the southeast utilities commission was located here and was established in 1987 with the southeast community facility was built as a measure in return for the bayview unemployment community's acceptance for the southeast water treatment plant in the middle of our neighborhood. additionally and in order to contain -- obtain approval, the city agreed to operate and maintain at city cost the facility for the benefit of the community. members of the commission served at the pleasure of the man and are facing the purpose to review and provide guidance regarding operations of cells of these facilities and other facilities under its jurisdiction. the yearly goal is to continue to promote, advocate, and improve the physical, health, public safety, and welfare of the hunters point community canfor all residents of san francisco. i thought maybe you needed to hear that so that you understood what our mission was here in the southeast part of this community. so, thank you so much again for coming. many of you here are from the community the day and you can hopefully have a say in what you hear here tod

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so, that will be housed here at the southeast facility. we are in conversations with young community developers. they are also a job training organization in the community a long time and we are looking at the synergy of other folks in the building. we have a social enterprise organization that has been in conversations looking at possible partnerships with the green house folks. so, thinking around a job strategy as it relates to the greenhouses. a machinist program is another program that was really led by the leadership of wastewater and as the assistant general manager he is seeing there is a growing field around machinists and he has seen models where this has worked and is in conversation with the san francisco school district about a model program that could be housed here. for people that don't spend a lot of time in district 10 you may not understand why the club is on the power point but many in the room probably know why the sewing club is there. we have heard from many members that it was seniors that really had a lot of value

we can continue to engage in the southeast facilities commission. we have hundreds of meetings and that is why we have done about reach. we really do see the southeast commission of something. we have been there, it is the first bullet. we want to move as quickly as possible. we have been focused very much on the inside, stakeholders around the outside space. they complete the structure and design improvements. that is a lot to take in. this is not the first time you have heard this, we have been doing extensive conversations with people. we can open it up for questions at this point. they have been a partner and they can take comments if you like. i did not know how you like to do this. commissioner moran: i like to have the commissioners asked questions first and moved to the community. anyone from the commission that has any questions at this time? i see no hands. one. >> just a thank-you for an incredible presentation. [applause] i know how long it takes to put something like this together, but i also know what it took. there is a tremendous ove

it has been on the record, this commitment to include a southeast pilot site as well. that is what i have heard. my hope is that it can move forward positively, but i'm curious where you are at right now. colleagues, we have closed public comment. if there is no other comment, can we have a motion? supervisor wiener: i would move we forwarded to the board as a committee report tomorrow with a positive recommendation, of course with the understanding that of the mta will expand the scope of the pilot to include the southeastern locations. supervisor mar: this is to the full board. without objection? thank you. thank you, everyone. could you please call item no. 6. >> item #7? >> item #7. >> amending the planning code permitting video stores in the venture and outer clement never a commercial destroys and removing the prohibition on large fast-food restaurants and formulating pet stores and in the subdistrict. supervisor mar: we heard this last week in there were a lot of amendments that were on this. let me just say this is an important ordnance that means a lot to the

we did have interviews at the southeast plant. we have a qualified, amazing panel that treated this refp as if it was their own. we had the general manager. we have the director of san jose waste water. we had our waste water asset manager and retired wastewater engineer who managed the oceanside plant, which was our biggest project on record. scoring was based on the proposal. commissioner torres: how many african-americans were on the panel? w>> we had one white male, an indian female -- commissioner torres: i asked how many african-americans. >> i do not think there were any. there were african americans involved in producing the rfp, rfp process -- commissioner torres: i am talking about the people who made the decision. there was not one african- american on that panel when they made the decision? >> no. indian --, indian commissioner torres: i got that. so of the companies that have been brought an chosen by may 17 -- are those the people you're referring to that were in the room? >> we have many people in the room, from con

when you talk about adding class is to the southeast, but some students involved. we are working together, but nobody is reaching out to us. you will continue to see empty classrooms. we need to work together somehow and pull it together. i am a lifelong student. there will not be a time where i will stop getting my education. if there is something out there to learn, i will learn if. everybody in this room is done. you want to take summer glasses. they have everything. they have in food services and all the class is. speak up. tell them what you want. you will not make all of the decisions. they are not the individuals taking class's. let them know what you want and let your voices be heard. >> i see she has stuck to the microphone, so she is the last. >> i am sorry to take advantage of this. the started in july 11, august 12. they will be taught from 8:00 to 12:00 monday through friday. i'm hoping that all young people that need that, so the house of with young people that need math skills. commissioner moran: we cut it off. yes, sir? >> one second. it is kind of

in the southeast part of the city, we don't have many homeless facilities. there is one that i know of, providence baptist church. every night, i have seen this line wrapped around the corner. it is cold. this is a men's shelter in particular. they're coming in, they are on a floor of a gymnasium. we are not talking a lavish existence. four seasons here. definitely, i think we are a very compassionate city and just continue to extend the compassion to the homeless community. >> what is happening with crime in your district? how do you think the police department is doing to address the issue of crime in district 10? >> statistically, we have a lot of crime. homicides, there were two in the last week in my district. i am vice-chair of the public safety committee. safety and how we define safety, not just in terms of crime, but over a public safety, is something that is very important and one of my priorities. what i would like to see is more of a community policing approach. maybe engaging more the community. that includes organizations like safe, which is a

the southeast will have periods of stormy weather. today it will be hazy, hot and humid in the southeast and much of the southern plains. the northeast can breathe a sigh of relief as drier air moves back in and expect strong winds and heavy rains from montana to nebraska. >>> in sports the all-stars came out to play last night and for the second year in a row the national league won. the top of the fourth, the astros hunter pence a great throw from left field to get the blue jays' jose bautista at the plate. the bottom of the same frame, one swing and the brewers' prince fielder jacks a three run homer, for that he was named mvp. the national league trounces the american league 5-1. and gets home field advantage in the world series. congratulations to them. >>> just after the game the new york mets announced they are trading former all store closer francisco rodriguez to milwaukee. k-rod has a contract clause that guarantees him $17.5 million if he finishes 55 games this year, which is he on track to do. >>> when we return another lo

>> of the southeast community facilities, we spent a lot of time having the individual conversations with you all as well as going back to those documents that talked-about your role and why you were created. the truth is, there is not enough bandwidth to have hundreds of meetings that we have been doing, literally, since december. we don't have enough staff to be doing that at that level. the southeast community facilities commission, the helpful role that you play is that you represent this building and you are supposed to be charged with providing ongoing guidance and ongoing feedback. if things are not working, i would hope we have regular conversations so you can hear if we have ideas. which is why we have spent so much time the fuel. we have heard about on-the-job training. the has been talked about what is in this space. we see you as a commission and a true partner and a collaborator, the voice of the community. i would not do anything else. as i mentioned, what does it actually look like? there are other items, individual point people from other commissions and other agencie

>> southeast. where in southeast? >> no, no. -- [ indiscernible ] >> yes. >> no, i'm not going. >> did you just refuse that ride to that passenger? which one? the man that got out of the cab, the black man? >> no, i didn't. >> there was a man that got in the cab and he got out of the cab? >> because i have to pick up my daughter from school. i am not able to make it at 6:00 because i am -- he wants me to go to d.c. >> i have gotten that often. there is something wrong with my car, which i have -- and i heard that. i don't know where that is and ask have someone else take you. excuses are just excuses judge and he's the executive director of the equal rights center, a local non-profit testing taxi cabs for discrimination. and you no longer hear someone saying i won't give you service because you're african-american but there are several barriers or treatment thrown up instead and that is a problem. >> reporter: if&fox 5 discovered when the sun goes down -- . >> i'm sorry sorry -- very sorry. >> reporter: the excuses --

when this all started here for the southeast building and the power plant there. i don't know if you have that information. if you have it already, raise your hand. all right then. i'll make sure that the staff get that information to the rest of you because it's very important from what happened back in 1989. i hope it startsed in the 80's, the information you have. i don't want something that started back in 2004. thank you very much and i'm looking to make sure that we have a pleasant meeting here this evening and i'm quite sure you're going to enjoy the food as did you before. thank you. president vietor: thank you. other public comments? >> my name is charlie walker. some of you may know me. i'm having a problem here in san francisco as being the president of the truckers and contractors association, and we sign ourselves -- find ourselves back in the stone age . san francisco is spending probably about $100 billion building tunnels and doing construction work in san francisco, and there's not three black contractors in a contractor relationship with the city