our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantownlittle saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. 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 peo

rmoderating a panel discussion and a screening of the film "for the sake of the children" at san jose's japantownand it's definitely a documentary that helps see the internment of japanese americans at many levels. joining me now is the executive producer, marlene shigekawa. she is a producer, director, and screenwriter, as well as a literary author who wrote the first children's book in the us to focus on the internment, "blue jay in the desert." welcome to the show. good to see you again. marlene shigekawa: glad to be here. robert: i was saying earlier we have to be careful because we've been talking about the film a lot from these other events. so, give people an overview in terms of what this film is, what it's about, and what the take is on this, especially with the title, "for the sake of the children." marlene: okay, it's based on my family experience about the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii, and it's a little bit different because we not only talk about former internees but the descendants of those people. so, we have people from four generations and looking at th

we have latino, japantown, chinatown, great communities and people and now we have the italian, with supervisor stefani. we know we are in good hands. we want to to put this forward. it's long overdue. the history of african-americans, it's a significant couldnntributiocont. we want to continue that. >> president cohen: next speaker, please. hello. >> director of community development mayor's office. we're the office tasked with overseeing the funding that came out of the prop e funds. so we'll look forward to having approximately $3 million moving forward. we're also responsible for overseeing the report to set up the roadmap for the districts and provide administrative support to the c.a.c., which was established with the legislation. we're eagerly awaiting the opportunity to work with the community members. we think this is an exciting, unique opportunity to do so. and i wanted to put on the record our strong support for this piece of legislation. thanks. >> i'm tara fennell. i want to thank supervisor cohen for moving this forward and say that what the african-american cultural d

"today in the bay's" kris sanchez is live for us in san jose's japantown with more on what this means. if you count on the scooters to get around, what about that, kris? >> reporter: good morning, marcus. this is around the time we see scooter delivery drivers starting to drop them off. we found a batch upght, but if live, you may h aklgs the sidewe people dump them after they're done or sometimes they've been knocked over by peo to be included in an ordinance the city of san about today.he wild west, which is why city leaders want to harness the positive part of the scooters, and end some of the troublesome behavior that exists. they want to use existing technology, like geosensing. if you've ever had a shopping cart lock up on you in a parking lot, that's the same technology. one concern in particular is making sure scooter riders aren't riding on sidewalks or at an unsafe speed. the council will vote today to require companies like lime and wind to have a permit with the city, and the city also seeks to limit that sidewalk use. they want to use education, enforcement and technology