as mayor newsom said, we have supervisor bevan dufty. i also want to the knowledge and member of the other supervisors wanted to be here today but there are stuck in a committee meeting. i know that many others wanted to be here as well. next i want to introduce the man who represents the country of spain, here in tampa disco, and of course we cannot talk about spain without talking about the world cup. we are all excited about the victory, and thank you mayor newsom, to you and the rec and parks department for the work they did around the world cup. if you have the opportunity to watch the game in front of city hall, i have to point out, the man who scored the winning goal is someone who plays for the barcelona team. that is important. the council's general of spain. manuel pradas. >> i wore red for the spanish team. when we arrived for the first time in san francisco, they were flabbergasted by the beauty of the unique and beautiful city that overlooks the san francisco bay. if i am told -- many times i am -- no wonder this is a city f

we are continuing, as bevan mentioned, we always ask about what is going on with hiring.i'm on the budget committee," and they are prepared, because i am going to ask that question. i want numbers, what is going on, and what will they do to make it better? so again, i want to thank you once again for allowing me to serve. it is an honor. i used to hear that and not know what it meant, but i do. to serve is an honor. it is an honor. i want you to continue doing what you do, but remember, you have to think about all of us and continue to serve the interest of the people around you, but we cannot do other people's agenda all the time. you have to do your agenda, and turn around and make your agenda. i am about sick of it, and i am also going to say, we have a lot of work to do and you have to continue educating each other and be short with ignorance, because it's dangeruos. you have to get short with it, but continuing educating people. we have a long way to go, and san francisco is not a healthy place for african-americans. we are sicker than anybody, poorer than anybody, m

i hope real progress is here, and bevan dufty is here, and i know how committed he is. if we could acknowledge him and thank him for making us honest in all this. final three points because i know you are sick of me and we have a lot of speakers, but it is important to talk about because you are important to talk about. in addition to curb ramps, we only have one intersection that was accessible with those pedestrian signals. now, we can confidently say that we lead the nation with 116 intersections and growing every single day. please give yourselves a round of applause for that. it is always good to lead the way. we have more work to do, but we are making progress. transportation. i know it is still not -- i get it. [laughter] man. i did that taxi task force. remember that one? a lot of you serve on that. i'm looking out here. we have increased by 20% the number of ramp taxis, and we went from a system of accessible buses a few years ago where there were only 409, and we have close to now doubled the number of accessible buses in our system, and that is good progress.

for their help, but also i want to thank the co- sponsors of this legislation, supervisor david chu, bevan dufty, and others. i would also like to thank supervisor mirkarimi for cosponsoring this legislation. the amendment is quite simple, actually. from my understanding, the city attorney would not represent substantive amendment which would require a continuance. the three areas -- i will go through them quickly. on page one, consolidated two sections of the police code. section 122, 123. all this would do is put them into the same section with a common label. it does not change the definition, it just makes clear what the definition would be. the second part of the amendment is on page two lines 11 through 14. this is a sentence adding the board of supervisors favors community service or other services when in violation of these sections. penalties generally applied to adults. if a child or a minor is found guilty of these, the probation officer may decide to charge the parents or the youth. what we are saying here is we would like the court to consider other things, like community serv

. >> i would like to give a thank you to bevan dufty. dufty, thank you for that. we have never seen a real giant. [speaking foreign language] san francisco [speaking foreign language] igavin newsom. you see them born with a gold spoon in their own mouths. where we come from and where we survive now. i am here, and i would like you to know -- [unintelligible] [speaking foreign language] isan francisco ladies and gentlemen, let me talk to you about the english language. to see how much money we can bring to this city. this is going to be another city. [bell] thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> do not accept money from foundations. private money is given by those that are peddling influence and vanity to those who cannot get it any other way. it always depends on lies in secrecy. it is important to realize how minuscule that private money is. i could tell you that the public budget is over $83 million. the contribution of the so- called public-private contribution is less than 1%. an enormous effort has been made to make sure it is publicly support

the mayor is not here, so we will ask bevan dufty to give us a welcome, and followed by that, we're goingo ask supervisor sophie maxwell to give us the mayor's welcome. thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. let me first say my mood improved so much when i saw the little ladies of praise, ok? so you can think about the matters of the moment, but when you see those ladies dancing, it changed my mood. i want to thank them. i am honored to be here. i want to congratulate montel jennings and the committee. this is the 60th anniversary of this celebration, and my colleagues, supervisors maxwell and mar are here. i want to give eric mar a round and welcome him. will you come join us? ok, no, he is taking off. i understand. i also want to say this is a special time for me, completing my eigth year on the board of supervisors. i worked for shirley chisholm, a woman who ran for the presidency in 1972, and i had the privilege of working for her 3 years, and than -- then for julian dixon. he was the father i never had, and he mentored and shaped me. having the privilege to join mayor brown's admini

supervisor bevan dufty. supervisor dufty: thank you.i thought the police department was not being responsive to the concerns and i felt there was some maneuvering around here where it was said that the legislation was bad but yet still a day before the legislation we were being assured that everything in the legislation was, in fact, going to be done. so what is a bit different for me here and now is that there have been a number of reform tools that have been established by the department and that we've established model station at ingleside and that there are a number of reform initiatives that are on paper, being implemented, being considered as it relates to the structure of our district stations and so i guess through the chair, i would like to ask the author, given that we previously were able to establish mandatory foot patrol initiatives, what's the purpose of going to the ballot? why is it so essential that we have the voters vote on it? because if in effect we have to make any revisions down the road, it would have to be done

i hope real progress is here, and bevan dufty is here, and i know how committed he is. if we could acknowledge him and thank him for making us honest in all this. final three points because i know you are sick of me and we have a lot of speakers, but it is important to talk about because you are important to talk about. in addition to curb ramps, we only have one intersection that was accessible with those pedestrian signals. now, we can confidently say that we lead the nation with 116 intersections and growing every single day. please give yourselves a round of applause for that. it is always good to lead the way. we have more work to do, but we are making progress. transportation. i know it is stil

i'm stacy bevan's in a moscow region where wildfires have the story part of a village join me for details on the. polling prepares to welcome its do you need to moments of mourning for president putin don't like in a plane tragedy. nice love come out of speech is due to be inaugurated as poland's new president but the ceremony is more by protests in such a war so join us from the polish government. on sixty years on their own remembering wrong on the forty thousand people who were killed by the first ever atomic bomb us attending the ceremony the first time. and from the business desk russia impose this temporary ban on greater exports because of the drought and wildfires that measures are taken to a russian farm was an event wise and cost all that business program coming out. of her good morning t.v. this is live from moscow with me alice hit the wrong emergencies minister is warning of radiation risks as wildfires get closer to the area affected by the chernobyl nuclear disaster the fear is that it could disturb the contamination in the ground and spread it wide. in the region for. the

commissioner avalos: i wanted to echo the comments of my colleagues here on lafco, and supervisor bevan dufty had actually taken the words out of my mouth. i was going to make that recommendation as well. i keep apologizing. there's no need to do that. commissioner, i wanted to thank you for your eight years so far, and they do look forward to continue to work with the. for ms. pimentel, thank you for applying, and i look forward to working with you, and i think you could bring great perspective to lafco, and that will strengthen this commission and be a great thing for san francisco. i hope you can be here every meeting as well as an alternate and contribute a lot to the discussions that are here, and i welcome that. commissioner mirkarimi: this is what we were asking a staff earlier for process and procedure, because they're actually has been some time on the consideration for vacant seats. does ms. schmeltzer have to leave the room? you're technically still here. commissioner mirkarimi: just go over here. what about in the audience? does that make a difference at all? can we take thi

but they acknowledged supervisor bevan dufty. there is jose cisneros. we thank him for his strong support. as well come a department head, commissioners assembled. this is our 18th sister city. formally, our relationships go back to 1957. the idea behind sister cities began when then-president dwight eisenhower recognized we need to reconcile that there were agreed -- disagreement between nations coming out of world war ii and the best way to reconcile the disagreement was people to people that love to say. people, representing cities, perhaps could get it right. that is when the sisters to the movement began. hear, it began with our first sister city in the osaka in 1957, 1st diplomatic relations between the u.s. and japan. we had the privilege of being there is a couple of years back to celebrate the 50th anniversary. if you walk into the international room, you will see that the mayor from a sock and had not been enlarged robot celebrating the 50th anniversary. since then, 17 others have been established. this is number 18. we recently celebrated som

i'm stacy bevan's a moscow region or a wildfires have the story part of a village join me for details coming up. as well commits do you need or all the months of mourning for the link you choose done in a fool's plain tragedy. is due to be inaugurated spolin you president but the ceremony is more. in central warsaw joining us from the polish capital. sixty five years on her remembering overall hundred forty thousand people who were killed by the first ever atomic with us attending the ceremony for the. very good morning to you this is live from london i'm honest habits the russian emergencies ministry is warning of radiation risk. get closer to the area affected by the chernobyl nuclear disaster the fear is that kid to disturb the contamination in the ground and spread a wind well that's. his business he's in the mosque a region for us one of the most affected by the blazes stacey it's a warring concern isn't it what's being said about how the families could potentially affect this ground radiation. good morning to you alice just the focus is the southern region because the fires are

smoke from wildfires which have hung heavy in moscow has finally been blown away by winds stacey bevan's brings us up to date. what a difference twenty four hours make clear skies in russia's capital now you have a clear picture of the coming behind the polar opposite situation that we had yesterday what you would have seen from this vantage point is a wall of white just take small in fact it was difficult to see even fifty meters in front of you it really was like living in a snow globe but just because the the facts of the fires aren't as strong today it doesn't mean that the side effects aren't i mean you people still are experiencing nazia runny eyes and all around discomfort if you're out in this for too long because the air pollution is so high six times what is deemed as normal you feel like you've snorted or you're garbled on gravel it's a really uncomfortable feeling and muscovites are a little bit impatient a little frustrated because the heat has been going on for so long you couple that with the unbearable smog and the how difficult it makes it to breathe and people just want

bevan, you have a daughter coming up school age, we are reaching out, i'm an active person that goes around and recruits parents in the neighborhood. but it's the political will of our city to address certain schools are underperforming because of their demographics. ours is the case in point of that. and until the city has, with its will, encouraging the parents and we could say the name, enroll their kids, it would balance the school. but at the same time i want to assure that the kids that have been cast there as castaways definitely get to rise with the water as the boat goes up. the other thing is also, as i said, the high needs, if your description of what the mission captured john mear to the full extent. you have very bright children. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> i do support the learning date. >> next speaker, please. i know we have also commissioner jones from the youth commission who has also signed up to speak. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is cassandra coe and am with -- [speaking in spanish] the program manager for the early intervention program. the in

emergency crews managed to evacuate almost five hundred people from the home while at the station bevan's reports now from the to van region. or early morning panic strikes the central russian nursing home as firing golfs a third floor apartment killing nine and sending hundreds more on a dash to safety but nobody we woke up and heard somebody screaming burn fire at first we didn't even believe it but then i saw smoke coming into our room i started to cough i opened the door to the corridor but because of the smoke i couldn't see anything there. i followed the smell of smoke it was spreading down the corridor and i heard the residents groan i opened the door and saw the whole room on fire i was instantly surrounded by smoke a man was lying on the floor all charred and he was burning like a torch i attempted to grab him but there was nothing to get hold of he was burning all over the alleged arsonist was nicholai due to an eighty six year old world war two veteran and a resident of the home it's believed that he was trying to set himself on fire in an attempt to commit suicide if that was