we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different par

chinatown. this is my 35th year. i am here to voice my support for the building of a new hospital. i was born in san francisco at chinese hospital. this is 16 years after it opened, on jackson street. this was 1925 when a hospital was built. i grew up in chinatown and went to one of the good public schools, a couple of blocks from the hospital. i went to francisco junior high school. after medical school in new orleans, i chose to come back to san francisco and the chinese hospitals to practice. that was 35 years ago. i am here to voice my support for the building of this due structure. why do we support this new structure and the new chinese hospital. it is so important to the community and to san francisco. it is critical for the health and well-being of so many people. first, this is a safety net hospital. for many asian patients, chinese patients, and all people of san francisco. the hospital service the mauling will, low income, disadvantaged, and elderly patients. this service the most vulnerable people. secondly, it has culturally confident and sensitive health care, providin

chinatown. we have 443rd households -- 443 households with immigrants and seniors. [speaking foreign language] >> we're here to support the development of the new chinese hospital in chinatown. this is one of the best neighborhoods in the city. the chinese hospital is the only hospital in chinatown with an emergency room -- with the capacity and the cultural capabilities. we to encourage the seniors to seek out medical care intensively, and the chinese hospitals serve this very well in our community. [speaking foreign language] >> furthermore, chinese hospital provides other services besides medical care, helping the low income seniors apply for procedures with medicare. many of the tenants are living on fixed income. we ask you to support the -- this hospital in the city. >> we have no more speaker cards. are there any additional public comments? >> i have one more letter that i would like to read very quickly, and this is from the executive director of the chinese progressive association. i submit this, letter today to express the chinese progressive association support of the institutional master plan because we believe that this is an impor

was present, the second most densely popularitied in the country second to china toub in -- chinatown in new york. it was quite wonderful and i wanted to refer to that and to really give kudos to the people involved in it. but more to the model that we actually, working with something that clearly is of great benefit to our students and to our schools, with limited resources, but that actually is a kind of perfect model of collaboration with other agencies because it meets their goals, using mostly their resources with a little -- the minimum amount of resources from us. and has great benefit to us and to our students. that's it. president mendoza: thank you. other commissioners? commissioner ye. -- yee. vice president yee: thank you. i just wanted to add another happy note to our board meeting. this is an opportunity for may 7 , we're going to have five schools participating in this program on a saturday. a city college from one to three. and -- from 1:00 to 3:00. and basically it's to take off from the documentary about the kids in new york ske citi where they learned partner dancing in th

new route. in addition to 7, which we will do all over the city, we are going to add chinatown and north beach to our city streets -- to our sunday streets. that is going to be wonderful. it is one i have been trying to oversee as city administrator, working with our liveable streets and our chinatown chamber of commerce, our chinatown merchants association -- they are all very excited, and we will be looking at the way we have been using grant avenue, all the way through north beach, from california, across broadway, so we will have more details about that, but we do not have a date announced for that. we are working out the details, and we will listen carefully to all of the needs and concerns of our merchants along the area, residents, to make sure it is successful. the nice part of sunday streets -- it is not just the physical closing of the streets. it is really the way we work with all elements of our community to make sure we bring out things that are great for kids, for families, and the merchants will have an opportunity to read prioritize the way they welcome their traditional visitors

week the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled that the man who now works with young people in chinatown deserves a new hearing because of his value to the community. >>> a man is under arrest accused of stealing 31 vehicles across the bay area. the highway patrol arrested 33- year-old denard thursday evening. his arrest follows a two-week investigation by the chp and the con extra costa district attorney's office. they learned he was operating a chop shop. >>> two men convicted of robbery and the manslaughter death of a san francisco police officer have been sentenced to 15 years in prison. officer nick thomas ito burco was killed in a high-speed chase in 2006. the two men were in a van driven by another man when the van struck and hit his patrol car. police say the men were robbery suspects fleeing the police when the crash happened. the van driver was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him of first degree murder. lather and smith leaded guilty to lesser charges back in february. [ music ] >>> stolen and then found. only ktvu was there as a young musician is reunited with an extremely

news. you all are invited to join us at 4:045 in the morning. sunday, and there will be a pretty exciting event in chinatownhis has a very special place in my heart. i was the chair of the task force for the board of supervisors since its inception. i think we have come a long way. that is one more way that we will be able to really push that prepared this message down to the community level. i hope it has become a model for other neighborhoods. the lifeline's council that is happening this week, the bay area earthquake alliance meeting coming up. in other updates, most of you know laura phillips that has been the general manager since 2008, she announced that she is retiring. today is her last day on the job. i know everyone wishes her well under her leadership. we had made great strides in regional preparedness. we will continue to do that. all of the counties surrounding us to insure them that that spirit of cooperation will continue and we are invested with working closely together. i will be sitting over in her office until we can figure out the next general manager. finally, lots of things are in the

north beach, chinatown, mission district, and many other towns, so it is not new. the coalition i am working in this predominantly based in the richmond district, and i have been able to be here with a number of small-business owners but also the two main merchant associations that are in support of the merchants associations, as well. the ordinance that to have before you is item number nine. it would help to support the small businesses along this greater court or, and it is impacting these businesses, like jane pet stores like pepco, -- ptetco, -- petco, and there are those along lombard street and also california street, and the board of supervisors allowed with a divided vote the conditional use permit for a pet food express last year. i know that that was a contentious issue that divided a number of communities and especially the small-business owners, the pet store owners. this is narrowly tailored to impact supply stores in that area. on january 20, petco had a meeting that i attended, and for my reid, we were near unanimously opposed to date -- the petco o

north beach and chinatown will probably continue to be high need neighborhoods even after this project. we focused on the current users and the desires expressed by the park users for new facilities. the people that were gathered behind as earlier in the meeting were talking about the poorly sited playground and a desire to keep the hard scape, because that is where children learn to use their bikes and where they play tennis. we came up with a plan that expands and optimizes the playground, the tennis, and the visual connection between the facilities. since may of 2008, the library and recreation and parks department have had out representations' and discussions with community groups and other stakeholders throughout the neighborhood, including chinatown community development corporation, telegraph hill neighborhood center, and many others. the open space in this plan is increased by 20% and allowed to accommodate an expanded children's play area, to meet new ada and safety features, and to include expanded seating throughout the park. there is really no green space. there is really no where to sit down. that is something the new plan provides. the new mason street pl

news will be on at 9:00 p.m. we will be back. >>pam: this body was found early this morning and chinatown. investigators were called the 6:20.uilding and voice on this woman's body partially closed on an exterior. at this time they do not know the cause of death. this is the city's 34th homicide. oakland had 31 deaths this time last year. (music) >> jacqueline: a live look from golden gate bridge. fog closed to the coast. and it will stack and early tomorrow. overnight the conditions will be clouds. tomorrow morning and that fog is going to bump up along the coast. it will even dissipate earlier with warmer temperatures setting in for most of the bay iraq. we will b in the 70's tomorrow. that /+ bay-area-- the fog is only going to be here, briefly. continuing until 6:00 p.m. still over the bay and along the coast. it will scale back and clear out by 9:00 p.m. you can see the wind clearing out. 9:00 a.m.--and temperatures will be warming especially into wednesday. , the temperatures will be 79 in santa rosa, 69 in san francisco and pumping up from today. hohokam 70 in richmond, and the inland valleys. through warmer along the

chinatown here. >> reporter: he doesn't support the ban. he is also running for mayor. live in san francisco, kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the mayor gene kwan is flying to china on an economic trade mission. he hopes to encourage more business connections and partnerships with china. she says that will generate jobs and investments in the city and wants to promote direct air service between oakland and chino. she is traveling with port of oakland officials. she says the port is paying for it and not taxpayers. >>> president obama is pleased with the latest jobs report. he says it shows the economy is resilient and can take a hit from challenges like rising gas prices and still keep going. 244,000 new jobs were added last month. the jobless rate went up from 8.8 to 9%, since people who had stopped looking for work decided to start again. >>> this happening right now, a search is underway for a 19- year-old college student from walnut creek. this is a live look from news chopper 2 of the command post for the search in the park. the last time anyone reports seeing james averyel was april 21st. the search be began yester

chinatown. it really influenced me. we had a restaurant at the time, and at the time, we were always worried, watching the news, to see whether or not the restaurant would be looted, whether or not it would go up in fire. that was something that was a big concern and worry for my family at the time. i remember thinking even at that age how important it was to consider what the economics were in communities, whether people had or felt that they had opportunities or did not have opportunities, and what role it was that government played in those outcomes. that is what really put me on the path to public policy. so i pursued public policy both at occidental college, where i went to school as an undergrad, and also you see-berkeley where i pursued public policy -- also you see -- also uc-berkeley. that was really what shape my interest in public policy. >> where you place yourself on the local political spectrum? the left or right? supervisor chu: i know a lot of folks want to put a person in the position where they call you left, progressive, moderate, whatever category that might be, and i think it really depends on the issue.

new law to protect workers wages and benefits. workers are denied their legal drew. heather ishimaru is in chinatown with the story. >> we are in chinatown because of a staggering statistic that one out of two restaurant workers made less than the legal minimum wage. but the problem is not limited to just chinatown or just to restaurants. [cheers and applause] >> more than a dozen worker's rights groups rallied in city hall in a crack down on employers who ignore labor laws it is about workers who are paid below the legal minimum or denied wages for when they work. >> it comes in not being paid overtime and receiving breaks and not paid at all in some instances. sometimes they work off of the clock and told to clock out and do other duties and not pay for it. >> the restaurant where she worked 10 years cut back her hours when she asked to be paid for sick time. she doesn't want to tell us the name of the restaurant. >> i know, i would claim my right, i would get fired right away. >> the supervisors have authored the wage theft bill. san francisco progressive alliance said it is a 30 billion problem

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chinatown's restaurant workers don't make minimum wage. >> ending the practice of wage theft. >> we want to make sure you have the right comment. >> abc newsface complaints of the harassment on and off of jobs. >> and while they are slashing budgets and cutting jobs in contra costa, abc news learned one public employee is doing well. he collects a quarter million salary and a public salary. critics say we can't afford it. >> some argue it is saving taxpayer money. laura anthony has the story. >> no one dismisses the value that dr. william walker brought to the county for four