city like san francisco. in three weeks we will see a lot of people come to san francisco to celebrate pride and to support the lgbtq community. i want to piggyback off of what the supervisor was talking about as far as a community being under attack. in some ways, we are at war with the supreme court voting against us as a community. it is not just one person. it is not just one organization that is going to make the equal rights movement happen. it takes all of us, and visibility as a backbone. i'm very proud to be part of a board that has made it their mission and their commitment to make sure we recognize the work of the leaders of our community who are working at the very grassroots level and changing hearts and minds. to introduce this year's grand marshals and honourees, and those being selected, keep that in mind. there are many of us who, just by attending the local churches, by being educators, by being out, that that is part of our due diligence and social responsibility, and making sure we do figh

even here in san francisco. if we want to remain a global city, we need to embrace and encourage and energize all those important ties that link our city to the rest of the world. so we remain competitive. we need the city's economic workforce development. that is why several months ago, a few brave souls who are in this room decided not just to continue the great work of these international programs, but to build a robust new platform. a new organization that will take the activities that we've already done to a new level. and be prepared to add on new ones, and new geographies over time. i am the director of global strategies and i am delighted to welcome you to the launch of the global s.f. [applause] i am honoured to serve as cochair of the organization along with my cochair and are incredibly great secretary. we are lucky we have darlene to be our executive director's clause there is nobody in san francisco, nobody in california, nobody in america, or even in the whole world, including china, that is better

and also a resident of san francisco. arts are crucially important to me personally and also in my professional life. they're a critical part of the fabric of san francisco, helping to define what this city is. the san francisco symphony for 100 years has been very involved in the pursuit of ensuring that everyone in the city has access to arts. when the school district made its first cuts to music a number of decades ago, the symphony stepped in and formed a partnership with the san francisco unified school district to created a ventures in music program, a program that ensures every single child with music services in grades 1-5. in every elementary school in the neighborhood, every community. we see how important the arts are. this equitable access to arts are for every single person. i'm asking for your support of the amendments to the hotel tax allocations initiative coalition. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. thank you very much, supervisors. glad to be here

rate san francisco has. companies are really challenged to hire the people that they need to grow and to grow their businesses. i think that one of the things that makes companies globally, and companies around the country feel like they have to be here is because the people here are very talented. we have the talent that people want to hire. young people want to live here because it is a great place to live, you know, the whether, -- the weather, the culture, the diversity, everything, you know, the places you can reach in a few hours. you know, you can go skiing or to the beach. all of the things that are available here that make all of us want to live in this area, i think like a draw that talent. the talent draws the businesses because they, you know, want to grow. >> that's good. good to know. i feel old all of a sudden. >> the thing is, with that in mind, what does san francisco offer to compete in the global market? the city itself has been a great partner. can you elaborate on that queen. >> yap garr

why san francisco? san francisco, for us is a city where all sorts are represented. we proposed more than 70 spots in our offer. we need the feedback. we think that in san francisco we have the passion and the culture for sports and we will obtain great feedback on all of the products we have to propose. there's also a wonderful innovation culture here. our first store we opened on market street is, to us, a lab. we are using san francisco as a lab to modernize what we will do in the u.s. once we have come to the right conclusions. we are testing many things in that story. we are testing mobile system payments, retesting the omnicom is reports where we can make sure all of our customers have a project at -- product at any time, anywhere, when they need it with any device. this is the best place to do this over here. we are obtaining great results. >> that's good to know. my next person, kristin, i wanted to ask you, since then desk was conceived on a desk in denmark. why, and how did the founders decide on san francisco? >> i think that the factors that susan talked

we are one san francisco.me tell you a little bit about how i plan to do just that. i plan to reform our mental health system because we know that people struggling in our streets with mental illness and addictions, that they are experiencing challenges and it is not okay to just leave them out there to die because they have rights. [applause] our conservativeship laws must change. it's important that we provide a guardian for people struggling with mental illness, someone who can help to make decisions for them when they are not capable of making decisions for themselves. i know that it's a challenging thing to do but i am committed to doing just that. and we know that too many people are struggling with addiction. and it's not going to go away because we don't want to see it. i want to get people off the streets who are shooting up. i want to get the needles off the streets. this is why i'm proposing safe injection sites. but more importantly i want to make sure that we have treatment on-demand. i want to de

i'm from the san francisco public utilities commission.out with state wide legislation in 2002 to enable people to take more control over supplies. i first heard of the program when the organization was advocating to launch clean power sf. what i'm most excited about, it's going to bring 100% renewable energy to my home and reinvest into renewable energy infrastructure and jobs. i had gone to a lot of street fairs and heard from the staff at the san francisco public utilities commission to sign up for clean power sf even before it launched. >> we learned about clean power sf because our sustainability team is always looking for clean operations. linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. in this san francisco office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new wheel electric bike shop. we opened this sto

of san francisco, rudy gonzalez.ers and applause] >> you have heard from other speakers that san francisco was the first. that mean something. a mean something when labor unions like community, and when i say that, i mean community partners like the chinese progressive association and through their partnership with groups like jobs with justice, where they come together with leaders in san francisco, and set a tone for the rest of the country. we saw just yesterday massachusetts joins the likes of new york and others who have followed suit to raise their minimum wage. as an important statement in what are otherwise dark times in our country. labor will stand with community. we will continue to fight for the working poor and we will continue to fight for immigrants in our communities. we will continue to stand up and provide a voice for working people. not only in san francisco, but in this nation and in this world. it is important that amidst this despair this world. it is important that amidst this despair, we can c

if anyone knows san francisco, it is one of the hardest projects in san francisco. to come out at the o.c. projects and fillmore as a negative, you tell me that? [laughter] come on. so look at her. she is the mayor now. give it up for the mayor of san francisco. [applause] you never know who is going to be affected, and who is going to be saved by doing the work that we do together as partnerships. we will have four speakers. i will have the current mayor right here and then the elected mayor come speak. and then i will have, where is captain redmond? i went to school with him. we go back like a hot bowl of menudo. and then i will have my sister right here, patty, who lost her son to gun violence. i just want to welcome you all here. i want to welcome everyone here. and all of our partners pick without further ado, i will bring up mark farrell, our current mayor. [applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you. first of all, i want to thank you at the united players for holding this event, as well as the gun buyback program. i want to thank mayor elect reed who has been a ch

the san francisco gay men's chorus! we are survivors. hand in hand we stand. . the mayor of columbia, south carolina, steve benjamin. mayor of san mcramento, darrell steinberg. london's staunchest supporters, president of the board of supervisors, malia cohen. supervisor asha safai. supervisor katie tang. assessor recorder carmen chu. sheriff vicki hennessey. also with us today, united states attorney general alex g. ci. tony thurman. state controller betty yi. assembly member phil tinge. and the san francisco board of supervisors, katherine stephanie, jane kim, norman ye, jeff shi, erin peski supervisor-elected mandleman and sandra lee elected officials, treasurer herrera. public defender jeff adachi. district attorney george gascon. mayors of throughout the bay area and members of abag and the united states conference of mayors. members of the b.a.r.t. board of directors. members of the san francisco board of education and the city college board of trustees. members of the san francisco counselor corps. also, san francisco's department heads and commissioners

will have a positive effect on the city of san francisco, as well as the citizens of san francisco. example, p.l.a.'s requiring certain percentages of local hire which benefits the young people coming up here in the city of san francisco. it means more spending here in the city. so that helps the economy here in san francisco. it also ensures a trade and skilled workforce to the citizens cap the young people who are able to perform the work on these projects. we know that there are unscrupulous contractors who bring in workers from out of town and pays them well below area standard wages. this does not benefit anyone except the contractor, and harms the workers and the economy of the great city of san francisco. with that i hope you will all support the p.l.a. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. my name is corey. i'm here on behalf of of the african-american foundation. i'm also a local business in san francisco and i am opposed to this measure mainly because of the research that constantly exist that reminds us of the situation we are dealing with today. i read five dispa

san francisco. an organization representing over 700 members in san francisco. i'm also an immigrant. my family left everything behind so we could build a better life here. i know firsthand getting to this country is not easy. that is why i am asking you at this task force to divest from the big banks that profit and enable the terra machine that is i.c.e. we can't call ourselves a sanctuary city and continue to inflict terror upon the people who need us the most. that we can't turn our backs on these immigrants. i thought san francisco was a place where i could build a life and i am just disgusted by the treatment of police that i have seen here. by the way that we have been treating our undocumented neighbors by collaborating with i.c.e. by the way that we are treating peaceful protesters. simply trying to get their voices in. and that they oppose this horrible machine that is destroying everything. everything that we have. destroying dreams and destroying hopes. so i think it is good. we have a good opportunity to do something to divest out of these banks tha

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 >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonp

thank >>> san francisco, 911, what's the emergency?> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we hav

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, >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his ther

i'm a mother in san francisco. if i don't know who to help, then we'll be past the resource i want to give our children, so i suffer the public school in san francisco. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. good morning, everyone. my name is olivia. i reside in the sunset district. i'm here to support ppsf. [speaking native language] [voice of interpreter] >> i really appreciate ppsf. because of ppsf, i can help get my daughter enrolled successfully. because of this long perfect organization, they give us perfect organization that help a lot of asians, and i really hope that p.p.f. can continue to help a lot of parents in the future. [end of translation] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm cece. [speaking native language] [voice of interpreter] >> p.p.f. is very helpful to all parents. we really don't know how to help our children to get enrolled. it's really -- i really appreciate that p.p.f. can help us. they also provide one to one ser

welcome to san francisco.safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >>

. >> san francisco was home to two world's fairs. in 1915 and 1939. american history tv was at the nnualcan historians' a meeting in sacramento, california where he spoke to abigail markwyn about the fair's organizers and exhibits. this is about 15 minutes. host: abigail markwyn is associate professor of history in carroll university. where is that? prof. markwyn: in wisconsin. host: how long have you been teaching? prof. markwyn: i've been teaching at carroll for 12 years , and i taught part time a little bit before that. and then in graduate school. full time for 12 years. host: one of your many projects, co-editing a book, what is this all about? prof. markwyn: it's a collection of essays by various scholars about women in general at world fairs, so looking at the way that women, women groups participate in world fairs, way women were represented in world fairs and using gender as a leverage to examine a number of different fairs from that perspective. host: what have you learned? prof. markwyn: well, we've learned, i co-edited that book with a col

this is the heart of san francisco. it has become unfortunately a glimpse into the homeless and behavioral health issues that we have here in san francisco. it is not safe. it is not acceptable anymore. so today i'm proud that we are announcing a partnership between our san francisco police department and part that is going to increase staffing here at civic center bart station. san francisco police department, we are going to be increasing foot patrols by over 300 hours per week. bart is also going to be increasing their staffing levels as well. we need to make a difference for the commuters that use bart. we need to make a difference for san francisco residents and we need to make a difference for visitors who come to our beloved city of san francisco. let's also make sure to know that this is not a police matter alone. i'm proud to be joined by barbara garcia who runs our department of public health. this is also a public health issue and an issue that we are going to be dealing with through our healthy streets opera

i'm a san francisco fire commissioner, 24 years. before that, i was a san francisco art commissioner, vice president. at the time, in the years, what occurred was we had these concepts called cultural center does, and at the time there were -- centers, and at the time, there were very few. all of them became an initiative within that. the concept was trying to have sustainable funding in our diverse cultural city in terms of the arts and culture. san francisco being the asian american capital of the united states, it's very important that our historical basis started on that. this statement is please do not forget japantown and our 110-year history in this beautiful city. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, commissioner. are there any members of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: commission -- i mean, supervisor tang, i believe you have some amendments. >> supervisor tang: yes. so first of all, thank you to everyone who came out t

to san francisco to see this show.re a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san franc

i run a small manufacturing company in san francisco. i am still waiting to get licensure, and like many other small manufactures that's been a hurdle to even get back into business. i live here and i have called this great city my home since 1989, and i would absolutely prefer to have my business stay here, however, i have to admit that the other cities and jurisdictions are looking for attractive. i support normalizing cannabis taxes to bring them on par with other businesses and make san francisco for attractive to other businesses like myself. >> thank you for the amendments. my gave is dave hula and we build software for the industry. i am also a husband to my wife stephanie who is a cannabis marshmallow maker here in the city. these are some of the handicaps she has experienced trying to build this up for the last three years. with guiding text principles, the first is around equity and fairness. taxing similarly taxed payers and tax rates. she is a marshmallow maker an and she can't get a bank, whereas another person that doesn't

recently in the san francisco division. they've made additions to legacy service. most significant was the agreement to grandfather all city loads prior to 2015 by not requiring the city to own and control infrastructure known as these facilities in order to continue taking wholesale service. pg&e only requires the city to own or control facilities on an ongoing forward basis for major load increases or greenfield facilities. again, as we continue to work on a long-term settlement of these disputes we're pleased to say that we've identified a path forward toward reducing many of the projects in 2018 and pg&e pledges to continue to work in good faith and collaborate with the sfpc and create efforts toward a long-term solution. thank you again for inviting us here today. i would be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> okay. so let me just -- thank you for your presentation. let me start out by saying that you make the statement and you have in several letters to the city that pg&e has an obligation not to provide pr

in the city of san francisco. she will, of course, have to run for re-election in 2019 as she fills this term the late mayor ed lee's term. n francis on this swearing-in ceremony. ann. >> reporter: that was a rousing speech that you just heard part of today. as this inauguration ceremony made history in the city of san francisco. let's take a look back at the moment when london breed officially became the city's mayor. >> during such time. >> and during such time. >> as i hold the position. >> as i hold the position of -- >> mayor of the city and county of san francisco. >> mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [ cheering ]. >> reporter: lieutenant governor gavin newsom delivering the oath of office in front of an enthusiastic crowd of almost a thousand people here in front of san francisco city hall. london breed is the city's first black female mayor. she grew up in san francisco, public housing, as kenny mentioned. raised by her grandmother. she has a graduate degree from us f and she was president of

i live in san francisco. i -- for whatever reason, i have family in about ten or 12 states, i have family abroad. when i want to show them the san francisco that i know and love as a local, i take them to the sunset, i take them to the mission, i take them to the haight, the richmond. i almost never take them to union square or downtown. even though that's a place where we have a lot of tourists touring. it's a place where there's multinational corporations. it is a really interesting opportunity that we have to allow a local business to move into downtown, bring some of the loving culture that you've heard people talk about, more people will talk about, and share that with tourists that are coming to our city to city what san francisco is all about. and i don't think that san francisco's all about multinational corporations. i think we have a great culture here, and i don't think it's been accurately portrayed by what's in union square today. it's great that this permit was approved the first time, so i hope

i'm a san francisco geriatrician, and i work with kim at san francisco's for health care housing jobs and justice. and i urge you to say that the closing of swindell's is detrimental to the people of san francisco. this was done purely to preserve revenue and not because these services are not needed. the swindell 1ed family founding this foundation, founded this with their foundation money, and unfortunately, now they're all dead, and so cpmc is closing it. and it's not acceptable, and it's just one of the many closures, including the subacute and the snf units at st. luke's. this is not because the people of san francisco don't need the services. the people of san francisco need the services, but cpmc wants to do the higher revenue acute short stay, and they don't really care what the people of san francisco need. so please pass a resolution that this is detrimental. thank you. >> thank you. if there are no other speakers, did you place in -- i mean, that's fine. why don't you announce your name. >> i'm michael lyon. i'm also with the san franciscos for housing, health care, jobs, a