again, i am here to do a job for san franciscans. here to do a job to make sure that no one is left behind like many of the people i grew up in the western addition with who continuously get left behind because of petty politics. we have a job to do. and as mayor, that's what i'm prepared to do is focus on the issues and do what's right. >> the next mayor of san francisco has a lot of critical issues that the late mayor ed lee had faced when he was in office. the homeless crisis, housing shortage, street crime. if elected mayor, what would be your number one priority after taking office? >> my number one priority is definitely addressing the issues around homelessness and the quality of life that's on our streets every single day. the fact is it's a public health crisis. we have to make sure that our streets are clean and the people that are living on our streets are housed and receiving services. i have a complete homeless plan on my website londonformayor.com along with a plan to build more housing and plans to address issues aroun

the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city.

more than 10,000 san franciscans took part according to the organizers at walk sf.walking to work does a lot more than ease traffic. >> walking is good for you. when you're walking, you're maybe one less car on the street. it's healthy. it's a good way to see the city. it's a good way to interact with other people in san francisco. >> walk to workday promotes safer streets for pedestrians. >>> slicker streets for sure in the next 24 hours, a fairly major spring storm moving into the bay area as we look live from transamerica out toward the bay. the rain has already begun in the north bay and we are all going to get wet and how within 24 hours, got the forecast coming up. >> coming up at 6:00 tonight b.a.r.t. and muni have a smelly problem, their multimillion dollar plan to clean up station elevators. >> but first the markets closed up today. here's a look at the closing numbers from wall street. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my fa

and like our work with tndc, our focus on the carbon fund is also making sure that all san franciscans benefit from these programs. there is a very big focus on resiliency, on community benefit, on equity, when our team headed by shaun distributes this money and partners. i'm excited about this particular one, it's important and far reaching project she'll describe to you. >> commissioner wald: thank you. good evening. >> so this grant we want to award $120,000 to california interfaith power and light to do work with at least 10 organizations, faith based organizations in san francisco. very deep environmental work. first from an operational perspective, so connecting them to our programs. energy watch and clean power sf and go solar sf and all of those things that quite frankly, a lot of faith-based organizations are interested in and they simply don't have the staff, time and technical expertise to really participate as fully as they would like to in our programs. we know this. we've done energy watch with a lot of faith-based organizations and it takes a lot of work and lot of hand

that these bulbs and access to things like that that are usually typically expensive, that all san franciscans have the benefit of accessing them whether they're able to pay for them or not. and so there are how many libraries in san francisco? >> 28. >> president breed: 28. i know the western addition is one of my favorites. we have one on larkin, our biggest in the city, and main branch and other locate the communities, stop by, use your library card for this great opportunity. and let me just say that these light bulbs make a difference, as debbie mentioned before, because i know mya is an artist, and for ten years didn't have the light that he needed to paint. and so that's one of the stories i've heard about as a result of the changes in his light bulbs and the briethnegh in his home, he's able to paint again. so i think as someone who ran an art center and understands those kinds of needs, what an amazing change that a light bulb can do in somebody's life, as well as young people. getting young people excited about the opportunity to take these bulbs home to their parents to try and use

i'm a native san franciscan, and i know about you. i've done my research. i'll just let you know a little bit about myself. a native san franciscan. i live up in russian hill. i've been practicing law for 50 years. i was the first elected judge of the superior court in san francisco. for one year, i served as an appellate judge. before that i was assistant district attorney under three different district attorneys for # 1.5 years, and before that, in private practice. 17 years i've been working for a.d.r. services as a mediator, and mr. kopp is wrong. i don't charge $1,000 an hour. in fact some of my stuff is pro bono, as well. i am a supporter and contributor of angela alioto, another native san franciscan. the reason why i'm here is because i know that this commission has very tender and sensitive powers, equitiable powers, we say in the law. and i hear fairness. in fairness, there's a theory of law called estoppel, and estoppel is when you have a rule of law, and you have an authorized agent as we have here -- and i really appreciate the executive direct

where is the next generation of san franciscans going to live? not in san francisco clearly. we're continuing down the same pattern. this bill in its current form does not change our ability to deal with local controls as was stated. including permits. including requiring discretionary review, ceqa or other conditional use approvals. it doesn't take away those local controls. it also allows us as supervisor safai has stated, to apply our local inclusion requirements and set our own demolition restrictions and design standards. senator wiener has already inserted language into the bill providing tenant protections including requirements if a tenant is displaced, the developer must house that tenant with no increase of rent. and then offer them the same rent as before. we did this for the project we just approved for the conservatory of student housing that was just voted on today. what i have made crystal clear directly to the senator, is that we can grow without displacement. we know all too well the history of this city and what has happened in the western edition under the

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their homes so that this building could be preserved both for them and for future generations of san franciscans. that is an incredible sacrifice, and the residents of this building met that call. as you can tell from mr. wong's speech, with grace and patience and understanding. and so thank you for believing in us, and i think the because west we can acknowledge your sacrifice is to wrap up the program. so we will be leading tours from right in front of the elevator on this level as soon as the ribbon cutting is done. we'll also be serving refreshments in the community room right through those double doors, so thank you for coming and take it over, fearless leader. >> didn't she do a great job? and her mom is here. you're going to help -- as they setup the ribbon, i need your help because i always believe in the people's blessing, so at the right time, i'm going to have you repeat the words after me. may the residents and all who come to 227 bay be filled with the rad spirit of -- repeat after me? peace! joy! hope! lo love! brersity. all right. could you come on up and help -- you're the coales

thank you, and if everyone can get along like we're getting along today, i would be the proudest san franciscan here. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, joanne. mohamed nuru from public works. first of all, i just want to thank walk sf for all the great work that they do. they promote walking. they're very active, and it's through their work that we're able to celebrate a day like today. with you all the agencies behind us, everybody is really working hard to make our beautiful city walkable for everyone. it really is a great city. it's only seven by seven. from public works, we'll do our part. most importantly what i want to say is, there is an hour class, an on-line video that you can learn about what vision zero is, and pass it onto a friend because it allows you to know the right way to across the street and the right way to do things here in san francisco. and i need to introduce debbie rafael from the department of environment. >> debbie rafael, department of environment. i just have a few words to say: walk for your heart, walk for your soul, walk for the planet. if we're all out there

the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy, >> good morning.ing that energy, i love this day. it's wonderful to be here with all of you. so many people in the room who are my favorite people in the planet. thank you for joining us this morning. every year we try and make this breakfast as special as possible to celebrate our work together. on behalf of the environment, on behalf of our city and on behalf of our plan secretary this year is of course no exception. so to get us started this morning, we have a

i don't know how many women get honored in this arena, but i'm so proud to see one of our san franciscans, one of our amazing commissioners and a woman in planning, that i cannot imagine there are that many of, get honored at such a high level. i want to congratulate you on behalf of the board of sfsz. i know supervisor peskin would like to share words and commissioner war shell would like to say a few words. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, supervisor. i've made commission appointments that i regretted this is not one of them. commissioner moore is really the pair gone of what a commissioner paragon of what a commissioner should be. not only is she absolutely committed to the policy and does all the work, but she's always out in the communithe communit. whether you agree with her, or disagree with, urban design, whether it's about the detail of policies, the central soma plan, she is always there to hear from and interact with the community. she is one of the most accessible members of the planning commission and i just cannot thank you enough. supervisor kim was a little bit off, you gu

.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and giv ♪ >> about two years ago now i had my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return

. -- san franciscans to help us. we set up a fund at our public health foundation and all the dollars go to the clinics to continue their efforts. i'm so proud today. and i had my own experience of running a community clinic in a middle of a disaster. i know how important it is to get the support we provided to these clinics, so i want to ask the staff to come up and talk about their experience. the first one is ramona. she'll give opening remarks. [applause] >> hello, everyone. my name is ramona, i'm registered further at the family health center. i work in the complex care management team at zuckerberg general hospital. i would like to thank everyone who had a hand in putting this together. this was a wonderful medical relief mission. and i speak for everyone when i say this was truly an amazing experience, we feel so blessed to work the staff. the community offers primary care and home care services to patients at risk in the surrounding area. and it's truly serving its community in a time of need. i'm hopeful tha

san francisco found, in san francisco, and remember that in san francisco, one out of every ten san franciscans lives in poverty. in san francisco the burden of these fines and fees falls heavily on the african american community. african americans make up less than 6%, now 5% of the population in san francisco, but over half of the people bho are in the county jail, and 45% of the people arrested for failure to pay appear in court, or traffic court, warrants, are african american. steep fines and fees could be a lose/lose for citizens and government. research has shown fines and fees levied on people with modest incomes are often high-paying, hitting poor people particularly hard but low gain bringing in less revenue than expected. this is just one example of one account and you could see the number of fees. about 25 fees are added and this is in addition to any restitution. so if there's a conviction for a crime, the person has admitted liability or found guilty by a jury, there are these fees which are automatically levied against an individual and most of these are civil penalties meaning e

so needless to say we are not only proud san franciscans, but we love this city. we chose to support angela alioto because she loves this city as much as we do, but that is not the reason i'm here today. a short while ago -- and this is the first time i have ever participated in a political campaign, if you can only imagine being a persian, being involved in politics is not very pretty, so we tend to put our heads down and pray for the best. but when we met angela, we knew we had to support her. so i made a small contribution, and i did what was required. i filled out the donor check, and -- sheet, and i gave a check. a few days ago, i was told that my contribution was rejected. i wanted to remedy the situation, so what could i do to prove that i'm a resident? we decided i would take a photocopy of my california driver's license. so we did, and i e-mailed it. now i have to share with you, as you can tell with my glasses, i'm a bit impaired visually, but i made a point to read my california's driver's license and identify the numbers on the photo before i sent it o

and they've demonstrated their commitment to san franciscans by saying we're going make sure san franciscans get to live by our ballpark and root for us as we make it to the championship. i want to say that a lot of work went into the process. i should ask someone this, this is really one of the first projects that didn't use redevelopment, that built such a large percentage of units. households that make between $80-150,000 a year. i want to recognize the teachers union, the council community housings or organization, that helped us literally, number by number, over hours in the course of the night, craft a compromise that would pencil out. and i want to recognize the port and the city for sharing the value that would generate the land that would allow more housing. this is a partnership between the city and the giants. i want to take a moment to thank our community residents who are also here. who have worked on the sidelines of this. to ensure this is a neighborhood that they want to be a part of. i see corrin woods, the chair of mission woods advisory committee. sonny schwartz. alice rog

was by last estimate that means the rest of them don't live in our city or share our values as san franciscans. we don't want tasers, we never have but that got lost in the equation. i would love it if the commission could bring martin halloran here and have a discussion with him. it's time. well overdue. thank you. [please stand by] . . >> because the more displacements of our communities come in to enforce that town, it's like an alien trying to enforce or occupy a community that they don't know, and the only way to respond to that is with negative response because they don't know how the community functions. and without the neighborly love or know-how, they're not going to enforce laws or policies to hopefully deescalate a situation that does not result in a person's death or permanent disability because of misuse. thank you. >> president turman: thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. all right. commissioners, so we have set forth the policy that is before us, including the amendments as discussed. i'll entertain an appropriate motion at this point

we are native san franciscans. we have a big problem with the expansion of the footprint of the building. one, there's a light in the back and i printed pictures off google earth. it happened recently and non-notice without mail and there's a 70-year-old person -- >> face it as if you're looking at it, sir. >> you can see this is facing up here. there's an area in the back and this is what we're talking about and it has to go through the front of the buildings. on my side this is what it looks like. when they come in they'll see this and it goes out to this other area and now all of a sudden we're expanding this whole wall. there's no room. how does a ladder get through there. there's no fire escapes, there's seniors, there's 15 people in my building, six units, all condominiums, very concerned with fire safety. i've lived through fires. my sister had a five-alarm fire on union street. i'm very concerned about this with the impact of fire safety and seismic work. thank you for your time. i hope you revoke the proje

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in san francisco and they found what we all know, there is a huge difference between 5% of the san franciscans are african-american, but 34% of the homeless population and overrepresentation in the lgbtq community and our delivery service looks like who is on the streets. we are not underserving, but we want to be careful to monitor that. in the spirit of transparency, some communities that have moved toward coordinated entry one of the unintended consequences is misalignment due to bias in the questioning or bias from the questioner. so we're going to focus carefully to make sure that does not happen as we move toward the new system. >> supervisor fewer: is your department planning to include case management at access point shelters to support people in navigating the search for housing? >> yes. so as we are setting up access points, that is a major purpose of the access points, where folks come in and be assessed and then will receive assistance to getting to the right intervention for them. frankly, it's going to be easier than it's ever been, because we're going to stream line the process

it's been a pleasure to -- i'm a native san franciscan. born and raised here, and i currently live in marin, but we are -- a real -- you know, find this community of san francisco to be our home. the service is right across from aquatic park, and we see the ships coming in from the bay. the maritime, you know, presence is remembered, and i -- i personally am involved with maritime association, which supports aquatic park and help does promote interest with the park down there and providing some services and helps with the need for restoring some historic ships that we have there. i encourage you all to go take a visit down there. if you haven't been there, it's a really neat thing to see. like richard said, we wear many hats, and we're really happy to be here in san francisco. >> president adams: great. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. thank you, commissioners. my name is eddie kaufman, and i'm the executive director for mission graduates, and i just want to thank you for considering or application. mission graduates, we've been a pa

millions of san franciscans and californians who live work and play along the waterfront. we see 24 million tourists visiting our waterfront every year. it's imperative we protect this asset not just for san francisco, but the bay and the california economy. i want to again thank everyone standing behind us, our mayor, board of supervisors. when i was on the board of supervisors, i served on the capital planning committee, where we planned for how we took care of tens of billions of dollars of assets. this is at the top of the list. i want to thank my current colleagues in the legislature. you'll hear from scott wiener. in 2005 they established the financing district we're talking about today. she had drafted the legislation to ensure we're investing in infrastructure as well as historic resources, the bill we're discussing today is to ensure we're expanding what it is that we're protecting. protecting our shoreline, ensuring we can rebuild our seawall. before i introduce our next speaker, i want to say two things. we're here in part because we have to come together as a co

we need the money to keep our san franciscans housed and homed. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is cecilia. i live in the -- i'm a member of ace and a member of the budget coalition fighting for very low budget people in san francisco. we're fighting for the housing fund that it was submitted to you previously to keep tenants and homeowners in their homes and communities. i'm here to request help now, to be able to move somewhere in the city to a safe, healthy, and decent living space before i die while waiting for new affordable housing to be built. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is del. i represent the local board upstairs and we deal with advising the department. so i come here to talk about a few things i would like you to consider. consider in the budget the problem solving grants to make them as flexible as possible, the funding of them and the use of them because homelessness is not a cookie cutter type situation. everyone is not the same. everyone has different n

when we have san franciscans losing their homes every day to preventible he restriction haves, we have a problem. we're supporting the hespa proposal to help this crisis. we must go farther and farther and farther to turn this crises around. thank you so much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. here, i'm just talking as me, and maybe a little bit as the q foundation. but one of the things that's top of my mind lately is about equity, and it's not lost on me that we have a housing and homelessness crisis, but we have an endemic of that crisis in after man concerns, latino and lgbt san franciscans, and the parallel to the hiv epidemic are very stark to me, and i think we can take of some of what we've learned with hiv prevention and find that you have to identify the unique drivers of homelessness in each community because the drivers are different for each community, and the those unique barriers. and then, you can develop targeted interventions that are based on that specific knowledge, and a one size fits all approach doesn't work. that's one of the thin

as a third generation san franciscan, i'm honored to serve on the connectsf and transit center task forces and numerous other citizen advisory committees, so i am familiar with our transit and housing issues, but i speak to you today only as a san franciscan citizen. i urge your support of the connectsf vision report. we approved a similar resolution this week at our market actavia cac. i commend our outreach of stakeholders and the public to understand the multifaceted issues surrounding this effort. however, since this is a 50-year plan with commitment to review and update every five years, i urge that as a matter of civic education during the plan's life, we engage our communities either through sessions at our local libraries or schools to educate our citizens in these multiple issues in the process of scenario planning which could help all planning agencies such as yours in our city. i'm very grateful that our connectsf plan is regionally oriented, and an exemplar of such thinking, but particularly that it compliments and implements the strategies of vision zero, now that at least the

partnership and i just can't recommend her highly enough in her position and i guess what i see as a san franciscan is her work with families and her work with children and her work bringing people up and i think when we look at the port and issues around the port and activating the port, i think her knowledge of what's needed and people who aren't at the table. there are a lot of people who aren't at the table and i think gail represents a constituency that really needs to be at the table adjacent to our port, our families, low-income families, seniors and people looking for economic opportunities out there. you know, [buzzer] [mic cut out] >> supervisor safai: thank you, ma'am. next speaker. >> unlike her competitor who is applying for the position of being commissioner, ms. gilman has learned through hands on demonstrating experience and executive director of the community housing partnership which charges tenants 30% of their income, unlike the past administration, the giants portd, mr. adams and board of supervisors kim and breed claim 40% affordable housing, you have people making $191,000 $9

, we don't have to bring in new people, let's make sure it works for san franciscans. >> thank you veryh, mark leno. again, we will be talking to all of the candidates this week. we will be posting all of the interviews in their entirety on our website. today's interviews can be found in the politics section. >>> we turn things over to bill martin with a look at your forecast. >> the weather is doing what is supposed to do in the spring. we were above average our last weekend. now we are into typical spring weather. that is good news if you like the fog out there and many of you do. there is some fog that will be returning tonight and tomorrow morning, as it did this morning and yesterday. this pattern will keep returning to the fog in the morning and fog at night and temperatures at the coast are in the 50s. in the in the day valleys, low 70s and upper 60s. a neat little weather pattern which is what we expect. here's a satellite image which is almost life. it shows you the fog offshore waiting to get pushed back to the coach -- coast. you can see the greens that represent the seabreez

we looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscan's and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local san francisco lb program. so, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. >> i was on the first committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. in the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. we wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. >> i like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to small businesses and lots of creative ways. help the community as well. there is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. >> my faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many small businesses. [inaudible] wo