here in san francisco. this reminds us that a vibrant arts community allows young peep to strive constantly for an ever better presentation and ever better relationship with their colleagues and peers and the community. this permeates all aspects of their lives, helps with integrity and gives them hope. from the excellent experience of academic endeavors to opening their eyes to a very large world and greater appreciation of hugh mattv, i have seen the arts transform young people and produce immeasurable [speaker not understood]. for continued work in our support, i thank you sincerely. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, my name is jimmy [speaker not understood]. i'm a proud member of the san francisco symphony family and i'm also here in addition to what you -- very powerful statements of all people, i also came to pledge for you guys to support the arts and the struggling artists in san francisco by increasing funds for grants for the arts and arts commission. i would like to

san francisco television jessie larson. who record all our meetings and make the transcripts available online. madam clerk, do you have announcements? >> yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. please submit any copies and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the agenda. >> call you call items 1-9. >> items 1-9 involving various lawsuits. >> is there any members of the public who wish to speak on items 1-9? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues is there a motion to convene in closed session. with no objection. motion passes. members of the public, we will now be convened in closed session. we will ask you to please leave >>> >> deputy city attorney john gibner, the committee voted items 1-4, 6-9 for full recommendation. one vote with supervisors campos voting no to vote item 5 with a full board of recommendation. >> thank you. city attorney gibner. can i have a meetings -- motion to not disclose the session? >> so moved. >> can i have

despite our growth in our economy and decrease in unemployment in san francisco, san francisco is still leading in the largest income gap in the country. san francisco can also lead in our commitment to address this gap and commit to the strongest affordable housing production in the country. i had mentioned before that it was exciting to have three potential ballot measures that would address equity in san francisco, one we need to raise wages for workers so they can live here and the incredible increase of evictions of long time city of san san franciscans and seniors and families and finally our legislation which is about a commitment of 30 percent affordable housing here in san francisco. this legislation has a lot of history and a lot of folks have been working on this concept for a long time. it began in 2007 when the western market community began meeting in 2007. this plan was finally improved last year march of 2013 and our office began to work on the trilogy legislation of which housing ballot was one. we know that there is a broad consensus throughout san francisco that luxur

wade rose who is representing the san francisco chamber of commerce. (clapping.) >> mayor ed lee and supervisor kim and supervisors we the business community are police department mr. reginald that a single ballet measure had been appearing in november to ask the folks of san francisco whether or not they want to support an expansion and growth in the minimum wage. the issue about the discussions we were involved with and have been involved it come down to the observation that a compromise is a precious idea that has to be experienced to be healthy that we think that the consensus built up around this measure residents will be voting on we've reached the compromise. one of the kind of facts of san francisco which is not well understood because we're bless to be a headquarter city and a huge amount of high tech are coming in is that 80 percent of the 6 hundred thousand people who are employed in san francisco are employed by small and medium businesses businesses often less than 20 people, 80 percent in the twitters or the pg&e. it's the folks who have

san francisco was a minimum wage janitorial job. families like mine are the ones that keep the city going. minimum wage wasn't enough for us to is survive growing up in san francisco and that was a long time ago. it's a little embarrassing, but when i was going to school in this city i got academically dinged, i got a lower score in one of my presentations because i didn't by coastal paper for that presentation because i didn't want the added cost to my family because they couldn't buy me poster paper for school. it's young people in minimum wage families like mine that make these decisions everyday. and they really shouldn't have to make those decisions. the measure of our city's success should be based on how well workers can live and thrive in san francisco. that's why i support a higher minimum wage. thank you. >> hello, my name is chelsey for children and youth and part of san francisco rising and i'm here to support the minimum wage measure. we organize working class for youth and these are families who without a living wage a

supervisors i'm calling on all san francisco supervisors attendance be mindful february is the black history month june 16th is the contents time of slavery in the united states that includes san francisco. city hall recognizes both months with no colorful months no flags they're having a subway designed fore chinatown my question is what qualifications do black african-americans need to have what class when it comes to general contractors jobs the housing accommodations it should be mixed black african-americans shaunt shouldn't have to search let's be mindful we are got poor african-american kids black african-americans are retreating out of san francisco hair - they can't afford to live here the san francisco giants is not one black african-american player swinging a bat what's the qualifications thank you very much. a >> thank you, mr. president and members of the committee i'm krifrsz i live on sixth and howard 13 meters and 10 blocks from sea level i rise to talk about the windfall my profess comprehension of dissatisfaction with certain staff the general theme is they generall

san francisco is a world class city. but open space is less than 17 percent if we prepare ourselves with some of the great cities in europe such as london. those cities are more than a thousand years old. we are only about 200. if we don't preserve what we have the opportunity to preserve now, we are certainly not going to have chances to do it in the future. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors. my name is tina moylan. i remember three 3 years ago meeting with supervisor farrell and part of this business -- working group. working group in poor neighborhoods in san francisco. i like end it last week to wind is surfing in the tsunami which wouldn't happen. we had open meetings. i always felt what's good for folsom california is good for sacramento or what's good for san francisco is good for russian hill and vice versa. i have been to dolores park. all of us have gone to golden gate park. parks is necessary for kids. i never thought i would never see this day. i said to supervisor farr

and we in san francisco as we're seeing to many of residents being pushed out of the san francisco we have a relocate and the reality is as members of lgbtq are pursued out of san francisco they face a housing market that unfortunately did not have to play by the same realize we have in san francisco. the fact is that the national fair housing act still doesn't include protection for the lufbt community it comes to discrimination and the vast majority of states still allow for discrimination for the lgbtq only 28 of the states prevents discrimination based on sex all discrimination and it is based on gender identity we in san francisco we benefit from strong fair housing policies but the reality is that the rest of the state and the country are not as lucas we are here in san francisco. what my legislation does it basically constitutes a minor change to make a subsequential impacts on it requires companies that are going to build 10 unit or more in san francisco to indicate whether they have a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity and in all the ju

and as san francisco residents, including member of the lgbtq community are being pushed out of san francisco, they're being displace and had evicted from this city, it is important for us to think about what happens to our residents, what happens to members of the lgbtq community as they are being forced out of san francisco. my legislation is a minor procedural change that has the power to make a substantial impact. it requires companies with out of state properties that want to apply to build ten units or more of housing here in san francisco to indicate in their application whether or not they have a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in all the jurisdictions of this country in which they operate. if they do have that policy, they will be asked to provide a copy of the policy to the city. if they do not have a policy, we are not asking them to actually have a policy, but simply are asking them to provide the information to answer the question. once that information is provided, the human rights commission will then compile the information and

city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and

even though we have seen rise in costs in san francisco to the point that san francisco right now has the fastest growing inequality of any city in this country. and we are asking [speaker not understood] of our nonprofit workers, you know, they are in the trenches doing a lot of important work and i think that it is only fair a we ask so much of them that we also help them to be able to at least make the city that they're working every day to make a better city, at least somewhat affordable to them and their families. so, i am introducing today a resolution, and i want to thank my -- the following colleagues who are co-sponsoring. supervisors mar, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, and supervisor cohen, that essentially says that the board of supervisors shall prioritize approval of a supplemental appropriation of up to $3.4 million during fiscal years 2014-15 which is actually the estimated cost of .75, cot of doing business increase for these agencies. the funding allocation for these purposes would come in the event that we have higher revenues than are currently projected for fis

>> well, good morning, everyone welcome to the city hall san francisco the people how's house of san francisco. i am so delighted to be joined by the park commission of the rec and park and as well as phil ginsburg who has the presumption responsibility for the park recreation around san francisco their buses i didn't because the summer has thousands of kids running around and experiencing and playing i want to thank them and welcoming a good friend and someone i like to see in this city the pga tour president ted bishop thank you, very much for being here (clapping) >> i'm just excited, in fact, i'll as excited when former willie brown asked me to build that clubhouse at harding park in the earlier 2000s said you have to build it on time o pga officials are coming in and can't be detailed i was happy to put our skill sets together a revitalize our park into a golf facility and that's what we've done and pga park today, i'm here to celebrate the announcement lange along what the folks that pga park will be hosting the 2020 knapp and the 2045 president cup at harding park aren't those

has been the leader and san francisco was again lead the way. at nc r we're aware the discrimination and we have a national help line we routinely get calls from folks around the world that many of us in san francisco assume no longer happen but unfortunately, they do >> thank you. >> hello, again. tom why the housing rights committee. i'm also a long-term queer activist i've been involved in the lgbt for the last 44 years i came out in 1970 at 19 years old. i've seen this proposal is very reasonable and certainly would send a message to the rest of the country and serve to once again tell the who recalled we're a city that cares about human rights and eliminating discrimination in all aspects of the communities. i think developers need to be aware that if you come to san francisco you have to have a nondiscrimination policy and that's a policy that's across the board and covers all the categories including lgbt folks and gender identity and sex all organized that's a great precedent and a great message long overdue we should just do it so thank

radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ much. >> good afternoon. i'm supervisor yee representing district that. i want to thank you all for being here today, we're here today unified for children and families yes (clapping) we are honored to have not only mayor ed lee but assembly member tom who is on his way to join us today. thank you. (clapping.) this is a special day for san francisco children we'll be introducing the final version

now, i am a long-time supporter of the san francisco ballet, the opera and the symphony. however, to continue this gross inequity is just a disservice to the unrepresented communities of colors and the great social injustice for all san franciscans. so, i request that you increase the funding at least by 10% of what's already been allocated to these under served communities. you can look at the demographics and you can look at the funding as it is being disproportionately awarded, a lion's share going to the traditional organizations that always receive the funding. so, you've heard the artists. and i was born here in 1946 and i really request that we have some parity and equity now. thank you very much. (applause) >>> hello, my name is samantha leo and i work for the san francisco museum of modern art. >>> good morning, andrea morgan from s.f. noma. >> we're here today to ask you to increase the fund for the arts and [speaker not understood] arts commission. artists and arts and cultural organizations, we're all struggling to keep up with the cost of living in the city ~

and also a special guest from the san francisco inspirational airplane our chief operating officer mr. north america veer and folks with me another representative of unit is our flight a friend of mine mr. david a vice president of sales around the world (clapping) and folks you'll hear from them i also want to introduce jake another one of of our vice presidents there he is welcome jake (clapping) we want to welcome other special guests you our customers traveling on the number 9. we want to thank you for your business and we're delighted to have you join us on this integral trip because of you in san francisco this makes this event very, very special you're our first customers going into china and because of great xherdz and employees and business partners we have in the bay area it allows and makes in historic flight possible thank you for this annual flight it's a world-class of and folks we the doors and gates here are going to take you too over 3 hundred and 70 designations so thank you for a joining us. without further ado, i want to welcome mr. dave hilton our vice president o

thank you. >> hello, i'm with eviction free san francisco. yesterday we went to the office of real estate speculators urban green invegsments. urban is green is evicting a 98-year-old woman at her apartment. they're also evicting her neighbor who is a primary caregiver. they evicting here solely to make a profit. flipping units is their business model and they don't need her unit to survive and this is not the first time urban green has evicted entire buildings. we need to stop this type of speculation and keep our housing stable for mary and our other most vulnerable residents. they do direct actions because it seems there are so many tenants facing evictions have very few options to stay in their homes. most is nowhere else to go. this tax will curve speculation and the eviction crisis that is plaguing our city. >> good afsh supervisors, my name is jesus perez. i'm from [inaudible] and we express our support for the ordinance of aka, the [inaudible] tax because we need to the real estate companies which [inaudible] is addressed. number two,

and san francisco. he was a long time champion of social justice issues in the lgbt community and most recently as arch deacon for the arts at grace cathedral, he epitomized what it was to be a servant minister. an open gay minister. [speaker not understood], executive director of the dance theater of harlem and administrative director of the san francisco opera. with his life in san francisco and the onset of the hiv/aids epidemic in the 1980s, reverend turney's life changed course. in 1991 he quit his work to care for his partner james who was dying from aids related complications and losing his partner was devastating. in 1992 after completing aids memorial panel he asked god what he should do next and he moved to san francisco. in 1992 he was named ceo of the names project foundation, international caretaker of the aids memorial quote and after 43 years 43 panel to washington, d.c. to display on the national mall viewed by over 1 million people. ordained to the episcopal [speaker not understood] in

our workers in san francisco. right now we are leading the way in economic inequality. but that's not the legacy we want to lead. the legacy we want is is for san francisco to have the highest minimum wage in the country to give our working families and youth a chance to be able to live and thrive in our diverse city. we are really excited about this minimum wage measure as well as the commitment from supervisors and mayor's office to ensure that this minimum wage is adequately enforced and we look forward to november leading the way to the highest minimum wage in the country. thank you. >>supervisor jane kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. steve fields and director of non-profit provider and speaking on behalf of the human services network, the coalition of 100 nonprofit health and human services provider. we are really pleased to see this measure moving forward. i want to especially acknowledge that this city, this jurisdiction maybe the first jurisdiction in the country that from the beginning ackno

and san francisco needs to act now. dozens of tenants who are threatened with displacement come into our office every week. we are here with [speaker not understood] who has collaborate today create a comprehensive proposal that can alleviate this crisis. we're looking at a wealth of historical wisdom that's in this document. [speaker not understood] contribution to the proposal is through the tenant counseling and through our outreach. we found through data-driven research that clients are more confident and have higher positive outcomes if they have access to the following steps. first, clients know their rights. two, clients have access to tenant counselors. and three, clients have a lawyer when they're facing eviction. we have proven through door to door outreach in our clinic oakland model, we coordinate neighbor to neighbor know your rights outreach, in area that are vulnerable to displacement in oakland. this includes 35,000 educational pamphlets with valuable resources and participants have increased their confi

the san francisco parks alliance, san francisco beautiful, sierra club, omega boys club, china town ymca, san francisco league conservation voters, middle poke neighborhood association, china town development center, san francisco tomorrow, galileo high school which sits next door and we'll have amazing opportunities to many other organizations. i also want to take an opportunity to thank so many people who have been involved in this project from the city perspective. first of all, again, i mentioned to our public utilities commission thank you for all of your efforts. i want to thank our rec and park department. thank you for your leadership, phil, stacy bradley, your team has been amazing throughout the process. to the working group from san francisco reservoir, i want to thank everyone involved. leslie, your support and leadership has been incredible. i want to thank our city's office, who spent a lot of time with our puc and rec and park departments, as well as in particular from my staff, margo kelly whose support has been unbelievable and we would not be here without her efforts ov

my family's been in san francisco 80 years. my grand parents were here and had a small store called yoshi's. i'm on a board of a few community non profit organizations. i've been serving as your entertainment commissioner for two -and-a-half years. i'm here today to ask for your endorsement so i can continue to serve on the entertainment commission for another term. two-and-a-half years wasn't enough for me. i'd like to finish the work i started connecting with the public, educating the community about night life, getting clubs and neighbors to work together, being able to be offer my professional knowledge about an industry i spent half my life in san francisco. i provide real practical industry experience and not theoretical assumptions to the commission accident occurring process. what motivates me i'm energying to continue to learn more from the community. i attend many safety and planning meetings, i attend monthly meetings with the soma nightclub owners where we actually exchange safety information, not as competitors, bu

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turns out here to san francisco. we're a world-class city i we provided ourselves in hosting events that really take advantage of our setting but also in the arena of supporters to have the pga here compliments and brings people together and raises money but raises great charity events something sandy and charles have worked to establish the program. there was so much that's reflected in those great tournlts that's a history of harding park and how we revitalized it it's participator hospitality and it's international event when you say the r see the finding cup and lutz all the players come and enjoy themselves you're coming to a city with 74 general council offices it compliments and supports our business it reflect the values of what a great city like san francisco what it's all about >> (inaudible). >> we had a vision it had to begin with someone that's why there's praise for sandy and charley and willie brown perhaps we would have been happy to host a few tournaments like charles swabbing finals and getting luck

which generally includes the properties bounded by bayshore, blanken and tunnel avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, including the properties fronting bayshore boulevard from arleta avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, and including the properties fronting leland avenue from cora street to bayshore boulevard; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. >> 48 and 49? >> item 48 is ordinance amending the general plan to amend maps 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the commerce industry element, map 6 of the transportation element, maps 4 and 5 of the urban design element, and the land use index to implement the visitation valley/schlage lock special use district, which generally includes the properties bounded by bayshore, blanken and tunnel avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, including the properties fronting bayshore boulevard from arleta avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, and including the p

, but in particular in san francisco. and one of the things you'll notice if you go down the column on the left, industry wage change for these low-wage industries, food service 5.4, retail trade 3.1, social assistance 0. personal services 4.4, manufacturing minus 0.1. every one of those industries has their wageses go up less than the overall city-wide average. notwithstanding a 26% increase in minimum wage. and when you look at the net effect on the two right columns, you basically see that for the most part they are negative when you account for and more negative than the adjacent counties when you account for the city-wide effect. so, this is a clear case in which there was not a big effect on wages on these five industries from raising the minimum wage in 2004. and, therefore, it shouldn't be surprising that there was no employment effect either. this was a minimum wage increase that while it was large on its own terms, its was not large enough to significantly raise the wages of these low-income industries. so, one

radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest.fter two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ food in san francisco isn't just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultur

in san francisco we've seen the impact of those state and federal policies things the implementation of our new graduations we've seen $77 million in cuts from the state and nearly half of our sf sophomores were not on track to graduate it's why the public enrichment fund in san francisco is important we is if the state and federal government will not take care of our our children city and county of san francisco well, this is what we've done 84 professional art teachers that work in our k through 1259 librarians. 2 hundred and thirty athletic coaches and 44 support professionals and peer resources in our high school and constitute nutrition and wellness centers and transmission services for our parents so first, i want to thank the voters of san francisco for voting for this in 2004 (clapping) we have showed in the past 10 years that sf knows how to make the right investment for the outcomes we've seen the outcomes and now in the reauthorization i'm proud to say we're reforming things we've recovered the 25 percent trigger we're going not taking money away from our kids we've extend

of san francisco, the san francisco public works department and the san francisco planning department are hosting an open house on july 24th at pier 1 next door from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. the open house is to discuss the municipal transportation agency's project called embarcadaro enhancement project. it's a place for everybody to show their ideas on how to improve safety and comfort for all travelers on the embarcadaro from third street to powell jefferson so effectively from the southern portion of the waterfront through to fisherman's wharf. again, that open house is thursday, july 24th at 6:00 p.m. at pier 1. the open house will be an opportunity for the public to be introduced to the planning project, share ideas and learn more from the city project team. it's the beginning of the conversation on how to improve the embarcadaro again for all users. next we have some very good news in that the american association of port authorities, which is the trade association that represents ports in the western hemisphere, has awarded the port of san francisco with two awards related to our proj

our project is the san francisco veteran's mural project. and including these districts and the americans and our cities, and everyone here failed to mention it, and the tender loin, to 15 to 18 percent population, and i created that in the community, and over 3 and a half years ago. and it became a project. and the project today is recognized worldwide, as the very significant project here, in the city of san francisco. and we have petitioned to have the street, officially changed to veteran's alley and we generate a lot of income for the community of the tender loin, just via the tours that we actually conduct, with that is the positive work that is coming out of the tender loin and the strides that have been made with that project and us, and i am only out here to show you the support from the chamber, and to go and be aware of what has been happening there. >> thank you. >> i think that one thing that is absolutely critical, when we are talk about the african community, and we are not just talking about specifically in the limited distri