city to become the 44th mayor of san francisco. mark farrell as mayor and previously supervisor, has worked tirelessly to improve our city and maintain a vibrant internationally connected economy, keeping san francisco a true global city. mayor farrell? [applause] >> mayor farrell: thanks for having me here today. i want to congratulate everyone on the launch of global s.f. pretty cool science here as well. you know, as was mentioned, building on what mayor newsom and mayor lee did in terms of our programs, we continue to attract businesses to the city of san francisco. san francisco has always been a leader on the international stage. and this is just a continued commitment to that.

the second fastest improving city in the country is washington, d.c., right here. where 47% of the kids went to charters last year, probably 48% next year. almost half. and what local democratic leaders in those places have figured out is that if we want to succeed with low income, inner city kids, if we want to give them real opportunity, we have to change the paradigm. because we have all inherited a model of public education that evolved over a century ago. you know, the progressive leaders of the day a century ago embraced the cutting edge corporate model of that time, which was bureaucracy. they created these top-down, centralized monopolies with no competition, no choice for families. and no accountability for performance. and frankly, that's probably the best they could do at the time, given the technologies of the day, given the educational levels of the day. and it worked during the industrial era. but in today's world, where the bar is so much higher, if you want a middle class lifestyle, the bar is no longer a high school degree, it's not enough. and tha

what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving citytreets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. . >> we'll start with the pledge. [pledge of allegiance] >> thank you. >> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. fire commission regular meeting wednesday, june 27, and the time is 5:02. item 1, roll call.

said, which is there is a lot to do, that is why i left all my business career and focused on improving the cityalem and iam happy improving the city ofjerusalem and i am happy to tell you that in my term, in the ten years i have been met, we have dramatically change that momentum. it was a negative momentum. the gaps were growing. now they are shrinking. so if you look at the trends in the city i am very proud of the fact that i changed the trend and now we are dealing with the reality and we are doing a good job relative to where we were. and there is still a lot of work to do. let me ask you a simple question, how good is your arabic?” let me ask you a simple question, how good is your arabic? i don't speak arabic but i know how to speak to my arab population very well. you don't speak arabic. so 330,000 of your residents are arab but you have made no effort in ten years to speak arabic. i speak to them on a daily basis. i serve them in a daily basis. i serve them in a daily basis. can you see life from their point of view, really? you think you can? of course. so how would you feel if you we

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now

we are dramatically improving that situation. the citya lot of neglect in terms of classrooms not only for the arab population. the reality is, you see that the neglect is all over the city. and, if anything, i have pushed a button and we are developing, dramatically, hundreds of classrooms every year. and we are catching up with neglect, and year after year we are opening up new schools in eastjerusalem. and, ifanything, iam proud of the fact that we admit the challenge and we are dealing with it. i took accountability and responsibility and we are developing the city for the benefit of all children. here is a fascinating thing said by the president of your country, reuven rivlin, injune, first ofjune, 2018, he said this, "we have been saying for 50 years thatjerusalem is united, but we do not behave as if it is united." well, i'd agree with some of what he said, which is there is a lot to do, that is why i left all my business career and focused on improving the city ofjerusalem. and i am happy to tell you that in my term, in the ten ye

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> hi, everybody. my name's london breed. i'm now mayor of the city and county of san francisco. thank you for coming here today. i just received a briefing from our local, state, and federal officials on disaster preparedness and making sure that we as a city are prepared for anything that could come our way, whether it's an earthquake, whether there's a terrorist threat, whether there's a fire or any other emergency. many of the officials standing behind me are the ones that will be in charge to help our city move forward and address those particular issues. and one of the take aw

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, june 26, 2018. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you, madame president. [roll call] >> madame president, you have a quorum. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. please join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisable with liberty and justice for all. ok. thank you, madame clerk. are there any communications? >> yes. there is one to report. th

city of cupertino annually. it would generate money to help improve the roads and alleviate traffic congestions. apple did send a letter yesterday to the city of cupertino pointing out that the investments already made in the city along with improvements. the city decides whether or not to put it on the november ballot. you might recall the city already decided to do exactly the same thing. today in the bay. >> thank you, bob. >>> happening today supreme court justice anthony kennedy leaves the federal bench after 30 years. he appointed kennedy in 1988. the justice offer add swing vote. he authored the bill allowing same sex couples to get married. >>> taking you live to washington d.c. where the immigration battle is heating up. >> he says he is ready to talk about immigration with congress as well as nuclear weapons with iran. we are live with all of those developments. good morning, tracie potts. >> good morning. let's talk about immigration and border security. the president tweeting we need that wall with mexico because the murder rate is on the rise there. he also says he won't insist thoon

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. the june 20, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. board president frank fung will be the presiding officer tonight. he's joined by commissioner ann lazarus, commissioner dale honda, and vice president swig will be absent tonight. brad russy will provide the board with any needed legal advice this evening. at the controls is the board's legal assistant, gary cantara. we will also not joined by representatives from -- be joined by representatives by joseph duffy, patrick fosdahl, chris buck, and brent cohen. the board meeting guidelines are as follows: the board request

charter schools for education, new orleans, 98% of the kids in charter schools for the fastest improving city in the country, and sen. mary landrieu was instrumental in helping to make that happen. and the second one was washington dc where 47% of kids went there. almost half and what local democratic leaders figured out is if we want to succeed with low income inner-city kids, if we want to give them real opportunity we have to change the paradigm. we inherited a model of public education. and embrace the cutting-edge corporate model of that time which was bureaucracy. the top-down centralized monopolies, no choice for families and no accountability for performance. given the technologies of the day, education levels of the day and it worked during the industrial era and where the bar is so much higher, you want a middle-class lifestyle the bar is no longer i school degree and that model is struggling. in some of our big cities, it is being replaced by a different model. kind of a network model rather than a bureaucratic model and has several key principles, and real decentralization, meanin

and the ability to work with the city to continue to improve, you know, the communities that we are in. and in no other city, have we had that level of partnership. trust is really important and developing culture within the company, and being able to create a culture that is lasting and that is focused on, you know, helping employees be empathetic and be in the community and really giving back and working. for us, you know, that partnership with the city has been a very unique. on the fun side, right, our employees love that, you know, we had a large float at the pride parade on sunday, you know, it's a great opportunity for us to be out in the community in that way. and a lot of other initiatives like that that don't exactly exist anywhere else in the world. i would say, from our customer's perspective, we are developing a new center to bring executives and from around the world. san francisco, for them holds this, you know, magic as being a real center of global trade and not in the obvious ways that perhaps hong kong, or london once where. this is where the world comes for innovati

improvements to the embarcadero. time and time again, it is instead up to the friends and family who are grieving after loss to push for more. on behalf of our 10,000 members, we urge the city to do more and to do it faster. if even the loss of life isn't enough for immediate street safety improvements, our city is failing our people. commissioners, thank you again for bringing this to the attention and let's keep pushing our city departments to do more. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. any othermen comments, colleag? seeing none, then, this informational item -- let's move quickly to item six. >> clerk: item six, update from vision zero community groups. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: miss deluca. >> good morning, noonish, good afternoon. good afternoon, chair yee, and commissioners. i am kathy deluca, the project coordinator for walk sf. so first, i'll start with the senior and disability work group. so this group forms in -- formed in 2016, and ad vocates from several departments came together and decided we needed to do something. it wasn't okay that two

city to become the 44th mayor of san francisco. mark farrell as mayor and previously supervisor, has worked tirelessly to improve our city and maintain a vibrant internationally connected economy, keeping san francisco a true global city. mayor farrell? [applause] >> mayor farrell: thanks for having me here today. i want to congratulate everyone on the launch of global s.f. pretty cool science here as well. you know, as was mentioned, building on what mayor newsom and mayor lee did in terms of our programs, we continue to attract businesses to the city of san francisco. san francisco has always been a leader on the international stage. and this is just a continued commitment to that. i want to say i very much believe in this. as mayor, as a resident of san francisco, our city government needs to continue to reach out and continue to be a role player internationally as well. i just came back, last week, from a ten day trip to ireland and germany. i've been on many trips internationally as well as a supervisor and now as mayor. i believe it is something we need to be doing. we need to push the pedal forward as a city. and especially as

. >> from the city councilmember you just heard from to the police chief here at bart, city leaders want to improve bart safety. how they plan to do that remains to be seen. live in oakland, i'm kate larson. >> kate, thank you very much. the victim went to oakland high and dewey academy. the oakland unified school district superintendent said nia wilson was one of our own. in an instant the reprehensible acts of one person have destroyed her family and shaken our community. as we mentioned a march to downtown oakland formed for nia wilson. about 1,000 people turned out and some of the crowd marched down telegraph avenue. according to oakland police, a fight broke out between a group of people. officers deployed a chemical agent to disburse the crowd. officers detained two men who were later released. police are investigating two other homicides at bart stations in the last five days. new surveillance images show a suspect who police say sucker purchased another man at the bart station early saturday. the man fell and hit his head on the cement floor. sadly he was removed from life support yesterday

it is important that as a city we serve the entire range of seniors who need assisted living and i'm glad that i can work with mayor breed's office in improving our city's continuum of long-term care. with this additional funding from the mayor, our combined funding will start the process of finding longer term solutions to the challenge of improving our entire continuum of long-term care. in march this year i created a work group to further study the supply. the work will be housed in the mayor's long-term coordinated care council and meet monthly starting in august. members will include representatives from the mayor's budget office, the mayor's office of budget and economic workforce development, adult aging services department of public health, u.c.s.f. and private hospitals and foundations. and also non-profits serving seniors and home care provider organizations. i really look forward to working with my colleagues, mayor breed and the work group in the coming months to develop sustainable solutions to stabilize and expand the supply of this critical housing for our city's seniors so we can prevent our seniors from becoming homeless and

they sent a letter to the city council outlining improvements and contributions. city may be following the lead of some of its neighbors. voters in mountain view will decide in november whether to enact a head tax in that town. the money raised to be used for affordable housing. then seattle also approved a head tax, only to rescinded after retail tech giant amazon opposed it. >>> tonight, the city council could approve this idea and then it would go on to the voters in november. they would have the final say of whether or not to change it or to make the city -- or they could decide to table the issue, study it further, and revisit this idea of a head tax in november 2020. >>> should the city of cupertino asked voters to approve it? 39% of you say yes and just 1% of you say no -- and 61% of you say no. you can vote on twitter or comment on our trauma facebook page. >> -- comment on our ktvu facebook page. >>> if the tax is approved, it would take effect in 2021. they would not exceed 7%. the chamber of commerce opposes that measure saying it may hurt the legalizati

the san francisco bicycle coalition is urging city officials to make immediate improvements to traffic hot spots. they want the city to construct fully protected bike lanes along the embarcadero by 2022. ( darya ) a cyclist was killed after being hit by a pickup truck in concord early this morning. the crash was reported after midnight on san miguel road near systron drive. police say the man was crossing san miguel road when he was hit. the driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with police. police say drugs and alcohol do ánot appear to be factors in this crash. ( darya ) san francisco is cracking down on the city's worst vandals. a grand jury has indicted 7 men. the district attorney accuses them of vandalizing buildings in the city repeatedly. you're looking at some of the graffiti blamed on the group. the city says this crime is hurting small business owners... who find it hard to keep coming up with the cash to clean things up. the average clean up cost is about 33-hundred dollars. authorities say most of the damage is being done by taggers... and ánot by gangs. ( terisa )

the san francisco bicycle coalition is urging city officials to make immediate improvements to trafficy want the city to construct fully protected bike lanes along the embarcadero by 2022. ( darya ) a cyclist was killed after being struck by a pickup truck in concord early this morning. the crash was reported after midnight on san miguel road near systron drive. according to concord police the male cyclist was crossing san miguel road when he was struck. the pickup is described as a 1990's-model g- m-c truck.. driven by a man who police said stayed on scene and is men. the district attorney accuses them of vandalizing buildings in the city repeatedly. you're looking at some of the graffiti blamed on the group. the city says this crime is hurting small business owners... who find it hard to keep coming up with the cash to clean things up. the average clean up cost is about 33-hundred dollars. authorities say most of the damage is being done by taggers... and ánot by gangs. ( terisa ) more than 100 ice detainees in contra costa county will soon be leaving. the sheriff is canceling the de

thin are rapidly improving new york city south wafrd. that the' good. during the day there will be hit and miss showers in new england but not t concentrated rains that will give us a lot of problems. in the west we mentioned the 35 million at risk. we have the excessive heat warnings in effect for much of southern calornia, desert areas. phoenix and tucson are no longer in the excessive heat warnings. the heat wave continu in southern california. it is getting hot again in texas. how hot will it be today?n 118 palm springs. we cooled you down 3 degrees in the last three days.oo that's aat the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. >>> so we'll still have a chance of showers and thunderstorms today in areas of new england, but especially in the morning ho ws, the afternoon wel see things improving. a lot of areas will see tsunshine, begin to dry out. the heat returning to texas all the way to houston with high humidity also. >>> we continue all these extremes, but into the weekend we settle a little bit. >> sounds good

yesterday apple sent a letter to the city council stating what the company has done to improve sidewalks and crosswalks. the city is holding a special meeting at six tonight. >>> today in santa rosa there will be another active shooter training exercise. the drill is scheduled to start at 8:30 this morning. it'll end at 5:00 p.m. this follows another drill last week. now it's a multiagency training exercise with the police, the fire department, school officials, learning how to respond together to an active shooting incident. the police say they want people in the area to know you may hear simulated explosions, the sounds of screaming and other noise. it's all part of the training. >>> this is an interesting story. one man's job hunt is gaining a lot of attention. we will tell you what he started doing that led to hundreds of job offers. >> former trump campaign chairman paul manafort begins his trial today. what impact could it have on the president? we will have more on that coming up. >> good morning. you can see traffic is off to a decent start if you are driving at the bay bridge. j

things are rapidly improving new york city south wafrd. that the' good. during the day there will be hit and miss showers in new england but not the concentrated rains that will give us a lot of problems. in the west we mentioned the 35 million people at risk. we have the excessive heat warnings in effect for much of southern california, desert areas. phoenix and tucson are no longer in the excessive heat warnings. the heat wave continues in southern california. it is getting hot again in texas. how hot will it be today? 118 in palm springs. we cooled you down 3 degrees in the last threesunshine, begin t. the heat returning to texas all the way to houston with high humidity also. >>> we continue with all these extremes, but into the weekend we settle a little bit. >> sounds good. finally can maybe get outside because you cannot go outside when it's like that, miserable, bill, thank you. >>> house lawmakers plan to introduce a bill prohibiting federal agents having sex with people in custody. >> president trump travels to due buick kwa wh due buick, iowa.

passengers arriving in london during the morning peak time were standing, but the situation has improved in other citiesing heat had to stand and in manchester, that figure was down to 15%. the report also points out that since 2010, passenger demand has grown faster than capacity in every city of england and wales except bristol, liverpool and newcastle. earlier we spoke to the regional director of the rail delivery group. clearly there is much more to be donein clearly there is much more to be done in london. everyonejust wants a reliable, comfortable journey done in london. everyonejust wants a reliable, comfortablejourney and thatis a reliable, comfortablejourney and that is what they pay their money for and they should get it. that is why the industry is now looking at expanding the number of services in and around london for that morning commute. notjust and around london for that morning commute. not just the and around london for that morning commute. notjust the number of services but also lengthening the trains so there are more carriages so there is more room when people coming to london. cle

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apple employs more than 25,000 people in cupertino and argues they already do a lot for the city, citing improvements on sidewalks and crosswalks and finding ways to reduce traffic. apple has given more than $70 million to the city of cupertino. the chamber of commerce is also against the proposal, saying it was thrown together last minute and is asking which exact projects this would help fund. other bay area cities are considering similar tax proposals, and voters many mountain view will decide if it's right for their city in november. jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> police make an arrest in a bizarre plot to steal a shark from an aquarium. i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've always done... dream more, dream faster, and above all... now, i'll dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream

the underlying issues around safety are concerning and the steps are being taken in cities to try to improve so if you security but these this remains a key challenge i could see written in any nodding their heads there i want to i want to bring up this week that we've got many and i'll track this to you this is from peter who is talking about something that i need to brought up she said we need to scrutinize our traditional norms so peter here says well a lack of support from families combined with stereotypical belief that women should be concerned with domestic chores more than the corporate world is playing into this i pulled up this headline here someone who might seem to agree from life meant the marriage penalty on women in india wrote me what i'm wondering though is that india is not unique in this we see this all over the world and indeed even in the united states and western countries so what is it that makes india unique. there's definitely a combination of issues that i think one thing that's important is that the the felted unarmed and the guys didn't notice fictions and then in

we heard from city staff and nonprofit developers and projects were getting stalled with permits and approofal -- approvals behind other you projects. they can improve our internal processes. the city allocates millions of dollar to create this housing, but when the projects are moving forward through the city system they are thrown in a mix. the two sets of executive directors we focused on. one was in 2013 there was an executive directive to give priority to affordable housing. in 2017 a subsequent directive to streamline all large residential projects affordable or not diluting the intent of the previous directive. the board has recently passed the former mayor's legislation to streamline. ocd is leading the construction cost containment discussions and implementation of the directive. this comments those by focusing on affordable housing specifically. what the legislation does is very straight forward and simple to direct five city departments to give absolute priorities to 100% affordable housing development, second, it requires each department to designate a person to shepard the projects through the process, to tract those and third to requir

this will give businesses a break while they continue to invest in improvements in our city and meet city requirements and this would also help businesses to compete with the out of city operators and also our goal to temper the black market. the fourth point is based on the controller study. the controller study has shown that of cannabis retailers in san francisco, almost 50% of them are micro businesses making less than $1 million in revenue. these businesses combined earn only 3% of the total sales, so that is why i am exempting the first $500,000 in sales for all businesses, and i have made a tiered marginal tax rate as well. all businesses will pay no taxes on revenue from 0-$500,000, and will pay a lower rate on revenue between $500,000 and $1 million, and the fifth point, after the passage of the board's labor harmony agreement for the cannabis industry, i recognized that result sra cultivators and manufacturers offer union job, and that is why i have set a lower gross receipt rate for upstream business. this measure has a few other points. first, it sets initial implementati

. >> you as a resident have a right for the money to be spent to improve the conditions in your city and town. >> fox 2 news investigates following the money to see why pg&e used it for other projects. >>> another comeback for the oakland a's -- the 9th inning heroics up later in sports. >>> the highway patrol is looking for a hit-and-run driver who killed a bicyclist here in nantucket -- who killed a bicyclist here and witnesses want justice. >>> new information tonight about a deadly hit and run crash that killed a man in his -- on his bicycle in crockett, tonight family and friends are asking for help to find the driver responsible. amber lee is at the scene of the crash after learning about the 42-year-old victim. amber? >> reporter: frank, we are on san pablo avenue where the victim was hit. a memorial has been created and family and friends tell me they are devastated by the loss. >> it was a pure heart -- he had a pure heart made of gold, his beautiful golden dimples. >> reporter: she describes her older brother as sweet and loving. the 42-year-old worked for a wine merchant a

for over a decade, i worked for two supervisors and with the city to improve the neighborhoods in district five. the life i built in san francisco is a very different one than the one i grew up with in utah. i grew up with a single mother working odd jobs to support me, my sister and my grandmother. i never knew my father. i knew the fear of not having stable housing. we moved often. one day, when i was at school, i overheard a girl tell everybody that my mom was a deadbeat mom and she didn't pay the rent. that is when i realized that nothing is guaranteed to. by the time i was 14, my mother and my grandmother had passed away. and it took a community to raise me. so you can say, good or bad, i am a product of community development. [laughter] now i stand before you today, your community partner, your district supervisor, your neighbor. i am ready to jump in now. i'm ready to jump in to work with japan town, the valley, alamo square, and the fillmore. shout out! and inner sunset. ashbury, cold valley, i i think i said lower hayes. when avista, lower pack heights. thank you to residents of t

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. >> reporter: the san francisco bicycle coalition sent a letter today calling for improvements throughout the city. they say they plan to be there at the next board meeting to speak out. reporting live in san francisco, ktvu, fox 2. >>> a woman from san francisco who was in mexico city celebrated her first wedding anniversary and was hit and killed by a stray bullet. authorities say the shooting happened early saturday morning as james hoover when left a taco restaurant. a gunman started shooting at a bouncer at a nearby bar. that man was wounded but survived. the attackers escaped. james hoover one worked for nektar therapeutics. the company released the statement that says in part, tatiana mirutenko was a bright and passionate rising star on our investor relations team. she was willing to help on any project and had a incredibly strong work ethic. many valued her positive energy and sheer enthusiasm for life. >>> president trump arrived in belgium this afternoon. the first on the agenda is a today nato summit in brussels. tensions are already hide over tariffs as well as defense spending. the pr