[laughter] so why are cities so important? they were doing better than they had for very long time. but it really was the transformation of the economy the jobs went away the buildings went away the capital went away but most had 30% of their jobs were manufactured. and in those intervening years american economy has changed the more urban friendly economy. higher education if you need me a city i will give you a higher education or the big employer big medical centers or international trade subsidies all over america so namely a city i will cite you the neighborhoods or like soho in new york but the citiesst are strong can they play a version on steroids of the role traditionally played which is the staging areas? where people build businesses and wealth is created so i made the case in the previous book this is a time when cities are prospering. given the federal government is out of money and cannot decide the responsibilities what is the role of government? >> traditionally to safeguard people's rights when they needed protection it was the federal government to do the civil rig

troops and militia they have also gathered around so the city is basically now sound it is a lot so the cities in. the city are almost six hundred thousand people living there almost up there in fear then tension they do not know what was waiting for them in the future the services has been being streamed because of aid workers that betty it has been relocated. the aid organization that keeping wanly they used to call for the lifesaving services so you can imagine that the people who have been suffering and living in a city where the medicine. and food and other essential really dependent on this for the poor so if this kind of situation happened then then when we talk. or car i mean the citizens are there they really are not know was waiting for them and there is so much at stake here we understand we have heard that yesterday oxfam and ten other aid agencies wrote a letter urging the british foreign minister to withdraw its support for the saudi led coalition if it attacks we just like to ask you about that particular effort and where you see it in the grand scheme of things. yes and

we've been here so long and this city has grown. so the first thing i would do is put a freeze on construction work, make sure they start hiring 50% of the residents. and this they don't hire, we won't build, simple as that. [applause]. >> ellen, two minutes. >> my name is ellen lee zhou. my website, ellenformayor.com. when i'm elected as mayor, i'm an immigrant. when i'm elected as mayor, i will -- the first thing i do is give you the book of all department heads and how they take the money back and spend it on you. i know there's a lot of corruption in there because i work for the government, i represent the government and i know from the bottom to the top. and as the mayor, i will be setting a good example for all the san franciscans. i will kickback 50% of my mayor salary so i can make sure all neighborhoods are good for all 11 districts. i will hold the supervisors that are running for mayor accountable for their projects. you know, san franciscos with car break-ins, with everything in there, one person is not able to do a job.

i am so hopeful about the future of our city. and i am looking forward to searching as your mayor. i am truly humbled and i am truly honored. thank you all so much for being here today. [ cheers and applause ] i would just say ms. brown has probably had a hand in this. looking down from the heavens. you know, she really was a tough woman. she took care of the community, she took care of me even on days when i didn't deserve it. being here in her honor means am so grateful that i can carry on her legacy of doing more to improve all of th communitan fransco. thank you all so much for being here. >> you're watching london breed, san francisco mayoral candidate and presumed mayor, speaking, giving a quick speech after we heard from mark leno earlier today conceding the race to her. as you know, this has been a super close race with breed trading leads with leno multiple times in the course of the past nine days. leno held a news conference a little more than two hours ago and he shared a little bit of what he told the presumed mayor-elect. >> i called supervisor london breed this mornin

troops and militia they have also gathered around so the city is basically now sound it is a lot so the cities in. the city are almost six hundred thousand people live in that they are almost up in fear then tension they do not know what was waiting for them in the future the services has been being trimmed because of aid workers they expect it has been relocated. they were going to keeping one lee they used to call for the lifesaving services so you can imagine that the people who have been suffering and living in a city where the medicine. and food and other essential really dependent on this who the poor are so if this kind of situation happened then then when we talk. the citizens are there they really are not know was waiting for them and there is so much at stake here we understand we have heard that yesterday oxfam and ten other aid agencies wrote a letter urging the british foreign minister to withdraw its support for the saudi led coalition if it attacks we just like to ask you about that particular effort and where you see it in the grand scheme of things. yes that was adjourn

i have been so incredibly lucky in my 12 years of public service in this city to work with some of sfpd's finest, captain dylan, commander manox, captain silverman, captain yep, officer matt loray and so many more. these individuals have truly helped shape my view of how incredible our police department is and how much talent we have here. i just want to thank all of you for stepping up and doing your part. i've also been a prosecutors and i've worked with so many police officers that have always shaped my view that police officers are good and we need them and i can't thank you enough for your service. i want to thank the mayor, chief scott and the command staff for their hard work and thoughtful analysis on the invests that we as a city need to make in the department. i just want to tell one quick story in my direct. so many times we hear the negatives. the other day someone said i have to tell you what happened to me with a police officer. i got a pounding on my door at 7:00 in the morning and i went out there and i saw a police car and i was so nervous. they open it had door and the p

recology all working together to pitch in and keep san francisco clean -- or cleaner, and a great city. so i want to thank everybody and thampg the city family. they have vust been absolutely great. we've pushed through this contract in like a month, so that's unheard of. so thank everybody. i want to thank the mayor for hez creativity and initiative on this. and now, i think we're going to have kevin give a demonstration on how these wonderful things work. take care. >> one, two, three, go! [inaudible] >> it's great to see everyone kind of getether and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bokase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard t

police commissioner julius turman who was a great champion of public safety and a true friend to the city. so if you would please firstjoi. >> oment of silence >> thank you. our thoughts and condolences are with his friends and family during this time. he's absolutely missed here in the city of san francisco. so i want to first do a round of thank yous. there's a number of individuals and organizations who helped lead us to where we are today. first ofll i want tohank our police chief bill scott. i want to thank our police commission, we have police commission president tip pi here. thank you. members of the board of supervisor, jeff seehey and katheri katherine stefani here today. our city departments, our controllers office for tirelessly working to find t right amount of staffing that we need right here in our police department. you know, since taking public office i repeatedly stressed that i believe we have some of the best men and women in our police department here inside of san francisco. proud of all of you do who are here today in front of us. i am not afraid as the mayor of the cit

the city cooperated on permitting and so forth. the first two weeks has been a big hit. but, memphis is a -- i think a unique city, we have soul, we have vibe, we're a good city, good people. they've done it in a different way, it's not just in the downtown location. is bike share is in neighborhoods that are struggling and in the cool hip neighborhoods and downtown. so, we wanted to show equity even in our bike share program. >> yeah, i worry about that, somebody want to get me on a bike, so i don't know. but, you know we actually have a prably have the highest e density of vehicles in the commonwealth as well because we have so many folks -- we're 6.780 square les. it gets tight quick. so yeah -- but everybody's doing itut don't think it will be long before we get a bike share as well. >> mayor strickland i want to turn back to you, public safety and also race. you have a majority black city and your city celebrated a major occasion this year as well with the 50th anniversary of mlk's death. you ran on a platform of improving public safety in particular, and also that w

so city boosters wanted to have a fair in order to mark the occasion and to basically demonstrate their strengths to the rest of the nation and world and to claim their status as the crown city of the pacific. >> give us a sense of san francisco. this is more than a century ago now. the fire had ended, they were rebuilding the city. >> yes. >> what was the city like and how did men treat women in 1915? >> how did men treat women in 1915? probably depended on the man but san francisco is interesting because california actually had passed a suffrage amendment in 1911. so women had the right to vote in california by 1915, which they didn't necessarily have in the rest of the nation. >> that comes in 1920? >> yes, 1920 but some western state passed it on the state level before it was passed on the federal level so in some ways, certainly women in san francisco had more political options than they might have had in other parts of the country. but certainly by no means do we see the kinds of equality that we see now between women and men in san francisco or anywhere else, but san francisco wa

mind the same process that brings officers down to the airport also returns officers back to the city. so, our officers get notified that their opportunity to transfer back up to the city comes up, and some take advantage and move back to work in the city. so, there is an ebb and flow of experience that comes back and forth. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. any other questions? all right. >> supervisor fewer: you know, i -- so, deputy chief, not about you, personally, but i do have sort of this question about why a deputy chief is needed out at the airport when you have a commander. i just think that why would we have a, you know, a deputy chief out at the airport. i just think the command staff is pretty heavy out there, and i know that you are the deputy chief out there, so i know this is a very awkward conversation. but just why would we need a deputy chief out there? seems you already have a commander, you have captain, you have a lot of lieutenants and you are adding lieutenants on and also a lot of sergeants. so, why would we need a deputy chief out there? >> so, the deputy

if you're all decided, the voting center at city hall opens on may 7th, so come on down. we are open the last two weekends before the election, a wonderful place to bring your children and they can see you vote in our beautiful city hall. if you need to register to vote, update your registration, decide to vote by mail, anything you need to know, i'll be in the back throughout tonight's debate. and finally before i do the one minute on how rank choice voting works, police, we are in desperate need of poll workers for this election. we employ workers at our 583 polling places in san francisco. yes. you can amaze your friends at all the upcoming parties with we have 583 polling places in san francisco. altogether, we need about 3,000 workers. we're about 1200 short. if you're interested or you know someone who wants to do their civic duty and earn a stipend for the day, you can me, or even better, come on down to city hall on monday through friday, and come on down to our office. we have a recruitment office next to the department of elections. you can apply, get tested, get

so that led us to think well where what other cities are vulnerable to these kinds of problems. so what we did was we actually took a study of all the cities around the world and we looked at one hundred thirty six cities that in two thousand and five had more than a million people that were coastal with a port and we looked at how many people live in the hundred year flood playing so that's the area that would flood have a one percent chance of flooding every year and we found this four hundred million people in two thousand and five living in these two hundred thirty six cities and forty million so ten percent of them lived in lived in those areas and we found that certain cities had very large areas in the floodplain a quarter of these one hundred thirty six cities are actually sinking and when i say things sometimes it goes down at ten twenty centimeters per year or a meter every five or ten years so these are huge changes. some regions are sinking faster than others one example is the coastline of the u.s. state of louisiana. is the mississippi delta new orleans is located i

i am departing city hall. so mayor breed will be naming her own chief of staff. >> wait a minute. >> so good luck. bye. so i'll be staying through the inauguration and then mayor breed will name her own chief of staff, and that person will be -- will need your support. and will need your guidance and your wisdom and your experience to lead him or her through whatever is going to come be it natural disasters or manmade or whatever it is. so i ask if i can ask you for a favor, it is to be as open and communicative as we have always been with me with the other person that will succeed me. i know it goes without saying that you will help mayor breed as well. i just ask that you extend that partnership to the staff of the incoming mayor because continuity of government on this work here is more important than anything else, right? as i said before, public safety is our numb per one responsibility as a local government, so that is a favor i would ask of you and to keep the work going and there are nonprofit and private

as a part of that, they're not allowed to have live entertainment ever again, so the city has been in contact with us regarding these complaints, so we're working with the police department as well to see if they're having entertainment or not. >> there's a group of ongoing complaints. if you have any questions about those, please let me know. i did want to point out that we visited hue friday night to inspect the most recent changes to their security plan. unfortunately they were closed by the time we got there for the 2:00 out. i think we arrived at about 1:45, and security gates and doors were shut, so we weren't able to verify the new security conditions. let me see if there's any other inspections that i wanted to point out. lusk is a new rooftop that we will be bringing into compliance after a complaint. flywheel roastery is a little coffee shop in the haight that we'll be bringing into compliance. that was also a neighbor complaint. bistro sf, noise complaint. we're going to try to bring them into compliance. there's a lot of compliance checks that are happening based off of so

for example, that uber in new york city was required to pay a hardship fee to taxi drivers in that city. so one of the things that we'll do is examine best practices in other cities. before i continue though i want to invite mr. logan from the transportation authority. >> supervisor fewer: hi, mr. logan. >> to share what their vision was for this particular research. >> supervisor fewer: sure. >> hi, commissioners. my name is warren logan. i'm a senior transportation planner at the san francisco county of transportation authority. soon enough our separate commission which is also the board of supervisors, will be hearing our final report, excuse me -- our final report for emerging mobility evaluation and i'm excited to present that to you soon. our vision is to partner with bryan and we're very excited to hear the enthusiasm for understanding the gaps around labor. primarily our focus was on how these different services were impacting congestion. so we recognize, however, that during our initial scope of our guiding principles for emerging mobility, that several of the commissioners encoura

and finally, we do report directly to city hall. sotells you the type of executive sponsorship that cyber security receives in new york city. this is, you know, to use the private-sector term this is certainly a boardroom issue in our city. and why is this important? why are these sort of authorities and duties in new york city cyber command important? really the executive order signals our city's recognition that cyber security needs a center of gravity, even across what's a highly fedderated technical government and services delivery environment. think about these hundred plus agencies as separate businesses. separate businesses some of which have been around for over 100 years and invested in various infrastructure and technology projects since the beginning. so to be able to say what are the things that we can do to be effective in cyber security in that very federated landscape. you need unification. you can really conceptually think of new york city cyber command as command center for agencies. we're accountable to city hall and

businesses such as this more than in shops in an area that was once home to craft guilds like the city so special. the city center is an island and you can do everything on the island there are many small shops and cafes in the city and everyone has a place where they can relax to work on. the people of you back are bringing their heritage into the modern day you can drink coffee and his four hundred fifty year old merchant's house but that was not always the case you know. court yard used to be where the wells were but also the out houses and cesspools and today we use them for much nicer things we have a cafe here. as a new back celebrates almost nine centuries this year its people hope for many festivals and events will bring a lot of new life to the old city. hall that partying has certainly worked out my appetite and luckily for those in berlin you don't have to travel very far for international cuisine the german capital is a melting pot of cultures and some people who come here to visit like it so much. they decided to stay and open up restaurants like. there he decided to imitate

and our team -- your team, we would not be able to do the incredible work that i'm so proud the city and county of san francisco does. so thank you for your 32 years of work. you can stay longer. you can if you change your mind, but i do want to give my colleagues an opportunity to say a few words as well. >> president breed: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. rosemary, when carolyn told me you were retiring, the first thing i said was we have her cell phone, right? because i cannot imagine the city without you. i just want to echo everything that supervisor kim said. itho a doubt are an example of a true public servant who loves and cares about your job and realizes the power you have to make such a difference at -- at -- throughout our city and especially for low-income tenants. i -- we're going to be introducing in a couple weeks, i think, perhaps your last brain child piece of legislation to further protect residents from fire safety violations, and i'm so glad that we will be introducing that piece of legislation in your honor, but i just want to thank you

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cities. he went to so many of them. we went, last year with mayor lee and anita to sign the sitter -- sister city agreement in kiel which was signed recently. a special recognition to our chief of protocol who is back with us. [applause] and thank you again to mark chandler and certainly the person who i had the initial conversation with, matthew. thank you for all your hard work on this. and last, but certainly not least, thank you to our department of public works. and the s. of nt s.f. nta sign u have made this happen. in any case, thank you for being here. this is a great celebration and we can always come visit here going forward into the future. with that, i would like to introduce a gentleman who has been, there he is, right behind me. he has been the longest, i believe the longest serving chair of a sister committee or the longest-serving chair of the sister committee of osaka. again, it was our first sister city relationship in san francisco. the gentleman is literally a stalwart in our japanese community here i

so given the importance of the embarcadero seawall and its infrastructure that it supports, it's vital that the city addresses these vital interests for safety and economic interests, among other reasons. thanks so much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good morning, chair cohen and supervisors. my name is alex major. i'm here today to speak in support of the port seawall project. the embarcadero seawall is the foundation of 500 acres of downtown neighborhoods, the under pittance of critical infrastuckture. we think it's important to note that one out of every eight jobs in the bay area is located in downtown san francisco, and a 2007 study estimated that the seawall protects over $100 billion of assets and economic activities, so for these reasons, we ask you to support the seawall project. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good afternoon, chair cohen and members of the committee. my name is thea seldy, and for identification only, i am the former chair of the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee, and i am the current chair of the san francisco transit riders, which is

it's also a year now since iraqi troops retort the city of mosul from the so-called islamic state group it's one of iraq's biggest cities and strategically important because of its oil but despite that much of mosul today still lies in ruins and amid the rubble there are still corpses an explosive report. or karim has been speaking to aid workers in mosul and sent us this report just a note here we have pixilated some of the more disturbing images in this story. the smell of death is everywhere old mosul is like an open air symmetry nearly a year after the battle between the so-called islamic state and iraqi troops and the corpses still fill the streets. we meet husseini the young nurse has volunteered to help remove the bodies. again and this old house in this room we found one hundred fifty corpses they were all shot and they had us all here yes . the stench is hard to take it fills your nostrils and chill now because we took away all of audience time we burned the room and to sanitize it but how did they also. because they were laying down one on top of another man the women and chil

city. you know, as civil rights are under attack throughout our country, it is so important that san francisco stands tall ove every other place in america. that we, as a city, recommit ourselves to reject the ideologies of bigotry and hatred that come out of the trump administration and others throughout our country, throughout the world, at times. san francisco needs to remain a beacon of hope for everybody. i am proud to be the mayor at the city and county of san franciscothat stands exactly for those principles. [cheers and applause] in san francisco, we stand up for our principles of diversity. we stand up for equality for every single person in our city, and we make sure that our city continues to be an example for the rest of our country to follow. you know, as mayor, and before then as member of the board of supervisors, i've been able to witness the strength of our lgbtq community here in san francisco. we have fought many battles over the years. today, with what was a very narrow ruling out of the u.s. supreme court, but the rhetoric that comes with that, and what our lgbtq community

means for us to really look at the data for those who are achieving outcomes and thriving in our city. and so we spent a year to look at the data, to work with our community, to really figure out where are all the gaps in our city where either young people needed additional support and families needed additional supports and where we could bring our funding into provide those additional supports. through that process, we then spent another year to think about if these are the true outcomes, if we want children to be successful in school, to be ready to learn, to be able to continue on to postsecondary opportunities, what are the types of programs that we need to fund and we need to support. that happened in our second year of our planning process and the communities have come to our meetings. we have shared the findings of the community needs assessment as well as the allocation plan with all members of the committee here and the board of supervisors. i'm shocked they feel it's a surprise because we've talked about this many, many times and it has been a two and a half year process where we h

so all the tanks and armored vehicles stopped after that one because it blocked the street while we knew very well as we did that if any tank stops in a city it becomes a mobile tomb so they abandon their tanks and ran to the nearby buildings where the where should be you know from. the israelis were driven from the city using eighty debt and one hundred twenty wounded. to this day destroyed israeli tanks remain a testimony to the courageous resistance in suez. despite this setback israel's disregard of the cease fire was buying it precious territory elsewhere causing consternation in moscow. so this course is little that looked a little cool to just when israel ignored the u.n. cease fire and continued fighting it became clear there were different points of view in the soviet government some people thought we should put pressure on them to make them adopt the ceasefire make them behave properly. much. on the twenty fourth of october at nine thirty five pm washington time and alarming message arrived from moscow. it said the soviets were considering taking unilateral action to impose the ceasefire in the middle east. what they were there w

opposite reaction the action, motorized scooter companies dumped scooters all around san francisco so citylacing a moratorium on the scooters until the companies can get the required permits hold it there that scooter again, no helmet and riding on the sidewalk...nats ambiance so i was confused if there is a moratorium on these motorized scooters why am i still seeing motorized scooter like these guys riding legally in the bike lane and with helmets and one guy even waved toodle loo as he rolled by i mean they look like bird scooters i was propelled to explore further nats: ambiance i found the scooters and the owners getting food on 4th street it turns out they flat out own the scooters yet they are getting some backlash for their personal scooters they get pissied off becuse thier like oh your leaving then all over the sidewalk no no no we own these i would never leave my property on the sidewalk so the scooters invasion has opened the door for people to buy their own personal scooters what made you buy a scooter, it's just you know cheaper in the long run, instead of spending a couple o

been working very closely with oewd and other bodies to understand what is the status quo, so what is the city doing in the areas that the task force wants to look at for a municipal bank so tha when we look at a cost benefit analysis we can take into account what the city is already funding, and then, those funds would be shifted into the zephyr. >> commissioner pollock: so in terms of that, you'll get their weigh in, but you'll also have -- these are the next steps going forward? >> i think our aim is to give to the board some framework to move forward. so to say here is, you know, a cost-benefit analysis of how to do this and perhaps two options or three options, and then hear feedback, and it'll be a collaborative effort. i don't think it'll reside only in the treasurer's office because i think once it gets to that point it becomes a lot of policy matter, and of course we'd love to stay involved and continue to help move it forward with some of our expertise, but we know that we will not be the only -- the only folks in the room. >> commissioner pollock: sure. i definitely know there are m

so for now we're stuck with it. >> reporter: of the 240,000 total votes cast by san franciscans, nearly a third, about 85,000, were mailed in or dropped off. they are being counted. elections officials here at city hall said it could take into next week. so let the counting continue. live in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> in the governor's race, democrat gavin newsom and republican john cox are looking ahead to november. in the primary, newsom won almost every coastal county, the bay area and a few to the east. but cox took wide swaths of the center of the state and the south, except l.a. both candidates were back at it yesterday. newsom campaigned at the ferry building. >> i would run, not walk away from the brand of being a trump republican. my opponents run towards that. and he is going to have to explain. >> people have come to california to seek their dreams. and they have been dashed by a bunch of politicians who overregulate the economy and put huge burdens on business. i'm here to lift those burdens. >> president trump tweeted, congratulations to john cox on a really big number in california! he can win! >>> time check, it is 5375. the beginning of june, "june gloom"? >> in ful

>> commissioner richards: so we're looking at our demo laws. i understand the city attorney is actually reviewing legislation by supervisor peskin. i think to approve this today, not understanding that piece of legislation in relation to the housing accountability act is foolish, so i move to continue to june 21 with more input from the city attorney on the impact of the ability to demolish single-family homes under the guise of add be an -- adding an adu as well as tenant protections. >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: we're talking about housing crisis. i'd like to focus that into affordable housing crisis, and i'd like to ask originally, originally, when we first started to use the abbreviation adu and did not talk about accessory dwelling unit anymore, we also thought that they would be part of affordability. that's the way it started. and i'd like to ask as to whether or not there is an element here by which these units, because they're getting certain provisions within me a moment, please.tera -- give thank you. that they should be

i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it never . >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i want to welcome you back to the budget and finance committee. i want to thank our friends at sfgov tv who are assisting us with today's broadcast. madam clerk, are there any