opportunities. it is located in russian hill boarded by chestnut high and larkin. it's currently under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission. it has been dormant as a reservoir for over 60 years. i will tell you a personal story. i used to play ball close to the park because we weren't very good football players. we would throw the ball and chase after it. i remember this plot of plant as it -- land as it sits there growing up in the city and we finally have an opportunity to change that for the city. some comments were made around 900 eunice and these are all great comments. in terms of the open space nature of this park, this has been designated san francisco reservoir since the 1980s. it is zoned p for public under the planning code zoned as open space under the heightened district of the planning code and this is open space over the decades. we are finally here with an opportunity to move it forward. this is an area that is very very densely populated. russian hill is bordered by c

opportunity. having the freedom and democracy, openness of the country permits people like us and businesses to have unequal opportunity in the world. >> that is what america represents my grandfather came to this country in 1919 and you can imagine what he was feeling, leaving a place so familiar with friends, and family. because of the promise of opportunity. because of the promise of a freedom. and opportunity. when you look at america and think about it, what has america given to you? >> the opportunity to never give up the road is not smooth the journey not equal. situations have to be overcome. in this country, you learn from what you need to learn by that road you never give up taking advantage of the opportunity america mermitss -- permits yo. >> as immigrants we respect the fryou're allowed to live the life you want. >> america stands for sanctity of every person. and that is a hope life can be better. >> the freedom to talk about your beliefs >> we're asking what makes america great. >>

opportunities. typically given the three criterias, it's really a balancing act. there has to be a need and the playground deficiency in the russian hill neighborhood for us to immediate that criteria but we also have an at some point to match the public investment with a significant community investment in both the development and maintenance of the park. again, creating a pretty exciting opportunity to conserve a very unique parcel. >> from what supervisor farrell mentioned it's a fairly incredible generously to contribute to. >> supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. i need to ask a few questions. i look at the plans for the park. it's gorgeous. i don't see that all the neighborhoods have the ability to raise funds like this and to its credit, supervisor chair farrell has actually built support for this reservoir and other -- sites over the city. i know he's talked to district 11 for ways that neighborhoods like his could be supportive of the funding efforts that we are trying to

these opportunities and open space acquisitions are opportunities in time. they exist for moments in time. otherwise, i will tell you colleagues i have had many conversations from public utilities commission and other commissioners otherwise this wouldn't be up for development. i'm proud of the support. i want to mentioned some of the organizations that we have worked with because it's been incredible t north beach neighbors, the russian home improvement association, russian hill neighborhood association, mayor ed lee has been a big supporter. i want to thank the cosponsors of this legislation and supervisors wiener and breed and campos, katie indicate -- tanning and norman yee and we shared being supervisors at russian hill given the districting and he and i talked about this project for years. he's been a strong advocate this whole time and a true supporter and his support has been amazing. san francisco parks alliance and the san francisco beautiful, the sierra club, the omega boys club. the neighborhood association. i saw don earlier, this childhood deve

because ofie the promise of opportunity. because of the promise of freedom and opportunity.n youou look at america and u think aboutme it, what has amera given to you? >> it gave me the opportunity to never give up. the road is not smooth. the journey is not equal. the situations have to be overcome. and you don't succeed in every step of the way. but in this country, you learn from what you need to learn, by that bumpy road and you never give up, taking advantage of the opportunity america permits you. >> i think as immigrants we appreciate this country. sometimes even more than the people that have been here for generations. we respect its freedoms and the way that you really are allowed to live the life that you want. >> i think america stand for the dignity of every human person and that hope that life can be better. >>at freedom of speech make this is country great. the freedom to truly express yourself. talk about your beliefs. >> tonight we're asking our panel members, what makes america great? >> the ability to participate in forums such as this where we can have thi

and forging these solutions is a huge economic opportunity for both of us. the solution comes from areas where we already do things very well. where we've already made great progress. where innovation, smarter energy policy, and clean energy technology are already defining the future. let me just share with everybody, reinforce this again and again whenever i get a chance, the solution to climate change is energy policy. it's not some magical unreachable, untouchable thing out there. it's not pie in the sky. it's energy policy. and where we put good energy policy in place we reduce emissions and we begin to contribute to the solution. it's a huge market, my friends. i also remind people that the market that created the great wealth of the united states of america during the 1990s, which made americans individually and otherwise richer than they had of been in american history. at the top end it made people richer than they did in the 1920s when we didn't have an income tax, and everybody saw their income go up in the 1990s. you know what that was? a $1 trill

i'm very excited about the opportunity that's going to present to link the entire waterfront. so, i'm looking forward to having this piece. it's certainly much more congested and is important, but that is in the planning of the blue greenway to ensure there will be opportunities to ensure cyclists have a safe [speaker not understood], and they'll have a chance to see what works well and they can also implement that extension. i do appreciate, too, we're looking at best practiceses. many again, i have photos. i won't show you. in leone, i was struck by how extremely well the dedicated bicycle lanes were with the raised area. pedestrians understood it. autos 1250edctionv it. ~ understood it, cyclists. quite congested areas along the waterfront so i do have a few pictures. but one of the otherings in that struck me, too, it wasn't that contiguous system so we're in areas where it wouldn't work to have one type of approach to others and that would allow for a seamless, easier pathway. so, it sounds like that's being contemplated here as well. so, appreciate that. but just having c

>> a new opportunity. i have done appraisals for people for tax reasons, but it would be nice just to get some familiarity with the tax laws and stuff like that. >> can you repeat that? >> i would like to get familiar with the tax laws and just this part of the assessment field process. >>supervisor norman yee: supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you. can you tell me about your current job? >> i'm a real estate appraiser. >> thank you. any public comment on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: again, i want to thank both applicants for their interes

this opportunity gave me an opportunity to envision when this community could be and so far i've learned about the different types of water and the ways [speaker not understood]. especially if california is in a big drought. this experience gives us the chance to use the knowledge i gain and to present them to others in our community so that they can help make a change, too. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> hi, my name is sierra borne, i'm 15 years old and i'm from san francisco. this opportunity has helped me gain more experience in the work field. this internship at apri has taught me how to cooperate and learn from the people you work with. it has also given me a chance to work toward bettering my community and given me a new perspective on my environment surrounding myself and others. i acquired knowledge as to how to youthtion lies tool to help my community grow and thrive. i learned why it is important to learn about global factors concerning my community such as distribution of various types of water. in the future i'll use my work experience at apri to hopefully secure

created dual enrollment opportunities so kids could earn college credit opportunities in high school. since leaving, governor wise took over the alliance for education. he has been the most important advocate for great high schools, and college and career preparation for young people in america. >> is there a difference between how public schools and private k-12 schools are approaching digital learning? >> not really. you would think that private schools would be a source of innovation. by and large, they haven't been. most remain relatively traditional. at the expense of private schools, every kid has a laptop. the learning environments are in most cases relatively traditional. i would say what we haven't learned, as much as i would have hoped from the private schools. on the other hand, the radical radical cost constraints, charter networks of california, they have proven to be a source of innovation. they were forced to do more with less. as a result, the aspire. , a blended network, and some public schools have produced really extraordinary results with these new blended learning

our founding fathers envisioned a system whether there was a equality of opportunity in our side and we're the only society in the world that has equality of opportunity and in this day and age it means you had to graduate from high school career ready or college reaea and too many incidences and to many zip codes that's not happy so my response to the opportunity scholarship act to say in real time let's have solutions if a public school is failing students then we should have a situation where in real time you can get out of that situation where people are failing and so the opportunity of scholarship act provides opportunities for children for parents for grandchildren for grandparents to have a better tomorrow for their own kids and so i've been pushing the opportunity of scholarship act for years and unfortunately the status quo is blocking that because if you can have more efficiency more opportunities for kids uh a greater mix you know whether there's another public school whether there's a parochial school whether there's a private school this is a realtime immediate solution

with the completion of the san francisco bay trail, opportunities for walking, bicycling and lastly opportunities for natural habitat restoration, for the creation of wet land habitat and for wild life habitat. so the details of the proposed acquisition, the purchase price to the seller is $2.975 million. the city would be responsible for environmental remediation. parks and recreation has commissioned a phase one and two site assessment which presents a broad range of environmental clean up where they consider excavating 2-4 feet. consider excavating the unpaved area. it will yield a range of cost estimates ranging from under $500,000 to up to $2.8 million. we are working on a more accurate remediation. part of a remediation estimates they like to know where you are going to build where so they know how deep the excavation is. we don't know that. we'll have that in the next coming months. we'll expect to ak isses the acquisition fund to remind ate the cost. since it's a legitimate related expense. in addition there is an opportunity for grant funding to the usepa, they have a grant for fields pr

credit opportunities in high school. he expanded teacher professional development. and since leaving, governor wise took over the alliance for excellent education and has really been the most important advocate for great high schools and college and career preparation for young people in america. >> host: is there a difference between how public schools and private k-12 schools are approaching digital learning? >> guest: not really. you would think that private be schools -- private schools would be a source of innovation, but by and large they haven't been. most remain relatively traditional, although most are beginning to incorporate technology tools. so at expensive private schools every kid has a laptop, but the learning environments are, in most cases, relatively traditional. i would say we haven't learned as much as i would have hoped from the private school space. on the other hand, the really, rah radically cost-constrained charter networks of california have proven to be a real source of innovation. they were fo

>> in one word, opportunity. having the freedom and the democracy and the openness of this country permits people like us and businesses to have unequal opportunity in the world. >> that's what america represents. my grandfather came to this country in 1919. you can imagine what he was feeling, what your ancestors were feeling levering -- leaving a place so familiar with friends and family because of the promise of opportunity, because of the promise of freedom and opportunity. when you look at america and think about it, what has america given to you? >> it gave me the opportunity to never give up. the road is not smooth. the journey is not equal. the situations have to be overcome and you don't succeed in every step of the way. in this country you learn from who you need to learn by the bumpy road and you never give up taking advantage of the opportunity america permits you. >> i think as immigrants we appreciate this country sometimes even more than the people who have been here for generations. we respect fre

this is a once in a generation opportunity, wunts in a hundred year opportunity that we will never get back. this is part of the greenway. we urge you to approve the acquisition today. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. again with the parks alliance. my name is kate. i want to reiterate what kelly and matt have said. 900 eunice is a great opportunity . the blew green way. is incredible. the open space on the water front . we urge you to support this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors. i'm the policy manager for san francisco beautiful. i'm here to represent san francisco the beautiful and the redevelopment of this land is very crucial and needs to create a larger regional park and create better public access to the shoreline. as provided by supervisor cohen's office. this project is important for community to feel proud of a great resource that it can provide not only for san francisco but reasonably for the bay area. i urge you to approve this transfer to make san francisco more beautiful. >> thank y

>> a new opportunity. i have done appraisals for people for tax reasons, but it would be nice just to get some familiarity with the tax laws and stuff like that. >> can you repeat that? >> i would like to get familiar with the tax laws and just this part of the assessment field process. >>supervisor norman yee: supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you. can you tell me about your current job? >> i'm a

i look forward to the opportunity. i hope i get the opportunity to serve on the board of governors and help make that happen. >> thank you. i hope you will, too. thank you. >> dr. crawford, not mr. crawford. for the closing statement, i want to recognize dr. crawford. >> i appreciate is that. >> i kept asking my staff is he a mister or doctor, finally they told me you're a doctor. i apologize. dr. crawford. >> i will take this opportunity to say, you know, i was here two years ago, almost to the day for my hearing the first time around. sf 1789 it had actually passed in the senate. since then my wife has said to me this classic question that we've all been asked, why do you want owe do thto do this? the board can't fix what's wrong with the postal service. congress seems to be reluctant to act. to be perfectly frank, i had to do ask myself, does this make good sense? it has been so gratifying to come back this time because s 1486 has been reported out of the committee and i have -- i am just so impressed by the changes

opportunity act. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cicilline: i rise today to recognize the rhode island historical preservation and heritage commission. rhode island has more than 16,000 historic buildings, more per square mile than any other state in the country. the first district, which i'm proud to represent, is home to some of rhode island's most cherished places. such as the international tennis hall of fame and the tour synagogue and the beavertown light house in jamestown. these sites also provide an economic boost to our local economy by atrabblingting tourists from across new england, the country and the entire world. led by executive director, the dedicated staff of the rhode island historical preservation commission has worked hard to preserve our national hist

in terms of economic development ocii equal opportunity policies for the development in the shipyard having the workforce hiring goals there's an s pe subcontractor goals for the vertical projects or the professional services lanar has achieved 77 fte participation to date and 84 percent on block 52 that's exceptionally high this is $33 million that will create seven hundred and 93 jobs they have a 50 percent goal of temporary hiring for san francisco residents with first consideration for bay area. and today, i think the local hiring numbers are 46 percent for san francisco and 28 percent for bay area district 10. to moving forward lanar will work with our partners to hire the local folks and others next steps is the finlz of the portfolio it is hoover around 52 percent either a joint venture or fee. and after that a vertical d b.a. will happen prior to construction the design phases will be achieved and hoping e hopefully, we'll be done by may 2017. that concludes my presentation. >> thank you very much let's take public comment on this item. i have one speaker card al norman >> i

jolie.welcome to for the you so much opportunity to speak with you this morning. despite myack sent i'm from minnesota. state of minnesota which about 20 fortune 500 companies are headquarters and a wonderful place to live and we win t have winters but we won't talk did about that. the fourth chief executive officer of best buy and a great opportunity tohe speak with the governors of the tates that are united in this america.ited states of the future of main street is an topic.ant it's important because of the importance of the industry in states.omy of all the globally speaking retail is gross quarter of the in the product united states. 15 ctly retail employees million people. when you take into account the eople who are working for retail and the contractors who build the stores or provide the stores it about a quarter of the in the united states. so from a job standpoint it's enormous. from a state standpoint do i need to tell you collect is t we $250 billion, and we're $6.2 billion.de we also have a recycling program. most of you know that recycle the we elec

they didn't want to waste opportunities. would say there certainly have been times along the way when they probably took steps that didn't always reflect their values. certainly the case. but on the whole, they tended to be individuals who found themselves in opportunities. now, part of it is that they got into the right networks, they were relational entrepreneurs. one of my favorite stories is vernon jordan who in the book we found he is the most influential adviser to the business community alive today. at one time he served on 12 fortune 500 ceo boards at the same time. and when i asked ceos to name individuals whose counsel they sought, his name came up the most. any individual. vernon jordan says i never applied for a job. i've never applied for a job in my life. now, it helps that he's made friends in powerful places. but early on he had a real commitment to a sense of calling and vision. if you know his story, he was involved in civil rights. went to study at harvard, and that opened up a lot of doors. and i found th

johnson has been a strong proponent to provide housing opportunity for homeless who were eligible to receive housing preferences through ocii certificate of preference program. now therefore, be it resolved the san francisco community investment & infrastructure commission on behalf of it's executive director and employees acknowledges the services that ms. johnson has provided to ocii and by this resolution expressed to ms. johnson it's appreciation of work well done and thanks for the dedication for public service and success in all her future endeavors >> okay. i'm still the chair of this meeting but thank you to the staff and fellow commissioners i'm proud to have been acknowledged by this administration and mayor newsom's administration for the work you've done and given the opportunity to serve a community with you served hunters point shipyard and treasure island i've not been there and taken the work and to all of you i wouldn't be here without the size and help of you fiascos it's weird i'm sitting up here by i guess i'll sit up here in taking public comment. >> can members

opportunities for children. i hope that all of you support this project. it's been a wonderful project to work on. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is george. i live on chestnut street. i'm there is president of the russian hill improvement association. i'm speaking in support of this project. we who live up there see everyday hundreds of people coming from all parts of the city toen jo i the views and take pictures and go down to fisherman wharf. right now they have to take pictures where they are in danger where people are driving by. now they can relax and take pictures and walk whenever they want from there. this is an ideal place to do it. it serves a lot of public transportation systems. the cable cars bring next to it from tenderloin, chinatown quite easily as well as people from russian hill. there are bus lines going on bay street and union street and van ness. people from all over the city can come down there and have a good time and they are welcomed and we would love to se

credit opportunities in high school. he expanded teacher professional development and since leaving governor wise took over the alliance for excellent education and has really been the most important advocate for great high schools and for college and career preparation for young people in america. >> is there a difference between how public schools and private key through 12 schools are approaching digital learning? >> guest: not really. you would think that private schools would be a source of innovation that by and large they haven't been. most remain relatively traditional although most are beginning to incorporate technology tools so that expensive private schools every kid has a laptop at the learning environments are in most cases relatively traditional. i would say we haven't learned as much as i would have hoped from the private schools face. on the other hand, the radically cost constrained charter networks of california have proven to be a real source of innovation. they were forced to do more with less and as

we welcome the opportunity like the one today to discuss our efforts. we are greatful for the community's support and yours, in particular, senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much. given that, what are your factors for prioritizing which ones to go after through the clean slate program or just generalizing? >> so by operation clean slate, it was to forge a line for the private sector and government and then prioritize the most ae gr e gre jus. and looking across, you know, the world. prioritizing those and developing a cam bane going after the infrastructure. >> one of the -- this pre-dates you. but i've had some concerns based on my time in the department of justice as the u.s. attorney. about the way in which the department has responded to the botnet threat. i think ewe're doing a good job, but there's a cultural divide sometimes between the criminal prosecutors and the civil attorneys for the government. these cases that take down the botnet are instiktive on the part of the criminal prosecutors to think that that's a lesser task at a lesser purs

this form is being updated i'll explain and block 52 is a community billed this has an opportunity too the job there 03 programs in exchange for a fee the community builder provides the construction and the community builders will enter into a partnership with lanar if under the independent program the community builds will buy the land and do the job on their own. so staff has demonstrated it is complete and the d d example a and the horizontal hunters point shipyard are complete those designs went through the design process with the hunters point shipyard advisory committee in april and may have this year and in accordance the planning staff provided the comments and they've been incorporated into the design you'll see today. we've made a handful of clean up and one thing to the process the former language only required that outreach to the certificate of preference performs were one hundred days prior to the first day of sale this is changed because it is advanced 16 to 18 months to the first homeowner sale this is for the ocii and the office of economic workforce development if yo

i look forward to the opportunity and i hope i get the opportunity to serve on the board of governors and help make that happen. >> thank you. i hope you will, too. thank you. dr. crawford, not mr. crawford, the closing statement i want to recognize dr. crawford. >> thank you. >> i kept asking my staff, is he mr. or a dr. they told me you were dr. all those times i called you mr., i apologize. dr. crawford. >> i'll take this opportunity to say, you know, i was here two years ago almost to the day for my hearing the first time around and 1789 -- s 1789 had actually passed in the senate. since then my wife has said to me this classic question that we've all been asked, why do you want to do this? the board can't fix what's wrong with the postal service, congress seems to be reluctant to act, and to be perfectly frank, i had -- i had to ask myself, does this make good sense? and it has been so gratifying to come back this time because s 1486 has been reported out of the committee and i have -- i am just so impressed by the changes that it -- that it holds forth and am hopeful enough that

third, opportunity grants. by far the most controversial part of this and the part i hope doesn't get all the attention but i'm afraid it might because it's the part that's the most controversial. it gives flexibility authority as paul explain and help as bob woodson will emphasize, what i like most about this, most people do, it's given flexible to states which is something the democrats traditionally have been very worried about. this is a way to get money to the local level and the platoons of society, civil society can benefit from some of the money. you have to stop the. i've heard many people who are so sue with bob say the same thing but for the opportunity grants are really crucial. if you were a republican and you believed opportunity grants and flexibility and block grants on way to go, you could not improve on paul's proposal. why? because it's not natural but it's not changing food stamps and tanf and so forth. they remain in place but seven states, some number of states will affect the experience a

the opportunities out there. that the workforce system and the job centers there close by offer a great way to have individual counseling for that guardsman or reservist, and therect connection through state job banks, the job centers and that personal connection. you go encourage you as back and talk to your labor commissioners that you hook them up with that feedback there in your state and make sure that partnership is strong. next point i would make is regarding military installations. not every state has an active military installation. we worked very closely with the .o.d. to develop memorandums of understanding garrisonurage military commanders to actively engage with their local workforce agencies to bring those folks on two bases. guidanceout to publish to those job center directors through your state workforce agencies, encouraging them to be available when that military installation commander calls. it is vital to enable what dod has going on in terms of their transition system programming, making sure

the historical report for opportunity is in addition to that work. our partner opportunity nation is a bipartisan national campaign comprised of nonprofits, higher educational institutions and business groups working on expanding opportunity and economic mobility in america. to presentry pleased this work with them. anyone interested in the historical report of opportunity we would encourage them to check out the work of both of our organizations, and we produced an annual opportunity index year on year. we have done that since 2011. so if you're interested in more findlar detail, you can that on opportunity nation's website. you mentioned that overall opportunity has increased and things are getting better but the pace has changed dramatically over the decades. theave a chart that shows change in the opportunity score by decades. 1990 22 thousand, a huge jump before declines again. what was driving the increase in the 1990's and why hasn't it carried forward to the second? guest: great question. 1990's are seeing in the , the 1980's showed progress

, and i am out there, on the corners, and pushing people, to show up for these opportunities, and we have through the eoc and townsend and his work and getting the people the job opportunities who basically decide, you know what? i am ready and i want to do it and i am going to show up, what do i need to do and we have led them step by step, and not only that, we have city job opportunities funded readily available for them, and if they basically get to a point where they being employed, the point that i am making is, there is a lot of work, that is being done. and it is not just specific to a district, this is a city wide problem, there is a problem, when many of my friends, who i grow up with are dead are in jail, there is a problem in the city, when it is really difficult, when i am talking out, every single day and someone is looking for a job opportunity, or wondering what they can do or where they can live, in the city and county of san francisco. and this is not just a board of supervisors, problem, this is a city as a whole problem and this is a leadership problem and we can'

that's got to buy these deals and it is a distressed opportunity.this is a lot of money you have to pay back. you have to dig yourself out of a massive hole. this is in the hands of somewhat loan sharks. >> everybody said that it was to 11%. it was eight. it is still high but we were able. even better is for each dollar that we sold, there were four that were there to buy. there were offers for 14 billion dollars, $16 billion. the access is there. we need to make our economy take off. what we did was buying time. now, we have the runway and we have to improve in agriculture. >> do you need to modernize your energy system, they are double what they are in the states. if you are going to have all of this building here, manufacturing, how are you going to do it when the energy bills are so high? >> if you compare puerto rico with the jurisdiction of the united states, if you go with a white, with even alaska, there are areas where you pay for times than what you have an puerto rico. we need to improve. we are about to release the environmental impact d