thanks to all of you for being here tonight it's always a pleasure for you go to welcome the community into city hall - because you remind us our purpose in government so to serve and you you certainly bring life and culture and community into our very state halls and bring life to us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant, those who are under served typically continue to be served that our communities are strengthened and our ties are bound and strong. so, in 2012, of this year, we are very lucky enough to have two very distinguished honorees for our distinguished service a word for the city and county of san francisco and the first person we will recognize tonight is vera noon tear if you can please u.s.a. plast she is the social director at the arab culture and community center and she helps hundreds of families in trans by providing social work service and is i know how important that work is

representing the asian-american community city. we are a small community center, but we are here for the last 12 years. we see other cbo's come and go. but we stay. we are serving the underprivileged asian community immigrant communities. they don't have the means or language skills to do better in their life. so we are helping them in many other ways. and also have small business owners to enhance. and how to strive in a bad economic time. i am telling you that district 10 and bay-view hunter's point is the future. so i ask seeking your attention to come to this area and look for the future. here we are, we are not doing very good economically, but we are rich in spirit and we are rich in talent. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chen. and now district 11 community representative, rachel ebora and nicole agbiyone. and then we have omar community collaborative, gwen brown. >> good afternoon, i am the executive director of burnle heights. >> good evening, our organization works through the vitalized commission street in excelior planning

here at the southeast community facility thanks in parts to a b-top grant administered through the city of college of san francisco community network information technology department. some of whom those members are here standing around the room. i see a half dozen or so. advocated by the chairwomanas city college, and mr. al yeatts and others. we have established media opportunity and entrepreneurship opportunity through a simple class. with the support of southeast facility -- if you give me 30 seconds. of dr. jackson and the black leadership chapter we have provided for a model program for the teens. we would like to take our program off line and continue pushing this program forward mr. mayor. >> hi, i am lana miller, with hu hunter's point family. and i have so many things to talk about and so many things we are passionate and work on. now i am here in my role as a member of the

we think that we should have community input and a process to make sure we have the kind of city excellently that keeps the community a city college. >> let me just say we're trying to keep to the limit of time could you wrap up? >> we all know that we have been through a period of extreme budget cuts and with proposition and proposition thirty we have hit bottom in terms of education we're moving back up. we would like to see the san franciscans continue to find ways to support the college and the good work we do to close the achievement gap. and we think all of those things are possible not over funding or reaching into the reserves and we ask for your support >> thank you. next speaker >> i'm woman's studies faculties. i'm a member of the diversity coalition. i'm basically here to introduce a couple of of projects survive it's a sexual prevention program.

is a city especially those of the first respondents meet the language each of our communities. the language axis ordinance is one of the strongest ordinance is in the nation. 43% residents speak a language other than english at home. that is why in 2009 as i served as city administrator the office of civic engagement and immigrant rights was established to assist economic vulnerable immigrant and english speaking residents and ensure compliance with a language access ordinance. san francisco is one of the first cities in the nation to link line which access to city engagement, immigration integration and meaningful participation. ,in order to take part in the census , operate with police and fire testify at board and commission hearings we must be inclusive and ensure that our residents with little or knowing this can participate in their city government and interact with any city agency. yes, there are still challenges and i agree that some department struggle to meet language needs of our city's diverse needs. we have made it difficult progress over the past three and half y

we've worked really hard to improve interoperatability communications with the city. if we were needing assistance from oakland police department and they needed to come into san francisco, we have a really good structure to be able to implement interoperatable communications over the radio. but with the military this is a whole new set of radio frequencies, radio technology, even before the planning we didn't know what they had. it took us several planning opportunities and meetings to flush through some of that information and one of the biggest take aways for us, as a city we're required to have a tactical interoperatable communications plan. it describes how you interoperate in an emergency or an event within the city as well as regional partners. we don't have that with military and i think that's one of the biggest take aways, we need to really flesh out a document so we have captured who our contacts are, what technology they are going to bring to the table and start that initial planning from the get-go. we also had some technical challenges with land mobile ra

city. yes, it's incredible. union, i think i can talk about how wonderful diversity is, but we have to get the talent from our communities to represent all of the different thing that we do in the city. and you know, tonight, even though there is something called a baseball game out there, but these wonderful events that we have in the city whether it's america's cup whether it's fleet week, whether it's the 49ers playing or the giants playing, even eventually when we land the superbowl it all board of trustees all of us, i know that what i'm doing as a mayor and making sure that i support smallbitions in the city is helpful to the america arab community because all of us whether we are chinese americas hal teen know arabs is a starts for us to make our life a little more pleasant and own our business and is make sure that our kids get the best education possible and this is a story about immigrants in our great city. and so why not you have the first chinese mayor inviting immigrant community to really identify the talent in our community and allow me to give them appointments in the various moo commission and the city

win for the city, the university and the community. >> i would imagine all the developers are looking at the housing. >> i'm not in the position to describe by i'd like that housing is a logic thing for the site. i don't know what the specifics are at this point >> right and a there's ail kinds of opportunities to developing that site and we're open to discussing with developers. >> i would like to see the city get involved now. >> right. we've met with ken rich from the mayor's office to get the input >> and then one question it's an amazing amount of the 20 thousand employees do you know where they live and commuting from what sites? for over 50 of our employees live in san francisco and many of them come from the east bay and the south bay but i don't know what the adjoining counties. >> i'd like to echo the concerns that are raised in regards to laurel height and it's just? general where developments s are planned and their sort of laid out and they don't come to the commission until their pretty much planned. so i think that single homes are the best thing to develop in that area

happy everyday but i'm glad to be here because i care about the students the employees, the community, the city i care about it all and it still makes me happy. i have my friend gloria here who's my right arm. i'm honored and humbled and i'm leaving you something when i go away i'm going to leave my daughter so i believe in the cause. i'm here for real and i thank you so much for the privilege of getting up every morning and working in the very best district in the best city. >> thank you angie that's what i'm talking about. it's not always that the student is honored but this student is the best student. this gentleman absolutely controlled the crowd and was so articulate and unflapable i'm thrilled here's the young man. the purpose of this award is to honor students who have succeed above all odds and he fits the description here's mr. williams. please come down. >> hi everybody thank you for having me tonight, i'm pretty nervous but i'm going to tell you about myself and my disability. i'm mr. williams

agencies, city departments that support community-based organizations that work day in and out as well. very diligently to make sure that the resource and the policy changes that are necessary in our community are here. if i could have the department heads also please stand. [applause] thank you very much. so we are going to do a quick change. and we would like to present our next keynote speaker. someone that has done a lot of work in the city and county of san francisco. in terms of reentry programs here in all the communities of san francisco. someone that i very much, that is very much a strong advocate around reentry. and the need for reentry services, i would like to welcome chief adult probation officer, wendy steele. [applause] >> a little shorter. thank you very much. it's such a privilege and honor to be here today to talk about this really important subject. adult probation's goal is to break the intergenerational cycle of incarceration. if we do it where we have the greatest risk and opportunity is with this 18-25 transit

city putting it up. the other factor we're looking at is that on-going community consultation into the project is going to have to be a priority and the city community recreation department have to sign off on any public consultation. so we're looking at it being an audit process before, during, during the pilot and it's only going to be run as a two-year pilot project. so we're running all of these analysis will happen before the project's initiated as well and then so that we don't have any trouble with them claiming after the fact if it has to be taken down, it's art, you can't destroy it now, any area we determine to be a free wall is going to be put on panels that are movable so we won't have any issues with that and we're going to be looking at ensuring there are guidelines posted and looking at what type of monitoring of the area can be determined, as well as who is going to be responsible for spillover so we're going to try to make the arts council, they are going to have to be responsible for maintaining the property as well as an area outside the property as well in terms of clean up on civic st

there are also so many right here, from our own bay area communities. in the city that is out of human trafficking we are also committed to being an agent of change. i want to give you a brief history of sf cat, san francisco collaborative against human trafficking. in response to what we saw is a growing problem, four organizations formed up in 2008, the jewish coalition against human trafficking; national council of jewish women, jewish reel fund, -- we then realize would needed a wider coalition in order to be more effective we reached out to a large variety of the government sectors. in february 2008 the jewish coalition held a conference against human trafficking which included agencies such as the san francisco commission on the status of women, representative of the mayor's office and other nonprofits. this event also attracted members of the state assembly and a few congressional offices. at a meeting following our conference a i was asked to chair the larger group and my condition was that there be a cochair from the mayor's office at that time was catheri

i want to read a poem today and thank you for welcoming the poetry community into city hall to celebrateational poetry month. this poem won first place at the beat museum poetry contest in 2007. it's called the pain of progress. simple world covered over with glitz and grit and greed, pleasure of plastic paradise [speaker not understood] and driving us up the walls. new buildings have to bring in trees that fit the look of industry. [speaker not understood] day correspond um blocks the views and creativity. what doed good to metal facades do for boxed in metal transplants and [speaker not understood]? [speaker not understood] making room for modern money making market, serving up slices of privilege bread. no hope for the hopeless. no mind for searching eyes. [speaker not understood]. distant tips of the mountain tops. but what can we do to stop it? corporate cops prevent criminal pursuits. phone calls can't get through customer service to the real suits who obviously could careless for taste or class. or the world of brass unless their gold plated [speaker not understood], and the new p

community bylaw ordinances that we're operating under. the lation that we focus in on is 14614, that is the bylaw that governs litter pick up in the city. mmunity standards 146400 is the graffiti standards bylaw. our bylaw is unique to other cities in that we don't focus on the definition of graffiti, we focus on whether or not graffiti is considered a nuisance on a property. so the bylaw is written such that it has to fall within the definition of community standards, the nuisance property and therefore we're not ever restricted by a definition and people arguing whether what's on there fits within a specific definition of graffiti, it all falls within whether what is on the building constitutes a nuisance. it also gives strength to it because we don't run into the possibility if somebody says that, well, i want it there because i gave permission to it, permission is not a factor, it's whether or not it's a nuisance property. in canada some jurisdictions have their bylaws such that they can charge taggers with fines for doing graffiti tagging. we don't have any such ordinance in our city. graffiti is managed on the enforcement side as a

he brought chuck into this neighborhood and changed the way community policing is done, not only in this district but all throughout the city and i have to thank you for that because that made the big difference in the castro, knowey valley, you go in this district they call about the community policing and i know craig brought that when he came. bob is a tireless tireless tireless captain. he's at every meeting and everywhere i go in the mission and i'm all over this district. the man is there. i wonder if he even goes home. i want to thank you all and really commend the work that our captain moezer has done and especially chuck with all the events and those of you with lgbt community. chuck really keeps it together. with carnival and so i just want to say thank you captain, sir, police chief sir for everything you have done for us. thank you. >> hello good evening. my name is robert ortega. i want to say thank you for your presence here tonight. i always wanted to make very clear that i want to point out a few individuals that have made a mark in my life. i have been here 15 years in the county of san francisco and one of

for us at la cocina that are micro-communities and small communities with a city as diverse as san francisco don't have the micro-community to support it economically so you might have a regional mexican kri seen but not with enough mexicans to support that but not knowing how to move outside of that micro-community or an opportunity to move out they will stay in the informal bucket and not get to the asset generation. what make it successful? low cost of entry, flexible hours are things that you can address in the industry so we identified things that women need at our organization to be successful. one is a sharing community and san francisco is engaged in right now but leaves out low income entrepreneurs and as the ideas come about to share resources and find ways they're accessible to folks not comfortable in the media rulm and child care and ride share are huge ones and to develop resources or work with developers to bring in resources that others need and provide that need in lower risk than currently available. the current economic opportunities are really so high risk it's not a good

i won't give up and never will but this is great what we have come up here with our community and city and especially for our students that we can have an opportunity to move up and look forward at some things. not everybody is going to do three or four years in the college but there's some good construction jobs out driver's license. oh, i'll just go and be an engineer. we can see light at the end of the tunnel. it takes a long time sometimes to turn a big ship around but that's what we've done. i want to congratulate the labor movement it's something we can all be proud of. and i feel like crying be another and i want to thank everybody. >> thank you any questions or comment from the board before we refer this item? yes >> there was a further comment regarding economical concerns. >> i'll keep my comments brief. the nature of our certain regarding whether the local higher policy is in compliance with propose 39 is the assumptions that any policy that the board would adopt would have no negative economical impacts on costs or the expenditures of the bond program. we've identified 5 ma

the information on the city and community address that. then we think that individuals need to know about the make-up of the authority. how did it come into existence, what's it's mission, it's charge. we quantify that by giving it data of it's size and layout the mission statement that come from our documents and also a look at what this organizational chart looks like and then what the agency is responsible for doing in those 4 core funding strengths and that gives people a really good source of information. we'll probably add notation in the brochure that for additional information regarding the authority or the city, visit these websites. we'll direct them to a website and they want to be able to drill down. then we look at some top priorities. and the priorities obviously can change but we wanted priorities that can talk about the division and playing this leadership role in developing the city's over all transportation system including advocating for san francisco's priorities within the region. it really talks to the external role t

communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different parts of the world, like a gateway neighborhood. not just for the new chinatown, as it was called in the 1980's, but for russian-speaking immigrants, people from the caribbean. there are so many different mixtures of people, and i guess my district, like many other neighborhoods in the city, is kind of what draws me to it. and just the political life of people very passionate about their own communities and their life, but also interacting with others from around the world. it has been wonderful. i also am really a supporter of the arts, especially community arts, and just learning about other people's ex

city means so much to me and so much to everyone here. >> many hearts here are indeed broken. >> this was such a devastating day for the boston community and we are not a city. we are truly a family. >> arlene added these 3 balloons to the memorial after remembering something she saw on tv. >> image of the 3 balloons from the bomb site. first thing i saw was 3 balloons going up in the sky. everyone was like 2 deaths. i said there were 3. >>reporter: her gesture in memory of lindsay lu, crystal campbell and martin richard. >> 3 angels. if reaching up to the stars. >> memorial has grown significantly since this morning as people 10 to drop by and pay their respects. now everyone is just hoping that someone will recognize those 2 suspects. if you with like a closer look at the pictures just two to our web site. in boston, abc 7 news. >> the fbi has been inundated with calls ever since it released the image and increased traffic to the web site knocked it off license for a brief time this evening. 7 news reporter is here more with the investigatiofor us. >> the fbi took risk releasing the images presumably the 2 men in the video investigato