and -- and one of the things i get to do here, i have the privilege of introducing director nuru to you all, this is a partnership. sfmta works not only with the mayor's office but with our partners in other departments, including the department of public works to bring all these projects together, and we're so grateful for that partnership over the years. and i will say personally, i've been doing this now for 12.5 years, i'm grateful for all the support you've shown us over the years. please, come celebrate with us. [applause] >> chair nuru: thank you, director heinicke, thank you, mayor breed, thank you, director reiskin. i want to begin by just taking this opportunity to reiterate our commitment from san francisco public works to the city's vision zero goal of making the streets safer for all users, whether you're driving, you're biking, or you're in transit. every traffic fatality here in our city is heartbreaking. and when we lose someone, whether it's a neighbor or classmate or someone, these are situations that are frankly unacceptable and preventible. and so i'm excited about t

of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nurumeaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give >> good morning, everybody. welcome

of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuruf meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give . >> welcome, everyone. hi. my name is clara filey,and i'm the director of the office of trans initiatives, and i'm so proud to work for a mayor that supports lgbt initiatives in the city of san francisco. [applause] >> today san francisco is launching, open to all, a national campaign to build understanding and discussion about the importance of protecting all people from discrimination. as a federal admin

of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuruonal with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give >> the hon. london breed: how exciting is it to be here today? i know many of you are wondering why we chose this location of all locations. it's because this location is the backdrop of what will be future homes -- four to be expect, right, sam? >> yeah. >> the hon. london breed: four new opportunities for accessible homes that will be affordable to folks in san francisco. these garages an

imagine mr moore nuru would turn in his grave if he could see what is but nine policy protecting the weak from european. colonizes what that has been turned into a license to kill to meddle to topple governments and politically but continents oh you've got to be special all right we have all sorts of recent cases libya syria iraq where u.s. intervention has essentially obliterated any possibility of democracy but this is true throughout the decades that the united states has meddled in the affairs of latin america overthrowing one democratically elected government after another whether in one thousand nine hundred fifty four with armed and brutal military regimes in countries like el salvador although venezuela is in the fight the moment cuba nicaragua are also mentioned by figures like bolton in the same breath this is clearly a concerted effort to bring latin american countries once again under the iron control. with brags that just around the corner and euro skeptic parties gaining momentum in the e.u. french president emmanuel necron has outlined his grand vision of a reformed eu

mohamed nuru. he -- mohamed threw me off today because i have a place called mohamed's corner.ally behind the light post in the back, but he shifted today. he kind of threw me off. the office of economic and workforce development, larry mclenden has been a great help. joaquin torres is in the back, and larry has been a great help, also. and i will not forget, karen roy has always been here, supporting us, the director of child services. chief joanne hayes-white of the san francisco fire department is here with us, as well. [applause] >> sheriff hennesey is with us, also, and you all are there -- somebody will get mad if i don't call these out. allen nance is here with us, the chief probation officer. fran see covington as vice president of the fire commission. jimmy loyce, the vice president of the health commission. marisa rodriguez is here, representing district attorney george gascon. miss rodriguez is here, and robert torres who is here, the executive director of the rent stablization board. if i've forgotten anybody, please for give me. god isn't finished working with me y

pothole-repair blitz will help get the roads back in shape," said san francisco public works director mohammed nuru to contact 311 to report potholes so we can respond as quickly as possible." ( james ) san francicso now has a new public defender... after the death of long time public defender jeff adachi. manohar raju (man-nah/ raw-jew) says he is humbled to lead this office to the next level. raju has been a public defender for 18 years... 11 of which was spent at the san francisco public defenders office. he currently manages the felony division. mayor london breed says there was a lot of solid candidates... but picked raju because of his experience and hope he'll help him create change in the criminal justice system. raju says his office is still mourning the loss of jeff adachi, but is excited for this opportunity. <"i was super excited. we have a wonderful office, it's been inspired and run by jeff adachi for a number of years and i am humbled to lead this office to the next level.">( james ) raju will fill the role of public defender until the election in november. ( james ) an attempted car

we finally said to director nuru, you're going to have to lay down some asphalt and then rip it out. >> we can look into doing that. >> chair peskin: any comments or questions from commissioners? any public comment? i really appreciate you bringing this to the attention of the board. mr. pendergrass, and if there are any additional speakers, you'll lineup to my left, your right. >> my name is paul pendergrass, i'm the current chair of public policy for the golden gate business association. commissioners, thank you for standing up for the voice of small business as it related not just to the -- relates not just to the vanness small business, but all businesses as these construction projects go on and on and on beyond their extended life. the department does have specific databased on sales tax. i request you all take a look at that, there's some great data as to when the castro street merchants about the streetscape projects. they have some great details about the impact on sales tax. that will show you from your perspective how hard this is on small businesses. when oewd, sfmta, sfct

. >> chair nuru: -- when someone is new to our system, what we do is provide them with a referral to the behavioral health access clinic or btac. they can go in and walk right in or call and speak directly 24-7 to a clinician on the phone or walk in and get an assessment that day, and as was mechanicsed, they'll be asseted for level of care in the system. ousht washt care, whether it's residential or mental or substance abuse. and then, an appointment would being setup for them at some later time. it's relatively soon, and that's what -- that's what we do. >> supervisor ronen: does anybody track how many people go from p.e.s. to tapper-bhac? >> i know there are efforts under way to track that. i haven't seen data about that. i know if it's during the day, we will taxi somebody over to bhac directly to ensure that it's more likely that they're going to enter the system. >> supervisor ronen, we actually realize that data was lacking. we've started this fiscal year the rate for p.e.s. we do have some numbers to show you. a percentage do get admitted snoo psychiatry at san francisco gene

ve we want to acknowledge d.b.i., the head, tom, and mohamed nuru from the department of public works. we have captain link from central station, and commander lozar. so the highlight of today's program is unveiling of the lunar new year stamp. as board of supervisors president yee mepgsed, inntion u.u u.s. post office issued the first series of stamps in 1993. this is the last year of the series of stamps. we are not sure if we're going to get the new ones. so there is a pgs for all of you to sign after the program because we want to make sure the united states postal service unders we in san francisco, just like many people around the country, we love our stamp that celebrate our cultural heritage. i would like to invite post master abraham cooper. >> good afternoon. or i should say good evening. you know, it's an honor to unveil the 12th and very last stamps and celebrating the lunar new year. as the post master of san francisco, i'm proud to present such a beautiful and meaningful stamp. it represents a lot of significance not only to the community but also to the people that we s

pothole-repair blitz will help get the roads back in shape," said san francisco public works director mohammed nuru. "meanwhile, we encourage the public to contact 311 to report potholes so we can respond as quickly as possible." (ken) the first sunshine in days found people out and about and trying to dry out. you are looking at what happens when what is otherwise a babbling brook in the redwoods comes to life in especially wet winters like this one. santa clara valley water district officials say year to date rainfall in uvas canyon is at 56.61 inches so far... that's about 150 percent of normal. downstream, uvas reservoir is full. uvas and the other uvas and is full. uvas reservoir is full. uvas and the other santa clara valley reservoirs are at 101-percent of their seasonal averages. <10 sec> (ken) incredible new video from viewer ryan phann... of a hailstorm that hit san jose yesterday. lightning also appearing to strike a transformer... causing an explosion that could be seen for blocks. people are still cleaning up the hail in their backyards today ... (terisa) turning now to chief meteorolo

yes, i don't believe you would have opened up the center there if i wouldn't have gone to mohamad nuru and mayor lee directly and asked them to open that site because of the crisis on the streets. so i have to agree with my colleagues, supervisor peskin, that it's been very frustrating, the level of burea bureaucracy that we encounter the level of resistance that we experience on the streets. when you say in the last year, there's been 491 net new beds, less than 250 net new beds, that is frankly not responding to the level of crisis that we have on the streets with the urgency that we need to have when we've all agreed that there is this crisis. to be told no every single time we propose a new site and then offer up an alternative and an alternative. when i bring up we have to deal with the r.v. crisis, it's incredibly frustrating. when you throw up your hands and say, we don't deal with mental health, and you need to go to d. ph and i say, i thought we created this one department. how can you say that mental health and homelessness should not be interlinked and dealt with in the same

a single tent until i located a site, i negotiated with the land owner, i teamed up with mohammed nuru and former mayor lee, and we made a plan to open a navigation center in three or four months -- i think it took about four months in the end. i held countless community meetings. i fought with neighbors who were against it. i made them a promise it would be only for a certain amount of time until we found a more permanent space, which we did. we got $10 million from the state and we opened a navigation center. not one tent was moved until there was a safe, dignified place, where people could sleep, take showers, get services, hang out, bring their pets, partners, and belongings in the mission. and we were able to solve the problem. that was the only thing that solved the problem. so i -- we had a method that worked. what we don't have is enough of these beds. it is not rocket science. we have more people who are poor, who are normally people of color, and who have been victims of poverty and racism and inequality, who are living on the streets than we have places that are dignified fo