new year properly i'll suggest that the entire region of the bay area comes here to stockton and chinatown we're proud to present ourselves in the cleanest way that is safe so for everyone that wants to come here i'm thrilled to this defendant every year we do that it gets bigger and bigger and more agencies exhibit their pride we have a lot of things to celebrate this city is strong economically but this is also a time to see how many other people we can help share in the prosperity i'm working hard to build new housing to support the small businesses to make sure that people's job are sustainable mission bay anything this happens we bring ourselves together a that's what we did with a necessary family that was in need our own local restaurant came up to support that family this is my chance to say thank you to our chinatown community and many of you helped me to create scholarships for locking youth i was happy to do that with you and now that we have a mayor whose also health department representing people in the district we can represent people thought the city i'm in a celebrations mo

the first two year was a pilot program but today is a are permanent program in chinatown thank you, mayor ed lee thank you (clapping.) because of the chinatown subway construction that was on stockton on the corner of jackson and washington was the repair i'm pleased to report to you all the slits have been repaired last week and thank you, mayor ed lee and director (clapping.) on behalf of the stockton we invite mayor ed lee and director on december 14, 2014 to visit the location on state and local and broadway where the sidewalk is 15 feet wide but the situations in broadway to sacramento street is only 10 feet in the name of safety and to bring more customers to visit chinatown we propose to mayor ed lee to widen the sidewalk stockton street to sacramento street same from broadway by using the same model after listening and visiting the location 3 and 4 and director louisiana to see the job plan i'm hopefully soon the department of public works and mta will have a proposal to ride on the sidewalks but to keep the city prash patricia for the mayors con laudation and approval i wan

we want it here in chinatown and north bech as well. and how about that more house something yeah, we can work on this but during the holidays it's about celebrating the culture and sharing and making sure peoplend chinese folks have a long history here and we want to share it with everybody in the city and i am proud of our public works and the rest of the city departments joining the volunteers. have a safe day today. this is the 19th year? 15. wow 15 years of cleaning. i know muhammad has all of these statistics and we got rid of the graffiti on the street and i know it because i did them myself and the traffic and the light polls and i want to thank all of the crews and making sure you're safe out there and great appreciation for everyone. i see you out here, the wonderful agencies. there are so many of you and i know muhammad is going to go through the entire list, but yes let's keep volunteering. let's keep asking people to make sure that they respect our communities and let's keep the district clean. this is a welcoming in of the

so i'm looking forward to being here and working with the merchant and the resident and chinatown with the mayor's office and all the city departments so we keep making those things happen in chinatown and we're that happy and prosperous. >> thank you julie as you heard from julie and the mayor is takes a whole team won the key concerns we've had and worked hard to address it i want to thank the merchant is the safety of the pedestrians i want to ask the san francisco police department captain lazzaro to say a few words. >> good morning and welcome from the words of mayor ed lee i want to thank mohammed fro organizing this to echo what commissioner christensen said it's important that the police department be a partner we've excited about the new year the start of the initiative on state and local street public safety is very important on behalf of the san francisco police department specific central station we're concerned about safety in chinatown it's a proprietor for me and public safety is very important i'd like to say that as we start the new year as we continue with the mayors

for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard.ate, 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 ait. [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. quarksrights i would like to come here and join them >> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and megan our pr

.) >> and now ladies and gentlemen, welcome to chinatown community children's center. >> (speaking foreignage.) >> please enjoy ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ happy new year happy new year happy new year we are dancing happy new year to you all happy new year happy new year happy new year to you all we are singing we are dancing happy new year to you all ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> (speaking foreign language.) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in (clapping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> (speaking foreign language.) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we're showing you the children in chinatown they speak chinese and english and mandarin let's give them a round of applause thank you and now ladies and gentlemen asian imperfect leading the lions deny. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in many ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so here comes c y c with the dragon ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the following dragon is the water performed by c y c ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in >> wow. as we say farewell to the horses we welcome the ram and then mayor ed lee also former mayor willie brown and jeffrey asian pacific islan

have a good day in chinatown and thank you to the chamber and to ed and rose for putting on a party and inviting all of us to be here. thank you norman. [speaking foreign language] >> any other supervisors? that's it? okay. are we ready? >> [speaking foreign language] (speaking chinese). i i am here to represent the recorder assessor carmen chu and happy new year and celebrate with your valentines too. thank you very much. >> real quick captain can you say chinese new year? >> [speaking foreign language] happy new year. happy valentines day on behalf of every police officer that has the best job in the world patrolling chinatown and thank you very much. >> we have to go to rose and get ready. >> [speaking foreign language] so what i said is wishing everybody a prosperous new year. however, safety is number one and second is cleanliness so i have a cane. if i see anybody throwing garbage around i will wack you. thank you. [applause] >> i got enough scissors this year. okay. let me tell you what is going on. they're going to cut the ribbon and then the beijing and valley christian will be

they have also worked the arts commission to identify a number of chinatown or chinese artists for the community to provide feedback to select the artist who would develop the eventual artwork proposed for the site. the remaining design issues is really a disagreement right now about quite a large planter envisioned for the site. and the community would like to see the footprint of that planter reduced to open up the usable space. the developers are exploring this as an idea, but have also responded that they are concerned about exiting requirements for the number of people that could be in that space, getting out of the area in a timely fashion. that is something that i think we can continue to explore and brainstorm together. the question on hours. the original documents proposed sunrise to sunset. we have spoken to mr. fraten about the -- given the recent changes in park policy trying to bring those two ideas in closer alignment, he is open to denny kern spoke to his staff and said that our deal goal is first of all to make sure that st. mary's square and expansion area have the sam

we have central city, chinatown, the sro families united. these all specialize in those issues within residential hotels and they have been doing those workshops within those hotels to provide information to the occupants about fire sai. they have been doing those in conjunction and assistance of the fire department. we are expanding that into the apartment buildings as well because we want to make sure if an individual within a building sees something suspicious they call and let us know. we are very much aware that the conditions within a building can change very drastically a moment an inspector may leave the building so we want people to be comfortable call you go us or the outreach. >> >> vendors and with i will introduce latisha [inaudible] from [inaudible] >> good afternoon. my name is latisha and a counselor and organizer at [inaudible]. we're a regional bay area grass-roots for tenants and san francisco and oakland. we have [inaudible] city and something over 1,000 cases each here. [inaudible] collaborative have been working for qui

from the chinatown campaign academy. if you could come forward and line up on the right side of the room. [calling speaker names] . if there is anyone else that would like to speak please come forward as well so go ahead. >> good afternoon. board of supervisors. i am baifd and from chinatown community development center campaign academy. i am a resident [inaudible] and even though my neighborhood has been historically known as a dangerous neighborhood many kids go to play play basketball and do anything they want, but as we know ever since that hertz playground incident many groups that i went to avoided that neighborhood for a long time ever since that incident. the reason for it even though they avoided it go further parks and other parks didn't have the same resources as that playground. that park had [inaudible] basketball courts and baseball field and we resorted to a smaller park where they couldn't do these activities so we want you to create more adult watchers so kids will feel safe going there and you could cre

i'm a chinatown resident and at galileo high school. i think 30 is the bus that mta to extend service in the morning because i always take the 30 to galileo high school and every morning when the 30 gets to chinatown the first stop is always crowded with students. those students already stepping on the stairs so the youth and students can get on and some of the bus will skip the stop because it's so crowded already so i just want the mta to extend the service because the 30 is so tiny. it's like the short one so limited space. i want them to have the longer space so more students can get on the bus and there's other problem. i know that because of the bus is so crowded many of the students that walk to school instead of taking the bus so i want you to pay more attention to the po tecialt safety and more students can get to school safely and thank you. >> thank you so much. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak so this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] . i just want to thank all of the

years before the chinese new year begins this is a whole effort behind it not only does it help chinatown but the whole city the chinese new years eve is celebrated all over people will come here to get the cultural touch meet with their families and you know reunite what all the shopkeepers and others and introduce the new year properly i'll suggest that the entire region of the bay area comes here to stockton and chinatown we're proud to present ourselves in the cleanest way that is safe so for everyone that wants to come here i'm thrilled to this defendant every year we do that it gets bigger and bigger and more agencies exhibit their pride we have a lot of things to celebrate this city is strong economically but this is also a time to see how many other people we can help share in the prosperity i'm working hard to build new housing to support the small businesses to make sure that people's job are

my name is shirley and i'm a youth leader from chinatown and san francisco has had a total number of 19 fatal collisions in the past year alone and i think that's important for the city to work on improving city streets is is is is is to decrease the total number of collisions from happening. we hope that vision zero will achieve its goal by the end of this year for its 24 projects and i want to thank safety sf sf sf for promoting this and i think that is actually an effective way to do this education outreach since to promote the message that safety is a priority to our citizens while education is being implemented into our communities it's also important for for engineering and enforcement to be also working along and this will also make vision zero achieve its goal more successful thank you. >> thank you and thank you for being here today. good afternoon i'm david yee and i am a resident of visitation valley. last week we surveyed a hundred pedestrians in chinatown during the the street fair and we asked them which intersections did you feel were the most dangerous when you were c

front there were a couple of concerns voiced by the committee for better parks and recreation in chinatown and the question about the gate and making the gate disappearancing that separates the expansion area from the rest of st. mary's square. the developers have proposed a sliding gate that would disappear behind planters and have a broad entrance as opposed to a narrow one. there are also on the interpretative -- i should say the materials to honor the historical -- history of the site. the architects have also proposed a number of kind of nice treatments that are actually, i think, nicer than typical interpretative signage to kind of reflect the history of the site. they have also worked the arts commission to identify a number of chinatown or chinese artists for the community to provide feedback to select the artist who would develop the eventual artwork proposed for the site. the remaining design issues is really a disagreement right now about quite a large planter envisioned for the site. and the community would like to see the footprint of that planter reduced to open up the usable

and they plan to have classes in chinese in chinatown and the city college campus and wanted to have a mixer so in chinatown it will be sponsored by the east west bank i told her to meet with the east west bank they're a provider as well as the. >> okay. >> i'll let adam know about that. >> any other commissioner reports. >> i have a question about the come back to the economic interact analysis is bart going to be part of the agency we'll be talking to. >> it's too far from what we're trying to do. >> i think in terms of it's not that it should be k4ri9d but in terms of what we're able to influence mostly is really around the city infrastructure project that's not to say that we couldn't use what the commission end up doing with the recommendations once bart is with the infrastructure project this is a discussion point or have the city have that as a discussion point with bart. >> okay. thank you. >> i think it was brought up that people think they should coordinate with mta so because it is coordinating a schedule. >> okay any other reports? seeing none we'll move on to the next it

my name is jerry and i will be doing translation for a tenant in chinatown. >> (speaking chinese). >> so she wanted to speak on this importance of having fire prevention and safety. she said that being a sro tenant she understands the over crowding issue and the need to have that fire prevention education done so she sees the importance in the workshop and it is trainings. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i amava and work on the mission collaborative as well and the resource center as a case manager. i think fire prevention shouldn't depend mostly on tenant complaints and education even though that is important for them to have that power. landlords in the city need to be accountable. i would like to see landlords of the buildings speak to the concerned public too. i think expanding the existing system of reporting to dbi through the 311 is working and extended to other buildings. i feel unnerved that the buildings that burned are where working class and poor are living in the context of extreme displacement and in the mission that we see today. the city needs to keep the res

by the city that contract is right now like 26.8 percent completed here we have a picture of the chinatown head house station where the perimeter a walls for the station have been completed and now getting ready for excavation and union square the perimeter walls for the station have been completed and also all the pile installation and see here's where the funding the moscone station excavation is underway last but not least let's not forget the surface station where caltrain is working on the foundation piles central subway as a fte in the program that has contract specific goals from 6 to thirty percent those goals are based on the type of works to be performed and the ability of the krarthsd to perform the work the tunneling contract only had a 6 percent goal because there isn't any dbes to do the tunneling work now as of the challenges he mentioned earlier we need to continue with the advocacy for the new funds they've been coming in a timely number and quantities, however, because they require congressional approval