in one city. or like to have a panel today that can -- many different types of city, not introduce our panelists. we have mayor andy burke, chattanooga, tennessee. he is a former two-term state senator we can also speak to the perspective of the state. i think he was state senator during the great recession and maybe can give us insight on that experience. he's won numerous awards, various groups of nature legislator of the year, friend of education, municipal leader of the year and held a j. d. from university of chicago law school at the doctors degree from -- [inaudible] not executive director of the league of california cities and also spentte thank you with the national league of cities in washington, d.c. so she can speak to the national perspective. when she was director of advocacy. she was a deputy mayor of the city of indianapolis will should focus on the part of a housing, of infrastructure and community engagement initiative and she's on manyt boards of directors including george town

organizations with non-city accounts were throughout the city. and so we had a survey in february of all 56 of our departments and we found that 33 of our departments actually do have some sort of an account or sub-account related to a non-city organization. it really ran the gamut in terms of the type of set-up and connections that they had. most were actually a part of the usual city process of contracts and grants and those were through the fiscal agents, fiscal sponsors, the grants and contracts that i mentioned, certain foundations. and then the friends of organization, which is basically the focus of our report. and generally speaking, these friends of organizations are really intended to financially support the department and the various activities and objectives that they have. and they're a primary source for the revenue. and for the friends of the organizations are generally donations from various entities. more specifically parks alliance is the subject of our report in connection with the public works sub-accounts. they are a 501c3 no

nationally the cities, u.s. conference of mayors, national association of counties, all of us trying to figure out and working in partnership how many calls, carolyn knows this, and the mayor may as well. how many calls with valerie jarrett, president obama, secretary napolitano, secretary johnson, shawn donovan at hud. every cabinet secretary hosting some kind of call to try to help us as cities. we were not alone in this. and i have to say today as i talk to a bunch of mayors and another mayor does and carolyn does as well, but many of these cities today feel that they are on their own. they are just out there, struggling, trying to make something happen and that washington has really kind of checked out. and that is a big difference between '08 and 2020. >> it's a difference from natural disasters and other -- >> well, here's the thing. you had states literally on ebay competing with each other trying to buy personal protective equipment. you had cities scrambling on their own with their hospital systems tryi

and bustle of the big city. foxes are becoming ever less timid. soviet research has revealed that berlin has its own indigenous population and the animals are in fact genetically different from their country cousins. the stock kinds of china and the city limits seem to mark a barrier between fox population was still leave men between the city and the countryside but it's massively reduced. the forces that live in the city you don't want to leave it and foxes that live in the countryside don't want to venture into the city. because they're afraid and you're not used to being close to humans and. her research has also shown that urban foxes mark out their territory and like to state any with some exceptions. then took the foxes reach maturity and autumn and start to migrate to new territory so they make their way through the city and you think they would choose to travel through the park some green spaces but in fact they tend to travel along the motorways to get from one place to the next. foxes obviously appreci

around the city. on hot summer nights with out of 3 the temperature difference between a city and its surrounding can be more than 10 degrees celsius. what's needed is cool air from the surrounding area but what happens when a current of air meets an obstacle that's would under way as well be in this researching with the help of water light shining on tiny white particles suspended in the water reveals currents in the tank. here the current flows unhindered but then it hits a building. you can see there in front of it that there's turbulence and the current flows over the top of the building and there's more turbulence behind it and this is what happens when an air current is confronted with a building this is just one building but in a city up there are lots of them and that means all kinds of air currents. through mix. does cold air flow over a building or around it and what happens if there are obstacles in its path rubin illuminates these issues too. if a building faces the wind its width and heig

cities should have that same right. so i hope that all supervisors will support this unanimously? it is about time, so thank you so much for bringing this forward. the champions of actually taking care of san franciscans as well as the small property owners who are also san franciscans, i really like that that is part of this ordinanc,. so thank you again. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, chair peskin, vice chair safai, and supervisor preston. this is jeremy shaw, d-5. i think this is a modest compromise solution to afford some rent control. as an aside, this title of this resolution is supporting keeping families in their home. i'd like to point out that the chair has to the -- committee has to the call of the chair resolution [inaudible] and i would like to urge that you take that matter back up. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, this is lorraine petty. [inaudible] i'm calling in support of this very important resolution. i'm in support of [inaudible] keepi

complaint against the city. thank you for your attention and cede my time back. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. mr. coo, could we have the next caller. >> can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> thank you so much for your presentation [indiscernible] -- i am a black employee at the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i am a member of the black employee alliance, also a racial equity officer and someone who currently continues to deal with anti-black racism. i would like to share a quote of the center of what we are dealing with right now. "it appears that my worst fears have been realized. we have made progress in everything, yet nothing has changed." i want to acknowledge all of the different presentations from the different departments, but i want to say before i list the demands sent that if we aren't willing to name what this is, anti-black racism and that it permeates through individuals and leads to systemic anti-black racism and that is not going to be something that we can just meet abou

from entities that had city interest and city business. i don't see any mention of that type of non-profit in the report that you've done. can you take another crack at that part as well? >> commissioner bush, we mentioned really the scope that we took was the very relatively narrow one, and so the population of the non-profits that we were able to identify were those that were directly connected to the departments at the time of the survey. definitely quite aware of those two examples that you gave as non-profits were very specific timebound events, but for the purposes of what we looked at, it was those that had an agreement for some sort of a relationship with the departments at the time of our survey. >> for example, the americas cup, the chair of that non-profit was also the chair of the rec and park commission, and a lot of what was being done had to do with control over rec and park properties along the waterfront, and so if there was a clear set of questions that could be raised about that. and so i guess what i'm looking at is whi

it's time for new city leadership at city hall.s time for a supervisor who will put the richmond first. i'm the only candidate with extensive civil rights experience needed to effectively represent the richmond district. first, the richmond and san francisco more broadly must build more affordable housing. second, i will fight to expand healthy san francisco so that uninsured middle class residents will receive health care coverage. additionally, i am the only major candidate in this race to oppose any tax increases swoosh the covid-19 -- during the covid-19 pandemic. we should not kick people when we're down. let's first look at our current spending and fight government waste before we increase teaks. we net better environmentally friendly options to help getting citizens to and from the richmond. that's why i'm for bringing b.a.r.t. to the richmond. lastly, our current homeless policies have been ineffective. i support caring for our homeless without turning our neighborhoods and our parks into homeless encampments. i believe my

city hall should be treating them like customers, without without them, we don't have a city.n entrepreneur should be able to open a business without road blocks. people should feel safe living here. that means focusing on the basics and getting the basics right: clean streets, less crime, and better services. my name is joel engardio. please, vote joel engardio on your ballot. >> hello. my name is steven martin pinto, and i hope to be your next district 7 supervisor. my family has lived here since 1848. i have been involved in local politics ever since i moved back after leaving the military in 2014. i've served as president of the sunnyside neighborhood association, secretary of the west of twin peaks central council, and commissioner of veterans affairs. i'm different from anyone else running in the entire city. honesty, straight talk, availability, and common sense. when was the last time you hear anyone mention those as themes of their campaign. when i decided to run, i decided to always tell the truth and never hold back. as supervisor, i plan to take a bold stance on th

you know, your typical heartland of america city. >> narrator: rita crundwell has worked in dixon city hall since 1970, beginning as an eager high schooler and eventually making her way up to city comptroller in 1983. >> my name's dan langloss. i'm the chief of police in the city of dixon. >> narrator: by the time dan langloss becomes the dixon chief of police in 2008, crundwell has been the trusted guardian of the city's finances for 25 years. >> she was very highly regarded, very well-respected. if you had a question, go to rita. if you need something, go to rita. and, you know, everybody always looked at her that she could fix any problem or just take care of anything that needed to be done. >> narrator: if crundwell's dependability is exhibited in her work, her passion is on display in another arena -- showing quarter horses at exhibitions nationwide. marcia freeman breaks and trains horses near crundwell's home in illinois and remembers crundwell's early years in the industry in the mid-'80s. >> at that point, i think she was just like the regular horse person, showing -- showing

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i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other service sector workers. city college is a place of hope and opportunity, where my dad was able to start a new career. i'm running so city college can once again be that place where miraculous things can happen for working families like my own. >> my unanimoname is han so, a running for the board of trustees because it was education that changed my life. i immigranted to the u.s. when i was six years old. my mom was the first person in her family to go to college, where she studied public health, and my dad and i and my two grandparents were able to come to this country. the five of us lived in a one-bedroom apartment for the first five years. like a lot of immigrant families here in san francisco, my grandparents took care of my while my mom worked to pay the rent a

there's been considerable damage to a lot of buildings in the city center. one of the other hotels had all the windows blown out in this last bombardment. we had we got the chemist cells to see some of the damaged buildings. so there is clearly an attempt to cause destruction obviously in the city most people could not manage to get out now because just hiding and bomb shelters there is bombardment of buildings in which there are civilians ours included in this hotel yes civilians it's feeling the brunt of the bombardment sure whether there is any military in installations in this city are calm tell you but sure civilians are on the receiving end of the bombardment. but it's close now to simcoe services and guns and as i'm fine john and some is there is also saying the civilians are being targeted on vast have been hit. well there are there bridge on government say's it's the civilians being targeted plus it's the big cities being targeted so for those aerial fishel that i have spoken to after india aftermath of today's 6 today's explosion in gun just city t

these classes are free to anyone in the city who wa nts to free to anyone in the city who wants to learn becoming so popular. remi is a bike mechanic. his repair shop in downtown paris stayed open through lockdown. in response to the pandemic, the french government started contributing to the cost of bike repairs. we have a name for a new service which is out of the basement service. with dusty bicycles, this one, or any other one, so we have a special service for this use. in which we include help from the government. they have 50 euros to help people to fix these bicycles, and sometimes they are very, very rusty and hard to fix so it is cheaper for the people to reuse this one and to buy a new one. while other businesses have been shedding staff or cutting down, remi has been hiring and opening new stores through the country. it was an opportunity for us to open a new city which is in strasberg, we will have a second one in bordeaux so two shops in bordeaux, one in paris and maybe soon a second one in paris and in strasberg also. across europe, more than1 billion euros has been spent a

the western course so city of turkey is one of the largest cities of turkey it's not it's not only a tourist destination but also it's an industrial city it's not all it is known to be. with its services sector and the population is high in the city center that's why people are terrified and people are panicked because as the population is high in the city center the buildings are high too which means of dense construction but we don't have we don't have accurate reports about the scale of the devastation or the damage of the earthquake cause in the city and the buildings but to today this evening and tonight the citizens of israel pull out probably will not be able to go in their houses indeed. as they were afraid and plus they don't know they don't know whether their buildings apartment buildings have been stronger damaged or slight the damage to other absolutely and the earth quake. we understand struck around 12 or one g.m.t. it's 301 pm local time we're know 2 and a half hours on from the moment that earthquake struck and there's not an awful lot of daylight left in the city and

and bustle of the big city. foxes are becoming ever less timid. sophia q makes research has revealed that berlin has its own indigenous population and the animals are in fact genetically different from their country cousins. stock kinds of time and again schools of the city limits seem to mark about area between fox population was still leave me between the city and the countryside but it's massively reduced. the forces that live in the city you don't want to leave it to you and cox's that live in the countryside don't want to venture into the city. because they're afraid they're not used to being close to humans in your defense and. her research has also shown that urban foxes mark out their territory and like to stay in it with some exceptions. then he took his reach maturity and also him and starts to migrate to the territory so they make their way through the city and you think they would choose to travel through the parks green spaces but in fact they tend to travel along the most ways to get from one place

so there's some city homework that we need to do to figure out charitiable giving to the city in a way that's timely, and per the controller's office is subject to expenditure control and disclosure. but any way those are my off-the-top comment, and mr. clerk, do we have any public commenters in the queue? >> clerk: if you have not already done so, please press star, three to be entered into the public comment queue. you'll have three minutes if you're on-line with the interpreter. you'll hear a bell go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. please stand by. also as a reminder to the public, public comment may also be submitted in writing and will be shared with the commission after this meeting has concluded and will be included as part of the official meeting file. written comments should be send to ethics.commission@sfgov.org. once again, that's ethics.commission@sfgov.org. madam chair, there are no calls in the queue. >> all right. with that, then, i'm going to close public comment on agenda item 8 and call agenda item 9, which is discussion and possibly action on items for future

the city is accessible for the most important people that we have running our city. i have heard on the call that -- i support the candidacy of miss tanner and i hope and urge you all to support it as well. with san francisco being a unique city, and with all of the history discussed by some of the other callers, i figured that we would talk about racial and social equity and representation has to be a part of every piece of that process and it starts with the people on that commission. miss tanner is very qualified, and not only with the technical expertise but to help to drive what the city needs for a long-term vision for what is going to be -- we don't know what the future is going to hold but we know that as far as putting the principles in place and policies in place that keep accessibility for all and to have that unique focus, and we ask that the community that we need someone like miss tanner. we have an opportunity to do that and you would do well to give her your support. >> clerk: thank you. next caller, please. >> hi, this is jennifer fever. i'm a tenant

and bustle of the big city. foxes are becoming ever less timid. sylvia q. makes research has revealed that berlin has its own indigenous population and the animals are in fact genetically different from their country cousins. the stock kinds of. the city limits seem to mark a barrier between fox population was still leave many between the city and the countryside but it's must if you would use. the forces that live in the city you don't want to leave it to you and cox's that live in the countryside don't want to venture into the city probably because they're afraid they're not used to being close to humans in your defense and. her research has also shown that urban foxes mark out their territory and like to stay in it with some exceptions. been to reach maturity and also men start to migrate to new territory so they make their way through the city and you think they would choose to travel through the parks green spaces but in fact they tend to travel along the motorways to get from one place to the next. foxes o

welcome, city attorney herrera. >> good morning. thank you to mayor breed, chief scott, supervisors peskin and haney for joining me this morning to highlight our collective commitment to combating an all too familiar problem. open air drug dealing in the tenderloin. we're all created to solutions to make sure we combat this epidemic that is taking control of the tenderloin neighborhood. this morning, my office sued 28 known drug dealers, file. they do not live in the tenderloin, but sell deadly drugs there. the drugs that are fueling the drug crisis in our streets. this is to stop the brazen drug-dealing that has plagued this neighborhood. last year alone 441 people died from drug overdoses in the city and the tenderloin had the highest overdose mortality rate of any neighborhood in the city. enough is enough. these injunctions are carefully crafted to simultaneously safeguard a defendant's due process while targeting with precision, the problem of drug dealers coming from outside the area to prey on tenderloin residents, housed and

i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other service sector workers. city college is a place of hope and opportunity, where my dad was able to start a new career. i'm running so city college can once again be that place where miraculous things can happen for working families like my own. >> my unanimoname is han so, a running for the board of trustees because it was education that changed my life. i immigranted to the u.s. when i was six years old. my mom was the first person in her family to go to college, where she studied public health, and my dad and i and my two grandparents were able to come to this country. the five of us lived in a one-bedroom apartment for the first five years. like a lot of immigrant families here in san francisco, my grandparents took care of my while my mom worked to pay the rent a

the city needs to -- it will not stop. the city needs to open their own nonprofit. they have the opportunity, and they have everything to do it. >> john? >> thank you. affordable housing, to me, is where our housing costs no more than what a household of 120% area median income can afford, where they're paying no more than 30% of their income for housing. i also believe that we need to be building housing no more than that, that rate, but also a large -- the largest amount of housing that is deeply affordable. here in district 11, we have a lot of households that are bundled up into single homes and need relief. a lot of them are very low-income and would benefit from having deeply affordable housing. for me, i've been working for years to expand finances for housing, affordable housing in san francisco, looking at various sources from our general fund to housing bond. i actually wrote the housing bond on 2015, and i wrote with the mayor of san francisco the housing trust fund in 2012. i'm excited about propositions i and propositions k that are on the ballot that a

touristic destinations but we are also hearing that since it's a call still city and harbor city weare also hearing reports that suggest some areas have already flooded because of the rising sea water isn't as some suggest that there is the risk of tsunami in the area but these are what we're we have been reading and hearing so far as we are not in the in the scene apparently but. this is a very strong earthquake that has hit is there is meant one of the. western coastal cities of turkey how witnessed several earthquakes within the last one year and maybe more than. last one year. but the magnitudes were much smaller compared to this one from 3.3 to 4.5 is cities like which is close by where the they have all been shaken in the last one and a half year special of the earthquake because of the earthquake in the agency but what we know were cording to the official reports is that the earthquake came from 14.5 kilometers down underground which means it was a very strong one that's why many cities nearby is may were able to feel the earthquake there are some damages in those cities as w

so what is happening to our city? what the hell is happening to our city? we are talking about billions of dollar dollars, billions of dollars. we're not talking about millions of dollars. when it comes to the 5% community benefits, those should have been spent for our infants, our children, our youth, and it's not being spent. there is no due diligence. there is no enforcement. there is a prevailing pandemonium and madness in san francisco. thank you very much. >> clerk: there are no additional callers on the line. >> great. thank you, mr. de costa, for your time. >> clerk: item six, presentation from the san francisco municipal transportation authority about the 2014 transportation and road improvement bond and possible action by the committee in response to such presentation. >> good morning, committee members. jonathan rewers with the m.t.a. i am on my phone because my computer doesn't work. i hope mary can run my presentation for me and i'm happy to go through it with you. just a quick reminder as the presentation is loading, this is the first bond for

this is an asset to the city not just the neighborhood but the city.i get a $180.00 and i would be going to check just flat rate. being out here in the soil learning about helped by eating good. save my wife and i i can't imagine doing something else. these urban farmers from detroit have not yet transformed motown to grow town with the seeds day and others of some promise a rich and fruitful harvest in the years to come. well that's it from oz don't forget your find more films from the series on the rewind page at al jazeera dot com but for now thank you for joining us and see you again next time. we want return. with updates on the best al-jazeera documentary. this is millions of dollars of people's money being taken in for their whole lives for the money. just down the drain and one day on al-jazeera. pakistans k.s.c. $100.00 a surge more than 36 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the water is going dispensable to economic activity but industrial uses the worst thing a test of fresh water

all city services. police, fire, road maintenance, parking enforcement. >> the measure would be the first expansion in decades and also tax revenues from third- party proposition players the help card rooms operate. >> i was the ideal cut. mayor sam liccardo is against measure h because of potential social impact. >> child neglect, domestic violence, social sciences seems to be directly linked to gambling activity and gambling addiction. city could increase taxes on casinos without expanding the number of tables. a spokesman said the casino supports the measure quote we believe nobody enjoys seeing taxes go up. that said we needed extra table for a long time. san jose police have close oversight of casinos and if san jose does not expand gamblers will simply go somewhere else. >> i'm wondering, 2020 such a weird year, pandemic, city budget cuts, all that stuff how has that played into putting this measure on the ballot? >> make a good.because it has been a tough budget year in san jose. the city in fact

as a city, we're doing everything we can to be safer when we are on the roads in city-owned and leased vehicles. in 2016, we passed an ordinance to install vehicle telemanics, or black boxes, in our city vehicles and expanded that to public safety vehicles in 2019. this technology helps us with department deploymen deployment, c.e.o. efficiency, and date to to help us be safer on the roads. overall the goals are to cut government waste and to improve safety. i want to thank the city administrator, kelly, and her team, with fleet management, for their partnership and collaboration throughout the years in implementing this program. now we have some data to help us dent fee problem identim spots. we want to further strengthen our program and help to curb the unsafe driving we're seeing in our city vehicles. i would like to first bring up the budget legislative annual staff to present earlier and -- some of the chief findings that earlier this year the budget b.l.a. helped us produce a report on vehicle telemanics and vehicle leasing. fred bestou and jillian metcalf are here to present the

the city has three departments tasked with cleaning tasks. the city administrator oversees the department of public works and appoints the director with the mayor's director. proposition b is a charter amendment that would create a department of sanitation and streets which would take over some of the duties of the department of public works. this new department of sanitation and streets would be responsible for sweeping streets and cleaning sidewalks, providing and maintaining sidewalk trash cans, removing graffiti and illegally dumped waste and maintaining city buildings, public rest rooms, and street trees. the department of public works would continue to provide all other services required by law. proposition b would create a five-member sanitation and streets commission to oversee the department of sanitation and streets as well as a five-member public works commission to oversee the department of public works. the mayor would select the directors of both departments. if you vote yes, you want to create a department of sanitation and str

posters, and fact sheets across the city.ou can't turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. this provides good information, and many people are listening. however, as we've stretched into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture people's attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. we want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who aren't wearing masks. we wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior because we're all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep san francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need. i asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel community led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. our nonprofits arts and faith organizations are on the frontl

i don't think that anybody in the city feels genuinely that the city is in partnership with them. there's a lot of fees that you just don't know about. there's an opportunity to have clarity, and i will certainly champion small business. >> thank you, ben. next, we'll hear from joel. >> even when the economy was booming, our small businesses were in trouble. we have to remember that last year, 500 restaurants closed in san francisco, and why did that happen? it's because city hall was killing small businesses with all of its permits and fees and regulations. so we need to acknowledge that small businesses were dieing before the pandemic because we cannot go back to the way things were. the chronicle reported that san francisco is one of the most difficult cities to open a food truck. we should be the easiest city to open a food truck, especially during a pandemic. some regulation is necessary to keep people safe, but beyond that, we should let an entrepreneur with a good idea try anything they want. give them a long runway to see if it works, and we need to foster that creativity

city administrator bill lee tried to banish that dog from city hall, was actually -- and i'm not making this up -- eventually given a press pass by mayor brown. when mayor newsome came around she always began her questions with, well, mayor newsome, that's all well and good, and then would just nail him with a bunch of sharp and insightful and tough questions and, you know, then he became governor. when the olympic torch was secreted through the city and nobody -- and that would be literally nobody, and i was the president of the board at the time knew where it was. not mayor newsome, and the route was changed, barbara taylor, who rarely left city hall because she was always with her dog, tanner, flew out of the building and chased the torch down and actually found it. whether dealing with politicians, special interests, regular people, or dealing with -- no offense -- p.r. flacks who got their com comeuppance, barbara had a no bullshit meter and could not be spun. she taught and counseled her fellow colleagues about kindness, and while keeping her integrity as a journalist and never ta

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as a city, we're doing everything we can to be safer when we are on the roads in city-owned and leased vehicles. in 2016, we passed an ordinance to install vehicle telemanics, or black boxes, in our city vehicles and expanded that to public safety vehicles in 2019. this technology helps us with department deploymen deployment, c.e.o. efficiency, and date to to help us be safer on the roads. overall the goals are to cut government waste and to improve safety. i want to thank the city administrator, kelly, and her team, with fleet management, for their partnership and collaboration throughout the years in implementing this program. now we have some data to help us dent fee problem identim spots. we want to further strengthen our program and help to curb the unsafe driving we're seeing in our city vehicles. i would like to first bring up the budget legislative annual staff to present earlier and -- some of the chief findings that earlier this year the budget b.l.a. helped us produce a report on vehicle telemanics and vehicle leasing. fred bestou and jillian metcalf are here to present the

the wrong city. to grow to. be in out here in the soil learning about health about eating good business train my wife i can't imagine doing something else on al-jazeera. and there again what yobs there has remind you of our top stories this hour the battle over nagorno-karabakh has intensified over the past few hours the 2nd largest city in azerbaijan has been targeted by all me me and missiles the city lies just outside the disputed region. and inside this freezes area this is the scene in the city of. armenian officials who control the city say civilians that have been injured. the true picture of president total chumps condition remains unclear after conflicting reports from the white house on the hospital where he's being treated for coated 19 in a video on twitter said trump said he was feeling good most of the real test was in the next few days. the latest caravan of migrants from one jurists who were aiming to walk all the way to the united states have had their hopes dashed security forces in guatemala h

and from other city agencies. i think we can look at, you know, looking at every single disciplinary action is one way to go and make sure they meet the basic standards of the seven tests of just cause, but what concerns me is what we don't see in this data is what actually is happening out there. we see, you know, clearly a tilt towards some punitive actions and low level punitive action, but we don't see those equally applied or handedly applied because i cannot believe when i look at this in my own conscious, that somehow our african american, our black employees commit more violation of rules and others. i think it's universal and it happens all the time. i think supervisors can deal with their stabs unevenly perhaps. agen agencies, you know, the less we have of that, the more professionaled the work becomes, the more desperate the work becomes. we don't have those disciplinary matrices. you do x, y happens and so forth. it's not a topic i spent a lot of time on, but i'm going to start now. i know there have b

and from other city agencies. i think we can look at, you know, looking at every single disciplinary action is one way to go and make sure they meet the basic standards of the seven tests of just cause, but what concerns me is what we don't see in this data is what actually is happening out there. we see, you know, clearly a tilt towards some punitive actions and low level punitive action, but we don't see those equally applied or handedly applied because i cannot believe when i look at this in my own conscious, that somehow our african american, our black employees commit more violation of rules and others. i think it's universal and it happens all the time. i think supervisors can deal with their stabs unevenly perhaps. agen agencies, you know, the less we have of that, the more professionaled the work becomes, the more desperate the work becomes. we don't have those disciplinary matrices. you do x, y happens and so forth. it's not a topic i spent a lot of time on, but i'm going to start now. i know there have b

the city has made it very easy to vote at the ballot -- if they want to come down to city hall, even though it hasn't rained -- rain or shine, we're going to have so many voting booths available, and our staff is actually wiping it down and making it safe for people. so that is open all week. please come down if you want to do that, or make sure that you get your ballots in early enough to be counted. you know, we all know what's at stake at the federal level, whether we want a leader or not want a leader. and -- but locally, we have so many things, so many important issues for you to be a part of the decision here. we have issues do we want more processes for our residents here in san francisco? there are several ballots to make that happen or if you choose not to make it happen, then you vote the way you want. there are ballot initiatives that will help our small businesses recover. so whether you want to support small businesses, we need your voices there, and we have several ballot initiatives if you want us as a city have better oversight on some of our departments. this is goin

in 2010 and now houses the museum of the city's history. the rest of the neighborhood also changed a lot over the past 30 years. is in here to us and here we see the museum barberini the new arts museum it looks as if it or an old historical building but it's actually a new construction. it's modeled on the theme in rome. this is how it looked in the past the entire length of homebush tassel was lined with historic palace facades 3 have been rebuilt but 2 as you can clearly see were replaced by modern buildings we hear on the banks of the half hour that's a right behind this beautiful building is the river. that's where the best hotels and restaurants used to stand they all had terraces facing the water it looked a little bit like venice. there's a lot of italianate architecture in pakistan that. might have it probably would have been easier to build something contemporary on the square why didn't the city are going for historic reconstruction. if there was a time when the half constructed shall of the huns not o.t.r. just a tear a big hulk

big gaps between city buildings are red this proximity makes them he said and some cities like chennai and mumbai in india can reach. 50 degrees celsius. lagos in nigeria is also one of the world's fattest cities. and is met in saudi arabia. and he's saying is happening across the globe even in cooler places like the german capital including. jerk forms is an urban climate expert searching for effective ways to reduce city temperatures this detailed model of berlin is going to help him. in hot weather the german capital is an urban heat island thermal imaging shows how populated urban areas function like hot plates they can be up to 8 degrees warmer than outlying areas. the researcher is using this mini world to find a solution. inside this model of a city apartment and ice cube will demonstrate how much heat gets through. the test houses made of regular building materials. we want to see what happens when the sun shines on a brick building the building warms up and what happens if we use other materials insulate the facade of we put a tree in front of it. using time lapse imaging we c

there is no longer the thing in the city it is city administrator. there is cleanup work in addition to what i talked about. we think this will discourage contractors from continues to try to give gifts to city officials and if they continue to do so it will be easier to take them off the books while the criminal process plays out. i am happy to answer any questions that the committee has. >> thank you for the presentation and all of your work. this is a necessary and crucial step to root out corruption and restore the faith of the public. as you mentioned, you have introduced an amendment and i am happy to make the motion on this amendment. they appear on page 9. again they would require officers who preside over department and suspension hearings be an attorney licensed to practice in california with at least five years of experience. before we go to public comment, colleagues, do you have any questions or remarks you would like to make? >> chair mar, i would like to be added as a proud co-sponsor. >> i will make you primary sponsor of the item. >>

the city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the san francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. the partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. we ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. we make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. >> bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. it is not only a form of recreation. it is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. i really appreciate it. i am very thankful. >> we teach a class. they have to attend a one hour class. things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. after that class, then we would give everyone a test chance -- chance t

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i don't think that anybody in the city feels genuinely that the city is in partnership with them. there's a lot of fees that you just don't know about. there's an opportunity to have clarity, and i will certainly champion small business. >> thank you, ben. next, we'll hear from joel. >> even when the economy was booming, our small businesses were in trouble. we have to remember that last year, 500 restaurants closed in san francisco, and why did that happen? it's because city hall was killing small businesses with all of its permits and fees and regulations. so we need to acknowledge that small businesses were dieing before the pandemic because we cannot go back to the way things were. the chronicle reported that san francisco is one of the most difficult cities to open a food truck. we should be the easiest city to open a food truck, especially during a pandemic. some regulation is necessary to keep people safe, but beyond that, we should let an entrepreneur with a good idea try anything they want. give them a long runway to see if it works, and we need to foster that creativity

complaint against the city. i thank you for your attention and cede my time back. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. mr. coo, could we have the next caller. >> can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> thank you so much for your presentation [indiscernible] -- i am a black employee at the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i am a member of the black employee alliance, also a racial equity officer and someone who currently continues to deal with anti-black racism. i would like to share a quote of the center of what we are dealing with right now. "it appears that my worst fears have been realized. we have made progress in everything, yet nothing has changed." i want to acknowledge all of the different presentations from the different departments, but i want to say before i list the demands sent that if we aren't willing to name what this is, anti-black racism and that it permeates through individuals and leads to systemic anti-black racism and that is not going to be something that we can just meet ab

proposition f would further increase the city's business taxes if the city loses either of the childxclude money collected from these increases when determining baseline spending. it would also increase the city's spending for the next four years. if you vote yes, you want to overhaul the business tax structure. if you vote no, you do not want these changes. >> i'm here with jennifer brooks, a proponent of the measure. we're also joined by starchild, a libertarian, and an opponent of the measure. we're going to begin with some opening statements, and we will begin with star child. >> yes. this is starchild, the libertarian party of san francisco. we believe that tax adding on right now is just absolutely the wrong time. there's so many businesses suffering under the lockdowns. i live in the castro, and it just seems that every other business is closed and boarded up. the measure, furthermore, is so confusing. it's, like, 125 pages long, and reading through it, i couldn't even tell on my own what it was going to do. so i'm substantially relying on the controller's statement which says