i think there is consensus among supervisor yee and stephanie and myself and supervisor ronan who was on the committee that this is something that has to happen and he want this to happen in the budget. but there still seems to be some questions. one of the things i wanted to ask director garcia because i did not think about it until we were in a meeting that day is part of the role that these staff will play in this new sharp division or office is they have to -- they have to regulate discipline and oversee different actors that are involved in the process. and a lot of them are actually d.p.h. employees. part of the question was does it make sense to have that oversight and office that would be recommending discipline for actions that were performed by d.p.h. employees. does it make sense to have it in d.p.h. so i wanted to hear your thoughts on that. >> absolutely. first of all, this office is not a regulatory body. it is a kaord nating body that will really look at these issues, but you have to work with each department. within the department. because it is at a very high level. w

supervisor ronan?>> supervisor ronen: thank you, madam president, i agree on the notice provisions but i also have been talking to the city attorney's office about an additional amendment regarding different languages that the notice is listed currently, the current draft of legislation only provides a telephone listing and i think we should provide additional information for those who don't speak english, the building or permit application number, basic details of the project and how to access plan sets and date time and location of the hearings. so i will be working with the city attorney and also believe i can get that amendment ready within a week. i see deputy city attorney jon givner nodding, so i will be supporting the continuance. i want to mention especially when it comes to the 100% affordable i will be supportive of the entire thing once these minor amendments are made and i do feel it works well in conjunction with the legislation i have introduced that will have a hearing shortly talking a

now, it's my great pleasure to introduce ronan fair farrow. from to talk but his very important new book, "war on peace" the end of diplomacy and the decline of american influence. i'm also delighted to introduce james hogue, the former editor of foreign affairs magazine and a very important person in my life. we're fortune to have jimmer into view ronan because of his expertise in foreign policy and also because he is an exemplar of the tough, unflinching quality journalism that is rapidly disappearing in the age of google and facebook. [applause] >> i'm a lucky graduate of what i call the jim hogue school of journal jim. was a reporter for the chicago sun times when jim was editor in chief and then publisher, and much i know but journalistic integrity applies to both reporters and publishers i learned from jim. now, we'll leave time for questions from the audience he we to the tarted 15 minutes late so we'll go until 8:15 so around 8:00. we'd like you to wry -- write down on the index cards you with given, the questions you might want to ask

i said this is fabulous, you got the goods, ronan. i said what's the next step? he said i take it to nbc, i meet with the president of nbc news the first week in august, this is last august. so i e-mailed him the second week in august and i said so what happened? he said they turned it down. they didn't think i had enough evidence to go on camera. i said that's crazy. i then introduced him to david remnick, and i had nothing to do with it after that. i just testified to david remnick this was a serious young man, as he's proven. >> ken, you said you couldn't publish your story because you didn't have people on the record and you just couldn't do it. do you in retrospect wish you had done it with anonymous sources and if you had done it the you think it might have protected and saved the subsequent women who claim they were assaulted by weinstein? >> that's a fair question, christiane. but the "new yorker" is not the "national enquirer." we're not going to publish -- you don't publish a story that has a profound impact on people and children when you don't have pr

i am humbled by this experience and thank you for sharing and thank you supervisor ronan for leading and the time for this is now. thank you everyone for coming today. i have general questions but i want to hand it over to supervisor stefanny first. >> supervisor stefani: i did sit through the first hearing on this and was very saddened at what i heard, and i just want to again thank everyone who came out. i know this is extremely difficult and i agree with supervisor ronen it is her her c and you empower other women to come out and feel they are not alone. as other people were sharing their stories with us, i started my career as a prosecutor because i wanted justice for victims and protect people from crime and it does break my heart how the criminal justice has failed all of you who testified and this blaming the victim in 2018 is just unacceptable. it is never your fault. if you are drinking and someone says you are drunk and that is what just happens it's never your fault. there is no excuse for being assaulted. i was thinking you really helped shine light on this issue and now

i want to thank hillary ronan for her leadership and bring attention to the women that were here. i don't see many men in the audience and that is part of the problem and why this issue has been ignored and put under the radar because women ove often he the voice and agency and this will do a small part in remed remedying that. thank you. [bell ringing] >> good afternoon. i am not a victim of sexual assault i do want to thank supervisor ronen for always being on the right side of issues. i am a broadcaster that broadcasts to the l latino community. i have heard a lot of stories and a lot of women are afraid to come forward because even though they are a sanctuary city they don't feel safe and they have even a worse problem and listening to jane doe's problem remind me of my niece who was being sexually harassed by her neighbor but when she went to the police here many the mission they dismissed her and said it's okay don't worry about it and it wasn't unti until her father intervened several times that the man stopped. for too long women have been dismissed and not been believed a

seconded by supervisor ronan. supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: thank you. i was on the roster because i wanted to ensure that the notice was included in the amendment, but our city attorney has read that into the record. and i just want to clarify for members of the board that we're not at land use committee today. the reason why i had asked for this additional amendment, it's because even if the use expires 72 months after the affected date of the ordinance, they could continue to use the lot as a parking lot, even after the expiration. and so this is to ensure that the landowner explores other adjacent to one park b.a.r.t. station and does not remain a parking lot in perpetuity. i think that given the density and the nature of the transit corridor, it's really important that we ask the landowners to pursue other uses including housing. however, i acknowledge, as supervisor sheehy has stated, that it takes a number of years, especially for a family trust to go down that path. they're not developers, as was mentioned. and so providing them six years to begi

and then, of course, ronan farrow for the "new yorker."eah. >> ken auletta, a terrific reporter, took a run at harvey weinstein and was doing a profile of him. and you know, the profile was not exactly kind. he came out looking like somebody that's extremely talented, but a bully. a bully to everyone, people in business, movie stars and all of the rest. and in the course of his reporting, he started to hear at least bits of what we now know to be the case. and we had without -- i can't say too much about it. we did have a lawyer meeting with ken and harvey weinstein, bob, his brother bob weinstein, and their lawyer, david boyce. and you know, again, we were trying to extract more information. but really, the two women that we knew about had signed non-disclosure agreements. they weren't willing to come forward. and in order for us to publish, we have to know things, not just guess at them. this is not the tabloid press. this is not, you know, "tmz" or whatever it is. we have to know. but i can't say that in the intervening years, i haven't

. >> among those at the protest today san francisco supervisors jane kim and hillary ronan. san francisco responded to the actions saying they take -- accusations saying they take them very seriously. a san francisco city government oversight committee is holding a hearing on the allegations next month. >>> a new effort to address the bay area housing crisis is taking inspiration from legos. kpix5's don ford on the company making prefabricated apartment buildings that simply stack together. >> reporter: in this building why nuclear submarine periscopes were once built affordable housing is being assembled but not in the way you think. >> what's going on here is a lot of housing construction with a very different methodology. we're building the house more like a car. >> reporter: the small apartments travel down an assembly line. first the floor is finished. then by crane it moves to the next station where bathrooms, walls and ceilings are installed. >> we can build it faster. we can build it more efficiently with better quality control at a greater cost savings. >> reporter:

it was just impossible i couldn't go past it so i just set off obviously ronan i took it to the side and then the sore scholes in my in my outside outside but obviously just got there first and i will go down across it's there why am i going to give it at that point a score and i thought as i've run a wire sink and that was a good goal. it is now i this is how i felt. good go and i didn't think anything of . it was a good goal which you want now and everyone's jumping on me and i remember lift and i had no idea where anyone was on the stage and i remember being in the hall fired on after everyone jumped on me i lifted my head as i won't go back into position and potentially have a look to the crowd the first person i saw first people as a woman dot file and i was thirty thousand people and i just saw oh my word that's the most surreal moment after the and as i've jogged back a thought that was actually a brilliant go it was only until after the game we got knocked out fields of today's walk out we get to see our families glenn hoddle was you know not keen on anyone into favor and but

committee meetings here -- >> supervisor safai: we have an e-mail and i think you received that supervisor ronan seems like there is someone in your office us that has reached out to one of the affected bargaining units did you see that? >> i didn't see that but certainly possible. >> supervisor safai: we got that yesterday midday. actually it was sent to you and i just happened to get a copy of it. >> i get hundreds of e-mail a day and i'm always behind. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee i sa, i saw your name on thr was that from before. >> supervisor yee: in regards to meet an confer i have had a little experience with that legislation and it was legislation to trigger the meet an confer at the committee, so i think it happens at different times. i'm notoverly concerned when it happens as long as it happens. you know, chair sefani has a good point in regards to the rules committee and our duty to listen to the issues that we are responsible for which is department that we choose. i personally prefer i think it should be not with the department of public health because it's kind of odd that i

. >> good afternoon president breed, supervisors safai, ronen, peskin, sheehy, ronan yee -- we work closely with asian americanactotr association. this morning i sent the following email to supervisor jane kim, i'm pleased to have known you and be your t foconsyears. hello supervisor kim, we are highly concerned about item 28 on today's b.o.s. agenda. we ask that you exercise your discretion to schedule a hearing on the matter at june 20th audit and oversigh forum held in partnership with asian contractors association, you address the p.l.a. issue as follows. the p.l.a. has not been passed yet. we are currently in discussions about the right size for public works projects. i look foard to ing workwith you on figu out the right size to open opportunities and doors for contractors and employees who tend to be people of color, end quote. fast tracking the legislation by alg in to leapfrog community you chair is not conducive to a meaningful process of working with minority contractors to find e they haan opportunity to get their foot in the door, therefore we respectfully ask you take action t

supervisor ronan? bhi too would be honoured to be a cosponsor. i want to thank supervisor yee for bringing this forward and educating ushisbo incredibly important history of our country, and also if you could send a personal thankou to your father on my behalf, i would be very grateful. thank you. >> supervisor breed: thank you. supervisor safai we. >> supervisor safai: i know this is very emotional for you and i appreciate your leadership on this and honoring people o have given their service and their time. my grandfather was a world war ii veteran and he was so important in my rearing and an important part of my life. it's really important that everyone that was involved in contributing toe greatness of this country, and the sacrifices that they made art honored. >> supervisor breed: thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: i would lik to be added as sponsor as well. >> supervisor breed: thank you. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: i would also like to be added as a cosponso >> supervisor breed: thank you for your leadership, and thank you fo

you are next paragraph sorry, supervisor ronan is on their. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. again, i have been very supportive of many of the tasks that i have heard from my colleagues. i just wanted to highlight a few. there are some that are especially important to me. the first one is the cultural district staffing central coordinator that is on here for $175,000 for both fiscal years 18, 19, 19, 20. >> supervisor cohen: the first question i have, district allocation. would you like to increase it? it is currently at $1 million. >> supervisor ronen: if we were growing the pot, i would like to increase it if we are not going to pot i would like to keep it. >> supervisor cohen: you're absolutely right if the pot is large, you will be considered growing it to what level? >> supervisor ronen: i mean, as far as we can go but i don't want to take away from is a citywide spending that we are taking away from. that is the additional position for mohcd which is overseeing cultural districts citywide. i think it is a pretty conservative ask given how many new emerging cultural dist

begin the time for the next speaker i want to note for the record with the addition of supervisor ronan in the chamber we are a full board. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm here representing the san francisco lgbt centre. we are requesting $175,000 in ad back funding to support our community building efforts, arts and culture programming, and direct services such as the information and referral program. the centre is a hub for the entire lgbt community. we provide a safe gathering place, critical services and impactful programming to the community. the city funding is crucial for the centre's information referral program which serves over 2,000 people each year for community building and arts efforts. for example, the 500 people who will benefit from seeing our current gallery exhibition entitled trans resistance is beautiful. thank you chair and supervisors for including the centre in the just published draft allocation and thank you so much for listening for all of the request today. for the organizations within the budget justice coalition. >> good afternoon supervisors.

i remember being very strict 1 million and that was it eric supervisor ronan and i have fought to the bitter end on it. >> supervisor ronen: -- >> supervisor yee: . that's my recollection. i am confined to support the million, whichever way we want to -- allocate for year one or two. hopefully, next year through a cycle again, there might be hopefully some additional funding that we could allocate. i support the million mainly because i don't want it to just start ticking away from the general pot. we have all these big items that are necessary, also. however, the majority of the supervisors wanted for their own district. then i certainly don't want to shortchange my district. >> supervisor cohen: of course. i understand. we are all leaning towards 1 million. supervisor stephanie? >> supervisor stefani: thank you. i have the same feelings about that as a supervisor he just expressed in terms of keeping it at 1 million right now given the amount we have. i think we have 33 million right now. i don't know if we will be able to grow that a little bit more based on other factors. but base

so in working with different agencies and supervisor ronan, one of the big gaps in this area is prevention. prevention and long-term policy reforms. so i just wanted to flag that. we had a proposal for one additional staff person. it was not accepted in the budget proposal. we do feel strongly that there needs to be dedicated staffing to move this forward at the department on the status of women. the final slide just briefly touching on some of our key initiatives. we produce an annual report on the mayor's task force on anti-human trafficking. last year we logged 529 cases of human trafficking. one in four of which involved minors. we also staff a family violence council and have a representative from supervisor sheehy's office who has been very supportive. we will be going to bid with our single largest program, the violence against women prevention and education program. so we are doing needs assessment this year to flag where the needs are. we are also partnered with the police chief scott on a gender analysis of senior women in the police department. we just concluded gender inclusion

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