what we're seeing in others cities. one model you've heard we talk about is the community art stabilization trust this is a program that was founded by the kenneth foundation that succeeded with a $5 million non-exit cap that allows for the acquisition of release real estate for the deed restricted use in a 7 to 10 year acquisition to supporting them and helping them set up their capital campaign it's been effective we think with small and midsize organizations that might not have the capacity to enter the real estate market and to create a second marked for the art and crafts it will be capacity to social services in non-arts organizations. the cap model allows for master leasing or shared spaces where numerous non-nonprofits low come together with the cap model for social services. cap as a model has been effective in identifying under utility or below utilized spaces and we do is that potential for the cast to be for organizations as well. another model is the partnership had an as enter departmental focusing on arts

they occupy space all over the city. there's no property tax coming from it, they'd vacate those spaces and move all their operations to the -- >> do you have a list of those spaces and what we're talking about in terms of property tax dollar value? >> i think [inaudible] has that if you'd like her to go over that. >> i mentioned in the remarks that this year and next year we'll be vacating nearly 2,000 square feet of lease space in san francisco and consolidating those -- and relocating those activities to our own sites. that 200,000 square feet will be generating in present value terms, $12.7 million of new property tax revenue for the city. >> has our department of real estate evaluated this site and provided us with documentation for this particular site? do we have that confirmed by the department of real estate that this is potentially the added value of those particular sites? frnths >> mr. rose. >> if i understand what the department is saying, uc occupies leased space. the owners of the leased space are paying p

it is one of the best kept secrets in the city. it is hardly ever crowded. on any given day, you will run into a few locals. , bought a 37 bus to get there without any parking worries. for legged friends can run freely. there is also a patch of grass for the small box. >> it is a great place. it is a wonderful place to have these kinds of parks. that dog owners appreciate it. >> take time to notice of the wildfires that are on the grassland and keep your head out on the lookout for hawks and other bird life. be sure to take your camera and be prepared to take a view of the city will not forget. it has a beautiful red rock formations. you could watch the sunrise over the bay. this is another one of our great lookouts. we are at mount davidson. 928 feet. this is the place for you to bring someone special. to not forget that dogs and enjoy all of the pathways and greenery that surrounds you. it provides a peaceful oasis of open space and great hiking trails. the spectacular view offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise or sunset with someone you love. >> it

seekers of the city that is transitional. another thing there's a street bigotry it's still with us. let us have transitional housing like shoe box units that can be built to house people to rehab this demographic instead of being the useful throw away population the stigma rests upon us and people are tired of taking care of my ethic groups but we have capacity inside of us so let's us sit at the table we're not. everyone is asking for money let the shoe box units be a demonstration if you're capable physically and mentally 6 months and you've got to be on the way let's us prove ourselves and have rapid reemployment programs and redeny manufacturers you don't have to have people be without shoe box housing >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm to relate a perm experience being a senior and homelessness how sometimes city policies enhances homelessness rather than eliminates it when you was 63-year-old i was compelled to seek early social security retirement benefits. so the significance of that is at the pr

i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta

i'd like to direct it to the city attorney. mr. weber you're going to get our question swrz >> from the sfoofs i'll bring up the amendments but the nose provision adams the tenants e attendance within 3 hundred feet of the plaza will receive notification and all the neighborhood organizations that want to get the notification to be on the alloys low receive notice for the city plaza that is under the real estate jurisdiction there's a new requirement they need to throwing an additional notification process to announce the public forum for the proposal so i think that's a way to respond with the request to include the provisions amongst others. >> thank you very much. thank you. next speaker. and i have 3 more cards (calling names) sorry you have a public comment, sir. okay. were you - >> oh, okay. great. >> good afternoon 3 agenda items for me to speak on. in regards to the plaza program i think the mayor's office woechltd or entertaining the many questions i had with the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods. i have very much a

syncountry or by the city attorney. i wouldn't touch right now the issue of asking for the material provide by the city attorney but i do think that any material you've got from mr. syncountry must be available to the public which this notice and agenda were published that's right in the law. on the assumption you know something about it i'll go ahead. the attorney-client belongs to the client that's you. doesn't belong to mr. syncountry. there are 24 public records that he refused ultimately to disobey close 4 are disclosed once the lawsuit was filed. at the task force hearings he said when asked have you can you describe the records and mr. syncountry said i haven't read the records and these i haven't counted them okay. so he u serpd your job you were the ones who should have been looking at the records to wave the privilege i can go through this whole list of occasions when this matter could have been brought to you there are at least 7 when the task force acted on them and i when mr. syncountry was responsible to r

are listed in confines today, i replacement some of the organizations the development center and the city of refuge were the centers we continue to have serve our neighborhoods. i'll say with mow it requires with advocacy and, of course, our offices but i've been successful in working with mow on teeny good times organizations like the vietn vietnamness association they have a staff of one .5 but working the way through this is something that the intermediatey he helps with to help people to relocate and share administrative fees i share the concerns it is our duty to make sure that the services are sprayed out. i certainly want to make sure we're able to hear the folks entangled by the owner and have been waiting partially. colleagues, any additional questions 0 our staff. first of all, thank you for having xheebd the working group and supervisor kim and my staff did in the community we have some really big needs this is why i noticeably proposed it to have the increases in the property tax revenue i know colleagues the use of the economic benefits we've seen in the area to lift up outli

you you know how much our city has changed and the biking has changed our city for for the better i wanto share a few examples i remember personally biking here two years ago i was left hand lane i was one of the few women out there biking hold on one second (sirens). i'm not left hand lane biking in san francisco anyway those of us biking make up 2/3rd's of the biking on market street in has a valley and the lower hate more than 10 percent of traffic on our streets 0 o is biking we see literally thousands of people ridding literally as for bike to work. 20 years ago biking honestly was an afterthought in our transportation system today, the city leaders know it's important to keep san francisco healthy just last week we've launched the bike to work program and special thanks to bart that lifted it's blackout on bikes altogether last year. we see employers really recognizing the value of biking their prior tisz inside biking for their staff and the off-street parking be replaced by bart corals and their 0 no dummies it make sense because people biking and walking and taking transit spend

that effect can be easily seen today in a living city, a city like fez, morocco.archaeologists have come to fez because the same high degree of specialization suggested by the ruins of ostia can be seen here in the flesh. the population and density of the old city of fez has remained the same since the 10th century. archaeologist david webster. the old city of fez had about 120,000 people for its total population. this would have been an equivalent of a population density of tens of thousands of people per square mile. now, the only reason why that was possible, especially in a nonindustrial context, was that you had a very effective agricultural environment around fez within, say, 15 or 20 miles radius. but you also had very effective forms of nonhuman transport -- donkeys, camels, horses, mules -- that could bring in all of the kinds of supplies that the city needed. now, that's one reason why you had such high population densities. one of the effects of really high population densities, of course, is to create very dense urban markets, lots of consumers concent

salt lake city. so this was a $15 million project that came from tiger money and from a match, and apparently it happened pretty quickly. so we identified the right of way in 2009. we secured the tiger grant in 2011 and we had revenue service in 2013. so we know how to get things done. so it's transformed this community. the s-line standards for street car line and snapped -- stands for south salt lake line and sugar house. sugar house is our bohemian community and is now an economic hub in our region. we have had $400 million in private investment, 400,000 square feet of new retail, 300,000 square feet of new office, and a thousand new housing units being created in the past four years since we comprised this. so, finally in -- four commuter rail, the front runner, at the bottom, that commuter rail is a $600 million project that opened up in 2013, and it really changed how we thought about how our suburbs thought about economic development and thought about rail. one of the sweet spots now between s

loss of the city's manufacturing base and the decline of the city itself. high crime and a poor public school system. but there's good news. a recent pew report shows philadelphia's middle class has started to stabilize. but it's a different middle class than it was in the 1970s. few blue collar folks, more professionals today. this is a special episode on philly's rocky middle class and how the middle class has changed over the last four decades and what it's going to take for the middle class to get back to good. we begin our story in south philadelphia, a traditiona traditional blue collar italian neighborhood. >> philadelphia is for reasons as diverse as the people who live here celebrated in equal parts for its cheese stakes, rich history and many, many a rocky movie. here in south philadelphia lies a gem of a restaurant called victor caf eight. cafe. it's as rich in history as the city itself. established in 19 alien by greg de steph ano's grandfather. it's as philly as it gets. part of the last rocky movie was filmed here. >> tell me what you like ab

, any other body in this city.ou need to appoint somebody who is physically disabled. you have that in bruce wolfe who has an outstanding record on the task force. particularly as the information technology systems of this city are undergoing renovation, you need tech savvy people. you have mr. wolfe, mr. rumold and vice-chair fischer who can meet that criterion. i am stepping aside because after 12 years it is time to allow in some new energy and new ideas. you have that -- you have that in ali winston. i am on the spj society of professional journalists freedom of information committee, and i fully support the nominations of mr. winston and mr. rumold to those seats. thank you. >>> kerry brockton, member of the board of league of women voters. i'm speaking now as a citizen of san francisco. i've also spoken quite a bit about maintaining diversity in san francisco and in our city government. the charter also encourages this as well as the best government practices. what i have observed today in sitting through thi

it is still run by the city and still owned bit city, but the pga and others have overseers that make sure it's maintained in the right way to be able to allow for tournament championships and keep the course up? and if we did this on places like legislation lincoln park and golden gate park, it would allow? >> ruark is managing open spaces in the city and we talked to them and they saw a clear distinction between the kind of facilitis that they manage, which tend to be larger green, more sports-oriented and bigger. they have got lots of mechanisms in place, whether they work well or don't work well, to manage their spaces and this is really aimed at a different function entirely. there are mr. reasons i think and most people agree we should keep a distinguish between the two. >> certainly the lady plaza is the first entry and it's frightening to go down there a lot of the timess and it should be different. so i think that is good and i certainly would be supportive of the same sort of thing for mint plaza, united nations plaza, maybe civic center, i'm not sure where these all figure

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winn he's the deputy city attorney. colleagues this legislation is frail many years in the making because it is overall on amendment to the local hiring ordinance that was passed in december even if 2010. that ordinance was applying the local hire principle percentages rising every year we're in the year of a pause to do an assessment for workers to get hired for publicly you funded public works projects. this new amendment to the ordinance is actually adding in 2 parts that we will extend local hiring to public and private land for language for prevailing wages as well it follows the same process we had in place for the local hire ordinance and mr. flynn is coming now. it's pretty straightforward the approach but there's many departments that have coverage and we're concerned about how the policy will fit the work they're doing and i wanted to be flexible to make sure we can maximum local resident getting hired but understand the complexities that the departments had to go through. there's 3 well, actually now 2 main p

city moment to moment. city moment to moment. city moment to moment. i want to shurl thank you president chiu. >> hello supervisors. supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and supervisor breed and supervisor wiener. supervisor campos. supervisor farrell pr supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen and i don't know, you hello right in front of me your katie tang i'm a journalist i have no ability to sing but the ability to talk i want to draw your attention to the population of 2 thousand people that live on treasure island that are right now being second by radiation and chemical contamination and as that he is tuesday and led how much ivory how many of you driven past the building that have led paint from the old military building led paint flaking off the buildings lead in paint was made illegal in the san francisco's mold as you know they've moved the firefighters out of the station to the firefighter training center because they were having respiratory conditions interest the mold the san franciscans stand behind the 2 thousand people in treasure island that

city's expenditures. i do want to mention that the city's audit includes many different components and our audit by [speaker not understood] includes all of the city's funds except for the missing components being audited by kpmg which another person will [speaker not understood] today. for the comprehensive annual financial report we issued a modified opinion as is previously known as an unqualified opinion which is the highest level assurance that you can achieve under an audit. for the second report that i'll go over, there are certain required communications that we have to communicate to the governing body under auditing [speaker not understood]. i'll go over that in just a second. we also have one current one year recommendation from the audit relating to operation for the city. and i will also go over the prior year recommendation that we have in the previous audit and we came back to follow-up on their corrective action statuses. the third report is a single audit report. again, we issued an unmod

is what our city should be remembered for everything that we do and make sure we're a city that works for everybody and appreciates all the diversity that is our strength. >> thank you very much. thanks to all of you who participated in today's online town hall, mayor ed lee, kate howard, mostly you, the public, we hope we have been able to answer some of your questions and please stay involved in this budget process. there's going to be lots more opportunities in different neighborhoods all around the city. i'm barbara taylor with kcbs radio and again thanks so much for joining us. >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city ha

what we do is we go to the employees of the city that are paid for by the taxpayers of the city, by us as tax payers and access the approval process, the entitlement process to help get businesses, small property owners, solve their smallest problems. now, if this process is not available to these smallest of businesses, if it becomes more expensive because of more burdens being placed upon us, people like myself will go to work for either architect firm, engineering firms, attorneys offices that are less exempt and would be much more expensive. and that cost will be passed on to the business owner who is trying to start something up. i want to clarify that all the information that you are asking for is currently available. there is absolute transparency in what i do, that every time that i have -- get an approval from any city agency or we get any authorization, it is posted online and could be accessed for any consultant in this room within just a couple of key strokes of the department of building inspection website. there is no need -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good a

attorney and john gibner, deputy city attorney yeah. i don't believe there's an a second and we have a second by supervisor mar and colleagues, can we take those motion without objection and the underlying item can we take that without objection? do so as well thank you madam clerk item 8 >> item 8 is an ordinance to amend the prevailing wage code for work on the on-site assembly that's temporary inhabits delayed and module especially inference for covering the deck ratify materials with conventions and others special events on city property. okay supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. speaker, colleagues this legislation will help insure that workers who are involved in the set up and take down of trade show on city property are paid a living wage. we want to make sure that the people living in san francisco, california live here we have a history of making sure that people are paid a decent wage. this legislation that is endorsed by san francisco labor council says that workers will be paid for take down and set up and others special ev

>> deputy city attorney jon givner. so, the board voted to affirm the final mitigated negative declaration which was item 17, and to table the item 18. but you also adopted item 19 and that item should be tabled as well. >> right. >> so, colleagues, if we could briefly go back and recall that item, and supervisor kim, if you first want to make your motion to rescind your motion. >> i will make a motion to rescind. my pool jai for that. second by supervisor campos. without objection, that should be the case. [gavel] >> supervisor kim, if you want to make the motion as provided by city attorney givner. >> [speaker not understood]. >> colleagues, you want to take that without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> now back to regarding the item of mission gay. ~ bay. with that we have [speaker not understood] related to citith agencies. i want to welcome mr. rich from oed. >> good afternoon, ken rich from oed. my office is representing the city. occ, office of community investment and infrastructu

sort of standardized across the city. at the transit we were reviewing the mayor's office had begun a performance score card for workforce development. so, but we concluded that section 30 as it's now written cannot really be effectively implemented. so, we recommended changes to do away with sort of the centralized planning and budgeting and [speaker not understood] more of a policy function. that defines the goals of workforce development, how these programs benefit the city, the priority for funding allocations, and setting up program performance measures. and one of the things you'll hear, we heard a lot in discussion was about the performance measures, is each of these programs is serving different populations and have different program goals. but in fact, when we reviewed performance measures that departments currently use we found there were a lot of standard measures already. so, one of our key recommendations, then, was to set up a city-wide workforce development planning committee. this committee would be compri

the combination of the cities in the position to formalize a higher wage and the cities like us that are in a position to help, for example, the fast food workers, a big national movement. i don't have the power as mayor in this particular state toy%7@& mandate a minimum wage locally. i have the power to go out and help the fast food workers win a higher wage. >> rose: i want to talk about unions and pensions and all of that but let's talk about albany. prek, you went to albany looking for a five-year commitment and you wanted to raise taxes. what did the governor say? the governor was clear with me in the beginning-- he had been more reticent raising taxes. >> rose: what's the difference between the two of you in terms of how you look at raising taxes on the upper income. >> we have a lot of similar origins. we first met trying to help homeless folks and ultimately worked together at u.s. department of housing and urban development. i think at this point, look, i'm a believer we have to address some of these challenges of inequality head on, and i don't think it's inappropriate to t

welcome to the people city hall. first of all, i'm kind of in a great state of mind right now we joined our fire department in honoring a heros who saved a life on our ocean beach a few years ago and it's got to be inspirational we have wonderful people in the city and hail oftentimes sacrifice a lot of their personal safeties in order to help with the other so i'm going to look all you knew commissioners as heros we're going to help me sustaining a successful city for everybody so we can grew up other heros in our families that choose to live in our great city. i want to say thank you all of who are here with the families and friends and people in the neighborhoods that have recommended our service i want to say thank you ahead of time you'll make time sfraz for this will be more than oofrments sometimes struggling with important decisions that help the commissions and depended figure out though how to create uniting in our city and for this ahead and all the aspects. some 16 different bodies restraining order re79d

preliminary data show that the aerosol plume from mexico city travels outside the city and rises high into the troposphere. here, the prevailing high-altitude winds can potentially transport the pollutants long distances, even across continents. but it will be many years before molina and her team have definitive results. molina: milagro -- right now we only finish the first phase one, the measurement, the observation stage. and then the next phase is now we are in the process of doing the data analysis so we have all of this tons and tons of data. then all this information are now fit into models. then we are going to present the results to the mexican government. narrator: while the mexican government has recently made strides in reducing emissions with stricter regulation policies and cleaner fuel, mexico city is just one of a growing number of megacities. molina: we hope that by studying mexico city use this as a case study then we can find out how would the future megacities that are coming up how would they influence the atmospheric compositions on a larger regional-global scale

one of a kind city street fairs it's the kind you read about in the city fairy tale i knew in the cityould come a day when the city would really, really thrive and every day one of a kind city street fair money, money, money city money money, money, money money make this city sunny sunny and bring it, let it take wing and that's why i sing and the city's gonna ring and we're gonna make us a king money, money, money city money make it won't you bring and let it take wing and your political office and i hope you'll do great in your running and do it before this thing goes ding [laughter] >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. dr. espinola jackson. that rang right on time. i'd like to say i've come before you many a times requesting the same thing, but you don't do anything about it. you know, there are laws on the books like hud, section 3 of the hud guidelines. but this city has ignored and continues, and you all supervisors, did continue not following the laws of the city and county of san francisco. you know, it really hurts me to come here because i know the health departmen

and city government in general. so let me pose this question that someone tweeted a couple of minutes ago, the first tweet we got, and it's an interesting one. some might say it's the voice of the silent majority out there who likes to drive. i'd like to be able to support bonds for replacing and expanding muni busses, trains and subways, street paving and parking, but as a driver who is over the city's anti-car policy i will never vote for a bond or tax that even potentially could include more anticar measures. i hope you recognize how strongly drivers feel about this, separating the bonds is the only way i can see muni gets funding. you know, you recognized this in your state of the city earlier this year when you said it's time to get rid of those sunday parking meters. we've got to give motorists a little break here or we're going to have a revolt. >> certainly. the larger backdrop is that almost a year ago we put together a task force to study our transportation needs. they worked really hard. we had experts fr

that's what i think about spending it all in the city. well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and county of san francisco go that's on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 small businesses in san francisco. they compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs that's the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences there's a statistical appreciation but ufo our strong economy is reflected in the small businesses. while everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons why one of the reasons great 23i7b8 institutions bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this great convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting today's event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a that's a story it c

sbc has long been an important partner of the city as we seek to effectively serve the city's small businesses. formerly the program was hosted here in san francisco by city college of san francisco. when city college was at risk of losing their accreditation, they dropped out of the program and humboldt state issued an rfp seeking a new local host. oewd with the support of small business commission decided to apply and was successful. so, we've been awarded $150,000 grant for a nine-month period. we expect this grant to be renewed annually for $200,000 and there is a local match requirement that we have been able to [speaker not understood] existing investments in office of small business so there are no new outlays required. this legislation creates one new fte that is grant funded for a position to direct the sfpdc. that person will work closely with the existing case managers at the office of small business to expand the city's small business services. >> okay, thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? supervisor mar. >> yes, mr. cline, does city college have any involvement at all i

you would reduce, particulate matter emissions which is the major concern in the city. and finally the tier four, final and then is just became available last year and it was reduced another 90 percent, and so that is all, with the new engines but a lot of, construction and equipment, and lasts for 15 to 20 years or beyond, and so, there is another strategy, that is verified by the california or resources board, where you can retrofit, the existing engines which will or can reduce the emissions up to 85 percent. and so, although, the existing ordinance was great, you know, being a progressive city that we are, and realizing the newer technologies are becoming available, we felt that we could maybe, do more. and partially what was pushing us to do more, was through the california environmental quality act, and that is really where the planning department has stepped in and we are often finding out that the public works projects were having to do additional modeling and or do modeling and have to do additional measures, beyond the existing clean construction ordinance to

>> deputy city attorney jon givner. that's correct. i believe there are several members whose, whose terms have, have ended who are holding over, which is allowed under the sunshine ordinance task force, but not under certain charter created committees -- commissions. >> okay, thank you. and seats 1 through 5 are the ones that must be appointed or nominated by an organization. i don't believe that we've confirmed any of those and my assumption is the proceeding, not members, can change who serve in though seats. great. i just wanted to say i do know, too, out of the members as a member of the rules committee, i am happy to support all three of those members, but i also do support having them go back to rules for a full -- so we have a full universe of candidates that come before us. if that motion doesn't come through, i'm happy to support these three moving forward. i know we have to move on the sunshine ordinance task force. [speaker not understood] i do think it's important to fill those seats. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i'

come into contact with youth and city contractors which receive 50,000 or more in city administrative funds. this has gone unfunded for 15 years and this has not been carried out. in 2012 the youth commission partner with dch which the currently being piloted at the site. through the lack of resources we have been unable to support department and developing staff praying and to make appropriate referrals and to identify administrative barriers to keep this population of youth from accessing their services. also most cities and contractors do not collect information regarding sexual orientation or gender identity of the youth they can you remember serve which leads to a loss of determination and how if lgbt youth are accessing the current service that the city is providing. we are very thankful to supervisor avalos campos and wiener for supporting this. the committee to hear about the city department efforts to implementing 12n. and we are very happy that since january 20, 2014, the youth commission has been able to partner with several other organizations and departments and working g

connections i think that committing the south and west portion of the city is important and that thank you for your time >> thank you it's mr. ma lane i didn't. >> it's irish. >> m u l l a n e y. thank you it's great to have the excellent candidates. are there any members of the public who wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor cams >> thank you very much mr. chair green again, this is one the situation you have more than applicants than seats i hope the person that doesn't get the seat will continue to be involved you, you know, it takes a couple of times and so i really encourage each one of you to continue to be involved and i'm epa delighted to see the young people interested. with that, bans my experience i just want to be clear i'm going to support leo today. you know, i've said this before about here, you know, some point she'll be running muni and we'll all be working for her i think it's good to get her started but again, i also think that mr. ma lean has a great deal of experience and a strong background and hope he continues to be involved >> thank y

this city will do so and bill the city interest if the graffiti is not removed the ordinance provides depending with the authority to issue fines up to one thousand dollars and day and suspend applications it requires the box to be removed too. fm the legislation requires an annual hearing by the department of public works to access the is it correct affectionate of underground boxes explaining to you is frequently not visible for technical reasons with other utilities underground but whether will require an assessment to see if it's feasible and if feasible they'll be placed underground. colleagues that is a very basic and common sense measure that will help bring some measure of reasonableness to this process and help address many of the concerns we hear if our xhutsz i ask for your support i want to thank and acknowledge ann debris power that put in an enormous amount of work working with many people in the community. thank you >> supervisor mar. >> thank you president chiu and thank you supervisor wiener for doing a thorough job i feel this process of meaningful community outreach

we are in a century of cities. american cities are growing again and housing is at the top of the agenda. i look forward to being part of a department that will help insure that millions of americans all across the country have a chance to get good, safe, affordable housing. >> reporter: castro was catapulted into the national spotlight into 2012 when he became the first hispanic to give a keynote speech at the democratic national convention. his appointment coincides with the announcement but not great but improved signs of the housing economy. the spring thau brings numbers of strengthen after years of recession. sales of new single family homes in april were reported as an seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000 or 6.4% higher than march. but that's 4.3% than last april's rate. as for existing home sales according to the mortgage bangers association the total sale of existing homes increased by 1.3% in april. however, this year's numbers were lower than april of last year by 6.8%. foreclosures and short sales

willie brown was in city hall. (laughter) the giants were still playing at candle stick across the highway over here and my 014-year-old son was not yet born. now slaying lock had a proud history as the largest employer in this part of san francisco for over 75 years we must not forget the valuable contribution over time in 2009 when we kicked of off the remedication program some of the folks over at lock contributed and built their community in the valley joined ace and told remarkable stories of their time. and we're here to remedy them as well and look forward to having their stories shared later. but what happened since then? in 2010, the historically used production facilities for the lock and key factories were taken down and with the help of the city and state we put in love money for the legacy ground water on this site now after 15 years it's time to get to work. so were looking forward to the first phase of construction which we hope will bring up to 5 hundred and 75 new housing units to the northern port

set of public draft for the city in june 2008. the project team was asked to model those for the streets. comparability designs were approved by the shipyard advisory committee in 2009 and weight review the cross seconds is. over the following two years those were circulated and debated and recirculated to the departments through the mar shipyard task force. a series of transportation workshops were held through the bay area collecting is data from the adjacent communities which include the street cross sections and it must tweak to have the balance for pedestrian safety and sfmta pralgsz including bus turning and lay over and stormwater and building access and community recreational bicycle traffic and automobile. so provide you with a sense ever what was improved i'd like provide the infrastructure plan. the street designs were applied and included the dimes for the park and traffic lanes etc. the infrastructure plan contained a section of 72 cross sections the local streets shown provide 20 to 25 feet for the street and those b

nicole have a happy time up and away and in your city city birthday. today. up, up and a birthday way nicole >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> members of the board of supervisors ray with open government i want to talk about something our founding fathers it's tax wut representation i am a member in the city i live in supervisor chiu's district his staff would rather pious on me to make it go out. if you want to talk to mr. chiu you need to have a check in your hand or lawyers at your back the only option i had woos was to come to the board of supervisors meeting i don't think we'll allow public comment for this next speaker he thinks he can take the constitution of the united states and tear it up at will i would have taken him to the task force you see the two pink items those have been vacant for two years they've dared to fight against supervisor chiu and the members of the board of supervisors. the 32, 3, 4 in he can't tell have been held over 2 years so the task force can continue to run he isn't satisfied to tell you i can't speak but rig the game in t

have a ubiquitous wireless coverage in the city for many years so if the district and city are working hands in and and it creates these opportunities for our poorest families, leveraging the city's resources to provide connectivety in those homes, then it allows us to work with cbos within the community so we can perhaps get devices into the homes. we've leveraged what we want to do. so there's lots of those kind of exploratory conversations happening. quite frankly, our goal is to bring to the board with the budget for 2014, 2015, an initial set of recommendations that started down this path and then with subsequent conversations about what are we learning and how are we leveraging some of the -- quite frankly, some of the conversations we're already having with our business partners in san francisco and some of our philanthropic partners who are extremely motivated to partner with us. >> that's what i wanted to know. i also want to know -- be updated on steps along the way. we hope those things will happen, we other working towards them. that's the right answer, but when do they hap