and the community facilities district is a special property tax assessment district. it increases the property tax in a given area. unlike the i.f.d. which keeps property taxes the same way and takes away an increment in the future, the c.f.d. increases the property tax overall, so that's an important distinction. and once this district has been established, bonds can also be issued from the c.f.d. and to pay for infrastructure today and those bonds are amortized or paid off over the life of the district and the districts can be from 20 to 30 years in length. the goal here is to create the process by which a project sponsor may go to abag with an application to create a starter district where we say this is a citywide district and there won't be overnight a giant district and we're giving permission for the project within the city boundaries to apply to create one of the mini assessment districts on their property. that is it. just their property. no one else's. and this will require just a vote of that property owner because unless there's 12 registered voters on the

that they provide in other parts of the district, the community benefits district provides other additional services, an additional level of maintenance and improvement. that is why we are asking for renewal of this community benefits district. the mission miracle mile business improvement district, which is located on the boundaries of mission street between 21st and 22nd street is one of these community benefits districts i am talking about. since it began in 2005, the improvement district has been focused on a number of things including beautification, cleaning, maintenance, public safety, and greening projects. this asks the board of supervisors to approve the renewal of this special assessment district for the next five years. its 2011 budget is set at $85,000. to provide more information if i may, i would like to through the chair call mr. phil lesser, who is the chair of the district, to say a few words. thank you for the work you have been doing. >> thank you very much for sponsoring this reauthorization of the business improvement district. it is the heart of the mission miracle mi

i'm sorry, at the police district station level. commissioner mendoza: without calling anybody out, is there anything we can do to support -- you ha >> i think it would be great if we could bring the department of dph, the ta, the officer with us, you get five district stations and they establish is something they ask about for the next few meetings. i think that would be a good -- commissioner mendoza: the only thing i am apprehensive about is that we don't know what schools are going, and we can certainly say that this is something that we have got to deliver on, but we won't be able to say, yes, you're going to have three schools in your police district. >> and maybe there is a communication that we can have a select committee involve the captains as well. and you have another officer or -- excuse me. i didn't mean to call you off. >> it's ok. this is a good coincidence that happens today, because i met with diana from the superintendent's office. what we did for about an hour and a half, all of the schools are laid out on this m

them, as well as the school district has made referrals. during our pilot time, we also had a number of calls from parents who called hearing about the tarc center and had students that were true and that they wanted support for, so we have also worked with those families to get them connected over the summer and to really work specifically on a transition plan for the upcoming school year. what we're hoping is before the upcoming school year to provide all our young civil with backpacks, school supplies, which will be partnered with the containers work that is happening right now, and we are working on getting some alarm clocks and some other tools that will be good for them to have to help them with getting back into school. i do also want to make mentioned, with regards to the process which the is mentioned earlier as far as the kids coming into our center and getting assets or what have you, one of the primary focus is on our program is that we hold the hands of our young people. i know sometimes a lot of people speak against that, but

we worked in district 11 schools in the amazon area. sunnyside, and sothe sunset district.ria is looking at the enrollment. if the school has over 50%, we want to make it realistic to ask the children. >> is there a handout? >> id don't have the power point, but i have a fact sheet i can get out. and i can obviously get you copies of the power point afterwards. we work with the model that most safe routes to school programs huge. education, encouragement, enforcement, engineering, and evaluation. our program is focused on safety, teaching pedestrian safety skills in the second grade and biking skills in the fourth grade. there is walk to school day, back-to-school day, and enforcement is self-explanatory. we tried if it does infrastructure improvements, and evaluations to measure our program's success. through their role at the county transportation agency, we were awarded another $500,000 to continue the program through 2011 and 2013. the thing that i want to stress is that at the same time, the policy is going to change at local schools. this will make it much more realis

enigmatic district 10. this district has great weather, a football stadium, beautiful views of the bay, colorful history, and a community of outspoken activist, but the area is struggling over how to deal with environmental health problems, crime, poverty, and concerns about a i have one great grandchild. i think that should tell you i have been here a while. >> have always loved this neighborhood, and it just so happens that i married someone who loved this neighborhood, too. sort of the fall of each arm and the history of the buildings. the trees and the architecture resonated with me. >> i stayed in the neighborhood, went to school year, and i just continue to work in the neighborhood. it is a great neighborhood. >> i think we probably have more children and most seniors than most other districts. i would say we have energy and wisdom. we have a great deal of new asian families and older italian families, people would have been here for 80 or 90 years. and then leland avenue, which is very interesting be

if this is about the school district doing something, the school district should start paying a little more on their in-kind services. with that, why don't we move this item with recommendation to the full board? madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this committee? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor chiu: thank you. with that, this meeting is adjourned.

i cannot say that just being a historic district protect everything. it means that there is another layer of bureaucracy that people have to go through if there are going to make changes to the assault of the building, and then there is an opportunity for community members to voice their opinions about what is going to be done. one of the things that's dogpatch is concerned about is the development on third street and some of the proposed height that the city is proposing. we would like to see a stepping down of that height limit adjacent to the historic district. the biggest issues for dog patch right now are the proposed ucsf hospital that wants to be placed at the north end of dogpatch. they do not have to follow the planning codes of san francisco. that is not to say that we are inherently opposed to ucsf and what they potentially bring to the neighborhood. it is just that we need to be aware of what their plans are. >> in our show, we have heard a lot about the challenges facing the people of district 10. let's hear about the proposed solutions. >

and district 8 throughout district 8. what that has meant is i think that fewer people want the street fairs and parties. even john stewart in the daily show made fun there are straight families moving to the castro complaining about the sex shops with dildos in the window. it was called. there goes the gabor hood. there is truth to that. its sad that the the castro is losing its character. >> once every 3-4 years the issue of sex toys in windows has a flair up and dies down. i don't think that that is an on going problem. i have a daughter and she's a real fast learner, started her terrible 2's a 15 months. down the road we will be walking downcast row and i will have displays to explain to her. i'm cool. if you have to explain hate red and war, the stores like rock hard and phantom will be a piece of cake. >> as we see the changing neighborhood no longer an irish working class neighborhood. some would argue its less queer, if you will than this has been. there is an intent desire on the part of in particularly the lgbt

which to me means district means district, not one particular parcel. and second question is, since this is going to be a special use district if it passes that applies to a parcel and i understand kind of the purpose behind it in the sense of being able to have the center support additional uses is that currently the zoning doesn't allow. but what ability do we have to rescind the district just for a moment and if the lgbt center goes out of business, let's say, not that it will, but we have had these situations before with conditional uses where the conditional use goes with the property. i assume it answers here. >> i'll answer both your questions. and the first question about this one parcel and the city and the commission has authorized several s.u.d.'s to this. and 1500 page street was a special use district and a variety of others that are code that are filled with a lot of them. and this has been approved to form. and we believe that additional controlses on the top two floors and will create vibrancy to the neighboring community. if this is loc

, the community college district and the bay area air quality management district, so 65 cents of every dollar of new tax increment flows directly to the general fund. the idea on the table here, remember, this resolution doesn't create the i.f.d. but just createses the committee to study and come forward with a policy. we would be looking at what the appropriate percentage of set aside for an infrastructure fund would be. and to give you a preliminary idea on rincon hill, we have looked at numbers with the help of a special tax consultant. if we were to set aside 35% of the net new increment, just 35%, so not even all the money the city would receive but a smaller portion, we could support over the lifetime of the build out of the rincon hill plan an initial bond offering of $20 million and pmillion for about $76 million f infrastructure money. from an annual perspective, we would look at revenues of about $252,000 at the inception of the district annually to at the end of the district about $8.7 million annually. that is a lot of revenue that could go to infrastructure. that is just t

all of us in my district, they have not been able to move forward. i am not voting with this in the expectation that immediately legions of people will be hired. there has been a strong standard that has been established to your that we want to see this area are being mediated. this is an area that you can live and thrive and as you would in any other part of san francisco. i want to thank the stakeholders, particularly, the liberal community who got their hands, rolled up their sleeves, and said that we don't want to stand on the sidelines. we want to honor the working class families that we have lost in san francisco and particularly in the african- american community. i don't think that we will ever see that restored. i want to really think a lot of people. commissioner lee roy king is here who has been on the commission four years. there is leadership in this city. time after time again, challenging those of us in positions of elected office and a point of office to move forward and to make things happen. i think about someone that i watched as a

we worked and bryant elementary which is in district 9.on carver, the bayview hunters point neighborhood in district 10. we worked in district 11 schools in the amazon area. sunnyside

i have seen a reluctance of district attorneys on the trial level. this is not a policy, but individual attorneys that do not want to call anyone from the police department crime laboratory. making a very easy for the defense in many cases. but it is not the way the thing should be. because of the reputation they do not want to put someone in front of a jury who says that they are from the laboratory in the newspapers all the time. supervisor chisupervisor mirkarl that making the crime lab independent would help its reputation? >> yes. many smaller jurisdictions are paying huge amounts of money to support very sophisticated pieces of equipment that they do not have the money to purchase any more. you could have a regional facility here and the city would wind up making money. that has happened in other jurisdictions where they wind up charging a fee for service. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i appreciate that. colleagues? thank you very much for your help. >> it is clear that our major structural problems are played out and to fix these problems w

or out of the district.his has never happened before in california. >> well, the state is definitely in trouble. so we move to something that seemed to have happened that had a positive effect, at least in some stories that we read on your reporting, john. so tell us about the hunters point development out there. >> well, the big news is that on tuesday the board of supervisors on an 8-3 vote agreed to accept the environmental impact report on the project. and it's -- the impact report's been in process for a couple of years. they had -- the meeting went 11 hours, and tons of people talking, but at the end of the day they voted the approval. and that is probably the biggest hurdle left to actually -- >> belva: what is it they voted to do? how big is what they voted to do? >> well, what they essentially voted for is to say we can do this project, a project that is going to put out on the old hunters point shipyard, is going to drop a totally new neighborhood right there, 10,500 homes, better than 24,000 peopl

if this is about the school district doing something, the school district should start paying a little more on their in-kind services. with that, why don't we move this item with recommendation to the full board? madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this committee? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor chiu: thank you. with that, this meeting is adjourned. . >> forgot no. 2. silver is nothing. there is no having made it and so we beat foreman. i love the competition. . >> american made has really taken it on themselves to green american cities. >> we have a new organizer for the city and county of san francisco. oh, mayor as well. yeah, that's part of the job description. yeah, mayor of san francisco. >> the city is extremely concerned about the emission of green house gasses and making san francisco a sustainable city. >> we need to find other ways to create energy without harm to the environment and this is one source. >> we have over 2 megawatts of solar on various city buildings. we are looking at tidal power and we're beginning to look at geothermal power. >> we're on the

a district steam loop would most likely be gas-fired heating system. it would basically have the same impact as a power plant in terms of fossil fuel burning. you would not call it that, you would call it something different. instead, the district steam would. >> the motion has been made. is there a second? >> it fails for a lack of a second. is there any thing else in regards to power plants? >> i will move that we do what he did. that is a motion. >> the motion as a maid that the original language will be amended if it is included and removes fossil fuel references only to district heating and cooling systems. can we take that without objection? that passes. there's one final amendment regarding the additional standards with regard to to the project in of standards. will we take a roll-call vote on that? >> i can read for clarity what the languages which will be discussed. one slight caveat added, to the extent that final remedies have not already been selected, the board of supervisors shall conduct hearings regarding the potential final strategies

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assign to the police districts there are 2-4 assigned to each district. within the assignments they break it up by neighborhoods so there are at least one assistant da assigned to work with the groups and the police in a particular neighborhood. the lower haight group has 2 people they are working with and others that have worked with them. what we have done is have the assistant da's familiar with the issues in a particular neighborhood. and it changes. it's different from one neighborhood to the other. one neighborhood it may be drug dealing another it may be prostitution. it may be assault, autoburglars whatever it is the da is familiar with the issue and works with the neighborhood group and the neighborhood district station to brain storm how we can alleviate this problem. in the lower haight, we worked with valley and the lower haight association and northern station to try and have stay away orders enforced. stay away order is a condition that a judge sets when someone is convicted of a crime. part of their sentence and part of their condition of p

district 8. district 8 is well known as one of the city's most beautiful and desirable areas the heart is castro street. dollar is much more to this district. the district includes the mission delores, duboce triangle. corona heights. upper market, eureka valley. noe valley. twin peek. diamond heights, glen park and the san jose gererro area. because it's such a large area we can only scratch the surface in our half-hour program. we will will introduce you to the beautiful attractions, vexing issues and unique plans for the future that make district 8 a special place to live, work and visit. >> i view district 8 as being a little like maybury in the castro it's gaybury. our neighborhoodses are tightly woven. there is a lot of connection of people and awareness of what's going on in the world and the state and locally. >> there are so many things about it. its beautiful. got great views. of the 3 places i have lived 2 had spectacular vistas of san francisco which we appreciate. >> initially when i

about 80% of district 6 residents are renters. and so i think that's the highest rate of any district in the city. after the vietnam war, a lot of people found a point of entry in the tenderloin. and so there's an extremely vibrant southeast community in the tenderloin. it was great to get to know more people down here and realize that there were so many artists and musicians and really creative people live in this area and that there are families. i like the semi-industrial character and because it's convenient and also i dj around here and i like the clubs and bars and that sort of thing. we hope that all three areas complement each other and that mid-market is not the dividing line between north and south. jennifer low: welcome back to district sf on sfgtv. this month we're at the asian art museum in the center of san francisco and the center of district 6. it's a wide area in the city, one that many people just drive through, with locked doors. but when we go inside mid-market, the tenderloin, and south of market, you'll see t

my background -- i have been in the school district for a little over 20 years, and all of that time is spent in alternative education, so i have always worked -- i can do in the county programs or in the continuation schools with students who for a variety of reasons have been marginalized, and it has always been a frustration to me because in settings that i work in, it is about relationships. it is about really digging deep and understanding that there are youth, even though we do not like to think about, there are youth who have experience complex multiple trauma in their lives, and it is not as simple as they do not want to go to school where they do not want to learn or whenever we say, so it is really exciting to me to see that we are now looking at this as a city challenge that we need to all work together and bring whatever our pieces are to the table, and yes, it is true that san francisco unified school district has not been able to solve this, and i can say for me personally in my background, it has been really frustrating -- early in the game when i would have these one-