diane hadley chief of the division of san francisco aids in san francisco general hospital. dr. susan buck binder at bridge and at san francisco department of public health and kneel jewel ano and the first presenter and the chief executive officer of the san francisco aids foundation. >> good morning. thank you mr. chairman, supervisors. i will present some information today just to give you an up date on the data and you will hear specifically about the proposal in a bit as well. this pin wheel is important. it's as important as it is colorful because it represents all of the various partners within the community who are involved, members of the consortium, partnering organizations in the public and private sector as well as the steering committee members. to point out that no one entity no one organization, foe one group is. >> >> get to zero by itself. this chart shows the success in reducing new infections and reducing the number of deaths in san francisco to hiv/aids. and increase of persons living with hiv in san francisco and i'm not going to go through these specificall

good morning ladies and gentlemen, to introduce mayor ed lee please welcome san francisco resident nicole banks (clapping.) good morning, everyone good morning. >> welcome to the bayview. >> this is where i grew up and where i work and will and where i'm raising my four children as a single mom including but not limited to it nicole banks and i'm proud of the san francisco mayor (clapping) it is such american people your honor to be here with the dignitaries and our mayor ed lee we're here at the san francisco with wholesale produce market a place to buy healthy food i remember coming here and shopping with my grandmother as a child the produce market is a place you can get a good job i know that's when my family wishes if he can stay and live here in san francisco let me thank you a little bit about me i frup on potrero hill very close to where we are today just as my young chshlg children do i attended san francisco public schools and went to city college and transferred to sfusd i received a bachelor's decree in psychology and just implemented graduate school and received a matter of t

helen was a native of san francisco. her father immigrated from poland and born at mount zion hospital and attended uc berkeley and met her husband. she created the helen dillar foundation and grant and fund and support many programs and institutions, not just in the bay area, but around the world. she has been recognized for her creativity and looking for opportunity totion make contributions and her deep involvement in many areas in science, education and the arts. she was a chair of the whitesman institute of science in israel and friends of the american hebrew university and recipient of the highest honor from the american friends hebrew university and received other awards and recognitions not just in san francisco but throughout the bay area and honored with a lifetime award from the golden gate chapter of fundraising professionals. helen diller funded so many civic improvements in san francisco. the one that i am most familiar with is her incredibly generous gift to allow us to replace the dilapidated and tcial pl

or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scenee's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ food in san francisco isn't just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's

, i'm embarrassed to say i live in san francisco. i live in the city of richmond where the chief of police said black lives matter. he said this when he became an officer to protect his community. not one officer has done that in the city of san francisco. i took a ride along because i wanted to be an officer in san francisco and change the community but after seeing what this has come to, there is no way i can become a cop anymore. alex was not just a friend but my brother not by blood but because we shared this love for this city and we are both buddhist and we are both pacificist. it was unfortunate that he was killed by the police department. he was a volunteer for sfpd. for that i want to say i am alex nieto. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: good afternoon supervisors. i'm here to alert the supervisors and the public to something that the library has planned for implementation next month that is going to be very damaging to the public general he and especially to teenagers and anyone under 18. tha

fred blackwell the san francisco foundation and together with mr. membership miller that represents administrative review and the staff and mr. blackwell we're cohen a region a municipal approach, if you will we're not only looking at the academic around serving our students of color but looking at the municipal and our wrap around services the opportunities for the students in the city the reason i give this overview to everyone this is the first of many conversations we'll have here in our meeting and our committee meetings around my brothers keeper i'll is what it is noted it is not the mask bullet that will solve decades and decades and decades of under service of communities of color any brothers keeper is not a thing any brothers keeper is not a person my brothers keeper is not an accomodation of dollars which will be targeted to certain things if anyone is expecting to see that what million brothers keeper is our collective commitment to our communities of color to address historic under service to our students of color it takes on most forms

work for such a compassionate organizations and love going to work everyday some people say san francisco is the land of plenty they give jobs to the joblessly and home to the homeless and food to the folks it is where you can get a good education you've got to put your best foot forward that's where a i had to do mayor ed lee is an inspiration to many people making sure we have strong schools and neighborhood and making sure that san francisco is a city where we can outline call home as a mom education is at the top which my list i want to mayor to focus on i time thankful the school district is his work so my kids got a get a great education here i've heard that mayor ed lee is focused on houses (laughter) that's something i know something about because the mayor's office of housing i was able to get an affordable apartment for my family in san francisco close to the neighborhood i grew up being able to say in the city is the world to me i'm looking forward to raising my children here in my oppose community because of san francisco's investment in mayor edwin lee me and the support of m

she was a proud native of san francisco. fanny, she was born in 1915 and grew up in the fillmore district. and in the russian neighborhood. sandy met her future husband a new york native on muni. they were married on june 1, 941. they lived on webster until richmond in a home built by her father. they lived there happily only half block from golden gate block and a mile from the golden gate bridge for their lives. sandy was part of the community activities and a member of the sister god sisterhood and a member of the san francisco chapter where she served as treasurer. she worked at the memorial blood count bank and she and bob worked at the scene -- senior center. she lived a long century of a life from 1915-2015 among loving family and friends here in the most beautiful city in the world. although she will be deeply missed she couldn't have asked for more than living in this great city. thanks to her family for raising attention to her life. the rest i will submit. city clerk: thank you, supervisor mar. supervisors tanning

san francisco taking the lead on everything from signals. we had a strong directive in 2010 to take a big chunk of collisions we see on the street every day and walk first a strategy to protect pedestrians on the street from traffic crashes and the partnership and also a community and vision zero. we raise our game beyond the traditional traffic engineering tool and see looked across all city agencies to take the steps needed to protect all pedestrians. this has been a multi-agency effort as i said. here's a citywide steering committee cochaired by my colleague tim papandreou the policy making work on the initiative had strong support from both staff and leadership level from the police fire department and department of public works as well as supervisors and we see the need for vision zero in a number of buckets which are reflected in the community structure of the coalition so changing public policy including city and state legislation and we're looking to reengineer our streets, things like traffic devices and improve visibility crosswalk

so i'm being kind of forced out of san francisco. i just can't make it in san francisco and it's not enough help getting a job. i want to raise your awareness about how difficult it is and what a competitive job market is, more competitive in manhattan. you are competing with everybody here, the tech people and i'm talking about twitter and all of these tech companies, the last people that they are looking at is people like me. when you are driving into the city on the 101 or over the bay bridge, the first thing you see are billboards of men crawling around in their boxer shorts. the hardware programmer and ruby on rails programmer. the last people they are looking at is people like me who are older women in tech. i wanted to thank you all and congratulate all of you for your success and everything you try doing; you've tried to accomplish. we are also in the middle of a depression. even though we have these tech companies, it's brutal. i want to thank you all for everyone you have done and raise your awareness that this is not enoug

female equality we need workplace policies that reinforce women in san francisco we've made great progress half of the city's workforce are women and they equal the men outstanding women in our major city departments like our fire chief and public directing director we must do better in areas like information technology public safety and skilled crafts great jobs with great salaries but which are not followed as women's careers well this year my administration will identify and eliminate boyer's for women in city jobs with good salaries a public sector must lead the way (clapping) and today, i call upon our city's private companies to do the same especially our technology sector where gender parity and diversity are lacking prouvend san francisco pleads the nation on family friendly policies with guaranteed paid leave and health insurance and retirement benefits to working parents in 2014 i signed president chiu legislation to request family friendly work arrangements women shouldn't have to choose between a great career and family (clapping) and when they go home no woman should live in f

san francisco needs the arena. there is nothing like it in that part of town and a great destination for those in san francisco for those that live here and those coming to visit. i'm excited about the bay front park and great for families for them to enjoy and bring friends as well. it will be a great beautiful view and it's something that is great for the environment and really bring happiness and joy as well as bringing the community together in the southeast part of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> and the last person is palo castles schultz. >> good afternoon. >> i'm kidding. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am the business program manager for the san francisco bicycle coalition. i am here this afternoon to acknowledge the warriors and their development team as well as ocii and other city agencies as being responsive and respective partners thus far in the project and let you know that the transportation plans still do have some ways to go. bicycling as you know is the fastest growing mode of trans

of young people in san francisco and we've also lost a lot of young people in san francisco as well and i want to see a we can make sure that the widening disparities in wealth that we are seeing can be closed and that we can share what we actually are able to generate as well. with as many people as possible and that we can actually tell people to maintain their wealth as much as we can as well. often, in district 11 in district 10, district 4, in the southern part of san francisco, a lot of the wealth of work and him as middle-class families that are in their homes and i don't think we taken on the issue of how to help people deal with distressed mortgages even in today's climate right now. of the real estate boom. where there are still people struggling that we need to look at. so, it's also building middle income housing but it's also supporting middle-class people to maintain their housing. as well. he made great work together. a dancing worker rights in the city. the passage of the minimum wage law last year that supervisor kim helped to lead with the mayor into many groups on the

people actually overlook san francisco for what we've done. it's that type of work that we need to continue to do to make sure that we are making san francisco an easy place to live. i look forward to working with all of you in this effort in the year to come. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you supervisor autoload. now i'd like to a college supervisor from district 9, supervisor david campos. >> thank you. thank you mdm. pres. and again congratulations on your election. i also want to thank supervisor tank lighting just stepped out and thank her for her leadership and the guidance she has provided this board in the last few weeks. it is greatly appreciated. you know, swearing in a pretty exciting and i just want to congratulate all my colleagues from district 2, four, six, 10, all of the families who are here and the love ones. i think that being a member of the board of supervisors is the most amazing job in the world. it's a crazy job in many respects as well, but it's truly an honor to be in these positions so congratulations. i also wan

and i like san francisco. i went to new york and stayed there for ten years and then i came to san francisco in 1971 and then i like san francisco and i would like london breed as our next president of the board. she's fair nice and she works hard and fair for all the people, not just for one group of people. the chinese people like me would like to support london breed as next president of the board. >>next speaker please. >>hello my name's patrick connors and i'm here to speak on behalf of the nomination of david campos for the president of board of supervisors. i spent the last year getting to know supervisor campos during his campaign for the california legislature and during that year i was impressed with his ability to think on his feet, to be compassionate and calm in the face of some great and unwarranted criticism. he has served on this board for a number of years now and i think has proven his ability to offer his talents. which are many to this board, in a time when they're needed. also, he has show

people always come to san francisco to march and protest and in san francisco at kwanza i had my globe and [inaudible] and she showed me people are taking there and 928 people at san francisco state. they have pages of people that died with the jones town looking for a place to have housing and build and live comfortably who left san francisco around jim jones. most people think jim jones was a chinese man and most people were african-american and we never talk about that. nine days later killing them at mo connie and mill and we never talk about those people and we're ailing and suffering through that right now. san francisco must -- it used to be said in the lobby. san francisco must take care of the individuals. that's why that bridge willie brown is there. san francisco had the investment to really make sure that this city is really what america is supposed to be. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker cards. no they're deferred. they didn't waive. >> okay. >> good afternoon. i am with local 21. i am try to keep this brief. i'm the union rep for project managers, housing specialists

bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassionic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe good evening. >> that's what i like to hear okay. the regular meeting of the go board of education of the san francisco unified school district for december 9, 2014, is now called to order. >> roll call please. >> thank you, commissioners mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton

welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thi

and as we've already noted, it's no surprise were releasing this today in san francisco, so san francisco is number one this year. yes. >> [applause] >> in a moment you're going to see what a remarkable accomplishment that is as i go through some of these metrics. what i would like to do is acknowledge my co-authors who are with us today. minority rights and whose here. could you please stand. she's here back in the waiting. she did our work of putting the metrics together and a lot of the analysis and also join us as armand petrosian's, is an adjunct fellow with the institute. he projected two years ago that san francisco would move to number one so he decided to change careers away from being an economist and move back to san francisco to run the family business which is a sub center at in the west portal area. armand, carrier somewhere. there he is in the back as i do note that soap unitas, a 20 in the west [inaudible] area and armand cannot only sell you a sub he can also be be some economic advice. so, in the 2014 index there are really two top stories and they are technology and sha

>>> >> >> january 30th, 2015, >> >> >> city of san francisco >> >> january 30, 2015, >> local agency formation commission >> joint public utilities commission >> >> please stand by... >> city of san francisco >> local agency formation commission joint meeting with public utilities commission >> >> good afternoon and welcome to the joint san francisco public utilities commission and local agency formation commission meeting of the board of supervisors and commission. my name is john avalos chair of lafco and joined by public utilities commission ann caen. and lisa. we are broadcast by sf sf govtv staff. madam clerk call the roll. >> avalos, present, breed present, commissioner campos, absent. commissioner crews, present mr. chair, you have a quorum. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. that's a quorum for lafco. we can call the roll for the puc. city clerk: president cane, present, courtney, more an. we have a quorum. >> we have a quorum for puc and lafco. item no. 3. city clerk: opening remarks and discussion of expectations for the joint meeting. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you, this

san francisco supervisor john avalos said san francisco has been down this road before, with the america's cup. >> when it came to america's cup we expected there was to be a lot more money raised by the private sector to put on the event and they actually didn't raise as much money as they said they were. >> reporter: san francisco ended up losing more than $11 million. still, even if the u.s. olympic committee -- >> lyanne melendez reporting. the u.s. olympic committee says it will decide before the end of this month which city it will back to host the 2024 summer games. >>> some drivers for ride share services uber and lift share say they couldn't make any money on new year's eve in san francisco, saying riders were scared away by the potential for surge pricing. lift even raised the cap on its prime time rates for new year's eve. that's a first. but another reason might be oversaturation, just too many drivers competing for the same customers. it also might be that customers flocked to flywheel the redwood city based app for ordering taxi cabs. they say business was up 10% on new year'

or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. >> it seems like everyone in san francisco is talking about housing san francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone million dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the $207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher it's more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in san francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obvio

can you imagine surviving on the streets of san francisco? when we know it's cold in the chamber let alone how it is outside. have a great deal of work to do and i think that we as a board have a responsibility to make sure that when we talk about prosperity that we talk about prosperity that includes all of us. not a prosperity that is a prosperity that is leading the vast majority of people behind. that is the prosperity that we have in san francisco today. i will end with a great deal of gratitude to my staff because i think that they deserve the credit for all the amazing work that we have done. i know that for us this next year will be committed as we have been committed for the last few years to addressing this inequality. to addressing this gap between the haves and have-nots. and i know that we will continue to push the envelope even when it's not popular to push it. on that note i'm going to address an issue that was raised earlier. that is about a proposal that i just announced and i will be introducing next week. it comes from a ve