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. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm bill shields. i'm a teacher at city college. i'm the chair of the community space department, also aft 21 21 and the chairperson's council. a history class along with other history classes, we teach there should be no taxation without representation. (applause) >>> the voters passed measure a and we believe the voters elected representatives to oversee how that money is being spent. so, i'm very much in favor of the resolution. one specific thing. our department has been involved in with many others building city academy which is helping many young people of color get into

issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. 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 >> march 21, 2014, >> >> we'll be right with everyone. >> >> >> are we ready? >> they haven't adjusted the camera yet. control room. can you please zoom in on the asl interpreter so it's more visible. >> >> city of san francisco mayor's disability council >> >> thank you and welcome to the march meeting, you guys. we'll ever welcome and introduction and roll call. >> welcome and introduction, yes, thank you, rol

different. >>> continuing protests at san francisco's city college.nts that are occupying the administration building for the entire night. >>> easing the minds of military veterans. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ get your taste of the season, at raley's, bel air, and nob hill. >>> traffic is back to normal at thestockton street tunnel at san francisco this morning. it was closed around 8:00 last night after a century old water main broke. a four inch cast iron pipe ruptured forcing the tunnel to close and rerouting muni lines. it took crews most of the day to repair the damage. >>> shows have not been canceled despite a dui crash where two people were killed and two dozen more were hurt. a suspected drunk driver barreled through barricades at the festival in austin, texas and plowed into a crowd of people after a police chase. a woman from texas and a man from the netherlands were killed. >>> san francisco city leaders are touting a plan to renovate the castro district. the street skate project includes widening sidewalks, installing new trees, and better street lighting

the city is putting its money where its mouth is. mayor lee says san francisco will commit $17 million in the next five years for pedestrian safety projects at more than 100 locations throughout the city. >> rather than have years where all of us in office are saying we're sorry for something that happened, we'd rather be saying thank you for yielding, thank you for not running the red light, thank you for not speeding. >> reporter: the city made a map of what their numbers show as the most dangerous intersections for pedestrians. those streets will be the areas targeted first. the safety projects include construction, awareness campaigns, and increased enforcement by officers dedicated to those hot spots. here is just one of the numbers the city is working with. the mayor says motivates immediate action. 4,100. that is the number of pedestrians killed or injured in collisions in san francisco between 2007 and 2011. that's nearly two people injured every day in the city of san francisco. and the most vulnerable, the mayor says, are the seniors, who are five time

was saturday, but we're celebrating it today here in san francisco city hall. they say the british are coming. they say, the italians are coming, but the women are coming. they're coming to city hall government. they want contracts. they provide good services. women are the ones that fuel our economy. they're the ones who give back time, volunteer their time in the school district, work with children and families in the community, take their profits and put it back into their business. they're growing faster than any other business in san francisco. but the city ask county, we're kind of lagging behind. so, with your help, ~ your partnering, and i tell you, it's been one great program because i got all of my friends which, as barbara bush said, you don't just build something one day. it's one step at a time. so, over my tenure with the city, i've met wonderful, wonderful people who are experts within their very areas of expertise. and they're supporters of the local business development program as well as our local business, and they want to see you in their dep

here at san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 415-554-6789. a voice. or 415-554-6799 tty. a reminder to all of our guest today, please speak slowly into microphone to assist our captioner and interpreter. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you roland. roll call. >> cochair chip supanich, idell wilson, present, councilmember tatiana kostanian, absent. member starlyn lara absent. denise present. wong present, councilmember roland wong? present. councilmember derek zarda? absent. item 1. welcome introduction and roll call. item 2. reading and approval of the agenda. >> item 3, public comment. items none on the agenda and within jurisdiction and each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. item 4, information item. report from co-chair supanich. item 5, information item. report from director of the mayor's office on disability. 92 semi 6. information item: the role of adult protective services in addressing self neglect among elders and a

the mayor is also considering outlawing smoking in the city's multiunit housing complexes. >>> san francisco police are handing out a lot more traffic tickets in response to a growing safety problem. the city is dealing with a disturbing increase in the number of people getting hit and killed or injured by cars while walking in the street. police are responding with a crackdown on five specific traffic violations running a red light, speeding, failure to halt at a stop sign, violating a pedestrian right-of-way and failure to yield while making a left or u-turn. >>> 7:09. this morning, you can buy tickets to see the earthquakes play at the new 49ers stadium. the quakes will host the sounders at levi stadium on saturday, august 2nd. tickets go on sale at 10:00 this morning. the game marks the first event to be held at the new 49er stadium. tickets start at $45 which is much cheaper than what you would pay to go see the san francisco 49ers play. >>> a new campaign in contra costa county uses some eye- catching images to encourage parents to reduce the number of sugary drinks they give their chi

know there are great challenges to observer about beau loved college college of san francisco for its accreditation. city college i don't need to reaccount it's on the only portal for hire education and for workforce training. it's also one of san francisco's largest employers and a great customer to san francisco's small businesses. we must sustain our san francisco city college. the news is good the chancellor is well aware of what needs to be accomplished to save this month important campus and district of the one hundred and 12 if i can be bold. so he has every incentive and i'm consist it will get down. in spite of the of the good news and the progress we're making that there are some who would otherwise enroll in san francisco who are not. we have to make sure we do that we've lost 16 percent of enforcement. to positive expectation accreditation will be sustained and the message is everyone who wants to enroll should and we'll make sure no one is going to get dropped and we have to stabilize funding and that's the point of this bill. without the stabilization of funding what happens is what is the

san francisco. it really shows what creativity has been generated from our arts education work in the school district and throughout the city. for the past 28 years, the unique san francisco event, young and art, formerly young and art, ha brought together families, teachers, artists and others to make sure that our city can be proud of our supportive arts education. i also wanted to say that 30 years ago i was an intern with an organization that's now become cam, the center for asian american media. it was formerly called the national asian american telecommunications association, quite a long term, name. and supervisor campos and i are both -- or supervisor chiu and i are both attending the kickoff this coming thursday for the asian american film festival. and i wanted to let my colleagues know that it's running from march 13th through march 23rd and it's at many locations in the bay area, including the castro theater, the kabuke cinemas, new people cinema in japantown, nihamache, unique places david chiu's district great star theater in chinatown as well. the great stars had deep roots in chinatown showing movies since t

we are taking you out to city college of san francisco where you can see this is a live picture.are still camped out. this is outside the administrative building. moments ago we showed you video of the tense confrontation between students and police last night. that show down did result in two arrests of students. the whole situation centered around one person. who that is and why students want that person to be removed

city and county of san francisco and do so one through one hundred and the city and county of san francisco litigation vs. pacific gas and electric company and item 19 existing litigation for the gas company vs. city and county of san francisco and the agency chief of security >> good afternoon counselor. >> good afternoon. >> no, no, no. >> maybe not sogood. >> thank you very much we've returned from our closed session and i'm happy to report that the commission has adapted recommendations on item 13, 14 and 15 and 16 as long as that's sufficient we can poach to the mexico - next item. >> to disclose the items. >> i'll call for a vote not to disclose the i's have it madam other items. >> new business item 23. >> know there have been discussions about the joint agency that came along after the department of the environment i know we're working on the scheduling of that i asked for information back on items that we're going to discuss in in addition to that i asked for a report related to some projects out in the southeast sector and i'm eager to hear back on any outstanding items commission

as a the council's report makes it clear that the healthy san francisco program and the employer health care spending requirements put the city in a unique position to lead the nation in helping the aca achieve its fullest potential. san francisco is in the best position of any other city to make sure that a many people have access to health care as possible. to maximize that access, however, there are several thing that need to happen. i look forward between now and the time we introduce this ordinance and in the next coming weeks as we move forward with a discussion and review of the ordinance to have and engage in a discussion with all of you about the best way to maximize access. i do want to point out a couple of points that i think you should know are fundamental to what the ordinance will try to do. first, we must now and finally close the loophole that has allowed a minority of san francisco businesses to use stand alone healthy american investment accounts to avoid the majority of the spending requirement in the law. while the aca out lawed stand alone hras, employers have created a new mechanism. it's called an acce

san francisco. i think your stay in our city will make it clear that while washington, d.c. is the united states national capita san francisco is the innovation capital of the world (clapping) mr. president, as home to top technology and creativity would it be fair to say in the world we've seen more and more talent move here attracted by our mixed use and transit originated city but the undying art's and cult. and this influx a has benefited san francisco in numerous ways dr. tb long standing civil changes exchanges. i know from our city paris that fransz it committed to remaining attractive and innovative. president al lesson and i had an excellent conversation and we talked about how to encourage growth and encourage notation in all the areas of the economy while making sure our economic success reaches all our citizens. we talked about how to adjust common challenges like housing and education and jobs and affordability. so we want to encourage partnerships within businesses and san francisco and france. but perhaps the greatest ties go beyond the government and businesse

shapes, 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,

san francisco city leaders accuse a state appointed special trustee of making bad decisions behind closed doors, and this is damaging san francisco city college, they say. they continue its fight for accreditation. stephanie reports that faculty and students are now uniting in their fight. >> we see one student getting handcuffed. carried by four policemen up the stairs. yes, just violent. that's not what we wanted. >> reporter: what students say was supposed to be a peaceful sit-in quickly turned violent last night. the chaos shows a disconnect between the students and current school decisionmakers. why they're demanding the special trustee resign. they're calling for an end to a new policy requiring students to pay class fees up front at the start of the semester. >> a good percentage of students have dropped out because they can't afford to pay that. that's not just here, that's low-income. >> reporter: today a committee unanimously passed a resolution calling for the state appointed trustee to be removed as soon as possible. supervisor david said it's a move toward transparency since

say thank you your recreation and parks department some 16 different bodies for our city and county of san francisco. and let's say it runs the gambling bit of how we manage a great city like san francisco. you've got people joining in the arts community and people joining in our bay adversities committee representing a community that i think we have to pay attention to and we'll up the ante on ourselves to do more. you've got people in building inspection you've got folks that are going to top responsibility in fiscal entities, you've got advisory council committees and preference and people that are going to help us entertain more of our adversity and resident whether in the arts or treatment we've got folks for the oversight for the puck promise when they provide for money important the bonds we see that the projects get down, health care and housing, local business which is a big farther of ours because we want to promote more of the success of a local business we've got people coming into help us and small business owner, of course, is treasure island. this is running the gambling bit of respon

know there are great challenges to observer about beau loved college college of san francisco for its accreditation. city college i don't need to reaccount it's on the only portal for hire education and for workforce training. it's also one of san francisco's largest employers and a great customer to san francisco's small businesses. we must sustain our san francisco city college. the news is good the chancellor is well aware of what needs to be accomplished to save

she was a native san francisco and [inaudible] made significant contributions to the city and county of san francisco and leave a legagy with their family. they were loved and will be messed h. >> thank you supervisor cohen >> colleagues on the back ofhering we held a budget and finance meeting [inaudible] today i introduce a number of hearing request to dwil down a solution jz service tooz reduce the homeless population in the city. the first is housing aungez frz had homeless which will [inaudible] including the discussion of support housing and transitial housing and

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 the loss. >> i want to talk about numbers like city college 23 million for what? >> currently, we hav

she was a native san francisco and [inaudible] made significant contributions to the city and county of san francisco and leave a legagy with their family. they were loved and will be messed h.

my question is then how will san francisco help tenants remain in san francisco. city of san francisco already allocates one hundred and 65 million to homeless programs most to first time homes so why da can't the board of supervisors help to build for affordable housing so it will reduce speculation and reduce the infliction between property owners and tenants and, of course, less psychiatries on properties as a whole. i hope the board of supervisors will help tenants and san franciscans as well >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm andrew long i'm a landlord i guess you call me a mom and pop landlord. i would like to make one suggestion i mailed to supervisor wiener if you want the burdening of this to be less burden on the long term owners shouldn't have to pay their tenants. i'm very interested in this index of relocation fees because if someone wants to sue you for damages you have given them a index to show how much the subsidy the landlords is giving to tenants. this legislation we'll ducks the main issue why are there so many ellis act evictions like 60 percent c

city and county of san francisco item 15 existing litigation for mcdonald vs. city and county of san francisco et all and item 16 existing legislation for jack listen et all vs. city and county of san francisco and item 17 anticipated litigation and item 18 for the stoic vs. the gas and electric company and item 189 city and county of san francisco vs. panic and electric company and item 20 for the gas and electric company vs. the city and county of san francisco. item 21 is filth tradition concerning the security of sf water and power system. very good any public comment to be made for the items in closed session. seeing none, i'd like a motion whether to assert >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i opposed the motion carries we're going to go into closed sessi session. >> they have a strolling could listen in the explicitly. we've reconvened from closed session. item 12 settled is he item 13 and 14 and 15 and item 16 settled. item 17 no action and item 18 removed and item 19 and 20 removed. may i have a motion not to disclose >> all in favor, sa

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, supervisors. i'm deborah dacumos and i'm actually asking for reappointment for my seat. and i was appointed back in 2011. my goal at that time was basically related to [speaker not understood] and still is my focus. i have a ph.d. [speaker not understood], i'm a nurse practitioner from ucsf. and this past couple years i've been on the commission i've been

this will make the city a more susta >> the renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of san francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of san francisco. through our partnership, and because of public investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. we have it safer, happier, more joyous. >> 3, 2, 1, [laughter] =--[applause] >> it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. >> this is an amazing park. we have not revitalized it without public and private investment. the critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. we reached out to everyone in this community. we love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. what you see is what the community wanted. these ideas all came from the residents of this community. as a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park.

the city and county of san francisco east all and the next is san francisco vs. pacific gas company and 3 is the city and county of san francisco vs. pacific gas protect and item next is the city and county of san francisco of protect vs. >> is there any public comment on the items we're dealing with in closed session today. seeing none, may i have a motion to assert >> motion. >> second. >> session. >> we're back from closed session i'd like to report on whafd item 11 was settled item e 12 no action and 13 no action and 14 and 15 no action. may i have a motion whether or not to disclose >> i'll move not to disclose all in favor, say i. opposed? any other new business. >> madam chair one quick item to request of staff we've done a lot of engineering work on what to do with the mountain tunnel. the engineering report on that i've read it makes sense it recommendations that we basically build a second tunnel and decommission the first that's twice as expensive i request staff we have somebody other than who wrote the irrational report do a kind of a challenge invest

san francisco is about. for the past 78 years, city college of san francisco has been crucial to the economic and social development of san francisco and has been widely acknowledged not only to be a san francisco institution, but to be one of the best community colleges not just in the state, but in the country. city college, in my view -- and i say this as someone who is an immigrant who came to this country in search of the american dream -- city college is making it possible for the american dream to remain alive for thousands and thousands of san franciscans. and it is for that reason that we are here today. today's special meeting of the neighborhood services and safety committee is devoted to the very important issue of bringing our community voice back to city college. we will vote on a resolution that i introduced, and that has been co-sponsored by a number of my colleagues, and i want to thank my colleagues beginning with supervisor yee who is on this committee, supervisor mar who will be joining us shortly, as well as supervisors avalos, wiener, kim, chiu, and cohen. the fact that a super majority of the

my question is then how will san francisco help tenants remain in san francisco. city of san francisco already allocates one hundred and 65 million to homeless programs most to first time homes so why da can't the board of supervisors help to build for affordable housing so it will reduce speculation and reduce the infliction between property owners and tenants and, of course, less psychiatries on properties as a whole. i hope the board of supervisors will help

i'm sure you're aware of i'm here to make san francisco the safety city in san francisco. and alongside the prosecutors in my office we're sdrath every strangely to do this. we work tirlsly to make sure that the offenders are kept away from our community. we're implementing a different approach more modern approach to our work that focuses on 3 critical areas, cripple prevention and victims and a violent offenders. many things are clear to me. violence in our streets walnut be 2r0r7b9d that unravels the community and that's why dangers offenders will feel the full weight of my office. they can't be around the rest our of citizens we prohibition society from this that is any observe part, however, there's more a nuance part of my work and what to do with the vast majority of community those who are not enhollering dangerous but are still committing crimes. we're trying to dish the nuance from the harder cases. i want to talk about to you about this part of our work. the concept of modern dangers where they feel the full weight of the law and don't receive the full rehabilit

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