so just really quickly, as you know, the city services auditor was established by city charter. as you know we have pendic f which lays out certain functions for city services to complete. we receive a budget set aside of 2/10 of 1% for the city's budget. we also receive g.o. bond proceeds amounting to approximately 2 million, and we have a total of 68 f.t.e.'s in the total organization. so this slide shows the large department that covers our general bond. functionally, c.s.a. has two units. so we have audit, and we have city performance to ensure that we fulfill the charter mandate for appendix f. as it relates to our work plan process, it's actually driven by your charter and administrative code. we also do risk analysis, and we receive information or requests from our executive leadership as well as our department, and we have our bond and capital programs, as well, that dictate our work plan. >> tanya ran through that really quickly. you're familiar with our planning process and mandates, but ask us questions at any time. these lists our charter requirement, which you are f

a minimum requirement from manchester city this season? i think manchester city this season?ter city this season? i think manchester city would expect to get at least to that stage again. but if you look at the bookmakers' odds, they think manchester city will be going all the way because manchester city are the favourites for this competition. that may have something to do with a favourable group draw. but it also has to do with what mikel arteta was saying, about manchester city having a world—class squad, a world—class group of players and expectation is high around football but manchester city can finally punch their weight in the champions league. you mentioned the champions league. you mentioned the favourable group draw, shaktar donetsk and hoffenheim, it was 1—1 in the early kick—off. so they shouldn't have much trouble getting out of the group? the only awkward thing is, if hoffenheim where to get an away win tonight it would put them ina an away win tonight it would put them in a good position so manchester city would have to go out and geta manchester city would ha

force in the city. many of the programs i'll be talking about are geared to that end as well, and in fact, are part of the mayor's determination. the current work force and programs, i want to point out first the demographics of the work force. current demographics show the city is actually a diverse employer. we have -- attribute our success, the fact that we exceed the labor market in diversity and in fact, in the employment of african americans because of, we have merit-based hiring, anti-discrimination policies and training, and we have pipeline programs to try to ensure that barriers do not prevent people who are qualified are prevented from gaining employment with the city. the labor market availability in san francisco for people who are available to work for the city, so it excludes retirees, for example, or children. but the labor market availability of african americans in san francisco for us to employ is 4.6%, and the city is at a robust 15%. so, that is a piece of good news. moving on, i'm

in chicago we have a tale of two cities. on the south side and west side. on the north side you have economic growth. you have first class schools. on the south side and west side you got 50 schools that are closed. this anger is fueled from the poverty and the disinvestment, which ultimately leads to the violence. >> laura: it's a cycle, is it not? this is a cycle. when a community becomes dangerous, business doesn't want to go in. and if business doesn't go in, you don't have the opportunity, you don't have the stores. so with that cycle, which is very depressing to a lot of people, how does the faith community step in and say, guys and gals, there's another way? >> well, we have to do our part. we are constantly playing the blame game. blaming everybody for our situation. i do believe we have to step up to the plate and take responsibility and stop waiting for people to come in an save the day for us. we have to start developing businesses. we have to start training individuals. we have to start making sure we have school

when we came back, it was one city, one brave city, san francisco who was willing to try this. recognizing again that people who live on the street, addicts, are part of the fabric of our culture. they are going to be part of what we tell ourselves in 20 and 30 and 40 years, so it's really incumbent to use all of the resources we have to treat people with compassion, to keep them alive one more die. everybody out there, they all have a family. they all have family members who have been waiting for this call, and hopefully that call will be they got into treatment. i couldn't have done this without a great team behind me, and i'd like to introduce a tenacious -- i'd like to introduce my friend and one of the coauthors of this bill, senator scott wiener. [applause] >> thank you, susan. and i try to be tenacious, but susan egmon is the definition of tenacious. i still don't know how susan was able to get this out of the assembly not once but twice, two different votes. i wasn't 100% confident but she was able to do it. then we almost hit a wall in the senate. we did hit a wall and

i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful.

in a city that calls itself, you know, and takes pride in being an aging family city. make it happen. make it friendly for aging people and people with disabilities. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is cindy. i am a 28 year employee of kaiser. i am here in support of the resolution sponsored by supervisor norman yee. the real urgency here is that these 900 jobs that are being outsourced is only the beginning for kaiser. we are seeing a very assertiveness. a very aggressive leadership at kaiser. norman yee spoke about the 18 employees recently given notice is at kaiser. the union had one hours notice before these folks were getting pink slips. so it not only are these jobs getting contracted out, but they are getting contracted out by someone who is not invested in good quality care. they are there for a paycheck. paycheck to paycheck. kaiser is not paying them benefits. it is not supporting their retirement or their health benefits. so we also want to think about these workers who are getting outsourced. it is not just the workers. it is the fam

hamburg is not just a port city hamburg is also a music city composers such as your philip deal of money and your highness bombs used to work here and hamburg has also left its mark on rock and pop music history . and hamburg sang probably district the beatles stained important experience for their international career it all started in the early sixty's on the state's office a legendary place that has made history. nine hundred sixteen seventeen years after the end of world war two hendrix rubble had been cleared away and its economy was flourishing. but the generation gap was huge young people were looking for alternatives and amusement. rock'n'roll was new and played an important role but teenagers could only listen to it on the radio and in a few clubs. the so-called big break month for advice leader and bucks and way to host founded the stock club the name said it all. behind beyond almost else i'm good song we started up something that reflected the mood that was simmering among young people. that's why we put posters up all over hamburg saying the hard times are over and corny mus

gibner, our city attorney will read out the outcome. >> deputy city attorney john gibner. during the closed session, the committee voted 3-0 to continue item eight to the call of the chair and to forward items seven through 14 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you. and we will take -- we will take that motion and pass that and colleagues can we take a motion to not disclose our closed session? we can do that without objection. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> meeting is adjourned. >> there is no further business. >> meeting is adjourned. [gavel sounds] - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world- class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over

but i am here to tell the city and county about the bay, which i call city hall. i call it silly hall. but i think they will change it back to city hall. i am from the fillmore. they call it the fill no more because we don't have anything. we can't talk about housing and none of that. >> hello. my name -- my name is sarah. i'm with the housing rights committee. this shouldn't be something that has had proposition ten. it only lets the city pass local law. all it is doing is giving you all permission to debate whether you have a better rent control law or a stronger one. it does nothing to mandate anything. in san francisco, this is a clear case of you are either for rent control or you aren't. you can't pretend to be for tenants and against evictions and not vote for this. we know katy tang, you have never been for tenants and always been in the pocket of developers. but for the rest of the supervisors, including supervisor safai, apologies. safai. that this is a clear case. if you believe in rent control, you need to vote for this. because in this city, whether y

my opinion is that the city officials have not moved our city in the right direction at all. i think that they have moved the city to a disastrous precipice. we are bordering on chaos. why? we don't need drug injection sites. we don't need an increase in the needle exchange program. we know that san francisco is handing out 400,000 needles a month but only getting back 150,000 used needles. these policies are not good for san francisco. in addition, the focus on increasing housing density and building along transit corridors is, again, misguided. >> thank you. and mr. kim? >> all right. i will also say that we haven't exactly been moving in the right direction. there have definitely been good advances made by certain supervisors and certain city agencies, but the fact is that we still have a crisis of homelessness and affordable housing, and we just keep giving away tax incentives to large corporations, and it's hurting the people. that's not a sustainable model. eventually we're just going to become a city for the super rich, and we'll have this giant wealth gap that all our

cities have tremendous purchasing power. with cities purchasing over 13,000 vehicles annually, while gas and diesel vehicle purchases are still prevalent, you can see that with these policies in place, a real shift is not only possible, but is underway. besides municipal fleets cap cities also have options for their residents. with 94% of city respondents having best transit and 92% bike lane policies with implementation. this scrap -- of this scratches the surface of our findings and i encourage you to take a closer look at the survey and thank you very much for being here today. [applause] >> now i would like to introduce mayor john mitchell, the mayor of new bedford, massachusetts for some remarks. >> thank you, mr president. good afternoon everybody. i want to thank mayor benjamin for your leadership in the space you are one of the mayors he pushed very hard for all the mayors to sign up to the 100% renewable pledge. i want to commend jackie for her leadership as well in promoting this report and making this happen. ever

areas across the city. this grant before you today will help us identify the actions we need to take to move forward. this trap significance to -- transition to cleaner vehicles and work to facilitate the adoption citywide through existing staff positions over the one-year life of the grant. and i just want to take a moment to just thank supervisor katey tang for sponsoring this item and for all of her leadership and partnership with us to promote zero emission vehicles. and with that, we are here to ask for your support and answer any questions. >> president cohen: thank you. and again this is to help the city build a strategic plan to address the electric vehicle adoption? >> that's correct. >> however, it comes after item one. >> yes. >> president cohen: okay. i don't know, colleagues, did you have any questions? we don't have a b.l.a. report on this, and i think this is pretty straightforward. let's go to public comment. public comment on item 2 is open. >> this demonstration just furthers my demonstrat

i have the experience in city hall, and i currently work as a city auditor. i understand the situations very well. i look forward to working for you. >> thank you. ms. basan? >> my vision for san francisco is this: i used to be proud to tell people i'm from san francisco, and now i'm embarrassed. i don't want it to be known. i would like it to go back to the way it was when i could be proud to say i'm from san francisco. i'm from a world class city. i invite you to come. but right now as it is, it's a cess pool. it's filthy, disgusting, and it's dangerous. if i am supervisor, i am going to vote no on the policies that keep perpetuating those problems and are keeping us down trodden? are you afraid to go downtown? i'm tired of wearing work boots to civic center because i don't know what i'm going to step in. this is my vision, to bring it back to where it's clean and beautiful. i've spent any entire career to fighting for my clients. if i'm elected supervisor, i will fight for you and your quality of life. >> thank you very much. mr. kim? >> i moved to the bay

that work in the city, i don't think we can look at that because we have pushed people out of the city because of housing, because of -- [cheering] because of housing and because of the costs, and so we have a lot of african american community had to leave the city but still have the family roots here. i know so many that work in the city, bring their children to the city to go to school because they have their childcare here, their family, their parents, their grandparents that help them, it's a community that we have divided. we have separated. and so for us to say there's, you know, 6%, 8%, whatever -- 3% of african americans in this city, and that we have a high proportion for our work force is not really fair. i don't think it's fair to look beyond. and i can't look at that. [applause] so i also -- cause for concern is where we are, percentages of african american employees being hired and then 15% and dismissal of 36% and releases 24%, cause for concern, i think this is actually a siren. i think it's going off. [cheering] >> i'm sorry. >> supervisor kim: and by the way, appreciat

and picking up litter and making our city, loving our city. and importantly when delegates got off the plane they were welcomed to s.f.o. with messaging and welcomed and there were light poles across the city. but we as a department wanted to take more of a personal touch. so we spent time in advance of the summit creating partnerships with the hotels. and these are really important because we wanted to help them to share their sustainability and successes and highlights with these delegates when they came to each hotel. but beyond that we wanted to create partnerships because we wanted to do things that we were really proud of, like remove single-use water bottles from the rooms of delegates. and for the hotels that had the majority of delegates attending them we removed them and replaced them with reusable water bottles that are all in front of you. not just a welcome though, but a welcomer and a celebration and a recognition and appreciation. but this wasn't just about the delegates. this wasn't just about the summit. this was about bringin

my name is adam pulitzer, city manager for the city of sausalito. and on behalf of the sausalito mayor, mayor joan cox, happens to be at the annual league of california cities conference, she asked me to come and read her letter to the record. dear members of the san francisco budget and finance committee. as you take the final steps towards approval of this important project, city of sausalito would like to take this opportunity to thank you and acknowledge a number of regional leaders who collaborated together to produce a positive result. san francisco supervisor aaron peskin, the port of san francisco, port commissioner and director elaine forbes who listened carefully and worked very hard behind the scenes to ensure the final project description addressed sausalito concerns. acting mayor mark farrell, jenny kaloway, marin county supervisor office, among others, and of course, laura joss. together we demonstrated the power of regional collaboration as all of us invested our best efforts to ensure the best possible future for incredible natural r

city. and here comes my lift it runs on solar power once an hour this gold cross the lake to take passengers to places like visit i'm going on around trip. a million euro caps but not a typical captain skipper a solar powered boat is that something you're proud of. and josh young still i say i'm proud. mars are among the first solar boats in operation. between guns and up there you can see the number of the shipyard gave us a bone almost zero one. when what happens if the sun fails to shine for a longer period of the boat still operate. as it does when we have a chargeable batteries down in the hall. and we have enough power to travel for three days with so far may i take a turn at the wheel. so here on the way sure he must i won't have an accident and he i'll be right here but. not much can go wrong at this speed. you give us a bestial you want to take over. if you want to i don't know. surrounding the lake is in one thousand hectare park new state is green in more ways than one. wolf they

showcases our city. we can always do more but this is what we have and you do such a great job i want to turn the floor over to you. >> thank you. good morning supervisors and thank you for considering this extension today. and thank you supervisors stafani today for introducing this today. sim susana robins. the executive district or of the san francisco film commission. the theme in san francisco rebate program was created in 2006 in order to increase the amount of production that was based in san francisco and make it competitive, at a time when much production was leaving san francisco and california in general due to generous incentives from canada and elsewhere. since then, we've had 27 productions use the rebate program creating thousands of jobs, spending millions of dollars locally and increasing the visibility of san francisco to tourists worldwide. this program is essential to attracting longer-term productions to san francisco and making filming in the city more cost effective. these longer-t

the misuse of see funds, misconduct by city officers and employees, deficiencies in city services, and wasteful and inefficient government practices. >> as tanya mentioned, there were four very broad categories that we're required to receive, track and when appropriate investigate, however there are some categories or complaints that the whistle blower program is required by law to refer. we'll go over those and try and give you some examples. first is complaints which another city department is required by federal, state or local law to adjudicate. example of this may include perhaps a complaint about workers compensation that falls under the jurisdiction by law of the department of human resources as do complaints regarding discrimination or harassment based on a protected category. those would be complaints that we would refer because of requirements by local law. next are complaints which may be resolved by a bargaining union or contract. for example, sometimes if we get a complaint about an employee complaining about their schedule or the hours they were assigned, typically, that'

the city. yet, when you design the fine print and application for people who apply for that building, the 15% that is supposed to be of that 1,500 units, which is 225 of those units is not included in the application process. so your time delaying technique that you are using here is a very same time delay technique that you are using now to eliminate the most vulnerable people to have a housing opportunity. it's not fair. you are always doing this time after time and again. and then, with this time-consuming technique, people failed to appear, lose track of their thought and you sneak in this requirement and you campaign that it's supposed for for low and affordable housing but yet the only people that can afford to move in the building is people in high income brackets. since when does people making $125,000 a year need to be part of a low income affordable housing program. you do that time and time again. time and time again. it's disgusting. and then you sit up there talking about affordabl

, because, this is the city, man.t keep stepping over it. don't keep talking about what it is and it ain't. it's a beautiful place, man and it's there's beautiful people. >> reporter: it should be better than this. >> and it can be. and it will be. >> reporter: based on the lingering questions over just how san francisco is spending the street cleaning budget, the city's own analysts recommended again, giving public works any type of long increase, the mayor decided to give the boost to the budget anyway. over the next two years, that is an extra $13 million. >> again, thank you, if you have a story tip for in our investigative unit. give us a call. 888-996-tips or visit our website. >>> all right, let's bring in jeff, our chief meteorologist. it's the start of the work week, so we have a couple of changes coming? >> yes, hot tomorrow, then hotter and then temperatures cooling off and then we have the possibility of rainfall moving in. let's take you to the micro climate forecast, and we are going to start right off w

we also provide all of those services and perform the lowest paid jobs in the city. >> >> the city hasth for homeless working people to provide a way out of that lifestyle. >> separate from the public works department the east palo alto city council approved a pilot program to provide a safe area for rvs to park overnight that program is expected to begin in november. >>> the family of a fremont man says he has a long recovery ahead after he was stabbed multiple times at his home. donna lynne are says she found her father, jack mosley, stabbed at their townhome on market drive sunday morning. she says her father told her someone threw a coffee mug through their front window. when he went outside to sweep up the mess he says he was stabbed by his neighbor. police arrested 27-year-old zachariah joy of a fremont on charges of attempted murder. >> as he is bent over like that the guy from next door came from behind him and just started cutting him. just started viciously cutting him and he said. he was laughing the whole time he was doing it. >> according to court documents joy told invest

we are a city of great health and -- inequities. we have unique communities and neighbourhoods that suffered just disproportionately from various chronic diseases. it is essential that all city departments advance health equity, especially the department of public health and that directive should come from your next director. to someone else mentioned the ability to work with other agencies and departments in the city. i echo that and to bring a health in all policies perspective and champion that across all agencies. the director should be a strong advocate for and have experience implementing health equity promotion programs and policies including those that improve access to and support healthy eating and active living opportunities in the diverse communities and neighborhoods with special consideration for communities with the greatest help inequities. i agree with other folks that there are different educational backgrounds that can lead to got kind of experience. when you look at the cost in your department going to health car

as trying to help the city. i think what we need to do is make sure that politicians realize that they have to spend the money to hire police officers, hire the right police officers, make sure they are trained. have a facility in which to train them and also be out there in the community. we've removed our foot officers through the -- most of the city and we -- >> laura: are they shutting down detective -- detective offices in these difficult neighborhoods, inglewood and so forth? >> they have closed some districts and whatnot. that has been the case. but, you know, i really couldn't say about the national guard, you know. >> laura: to me, it's like this is a local problem and for the most part has a local solution. >> i think it's a bit of a myth to say that there's complete distrust in communities from the police. a lot of people call us. they rely on us. they want us to help them. a lot of it is the gangs. most of the violence is gang violence. >> laura: 2400 offshoots of the gangs and among the most vicious

he was city administrator. you gave me a lot of great advice on how to think about long term and sustained employment for communities in the city onto the door was opened and he was very committed to the city. it was very tragic to see him go his legacy and his life will forever live on and the community has missed so much in the city of san francisco. i will probably be voting in support of this tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you to colleagues as well for offering this resolution. if it is no trouble, maybe we could add our names to this resolution. i have met the former mayor ed lee at this desk. he was marching in the latino honor roll parade in 2009. it was a very door she was a very understated man. he was wearing a baseball up and i think you had to force him to meet people in the parades. i just really appreciated his low key attitude. he did not seek the limelight. he was there to serve the city as best as he could and he did so much for our district as well it has been mentioned in the reso

the city's namesake. of course, like charles's name, one of those people who was brought to this area, probably by jean le feet. on the wrong side in the french revolution and had to escape to europe and came west. pushed further west than louisiana, and then settled along the bodies of this particular shore. on the other side of the lake you can see the working side but on this side, there were workers as well. >> i'm seeing refineries and petroleum. adley: we have a huge refining industry the also two major oil refineries. the philip 66 refinery and the citgo refinery are both located here, and they are among the top 10 refineries in the united states. >> is that the city's biggest economic driver? adley: the biggest economic driver now are the casinos, in terms of actual payroll. >> so we can get a glimpse of them out by the bridge? adley: out by the bridge. there is one casino out there. the other two casinos, golden nugget and a second one, are sited on the property. they are a billion dollar investm

and protect our city and city workers. we all deserve to work together and treated equal -- [microphone went silent] [applause] >> good afternoon. my name is yisella ford and i work for the san francisco department of public health and i'm here in solidarity today with my black african american brothers and sisters. i'm also the health care professionals chapter president for local 21. for 15 years, i was the s.i.u. member and i'm so proud of my brothers and sisters for having the courage to bring you this issue today and for your response and really listening to the concerns of city employees. i guess i would like to speak to the fact that a lot of my colleagues are suffering. the issue of racism and discrimination is an issue of power, privilege and resources and whos has them. and who are the decision-makers. i worked for the city and county for 20 years and i have seen a lot of people being passed up for promotions, we're encouraged to continue our education and then we don't have promotional opportunities. i started i

calcutta of course a big city a crowded city what's being said about casualties. that's why the me calcutta has been population of you know over the million people and this bridge you know which is said to be about forty two years old because we among one of the busiest in the city it was really used all the time a lot of heavy catholic to agree over some old way cracks in one of the oldest areas in the city canonical are and the city is really on that that part of the city really densely populated and the bridge connecting saddam city to the north now we still have no confirmation of any casualties but there are reports here where you know minister west bengal has a key six people only to be critically injured and taken to hospital. and the word yes on the potential or possible cold. we still don't know what really triggered this accident but i have to say that you know major kolaches also buildings and other infrastructure are unfortunately really not uncommon in the old you know the incorporate the construction standards here that often we could then say many w

zone city-wide. this is around 181 schools. we did this because we know that speed is the number one cause of severe and fatal traffic crashs in our city. proud to say that walk s.f. led this initiative, along with city agencis that are here with us today. because we need to help protect children, families and all pedestrians city wide. through smart initiatives and strong partnerships like the safe routes to school program, we're coming together to make sure that parents have options to get their children to school safely. . beyond a single occupancy vehicle. this behind me is the team to put in place necessary infrastructure, the engineering, enforcement, encouragement and education through the safe route to school partnership to enable our children the future of san francisco to arrive to school safe. and ready to learn. we hope to see you all on october 10 for our 10th annual walk and rolle to school day. we will be announcing the location soon. but i hope to see you all there. thank you so much.

not just throughout the city but into the city college and the school district. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon. supervisors, my name is eunice. i'm from laguna honda hospital and seiu member. i'm here to address the evil management in laguna honda hospital. >> yeah! >> i thought i was coming to a civilized [inaudible] to work when the federal government invited me to come here to work as nurse. and i figured it out that america somehow is not civ lied. -- civilized. i can't understand in 2018 we still talking about race that has been dealt with 200 or 300 years ago. it breaks my imagination we're talking about a human life in a government hospital. local government hospitals. county hospitals. what do i take outside united states to tell people? that this is my witness here. caring for people and you can't speak up. when you speak up in laguna honda, your job is gone. that shouldn't be. that shouldn't be in a civilized world because any one of us can lay down on that bed. you never can tell what happens. please, i want you, supervisors, not everybody

that city departments are with us on this. they want to come into compliance and do the right thing. they have already shown evidence of that and they simply need some time -- time to figure out the how. not the whether, but the how. thank you. >> supervisor safai: maybe i should have had you speak first. [laughter] >> you set it up perfectly, supervisor at. >> supervisor safai: i want to say, we hear you loud and clear. the fact that this will go to budget committee will allow us more time to to sit down with you in the department. we will make amendments today. i want to -- before we open it up to public comment, and there are comments from other members of the committee, where i want to brief and walk everyone through. we will make an amendment today. we heard from stakeholders. we will move the effective date from january 1st to july 1st , 2019. we are going to give the department, instead of two and a half years, we will give them three years to do all the baseline audits. we have asked the department to work with the aff

buy a house in the city. stay here in the city and not commute four hours each day. that's just the way i think it should be done and this is the way it's being done on this project. so, again, as far as i'm concerned, from the construction side and the office and on the job site this project is in full compliance. >> thank you commissioner bernal. did you have something else. >> yes, thank you. for the opportunity to just add. i'd like to speak to the responsibility of serving residents the tenderloin. i understand this partnership is only less than a year in existence but when you look at the numbers, 180 versus a goal of 1500, that's only about 12% of that goal. and when you look at the residents of the tenderloin, serving them alliance with the priorities of the department of public-health and i'll use a presentation that we just received the other day about san francisco's getting to zero initiative. san francisco is exceeded in radically reducing the number of h.i.v. transmissions over the past several years far out pacing the rest of the country. we're about t

initially my parents were hesitant because we live in a different city but they knew that city balletas the best choice for me to pursue a professional ballet career. they committed to drive to and a half hours one way every day so i could attend classes. ballet has always been one of my top priorities and passions. and city ballet has helped that passion as well as my dance ability to grow. i left ballet for it's beauty and grace and how it allows me to express my emotions. --dash i love ballet for it's beauty and grace and how it allows me to express my emotions thank you for your time. >> president hillis: next speaker, please. >> hello. i have been dancing at city ballet for three years and city ballet has given me the opportunity to pursue my dream of becoming a dancer. i think that ballet doesn't only make you a great dancer but it makes you a better person in general. since i spend so much time at ballet, i think the new building would be great, a great environment for me to spend my time and. thank you for listening. >> president hillis: thank you , very much. next speaker, pl

clearly this is an issue that affects the entire city. for district 5, i have one recycling center that has closed in my district and one nearby. and i really want to make it easy for constituents in the city to be able to recycle, so this resolution will help the city to begin to address some of these issues by working with cal recycle. and the second that i'm introducing is an ordinance to accept and expend $415,597 from the laura and john arnold foundation. it's to support the justice project as they develop a model of the local government-driven fines and fees reform. fines and fees are a fundment part of government, and it's a consequence for breaking rules and the fees help the government to underwrite their own costs but for low-income people and particularly people of color, fines and fees can become predatory. they can push people into a financial hole they cannot climb out of. just this year san francisco became the first to limit all -- to eliminate all local criminal justice administrative fees. like a $50 monthly probation fe