at the richmond district senior center, we are people. we are people who speak mandarin, cantonese, tagalog, russian, french, vietnamese and english. we are just people there, a lot of people together. we have some developmentally disabled seniors at the scenier center. one of them plays the conga in our drum circle each month. we get our funding through a community services contract with the city. a third of that contract goes to paying our rent each month, each year, i'm sorry. and that rent a

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~ >> thanks, supervisor. i'll be very brief because the whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to put a little backdrop that a year ago when we started holding these community meetings, we had some significant budget deficits. and in years past they were even worse. now we've come through a lot of that and i'm thankful to all the department heads that are here because they worked very hard to work with me to find all the efficiencies, to make sure we balance that budget. clearly, the members of the board of supervisors and today we're focused on districts 1 and 4, but i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and supervisor farrell for providing their leadership at the board because we can only make it work if the mayor and the board work together. but most importantly, we've got to listen ca

at the richmond district senior center, we are people. we are people who speak mandarin, cantonese, tagalog, russian, french, vietnamese and english. we are just people there, a lot of people together. we have some developmentally disabled seniors at the scenier center. one of them plays the conga in our drum circle each month. we get our funding through a community services contract with the city. a third of that contract goes to paying our rent each month, each year, i'm sorry. and that rent a year is $50,000 approximately. i was told that i could ask mayor lee when i was here, and i would ask you to talk to our landlord. maybe you can get a rent reduction for us. that would be very helpful. thank you. thank you. (applause) >> all right, thank you, linda. so, now i'd like to call up caroline from the jewish family and children services. anyone from jfcs here? okay, all right. so, i guess we'll move on to public comment, then, or summer jobs, actually, here. >> good morning, everyone, mayor lee, supervisors, department heads. eric mcdona

you have - as you look on the sheet basically, you have the richmond district 3 and district 2 and district 1 and 2 near the tenderloin and at large. when i look at we're the current - where the currency members live i see that there are people living in one, 2g, 9, 7, 6. slots of 2 and 5 and that what's missing is someone living in richmond >> because of that i'm in favor of choosing somebody i would like to see somebody from the richmond on this committee so i guess we're not really creating our nomination right now. i'll leave that for later. . that's my desire to say someone on richmond >> thank you commissioner campos. >> thank you mr. chair. what i would say i think that the information about when seats expire would be useful going forward and i active agree with every comment that's been made because i think that every member of this committee has an important point. would i would say having sat in the chair as chair of the plans and programs you want to find a way to involve as many folks as you can. even if, you know, a specific

where she currently lives, richmond district officer who worked at the richmond station. she is an expert in permits as well. i think she's going to give a perspective of understanding of the district which i represent, but also with a city-wide perspective with tremendous experience. so, i'm strongly supportive of her appointment as well. >> thank you, colleagues. can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 29 is a motion confirming the mayor's reappointment of kimberly brandon to the port commission for a term ending may 1st, 2017. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you, president chiu. again, i want to take this opportunity to -- here's another special person, kimberly brandon, who has been on the port commission. and i'm really confident that ms. brandon will continue to represent san francisco well as a port commissioner. i what pretty impressed by her understanding of the fiduciary responsibility and oversight of the waterfront maritime and real estate issues impacting the san francisco's port. with a

it will bring healthy food choices to the richmond district. also, we have smaller farmers market street like the veterans affairs medical center one in the outer richmond and even the kaiser one on geary and an older one at usf. but this is the full-fledged farmers market with 75 boots and incredible range of different types of food and other activities that will be programmed. there is even a climbing wall and children's and family activities. so, i challenge any of you to meet me up the climbing wall this coming sunday morning. it's going to also run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and we're working closely with our -- the residents in the area and the small merchants to make sure it's successful. my office through my staffer peter has done a lot of work on this with a number of residents has worked closely with the clement street merchants and argon community gardens and again, the agricultural institute of marin and others that will help to organize and manage this event. so, this has been a long time coming. it's been several years of plannin

we have a lot of volunteers from the richmond district center. i grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. i guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. >> very soon there will be of much more senio

at this home on 35th avenue in the richmond district. when firefighters entered the garage they discovered hundreds of thousands of marijuana. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has an update next half hour. >> the world-wide developers conference kicks off in san francisco and abc7 news matt keller has a preview of what to expect for the apple fans. matt? >> we know new york is the big apple but for just this week san francisco has the chairman to the name. thousands are expecting here for the world-wide developers conference that kicks off this morning and the line starts at 4th and howard and curves around. to be honest we never made it to the end. this is the first apple event in six months and analysts specific the company to announce a new digital radio services and new software for ipad and ipod. attendees hope for a surprise. >> i hope they will throw something that no one has leaked. that is what would be cool. like, you know, something that did not come out yet. if they do that, i will be really happy. >> analysts say the compan

in the richmond district. amy hollyfield is at the scene with a report coming up at 5:30. >> the supreme court could hand down a decision today on prop 8, the ban on same-sex marriage, however, the decision on this and several other big issues could come any time in june. if a ruling comes counsel today use will bring you the ruling and reaction the moment it happened. >> board of supervisors committee is expected to aproven new regulations today aimed at leveling the laying field between food trucks and brick and mortar trucks, including a ban to keep new food trucks from setting up 75' of a restaurant. a maximum of three day as week in one location. >> five, apple kicks off the we developers conference the first major productive vent if nine months, analysts say the cupertino company will introduce internet radio, upgrade the personal assistant and update to mobile software. >> tracking thunderstorms, look at this, buy you were sleeping, 300 lightning strikes remain hitting your area 150 to 200 an hour! >> s

i am a native san franciscan, raised in the richmond district and graduate of san francisco state. i have also raised my own family in the richmond district, where i still reside with my husband of 35 years. i served 30 years in the san francisco police department before retiring three years ago. i held the rank of inspector, and i served in the domestic violence response unit, and also in background investigations. i worked in the police permit bureau at the hall of justice for 16 years, holding a top-uniform advisory position, and this was prior to the creation of the entertainment commission. so the san francisco police department still administered and regulated entertainment permits. there i was able to interface with many of the club owners. i believe that i have a great deal to give back to the city, that i love so much as an entertainment commissioner. i have firsthand only in of the natural tension between club owners, the surrounding community and law enforcement. i believe we must strike a balance in this regard, and i think that we see that balance where we have respons

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~ >> thanks, supervisor. i'll be very brief because the whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to

i'm here to request that we underground our utilities out here in the richmond district. pg&e has a schedule to do it, we're not even on it. we've heard about senior citizens and the number of us in san francisco -- i'm over 60 -- so there is a certain sense of urgency to get them done so i can see it before i die. also, speaking of transportation, eric mentioned that i'm an advocate for that. i'd like to see us build a subway, lrt system out here, extend the central subway out to our neighborhood. no one has ever built a subway in any community and regretted it later on. is that on the time? thanks very much. (applause) >> thank you. [speaking through interpreter] >>> my name is shu wow lee. [speaker not understood]. i'm a district resident, ihhs, and seiu. i currently take care of an elderly person in district 4. the person i currently take care of, his son is away from home and so it's very important for us to make sure they take their medication on time, that their needs are met. with the limited income that we have, we really hope that there's more funding to our inc

my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~

i'm a 28 year resident of the outer richmond district. i ride the 38 local on a regular basis. i was a member of the first citizens committee for the feasibility study and i've been to most of the meeting as an at large participant and i figured that i would like to - as well as i'm at the meetings anyone i might as well join the committee. there has to be someone on the committee it might as well be me. >> i was going to ask if the other two candidates for the tenderloin vacancy are here. >> though i should mention that the supervisor or commissioner kim has urged us to continue this. >> thank you, commissioners good morning. i'm peter i'm a resident of the tenderloin. i myself am a transit rider and i don't own a car. as a frequent rider i'm familiar with the challenges of overcrowding and believe the project is a real opportunity to address those issues and others. professionally i've worked on the clean transportation promises with the city. first, as a city hall fellow on the city's bio fuel program to increase the sustainable fuel used for the mini buses. i work in the cl

also i just wanted to alert the community that this thursday, the richmond district ymca will be hosting their annual comedy night fund-raiser at the neck of the woods site. it used to be the rocket room. it was also the formerly the last day saloon at clement street. 21 and older and includes stand up comedians such as sean, [speaker not understood], and ron ben. you can purchase tickets at the door and please come out for a night of laughter in supporting our neighborhood ymca the the rest i'll submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. as i mentioned in my comments about pier 70,today i am introducing a hearing request to discuss how we are going to ~ support all the new development in san francisco with transit infrastructure. a couple weeks ago we held a hearing about muni's current status in terms of its ability to provide reliable transit service in san francisco. and what we learned is that currently for our current pop laying, muni has a 60% on-time rate in term of the light rail vehicle fleet, on only one-third of weekdays does muni have

between california and cornwall street, fifth avenue and fourth avenue in the richmond district. he assured the neighbors who were very agast at the idea of these old cable cars being set up that they would be very tasteful and artistic. and essentially, yeah, it was like one room with a little bathroom attached made up of old cable cars. dr. cross thought he was hitting on something. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were homeless, looking for new places to live in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. so he thought why not use these old cable cars. it only lasted about 10, 12 years. guess it wasn't a big hit. he built a more conventional apartment building after that to replace it. it really was the 1906 earthquake and fire that sort of spelled the end of carville. you have these hundreds of thousands of people looking for new homes, suddenly displaced. now they might listen to these men and say, look, you were renting before. you don't want to live there. i've got this lot out here, sand dune. but it's $100. you can build a house here for cheap. suddenly, more

we have a lot of volunteers from the richmond district center. i grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so city and county of san francisco testing for budget and finance testing captioning.

firefighters are on the scene of a one alarm fire in san francisco's outer richmond district. crews responded to a report of a fire at a multi-story single family home in the area of 35th avenue and geary boulevard around 12-30 this morning. the fire has since been contained. no injures were reported. investigators are still fire. >> only days after a shooting rampage in santa monica left five people dead. police are trying to piece together clues as to what year-old gunman to kill his father and brother. and then start firing at strangers. kyung lah has more. >> reporter: you can see that he was carrying all of this weaponry. it >> any time that somebody is carrying a bag full of extra magazines, with a bagful of guns, carjacking, kills people, i say that is premeditated. >> reporter: put people say why. and they were alarmed and 2006 that he said his house on fire. at that time, he was a juvenile. and in 2010, he became a junior college student. police say that they probably did not know any of his relatives choosing their he was driving his young girl to go to the college b

medical marijuana movement (clapping) >> and i think my colleagues know that our districts is richmond district and many others in the city and through the bay area are threatening a closure by the federal government. but i want to talk about the positive effects. kathleen is a pioneer of the movement. she is by trade an accountant who filled the first permit for medical candidates. and this is a historic club in california. and she opened the helm in the district. there she served patients for 14 years. she is the longest compassion at worker in california. and her pioneering efforts and her staff as well has worked for many years with public safety issues. her contributions is worth mentioning for her he effort with the southern poverty health center. she's sponsored safety in african and she's a tremendous humanitarian as well. she couldn't have served her members without her caring staff (calling names) and she's the mother of four young people and she cares for her adult son whose disabled. (clapping) >> well, thank you so much supervisor mar and all of you and the city the patients and he

and it just so happens that their black and brown and asian working class white boys from the richmond district and they're good phone calls for good faith effort. yeah. i've heard this kind of talk. somehow just by changing good faith effort to a concerted effort you're under the assumes that my people can't understand the english language. perhaps i'm stuttering perhaps i have an accent well, i'm offended. >> i'm again appreciate our effort in trying to make this come together. today, i just happenstancely looked at what it costs for a two-bedroom apartment in san francisco.

. >> reporter: now they have wrapped it up in the richmond district but it was a good size marijuana grow here in the two story place and as you can see police have cleared the scene but this marijuana grow was discovered after a fire broke out and let me show you what police discovered. they put it into plants and loaded them back into a truck. this is worth several $100,000 and the grow operation was discovered just before 5:00 a.m. and this home was on the 500 block of 35th avenue. they found smoke and they found fire in the back of the building and all of this was called by a neighbor. all of the things made it tough for the crews. >> we discover a lot of electrical. >> there was also an illegal addition to that had been added onto the back of the house and an arson investigator was called to investigate and they found an illegal wiring set up inside this home. a police sergeant told us at this point the narcotics task force will be tracking down the owners and at this point the people are unaccounted for. alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> they are warning people about

it's been a real help to the richmond district but the sf vacancy program is going to be helped hopefully, there will be better outreach so we know what corridors have vacancies. i wanted to say on the ida the lawsuits that your staff and the office of small business and the office of disabilities have been promoting the new accessibility of the inspections and it's been great for small businesses in my neighborhood. i wanted to say your balance of the supporting the small guy and the work ethics are important >> as you know working with the offices and the business owners we hear from you the opportunity that we should be focused on. in 2014 you'll see we're making sure that we're meeting the needs on the ground >> i know that one area of fiscal was around the loan programs. in 2013 we did a total of $9.4 million of loans for san franciscans. you talk about that. about not putting nothing into the budget >> meaning why - did you want to speak to that or - >> susan robison's. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear the question and the funding for the program we're spoken at length about for this com