. >> i'm francisco i'm here to state categorically that there are a few that are supposed to represent the highest standards of city and county of san francisco under the authority of states we pay you again and again when the times comes for the rainy day and as you can see from the 10 people that spoke and the other batch that represents my batch we know that where the hearts are you have to ask users if there are good teachers why do they not serve for more than 5 years and ask yours here in the city of st. francis to the treating our immigrant and poor children and why do with question have so much trountcy i'm asking you the representatives go leaders know the way and show the way and ask yourselves if you're true leaders and shed light and take us to a better place thank you very much. >> i'm a proud member of the educators i'm here as a mom of 3 alumni and brand new grandmother and retired educator. and 3 days worker around the world will be celebrating national worker or workers day but to celebrate the struggles we're involved in a struggle around teachers for america is one the struggles i support the individuals tfa teach

san francisco. like i said, i have been to the san francisco state and graduated with a double ba and masters. my childrens mother she was born on 47th avenue. as san francisco supervisors and voizs for the city need to do more because there are people like me that are suffering. i shouldn't have a housing issue >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> hi, my name is [inaudible] san francisco state university. i would like to start off by saying a quote from thomas jefferson a controversial president in american history. he says when injustice becomes law aresistance becomes duty and i-with me but it also reflects in the type of man and politician he was that spews rhetoric without understanding the role [inaudible] in his time and that reflects heavily on what i see today. many talk about housing and many issues which you lack understanding about. eeben one person saying they didn't 7 percent [inaudible] you have secretarys and assistance to help you get the numbers, but you should understand the information. most of the stuff you talk about and had the arguments about you sound like ch

university and entered the [inaudible] i have a multiple subject teaching credible current, i'm from san francisco state university and a masters from university of san francisco in multicultural and international education. i worked in san francisco unified in the mission district as a peer professional and a teacher for 10 years and until 2001 when i joined the rank of san francisco parents, i quickly went back into the field this time working for the reading tree as an early literacy coach for families who are in underrepresented community ins the mission district teaching literacy activities to parents in 0-3 setting. i'm proud of the work we were able to do in reading tree which continues. reading tree gives weekly literacy classes and free books to families who attend the parent education program f you graduate from our program, in three years, you have 90 books in your home which is directly linked to school success. i am also taking a night class at city college now on wednesday nights and will be hopefully receiving my program permit, program director permit in the spring of next year and my ci

our partnership with san francisco state is now its in 4th year, i believe. and it really is a workforce pipeline. we have a number of alums of the program that have worked for us ever since and these guys are a terrific class, including carlie, who is queuing up the video here. now we go to this month in parks. >> thank you. [phao*-ubgdz/] [ music ] [ music ] >> i oversee anywhere from 3-6 girls teams and kind of guide them throughout the season and prepare for for successful seasons. the challenges that young girls face growing up and to be able to come into had a gym and be surrounded by your peers and able to work with the team and as many different people as you possibly can, relating to different people. i feel working as a unit, in a sport, it prepares you for all of that. it's so empowering, and amazing to be part of an all-girls program. it just gives them a sense of strength and there are no limits for women. on february 28 san francisco rec and park and san francisco fire department kicked off another season of the san francisco youth baseball leag

developing the curriculum or the ucsf staff or partnering with a specific institution like san francisco state we're getting a lot of our teachers year arrest year >> that makes me curious i feel like when we bring in organizations like t f a their transcribed separately and have their own cohort and gather in groups together have we ever be done anything you know clearly this is a cohort have teachers that are very interested in being in the classroom is there any effort to do any recruiting directly with the t f a cohort and find ways to get them to the incredibly program to get them. >> to get them to be fully credentialed teachers or stay in the district do we do anything to keep them in the district the drop off after the two year commitment is high but do we let them go or do we as a district try to recruit from a group of you know teachers who have clearly committed themselves to a public school system even though their commitment is two years as you're doing this we want you to come out of our t f a program do we do outreach. >> mr. gabbinger might be able to speak to that one of the c

. >> and in all of that time he went to san francisco state got his bash lor's and then his nba and now, is a board member of the san francisco state foundation. so he has given back along the way and what an amazing partner, i have to compliment you, that i am sure that there is not, there are things that the port does or says that you don't always agree you but it is hard to tell, you are willing to work with us and help to us make it better and i think that the success that you are having is driving the success that we are having we love those dark chocolates that we can have. with all of that, please welcome, that i lower, president and ceo of pier 39. and good afternoon and commissioners i began my career, as 39 years ago and i am pleased to give you an up date on how we are doing and where we are headed. >> first of all would i like to give you a background of the pier. upon entering a dark pier he became excited to locate one of the restaurant to the location and so the idea for pier 39 was born. the fear navigate, >>> on october 4, 1978, the project opened to large crowds and mu

for the past six years, i've been working in san francisco state in conjunction with city college and creating pathways to support the incoming early childhood workforce in degree and attainment. san francisco's early childhood workforce is incredibly diverse, unlike the k-12 workforce, it is representative of the children here in san francisco and so as we've been increasing these degree attainments, it's been our mission to ensure we maintain this diversity. our institution of higher ed they have incredibly high access rates but we have very low completion and graduation rates, therefore we've been looking at how can we remove the barriers and create a student first perspective to ensure we have graduation rates. we have a variety of pathways we've been implementing over the past five years with both institutions and that has result ined a 95% graduation rate for all students, if you look at the current graduation rates at first time freshmen in san france, it's 53% and we're looking for 36% at transfer student and is that's not looking at first generation transfer [inaudible] i lov

addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco statesl-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace and shoot us as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental and sometimes challenging. sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because san francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. ♪ looking into meridian's future

something that i was wondering and you know, these people that they go to and whether it is the san francisco state, or the city college or especially on the west side and the richmond and so forth and you only have a couple of bus lines that is always packed. and you know, whether or not it makes sense especially with at least in the district seven we are going to have more housing. and that is going to, and they will have to go somewhere from there, and i don't think that the capacity is there, in terms of public transportation. >> yes, so, in kind of the reverse order. on the west side of the city, there are north and sound concepts that have been included in the study and were mentioned a number of times by the stake hold their we engaged and so those have been included. and so in terms of the founding project and i am a little bit less familiar with what is being studied right now and however i do know that there were discussions about a tunnel that was connecting to the west power tal tunnel through the saint francis circle and further to the south and i will have to get back to you on the sp

down people got off healthy san francisco and got on permanent insurance that is important the department supports the sf plans. >> first of all, the gross reduction in our state is just amazing that san francisco beat the states expectation is more amazing i just can't start this conversation enough is enough congratulations and praise that was the whole purpose to move people with no insurance to have insurance and then worried about the services they get with those insurance company but with insurance we're so much better off i want to thank the department working closely with the state and the whole community it is not only 9 public but the private and pun coarse and everyone enrolling i have 3 remaining questions i'm not seeing the data how many remaining uninsured do we have in san francisco i think we start out with 35 or 40 thousand down to 15 it is a small population so that's the first question the second would be i can ask one at a point. >> so at the end of the 201387 thousand. >> 87 in california. >> in san francisco and the majority were actually in healthy san francisco so in september we have 52 though in healthy san francisco urging some enrol

san francisco. my other daughter want to san francisco state university, all because of tz. i got to come out here from new york city. i didn't think there was any life outside of new york city and here i am in san francisco and it's the most wonderful place and teatro zinzanni made that all possible for me. and the relationships and to leave this theater, people say that you know you have a good show when the audience doesn't leave necessarily talking about you. but they leave talking about themselves. and night after night, the comments, the audiences from all over the world would come up and tell you, reminisce about stories that they could relate to in their lives. so i, along with many other people, agree that you must bring teatro zinzanni back. i am not working for tz now, but people come up to me and still ask me, when is tz coming back? so i urge you, really, to bring them back. thank you. >> thank you. bobby evans, gail gilman, flicka -- excuse me, leslie k.. >> good afternoon, supervisorss, my name is gail gilman and i have been a resident of north beach for 15 yea

this is a live picture of san francisco, which according to the folks at tom tom navigation has the second worst traffic in the united states. so, san francisco is second on the list. who is number one? you can imagine, l.a. honolulu is third worst, followed by new york and seattle. but hold on we're not done. san jose ranks sixth on the list for worst traffic. as for the international cities istanbul turkey is the worst in the world for traffic. mexico city checks in at number two. >>> facebook is expanding. the social network has some new office space, and it certainly is eye-catching. take a look at the roof. according to facebook founder mark zuckerberg it's a 9-acre park with outdoor spaces to work. it's huge! facebook says it's the largest open-floor plan in the world. it can fit thousands of people in the world. he also made sure that the building feel like a work in progress because the company's mission to connect the world is still a work in progress. >> that's so cool. >> i want to be there. >> we need one on top of nbc. >> wouldn't that be nice? >> we're back in a moment. >>> it's a different kind of happy hour.

state and using it to make our case. i think what is different today than 3 years ago or 4 years ago is suddenly san francisco has [inaudible] we used to be alone in the fight, now it is all of the center providers up and down the state especially on the coast. all the higher cost and there is a lot of operators giving up their contracts or not going after expansion dollars because they can't afford to use the dollars. in some ways our strategies here are support the providers to aloam to use the state dollars so we can mxmize what we bring in, but that doesn't proclude us from advocateing strongly for rate increases and some of that is aligning with the feds around the new federal block grant regulations and guidelines and tribeing to leverage that opportunity as well >> it is great to hear because as you know if it wasn't for the fact that the city has stepped up our efforts to support these organizations to continue to service it would probably close down and they are serving the lowest income children in the city. it is in our self interest therein city it make it happen because we [inaudible] >> we welcome support from

of a law suit by the people of the state of california for the air [inaudible] against san franciscothousand >> item 12, tang, aye. pr vise rb wiener, aye. supervisor yee, aye. supervisor breed. aye. supervisor comps, aye. supervisor christensen. aye. supervisor co00. aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. there are 9 ayes mptd the ordinance has passed. >> item 13 is a ordinance to amend the san francisco plan by repealing the 2009 housing element and adopting the 2014 element and making the appropriate findings >> supervisor tang, aye. supervisor wine eraye. supervisor yee, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor yee, aye. supervisor comps aye. supervisor christensen, aye. supervisor co00. eye. supervisor sfairal, no. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor aye. 10 eye and 1 no with supervisor ferrule. >> this ordinance finally passed. >> item 14 is a resolution to extend temporary access and use licenses for access use maints of infrastructure near 7th street >> good afternoon everyone, welcome back rick, nice to have you back thip chamler. i have a amendment to item number 14.

washington state who did a lot of work in the city related to lgbt seniors was there, a woman from san francisco statehowed about research she oofs doing related to asian pacific islanders. someone we don't know but who had a very interesting presentation and i think partly because there is so little done in this area with native eskimos and native americans and hawaiians so that was interesting for me. there was a call to action at the end of that session around poverty and these social determinants that are such a problem within certain communities, and so that was actually quite interesting and hopeful in a way. i think there surely will be pressure for next year to be at the beginning of the conference so it sets the tone during the week instead at the end of the conference. there was a fair amount of conversation in different sessions about what really can be done to educate -- especially older americans around the things happening in congress that seem to be a threat to things like social security and medicare and medicaid, and president james i think you will be very interesting there is an act

>> good evening, everyone my name is diana i'm about to finish my second year $0.83 at the san francisco stateversity and i want to work with children and want went to kip bayview academy and new traditions to kip for one reason the tradition encompasses through 5th grade and number 3 after doing research on kip and visiting the school we realized we were not going to find another school that pushed me the way that kip did i struggled with my tradition to kip, however, i had supporting teachers that were there and available during lunchtime and after school and if it wasn't for kip i don't know where i would, in my education so thanks to kip 70 bay i went from basically on examines to getting proficient and getting into another high school with the guidance of my high school teacher and led me both where i am kip should be an option for kids in san francisco we can't go wrong with a program that goes with you all the way to college and even beyond and i'm so grateful for the information and opportunity they've helped me with and he building that kip is doing that and giving kids a better educa

my name is alynny and rson and student at san francisco state. i'm a activist with black and brown libbereration coalition and want to share a few thoughts. last week when we were discussing new business there was brief discussion of some way we with get more in-law units in the city. some kind of-we could like try to come up with ways to encourage like the production of more units affordable for student. housing is a huge problem for us. i need a new place to live this summer and dreading going through that process, tfs hell last time. i'm disappointed the contract with cypress security was reinstated or whatever. i think you >> that item is on our agenda today and paused the speakers time. the sibeerous contract cannot be spoken about today >> thank you madam clerk >> i think you know how i feel about that. also, please no new jails, that isn't the answer. they are building these target expresss around the city, they are building on one on ocean avenue in my neighborhood and that will hurt small business in ingle side. we don't need that target

. >> carolyn : "i know there is scams out there, i just never gabe > > : carolyn a san francisco statersity student is signed up with care dot com a website that connects families with care providers. she babysits through care dot com to help pay for school. but lately it's been a dangerous place for nanies and babysitters looking for work. scammers are trying to take advadvantage of these job seekers. >> carolyn : "i got an email from a guy said he was moving to the bay area and needed care for his son" > > gabe:the guy promised her a job and wanted to communicate with her outside of the care dot com system. he started emailing and texting her >> carolyn : "he told me he was going to give me a bonus to show he was good for it. and i was like ok he sent me a check for $2,000 > > gabe :$2,000! here is that check. he wanted her to cash that check. and keep most of it but take a small portion of it and give it to a local real estate agent he was supposedly working with on accquiring housing with to move here. >> carolyn : "i called my parents and was like this is getting sketchy. " > > ga

. >> reporter: volunteers have collected more than 1,000 samples now being analyzed at a san francisco statehow they are related to each other. in san francisco, dan ashley abc 7 news. >>> if you want to report an otter sighting, volumenteer or donate to the project, we posted a link to our website. and a word of warning, the growing number of otters means they're now getting hit by cars. volunteers urge you to even your eye out for otters on the roadway. time now is 8:17. a cool start to the holiday weekend. let's head over to our meteorologist lisa argen with the accuweather forecast. hi, lisa. >> chris, we'll have a wet finish. in fact, the wet weather will continue into early next week with stead wrerier rain. we could see a half inch through us tuesday. here is a look at live doppler 7 hd and i've widened the perspective. you can see the area of lp lpow pressure pressure. this will take time but it eventually shifts into california and slides down the coast. so the first piece of energy headed our way tomorrow for easter sunday. plan are for the egg hunts inside. it's going to be cool,

our port of san francisco monique moyer, carol bach and from the parks alliance and -- sf state and professor who is teaching a course at san francisco state and rumored as part of the academic requirement with the class volunteering at the conference and your students gave great feedback and said it was one of the best things they did surg the semester. san francisco travel, the parks foundation and elizabeth goldstein and a former member and the presidio trust and thanks to the others who assisted and of course the trust for public land which was out there in force. the people -- locals most involved were jennifer and phil and these relationships are going to benefit open space for a very long time to come. so with the conference behind us our focus now shifts to summer which believe it or not is right around the corner. summer day camp registration has been open for a couple of weeks and with a little time to go the numbers are indicating great numbers and the learn to swim programs and focused on working with kids who actually don't know how to swim and we actually have adults in some of

san francisco is working to get more students following a battle over the school's accreditation. the school is still accredited at this time. >>> gavin newsom will deliver the commencement speech at san francisco state. for the first time, the graduation will be held at at&t park on may 22nd. more than 8,000 students are expected to receive their degrees. annette bening, paulette lawrence and peter goebel will receive honorary degrees. >>> starbucks will cover a full four years of college instead of two. it will also offer employees faster tuition reimbursement. students who are in the program will now get reimbursed after every semester rather than completing 21 class students. starbucks hopes to help at least 25,000 employees graduate by 2025. >>> the lights go out for thousands of people in our nation's cap capital -- catch tal -- capital. what officials say is to blame. >>> and get ready to pay less for gasoline this summer. what officials say could be the lowest gas in six years. ?.=(=pcpcpcpcpcpcpcpcpc2h >>> you are taking a live look at the oakland estuary. you can see some spotty clouds there. woulder's tracking the rain -- we're tracking the rain storm here. more rain heading eye way afte

both social security disability insurance and private insurance and in 2013 researchers at san francisco state conducted an in person survey of people living with hiv at service agencies in the same three counties and found 6 percent of 160 people surveyed had private insurance. we applied these percentages to the number of people diagnosed through 1995, which gives a range of between 400 and 1254 people. we think the 1200 estimate is probably more accurate because the demographics of the people in the 2010 survey as far as race, ethnicity, gender and age more closely resembles the demographic profile of people with hiv in san francisco. one of the caveats we have to mention is that neither of these surveys saran dumb survey and they both relied on small sample sizes. they are the only two surveys we could find that ask specifically about private disability insurance and we think these numbers give a reasonable order of magnitude estimate of the number of people with hiv in san francisco. we have made a high and lowest mat of people 50 and older with private insurance reaching retirement age a

doubling the number of residents we've been engaged all year along ucsf and stanford but noted san francisco state that is interested in the teaching in the residence program we want to build and in conversation with our dean that is going to take a awhile to build and t f a is you've received the listing in advance of the commissioners where their places their former members we can be strategic where those core members land i'm a traditionally presented educator i will always value the preparation that the in coming teacher can bring ideally an experienced teacher will be bringing to the setting in our school we can manage that as well i know that the reality of today mid-april to start and design it capital strategy we don't provide the robust support we should have i'm glad we're beginning to work towards the fraction of our educator that are not getting the support this is our critical need areas i have the listing of the core members being placed custom 86 over time we have one or two school campuses frankly everett and the acceleration they've produced i'm interested we should longtime the c

served if our strategy is to go to expand our program that involves our unit and stanford and san francisco state university i'm so for that this is where our quality teachers come from their homegrown we need them in the system i believe tfa there are cracks in the model but i believe there are at the end of 5 years 20 percent of the teachers that come from tfa that stay when by the way is a low percentage but that 20 percent in my mind is 20 percent of people not come into the teaching professionalism otherwise when you're in college before you before with you got kroultd to come to tfa i were going somewhere else and going to do smog >> you helped to influence and our children many of you stayed to do other things within the education system you can see that by many that come from the public schools so there are a couple of things i think we need to seriously consider so to tfa in order to w work why our school district weep e we'll hire the teachers but american people mou that helps us to work you with to change things that works for your school district so if the option is all in the same w

third round action, at the golf course right down the street from san francisco state. on the 12th hole, defending champion, who celebrated her 18th birthday yesterday sinks a birdie put. megan morgan started a day tied at 13 for a t shot on the par 38 who will land right next. and moved into second place. as for henderson, her chip on the par 5 fifth, it just misses. she would tap in for birdie. the 17-year-old is 9 under and leads by just one shot. >> calm down. >> new orleans where weather reeked havoc in the tournament. finishing his second round earlier this morning. he nearly holds his third shot on 18 leading to a birdie. he was 7 under in the second round. the third round was delayed for rain. and will resume his third round tomorrow. well what the nfl draft five days away, many people are wondering what the raiders will do with their fourth overall pick. many think oakland could draft a wide receiver in the first round. and team up with michael crabtree. the veteran signed with the raiders after success seasons with the san francisco 49ers. and even though crab

both social security disability insurance and private insurance and in 2013 researchers at san francisco state conducted an in person survey of people living with hiv at service agencies in the same three counties and found 6 percent of 160 people surveyed had private insurance. we applied these percentages to the number of people diagnosed through 1995, which gives a range of between 400 and 1254 people. we think the 1200 estimate is probably more accurate because the demographics of the people in the 2010 survey as far as

their 20s she lives on a starting salary she hasn't had health insurance since graduating from san francisco state. >> one of the reasons they don't buy is because they don't see it as a major priority. >> the deadline was two months ago. but covered california extended it. >> people wanted to take chances. when faced with a penalty they realized that this is not a game. >> she met to discuss her options. olga is in the united states on a work visa and just learned about the mandatory requirement. >> i don't like it but the options are more affordable compared to others. that part i like. >> the penalty is 1% of your after tax income, or $95 per adult. for someone earning $40,000 before taxes penalty would be $299. that nearly doubles the $497 in the 2015 tax year. she learned penalty would be about $3,000. >> application deadline was extended. >> it's estimated a million people have not yet enrolled in any plan. the state wants to give them every opportunity to do so. >> we know 90% of our consumers receive assistance for that. for that coverage. some people would pay less. >> she's one of only 2

we work can san francisco state and lot of big cities in terms of park standing and understanding best practices. that is sort of the thought with respect to programming. acquiring park land and space, we have a acquisition policy. one of the best things about san francisco is 98 percent of us live in a 10 minute wark walk of a park. which is good. that dozen meet everyones needs and dhoo have pockets in the southern market [inaudible] there is a lot of discussion that the mayor led that i had the opportunity to participate in planning for the water front where there is a spike in new housing and needs open space. we esited about the projects along the [inaudible] that will give a great opportunity. there are 300 acres of new open space in that area being planned. the plachbing department is our leading syson long term planning. we are committed and believe in public recreation and programming and want to make sure all is plenty to go around >> i hope as we continue to grow as a city that there is that dialogue between reck and park and planning department to figure how we do address t