of service the communities of san francisco. we're in a wonderful boom in terms of economics and the city college needs to be there to support of the skill sets that are required to be sustained by the people of san francisco. that's really the hallmark of why this bill t is important >> (inaudible) we would lose so far there - and a that's correct this year we're in a current year of stabilization and as we finish all the monumental work that's been done it will take at least another year and more importantly it will take time for the students to have the confidence to come back to school. you know what we've noticed it that our students haven't gone anywhere they're waiting to see what's happening to us. that's an important thing to note and the stabilization funding will help to give the confidence back to the students. thank you >> (inaudible). >> i don't have a number only a you are about to give on the on top of my head. >> what about prop thirty and prop 8 in san francisco we've had (inaudible). >> that didn't balance out

we are san francisco strong. we are san francisco strong for equal education, equal opportunities, equal access, and equal civil rights. we are strong. 800,000 residents, voters, students, and immigrants, faculty, staff, department chairs, we are san francisco strong. our businesses, communities, neighborhoods and our city college neighborhood campuses and programs, we are san francisco strong. and we are against inequality in education, opportunity, access, and limits that political groups outside of san francisco are demanding and trying to force on us. we are san francisco strong and we are against inequality. we are san francisco strong for our city and neighborhoods. we are san francisco strong for city college of san francisco and our students in all our neighborhoods now and in the future. today you heard heroic stories and it's very important that you heard them. and for us [speaker not understood], that we are san francisco strong and we are going to win. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you

san francisco are we ready to rock. come on i want to hear you (clapping) you know people around the world are looking at us just now and we want to make it allowed and clear this is no place where violence against women and young girls will be trorntd. one out of 3 women in their lifetime will face rape or a serious assault that's not assembleable. men have to step up to the plate, too, we are sons and fathers and many of us are husbands as well. we have a collected obligation to make sure that violence against young girls and women will stop. today, today, we're going to raise the roof and show what san francisco stands for. thank you and let's be allowed and clear (clapping.) san francisco are we rising today? are we rising for justice are we part of the one billion. i'm david chiu and i'm proud to represent our board of supervisors and the assistant district attorney and the domestic violence advocates fights on the front lines. i want to thank you all for being part of our city of love. in 1967 san francisco starte

the french song i was deeply moved > >> (speaking foreign language.) >> when we hear the name of san francisco it stands for tolerance and maternity and that's why 60 thousand french men and women have chosen to supplement down u adopt in san francisc bay. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> san francisco, california this is the place where tomorrow's world is being invented ate a revolution that started here with the new technology and this revolution will have an impact no doubt on the rest of the world. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> it is here that in the area of health, energy and new technologies new products are developed and new medicines are intensity and a on what grounds are found and those will change radly the people of the united states but also have people all over the world. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and this is precisely we're so proud that more than 3 hundred french companies have chosen to settle down in san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and we'll also particularly proud that a third of american investments in france come from this area. >> (speak

san francisco the safety big city in america. i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and my staff and all my partners from the board of supervisors and you in the community without your help again none of this will work. it's takes a village to make a community safer. i'm proud to be part of this community this is a community where people come together and while sometimes, we maybe very boisterous how we disagree and over minor minor things i know it's funny because people tube we're also professing the shades of difference sometimes are so small we work really hard to distinguish ours inform an outside server we look crazy but in the such a great place to live and raise a family and it doesn't matter where your gay or straight or black or white this is a community that wants to work together and for that i'm very blessed to be part of this community and again, i thank you deeply for the support in how you've embraced me from the first day i came here. i want to invite all of you to go downstairs and i encourage you to t

what would it take foyer a san francisco tenant to be able to stay in san francisco. so this legislation requires that the landlord pay the difference between the tenants rental rate prior to the eviction and what would have been the market rate for that unit for 10 years. this formula will assure with the payments represent true market costs and allow the tenants who face the dramatic rent increases in san francisco the opportunity to actually stay in san francisco. it's not the solution but it gives them a fighting change. the rental prices in san francisco have increased since 2005 which is actually, the last time we passed on ordinance requiring the ordinance. a lot of has happened since 2005 in san francisco. we now in san francisco have the highest rent in the country higher than new york city. currently as was noted the amount that's being required for relocation is very low. so when you look at it in the complex of what's happening in san francisco you can see why it is important. crossing the zero.com agency of june 2013 last time the city medium was 3,0004 h

we think we'll help san francisco. we went to the biggest that ball terminal in the world myself and peter we had jim who's the president of the metro ports we went collectively together you had the iowu so when what we talked about to the electro customers we spoke as one voice and able to market the port of san francisco. i really want to thank jim and peter for the meetings it engaged us to put the port of san francisco and we were able to put a working group together with the port of san francisco and i o w and role want to develop pier 92 and 96 because those are jobs. unfortunately in this world we will in we've got to compete but we have a very, very good port we have basketball stadiums and restaurants and a crews term maybe a baseball thing i don't know but i'll be leaving next week and go to washington, d.c. and was promote the port of san francisco i thought our trip was really, really good i'm going to save a few minutes for jim and pete we had dinner with the port of san francisco but if china they don't l

jenkins, are you living in san francisco? >> i am a resident of san francisco. i've been here about 20 years. [speaker not understood] following my separation from the service i came to live in this area. >> okay. the reason i ask, the home address is listed as p.o. box. >> keeping my privacy, but i've been here for a long time. >> did you a member have to be a resident of san francisco? ~ does >> deputy city attorney john give more. yes, if the applicant lives in san francisco and is a registered voter, then she does not -- then she qualifies. >> yes, i'm aes are identified. ~ resident. >> for me it's a matter of making sure somebody knows you are actually a resident. >> my application lists my resident. i googled it and i can see my application was still present. i did a word search and it says my address. i'm not going to give it out now. [speaker not understood]. >> i appreciate that. i have to do my job also. thank you very much. let me see, i think there is one more person. >> [speaker not understood]. >> can i speak about that? >> later. >> good afternoon

i want to point out that the san francisco medical society had a letter yesterday in the san francisco examiner also supporting this ordinance. the last couple things i want to mention is the concept of the precautionary principles that we have been operating with here in san francisco. we choose to make decisions that affect the future of our city with caution and attention to research in mind. we want to make sure that we put the thing in place -- we don't want to happen what happened back in the earlier 20th century where people started smoking for several decades, the point where we had 42% of the u.s. population smoking before we found out about the harms of tobacco smoking. we don't want to go back to that era. we really have a chance to limit the spread of these products. again, remember, the real issue is the promotion of nicotine addiction, plain and simple. are we going to let the zombie industry promote nicotine addiction in our communities and to our children? do not be swayed by the harm reduction argument or the smoking cessation argument. you can prevent a public health

i'm the post master of san francisco.states positively services i want to welcome you to the 19th luna celebration the year of the horse is the 7 stamp in the series we're truly honored to be hosting this selection celebration let me begin by thanking the white crane dance group and the hosts of the performance. they've helped us today only today but year after year so what a wonderful vaccination and a applause. you'll be meeting our guest and other people a few people in the audience. first someone who i work with frequently is san francisco marketing manager is martha she's right there. martha played a large roll in the success and she is retiring at the end of the month for or after 2 seven years of dedication so thank you very much martha. also in the audience today are jeff managing director of the investment and a doris the hilton director of community affairs. thank you, again, for supporting the lunar event and, of course, we're honored to have the artist who designed this today mr. kim.

an unprecedented opportunity to make health insurance of covered california truly affordable to san francisco workers. i'm hopeful that we can coordinate the health care security ordinance and our affordable care act together in order to increase the number of insured san franciscans. i'm continuing to support supervisor campos and others'ertionv to close the loophole and i'll continue to do soughtv so, thank you to supervisor campos for introducing that. ~ to do so also, as supervisor cohen alerts us of the dangers of obesity and diabetes and other health problems from unhealthy foods and drinks, junk drinks, i think the anecdote often has been not only increased healthy and affordable food access or taking on big companies that promote and market to our kids and communities, but also it's promoting physical fitness in our neighborhoods. in the richmond district coming up on saturday, we're having the city's mobile rec coming to one of our newly renovated parks in the richmond district. it's the folsom playground and it's from 11:00 to 2:00 p.m. i challenged my colleagues on the board and yo

commission, the san francisco small business commission, san francisco unified school district, breathe california, ucsf, american heart association, vietnamese youth development center, lung association, san francisco medical society, and other groups. we urge you to support this ordinance to protect the quality of health for all residents both young and old in san francisco. thank you very much for your [speaker not understood] and thank you very much, supervisor mar, for bringing this to our attention. >> and thank you to your leadership and the coalition as well. >> thank you. >> through chair yee, can we open this up now for public comment? and i've asked if we could limit comments, because we have about 60 cards. so, we're going to have to limit it to 1 minute per person. there's a soft bell that goes off with 15 seconds to gi would ask people if you could try to stay within your time limit. we have a number of youth that are here with us from organizations and i'd like to ask if the young people could speak first and i'm going to start calling other names. but if you're a youth,

we strongly support san francisco continuing to take a lead in tackling youth nicotine addiction. we are committed to providing the best possible education to the next generation of san franciscans and cannot afford losing them to the threat of tobacco addiction. thank you very much. >> thank you, president furer. the next speakers are dr. stanton glance and rachel [speaker not understood] from ucsf. and there's a bunch of other ucsf folks here as well and they'll be followed by [speaker not understood] from california, a leader in our tobacco free coalition in san francisco. free if he isers. ~ professors. >> thank you for inviting us. rachel, one of our brilliant [speaker not understood] wrote the hundred-page document that's been making the rounds. i'm very pleased with some of the other researchers here, lauren [speaker not understood] just published a paper today showing e-cigarette use among kids is associated with increased smoking. you'll hear about that. i live in the sunset. my kids went to public school here. i now have a grandson in the public preschool right here. and

closer to the 680 split. >> it is quite empty so nice traffic as you funnel in from the maze to san francisco and the richmond and san rafael bridge shows bridges to the toll plaza beyond the hoffman split and it is not a problem interest -- into berkeley at only 13 minutes. >> if san francisco there was a shooting in the outer mission. one person was taken away on ambulance. he is a man in his 30's who was shot in the leg two hours ago. the area is shut down in both directions. that could pose a problem because this area is a major artery in the city. shooter is not in custody yet. a search is underway. we are gathering more details and will bring you more information. >> firefighters are put out hotspots that are flaring up as a massive apartments complex gutted in the raging fire on tuesday. demolition has begun but the process will take a while. our news reporter is at the scene with the latest. >>> speaking of that, there is supposed to be a meeting for authorities to figure out what they are going to do with everything that is left, all of this debris the "san francisco chronicle" repor

jenkins, are you living in san francisco? >> i am a resident of san francisco. i've been here about 20 years. [speaker not understood] following my separation from the service i came to live in this area. >> okay. the reason i ask, the home ad

san francisco travel. as joe mentioned, i kind of wear three hats but i'm standing in the middle of my world. union square improvement districts and tremendous work that they are doing down here, joe dell sandero with travel and of course due to mayor lee's efforts it's a time for tourism and general manager in this city. thank you. visitors information center. it was a freudian slip because it improved tremendously and it couldn't be in greater location. so all the visitors that come to san francisco from the airport stop right there and come here for information on things to do in the city. it's tremendous for me to be the general manager because i have concierge but the volunteers and the people here are an extension of concierge and giving information for all the visitors that come in and make this a world class city and really visit all the areas, the restaurants, the attractions and everything else this city has to offer. i want to thank again san francisco travel because they are the ones who market

i'm a resident of san francisco. when i came in, supervisor campos was speaking very eloquently in the way in which society takes care of our nonhuman creaturers reflects on our communities. and i think that is what is at issue right here. what we have right now is an opportunity to look at alternatives. alternative that are cost-effective and more environmentally friendly to sharp park and the surrounding areas and endangered species that call sharp park home. a very modest ask to ask that san francisco look at those alternative through a full e-i-r process, particularly when the current mitigated negative declaration includes measures that we've learned recently have no way to be implemented by the federal agency. so, i would ask you to -- for a full e-i-r. thank you. >> next speaker. >>> thank you, my name is cathy seigel and thank you so much for your careful consideration of this really important issue. c-e-q-a is our safety net for the protection of our health and environment. and you can't accomplish c-e-q-ase

>> no. >> special education system here in san francisco? >> family members that might have gone through the system for mental health. >> yes, i had a family member here in san francisco now. >> they may have received mental health -- >> mental health services, yes, in the mental health services here. >> um-hm. >> through the mental health, and the mental health board, the cbs community mental health board and nami, a lot of different services that are available here in san francisco. >> okay. any other questions? supervisor tang? >> there we go. i'm sorry, this question may be more for the city attorney. i had a question because seat 16 which these applicants are applying for must be for a family member. and, so, in terms of the candidate who is before us, he did mention that it was himself as an individual who has gone and received services and i wanted to know whether that was -- that was something that would qualify for this seat. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the answer is a little complicated. there are different categories of, o

sizes, backgrounds, abilities have and should continue to employ the gift given to the city of san francisco, the city of pacifica, the residents of san mateo county, and, yes, the new environment enhancements proposed for the california garden snake and the red legged frog who for the past 60 years or so have all lived together in harmony. i urge you to respectfully [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good evening, supervisors, my name is mike waloch. i'm a 30-year resident of san francisco, [speaker not understood], being represented by president chiu. my [speaker not understood], frequent patron of the san francisco muni courses and i'm here in support of the sharp park safety infrastructure and habitat enhancement project. i closely followed the sharp park controversy over the last five years. i want to share a couple observations. one thing i've learned in this controversy is what the best science tells us, and that meant the california red legged frog is doing absolutely fine coexisting with the course. i don't have time to read the extra quotes

san francisco rent board. so, we look forward to a multi-lingual workshop with tenants in english, cantonese and [speaker not understood]. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. just a couple items for introduction. one is a hearing request on certification of tagalog language access ordinance. language access ordinance [speaker not understood] certify certain languages based on demand within our city departments to make sure that our city departments can provide linguistic capacity to meet the needs of various languages of residence here in the city. so, a hearing on that, hopefully we'll have that in april. then i have an in memoriam for a teacher at balboa high school who taught there over 15 years, [speaker not understood]. he has been really well liked teacher for a number of years. before he taught at balance bow he a high school he was an organizer at the hotel worker un

this is what i'm witnessing at san francisco state. students are switching from cigarettes to cigars. [speaker not understood]. i believe students are using e-cigarettes as a way to get around the policy. with more campuses going smoke-free more and more are using e. cigarettes instead of cigars. this is a terrible problem. i've seen [speaker not understood]. it sends a mixed message about smoking. and third, i am concerned about the health of my closest peerses because i do not want them to fall into the misconception of e-cigarette being a safe alternative. >> great, thank you [speaker not understood]. next speaker. >>> hi, my name is may how, i work with the sunset project and i'm a resident of outer mission district of san francisco. i am here today because i just want to tell you guys that i really love the taste of peanut butter cup. i also love the color green and if i really believed all the many ads out there about e-cigarettes being harmless and cool, i would get myself a green colored peanut butter cup flavored one and i wou

conditions we felt dedicated that we should call for that and that's for san franciscans but all of san francisco. that is a system wide level of reduction we are aiming for and we are calling on san franciscans on that and the need to achieve that. we average a demand here in san francisco about 73 million gallons a day. our use is low here in san francisco, approximately 49 gallons per day per residential use. it comes to 88 gallons per resident if you factor in industrial . that is lower than most areas. the key that we have found is really educating people to the need to conserve and really to get meaningful conservation is replacement of plumbing fixtures such as shower heads, toilets, installing faucets and plumbing fixtures and useless water and whether it's through a rebate program. we have some of those as well. those are the ways to get more out there. i think you will be doing a lot of that in the coming months. regarding state departments the mayor issued directives on february 10th to further reduce consumption by 10 percent. since 2008, city departments have reduced their consumptio

. >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco police commission occurring march 12, 2014, will begin shortly. >> >> >> colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation? >> yes, so moved. >> okay. with no objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. there are two vacant seats and two applicants. >> okay. i will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. is sam [speaker not understood] here? come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sam patel. i'm here to apply for seat number 2 on the s-r-o task force. i have 30 years of experience in operating a s-r-o hotel. currently my company manages several s-r-o buildings, including two not for profit. i've been serving on the task force since its inception, back in 1992, i believe, and i would like to continue doing so. thank you. >> okay. any questions? supervisor tang. >> great, thank you, mr. patel. j

so what i did was i invited her to the port of san francisco and she accepted. and she said that they like to come here and do the port of san francisco and do a tour and she was engaged and she says, really i am open as a new speaker of the assembly, because i want to learn more, and i understand that i can only do so much on the state level but to work with the federal level because i am concerned about the ports and transportation in california. and also, told her that we set up a tour for her in the port of san diego and so that was good to build the relationships with politicians from the ground floor up. and to also to educate them as we educate ourselves and also spoke from the governor's office and i made mention to him that it is good that the governor went ko china, but i go, how can you go to china you never take labor with you. we have load and unload these ships we know just as much as infrastructure as the people in business and we are the ones that make the ports flow and handling the cargo in and out of the ports, you have to remember that close

bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe heh the businesses it was the birsdz are christopher and is bees busing this is the weekly buzz pr this friday evening is the 2014th opening needed i invite at the golden gate park and it will have panel discussions and film screenings and more plus the observation tower will be open and saturday head to selma and joy a day of fitness and enroll in a basketball tournament and all ages and fit levels are welcome and get a great work out and on sunday grab your farther walking shoes for contemporary photo walk through the mission and take great pictures bring a camera or borrow one. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on those event visit us at gavel] >> good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. we'll begin by taking the roll. vice-chair renne? >> prese

san francisco sponsored by san francisco chamber of commerce, 891 575 ~. so, we just read all the names of the committees that fell in activity level 1 and according to the staff memo we're going to be selecting one committee from this level. so, without looking at the committees, i'd like a member of the public to select one committee. would you please read the name of that committee? >>> latino democratic club san francisco idn1 34 265 2, committee type, rcp, financial activity level 1. >> thank you. >>> you're more than welcome. >> so, we're going to move on to activity level 2. would you like to continue doing this? or would you like to switch places? okay, all right. dennis herrera for city attorney 2013. 1 355 7 81. ~ alice b. [speaker not understood] 842 0 18. san francisco apartment association political action committee, 84 30 2. san francisco police officers association issues p-a-c, 131 755 4. ~ committee on jobs government reform fund, 98 28 683 ~. now we will be selecting one committee from activity level 2. >>> san francisco apartment associa

he was as responsible as anyone for the city and county of san francisco landing. the 2015 greater to greener international parks conference. this is several cities competed to host the conference that will be in san francisco and large part because of alex's work on our application and his excellent project manager with ten other open space agencies around the bay area. and it's also the bitter piece of this is i'm sad because i've had the great pleasure of working with alex in not just this job, but i had the pleasure of hiring alex in his first job in city government in 2007 when i was working in the mayor's office and alex was a fresh and idealistic man. we worked in that capacity, but wait, there's more. i had pleasure of being alex's professor. alex went to get his master's in public administration from san francisco state and a semester and i was teaching a sexy course in human resources and alex was one of my students and he got an a and he earned it. and so i'm sad, but i also because of our personal relationship, alex i take a great amount of pride in thi

product can be used anywhere in san francisco. businesses and law enforcement are really struggling with this and they contacted the department of public health indicating they're not sure how to deal with complaints about use on transit this in their stores or offices. [speaker not understood] complicates enforcement of existing laws. in school reporting use by students in classrooms. it can legally be used on school grounds. [speaker not understood]. i'd like to conclude with five major points about thing that you'll hear about these cigarettes. one, some people believe that the information we hear about the cigarettes from those selling the product which isn't really the best source. there is a lot of reliable research on the harms of e-cigarettes particularly to young people and you're going to be hearing that today. [speaker not understood] selling the product are not a good representation and they are not a good replacement for health studies. the fine print which we have shown here is actually from one brand, enjoy, which c

but i know that many people in san francisco are being forced to leave san francisco due to the displacement and affordability crisis that we face. and as members of our community, i displace to other parts of the country, some i'm sorry to say will be experiencing an erosion of equal rights, including access to basic protections like fair treatment and housing. my legislation will require companies without with out of state properties who are applying to build 10 units or more here in san francisco to simply indicate whether they had a national policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. if they do have that policy, they will be asked to provide a copy of the policy to the city and the human rights commission will then compile the information and present it to the board of supervisors annually. we have a right to know whether developers hoping to build in san francisco are protecting lgbt housing rights when they own or manage housing in other states where legal protections do not protect members of this community. by collecting this information, we ca

san francisco police had followed it across the bay bridge, through three counties, and the chp joined the chase as the car headed south. it was finally stopped at mckee and north 33rd street in san jose. police say three people were arrested. >>> 3:00 a.m., police responded to a border call in the mission district and tried to make a traffic stop. someone in a car opened fire hitting the officer in the left shoulder. he's now in serious but stable condition at the hospital. officers later found the suspected car in daly city but no suspects. turns out they had gotten into the other car we showed you that was finally stopped overnight. in san jose. >>> the search intensifies this morning for a missing malaysia airlines jet. authorities discovered two passengers on board are traveling with stolen passports. military radar indicates the missing boeing 777 may have turned back before vanishing but there was no distress call from the pilot that would reveal mechanical problems. 239 people are on board, the aircraft lost contact with the ground controller somewhere over the south china sea