the rest of the businesses will open and then that you would get a lot of business so the merchants association, the san francisco chamber of commerce, you got work to do to advertise for this community, these small businesses let's support our incredible merchants in san francisco. let's have a good time in the castro. and let's eat these cookies because they look good. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much. ... ... >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the thursday, november 21st meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. i'm gordon mar and joined by committee member valley brown. aaron peskin is unable to join us today. thank you to this committee's clerk, john carroll. i would like to thank john smith for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> yes thank you mr. chair. please ensure you've silenced cell phones and your completed speakerrer cards to be included as a par

the rest of the businesses will open and then that you would get a lot of business so the merchants associationthe san francisco chamber of commerce, you got work to do to advertise for this community, these small businesses, let's support our incredible merchants in san francisco. let's have a good time in the castro. and let's eat these cookies, because they look good. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much. ... ...

supervisor matt haney says it's been more than a decade since the tenderloin had a thriving merchants association>> reporter: he welcomes the association and stay together they can lobby the resources necessary to help the area thrive. >> if we can be working together to have small business saying these are the changes we want to have in working with me as a representative i think it's a fantastic thing. it's overdue. the mac more than a dozen businesses have expressed interest in joining the association. the association meeting with other neighborhood associations to learn best practices and how to put them into place. >>> protesters blocked streets in san francisco's tenderloin this afternoon demanding traffic safety changes. this was the scene at about 3 o'clock at the intersection of taylor and eddie. protesters held signs and chanted no more traffic that's. organizers say they want city leaders to do more to make the street safer for pedestrians and bike riders. recent months tenderloin. >> other neighborhoods have speed bumps and visible school zone times with traffic. people drive through

. >> it's been more than a decade since the tenderloin had a thriving merchants association. >> he welcomes the association and says together they can lobby the city to get help the area thrive. >> if we can be working together to have small businesses saying these are the changes we want to have. i think it's a fantastic thing. it's overdue. >> so far more than a dozen businesses have and how to put them into place. >> fox 2 news. >>> people are also calling for traffic safety changes in the tenderloin neighborhoods. >> this is the scene at 3:00 yesterday afternoon at the intersection of taylor and eddie streets. protesters held signs. in recent months, there have been several traffic related deaths in the tenderloin. >> other neighborhoods have speed bumps. other neighborhoods have visible school zone. tenderloin doesn't have that. insane speeds in this neighborhood to and install red light cameras at busy intersections. >>> time is now 4:50. happening today the express lanes in silicon valley open to drivers. the express lanes will be open at 5:00 in the morning and will stay open throug

i'm also a member of the mission merchants association and that's how i found out about this project. i feel like there's a lot of obvious tension in the mission district over gentrification and tech use use coming in and having a blast. and to be honest, it pisses me off when i see crappy behavior by people that aren't from here and whatnot but i think blaming joey for that and having him be the punching bag for that kind of anger isn't quite fair. i don't feel it's fair to characterize this as it's going to be strictly a techy hangout. i think we know that techies live in san francisco and people with money live in san francisco. but there's nothing about this that has that nasty smell of money. it just doesn't. this is a place that i would -- if i could afford to have a kid, i would bring a kid to hang out there and play ski ball or whatever. but this doesn't have an elitist stink to it. and i know there's some people that have a drive and i respect what they are protecting. but i think that maybe this particular project should maybe get a little more slack and think about someone

he's a member of the chinatown merchants association. >> we are trying to make it a visitor-friendly destination and at the same time you get these thugs who come in and they just beat up people randomly for no reason whatsoever. it's a hate crime. >> reporter: two other victims are seen being punched and knocked to the street. moments later the suspects take off down clay street in a black suv. over the summer two senior citizens were brutally attacked in chinatown in broad daylight. a 19-year-old oakland man was arrested for one of the assaults. >> what we saw last night is not going to be tolerated. >> reporter: supervisor aaron pes kin says people tell him the same suspects were spotted. >> the same car with presumably the same individuals was involved with a robbery that was an aggravated purse snatching on the 700 block of jackson on friday night. >> reporter: saturday night'sck for port mugt square. betty lily wants all chinatown residents to be safe, especially seniors. >> we can't get enough law enforcement behind this to at least tell these people they can't come to chinato

i am meeting different neighborhood associations, merchants associations, different public works crews, different downtown streets, everyone is coming out. it brings everyone together for common cause keeping our city clean, keeping it sustainable, and giving civic pride. this is why these events are very important. i also oversee the city's 311 call center. it is a 24-hour operation where we have folks taking phone calls from different residents and many of the phone calls are about graffiti removal, illegal dumping, downed trees and encampments. they're very much a part of working with everyone here so that we know where the areas are that we need to focus and keep clean. i want to thank everyone again for being here today and taking pride in keeping our union square, our market street corridor and all of san francisco clean. thank you. [applause] >> all right. before i introduce our next speaker, there's quite a number of people to acknowledge. the echo blitz is coming together of everybody. it is like a village. it brings all types of city departments, the community, the businesses

the california bail merchant association, the statewide organization representing the bail bond industry intervened in the case to defend the constitutionality of the bail schedule, and that organization effectively acted as a defendant in the case to defend the merits of the claims. the parties engaged in mediation going forward about how to proceed, and ultimately reached a supplement agreement which was formalized in a stipulated judgment by the court. mr. patrick and others here will talk about the substance and how that will actually work. but basically, it prohibits the city and the courts from relying on the bail schedule that uses a money bail system. and requires us to release certain detainees within 18 hours unless certain conditions are met. it's also conditioned on the city providing funding to allow for the own recognizance project to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to prepare the appropriate reports to determine if somebody should be released within 18 hours. this has already been heard in d.a.o. committee and has been recommended to the board. it'll be at t

historically we have advocated for this for two decades when we were back as the north beach merchant's association before we merged with the north beach chamber of commerce in 2011. it has been one of the cornerstones of our positions that vacancies that are held off the market by landlords, and bad actors, need to be penalized on some level because they not only blight the neighborhoods we live in, they also distort the market for rents, commercial rent. the vast majority of landlords, commercial landlords, are good people. they are not bad actors. but there are a handful. and my neighborhood, in particular, right next to me, we have a storefront that has been vacant for 30 years. we have multiple storefronts on columbus avenue where we held a press conference, and i think it was january or february, along with supervisor peskin and supervisor fewer that have been held off the market by two landlords. low and behold, when that press conference occurred, signs went up on all the vacancies on our neighborhood which is 17%. and low and behold we just did another survey of those vacancies and we turn

. >> reporter: betty lily watched chinatown merchants association. >> we are trying to make it a visitor-friendly destination and at the same time you get these thugs who come in and they just beat up people randomly for no reason whatsoever. it's a hate crime. >> reporter: two other victims are seen being punched and knocked to the street. moments later the suspects take off down clay street in a black suv. over the summer two senior citizens were brutally attacked in chinatown in broad daylight. a 19-year-old oakland man was arrested for one of the assaults. >> what we saw last night is not going to be tolerated. >> reporter: supervisor aaron peskin says police tell him the same suspects were spotted november 8th. >> we know the same car, presumably with the same individuals was involved with a robbery that was an aggravated purse snatching on the 700 block of jackson on friday night. >> reporter: saturday night's attack happened at the entrance to support smith square, where senior citizens gather day and night. betty lily wants all chinatown residents to be safe, especially seniors. >> we can

there was no merchant association or community benefit district that was representative of the neighborhood at that time, along van ness. especially the entire part of van ness. so the sfmta took the proactive approach of creating an advisory committee. and the advisory committee can reflect the needs of the corridor. it's also very important for the small business owners to reach out to our office, directly with sfmta to kind of voice and express their interest and their needs for support along the corridor. >> right. and i want reiterate, too, that project started before you guys even got involved. then you guys got involved and changed the attitude on that. >> so there's some projects were under way. and van ness is one of those that we kind of kept in command, at a later date. there was an interest from the administration at the time. so the mayor started working very closely with the sfmta and the businesses to make sure that at least some package of mitigation efforts were developed. at that time marketing was the one tool that we had at our hands. and the small business assistance, w

and also with them the merchant navy, auxiliary association and civilian services.mbassador of ireland and for the first time on his right, the ambassador of nepal. and then the grips of high commissioners. each with their wreaths. and they are followed by representatives of the faith communities, among them the chief rabbi, buddhists, methodists, islamic religious adviser to the armed forces. the hindu council, the baptist union, the director of the unitarian and free christian churches, the senior rabbi to reform judaism, the salvation army. representative of the greek orthodox church the managing trustee of the institute of genealogy, the humanists and the spiritualists national union. and now the prince of wales who will be laying to wreaths, one on behalf of the queen and won his own wreath. he leads out the members of the royal family. he leads out the members of the royalfamily. and he leads out the members of the royal family. and on he leads out the members of the royalfamily. and on the balcony looking down on the cenotaph, her majesty the queen, who watch

participated including small startups, well established tech firms, advocates, labor and merchant and neighborhood associationsltiple departments and academics. the recommendations from the report then formed this legislation for the office of emerging technology was born from that effort. the office of emerging technology is uncharted territory that we now have a realistic framework and i am confident in the process that has brought us here. as a reminder of most examples of emerging technologies today our mobility focus. the office will be inclusive beyond mobility tech to anywhere there is a nexus between an unregulated technology and public infrastructure and public space. whether this is hover boards on the water facing public collection. biometrics on the public right-of-way. anywhere there would be an impact to resources. the office of emerging technology is charged to analyze potential impact. for the first time emerging tech will have a clear streamlined process for approval. it is imperative that departments move away from working in silos and collaborate with the office of emerging technology. the o

merchant groups. if few among them, north beach association. course, lemon street merchants which had a robust and very cool group of people. i am really, really enjoying this small group of communities in san francisco. commercial real estate brokers have been providing helpful feedback. property owners, and nonprofit property owners were helping us understand the different behaviors and the different considerations for nonprofit property owners. there are are amendments that we are considering basically excluding on the basis that they are already fulfilling a public serving mandate either to the provision of below market rate affordable housing and mixed use developments. or, by actually going through lengthier processes to find tenants that are the beneficiaries of lower rent and below market rate leases. that is something we want to continue to encourage. outreach has been ongoing. this is one of the many new stories that came out in the wake of our press conference in front of that 500 block of columbus avenue in january of that year. it

month, the owner of the diesel cafi, the city's only sudanese restaurant, formed a merchants and property owners associationo make it safe for businesses and for the people who really live there.>> we want to make it more safer, to change the perception in the mind of the people to come and to feel free to come to the place and to feel safe. >> more than a dozen businesses have expressed interest in joining the association. the more people that sign up, the more clout this association have been lobbying the city to get additional resources for >>> auc region is being investigated for allegations of sexual misconduct. george kuyper is an approved of inappropriately touching a fuel student at a dinner five years ago. the graduate student named rebecca orr made the accusations during wednesday's uc regents meeting. she says the touching persisted throughout the evening and she felt powerless to stop this figure of authority. ora says she tried to forget the incident but couldn't, and eventually reported that more than a year ago. the university hired an outside investigator, kuyper denies the charges. >>> and

merchant navy. since 2003 the corps fox has been back in its original harbors serving 1st and foremost as a museum the vessel which is not sea worthy anymore is maintained by an associationthat hopes to one day bring the old lady back to see. the building you see right behind me was built several decades after the gores fought but it's just as impressive since opening its doors in 2008. has welcomed over half a 1000000 visitors a year and once inside he'll understand why prepared to enter the underwater world . it's speeding time in the o.t. yani holmes large pool for showing fish there has to be enough food to satisfy the appetite of the $250.00 kilos sand tiger shark otherwise it will eat the mackerel. there are 45 aquariums here the biggest contains almost 26000000 liters of salt water and is the museum's main attraction. the foundations were laid for the old siani human september 2006 on the shah's owned peninsula. less than 2 years later the museum was opened with 9000 square meters of exhibition space and german chancellor angela merkel attended the opening. since then the old siani has become an integral part of todd's and. behind the scenes numerous employees kee