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portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause] >> secondly we want to ensure if you are intending to use the overhead to project, as you come forward hand your materials to our clerk and she will distribute them to us. and lastly, i guess i want to do this before we call the meeting to order.

portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause] >> good afternoon petraeus i am hearing to present -- i was told over the weekend, no, i would go present and entered as the person who will be receiving the award this year. i said, when is that coming at the lunch? the end, the grand finale? she said, no, it is the first award. i said, isn't this the international women's day and we're giving a man the first award? she said, oh, they have to go back to work. i said, we have heard that before. so the man of the year. when we think about who the right person should be and is deserving of such an honor, believe me, we're not looking for a man who is in high political office or the ceo of the major companies. instead, we're looking for someone who has demonstrated over time that he is committed to advancing equal rights and opportunities for women and minorities, someone who has talked the talk and walked the walk. i know we have a number of guests from other countries at this year's women's summit. and at many levels. and it

welcome to the portola neighborhood. we're celebrating the successful efforts to revitalize san bruno avenue. this city has had a great partnership with the portola never its steering committee, where some of it's never the investments include streetscape improvements, from planting trees and leaves to utility underground in and fixtures and to install office saw improvements and much more. today, mayor edwin lee will talk about launching the investing in iran initiative. joining him is supervisor malia cohen, robert ramirez from the portola neighborhood steering committee, and many department heads, including jennifer from the office of economic and workforce development, ed harrington from the san francisco public utilities commission, regina from the small business office, bevon from sf hope, and revitalizing our commercial corridors has been near and dear to mayor lee's heart since his days as director of dpw and as city administrator and down as mayor. whether it did the dpw community corridor program, ambassador pr

portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause]

one is the portola is a unified neighborhood. we want it kept together. for me i consider myself part of the area because our neighborhood extends to about the top of the hill before you go around avignon. you are facing down toward mission. that is where you would be in the excelsior. i want to see our neighborhood together. secondly, i do not see how we could possibly fit with the-9. is the mission. colonel heights and so on. we have a vast freeway and -- on allegany and big rally between us. i am active with a group and my concern also is we have a supervisor who really does care and really does know about mclaren park, its problems, and its needs. our neighborhood would be most comfortable in d-tenn. -- taen. keep the portola together. >> i want to commend you on your valor in taking on one of san francisco's impossible tasks. i live at 79 pierce street. i have been a resident for 25 and if a resident of the lower pay. i am somewhat, torn it i thought it was a lot of logic to the earlier proposal that had all the hate included in district 5 by extendi

portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause] >> thank you for comment. i am with the office of economic and workforce development, but i am representing quite a broad swath of the city and redevelopment staff who have spent rallying cry around this project. and i am here with a member of community folks who have been absolutely instrumental in putting this together. i wanted to start by introducing mayor ed lee to speak a few words on this exciting day in bayview, which has honestly left of me breathless when i walked in. [applause] >> everybody, welcome to our bayview. welcome to third and oakdale. we are proud to be here today. a lot of good things happening. we want to announce yet again a collaborative effort that has been going on for some time. but it begins with people who have dreams and we have one of those people here who have been working in the neighborhood, building a community garden, and decided that perhaps it was time to be less and nomadic about his skill and to establish himself in a neighborhood th

the previous speaker spoke about keeping potrero and portola together. you cannot put them in d10 the conversations were about the university -- all the developments that happens in the way that the supervisor currently has a lot of power about that. the third thing that we have heard is the importance of keeping portlola together. one of the things we heard is we have to keep it together, what are the ways we can do that. we're looking at the various ways of skinning that cat. the way to put that is by putting this in d9. within district 9, you would have the -- a supervisor that has three separate neighborhoods. under district 10 there is a supervisor that has visitation valley, bayview hunters point, potrero, a patch, we feel like that is a more equitable way to skin the cat. >> before supervisor avalos gives his testimony, please forgive me that i made you wait. >> thank you. i want to thank you for your great work in this. as i said before i am not always -- i want to thank you for that effort. i have been talking with community members over the cou

portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause] supervisor mar: this is the monday, april 9, 2012 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors ladies and economic development committee. to my right is supervisor cohen, to my left is supervisor wiener. we're joined by david campos. lisa miller, give us the announcements. >> silent electronic devices, and completed speaker cards or documents should be submitted to the clerk. items will be on the april 17 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor mar: item one. >> resolution authorizing a grant in the amount of $180,000 to implement existing commercial buildings energy performance ordnance. -- ordinance. supervisor mar: mr. rodriguez? >> guillermo rodriguez. the department of the environment was awarded a grant of $180,000 to support the implementation of the existing commercial building performance ordinance. it was adopted in february of 2011 and requires each commercial building 10,000 square feet or greater to annually report the energy perfor

at the edge of portola. the more significant areas, south of st. luke's. i would like to look south including the block that was referenced tonight near 27th and duncan. we made be back to the border -- we may be back to the border along silver. if you rotate, you rotate. chairman mcdonnell: restate the last one for me. tbhe 0-19-11 border. i am concerned three is unpopulated. i could consider moving treasure island from 6 to three. chairman mcdonnell: you can have a reaction. it has to be silence -- silent reaction. commissioner schreiber: thank you. the other would be the 49 people in sea cliff we could consider looking at. commissioner tidwell: the other question i had and this was the district issue was the line between six and 10 on 16th street. i thought that was due to the map, right? >> that was due to the map, we cannot move anything. >> there is the line between six and 10 and the corner of 16th street. >> ok. >> can i ask a clarification question? chairman mcdonnell: it may ask a question with regard to a break. -- you may ask a question with re

portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause] >> so the regular meaning of the unified school district for march 13th, 2012 is now called to order. roll call? >> miss fewer? miss maufas? ms. mendoza? dr. murase? mr. yee? >> present. >> ms. chong. >> here. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the plag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible with justice for all. >> some day! >> we're going to go with the approval of the board minutes for february 28th, 2012. it will take place at the next meeting. so we're not going to have any approval. item b, presentation of the superintendent's report. superintendent garcia. >> thank you. first of all, good evening and i want to welcome everybody for being here this evening. i wanted to report back to the board on a meeting that we had on february 29th with the governor. we thought it was going to be a one-hour meeting. we actually stayed three hours. eight other superintendents and my

this would be one of the things that i would have proposed we would have done to change the portola. at this point it would cost all kinds of major domino effect. i do not know if i am ready to do that. i would rather concentrate on this small tweaking peaces -- pieces. >> this is about contiguity. i understand the concept of water contiguity is possible for us to consider. could we just hear a short recap on the issues of contiguity with respect to treasure island, noting that it is not contiguous with district 3, i imagine it is water contiguous so if we could get a refresher on that quickly. chairman mcdonnell: sure. ms. mcdonald. >> we look at this question early on and determined the task force is not legally prohibited from removing treasure island to district 3. their arguments is water contiguous. it is an option on the table from the contiguity perspective but you want to have some explanation for why you would do it as contiguous, for you to make that change. >> just to -- based on that, not solely based on that but it is helpful to have that. i sort of agree with member me

as you indicated, it includes bernal heights, and it also includes the portola. it is such a rich district. getting to know people of the district through the campaign, doing the job of a supervisor has been the most rewarding super rigid experience. -- the most rewarding experience. it is amazing how the people are. it has been a great experience. i do not know that i fully understood the richness of this district until i was actually talking to so many people on the campaign trail. now as a supervisor i see it every day. i see that. and there are challenges in these tough economic times. but i also see so much potential, so many amazing people, and we in city government have an opportunity to address so many problems and make so many things better. the campaign was a learning experience on so many levels. beyond that, i think you've learned something about yourself when you are putting yourself out there through the political process. i was very lucky that i had that opportunity because where i come from something as basic as free, democratic elections, that is

to make portola hold and to keep this in district 9. thank you very much. chairman mcdonnell: thank you, sir. hold on one second. it is ms. gamez's turn. ms. gamez followed by our next speaker. -- speakers. >> i have been a frequent speaker here. i would like first to commend and thank you for unifying the northeast corridor of the mission all the way up to the freeway. that was a lovely and wonderful change for the mission to be unified there. i am less happy with the northwest corner being carved out. i understand that -- i do not know why that occurred. that would be something that would be good to join back with the mission and once again, note the liberty hill neighborhood association is a very active group. it is a group that has gone to the trouble of being recognized as a historical district that requires a lot of community work, a lot of affiliations, a lot of hard work and is a place that would be quite easy to alter in this map. doing so would alleviate some of the overcrowding or overpopulation in district 9. the blocks alon

to make portola hold and to keep this in district 9. thank you very much. chairman mcdonnell: thank you, sir. hold on one second. it is ms. gamez's turn. ms. gamez followed by our next speaker.

traffic okay upper deck. 880 commute long delays because of an accident westbound 580 approaching portolalearing stages, live picture of the bay bridge toll plaza backed up from the 880, overcrossing livermore several miles of slow traffic from the altamont pass to the dublin interchange. >>> thank you for joining us for the abc7 morning news. >>> we'll be back with a local update at 7:24. keep track on twitter and talk about it at facebook.com/abc7news have a great day we'll see you back great day we'll see you back here tomorrow. closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc

when i moved to the portola, i did not see anything about communication around the neighborhood. there were a couple of sites that provided information on activities going on, information about things you're doing and the parks being renovated. i wanted to be here tonight to figure out what the police are doing around here. who is that i should be communicating with to be able to talk about the projects you spoke about tonight, put them on our website and on our blog and having a light to use technology to communicate to our neighborhood? i do not need a response immediately. but that is one of my questions. the second one, i move to very recently to this area. i was quite alarmed over the past two weeks that there were three robberies on the streets. i think you are addressing that at community outreach tomorrow. is that an increase in activity in this area? is that normal to this area? and do not know if this is the right forum to ask that question. thank you. >> [inaudible] >> ok. right. [unintelligible] offline? ok, i will have a chat with them. >> thank you. welcome to the c

of the planays part setting up a system for passengers about reports through e-mail and and online portola. officials will use the results help transit police identify trends and deploy officers. are trying to make our more aware of the fact tolerate sexual assault on the metro.ton we wanted to but i feel comfortable writing the washington metro. trackingdid not start untilment complaints last month and has received 16 complaints. >> because of a spending scandal, e general services administration resigned yesterday. fired.ers have been the gsa improperly paid for an session inp training las vegas. the $820,000 conference at the bicycled reader, the giveaway, and a lavish reception. george's county law to propose an the states and the gambling bill. require a minimum investment of $800 million for of a casino inn the county. some state lawmakers and rushern a $1 are pushing for casino and national harbor. they say it would be and and international attraction. it is 46 degrees. a look back at an emotional .ight performances on dancing >> ♪ >> we will explain why the dances were so meaningfu

one is the portola is a unified neighborhood. we want it kept together. for me i consider myself part of the area because our neighborhood extends to about the top of the hill before you go around avignon. the top of the hill before you go around avignon.

one is the portola is a unified neighborhood. we want it kept together. for me i consider myself part of the area because our neighborhood extends to about the top of the hill before you go around avignon. you are facing down toward mission. that is where you would be in the excelsior. i want to see our neighborhood together. secondly, i do not see how we could possibly fit with the-9. is the mission. colonel heights and so on. colonel heights and so on. we have a vast freeway and --

. >> i am a resident here to support your map the way it is drawn in the portola district and ask that you made no changes. thank you very much. >> howard cheng. i need the other list, please. thank you so much. again, if you are wishing to offer public comments, we want to make sure you have signed in. hopefully everyone here has. the last name on the list is robert rusky. if you have not signed in, please do so and indicate you wish to offer public comment. we will hear from christopher bowman, mary briscoe. thank you. [tone!] >> it is on 30 seconds right now. i am chris bowen. i have kind of lost my voice. it has been a pleasure to come to the hearings except for two in los angeles. i did and all nine your -- nighter. i wanted to do an analysis of the plan, what you have accomplished, and where you need to go. i would like to say you are about 40% there. [laughter] there are 24 neighborhoods. i am really tired. 24 neighborhoods, communities of interest on institutions -- communities of interest, institutions divided in the redistricting. you have new united -- united nine of them an

things are getting a -- portola.ngs are getting a little bit better but people are still stuck on the altamont pass. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. a few high clouds out there. they will thin out. they are starting to already. a little thicker up to the north bay. some patchy fog. it will be mostly sunny, partly sunny. and temperatures inland will where up. by the -- will warm up. now, last week, the jet stream was right over your house and mine. we had the rain, it was crazy busy. up near shelter cove. nothing too heavy but that's where the storm track has moved. it looks like it will stay there until next week. there are signs that will come back next week. mostly sunny, high clouds, still a westerly breeze in place. west-southwest fair feefld. west 10 at sfo along with some of the low clouds. so you get the onshore push heading out to the deltaer 40s, oakland, hayward, the city is at 49 officially. everything stays to the north. a few high clouds continue to push through between now and wednesday. but afte

sensors getting speeds back to norm slow traffic off the altamont into livermore earlier accident portolain the median there. things are beginning to improve a little slow traffic towards the 580/680 junction headed westbound. northbound 680 accident overturn right shoulder no significant slowing past the scene. accident northbound 880 at high, big rig and taco truck mixing it up in the right lane. crews on the scene to get that out of there as promised, let's look at drive times 680 still slow from 580 to 101 altamont pass drive coming to a grind towards the 680 junction and 880 at 238 pretty good so far. live look at the toll, mei tering lights on, traffic beginning to back to the caltrans parking lot. >>> 6:19. >>> still ahead, the feds slap google with a hefty fine. why the internet giant is being accused of stonewall ago investigation into their data collection practices. >>> why brian wilson could sit out the rest of the season. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] instead, try the new subway smokehouse barbecue chicken, big bbq taste 6 grams of fat. subway. eat fresh. >>> good monday morning. 6:

accident 580 past livermore portola, slow up and over the altamont pass.verturn here as well on the right. no significant slowing here as of yet until they get that out of lanes. san jose st. tomas expressway moore park do power pole, there are wires down in the road. let's look at our waze app this is southbound 680 through pleasanton approaching stone ridge and burnell, traffic slow in the area, our traffic spotters showing the accident with the overturn, crews on scene, speeds there 18 miles an hour. traffic spotter there from south pleasanton. coming off 580, you can see traffic near hacienda, slow hazard on the road. traffic spotters use this free waze app if you would like to check it out you can do that before you leave the house, very slow traffic with that "sig alert" southbound towards pleasanton. >>> 5:53. >>> those too big to fail banks are getting bigger. >> here's jane king with the bloomberg business report. >>> good morning, president obama promised to eliminate the danger of financial institutions becoming too big to fail. guess what? bank

a little slowing past livermore and portola, a 29-minute drive out of the altamont pass and heading toward dublin interchange. a smooth drive the valley y. not a lot of drama here, a smooth drive, northbound past the coliseum also looking nice. that's the east bay and a pe nans la drive as we talked about, 101 into and out of the city and 280, as well. that's usually clear and it is this morning, as well. get a live look outside and show you the golden gate bridge. the southbound traffic moving nice across this bridge. that clear view from north bay and minor slowing through san rafael and right around highway 37, typical blips we see are there this morning. >> thank you very much. >>> new this morning, oakland police looking into an outburst of violence. six separate shootings within a ten-hour period. the most serious injury happening at around 11:15 last night on herbert guice way. paramedics rushed that man to a nearby hospital where he's listed in stable condition. officers tell us only one arrest has been made so far. >>> the coast guard is suspending search efforts toed for several

and another one at portola. two things to distract you traveling westbound. sounds like both are out of lanes, but this could cause more congestion coming in toward the interchange. now, 680 and 880 smooth in both directions through fremont. that's good. as you get into the south bay, 680 makes a turn. northbound 101. that's where there's an accident in the slow down as well and we've got a live look at oakland. the volume increases heading toward the toll plaza. metering lights are on. >> thank you very much. here's something i've never ever said on tv before. and somehow i think i never will. tweet about a squirrel, earn a dollar. scott mcgrew, help me understand why i'm saying this. >> it's a fun project on twitter. it's, in fact, true, seen here on the left loves squirrels. he says he will donate a dollar if you tweet about them. so here's what you do. you add the #squirrels4good, four with the number there. to whatever you tweet about and this will cause craig to send a dollar, he says to the national wildlife federation. all right. other news. the south

look out for that a crash westbound 580 at portola. >>> thank you for joining us for the abc7 morningws. >> we'll be back with a local update at 7:24. keep track of the latest breaking news on twitter @abc7newsbayarea. >> talk about it onñsñsñsñsñsñsñs÷sçntñÑqÑqÑqÑqÑqÑqwñwñwñwñwñ

mount diablo state park in the east bay also from san mateo bridge all the way back towards about portolashowers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. >>> hot spot now southbound 880 at llewellyn, overturned taxi, two left lanes blocked. traffic is slow from a street north and marina south. >>> the news continues now with "good morning america." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >>> at least one anniversary couple out there. happy anniversary, from pittsburgh. big, happy crowd out in times square this morning. check it out. from "in living color." there they are, the fly girls. they were the hottest dancers on tv. including newcomer, jennifer lopez. j. lo got her start on "in living color." >> and our friends from broadway dance center, doing their investigation of the fly girls dance outside. because this morning, tv's reunion blowout is bringing back the cast. there we go. yeah. get it. uh-huh. >> i'm choreographer now. >> add it to your list. we're going to see jim carrey. we're going to see the wayans brothers. and ali, back on "in living color," in the day. >> she wasn't a fly girl. but she ha

still clearing an accident was down 580 at portola.l slow. have a great day. have a great day. ,,,,,,,,