to communicate and communicate. thank you. >> i want to piggyback on her point on kids. kid is a great way to bring families together. it's one of the most excellent way to bring diverse families together because children play with each other. and they go to the same school. the safety network and sunset neighborhood coalition we have worked together to prepare for the sunset community festival. one of the tools that we use is to try to make the event really run, really entertaining and try to make it culturally appropriate for the communality. one of the tools we use to try to make it appropriate is that in all of our fliers and out reach materials we try to translate all of them to the different languages that our community members use. and also we try to build relationships with our local media. i think that is one of the most effective way to let all of our community members know about our events. not only just english but media press with the local chinese narp or whatever language your community may need. thot

it is important to take into account differences in community needs from community to community. it is pretty challenging, and because there is such a diversity of community that is involved with the service territory. certainly. >> i don't want to step on your presentation, but we know that these things are taxpayer dollars. taxpayers are looking for some sort of visual benefit. they know they are getting clean water, but they are also looking for more than that today. we know that whether you are a public agency or a private company, the people that you serve are expecting much more from their providers, not just in terms of the utility that they provide, but in terms of the will and the investment and sustainability. and into the community itself, they want to be able to see that. supervisor maxwell: some of the things you have mentioned are things that people just expect these days. we have integrated a lot of those things, so i am thinking of it as community benefits. it could include this, but i was just thinking of it in a more narrowed view. >> it is important for the thi

who is in your community. the first question you have to answer is who is in your community? think about that for a second because in our neighborhood we actually have an eclective group. we have residents, homeowners, renters. starving artists to starving studentses to corporate america to very rich people. we have a dynamic range of residents. we have a large merchant corridor on divisdaro and fulton. a lot of community organizations. we have a new mental health clinic and drug rehabs in our neighborhood. we have private and public schools. we have a dynamic it's a luxury and beautiful neighborhood because of the wide variety of people in the communality. my question to you is who is in your communality. you can start thinking through this session how you engage the people. what tools are you going to take out of this to engage that community? we as a neighborhood association have a lot of standard tools but i will connect it to how it relates to tresidentses. we have a news letter it's an 8 page news letter produced every other month. una is on the front cover because she

but the concerns about community involvement and community ideas -- the policy will be brought in the sense that it will not be prescriptive as opposed to giving policy guidance to integrate community benefits from the puc. the third initial recommendation is to develop long-term plans to sustain and fund public involvement beyond completion of these capital programs, the water system improvement program and the sewer system improvement program. projects are about to be embarked upon. it is important that that involvement is sustained over the life of the program. supervisor maxwell: it also could be a policy for the city as well, it could do something that all the departments -- it could be something that all the departments looked at going forward. >> if the best practices are looked at and inc. early on -- for instance, all the parties need to know the community involvement is going to be critical for the development of the project. but not a puc it's the a -- it not only sets the puc apart, but it sets the city apart. it needs to be sustainable across all enterprises, outcomes wil

what is the role in the community?rsjrf revitalize the neighborhood on quality of life issues. we came in to the park, trying tomic it a safer and cleaner space. >> this park, what was this park like 5 years ago. what was it's impact on the neighborhood? >> 5 years ago the park was very different. there was a lot of homeless encampments in front of the park. it made it difficult for people to come into the park. there was a lot of drug dealing. it was a daeshg yarp. one of the other bipartisaning differences with the park now in the past trees in the parks, which everyone loved but it created a lot of dark spots and spaces for illegal activity to occur. >> i imagine to take a mod everyone approach looking at make itting a safer place -- >> absolutely. by make itting safer people want to use it more. >> what are the things that set this park apart from all the parks in the city. what are the popular things the park has that people talk about? >> the most popular thing in the park is the fountain behind you. it come toge

, the italian- american community, and folks from the lgbt community.that's what we need, a unified voice and a unified vision. no more can we stand to be polarized. thank you. >> once again, well done candidates. Òt[lágnow we're really going tot you. we start this time with mr. jackson. what do you think can be done to address the unacceptably high rates of asthma in district 10 children, and the health problems caused by pollution? >> that is a great question. we have our wonderful current supervisor here in the audience. i want to commend her leadership on beating the fight to close down the bay view hunters point power plant. those steps have been taken. the community leaders are also working to make sure they are closed. we have to continue to push for a land use issues. 258 bed hospital is being built. we need to make sure they provide enough charity care to provide access to health care in this neighborhood and in this entire district. the program that i was working on -- we need to make sure it is not cut and ensure that our residents who are un

i know we have done great work with the community youth center and many community-based organizationsthomas has participated in at least two service projects per week since 2007. carly estop more pursuing a degree in marketing, he has also been active in the community from a very young age and has volunteered for callous area nonprofit organizations. graphic and by design has always been his passion. he has always volunteered he's design skills for countless organizations, which include building web sites for the chinatown neighborhood center, north beach neighborhood associations, american or in performing arts, and the asian american pageant. he was also a project coordinator ad a community youth center where he spearheaded community clubhouses after school programs. i even visited a program that he created, and he has taught asian youth graphics and web design, so we are honored to announce his leadership in the community. >> i would like the coordinator this year to join us. [applause] >> congratulations to thomas. do you want to say a few words? >> thank you for this amazing awar

we're -- we value community input and want community input. if there were certain missteps, which it sounds like primarily, a couple of neighborhoods, a couple of communities around the park, that's a learning experience for us. i think since that initial outset, however, and one of the reasons we chose to calendar this as a separate agenda item and have an extensive discussion here was to continue the dialogue and out of respect for the people here. i think we, at a staff level, learned a lot about some on the ground concerns and frustrations around the neighborhood that i think will be valuable. my personal opinion is that the worldy not come to an end here. and that we will, like what we're doing throughout our system, we're going to try new ideas. i want to emphasize, this is not all about just dollars. raising revenue is an important part of our overall economic strategy so we can provide clean, safe, fun parks, so that we continue to provide recreational opportunities, because during the budget process, i used to say, it was either a dol

in the broadmoore community. we have a special guest today that will talk to you about the real meaning of empowerment. you can imagine for all our challenges doesn't matter the neighborhood we are in cam pair or challenges to the challenges you see up challenges on thoseim mags. we don't have trials like what happened with katrina. so many of you that have been sparks of hope and imagination, people that are engaged we have someone that will talk about how she has sparked the imagination and engagement of a city that was ready to abandon, not just her but the entire broadmoore community. in fact, the mayor who is a friend, this is not a critique, put together after the challenges in katrina, put together a diverse group of what we say the best and the brightest. came up with a bad idea. we don't always get it right. they said broadmoore had been wiped out. they said, it ain't worth bringing back. we are going to make it open space. and the speaker i will introduce in a moment she like many of you said, wait that

but also, wringing my community, the iranian-american community into the larger american community. because we are relatively new immigrants, we live and hang around with iranians, but we need to make sure that they are part of another larger communities, irish-americans, chinese americans. i will give you a couple of examples and then i can open up to questions. one that i am really proud of, in 2006, we got a call from someone whose wife was in prison from i.c.e. they did not know what to do. he had heard of me, heard that there was an iranian on the arts commission. he had no idea what the commission was about. i was able to get in touch with our executive director's office. i must say, we have some great people in our condition. we were able to contact nancy pelosi. through that, another congressperson. we found the real issue was not legal. she was being represented. something was simply missing somewhere. so we had a campaign to get her to her family by thanksgiving, and we were able to do that. just last year also, someone was about to be evicted. they came to us, and through

with a heavy emphasis on community building and community benefits. if you have the application package it's self explaintory 35 points to community benefits. 20 points to neighborhood participation. 30 pounts toward project feasibility. the paps, 20 points is sort of furthered by 10 points in the community benefit's section. a lot is geared toward projects that have a lot of neighborhood involvement. >> go through that one more time. >> it's on you have the package? >> it's there in the box up there. there is also it's on s fcc gp. org has the application the community challenge grant web page. so, let's see. it's a highly competitive grant. there are 200 officially recognized neighborhoods in the city of san francisco. check it out if you go to sfgov. org and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many are interested in getting money to improve their neighborhoods. we usually have applicati

as well as jamestown community. he's been working deeply with our community and our libraries as well as keeping our parks accessible to many and keeping our neighborhood movie theaters open. i believe that these die verse experiences will well serve him on the police commission in understanding the issues that face our families and our community throughout san francisco. he exemplifies, and i'll echo ms. wilbur's response and comments here, he em my fies the issues that the police commission need. fairness, impartiality and integrity. he's incredibly smart. he's thoughtful, practical. and i will say personally he pushes people to think. i think you can believe him and take his word for it when he says he doesn't have an agenda on the matters that will come before the police commission. he has shown this to be true on matters that he and i have discuss thed. and i think he will approach his job on the police commission wan incredible amount of dedication and hard work. $

just because that disconnects them their community as far as the criminal community. the da hands the letters to the judges and the judges read the letters and realize it's a real impact in the community. that way you don't see the person back on the street within 5 or 6 days. if they are doing the same thing or in the area these guys can arrest them right away without probable cause or anything like that. i will turn it to ethyl and she will talk about the d's and the stay orders. >> thank you, valley. as the officers mentioned it's not always like it is on tv. when you see somebody doing something on the street they will not be in jail for the rest of their life. a couple of things have to happen. one thing that has to happen is they have to be arrested. in order for the district attorney to prosecute anyone they have to be arrested. just because you know and i know and they know that something's been done doesn't mean they are going to jail or prison. the only way the officers can arrest somebody if they have probable cause. sometimes the probable cause is you call

but it's the community thal drive everything you do in your community. all the good and positive will be driven by you. we will open it up. are there questions? >> wow! we were good this time. >> okay. >> [inaudible] >> uh-huh. >> well, what we do and actually m oh , magic cheryl davis is on the community building panel. we work with them alot. mo magic came out of bay view. what she does and what we all do is volunteer and go to the meetings, is they actually find all of the different support and community based organizations from youth on up, families. they connect it to the community. they have a special events the black and white ball was put on by the mo magic. we did a call out and said come and volunteer at the black and white ball. even though it's not no in your neighborhood -- as you know nobody can put up a wall around your neighborhood. a lot of the different services are on different panels. one of the reasons we couldn't load the panel up more was time. we decided to step up and talk about the services. our police officers have a resource g

professional service providers and the community needs to look at community benefits. it really depends on who the community is. the community is very broad, expands several counties and is regional. there are issues of gender, equity, and ethnic diversity. we have crafted a general definition that includes the requirement that outcomes be measurable and measurements be included. you have in front of you a draft definition, and you have a screen shot of the website we have developed for the community so that they can understand a sfpuc is intending to do. -- what sfpuc is intending to do. and conceptualize and community benefits. we are happy at the end of this to take your questions and fold it into the final definition. at this point, the draft definition states that community benefits are the positive impacts resulting from development and operation of the waste water and power services. they need to be a good neighbor by all of those impacted by the services, and balance thesfpuc's economic, environmental, and social goals. they devote sufficient resources to achie

how did us community people get engaged of a community politics? it is something i have been talking to the mayor about. [inaudible] there have not been any upcoming or follow-up meeting of the department heads. particularly the mayor's office of community works, development, so we in the community would like to know what the hell is going on here as well as the rest of the community. there needs to be a mechanism, and i'm going to lobby for that, that we bring in an institutionalized community reform, and that means we have to change the structure on how the city has treated the african-american community in dealing with city government. i am appalled that the mayor is bringing in right in front of our eyes, and it is going to be restructured without any input from the community. if the board of supervisors do not think that the community should have some kind of state on what is happening, maybe they should go around and ask attorney general brown before he goes up to sacramento to investigate what is going on here at silly hall. the board of sup

to communicate and communicate. thank you. >> i want to piggyback on her point on kids. kid is a great way to bring families together. it's one of the most excellent way to bring diverse families together because children play with each other. and they go to the same school. the safety network and sunset neighborhood coalition we

our radios to community. to be able to find out what the capacity at each medical facilities are and where we put folks for different kinds of emergency services. we used to do this probably twice a year in the past. because of constraints we are doing table top discussions and drills. we hope to do more large scale community drills. before a close i want to share a couple of other things we are working on for the future. worn is having to do with trying to security and purchase food and water suppliers for the community. a majority of san francisco population and the china town community few would have enough food and water to last 3 days. for many of the sro residents one issue is even if they could where would they store the food and water in the cramped places. we will have food bars or energy bars to be located throughout the china town area for those in need. also one. other things is to work with the city and local businesses. we saw in 89 when folks accesses restaurants, markets, stores to access food

, but also the religious community, the faith community. and the african-american community, i suspect, that's critical- that plays a major role. so you want to reach out to the pastors, you want to reach out to the reverends. but not just in the african-american community, because your religious leaders in any other community, whether it's buddhist or sikh or jewish or muslim, you really want the religious leaders to understand that nobody escapes alcohol and drugs. the majority of your congregation may be alcohol and drug free, but there are people in your congregation who are not, and it's an issue, just as we're talking about. so using community coalitions, outreach in the faith community regardless of your religious orientation makes it clear that alcohol and drugs are a problem and that recovery from them can occur and that prevention is an important message. because we find silence- when we look at our household survey data, when people stop viewing a particular drug as a potential threat to the community, that drug becomes a threat

, and this launch today is really about involving our community, our larger community, in what it is. and so we want to just thank all of our community partners who are here, urban services, maria sue from the department of children, youth, and families. the s.f. police department, who has been really instrumental in making sure that our truancy process goes well, and captain lazar is here from the police department. want to thank him for all of his efforts and supporting what we're doing. and i have from the school district superintendent garcia and our mayor, who have been partnering on so many different efforts. but today is about bringing our communities into the fold. when we see students out on the street, we're not going to walk by them any longer and just allow them to stay on the street and miss hours of school and miss opportunities, to be the kind of citizens that we want them to be. and so this is really about showing the support for our students and that our community is here to be with them. and i also wanted to acknowledge regina, who has been really instrumental in co

and the communities they serve. what prop m will do is require the chief and the commission to develop a comprehensive program of community policing and foot patrols. what it won't do is micromanage the police. it's not going to tell the chief what to do in terms of how many officers to assign to which districts. it leaves all of that discretion up to the commission and the chief of police. i support prop m because this city needs community policing and foot patrols as the solutions, the best solution for increasing public safety and building trust between police and the communities they serve. seattle, new york city, new york -- chicago and boston already have community policing. our city deserves nothing less. we need to have the very best policing models enslinde in our laws. it simply asks the police to develop comprehensive policies around community policing and foot patrols. >> if passed how will proposition m impact san francisco citizens? >> it's going to take what everyone already agrees is great policy and

, the italian- american community, and folks from the lgbt community.that's what we need, a unified voice and a unified vision. no more can we stand to be polarized. thank you. >> once again, well done candidates. Òt[lágnow we're really going tot you. we start this time with mr. jackson. what do you think can be done to address the unacceptably high rates of asthma in district 10 children, and the health problems caused by pollution? >> that is a great question. we have our wonderful current supervisor here in the audience. i want to commend her leadership on beating

anybody in the community. we have people who own homes who live outside of san francisco who come to our community meetings. it's important to include everybody and try to get as broad range of individuals in your at your meetings. i think that's part of the success. how you go about doing that we can go around the room and i'm sure everyone has suggestions and ideas. the key is being inclusive. [inaudible] [laughter] >> the question is how dou break through the wall. how do you break through the wall of associations that have built up around issues that don't reach out to the whole community they serve? >> well, not just issues but it's a culture of personality i believe she was speaking to. 2 of the main things that you can use are look at the by laws of the organization. are there term limits? what are the by laws state? and secondly, the actual meeting itself. assuming there are regular meetings, what kind of structures? parliamentary procedures or roberts rules of order. there are coalition of san francis

community concern and oversight and monitoring and about local hiring in the community. because these are some of the things that we have been dealing with over the years, and i would like to say, as you know, puc just came about under -- who was that? if the mayor because they were not always there. everything was under department of public works. but since they are coming together, i give them history sometimes, to let them know where we have been, and i'm not leaving bayview/hunters point, so i'm quite sure at the next meeting, they will have a percentage. you want to give us more, i would appreciate that very much because it is very important for the education. we talk about math, science, but we need to have our young people learn algebra because of the fact that we are stagnated, and we have schools that do not want to proceed, and there should be a demand that this be done for our young people because they aren't going to be the rate payers in the coming years. thank you so very much. -- they are ing to be the rate payers in the coming years. >> good afternoon, su

we communicate by e mail. we ask you continue with some of the skills every 2 years to renew and stay with the program. in keeping with this summit, nert is a community building program. it's neighbors reaching out to each other. once you graduate from the program it's about you staying involved in your community. even if it's an e mail group with your neighborhood xhurnting with each other what the plans are. staying in touch with each other much the fire department will support the teams hopefully next week supplying equipment you can respond with with. with fliers you can hand out. the team aspect of nert really is the community. keep that in mind today as we are all talking. >> jamie. >> hi. i'm jamie lopez. i'm the nert coordinator for hay hayes valley. before i start off on my rant i wanted to acknowledge most of what i will talk about was built and developed with a neighboring coordinator in the lower hate who was at the morning session but not here today. anything i say give her equal credit for what w

community. the way we view our role there is added trash pickup. not only do we have an obligation to pick up the trash, but we would also have a vested interest in doing so. so i think we just really hope to continue to add value to the park community and while the process of the contract may have been flawed and i know there's a lot of emotion flying around that, we really are open to the discussion and hope to continue to add value. so thanks for hearing us. president buell: thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is shakira finley. i am a small food business owner. i'm also president -- a president of the castro. i am speaking -- i'm sorry. i'm speaking -- i'm here not to be the voice of, but to provide ears for small businesses who cannot be here and speak on behalf of themselves. but hopefully that you will listen and understand that. we really appreciate what san francisco has already done to increase opportunity for mobile vending. it's ironic that we'r

it's a vibrant community and that the intellectual voo tallity that i see in our community, in our facultyff, and students is nothing short of first class. >> congratulations. welcome to the area. >> gracias. >> and now here is what's happening in your communidad. >>> and saludodos for those celebrating a special day. >>> a lot of birthdays this week. here is the address. pick up a copy of our newspaper partner and support your bilingual weekly all across the area. thank you for being part of our sunday morning once again. next week, we'll be back with you at the same time, 10:30 a.m.

community. i have been involved in meetings and commissions and an attitude and approach towards us has causetitude and approach towards us has caused the -- quite a bit of concern. for a lit -- we're a little disappointed because it hasn't helped and there's been quite a bit of discrimination. that word "help" that i mentioned has not been providing us equal access. i defwoo like to make the suggestion to all of the staff, once -- want you to think about help as not -- not helping us and guiding us, we want to be able to have equal access. it seems that that is -- that is improved or your thought it would be im3r06ed with -- improved with helping us and helping our community. it really stayed the same. you do understand the word "access" but it seems it has been ignored and you focus on helping our community. there hasn't beech much improvement in the department. it seems most of the community lost respect for what you have been lacking and providing us. we want the accessibility, not necessari