i come off often to china town and i'll bring my six-year-old son from the bay view to china town. i look forward to seeing all of you on this as we share the story about how generations before made it possible for generations after. happy central subway. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, district 8 supervisor and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, raphael mandelman. [applause] >> um, hello, everybody. you know who didn't take 15 ballots to get elected speaker, who didn't have to degrade the office and how owe hue mail ate her several. i'll the chair county of the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about our sales tax and the art. so, and we -- you like sales taxes? you like art? [cheers and applause] so, i want to acknowledge our phenomenal executive director telly chang who is here. director chang, our vice-chair aaron peskin and district supervisor and district 7 supervisor, milgar is here. this was the most transformative project in our half cents sales tax program. creating a direct ride from china town to the light rail. the ta was

i come off often to china town and i'll bring my six-year-old son from the bay view to china town. i look forward to seeing all of you on this as we share the story about how generations before made it possible for generations after. happy central subway. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, district 8 supervisor and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, raphael mandelman. [applause] >> um, hello, everybody. you know who didn't take 15 ballots to get elected speaker, who didn't have to degrade the office and how owe hue mail ate her several. i'll the chair county of the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about our sales tax and the art. so, and we -- you like sales taxes? you like art? [cheers and applause] so, i want to acknowledge our phenomenal executive director telly chang who is here. director chang, our vice-chair aaron peskin and district supervisor and district 7 supervisor, milgar is here. this was the most transformative project in our half cents sales tax program. creating a direct ride from china town to the light rail. the ta was

i come off often to china town and i'll bring my six-year-old son from the bay view to china town.ard to seeing all of you on this as we share the story about how generations before made it possible for generations after. happy central subway. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, district 8 supervisor and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, raphael mandelman. [applause] >> um, hello, everybody. you know who didn't take 15 ballots to get elected speaker, who didn't have to degrade the office and how owe hue mail ate her several. i'll the chair county of the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about our sales tax and the art. so, and we -- you like sales taxes? you like art? [cheers and applause] so, i want to acknowledge our phenomenal executive director telly chang who is here. director chang, our vice-chair aaron peskin and district supervisor and district 7 supervisor, milgar is here. this was the most transformative project in our half cents sales tax program. creating a direct ride from china town to the light rail. the ta was a key partne

the sunset not the china town area >> this grant is focused in china town. as you will hear next mont the broader presentation we have other grants that are city wide or focused in other neighborhoods. and so there are opportunity throughout the city and many of our grants are not as focused in their location and in addition we have our own program of -- own internal preapprenticeship program our 9916 referring to their city job specifications. they work throughout the city in neighborhood/commercial district another pipeline. >> thank you. that just about covers my questions. mr. chair. >> commissioner simi. >> i think -- when the giant -- the giants block program sell this an umbrella term for a number of neighborhood specific or refer to the specific thing in china town? this is specific to china town we have finds out who named it. [laughter]. may be don't spends staff time on that one. i guess my second question. this started in october 2019. and you said it is funded by the general fund did you have a sense of origin or, what was the back story? >> i w

i come off often to china town and i'll bring my six-year-old son from the bay view to china town. i look forward to seeing all of you on this as we share the story about how generations before made it possible for generations after. happy central subway. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, district 8 supervisor and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, raphael mandelman. [applause] >> um, hello, everybody. you know who didn't take 15 ballots to get elected speaker, who didn't have to degrade the office and how owe hue mail ate her several. i'll the chair county of the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about our sales tax and the art. so, and we -- you like sales taxes? you like art? [cheers and applause] so, i want to acknowledge our phenomenal executive director telly chang who is here. director chang, our vice-chair aaron peskin and district supervisor and district 7 supervisor, milgar is here. this was the most transformative project in our half cents sales tax program. creating a direct ride from china town to the light rail. the ta was

our community events have been historically well attended boy the members like china town night out. easter egg hunt. toy give awaves and the like. those are events that help us come together before there is a crisis. and because we do this we are better able to handle a crisis when they happen. i will end by saying thank you to everyone here. thank you to the community members from the city and again, for the mayor's leadership. together, we can make this happen and better. and that is our commitment from the san francisco police department. so, i turn it back over to our city attorney david chu to close us out. [applause]. >> thank you. i have a couple closing comments. of course i want to thank our great mayor. police chief and district attorney for their commitment when we have done is ensure that off the services, all programs geared in the area than i are alined and connected putting protocols and process together to make sure we are working together as a city and working together with communities. the second thing i say is while today is focused on the issues that we have been

articles 2, 7 and the china town districts are complete.is ordinance will bring eastern neighborhoods and mixed use under the new format the final ordinance amend the downtown residential districts. and i say this because of the ordinance about 275 pages and the reason is because it is being those sections are reorganized. >> so beyond those nonsubstantial change its makes several changes i like to over vow of those by comprehending the first is accessory use maemdz the article 8 and 2 use control to aline with article 7 controls to consistency throughout the city. television allows accessory wholesaling, processing of gods to occupy more than a third of the restale space allow spall maneuvers to have oneness -- limited live performance and proposed to allow restaurantses to have limited catering like restaurants have now. >> for ground floor use eastern neighborhood mixed use projects that would be more than 10 thousand dollars square feet would have more than 10 thoubldz square feet of commercial space required commercial spaces in a rang

community and china town trip relating to improvements. i want to join t. a staff in thanking our assembly member does in the represent this district for his successful efforts providing more money above and beyond had the voters provided in bond financing for this and this is a complicated project. this is -- a garage on top of one of san francisco's original 3 parks. as people are aware and as this board and most members previously voted t. is connected boy a concrete bridge. to the -- once was -- holiday in now hilton cross the street approximate this bridge is going to -- be removed which will turn utility to the park. and i wanted use this opportunity because i have been trying to conduct meetings between the various agencies ranging from dpw to rec and park to the mta ask mr. leafy, i know that -- we have been waiting for [inaudible] cost break downs from rec approximate p and i understand this it is over a million dollars but i wanted to use this opportunity to find out where rec and park is on the cost estimates? >> mr. levy. >> go

community and china town trip relating to improvements. i want to join t. a staff in thanking our assembly member does in the represent this district for his successful efforts providing more money above and beyond had the voters provided in bond financing for this and this is a complicated project. this is -- a garage on top of one of san francisco's original 3 parks. as people are aware and as this board and most members previously voted t. is connected boy a concrete bridge. to the -- once was -- holiday in now hilton cross the street approximate this bridge is going to -- be removed which will turn utility to the park. and i wanted use this opportunity because i have been trying to conduct meetings between the various agencies ranging from dpw to rec and park to the mta ask mr. leafy, i know that -- we have been waiting for [inaudible] cost break downs from rec approximate p and i understand this it is over a million dollars but i wanted to use this opportunity to find out where rec and park is on the cost estimates? >> mr. levy. >> go

people visiting the asian art museum, people going to china town and spending a lots, and lots of -- lots of money and they will give you a deal if you fight for it. people eating and enjoying the great food and cuisine. it's an amazing and special city and it's celebrated in so many ways and that's why people like a treasurer, atheon ma and state leader, malia cohen and even though they serve on the board of supervisors, they come back time and time again because they know san francisco is the place to be to celebrate our history, culture and diversity which is an important part of our strength. thank you for being here and choosing san francisco to do this first unveiling of this wonderful stamp. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, thank you, mayor for your leadership, your commitment, your passion, your compassion to protecting all of us, not just in the asian community but everybody and all residents in san francisco. so, also, thank you for talking about taxes. as your state banker, i am -- [laughter] i'm always concerned about revenues coming to this state, so we loo

community and china town trip relating to improvements. i want to join t. a staff in thanking our assembly member does in the represent this district for his successful efforts providing more money above and beyond had the voters provided in bond financing for this and this is a complicated project. this is -- a garage on top of one of san francisco's original 3 parks. as people are aware and as this board and most members previously voted t. is connected boy a concrete bridge. to the -- once was -- holiday in now hilton cross the street approximate this bridge is going to -- be removed which will turn utility to the park. and i wanted use this opportunity because i have been trying to conduct meetings between the various agencies ranging from dpw to rec and park to the mta ask mr. leafy, i know that -- we have been waiting for [inaudible] cost break downs from rec approximate p and i understand this it is over a million dollars but i wanted to use this opportunity to find out where rec and park is on the cost estimates? >> mr. levy. >> go

our community events have been historically well attended boy the members like china town night out. easter egg hunt. toy give awaves and the like. those are events that help us come together before there is a crisis. and because we do this we are better able to handle a crisis when they happen. i will end by saying thank you to everyone here. thank you to the community members from the city and again, for the mayor's leadership. together, we can make this happen and better. and that is our commitment from the san francisco police department. so, i turn it back over to our city attorney david chu to close us out. [applause]. >> thank you. i have a couple closing comments. of course i want to thank our great mayor. police chief and district attorney for their commitment when we have done is ensure that off the services, all programs geared in the area than i are alined and connected putting protocols and process together to make sure we are working together as a city and working together with communities. the second thing i say is while today is focused on the issues that we have been

i'm also here on behalf of a china town community development center. you know, i just want to say three quick things. one uh, really. it's been a great working relationship with sfpd supervisor peskin now president peskin said it best. all the stations are built equally were a little more equal here, and i want to give a shout out to some of our former captains and acting captain farmer. we got capped commander and back there he was our immediate presser. ah captain yixin terrible now, but he was also one of our captains. uh, and while darrell guan was never a captain here, he was always a captain here, right? so thank you guys. and to also all the foot patrol officers who really actually make this community work. well i saw some of your guys here this weekend volunteering and i was like that means they're part of the community, and that means a ton. yep that's right. secondly i just want to say you know, the one thing that people didn't mention in terms of safety. we want people to take community to chinatown. but be careful on uni because a lot of st

charlotte, a homeless elderly woman discovered in china town in unsafe conditions by my chief of staff and wonderful person brooke wilson. brooke brought charlotte to our community and she's now living in a quiet, safe, and dignified life that all of our people deserve.di give a round of applause for brooke. that was an amazing moment. wet can, we can. as governor i reached out to the excellent mayors and we build given my commitment and theirs and each and every county of their state. seems so simple and something so complex and choosing parcels of land and with the private sector with thee done development community and building villages and supporting with nurses and social workers and everyone else in hawaii that wants to come together to lend a hand, which i'll tell you is one heck of a lot of people. to show you that our administration will not wait one minute to take action, to help people, i'll authorize the release of the n $50 million of grants and aid before the end of this year. that the legislature has the wisdom r to release and these critical funds go to organizations al

they did -- china town -- to i can't remember. they did a lop of the tour. looking at lots of different civic project this is were enabled because of the capitol plan. we may already have something in the works but will check in and let you common if not too late i love the suggestions thank you. >> i was going to suggest a way to short circuit contact stacy williams. i will be glad to. she is the local director of american institute of architects. and shed have the attention of national. >> thank you. we may take you up on that. >> other new business before public comment? open public comment. >> members of public when wish it make 3 minutes of comment on item 7, new business initiated by commissioners may lineup. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press story 3 to enter the speaker's queue. no one has approached to be heard on this item. sfgovtv do we have callers wishing to speak. >> there are indicating we have one caller. unmou the caller. you will have 3 machine it is. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> great

east bay community members gathered to ring in the lunar new year in china town. positive outlook they're hoping to instill moving forward. >> then speaking out against police violence. the bay area and nationwide push for change following the death of tyre nichols in memphis after video released shows the brutal and deadly beating by five and deadly beating by five police officers. [narrator] everyone needs quality health insurance, even if you're healthy and active. covered california is a free service to help you get covered. 90% of members have received financial help. and every plan offered is comprehensive, covering preventive care, doctor visits, emergency care, and more. regardless of your income, check today to see how covered california can help you. and if you have questions, there's free assistance every step of the way. covered california, this way to health insurance. enrollment ends january 31st. go to coveredca.com. oh ms. flores, what would we do without you? leader of many, and pet wrangler too. you report to your boss, every afternoon. so beauti

they did -- china town -- to i can't remember. they did a lop of the tour. looking at lots of different civic project this is were enabled because of the capitol plan. we may already have something in the works but will check in and let you common if not too late i love the suggestions thank you. >> i was going to suggest a way to short circuit contact stacy williams. i will be glad to. she is the local director of american institute of architects. and shed have the attention of national. >> thank you. we may take you up on that. >> other new business before public comment? open public comment. >> members of public when wish it make 3 minutes of comment on item 7, new business initiated by commissioners may lineup. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press story 3 to enter the speaker's queue. no one has approached to be heard on this item. sfgovtv do we have callers wishing to speak. >> there are indicating we have one caller. unmou the caller. you will have 3 machine it is. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> great

. >> so tonight, victims from both mass shootings gathered in san francisco's china town to gather those who remembered those who died in the shootings. it was a chance for the community to grove and heal. our andrea nakano was there as many tried to cope with their feelings of loss and pain. >> reporter: there are still a few people left from the vigil tonight. this was a chance for the community to grieve together and remember the lives lost not just at the shooting at half-moon bay, but monterey park as well. it was a time to remember the 18 lives taken. and for a community to mourn and start the process to heal. >> it has been really hard this time around. because we have seen it so many times. now. in the last couple of years. it took me a long time to process this one too. >> reporter: maria tang came to the vigil with her daughter. that feeling of numbness is one shared by many at the vigil. >> ♪ in the arms of the angels, fly away ♪°7 >> one day, my world collapsed. i lost the dearest thing of my heart. >> reporter: one of the vigil organizers josephine shared her experience with

. >>> next we head to san francisco's china town to see how many people braved >>> a little rainfall didn't stop today's new year flower market fair in san francisco's chinatown. there were a lot of fresh food in g onthe year of t rabbit. the fair continues tomorrow from 9:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the evening. on grant avenue. and lunar new year itself is next sunday on january 22nd. >> man, it should be sunny. thanks for watching. our next local newscast tomorrow morning from 6:00 to everyone is making room hm. *coughs* seriously? for the medicine cabinet's new essential. binaxnow -- with reliable covid-19 results in just 15 minutes. the other day a hornets nest fell on my head. it's not ideal, but we'll manage. just like i manage without home internet. sure i wish this hotspot was a lot faster. but my phone works, sometimes. it's not that bad. ew. it is that bad. don't settle. get xfinity home internet for just $19.99 a month for 1 year with a free streaming box call, click or visit a store today. do we still need these pregnancy tests? everyone is making room (kids yell and gi

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfas

china town merchants hope events will bring shoppers to the neighborhood. >> our small businesses have been struggling through the pandemic, through asian hate. there's a lot of stores that's been shut down, and so we're really trying to push the small businesses, trying to push people to come here to spend their money to, support our mom and pops. >>> there will be an opening ceremony tomorrow. next weekend is the flower market. chinese new year is on january 22nd. >>> just into our newsroom, a man is hurt after a tree fell on to a home in castro valley. man rushed to the hospital. everyone else inside the home is fine. crews say it's going to be some time before the power is back on and that tree is removed. >>> now that the rain is coming down, b.a.r.t. will run trains at slower speeds. b.a.r.t. tweeted the advisory this morning, reminding riders to add 20 minutes to their travel time to factor in delays. a community support senter to help people impact by the storm. the center is at fort ross state historic park in jenner. people can stop by the charge phones and pick up a comfort

and within china town general low. we are also placing public service adds on channels highlighting safety and awareness as well as specific issues for training in order to support safe service on muni. also in 3 weeks from today we got our february 7 all day board workshop. materials will be posted online soon. and the meeting invitation updated on the coming meeting side knar on the website. as soon as they are available so you and the public have time to review. this year we will be focusing on few are topics in order to make sure had we spends the bulk of the time hearing from you. and obviously, a big focus will be our budget. zeal an update on financial prosecute jections from the controller's office and we'll have an update on our own financial outlook including our operating budget as well as our capitol budget we'll have what i hope an interesting conversation on trust. we know that in order to be able to solve our fiscal cliff, we have to do more work generating trust within the agency and with the public who

the central subway connecting supervisor walton's district 10 from sunny valley in the heart of china town. thank you jeff row tumlin our police chief scott and former city attorney now head of the p uc dennis herrera and anybody i forgot my apologies. and lastly, i want to thank my wife of 33 years nancy for putting up with for the last 22 years. my late father harvey peskin knocked on door after door in district 3. my mother support andim guarantee to the country for their love and support. and then on a personal note i want to ends this supervisor dorse, by thanking all of you and my constituents and people city wide i bumped into after i got in a rough patch for your support i was recovering from alcoholism today my 19th month of do sobriety. thank you very much [applause]. and with that, clothes issue members of the public we are adjourned see you tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. >> welcome to union with square the petitioner of harvest of san francisco which is wllts go on it means- >> we're so excited to welcome the ring side for the 50 year in a row and excited about downtown and come

it was mentioned that for chinese new year, we're repainting all the light poles in china town. and this is another poet of our painting at a fire station. but we will also abate graffiti around city buildings and inside the tunnels. we new shops and they're taking care of any back ups that they have. and also working on gas and water systems. it's not just waste water. a lot of the storm trains they're also taking care of roof leaders, this a function of plumbing shop for the various departments. i wanted to highlight some of the picture it highlights the restraint system that they need to be using so you can see the employees wearing a harness and attached to the system, this is something being done at the library. the work that is being done is installing new roofs and repairing leaky roofs. the lower photo is showing them applying a fresh application of the roofing system. again this is at the main library and as you can see imagine our roofing shop was very busy during the storms as well. there seems to be a whole different works. you think hbhc and installing ducting for t

monterey park is what is known as america's first suburban china town because it's where many chinesese american immigrants first come together and build their american lives here. so lunar new year is a big celebration, a big event. we haven't had it for a few years because of the pandemic, so i saw tens of thousands of people there. thankfully, in a sense, by 9pm the celebrations were wrapping up. so all the booths and everything kind of closed down and the shooting appears to have happened at 10:30pm. so there was that gap for an hour or so which could have prevented further casualties in the area. if you want to find out more on this developing story, you are more than welcome to go to our website, our live page, it will give you the very latest. what we know now is that monterey park city authorities have cancelled the rest of the lunar new year festival, cancelled the rest of the lunar new yearfestival, it cancelled the rest of the lunar new year festival, it was scheduled to carry on today. they say that although the shooting didn't happen at the event, an active investigation

deep roots in san francisco china town, so expect fire crackers to welcome the new year to scare away all the evil lasting spirits. they say it is supposed to be a more calmer year, we don't see that all in the world but we hope for that. as a rabbit falls under the-anybody that is a wood element this will be a very good year because it is the water rabbit. thanks. >> thank you so much. i am born in the year of the rabbit, which is the luckiest symbol in the chinese zodiac and i woke up being very hopeful. it will be a great year. commissioner jupiter jones. >> hi, thank you. i want to share this time to highlight our event from our (inaudible) so for everyone here, rec wuty is a city wide program that offers free dynamic engaging cultural relevant (inaudible) public housing or housing developments. the program is designed to support participants and families by connecting to rec park programming and other relevant resources to promote a healthy and active lifestyle. there is a near and dear favorite programs of our department and over the holidays hosted the ttt season of giving. sta

the shooting did not deter crowds from flocking to san francisco's china town this morning. but it has spread and ease over events marking the celebration. assistant police chief david lewis are reassuring san franciscans. they're assigning extra officers to keep watch over celebrations. >> we are going to make sure that we have a visible presence in the chinese community all throughout francisco in the coming weeks as we monitor what's happening. we'll also make sure that we increase our presence during the parade at any public gathering. we will be there with our partners, the sheriff's department, our fire department partners, all our first responders are going to be keeping our eyes wide the assistant police chief. they're also urging the community to help the police department by staying alert. >> and reporting anything suspicious to authorities. well, this mass shooting, of course, as the asian american pacific islander community on edge tonight as lunar new year celebrations. well. >> continue for the next couple of weeks. owning us now from the organization stop ap.

secrets in summer of 2017 to a transition office in dc's china town because his office for his think tank were not ready. >> i think we have a cast a wide net and keep searching, we know you can't put your own lawyers in charge of, that you pay your bills, that should be disturbing, need an independent agency to it, president trump exceeded to it they said put another lock, have surveillance camera, and the other thing that i think should bother everyone, since democrat activists in white house, and party -- in mainstream media love to cover people's marriages, anita dunn recommending to president they keep this a secret until after the midterms, she is married to bob bower. the president's attorney you see quoted that is relevant. this whole point about fbi, we have all kinds of independent people who could be searching and looking, yoke i don't think we have even scratched surface. elizabeth: majority of americans, say this is serious. the president still maintains it was in in inadvert annually his handelled. let's get your reaction on how the mead and and democrats are turning on