirements than the one we are talking about, i think that keeping in mind and bringing different players to this discussion is important. unless there are specific comments or questions, can we have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair, so we will make sure it gets back

without that investor confidence, we do not have confidence in our city, it is not worth investing anything in, whether our time, willingness to live in the city, take on the challenges of a big, urban city. i wanted to be involved, innovate with us, and make sure that we all end up feeling better about our investment in the city. this is what i would like to accomplish in the budget. i hope that is an open door for you to signal to date -- tonight what you think is important and what you think we should do for you and for the other people you care about in this city. this budget should be reflective of the us caring about our city in every possible way. so i welcome you in doing this, the first of six budget hearing that we will hold throughout the city. you are welcome not only to be part of this one, but you can be a part of the other five as well. we want to give every district diversity to participate. thank you very much and i want to signal my appreciation for the departments with us today. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i just want to recognize, this had never happened before m

city has as a goal. there is no way to track it. anything that is not subsidized, we do not know. the city has no way to track that. rentals to meet people of moderate incomes. those rents are not reported and not going through the planning department. we cannot track or monitor them. it is something we will keep in the housing element and our policy papers as a goal to try to push back, but it is not something we have the ability to track. we do not have the information coming through. supervisor wiener: i understand it is more challenging to track. when we look at global housing needs, you have to go well beyond what the government subsidizes. i wish we had all the money in the world to be able to subsidize additional housing, but we do not. we do rely on non-subsidized housing to meet our moderate housing needs. to eliminate that category from consideration in meeting our housing goals, it does reduce our ability to meaningfully no -- know whether we're meeting the needs of the middle class. there is a world of difference between 100% and 300% of ami. one would be part of the mi