child development center in chinatown where i grew up has been a privilege. i have learned so much from the families and the children and youth. every day has been a pleasure for me. and i've learned very much from the mentors and my colleagues. you know, oftentimes where you'll hear comments about, oh, those city workers, but i have worked with the most dedicated, the most passionate colleagues that you will ever see. they don't go just the extra mile, but they will go the extra 2 to 10 miles for their clients, for the families that we work with every day. so, you know, as supervisor chiu mentioned, i have a very, very active volunteer life. so, i've been telling people that i will be retiring from my day job. and, so, i hope to see many of you, you know, in my volunteer life. thank you so very much for this very great honor. i'm very humbled by it. thank you very, very much. (applause) >> ask with that, colleague, why don't we go to our next item, which will be the schlage lock item at items 39 through 41. madam clerk. ~ >> item 39 is an ordinance approving

chinatown is no car. so you this is proposed for us to stop to travel around to something i would like to shop in my summer one store and long that will make me feel safe and save time and money and they have more item. we can pick currently an area so but i will i want to go to my neighborhood store taking over completely by the train store he wish that some people will get more business in our local business here. thank you. >> thank you. i'll call a few more names (calling names). >> i retire already but i do anything i feel have manage in chinatown so the stores will be for many senior citizens their, their safety. >> hello, i'm isaac richard the director of the san francisco center we work with the university of the california and all our funding comes from small businesses and individuals i'm concerned about the proposal and appreciate the assessment that we're 99 percent agreement and all we have to do is tweak but it misses a larger picture the small businesses in san francisco are closings down w

. >> it the locked in chinatown and near walter alley it's a living room of chinatown residents next to some time. the restroom was built in 1990 and quickly became the most uses restroom in our public parks. in under the 2008 bond the restroom task force evaluated the restroom and recommended to increase the capacity. through community meetings we went through a planning process and recommended replacement of the restrooms in order to increase the capacity. on the overhead okay. our images of that restroom building that was designed and approved by this commission and the arts commission that is the modern interpretation of chinese architecture it is increasing the men's room from 4 to 6 and the women's from 2 to 6 and recreational use. the estimated cost of the project at the time of the commission approval of the time was $800,000 plus we put the project out to bid twice. the first time was in may of 2014 we received bids four bids the bids expedite our project and the average was $1.47 million the high costs for the architecture metal work and the c m u this is what the building

she was also appointed by the california assembly house speaker, san francisco's chinatown technology for disabilities project, nico's chinatown wellness village project, portsmouth plaza, parking corporation, nico, chinese health community coalition and children's family first five coalition of san francisco. i am personally grateful for her mentoring of me on so many different issues to help me understand systems, but also how to serve the people and serve the community in not just chinatown but city-wide. but i know many, many others have said how grateful they are for her work, but also how she's helped us be better community servants, public employees, and leaders in the city. i thank her for her work, her vision, her loyalty to the community, and the basic belief in the goodness of people and communities. so, thank you, nancy lim yee, for making all of us in our communities better and your generosity in giving so much of 39 years or more to the community and the city. later today we'll vote on the resolution that is co-sponsored by supervisors norman yee and david chiu. i know n

the city reaching south of muscone and the towns and streets underneath union square and through chinatown and now here to north beach. this is a racket mile sown and i want to thank all the people working on the centralized subway project all the laborers and locals and all the labor family of san francisco. mike is here as well the construction trade unions all knocking on wood making sure that is the safety project for all the workers because it is a wonderful project and an expensive one but one that is well worthy san francisco. i can't say enough about the community leader that advocated for this they were able to convinces our leader pelosi and senator financing to get the money with the help of the president obama but it has always been the community leaders and groups working with our city planning and now i see the president of the planning commission we've got more planning to do in the city a with the leadership i'm working with the board we want you to make sure that it would think of the pronlsz the next two years is serious investments road refargz as well as pedestrian safe

chinatown is the cut off. and if all we do is go to the same usual suspended that will be a nice upscale for embarcadero visitors but we're building a lot of upscale housing it's all upscale housing proposed along embarcadero there are traditionally people that live there some are senior citizens on a fixed income living in the golden gate way and some or are the careers of south beach and chinatown i challenge those with the people. thank you. is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. i.e., wanted to add some thoughts to what ms. hester said the waterfront is an expensive place the cost of goods and the restaurant are high and the costs of doing anything on the waterfront is high i think that possibly public realm improvements is a way to look at quality or accessibility who feels cajole on the waterfront and the restaurants are there nonsense to northeast waterfront planning and resident in chinatown didn't think that the 10 minute walk to the waterfront was where they bel

it's - if you ask the residents which is one thing in chinatown that's best and the square bathroom also comes up and if i ask the residents most critical things in chinatown this comes up there's no option the neighborhood has so we're looking forward to this new design we have many meetings in the last few years it took more time people involved in the chinese rec center the design before you is not the first one it takes years to get where we are and the community we spend a lot of time in translation to the committee input moving forward the square life will continue to we're looking forward to working with the construction company and it will be the summer so we're looking forward to the chinese neuroin february of next year we want to open it with a new restroom and i want to say to you the commissioner low and staff all you it took many years to open the bathroom and a we love the areas all space parks in the selma we are absolutely thrilled with the new bathroom so thank you >> anyone else who wants make any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> c

rick lee is live in san francisco's chinatown to tell us why. nick? >> reporter: well, first of all, there are plenty of buyers. they come from all over, they're all ages. as for the sellers, in the past the streets of chinatown used to be crawling with them, but now the cops and the internet are taking a toll on them. the runners, the street sellers normally set off small fireworks on the streets to let people know they're selling the big stuff. the runners are usually neighborhood teens trying to make extra money on this holiday week. in the past chinatown streets were filled with sellers, but not now. these last two july 4th holidays, it's been hard finding them. this man told us he spent all morning trying to find one. we left him still looking. this person who did not want his name used said he, too, was having trouble. >> couldn't find anything. everyone seems to be really nervous right now. four months ago if i walked in the door and said firecracker, they would pull things off the shelves. now you walk in and they're like, no, no. >> reporter:

chinatown is one of the most densely populated areas in the country and it is as we've talked about, it's severely under parked. although technically the political district 2, the majority of residents would most likely use the park live in district 3. it's expected that the park would primarily serve seniors, schools and the east side of van ness. that's where the green open space opportunity is sparse and there isn't an unmet need for recreational opportunities for children. i hope that all of you support this project. it's been a wonderful project to work on. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is george. i live on chestnut street. i'm there is president of the russian hill improvement association. i'm speaking in support of this project. we who live up there see everyday hundreds of people coming from all parts of the city toen jo i the views and take pictures and go down to fisherman wharf. right now they have to take pictures where they are in danger where people are driving by. now they can relax and take pictures and walk whenever they want from there

out into the community and feasible in september to do another meeting we did our retreat in the chinatown at the city college and that was great we did our meeting at the bayview opera how is it was very well attended to be an idea to put out there to devout to the community in two months time and work with the district community leaders and the commission to think through a community driven agenda in two months time at the staff level as well as the commission. >> yeah. >> i remember when we did the community here what would they envision with the new director to hear from the new community with the new director on board. >> that was right that was a meeting attend by 40 folks in the mission we heard when we went out to chinatown and the hunters point jackie mentioned it's great you're here and when you come back so that might be something to go full circle maybe we can look at any other thoughts or ideas public comments seeing none, our final item and public comment one of items not open today's agenda. >> adjournment 725. thanks monica. >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco

march when yee was arrested on corruption charges as part of an undercover sting investigation into chinatown gangs with accusations involving political favors, murder-for-hire, and weapons sales. yee and jackson are now out on bail and maybe working on plea deals behind the scenes. >> the characters who are being caught in the net, they now are giving information. some of them are trying to buy their way out so i would think that there's probably going to be quite a number of other people still to come. >> reporter: now, raymond "shrimp boy" chow is in santa rita jail in dublin. he has not been granted bail. his lawyer may push for that again today. he has done that several times in the past unsuccessfully. today's hearing is 10 a.m. back to you. >> leland is still a member of the senate but is suspended. >>> a typical summer commute right now. if you are traveling westbound 580 we are seeing delays on our sensors now from vasco in livermore out to the dublin interchange. we are seeing the usual slowdowns out of tracy near the 205/580 split into the altamont pass and livermore valley. if you

to be specific, this is chinatown in san francisco. if you look closely at this picture, you can see that there's a barbed wire that stretched down the street. it's like a fence. a barbed wire fence that's essentially separating those store fronts and those homes from the main street. and the reason that barbed wire fence is there is because back then, chinatown was quarantined, cut off from the rest of the city. it was isolated from the rest of the city. the rest of san francisco didn't want anything to do with the immigrants who lived there. they didn't have anything to do with the immigrants who lived there. before chinatown was quarantined, there was a huge backlash going on against the chinese people who were emigrating to the united states. there was the 1882 chinese exclusion act which basically ended chinese immigration for ten years. prohibited chinese people from becoming u.s. citizens. that was passed by congress, signed into law by then-president chester alan arthur. there was a general sentiment back then that chinese-amer

to my point for me as the japan center, chinatown and does not pay.jobs to support our mission. we have to wash dishes or windows -- for me, to perform my holy mission, the art of making love of international friendship isn't easy. we find more strings than you would ever believe, because the japanese, chinese, taiwanese people, et cetera, the best place would be north china -- japan center. japan center. for today, after this meeting i will go to japan center to my lunch counter -- not from benihana today, but instead we'll probably grab a lunch combo and cream soda and spend two hours in front [speaker not understood] to perform my holy friendship missionary work for the people. >> are there any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. can we have a motion to forward this committee report to the full board with recommendations? >> so moved. >> with no objection, motion passes, madame clerk is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, that concludes our business >> meeting adjourned. (music) >> herb theatre,open

for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard.his is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪ >> it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art center. >> is beautiful. quarkrights i would like to come here and join them >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee today is tuesday, july

best radar return is right now and the track on this is moving into the heart of san francisco and chinatown is less than ten minutes and point richmond less than 27 minutes and it will move into downtown san francisco in two or three minutes from now. we have another storm developing but not so impressive over oakland headed through piedmont and lafayette at 18, and walnut creek at 23 and if it holds together, pleasant hill at 28. that not as impressive as what is moving through san francisco. we have scattered showers and possible lightning headed to san rafael and larkspur and mill valley and if it holds together it could reach petaluma and most oh in the next half hour. these are coming in from the south, a chunk of energy rolling along the peninsula and the energy will continue rolling across the north bay headed through the early morning hours until noon and then it will move north of us and the threat will wane in the afternoon. this afternoon, we do not have thunderstorms in the forecast for the south bay and you may not see any this morning as the storm system is far enough toward t

vera hale worked for the catholic churches with self-help for the elderly in chinatown. i worked with the city -- >> thank you very much. >>> self-help for the aging. so, what i would like for you to do is to make sure that not just you [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. (applause) >> next speaker. >>> [speaker not understood], thank you very much and everybody, jane kim, you did a fine job. [speaker not understood]. we need more help in district 6 as far as police officers and [speaker not understood]. the area i live in in the tenderloin, it's really -- observing it's bad over there because the drug selling over there, especially at nighttime. we don't want [speaker not understood] to turn out to be a blood bath like church street did [speaker not understood]. that's what we're worried about. so, we need more patrolling and more protection [speaker not understood]. now at leavenworth and golden gate and [speaker not understood] also by the corner store which is 200 block, we're trying to get some, you know, for the, for the -- more lik

the light rail flees from 71 to one hundred and 75 a significant increase the short line loop from chinatown to the loop would initially begin with the minute frequency and evolving going down to 4 minute frequency over the life of the current fleet plan through 20 thirty. and south of mission bay the service will improve from 9 to 8 minutes so all and all through the corridor will significantly reduce the transit service that is talked about in the growth in the beginning introduction >> going back to that the short line loop will doctors from 9 in 2019 and 4 down over time. >> as we bring more vehicles into the service and the service plan has us getting down to the high frequency service from the inner and outer portion of t third. related to other enhancements include significant improvements along the 16 controlled including the extension into this area extending the overhead system along 16 and up third for the 22 fillmore extension with the transit pedestrian safety benefits along the entire corridor so the t third is the main corridor and then the east west connection we're looking a

congratulations on our move i'm excited to see the kids organizations when i started out in chinatown actually residents in the room we've often seen they have shared kitchens or no kitchens and it's hard to do things like doing our homework or having family dinners the families can come and gather and cook together we take that for granted but it's how it was provided it's price also so thank you (clapping) >> i'm eric i'm with the west capital partners i wanted to thank everyone for coming here today, i can't under state how excited we are to be in the building and thrilled to have mayor ed lee announced the real concept we'll be opening shortly in 2012, we barbed on a vision to return this to its glory and it's truly the presence along market street. we shared a vision at this point with supervisor kim and many other and the call shares on market it's the heart of san francisco. it will be that way and the condition of the building when we went over the new building 90 percent of brick was covered with black dirt and then is significant amount of time exposing the building go and h

as more people know whether it's a walker from the bayview hunters point area or folks from chinatown and admission that diabetes is exploding in san francisco. an it's an on going problem of health that is expanding and increasing over the last 30-40 years. i wanted to point out that map of diabetes hospitalizations quickly. this has been shown from vargas and ucsf that it's the communities of color and low income that are the ones hospitalized for diabetes. you can see the eastern part of the city most heavily impacted. when you look at poverty and low income populations, even more closely to the census tract, you will see it's not just in these areas but where you have low income populations and people of color as well. i wanted to also say that other issues of liver damage as presented by christina and other department of public health folks and other types of health problems are also somewhat hidden. i have another example of health disparity. this is using cavity and oral health which shows that higher rates of cavities and oral and dental problems occur in many similar areas bu

russian hill is bordered by chinatown in van ness areas comprised mostly of renters when we look at the analysis. obviously the benefits of open space are ubiquitous on the entire project. when we think about open space, we have done a number of approval of projects. this is the opportunity to create from concrete and chain link fence a brand new park in our city. these opportunities don't come very often. to me it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. to me it's a collaboration with a working group. we've had numerous working community and involvement of the park. once it was acquired hundreds of people turned up for these community meetings and it was incredibly inspiring at the time. once this gets approved we'll have many of those to get an idea of what this park will finally look like. we've been involved with our city agency given that it's own by the public utilities commission right now. i want to thank kelly and juliette and scott harrington about what it would take. it's been a long long road and countless hours of work inside of city hall not to mention what's been done outside

in the past chinatown streets were filled with sellers but not now. these last two july 4th holidays it's been hard finding them. this man told us he spent all morning trying to find one. we left him still looking this. person who did not want his name used said he too was having trouble. >> couldn't find anything. everybody seems to be really nervous right now. i was out here four months ago you walk into the store and say firecracker they pull stuff off the shelf. now you walk in and everybody is like no no no. >> reporter: but he finally succeeded. he bought a box of small bottle rockets for $40. the runners, the street sellers, normally set off small fireworks on the streets to let people know they're selling the big stuff. the runners are usually neighborhood teams trying to make extra money on this holiday week. the runners are nervous because of the police enforcement. on wednesday they arrested these three people who sold 22 m 1,000 fireworks to an undercover officer. m 1,000s are powerful explosives. >> the experts tell me you have one in you

mention equity is important to me growing up in china town and being in the open space committee in chinatown and fighting for those couple of square feet of open space over 120 -- 20 years to get it and i understand how difficult it is. i'm glad, supervisor farrell, this you put this project together. i'm glad that you were very sensitive in terms of not depleting the open space funding so that as we move forward in the future that places like district 3 can have access to funding to provide more open space for their residents. thank you very much. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. president. so i'll join in thanking supervisor farrell and also all the folks in the community as well as rec and park staff who have worked for many years to move this forward, but also i think we need to make sure to thank the voters of san francisco for creating the open space fund and having the foresight to say it's a very small portion of property taxes should be set aside for open space work, and particularly for the acquisition of open space and when you look at what we've been able to do, it's pretty

in the past chinatown streets were filled with sellers but not now. these last two july 4th holidays it's been hard finding them. this man told us he spent all morning trying to find one. we left him still looking this. person who did not want his name used said he too was having trouble. >> couldn't find anything. everybody seems to be really nervous right now. i was out here four months ago you walk into the store and say firecracker they pull stuff off the shelf. now you walk in and everybody is like no no no. >> reporter: but he finally succeeded. he bought a box of small bottle rockets for $40. the runners, the street sellers, normally set off small fireworks on the streets to let people know they're selling the big stuff. the runners are usually neighborhood teams trying to make extra money on this holiday week. the runners are nervous because of the police enforcement. on wednesday they arrested these three people who sold 22 m 1,000 fireworks to an undercover officer. m 1,000s are powerful explosives. >> the experts tell me you have one in you

[speaker not understood], chinatown music festival, s.f. jazz, a bunch of different organizationses. as a jazz musician there are not many groups left for us to play in so i've been very lucky to have these opportunities to get to play live. i also want to add that any arts funding also benefits my fellow musicians and music educators. a program that teaches also helps to keep the educators working. these generous individuals work tirelessly not only to keep the music alive, but also just to make a living. publicly funded arts programs not only keep the arts alive in s.f., but they are also crucial to the fabric of this city's culture. please support grants for the arts and fully [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good morning, my name is chris [speaker not understood]. i'm the executive director of the san francisco community music center. thank you for this opportunity. the san francisco community center is an organization that is 93 years old located on the mission district and we serve 2400 students bot