the children to go. also recently there are many fire incidents in chinatown. o it's important to prevent fires, but imagine whenever there's a fire, a low-income person faces tremendous difficulties without a place to live. it also increases the burden on the city to relocate them. so i'm asking the city government to provide more childcare and more places for our children to play and more fire prevention for our chinatown buildings. thank you. >> i want to address that for a moment, specifically with regards to fires. in my time in office, i have probably taken part, along with my aide in responding to half a dozen major fires in the district. this has been a very serious situation. i do want to thank many of the departments that are here, particularly our human services agency, rec and park, the police department, the fire department for their response in helping us deal with the aftermath of these fires. all that being said, we as a city need to do more to invest to make sure our buildings are safe, that these fires don't happen in the first place, the neigh

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

not just for the new chinatown, as it was called in the 1980's, but for russian-speaking immigrants, people from the caribbean. there are so many different mixtures of people, and i guess my district, like many other neighborhoods in the city, is kind of what draws me to it. and just the political life of people very passionate about their own communities and their life, but also interacting with others from around the world. it has been wonderful. i also am really a supporter of the arts, especially community arts, and just learning about other people's experience from artistic needs. we are lucky to have golden gate park. the museum and the academy of sciences and so many other institutions. but also, a lot of community arts centers. there is all these community arts space is that i just love, and it makes our neighborhoods a much more colorful and livable as well. >> what motivated your interest

i want to say i have a lot of respect for the chinese community in chinatown, because i feel it's a beacon of where the communities in san francisco need to go to become communities that are self sufficient, that uphold heritage and culture, attracts revenue to the city. i want to say chinatown is like the fillmore, like the mission, these places in the city that make up the city. that's pretty much all i have to say. god bless you all. >> thank you. we're going to answer a few of the questions before andy gets up. the gentleman from c.p.a. in terms of the revenue ideas, there's a debate as to what's progressive revenue, what's not. but anyway, having said that, we have been studying ways in which we could potentially raise revenue in the city, ways with which we can reach agreement with the board of supervisors and potentially the public. what's been the most challenging is that most of the ideas that we've had so far will require a two-thirds vote of the members of the public. and in doing that, there is very slim chances for a lot of the ideas to go forward when you acquire those two-th

you could take the bus from city college of the way to chinatown. the third street, all this deliberation, they talk the talk, but they cannot walk the walk. there are many factors. non-and the main factors is we do not have the software. we have all trains. the second factor is. if you take a certain portion of the lines, the third light rail perform somewhat well. the other day, i was waiting, and 3 trains -- not one, not the law -- not two. we waited 50 minutes for the train. supervisor mar: where was this? >> the bay shore. it is quite a popular hub. you wait for 15 minutes. you have an algorithm. you can use the algorithm and reduced the statistics. this is the point. in the past, the fifteen and third performed well. today, the third street light rail should be given an f-minus. that is my analysis. what i heard today was an analysis of the paralysis. we do not need that. when it comes to the language, most of the chinese constituents take a different line to get to chinatown you bang -- to giant dump. many others who speak chinese. -- to china

[applause] [applause] -- 17, pawlenty first single occupancy sro in the chinatown development center. he also wrote a grant proposal to create a bilingual fire safety and emergency preparedness curriculum along with emergency kits for each participating sro unit. [applause] [applause] valerie clinker is a voice of community change in front and behind the camera. she was a guest youth analyst at the third anniversary women's pioneer awards ceremony and presented gina davis with the woman pioneer award. she was also named valedictorian of the changing program. [applause] last but not least, a nasalee, 18, spearheaded the 16th street bart installation about gender which infused her passion for art and activism. an asset is a second year career educator at the arid and engaging facilitator of the group trend magic rashid is committed to becoming a visible and zero allied to the transgender community. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi, kim, mayor. once again, we are all here to honor and the phenomenal accomplishments of these 15 new four years. it has been a blessin

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we spoke to poke through the chinatown development center to see how we could make this service work better. not only as a benefit to the residence, but this will be running from the caltrain area through union square, up to the northern waterfront, and even having a quarter leg near the f line at jones street. that would be a key backbone for the effort. 30x starts further downtown and gives a more speedy route out to the western end of the spectator areas. one other item to show, the e line. that has drawn a lot of attention from folks in the area. that is one idea that lends itself well to how we want to move people to and from this event. by connecting the caltrain terminal, this building at the ferry terminal, and at the fisherman's wharf. we hope that people enjoy themselves through the america's cup village, wharf area. we are looking at ways to bring that online to ensure that it is effectively interspersed with the f line.

you build it here, in glen park, the mission, chinatown. it builds up the strength of the city. it comes back to our department's opening up their resources, not protecting it like other bureaucratic agencies have historically done. we've said we can do it and be challenged with a grant program completely open to everybody. these things are worth the $1 million it looks like today. it is worth 10 times more in building camaraderie and companionship with our neighbors. i want to emphasize that. i want to represent that by giving what i can do to reflect our appreciation for the leadership. it is a certificate of honor to julian for his leadership on this project and many other projects that have kept this community working and expanding and growing. there is a design around his leadership. by voice vote as the mayor and city administrator that when you have strong communities, things like disasters, we will have strong neighborhoods to help us recover back. this is the beginning of that. i want to give you this certificate on behalf of the city, parks trust, the challenge grant p

she died of leukemia, the best selling author, chef, culinary guide was known as the -- of chinatown. she had been rewarded for her service to the community and was a featureed guest on behind the bay. he's founded by -- and ben fong torres. tonight her facebook page is overflowing with tributes and wishes for the family. he was 64 years old. >>> a bay area congregation caught up in cost. in--controversy. and the tough working conditions for domestic workers... the stories they're sharing aimed at . why some parishioners have taken issue. >>> and the tough conditions for -- workers. controversial move in one east >>> june 21st at 1:16 p.m. marks the start of summer. it sure feels like it. it was warm today and it's going to be warm tomorrow. ,,,,,, the internet on a plane! are you from the future? um, no. cleveland. listen cleveland, your savings account is stuck in the past! earn more with interestplus savings at capitalone.com. that's new school banking baby! so instead of making peanuts, your savings will be earning three times the national average. oops. sorry. three times more? i

the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. e 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