in working with 311 and the chinatown groups, we came up with a program that will begin next week, the first of may, called operation chinatown wipeout. it takes the elements of the pledge, it takes what was described earlier in the first panel where david worked in one part of the area outside of "st. and takes certain elements and puts them together for the first time in the connect with a program that i run that i wanted to advise you of today. that is the community challenge grant program. for the next six months, we are going to have the white out program. it will work with a certain corridor of chinatown. it will capture this very concentrated effort where not only is the graffiti on the first level -- if you walk outside today and if you were to be able to lift your head and looked just beyond the facades that we called chinatown and see the second and third levels, you will notknow, just like the shot film had, what the development centers struggling with is the attacking that occurs on the roof levels and the upper walls and on the facades above what the tourists see. you will

i want to announce the launching of that, the cooperation we are getting from chinatown, and the fact that we will end it here in chinatown as well. the grant is there for your assistance as well. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. for many years, i get called to do a radio debate, all kinds of debates. they always have some vandal trying to explain to me why what they are doing is right and that kind of stuff. i keep on scratch my head saying, i do not understand why these vandals are defacing other people's property. it is that simple. is it that they do not have a place to go? what is going on? anyway, i have had the opportunity to meet someone that has been having a lot of discussions about what to do with these vandals. is it a place to go? is it lack of training from when they were young? i am trying to figure this out. throughout the process, i was able to meet lewis, the director of the commission cultural program. i said, we are having this today. why don't you come and share with us your thoughts on why these metals are committing these acts. maybe we can design a

there is the chinatown community development center. chinese community health corporation, a health care association, the chinatown help coalition, and the chinese chamber. working with all of them and all of us is someone high-value very much. we have been out to the same fires. we have been there on a daily basis when we are working with fire victims in chinatown. we have had times when we are asking ourselves how we can be better prepared to of the city. now that he is board president and i am mayor, those discussions are hopping on a policy level. i want to welcome a good friend that i am working closely with. that is our board president, david chu. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. the fire chief started with a story about mayor lee. let me continue with a second story. about six months into my first term, we have a major fire in the heart of chinatown. it was played on a friday night. i had just gotten a call while i was at a dinner for the chinatown development committecd about how we have people who did not have supplies they n

so many seniors are in the chinatown area. on the hill, people do not have to look at antennas. please, no more delays. thank you for your consideration. >> good evening, supervisors. we have a specialty general contractor. we are located on third street. we are the telecommunication workers that make yourself ands -- cell phones work. we employ roughly 120 employees. we are a union contractor. we love these jobs. in the 16 years, we have never had health damage from rf exposures. for the general public, there is roughly zero risk. the cordless phone provides 150 times as much radiofrequency exposure as do these micro antennas. baby monitors provide as much as 10 times more exposure. the last keynote is that the construction industry has very huge unemployment. we need jobs. that is all i have got to say. >> good evening, supervisors. i am the district four residents. i am a due paying electrician. i have a local business started 30 years ago. not only do these projects employ the telecommunications workers, but also a very important part of our business model. we appreciate the

, are the densest neighborhoods within the densest neighborhoods west of the mississippi. chinatown and north beach are not just the most historic and oldest and some of the most important neighborhoods that we have here in san francisco, but these are neighborhoods that have very little open space, and both north beach and chinatown, we do not have front porches. we do not have backyards. we do not have many places for people to play, for young people to run around, and was on the streets is going to mean for the residents of chinatown and north beach will be an opportunity for all of our generations to join the rest of the city and plate. for our young people, our families, and seniors, and this is why it is so wonderful to be here as part of this kickoff announcement, but also, for this new announcement about the inclusion of chinatown and north beach. these are two neighborhoods that have been in recent years working in close partnership, and i want to thank the neighborhood association, the resident groups, and the merchant groups who have come here today to partner with our ci

>> i represent the chinatown cdc. i am delighted to to be here. let me congratulate you and the mayor for the two ended million dollars. this links of some of the dances neighborhoods in san francisco. this is a very critical project. we remain steadfast in our support. i have presented 15,000 petitions in support of the project. right here from not only chinatown but for the northeast sector. i am very happy to urge our strong support for this project and got to get this project built. >> good afternoon. >> i have served on this in the first year. we serve the same purpose, to bring the area all the way into downtown. we were notified her that this is expensive. if we hear anyone coming into protests, we keep this one for one reason or the other. we will go between union square and chinatown. is this right thing to do? thank you for your support. >> i can to speed gun and other issues coming before you. i feel compare of -- i feel compelled to talk about this. from what i've heard, this is a lot of money spent with very little good return. i ride

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different par

>> i represent the chinatown cdc. i am delighted to to be here. let me congratulate you and the mayor for the two ended million dollars. this links of some of the dances neighborhoods in san francisco. this is a very critical project. we remain steadfast in our support. i have presented 15,000 petitions in support of the project. right here from not only chinatown but for the northeast sector. i am very happy to urge our strong support for this project and got to get this project built. >> good afternoon. >> i have served on this in the first year. we serve the same purpose, to bring the area all the way into downtown. we were notified her that this is expensive. if we hear anyone coming into

the march meeting. i have worked in developing a link for a living library in chinatown to link with the san francisco's chinatown. i have over three decades of experience as an educator. planting and maintaining trees, [unintelligible] beginning in the mid-70s about an arts center that resulted in

we have the fire at the edge of chinatown and north beach. which, by the way, and generated transports. we had a surge of calls. when we examine the data for those calls and went back and reviewed a sample that every paramedic completes, 70% of them are alcohol-related. comments from the commanders on the scene that night, it was anecdotally that they had just never seen so many young people in their 20s, mostly women, that were drunk. it goes to two kinds of permits, you get to do the facility like hospitals and the home. your response to the scene of 911 calls. you can come and transport non life-threatening cases to the hospital. it would not appear to be life- threatening. at 2:30 in the morning, we had 33 code three calls. that is red light siren and potentially life-threatening. most of them turned out not to be, but we have no way of knowing until we get there. there of the 450 calls for medical care. we called our brothers and sisters and for the first time that we know of, activated a mutual aid system. they sent us a strike team. the

we are an organization established by members of the chinatown housing project. we of more than 400 households in the development. most are low income modeling goal, immigrant families and seniors. we are here to support the effort of the san francisco 10 and communication to solve the bedbug epidemic. we understand the plight of low- income tenants living in substandard housing conditions. there needs to be more out of reach done in the community. oftentimes, i hear from other tenants that they have bedbug problems, but they do not know how to properly deal with the problem. i call on the board of supervisors and the mayor's office to find a solution with adequate resources to solve this problem. thank you for your attention. supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello, good afternoon, supervisors. i am one of the tenants on broadway street. i have lived there for about three years. the last two weeks, i went to the emergency hospital. i got sick. the doctor said there are three reasons. i have terms and my blood. first, ammoniac. second, i have a gum disease. the third

, my friend has been changing to different companies and none of the phone has been working in the chinatown area. please, consider the safety which is very important to our increasing health needs, population in china and north beach. you know, all of the other cities, they're using cell phones. they have antenna. can we research on the other city, let's see what happens? only, san francisco has life- threatening situations because of the antenna. please come to consider seriously we need the service right away. >> thank you. >> i'm speaking in favor of the balance. there is a concern about safety. we note the malibu fires were caused by putting the equipment on polls. these devices, they claim to add to safety but they don't work very things like earthquakes and regular land mines are much more reliable. i would like to talk about the aspect of the eir. there is a question about whether an environmental review should take place. a lot people know about what the possible impact is which could include radiation issues and that is not have anything to do with the telecommunications act. this

he immediately did work with us so the chinatown community could get the clipper program had also get a lot of outreach and education. >> i am the executive director of cyc. i am pleased to speak and opera -- to have the opportunity to speak in favor. his work is well-known and highly regarded. for our youth worker, gerry has always reached out to the office of workforce opportunities. we also believe gerry has the expertise to continue serving on the mta. and combined with his management skills, he brings to the table 40 years of experience and knowledge as a valued employee or he is currently the community relations manager had congressional awareness coordinator. we all know he is very proud to be a native of borden san franciscan. we look forward to his reappointment. supervisor kim: any other public comment? public comment is closed. any comments? i would like to say thank you for your service. i look forward to working with you on many pedestrian safety issues. i of that supervisor elsbernd -- i know that supervisor elsbernd has experience with transportation as well. we see a d

. >> for the chinatown public health center, the design is complete. they are staged to begin work. we have asked them to hold off because we had heard that some action was going to be taken at the state level. once we saw with the action was and this does not address the create an occupation immediately available to us, it appears that it is per pre to go forward without a contract as awarded. were we to terminate that contract, we would incur costs. we would have a claim against us. >> how much would it cost? >> it depends on how long it takes to do the work. this depends on when we cancelled the contract. >> that was one of the questions we asked, are we able to stop that and could that be the case? there is really no new information that is actionable right before us. do we go ahead and incur a cost and stop a project or do we try to work and get some agreement with who does the work? the state has not clarified who does the work. >> given the fact that -- is not bound by the local hiring ordinance, is that a correct statement. >> this was awarded over a year ago but they have s

i forwarded it to the chinatown merchants association. it will encourage the emergence to participate. commissioner adams: i would like to stop in at their meetings. >> i also want to report that i have been busy with the citizen's committee of community development. it has been very busy. as you know, federal has cut the funding for the grants a lot. we have to work with the staff to see what we are going to do. we are dealing with a 30% cut. april 5, we sat through a public hearing for five and a half hours just to listen to the hardships that it will bring to the non-profit. it was a very difficult meeting, but it is what it is. >> commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: i want to highlight the one-year anniversary of the one-year passing of the passinhealth care reform. on march 21, it was organized by scott hoch of small business california and included representatives from the small business in desperation, health and human services, and insuring the uninsured project. i think some of the highlights for the fact that there are millio