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if there's like the first step to communities is to do the outreach to the community and know the community and a actively a part of the community that's how i feel. thank you >> is there anybody else who wants to make a public comment. we want to thank you for all the input and now any commissioners questions or comments. >> first i want to make some comments i want to ask carol and substantive question could you address the toxic condition has the land obey

and because, the communities that we serve, require that relationship of trust as much as any other communities do. and so we hope that tonight, you will hear our critiques and that you will continue to work with us to make this ordinance a very effective tool of collaboration between the community and law enforcement. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> good evening. honorable commissioners and chief, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you. i will start by saying, i appreciate the city's infrastructure. i called 311 just today to seek out some services for my elderly grandmother. with that said, my concerns lie in the contradictions of this city's infrastructure, the tools that the city has at its disposal and the suspect and conduct surveillance on members of the muslim and arab communities prior to the determined criminal precedent. the suspicious behavior or national security qota that our city and many cities across the nation are expected to report or exchange for these tools and the infrainstruct stur and the safe san francisco, and we know that a lot of this is happening, a

the port wants to engage the local community. again we've started to engage the community in a variety of different ways i've that shown and to coordinate with the staff and we have a long history. in closing, i want to stress this an amazing site and the aquarium foundation and city college welcomes the opportunity to have that. i know first off, i want to thank you for your time i know we have loot supporter in the audience and i want to notify you guys to stand and sigh it up for supporting us. thank you >> okay. all right. >> here we go. okay. thank you very much to both of our proposers for gracio graciously vrpt our timeline. i plan to come back to you with a recommendation at the january 14th meeting and that that concludes my presentation >> thank you. thank you. we do have expensive public comment and as you know we're loltd 3 minutes per speaker we have about 40 speakers lined if you can do it within two minutes we'll appreciate it. but anyway, having said that i appreciate our consideration in making your comments as b

engage in the community. i can indefinitely talk to you off lion. as people indicated we haven't did you live much but they all talk about for example, robert woods came up and talked about we participated in the ged program for uscf so there's a lot of things we do. one of the things we need to do is bring visibility of all the things we do in the community and a 11 people getting a ged means nothing. when my parents were here we had 11 in the community and now we're down to 4. when you put those types of programs in place it means nothing. i'm not trying to disrespect people but can you stop funding programs that are ineffective and i you talk about keating e keeping the digesters in the community how about allowing people to live in the community that's why we left. i feel that the hearts have been harden and no one is relating to what the people are dealing with and that's why they're running >> i don't see my other speaker cards. public comment is closed. just a few things to wrap up. we're here baugs be

if there's like the first step to communities is to do the outreach to the community and know the community and a actively a part of the community that's how i feel. thank you >> is there anybody else who wants to make a public comment. we want to thank you for all the input and now any commissioners questions or comments. >> first i want to make some comments i want to ask carol and substantive question could you address the toxic condition has the land obey rewhat studies were done and sort of the current status. >> i'm happy to do. we went through this action when we constructed herself ones park in the late 90s but with the expectation of commissioner brian denouncing done this is new to many commissioners. so herself responses head park like most of the san francisco shoreline was made up, up file. most of the fill is rock and gravel and some construction and debris like asphalt and concrete and bricks, metal it is fill. and when - and also it included other materials liken green waste and a municipal refuse. it decompose in forms through the nature decomposition process. before we con

these communities have been coming to the u.s. and from the data we have been looking at, they have been scattered throughout the entire u.s., so it's not just clustered in one city. they are clustered in all of these cities throughout the united states, and what's most interesting about it, would be the places you had just mentioned, like omaha, nebraska. so we have done out reach in places like ford wayne, indiana, northwest "a," portland, oregon, columbia, south carolina not exactly the places you think about these asian communities. >> i am sorry, community has been chiming in about that. we have people from kentucky, you mentioned respond and on facebook tom said it is important for us american to his give a home to refugees, but we also need to give them support once they get here. the opportunities for international resettle. are rapidly decreasing so families trying to vettel are feeling a lot of extra pressure. aaron said employment isn't the only assistance these refugees need but they also need hepa simulating or integr

it was being developed we met with the community. when the rfp was first published we sent out advertisements and when the commission xraufd the selection of terry grim we had a significant outreach process working again with community groups and stakeholders to alert them of that selection. and then again during the weeks negotiation we repeated that public outreach process. each time working with all the groups that have expressed interest including the coit tower and as more and more people showed interest we include them. a very comprehensive outreach process. obviously through that process we've received love feedback and we're happy to say here we're now here to finally, take this commission action on the significant community support for the lease. you know, again i won't read through all the names but a amount of support and then there has been some persons that have opted the lease and those are all listed here. with that, i'll make modifying available for any questions the commission has >> thank you. >> we duo do have any

madam clerk, any communications? speaker: there are no communications. this week representing the even districts specifically district eight and 10. the mayor may address the board up to 5 minutes. the president will recognize the supervisors in question so long it does not exceed. i want to pensacola you back to the final question in time in the year 2013. if you have any open comments, i would love to hear them. speaker: thank you president chiu. happy holidays! during the winter months it's important to think of our most vulnerable. that's why i want to thank the inter faith council for providing shelter. tht the 8th year. the congregation has provided shelter to homeless. these protocols mean that every vacant shelter bed is available after 8:00 p.m. without a reservation. both the homeless outreach teams and the san francisco police department through over night wellness checks and we increase transportation to and from shelters. mayor edwin m. lee: really we really appreciate their partnership. while giving and volunteering should be at the forefro

and community wellness and community engagement. and we have to be sure that we put all of those working together simultaneously. >> early childhood and now healthy communities. dennis, can you tell us what the recommendations from the commission were on healthy communities? >> we came up with a blue print both for recommendations that we believe will have a real impact in communities nationwide. we recommend that the nation fundamentally change how we revitalize neighborhoods and integrate finance and health and community development and that we use incentive and performance measures to spur collaborative approaches. that we rep plik indicate and invest in innovation across united states. >> thank you very much, dennis. we a reminder to submit your questions to this panel no on your cards if you will. we know that nearly a fifth of all americans live in poor neighborhoods where there are few jobs, no access to decent safe housing or healthy food. no walkable sidewalks, not enough lighting to be safe. these are toxic environments. p

people buy in to the community. and it benefits society as a whole. i don't know of anything more beneficial to a community than high rates of home ownership. and yes, we had very lax underwriting standards. no one wants a repeat of 2008. but we don't want to overregulate. we don't want to go too far. we don't want, as physicians say, do no harm. and this rule does harm. it's going to deny people like mr. meeks or myself -- i can remember when we -- first home. it was a great day. and i don't want to deny that to any american. >> thank you, mr. green for two minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i would like to associate myself with the comments of the ranking member, and i'd like to add i bit to it. because, in congress, i have a piece of legislation for alternative credit scoring. i have a history of trying to make sure those persons who don't have opportunities acquire opportunities. this piece of legislation would consider light bill, gas bill, water bill, utilities, other forms of credit that are not traditionall

we want to work with the community and we've made an effort to try to work with the community and in fact in a number of times we've had locations wherein deed we have been able to work with a community and find an alternative that works and we are happy to move that cabinet to a new location when we have the consensus of the communicated behind us. supervisor scott weiner: this is helpful because when we move the order we know what some of the issues have been. there is not self-evident or sacred to that. that order can be changed. supervisor? supervisor jane kim: i will try to keep my comments brief because i know there is many from the public that want to speak on this item. i'm curious to how many fte's you have to the graffiti issue? >> the graffiti in fact is everybody's responsibility. it is part of their process that if they spot graffiti on any of our equipment or vandalism or anything that is in an unsafe condition, they are required to abate it on the spot and they have equipment on their trucks that allow them to do that or if it's something that required more than they c

and a build that the community effort. this proposal reflects existing the working relationships with the port of san francisco and it represents the combined expertise of two fine programs along with san francisco waterfront thank you very much for your time and good luck with our decision. (calling names) >> good afternoon. my name is clem ma i'm the director at the city college and a full-time faculty member marry conditional has been involved in existence 2012 actually we've been involved in the park since the beginning and i remember i brought students there i made a key to the plans of the park and it was all innovative plants. i'm going every semester. the invasive planning plants are not there i forgot because i've nervous but i want to thank you so much for making this going into a park peculiar the students are not the people who can afford to go to yosemite. no one bangs the park and they see the heroin iron take off and it's a real experience for our students and the high school students but to come back to the

we will be holding these community conversations between february and april of this year. and when they are completed and we will share our findings from the conversations with all of you and present any recommendations to the board of education to district staff and to the community. by the end of this school year. as i said, we will have the conversations between february and april of this year. and the format of these discussions and the format of the discussion questions will be to provide a restorative approach that will allow parents the opportunity to share their experiences, to equity and identify solution to strengthen the work of the district to address these issues and to improve out comes for all students. >> this week, we are working to finalize the specific content and details that will support the structure and exercises to facilitate the conversations and including sharing the district's interventions to address disproportionalty in student achievement and student suspensions especially among african american and latino students, at the end of each conversa

, it's residential primarily in addition to a community college. having that in mind, any change to that operation or that facility and/or rebuilding or anything down there, there is a potential for an impact to the members of our community as well as that school. therefore, i'd like to formally and respectfully request that the supervisors keep the city of san bruno abreast of the developments of this discussion down the road and months to come. thank you. >> thank you very much, officer. and we definitely will. thank you very much for your patience. next speaker. >>> i'm [speaker not understood] and i'm a nurse so, of course, i have a perspective, the perspective of people's well-being and health and also the well-being of the community. and in terms of mental health, about 40% of the people in the jails have mental health issues. and jails are not places to heal. the clinics that i've worked in that was even a stretch. people with paranoid schizophrenia, jails just are not therapeutic places. about 10 years ago i went to the old baker center to

he created community through food.e designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. >>> in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 re

commissioners, anything else on communication? seeing none, is there any further public comment on the communication? seeing none, public comment is closed. other business madam secretary? >> item 18, commission business. >> seeing none. item 19. report of the general manager. >> the general audit presentation. good afternoon. before you are three items, the budget priorities and audition and revenue bonds. it's where we are going and how we are getting there because it allows you to tell us as staff and general manager developed his proposed budget what you want to see in that proposed budget that you can call it or adopt as your own. before we get into that we have a brief presentation. i will start with the financial audit. the most important part is these financial audit are one where we call good housekeeping seal of approval done by independent auditors as a way of accountability and financial transparency process that we do each year. we have a you will of the sf puc money and funds reviewed as part of this process and ever

this builds community. what that means in practical terms is that we find dance and theatre artist whose voice haven't been heard yet. we give them support and freedom to create new work and we form with grass roots and non-profit to form that. we are only moving 5 blocks and that gives us a chance to partner with the tenderloin rich organizations. we are excited to be in this journey with the luggage. we are going to fund raise a major campaign to purchase a new home. we are looking for leaders of that campaign to share with the power of art. i recognize many of those leaders are here today. i see colleagues from the 950 project who will be our neighbors and arts partners and organizations and collaborators from the tenderloin community and sisters and brothers in social service and social justice. i see building owners who have the ethics and foresight to invest in our community and those seeking to positively impact their new neighborhood and of course the rain an san francisco foundation who has been wo

it was a pool hall community gathering for the japanese community. later the bill hosted nep on drugs and after world war ii, this became jimbo's bop city. it attracted musicians such as duke ellington, arm astronomy, fitzgerald and when the redevelopment agency threatened to -- the hometown community, members of the preservation historical movement came to save this and other victorian structures and created this victorian village where this bookstore is located. the marcus bookstore, jimbo's bop city was raised off it's foundation and trucked 2 blocks to 1712 fillmore street where it became part of the victorian village. a small collection of refuge historical buildings escaped demolition. since moved it's the black owned store and for black intellectualism for empowerment and activism. rosa parks, james baldwin, malcolm x and oprah winfrey and many known and unknown literary folks in the african american community. it's ironic and inappropriate that the city is landmarking a building that helped san francisco preservation in the first place. if th

>> item four, recommend appointment of one member to the geneva harney bus rapid strans sit community advisory committee and this is an action item. >> and i think that before he comes up to speak, i think that supervisor cohen's aid maliu tabeno will be speaking in favor of one of the candidates, but chesser fung >> this begins on page 19 of the packet and the appointment of the new member to the studies dedicated to the advisory committee, it is a key, east west corridor in san francisco and it includes a new transit line that will connect balboa park station to hunter's point shipyard and with the new development that is slated there and the authority is meeting the geneva feasible study to explore the options to improve the transit in terms of trouble time and reliability on geneva avenue, and the study will be taking input from a dedicated citizen advisory committee and this dedicated cac, meets quarterly to provide input to the study, and the structure is shown in your memo on page 2 and in the attachment and there is a matrix table as the attachment and there are 13 seats throu

we strive to a high level of clarity and communication. sometimes the issues relate to specific matters that are not public matters. i would have to look at the specific matter. >> good morning. my question is about the trade promotion authority in the headline yesterday in one of the papers about the pushback from democrats, we will need bipartisan approval for fast-track and given the fact that we started the year with this new budget and deal in congress, which suggests that we will not be as toxic this year as the past, i am wondering what your plans are for whipping into place a bipartisan authority given the pushback from some of the democrats. >> i do not think there is anything new or unusual about the current need for there to be bipartisan support. it has always required a bipartisan effort. there have always been challenges on both sides for different reasons. we have worked on a bipartisan basis with leaders of the committee and we will continue to work with the congress to get it done. the president has made clear that it is i

when i say this community i don't mean the community here but the community on the hill. he lives at west point and for him to come here and speak he didn't know who the other people are somebody's trying to tell you all something. really really. so i'm a cal graduate i have a minor in city planning this is what i do for a living and for us to have acting dam here statement after statement and rue you have people here in the community that are sort of what's going on. my question is consider that. consider someone who's doing the knocking at those doors. someone saying hey guys let's go out and let me see if i can help you with our resume and a job. people don't have this. the barriers for acting dam is here they try to help them access the education and job. we didn't hear that here today. thank you very much for let me speak all commissioners. other commissioner comments >> grateful i want to thank everybody for coming out there are there are a lot of smart people many the room want to do great things but until it gets back to the community i think you would make a grea

intelligence community since the foundations in 1947. the aim in 1947, of course, was to create a central intelligence agency that would, in the sense, sound familiar to any of you who studied 9/11 if you make sure that pockets of the u.s. government did not have information that if shared with other entities of the government might foretell of a particular attack or national security threat on the united states. the national security act, of course, also created the national security council, and the -- defense department. the creation of the central intelligence agency really laid the foundations for the modern american intelligence community. the fault of the national security act of 1947 was that it seemed to give the central intelligence agency many responsibilities for coordinating the variety of intelligence entities across the federal government, but not enough authority to do the job. so let me break it down for you just, if i could. the cia, of course, is famous for two missions you're all familiar with. covert action and the r

my mom and dad raised us in the community awhile she fight in the community she didn't fight us she beat us and made the familiar roses that reverend townsend talked about. i want to thank everyone for coming out. in the one of my mom's themes. sure. michael, thank you for doing this project. i need to set the record straight for people in this community. there was an outreach done in this community people complaining about black folks not obeying being accepted in this project they were. some of them didn't qualify and do what they were supposed to do. they didn't follow through with what they were supposed to do. reverend mccrepe maid that everyone got into this project. those who got in did what they were supposed to do. awning driveway would you raise our hand. mark he got back into the project so i know it works he's my brother envy twin. outreach works (clapping) so i wanted to set the record straight. michael working diligently with this family and chinatown worked diligently with the family day to day. i worked on this project from the day it started to end. so i know they did wh

as connected communities. yet we can do better. in in september i announced our initiative to connect every i went with the goal of making i was the most connected state in the midwest. i charged the stem advisory councils broadband committee with developing recommendations for our consideration. today at proposed to connect every island with incentives to discourage excess, adoption, and use a broadband technology by business and individuals. my plan includes programs that will train workers for 21st century career is in information and communications technology. my plan also calls for moving the icn two. zero repurchasing the iowa communications network so that it can partner with the private sector to provide connectivity in underserved areas of our state. together we can use broadband technology to grow the i would dream throughout our state, especially in rural areas. as our connection speeds increase, so does the pace of economic progress, so does the ability to grow jobs, and so does the ability to turn

you've got all those great pieces but you're missing the contact to the community. thank you for your time >> (calling names). >> hi, i'm charles bayview resident and student. i my fingerprints are that on the monitoring to the wastewater treatment system to the energy system and even the designs for the architect that's going on the roof. you know, i was one of the kids that k y most of you know in guadalupe common i was one of the kids catching undergoes and snakes and lizards and such. it's lik

there's a unit community and a whole camp community. the goal is that kisd leave feeling inspierd by community and want to create communities like the one they have at toonga. >> so here we are in mid 2013, and camp towonga was founded in 1925, and the mission has not changed. so i -- i'm wondering what was going on, you think, in the founder's mind that they had this philosophy around jiesh summer camps in which self-esteem was to be enriched along with other thicks about what it means tosh to be a person in the world? >> good question. >> i think they were great people obviously. i think what it tells you is that the philosophy that jamie is articulating is today we would say it's scientifically sound. there's been enough research. we know that this kind of process works to raise uphill thi, happy children. they had great intuition back then. they just kind of got it, got the same scientific basis intuitively. >> it's fascinating because we live in a part of the country where weir constantly look for what's new on the edge of somethin

arts is about community action and support. i want to thank the arts, the arts commission for being great partners with this and they are also the effort. and i want to thank karen as well. she's been a strong leader to make sure we took care of existing assets and people who were already here. we often talk about people already here, we have to build upon them as the current assets before we invite new people to come. as we invite new people to come, they also have to experience their contributions to the existing culture of this city and of this wonderful market street. you know you are already seeing the holiday lights appear on market street. what we have towards this holiday what we are doing for residents at 1047 and 1069 to keep them here, the small businesses we are inviting here, the arts program here today we are going to have a lot to celebrate these holidays because they are the same people that have been here forever that still want to be part of the success at san francisco. i want to thank everybody for working t