san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) on behalf of mc governmental of at any one city and county of san francisco the san francisco arts commission and the welcome to the u.n. sunnyvale of animal by the 81 wednesday artist. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we have a number of people that want to pay tribute i'm going to ask the speakers to please speak briefly, of course with the expectation of the mayor he can speak as long as he likes. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so without further ado our honorable guests mayor edwin lee of the city and county of san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) well, everyone welcome to city the san francisco this is very special for me today because the artists one thing yee as pleased us in the front gardener with those wonderful whimsical characteristics playful and dilate full and represents the art contemporary art we want to continue supporting in your city of san francisco and now it has an international appeal let me first. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> let me first of all thing director of o the g

. >> next >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco finance committee occurring may 12, 2015, will begin shortly. >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco finance committee occurring may 12, 2015, will begin shortly. >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco finance committee occurring may 12, 2015, will begin shortly. >> good morning, today is may 12th, 2015 and, welcome to the finance committee of the san francisco county transportation authority, my name is john avalos the chair of this committee, and joined by commissioner eric mar and campos and we will be joined by other commissioners shortly, our clerk is steven, and today is committee meeting is brought to the public by sfgtv, staff, jessy larson and jonathan stockhouse and thank you for your work and, mr. clerk, could you please call the next item? >> item number one, roll call. >> avalos? >> present. >> campos in >> present. >> cohen? >> absent. >> kim? >> absent. >> mar. >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> okay, and could we call our consent calendar? >> consen

to thank mayor lee for hosting us and his leadership in san francisco and meeting the goal of insuring conicly homeless vets are housed in the city of san francisco. i just came into office 15 weeks ago and taking on the same challenge and we know we valot shorter run way to be able to meet that challenge, but it is important fortuse focus our energy and efforts because after all, our veterans risked aesk for us. and we can do better. we have over 700 homeless vets based on our last census in santsa clara county in 2013, i'm guessing the recent census will reveal we have even more homeless vets. we know the cost of living is more challenging particularly for the poor and working poor and we have to do more. that is why i'm looking forward to a renewed collaboration with the va to see how we can better break down the silocal, share information to insure services are match would the veterans for mental helt, for alcohol and substance abuse, all the many needs as we try to get more of our vets off the streets and out of the creaks and under a roof. and for us in san jose we recognize the critical need of innovation. it is the larges

and, wine was warehoused in the city of san francisco because it was temperature control. the city of san francisco has a very level temperature. it hardly goes up or down and when it goes up it's the most beautiful place in america and when it goes down it's a little chilly. so, they storted the -- stored the wine in the city and they had the capability of using it as an cooling the fire. they never realized that it was there. so one of the great ironies of the fire. yet, right across the street from the chinese laundry fire was a place where firefighter o'neil died. he was the second fatality of the san francisco fire force after dennis sullivan. so that fire did get out of control because there was no water. now the fires mt meantime in the financial district, and there were quite a few fires there. and, we're pretty much under control by the firefighters because they had systems there and they also had some water supply coming, so the idea that san francisco was absolutely without water is not true. and they -- they did a really great job in holding the fire in the fina

san francisco >> of trusty of city and county of san francisco >> con grat ulations. alex randolph. [applause] >> wow, that you can thank you so much. some of you know i'm not good with birthday parthies or event because i worry nobody would show up. i'm very grateful by the amountf support sw friend and family and see wright here in this room. good morning everyone. mr. mayor thank you so much for this incredible privilege to join my fellow trustee as on the board. i want to thank you for the strong smoret qu leadership over the last couple years for city college and all you do for pub lb education in the city. i want to recognize a fellow city college trustees here today, androshort or who scaformer trustee in the audience. other elected officials, member thofz board of supervisors and school board, but especially want to recognize and acknowledge my partner of 10 years who has been there from the beginning [inaudible] mr. mayor as a product of california community college system, i can't think of a better time to join city college board than right now. something al

ladies and gentlemen, what's important about san francisco is the talent that we need to be a world class city, not just the in california, but in the world, the global economy exist right now in classrooms across the city in san francisco. they are the boys and girls in kindergarten through classrooms that want to live in san francisco and want to raise their families in san francisco and want to be part of the infrastructure and part of the talent people in san francisco. the announcement that the mayor said today is to invest in the rainy day fund. it's critical for us because those minds are nurtured with dedicated commitment in the classroom. the rainy day fund has allowed us in the times to keep the educators and staff in schools. this is important in a plan in a fiscally responsible way when that time comes and we have methods to interact the negative effects of those down turns. i can't emphasize enough how important it is for afternoon school program and extended learning programs. we know that learning doesn't stop when learning leaves to classroom. they learn in the environment. how

san francisco ranked number 4 among the top ten city park systems. it is based on criteria how many people live within a ten- minute walk from the park and park sizes and cleanliness. oakland 11 and san jose 29. coming in at number 3 was washington, d.c. with st. paul and minneapolis tied for the number 1 spot. >>> coming up a stolen dump truck ended up in a crash. and the cleanup will take several hours. we'll tell you how it all started this morning. >>> plus. >> ktvu camera catches it and it's right on front of police who let them drive off. they have no plans to chase them down. >>> good morning, right now we're looking at the south bay commute, and you can see traffic is looking good, also i'll tell you about some of the east bay commutes where it's wet. >> lots of drizzle this morning, .06 for some. oakland clicked over to .06. we'll have an update on your thursday drizzily forecast. bulldog: get a queen serta set for just $397. save up to $300 on tempur-pedic breeze. and get up to four years interest-free financing on the entire tempur-cloud c

the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco budget sub-committee occurring may 20, 2015, will begin shortly. >> >> >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco budget sub-committee occurring may 20, 2015, will begin shortly. >> good morning, everybody, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday, may 20, 2015, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by tang and mar, and i want to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting and victor young, and clerking and we will call to order the 10:00 and 10:05 special meeting. >> do we have any announcements? >> yes, silence all cell phones and electronic devices and speaker cards and copies of documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk and items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> we are going to go through all of the item and then do the 10:05 afterwards and so if you will call item one? >> resolution requesting continued membership in the 18 county c

we are putting on a housing bound for san francisco to the tune of 250 million dollars. in a city like san francisco that might not be a lot of money, so we'll comp lment with that that with a private venture with the foundations fulaenthpist and bank to fry to mac with private funds that can accelerate the building of the housing. park squz open space are no different infrastructure necessities of the city than the transportation and businesses, than our water sewer systems, all of this works to make our city success flt. i understood that through the many goals i had that have been able to play insuch, but i know full well that if you got a good infrastructure and have parks that center och that you will take care of a lot of families and with our parks it isn't just the physical aspeblths. as challenge as it may be, it is how you program and engage the parents and families and school districts and neighbors into making sure those park represents activities that could also take care of a lot of health challenges as well as be link tooz education, links to support sw after school

city college and was at the protest yesterday that we taij staged. i am a life long learner because of a number of issues. when i first moved to san francisco in 2001 i found or 2002, i moved into the accessier neighborhood just a ways from city college and found that was the time for me to go back to school since i wasn't able to go immediately into college from high school. i want to tell you a tail of 2 city colleges. when i started in 2003 i saw a large number of diversity studies courses, african american studies, gay lesbian stud as, latino american studies and a number of different arts classes that appealed to me. when i started there i was working on my aa degree and 2 dance certificate that the college offered. i had to leave school a little while after that because of some family issues and my fathers health but when i returned last year found a lot of things changed. there was a dance major program offered there i can work tworts fwr my aa and focus more on that, but at the same time the performing arts and education center wasn't present and found that a lot of money was diverted from that. a number of diversity courses offered

item 19 unmitigated clam with the nation's local 261 versed city and county of san francisco item 20 existing litigation city and county of san francisco with the golf and recreation company and 21 the existing litigation restoring hetch hetchy and 23 as planning staff and 23 conference with the real property on marin and she and he streets in san francisco and negotiation and price in terms of apartment and the the real property on mission valley rock with the portion of the parcels and under negotiation in terms of the payment and 25 the city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas & electric 2 six the existing litigation city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas & electric and pacific gas & electric and 29 cellist litigation with pacific gas & electric and 29 existing litigation with pacific gas & electric and thirty existing litigation with pacific gas & electric and 31 cellist litigation with pacific gas & electric and we will not hear 32. >> thank you. any public comment on this items to be heard in closed session today? hearing none may i have it notation wheth

prey second street super bowl sunday and the latter one in san francisco, in fact, right adjacent to where we are you'll see the detailed the city of san francisco will be able to show case all it has to offer to millions of visitors but coming here to televisions, in fact, the bay area will show case was it has to offer that's why people are here the super bowl 50 the hosting committee will continue to groundhog increase still a few months, in fact, i look at it and the days 2 hundred and 91 days and counting down all to introduce the chairman the man that set the violation for super bowl 50 to be the most giving super bowl yet we'll talk about that, please welcome to the stage chairman daniel leary daniel (clapping.) thank you you'll for being here and thank you, ken from the beginning super bowl 50 is also been about more just a game we see super bowl 50 as a powerful catalytic for change for the entire region and that's why the occupant i opportunity to make a lasting impact on to our economy drives all decisions we make it actually go back to a phone number phone call i made to my dear friend robby i said words he said this

are a few of the bright stars that make up the con slaths of san francisco whether our a college bound person or picking up an extra skill city college will be here for you the san franciscans that voted to fund the establishment of thecologist college in 1935 and supporting this have done so they know today, the human deserve to better ourselves and provide access for every human being to climb higher is part of what san francisco is about and what this college has been about this is a tradition we continue today and represented this morning by those incredible students and faculty and staff a san francisco tradition and set of san francisco values that animated the entire can we and that's of leader pelosi thank you, thank you again for being here city college makes our community vibrate our city stronger and future brighter we're proud of that and pleased to welcome you to the first day of registration to the city college of san francisco (clapping.) okay thank you all for coming and i think that's the end of our program if anyone has any questions for any of us, please feel free we have passed tries for people as you're t

san jose where we have a deep marine layer. santa rosa in the upper 40s. hour by hour, the city of san franciscoture tops off by 60 at 2:00 p.m. we'll see some clearing then. notice the clouds next to the coast. again, a very deep marine layer there. minimal clearing along the coast. watching the showers move towards yosemite today with a chance of thunderstorms. otherwise, future track is illustrating san mateo coastline fogged up all day long. -- is showing san mateo coastline all fogged up all day long. a chance of a thunderstorm in yosemite. 60, montaray bay. our temperatures will clock in below average for this time of year. 60s, beaches. to the low 70s, maybe towards antioch, tracy, and brentwood. a slight chance of a rain shower in the east bay mountains by friday! michelle, make it a great day! >> all right, roberta. thanks! >>> a farewell special tonight to pay tribute to retiring host david letterman. we'll look at his best interviews. this one with drew barrymore. they'll look at the top lists of stupid human and pet tricks. you can watch the special at 9:30 tonight right here on kpix

agenda unless otherwise stated >> we have 2 items, the first is hearing on development of city college of san franciscois a waver of sth banner fee at loten alternative school. >> item one is recent development pertaining to city college of san francisco >> thank you. this is cosponsored by myself supervisors camp osand kim. i will give opening remark jz and my auleges if they like to give opening remark jz we'll hear presentations from the college and president [inaudible] and coalition to sieve silly college. we are hear today after over 3 years of struggle to save our san francisco city college. i wanted to first give tremendous respect sw prop tooz the coalition of students, faculty and staff and communities that have come together for several years of struggle to make sure that we save city college and we put the stories of how city college changed spoe many peoples lives, lifted people outd of poverty and really lifted thup communities with artistic organizations, creativity and political leadership ofern the years. we are also looking today at the status och city college gichben the various law

san francisco, animal care and control have a number of challenges that have been met with increased funding from the city of san francisco and new leadership and in hope that the commissioner said too, and perhaps a new shelter and that would certainly help and in the only in the animals but the public as well. and when i see san franciscan mal care and control is struggling with the public issue too, of dealing with animals, as well as the passion behind the animal lovers. >> and finding that balance, and being able to look at those circumstances and legislation that impacts that and unpacked each of those issues. and look at it from all perspective and when you look at for instance, increasing the rent and the housing available to the dog owners, or the pet owners, it is a complicated issue, and it involves not only the tenant rights issues it involves also what can you create that are fair that don't put the other people out or at risk? and so for that i think, that we could and who the stake holders are and be able to communicate with them for the legislation to appropriate to present to the board. >

capital projects and during thiz tenure made many many sig contributions to the agency and city of san francisco and the region and improving transportation for everyone. i bow i speak for everyone at the ta and for many people at other city agencies when i say lee will be very very missed once he retires, but i know he won't go far. under lees leadership the transportation authority went under many firsts [inaudible] he led the vamue for money study or business case for [inaudible] doil droiv [inaudible] the first and only p 3 on the state high way system in cl and to the yurba brena island and folsom ramps project lee led the efforts to become a builder of capital projeblths, a process that involves technical no how and vision and level headedness to deal with the obstuicals and meet execitations. lee is the rare individual that possesses [inaudible] congrat ylshzs on your many achievements within the agency. we are very grateful for your service and wish you the very best in your retirement and i don't know-why don't you add a few words and if any other colleagues would like to make comment y

. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring

we need to look at this issue across san francisco and across every single platform and no other platform aside is from other than has this data i prefer for the city and county of san francisco to go take a holistic approach to the situation and to the area of short-term rentals and scapegoating one company is not the right approach whether they've within involved or not in drafting prior piece ofs legislation i've spoken and since i've spoken with the opponents and spoken with everyone and i'll say this they've been at the table talk and willing to share adhere points of view as i've been talking to a number of short-term rentals companies and this engagement is key bottom line from my prospective we created a framework our home sharers is a part of san francisco we have car sharing and parking lot sharing and sharing as an economy as residents in n this country it's a very, very young industry and we've entertained at the board of supervisors inside of city hall we'll have to be open to reinviting them angle a more frequent based on areas of the law i have no qualms with doing it here i want to thank the planning department and identifying i'd l

city and county of san francisco. city and school district select committee meeting. the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the city and school district select committee occurring on may 25, 2015 will begin shortly. >> good afternoon and welcome to the may 28th joint city and school district select committee i'm jan kim, i'm joined by supervisors kim, and [inaudible]. i want to thank the staff at sf gov tv jennifer low and charles for filming today's meeting and making it available online and to our clerk, derek evans mr. clerk, are there any announcements. >> yes, thank you, please make sure to silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards, and files should be submit today the clerk. >> thank you, i also want to take this opportunity to announce and remind members of the public that due to budget season in june where we have found it is almost impossible to find a room to hold joint select committee meeting and because of the board of education's recess in july and the board of supervisor's recess in august, we will not be reconvening until the fourth thursda

which is done directly by the students it's mites how were you to be associated with the city college san francisco very proud of the faculty yes of the students, and all the leadership and the community support that it has is that me? nope maybe it's some pieces going into the oven (laughter) i don't know or should i say is it i did is my honor to be here with mayor ed lee we're talking about the future of going forward but we have to acknowledge we had some challenges some bumps in the road and frankly without the mayors surely great leadership some in the forefront and some behind the sequence we would and the best news of all that enrollment is where it is and has as the chancellor said higher than this time last year and growing for the students tomato it's important for the fund from the state a few principles i'd like that will be a l l e not al a few principles i'd like to support is one nomination begins in the classroom and when you see the innovative spirit of those young people learning and deliver on a product in a way that is entrepreneurial it is pretty tlifl when you see people that

the need every week folks threatened with displacement are coming out to our office in the city of san franciscoeally must act now and the proposal that hesitating pa has will significantly reduce the crisis san francisco can be proud we fought and one the city's protects but folks that are not aware of the laws that hope people at the risk of the homelessness stay in their home the hesitating pa will inform the people so they don't become homeless and this plan is based the successful fly wheel outreach with oakland they're looking at to be do a similar outreach plan our outreach workers will knock on doors in 8 of the harder neighborhood the mission and chinatown and boyer bay area and excelsior and south of market and others and we'll distribute educational materials and talk to 8 thousand folks he urge you to support of the hesitating pa for the doing business as folks to let know know and get full recommendation all of which are outlined in our hesitating pa proposal for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm jamie a social directing director i get to see over o

the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco budget sub-committee occurring may 20, 2015, will begin shortly. >> >>

she donated it to the city of san francisco and had a specification, i'm giving it to the city that willment forever of the people of the city of san francisco. it has ever since. every summer the stern grove association in san francisco rec and parks put on 10 free concerts. usually people come out at 10 in the morning it's a family affair. everybody is on the lawn with picnics and it's free. anybody can come out. it's a great way to spend a sunday. >> goes to 1-2 in the afternoon and runs until 5. [music]. thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can't see the music they hear it. i walked into the meadow several times and they don't even care. we do have literally events going on day and night. the concert association has kids days during the week. the performers come out for hundred 200 kids. now, the truckadero truck house gets rented out for we

san francisco connect program totally free. through this service has shared greater opportunity to travel the social web. it takes money. i would like to think the city of san francisco and the department of aging and adult services. we need more money to reach even more people. here is where public awareness is needed. please join us keeping connected today if you can. to find out more about this organization, go to www.san francisco healthy aging.org connector call 415-821-1003 extension one and speak to maria. we need commitment by our leaders. mayor lee and board of supervisors to continue offering this service. by the way, i have a wonderful announcement. i nominate maria job lynn to the awards and she won. i am so proud. i am just delighted. anyway, next wednesday, april 22nd, at 6:00 p.m., on kpix, channel 5, they will show the airing. i will also be included in the hearing because of my love for the kennedy. this is my love for the work for john f kennedy. this is a story about my brain injury and what the community living fund has done for me in the campaign. thank you. thank you, jackie glasson? >> good afternoon, members of the council and

san francisco. we were at a rally inside san francisco city hall where many residents voiced their frustration calling on the mayor to take action. supervisor david campos and the protesters are calling a moratorium and also a one-year halt on evictions. for many who live there, they say this top sick very emotional. >> i'm in deal little city. i can't afford san francisco where i was born and raised. it's heartbreaking. you can't be where all of your memories and feelings and love. it's difficult. >> reporter: but is putting a stop to adding more market rate housing the answer? it's being led by mike farrell and scotten wiener. they -- scott wiener. they are calling an economist to do this report in a month and come back to the supervisors so they can put it to a vote. but this has divided the city in terms of the supervisors on the topic. we were hoping to hear from supervisor farrell. we hope to hear his sound coming up on the news at 5:00 and 6:00 tonight. back to you. >> thank you. >>> fremont police are investigating a deadly crash involving a bicyclist and big rig. it happened at 8:30 on the so

your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has as every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission i've lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and san francisco. or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the meeting will come to order. good afternoon, everyone, this is the thursday april 16th, 2015, meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee of the san francisco board of supervisors and to my r

to prove you are beginning elected based on the strurlz in the city and to prove that the city of san francisco you're not representatives of africa increasing disconnected elite holding on the royalty of supply and demand that is an opportunity for to prove to the san franciscans you're not fooled by the sharing economy that appropriates the go

and protect our affordable housing in san francisco and makes sure it styles to encourage those who use their short-term rentals to scomplie with the law in the city of san francisco. >> thank you very much okay. okay members of the public remember you have two minutes please line up on this side of the chamber i'm going to call names and when you hear your name, please get in line for your cue (calling names) let's go people get in line one person is not here okay scott i know you're here gone okay. (calling names) robert please jim lazarus karen i can bring rudolph inform with you and nancy >> thank you members i appreciate the opportunity to be here robert with the intersect association again excuse me. we appreciate the complexity of that issue but we do have some comments we want to make above the internet committee generally our association that made up of the country largest internet he companies he and with the legislation you're now considering with supervisor campos proposed legislation and the two pieces we're concerned about neuron on the data sharing abundantly mandate that is an issue of privacy it is an issue that has effects and fr

the conservation san francisco -- for youth specifically, they're doing tremendous work they have evented in san francisco, they divert compost and recycling at i vents, throughout the city. will you see them at events in san francisco, sorting through the materials at the scene, they provide education for people going to events goodwill second we're year funding them they not only divert textiles from landfills, but they create local jobs something we care about deeply, also scrap is an example of keeping material out of landfill but helping teacher get access for her honor learning, which is critical. i wanted to mention a few problth projects, new this cycle there is co-op, there are a few from the organization here. it's a youth community. there is about 300 families that live there they have amazing garden, and composting but the youth will do outreach to teach about composting, that is new and fresh. we're funding recycle for change who is also in the audience, they are increasing the community of sex tile collection, some of the commissioners knows, that is one of my passions we're sending 18,000 tuns of textiles to landfill, we don't need to be doing that we need