city's sunset district is one of the locations that has been hit hard by these property crimes sot<katy tang supervisor: "i do know that we are in the sunset district which many will consider a very safe district. however we are not free from these property crimes that occur"> these park smart flyers with information on how to make your vehicles less attractive to auto burglars are being placed on cars. it is a part of the auto-break-in prevention effort. will it be enough to deter theives? this shop owner says...sot right now any property crime valued less than $950-dollars is considered a misdemeanor offense...making the job of deterring auto burglaries even more difficultsotin san francisco haaziq madyun kron4news ( darya ) in the north bay... fire damages a home in santa rosa. flames tore through three rooms of a large home on stonecrest court.

. >> supervisor katy tang: thank you. i think it's pretty good idea. speaking about beginning the process earlier, just given the sheer number of things we learn, whether it's mid-may or afterwards, i just don't support moving the budget process any earlier. i don't truly believe that we will collectively achieve any better results from doing so. so i commit to working with supervisor cohen. i also want to speak to the blas recommendation regarding having our board similar to sacramento city council passing or adopting policy recommendations, that analysts could look into the feasibility and present a vetted list to the board later. in the past, we have adopted similar types of resolutions, but i think they were too broad. right? it was all the members of the board just said, yes, we support public safety. we support homelessness and we support housing. then it became a long laundry list and didn't give an idea to priorities. i haven't seen what sacramento has done, that would also be a recommendation i would add. thank you so everyone who looked into

i would like to nominate commissioner aaron peskin for chair and nominate commissioner katy tang for vice chair. >> chair peskin: is there a second for that motion? seconded by commissioner breed. is there any -- are there any additional nominations? seeing none. we will close nominations. seeing no public comment on that motion made and seconded. a roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion in favor of electing commissioner peskin for chair and commissioner tang for voice chair? breed aye. commissioner fewer aye. commissioner kim, kim aye. commissioner peskin. >> chair peskin: aye. >> clerk: commissioner ronen. ronen aye. commissioner safai, safai aye. commissioner tang. tang aye. commissioner yee. yee aye. motion is approved. >> chair peskin: all right. thank you again colleagues and with that, item number eight. >> clerk: item eight, update on the caltrain pennisula corridor electric -- electrification project. this is an information item. >> chair peskin: mr. hartnet thank you for your patience. and i want to thank ms. broussard for the meeting we had yesterday in my office. for t

sb 937 is modeled on supervisor katy tang's lactation facilities ordinance, which went into effect on2018. supervisor tang's ordinance defines mandatory minimum standards for lactation accommodation, requires a workplace lactation policy, a process by which employees request lactation accommodation, and also requires new construction and renovations of a certain size and occupant load to include lactation facilities. joining senator wiener at the announcement was san francisco supervisor katy tang, who authored san francisco's lactation ordinance, which went into effect on january 1 and which made san francisco a national leader in requiring lactation facilities in businesses. senator wiener and his colleagues drew inspiration from supervisor tang's work. let's take a look outside right now... chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: there were plenty of high clouds today that helped to keep temperatures down today. it was still dry and that is a trend that will take us throught the rest of the week. a look at doppler radar shows d

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hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people. different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116. we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business. it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the "disc

i would like to recognize supervisor katy tang. >> supervisor tang: one of the first things i'm going to be doing today is our in memoriam that i do every month for our organ and tissue donors. we started this awareness campaign from our office back in april of last year, trying to recognize awareness, given the fears surrounding becoming an organ or tissue donor. my legislative aide's husband was looking for a kidney donor and we wanted to make people aware that it's not scary to become a donor. there are many factors that go into it and i'm very happy to share that as a result of all of this and their work and waiting for years that my aide's husband was able to find a kidney donor and had a successful transplant and is back teaching at lincoln high school. i never imagined when we started this effort that today i would actually announce that someone incredibly special to all of us was also a tissue donor and that is our very own mayor ed lee. he was a registered donor. and when he passed away, he donated his corneas and bones, so very grateful that he was able to help save other pe

and so, unless there is additional comments, i'm going to hand it over to the primary sponsor, katy tangink we had a great discussion last week, i heard from a lot of members of the public. then following that had several meetings with different organizations to explain what exactly this charter measure would do. in the process, i'm realizing it doesn't do even enough what have i had originally intended to do. but i think supervisor peskin and i feel this has opened up the dialogue on budget set-a sides and what the impacts are on the general fund as well as on other set-a sides or existing baselines if new ones are add. i think there is a lot of education around this issue. because sometimes budgeting matters get complicated. it's been a great experience trying to explain to everyone what exactly this measure does and how it relates to the rest of the city's budget. with that said, we certainly heard from folks that they wanted more time to chime in on this. at this time, i'd like o continue this for discussion on the -- like to continue this for discussion on the november ballot. i don

so, i'm supervisor katie tang, your new land use committee chair. >> vice chair for life. [laughter] >> all right. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items asked upon today will appear on the february 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call the first item? >> item number one, establishing the gary masonic special use district in the area generally bounded by gary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and [inaudible] number 1071 lots numbers 1 and 4 to north and west. respectively. >> thank you. and i believe that you have assumed sponsorship of this item. >> thank you. i'm going to ask kaniska from mark ferrell's office -- sorry -- to say a few words and talk about continuing this item. >> on behalf of former supervisor mark ferrell. thank you for hearing this item today. we have been worki

11, i am the acting chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by committee member supervisor katie tang, our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. complete your speaker cards and any documents to be included as par of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 9, 2018 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated.

city's sunset district is one of the locations that has been hit hard by these property crimes sot<katy tangsan francisco supervisor: "i do know that we are in the sunset district which many will consider a very safe district. however we are not free from these property crimes that occur"> these park smart flyers with information on how to make your vehicles less attractive to auto burglars are being placed on cars. it is a part of the auto-break-in prevention effort. will it be enough to deter theives? this shop owner says...sot right now any property crime valued less than $950-dollars is considered a misdemeanor offense...making the job of deterring auto burglaries even more difficultsot new ahead at 8 a texas woman eats raw oysters... weeks later---she died. now her friends are warning others about the dangerous infection she contracted plus. how an attempt to kill a spider ---- ended with a call to 9-1-1 for help at a northern california home.<> ((gary sport

i am supervisor norman yee, vice chair of the committee and joined by supervisor katy tang. supervisor malia cohen is excused from today's meeting. can we have a motion? >> motion to excuse supervisor cohen. >> supervisor yee: madam clerk, linda wong, and i would like to thank somebody, here. thank jesse larson and jim smith from the s.f.govtv for broadcasting this meeting. clerk will also provide your names. madam clerk, do you have announcements? >> clerk: silence all cell phones and electronic devices, and items submitted to the clerk. items acted on will be on the january 23rd unless otherwise stated. >> number one, resolution authorizing the resolution and second amendment to the ground lease mission bay affordable housing with the refinancing and minor rehabilitation, king streets and rich sorro commons. >> good morning, chair yee and supervisor tang. so, item number one before you is a resolution that would authorize our department to amend the ground lease for rich sorro commons. this project is an existing affordable housing project, located in mission bay neighborh

and we do also have a letter of note from supervisor katie tang in your file to take a look at, she is requesting some hours limitations. hers are a little more sten get, she's asking for 11:00 p.m. stop and 2:00 a.m. for friday, saturday, sunday. they did get a good deal of signatures from supporters of theirs in the files as well. so i'll just let the operator speak to you directly so you guys can come up here. danny mak and yan wai chan. >> hi. yeah, so we were operating without a permit because i didn't realize we needed one. we're new to doing business, it's our first business. we're happy to work under those conditions that maggie has pointed out, the hours -- we could do monday through thursday to close at 11:00 and weekend keep it at 2:00. we have a lot of supporters from the neighborhood, too. we want to provide a safe and fun social space for the community and we have -- we currently have one room and most of the karaoke singing is being done outside in the dining area. so it's very transparent for everybody and we have -- we're going to have on site security hired, outside c

katie tang sponsored this and hopes other cities will follow suit. >>> the tesla model 3 rollout may have been behind, but the electric car set a new record. the editor took the car on a cross country trip from los angeles to new york in 50 hours 16 minutes 32 seconds. but beat the previous car electric record by an hour. alex roy documented his -- roy confirmed the extreme cold, it negatively affected the model 3, it doesn't stop them from setting that record. bravo. >>> highway 4, sal. >> we've been looking at these commutes and i'm lining it up here and the commute is going to be slow at the bay bridge. there's a little backup here. i can show you that. it's backed up for a 10 to 15 minute delay. it's better than it normally is. that means you start getting used to good things quickly. but this is probably not for the last more than this week, maybe, i think a lot of people are back next week, so enjoy what you can. this is a look at the commute in san francisco along northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. this traffic looks okay. traffic is also doing well southbound 101 headin

you would have nominated to nominate our same colleague, katy tang, for vice chair. >> chair peskin: seconded by commissioner breed. are there any other nominations? is there any public comment on item number four? seeing none, public comment is closed. nobody else wants this job. what? [laughter] >> chair peskin: we do have a new house. that is true. we will call the roll. so, with that on the nominations for peskin as chair and commissioner tang as vice chair -- commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to thank you, chair peskin and vice chair tang for doing this jb all last year and being willing to do it again this year -- job all last year and being willing to do it again this year. you taking this leadership means a lot to the city and i know it takes a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice in addition to your jobs as members of the board of supervisors. i just wanted to on behalf of the board thank you for that work. >> chair peskin: thank you commissioner. commissioner tang. >> vice chair tang: thank you so often ronen. we didn't have a chance to speak much about i

. >> before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ma leah cohen and katie katy tang from this meeting. >> motion passes. >> no object object. >> madam clerk can you call item number one. >> clerk: declaring a homeless shelter emergency and authorize ing the direct offer public work to improve facilities and the director of the department of homelessness and support of housing to contract for homeless services and officer services to protect the health, safety and welfare of individuals effected by homelessness and all san francisco citizens. >> we have jeff kazski department of homelessness and department of public works here to present. >> good afternoon, supervisors, jeff, director of the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i want to share some information with you regarding why we believe san francisco is currently experiencing a shelter emergency and homelessness crisis. i don't think that we have to walk very far and look out doors to see living on our streets suffering and without access to basic hygiene needs and at this time, we saw that 7,499 peopl

katie tang made the proposal saying it will save animals from being killed for their fur. secondhand and vintage stores. if approved, san francisco would be the third city in california to ban fur sales after berkeley and west hollywood. >>> the board of san francisco -- the board of supervisors recognized columbus day as indigenous people's day. other cities around the country including berkeley and los angeles replaced columbus day with indigenous people's day. san francisco supervisors cohen introduced the legislation to honor the native americans who are already here when christopher columbus arrived. >>> contra costa county holding its homeless count. workers and volunteers will meet for a briefing at 8:00 this morning and out they go. they'll document everyone living in shelters or living on the streets who need permanent housing. today's information will be used to gage the homeless problem and plan services in the county. >>> san francisco state senator scott wiener says the state needs to do more to help homeless children. he says nearly 40% of the nation's homele

the katie tang sponsored san francisco's law and says it is a family-friendly policy years overdue. >> so many women came to us and said we wish we had this legislation 20, 30 years ago, so many shared with us their horror stories. >> the authors say while two out of three mothers typically return to work after giving birth, few have a breast feeding room at work. dedicated lactation facilities would have to be built in new buildings larger than 15,000 square feet. >>> new fallout from facebook's changing platform today. >> we're already at a disadvantage in that we're law enforcement. how many people want to necessarily follow law enforcement? >> why local police departments are so concerned about new policies on the social media platform. plus. >>> a special visit, screaming students greet teen idol zendaya as she drops by the elementary school. >>> and it's the first day you can file your taxes. we'll talk about the advantages and disadvantages of filing early. >>> and we have a poll. we want to know when you plan to file. so let us know, please. >>> and taking a live look outside

city's sunset district is one of the locations that has been hit hard by these property crimes sot<katy tangisco supervisor: "i do know that we are in the sunset district which many will consider a very safe district. however we are not free from these property occur">these park smart flyers with information on how to make your vehicles less attractive to auto burglars are being placed on cars. it is a part of the auto-break-in prevention effort. will it be enough to deter theives? this shop owner says...sot right now any property crime valued less than $950-dollars is considered a misdemeanor offense...making the job of deterring auto burglaries even more difficultsotin san haaziq madyun kron4news (steve)a live look outside on this monday night...(pam) lawrence karnow has the four zone weather details lawrence karnow: heavy rain continues across t

the measure is sponsored by supervisor katy tang who says it would save animals from being killed for their fur. officials are adding amendments to the measure that include banning the manufacturing of fur, as well. >> san francisco wants to be the first major city to ban the sale of fur to send a message to san francisco resident but also cities in the -- other cities in the nation and the world that they are taking animal rights seriously. >> secondhand and vintage stores are exempt from the measure. if passed, san francisco would be the third city in california to ban fur sales after berkeley and west hollywood. >>> ktvu fox 2 news at 6:30 starts next with the disgraced usa gymnastics doctor learning his fate. >> i find that you don't get it that you are a danger. >> the stern words from the judge today and a look at the regulations and oversight designed to protect young athletes. >> plus the paroled sex offender back behind bars after police in the north bay say he was caught harassing children. sorry. i can't make it. it's just my eczema again, but it's fine. yeah, it's fine. yo

katie tang is rumored to be the swing vote if others decide to run. the question of who would be caretaker mayor is in the air. >>> you still have time to become a multimillionaire. the mega millions and powerball jackpot's amounted to almost $1 billion combined this morning. the mega millions jackpot is now at $445 million. the powerball jackpot is over $500 million. the mega millions drawing is tonight. the powerball is tomorrow. >>> is yourself on the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see at night? you need to have it with you at all times? we will explain how some people are trying to break what they consider their smart phone addiction. >>> the flu season is tougher this year and it's really hitting the bay area hard. next come what health officials are saying about what to expect and how to protect yourself. >>> we are following a developing story in the east bay. let's bring in live pictures from san leandro. this is the scene on davis street, west from 880. this is the scene of the fire. the flames appeared to be under

supervisors katie tang made the proposal saying it would save animals from being killed for their fur. the ban would exempt second-hand and vintage stores. if approved, san francisco would be the third city in california to ban fur sales after berkeley and west hollywood. >>> contra costa county holding its homeless count today. a number of volunteers will meet for a briefing about 8:00 this morning and head out. they'll document everyone living in shelters or on the streets who need permanent housing. there were 1,067 people in homeless encampment -- >>> scott wiener says the state need to do more to help homeless children. he says 40% of the nation's homeless youth are in california. and that's about 15,000 young people. he's proposing legislation calling for $60 million to construct more shelter space, specifically for teens and provide services targeted to help them out. >> when youth remain on the street, they will eventually become chronic homeless [indiscernible] and it's harder to get someone off the streets and stable when they've been there for 10, 15 years. >>> along with h