bring back to chinatown and north beach. pro active recreation given the emphasis of the plan on by resources. and create a development plan that looks at the opportunities that looks for all of the publicly owned lots. as you see, i am referencing the chapters in the document that you have in front of you. chapter 4 talks about the waterfront in references to previous works that the planning department has done. one of the significant issues is the scars left by the freeway that are not just the scars of a double decker freeway, but the way that it led to broadway all the way to montgomery and up washington. for us, the priority in terms of public improvement should be washington and broadway. we would like to see a return of transit connections to chinatown and creating pedestrian amenities, tracking cultural recreation and facilities on vacant parking lots. here are some examples of what has been built so far in terms of broadway street improvements. on the immediate short-term for the first phase, we can begin to see imp

it is the southern third of chinatown. the rest of chinatown is not helped, nor are all the people to the north and west. finally, according to the newspapers, the chinatown community development center is about to get about $9 million in grants and consulting fees, as a part of this project. so it is not quite right to say that they represent all of chinatown. there are a lot of people who have been working with us to oppose the project. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, same house, same call? so moved. next item. >> item 12. amend the prop k 5-year prioritization program for signals and signs maintenance and renovation. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: any discussions? seeing none, discussion is closed. public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. same house, same call. so moved. next item. >> introduction of new items. this is an introduction item. commissioner mirkarimi: discussion? public comment? seeing none, public

>> i am the planning manager at chinatown cdc. we have been working on this project for a 15to 20 years -- 15 to 20 years and we would like to come to you to ask for support. san francisco is a transit first city. we are all working on transit inclusion and access for everyone. it has been mentioned that federal money is becoming increasingly more difficult to obtain, and that we are so close to the finishing line, after 15 years of work, from the mta, city community, and we want to use this opportunity to lock in the infrastructure benefits for our neighborhoods. lastly, to point to some of the economic benefits and job gains -- one of the businesses that relocated, they moved two weeks ago, and they have already hired local small-business people. i just want to point that out as for the small business development. keep this project going and help us to fill this community dream. commissioner mirkarimi: any other public comment? >> i am a consultant, working with state muni san francisco. you should not pass this today. there was

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time.ghborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different parts of the world, like a gateway neighborhood

we don't want chinatown to remain in ethnic enclaves. -- an ethnic enclave. we need to make -- recognize the connection. that is my two cents. president olague: it is great to see you again. [reading names] >> i am a pedicab operator, and i support this plan. we need to more facilities for bicycles. it will be a great improvement to what we have now. i would personally encourage the removal of car parking. there is no reason for it to be there. it serves no housing or retail. it would increase the space for bicycles and pedicabs. president olague: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am a member of the community coalition in developing the community vision for san francisco's northeast waterfront. my comments will focus on bringing life back to washington street. and proximity to the ferry building by creating better connections between chinatown, north beach, and more. as a resident of the gateway, i speak of the need to change the washington street corridor. it was originally designed to accommodate the freeway. what we feel is the criteria of the

district 3 with chinatown, and the high altitude in the southwest. whites are 48 $%, asians 33%, african-americans at 6%. the lowest i nthe city in some time. and we identify multiple races. this is a sizeable category. let's go to the next one. the racial change, we have the world distribution. we have a big variation, and we can see that the second district is 80%. green is the largest share of asians. thank you. what is below the horizontal line, this is the net loss for a particular district. the color red is african- americans, with a loss of about 12,000 people in the last decade. concentrated in districts 5 and districts stand, where we have the asians growth. and district 6 and 10 and 11. latinos, the consensus -- you can indicate if you are of any race. this shows if people indicated that they were latino. district 6 have the largest growth. the strychnine had a loss of their population, compensated -- district 9 had a loss of their population. they pretty much speak for themselves all the labels may not be readable. this was 48%, with the a

you could take the bus from city college of the way to chinatown. the third street, all this deliberation, they talk the talk, but they cannot walk the walk. there are many factors. non-and the main factors is we do not have the software. we have all trains. the second factor is. if you take a certain portion of the lines, the third light rail perform somewhat well. the other day, i was waiting, and 3 trains -- not one, not the law -- not two. we waited 50 minutes for the train. supervisor mar: where was this? >> the bay shore. it is quite a popular hub. you wait for 15 minutes. you have an algorithm. you can use the algorithm and reduced the statistics. this is the point. in the past, the fifteen and third performed well. today, the third street light rail should be given an f-minus. that is my analysis. what i heard today was an analysis of the paralysis. we do not need that. when it comes to the language, most of the chinese constituents take a different line to get to chinatown you bang -- to giant dump. many others who speak chinese. -- to chin

close to 20,000 folks from chinatown that are looking for relief. the relief comes through the central subway. for once, san francisco, and even all the way to the white house, are caring about our communities, the lowest income jam packed community in america. something that i am really saddened by, because they ignore the community's conditions. they also with old truths that you all know. one truth is the 3 to 1 that coming from the state. it would be crazy to give back that money. some folks on the street level -- i do not want to say the word lying -- but saying that the money can be used for other purposes, is designated for the central subway second day, hundreds of public meetings and community meetings that we have had years ago. that is left out of the news as well. i am so hopeful that you will stand firm today and reaffirm that dream. we collected 20,000 signatures before, but we decided this year to reaffirm the jury by having another 6000 signatures. i was at one of the muni hearings and they said that chinatown does not want the subwa

. -- chinatown. i work eight hours a day, but only paid seven hours of work. >> [speaking chinese] >> i am a volunteer so we can have other people that do not know english. and >>> [speaking chinese] >> i am here today to locally heavy support this ordinance so that we can change this epidemic of wage that. -- wage theft. so we released a report last year. we discovered chinatown restaurant workers did not fit minimum-wage at 50%. 70% did not get over time. that affects not only workers, but families come economies, and consumers. >> [speaking chinese] >> wage theft is not only in the chinese community, but also in other communities of color. we hope that you will pass this ordinance to take a first up towards changing the situation. an>> [speaking chinese] >> we want more timely and effective enforcement so that employers cannot does play games. we want to have more tools to put more pressure on the employers. we want to have shortened time process so the workers can get their wages back. supervisor

i met with people from chinatown, and there is a program for chinatown and north beach, so we are excited to get people out in visiting our local merchants. president o'brien: commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: on may 23 with commissioner njn -- jane kim, they were meeting about the licenses for abc and a way to clarify those conditions when conditions are met. i did find supervisor kim very responsive to the needs of both the residents in the community as well as the business owners. i also attended the mid market arts kickoff on at the 20th with mayor ed lee, and that was just a great get out in the street with music in the streets, even a a little bit of wine and beer in the streets. it was great fun. i also attended an awards party of the company on market, and i just want to note that it has grown in a year from four companies to know 160 companies that are a part of that. thank you very much. president o'brien: thank you. next item. clerk: item number 18, general public comment. president o'brien: seeing none, next item. clerk: item number 19, new business. president o'brien: s

they worked in chinatown, the restaurant industry, and many low-wage jobs. i can certainly understand the challenges that arise from those situations. for me i think the process of this legislation was not so much the intent and supporting the intent, it was whether or not we could accomplish this through the city and making sure that there was something we could do here operationally. i look forward to supporting the legislation. if we could do that without objection? thank you. item number two, please. >> item #two. resolution approving the san francisco unified school district expenditure plan for the public education enrichment fund for fy2011-2012. supervisor chu: this item comes to us from the budget and finance committee. the legislation's reza -- legislation included language that affected references to different organizations. although we may be amendment at the full board of supervisors, we sent it back to committee to allow for additional public comments. let's wait for the room to clear. [no audio] supervisor chu: thank you. let's open this item

district of our city will field a team of people to play, and we will pick up in an alleyway in chinatown. there will be 11 ping pong tables, and we will determine the best ping-pong player from the city and county of san francisco. how about that in september? [applause] >> now, we are going to play. before we do, i would like to ask peter to come up from the united states table tennis association. they have a gift for you that will help you maybe this afternoon. so peter, can you make this quickly? mayor lee? >> on behalf of usa table tennis, we would like to present to the mayor this anniversary paddle. 40 anniversary ping-pong diplomacy, july 1-8, 2011, milwaukee, san francisco, richard nixon library from usa table tennis and suitable for autographing on the back so you can get some signatures while your there. thank you. mayor lee: thank you. >> thank you for hosting. >> now, what we have all been waiting for. i think we are ready to play. mayor lee, are you ready? are you going to play? ok, great. and this is a veteran of the 1971 exhibit. [applause] >> we are going to add the doubl

i work in china and have experienced wage that. -- chinatown. i work eight hours a day, but only paid seven hours of work. >> [speaking chinese] >> i am a volunteer so we can have other people that do not know english. and >>> [speaking chinese] >> i am here today to locally heavy support this ordinance so that we can change this epidemic of wage that. -- wage theft.

a number of young kids who can't, and this year, we were able to expand that to include not only chinatown, but young people south of market street. we feel it has been a very successful program, and the closing out of this club i would be real such programs, and it would never come back if it were done at half the size and that is planned. 700 people have been attending this camp. we are now able to provide the space for a number of young people that could not come before. no matter how many thousands of kids we have been able to support. you translate that into families. i heard a couple weeks ago that a number of you discussing why families are leaving the city. we recognize housing and education are important. very important. the recreational space and the limited space is also very important. taking away this area would be devastating not only to the community, but to the hundreds of families that live in this community. i was a little late today and i had some other young people to come, but we do have a choice. -- joyce, one of the members of the kids can't that they were able to su

. >> connect the dots and you will see that this is going to impact chinatown very unfavorably. >> they have a position to the 1.5 into a project be the project will connect the counter in station to chinatown. as spokesman todd says the project is a good shave. construction crews have started moving to any lengths to make room. >>> the debate over the national debt reached in congress today spilled out. nat county rally simply better cap income plans. they slammed the plan as "cap, cut and end medicare." they were to were to do that if the government default is real and dangerous. >>> that led to a big drop on the stock market today. tom vacar talk to a trader scene that was you to sending a message to washington. >> reporter: through numerous recessions, he is penetrating them into securities for 36 years on san francisco at the financial markets. as congress plays chicken with the debt ceiling come investors are getting more nervous about america's credit rating, support columns. >> wanted the real real plans for reducing -- what are the real plans for reducing the deficit? >> time o

chinatown, you never go east. they have the buses to go to fisherman's wharf. it is so boring to go. i practically cry listening to the seniors who had no concept of walking down washington because this was so dead. and an old man who takes his kids to fisherman's wharf talks about how there is no place to set and there is a long walk. it is easy going down but going up may be a problem. and you listen to people saying that there is nothing for them. we need to have something that is not boring so we can sit down as we are walking down from senior housing on broadway. it is like we have this enormous water from resource and this is cut off from the people who live close to it, who have no access to this. the freeway ramps really cut people off. they're good at moving a lot of people in cars. if we do not use time in the next year to change this right now, we are blowing an opportunity. we have to take seriously the improvements that we are talking about on broadway, and on washington in particular. there is no excuse for having this everywhere except this area.

that includes chinatown, fisherman's wharf, and part of the russian hill neighborhood.e was elected to the board in november of 2008 and has served as board president since january of 2009. we will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing them. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background. >> my parents immigrated to the united states in the 1960's. i was the first kid born in the u.s. my parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. i grew up in the boston area and lived in different parts of boston. i went to catholic price school in dorchester, a section of boston. -- i went to catholic high school in dorchester, a section of boston. because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. that is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to study because i was interested in public service and public policy issues and government. >

the chinatown ymca celebrated its 100th anniversary today.k in 1911, it was the first american ymca to serve the asian population. in just the past year, the y in chinatown opened up a teen center and a swimming pool as well. they all celebrated today. >>> so we're going to have weather tomorrow? >> pretty good, cool, we have

lee about it, and he wants to hit tennis balls there, has been a long time chinatown tennis club member. a lot of people want to use the facility, but it is not really up to grade. will it ever be up to grade? and when you did the roofing work at the chinese playground, the same facility, when i looked at it, you are doing repetitive work that has been done many times. every time, it comes down to the same thing. >> thank you. >> andrea. >> hello again. some of you say you do not understand the downtown bond. there are a lot of us who do not understand the job order contract in process. it was sold to us as being a cheap and easy process for small projects. these are large projects we are talking about. i am not really sure how this applies, in particular, there is no public participation in this project. but most of these projects are over $50,000. 10 out of 12 on the list are. it used to be, anything of that cost came before the commission for approval. this joc process, as we are told, it eliminates that. they can do whatever they want to @ whatever cost. now that we have had this su