transportation plan held on outreach meeting this was with the chinatown community development center in the vicinity of the seethes we're looking to raise the impacts and improve pedestrian safety and we will share that with the other agencies and our particularly in charge of the plan can be reached on the website the transportation feasibility study out of san mateo will be holding workshops on thursday october 23rd from 6 to 10:00 p.m. at bayshore from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. we're convening a neighborhood group to conduct outreach in chinese and stay posted to our website in this stage of the study looking for how to make transportation stronger through bart and the bicycle safety and we'll be reporting back to the plans and programs community the transportation authority is conducting a research the trained supervisors will go door-to-door on the i would like to reach people and surveyors will be available at the treasure island food upon try in the building and all who complete a survey will win a cash card we encourage the folks to weigh in on their needs as part of the treasu

. >> i was in chinatown in the morning had my breakfast on broadway close to stockton i was enjoying my talk to the four side of people in chinatown routinely restaurant and think i was holding a platform for myself and all of a sudden outside the restaurant of the construction in the city there is noise and being a hostess really construction work outside and then the duty i didn't and pollution was right there we have to look at the restaurants i had to go to other restaurant to continue my day a no nonsense construction noise since this is truly necessary construction wo work. >> thank you very much are there are had is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed and the informational item next. >> item 5 adaptation of the legislation items. >> colleagues questions or comments public comment is closed. seeing none, i have a reality. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee that item passes. >>

of 8 that was struck and killed in chinatown this past weekend it's been you know very difficult year i think that the board r ta board has done a lot of work and the board of supervisors to port the vision zero work but obviously much to be done we have so much work to do and it can't happenzoon enough i think that our vision zero committee will have e help with the education and capital street improvements when we meet on tuesday september at 10:00 a.m. at city hall i'm pleased to talk about governor's law under this law the drivers must maintain 3 photo when passing bicyclists if the motorist can't she or he must slow to a prudent speed and pass only when safe thank you to sandra and governor jerry brown and the treasure island management legal entity for the transportation authority that was a protected measure to firewall our prop k from the future operations of the new item ma we want to thank tom assemblyman for this initiative locally over the summer i was able to tour the yerba buena gardens island that is making progress together with our chief deputy i learned and experienc

had been a resident of chinatown for 20 years. as many of you know this is he passed away after being struck by a path a speeding car near the on october 7 when she was 70 years old. born and raised in china, mrs. he moved to our city 2 decades ago. she has 5 children in the bay area. her husband passed away a few years ago but you chose to live alone in chinatown to be with her friends and her community. on the day of the collision mrs. jen had dropped her children off at the chinatown library. and continued on her way to her senior center for a game of mah-jongg. she was an active member of her family association and its choir. her older son said his mother strictly follow traffic rules. todd her grandchildren to look both ways before crossing the street. to pay attention to street lights. when the language turn yellow mrs. he would pull back and patiently wait until it was safe to cross. i know there are many throughout our city who are incredibly saddened by this loss. this is a tragedy that is another wake-up call that san fr

. >> i'm sure you're aware of in san francisco chinatown there are two chinese bunch of roadside i go every day monday and tuesday and wednesday, i go to both stockton and wells fargo is bargaining of course i know the best banker i'm sure you're aware of the union bargaining, however, the chinatown's for me is a good place to go to meet the - i mean in chinatown the only square area we have such quality of professional and work area it is like for me, i have a bank at wells fargo we go to other stair bucks and in that chinatown the wells fargo is forever the virtue norman yee is a good contact with people that are good people there. >> a comment to the commenter pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices please have your comments for us, please incorporate a couple of words otherwise, you put us in an awkward position. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee that item passes. >> okay great gone t

in chinatown, syma chowdhry cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well, would you like redesign love park to look like in city officials began their suggestions from the public today. many wrote their ideas on paper, others made drawings, and if you could not get over to share you're december, don't worry, the city will be back soliciting eye tease gannon saturday. >>> "eyewitness news" at fraternal order of police lodge in northeast philadelphia where 79 philadelphia police officers were honored today at a merit commendation ceremony. these officers were recognized for their outstanding police work, and public services. >>> on the healthwatch tonight artificial sweeteners could lead to type two diabetes. researchers in israel say sweeteners may hamper the way the body handles sugar. more research is needed. they are not recommending any changes though in how people use those artificial sweeteners. >>> getting a rested never felt so rewarding you could say. councilman dennis o'brien all smiles as he was led to jail by upper darby police chief michael chitwood. thinks part of the fund raising bene

i want to recognize the passing of a beloved resident in chinatown and a father to the community leadersiscoloring i didn't he was born in 1908 in china the 3rd of four sons. the father was a person in our country in 1986 convincing arrived on angle eyed and studied for his interrogation examines i joined his father in our country in 19 thirty he become a resident of our city and rented and prashtd a vegetable stand and his wife joined him with a seeing factory in chinatown she they were blessed with many children and great grandchildren. on behalf of the city of san francisco and supervisor mar and supervisor wiener i'd like to offer our condolences to his family and friends he'll be missed dearly. colleagues, i have two resolutions to oppose is lazy salt on women's constitutional right to choose sex selective bands are band on the basis of sex those will band the doctors and require the doctors and nurses to report women to authorities on abortion. the your best estimate for the abundance have been cloaked with anti asian rhetoric they have dorpgsdz to kill baby girls and chipping away

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

there's opportunity sites on geary street safeway you further down and the chinatown is is another one can you dedicate what we can and can't build this is irrational to say that in the foreseeable future there's a low significance that has to be and the socializing this eir draft is inadequate, inaccurate and insufficient. going on as far as the shadows the shadow impact for the first time i believe in history that 4 parks and two public plazas will be impacted. i recall sitting at the hearing in which i believe it was a building obeying being discussed it may impact two or three percent and then the same hearing chinatown a 52 very low percentage but we have 4 public parks and two different plazas this is totally inadequate the high-rise belongs in a commercial district or south of market not on the cathedral hill this is inaccurate and inadequate >> thank you. >> am i able to show some pictures. okay my name is patricia i live? vicinity and cr=certainly walk through p - there a lot. is this how i do this >> face up. >> this is the neighborhood this is the project site where my pen i

she pushed for having the services in chinatown and pushing for the permanent campus so i wanted toacknowledge her leadership and basically tens of thousands of students that bend i want to join the rest of the people here to honor just tan >> commissioner chan would you like to say something. >> congratulations on your retirement are you related to julie tan unfortunately, i'm not. once just tang had an oral it is important we need a bench to reflect the diversity of the population and those who appear before the bench feel the generatedors reflect that it's amazing in a city of san francisco we're home to the largest bar association in the snoogs question have a small sliver of the asian-americans that form that its sad to see just tang go but happy she can retire and she'll continue to be in the community as we've seen already so again want to thank just supervisor tang whether starting our first domestic violence program or in the court of rehabilitation and again your work in the community thank you and please enjoy our retirement >> i'd like to acknowledge that julie tang is h

chinatown it an open barbecue we invite the chief of police and this coming saturday and sunday also two day event the chinatown will meet the moon festival so it's to days >> yes. >> honorable president chiu and honorable members of the board of supervisors. my name is rubin i'm a city and county retiree. who was employed and assessors office i'm a mental health consumer that participants in the programs. first off president chiu i'd like to add to our remarks earlier and that the deaf dump and blind kids play a man and woman pinball. it's my unfortunate duty to bring to the attendance of this board an incident that occurred to a facility it was a facility where my stepmom lives of $7,000 per month. what had occurred i went to visit my stepmom and who was before my daughters birthday i took a card to her already and the and stamped. upon that entering the facility as i was near the elevators i took out my cell phone and about to begin to make a phone call when the employee stopped me. unfortunately for me upon attempting to exit the facility any cell phone went off as i was stepping

reverend fong from chinatown cdc will be leading a prayer for mrs. yim. and i wanted to stress as the attorney for the family, i have begun an investigation into this intersection. [bell] i have lived here my whole life and recognized it to be very busy. but shocked to find out when i inquired of the mta zone traffic surveys that over the last nine years, and these are simply reported traffic accidents. of course we know many other accidents happen that don't get reported. and many others don't get turned into collision reports. in the last nine years there was 22 collisions at the intersection resulting in 29 injuries and two fatalities. i spoke with several business owners at the intersection. as part of beginning my investigation. and they were quite certain that over the last 20 years there has been five to six deaths that they are personally aware of at this intersection. far away the greatest number of accidents occurred -- >> sorry that is your time, sorry, i thought it was the little bell but the big bell. >> thank you, and i hope you support the

there were two burglaries and two home invasions in the chinatown area in july. a 65-year-old woman says a man somehow got in the front door of her apartment block, then went up to her third-floor apartment and held a butcher knife to her throat. >> if -- we need to be alert. we need to work together on this. >> reporter: now, here is a police sketch of the suspect described as an african- american american man possibly mixed race. he's balding 5'5" and weighs about 145 pounds. santa cruz police are offering an unusual reward for information about a serial shoplifter dubbed el mustacheo. this is the latest picture of the suspect. police say has stolen electronics from the store three times since july. and made his fourth attempt after being confronted by a costco employee. in return, the police officer is offering this drinking glass with a painted-on mustache as an award. >>> a plan to build a new ceremony is sparking controversy in san ramon. developers have been working on plans to build the creek side memorial park ceremony on a rucked plot of land in the sou

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

clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatownmeaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband a

the group broke ground on its latest housing community in chinatown today. nine-story building will rise at 810 arch street. it will feature 94 apartments and retail space on the ground floor. >> it will serve low income chinese community who are working restaurants, different things in the chinatown community, and then half will be for people that were homeless. >> the new housing community is expected to open in october 20 october 2015. >>> new tonight the largest gift ever in the history of drexel law school. philadelphia attorney tom klein has pledged $50 million to the school. in rec anything of the gift the school is now named the thomas r. klein school of law. that gift and concludes the beneficial savings fund society building at wellth and chestnut. here's your opportunity to weigh in on changes being made to a philadelphia landmark. city officials gather the suggestions from the public about redesigning love park. many people wrote their ideas down on paper. others drew them out. if you couldn't get over to love park today to share your thoughts th

conducting targeted voter registration drives throughout the city at city college of citizens got the chinatown campus and ocean kid is also at high schools like [inaudible] which i know couple of my colleagues probably graduated from lowell high school and many of high schools as well. by voting in local national elections disenfranchised communities can have a stronger voice in helping our families succeed so children can receive a quality education. workers can receive justice. are able to provide for their families. all of us can afford to stay in san francisco. notable voters can register to vote online today. it's on it's easy. online voter restrictions have also in multiple languages including chinese, and spanish and vietnamese and many language that is spoken in san francisco. good only until october 20 to register to vote in california for jamaica for the november 4 election and it's a critical one. boaters world moved or changed their name must be register so it's really simple to do it online now. i look forward to working with my colleagues and others to expand democracy especially

corporation and have tenderloin corporation or t n d c that is developing block 8 in transbay and chinatown community development unfortunately, the later proposal was not complete it lacked a workforce action plan and a few other items they were not considered as an agency police radios only from the staff but the staff services from the city and the unanimous recommendation from the panel was to recommend to you for your later consideration in an nba loan or the tenderloin corporation they've partnered with architecture firm solomon and studio very sincerely, and brought forth a literacy program partnership with the valencia that has a pirate literacy program that is currently expanding in the tenderloin this is a report and opportunity for the commissioner or members of the public to comment but we'll be back with the business term for your consideration and a predevelopment loan. >> all right. thank you. next item, please. >> the next order of business commissioner questions or comments. >> do any of the commissioners have matters. >> i have one. and i have have not had a had an to read

the rest is the rest of nationalities i want to know the diversity how we deal with that it's in chinatown johnson is the top school i see more diversity compared to john chin and there's other issues that i feel that i know there are students i have gone to the mayor and the supervisor and going to go to the media to address this issue i'm feeling i'm not getting any support >> thank you very much. mr. steel would you mind taking the information so we can have appropriate people follow-up >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mr. york. >> good evening, commissioners. deputy superintendents and president fewer. my name is jason i'm trying to get my daughter into our local elementary we remember the local school is a at the center of the community our children grow and boom that's why my wife and i move forward to cool valley we're learning a rule saying our chandler child can't be part of the community. when it comes to admission priority i understand the intention but the execution is extremely problematic the flaws and issues the school system can't be completed