, we do value police officers, but the president of the dahle neighborhood association disagrees, saying crime fighting needs to be the new chief's priority. the safety of our community is extremely important and we want to be able to lean on the police just as much as we want them to lean on us and really have that trust. the police union believes staffing should be at the top of the chief's list to prevent officer burnout. you know, mandatory overtime. several days a week, less time with their families. a lot of them have long commutes home. it's challenging. there's another series of challenges in the search as well. first competition. several other big cities, including houston and l.a, are also on the hunt for a very seasoned and very qualified candidate. second, the high cost of living in the bay area's biggest city. so as a city, we're going to have to be really competitive. we're going to have to also incentivize, and in order to attract, a top notch police chief, city and community leaders will interview candidates in late june. then the city manager hopes to present her

for this for such a long time >> it has been more than a decade-long effort according to a neighborhood association member i spoke with today. including trader joe's receiving an exception to a local ban on retail chains. a rule that helped small businesses stand out. >> none of the businesses are effected by trader joe's. >> he has been living in hayes valley for thrive years, 18 for his cockatoo. >> he goes everywhere because i can not bring him in. >> reporter: he is happy his neighborhood has a grocery store nearby. but, he worries local mom-and-pop shops will lose customers. >> i have no doubt it will, unfortunately. but, you know, that is progress. we have a trader joe's here now. it is a well liked one. even so it will effect the smaller businesses. >> reporter: others like eddie thinks they offer more affordability to residents. inability to buy groceries nearby meant facing high prices. >> i do a lot of cooking upstairs, all of the corner stores if you forget one tomato you are paying $6 or $7. i understand it is competing against a big store but maybe that is good it will lower some of th

and alice rogers who is a south beach rinconmission bay neighborhood association. they are the folks here and make this all happen, current residents. [applause] >> good morning. i'm edward hatter, chair of southern advisory committee for the port, and i promised i was going to be brief, but i got a history that just will not stop. [laughter] i look out here and i see the new home of the giants but i was a kid of the old home of the giants candle stick park. i look at this park and look at the people and say giants good job, city great job. this very rarely that we are able to all come together and come out with a finished product such as this park. alright? i can't wait to get my kids from the neighborhood house down here playing in the fields and everything else and long the bay shore, but this is only the beginning. i want to make that very clear. the giants have an outstanding development team. the city has outstanding department heads. we can come together and start with china basin and at least finish at indian basin. with great parks, great housing, great bu

. >> reporter: it's been more than a decade long effort according to a hayes valley neighborhood association member i spoke with today. that included trader joe's receiving a special exemption to a local ban on retail chains, a rule that helped small businesses stand out. >> none of the businesses have been adversely affected by trader joe's. >> reporter: paul has been living in hayes valley for 35 years, 18 years for casper, his cockatoo. >> he goes everywhere with me. >> reporter: he's happy his neighborhood finally has a grocery store nearby, but he worries local mom and pop shops will lose customers. >> i have no doubt that it actually will unfortunately, but that's progress. we've got a trader joe's here now. it's a pretty big monolith, well liked one, but even so it's probably going to affect smaller businesses. >> reporter: but others like eddie lowe think trader joe's offers more affordability to hayes valley residents, where an inability to buy groceries nearby meant facing high prices. >> do a lot of cooking upstairs. for example, all these corner stores, if you forget one tomato,

today i'm seek approval to enter in a 2 year grant with visitation valley neighborhood association for provision of their community service program. involved in the community engage. 66 raymond visitation valley community centerful provide services to the community since 2014. but in the until the physical year 20 ton, they have received funding from das. to support their work to prosecute void community services programming at this site. vvna program are well received and popular in the communities. participates are most low low income. monolingual chinese residents of d 10 in the surrounding area. and oct.tivities than i offer under the grangd including daily stretching. walk, sing, and dancing. and including a very special time chinese twist of square danceing is preponder lawyer in china you see people garthing in the public place to dance along with the music. and classes are offered 7 days a week and most classes in person. at the site and with something classes offered virtually. one highlight i want to bring is singing and dancing class are popular and participates even got an

your businesses, your not for profits, and in your neighborhood associations to work with you to make is my primary goal here, is to work with the men and women of the oakland police department, work with the communities to make oakland safer. and you and i promise you, i will do everything in my can, everything i can in my power to make our community safer together again. thank you. >> mitchell's first day on the job was just a few days ago. on monday. he was previously the chief of the police department in lubbock, texas. everyone pulling for chief mitchell to be a success here in oakland. okay, i left my windows open in san francisco before i left for work today because it was it was nice, but looking at the picture that you just showed there, i'm probably going to regret that when i looked like the arctic, right? >> i know, yeah, yeah, yeah, big fog bank out there. this almost feels like we're the middle of june or july, right? with the fog on the coast. and if you're looking for warming temperatures, you might have to get on a plane. heather and this is our sfo camera showing you

the collaboration of the alamo square neighborhood association and the san francisco rec and park departmentogether a plan of diversifying the landscape and creating a plan of resiliency over time. since 2016, more than 270 trees have been planted there. >> new tonight the oakland zoo's newest resident now has a new name meet nuru, which means the light in swahili. last week, oakland zoo welcomed a 13 month old baby giraffe from the audubon nature institute in louisiana as part of a species survival plan. but he didn't have a name, so the zoo decided to ask for some help on social media. the zoo says nuru is very adventurous and quickly adjusting to his new home, and heard the town of yountville is hosting its annual art sip and stroll event this weekend. >> organizers say it's the biggest art event in napa valley, with 65 artists participating more than a dozen wineries will also be at the event, offering up some tastings . for more on what to expect this coming weekend. earlier on the four, we did speak with the chair of the yountville arts commission. >> if you want to taste from one of o

las medidas que afectan a la comunidad deberían ser la principal prioridad del nuevo jefe neighborhood associationmunity is extremely important. la seguridad de nuestra comunidad es realmente importante y queremos poder apoyarnos en la policía tanto como queremos que ellos s apoy en nosotros y tengan esa confianza. mientras que el sindicato de policías dice que el personal del departamento debería ser su primer prioridad para evitar el agotamiento de los oficiales. several days a week. horas extras obligatorias. algunos días de la semana y menos tiempo con sus familias. muchos de ellos pasan horas en la carretera para llegar a sus casas. es muy difícil. también será un desafío encontrar un buen jefe externo con mucha experiencia. grandes ciudades como houston y los Ángeles también están buscando jefes de policía. we're going to have to be really competitive. como ciudad, vamos a tener que ser muy competitivos. tendremos que tener incentivos para atraer a un jefe de policía de primer nivel. líderes de la ciudad y de la comunidad entrevistarán a los candidatos a finales de junio. el concejo municipa

alonzo lopez owns the ortega's food center and heads up the neighborhood association. nobody wants to go to a place that's ugly or maybe scary, right? so the trees are going to are the starting point of making the area welcoming. they hope to have new street lights installed as well. the project already getting a green thumbs up from people walking around. pretty hot here most of the time, so it's a it'll help revitalize. have some freshness here. the city has contractors who will water and maintain the trees for three years as they grow along with the community in san jose, ian cull nbc bay area news. well, this month we are celebrating asian american, native hawaiian and pacific islander heritage in san francisco's chinatown. a lot of events to celebrate this year. the theme of the celebrations is moving forward together. on friday, edge on the square is hosting an event to make paper lei necklaces on saturday, the third annual lion dance meet competition. community members have noticed that all the celebrations have grown in the past few years. the word i want to us

neighborhood. >> the business association, this neighborhood literally feels the >> raising concerns last year about impacting their day-to-day lives and activities. we're all of us. it the difference between supporting our small local businesses getting out. >> and building connections are staying inside. >> hands beautification initiative also hosts cleanup events every saturday across the city. volunteers can sign up online if they'd like to help out. need some shade these days. 100 1% no better time. good. all right. that wraps up kron 4 news at 5. a lot more ahead on kron for news at 6. vicki and ken are here with. >> what's going well grant. here's what's going on for kron. 4 news at 6 o'clock covid-19. if you recall. >> you know, prevented tens of thousands of high school students from being able to walk across the stage for a classic. a graduation ceremony will now 4 years later. the same students are concerned that they could be missing out on a second commencement this time because of encampments on campus and cat on the peninsula now has thousands of dollars in medical bills after its own

i'm the president of the dogpatch neighborhood association, as well as the president of the dogpatch northwest potrero hill green benefit district. i'm here to share a number of the concerns and comments that we've heard from our constituency about the 700 indiana street project, to begin with, there's been insufficient community engagement, from sponsor. honestly, the dogpatch neighborhood association has a policy and procedure to go before our development committee. we made it very clear to the sponsor over a year ago what that looked like. and until very recently, we directed them there. until very recently, we haven't heard a lot about that, and then we have not seen a lot of a lot of, feedback, well, a spring park is our only rec and park. park in the district, we've been working on it, as you know, for numerous years. and we're finally, after two years, getting ready to open it up. and frankly, you know, we're already talking about reducing the space and reducing or, sorry, reducing the impact here by adding significant shadowing before we even open the park. as as jim mentione

live in potrero hill, and i'm a member of the livable streets committee of the dogpatch neighborhood association and the potrero boosters. and i thought i was going to have to speak at public comment. but because director shaw talked about icu's creek, bridge repair, i am going to speak now. so i'm here to talk to you about much needed mitigation, to make it safe and comfortable for people to walk and bike during the planned closure of the third street bridge over slacks creek, as i'm sure you know, illinois street is the only parallel route that goes very directly from the bay view, more or less to downtown. and it's both a bike route and a truck route. so so as a result, we bikes, the bike traffic already shares the road with a huge number of, of large trucks about 150 class seven and eight trucks an hour. so, just imagine how scary it will be with two or more times that traffic, third street has two lanes in each direction. illinois street has one lane. so you can imagine that much of that, those two lanes will end up on illinois street, i'm here to ask, dpw to fund and support important stre

indiscernible] hayes valley merchant association representative and meg ray, hayes valley neighborhood association and merchant association and business owner. of the proposals reviewed bay the selection panel, received the highest ranking. the next highest went to christine mays considered as a alternate. resume for both artists included in the attachment to this report. if apruchb pproved by the full commission at the june meeting and by the recreation and park department the art will be installed late june or july pending permit approval from rec and park department and execution of loan agreement. the sculpture remain in place for one year. this is the imobjectf of the work. the arts commission conducted the outreach we did. there was a e-mail campaign sent to all most 9 thousand people. it was promoted on social media. 11 thousand people on instagram. facebook is a thousand 200, twitter and threads are another 2 thousand impressions there. we outreached to the san francisco culturalsenters and artists and professional. on the screen you see image of the work. it is again polished stainless st

them and working also with public works to outreach to the alice griffith association and neighborhood association and there church three groups looking to make contact with and the start that have public outreach process for definitely an important one i mentioned i meet with some of the arts commission they're interested in participating with outreach and that's an opportunity to start connecting request the neighborhood and seeing what opportunities the neighborhood feels are important. >> i am hearted to here that and some hard work and continuing. the um, efforts, you, know, work with the neighborhood cracking helping to boost the neighborhood is i know you know that. happy to help you 19 in any way i can. >> congratulates. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you, vice president fraser and commissioner nakajo. >> thank you very much. mr. president i wanted to get to public comment before the rest of your public comments can i proceed. >> yeah. and think chief is not done with his report. >> have you concluded chief on your report. >> yeah. one more slide. >> thank you very much for that clarifi

the collaboration of the alamo square neighborhood association in the san francisco recreation and parkt together a plan of diversifying the landscape and creating a plan of resiliency over time. since 2016, more than 270 trees have been planted there. the oakland zoo's newest resident now has a name meet nuru, which means the light in swahili. last week, oakland zoo welcomed a 13 month old baby giraffe from the audubon nature institute in louisiana as part of a species survival plan. but he didn't have a name, so the zoo decided to ask for some help on social media. the zoo says nuru is very adventurous and is quickly adjusting to his new home and heard, i want my brother to come back home safely and to be able to go through the process of getting the help that he needs. >> as search continues for a 25 year old missing man from the east bay, what his family says is they try to trace his every move and bring him home safe and governor gavin newsom coming here to the bay area today, the reason he's going to san mateo county and what he's expected to say from ktvu, fox two news this is mo

neighborhood. >> the business association, this neighborhood literally feels the >> raising concerns last year aboutacting their day-to-day lives and activities. we're all of us. it helps the difference between supporting our small local businesses getting to be. >> and building connections are staying inside. >> the new trees are all part hands. beautification project. the team hosts a cleanup events every saturday, all across the city. hundreds of people looking to enter the workforce gathering in san francisco's ferry building today for the hospitality and small business job. fair businesses and the in-person application process is more beneficial than trying to secure a job over zoom online. >> we get to shake hands and meet people up front close and personal and it's really nice candidates percent. feel like in-person events actually bring more candidates their virtual career fairs that we did during the i think, you know, video screen time with a little bit more resources and job fairs from the office of economic and workforce development could be found on its website. >> coming up, the search

hummingbirds i'm the co-chair of the planning of the pacific avenue neighborhood, association, and for over five years we worked on new legislation and code regulations to open up mid-block open space in this very block and this very neighborhood. five years and the planning department spent we worked hand in hand with them and got new code, passed so that we could have up to that's time. thank you. okay. thank you. is there any further public comment on zoom? i don't see any hands raised. so, commissioners, this matter is submitted. commissioners, let's start on the other side of the dais with commissioner swig. sure, i don't know to ask mr. birmingham and mr. teague this question. it relates to, fire safety regulations. is that is that mr. birmingham? corey okay. mr. birmingham, are you with us? i can't see you. he's on zoom. mr. birmingham yes, i am okay, okay. so it was just stated that the blemish it seems if i can use that word of, of approximately one foot and inches, is the extension of a fire escape, which, in the view of that commentator, does not need to exist because of, th

thank you to the studio for the partnership and thanks to the neighborhood association for their excellent stewardship. a quick shout out to the interactive performance. we're now back in golden gate park. adventures happening now in our beloved golden gate park. this is put on by replayers and marked the company's 13th collaboration with the rec department and company's third residency in golden gate park. they are brilliant female-owned and operated. they theater classic interpretation in nature. can. you follow the characters to different scenes in nature. if you haven't seen this, commissioners, go and see it. in this particular performance, i saw it last year and it was so good i made sure they came back. alice's adventure in wonder land, it's extraordinairey. it gives you a one mile tour through the park including a scene in a space that i had never been to. it's fantastic. last year more than 2,000 people got to experience the performance. check it out f -- check out the website for more information. sf live in association with illuminate presents this star-studded event right outsi

patricia voy marina, cow hollow neighborhood merchants, as well as planning associations for divisadero, which is the umbrella association for 22 neighborhood merchants groups, i just want to advise you that some things are coming up in front of you concerning the marina and that we're working on now. one of them is fort mason. is the highest historical property in the city. on the other side, we've got the presidio trust, which is also a national trust. we have the palace of fine arts in between is the historical marina green. we are going to be presenting you with some papers concerning this. also, there's a couple of interesting ones that are coming up in that area. and one of them that i'm working on right now is dimond number four of mosconi park. that's where joe and dom dimaggio and the seals played all their lives as teenagers. and dom dimaggio at that from dimond. number four hit a home run there that went all the way to venice avenue. and the older i think we have three left, the older baseball players from seal stadium really want this badly. the building's been condemned. i'

neighborhood. >> the business association, this neighborhood.about heisler impacting their day-to-day lives and activities. >> we're all of us. it helps the difference between supporting our small local businesses getting to be. >> and building connections are staying inside. >> well, the new trees are part mayor unification. clean-up events every saturday across the city. time is now 05:48am. it playing a crucial role in protecting our communities. despite progress over the years, the api community remains under represented among first responders offers 70 lead introduces us to one organization that is working to change that. >> it's a busy day at san francisco's fire station the engine. >> trucks and rescue squad across the keep doing it. despite these challenges, i don't quit. and they're sliding into acting lieutenant stanley braving literal trial by fire after nearly 3 decades with the department day today. >> there's a lot of unpredictability. that was the beauty of being a firefighter. you never met i-72 and >> on average san francisco fi

i live in district 3 and a member of walk sf and the coast neighborhood association the safety committee. in 2022, i was killed in a cross walk in northbeach. a year later my husband and i were almost hit again in the actual same crosswalk by a car that was turning left. and oddly enough, the car was also turning left in front of a police cruiser that was there and there were absolutely no consequences for the wreckless driver. we live in san francisco, we don't have a car we walk everyday and there is not one day that where we don't see somebody speeding, we are interested in seeing implement with vision zero with a emphasis on the turn calming infrastructure. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: gaotd morning, or are we in the afternoon, we've been waiting for this hearing for a very long time. i want to thank supervisor mandelman for bringing requesting this hearing and bringing this topic forward. we don't need to tell you the dangerous behavior is rampart, we're experiencing the experience. i do want to thank demander jones for championing this new

he says planting trees will help cool down the neighborhood and make it more inviting. >> the business associationborhood literally feels that raising concerns last year about high summer impacting their day-to-day lives and activities. >> we're all of us. it the difference between supporting our small local businesses getting out be. >> and building connections are staying inside. >> well, the new trees are part hands. beautification project. the team hosts cleanup events every saturday across the city. i've started to clean up. >> i don't know. i get this spring by late, you know, like to get everything done in clean everything, get get everything done before it gets too hot, too, because going to be up have salute lead. today's going to be a hot one across the bay area. regardless of if you're at the coast or not right now in san jose, it's fairly cool. but you've got daytime highs getting close to 90 later on today and are nothing but that sunshine all day long. now we're we're sitting currently on radar. skies are crystal clear from the coast to our inland areas. we do have high wind advisori

the business association in this neighborhood literally feels the heat, raising concerns last year about high summer temps impacting their day to day lives and activities. for all of us, high temps may mean the difference between supporting our small local businesses, getting out into the community and building connections, or staying inside. now, the city is planning to plant 29 trees across the neighborhood in order to help combat that upcoming summer. heat and trees just make things look better and feel better, too. yeah, but there's just so much research around what trees do in urban areas. those are really actionable steps that we hope to see more cities doing. so that'd be great. it's good to see that happening and it's going to be turning quite hot here over the next couple of days as we get a look at our current temperatures. we're right now in the low 70s, and this is actually closer to our normal high temperature for this time in may. so we're already 1213 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. and as those temperatures are ramping up, we're also seeing a mostly clear sky

neighborhood was almost exclusively inhabited by immigrants, but after the passing of a new danish law and taking aim, its so called parallel societies. this will no longer be tolerated. the responsible housing association must distribute the previous residents across other neighborhoods. while old apartments in new in their pocket are being renovated. 2 of the 4 apartment blocks have been sold to private investors. outlet then must be in the fact that my home country denmark is, has passed such a discriminatory law against citizens like me, evil size, both shameful and disappointing. yes, please. uh, you skim nose go from the swamp. born in pakistan is the elected spokesperson for the residents and constantly has to console his distress to neighbors. who the and his wife are allowed to stay in me on that park. and because he has lived here for over 35 years. but they also had to leave their apartment because of the renovations, to say, uh it 10, no more. you see the 2nd balcony from below and they continue to see. that's why we raised our children, the sun. well, we sent them to school on them and later to the university. most people here the government, led by the social democrats, has identified arou

a 2nd evaluation order us a neighborhoods east, a rough associated or comes off to votes of heavy fighting in that district. and just that in the south, that area, a mountain blue is where it is rainy forces have now been stationed or we can speak to most of now. so he's a chief executive officer at the founder of scientific a non profit charge. you organize ation. he joins us now from rossa in the gaza strip. most of you will not adopt yourself that your organization brings surgeons to people in need. i understand, but you and your team, apparently at the european hospitals you arrived a few days ago. you were essentially troops that yes, correct. where fighters, scientific is a medical organization that brings the surgeons primary care physicians and nurses, as well as their medical supplies, to conduct complex surgeries and treat patients with ones in garza. and this is our 2nd mission during the war, but we were here before the war in august 2023, where we conducted one of the largest medical operations in gaza. and uh for the past several years. uh we are um, a us organization and we

as i'm talking to the merchants associations and the cbds and then understanding priority vacancies in neighborhoods. so sometimes there are certain cbds or merchants associations who have relationships with property owners within that corridor, and the property owner is really motivated or interested in in bringing small business and supporting them through that. so that has been really important and really key in helping to matchmake, right. and to get businesses who are looking to open a barbecue joint and, you know, a neighborhood saying that they want a barbecue joint and there's a supportive property owner. so understanding those are also really helpful, there are often times that i also partner with our mchd or hom, and our supervisors, officers, and nonprofit developers to understand the current commercial vacancies and the upcoming vacancies and new developments. so, just being aware of those, sharing those resources, usually those are at least a couple of years ahead of time, and they have those fliers that they're able to share and they are actively looking for folks. and sometimes those

the business association of this neighborhood literally feels the heat, raising concerns last year aboutay lives and activities. for all of us, high temps may mean the difference between supporting our small local businesses, getting out into the community and building connections or staying inside. the city's plan staying inside. the city's plan is to put 29 streets around thed by the unpredictability of generalized myasthenia gravis and who are anti-achr antibody positive, season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control, with improvement in activities of daily living. it is reduced muscle weakness. and ultomiris is the only long-acting gmg treatment with the freedom of just 6 to 7 infusions per year, for a predictable routine i can count on. ultomiris can lower your immune system's ability to fight infections, increasing your chance of serious meningococcal infections, which may become life-threatening or fatal, and other types of infections. complete or update meningococcal vaccines at least 2 weeks before starting ultomiris. if ultomiris is urgent, you should also receive a