because when we grow this talent as we know we will, we want that talent to remain in our city and be successful in our city. that's why we have a plan of things we want to do to make our families successful. i am committed to building more homes at record levels, homes that are affordable to teachers butts -- but also to our students as they graduate and if they make that sacrifice, i want to be there to provide and to make sure to provide that they have the keys to homes that they want to live in. we also want to work in our parks, our neighborhoods and seniors to enable them to get around the city and they can be successful in our city. i will tell that you open space as well as housing as well as good transportation all work together to support the increasing investments that we are making. today i'm proud to announce an increased investment for our youth to the tune of $355.5 million this next year to our education system. our public school system. this includes $36.5 million towards the school district's rainy day fund. i know we've been discussing that rainy day fund in very great detail

of the city will result in the success of them as well so perhaps we see this month visibly and individually across around the cost of living specifically around housing costs you know i've also said the biggest diversified in our economy is between those are who have a job and those that don't we can agree that having a stable place to live in the city is a close second that's why i'm focused on dining to address the housing needs for all san franciscans that's why we are working together to address the crisis created by years of under this i'm sure you're aware of i've been committed to building thirty thousand unit of housing when i 2020 with 1/3rd affordable and others affordable to middle-income families we're on our way with over 4 thousand units in 2014 and over 5 thousand expected this year to be delivered we have built more homes this past year than in 2012 and 2013 combined this is a process we need to do more let me be clear with you when we are in the midst of a housing crisis you don't slow down production you

ensue i've got to get the housing up so help the economy and get the wealthy into the places the successful city is for them as well as everyone else we see being successful will you help me will you all help me here i know that mercy is there they're part of my nonprofit development centers that will help me i need this story accelerated with everybody participation and if we do so then i can also talk about a city that is not only diverse and successful it is investor friendly we need our banks to be able to tell the banks you have the strongest investment and that will speak to the pension fund our own pension fund and labors and teachers fund as well but we're going to work with the teachers housing and work on a large sites you'll see more houses on we need that dialog at city hall that pushes us best bureaucratic let's get out p there perform and perform and it's an incredible die let's go to work and that's correct very much. >> as mayors do (clapping) by today is 1184th street day in san francisco (clapping.) the mayor as acknowledged this building would have been burned down and it woul

i'm going to spread the great word that our city is ready to do our part in helping everybody be successful in this city. congratulations. thanks for helping to continue to make this city successful for everyone. appreciate you very much. have a great day and go flop. >> [ applause ]

active public spaces in the city are engines for successful cities and sustainable growth. creating the fafrable environments for public engagement is vital. and the cities play a role in that and we are lucky to have a lot of great public spaces that we can activate. this year for the first time the festival took our stage on the road and we found that it was easy to do it on private land navigating the city requirements for permit and for fees was difficult. not being able to put a cable cover on a sidewalk and having to bring in generators is another fee that we encured whereas the entire sidewalk in my building is block fromed construction, we are fortunate to have these public space and we are asked to activate these spaces but the costs are high. just asking a few friends of mine about their experience in the city was overwhelming. being told by dpw that it would be east tore do our events on private land made me realize that the city knows how difficult it is to do this. another person told me that their advice was find a good soul in city hall to help you navigate. >

san francisco and if we can model more of these programs and have it reflected as parbt of a successful city, we will do well when the 450 mayors from across the country come and ask how doo you do it. how do you create a kindergarten to college account with a bank with nothing there and then create this account where families and kids start talking about college when they enroll their kids in n to kindergarten and public school in san francisco. this is amazing. when we look at back at the years we will smile and say we contribute thood the dream city of there country because no where else are these programs being done with the level of support and enthusiasm so i'm excited for our kids. i'll be joining some of the programs. i got to get intheseiastic about this because i have spend a half day in sackumenty qu is you know what a downer that is. thank you every wherein for being clab tchb and thank you again for all being here and if i might invite supervisor christensen up because i know you will be very busa this summer with all these wonderful frams. supervisor christensen >> thank you mr

i'm going to spread the great word that our city is ready to do our part in helping everybody be successful in this city. congratulations. thanks for helping to continue to make this city successful for everyone. appreciate you very much. have a great day and go flop. >> [ applause ] >> >>. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the board of supervisors life in prison meeting for wednesday, may 20 2015 my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee joined by is supervisor yee supervisor kim and and their and joined momentarily by supervisor tang sfgovtv for 0 covering this mr. clerk any announcements

i'm going to spread the great word that our city is ready to do our part in helping everybody be successful in this city. congratulations. thanks for helping to continue to make this city successful for everyone. appreciate you very much. have a great day and go flop. >> [ applause ] >> >>. >> and commission would the concert please call the roll (inaudible) commissioner harrison and commissioner loo. >> and establishing your mike is not on. >> can you hear me now. >> now we can hear you laughter you want to make our announcements yeah let me make a couple of announcements before we start the commission will recess this meeting from 1045 to 11 thirty with a joint meeting with the planning commission that will start at 11 and let's see also st. mary's is removed because of ongoing conversations that are occurring with that. >> so again, this the the recreation and parks department on thursday, may 21, 2015, we'll ask you, please turn off electronic advises we ask you take secondary conversation outside in order for the meeting to proceed as finishing has possible if you want to speak on any

i'm going to spread the great word that our city is ready to do our part in helping everybody be successful in this city. congratulations. thanks for helping to continue to make this city successful for everyone. appreciate you very much. have a great day and go flop. >> [ applause ] >> >> ahead, amy. >> roll call. commissioner adams, here. commissioner brandon here. commissioner ho here. approval of minutes, for the april 28th meeting >> second >> all those in favor, say aye >>-a- >> opposed? so moved. anyone here to comment on the closed session? so moved. >> okay. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> so we're in closed session >> okay, council sell regarding existing litigation. >> is there a motion to reconvene >> i move to reconvene in open session, >> all in favor? >> (multiple voices): aye. >> i move to disclose agenda item five a, the closed session, voted 4-0, to approve the existing litigation described in agenda item four a one a, between the part and andrea wirum as trustee of the bankrupty state of peer maritime, recreation center, and not disclose anything else discussed in close

i'm going to spread the great word that our city is ready to do our part in helping everybody be successful in this city. congratulations. thanks for helping to continue to make this city successful for everyone. appreciate you very much. have a great day and go flop. >> [ applause ] >> >>. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco egg regular hearing for thursday, may 21, 2015, disruptions of any kind. please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. we expect a busy day and quite a few of the people joining us we've arranged for a overflow room in the light court i believe there are a number of people that dparltd for the last item on the agenda we don't expect to begin hearing that item until 3:30 possible 4 o'clock i'll recommend taking advantage the center time and enjoy and a a walk or long lunch again an overflow room for anyone interested in vooug those proceedings in the north light court of city hall about 80 chairs as well as a television screen to follow the

this apprenticeship program had been so successful union city asked for help with its gang problem. >> you want it to be ideally in the front part. is that they wanted to change, but -- >> they wanted to change, but they didn't know now, so we provided them that opportunity to learn how they could change. >> reporter: they have a 90% success rate. john enrolled, but three weeks in his old life caught up with him. >> i got caught over and i had a gun on me and they found it. i was in jail for two days before my mom bailed me out. >> reporter: it was a setback, but the program took him back in and in december john started working at southland industries in union city. >> i asked him if he knew anything about construction. he said no, but he said i'm a hard worker. >> reporter: john's goal now, to one day take his boss' job and beyond that? >> i want to be somebody that's an inspiration for somebody. >> reporter: students in that class graduated last week. union city council will honor them in a meeting tomorrow night. christin ayers, kpix5. >>> crazy stuff going on in houston and not ju

these kinds of investments in the park help the city become more successful, more inviting and more inclusive. parks are just like transportation and just like education, they are the great equalizers in citys that sometimes become more reflection of inequality. our parks have become at the center, the effort to equalize things and with the philanthropy we are proposing along with city investments, we can fake care of a lot of low income families to participate more and more in the great programs. i will have more to say to that when we interact with the panel. it is now my pleasure to introduce from the great state of texas, a mayor in a very fast growing city, the city of fort worth, she is cochair of mayors and parks coalition and great parks champion herself, let me introduce betsy price, the new champion of parks. my question for her is, is it fort worth or fit worth texas? >> it is fit worth texas >> mayor price >> thank you. first off i think we ought to take a minute and thank mayor lee and his team for this conference. they have done a incredible job. we have tr opportunity to get ou

it is interesting nowadays to be the most successful multicultural city that is an extraordinary soared to an -- sort. >> host: what do you teach? >> en undergraduate seminar on winston churchill in this sinister i have a course on monarchies and the nation's and empires. and a graduate seminar the mid 18th century to the mid 20th century. >> host: wed. >> guest: students to take out of that besides memorizing the names and dates? >> specifically just because we're lucky enough to live in this country we should not supposed that most people living in countries like that today not to say we should sing the "star spangled banner" but to think in a broader perspective. partly to say that most of human history nations and empires organize themselves around monarchies so we ought to understand they're not leading up to democratic republics that is part of it. but beyond that dash general proposition is the reason to study history it is the best anecdote to what assumes the parochialism that the time is now. history has gone on for a long time because we don't understand what it means to be h

>> reporter: this apprenticeship program at oakland's training center was so successful, union city asked for help with its gang problem. >> you wanted to be ideally in the front part. >> they wanted to change but they didn't know how so we provided them that opportunity to learn how they could change. >> reporter: they have a 90% success rate and john enrolled but three weeks in his old life caught up with him. >> i got pulled over and i had a gun on me. and they found it. i was in jail for two days. before my mom bailed me out. >> reporter: it was a setback but the program took him back in. and in december -- john started working at southland industries in union city. >> asked me if he knew anything about construction. he said no but i'm a hard worker. >> reporter: john's goal now to one day take his boss' job and beyond that? >> the inspiration for somebody. >> reporter: students in that class graduated last week. the union city council will be honoring them in a meeting tomorrow night. in union city, christin ayers, kpix 5. >>> three young kids recovering from injuries after a watersp

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>>> some experts predict a new casino in new jersey could be one of the nation's most successful but atlantic city the proposal could put it out of business. hard rock international and the meadow lands racetrack want to build outside new york city in east ruterford. the project could generate $500 million in tax revenue. the company is willing to share the money but ac is skeptical of more competition. the state constitution would have to be amended to allow a new casino in the meadow lands. >>> a hot day today but we did stay dry. tomorrow we're going to see a bit of a change. we stay hot going into the next several days but the thunderstorms come back into the forecast starting tomorrow afternoon for parts of the area and then that kind of hangs around as we end out the week. by the end of the weekend temperatures will drop back into the 70s and as we go into next week. average highs 77. we're about 12 degrees above normal for this time of the year. tomorrow close to 90. thursday close to 90. on friday we should see still in about the upper 80s. now tomorrow morning i think will be dry for the

the transportation and businesses, than our water sewer systems, all of this works to make our city success flt. i understood that through the many goals i had that have been able to play insuch, but i know full well that if you got a good infrastructure and have parks that center och that you will take care of a lot of families and with our parks it isn't just the physical aspeblths. as challenge as it may be, it is how you program and engage the parents and families and school districts and neighbors into making sure those park represents activities that could also take care of a lot of health challenges as well as be link tooz education, links to support sw after school programs, links to senior programs that are upmost necessity for a growing city. it is also critical to our young people. today san francisco boasts over 220 parks. we have 180 playgrounds. 6 golf courses. i played all 6 of them 3 times. 38 community gardens and growing. i think not unlike all the other cities, our urban parks and urban gardens are growing at a rapid pace. people want to be able to grow their own food and

in the city to work with us they had a abstain ethiopia they wanted to adopt this city more than just economic success they actually wanted to spread the spirit of innovation to the rest of the city as we got talking the formation of sf city the citizens the initiative was born out after a sense that there was something in my background that said community, community, community in san francisco was the way that companies should work fast forward from that meeting another very inspiring meeting took place between myself and my education folks that said what do we want to accomplish mr. mayor as you occupy this office and as we try to create the riderships i said well i got those innovation companies that are going to do pretty good in this city their discovering all those wonderful ideas using technology but that they're asking me to make a link with community and i said to hydra my dream is that the world-class standards and the world-class opportunity that this companies are creating can find the talent that he want and they've involved in home growing it that became the second conversation i had lea

this is critical for both of our business and for the success of the city. >> we are supportive of the things like mall sites and acquisition program because they help to move the people up this housing ladder. >> we want to make sure that the program is attractive to the property owners and as you heard from the mayor's office and hayward, just recently, the application to this program have been limited and we think that there are a number of things that can be done to improve the program to make them more attractive for the property owners, and first the program is currently under funded and more funding should be to that and we are excited for the housing bond to do that, and second, the income cap is difficult to meet currently and should be expanded to 120 percent of ami for the majority of residents and third tl is a 90 day required escrow program and it is difficult to attract someone to a 90 day escrow. >> sf realtors are prepared to offer multiple services partner with the city to make this program more attractive and including opening up the mls to the mayor's office so that

the elected positions that the arthritis have and we share a responsibility to make sure the city is successful for everybody that just drives even more commitment to do more on the affordability on the shared prosperity agenda and saying we can have the best transportation system and the best infrastructure and the best businesses located here because the talent is being kr50u9d from the best education from city college i'm here to say i'm not on enthusiastic but recognize the need nor the enrollment that our city college has with the chancellor there along with the chancellors of every major university hass as part of the council we have driving our businesses and doing wonderful things like having the businesses invest directly in the institutions and having the businesses provide programs like united sf with surrounding the institutions to make sure they have all the support i think all the faculty and the students will see this generation we're challenged and find out who our friends are we become a better institution and have done so in this city college with that, let me introduce you to

owned business and thrive within the city limits of san francisco in our 45 plus history the wonderful satisfaction of training professionals many of whom has been successful business owners in the city we're fully approved and licensed by the regulatory agencies and, in fact has flown an intense vesting process to be nationally approved this is the only second independent school to reach the level the voluntarily accreditation we offer a high quality education and are successful in finding employment for the students we have a legacy of supporting small business and maintain a high-level the community we have a volunteering outreach like providing onsite monthly pro bono for public school schools teachers anticipate the mentally ill and send our student out volunteering we graduate close to 45 or hundred students we are year and employ full-time and part-time instructors the student population lives around the school and almost all ride or walk or take public transportation and, in fact, the accessibility is one of the most influential reasons we relocated to the mission district we frequent the rail shops and coffeehouses and personal services and especi

the dogs we have areas-we have 2 dog parks and another coming in that are successful in the inner city and outer areas in the suburbs, they tend to have areas des ignated walk your dog on a leash or you can have them off leash but they have to behave and the first time they are sited by another neighbor. the ferrule cat pap yulgz in the parks is a significant issue and we have a spay and neuter program and return them back to the park if someone takes over the colony. the way you know they are handled by the city and we clip their ear and then they go back and the people that feed and love them get the chance to take their [inaudible] it was exextremely contenches over ferrule cats >> i don't they think that is a problem, is it mayor? >> we have ferrule other stuff, but not ferrule cats. we have ferrule trashers. mainss, cost of course in urban settings are much higher i think and that is what we are challenged with is when we invite a lot of people to come to the city and they do our urban parks are highly used. a higher level of maintenance is one of the challenges. i also think that

commitment and investment this is a family coming together i hope more o more success stories we can work together and grow in the city i want to recognize our school board members hydra mendosa and commissioner shamann walton and betsey carmichael thank you and, of course sfpd chief suhr and deputy cheer redman and our new captain again, a partnership for everyone (clapping) and don't be forgot our rec center thank you for the rec center and other groups that make this a reality and our principle here and i love the community and i just appreciated you make may work egos by making the community stronger thank you (clapping). >> hi so next up we have london breed district 5 (clapping). >> thank you i often find myself in district district and people are saying why are you out of our distribute just a minute and i love our neighborhoods and community but the city as a whole it is important to all of us rudy and i go way back hanging out on the corner enjoying ourselves and lives yes we've had challenges sealed we grew up in neighborhoods we lost too many people looking up here people not here people he hung out and lov

oakland is hoping to capitalize with the success of the dubs, the city is promoting special activities. >>> cbsdfw.com -- ktvu.com will have all the 'activities. >>> a man is claiming he lost his left eye when officers tased him. he posted this view. the video shows police stopping hill and two other people in a car last june. a struggle ensued and he claimed a dart hit his eye. fairfield police are not commenting at this time because of the pending litigation. >>> an owner of the gas station is sharing his station about the hostage situation in antioch. >> i was worried about you. flad you're okay. >> this 75-year-old gas station owner received plenty of attention. >> that's how the gunman talked to the police according to the owner. the way the armed man treated him and his employee was different. >> he said don't worry, i'm not going to hurt you. >> that was a due, for the rest of his time in activity he worked to win his confidence. >> i told him if urangry, did i offer you something to eat, we have cookies, chips. >> police released this mug shot. the hostage taking capped off a s

our success and in just 3 and a half years connected 450 thousand families nationwide to the internet through internet essentials and that's largely due to to the partnerships we've had locally and city county governmental agencies and educators here in the school district and very much agree with you guys we're proud of our success but there's more work to be done and miguel said it earlier the report says it it's going to take a coordinated effort and comcast looks forward to working locally with folks thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for being here. next speaker? >> hi i'm a resident of the tenderloin i'm an entrepreneur and i'm here to give support to supervisor campos and his comments about the plan. i would ask the supervisors to consider the relationship between free or affordable municipal broadband access to online education and vocational training and access to cost saving services and income inequality and wealth and inequality and echoing statements earlier about us looking to the future to see how our world will run so my view i think is shared by everyone in the room that san francisco is the best city in the city in the world and it deserves the best and

park that's another ongoing coordination effort in short i'd like to say from a city staff prospective this program is successful and helping function and this will bring many benefits to the city and community i thank you for your time and continued support of this valuable work. >> thank you can i have (calling names). >> gvenlg commissioners i'm maggie the program manager at guardian for the environment we operate and run a urban gardens school for adults and youth on a half acre located on san francisco public utilities commission property this is our 25th year we're proud educate over 5 hundred adults every year i'm here to show the support of its agricultural program and continue funding for the coordinator position we know first hand the benefits this can provide for the citizens many train graduates are in the audience here are politically their skills in service the garden teaching and you literacy and growing frubldz he can we've excited about the sustainability of san francisco through the; is that right of urban agricultural program we benefit a lot from the coordinations and gives us additional reso

talked about the changes during visit to camden, new jersey, commander in chief used the city as example of successful police force. speaking at the camden crock center, the president recognize the the strides the city has made to reduce violent crime since forming counting-run department. he also said it is no wonder companies are relocating to camden . >> camden community model emphasizes foot patrols, and neighborhood interaction we've seen officers are read to go children and checking in with local businesses, on their beat. >> folks going out to work before work. should you bring your umbrella? >> i would suggest it. even though we did have showers, they came through during one time frame. today bit more scattered throughout the day so we have some now some later this afternoon, come get little feisty. >> oh, that feisty sound. >> i say that, probably have just enough heat and instability to trigger maybe even not just gusty wind but possibly small size hail out of the storms that do erupt here today. we have some time before this clears out. looking at very calm wind. generally, just light showe

pursuing that goal of continuing with the program with the san francisco school and went to daily city it is successful because their poor in after-school program we're up to the fourth of the school body with the program after-school program with second and third grartdz the thing about it any one of the kids up through middle will easily going git-go into the school of the arts i left you with a dvds a promotional video for it that basically you know shows you a thump nail have you it is a minute and a half long i hope you'll please take a look at it i wanted to say that this can be replicated again with almost no costs to the school district other than place and the last thing i want to correct a misconception people is had a couple of weeks ago i was the person responsible for a rejection and two kids were successfully at the school he was so happy with the school he did two major fundraiser and the instructor would have enjoyed that he did spain and the introduction was concerto i wanted to correct that. >> commissioners you should have received the dvd in our speaker materials >> thank you. next