we have an illustrious supervisor like malia cohen and mr. avalos in what he has concerning jobs and employment and all of those things. i don't think it has to be about color. what about the economic stability with people living within the bounties and what can we do to help each other? and help our elected officials and our appointed officials and all the people who count to bring revenues to san francisco? we're putting on things and our biggest goal is to make it as one of the safest places in san francisco where you can come to shop and spend your money with us and our merchants and all the different things that we want to put out there for you. we're not just putting building houses. we want skating rinks. we want bowling alleys. all the stuff you see leaving san francisco, we want that as a part of development and the part of our economic development. not just for the adults and everybody. we want something for our kids to do. so they don't have to hang out all night. they don't have to worry about joining no gang. they have plenty of

supervisor malia cohen, supervisor carmen chu. and the other members for their support in making public safety a priority. the president is here somewhere. and the rest of the police commission. this is just a tremendous day for san francisco. we have made tremendous inroads in impacting violent crime over the last few years. it is because of our staffing and the community support to do it through the community policing in the engagement of young people. this will allow us to keep doing that. we're going to lose close to 300 officers with the sunset of drop, and maybe another 100 officers before the summer of 2015. this will dramatically impact that. what the academy is is 29 weeks for entry level officers. eight weeks for lateral transfers. that includes a one-week fire arm training, one-week vehicle operation steny, one-week of officers of rival, and then continued use of force and physical training throughout. -- one-week vehicle operation training, one week of officer survival. and community policing. the mayor mentioned gary.

to my right is vice chair, supervisor malia cohen. to my left is supervisor scott wiener. our clerk is alisa miller. >> please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the court. i detected upon today will be on the gentle board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated -- items voted on today will be on the june 12 board of supervisors and in the. >> item number one, resolution authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend an american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 funded grant in the amount of $200,608 from the california energy commission's state energy program through the local government commission to support greenfinancesf. >> we have mr. rodriguez from the department of the environment. i am the sponsor of this resolution. it is seeking approval for associate membership in the california rule, -- home mortgage finance authority by joining the authority, san francisco residents and businesses will have access to their low interest loan program as an alternati

the cast includes supervisor malia cohen and others. it is women of color united against violence. i have been a volunteer in this production for about eight years. vice chair joseph: will everyone be there? >> it is this friday at 7:30. president newlin: anybody else? >> i just wanted to say that last night the harvey milk club had their soiree, which was fantastic. as a result, today, on harvey milk fifth birthday -- happy birthday. today was named jose saria day at the board chambers. and the harvey milk club -- this is the first time he has been recognized with a proclamation in our city. we are really excited about that. he has a street, but the other is a day to go with that street. maybe we would get a parade going. also, i just wanted to say that the alice b. toklas club and the hard enough club will be joining us for a clear night life program at the women's center. -- queer nightlife program at the women's center. we are very excited about it. >> on thursday -- i think you have a fire in your books. -- flier in your books. this is asia pacific heritage month. 5:30 is a ce

i would also like to thank malia cohen for coming out to the bayview youth advocate and support the us. -- supporting us. >> all of these people are bayview advocates. we just graduated, actually. i just want to share an experience. a pledge is, i pledge to make a difference in the community, starting with myself. besides going around and telling people to make changes in their life, we should tell our self, what are the changes to make in my community? we start with ourself, and work our way up. like all the different pledges, it has affected us in many different ways. we actually had youth summits, led by advocates, from the emcee to the people going to the programs and setting up different aspects. with that, i would like to send that. >> my name is jeffrey. i am a resident of the bayview my whole life. it gave me leadership skills. it gave me the confidence to be able to make a change in the community and make it positive. growing up, i would not say i was comfortable in my neighborhood. i would not feel safe. with the leadership things we did and the volunteering we did, i am conf

i know we still have malia cohen and supervisor campos on the list. supervisor chiu: i actually have some comments, that i agree with supervisors mar and campos. this is troubling, and this is not the way to bring the trusted think we need to move this forward. we were provided with the financial information that showed that profit margins were going to be high. and yet, we are not receiving information that shows that the net operation margin -- operating margin is different. i do not understand why we would get this in one case and not another. >> i do not know what they provided to you. i just know what they provided to us. this shows the operating margin comfortably above the 1% and began 12 days or so, this shows them getting a lot closer. i apologize. that is the only information we have ever seen and never acted on. >> let me just end with one last comment. i know this could be confusing for some members of the public, and unfortunately, at least thus far, i do not think the press has covered it. i think everybody wants to make sure that it sta

district 10 supervisor malia cohen. district 11 supervisor john avalos, and city treasurer jose cisneros. [applause] front and center. well done. very happy 100th to muni. since its first days of operation on december 28, 1912, this unique public transportation system has attracted and intrigue and amazed and served people from the city and untold visitors from all around the world. at to was the first major publicly owned transportation system in the nation and today is the seventh largest, carrying more than 200 million people a year. muni was part of the rebuilding after the 1900 sixth earthquake and served as a dynamic catalyst as the city expanded over the sand dunes and down the peninsula. songs and movies often have featured muni. i don't know if you have heard this one -- ♪ to be where little cable cars ♪ [laughter] actually, tony bennett in town a couple of weeks ago to do that song. he did a wonderful job. muni is also a system constantly position to realize its position and step forward in the new strategic p

i'm ann dejesus i'm vice president of bright and i live in district 10, malia cohen's district. i'm to grateful to be here to speak. we are asking for more cadets for the bayview to increase the safety of everyone there. the second ask is of all of you. the bayview has a lot of blight and vacant businesses. so i want to address particularly the human services. i understand that you are moving out of oakdale. i want you to consider moving into some of the vacant buildings there. thank you very much for your time and attention today. >> good morning, mayor and supervisors and city representatives. i'm april and i represent the senio seniors. a little background about the self-help we are a community based nonprofit organization. each year we serve over 35,000 seniors in the bay area focusing in the low income. and minorities. senior services serve an important role in the senior population. in district 10 we do have almost 10,000 seniors which is 55 years old or above and there are only five city funded meals programs that are budgeted to serve around 792 seniors. in district 10 o