continue to have the permit to do lion dance in china town. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> speaker: my name is laura lee and i represent a print shot in town a town. in the sake of entertainment, entertainment for lion dance is the best entertainment for chinese, thank you. >> thank you, anyone else in the room that wants to provide public comment? okay, we're going to move to zoom and i see steven lee small business advocate, please go ahead. you need to unmute yourself. >> speaker: commissioners, i own the oldest restaurant in china town. i also own blue stream wine and gallery at 55 grant avenue. of course we support norman lau and die ans dance meet, we put a lot of effort in promoting china town even before covid. lion dance me shows the community and non asian community what it takes to perform and do something like lion dance is part of our culture. to eliminate it or to, to disconnect it, it's going to be bad for the community. it's also possibly one block, i'm sure norman is willing to compromise and work with the me

item 3 approves a 20.9 million dollars loan agreement with the mayor's office of housing and china town srollc china community development center this loan pertains to a small site affordable housing project 1005 powell street we detailed the uses of the loan on page 10 of the reportful you see that the bulk of funning is used to pay down acquisition and rehab costs and 1.8 million dollars in financing provided by ccdc and the housing accel rirt fund and funds the sinking fund the project is projected jen rit an operating deficit following the expiration of the subsidy in year 15 of the project recommend approval of item 3. >> thank you. if i could make a comment before i call on supervisor melgar. i'm pleased to support this project. the thinga worries me if we want to do more small sites and i think we need to, is this with this idea about the sinking fund. that in itself is a name already tells it all temperature is bisqually sinking money putting in the investments but no -- we know as a city and with our nonprofit partner i'm grateful for for our china town community development to

on grant avenue in china town. goal is to provide an opportunity for people to learn about celebrate chinese culture and increase traffic and spending at businesses in china town. entertainment will have line dance. live music, kung fu, and there will be commons. arts and crafts and herbal consults. this is collaborating with lion dance me a permit on that date for the block of grant avenue. there is a location high density of sensitive receptors there was neighborhood out reach and received no complaints for this permit. sfpd central station did not provide recommendations we assume they have no issues. you will find in the folder the permit application and neighborhood out reach materials. staff is recommending approval with conditions in the memo. here to speak with you is nancy you of the history and culture association. thank you. having me here this is my first entertainment hearing i'm excited and thank you for helping me walk through the process. this is the first cultural festival in china town. we going t

china town this one is for you. china town this one is for you. from a roof top in china town, going going taking buses just to get around ♪ when i was down, had to put you in a song, hope you play it loud. ♪ from a roof top in china town ♪♪ ♪ had to put you in a song just ho hope you play it loud ♪ ♪ when i'm on sward, they don't ask me where i wrap until i walk my last tepz, i'll be on the city like the one i got my trophy. ♪ i'm the house that the home he's tried to crash. ♪ like in the needle in the seattle of the heart i'm sf kid i got it from the start it is♪ ♪ from my roof top in china town ♪ ♪ taking buses just to get around ♪ ♪ had to put you in a song ♪ i♪ i hope you play it loud ♪ ♪ had to put you in a song hope you play it loud ♪ i can take you on a date, we take a trolley to your parents where we will not be late ♪ we may get a little line dance. ♪ hold my camera i'm going to pose in the alley ways. ♪ i still want you by my side when i'm 85. ♪ i'm so glad that i can share my little neighborhood with you. ♪ i'm glad that i can share my

china townful mission, south of market. tenderloin, visitation and western edition the world journal recommends award they deemed the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoods. noe valley, diamond heights noe valley voice recommends, ward they were deemed the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoodses. potrero hill. dog patch, mission bay and east so manyasm per contrary view recommends they were the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoodses. sunset, presidio heights, excelsior, pacific heights, mission, haight, richmond, financial district, tenderloin, eureka valley, russian, forest hill. soma, marina and north beach the san francisco examiner bid and recommends award they were the only responsive bidder. chaina town, richmond, sunset. portola valley, excelsior. outer mission. tenderloin, ocean view. engle side and merced todd daily recommends award they were only responsive bid are. china town. sunset. richmond. visitation valley portola, tenderloin and outer mission. nguyen newspaper. oca recommended on

. >> 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

in 2014 assigned central police station working with folks associated with broadway and china town. a lot of experience there. so, throughout the years i gone up and and up now i'm number 2 in the department and the chief of operations i over see 80% of the police department. i have all of patrols citywide and the investigators. rodney fong. i have a very strange backgrounds grew up in wax museum. my grandfather opend that in 1962 and grew up with attractions and amusement thing and night life includes. became involved in that and opened the communities benefit district at the wharf and served on the port commission for 7 years and the planning commission for another 8 years and took this role to see the chamber of are commerce. have understanding of small business and big business and love for san francisco and night life. >> good afternoon, everyone how are you feeling? >> is tht last panel? >> all right! so. i also if a san francisco i'm ma racea rodriguez. testing. okay. and i grew up hanging out in business work as well. i was an inner city kid in the wharf my backgrounds i had

and the other was for one time event with extend duration permit for lion dance me in china town. both dylan rice and i attended the board appeal's hearing for palm house the board determined that they denied the appeal out right. the permit and conscience stand as is. and as for china town line dance me, we really used the board of appeals as an opportunity for further mediation between parties. and at that time, the board of appeals made the decision to uphold the appeal. but in doing so they add conditions limiting the where and when of the event through june. and still prosecute voiding the event and the ability to continue forward with entertainment. with the guise that the event would come back to us some time in june to amend their permit moving forward after doing community out reach. we are since heard the permit applicant is like low not going to proceed further with entertainment at the location in the street closure. we will continue to community with them and see if that changesmented to let you know and update around the two appeals and just wanted to thank staff for

stephen mcdonnell reports from the chinese scenic town of wuzhen. china's villages have for centuries been attracting visitors. from emperors with their trailing cohorts to adventurous travellers from overseas. now the country's policymakers are banking on this kicking in once more. in the picturesque rivertown, it certainly looks like the tourists are back. for a chinese economy that has not rebounded from the coronavirus crisis, as everyone had expected, it's a welcome sight. i asked a man selling ice creams if there has been a noticeable increase in tourists. he says, not only an increase, but now back to pre—pandemic levels. 0ther shopkeepers echoed the sentiment. translation: business is going well. _ it will only get better. tourists here like to dress up in traditional clothing. they tell us their friends and family are all travelling post covid. translation: yes, of course. after the pandemic we are all visiting other places. what you notice these days at china's historic sites is there are plenty of travellers, but not many foreign faces. we've bee

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this building is in one of the historical districts of the capital, china town, now is called a businessenter, although just a few years ago the infamous yugra bank was located here, perhaps that’s why people in uniform appeared here in the morning and blocked the entrance, let’s see what the situation is inside now, let’s go, let’s go there, unfortunately access is limited, the executor of the action is by court decision , then with what fate did they arrive? 24 they came to take pictures of the business center, but what is not allowed there? well, executive actions are taking place at this facility, access is limited, and the bailiff, yes, it turns out here for sure, and this is all happening in the ugra, interesting detail, the owner of this building was considered alexey khotin, in the past a very successful businessman, one of his largest assets was the ugra bank, a few years ago his business seemed to be going uphill, but suddenly the central bank took ugra under its direct control and began an investigation, the results of which shocked the auditors. it turned out that yugra simpl

china's ancient towns and villages have for centuries been attracting visitors, from emperors with theiring cohorts to adventurous travellers from overseas. now the country's policymakers are banking on this kicking in once again. in this picturesque river town, it certainly looks like the tourists are back. and for a chinese economy that has not rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic as expected, it is a welcome sight. i asked this man if that has been an increase in international tourist. he says that not only an increase, but back to pre—pandemic levels. 0ther shopkeepers echoed the sentiment. translation: business is getting well and it will only get better. tourists here like to dress up in traditional clothing. they tell as their friends and family are all travelling postcode very. translation:— travelling postcode very. translation: , ., , ~ translation: yes, of course. after the pandemic— translation: yes, of course. after the pandemic we _ translation: yes, of course. after the pandemic we are _ translation: yes, of course. after the pandemic we are all _ translation: yes, of c

pete buttigieg joins me to talk about the china town stitch project in philadelphia. part of a larger initiative to help people affected by red lining and imminent domain. on that note, i do want to wish you a good night. ari melber is up next. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late and being with us. we'll see you this weekend. >>> welcome to our new special. new york versus donald trump. i'm ari melber here. we will bring you this brand new break down of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of a former president and a current candidate as well. this was a tough week for the defendant that was gripping dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot of all the witnesses we have seen, she has become the most famous through her encounter with trump. and there was testimony and key days of testimony for witnesses who were in trump's orbit who could speak about what she said and corroborate some of the financials. for the jury, we have more on that as well. prosecutors have

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at

a traditional family family immigrate in the 70 and mom owned a sewing fact row in china town.d worked 60 hours as a waiter. their hard work ethic trickled down to the family >> my journal tow becoming a firefighter happened when i was in college. my senior year had 2 friends that were firefighters. lieutenant rob wong who is still working and retired ricky hughy. they would tell me about their advent urs. daily activities of being a firefighter. i think it was the unknown that sparked my interest and finding out more about the department. what it does. every day is different. that really made me want to work hard to get that job as a firefighter. when i got in the department in 1996. okay. asian firefighter association let me see what this is about. back then the main people what were in the organization, retired chief chan. retired chiefically. took he under their wing and said, you have to represent go out to the chinese new year parade. show up to events that are in item an town community and show an example to the community that our parents become doctors and lawyers, fire

i had this mentor from like the boys and girl's club in china town in san francisco. he was in the navy and got out. and for some reason, i thought that was my only out to get oust house or whatever. you know not really well off as a family. did not have the opportunity to go to a 4 year school. and did not understand school, either. the grants and what not. when i heard like college fund g. i. bill and this stuff. that is interesting. and obviously i think my friend he was like, if you want to be safe don't go marine or army and if you want adventure take navy. you seat world. i went in served from 97-03. stationed uss [inaudible] the destroyer and did my time we did 3 and one south pack got to see a lot of the world. on the ship a lot. and -- so -- just much different life than all my friends had. i wanted to ask how was like that first moment few days of boot camp. for me, i admit i was by the time i got in bed may be 72 hours later i get off the bus i started crying. and like saying what the hell did i do here? even getting off the bus and everyone was shouting ou

this cultural festival that's hosted by the china town history and cultural association.details online. >> all right. make sure you tune in every thursday this month for stories highlighting the bay area's api community. it all leads up to our special that airs on thursday. >> may 23rd at 06:30pm. and happening now you can buy concert tickets to go see dozens of artists for just 25 bucks. this is part of live nation's concert week. some of the artists that are offering these bargain prices include janet jackson blink one. 82 corn, luke bryan, maroon 5, the doobie brothers. there's a lot more tickets have been on sale since 07:00am. this sales going to last until next tuesday? the show's happen all throughout the course of the year. and you can go to live nation dot com for more information to want some more information on the weather right now because it's pretty windy out the although i you got me, i'd like 25 bucks. you never get to see a show for that much of a case. we do have a wind advisory between now and 08:00am tomorrow morning. you can see for >> interior portio

pete buttigieg joins me to talk about the china town stitch project in philadelphia.g and imminent domain. on that note, i do want to wish you a good night. ari melber is up next. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late and being with us. we'll see you this weekend.

they did a city site visit and we went to the china town y and had presentations homelessness as wellhow we do racial equity grant making in the city. there is about 40 people who went to that. and these other next generation of leaders. this is an important aspect of a conference within a conference for the next generation asa fellows. wanted to lift that up. i have high hopes for being able to walk away and know we near great hands. [laughter]. excellent. mr. secretary. >> commissioners item 6 is the das employee recognition. executive dearman, president spears and the commission will honor jennifer larson a public health nurse and quality improvement unit! [applause] it is a pleasure and honor to recognize jennifer larson's contributions at das she is addressing current health challenges this impact the city's health, wellness and safety issues. jennifer is a registered nurse and public health nurse who joined the quality improvement unit in 2022. jennifer dem straighted outstanding commitment to das core values. compassion, inclusion, invasion, accountability and equity. he is kno

have been to high speed in china and are japan, all the rest, there is a-i was on a project in china, a town on the coast is about 3 hours from beijing, equivalent going to fresno. i wanted to see the city because they were making--few years ago, and [indiscernible] we go there, we arrive, the conductor announces, we have arrived, 29 minutes and 30 seconds. less then a half hour he was bragging. that can commute. they can commute, so just think of the opportunity it presents families for jobs, for education, for visiting each other, for being together as the mayor said, connectivity in every way. this is a big deal. [laughter] [applause] i didn't use the president expression, but you get it, right? it is about good paying jobs in san francisco, convenient modern mixed use, commercial development, transit friendly neighborhood with 4,000 environmentally friendly areas. just read you some of this. smart sustainable design. again, under the leadership of the biden/harris administration, major steps and multimodal transportation. mayor, you know we had the celebration of electrification is a big

. >> 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

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at nig

. >> 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

worked in china town before so having you four from youth commission join today is very interesting to hear your thoughts and concerns and what you are talking about from the youth commission and your generation your thoughts. let's get into it. start with introductions. your name. grade rkts school. and what lead you to become into the youth commission? could start with emily. >> so, my name is emily, she her pronouns. (inaudible) in san francisco. and i joined the youth commission because growing up i relied on public transportation and a lot of community organizations such as (inaudible) and through these organizations they introduced me to a lot of community organizing movements happening and that is when i learned of the youth commission because my friend was also on it at the time and i was interested because i saw a benefited from a lot of public service in san francisco and wanted to insure all youth in san francisco could have opportunities to benefit from these services as well and these services would be available to everyone. that's when i applied to the youth commission an

summer and this call for artist rfq will encompass the chinatown public art project which include china town branch library, the public health center and portsmouth square. we will also to continue to have community representatives serving on the artist review panel and orientation for this project. and a little about the artist selection timeline. artist selection process follow the typical guidelines which include a qualification panel to create a chinatown art est registry. specific lefor this projeththere are two short list of artists created for each opportunity and then also artist review panels for each opportunity which consist of one representative of the client agency for arts professionals and one community member. each of the panels will identify three finalists for each artwork opportunity and they will be invited to develop conceptual site specific proposals after attendeding orientation session with project team and key steak holdser paid 3k plus travel reimbursement for development of a proposal. the artist review panel will reconvene to consider the finalist proposals and in

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. jokin

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brotherhe 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 breakfast staple. we specializ

i live and china town and w in a restaurant i'm here to tell you why it is important for us to understands our rights. i came to the u.s. from chien in 2012 and strug toll find a job i don't understand english. i found a job and paid minimum wage and i did not know until later like when organize are reach out to me i was entitleed over time payment >>> work for over 40 hours if a restaurant but never get any over time payment and when i got sick i did not know i can pick pay time off to take care of myself and my family. so, it is important for the non-english speak communities to understand our right in our own language. serve the funding of worker right community organizations which cpa is part of and protect provide more protection for the workers in different communities. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is chin. >> ima member in 2014-15 i was working for a childcare provision service. and paying me less than 5 an hour. i was experiencing wage theft and becausey went to cpa and filed a claim the office [inaudible] i was able to recover my wages. again this 2016 s

. >> saturday's event also included panel presentations on family history in china had town and the impactschinese exclusion laws. if you want to see more stories highlighting the day areas aapi communities, go to our website kpix.com. you can also check out our special show, 'roots & resilience' on our youtube channel. >>> we have a lot of coverage coming up on carnaval throughout the day today and we are proud to cover the parade. i wanted to give you the forecast. a couple of things. it will be more sunshine today. than anything else. it will be a little warmer than yesterday. if you look at the temperature trend, as we go into the early afternoon we are in the low 60s but those two things only tell you when small aspect because the wind will pick up . mission is notorious for being sunnier and less marine layer gray than much of the rest of the city. certainly, than the west half of the city. that will be the case today. we will look at the marine layer first and then i want you to see the wind forecast and how that will impact this. there is today. the marine layer is at its most wides

. >> back in 2000 with cheap steel from china flooding the market, towns across pennsylvania and ohio were hit hard. more than 800 steelworkers in pennsylvania and ohio lost their jobs. i am not going to let that happen today. today i am announcing new tariffs a key sectors of the economy to ensure workers are not held back by unfair trade practices. they include what i am announcing today, 25% tariff on chinese steel aluminum products. will counter the overcapacity in these industries. we are making major investments in clean american steel and aluminum. clean. it's a big deal. clean because the way we manufacture it here. it makes half as much carbon as steel made in china. last month my administration announced the largest investment in clean manufacturing in all of history. up to 1.5 billion dollars in clean steel across america. creating and supporting thousands of union jobs. next, i 100% tariff on luxury vehicles made in china. [ applause ] we are not going to let china flood our market, making it impossible for american auto manufacturers to compete fairly. we are also impleme

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brotherty 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 breakfast staple. we specialize in break