my biggest concern is for our residents as well, as far as our residents are already isolated in living in public housing. our residents don't have a voice in this here. if you ask how many appeared in the vision program, maybe 10. we have to start informing our residents about what is going on. so they will have the proper rights. as far as the employees, we are very concerned about our jobs, which is definitely totally important to us. and more than that we are concerned about our residents as far as the services they will receive. we are with them every day, and so we are very concerned about that. i think that's it. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is sabrina cheeks, i work at the housing voucher program. i have worked there 20 years. i am here about the rad program, and i understand that it's important to implement to improve the housing conditions for the tenants. but we know that our jobs will be eliminated. and we are rushed into negotiations and after four months i still don't know what will happen. even though we had a meeting with management, they speak

my biggest concern is for our residents as well, as far as our residents are already isolated in livingce in this here. if you ask how many appeared in the vision program, maybe 10. we have to start informing our residents about what is going on. so they will have the proper rights. as far as the employees, we are very concerned about our jobs, which is definitely totally important to us. and more than that we are concerned about our residents as far as the services they will receive. we are with them every day, and so we are very concerned about that. i think that's it. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is sabrina cheeks, i work at the

residents; right. one there is no change in how the rents are calculated. no rescreening. again this is not a demolition program. so hopefully we will not have people out of their units for less than a short period of time. and no displacement. the other aspects for the residents. this is a long-term affordability. we are not selling off the land. it's not going to some other corporation. it's being held by the housing authority, in terms of the 99-year lease. there is a 55-year tax credit affordability requirement. there will be requirements related to the project-based rental assistance contract. mocd will have secondary loans on the property. to ensure stewardship of the sites as long-term well-run affordable housing. the residents will have the same eviction protections. will have the same affordable rents. will maintain the same grievance procedures, and maintain the right to file complaints with housing authority and hud. there was some mention about the wait list. this remains a centralized wait

and we need the residents involved in that and we need to go out and talk with the residents and explain how they can be involved and what exactly is proposed, etc. so they can be a part of the process. and then we need to ensure that we are looking very closely at any loss of rights between the conversion from the public housing program to what will now be the product-based voucher program [mic turned off] >> thank you, any other members of the public that would like to make public comment at this time? seeing no members at the time, public comment is now closed. [gavel] supervisor av vavaloavalos, thi very interesting hearing, you have any comments? >> i do have comments. mostly i live in a district where we don't have a great deal of public housing. a few sites on randolph street. not a very large one. a lot of section 8 in the district. i wanted to co-sponsor this hearing, because i saw a lot of great changes proposed. and a lot of framework provided by the federal government, that we have to align ourselves with to shore up public housing and make sure we have the resources to move

i had an incident where an employee was attacked by a resident. all things that you won't hear, because there are people that work for the agency that care about the employees and residents that are out there every day doingor :-- doing our jobs to the best of our ability with limited resources. and that statement is a slap in the face to those of us that worked to provide physical assistance. and psychological needs, all things that we have to implement to provide services. those are things that i do day to day on the front line. and how much money i don't get from management, i still do a good job. i don't care what nonprofit comes in, you would be hard pressed to find somebody that can do it better than we do. thank you. >> i will call a few cards. i think this is anita. and last -- i can't read this. david cannon. james doxy. joyce armstrong. candy small bowood. ed donaldson. >> hi, i am caleb (inaudible), thank you for calling this hearing, while there is no question that the housing authority is in a crisis, entangling bank on debt and the s

the mixed income of the resident without losing our residents at all gaining a foot hole in the city that has the willingness to incorporate all the people. may i introduce our wonderful congresswoman leader nancy pelosi. thank you (clapping.) thank you very much. mayor ed lee for your leadership for your effectiveness he's a man that gets the job done he bring his skills and commitment to making keeping san francisco a city of families in order to do that we have to have affordable housing. i associate that with his remarks of all the people he's acknowledged this morning and especially to the residents. this is all about you. and >> yeah. >> all right. and it was not that long ago person here for the groundbreaking and asked for your suggestions and we were generous with them mostly to be able to stay if you worried about through the tradition of groundbreaking to what we're celebrating today. i'm proud of the federal proclamation i want to acknowledge secretary for the 50 millions for the city and county of san francisco and more to come and the $100 million in tax credits that th

thank you all the residents i love my new place i hope you love yours. from my living room it's the best have you up in hunter's view. thank you so much (clapping.) i'm so sorry for our last speaking that has to follow that. however, i would like to introduce our mr. jon stewart. oh, my god see you all i need to look at the program. indeed. so jack garden is going to come up here and talk about this from the jon stewart company (clapping.) well, that's what you get when you work for a company that's named after a man they call all of us jon stewart all the time and it was producing for me when someone called him jack. let's rearrange the next time for speakers thank you ymca so i'm honored to be able to say i was one of the village people with the leader the speaking and mayor and bust a circled move on behalf of everybody up here. thanks to mechanic and thanks to the mayor and commissioner torres and nancy pelosi and all the previous speakers for their comments and support it's hard to revoke all the supporters we're very honored to have the housing aut

we serve residents, san francisco residents, that are directly impacted by planning, development and recommendations given by the citizens committee on community development. and i feel that we need community advocates that have experience serving low income neighborhoods, under employed and unemployed residents here in san francisco in order to keep our families here. i am here on behalf of my organization to support both eddie ahn and miguel penn for their appointments to the ccc i feel they will continue to serve our communities impabting hundreds of families in need. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is jackie chen. we strongly support miguel penn for a seat on the citizen's committee on work force development. as a dedicated professional he has developed work force strategies and work with various employers to create job opportunities to keep san franciscoans working. through this work he has shown himself to be a community advocate on the community to a range of issues such as work force local jobs, affordable housing and economic development. miguel is a san franciscoan wi

and told and dismissively approaching the person once found they were a shelter reside resident. saying that an attempted murder was not a crime. and an effort at the police station to have another kind of report or something correction of that. led to a false report of the facts to lead to dismissal. now i can tell you about five other things but my time is up, if you want to hear more about this, maybe you would like to schedule (inaudible) to residents in shelters that is not processed (inaudible) by the police department. >> thank you very much. mr. washington. final speaker then. >> thank you, supervisors, good afternoon, san francisco domestic violence consortium. i first want to say it's been an honor to work with adult probation, chief steele and their team. this is a huge opportunity for the city to take a huge step forward and fill a gap. i would like to tell a quick story, because i have one case that i think illustrates several opportunities for us to be way more accountable as a city and help victims and their families. so i received contact with a victim of domestic

aftershocks are rattling residents of northern chile. they're still trying to recover from a magnitude 8.2 earthquake on tuesday. now, more tremors, and the fear of tsunami, have forced some people to head for higher ground. nhk world's noboru knackshima reports. >> reporter: outside in the middle of the night, warning of another big temblor. people rushed outside and climbed to safety on higher ground. residents remain anxious, wondering when the aftershocks will stop. this is part of iquique. we can see many boats are turned over by the tsunami. and divers are trying to retrieve the people's belongings. tsunami waves reaching two meter in height engulfed the port. about 75 fishing boats were damaged. the quake and tsunami claimed six lives and caused damage to more than 2,000 homes. however, the number of victims was much lower than the last big earthquake. >> tsunami. tsunami! >> reporter: in 2010, a massive 8.8 magnitude quake struck southern chile, and triggered tsunami waves that claimed over 500 lives. the chilean government was c

and the current residents, whether it's affordability issues, home owners dues, whether you are a rent or or you are an owner on the island you will be paying fees associated with the infrastructure with parks and recreation, the new ferry terminal, transit fees, all this will have impact on livability and affordability on the island. hopefully my real world real estate experience will give some kind of -- will make a big contribution to making that more of like a real world type of process. >> so i'm just curious, not only you but the board under itself, what role are you taking monitoring, ensuring that the on-going clean up, i guess, is taking place and to the most sensitive way to the residents. >> well, we oversee that process. i believe you may be speaking to the radioactive clean up. the navy, the state health agencies and our local health department are all working together to make sure that the clean up is one that is comprehensive and will alay the very real fear of the residents who are living on land that may or may not be contaminated. certainly we provide the forum and we

and right now our residents are living in conditions that really need improvement. and what we would like to do is pursue this rad funding, and provide better housing for our residents. make the kinds of improvements that the housing needs. and be able to preserve this stock on into the future, for future low-income households as well. our regional administrator will tell you about the rad program. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, breed and avalos. i will take a few minutes to describe the rental assistance program. and it's set up on a national basis of why we ended up with this new program. we have 1.1 million housing units across the country. and not much different than what mrs. smith described. the capital needs is $1.6 billion across the portfolio. the funding is received under the united states act, and while a steady source of funding many years ago, it's unreliable. per the cuts, it's a reflection of the appropriation process that congress goes on the budget. >> just on that, is there anything you can share at some point later with my office. how th

and new residents. we want to introduce legislation today. it's great importance that has taken every week of our woerd discussions as we talk about legislation such as increasing relocation payments, figuring out ways to close a loophole at the state level and i want to acknowledge that our mayor is speaking and testified personally on behalf of informing the state. it was a piece of discussion in last week's sequa appeal and when we're talking about the loss of rent control here. creating and protecting affordable housing in this boom cycle of our local on policy is a question that our residents are demanding city hall should answer. we should have growth without displacing residents. part of the answer is in the production of housing to meet the job growth. district 6 absorbed this construction, it begs the question of who are we building for. there's been a spectacular production of housing we have seen over the last six years, and just to produce the data of what this housing production has produce

i'm francesco can a resident of the san francisco second district. i'm here on behalf of leadership group from silicon valley we're in support of the shuttle. as we're 0 heard it provides social benefits like 20 mile vehicle millions and enabling 20 percent of shuttle rides to get rid of cars and are in clear alignment with the policy. as a sf resident i consultant daily and i don't have access to a employer shuttle. i choose to live in san francisco because their quality of life and i'm pride to be a resident such as a in the city i thank you for your attention and time >> didn't go thank you so much four your times i'm leslie miller i'm a golden employee i'm a resident and renter in san francisco. i ask you to support in pilot program thank you >> next speaker. >> i'm from the associations i'm here to speak up for myself we didn't known a meeting, however, i called uppermost of the associations around the city. acquit frankly the shuttle business themselves are not effecting us that much they come in the morning and evening so with the parking we'r

and how it will work for residents as well as employees. and provide you with the feedback and any concerns you hear about, let us know. like i said earlier, it's a tailored process based on the specific needs of our residents as well as our employees. and i agree with you, if i found out that my job was to go some place in 16-18 months, i would stressed. and why we are asking to hear these reports and be sure that those communications are happening effectively and consistently and accurately. that's what our employees deserve. i appreciate the comments and if you need information, please let us know and we are happy to come in. >> thank you, supervisor avalos, what do you call, the joint -- power of authority. i think we need to have discussions around that so we can have consistency in terms of a public process for information for the public with this process. as i said, i have reviewed the application and reviewed information. i thought i understood it, and still not completely there. we have to continue the discussion around this issue.

my name is ingram and i'm a disabled resident. when shuttles share muni bus stops, people who need to use the functions on the buses are not able to use the buses at all because the shuttles block the muni stops and the muni buses have to go out in the street and only the able bodied people are are allowed to get on. another area where the streets are wider, when you have people lining up you have people lining up for muni buses and lining up for shuttles there is no way to get through. at times i have had to use the street to get by on the sidewalk. i think that is dangerous for people with disabilities. i alsohave missed several doctors poements -- appointments and stopped going to one of my appointment because i can't get there because of the shuttles. please approve the eir. >> if i may ask a question. let's say you are a disabled person on a wheelchair and you have an issue, what do you do in that case? do you call someone? what do you do ? >> i wait and usually what happens when i'm going to the doctors office i end up calli

residents; right. one there is no change in how the rents are calculated. no rescreening. again this is not a demolition program. so hopefully we will not have people out of their units for less than a short period of time. and no displacement. the other aspects for the residents. this is a long-term affordability. we are not selling off the land. it's not going to some other corporation. it's being held by the housing authority, in terms of the 99-year lease. there is a

that serve close to 10,000 public housing residents. the average household income is just $14,639. and the average rent that our residents are able to pay at 30% of their income is $312, which in san francisco, where the market rents are over $3,000 a month now, this is a very important resource for the city for low-income households. they could not compete in the market in san francisco. we also have 7,637 applicants on our public housing waiting list. and over 2,000 of those households are single. about 5,500 are two plus persons households. this is after we have done a clean-up of our wait list. these are people that are actively seeking public housing at this time. and the applicants were asked to self-certify their preferences. over half of the applicants did self-certify their preferences. we take applicants in based on their preferences. and over 1500 of those applicants are actually homeless, single individuals, elderly and families. very high number. our housing was built mainly between 1941 -- >> sorry, mrs. smith, in order for the public to follow along, do you have a st

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dozens of economically disadvantaged residents. it is important to make this point once again, but if amd earlier pointed out the community support for this payment, if question could also show who in the labor organization support go solar s.f. and, so, we've seen that there is tremendous economic value, not only in the jobs created from this program, but wages spent by the workers -- thank you -- by the workers who generate wages from the program, but also the smart nuance questions offered by supervisor tang about california solar initiative and how has that program's funding goes dry, that means go solar s.f. more important than ever. which is why there is now a petition to ask for full funding of go solar s.f. [speaker not understood]. change.org petition. and that also indicates as to why earlier questions of why an audit could be appropriate to figure out where the funds are going and how to restore full funding for [speaker not understood] repeatedly cut despite this important value. so, thank you to supervisor chiu for cal

make sure that we are improving access of the program benefit to not just to the pg&e customers who reside and work in san francisco, but also to the customers of the power enterprise. so that the fund leaving our side of the ledger are going to our customers as well as others. we want to make sure we have financing mechanisms for program participants because not everyone has access to financing the balance of the system cost. we want to make sure we're addressing that going forward, making sure we're really optimizing long-term job opportunities for disadvantaged san franciscans, you know, working with work force development folks. we're very happy to have this component of our program. but given the level of appropriationses and expenditures, 1.5 million for this program, only 121 is -- employed is a fairly small number when you look at the dollars spent. and then we have a quick picture here -- >> i just have one comment on the areas of improvement. one thing i'd like to ask as an outcome of this hearing is you're obviously going to be presenting the budget to us in the coming weeks. >>

i reside on haight. today i must say that i have never been happier because i saw the most transparently biased line of questioning in my life from district 8 supervisor. every time that the lawyer for the appellant successfully answered questions he continue to fish down his road of hypotheticals. this is a time to ask hard questions and instead of doing public granting to engage someone with hypotheticals is embarrassing. we don't hate tech workers. we think someone like googles can't afford to pay for their fare share for use. we are saying tech workers, you are our brothers and sisters. we are fine with you. we think it's great. we want you to participate in this city, we want you to be a good neighbor, we want you to pay your fair share. if there is anybody in the world who shouldn't be able to avoid paying what they woah -- owe is a company like google. we have a supervisor icing using the most inflammatory language. that is divisive and hurts. i'm just very very happy that i'm in london breed's di

i have been a resident of san francisco for 44 years. i came here when i was 20 years old. i would encourage you to do a study on these buses for a ridiculous amount of $1. please look into alternatives. how can you even start a pilot program before doing an environmental impact study. the percent of the intra buses. that's right because muni isn't reliable. others benefit from this transportation can't use it. that's fair, huh. would it be horrible to take the bus to go to their designated stops. i was downstairs and i fell off my chair laughing. ask any police officer. they will tell you in the crosswalk. you have the right of way you are in the crosswalk. c'mon move. okay. this is the reason i'm upset. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon. i'm the san francisco union and also muni employee car cleaners. the reason why i'm talking is this. i just think the city forget about us as a resident as well as the community because every time something is going on sure affecting us. none of us consider seeing it that we have all of these people in here the cit

residents on mission bay hospital, mission hall, block 25a. through this process we've connected with various employers and union halls to put people to work and establish relationships. it's not easy working with subtracts and union, but through this process it's been a pleasure. to date we've referred >> we have our current employee population of 22,000 people over ooo 50 percent of them are san francisco residents so we would anticipate that in the future our employment will include few san francisco residents. >> you mentioned when we met earlier a significant number of mission bay employees were basically commuting within san francisco. >> correct. >> do you know what that percentage is at mission bay in particular and what the total number is of employees? >> the 60 percent of our employees and personnel at mission bay take forms of trons transportation other than driving alone. they use our shuttle program, as well as bicycle, walk and use van pools, carpools, ride share, et cetera, to get to and from wo. rk>> i'm going to make a recomm