where our spending is today as a city. so i look forward to that discussion afterwards. i think we're going to have to go through this fiscal year without discussing everything but it's a great place to start. my only comment is we have certain departments speaking on monday my staff can be coaching the departments and helping them to know what to question. we should talk about how formal we want to be. so we can talk about that in a second >> i'm just really placed that supervisor avalos are advocating for this as a key component of our budget practice those process. informally if they don't have to more form at least addressing it. i want to see this more formalized. i know that each department comes up with their own goals but i want higher awareness of inner qualities that thought consumers they serve and to disrupt the patterns of inequality to the parents. i think when supervisor from district 11 judge had those types of reports looking at each of the district was helpful but putting on action plan into place with new efforts as the questions outline how they measur

adding with all come together as a board, as a city. hould come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community. for a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. i know the ed and all of us of asian-american decent feel the legacy. i want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen. and say that this is obviously not just about a chinese- american community or an asian american community. this is about the american dream. the idea that anyone of any background of any color from any part of the globe can come here and sunday be at the very top of what our community is about -- and someday be at the very top of what our community is about. >> to address these concerns, i have made a series of amendments to the resolution that capture the spirit of the policy but would allow continued conversati

as a committee and with all of our departments, not just our budget analyst. >> the other question is we're seeing a dramatic increase in housing costs here in san francisco. what are we doing as a city to stem that? is there something we can do in the city? and we may be getting from the mayor's office or from the budget office looking at departments where are specific services and programs for departments to assure people have protections as tenants, or homeowners are able to sure up their ability to maintain their housing situation. so, those are just examples. i can meet with the budget analyst to kind of go over these and provide -- i think have a collaborative process with the budget analyst would be the best way to do that and perhaps to make sure it's all transparent. i can just come back and share with you next week. we can continue this item to the call of the chair or to the next week and we can come back with kind of a proposed framework for that project. >> question maybe for you or the budget analyst. part two of this report, what is the timing on that? >> chair farrell, the timing is this summer. so, after the [speaker not understood] and hope to get it done in august.

allows the rich to get richer and it doesn't have a place for the middle class and the poor in our city. and i think that part of what we have to do as a city when people are interested in economic development opportunities in our city, we need to be a part of our city. and it's not just about giving out free gifts or giving out free turkeys or giving out free anything. it's about what type of job opportunities, what type of internships, what type of commitment are you going to have to the most vulnerable residents of our city? how are we going to impact lives? you're basically -- this is a great economic opportunity maybe for you and the city, but how does this directly impact residents of the city? so, i think we have to do a better job in making those connections. >> let's talk a little about the issue of sports, the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you supportive of the plans for the new warriors stadium? >> i'm supportive of a plan that includes the residents of this city. specifically with the warriors stadium, i think it could be a great opportunity for san francisco, but i want to make sure that in the agreem

to provide a framework so we can look at our decisions we make here in the budget committee and as a city about how we are dealing with disparity. i wasn't trying to get a gotcha on the city so much as really trying to get a baseline on what the needs are in san francisco. i think perhaps at times i can be misunderstood about my concern about poverty and about how we spare economic benefit around and concerned about how we provide a lot of support for big business and corporations. actually, not so much worried about providing the support along as we make sure that we're providing a real benefit to everyday san franciscans, that we are using our wealth and not just trying to generate wealth, but make sure it gets to the places where it's needed the most. and i don't think any one district, any one part of the city has a premium on what the need is in the city. we'll see from this report that it's pretty spared around. as we see reports like this, it gives us a sense of how we can be really strong advocates for our districts and for our neighborhoods within our districts as well as particu

city hall. so, please make sure you're aware of that because something that i had worked on with a number of supervisors throughout so many years as our city administrator, and i want to make sure that works for everybody. having said that, we also fund a lot of community-based nonprofits to help us with the employers in the city. and this is why we have focused our effort with united way of the bay area because we do have nonprofits who can bridge the child's undocumented status to their ability to get a job. and we specifically fund groups to do that. so, please, if you have those issues, make sure that they talk with our family youth and children services centers as well as united way. as eric said, and i'm going to be very excited about this, because this year we're focused on 6,000 jobs for our youth, focused on the most disadvantaged kids of all different backgrounds, want to get everybody employed. as supervisor farrell says, it's moving even faster down to 6%. so, maybe we'll get down to that 5% pretty soon with the help of united way. and it's going to be a shared responsibility of departments, but we're going to push rea

remains diverse, do want to work with us, and maybe this is an opportunity for us to come together as a city to talk about that issue. but when you have a situation where 97 year olds are being subjected to the ellis act, we have a crisis in san francisco. so, if you have a crisis, you have to respond to it like it is a crisis. i don't think we're there yet, and i hope that this is the beginning of that discussion because this is only a preferal issue and a much substantive discussion that needs to happen and it needs to happen soon. >> thank you. (applause) >> supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen. >> thank you. i wanted to also give voice to this issue, but maybe from a different perspective. we think about the african-american community, many of whom were born and raised here in san francisco, and struggle and we certainly see the statistics. we're talking about a community that was a little over 40% 30 years ago and now are down to 4%. we're talking about not just members of the lgbt community, but significant number of seniors that are not able to grow old in the place that they call home

one of the things i really want to concentrate on is to make sure we're collaborating more because as a cityssing and resources are being stretched. it's important that city departments collaborate. we are not in just our own little part of the city like the hate community. there are a lot of opportunities here. my goal as supervisor is to begin the process of connecting people so we have folks living and working and growing in the community. and working together. i am looking to bring folks together >> well, it looks like we're out of time but thank you so much for joining us to meet our district supervisor. >> we've been talking about with our supervisor from district 5. from sftv thank >> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat. oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't

it is a city park, a city resource if you happen to live near it in district 1, you can get to it very easily. but it is more of a city-wide draw as compared to a neighborhood park. these numbers include everything. [speaker not understood] park something as big as the presidio. >> i think [speaker not understood] what we see in district 3 and district 6 is a lot of concrete, tall buildings, not very many places people can enjoy the outdoor space. >> right. and in both of those districts there are sizeable populations with limited mobility. so, they may not be as able to get in the car, get on the bike and ride to another neighborhood where more parks may be in place. one of the health measures we looked at, and we looked at a number of them, was prenatal care. so, this is a measure. it's not by supervisorial district, the data was not accessible that way, but it is broken out by zip code. so, knowing the neighborhood names, you pretty much know what goes with which district. but here, this was a measure compiled by the sustainable communities index of pregnant women receiving care of the first three months of a pregnancy city-wid

as a city? yes. >> and we are working to insure that every student especially students of our middle schools have the resources and opportunities to graduate ready for college. and since day one i have been committed to our cities' family and our children and our youth and i will remain committed because i see education and training not as an expense, but as an investment. my wife, anita and i have been parents to both of our daughters so i know first hand what it is like to be a parent here in san francisco. and i want to thank you all parents to being here. because they could not have done it without you. i know that. and what sacrifices your parents made, i know that. because they are investing in you as part of our future and helping you pursue your dreams. we all want you to succeed. because as all of you embark on the next leg of your journey, i want you to remember to come back to san francisco. i want you to come back, i want you to work here, the innovation, capitol of the world. i want

this is something we have to come to grips with as a city in general. we do this into emergency rooms all over the city every day. but with that said, i think this is a very good agreement. i look forward to supporting it. i, too, have one minor amendment relating to the, what we call the guerrero park which is one of the public -- one of the community benefits that cpmc will be providing close to st. luke's. i think there was a miss understanding, it was categorized. this has to do with the timing of the delivery. it what a phase iii implementation project and we're going to change it to be a phase i implementation project. so, we delivered to neighborhoods sooner rather than later. so it's an amendment to item 16. exhibit h schedule a section two-page 2, that change guerrero park from phase iii to phase 1 implementation. so, colleagues, first we have i guess under the one amendment for supervisor -- that's not really a rule. we have three amendmented on the table. can we take those amendments without objection? [gavel] >> so ordered. and can we have a

ling that for happening and i want to touch on what mayor khan said we can never be as successful as a city as we want to be unless we pay attention to the gun have the vls in our city and is no different than mayor khan or any urban mayor across the state or country. we are extremely concerned about our gun violence we have to reduce it. and you already know what we have announced in san francisco the possession the very possession of powerpoint ammuntion or automatic weapon tree has no -- in our streets or inner city and is so we offered our own legislature locally but we also know the very reality is just controlling borders won't help and so we have asked all of the mayors and county administration across california do the same and joined our state legislature and some eight other seniors to support their effort state wide and to support president obama and senior fine fine stein on their national events and i want to take a moment to make sure that we hong hospital members of sandy hook continue keeping them in our minds and but also, that things that are not as announced but every sin

a massive onslaught. >> we have declared the city as a safe city. we appeal to all residents to return home. >> fears that the conflict in syria could spill over deepen as they warned of fighters continuing to support those forces. >> i think we are allowed to fight inside lebanese territory. >> the fate of one afghan interpreter work for the british army, he said his life has been ruined by the taliban. freedom and no life. >> aaron is here. a big trade battle between two giants. >> it looks like and has begun. the european union told china that they have sold solar panels in europe far too cheaply, so we charge you more. china said, well, we will charge more for your wine. where will it end? ♪ >> it is midday in london, 7:00 in the morning in washington, 2:00 in the afternoon in syria, where government forces have retaken a local town after two weeks of intense fighting. it represents a major gain for the government. rebel fighters said they pulled out of the town overnight because they could no longer faced a massive onslaught from syrian troops.

city. >> as i mentioned, we're currently working with other non profit and the city to be a leader. and the idea that many of those families, many of those philippino citizens and veterans live in the smaller market. another example of really working to keep families in south of market, this is a previous program that we funded a relationship with 333 harrison which is a new development in south of market where we work to make sure that south of market resident with an emphasis on family were able to submit applications for the units to 3333 harrison. they created a number of family units created that would cater to seniors and we wanted to make sure since they were building in south of market that as many south of market resident had access to that. those are examples where we're looking for new ways to address the particularly of dwindling housing. >> carmichael school, you're trying to turn it into a community hub with services and places go to see with a large philippino population and immigrant students, that makes a lot of sense. can you give background about renaissance and u

it seem like especially a young group of people and that is the greatest effort that we can make as a city to do that training among the wide diversity of providers that we have in this city and i think that it could be a huge and actually advance the awareness that we have and the people in our communities that are here in this case and the lgbtq community. >> and 100 percent agree. >> and i do have to say that starting this school year, we are embarking on a new initiative to insure that we provide trainings regarding lgbtq qq alliship to all of the sfusd middle cools and teachers and we are working closely with the curriculum and to create the mechanism and the tools on how we recognize the training if you call that meeting of all the city departments to come together, and i would also suggest that you include the school district in that conversation, so that we can then come together i agree with having the youth commission holding the monitoring in compliance perhaps, of the city departments administering the training. i like the suggestion of the having the controller and the perform

people here, but ultimately these kind of projects are all about trade offs and we have to decide as a city what we value and i think the mta has done a great job in steering san francisco in a direction which is to make it a more livable city, a city that is better for people to walk around in, to ride bikes in and i believe that that in turn makes it a city that is better for everyone. and i understand that there are people who need cars, people in wheelchairs, people who have kids to shuttle around and those people need to have parking spaces, but the hope is that when we make this a better city and a city easier to live in without a car, people like me will get rid of their cars. i will. and there will be parking spaces that are opened up as a result so i urge you to fund this proposal. i think it's an excellent plan. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is jackie, i'm a member of the citizen's advisory committee. this item came up before and i also speck out against it. i spoke against it both times and for two very good reaso

and meetings to flush through some of that information and one of the biggest take aways for us, as a city we're required to have a tactical interoperatable communications plan. it describes how you interoperate in an emergency or an event within the city as well as regional partners. we don't have that with military and i think that's one of the biggest take aways, we need to really flesh out a document so we have captured who our contacts are, what technology they are going to bring to the table and start that initial planning from the get-go. we also had some technical challenges with land mobile radio. you know, we have the coverage issues, but we were stationed at the san francisco police department command van, i had some very sharp people there who were able to work through a lot of those interoperatability issues so a huge thank you to the police department and also the fire department and sheriff's department were also there able to provide us with otherality gnat communications paths, only channels we were able to use for the exercise. it was a really good team effort by the city

rounded approaches, do you attempt to balance the needs of the district versus the needs of the city as a whole? >> for me that's easy because san francisco, the entire city is my home. i grew up here. i know -- i went to galileo in the marina, hung out at bayview hunters point, my family lives all over the city. i mean, i can't do something that positively impacts district 5, but also negatively impacts san francisco as a whole. so, whatever decisions i make, i mean, it's a no-brainer. i have to make sure that it's going to positively impact the city as a whole and that's just how i view every decision that i make through that particular lens. >> let's talk a little about your district in particular. what do you hear about transportation from your constituents? is there adequate muni service? >> well, it's funny that you mention muni. [laughter] >> and let me just say this. as someone who -- i mean, we caught muni -- when i was growing up in the city, that's how you got around. and there were some real problems with muni. i'm talking about just -- i mean, the buses were always dirty. the

say you have been a really great partner in the past several years, not only as a role-model to many young women in the city as a commissioner, but also as a community partner and you show up to a lot of community events and you are not one of those commissioners who show up when there is a camera on, but you show up when there is work that needs to be done. so i just want to have an opportunity to publicly say thank you. >> thank you. >> miss brandon, first of all, i want to thank you for your willingness to continue serving the city on the port commission. and as one of the most diverse ports in the nation, and basically the economic engine for the city, the port generates revenues from the state leasing and parking and maritime and development projects. what is your vision then? and i think a bit of my colleagues' questions were part of this tiadvocate, knowing that more likely than not, the build-out for residential units will probably increase the demand for child-care? >> you are right. i have not heard in any of these development deals anyone talk about child-care, but i do think if we are about to e

the loss of a program like [speaker not understood] would be devastating and i don't think that we as a city can afford to see something like that happen. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. and i want to associate myself with the comments of supervisors com campos and wiener, vis-a-vis these projected cuts. with that, supervisor breed. ~ >> thank you. i just wanted to take a step back. my goal in asking the questions today is asking just to clearly understand what this means in terms of that 3 million, its impact specifically onward 86. i know that there are other issues ~ and i don't feel like based on the money that's been restored for hiv funding, but i clearly understand what specific programs these might impact. so, for example, some of us, i'm sure, are familiar with the fact that the ward 86, because of the ryan white cuts, anticipate a $500,000 cut. with the specific dollars that have been restored, i'm not certain how much money would be going into this particular ward because this is, as some of us know, a really important clinic that is a one-stop-shop for women living wi

first, as a city hall fellow on the city's bio fuel program to increase the sustainable fuel used for the mini buses. i work in the clean transportation program. it promotes transportation use and reduce single occupancy trips in the city. i would draw upon my experience as an ally to communities of color to insure this project is inclusive particularly from the downtown community. and i would bring special attention to air pollution reductions and enhancements to communities live ability and vitality. i appreciate your consideration of me >> thank you. commissioner kim and a thank you actually peter if you do mind since you're here i have mentioned something the tenderloin is the lowest income residents. so it's really important that that prospective get represented especially because the other representative for about the downtown resident lives in district 5 she's a great person but now that i have this one opening. you mentioned this and i'm kurt's to see what the to that issues of the lowest income folks what are the most important issues >> i think particularly assess and provid

as a smalls business enterprise in the city, my brandon has been a local and consistent supporter of small businesses and whenever there are deliberations before the port, she is very concerted to make sure that they are part of the process and i have provided written comments and very much support her re-appointment. thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> chairman yee, supervisors breed and my supervisor cohen. my name is timothy allen simon and i am very honored and humbled to be the companion of kimberly brandon for well actually the last 16 years. i know the exact date. don't worry. but i met her as a commissioner. so all the time that we have been together, i have seen her in her professional capacity and i have learned so much from her in terms of how she balances her time and how dedicated she is to sharpening her craft as a commissioner. and that agenda arrives at our home, i know there is going to be time taken, when she not available, in her preparation for the meeting. the trail between her office of 101 california and pier 1 is a heavy walked trail as she goes back and

we know as a city when the earth moves, things fall, we get a lot of rubble. that's going to be one of our critical, critical things we have to do. we have to be able to move material and personnel and one of the ways we're going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. so that was the command of control exercise. we had the marine corps, the navy, and the national guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. we didn't give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, here's some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. so it was a very successful year. that's what we did as far as the field exercises. next year i don't know what's next, we're going to explore the lessons learned from this one, we've already learned a bunch, they're going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. it probably won't be the same ones. we are building the

a good connection as to why. there is a connection to our city's infrastructure as to why people want to visit fisherman's wharf. thank you and the merchants association for putting together a fantastic six year effort of collaborating with public works and making sure landscaping was able to do it's job so i can have my ice cream cone today. it takes a huge amount of effort to do this, but we are doing it right. we rushed it and i know supervisor and board president david chiu, he knew that we had to get this done for our great celebration this year which is america's cup. that forced us to have this exciting first phase done. we will talk about a second phase later. i know supervisor chiu is going to welcome you all to his district. he's working very hard with me. we meet every week and he is constantly reminding me about the second phase of this and that, all the investments we have to make. i have already heard it, three times in fact last month and we are working together for the next phase. we have to take this moment to celebrate because without this recognition of how we got here already. it shouldn't tak

as a city team, we're excited about this place making notion. four city's got new ideas but they implemented those ideas at the 5-m project at 5th and mission. four city was very generous with dealing with the artist who currentry have studios at pier studio and offered like space to those artist when the nunon building goes away and the office space which was apart of the port's preferred master plan. so you can see that these -- the historic rehabilitation and the place making congregate around open space and come in early phases of the project. jack talked a little bit about the need for height on the edges on the project and just to give you a sense, he references a few buildings can go as high as 230 feet. the city put together this analysis of the example the height along the water front so we think these heights are fit in with pier 70. they're going to look at the best place to put height on the site. that's looking at how height relates to historic buildings and the open space, how shadows fall. and what you see on this slide are in gre