so, we will be having the third meeting on february 11th at the bayview opera house. we've had two previous meetings on subject. we'd love to have your comments heard there. just as you attended the meeting, i believe you said on january 22nd. so, we'd love to have your comments there if you could come, please. >>> [inaudible]. >> well, please call the commission house for that information, okay? >>> march 25th at [inaudible]. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> commissioners, ray stryker, [speaker not understood]. andrew carnegie said as i get older i pay less attention to what men say. i just watch what they do. i've been coming here several years now and i listen to what you say and i watch what you do. president mazzucco is very, very fond of telling me that i don't control the agenda. he's right, he does. he can arrange the agenda, have it distributed to the public and then ashe [train crashing] arbitrarilily change it whatever he wants without results. [speaker not understood] power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely. all i ever requ

i'm so proud to live in the bayview. this is a neighborhood of hidden gems. we invite you all to come along, come out and experience our great secret. along those lines i want to tell you guys about bayview urban [speaker not understood] which is getting a lot of traction. so, [speaker not understood], and again, thank you so much for this honor. (applause) (applause) >> and last but not least, we have supervisor john avalos representing district 11. (applause) >> we always save the best district for last, right? >> that's right. >> just joking. i know we all have the best districts. i want to call up mary lavalos to the podium, please. [cheering and applauding] >> it is my honor to provide a commendation for the work of mary lavalay. she is a student advisor at san francisco community school where she has spent many, many years bringing up young people, especially youth of color, black kids at the school. that's where my wife actually teaches. i have two kids who go to school there as well. so, mary has had to work with my kids which is above and beyond the c

our redevelopment agency made a number of commitments over the years to support funding for the bayview opera house, and that has not been able to be sustained. and, so, in order to keep that project moving we're recommending funding for that project as well. you can see the last point here. [speaker not understood] commission does have within their existing reserves sufficient funds to support child care programs within the existing budget. as i mentioned, we are in support of the budget analyst recommendations. happy to answer any questions or to ask my colleagues to do the same. >> supervisor avalos. >> just a quick question about the bayview opera house. didn't we approve funding for that last year as well to complete renovation? and how is it that -- i didn't expect there was going to be bite at the apple for more funding for that. >> so, that project has had a number of different sources of funding over time. there has been a general fund commitment to the project. this was one element of the funding plan which has not -- has become not available any more. but overall the project

and whereas known in the community as "the unofficial mayor of bayview hunters point" dr. he is p/e knoll a jackson was instrumental in the creation of the southeast community facility * to bring educational, employment, and community resources to the southeast. and... >> thank you, commissioner. doctor, whereas dr. espinola jackson has passion atly worked to improve the lives of african americans in san francisco, to organizing for welfare and labor rights and to her service on numerous committees and commissions including the san francisco redevelopment joint housing committee, economic opportunity council, and the southeast facility commission, and whereas engaged frequent attendee of the san francisco public utilities commission meetings and southeast facility commission meetings, dr. espinola jackson collaborates with the san francisco public utilities commission and staff to improve our operations both in the bayview and throughout san francisco. and... >> and whereas on february 9th, 2013, dr. espinola jackson celebrated her 80th birthday and the lifetime of service

today i'm introducing an ordinance i've been working with with the neighborhoods of the bayview as well as the community department to establish a neighborhood notification requirement for parcel zone pdr1b. i'm sad to say this legislation was actually borne out of an unfortunate incident. late last year the old berkeley farms milk plant on oakdale avenue was demolished with no notification to the immediate neighbors and resulted in numerous notices of violation and a stop work order. when we went through -- when we went through nearly a decade long process to create the eastern neighborhood plan, what we established a special zoning category that recognized a particular area of the bayview where we have heavy industrial uses immediately across the street from single-family homes. the contractor in this case clearly made a calculation that if they needed to share their plans with the neighbors before they began their work, that they likely would have a very different project and certainly a different process. so, this legislation that i'm introducing today will require a neighborhood no

and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. and it actually started, ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. and it's the thought child and the physical manifestation of hard work, of a few community leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. and tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the co-founders, his name is jeffery betcher. where are you? get up here. and jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. annette young smith to the stage. this lady, ladies and gentlemen, is a lifetime achievement award winner. please, please welcome her to the stage. (applause) >> i can't think of a more deserving woman. thank you. come on in. jeffery, i love you. >> i love you, too. >> hello, neighbors. good evening. you know, first i have to say that i "heart" the portola, i really do. [laughter] >> this is an amazing win frankly for the whole southeast sector, from progress park down, and it's a wonderful night. great to be here with all of

so, that would be great. >> i need to double-check the zoning for the bayview location. but under the current code, if wal-mart buys all of the fresh and easy locations and brands them, then the code would not consider that a change that would need a new conditional use authorization. however, if they were just to buy one of the stores, then they would need to come in for a new conditional use authorization to change from the fresh and easy to the wal-mart. so, that's under the current planning code requirements for formula retail. >> commissioner moore. >> director, thank you for issuing a quick response to the railroad boulevard, [speaker not understood], a question i raised last week. as i read it, the one thing i would love to see is a diagram of exactly where the demising lines of these considerations are because i am a visual person. in going through the description would help me to have some form of a diagram, even if it's just bubbles which generally speak about where it is. would appreciate that. >> commissioners, it will place you under directeder's report item

of the land use committee this year, and i was vice chair last year with our former chair from the bayview hunters point area. i guess i approach land use and economic development from a different perspective. i'm not against development, but i want it to be equitable so we look at the lowest income populations or even middle income populations so that residents have a strong say as development moves forward, whether it is the park ridge said development in the southern, western part of the city or even treasure island with there's many low-income families that currently live there. but it is a strong voice for the residents that currently are there. we also want to see new people moving into the city, and hopefully, we focus also on families and housing that provides better homes and home opportunities for families, but i always say that i support equitable development. i also do feel that big business and downtown interests usually dominate the discussion on development. i want to see a balance of those forces, but also with residents and environmentalists and others that have an importa

it openly and she's very forthright, and i appreciate very much on behalf of the whole community the bayview hunters point for what you all did for her today. and god will bless you for that. on the water system improvement project, we have accomplished a lot. and my only hope is that understanding what we did with the water system improvement project, that we bring forward the finer projects and apply them to the sewer system improvement project. now, regarding the bonds, i have had a few occasions to sit down with your chief financial officer and get the relevant information so that we can share that information with our students, our university students with whom i work in a very focused way. the other thing i do is i get whatever historical books, the san francisco public utilities commission has made them read it so they can give their impressions and see how our students in our universities can contribute to their learning, either getting certified in certain things, or participating in whatever way. finally, you know, all this comes under the general manager of the san francisco publi

45 homicides last year in san francisco by gun fire. 25 percent of those happened right here in the bayview district and that's an annual phenomenon. none of this is worse than what happened in new town. i was in washington yesterday and we heard from the city chiefs more detail than i wanted to know about that will probably come out in time, but if there was anybody who should not have a weapon it was that kid, who wasn't actually a kid, he was 29 years old. if we can just go with president obama's recommendations, senator feinstein asking for the assault weapons ban again, i think it's critical that some of the recommendations of the major city police chiefs in this whole country are to impose legislation that would require states to recognize any and all concealed carry permits, that sounds far-fetched but it made it to the floor and made it last year. in arizona you can walk around like a western cowboy with your gun on your hip, oppose legislation that furlts erodes atf authority, require unlicensed private pack ground dealers to do background checks at gun shows, reinstate the assault

right now i can walk into any school in the san francisco bayview area without anybody questioning my credential and i've done that. the reason why i've done that is because i go in there to check make sure every elementary, every public school complies with williams versus state of california law which my son and i started and was signed into law by arnold schwarzenegger in 2004. and even today, even that law is not complied with by the principals, teachers, staff and the schools of california. so it's so sad for me that i've worked this hard without sounding the alarm, blowing the trumpet or anything, that i was the author of this law. but now it's still violated in the schools of california. so my point is this. we need to bring god back into the equation. we need to bring god back into the equation. with god, we can do everything. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. (applause). >> mark lynch. >> thanks so much for having this get-together. i've seen a lot of people that are able to talk to each other and have calm discussions but i'm a leader of a construction trade union in san

. >> it's going to be an uphill battle in the bayview district of san francisco as the city is tryingbreak people out of the habit of parking on the public sidewalks. >> sot: when a handicapped person has to take his wheelchair and go around in the streets becuae he cant go across the sidewalk because of the car it creats an issue. beginning in march the san francisco department of traffic and parking and the san francisco police department will begin handing out tickets. so for the second week in a row written and verbal warnings are being handed out to anyone in violation of the law nats: this is a warning just letting you know to stop parking on the sidewalk or they are going to stop towing cars nats so we can't park like this, no you cnat block the sidewalk at all. but it's not just about getting the vehicles off the side walk. if you look up there is another problem causing blight. people have tossed sneakers on the powerlines. lots of sneakers and even with all the urban legends as to what shoes on power lines means. what it all boils down to is blight, it looks bad just like a

amorphou >> once this flaw which fuele for as long as i can remember this is what it looked like in the bayviewn francisco cars parked on the sidewalk in fact if you were to visit almost any other section of the city, parking on the sidewalk would mean instant ticket but because of threats violence and treats of violents many driver got away with violating the parking code but now the jig is up >> we are going to start tagging for sidewalks like on a continuous basis for the next month warning will be going out to anyone who illegally parks on the sidewalk san francisco department of parking and traffic along with the san francisco oilice department fanned out all around the bayview >> there he go right there talking about people behaving badly handing out flyers but why not just hand out tickets like everywhere else >> we're not coming out heavy handed, you know people are given a month to say hey look you know what change is gong to take place and were not coming down hard on them were trying to give them a fair warning so they can make adjustments. adjustment like learning to not use public

and we have our -- the department has their final meeting on monday, february 11th at the bayview opera house. and it's at 6. the chief just queued me. 6 to 8 and we would like to encourage, this is the last of the scheduled meetings. so, we'd really like to encourage anyone who hasn't had a chance to come out. it's not only just for bayview. so, anyone from around the city is invited to attend. so, it will be from 6:00 to 8:00 on monday, february 11th. >> great, thank you. you i want to thank all the commissioners who are attending the chief's meetings on this issue and it's great. commissioner de jesus. >> i've been getting calls from the community * . and one of the things i am very concerned about the tasers, my understanding is we have a committee set up, i believe there are three commissioners who are attending, and i've been told if i attend it's going to be a quorum. that's the reason i haven't been to these meetings, everybody who is listening. and i appreciate that. i appreciate your reporting back to us at some of the committee members [speaker not understood]. i have heard a

the bayview on june 9th and the great highway on july 7th. as the rest of the calendar gets secured and approved, we'll bring it back. we'll bring information back to the board. in addition to sunday streets is a new component that's going to be added into the mix this year called play streets. i mentioned this a while back that when the grant award for play streets came through, but it's a pilot program of four smaller one to two -block events, also featuring car-free streets. particularly in targeted areas where health disparities are high and open space is limited. so, it's kind of like a targeted mini version of sunday streets. the funding is provided by the blue cross/blue shield foundation and partnership for a healthier america. and we'll be doing the play streets event so that will be held in the tenderloin, chinatown, bayview, and the western addition. we're still working with other folks involved to determine dates, and we'll certainly let you and be working with the communities as we ramp up to those events. so, more of that, happy

the younger individuals. indictment that we did with 10 gang members in bayview. we only went after the 10 most violent gang members. the ones committing murders, robberies. within their gangs, there was another subset of the individuals doing burglaries. those are not the individuals we went after. we went after the most violent ones. by getting of the most violent ones, what happens there was below of homicide, robbery is entailed -- and a lull in retaliatory shootings. what has to be done, you have to find a way to address that lull when it occurs. when he to find a way to have intervention when certain of the most violent members are taken off the streets. we look at the context of the individual, the external factors, and we try to find the appropriate remedy. [applause] >> you started an organization that helps parents who have suffered the death of their child or children by violence. what made evaded you to do this? >> but what motivated you to do this? >> good morning, so glad to be here. i want to thank you for inviting me to this panel. giving honor to g