san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying t

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

she began in san francisco and rose from san francisco. we will claim her and we are very proud to have her as part of this fight. she signed a letter as well with senator feinstein. anyway. thank you. if you will just say a few words about some of the letters you submitted and the position of your boss, that would be great. >> thank you. the senator shares her concerns regarding the noise burden for california residents created by the next generation system. >> lift the microphone up a little. you are taller. >> sorry. >> there you go. >> is that better? >> yes. >> she has been weighing in on this issue since 2014. it was wrote in 2016 re: northern california specifically in asking the f.a.a. to take practical steps to address these noise impacts on residents in the bay area. we wrote again in 2017. that was focused on the southern california metroplex but we did refer to what was going on in the bay area as well. i don't believe we received a response to the 2017 letter. [laughter] >> we wait in on the reauthorization for the f.a.a. and

some are in san francisco. one you have the most effective tools is to ask people to pay for it and invest in better public transportation for everyone to get people out of the codes and into other transportation if it is muni or bikes or the ferry. i am a huge supporter of the ferry. it is difficult to fund without did you tolls. there is going to need to be a longer and better conversation with residents to make a program like this work. i would like to see a grandfathering issue. when you visit treasure island those not in below market rate units are working class. it is isolated and there is a lot of development slated to come over time, although it hasn't happened in my eight years in office so i think there is a little skipticism on my part how quakily this will happen. the residents are without the amenities they need without a grocery store, after school program, school, things that will come with the new residential development as well. we need to provide the best transportation services to the island.

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. >> good morning. today we are here to member -- to remember, commemorate, mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] >> there will be a lot of speakers and a lot of people we need to acknowledge, the first off, i want to start with a moment of silence. [speaking foreign language] >> let us pray. [speaki

and we in san francisco, you in san francisco are reminding the world those differences are the gift. thank you very much. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you. what an honor to have so many amazing speakers with the stories and the inspiration, and i am really honored to represent an amazing city filled with so many incredible people. and here to speak at this time, i'd like to introduce the cochair of the harvey milk democratic club, honey mahogany. [applause] >> i want to say a special thank you to the family of harvey milk and george moscone, especially jonathan moscone. thank you so much for inviting me to speak here today. it's a real privilege to speak amongst such incredible leaders, visionaries and public servants of san francisco. today, we are here to honor the legacy of two great leaders: george moscone and harvey milk. while their deaths were premature, they live on in the movement they established and continue to inspire. george moscone was our first mayor to ensure that the diversity of our city was reflected in city hall. he appointed people of color, days an

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> well, thank you all. we are going to start. welcome to the bristol hotel. my name is randy shaw. i'm the director of the tenderloin housing clinic. see, i wasn't -- see, i thought, i didn't prepare remarks. why don't we keep people moving in the door here. thank you all for coming. it's really a special day because the bristol is a special property. i don't know that a private bath hotel that would be for lease for formerly homeless people, and the bristol hotel, i would say half of these rooms are bigger than any of our 21 other hotels that we lease. it's big rooms, quality hotels. right where you're going to take a picture, there's going to be a kitchen installed. it's in the building department now. i want to give some background how we got to this point. i think it's important to realize that when we met with the owner to do the hotel, we agreed on a certain price, but then, there was a private donor who was willing to pay more. i contacted mayor breed the day

in an international way, he was not just a mayor of san francisco, but he was the mayor of the san francisco bay area. i hope his name shows up on the international because he deserves it and he deserves that recognition. thank you very much. [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> and now representing the police department, the one and only commander david lazar who worked at central station before hey, what's going on cloth. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. good afternoon mrs. lee. i hope i'm not the only one that noticed we started today gathering when it was cold and now the son -- the sun is out. we are so grateful. i want to say on behalf of our chief of police and our entire san francisco police department, we too have mourned the loss of our mayor. he loves the police officers. he left the san francisco police department. he was committed to public safety and making sure our communities all throughout san francisco were safe and one of the big take away is that we received having him as our mayor was community policing. and the importance of the officers knowing t

on a greyhound bus and i came to san francisco. i couldn't get into bars, i didn't know where they were anyway. i landed on a place, compton's cafeteria. an all-night diner. i would say that is where i first -- i saw these beautiful women and i later learned that they were born as male. but i became friends with them and i learned about their lives. they had decided to match there outside with their insides. they had what i call a courageous nests. by deciding to live the way that they know that they are, they were started by being abandoned by their families. they had no family, and they came to san francisco, and their lives became completely criminalized. they couldn't get jobs. they couldn't go to school. they couldn't get any kind of healthcare. so this play will tell the story of their lives. when you see this play and hear these stories and learn about them, you will understand what informs their choices in life. i will say that these women were sex workers and they ended up in prison, sometimes. in one case, in many cases,

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to san francisco to see this show.o say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical

, requesting the san francisco airport commission, director of the san francisco international airport, and chairperson and program coordinator of the s.f.o. round table to report. >> supervisor tang: thank you, and sorry, if we can please excuse supervisor kim from our land use committee. okay, we'll do that without objection. item 1 has been called. supervisor safai, did you want to start off since you called for this hearing? >> supervisor safai: yes, thank you, chair tang, i appreciate it. i want to make a couple opening statements, but before i do that, i want to also thank all the people participating today. again, i know chair tang recognized our airport commissioners. i don't think this has ever happened before, so i want to thank commissioner crayton, eleanor johns, and guggenhime for participating today in this. i would say that this has been probably years in the making. there was a significant adjustment that was made to the way in which flights are governed, monitored, directed, and essentially implemented in terms of takeoff and landing, but essentially a lot of the conve

we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the

san francisco's seven square miles. we can get this in a little bit faster fashion, and i think that community and city leaders came together to establish a working group to assist us with troubleshooting and most importantly to discover ways that we could improve. and since the establishment of this group, the ambulance response time has improved more than 25%, and i am so happy to hear this -- excuse me, more than 26%. and what we have done is we've been able to maintain a high average of about 90% since 2017, and you know, i think we're going to only increase our response time from this as we move forward. and the new ambulance deployment facility comes as a fulfilled promise that i believe we as electeds have made to the overall san francisco community when ed lee was still with us. and he committed to funding more e.m.t.s, more paramedics, firefighters and of course the important 911 dispatchers, in addition to the equipment, in addition to the vehicles. these people are needed to carrie ocare carry out the heroic

we all deserve a home in san francisco.[applause] >> in conclusion, as the chump administration tries to strip away our rights, it's important we all remember that we will continue to be protected in san francisco through our leadership , through our office, and the work that each of you are doing every day. together we can remember our trans resilience and that we are never alone. i hope you will join us for this important work because we cannot do it alone. volunteer with local programs, get involved, volunteer and give because we all need a fierce cheerleader. so together, let's make sure that no one gets left behind. everyone deserves a safe place to sleep, wellness and a community that celebrates them. now it is my great honor to welcome our wonderful mayor, lyndon breed. [applause] -- london breed. [applause] >> thank you. aren't we lucky to have such incredible leadership for our office of transgender initiatives here. we really appreciate you. thank you. thank you all for joining us here today. we are here to celebr

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoythe magic of the. >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoyagic of the >> this has been a dream in the making, especially for our general manager, for many, many years, to be able to allow residents of the tenderloin and western addition to be able to walk and skate at civic center plaza and experience a little slice of an east coast winter. >> it truly was a one-of-a-kind collaboration between willie b. productions and the city departments. he said i want to challenge you to come up with something bigger and more fun, and something in such a historic location right here, right in front of city hall. this is amazing. >> we starting off by leveling the entire plaza. it was about a two-week process to get the area brought up to a dead level because the ice risk itself is not tolerant of any change in slope, because the water would build up at one end. then, we brought in these refrigeration panels that we can circulate a brine solution in to bring the solution down to colder than 32°, and then, start spraying water on it, which, for the last two

, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show t

but nuru says san francisco is still in the midst of an emergency.how, then, could a pr company your department hired near-perfect score when it comes to cleanliness? mohammed: we continue to work at this every day. these are situations that no one of us created. bigad: but forgive me, mr. nuru, i didn't hear an answer there. are you familiar with the jbr report? mohammed: oh, yes, i am. bigad: you've been paying jbr upwards of $400,000. mohammed: and that data is being used to make decisions for the city around cleanliness of sidewalks and neighborhoods. bid:overeedles and human waste, and a pr company you paid says san francisco is spic and span. mohammed: there are many parts of our city that don't have some of the things that you are talking about. they might have sampled some of the nicer parts of the city. bigad: city auditors helped design those surveys, but now even they have concerns the findings are not accurate. they're now partnering with public works to overhaul the way san francisco measures cleanliness. ♪ when i, i wonder, can i talk t

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoyht, everybody. we're going to call the meeting to order tonight. welcome to the tuesday, december 18, 2018 commission meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. my name is ben bleiman, and i'm the commission president. if you are a member of the public, you can fill out speaker cards or you can just come up when i ask for comment. we do ask that everybody turns off their cell phones or put them on silent, including staff. thank you to sfgovtv for sharing this meeting and we'll start with the roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: for the record, commiser

and here in san francisco. and everything i do and will do to start a family and future businesses will be here in the city. i have never been incarcerated and i have been an example in the community and you are showing that the artists and incarcerated are more important than the regular citizen. i will not have the opportunity to work on the projects in my community and i urge you not to pass this on your vote and to allow for all local project ts in the county and city of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i respect chinese formative action and we are a 49-year-old civil rights organization and servicing l.e.b. community members in the immigrant community. i am the director of advocacy. we believe that this road map for the p.l.a. must inamendments to advance racial and economic justice and equity. i believe your offices should have received a letter from our organization stating the importance of local hire. it is key to addressing issues of communities of color and immigrants who face multiple

i love san francisco.ay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy.. >> my name is naomi kelly the single-story for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored united states and excited about the future. >> my name is is jack listen and the executive director of a phil randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in san francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the community members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. i worked in he's mayor's office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of san francisco state university and mayor brown as

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed incom

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoye >> president cohen: good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. please come in. take your seats. i want to welcome you, welcome you to the december 11, 2018, meeting for the san francisco board of supervisors. thanks for joining us here today. madam clerk, could you ple

i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that ener , adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get

san francisco is an amazing place.we know that if we continue to support our small businesses, we will be an even more amazing city. we also know that there are some times that there will be challenges. that is why we have our police chief here to deal with some of the challenges that exist as people are enjoying the holidays we want the entire experience to be incredible. we want you to come and park and take munimobile, we want you to walk, but we also want you to be safe and make sure we are protecting your property. without further ado, i want to introduce our police chief, bill scott, to talk about the plans for the police department during the holiday season. [applause] >> thank you. first of all, i will start with where the mayor left off. shop and dine in the 49. it is christmas on the holiday season. it is my favorite time of year. people get out. it is all about togetherness. it is all about community and we want everyone to be safe in doing so. i have a few simple tips, basic tips but if you listen and pay a

from san francisco might suffice. >> what would you like to see?he city and county of san francisco to say the statue longs to the private group, not the public. >> he says if it must stay on public property, please change the plaque. >> reporter: we asked him whether they might be a path forward for these two cities, with this long relationship. >> that is possible i think. >> reporter: ktvu fox 2 news. >>> checking into the weather, nationwide right now you can see the areas near the areas that are impacted by weather as of right now, and most likely in the next 24 hours, and that includes up around the great lakes and out throughout new york city and the northeast part of the country from the carolinas north, out in the rocky mountains, we have some snow and a not a real bad trave tomorrow we have seen worse. it is definitely not, there are spots, hopefully you do not have much traveling to do. hopefully you are where you want to be. if you are you will get some read if you are here. averages will be in the 50s but the rain will develop in the l

the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> you guys ready to light a tree? it's that time. all right. so good evening, everyone. my name's phil ginsburg. i'm the executive director of your san francisco rec and parks department, and i want to welcome you to the 89th, let me repeat that, 89th annual tree lighting right here at mclaren lodge. so let's start with a big round of applause for the young teen people musical company, and its director, on their recent first place win at san francisco's youth arts summit. they are an amazing, amazing organization, and i'm particularly grateful for the hanukkah song. so i'm so honored to be joined tonight by our amazing mayor, london breed. [applause] >> and our rec and park commission president, mark buell. [applause] >> and so i want to start by acknowledging all of the special people who are here with us tonight. these are folks that make this event happen that makes your parks the best park system in the united states, so they deserve some acknowledgement. let me

i'm jennie wheorely, and i represent the city college of san francisco. we are here to support this charter amendment of free city college. i want to just give you a little bit of history. in november 2016, we'll all remember that some bad things happened in that november , but one really good thing that happened was that prop w was passed by 62% of san francisco's voters, and it was a luxury real estate tax taken to fund the free city program, making city college free for all city residents of san francisco. it has since been a wildly successful program, allowing thousands of new students to attend city college. some of those students are here behind me today. >> supervisor safai: thank you. yes. thank you. next speaker. >> one minute or two minutes? so good afternoon supervisors yee, stefani, safai, and kim. i'm a member of the city college board of trustees, and i'm here to speak in support of our amendments. i want to thank everyone in all their work on free city and also my colleagues on the board for making this a reality. this program is really abo

i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy. - >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that