offers that no other city could offer. and the fact that jeff bezos has homes in both new york city and d.c., that ish what people were saying at the beginning about motivating the decision. i think a corporate executive finds himself line to a given city very often. rather than staying in a hotel constantly, he says why not go ahead and build a home in the city and have a second home? it is a signal of the company getting ready to expand into the city. host: if you are a politician, a mayor or governor, and the state next eu is offering all of these incentives that you know you should, how do you explain it to your constituents? what is the excavation they can give? they are politicians. they need to get votes. how would you say they should explain it to their voters that this is why we are not trying to drop his company hereby offering them incentives? -- draw this company here by offering them incentives? they find thatk, is the reason why politicians offer these subsidies. if they don't work, why would you do them? pol

but on working people in this city and in fact on this city as a whole.e here today. we're here to tell our stories. we're here to tell you about why workers have taken this step. why we're out on strike. what this strike means to us. what it means when we say one job should be enough. at the end of the day, when you boil it all down, to its real core. when you think about those words. one job should be enough. it really is a modest demand and it's something that marriott can achieve today. we go back to the table with this company here in san francisco on november 12th. we know we're gathering stanley cup or the and we're stronger by the day. we will last one daylonger than the marriott corporation. with the support of this board and the city and the mayor, we know we're going to win this fight. i can't say it any better than the strikers themselves many of with that i'll turn it back to the chair. you will hear testimony today directly firsthand from striking workers that will really tell the story of what this campaign is about. i thank you. [applause]

it says we believe in free city because city college is fun. our judy goodman, she's the best teacher in the world, and i'd like to say maya scott, you know her, maya scott, she's the teacher. she's from the city college. i do. i like city college a lot. i like it. no, i think that's it. take care. love you. yeah, love you, too. bye. >> good morning, supervisors, and welcome, supervisor stefani. my name is sue ann linder, and i'm a professor in social science. i first came to city college in 1977, and i came back as an older adult to transition from nursing to teaching history. i'm devoted to student success. recently, the new york state legislature passed a bill for $7.5 billion to implement free state and city schools. we don't have that option because of prop 13. we must do a set-aside here, and this is not a set aside, it's a payment forward for real student and adult success in san francisco and huge social and economic impact. thank you so much for your time. >> hi. monica collins. i did work at city college for a long time. i went there

officials started rethinking things in the cities, and in city governments. it's a big discussion in many urban areas today all over the world -- the question of how we can get people to enjoy riding bikes. reporter: most roads in beijing have bike lanes like this. we are going to look at what condition they are. this one is nice and wide, and pretty comfortable to ride on. even if there are a couple of obstacles along the way. i just manage to squeeze past one car making a turn. and the is anoth issue.. o many vehicles stop o or park on the b bike path. then you h have to swerve into e car lane. so a less than perfect situation. and ere are otr negative aspects to bike sharing -- like the numberof rental bikes clutteng u up streets and sidewalks. authorities now often just pile them up onto what look like scrap heaps. the bikes the city administration has cleared are now w unloaded herere, on te fringes of the capital. every major chinese city has bicycle cemeteries like this one.e. the e remaining rental companis have to take back some of them. nobody knono

and flint was limb the most segregated city in the north and the most segregated city nationwide. the boundaries were rigidly kept, and as people were coming to the city for well-paying general mothers job, it became an increasingly tense situation. what i try to do in the book is show how our legacy of infrastructure and equality dates back to the days when we literally decided that some neighborhoods were going to be worth less, not worth investment, not worth the same level of public services or lending or any of that because of people's race and ethnicity. even when we have gotten the fair housing laws and a number of other civil rights laws the pattern is still with us plainly, and is -- with when we don't reckon with that we end up with life -- or life or death stakes like we saw with the water crietsz. >> peter: so there's seg ruigation, what else. >> i would say like the disinvestment of the city in favor of its outskirts communities, the suburbers. and this is a pattern nationwide with the rise of building up suburbs, building up highways, shopping malls, the urban policy

city. >> it is. >> can you tell us a little bit about what we might be seeing? 1 we are just coming -- >> we are just coming out of city hall, and we will be heading towards the asu campus, arizona state university. the one nice thing about being at this campus, it will be on your immediate left. >> ok. >> the teacher-student ratio is phenomenal. the students that come here really get a lot of one-on-one tutelage and have really enjoyed it. as you can see the sign there, is lake havasu city, and asu headquartered in tempe. they have wanted to expand throughout the state and we were thrilled that they came to lake havasu city. >> why did they choose lake havasu city? >> the $2 million didn't hurt, but i think they wanted to go beyond the maricopa county area, which is central of the state. here we are in northwest arizona, and we have neighbors that are about 60 miles away. so i think after they looked at the city and how beautiful it is, it just seemed like a natural fit. we are hoping they

known for designing disneyland to help him design the city which would be havasu city. if you look at the street map you can tell somebody with a did that imagination because it looks like a bowl of thrown at a wall but they are designed so everybody had a view of the lake. that is the story behind our map. and he bought the land decided that it would be a great live, he have people came up with the fantastic idea purchasing airplanes, flying lake havasu free of charge to look-- future it purchase sites. he showed people how beautiful a would be if they were in place like there say in february with two feet of snow on the ground. >> lake havasu is a community you should look into right now to you.can with no cost you are invited to take a flying both to lake havasu city husband and wife and sincerely the ested guest of developer. you will fly free on a giant airliner.e ou will enjoy fine meals and accommodations and you will cruise beautiful lake havasu. ou will enjoy a personally conducted private tour of the city and london bridge development area. now to fly to the l

across the city. the reality is some projects are at different phases in their life in terms of development process and if you have done tremendous scrutiny, you have pushed the numbers to the point where you can push them and you have asked everyone to show their books. i know you have. at the end of the day, the question becomes do you fundamentally want to see development? do you want to see more affordable housing? or do you want to zero? i think that, it is not always that clear. at some point, projects can't move forward if you ask them to do too much. this body has, in the past, worked on and extracted community benefits and/or higher levels of inclusionary housing from developments that we know will never get built this is just increased dramatically over the last five years. they are continuing to go up. at some point, we will not see any development and i know that some people would prefer that i know that this housing crisis in this city is real and the choice between a significant amount o

to the city go to city college and are spent wisely. they are spent wisely. we have had many discussions about how to make sure that every single penny that the city gives that city college spends in those invoices that we get are justified. the funding of this thing right now is going well. it is being served by everybody and i definitely support this. i also support supervisor yi's moved to make it a 20 year program. it should be unstoppable because of the advantages you've heard. i can't speak anymore beautifully as you have heard today here. i support it all. thank you. >> good afternoon again. i spoke before you all two years ago after the voters of san francisco past prop w. i voted for that. you kept your promise. now i support locking in that promise with the charter amendment. i say if a program is successful it helps the diverse community in the city in an extremely equitable manner we should continue its. given the realities we live in now, the only people who oppose this amendment are republicans. do not want to be -- not be a republican swamp mon

outside the city. they explained this year because of construction, that polling place would not be used and they would move the single polling place for all of dodge city to another location, one that is completely outside the city. to the everlasting frustration of local officials, the decision to tell dodge city residents that to vote they had to literally get out of dodge, that hasn't gone over well, and it's not come off as a purely logistical decision. the county clerk announced in late september that she was moving the polling location out of dodge city. within days, the aclu of kansas called her up to say this is a problem. they offered immediately to work with her to try to fix it, to open more polling locations in dodge city that would be more able to accommodate dodge city voters. then it emerged that the county clerk had given out the wrong address for the new polling place to hundreds of people who had newly registered to vote for the first time in the county this year. really? on top of e

the city for over ten years. we would like to replicate the success of the model that we have for city build into this preapprenticeship training. so we would like to focus on the key six components of the city grow training program which will be focused on outreach and to decode meant which would help our community-based organizations to conduct the recruitment strategy to help disadvantaged people to gain entry into the program and as it is outlined in the cannabis section and the police code. and secondly the community-based organizations will be conducting intake and assessment strategies which will help us to assess individuals and get them entry into the program. we will be recruiting candidates in the job readiness program which will be an intensive 1-2 week training program which will focus on the major components of the cannabis industry overview. clear explanations and career pathways, life skills caps off scale developed in job readiness and job skills. later on we'll be conducting a process in combina

of a rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking to me that you would different that's. i think that comes to you it comes to your mind in describing moscow because. urban improvements i said do not live it is not limited to the city center in fact over the last year or so they have moved to the suburbs i mean i live in the suburbs and all of the four parks around my house have been renovated to be very active participation of local residents the major improvement in terms of the playgrounds and other public spaces what makes you believe that it's all about the reach muscovites well i mean

and then, also, free city college. so we're going to actually have a large community hub going on in the fillmore heritage, and i'm excited about that because that will get people ready for this development -- these developments coming through the western addition, that they can apply and actually get this affordable housing. if anyone has any questions, i'm ready to answer those. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. colleagues, questions, comments? all right. seeing none, would planning like to make another presentation? okay. let's go to public comment on item 2. any members of the public wishing to speak on item 2, please come on up. >> good afternoon, chair tang and members of the land use committee. my name is gus martinez -- first of all, i just want to acknowledge that it was affordable diviz who initially requested this legislation, and we are very happy to see it moving forward. we did have concerns that we expressed last hearing, and i kind of want to summarize our concerns. so we request the following am

the city of my salute meal read between the city once again next year. but it's really it's way to achieving so much more than it's enabled to it's building a sustainable future. now it's only a matter of the imagination how we used to give the recycling to the g. used our next story highlights just that a small team of. mental enthusiastic benevolence has found a way to prevent plastic beast from flowing into the open sea by installing traps in the hobby since it's rotterdam but what's even better is these created a floating park with the wind speed collected in these traps. this is a manmade floating island beside a disused wharf in the dutch city of rest a dam and it's not just humans that find it appealing. it really works like a magnet for all these animals which have been already in the port but didn't ever really space to go to go see around it's all brick steel and concrete seed out of this is their first actual green structure within this area and all the fish and birds and all the different government animals they come here. what makes this flo

ricky: 'cause there is--here in this city, man 'cause this is the city, man.keep steppin' over it. don't keep talkin' about what it is and it ain't. because it's a beautiful place, man, and it's a beautiful people. bigad: iou ricky: and it can be, and it will be. bigad: so, what are you seeing on the streets of san francisco? we wanna hear from you.ed or just use the #weinvestigate. announcer: next, we investigate how much money the oil and gas industry is giving to politicians in green california. four years ago, we rejected marshall tuck and his billionaire backers for superintendent of public instruction. but they're back. the corporate billionaires and their handpicked candidate, former wall street banker marshall tuck. tuck's billionaires have spent over $25 million distorting tony thurmond's outstanding record on education. all because they know tuck shares their agenda: diverting funds from our public schools into their corporate charter schools. the same agenda as trump and betsy devos. protect our public schools. say no, again, to marshall tuck. prote

city ande about the other stops on our tour at c-span.org/cities tour. tv, allamerican history weekend every weekend on c-span3. in 1979 c-span was created by america's cable television company. we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy offense -- policy events. up next on american history tv, michael cassut talks about his book, "the astronaut maker: how one mysterious engineer ran human spaceflight for a generation." the mysterious engineer is george abbey, who had a career at the space agency and was in charge of selecting astronauts between 1978 and 1987. rising to director, he headed a diversity initiative that led to women and minorities going into space. vroman's bookstore posted this events. -- posted this events. >> good evening and welcome. i am your host for tonight. before we begin, i would like folks to please silence your cell phones. thank you all for joining us for the discussion and signing of michael cassut's latest book. tonight, we have c-span recording the talk. we

across the city. the families that i work with and represent have cars because they have to have cars. not because they want to cars. but to be able to get from the presidio at 11:00 am and then turn right around and get to the sunset at 1:00 pm, given soccer game schedules, whatever activities you are doing with your children, that is on a saturday. there is absolutely no way i could get to my children's soccer game without a car. that is just the truth. because of the proximity of the way the schedules work. that is the absolute truth. i wish there were a way i could do that. that doesn't mean that minimum parking requirements have anything to do with that. i understand you would say that having less cars would provide for less traffic and then you could -- but the point is, the people i represented my part of town have cars. you're having a parking summit this thursday because we are going to forward the conversation about limiting the number of -- we want to have residential permits and have a rea

we have history in this city. we can directly trace the lgbt civil rights movement back to the corner of turk and taylor where in 1966, the riots was the first documented collective uprising of lgbt individuals in the country. [applause] >> the riots recently inspired the founding of the transgendered cultural district. the first officially recognized transgendered district in this country. [applause] >> it's important that we remember this history. and that we consider how it impacts us today. the tenderloin is still has the highest concentration of trends -- transgender folks in san francisco. this is changing with the tide of new development. the transgendered cultural district was created not just as a way of preserving the importance of the legacy of the tenderloin, but also as a mechanism to push back against the displacement of the transgendered community. it was created to be an advocate to serve as a resource and a safe space. it is has been -- it has been my honor to present the district thus far along w

i find in city after city can i go over 12 cities, denver and new york city and minneapolis and boulder in san diego and los angeles, san francisco. the story is often the same, and begin a look at the audience and i'm a boomer myself as i have to confess, the boomer homeowners who bought when thingss are chep often are preventing new housing from being built in their neighborhoods, thereby, pricing at millennials. also making climate change worth because c when we say great come we don't want any apartment still in her neighborhood, building up the suburbs, those folks driving greater greenhouse gas emissions and that's not sustainable. so beingsa and of our middles is more than driving a priest or recycling. young have to let housing occurn your neighborhood. that's what i talk about in my book. just to give you a flavor because her theme is about tech, have people seeing the oracle facility in riverfront, lakefront? dode you know what used to be there, were 244 low income family housing units, heavily latino families to we always say in austin we want to keep diversity. wen had diver

i found in city after city the story is often the same. i am a boomer myself. the homeowners who bought when things were cheap often are preventing new housing from being built in their neighborhoods. thereby pricing out millenials. also making climate change worse. those folks drive in creating greenhouse gas emissions and that is not sustainable. sabine and environmentalists is more than driving a previous in recycling. that is what i talk about in my book. and just to give you a flavor because our theme is about tech. had people seen the oracle facility in riverside. what used to be there. heavily lieutenant. we always say in austin we want to keep diversity. we head at their but right near the lake and they can walk down. you are all being evicted. didn't say why. he affected all of them. demolish the building. built new luxury apartments and then it's announced oracle is coming. ceo is here for four hours. there used to be 244 family units. i talk about in the book. we need to create opportunities for them. there is no question but you have to provide the

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.

it is not the city i once loved. i have been a city worker since 2013 and i have witnessed firsthand how my black colleagues are bypassed for promotions. i have served clients who are clearly not getting the effective and meaningful service they deserve from the staff promoted and giving those vital jobs. not only is this an employee probe of problem, this is impacting the vulnerable san franciscans we are supposed to serve. my agency acts more like it is a career ladder a stepping stone for employees rather than an agency to provide vital services my union is clearly demonstrating the facts to demonstrate the systemic racism that is occurring. this is a city that constantly is condoning the use of the n-word. there is no way this is acceptable. not only do the racist get away with it, their victims are retaliated against. are a city is paying out lawsuits rather than doing what is right in the first place. finally, there is the g. a. r. e. inequity initiative which my agency treats like a joke. they handpicked peopl

in many places in the soviet cities and in certain the cities which were very green which were which were full of life which were full of a kind of egalitarian publicness that actually is missing from those cities today well if you haven't been to moscow off of the soviet period but you worked a lot in moscow all fired today how what terms would you use to describe this city well i mean i suppose the main trend in moscow in the last two decades. certainly has been has been the increasing of inequalities in the city has been has been the sort of rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking

the city can also be a city where its access to transit and transit performance is subpar. so this ordinance addresses those directly. what it does is makes sure as big development occurs, hopefully we make our streets and sidewalks, transit access accessibility for seniors, pedestrians, people with disabilities, etc., we make those better and at least don't make them worse. so we think closing the loopholes, some very large projects that we're able to flip through doing no improvements and also exempting some small projects. and small residential projects won't be required. we think that is right-sizing the current right. requirements. we like the emphasis on improved crossings as well. section 155-r, same thing. we piecemeal extended these curb cut restrictions along various streets. this does all streets of a specific type. the most important transit systems and the most important walking and parking streets in the city should be street where is we want to minimize the curb cuts. it protects them in the same way. clearly exempts them on the streets from minimum parking r

status as the cleanest city in the country. but above them is what i got on my suv was given the cleanest city award by the government. beaumont on corn and then the game called two thousand and seventeen and this. has been a while there i don't know that i got a whole administration all these all of us are trying very hard to go back to number one of them but from our point of now favor a feel. for the city traditionally you persist with hygiene this what sort of what the annual friendliness index is a big deal a survey of the tracks indian cities based on the level of sanitation and facilities for beast management. the want on my soon to be asking us to develop countries of the world with on. my sous more little cleanliness goes beyond efficient collection of garbage. combining traditional methods of segregation with modern processing blonds the city has been pushing fizzy to waste could be sent to landfills. one thing is for sure it has to be dealt with at every level right trauma many mycroft a small kitchen. right up to a

he's a historian who grew up in the city. he says was built by the a muslim dynasty that set up an empire in the indian subcontinent in the sixteenth century signs of classic islamic architecture everywhere didn't want to but. once they started building the city the name it flies about in i found its way from iran and then it flies about half the city in iran to preserve those memories of. this historic name however it is no more. has now been renamed local hindu nationalist government. for residents like maybe this change is an attempt to erase the city's islamic past. maybe also runs a bilingual weekly in hindi and or do a nod to the city's. you know religious tensions on the surface in two thousand and twelve riots broke out between the city's hindus and muslims the newspaper's office was ransacked and it stopped publishing for a month. the mosque next door was attacked as well for the recent dreaming of the city the fragile peace between hindus and muslims. this is a hatred for one community effort to raise the identity o

how would you want your city to be represent. >> the city just has a vibe to it that people still comeperience, and the memphis vibe is just -- there's a spirit in memphis that just lives here and you feel different here than you do anywhere else. >> we're over e overlooking jounce memphis and c-span is learn bought the literary scene. we speak about one of the most famous tourist attractions, biehl street. >> biehl street was what was going on in the african-american community, into the 40s and 50s while the cotton carnival was take playing in the white community, with the queens and all of this and the kings, and the carnival it's. to celebrate cotton. from the mid-1930s you had what starts as the cottonmaker's fiesta and then becomes the jubilee, for the african-american community. so in a sense, that's how the two over the issue of cotton is celebrating, how is it coming together, but on a personal level, what this meant was that for my entire growing up period, i knew beale street as the place you went for things like the cottonmakers jubilee, the carnival side of it, or where you

over the next two or three years , we are in the southeast of the city in the western part of the city, richmond and parts of richmond have low canopy. will be concentrating primarily on those areas. that is an important thing to do and like the plan that we have for the maintenance, within four years we can start moving out and planting all throughout. one of the great sadness is that i have in proper e. is we did not put enough money for planting trees and care for trees around schools. we were actually thinking of a parcel tax at that point. we were hyper aware of the cost. and when it turned into -- we had taken a pause and put some more money in for school trees. i want to move into the last part of that great conversation when you are asking how much money do we need to continue to grow the urban forest. it is about $12 million. i am working very closely with the bureau of urban forestry and talking to major corporations. there is also not only carbon credits but a new urban forest credit that we want to give to major corporations because if we look at a street tree, he does not

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

to be here, in front of city hall, in the heart of our city, it's kind of a dream, right?cited to be partnered with everybody on this project. super excited about the alignment of vision and how perfectly, you know, our cafe being right here on this corner lines up with our community for food. i saw the impact we had on our community. that block, when i took it over, had storefronts that were covered with metal grates. we took those grates down, and all of a sudden, we saw things happen. 300 jobs are created in that 1800 block of eighth street. things had happening in the divisadero, and that's why i'm excited to be here now. that's the power of good food. it brings people today. it slows us down, it allows us to communicate -- except when your mouth is full, right? i'm excited to feed kids, to partner with this library with the program that we're going to have with the main library. we're going to continue working with the same businesses that we've worked with the same dozen years in this community, but we can't do it alone. we need you to come back tomorrow, come back t

second in the city they are hunters a few to. see. on the other side of berlin and the tear pocket zoo leon bottle is looking for a hedgehog nests he's a biologist at the life institute for a zoo and wildlife research. going to home. when eager to make use of this tree trunk but he's not here at least. not in the third nest. hedgehogs go out at night and sleep all day but as we've just seen not always in the same place. and there are more hedgehogs in cities than in the country that's because i gardens and parks offer great natural habitats. the project he's working on has about how hedgehogs bats wars record moons and other wild animals live in cities. not the ones in zuma enclosures but those living free. like it's in for one of our aims is to inform the public about the animals that might be living in their gardens and to encourage them to leave the creatures a little space and leave gaps in their fences so animals can come and go. that we can that's important if certain species are to survive what many people don't realize is that

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the city. and we used all of that to present the initial design concept. and what we did was in addition to kind of doing that initial research is we did send out 156 surveys to all of the legacy business programs that were currently accepted into the program. that was back in february 2018, and we asked, you know, a series of 11 questions. i'm not going to go through all of them, but the main goal was to really understand the uniqueness that these businesses provided to the city and how they kind of affected what we were trying to develop and how to help represent these businesses because they're so diverse and so unique. i mean, even the three businesses that were shared today are, you know, very diverse businesses. it's not all just one type of business, so that was a really unique challenge that we had to over come and figure out, how to represent all of these businesses. some of the really great responses we got is that, one, a lot of the businesses -- every business said that they really

the city of berkley had more. san diego had dozens of them and i tred to figure out why was san francisco behind. and the answer actually was because the state law didn't think about places like san francisco, where we had mixed-use neighborhoods. the vibrant communities of polk street, north beach, and so we had to create our own law. that became article 15 of our business and tax regulation code. that began, what has spread all over san francisco. now let me say, it is very rare that people come together to celebrate the fact that they all voted to raise their taxes. that is exactly what we are doing today. it stays in the community. it does not mean a diminishment of city services. it's services on top. i am very bullish on polk street. it is remarkably a vibrant community. i want to salute the lower polk neighbors and the lower polk c.b.d. which was at the forefront, that gave suzanne and the steering committee the vision that the c.b.d. to be extended in a northerly manner. there's going to be an economy of s