they have been teaching dance at the chinatown ymca and other clubs in the chinatown area since they retired 17 years ago. five years ago, they began volunteering to teach ballroom dancing at the golden gate park for the senior center. they are extremely energetic and engaged in a wide variety of dancers and styles. this couple is a grid example of how when you give a little, you get a lot. we celebrate their an outstanding work and achievement and we thank them for their dedication to improving the lives of so many. [applause] >> i just want to say that my greatest passion in life is ballroom dancing. i hope my students share the same experience that i have. we certainly enjoy teaching them. they are such wonderful students. we have class twice a week. we get about 170 and month. i hope to keep on teaching them as long as i live. thank you very much for the certificate. [applause] >> we will be teaching at 3:00. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment under the president's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item number three, the general managers' report.

have there been special efforts to go into the chinatown area to make sure residents are available? >> in terms with businesses, we would be happy to share more information on that. we have done outreach in multiple neighborhoods and specifically to business communities. when we hold outrech events, we do do translation and would be happy to focus on that with you. commissioner chu: let people know the metings are happening, because otherwise they will have no way of knowing. commissioner dufty: thank you. i think we have had a good feeling, and it would be worthwhile to make this more meaningful, because they have done excellent work reaching out and i think it would be more important. so i have had people say it is right here on eighteenth street. is that something you can -- >> initially we considered it. one thing we have been doing is to move it not from active, but to the brun -- laguna, and we are also looking at how the neighborhoods on the edge of the zone would be able to be protected. commissioner dufty: was their a meeting with the labor council? if not i would suggest t

have there been special efforts to go into the chinatown area to make sure residents are available? >> in terms with businesses, we would be happy to share more information on that. we have done outreach in multiple neighborhoods and specifically to business communities. when we hold outre

volunteered he's design skills for countless organizations, which include building web sites for the chinatowneighborhood center, north beach neighborhood associations, american or in performing arts, and the asian american pageant. he was also a project coordinator ad a community youth center where he spearheaded community clubhouses after school programs. i even visited a program that he created, and he has taught asian youth graphics and web design, so we are honored to announce his leadership in the community. >> i would like the coordinator this year to join us. [applause] >> congratulations to thomas. do you want to say a few words? >> thank you for this amazing award. i want to thank my parents, my brother, friends and family, but one person that stood out to me is my role model, rose chung, also known as my godmom. she taught me that in the world, that with a little perseverance and dedication, that you should. you should give it a try even though you can make it. throughout the years, she taught me that obstacles are nothing but steppingstones to prepare you for life's challenges to b

. >> [speaking foreign language] >> it also benefits the hunters point and benefits the chinatown. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i want my children to be owners of a home. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i urge you to do this program, and i also support it. thank you. >> pinkett evening, good afternoon, supervisors. -- good evening. we have 70 people, 70 families here, and they support the building program, and the program is good for our city, good for our families, and good for the community, so we support it. ok, thank you. president max " -- president maxwell: mabel, could you have the people in your group who supported just raise their hands? -- who support it? thank you. excuse me. mabel? mabel? mabel, why do you not have them go out that door? all right. why do you not come out? t

the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go

>> the choreographer and dancer actually was a student of mine and residency in cameron house and chinatown. i developed a friendship with her over many years, and also with the spoken word artists. i met him at a benefit at one of the benefits in chinatown. it is part of that ongoing really rich relationship building that happens in our arts community. >> i got a chance to hear a little bit of your performance, and i am a big fan of john coltrane, and you play a phenomenal sax. can you tell me a little about your musical influences. >> a particular piece about john coltrane was he reached out to asia and his global vision. as an asian american growing up and coming up in this country seeking some recognition, that was a very meaningful, making that kind of contribution. i really owe a debt to john coltrane for recognizing my culture and uplifting it as part of the music as well. >> i know that your family history is really rich and complex in terms of illustrating how the chinese has occurred over the last two centuries. it could talk about that? >> it began in the 1870's, when my great gr

this is the city with the first and largest chinatown in the united states, a city that is appropriately celebrating three decades of specific relationship with the people of shanghai and china. this is a city that again has always maintained itself as other people oriented, that recognizes that it's real inspiration is by looking for inspiration not just internally, but looking for instance operation around the world. so i am very proud to be here, and proud to be here at this important moment. i am proud of the incredible team at the arts commission. luis, p.j. johnson and the entire commission, and to the passion, persistence, dedication, focus and follow-through of jill, who deserves a big round of [applause] , wherever you want. [applause] >> and to all of our sponsors. i won't begin again, but the hu family and all of you for your contribution. thank you for making this happen. we did want to be audacious, we wanted something bold, something that would get some attention and generate some controversy. the only thing missing -- were seems to love this thing. it doesn't seem to be pa

. >> reporter: wu has with who has high cholesterol and hypertense came to the chinatown public healthcentre for care and its director steered him into healthy san francisco. >> now phil knows this is his medical home. he actually cannot go toll another health centre to get care. >> if he needs hospitalization you manage it from here. >> we coordinate with the specialists, we coordinate the care of the emergency room. >> reporter: healthy san francisco was proposed in 2006 by mayor newsome and approved by the city supervisors. >> we're a public plan. we're that public option. and i don't think you noticed anything but the american flag on city hall when you came here. we didn't replace it with the canadian flag. the sky didn't fall. in the world didn't come toon end. >> newsome's plan is not exactly the public option debated in congress. city health director inch katz explained state law requires cities and countys to treat sick people even without payment, even in tough economic times. >> everywhere you go counties and cities are spending money taking care of the uninsured. and certai

i current live in the western addition and have lived in the north beach-chinatown area and now in the western addition. i remember when i lived on polk street when there was a beat officer or two i would see on a daily basis. they got to know me, i got to know them. when we talk about citizens trust the police or don't, i always trust the police because i know them personally. back in the 1970's, things had changed where you could get to know the police officers like i did growing up, so there was that continuity of the relationships that kids and thec community have with their officers. things seem to be going well now. working with the captain at the station, i havegreat relationships with the police officers, i know them and can call them at any time from the ymc or any community i know about. the question is, will this continue throughout the years? things may be fine now, but what about in the future, 5 years from now, 10 years from now? my experiences lead to where i do trust the police and has good communications with them. i want to be able to say that 15 years from now. thank

the gentrification for people on chinatown, there are no loans to sell in chinatown, and for people in the mission, there are plenty of homes in bayview where you can buy property, and this is the kind of gentrification. most people feel they do not get enough money, so they moved out. we have all sorts of people were they cannot afford housing, and we have special programs we want to implement and talk to your about. >> thank you, and if there is anybody else i have not called to would like to speak, please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is mitchell, and i am a student. right now i have nothing to do. i have no school to go to because it is summer, and you say the train is going to leave, but we want to train tuesday. i want work. ahead region we want the train tuesday. i want it -- we want the train to stay. i want work. this is good for me to get experience right now we need to create and jobs, what ever is. i need to get experience before i can get a bigger job. thank you very much, supervisors. >> any further public comments? >> [speaking foreign language] >

early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily

this is exactly the project we want, the transition to chinatown, and people having a quality experience would make it wonderful to walk five. i would support on all possible exemptions. it does a remarkable job. >> this could be another excellent building. it fits so seamlessly. i am sure this will, too. it works to meet that end. >> before you is a motion of approval. on that motion? [calling votes] >> thank you. on the variants. >> i would close the public hearing in light of the usual configuration and would grant those for the conditions. >> thank you. you are now on item 13. [reading item] >> i am kevin with neighborhood planning staff. the request is for conditional use operation. in measures roughly 1100 square feet plus an exterior. no amplified music is hosted by the bar, and the project proposes no extension or physical changes to the interior for an exterior. they have operated continuously since the 1960's. in 1970, they rendered its non- conforming to reagan -- non- conforming. our records indicate the department failed to send notification to the property prior to the stat

chinatown will have one officer assigned foot patrol. i don't know if it will be full time, though. >> reporter: and that has businessmen talking about hiring their own security for the neighborhood. >> we don't want to have any more damage to chinatown or throughout the city so that's a possibility that we are thinking of doing. >> reporter: that's only a short-term solution. there's also concern about what fewer cops will mean to oakland's high crime image. that worries chan and others, as well. >> business in general would drop at least 20%. normally you would see people walking here a lot more people. but now it's so quiet. >> reporter: bottom line? >> this puts us back 2006, 2005 levels. >> reporter: you were on the street then. what was the crime level? >> we had a hire crime rate. we had a higher homicide rate. >> reporter: that is one thing oakland officials don't want to see repeated. but i have to tell you that even with these layoffs, oakland is not out of the woods yet and there is talk of more layoffs unless voters approve tax increases in november. >> thank you, phil matier in oakland. >>> a group of former bay area autoworkers is now suing nummi and to

for the city college chinatown campus there was a community independent monitor built into that. have you considered an independent agency to work in partnership with the redevelopment agency and your office? >> i will speak for my office. the difference of the city college model and our model and the reason why the community monitoring made sense there is there are not folks inside the system who do that kind of work. for them, they needed to procure that service and selected community tender. in the city, we have a tapestry of folks who do contract compliance. it is so little different for us. the oversight, mr. blackwell could speak to this deeper than i can, on this particular project, it will come in a variety waya voice from the community. i have done this presentation. that is where i currently go back and report on lowe's that is where i would envision would come back to where i am -- hot and doing on the work force. -- that is where i would envision would come back to how i am doing on the work force. we will assess. i have gone and presented in her interview. wherever th

of the video which shows his truck through san francisco if you look carefully conceived the shelters chinatownser the broadway tunnel into union square and magically make it to the embarcadero and the finished product he makes it to the golden gate bridge right there. the finished product consists of nearly 3000 still frame shopper to 14 days the filmmakers traveled across country in an rv living know what they call the gatorade diet. they stopped at the next places along the way to do their chutes. if you like to check out the entire video visit our whats on the web section of www.kron4.com and stay with us kron 4 is big block of news coming up next. ec transit dispute continues in riders continue to see delays about 15 to 20 percent of the workforce calls in sick each and every day. on friday a judge will weigh in on the issue as kron 4 christine conley tells a service cuts could be hanging in the balance. ac transit says 15.7 million without the savings agency claims the bus system would lose $300,000 a week. it could move towards the brink of bankruptcy and would have to look at drastic cu

the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> with my artists, eight of them are working in tehran, iran, the capital city, and one is an iranian american based in san francisco. the problem is really a collective exploration in the day and the life in tehran. it is the largest city in the middle east. for the gallery, one of the first pieces you see is one piece which is a laser-cut peace, it taken directly from the map of the city itself -- a laser-cut piece. it represents the geography of the city. it is positioned right next to another work by an artist who took a 77 taxicab runs and let the potholes and the city turns of tehran dictate how the city would be portrayed. >> [singing] >> one of the other piec

that is actually the only basketball court in chinatown, and there's a great demand for basketball in chinatown, so this became our number one priority, and it has been there for its useful life. no. 2, it is very large on a very small park. there was a landslide that occurred about a year and a half ago, and it is because of constant concern, because we need to put a cable and ronda system in place, because there will be over time further rock slides, and we would like to have a containment system so we have an effort in place. a through d is an optional process for us. every year we bring each of them down for two years, where we accomplished some of the routines on the swimming pool. sadly, we do not know what we have until we get in there. we know we can assess the condition. the remaining system, circulation pump, and everything else, and this is what happened there reagan -- what happened there. we found out it could no longer be used, and that led to a whole host of concerns. buthese are our two oldest schools. one is in worse condition, so we decided to put a place holder so w

the great entertainers in san francisco. i couldn't talk about unusual buildings without talking about chinatown and it's one of the reasons that people come to san francisco and see a representation of a whole different way of living and many are brick buildings but have sheet metal. a lot of this stuff is made out of pressed sheet met willa. what is special about this building? it's a big building and owned by the city, the school district. >> it wasn't built there. >> it was badly dai drjed in the loma earthquake. >> it's the old commerce high school and built somewhere else and they pick today up and moved it to this current location. >> gigantic building. basically temporary railroad tracks and rolled it across the plaza. >> and with brick veneer and clay and tile entire walls. >> they say this is the first hindu temple in the united states -- in fact in the whole western world. the first temple for america and originally a two story building and we have a permit from 1,907 to add the third story and the third story turned it into this temple and each of these has deep significance in the hundredue culture and religion. on