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, it keeps the opportunity going and it keeps the city and its residents in the city. i want to thank supervisor avalos for championing this. it's a great legislation. thank you for your support. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> hi, my name is army morgan and i'm speaking on behalf of the operating engineers local 3 [speaker not understood] international operating engineers. and we're excited about these two ordinances and we'd like to, you know, give all our support towards it, with the local hire and prevailing wage. you know, we're definitely on board. me being from, you know, and my family being from the southeast part of the city and that community stands to benefit greatly, you know, by, you know, these middle class jobs that could be created through this legislation. and, you know, it will help, you know, create, you know, a lot of, you know, you know, better, you know, opportunities for the, you know, the community and all the city, you know, and all these communities in the city. and they have a better, you know, standard of living, [speaker n
, it keeps the opportunity going and it keeps the city and its residents in the city. i want to thank supervisor avalos for championing this. it's a great legislation. thank you for your support. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> hi, my name is army morgan and i'm speaking on behalf of the operating engineers local 3 [speaker not understood] international operating engineers. and we're excited about these two ordinances and we'd like to, you know, give all our...
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city boy talk all right. another great native please welcome the fabulous greg suhr everyone (clapping.) good morning it's this is so exist to be out here with everyone thank you so much for being here it's critical to be prepared as the chief and the mayor said this year we know it's going to happen even if it's remembering this event the city farthsd who did the planning to have the great water system they score the city of wouldn't be brnd down didn't he have the greater voice in the morning. so, anyway thank you so much for court of law and please continue to help us out when we ask for things to keep even better prepared i know that dp m does a from job we appreciate the support. we were out saturday with a nert training there were one thousands of people training and training and training we revert back to that and we'll keep the city as safe as possible again good morning it's early and i'm going to give it back to my colleague >> councilmember ferraro greg suhr. houser everybody doing this more than i
city boy talk all right. another great native please welcome the fabulous greg suhr everyone (clapping.) good morning it's this is so exist to be out here with everyone thank you so much for being here it's critical to be prepared as the chief and the mayor said this year we know it's going to happen even if it's remembering this event the city farthsd who did the planning to have the great water system they score the city of wouldn't be brnd down didn't he have the greater voice in the...
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city administer ms. kelly for the camp poosht timing for the community >> (clapping) >> thank you next i'd like to introduce terry valencia who the founder the community center terry served as the national alliance for filipino concerns and a great partner with the office of urban affairs part of the network and was helpful during the 2010 consensus so terry (clapping.) thank you all for being here today for spornl this press convention and i went talking about this specific, you know, issue in our community and i thank you, again, for lending our area in moving this forward. i forgot to say (speaking foreign word). i'm not a fluent tagalog speaker i want to ucla but with my limited focuscy i had to do we have to help our filipino members access service and helped people to get food stamps and get legal assistance to fight for their reporters. a lot of the folks are doing this in district 6. i want to thank you naomi kelly for your work and supervisor avalos for proposing the amendment and passing it in
city administer ms. kelly for the camp poosht timing for the community >> (clapping) >> thank you next i'd like to introduce terry valencia who the founder the community center terry served as the national alliance for filipino concerns and a great partner with the office of urban affairs part of the network and was helpful during the 2010 consensus so terry (clapping.) thank you all for being here today for spornl this press convention and i went talking about this specific, you...
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i'm a lucky city fellow and i got to tell you that my city is kind of wild and free. because love grows in this city i go and know and nobody knows like me. [singing]. i know you're going to do swell and your property, you're going to have to sell it, and you'll make some money and you'll get the city key, because love grows in the city, i go and know and even they know. is it something about this city divine, and you make it through shine. remember give it the city dime and you're lucky guys and fellows, girls and fellows, and i got to tell you, that you're city's kind of wild and free. because love grows in the city we know and we're going to make it happen wait and see. >> i have a picture for public viewing. sfgtv. >> good afternoon supervisors and president chiu. i'm here on behalf of myself. i'm a resident at 909 gary at the heartland. there's seniors, 70 percent of the building is seniors. they came there broke, hungry and homeless. now they're convenient, the elevator has been down since march 4th. we're into april 8th. i'm here asking for all supervisors to u
i'm a lucky city fellow and i got to tell you that my city is kind of wild and free. because love grows in this city i go and know and nobody knows like me. [singing]. i know you're going to do swell and your property, you're going to have to sell it, and you'll make some money and you'll get the city key, because love grows in the city, i go and know and even they know. is it something about this city divine, and you make it through shine. remember give it the city dime and you're lucky guys...
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it was said that the city was spending over $20 million in the control of graffiti vandalism in the city. and that money could be better spent towards education for the kids. or for food for the elderly or
it was said that the city was spending over $20 million in the control of graffiti vandalism in the city. and that money could be better spent towards education for the kids. or for food for the elderly or
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rachel levin has this story from mexico city.where people are teetering on the edge. >> meters away from being swallowed up from a gaping sinkhole. it's knot an uncommon sight in this working class neighborhood of avra obregon. one of the city's neighborhoods, where mines are under hundreds of makeshift homes. engineer gustavo guerrero and his men inspected after being alerted by people in the neighborhood. >> translator: it's a difficult problem and an urgent one. we can't just fill in the hole. we know it's there and it's dangerous. >> reporter: the abandoned mine is 18 meters below the surface and more than 200 meters wide and it could take months to secure it. people most likely started mining here in the 1930s and what they were looking for was material to build houses throughout the city. so far 900 mines have been discovered but city officials tell us they have no idea how many actually exist. that's because the construction companies didn't keep records. lupita moved here 40 years ago and although she always knew mines ex
rachel levin has this story from mexico city.where people are teetering on the edge. >> meters away from being swallowed up from a gaping sinkhole. it's knot an uncommon sight in this working class neighborhood of avra obregon. one of the city's neighborhoods, where mines are under hundreds of makeshift homes. engineer gustavo guerrero and his men inspected after being alerted by people in the neighborhood. >> translator: it's a difficult problem and an urgent one. we can't just...
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it's clear that has wide support in the city. conservation is absolutely essential but you have to have both sides of the kindly. in addition to the global bad stuff supervisor avalos is nicely summarized those are jobs those are attempts to free our city from an industry that's a fossil in many sense of the word. it has to be done. we used to be the city that knew how i think it's time to take a leadership position again. thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm thomas ray a native san franciscan. i'm speaking for different environmental groups in this city. i really feel that san francisco doesn't differ the title as the number one sustainable city in the u.s. because it's not doing enough and especially, if they take out the san francisco power sf, you know, plan program out of this strategy it doesn't make sense. i mean, if you take a train in german and look out the window you see hundred dollars of housing with solar cells the government helps with that. recently, there was a electrical power plant was shut down. i
it's clear that has wide support in the city. conservation is absolutely essential but you have to have both sides of the kindly. in addition to the global bad stuff supervisor avalos is nicely summarized those are jobs those are attempts to free our city from an industry that's a fossil in many sense of the word. it has to be done. we used to be the city that knew how i think it's time to take a leadership position again. thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm thomas ray a...
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the city wide average is 13 percent. we also have the lowest household average income at roughly 38,000, but we're finding in district 6 is we have many low income or high income households. 56 percent of our residents live where the house come is less than 50 percent of san francisco ami and the rest lives in the track where the income is from 122 percent to 166 percent of the area income. we clearly need to grow housing for the middle in our district. our third goal to encourage the deployment of resources and policies to insure we're meeting a baseline affordable ho a broad range of income for families and individuals from zero to 120 ami. meeting this will -- our office for the past three years, but mr. are in -- but particular in the last four months, we have had listening sessions with neighborhood activist so we can build more affordable housing. developers with technical know how are coming to the table with real solutions and neighborhood activist describing the impact that the lack of affordable housing is crea
the city wide average is 13 percent. we also have the lowest household average income at roughly 38,000, but we're finding in district 6 is we have many low income or high income households. 56 percent of our residents live where the house come is less than 50 percent of san francisco ami and the rest lives in the track where the income is from 122 percent to 166 percent of the area income. we clearly need to grow housing for the middle in our district. our third goal to encourage the...
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economy who work in the city but can't afford to little here. we make it really hard for those workers and also for patrons coming in san francisco or getting around san francisco either to enjoy our night life or enjoy a living. we are very limited in late night and morning options. particularly when you talk about people getting to and from work people shouldn't have to take a cab. a lot of people can't afford a car or earner a car yet we're forcing them to own a car because we're not giving them late night options. yesterday, i didn't request this but i'll read it from admission pie they posted this on facebook there's something on your minds it's hard to get to and from work when you work in the east bay it's more affordable to have a - it's a show stopper bart didn't run earlier enough to get to work and face it whether a bar person or people who work in sf if you are young and want to stay out later you can now thanks to supervisor wiener it's on the land use committee and so forth. this isn't a monolithic situation there are many people w
economy who work in the city but can't afford to little here. we make it really hard for those workers and also for patrons coming in san francisco or getting around san francisco either to enjoy our night life or enjoy a living. we are very limited in late night and morning options. particularly when you talk about people getting to and from work people shouldn't have to take a cab. a lot of people can't afford a car or earner a car yet we're forcing them to own a car because we're not giving...
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i'll ask the city attorney to address that >> deputy city attorney marla ms. jones is correct this year's several pushed cases specifically regarding what do we kuar in little rock part of the baseline this is related we compare what the environmental conditions are under the proposed project. the sequa guidelines are clear that you look at the environmental study should be studied at the time the project is proposed. there are a couple of different cases one that supervisor kim noted the sunset of sacramento an ongoing airport operation. that's been largely expanded without a conditional use and the city was working without the required permits and they came to get the approval for correct the ill legitimate it the fact that the airport was large and accident court upheld the consultants use of the baseline including an existing illegal expansion of the airport because it found that sequa requires you longtime the existing physical environment and compare took to the project and because of that the city the county rather ♪ case had subject evidence for the ex
i'll ask the city attorney to address that >> deputy city attorney marla ms. jones is correct this year's several pushed cases specifically regarding what do we kuar in little rock part of the baseline this is related we compare what the environmental conditions are under the proposed project. the sequa guidelines are clear that you look at the environmental study should be studied at the time the project is proposed. there are a couple of different cases one that supervisor kim noted the...
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city clerk: item 2: [hearing - update to city's five-year financial plan]1402052.sponsor: farrellhearing to receive an update from the controller's office and mayor's budget office on the updated city's five-year financial plan. 3/4/14; received and assigned to the budget andsf 21234 >> okay. thank you very much. mr. rose field and -- is here to present on this item. >> good morning, ben rosen field controller. we are here to give you an overview of the city's financial plan update. this is required from your three financial offices to prepare annually. this was published several weeks ago. it's a document in four or 5 years depending on the cycle and represents the best thinking of the three financial offices. the controllers, the mayor's budget office and the board of supervisors budget office and all have collaborated on this report and that i say joint report for that reason. at the highest level, the report shows an improving financial picture over the next 4 years versus the on the look a year ago and over the last several years but with challenges we maining. -- remaining and we'v
city clerk: item 2: [hearing - update to city's five-year financial plan]1402052.sponsor: farrellhearing to receive an update from the controller's office and mayor's budget office on the updated city's five-year financial plan. 3/4/14; received and assigned to the budget andsf 21234 >> okay. thank you very much. mr. rose field and -- is here to present on this item. >> good morning, ben rosen field controller. we are here to give you an overview of the city's financial plan update....
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we've long activated for this as a great city. super a has participated in the rose and we helped to form the rose task force and we've hosted meetings the rose in its current form is the cities commitment would be beneficial. i'm not going to run through the briefs but want to focus on our appreciation for a long and inclusive process and the issues been incorporated i want to echo a word balance it seems like this is a plan that incorporates balance and i think will be mrechltd in a spirit of moderation. this helps the economic so adapt it please. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm lee. i do a lot of work with buster implies in the city i want to lend my support to the general plan of the rose. i think anything we can do in this generation to secure those remaining jowls transcends anyone in this room. i think you're at the same place that the folks who put the national parks together did that i hope you'll listen to the winded managing trees become the third rail of the generation there are
we've long activated for this as a great city. super a has participated in the rose and we helped to form the rose task force and we've hosted meetings the rose in its current form is the cities commitment would be beneficial. i'm not going to run through the briefs but want to focus on our appreciation for a long and inclusive process and the issues been incorporated i want to echo a word balance it seems like this is a plan that incorporates balance and i think will be mrechltd in a spirit of...
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i'm a firm believer but we're an international city and a city of immigrants the u.s. consensus bureau said we speak many different languages and we're you'll san franciscans. we have an obligation we've strongly felt was a good purpose of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and councilmember avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minority and latin populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the city comes to the clear obligation we must be able to make sure our vital services are ones that reach all our citizens when they have a language barrier by many who don't have english as the first rang indicate to the american survey under the under the circumstances keens bureau over 10 thousands of them reach the point they're not having english as they're first language we have to among services accessible to them. that means was we down for chinesespectro and spanish speak
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at this stage their main mission is to make sure the weapons ceased do not travel from city to city. to regain control of road that links the russian boarder to the capitol. but the pro-russian protesters are getting bolder by the day. and an airfield was also taken over, and allegedly used to bring in soldiers from western ukraine. many of the protesters say they are deeply linked to russia. they remain defiant and work back down until their demands are met. for them it is the only way to protect their russian identity. >>> the u.s. geological survey warns that 20% of the united states is susceptible to sinkholes. but scientists know little about them. rachel have this report from mexico city where some people are living on the edge. >> reporter: this home in mexico city is meters away from being swallowed up by a gaping sinkhole. neighborhoods crowd around as emergency workers hurry to fill it. it's not an uncommon site in this neighborhood. it's one of the city's most crowded neighborhoods, and one of the most precarious where abandoned mines lay meters below makeshift homes. this
at this stage their main mission is to make sure the weapons ceased do not travel from city to city. to regain control of road that links the russian boarder to the capitol. but the pro-russian protesters are getting bolder by the day. and an airfield was also taken over, and allegedly used to bring in soldiers from western ukraine. many of the protesters say they are deeply linked to russia. they remain defiant and work back down until their demands are met. for them it is the only way to...
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clearly one hand so not talking to the other the stopped are changing in not a status quo also the city a change the law most important the city has amended the transportation code to make it legal for business to to the at the shuttle stops this will increase the number of shuttles operators the number of shuttles stops and finally as the subsequential evidence there was let's talk about the budget analyst report even if i don't believe our experts p are experts this program is having impacts on road derargs >> thank you very much colleagues, any questions to any of the parties. supervisor campos >> thank you, mr. president, i don't have any questions for appellant i do want to ask the budget and administrative analysis through the chair people know i'm a big fan of harvey rose and his team we're fortunate to have information is mr. rose in terms of just understanding some of the facts that a that a that are implicated here you talked about the citations that were with the section of code we're talking about. and can you a little bit that a little bit you look at the period of january
clearly one hand so not talking to the other the stopped are changing in not a status quo also the city a change the law most important the city has amended the transportation code to make it legal for business to to the at the shuttle stops this will increase the number of shuttles operators the number of shuttles stops and finally as the subsequential evidence there was let's talk about the budget analyst report even if i don't believe our experts p are experts this program is having impacts...
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we're acknowledging our diversity that our city niece to embrace many, many cities have biological diversity. we hear a false dichotomy this is totally unfounded but we a areers are real fans of the plants and we love the rose garden and the conservative of flowers this isn't about native plants vs. non-native but where the indigenous that nature put here hadn't been destroyed we need to make sure we're consistent with what nature gave us we we restore no time the elements of bio diversity bike the collection of baseball cards or something but provide for the processes that among ecology systems work it's more collected than counting the numbers of species there's no take over the properties if you read the language it talks about intint the nature areas applies a narrow definition of and a half areas taken from what used to be policy 13 in the former rose before it was changed to 2.13. and a lot of commission of about the tree management the tree removal is the 39 of trees for the sake of our stock of trees tree management that allows for the long gift that increases their ability to allow
we're acknowledging our diversity that our city niece to embrace many, many cities have biological diversity. we hear a false dichotomy this is totally unfounded but we a areers are real fans of the plants and we love the rose garden and the conservative of flowers this isn't about native plants vs. non-native but where the indigenous that nature put here hadn't been destroyed we need to make sure we're consistent with what nature gave us we we restore no time the elements of bio diversity bike...
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i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta >> good morning, everyone and if i may have your attention. good morning, and welcome to the thursday, april 17th, 2014 meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by the committee members and supervisor norman yee and supervisor eric mar and is excused so if we can have a motion to ex-excuse supervisor mar, and a motion by supervisor yee, without objection. and the clerk of the committee is derek evans
i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta >> good morning, everyone and if i may have your attention. good morning, and welcome to the thursday, april 17th, 2014 meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by the committee members and supervisor norman yee and supervisor eric mar and is excused so if we can have a motion to...
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so, the city needs some sort of checks and balances ~ and i think the city needs to join together in a group effort with the city attorney to draft some legislation to punish and the city should defend, help defend. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. thank you, sir. next speaker. >>> ted [speaker not understood], san francisco tenants union and as you've heard most tenants are getting evicted and we're seeing a lot of evictions these days. do not get an attorney and end up losing in court. so, we have a big need for legal services for tenants in san francisco, especially during this housing crisis. most of the legal representation we have right now, almost all of it, is for tenants who are facing an unlawful detainer or an eviction lawsuit. we need to stabilize and increase funding for that so that no tenant is going before a judge or jury without an attorney, without full representation. but beyond that, we he need to begin giving full legal representation to tenants from the moment they get the eviction notice. as has been noted earlier, many landlords issue bogus or what we cal
so, the city needs some sort of checks and balances ~ and i think the city needs to join together in a group effort with the city attorney to draft some legislation to punish and the city should defend, help defend. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. thank you, sir. next speaker. >>> ted [speaker not understood], san francisco tenants union and as you've heard most tenants are getting evicted and we're seeing a lot of evictions these days. do not get an attorney and end up...
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we have fedex and a number of colleagues and city departments or every city department that has large vehicles is a part of the conversation working with the city attorney's office to require training for large vehicle users. there are no as part of the driver training it's not related to driving on urban streets and a lot of support for creating the curriculum the ta will have an opportunity for the curriculum it's right now didn't law schools looked like it exists in the country and holy hoping p that will become a model going beyond all the city's and implement it statewide and be an trucks a unique place where a lot of them the safe way drivers will be involved. light to many of the points that were raised earlier today we have the program we're looking to expand beyond the pedestrian safety but to include bicycle safety and driver safety to this is what we're looking at hopefully, a partnership of the city family to develop the exceptions and start to explaining how the projects that was mentioned easily their bringing up obey the liveable city we want to live in so in light of t
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it's music to our ears that equality remains an issue throughout the city. we also would like to call your attention to the next slide where we have aligned recommendations and the oc oc our children outreach recommendations those are the recommendations that surfaced by facilitated process. we need to be more intentional and smarter about how we collaborative around the services and capturing more value from the existing resources and adapt a holistic approach to learning in order to support the college career readiness and key services should be stridden my sustain our resources for our children and youth and families. so some of the common themes we've seen across those processes have that there is on alignment to the goals cross the agencies and increase the other and enhancement of the cooperation and the holistic adaptation of supporting in and out of school and increasing the stability and the expansion of services. now the common themes is there wasn't only one process facilitate by l f a but organized collaboration and stakeholder processes by the s
it's music to our ears that equality remains an issue throughout the city. we also would like to call your attention to the next slide where we have aligned recommendations and the oc oc our children outreach recommendations those are the recommendations that surfaced by facilitated process. we need to be more intentional and smarter about how we collaborative around the services and capturing more value from the existing resources and adapt a holistic approach to learning in order to support...
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let me ask the question to the city attorney. can we not accept electronic signatures for other activities? i know this is a common complaint i've heard from the industry on this. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. i'm actually not familiar with the electronic signature issue with regard to go solar, but i do know that we're constrained in many ways, in many programs. i don't know across the board from requiring electronic signatures. >> okay. and i don't want to be labor this point, but i would like if you could ask the city attorney who is providing you this information, it seems to me that if the private sector can do this with much larger amounts of money that city government ought to be able to do it in 2014 ~. but just like to understand that. >> we'll continue to pursue that, yes. >> thanks. >> and then looking, and finally , at sort of where is the money coming from. you know, our cfo described this bar on the left which is our revenue stream coming in. you can see it's our customers, retail customers, enterprise rate pa
let me ask the question to the city attorney. can we not accept electronic signatures for other activities? i know this is a common complaint i've heard from the industry on this. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. i'm actually not familiar with the electronic signature issue with regard to go solar, but i do know that we're constrained in many ways, in many programs. i don't know across the board from requiring electronic signatures. >> okay. and i don't want to be labor this...
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this not only reflects a wonderful effort of the city departments but smart tools for the city. i want to thank supervisor breed for your efforts and i am happy to support and add my name as a co-sponsor. >> thank you, supervisor chiu, with that we have a motion on the floor, and without objection this item moves to the full board for consideration, thank you. next item. >> item 2, hearing to receive an update from the city services auditor on the status of audit recommendations. >> okay. hello. >> good morning, chair breed. and supervisor tang and supervisor chiu. i am tonya letitur, and director of the city services auditor division. today i have an associate auditor, skogin, and i am here to highlight my office's work to follow up on recommendations we issued. and a summary of our follow-up that we reported is on the summary page. the benefit is not in the findings but in the implementation of corrective action. and by conducting follow-ups it helps ensure that departments are implementing change and helps city management. and it allows us to assess the value of our audit wor
this not only reflects a wonderful effort of the city departments but smart tools for the city. i want to thank supervisor breed for your efforts and i am happy to support and add my name as a co-sponsor. >> thank you, supervisor chiu, with that we have a motion on the floor, and without objection this item moves to the full board for consideration, thank you. next item. >> item 2, hearing to receive an update from the city services auditor on the status of audit recommendations....
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we adopted the standards and emergency standards with the city in 2007. what did that do? we were serving 11 hundred people a day and now we're doubled in size. what happens when you back off of that commitment? this year because of funding we had to pull back and we were averaging 22 days and went out to the 30 day maximum. what happened? the wait list doubled so we encourage you to stay with it and invest in the policy and without you we can't maintain this commitment so we implement it city wide and fund it and stem the need. one this web that we all work on is exactly that. when one part fails we all fail so we need to invest across the board. i invite you out on the route and see the seniors that we serve and they're on the poverty agenda in the city. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i am marianne hayward and moved from southern california and i noticed that you have vacant land all over the city that could be utilized to grow the fresh fruit and vegetables that would go with the carts that would supply the fresh fruit and vegetables that would
we adopted the standards and emergency standards with the city in 2007. what did that do? we were serving 11 hundred people a day and now we're doubled in size. what happens when you back off of that commitment? this year because of funding we had to pull back and we were averaging 22 days and went out to the 30 day maximum. what happened? the wait list doubled so we encourage you to stay with it and invest in the policy and without you we can't maintain this commitment so we implement it city...
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of the city.rd cities in this network and that is really quite an innovation will have access to an integrated platform of services ledger millions of dollars of resources far beyond our initial one hundred million to support the reliance strategy those clus include the spurring for investments and infrastructure and new uses of the data and stools ease realigns land use and building design and new forms of municipal catastrophe insurance >> other innovative insurance that exist on this platform it includes swiss and the world bank and architecture for the world economy my the institute for the architects they're here. and forget the cities will become the members of the realigns network and will provide support to member cities and sharing the knowledge and realigns best practices and foster new connections and panicking is in contact already with a xashld counterparts in new zealand and other cities that have had their share of seismic episodes. the bay area cities will get it is 4 supports incl
of the city.rd cities in this network and that is really quite an innovation will have access to an integrated platform of services ledger millions of dollars of resources far beyond our initial one hundred million to support the reliance strategy those clus include the spurring for investments and infrastructure and new uses of the data and stools ease realigns land use and building design and new forms of municipal catastrophe insurance >> other innovative insurance that exist on this...
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it's part of the unification of the city working together every day more on everything else. [speaker not understood] center, part of the somewhat related, in fact, directly related the [speaker not understood], with myself, sent a memo to all the directors of san francisco asking to communicate [speaker not understood] center and software and qualifications. and i was part of the overall plans to address this in a structural way together. >> okay. so, you expect to have a plan in -- by august, a comprehensive plan? >> yes, in fact, our plan is to have the planning in july [speaker not understood]. >> okay. we won't be here in august, so, that will give us time to review it. >> yes. i think that -- >> we could probably give you a little bit more time. >> you will -- i think you should be able to see, even without a live demo [speaker not understood], you would be able to see the product we have is being carefully chosen in the list of available architectural solutionses from vendors and that we made strong progress to show first in dt [speaker not understood], yes, we know ho
it's part of the unification of the city working together every day more on everything else. [speaker not understood] center, part of the somewhat related, in fact, directly related the [speaker not understood], with myself, sent a memo to all the directors of san francisco asking to communicate [speaker not understood] center and software and qualifications. and i was part of the overall plans to address this in a structural way together. >> okay. so, you expect to have a plan in -- by...
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i'm barbara i'm 71 my husband is 75 we're part of the work fabric of the city. we're the people that drive the cabs you ride in we clean the dishes in restaurant you eat in we're secretaries and law firm folks we do the jobs that are not high paid they kept it running through the 70s and 80s we're not the high tech types we're not earning or one hundred thousand we're seniors earning 20 or thirty or 40 thousand a year if we're lucky. take you're old income and reduce it by one quarter how many times you would be eating out or taking our clothes to the laundromat just think what it means to our own lifestyle i that's not a guilt trip we're asking for the senior disability group to have free muni for seniors and disabled and extend the pass to 18-years old. considers the money in the real estate market and any food high-end food this is nothing we're asking for. we're asking for a little social justice for those who have transcribed and live in the city and would like to continue to live in the >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> any of thos
i'm barbara i'm 71 my husband is 75 we're part of the work fabric of the city. we're the people that drive the cabs you ride in we clean the dishes in restaurant you eat in we're secretaries and law firm folks we do the jobs that are not high paid they kept it running through the 70s and 80s we're not the high tech types we're not earning or one hundred thousand we're seniors earning 20 or thirty or 40 thousand a year if we're lucky. take you're old income and reduce it by one quarter how many...
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it's a major city in the northeast.ve had 117 of these marathons until this happened last year. that is the longest-running marathon in the world. and they want to put it behind them, that's absolutely right. but today will mark the beginning of the end in that process. they will never forget the dead or the injured. but the next deadline will be monday. if they can pull monday off and the marathon goes like any other marathon, then they will be happy. >> john, we are looking at the boston children's chorus, getting ready to perform. i want to listen to this just a moment. i'm going to talk to you on the backside here. that of course is vice president biden, and his wife dr. jill biden, the governor of massachusetts, deval patrick, and his wife. they are pausing to allow them to enter. as you were pointing out erika pitzi that the fact that he on the day of this bombing left his hospital bed was a signal of what they refer to as boston strong. [ applause ] >> but i'll let you talk about that on the backside. let's liste
it's a major city in the northeast.ve had 117 of these marathons until this happened last year. that is the longest-running marathon in the world. and they want to put it behind them, that's absolutely right. but today will mark the beginning of the end in that process. they will never forget the dead or the injured. but the next deadline will be monday. if they can pull monday off and the marathon goes like any other marathon, then they will be happy. >> john, we are looking at the...
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should be a grossly of the city government. the rest i'll submit >> supervisor farrell. supervisor kim >> as sf mentioned several times i looked at it to introducing the reauthorization of the public education enlistment fund. back in 200 had the board of education established this fund. i was postponed and for the next of years i spent time to revisit dollars and the public schools and they've been cutting since prop 13 this measure was - has been acknowledged by supervisors tom a leaders on this board of funding public education and i'm grateful for his leadership we have this funding today. california used to be one of the top education institutions in the country we're now 49th in the country for spending. unfortunately, because of the decline of property tax dollars. slowly the programs kept the schools engaged whether in sports ever pe and san franciscans knew this wasn't enough we need to the set aside taxpayers dollars what we with the leadership of the community based organized with supervisor tom we passes the 70 perc
should be a grossly of the city government. the rest i'll submit >> supervisor farrell. supervisor kim >> as sf mentioned several times i looked at it to introducing the reauthorization of the public education enlistment fund. back in 200 had the board of education established this fund. i was postponed and for the next of years i spent time to revisit dollars and the public schools and they've been cutting since prop 13 this measure was - has been acknowledged by supervisors tom a...
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under state statute once an estimate has been established the city and county or in this case the city and county of san francisco needs to give the exact same amount it gave in the previous year for the next year. they cannot reduce the lafco itself is the only body to reduce the amount. we have accepted the money and then realizing the budget issue that we give the money back. i know that you serve on the board of supervisors and you are well aware of budget for the city and county and it's up to you that we continue that practice for this final year. one of the things i was talking with miss miller about, maybe we keep some of the money this year and not return all of it. we tend to spend $100,000 to $120,000 overall paying for the clerk's office and paying for other things that are done. like some of miss miller's time and this coming year, now that i am allowed to work on things outside of cca, i pick up costs with putting agendas together and adding up to $100,000 to $125,000 a year for staff and clerk to do this work. so we could keep our reserve where it's at for i year. the ch
under state statute once an estimate has been established the city and county or in this case the city and county of san francisco needs to give the exact same amount it gave in the previous year for the next year. they cannot reduce the lafco itself is the only body to reduce the amount. we have accepted the money and then realizing the budget issue that we give the money back. i know that you serve on the board of supervisors and you are well aware of budget for the city and county and it's...
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good morning, everyone well, to city hall. first of all, i want to thank the chief for the introduction and leadership in the department thank the fire commission but today it's all about the firefighters. and i want to indicate to you very strongly my stance with our firefighters. that as we ask them from day one to take on the life threatening risk of savings accountability 0 people and going into buildings and getting on top of the buildings over one hundred and 50 firefighters putting out those disagrees flames in mission bay. or we shared with station 49 celebrating the reobama of businesses because the firefighters did their job over a year and a half going to do so that fire no, the west portal. our board of supervisors appreciate the firefighters we together as part of the city family acknowledge how important the fire department and all it's firefighters so when we ask them to take the risk of running into building and doing all the herselfic things there's a moment when we say we can do something for you. as tom star
good morning, everyone well, to city hall. first of all, i want to thank the chief for the introduction and leadership in the department thank the fire commission but today it's all about the firefighters. and i want to indicate to you very strongly my stance with our firefighters. that as we ask them from day one to take on the life threatening risk of savings accountability 0 people and going into buildings and getting on top of the buildings over one hundred and 50 firefighters putting out...
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not a lot. 76 in redwood city city. a little bit of fog.sday and then definitely a cooldown on friday. slight rebound on saturday. sunday looks warmer and sunday. >>> 8:21. removing the interceptive to snatch a smartphone. the reason one leader is declaring a partial victory in the fight against cell phone theft. >>> next, the battle brewing in san ramon. how a proposed major development is dividing that community. >>> welcome back. 8:24. san franciscans who rent out their homes on websites like air bnb may soon on the right side of the law if they meet strict guidelines. david chu is proposing a law to allow people to rent their apartments if they are permanent residents and live in the apartments at least three quarters of the year. they would also have to pay the city's 14% hotel tax and landlords would be able to put a ban on short-term rentals in their leases. now opponents are worried these rents homes could end up being used as defacto hotels. supporters say this bricks some sort of regulation to a huge underground business. >>> ther
not a lot. 76 in redwood city city. a little bit of fog.sday and then definitely a cooldown on friday. slight rebound on saturday. sunday looks warmer and sunday. >>> 8:21. removing the interceptive to snatch a smartphone. the reason one leader is declaring a partial victory in the fight against cell phone theft. >>> next, the battle brewing in san ramon. how a proposed major development is dividing that community. >>> welcome back. 8:24. san franciscans who rent out...
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and the other type is a city plaza and so that is when the space is no longer a city street and those are really the two types of plazas for the first time of the street plaza they would engage in a new type of permit to have that talk about how they are managing the space and for the city plaza they would engage with a license of the city that would outline the parameters of the agreement. i thought that i would show you some examples here of activations since we mentioned the activation, these are examples city wide that they take place in the public space and some are them are well known like farmer's market and music events but you can see that there is really imaginative approaches to really activating space? ways that have a wide variety of interesting ways, my favorite one is the crochet jam, so that is the neighborhood volunteers teaching the folks how to crochet and the game nights as well as a big one. >> now that i have talked about the types of plaza and the potential uses and let's get to the question for a steward for the plaza might be identified and this is really at t
and the other type is a city plaza and so that is when the space is no longer a city street and those are really the two types of plazas for the first time of the street plaza they would engage in a new type of permit to have that talk about how they are managing the space and for the city plaza they would engage with a license of the city that would outline the parameters of the agreement. i thought that i would show you some examples here of activations since we mentioned the activation,...
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we are expecting economic growth to continue in the country and in the city. that's sitting under all of the revenue projections that we put together. if we actually go all the way to june 2018 as we projected in our assumptions without a recession occurring we would be 108 months since the recession occurred and if that forecast holds true. it would be the second largest economic growth in the u.s. since the year 1900, only the second time since that has occurred. as we get further out in projection, we feel much comfortable with our numbers. as we get further away it's much more difficult to project. it's worth some reflection about the next down turn which likely will occur at some point. >> so, mr. rosen field as we talk about the numbers of these items, how does it influence thinking is it a general thinking to make sure you don't go crazy on future projections or how else can we plan on it as a city. because you never plan for a dip in a recession, but as time goes on, chances are it is going to happen and we want to make sure that we have a reserve for
we are expecting economic growth to continue in the country and in the city. that's sitting under all of the revenue projections that we put together. if we actually go all the way to june 2018 as we projected in our assumptions without a recession occurring we would be 108 months since the recession occurred and if that forecast holds true. it would be the second largest economic growth in the u.s. since the year 1900, only the second time since that has occurred. as we get further out in...
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my name is mark [speaker not understood], i'm the city cio. and the director of department of technology. and i would like to give you an update on the recommendation regarding asset management part of the grand jury report, the deja vu all over again. the bad news is that it's a broad scope problem to resolve as ha been identified in the report. the good news is that we have aggressively started to remediate the issue structurally [speaker not understood]. the department of technology has implemented a platform called service now which addresses the license management, asset management so the pilot is currently within det. and we've also identified the additional structural [speaker not understood] required to make it a [speaker not understood] wide solution. part of that kirk kerkorian cf-wide solution is part of the recommendation for fy 15-16 budget like addressing the network ~ which requires the unified work necessary to be able to do the digital asset management across the board. ccf-wide but without waiting for this in the last few mon
my name is mark [speaker not understood], i'm the city cio. and the director of department of technology. and i would like to give you an update on the recommendation regarding asset management part of the grand jury report, the deja vu all over again. the bad news is that it's a broad scope problem to resolve as ha been identified in the report. the good news is that we have aggressively started to remediate the issue structurally [speaker not understood]. the department of technology has...
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the city is engaging in the over all program review as part of the justice facility improvement project and looking at opportunities that certain the similar clientele where feasible and at this time, the staff review of the existing program and the lease spaces from which we deliver those programs did not suggest that there is sufficient capacitity, to effect a co-location or a merger and so you some of that discussion in the budget analyst report and a recognition that we are going to do indepth analysis that could yield an opportunity where we could co-locate some of these programs. if that leads us to the conclusion that we should do an early termination we will have that right. just want to look at the comparable rentals. if you look in the right corner, you will see from 46.31 do 58.38, again, we are at 44.65, we are below every comparable renter that we could find in the area. and so we are very pleased with the final resolution of this and happy to answer the questions that you might have about the lease and also joined by the sheriff's staff who can address any programming ques
the city is engaging in the over all program review as part of the justice facility improvement project and looking at opportunities that certain the similar clientele where feasible and at this time, the staff review of the existing program and the lease spaces from which we deliver those programs did not suggest that there is sufficient capacitity, to effect a co-location or a merger and so you some of that discussion in the budget analyst report and a recognition that we are going to do...
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into the city. i appreciate sfoovlz making a reference to the united nations climate panel we saw it, it's timely one of the most respected academic and intellectual bodies worldwide come out with a report they said they issued the desire warnings saying the impacts are being felt on every continent and wipeout the people's crops and one or more drought and increase risks of war. the chairman said no one will be untouched by the climate change and heat waves and floods are among the global aspects that are the threats. the clearest message to mitigate is now. the sooner we do this the less chances of the climate change will happen. while cities plays a or play an important we'll e role we can't let our federal representatives and government off the hook we equally play a major role. in san francisco we are often considered the e pick center of the movement and the grave policies to address the climate we've received recognition from our climate award in addition we've been recognized for our green b
into the city. i appreciate sfoovlz making a reference to the united nations climate panel we saw it, it's timely one of the most respected academic and intellectual bodies worldwide come out with a report they said they issued the desire warnings saying the impacts are being felt on every continent and wipeout the people's crops and one or more drought and increase risks of war. the chairman said no one will be untouched by the climate change and heat waves and floods are among the global...
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through a foundation, the city was the bank's biggest shareholder. hefty dividends provided plenty of money. >> it was easy to walk across the piazza delle comput to ask the bank foundation for money. money was always forthcoming -- lots of it and fast. no one had to think about additional revenues for the city or reducing outlays, so siena never had to budget. >> the blogger and book author calls the alliance between politics and the bank the system in the shadow of the bell tower. he had always ruled the city, he says, in accordance with printable's all too whole. >> everyone extorted each other and schemed to get the money of the banks. and you avoided making enemies, especially within the democratic party that govern here for generations. and that likes to present itself as a moral authority in italy. >> a blog has repeatedly accused politicians and bankers of mismanagement. he says they are to blame for the city's huge debt. >> with all the money from the bank foundation, the city would not have had to take taxes and fees from its citizens. we c
through a foundation, the city was the bank's biggest shareholder. hefty dividends provided plenty of money. >> it was easy to walk across the piazza delle comput to ask the bank foundation for money. money was always forthcoming -- lots of it and fast. no one had to think about additional revenues for the city or reducing outlays, so siena never had to budget. >> the blogger and book author calls the alliance between politics and the bank the system in the shadow of the bell tower....
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and so ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i was alone i took a city ride i didn't know what i would find in the city there andad and the city tidy see another kind of lie there are oh, do i supervisors suddenly see you oh, did we tell you, we need you president chiu every single day of our lives you didn't run you didn't ride you knew i wanted you to lead us we meet again for i have told you. who upper meant to help them lead us who and we do surely need you everyday single day of our lives. got to get you into our lives. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i was alone i took a ride up to sacramento didn't know what i will find there and saw president chiu another kind of mind and suddenly i see you as good it's good to see you. again. >> next speaker. >> thank you. i'm a rug yes, please. thank you very much. thank you. i'm a rug >> ma'am, could you speak a little bit closer to the microphone. >> i'm a rug i have told no one i was coming and mayor ed lee has convened a task force on the severely mentally ill homeless population. he's trying to decide what to do. i'm not on the task force i have been attending the meetings and i would li
and so ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i was alone i took a city ride i didn't know what i would find in the city there andad and the city tidy see another kind of lie there are oh, do i supervisors suddenly see you oh, did we tell you, we need you president chiu every single day of our lives you didn't run you didn't ride you knew i wanted you to lead us we meet again for i have told you. who upper meant to help them lead us who and we do surely need you everyday single day of our lives. got to get you...
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i think it provides a lot of information that muni provides for the city. >>supervisor eric mar: i think the data is useful. i'm really appreciative that one of the key values is equity and really having a transit system that serves the people in most need. i think the slide on low income people being over half of those riding muni is really important. i'm not down playing what supervise wiener is saying about middle and upper income people, but those that are low income i think in my opinion need much more support to become lifelong riders. i appreciate the work that you have done to implement the free muni for low income youth. 20 percent of the riders who are 55 and older, i'm also trying to think about the equity that is there and the need how we can support the older riders as well. i know that's coming up in the slides. thank you. >> sure. i think again the point that muni is really disproportionately serving a lot of people who really need it and rely on it. as you are both saying, if muni isn't operating well, then it's disproportionately impacting
i think it provides a lot of information that muni provides for the city. >>supervisor eric mar: i think the data is useful. i'm really appreciative that one of the key values is equity and really having a transit system that serves the people in most need. i think the slide on low income people being over half of those riding muni is really important. i'm not down playing what supervise wiener is saying about middle and upper income people, but those that are low income i think in my...