i truly believe that our city government should be enriching our neighborhoods. i'm a proud parent. i'm a public schoolteacher and a lifelong san franciscan. i want to ensure that san francisco is a family friendly city. as a renter and a public school et teacher, i can tell you it is difficult for people to aafford to live in the sunset neighborhoods. the cost of child care means my wife had to leave her full-time job. i know the pain of the housing crisis firsthand. these issues are personal to me. if elected supervisor, i will prioritize family sized affordable housing, increase the amount of affordable housing across the entire city, and work to expand and improve policies that help families find housing in the sunset and park side neighborhoods. we must continue to improve public safety in our communities as well. i will work closely with the sfpd to keep our neighborhoods safe, especially from property crime and car break-ins, our police department has been chronically under staffed for years, making it improbable to do the necessary ples work in our communities. when we see ou

we have to have the workforce to take care of the most vulnerable people in our city. most of them work for ihss or nonprofits. if we are to meaningfully deal with the crisis that we see on our street every day, which mind you is supposedly the number one issue of every single politician in san francisco. so this is a no brainer. i hope you'll all support the attempts that the supervisor fewer just implemented and then vote for this legislation when it comes up before us for a vote next week. thank you so much. >> president cohen: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: thank you, president cohen. i want to thank supervisor fewer for bringing this lemgislation up. everything that supervisor ronen just said, i totally agree. the -- we're really at the place where our seniors or ageing population are exploding. in my district, it's one of the highest percentage of seniors in the city, and we're seeing that go up even further. and the issues that i've been dealing with with seniors in the past few years is exactly this issue of who's going to care for them? and one of -- there'

so our vision is to be a city that embraces technology. to enhance quality of life in our public spaces. that's where we're really heading. in terms of the process, and what we've done thus far, we kicked off a public process on july 9. and we really started with listening. we wanted to understand and listen to the challenges from all sides of the table. so that included community groups, labor groups, accessibility stakeholders, the technology sector, our own city family as well as a variety of community advocates. from moving on from the listening sessions, we were really trying to understand and identify what the needs are with this new permitting and regulation for the emerging technologies. and then the last meeting was to develop some initial recommendations and possible actions of what the city might take. and so our next and final public meeting will be on november 5. we will be presenting our draft recommendation and sort of initial actions. so here we see some of the kind of themes and tracks of what we heard throughout the proces

thanks for opening up your city to all of our trailblazer. we are grateful for being here, and i hope we all leave the city a little better when we depart tomorrow. thank you very much. >> just spend money at our hotels and restaurants. thank you. >> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and in

city. i would like to say we are a small state. uralsmall towns, our r areas and the cities, we are all in this together. we will not be great unless our cities are great. what is more to make sure we are surviving if you eliminate more than 60% of the budget. if you eliminate $12 million out of the budget as bob has proposed. you know who will end up paying for that, you do. it is your towns and your cities. it will jack up property taxes and crush education. it is the wrong thing to do. great, vibrant cities. fiber and cities are key to keeping young people here attracting jobs in protecting our space outside. we have to expand the grand list of our city. we have to attract business into our cities. the highest taxed areas in our cities. that is driving young people and business out of them. it is the wrong thing to do. sure we keepake our commitment to our schools. make sure we have great k-12 education. make sure young families want to be attracted there. i can to make sure each and everyone of us know we are in this together. >> 90 seconds. mr. st

have so much i mean for one example is our stadium i know a lot of cities are dealing with these the economics of sports stadiums but we have one of our richest residents arthur blank who started home depot walk into the mayor's office and say hey i know no one's asking for it but i'd like to build a new giant stadium to take the place of this perfectly fine stadium and i want you to give me seven hundred million dollars to do it and so there is no public discourse the mayor just makes an announcement hey we're going to give seven hundred million dollars away to build this stadium that no one asked for so we're what we're really in a crisis we're in a crisis of political will we're a price is a crisis of moral priority if we as a city and as a country continue to prioritize those that have so much for these mega developments and the rest of us have to pay for it we will continue to widen this gap. between is basically a transfer of wealth from the public good into. a multi billionaire in the case of like the falcon stadium or in atlanta right now we have another may good development t

of information and also communication amongst all of us here who play a critical role in keeping our city safe and resilient, we will ultimately be prepared to protect and engage and keep our communities connected. for me personally, in my household, i have people in there from 5 years old to 75 years old, plus three pets. so it's very -- keeping -- looking at that through a larger community lens and how we prepare and how we -- whether it's 911, 311, in-home supportive services, all of those and more are just so important to ensuring that san francisco -- san franciscans through preparing for a disaster and through bouncing back after a disaster is why we're here today and why it's such a critical conversation to have. the term and the theme of connected communities is really so much more than that. and i'm really honored to be here and to continue this conversation around how we cannot only protect, but also prepare and strengthen our citizenry around disaster preparedness. thank you, all, for taking the time. >> thank you. i'm excited to work with this council to prepare san francisco

the enrollment at city college exceeded our most optimistic prediction of what we thought would occur after we made city college free, which is -- speaks to both the success of this program but also speaking to the incredible thirst of our residents to attend our only lifelong learning institution, city college. i am putting forward a charter amendment which would create a dedicated fund for ten years for the free city program set annually at $15 million from the general fund, so less than what proposition w brought in in the first fiscal year. this will be available to all san francisco resident does who are enroll or will enroll in the city college of san francisco and will also create a more robust financial aid program for low-income students who are already eligible for free city previous to proposition w passing where they will receive a $500 stipeyd persemester if they are full-time and 200 if they are part-time. what we learns was low-income students still did not enroll in free community college because now books and transportation and child care costs more that be enrolling

thanks for opening up your city to all of our trailblazer. e are grateful for being here, and i hope we all leave the city a little better when we depart tomorrow. thank you very much. >> just spend money at our hotels and restaurants. thank you. >> good morning, welcome to the government audit and oversight committee for wednesday, september 19th. my name is jane kim, i serve as the chair of this committee, and today i am joined by supervisor vallie brown. unfortunately, aaron peskin cannot be in attendance today, as it is yom kippur, so taking a motion to excuse his absence. recognize the committee's clerk, john

a strong city by working with our homelessness, a strong he city by cleaning up our city, and we're doing all this together. san francisco is the number one employer in san francisco, so salesforce combined with san francisco can do more together, and that's what we're here. and let's not forget, there is no strong san francisco without a strong oakland. the metaphor of the bay bridge, that we are connected, that we are all connected, and we are deeply connected to oakland. we will never forget oakland, which is why we're giving this money to the oakland schools, and why our programs extend to oakland, as well, and why i'm so excited that mayor schaaf is here, our phenomenal mayor of oakland. so you look behind me, you look at vince, kayla, you look at mayor breed, mayor schaaf. together we're focused on a stronger bay area. this is why i'm excited today. i'm excited the dream force is happening. i'm honored to be here, and now i'm going to turn it over to mayor breed. mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, mark, and thank you to the salesforce team. i am london breed, and i am honor

our streets every day. not just in san francisco but cities throughout this state. this is not progressive to sit by while people unravel and die on our streets. to be clear, we are not talking about most homeless people. large majority of homeless people are not what this bill is about. this is about a small percentage of chronic homeless people, who are incapable of making decisions for themselves due to severe mental health and drug addiction issues. who are incapable of accepting services. we need to help these people and we need to stop just letting people unravel and die on our streets. the city of san francisco and other cities have told us, is that the current conservativeship laws in california, are not meeting the meets, particularly of people with severe drug addiction. people who are cycling in and out of the psyche of emergency room and they're backout on the streets unraveling more and more. we need to help get these people into housing, into services, get people stable and healthy and do everything we can to get their lives on track and that is what se

kids, the future of our city. what tipping point has learned over the course of 13 years is that when you support the right solutions, the right leaders, the right partnerships, great out comes with possible. we've seen that with larkin street. we've been partnering with larkin for seven years now, and they know how to get results. over 80% of their clients have stable housing upon leaving their program. and we know that they can't do it alone, as the mayor just said. supporting the young people living on our streets required an all-hands-on-deck solution. this collaboration between the city, larkin street and private philanthropy is the only way we're going to see the change we all want for our community. we must all take responsibility and hold each other accountable. we've cut homelessness for transition aged youth by 2023. but even with the right metrics, partners, and leaders, you need the right stroategy. that's what i love about rising up. it also builds in a housing subsidy, but build in for education and

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the mission district is a very special part of our city.ll the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafÉ. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve th

their lowest paid workers better, and in fact many of the lowest paid worker nz our tech companies and finance in the city and county of san francisco, whether they be our janitors, our ihss, our cafeteria are in the lottery for housing. they are sleeping in their cars, couch surfing with other members of the their family or friends. it is frankly just a state of the cost of living here in the bay area that exists today that is making it so difficult for people who make really good wages to live anywhere in the bay area. when my friends who i consider middle-income moving as far as richmond and hercules to get a home. one of the ways we're -- by the way, the fastest growing income gap between the rich and the poor here in san francisco and is in san francisco, is by increasing the pay of our lowest pat workers. i am concerned about every worker and how we spend our dollars. we have to be fiscally prudent as we move forward, and we know that this incredible growth in our economy which is a little unprecedented is going to end at some point, and we will have a recession, and our reserves are incredibly impo

next, i'd like to bring up my friend and former colleague, carmen chiu, who's the assessor of our great city and county. [applause] >> josan. good morning, everybody. good morning. i think, you know, in the spirit of our former mayor, he would probably be looking out at this crowd and seeing a lot of friends and family, and he would be probably making a joke about why there's more adults than children here today, right? but i know that education that he cared so much about, and i just want to thank each and every one of you for taking sometime to be here today at this dedication and renaming ceremony. ed is someone that we knew and worked very closely with us. i'll tell you, some of the most shining moments i had with him when he was at the schools. he was always interested in what the kids were learning. he was always interested in inspiring the kids and making them laugh and having them have a wonderful start to their day. i think hydra spoke a lot about some of the accomplishments that he did quietly on behalf of education in our public schools. i will say he always talked to me about why

our city. it's embarrassing. is this turning into a crisis of inaction or indifference? in our city that's unprecedented. we're a city of compassion built on st. francis said in giving that we receive, that's why we're prop c. >> let me play devil's advocate with you on this, marc. as you've acknowledged the homeless problem is worse than it's ever been. different than you've seen it. you've been here a long time. i've been here a quarter century. yet, we're spending more money than we ever had. what is to say is throwing more money at this problem will do anything to solve it? >> we've seen a couple of great pieces of evidence and the case for optimism. number one, i told you about heading home where we're getting every homeless child off the streets. you know about home ward bound. did you know the city has gone to 10,000 homeless individuals over a decade and said, do you want to go home? be reconnected with your family? did you know that 10,000 people said yes? >> i do. >> do you know what

our business community. we announced we will be opening another 1,000 shelter beds by 2020 here in the city and county of san francisco. we know we have a crisis on our hands and we know that we have to make smart investments because we see it on our streets every single day. it's effecting the quality of life. it's effecting the business community. we know that many of the people sadly that are struggling on our streets are experiencing a lot of challenges. and we want to thank you. we want to thank the discovery polk community benefits district for its work and its contributions and being partners in this effort to make sure city safer, to make sure city cleaner, and we know that there's so much work to do. this process has brought so many businesses together and i am just excited to be here today to sign the legislation that made it possible. this is your victory. we're going to get to work to make san francisco an even better place for each and everyone of us. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, very much, mayor breed. of course, our next speaker is a long-time champion of co

my opinion is that the city officials have not moved our city in the right direction at all. think that they have moved the city to a disastrous precipice. we are bordering on chaos. why? we don't need drug injection sites. we don't need an increase in the needle exchange program. we know that san francisco is handing out 400,000 needles a month but only getting back 150,000 used needles. these policies are not good for san francisco. in addition, the focus on increasing housing density and building along transit corridors is, again, misguided. >> thank you. and mr. kim? >> all right. i will also say that we haven't exactly been moving in the right direction. there have definitely been good advances made by certain supervisors and certain city agencies, but the fact is that we still have a crisis of homelessness and affordable housing, and we just keep giving away tax incentives to large corporations, and it's hurting the people. that's not a sustainable model. eventually we're just going to become a city for the super rich, and we'll have this giant wealth gap that all our ma

we send our newsletter to over 100 churches in in this city whose denominations support us. i am joining with many who thank you for passing what you have passed. i also am joining with many who are remarking that in our society of very unequal means of living that there is much more to do and that what -- the people here will keep working for a greater increase in the wages of these folks, the home healthcare workers and nonprofit workers, but thank you for this much so far so good. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i amroma guy. i want to congratulate you for having a breakthrough in the modern labor and government resource development and pathway in the city and county of san francisco. yes, we have great wealth, but this struggle is new as of today i support the amendments because the path is new. i have been in nonprofits on the governing side, service side, but i really want to emphasize the importance of bringing in ih ss today. they are the modern -- i was going to say women's movement which is true -- labor movement. i really applaud you you as people who have chosen t

our cultural centers, you know, we've got five around this city. the chinese cultural center was featuring seven artists with photography. our african american culture center, day-long symposium with panels and performance, right. this is one of the photographers with the chinese cultural center. the climate music project. again, it's part of the beat batteries and the coffee pot. people go from one to the other and stop at the climate music project, which was going on all day on the steps of the library. they come out, perform around what you want the future to sound like. lots of rappers, spoken word, classical musicians, it was an amazing day. climate ballet. all about glaciers. the other thing about art that i want to say, you know, we have to have some joy in this work. a lot of times, we sing, we dance, that invites people to join us in this movement. this is from the climate march. i just love this. this was a new orleans second line. i hear that and i am marching with you. a lot of other people are too. the last thing, you know, artists have

department of public health, we know we have to work together to make our city safer, cleaner and really restore of beauty of what this city is all about. we have to be consistent, persistent, and we're committed to doing that. every time we increase the programming in an area like this, i think we have a better chance of sustaining our ability to make our city shine, and that is what we are committed to do. so i hope everybody's enjoying the beauty of this day. please enjoy it. return, shop at birite. i just met sam for the first time today, and i've got to say, it is just really, really heart are warming and impressive to see all of this come together. i'll speak on behalf of all the men and woman of the san francisco police department. we are so fortunate to be blessed and a part of this wonderful community, so thank you. [applause] >> all right. just a -- a few thank yous, but sam apparently has said that his soft ice cream server that he hired to come out -- serve -- what's -- what's -- this is birite's newest soft ice cream server. he needed a job. what's your name, sir? ladies and

as mayors, we are leading the effort to make our cities more sustainable. ieve this by working across our borders in global communities. together we have the ability to create cleaner and a more greener and sustainable few tu for generations to come. i'd like to thank c40 cities for bringing us here and providing critical resources for cities like san francisco to support global initiatives, and also to the gloeblt cabinet of mayors for creating this international alliance so that we are all working together. we are thrilled to have you in our city, and we hope that you take advantage of the many restaurants and amazing places that we have, as >> supervisor tang: good afternoon everyone. welcome to october. we are at our october 1st, land use and transportation commit committee. jim supervisor katie tang along with jane kim and supervisor safai. are there any announcements before us? >> clerk: yes. silence all cell phones and electronic devices. fill out speaker cards and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the oct

also our sewer systems, which every time it rains dumps raw sewage into the pacific ocean. these are not hall marks of a green city, not the hall marks of a future focused government. in terms of readiness for an emergency, i believe our firds responders -- first responders do need our support. luckily, i live down the street from a fire station. i'm thankful for that. instead of show pony projects, we need to come together and support our first responders. that's the most significant way, and take the -- take away from the p.u.c., which is enterprise agency, the ability to dictate which infrastructures prioritized. >> thank you so much. and mr. win? >> i think we can all agree that climate change is real. i could have to echo the sentiments of all my colleagues over here next to me in regards to their concerns for the west side and the city. i am supportive of the improvements of the seawall and the master plan that's happening down at ocean beach to protect our seawall, as well. water wars, i mean, they're coming. quite frankly, we really have to improve our nert training, as well, and the infrastructure, and th

these community members are, in fact, the backbone of our city and our everyday society. for this reason i would be honored to serve on the committee. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. and now let's hear from our second applicant miss marilyn murrillo here? she is not. okay. third applicant is azalea renfeld. >> said it correctly. hi, thank you so much for -- i'm sorry? >> no, go ahead. >> thank you for having me. i would like to express my interest in serving on the committee. i was born and raised here in san francisco and i currently live in the sunset district and i have seen my share of displacement and i would like to be able to give back. a little bit about my background... i have been working in housing for a long time. i started on the san francisco human rights commission as the equity advisory committee for two years. and i have worked for cal works for 2 1/2 years, helping specifically in the area of housing. i have served on different housing boards, the san francisco rent board, helping with rent control ordinance because i worked for palo alto