i'm an organizer at the central city sro collaborative. this letter is addressed to commissioner sugaya. on behalf of the central city sro collaborative, we are willing to accept your apology, but on one condition -- you need to take a tour of the tenderloin neighborhood, which is something you address when you gave the comment. it will be led by a collaborative tenant organizer and will provide a view of our neighborhood from the perspective of some of us who live here. when we attended last thursday's hearing on the request for conditional use authorization to sell beer and wine from the grocery store, we expected that some on the commission would vote to approve their application, despite our strong objections, but we never expected you to insult our community by suggesting the operator sell drugs from his store in order to make ends meet. life is a struggle in this neighborhood. many of us live well below the poverty line, struggle with our mental health or substance abuse and have been victims of violence in the past, but we are tryin

i'm an organizer with the mission sor collaborative. we go into hotels animistiin the emission fees for five days a week. we have lots of useful, to our office who have been above. i had bed bugs in 2008 and the apartment i live in. they both have become a huge problem in san francisco. it has become such a problem that there's a lot of information going around about it. some of it is helpful. some of it

from the to the housing initiative about our efforts and the sro collaborative briefly? just to point out that they have -- how many inspectors do you have? two. as is often the case, we are the eyes out in the world with our programs and our employees, so thank you. commissioner murphy: commissioner walter, we will have questions for staff. >> thank you, chief housing inspector. the issue of bedbugs has been in the san francisco housing code for the last 30 years. it appears in chapter 10, which is a regurgitation of state law, which defines what a substandard building is, and it is also chapter 13 of the housing code. it is referred to as insect infection, vermin, and bedbugs. all that has been in that code for many years, probably since it separated from the health code back in the early 1960's, and when the division was separated in the early 1970's or actually even before that -- commissioner murphy: can i ask a question? >> dealing with that issue prior. commissioner murphy: when was that code? >> the housing code became a standalone code in 1963. that is when the

i'm a member of the sor collaborative. i do not have or have not had bedbugs. the issue has come up in my dwelling place. some of the things that i have experienced -- they will almost demand we signed our rights away. they will collect our personal stuff. they will return some of it. at their discretion, they will discard whatever they think -- i do not know what it is. i do not understand that. and then the way that management is harassing us as the attendanctenants -- we do not ud things. it is like to use a big hammer. they just knocked us out of the box. the individuals that are doing the treatment, they really need to be trained. they alleged that i had bed bugs. they told me to give them property that they were going to treat and they would move me into another unit. when they moved me into another unit, they took 30% of my stuff and moved into the other unit without treatment. i do not understand that. something needs to be done. thank you. president murphy: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am a certified online researcher, in addition to a profess

we've had long conversations about how we can build a strong collaborative. it was in the course of that conversation, with his unique appreciation of the importance and understanding of how to get it done that the decision was made. i have no idea if he was interested. he did not seek this job. he did not even know he was being auditions. we were there talking. this will be the end of my private conversation -- publicly, at least. i said, "what about you?" he said, "are you serious?" i said, "unless you can come up with some other names." as good as those names are in your recommendations, keep thinking. i said, "you can keep thinking until about 5:00 p.m. tonight." i said, "think quickly. he thought about it. i asked steve to call the chief. i said, "steve, i want to know he is interested because i need to make a decision this evening." this was last night. he said, "i think he is." we processed this. you did not know this. our police chief happens to be a lawyer. his experience is quite unique. he could talk about that a little bit more. a member of the ca

the ultimate determination, this was a different type of collaborative effort. the decision was ultimately mind. i have spent a great deal of time interviewing people formally and informally. and thinking through what policiequalities would make forn outstanding district attorney. no greater counsel than the current attorney general, kamala harris, herself. i've known her well before both of us were not elected office. we have had a unique relationship where we are quite honest with one another, perhaps above and beyond the normal course of what one would call protocol. we had a good back and forth over the last few months about the bush a thought would be outstanding and what kind of qualities she was looking for -- about what she thought would be outstanding. i had the privilege of including many of you, including many of the people better up here today to counsel me on this process as well. yesterday, the entire day was spent going through the finer points and asking questions back-and-forth of some of the candidates. there are probably six or seven people th

i'm an organizer with the mission sor collaborative. we go into hotels animistiin the emission fees for five days a week. we have lots of useful, to our office who have been above. i had bed bugs in 2008 and the apartment i live in. they both have become a huge problem in san francisco. it has become such a problem that there's a lot of information going around about it. some of it is helpful. some of it is rumors. i've heard all kinds of untrue statements masquerading as theffacts. i feel like there needs to be some real investigation into the issue of bedbugs. beyond that, the list of recommendations that my co- worker passed out, i want to explain those. those came up as a result of a community meeting in which we invited tenants and interested people to come and give their thoughts and experiences on what has worked and what has not worked. we do not have somebody here who will cover every point, so i encourage everyone to take a look at this. i'm more than happy to go over any questions that people have on what is on that sheet. th

we have the central city collaborative, and those who have permission. i think that is an improvement. >> it is hard to know whether it is sufficient or insufficient if we do not know how it is being used. my second question is -- commissioner walker: maybe we get here from the sro collaborative at some point. commissioner mar: my second question is for the regulations you have passing out to the tenants. are those in multiple languages? >> yes, they are. commissioner mar: ok, thank you. commissioner hechanova: thank you for your presentation. it was very insightful. it seems like infestation is indiscriminate because it is both public and private sectors of the hotel industry and even on to private homes. >> yes. commissioner mar: it seems to me that compliance might be always vulnerable based on whether they received notification of violation on the public category of the hotel room, that it only serves as an action item, meaning that they need to resolve that category of compliance. but it also makes the compliants boulder will based on the infestatio

this has resulted in new cross- cultural collaborations'. >> one of the extraordinary things is thatt really only happens here in the san francisco bay area. all of the dancers that we are presented -- presenting are from the area. they have full-time jobs and they spend their weekends nurturing their passion to sustain these extraordinary dance forms from around the world. the audience cannot help but be inspired. >> this year, the festival will feature a special collaboration that celebrates the mexican bicentennial and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the mexican revolution. >> one of the great area biographers has stepped out of that role and we asked them to create a special work working with 6 x ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in comm

this is a collaborative efforts from the giants and black aces. it's being held throughout the city. we are connected with pop warner here in san francisco that do football and cheerleading. we will be having alive and free. it's going to kind of be like i hate sara marshall. how many folks so that? it was all over. anywhere you saw it, you saw it. we have to create a culture where we won't accept that. >> you have listed a lot of things going on. where are we going to look to see when its going to start? where can we look to see this is going to start here. we can hold us accountable. >> certainly, so our intention is we are developing a summer resource guide. we will be giving to the community conveners and community builders. and with the san francisco housing authority. these will be saturated. it will be on the msclb website. can you call 211, which is houses all the summer resources. >> it's at the printer. >> when can we expect it to be out? >> in the next few weeks >> can you give us one start date. let's say one particular activity that a

we do fund van collaboratives. but really having a system in san francisco, it not only gets them safely, we could design it for san francisco and it can go to the every neighborhood and go from neighborhood to neighborhood. that's something i'm interested in looking at. it would provide an alternative. if you tell the mayor it's going to be a green us. they make peek his interest. i am interested to see what people think about this. is this something the children's fund. we can do a pool. how much of you believe that is a problem? people having transportation to your services? >> all right. so i will take that as a 92 percent rule. >> thank you. >> i would like to ask, thank you very much, margaret, that was great. i would like to ask principle dierck about an experience at his school when i young person saw another person being victimized and actually a group of young adults were stealing school binders and he was afraid she was going to be victimized. how do you work collaboratively with schools, >> i have 2 sto

there are major challenges but actually with the right approach in and the right collaborative approach many of these challenges can be addressed before they become major crises the other thing i'd like to say those who spent the last few minutes talking about the problems but actually there's tremendous opportunities in the world today ices are higher because actually incomes are higher across the world and there's more people who actually have money to buy food and that's one of the reasons that food prices are going up the same thing with fuel prices so what we want to focus on dealing with discharges and risks because we want to avoid crisis we also should look at them as opening doors to a whole new set of economic opportunities for people around the world i mean if we actually managed to work together so these crazy these these risks don't become crisis we could see a new period of sustained economic growth a similar to or even better than we saw in the last decade. this here is the russian president has decided to join their meeting in dallas well this is a very important sign of

i think that might be the sor collaboratives.

i think that might be the sor collaboratives.aybe get our staff or somebody from housing and maybe somebody from the task force to be there so that we all work together. >> thank you. that occurred to me, as well. any of the supervisors are invited to come to this to be able -- there's a lot of good work that goes on there. there are property owner representatives, city agencies, and collaboratives, and tenants. a lot of people regularly attend that. commissioner walker: great. president murphy: [inaudible] that is something our director should do. commissioner walker: that is why they're here. >> i would like to make a comment. i would like to direct this to the department of public health, if i may. i think the bedbugs issue -- it's safe to say that it is a citywide issue. we are all very concerned. i also think it's safe to say that the entire city is probably looking for the department of public health's lead on this issue. certainly, our department and other departments, like dpw, and maybe even the department of environment

pauperize is considered collaboration, collaboration is the -- compromise is considered collaboration, collaboration is the first cousin to treason. you will find that out on the debt ceiling. jeff a flake of arizona is as committed to cutting the budget as anyone i've ever known in washington. there is going to be a helluva fight. >> the devil is in the details. everybody says, oh, yeah, cut the budget, we ought to have more affordable health care. but what you said -- but when you get into what is going to be cut, there will be a lot of screaming and i suspect a lack of success in doing much of the job. especially the focus on discretionary spending, a relatively small part of the budget. >> a minute ago we heard a congressman talk about the "job- killing health care act." job-killing is attached to everything the democrats like, apparently. on friday we heard the on implement it is 9.4%. -- heard on employment is 9.4% . >> unemployment will go down a little bit, but again i washington will still do this -- the game in washington will still bebehis on a real game. the health-care la

a lot of time we find that community based organizations don't collaborate or coordinate. john has always opened up his doors. particularly those from immigrant communities. he has been a partner. he has been an individual who have reached out beyond his agency to work with other agencies who share the common purpose of searching our youth. and i know john is here with his family. his father. mr. osaki and his daughter, san and wife, julie, let's give it up to john osaki. [applause]. >> before i say anything. can we real quick give it up for john adachi. you know. i really want to think jeff for his leadership. his willingness. you have extended your office and given us this opportunity to create positive change in your schools, in our streets and i really want to thank you for that. i want to just make a couple quick announcements. to my colleagues. i am show proud what we have accomplished. we have given a voice to many who have suffered in silence. i want to acknowledge 2 individuals who have carried out our mission. you met angela chan from the asian law office. can yo