. >> 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

. >> next speaker >> hi, i'm speaking that on boost of the chinatown development center. chinatown as two popular public boomers at the chinese hospital which is increase in door and public square is the other one 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

>> ...and they said, "oh, we think ben is out in chinatown." it's like, past midnight. and so then the phone rings, and she's calling just to say, "hey, man, i'm feeling great. i've got this new band, i've got this new tattoo and this boyfriend, and i went to rio de janeiro, and man, stuff is wild down there..." >> hinojosa: and you're like, taking notes. >> and i just began taking notes, and then just wrote a little article out of it. the headline, i remember, was, "hey, janis is feeling great." >> hinojosa: aw! >> that's how casual things were at rolling stone. you know, whatever we experienced would become the story, and the headline and the photos would reflect that. >> hinojosa: so you also spent some time with amazing... well, one-- michael jackson. >> yes. >> hinojosa: i want to talk about that... >> all right. >> hinojosa: ...because of the fact that he's passed. and then grateful dead, because we know that there are huge grateful dead fans out there. but michael jackson. >> yes. >> hinojosa: how much time did you spend with him, and when you found out that he h

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

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

the picture was taken last week at a chinatown restaurant at a political fund-raiser for city councilman mark squila. we spoke to the councilman on the phone since he's out of town. he told us he demanded tayoun make a personal apology and his office is working with the chinatown community to organize a meeting between the two. >> how could someone write these kinds of captions to begin with? >> comes from a background where these are cute sayings. >> tayoun tells us he's apologized to anyone who was offended by the picture and he believes interest in story is dying down. the "philadelphia public record" day beau debuted in 1991. 40,000 papers are distributed throughout the city. >>> new at 11:00, members of an atlantic county community sounded off about getting slapped with a property tax hike. a packed house tonight in galloway township where residents told the school board exactly how they feel. some people say they're paying 30% more. the mayor blames the tax hike on falling property values. residents say whatever the reason, it could force them out of the township for good. >> any i

and the community from our leaders in chinatown to north beach to telegraph hill and russian hill you came together a few years ago to this site when the theatre needed to be the place where the machines came about and thank you and our colleagues for moving those projects forward i want to say i have a vision that's shared by which i want to thank our colleagues that put together the idea our work is not done we've finished phase within 0 and two but need to move forward with phase 3. with respect able to get our subway we were with phase two from union square underneath to knob hill but we need to finish the subway all the way down to the bay does montage so thank you, again, for this amazing announcement we've got a lot of work to do by the year 2019 but we'll connect 16 million visitors in the fisherman's wharf and i look forward to working with you to get that done. thanks for being here >> thank you president chiu. members of our board of supervisors serve in multiple different capacities in addition to being one of the strongest advocates for transportation investment in the ci

a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only thr

of the, llc a california liberate company and the chinatown development center a california nonprofit corporation for a totally agree gait of $69 million plus for a development of no income artificial building on mission bay block 7 west pursuant to the quality control act and resolution number 63, 2014. >> thank you madam secretary and thank you to the members of the public for continuing to join us. commissioners we recently approved a schematic design for this particular development a few months ago i'm glad to report to uscf have paid their fees that's a recent development in our housing manage jeff white can provide you with the details it's fitting we're here to bring the final gap financing for this incredible project and the two developers are cdc related partnerships we're glad to bring this back and so with that, jeff our housing manager >> good afternoon. i'm happy to be here to present this request for a housing project on mission bay boulevard also known as as mission bay south block west. the request today is for the gap funding which includes for construction funding fo

i came out of chinatown community development center, another organization that helps to build affordable housing but also building healthy and complete neighborhoods. it's more than just housing that makes a community healthy, safer and stronger. this is one component in it along with the nonprofits that provide the services to our residents when they are in place. but it is also my honor to work with a mayor that had made affordable housing his top policy priority. maybe some of the mayors will argue about who has done more for affordable housing but i think we can all safely say this is our only mayor that has authentic and meaningful relationship to affordable housing units actual work experience before he came an official and working in chinatown and with residents and as an attorney helping low income residents. that experience is imcomparable to just saying this is your priority. you have worked with the people that you know will benefit from it and you have lived in affordable public housing and it is my honor then to introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you and tha

rights committee and the chinatown community center and the tenderloin clinic and the eviction free san francisco. i also want to especially thank our city attorney's office which has been working diligently on this piece of legislation and a number of other pieces of legislation we've put forward i know we've taken up a lot of time of our city attorney's office and their work is especially appreciate. the final issue is something that is happening in my district. you've probably read about in the paper the planned parenthood clinic located in my district in the mission. i want to provide some context for what's happening. in 193 affidavit gun was shot and killed on his way to work on the pensacola medical women's clinic it occurred in the middle of an anti-abortion profit that was aimed at the staff at the clinic. that same year dr. golden gate war serving as the medical dork in that clinic was shot in both arms by anti choice protesters. dr. actuallyer would survivor that only to be killed by another anti activity. there were 4 thousand plus incidents of violence in the united states

construction job as well as a expire to work and accurate things in tim buck too that brought folks from chinatownnd will have direct access for their workers to get to work that we are remilking for the next generation to be a maker at sf we're proud to be on on the forefront i want to credit mayor ed lee and the folks of san francisco mayor ed lee is an official maker mayor, we saw for the first time the white house hosting a maker fair. so the spotlight is on us we have the national alliance and san francisco is a co-founder of that organization so let's show the rest of the country what is the possible by modeling here in san francisco keep up the great work (clapping.) thank you very much kate. congratulations to you on the success of san francisco that we have made we first were talking about when we were making clothing and their building central subway in a non-translate briz bvrz businesses for women it's remarkably and under gaming leadership the project was so successful that took up many, many jobs in california we were so in the lead the mayor continued that of course, and what was im

underground and marcus making sure this station with union square and the scare station and along with the chinatown station we're doing well, that the conversation has literally changed they want this done all the way to fisherman's wharf that's why leader pelosi is here today, we need to brag about the success stories those kinds of projects not only the jobs and investments we've made but you look at the 8 hundred and 50 thousand of hours construction hours that are logdz on this project so far look at it's investment in small businesses. over $1275 million has been contracted to the small business expires because of this project it's done well and right (clapping) yourselves local people that have been trained and sits across from the conference center and continues to feed that great, great hospitality industry that is at the head of a lot of industries in san francisco hiring more people in the hotel and i'm proud for a multitude of reasons but people took risks for american workers that's why we want to talk about the build american bonds that lorp was talking about we need american to contin

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 >> i think we've all recognized it is an absolutely exhaustible goal everyone of the 34 death was predictable and we're commi

check out the chinatown ping- pong festival. the teams let their paddles fly today. this is at the chinese cultural center. the chinese typically dominate table tennis but the sport is catching on. >> it is a growing sport. i have seen many different cultures and young people are enjoying it. we need to have more exercise in your community. you can do it in a close environment and something simple. >> it is the 4th annual chinatown festival. >>> coming up, classic cars worth millions of dollars go to the golf course. no rush, andy. come on. with the chase mobile app you can get a lot done in a little amount of time from transferring funds wait a minute. you've got to be kidding. did you guys see that? that ball was out. to paying your coach for adding five miles per hour to your serve. that ball wasn't in. get your eyes checked. help me out here. download the best mobile app today. so you can always have the advantage. >>> most of us will never own a ferrari. >> we can dream, can't we? >> classics to souped up cars, two00 of them on display in monterey today. karen t

teens let their paddles fly at yesterday's chinatown ping-pong festival.e chinese typically dominate table tennis but the sport is catching on among others as well. >> it's a growing sport. i've seen that different -- many different cultures and young people are enjoying it. because we need to have more exercise in our community and you can do it in a closed environment. and something very simple. >> this was the fourth annual chinatown ping-pong festival. they were pretty good. >> i guess. >>> it is 4:56 now. a bay area family making an emotional plea to help them after a 2-year-old is killed in a hit and run crash. coming up the latest on the search for the person who was behind the wheel. and i'm frank mallicoat >>> there were numerous obviously vehicles involved. numerous victims. >> people were injured after an eight car pileup in san jose. police say a man in a mercedes blew through a red light on ohka la avenue last night. slammed into another vehicle. investigators believe the driver had been drinking. >>> missouri's governor called in the national

obama signed the anti-hazing law, and then they unveiled danny chen way in chinatown. that is where he was born. we were able to do that follow up, but you are not going to see that in mainstream media. >> there is a lot of homogenization when it comes to asian-americans. it is just not important. if there is an asian figure, they will not mention it. take the story in santa barbara. i did not know -- i had a sex he half. he looked half. on his mother's side. on the blog, i started writing started asaspect, he one of the most undercovered aspects of that story. that is most recent. asian aztecs of stories, that are not important enough. story.ight-graph [laughter] long walk off a short pier. it is up to the asian-american reporters to identify that come and if there are asian-american editors, that would make it easier, and hopefully that is the failure of the generation that came before a lot of the millennial's, that a lot of the reporters did not get up to that status, or not enough, so that they can make those decisions. more are, but we still have these stories th

clarifying delivery and design to insure they continue to move forward this fall we expect to see chinatown and other promotions move forward. for more information on those types of project please vital sf and contact courtney at the transportation authority. the project for the nsb r project we thank the arts and civic design domino for their approval of the brt designs they have jurisdiction over the urban design and expressed their appreciation to coordinate across the departments. so thank you for that and pleased to see that move forward >> now with the completion of that milestone we're going to position quarterly on the reports. you have the geary project this continues with the circulation of our administrative draft and we're prepping to circulate that to the mta and to the public in the october formulate and finally on the management administration side i want to thank our finance and administrative staff for helping to prepare primarily assessment for the low and behold entrepreneurs and others you participation at the transportation authority for our professional services and co

to my point for me as the japan center, chinatown and does not pay. every one of us have to have 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.

he has been in the committee for years of by >> : right section of oakland also known as new chinatownnley roberts roberts kron 4 news >> : taking a stand against so- called all cocotte's and center fell tonight a rally as wrapping up in the canal neighborhood of center fell where young people and parents are demanding grocery liquor stores stop selling flavored malt beverages. >> : no more auto pop snow more outgo ponce the slogan demonstrators chanting up and down the boulevard here in center fell minutes ago the march ended here tableaus suit foot center residency take a look for yourself is started at the circle k gas station on the street to doesn't teenagers' parents from a local organization used for justice and a lot all justin part >> : organizers say the goal is to get liquor and grocery stores in the canal neighborhood of center fell to voluntarily stop selling flavor alcoholic beverages like for local and my guitar eliminated these groups say the beverages are marketed to teenagers that they're dangerous >> : getting rid of pot all contributing to something even one person

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