whether your senator mark leno born in new york or scott wiener in new jersey or jose and i from boston or supervisor campos from lance we're the beacons for the rest of the world for the diversity the idea that today, we have a symbol that's a beacon for the rest of the world is a symbol that used to stand for had a and for intolerance and death the fact we'll turned that around is an incredible day i'm honored and delighted to be part of it thank you patrick for your leadership and let's go celebrate with the goats and flours happy pride weekend everyone (clapping.) thank you supervisor chiu please welcome supervisor david campos >> thank you no one can top the comedy of tom, i won't try i'll make a couple of points this is a special day for me as a kid born in guatemala mall i think of the kids still in guatemala who are gay and can't be who they are there are countries that's the case it's true in this country and region in the bay area we've come far but we haven't come far enough as much as the lgbt community has accomplished most of the communities don't have the rights we enjoy

i'm scott wiener from district 8 and i'm really just thrilled to be here today. this is just amazing. we dot a brand-new playground in dolores park and this is right in the same claytionthv. so, it's a new generation of active recreation for our kids. ~ got and i just want to say thank you to the voters of san francisco for repeatedly investing in our parks in an off the charts way. and you know, last year we had another parks bond and there were some people who got a little grump pi about it ask started campaigning against it. guess what? we got a higher percentage of the vote in 2012 than in 2008. [cheering and applauding] ~ grump py >> that's because this parks department is like the little engine that could. over the years city hall has cut and cut and cut from the budget of this department and the department keeps finding new ways to move our park system forward. and now the voters, you've done your job. it is now our turn to do our job and make sure that we're investing in the maintenance of our parks, so that we have enough gardeners and park patrol office

i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor jane kim our vice chair and to my left is supervisor cohen. our clerk is

commission and serves as at the vice chair of the community transportation authority so, please welcome scott wiener to the mike to say a few words (clapping.) >> morning i had a similar experience that edward reiskin had this morning i got on the subway at castro station and remember thinking that will be nice to switch over to the strool subway instead of walking i got on the 45 and basically was hanging off the edge of the bus i jousted getting to know a number of chinatown residents but it would have been nice to hop on the subway and had more capacity. we know that san francisco is growing we know we're having one hundred and 50 thousand residents $2 million residents in 2040 and can't assume everyone is going to have a car we don't have the space we have too much congestion we have to expand our public transportation capacity and that means adding to what we have and adding new lines like the central subway we have to make sure this extends to fisherman's wharf mayor ed lee is an advocate for the project and president chiu and our community transportation authority because of the sales tax tra

monthly meeting i'm scott wiener the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing

i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor jane kim our vice chair and to my left is supervisor cohen. our clerk is andrea madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices and copies of my documents 80 should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted on will appear oh, my gosh on the mexico meeting. >> thank you i'd like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting today's hearing specifically jessie larson and other air item 1 is the street change name for the recognition of the tom's contributions to the city. >> supervisor kim is the lead on this. >> it's great to be at land use we introduced this in the spring of last year on the renaming of a block of ivy alley between polk to dr. tom we wanted to make sure we went through the processes and also respect want to ensure that the supporters could be here per born as thomas dr. was adopted by his be neighbors he grew up in new jersey and was encouraged to pressure give him navmz and was excelling in athletics h

i'm scott wiener he welcome to the trans march we're being renovated now but it's going to be done soon the transparence community has led the lgbt community going back to compton cafeteria and stone call we never forget it and make sure that everyone has access to health care and make sure that everyone as access to comploiment employment and everyone can feel safe walking down the street. >> who's that beautiful woman. >> hi good afternoon. i'm jane kim i get to represent a cool part of san francisco south of market in an hour in an hour we're going to make san francisco history by renaming the first street in san francisco after a transgender individual here in san francisco vicky (clapping). >> so i know you all are going to enjoy the sun and mark from delores park to the tenderloin we're to meet you been i up what a with a crew that made vicky known those people share the community ooths other people that worked hard to keep vicky's memory alive and we are going to be naming that street after her to tell the truth tonight so we labored to seeing seeing you in the tenderloin. >> tha

monthly meeting i'm scott wiener the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing today'sse our chair supervisor avalos was unable to be here our clerk is erica chang >> thank you to jessie larson and jennifer lowe. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor

monthly meeting i'm scott wiener the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing today's meeting because our chair supervisor avalos was unable to be here our clerk is erica chang >> thank you to jessie larson and jennifer lowe. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum. thank you. item number 2 >> item 2 approval of the meeting of the june 24th. >> can you have is a motion to approve the june 24th meeting minutes and can we same house, same call? - you want to we'll take a roll call. >> on item - public comment. >> public comment on the minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. if you have public comment please come forward you don't need to raise your hand >> man has only the sole purpose even if existence no matter what is the position in life all pertains to the wholly mission. everywhere in time and in status thank you. >> okay is there any additional

i'm katie tang and we have david campos and scott wiener and david chiu. and i want to thank our

i'm scott wiener and the honor of representing sdribltd 8 we have if you're been at the mission bay pools or soccer fields we're doing great work for opportunity for kids and daylights deputies for everyone to get experience to play and have a healthier city we can't afford to backslide to make sure we have enough playing fields we have a sporj o shortage of baseball fields we need to do the work to make sure that everyone who wants to play sports and to engage if recreation isably to do so it's about kids and young kids and older kids and about adults and seniors and people in college everyone in this city having access to good recreation. we know that even though san francisco was recently rated as one of the top 5 biggest it cities in the u.s. we have an above average rate of tyrone type two diabetes we have to be focused to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to have visible recreation so let's win. thank you (clapping) >> we are also thankful to have the support from the leader of the board of supervisors. i hope you'll support him here's president chiu >> good afternoon kids

getting the support and we're also doing having applications with different cb o across district 10 scott wiener they can be dropped off at our downtown sites and anyone who is dropping off a application they'll be able to have support and we'll follow-up with my preference he holders so we tried to increase the lead time to give you 0 people enough time to get into those homes and give the support right away. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> yes and then city. >> maria from the mayor's office of housing of development i'm pleased about the extend time as well one of the things that homeownership sf agencies do including the h f c we're getting down and dirty and working on the issues that are keeping our folks from purchasing and those issues take months and at the first workshop the most recent there were several holders that came from the mailings that we did and are working for the opportunity. and then when we get down closer to, you know, right ready to move in they'll have the specification of the unit and be able to see them and get the dream and the bite it's hard to have even though bite

commissioner lee is expected and supervisor scott wiener and commissioner sugaya are excused we we have quorum and the nekxt is presidents monopolist >> good morning and thank you all for coming we're obviously commissioner lee will join us here many a minute we have a light agenda which i nthink it good unusually we take wone monh to monwoone meeting off a year. presidents announcements the brblg engineer joseph for the staffing addicting booth at the this year's chinatown fair on june #14 where thth where they many questions of in-law units 5 and the mandatory retrofit program and what to d o to prepare for t nehe next big ea t earthquake. the building inspector would singled out in a letter in a happy customer so far his tentative neness in a recent project on second avenue and special acknowledgment to him. thanks to director hugh and goib staff terror the launching new comboib online newsletter that provides citywide issue information where goib is thede abo is placing an pimportant role we'r particularly want to absolute joel of the management information staff for pittsburgh his

thousands and thousands of votes you got to be grand marshall (clapping) please welcome supervisor scott wiener (clapping.) thank you, thank you that was amazing and thank you for fighting because that is what we need to fight for the community to make sure that didn't happen. so being an lgbt elected official you have you know that you have numerous roebltd on your shoulders in terms of making sure that our community interests are proximately caused and moving forward as a community. i know i will speak for supervisor campos as well that it is so absolutely humbling to be in the presence of tom and senator mark leno true heros in our community and people that have been trailblazers in terms of denying what it is to and a effective elected leader let's hear it for mark >> (clapping) >> we work harvard hard to make sure we're moving forward and addressing the unique needs of our lgbt seniors the population we've have not been doing enough to support our i did not know people who are struggling in this city especially around housing and job training and really making sure and working with mayor e

i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor jane kim our

supervisor scott wiener (clapping) oh, the treasure of the city and county of san francisco jose is a in her (clapping) raphael from the county college trustee (clapping) to tell the history of the pink triangle we're honored to have one of our stars from the orange city block (clapping) she'll be speaking a little bit later we're happy to have the grand marshall's of the prayed. i'll be speaking before he speaks and so some of the community grand marshall's we have julia that will be speaking later (clapping) and we also have the organizational grand marshall why not come up (clapping.) i'm not sure if the other grand marshall's are here can i raise your hand larry and david any more grand marshall's here?. i mentioned melanie she'll be speaking and thrilled once again to have the san francisco's official abandon the looeb and gay freedom band. i'd like to thank our sponsor sf pride and badlands (clapping) the other folks (clapping) the festivals of the indysfunctions and the teamwork and house of starfish (clapping) the castro alliance is paying for all the t-shirts we're wearing (c

i'm katie tang and we have david campos and scott wiener and david chiu. and i want to thank our sf gov. tv. san francisco television staff. >> city clerk: please silence all cell phones devices. items acted upon today will appear on september 2nd agenda unless otherwise stated. >>supervisor katy tang: we have a special meeting today. first we need to excuse supervisors norman yee. >> without objection. madam clerk, please call item 1. city clerk: item 1: motion approving/rejecting the president of the board of supervisors', supervisor david chiu, nomination of kathrin moore to the planning commission, term ending july 1, 2018. clerk of the boardddcharter, section 4.105, provides that this nomination is subject to approval by the board of supervisors and shall be the subject of a public hearing and vote within 60 days from the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk of the board. if the board fails to act on the nomination within 60 days of the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk then the nominee shall be deemed approved. transmittal da

i called scott wiener's office twice inform him i wanted to do this and hoping for his support on this. so i don't know i mean that's about what i have done. >> okay. do you have any documentation or proof that you doesn't the neighborhood outreach? >> yeah, max, the other owner, max tocarev who isn't here today who is on vacation i believe he has the documentation and working with cammy too. >> yes. he did submit. there is one letter in the pack get we received a second one for some reason didn't find end up in the packet that i am trying to find out now from the castro merchants association. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> my only question have they given you any idea when it's going to end, the construction? >> it clearly depends on whom you ask. you ask some of the -- i'm sorry. >> >> [inaudible] >> sidewalks. >> are you talking about the sidewalk construction? it really depends who you ask. supervisor wiener came last week and said that all of the planks that are leading up to each business would be down by august 13. they are not. it has been one -- to be honest one deception after ano

applauding] >> our district 8 supervisor and park champion, tallest park champion in the city, scott wiener. (applause) >> our district 11 supervisor and another park champion extraordinary narc, john avalos. (applause) >> our city treasurer who does his work to make sure we've actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. (applause) ~ >> but it's the passion of all of us. and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] >> director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we're encoloneling people to get out and play. that's our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. >> get out and play. >> we say that because of the importance of