including supervisor scott wiener, david chiu, carmen chu, christina olague, john avalos, jane kim, and malia cohen for cosponsoring the legislation. i am grateful for the work of debbie city attorney jane alexander and from the treasurer tax collector's office for helping us draft this ordinance and finally to treasurer jose cisneros for his incredible work as well. and pta's and pto's hold events to raise supplemental revenue. the san francisco business and tax regulations code requires these events be taxed at a rate of 25%. this creates a burden on the volunteer grassroots organization who are staging events for the sole benefit of san francisco schools. and by amending the role in allows volunteer parent organizations to reap the full benefit of their efforts in the schools to better meet the needs of their students. i urge your support and thank all those involved. supervisor kim: thank you. i wanted to thank supervisor mar and their office. it is important that we helped our families and pt's that are of working to raise money for our classrooms and schools, given the three decades of cuts t

sue chan and supervisor malia cohen is in the house. thank you for coming.ber not long ago when vice-president -- the vice- president visited the united states and i traveled to los angeles with our mayor at the time and what an event. and now a few months later, san francisco is probably hosting the seminar with the ministry of commerce. it shows that our golden mountain continues to attract chinese. has never stopped since the 1800's and because san francisco continues to be the city of innovation and full of peril spirit, we will continue to seek an inflow of inbound chinese businessmen and investors. may i invite our mayor, edwin lee, to the podium? [applause] >> thank you. good morning. i want to of course repeat our warm welcome, ladies and gentleman, to the vice minister and his delegation here. to the council general and his wonderful work and to our lieutenant governor, gavin newsom is here. our senior adviser, mr. rossi and those of you from fremont and san jose and around the bay area, thank you for being here on this first china-united states sta

also, we are glad to hear of the resolution that supervisor malia cohen and our police chief have putr. we thank you for what you are doing. keep the job going. we want to tell our mayor to and the stop and frisk policy, and to put his energy and solutions to the unsolved murders and violence plaguing san francisco. we also would like to invite you to our viewing circle meeting on thursday, july 12, from 7 to 9:00 p.m., paradise baptist church, city and county of san francisco. thank you for your attention. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i am here to address the issues raised by the resolution. i am with the stop incarceration network, a national network attempting to stop the mass incarceration of black and latino youth across the country. we feel this is, as supervisor cohen presented in her resolution, something that needs to be opposed by people for justice. i think people here are familiar with michele alexander's book, the new jim crow, which outlines the attacks going on against black and latino youth in this country, the 2.4 million youths that are incarcerated ri

this is co-sponsored by supervisor malia cohen. president chiu: supervisor has made a resolution. is there a second? do you have additional comments? supervisor cohen: i want to say thank you to supervisor avalos for bringing this forward and i would like to extend a greeting to the lovely ladies of aka, welcoming them to our great city. president to i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. is there any public comment? >> there is. i would like to remind you that i was visiting [unintelligible] and i noticed a lot of black women in town. last time i seen one he was from kentucky. when they said rosa parks and coretta martin was aka -- i was so happy they were here. they're celebrating 108 years. i was pink before britney spears and the aka is green, too. [unintelligible] our pink healthy inside, that goes togther. go down there and say something nice to these beautiful woman in pink and green. the woman on the building -- it was a sign during the gold rush, there was no woman here. there were 90,000 men and two years later there were 45,000. that is when san francisco became polit

we are coming together with our board of supervisors, malia cohen is here, mta board, we're coming together to make investment. you do not get the investment unless you get investor confidence. so with all the agencies, whether it is caltrans, sfmta, the fed's or regional, local authorities here, we are creating confidence, and we are not waiting. when the public, when the voters say, are you just debating? no, we have made that investment. 2000 jobs already created. and guess what? more to come in a greeley plant way. this is not only the grand central station of the west. when this is finished, you have a hub of transportation that is connected to 4000 residential units that will be built in and around the area. 11 acres of new open space. five of them above ground. these are the transit hub residential centers that we want to build which are the future of california, and it is happening right here with private investors along with public investors. so this project means much more than just celebrating a great transit system of high-speed rail. it is a connector for our future development

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

i want to commend the efforts of malia cohen and hurt addressing this issue of violence. i am assured that you will continue to work. i wanted to say quickly, supervisor avalos, you and i have been doing this for 10 years. there are some lessons learned. one of the primary things we have to do is ensure continuity of services. you heard the woman speak before regarding the the permit a public health saying that 80%, 90% of people are

i want to commend the efforts of malia cohen and hurt addressing this issue of violence. i am assured that you will continue to work. i wanted to say quickly, supervisor avalos, you and i have been doing this for 10 years. there are some lessons learned. one of the primary things we have to do is ensure continuity of services. you heard the woman speak before regarding the the permit a public health saying that 80%, 90% of people are responding to these incidents. uni know that that is not right. i want to commend the efforts under way by the housing authority to bring more synergy to the response. it is not a police problem exclusively. it is a combined problem. every department needs to be pulled back and looked at a quarterly basis to quantify best practices. it is not a department of children youth problem because they do not have the authority to exceed other departments that need to be part of the discussion. i want to encourage you to increase reliance on the university's as well as the philanthropic community to bring us up to a state of the art best practices sys

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.