my name is thomas harper, i work with the chp subdivision solutions sf working with low income housing as a temporary desk clerk. i also am an entrepreneur working on my small business street studios which is expanding to become a program that will support other low income youth in poverty who are creative to rocket into that area where they can sell and produce their own creative works. i feel that i speak on behalf of other maligned young very low income people of my age set. when i say that last year i was homeless in the shelters and now i have supportive income housing, i am transgendered and i speak for that subset as well and i'd like to be able to say that more than has ever been appropriate before, the children are the future. people say that but at this point the people of my age set who are going through these difficult things are also the people who are really linked into the technology, into google, into self-education, these sort of just free spread of information things, and they are the ones who are solving the problems. they are the ones who are coming up with solution

working. first of all, i want to thank god for his grace. i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved in juvenile delinquency. the majority of the kids i work with our gang members. i was formally -- formerly a gang member who grew up in san francisco. we all have stories of guys involved with the gang. everyone has a different story of why they joined. my thing is, i believe it works for me to be involved with kids who were in gangs -- i worked with all of the shot colors and i had a goal while i was there. it took me 10 years before i started to transform my life. in the meantime i have the goal that i wanted to be out here. i wanted the opportunity. i was given a life sentence in 1979. i was involved in gang and i caught a murder case. 15 years to life -- and i came here in 1979 and i got out -- and i have been out for almost five years. in my heart, i knew i found a solution when i was incarcerated. and there are different stories. some of the kids joined the gangs because they want to fit into something. some of them don't have a family, and the

i worked with him when he routinely received death threats. people believed he was trying to help gang members. the lapd called him a hug- hugger. i will repeat everything that they have said, not because of sore afraid of using profanity but because it was a different lapd. it was rumored that the mexican mafia was allowed to meet in his church and that he held guns for gang members. and he was helping gang members across the border. i am certain he knew where the body of jimmy hoffa was buried when you got done listening to the rumors. now, the lapd uses home with industries as an integral part of its anti-gang efforts. not all of them, not 9000 members, but i can tell you this, homeboy industries have their annual benefit to honor people in the community as well as former gang members, the person they honored was chief charlie of the lapd. unless you think that was an anomaly, the year before they honored the sheriff. there is an alliance between community-based organizations, and law-enforcement. this is not enough. there has also been in t

i was really trying not to be emotional, but all the work they do and all the time that i spend, and it really is just me being a mother, and i'm very fortunate to have my family, to have all my friends, and the greet teams that i work with. i am really fortunate to have them in my life and without them, without having support i wouldn't have been able to do a lot of the things i have been able to do, and also to be surrounded by dreamers because you know to have that inspiration, to see them, to see other people dream and dream big it really inspires me and i always feel that i'm not doing enough because i am surrounded by these amazing people. and -- i'm happy to see my family here. because you are my family. i'm so far away from home. my family -- they live in arizona, and today i have my son with me and this is chanto and he is representative. i get to have home with me everyday. i love my children and my grandmother -- one of the really important lessons that i learned and i carry with me a lot is when my daughter was born she was only a few months old, and we were with my grand

and you know, all of the people at the pier you know, they did all of the work. i kind off steered the ship but they did the work so, i really give them all of the credit for the success of pier 39. there is no question about had a and i thank you very much. i'll -- i have great memories and i'll keep them and i appreciate this. thank you. >>> (applause). . >> commissioners in a little bit of sad news we are and hope that we are going to be able today to adjourn in honor of search people we have loss in the last month, those include francis alwrote oh,-steve chu who died in his early 50 exps a port employee and john kellogg who lived well into retirement and both walter new man and steve injury regarddo of the by deans family who also passed away last week and so if i may asked those two to our adjournment i'll like to add those to our report and that concludes my report. >> is there any other public comment? >>> item seven b informational update on jefferson street. >> ladies and gentlemen i would like to introduce john thomas the department of public words works

i worked on christmas for every day in every day. it was one of our wiggest shows on christmas afternoon . we looked forward tompt we had christmas with our families that morning. they are not working 16 hours. eight hourhifts for the most part. arrange your christmas around it chris your inlaws one day and parents the next. >> that was your choice. when it is yours it is different. >> certainly we made a good choice to do this show on this holiday weekend. coming up. hoping to pay that holiday bill with your tax return. come up with a back up plan. i.r.s. warning forororororor@a >> are you looking forward to the upcoming tax refund money? don't hold your breath. they're warning if dc doesn't get a debt done. tax refunds for 100 million americans will be on hold. tracey you say this is going to put and economic recovery on hold. >> shame on congress for putting the american people in this position again. 30 million people waiting to know if they did . dangling right now. how the heck do you file your tax return. it is it a simple tax

>> i would say i really enjoy working at all. what i really is try to oversee everything and make sure you see everything that goes out so you catch mistakes that might occur before they hit the dining room. >> rose: like what? >> someone not doing something the way you want it. someone not looking as nice the way you like it. a kitchen is hustle and bustle, not like cooking at home. that's why many people -- >> rose: (laughs) >> that's why people think they want to be chefs. they enjoy too cook. it's more of a -- it's like a sport in a sense. there's an energy the kitchen. there's team work, it's demanding and there's timing. everything for a table of six has to come up at the same time. >> i think it's more like war than a sport. >> rose: what do you mean war? >> well, off sense -- we talk about being in the trenches and it's highly pressured it's intense and doesn't stop until it's over. it's not like a sport where you can say i played two sets of tennis, i'm out of here. >> you work like a team. >> it's the same athletic abili

i worked hard to sharpen tennis and skiiing skills. i was proud the year chris said you ski faster than the master. [ laughter] >> we got up early to be the first on the ski lift. at my wedding he said he would be happy by to perform a libyan liberation dance to celebrate the success of the revolution. [ laughter] >> he inspired me to travel and work inter nationally. i filled out an application for the peace corp. during my senior year because he had. he taught english in morocco. i taught math. we talked about the joys of living and working over seas. we spoke french together. later he helped me get an assignment with a pediatric a.i.d.s. group. now i work in a county hospital in stockton caring for patients from all over the world. like chris, i am genuinely interested in listening to their stories and learning about their lives. i was really hoping he would still be here. i dreamt of someday working as a detector in a country where he was ambassador. i was looking forward to showing off my growing new family. our

thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is ben schaefer, i work with the mission collaborative, i want to echo my coworkers' ben and kendra just cause. my partner and i who rent a room in the mission are living proof this process needs to be reformed and also the fact that when you are a tenant who has been continually harassed by your landlord and you are then in a mediation hearing with said landlord still being harassed in front of a mediation judge at the rent board, something has got to change. this is a particularly hot button issue for myself and for so many of us who work in housing justice because if somebody from the rent board can stand here in front of you and actually say that this issue has never been addressed or they have never heard anything regarding this issue, it makes me livid, absolutely livid. they should be well aware of this. supervisor olage has long been invested in this issue just like the rest of us who are also invested in it, and this ordinance needs to pass regardless of politicking about it, regardless of when it's presented, where

i love the work of westwood. so i love their work because they did something, but they saw something that was happening, rebellion tight, and that mix of conservative with the art still. i love that, so it has influenced me. for example, in london, i saw a black trench coat, and in the front, you say black is not for children. black is bad, and everything like that that is ridiculous, so i told them. i must say that one for me was a learning experience. i love it. >> london has changed, as every city has. you certainly will not have any of those bankers wearing bowler hats and numberless. more to the point, london out is tremendously diverse. paris is becoming in admitting that it is more a diversity, and there's a little line for me quite hidden away the says i'm very much a parisian or i'm interested in parisian women, but not quite sure that i ever met a parisian woman. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that my education, i have been looking at old movies that i love. we speak about the reputation of

asked that i take over this work, i jumped right in and working to bring me up to speed on everything and that i see myself as much a steward of his good work as i am bringing my own value to the operation. >> thank you for your service and looking forward for the hearing in the new year. supervisor olague? >> i just wanted to thank the commander for all of his work and at least the initial spaces of implementing this cit program, so i want to thank you for all of your work with that. thank you. >> and you know, so, i just want to also hope that we can get beyond the embryonic phase and see how it can work effectively to further the information around the use of compassion and kind of when you are reaching your hand in the tool box it is one of compassion and that sort of intervention as opposed to one of actually using an additional weapon and trying to deescalate the issues. >> and as michael from the mental health association says that this is a program that just has not been fully implemented and i think that once it is that we will find that that really sufficient and somebody me

i work for another planet year round. i'm also the artist transportation manager [speaker not understood]. and i live at lincoln way [speaker not understood], the outer sunset is my neighborhood. and i frequent those businesses every day. you know, just to speak a little bit about the concern about that, that neighborhood, you know, i personally make a map. actually the first four years i made a map. the last year the business association created our own map. i passed out in the two weeks leading up to the festival to make sure every department head knows where the local laundromat s the local bar, the local hardware store, where to go if they want thai food, whatever. my phone rings 10, 12 times a day leading up to the festival during art build with people calling, they're coming out of town to work. where do i go to get a good hamburger, whatever. so, we make a really concerted effort. and at the request of my boss, i went to -- i presented a petition at luka deli at the corner of 20th and irving to ask that the business

i worke on christmas for every day in every day. it was one of our wiggest shows on christmas afternoon . we looked forward tompt we had christmas with our families that morning. they are not working 16 hours. eight hour shifts for the most part. arrange your christmas around it chris your inlaws one day and parents the next. >> that was your choice. when it is yours it is different. >> certainly we made a good choice to do this show on this holiday weekend. coming up. hoping to pay that holiday bill with your tax return. come up with a back up plan. come up with a back up plan. i.r.s. warning fororororororor this family used capital one venture miles to come home for the holidays. that's double miles you can actually use... sadly, their brother's white christmas just got "blacked out." [ brother ] but it's the family party! really jingles your bells, doesn't it? my gift to you! the capital one venture card! for any flight, any time! that's double miles you can acally use! how illuminating. what's in your wallet? let me guess, am on

because i work around it sex. i saw that what was showing, it was the men in this world where the woman was strong. then have to be equal of the men. and i wanted to show it. there was some interest in like a blazer, a jacket, double- breasted. you have the men's jacket with the inside pocket. it is a pocket for the wallet. the women did not have that. why? because the men pay at the restaurant. but can the woman they, too? i think there was a lot of stupid things -- not stupid, but the things that were intelligent but one time that changed and was changing. and the vision of the woman about the man was changing, too. some men were not accepting their femininity. does not mean that they were gay or whatever, no. it just means that men can be sensible, but they have been traumatized by their education that wanted to make them as a john wayne, you know? apparently. it was very sensitive in reality. you have to be sensitive anyway. but to look real mature like that. so i wanted to show the first collection i did. for

have known you for yeast and i know that we will continue to work together for many years to come and i want to thank you for your open mind and i want to thank you for doing what you thought is right and i want to thank you also for speaking your mind and just again for all that you have done for this board and for your district and for our city and with that, thoi we have a lot of colleagues that want to think let start with supervisor campos. >> thank you very much mr. president and i'll try to be brief i know all of us have something to say here. i i want i want to say to my colleague and friend christina owe walk key that it has truly been an honor for me to sit here with you and to work not only with you but with your amazing staff in the last few most. you know the thing about being appointed to the board of supervisors and i have never gone through that process and how crazy and demanding that must be and for those of us who get to this point and normally you go through a campaign process before you get to serve on a board and that has it's o

i am pursuing a master's in social work. i have that lens. we need to heal our communities and take those answers upon ourselves. everybody has already -- we sure this in perspective, but definitely, we need to create community anchored solutions. that involves a discourse with policy makers. as people of color, we need to be accountable and to be positive role models. greek them on the bus and not be scared of art -- greet them on the bus and not be scared of our own people. we stereotype ourselves and we are price ourselves. we need to be accountable and we need to respect each other and what with integrity. those are our kids. that is our community. we need to be those role models for those kids. if we lock ourselves up in the ivory tower, in the institutions, we are not providing -- what are we providing? we are not providing those alternatives. yes, a lot of the work that community agencies -- they are out there. you do not have to be a community based agency to be a positive role model, right? a smile goes a long way, you know? if a kid

it's been wonderful working you. and i want to add in the thank you's, so thank you for all of the goodwill you have generate from the other groups, you are not just working with engine hering here in your assignment and is but with all of the other division and is i hear so many other good things coming to me about your work with planning and real estate and all of these other division and is getting thing done and accomplished port wide and shoe for for everything and i wish you the best in your retirement. (applause). . >> i'm in charge of the facilities and -- group alan had been in my group for william like -- i joined the point in 2,002 so almost ten years and he is so pleasant to work with and he always had a solution to the difficult problems. anytime i used to go to him, alan can you do this? it seems kind of a complicated problem to me, he said yeah, let me think about it and look at it and within a few hours, he would have a solution by hen and so allean is very talented and a great person to work with and he ma

working with you as well. good to see you. we are joined next by mr. polson. i heard this is your last meeting, you're going to hawaii, good luck, (singing( ) fly the ocean in a silver plane. the islands, when wet with rain, remember we will miss you here, and all your work with disabilities (singing) we will be alone without you. maybe you will see the water blue, blue. and you will have a lot of warm climate. and it will make you smile in the island sun. and i hope but most of all, you have lots of fun... whether i'm disability right, disability wrong, whether i find a place in the city, i've got to be me, i've got to be free, with disability, i'm willing to try, do it or die, i have to be disability free. our world -- is waiting for you. i know you won't fall down. you won't settle for disability. if you could have it all. i've got to be free. you've got to have a better disability, willing to try, do it or die. you've got to be disability free. thank you. see you later. >> thank you so much mr. poston, you always brighten our day. aloha. do we have - this is