city. i don't want to have to move to oakland or to move to richmond to raise my family. i want to be here in my city where i was born and raised. so, thank you. >> thank you, ms. berliner. >>> good evening, supervisors. my name is fernando [speaker not understood]. i'd like to a first of all we fully support the integrity of the community based process in western soma including the innovative housing, the height bonus system that was developed. we reject a reduction in the affordable housing height bonus that the integral to stabilizing the community and we look forward to working with you and seeing you all working together to reach solutions and meet them for structure needs of the community. i'd like to make a couple comments about the presentation that was just made from planning department. one was it's i think it was alluded to the eastern neighborhoods process where sites receive up zoning, there is a tier 1 of fees that remain stable from the base to the height bonus. and here somehow we ended up with an inverse equation where the base height has a tier 2 and then

city goals. including keeping families in the city. and the situation that affects our school, the middle school feeder plan. so when we look around our neighborhood and see the strategies in place to grow our city. we see an effort to attract high-tech companies and the highly skilled workforce they need to survive and prostper. and keeping families in the city and improving integration on potrero hill. something that all of us have an opportunity to do. the city has been fantastically successful attracting high-tech companies into the area. the blue line is the outline of the daniel webster attendance area. this is 16 high-tech companies. all names you would see. behind us is dozens of other small companies that will be successful like these ones. their employees are the life blood of their companies. the scarce resource is highly skilled and educated workforce. there is no surprise that following behind these companies is huge boom in the area. this data is straight from the planning department. and from potrero hills and there is i

of all of the american cities i have traveled to, i have never gone to a city that is more from the wheel than-- familial. everybody in new orleans knows everybody. they are all related -- that is my cousin, that is my uncle. it is great. i love that. it is a walking city. it is a family city. everybody hangs out. literally everybody in new orleans knows everybody. half of them are related. you know where i am going with this. how could you have an environment that is that familial and have so many of these problems? >> you know, it is a paradox. that is one that i have yet to come to an understanding of. tavis: so you are lost. i am not the only one. >> he described it as -- as many times as my family has moved as a military brat, i have never been anywhere where people are so inviting and open. i made friends on the first two days i am there. tavis: it is a warm, loving city. >> absolutely. this is a paradox. when you find the answer, please call me. i would love to know. tavis: what you find then, what are your greatest challenges on a day-to-day basis? what are your greatest challenges, what are your

families in this district. we have passion and insight and we ask that the city engage with us of the families that we face in keeping families in the district and our city. >> thank you very much, any other members that want to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed [gavel] i want to thank the district for your presentation and the parents from potrero hill for coming. i remember sitting on the board and questions of 6-12 and the questions of the parents and this came up when we had leadership high school. and i know this has come up through multiple periods. and i look forward how the school district moves forward on this issue. i think we have closing remarks from supervisor cohen. seeing no other comments from committee members. >> as we begin to close out, thank you, parents for coming out and presenting your perspective in district. and it was hopeful to see you at the table, and between daniel webster and bessie carmichael and the southeast part of san francisco. that we can continue to come to the table and have thoughtful and key conversations. i want to highlight on, there is an expre

i am proud to be a part of this city family. say, that the year of snake is also a time of reflection, and introspection and collecting one's self. think we had a lot of benefits last year, passage of bonds for the parks. and able to pass for the first time funding for affordable housing. and here in san francisco we passed a bond for city college. this is a good year to reflect on that and as we encounter the next phase here in san francisco. which is a time of incredible growth. thank you very much to everyone that has been a part of that effort. i look forward to working with you. thank you, and happy new year. [applause] >> next i will like to bring an individual who was a professor. an individual who i believe used to be a radio host. and of course is a member of the board of supervisors grounded in family values, supervisor eric mar, district 1. >> thank you, good evening, everyone. happy year of the snake. i am eric mar from the richmond district. i always think of lunar new year and chinese new year because i think nine

city a good name. too many seniors, too many families are living in our cities. so i wholeheartedly approve of this project. i'm going to work behind-the-scenes to help the developer and i'm going to work behind-the-scenes to bring this information to our seniors and our youth. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. with your consent today, we will achieve an important and meaningful milestone. the mission rock plan generates more than $4 billion for the port and the city over the the life of the project. it creates more than 11,000 jobs and 10,000 construction jobs. it's a thoughtful planning and collaboration with the community. as with the ballpark development, we have established a great working relationship with the port staff, mayor's staff and the greater city family. nothing of this magnitude can be achieved without the contributions of many many people. it truly does take a village. if you can indulge me for a minute i would like to express my appreciation to some of these folks. from the mayor's office, the mayor himself, jennifer mats and most importa

what we're looking to do is my understanding is find a position within our city family that's vacant today. >> okay. and also you did mention that this chief data officer would be working with city agencies and existing positions within those departments. can you just talk us through a little about your conversations with some of the departments and whether this is something that they feel they will be capable, you know, of working with a chief data officer. >> that's a great question, supervisor tang. we've had a lot of discussions through coyth with other organizations. so, we've been doing this a few years now. what we've seen is there isn't a heavy lift in creating openness. this is something that might actually reduce work in agencies in terms of responding to sunshine requests. instead of being responsive, we should be proactive and put that information out there and reduce the number of inquiries so that people can actually go to our open data website and get that information without ever interacting with staff. it has the ability to reduce our costs. the number of calls coming

an san francisco being such an international city, many of our roots are from immigrant families. we understand the problem. we did do something about it and continue that effort. i want to thank the us attorney's office for being here. and so many of you who have from the community done and continue to do what you can do to end human trafficking. this is such an important challenge for all of us. and because we here at from immigrant families; we hear from immigrant women and girls. the stories are real. they come across international borders. and so san francisco being the city that is not only aware of this, and aware of international traffic that occurs we have to continue doing something about it. if anything, our goal is of course to educate our youth; to make sure they understand that they have partners in both city government and in the community to help. those that are lucky and can survive; all of this and when they end up on the shores of san francisco, if we can find them and provide them with support and help them change their lives. and then get to the business of th

city. we have grown actually to about 36 employees now, triple the size. most of the families in the city are san francisco family. we've been able to give additional dry cleaning and laundry for them in addition to her company as well. so, we worked closely to actually monitor what items would be cleaned, worked through how we would do deliveries and whatnot. it's very important to me that the business that we do stay competitive in the city and that we are giving local businesses and local city a first opportunity to work with any organization that comes into the city. i'm appreciative we're given this chance, keeping ourselves competitive as an industry. you know, focusing on livable wage. i know there's been a lot of talk about that. we're a dry cleaners, we offer health insurance and 401(k) for our employees. the other thing i want to ask going forward, any opportunities that can drive more business or drive new employment that we do take advantage of that. thank you. >> thank you. please come forward, next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. james widen, marketing

, this city without our elders, with our families is not a city. so, i implore upon you not to take any money from transportation against housing, and to keep the higher impact fees on developers. thank you. >> thank you, mr. robles. >>> hi, i'm [speaker not understood] warner with ccf architecture and i'm here speaking on behalf of design professionals in the area, also for cal cutter [speaker not understood] i think stated this case earlier last week. he couldn't be here today, but we are over 40 to 50 design professionals in the western soma valley district area and with the new proposed draft language, this would no longer allow design professionals to expand on the premises and that would mean that people, architects interior designers, landscape architects, engineers. and while we support arts activities and pdr use, we also think we can and already do coexist very simbiotically. we would request a western soma plan that would allow design professionals as a permitted use as long as they don't exceed 5,000 square feet in any single building,

also with our other official city family, dennis herrera is here, phil tate, of course, took a time away from sacramento to be down here. thank you, phil, for being here. i know we have a representative from betty yee office, board of equalization that has oversight on assessor's office across the state. jose cisneros, treasurer of state. you sent david augustine. ben rosenfield, our controller, [speaker not understood], our budget director, of course. and then harvey, thank you for being here as well. and just all the members of the board that are here today. i think nadia is trying to get down here as soon as she finishes the final ratings on other companies. but i first of all -- it really is a necessity to have someone at the helm of the assessor's office. i personally want to thank zoom wynn who has been in that transition for us. she's a real delight to have work with in this time period. she's held the office together and i want to thank her permly for being here today. (applause) >> a great job. you know, it comes as no surprise probably for all of us that i've chosen carmen. car

we've been thinking with the city family about how we really maximize just the amount of dollars that first come to san francisco because we -- it's very unclear, will it be a block grant, a competitive grant dollars that are administrated by the state, if it is a block gront, what would be the distribution, so we're trying to maximize the amount of dollars that come to san francisco and then in particular, that we have strong partnerships and places that have strong partnerships between the school district through their power provides like the puc, that emphasizing partnership at the local level is something else we've prioritized and quickly, the last bill that we wanted to bring to your attention is sb43 which is a bill that was also introduced and didn't make it to the finish line last year, that's focused on a community renewable energy supporting the creation of local renewable energy projects and i'm happy to provide you more detail about that but given the interest of lafco, that's something you should be aware of, so i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you,

that san francisco, it is my understanding that san francisco would like to be knowns as a family-friendly city and noe valley is a family community. so, before -- and i also would like to mention that the muldevane academy is an award winning school for safety. so, that is -- if that is a primary concern, that is addressed in the fact of their sterling record. but kathleen and myself did canvas the neighborhood. we went to farmers market. we talked to parents. and the need is very great. and for myself, it's a wonderful feeling that i am helping to fill the need of my community in providing a quality -- a quality school for the children in the neighborhood. so, it is my hope that you will approve this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. okay, seeing no further comment -- no public comment, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. >> yes, i'd like to ask, i don't know, either staff or mr. goldman. the plans that were submitted are labeled for the conditional use. but mr. goldman just testified that the work has already been completed on the building. so, really, the plans that were su

financed shelter for homeless family and in 1995 worked with the city to obtain the first ever federal funding for subsidized child care for homeless family at holy family day home and became the executive director of that institution. i believe donna is an inspirational, compassionate extraordinary person who reflects the best of san francisco values. it is quite an honor to have donna not only as our neighbor in district 7, but as my good friend. a few years ago when i was in a serious pedestrian accident and needed to have a third operation to repair my crushed neck in redwood city -- this is norman -- [laughter] >> it was she who found time to take me to the hospital even with her incredibly busy schedule. everyone should have a friend like donna. actually, donna is the type of person that is a friend of all people. please join me in giving her a heroine's welcome. donna cahill. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you, supervisor avalos. it seems the older i get, the less i'm sure about. but there's a few things i'm sure about right now, and one of t

another concern that the city family has is regarding the investment in what will essentially be two stations in the same location. there will be a surface station in the short run that caltrain is building as part of electrification and the low grade station at fourth and townsend also will be under that green spot on the map on townsend street. so, that could be confusing, could be a duplication of efforts and it's something we would like to try to figure out a way to avoid. i think if i might, that basic concern with this, with electrification and some of the approaches that are being taken is simply not precluding future options. and that that's our biggest concern here. we totally support electiontrivctiontion cakes. we want to make sure it happens as quickly as possible. ~ we don't want to allow it to happen or our concern it happen in such a way to preclude future benefits for the city and that's the biggest concern right now. >> mr. ram, do you see any rationale from a land use or transportation respect of having two stations as opposed to [speaker not understood]? it seems w

all my family shared a great loving for havana, a city they call home. but contrary to my family, i grew up dreaming of traveling and wanted to leave havana for dublin, where some of the most famous writers i keep admiring were born, and also dreaming of paris where my grandparents, my grandfather, spend many important years of his life. also i want to move to my place, i don't know what was the name of that place. every time people call me la englicita, the little english woman because in cuba, in the caribbean, they didn't make any difference. all the irish were english. and all the people from asia were chinese. all the jews were called polacos, polish. that is interesting because the irish were part of the spanish community in cuba, but usually they didn't make the difference. so they call me and they call my father el inglis, the english guy. so when they call me that and when my name suffered many different spellings. later on in life, in the 70's, i had many identification cards with names like coffee that i didn't drink at the time, so i began dri

all the community members, members of the city family, members of the board standing behind me, my parents. my partner justin, but i especially want to thank mayor lee forgiving me the opportunity to represent the district 4. i also have to be completely honest here. this is a very bitter sweet moment for me, as someone who has lived in district 4 for over 20 years, i'm happy to represent the district that i grew up in, but on the other hand as a district 4 resident i'm sad to see supervisor chu leave as my supervisor. everyone says that work is work and you have to separate your personal life from your work life. for me especially in the past five years, work is very personal . when i first started working in district 4, people came to the office and wanted to rebuild the playground. i remember my own fond experiences at west sunset and thought people should be able to enjoy it as much as i did. with the pool open, i couldn't help to feel jealousy because that's where i learned to swim and then eventually teaching lessons. when i go to my parents house and look outside of the living room

city. we see statistics of families leaving our city. the more we can do, certainly as a father of three, the more we can do for the families, the better off we are. thank you, guys. >> can we add park alliance? >> i was going to recognize, i want to thank again dpw, rec & park, and principals. thank you for coming out. and we have san francisco park alliance and maria who is a fiscal sponsor for this project. and it's rare to sit in a chamber of all parents. and it's rare to have that talking about families in san francisco. if no further comments. we will close this item. would we like to make a motion to continue to the call of the chair to close this item? >> thank you, we will open up for public comment at this time. thank you for that reminder. any members of the public that would like to speak? there is a timer on the other mic, it's a little bit more helpful for members of the public. >> yeah, i am a parent with kids. we would rather be on the playground and riding bikes and probably head out after a snack. but yeah, just part of

your family knows you are okay and you could be rescuing the city. having a family plan. twice a year we say, change your batteries in your smoke detectors and replenish your supplies with new food. your spouses say what are you going to do in a disaster? if you go to school, the school has a plan set in place. if a quake hits they will evacuate to certain areas. you will have to pick them up at a certain age. talk to your family. don't wait for a disaster. you should talk about it tonight. everybody in an event of a disaster meet in the front or back of the house. as soon as you know everybody is safe if you want to get something that's fine. as long as you know everybody in the family is safe and that person wants to use a garden hose to put out the fire. if you don't this is a possibility. a single story wood structure building is the safest to be in but has to be bolted to the foundation. everybody know where the water heater is. if you haven't change it in 10 years it might be free standing it has to be elevated 18 inches and strapped the top and bottom third. used t