oh, great, you are going to be here for the celebration of the chinatown campus. tell me more about that. i've been hearing a lot about it ever since and it's lived up to all the expectations. i do want to say welcome to all of you on behalf of the staff, the faculty, the administrators and all the students at city college. we appreciate your support. the city of san francisco made this possible as did the many, many personal individual donors who came to us and did what we needed when we needed it. the most important of it being, of course -- and i am a little biased -- and that is that the community college cause is above all as far as i'm concerned. the movement that we're a part of, making a difference in hundreds of thousands of people's lives, changing the city, changing the state, changing the country, and i might add as i said to the mayor, changing the world, just look around this group, is something of which we can be very proud. we appreciate your support, we thank you for your support and we know this institution and this facility is probably going to o

i would think it is in support of prioritizing chinatown except not at the exclusion since chinatown has four of the seven parks in question. others because of need or need of repair or number of people [speaker not understood] where they are would be given second choice, third choice as funding is being available. the funding stream will be not all there at once so there will be small slices being dished out over larger period of time and i do not want the [speaker not understood] to stand empty-handed. >> i think even with the prioritization put forward, it will be up to the group called [speaker not understood] which is representatives of various city departments to look at funds as they come in and make determinations about how they might best be used. ultimately the board of supervisors is the one that allocates those funds. so, there's a number of checks and balances where you look at the amount of funds that are available and how they can best be used. this just gives some direction to the [speaker not understood] how to use those funds. >> may i just add that the echo the city

priority to have the first priority. >> out of that 13 million, the chinatown parks get their first 9 million rather than -- >> 12 and a half would be for parks outside of the plan area of which 9 would be for chinatown, the question is, in the early years as the first fees come in, what -- how should they be prioritized. >> i'm not sure it will be a problem, but if it's appropriate, we should take an action on that, a couple of other things i wanted to mention and correct me if i'm wrong, there are the two areas you spoke about, what was previously redevelopment that is now into the jurisdiction of the successor act si -- agency and then there's the rest of the transbay area which is not under redevelopment and my understanding is the 30% affordable and housing applies to the redevelopment portion and the others 15%, although from what i've seen, most of the housing is going to be taking place in the redevelopment area, the lion share of it, not that there wouldn't be other, but most of the building that's being proposed in the non-redevelopment area, a high percentage of that is ho

i think probably to keep it the most flexible to now is to allocate that money for the chinatown parks and leave it at that and at the time of implementation for the planning department to work with community stakeholders so see what that is. >> i think that's already in there, the 9 million of the 13 million being allocated for parks outside of the plan area has been designated for chinatown, is that correct? >> you're correct, but the implementation plan does not state any preferences regarding priority in terms of the timing of the different improvements. >> what i'm asking for is the priority, i'm asking for the chinatown priority to have the first priority. >> out of that 13 million, the chinatown parks get their first 9 million rather than -- >> 12 and a half would be for parks outside of the plan area of which 9 would be for chinatown, the question is, in the early years as the first fees come in, what -- how should they be prioritized. >> i'm not sure it will be a problem, but if it's appropriate, we should take an action on that, a couple of other things i wanted to mention an

the first one is our chinatown beat man. he has been in the police department for 35 years and he is going to retire in february. he spent 33 years at a central station and i remember walking to junior high, used to see him because his family had a grocery store and he would coach baseball. the second guy on the chinatown beat -- everyone in chinatown knows him as the tall one. he has been in the police department 40 years and will be retiring soon. he is more chinese than i am because he teaches asian studies at the police academy and the only eat chinese food. he grew up with a bunch of chinese kids and he is much more chinese than i am. our next beat man is a true ambassador of san francisco, he was a cable car driver for 25 years. he was the cable car bell ringing champion for 30 years and he finally saw a light and wanted to join the san francisco police department. he has been in it are city serving for 50 years. he used to climb halfway to the stars in that cable cars and now he's doing it in black and white. he is ful

the report. map 1's boundaries of downtown san francisco don't include chinatown. it does include the tenderloin, it does include other areas of densely closed in neighborhoods. it also goes on and says that the impact fee revenue will be used to pay for some of these required to meet the needs generated by new residential development and population growth in the downtown. it also states in the nexus study that it is unlikely that this growth will take place north of market, is my interpretation, because north of market has essentially in the nexus studies where it's been built out. therefore, most of the projected development residential and otherwise is going to take place south of market. my question is, then, how do we justify the use of such amounts of money in neighborhoods outside of the boundary of the nexus study itself? >> commissioner, the nexus study in terms of its analysis of the growth that it focuses on is in these boundaries. new growth is in these boundaries. if you look at other tables, including for instance table 5 in the nexus study, discusses

because it is part of the history of a hero coming from chinatown, san francisco. and i n you -- 9/11 is right around the corner. while, as tragic as that event was for the whole country, we do

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time.ust 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 parts

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there was also some questions about this potential new park at the chinatown subway station, this is just -- this concept is in its very early thinking based on some conversations with the community and with the mta, just to give you a sense of the opportunity there, the station site is about 10 thousand square feet and interestingly, based on the grades of the adjacent streets, the roof of the one to two story station building is level with an adjacent school playground and that open space could be expanded into a more public space that could include the station property. the adjacent playground on the site would be generally sunny and would not be affected by this plan. in terms of the funding program itself, there was questions about how the implementation of the plan works in terms of how funds get allocated and implemented over time. the key document guiding the implementation and allocation of funds is the program implementation document that was adopted by the planning commission and in that document is the comprehensive table, projected revenues that will come in over time fro

they have tents Ñ up for the -- supposed volunteer to help the chinatown members -- citizens to vote they was passing outl stencils that they could only vote for e h&Ñ lee. i remember a lot of supervisors here tonight that actually went on the mayor'sm3 they sent a letter to the feds. that whatmén the mayor did -- i don't know what they were !n >> president chiu: thank you very much. thank youÑ h0 >> my name is don -- from districtd.p.7. we should all be clear and i'm for the reinstatement ofí=xx ross. we should be clear, speaking for the people who are for the reinstatement of ross, none offbe us support domestic violence, none of us are trying to hide it. but there's another agenda goi. vt on here tonight and that's called political violence. what we're:j#iy seeing is an attempt to politically lynch a leading proponent of== this city and working women in this city. what we're seeing in that is being carried r this town who would like to push back all the gains thatóót working people have made in this city. that's really what is on the agenda here tonight. this is a -- 7 you vote fo

we operate the chinatown one- stop career plans. is there a way to help the community to eliminate gambling? the gamblers and homeless have taken over and the seniors do not gamble and are afraid to go there now days. we try to hold exercise class is the gambling keeps many seniors away from a program. please help us. >> i work closely -- we work with 3000 seniors and our event -- we would like to take this opportunity to thank the police commission and the chief and the commissioner. we are watching out for our senior safety and making them uncomfortable to report when they get hurt. thank you. >> good evening commissioners. my name is amy chan, i may legislative aide with supervisor david chiu's office. n i also want to say thank you for working so hard to make sure our residents are safe. the supervisor could not be here today but i wanted to recognize how important you are to his office and recognize how the captain and his team have been doing a great job staying on top of the cases and working closely with their community to m

. >> my name is min what you han and i'm the dean of the north chinatown campus. >> we'd like to welcomend thank you for joining us in celebrating the opening of the new chinatown north beach campus. >> thank you for all to come tonight. >> we'd like to start by introducing our guests. trustee john miso, president of our board of trustees, trustee anita greer, vice president, board of trustees, trustee natalie burke, trustee chris jackson, trustee steve no, trustee rodrigo santos, trustee lawrence wong, student trustee william walker, we'd also like to introduce former trustees rodel rodis, allen wong, and i think peter finnican was also going to join us this evening. introduce our interim chancellor, dr. pamela fisher, our former chancellor, dr. don griffin, former chancellor dr. phillip day, and mr. mendehem, president of the citizen's bond foundation committee. >> (inaudible) mr. walker newman, and miss jacqueline liu and city of san francisco would like to recognize the honorable mayor of san francisco, the honorable david chiu, chairman of the board of supervisors. >> he's also our

her most important role is she is the head director of the chinatown child development center, a children's mental health clinic of the san francisco department of public health, one out of the community behavioral health services division. nancy, i want to thank you for taking care of our kids, taking care of our parents unction taking care of our families, chinatown and our chinese community and just being part of the amazing fabric that is our mental health community here in san francisco. congratulations. (applause) >>> supervisor chiu, thank you so much for this honor. thank you, board of supervisors also. i wanted to say that our chinatown child development center just celebrated our 40th anniversary and thank you for being there. and also, you know, before our agency formed with greater, there was only one chinese child receiving mental health services in the entire city of san francisco. and, so, the pioneers in our city decided that we needed bilingual services, chinese bilingual services in our city. and, so, our agency was created in 1972. and so 40 years later i'm happy to say t

across the city, we have been able to work and recreation centers like this. chinatown, as you have heard, is one of the most dense neighborhoods in our country. so facilities like this are very, very important for us to provide. most importantly, what do think the architect and design team that worked very, very closely with the community, all the community groups, to make sure that the center and the correct activities are being designed as part of this project. especially. wong, stanly, michele, and farah. a big hand to them because there were the designers. [applause] i also want to think david, the construction manager of all the dpw staff and all the contractors to came here. on a project like this on the bottom of a slope with the cable cars, there's a lot of activity. as you heard, we were able to deliver the product on time, on budget, but even better, below budget. again, we're working very hard together. lastly, you heard about all the art in the building. i want to point out this particular ceramic over here. orange, ground, and gray. those all locally-made

to prioritize the most highly impacted, most high needs area and in particular, i'm thinking of the chinatown parks, portsmouth square, the other ones on the list, so i'm wondering if staff can help direct me if we can do that possibly through a resolution or if there's another process that we can do that with. >> joshua switzky, planning staff, you could adopt a resolution amending the implementation document to add some language regarding priority for chinatown parks or other aspects of the project for early investment from initial impact fees, so you could do that and we could put that on the calendar. >> okay, thank you, that is my intent, that is something i'm interested in, curious to hear what other commissioners would have to say about that. >> commissioner sugaya? >> yes, a couple of questions to staff. the transit center district plan area is larger than the redevelopment area, so it's only within the redevelopment area that certain [inaudible] from the development apply, is that correct? for example, commissioner wu, i think commissioner wu was saying that there was a higher afford

the bed bugs. so my father-in-law went to chinatown cdc for help. so that was brought to the attention of the health department. so he couldn't even sleep well at night. so we are really hopeful that the legislation will help people to understand how they are treated and get better. we are living in a pretty bad situation once you have bed bugs. so we hope that we could get this legislation done really fast, so things will get better for us.

the bed bugs. so my father-in-law went to chinatown cdc for help. so that was brought to the attention of the health department. so he couldn't even sleep well

the neighborhood. we are there at cameron house in chinatown every wednesday from 9:30 to noon. when one of the d.a.s and i were there one of the victims showed up. dee was able to talk to her about what happened. we have been talking to that victim as well as other cases. >> so cameron is on sacramento and stockton street. when are those? >> every wednesday, from 9:30 to noon. then on october 27th we are actually having a chinatown resource fair to bring the community based organizations and city departments to portsmouth square so we will highlight this issue again so as much as we can get the word out to people, we will. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. are there questions? let me just ask about victim services for the district attorney's office. if somebody's lost a bunch of cash and some jewelry, how soon might they recover their stolen property if you have apprehended six people. you know how quickly somebody could recover their losses. >> that is difficult because it is hard to identify money. even just forsake of example someone loses 10,000 they ca

the downtown area outside of the plan area and that includes over 9 million dollars for parks in the chinatown area, and on top of that, an additional 6 million dollars will be generated in the downtown open space fund that na* the recreation and park department manages. there was questions that came up at the informational hearing at the rec park commission regarding the future management and oversight of these various new parks that will be funded through the plan. we provi

. >> reporter: the local name for bangkok's chinatown. the area was founded in the late 18th century in one of the oldest parts of bangkok. many of the buildings in chinatown have historical value. but parts are under threat. bangkok plans to ease the city's traffic congestion. many old buildings are slated for demolition. today the demolition has already started. some locals are being forced to evict from their homes. they've been here for generations. 68-year-old kun is being evicted from her house where she sells chinese wedding decorations. the family has been here for at least nine generations. her home is scheduled to be demolished to make space for a new subway station. many of her neighbors have already moved, but she and her family are still here. they're asking relatives for somewhere to stay. she will lose the family business making it harder to earn a living. >> translator: the first time i opened my eyes, i was already here. my ancestors lived here. it's not just sad, it's devastating. for our entire family, the community is b

dbi chinese-speaking volunteers will be at another community outreach event from 11 am to 2 pm, the chinatown resource fair. if you are in the vicinity please stop by and be good to see people from the department. that, madam secretary, concludes my president's announcement. >> is there any public comment on the president's announcement? seeing none, item 3, general public comment, bic will take public comment on matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> before we start i'd like to read the ground rules. any personal comments regarding the staff will not be tolerated. >> my name is spencer gosh, i have been a building inspector for 30 years. i would like for people who have problems with the department to come to public comment. as with all my previous appearances before this commission, i do not wish to be here. i am here because of your continuous and repeated failures to address the problems within the department. i with prefer to not work in the toilet of a workplace your actions and inactions have made. i have previously

mayor ed lee, when he was running for mayor last november, he have -- remember volunteer to help the chinatownto vote. stencils that they could only i remember a lot of supervisors here tonight that actually went feds. that whatmén the mayor did -- i !n 't know what they were >> president chiu: thank you much. >> my name is don -- from districtd.p.7. we should all be clear and i'm for the reinstatement ofí=xx ro. we should be clear, speaking for the people who are for the reinstatement of ross, none offe us support domestic violence, none of us are trying to hide it. but there's another agenda goi.t on here tonight and that's called political violence. what we're:j#iy seeing is an att to politically lynch a leading this city and working women in this city. what we're seeing in that is this town who would like to push people have made in this city. that's really what is on the agenda here tonight. reinstatement of ross you're talking about defending the if you vote to uphold the commission'sñ@hú÷ report, you're really siding with the 1% to take out a leading spokesman for that's what's on the a

we have folk b folks from the mission, chinatown, tenderloin throughout the city committed to improving education and the treatment and abatement of bedbugs. many of us when we have been convening we have met with a lot of tenants and many of us are front line staff, really, having worked with a lot of tenants who have firsthand experience on the trauma, the frustration and anxiety that come with bed bing festation. it can affect anyone. it doesn't matter how old you are or how rich or how poor you are. supervisor kim we really wanted to applaud you for supporting this legislation from the very begining that would improve the knowledge and awareness of bedbugs in the city and helping demystify who get bedbugs and to have written rules and responsibilities for not just tenants, but landlords and pest control operators. so we think that having clearer instructions would make the experience of our tenants that we serve much better since property management would have a clear understanding of what to do, what to expect what infestations do occur. so nobody is caught surprised. it would mean

mayor ed lee, when he was running for mayor last november, he have -- remember volunteer to help the chinatownthey could only i remember a lot of supervisors here tonight that actually went