thank you, board president and district 3 supervisor, david chu. this is my tenth town hall meeting. i'm still energized. i'm very glad that it's here, combining our post street, chinatown, north beach, that sector, and i'm happy to listen intently to what all of the residents in every neighborhood want to tell government about their priorities. so i want to, first of all, thank all of you for being here, because it does take out from your day'jykyoi to involve you, but it also makesd9 q me smile o see so many peopleepg< here, bee that means that you will really are concerned, you want to engage with your local is important. that's important to me. so i want to thank all of you who are2+q i also want to thank the hilton, a really good partner in this, because they've done so many things, offering up your space, jeff. thank you once again for doing this. you're a good partner. i know you do things for our chinese new years, for even m.t.a. when they did the hearings for getting bidders to do bidding on our central subway. you had them here as well,

that are here today, so i am really pleased with the community efforts and by the leadership of david chu on this, as well. supervisor chu? supervisor chiu: i really want to thank those of you who have expressed concerns about this project. i think this project is better because of it. because of the issue of race, you have forced the city and others to make sure this takes into account all the different concerns that we have. at the end of the day though, to me, we know that in san francisco, we are losing our families, and we have to do everything began to reverse that trend, and this is exactly the type of project i think we need in a 21st century san francisco to assure that our parents, our young people, our seniors, and those from the community are taking care of in the best way possible with some of the best library and recreation spaces i think our city can create, so with that, colleagues, i hope we move this forward and move the project adds quickly forward as we can. thank you. supervisor mar: supervisor cohen? supervisor cohen: i am very excited about supporting this project.

i know the board president david chu is working on possibility this there -- possibilities there. i look forward to working with him. we've targeted efforts to revitalize areas and bring industries here with the tax holiday and proposal introduced yesterday relating to parts of the tenderloin to provide some payroll tax relief to encourage businesses like twitter and others to go there. >> the governor has proposed eliminating funding for redevelopment agencies. what is your opinion of the plan? what are your thoughts on the value of redevelopment agencies? >> i think the plan is over- broad. i do not support it as it relates to san francisco's model of redevelopment. our redevelopment agency does tremendous work in san francisco. a lot of projects like treasure island and what is happening in hunters point, those kinds of projects would be difficult to achieve without redevelopment. a redevelopment agency is the largest source of affordable housing creation in the city. it has been a huge asset. i understand there are other parts of the state where redevelopment has a different m

. >> good afternoon, mayor lee, board of supervisors president david chu and department leaders. i work in the mental health services sector, which provides cultural competent health services to the most vulnerable. our clients are of extremely limited resources, monolingual, non-english speaking, and in need of supportive services. we know we're in a budget crisis, though community agencies have already absorbed many cuts during the past year, already below critical levels. it's a good 97 of city dollars and a good investment -- the city's investment in community agencies leverages dollars deliver more services equaling cost efficiency. one out of four adults, that's 25% of our adult community, experiences a mental health condition in a year. that's over $100 billion in the u.s. let san francisco not be part of the statistic. preserve our safety net and prioritize our most vulnerable san franciscans. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is rose snead. i'm with the agency that angela just spoke about. so today i wanted to talk with you about mental health consultatio

the struggles with middle-market and talking with supervisor kim and david chu, we felt that was the appropriate tool because we had tried everything else in that district. this is a tool that we believe will be successful. twitter management, even though -- when we compromise on the six months of exemption, that was the right thing to do for the corridor. we have invited them and we know there will be other businesses because when you walk into their offices and you know how it operates and the engineers informed us of this, that operate in clusters. you hardly ever see an employee working alone. the applications companies are there with them. even in their current site they have a whole floor of other companies that are working with them as well. we think this will be the way to do middle-market, whether it is inappropriate tool for others, we will have to see on a case by case basis. >> he mentioned the possibility of supporting a replacement of the payroll tax. would that be a replacement of the gross receipts tax or do you have something in mind? >> we have a lot of loopholes th

i want to -- in cooperation, and also, of course, supervisor david chu has been talking about this forome time, asking our officers to take reconsideration of the cuts. so we've been working very closely with our director of the children, youth and family, and tonight we just want to announce that we are moving an additional $500,000 to the youth, summer youth program, and there will be 300 more slots made. we'll be able to divide that to make sure that chinatown gets enough slots for the summer youth program. you'll definitely have more. we're making those decisions as of today. you'll hear more details about it. there will definitely be more summer youth slots will aimed at both chinatown and all the other districts for the summer. >> mr. bonner, just in response to fees, the rec and park department does charge for special events. the rates actually for nonprofit organizations are 50% or half of what we would charge commercial organizations. over the last -- we actually haven't raised fees in a number of years, but what's happened is we've been gradually implementing some fee increas

david chu will attend the unveiling. also in atten dance will be members of milk's inner circle.n the 70s, milk used the store for his campaign headquarters and took calls from lgbting you. >> sansan jose's vietnamese community unveiled a sign today welcoming the world to little saigon. private donations paid for the sign, naming the area little saigon. ignited a controversy four years ago. a council member opposed the idea and suggested calling it the saigon business district. that sparked a recall campaign led by compiles exiles of the former vietnam. she lost the battle of the signs. she did not attend the ceremony. >>> crowd filled the civic center plaza for the asian heritage street celebrate. admission was free and so were screenings for hepatitis b. the help hep b three campaign has made huge strides in fighting the epidemic that could lead to liver cancer. >> he wants to put hepatitis to the forefront, and that's combating hepatitis b and c. so physician education and community education. >> alan: theepped be that one in ten asian people infected with hepatitis b, but sin

how about david chu, who is considering running for mayor, giving him nine months in office before he becomes mayor? you have people like bevan dufty, david chiu, even john avalon's common john campos, and ross mirkarimi, all had indicated an interest. so you have people on the board who want to run for mayor. do they go for the caretaker mayor, or do they put those interests aside and best themselves with a politician that has a good chance of being elected? with that dilemma in front of them, we saw what happened. they could not put their egos aside. they generally would with the caretaker mayor. that person would pose no threat of running against them. >> when the board met next week on november 23, the clerk of the board proposed a process for nomination for mayor, which the board debated, amended, and eventually passed. >> a board member read the nominated may not produce pig in the discussion or vote on the competitor nominees. if the nominee of a board member nominee has been withdrawn, the board member may no longer have a conflict and could return to the room and to dissipate

david chu says disposing of unused yellow pages cost san francisco a million dollars a year. opponents say it would hurt small businesses. >>> san bruno and millbrae residents could pay more for garbage. city councils are expected to vote today to increase garbage fees by 1.5%. that would be less an dollar per month. it lo l pay for additional recycling services. >>> next on the news at 5:00. muni fires back. the blistering response san francisco is giving to a state report questioning the transit agency's safety pleors. >> fire stations in san jose can't escape the city's budget problems. i'm amy hollyfield live in san jose and i'll tell but the cuts fire stations are facing up next. >> the arrival today of a major new aircraft that draws so much attention there is going to be a party. [ female announcer ] a revolutionary conditioner from dove. we've combined conditioner with a weightless nutri-oil treatment. to give 3x the internal nourishing power of our regular conditioner. new dove daily treatment conditioner. make friends with your hair. [ female announcer ] we creme bo

to be with us here today, our president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chu. tom nolan, chairman of the board and also dr. donald shupe, our professor of urban planning at the university of irving-los angeles and worldwide expert claim on parking. we're also joined by m.t.a. director cheryl brinkman. and we're also joined by supervisor scott wiener as well as chairman of the transportation authority ross mercuriami. we're glad you're all able to be here with us. we're also joined by leslie rogers, regional administrator of the federal transit administration. we also have jose luis moss covitts of the transportation authority, jim lazarus of our san francisco chamber of commerce is here, along with red rifkin of the san francisco city of public works and melanie from the department of environment. we had a strong partnership. there was no way we could do this work without a strong partnership here within the city planning and the port of san francisco that had a strong partnership with us at s.f. park and agreed to participate in the pilot program. we have a gr