you'll hear the opening statements including that of congressman bill cohen, freshman

i am malia cohen. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much and we have -- blessed to have our district attorney here, district attorney gas con. >> thank you reverend and mayor and malia. the essence of community is the ability to come together and have good people use the open space, and today not only are we celebrating people coming together and using this park, but also we're celebrating the fact that as a community we refuse to allow violence to define us. we as a community are coming together, neighbors, police officers, supervisors, the district attorney's office, our probation because we refuse to allow our community to be defined by the worse moment -- by a bad moment of violence, so i am very proud of being here today. this park is a wonderful place. it's a place that we want to want to make sure the community uses and we are committed to ensuring this is a safe place for all to play. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i also want to recognize rec and park for really providing so much of what you s

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum. thank you. item number 2 >> item 2 approval of the meeting of the june 24th. >> can you have is a motion to approve the june 24th meeting minutes and can we same house, same call? - you want to we'll take a roll call. >> on item - public comment. >> public comment on the minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. if you have public comment please come forward you don't need to raise your hand >> man has only the sole purpose even if existence no matter what is the position in life all pertains to the wholly mission. everywhere in time and in status thank you. >> okay is there any additional public comment on item two the minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> thank y

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> okay will you call item 7. >> approval the prop k this is an action item. >> seeing no names on the roster we'll open this up open this up for public comment any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk will you please call roll >> supervisor avalos absent supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> thank you. madam clerk call item 8 >> item 8 possible closed session for the employee evaluation. >> colleagues, we, kick this in open or closed session i know that supervisor mar and supervisor cohen will be prepared to report to the board of the personnel committee to shall we do this any member of the board wants to do it in closed session i'll put that out to the bodies. anyone have a particular view >> closed session. >> so do we need 0 motio

thank you all so much for being here and with that i am going to turn it over to supervisor cohen. >> thank you. >> good morning, everyone and having for coming out today. and so i just want to by way of background, just introduce why we are here today. the hospitality and travel industries are some of the largest industries in our city. just last year, in 2013, san francisco benefited from a record of 16.9 million visitors who spent over $9.4 billion dollars in our city on tourism-related activity and we only expect that number to continue to grow in the coming years. hotel tax revenue is up, 8.1 percent, to 607 million dollars and tourism jobs have increased to 3.8 which is a total of 76,834 jobs. and hotel room rates have also risen, 12.8 percent to an average of $207 per night. and even though we see all of this growth in the millions of dollars, being spent right here in our city. some groups are not seeing, or reaping the benefits overwhelmingly these groups have included specifically the african american community. and earlier this year, a coalition of leaders and businesses, g

. >> >> okay, before i turn this over to supervisor cohen i just want to make it clear could you silence your cell phones and could you please cut down on the talking in the background. because we can hear it and we are trying to listen, to the folks who are speaking before us. and if you have a conversation that you need to have, could you take it outside? and this is when we open it up for public comment, public comment is the time to comment, and unfortunately we may not be able to answer your questions, right away but we want to be sure that everybody has the opportunity to make public comment on this next item. thank you all so much for being here and with that i am going to turn it over to supervisor cohen. >> thank you. >> good morning, everyone and having for coming out today. and so i just want to by way of background, just introduce why we are here today. the hospitality and travel industries are some of the largest industries in our city. just last year, in 2013, san francisco benefited from a record of 16.9 million visitors who spent over $9.4 billion dollars in our city on t

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> thank you item number 3. >> item 3 the chairs report an informational item. >> i'll be providing this report on behalf of the supervisor avalos. fall first of all, thank you to the board of supervisors for unanimously voting to place the $500 million for transportation on the ballot it is tremendously important to invest in the transportation for all modes of transportation across the city is will learning four or five times the value for recreational fined for example, the metropolitan transportation committee will consider exploring the new local transportation revenues that includes the transportation one day the restoration of the vehicle license fee we hope will go into the ballot in 2016 those recreational and state partnerships will help with the investment that is necessary to move our city forward. speaking of partnerships thank you to the california transportation state bryan kelly for leading the transportation and calt

. >> william cohen, 1974, a republican member of the house judiciary committee. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for being with us on cspan's 3 american history tonight. tv 8:00 eastern time sunday evening we will continue our look at house judiciary committ committee. our coverage of the 40th anniversary of water gate continues including debate over article two which charge nixon of abuse with power. you will also hear from the forrer director of the library and museum and explains how the committee's vote affecting our understanding of presidential power today. american ht, water gate 40 years later. saturday noon, a live call in program with author and judgist john feral on nixon's life and water gate skapdal that ended his presidency. this weekend on cspan 3's american history tv. 40 years ago in july, the house judiciary committee began hearings to consider articles of impeachment against president nixon. up next a selection of opening statements including bawilliam cohen and the committee chairman. first a brief conversation with william cohen. he

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are 11 i's arrest that the motion is approved call the next two items >> item 49 is a public hearing of persons interested in a revolution approving on amendment to the contract between the department of public health and the san francisco aids to expend the contract through 2016 not to exceed $14.7 million. okay. at this time we're going to open this hearing let me ask the department of public health please present us what this hearing is regarding >> good afternoon. i'm john we would like to thank you, thank you for the opportunity to extend this contract with the san francisco aids foundation. this contract is the being extend for population that are disprorpgs effected that i hiv and provides 12 thousand tests for men who have sex with men and african-american projects that includes the stonewall project for the clients with substance abuse problems as well as a special project within the castro for that. we hope that you'll approve that very important passage of services >>

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> okay. that motion is approved. item number 9 >> introduction of new items. >> actually before we get there do we need public comment on item 8. >> okay with that, should we resend that vote and do public comment? okay. there's no public currently in the board chambers is there any public comment on that item on item 8 okay. seeing none we'll close. and do we need to resend that vote and revote we don't need to? okay item 9 a introductions of new items this is an informational item >> colleagues are there any introductions of new items. seeing none, is there any public comment on item 9 seen none, public comment is closed. . madam clerk item 10 >> general public comment. is there any general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed madam clerk number 11 adjournment >> we're adjourned thank you very good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the special meeting of the san francisco

that all of you are anxious to provide feedback with this hearing, and i want to thank, supervisor cohen for her leadership on this matter, this is definitely very important issue, and i know that there is a number of leaders here from san francisco, black chamber of commerce, and the folks from sftravel, and working together, and i think that we could make sure that the industry is opening its doors to the african americans for employment opportunities and other things that exist, all over. and thanks, for the leadership and i am looking forward to the presentation, and looking forward to the feedback on how we can work together to make this city more open and inclusive to the african american, and president chiu, would you like to say a few words >> thank you. >> i also want to say that i am happy and i want to thank supervisor cohen for calling this hearing, this is actually a topic that we have discussed a number of times over the past year. my district includes our major tourism industries and supervisor said, we talking about an over 16 million tourists every year and 9 billion wor

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supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. mr. president, all members are present >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. colleagues, we have meeting minutes from june 24th as well as june 23rd and 25th do i hear a motion to approve the minutes wksz those are approved >> madam clerk that any communications. >> none. >> consent are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. arrest roll call >> supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are 11 i's >> those resolutions are adapted item 3. >> an ordinance to authorize the department of public health to enter into operating leases for equipment. >> colleagues, same house, sa

. >> chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. we are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. and we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of african americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has been a cross racial coalition, and we think that it is a model secondly for that, that it is across a group of stake holders and who are outside of the government. and that have successfully implemented or started the implementation activities for something that is persist ent in the city. and so, we will move to the presentation. and the general structure that supervisor cohen mentioned is that i want to give the different information on the contributers in the background and we will give a little bit of a supervisor breed in particular, less of the data and so we

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. no. supervisor kim. there are 7 i's and 4 nos per the resolution it adapted and madam clerk could you read our end memoriams. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of of the president chiu ms. jane kim write and supervisor kim for the late mr. mark anthony >> with that, i want to thank sfgovtv for their coverage with mel and tholg and with that colleagues wish everyone a wonderful recess and next open september 2nd michelle's. there's no further business. . ladies and gentlemen, we're adjourned.