we know p want to thank first of all the wonderful staff dedicated if chinatown stand up and make in f the companies in the housing and development staff gorgeous so many people and the full-time maintenance that be here shawn the man and full-time property management and a lot of love we want to thank our financial partners california department of housing and urban development and california tax credit committee and federal home loan local initiative and raymond james again mta and, of course, silicon valley thank you. the gentleman will say a few words and the humans agency thank you cindy and joyce and city attorney's office beven and kirsten thank you all our political supporters look at all the board of supervisors thank you to sxhooikz and commissioner tang supervisor kim and supervisor mar and captain david lazzaro and thank you, derrick for all the free tickets that's not in the script i added that and once again aaron and so many people to thank i'm going to cut auto u out and introduce our first speaker silicon valley fiona from silicon valley valley bank if i speak too fas

neighborhoods by moving into this building their blessing is whoefrthd and big big thank you to the chinatown development center a wonderful organization with such a great history essential to our neighborhood and valuable i've been proud for many years as affordable unit a neighborhood advocate to work within them on the joe dimaggio playground and as a supervisor their importance to me and the city government is more underscored there is so much to be done and cdc are essential in take care of the neighborhoods and society thank you, norman gordon and all the staff i'm pleased to do my little part at a supervisor i'm glad to join with the mayor and fellow board members this november and hopefully, we'll have a lot more ribbon cutting and groundbreaking i've been working on prevention that will help people who live in neighborhoods stay in affordable housing in neighborhoods with president breed and mr. rosen weaving to give preference to people that quality for affordable housing so they can sacrifice in thaush neighborhoods and friends and neighbors to remain with us we're about ready to s

north beach i worked with kids from all over the city francisco served kids in 25 zip codes whether chinatownit was 94124 and 22 and 131 as well as the others others thank you. i'm very, very honored and appreciative for this recognize thank you very much (clapping.) >> congratulations again. >> the next item on the agenda is superintendent proposal 1569 s p one for the 2015-2016 the accountability plan and the san francisco unified school district this is moved and seconded on june 9, 2015, may i have a report of the committee as a whole commissioner vice president haney. >> we heard an update to the el cap plan and i think this is going to be further discussed tonight the entire board was there i know we've received a number of documents that reflected the comments asked and all the board members he think will have an update. >> may i have a reading of the resolution. >> thank you dr. murase to ask mr. young to read that. >> thank you. superintendent just bear with me one second while i find the page - >> okay. thank you. >> so commissioners there are two action items that each require a se

so, race street is still blocked, between seventh and tenth right there in the heart of the chinatown. work your way over to say market or chestnut as an alternate so a lot of folks will be going around the block and some confusion this morning because of the power issues. speaking of power issues they are still dealing witt. steve standing by to tell us more. 295 on and off ramps to exit 17 remain closed. monday morning in the summertime folks like to stay down the shore and come right back in the office. they expect extra volume on the 42 freeway between the atlantic city express waste and at approaching to the walt whitman bridge. septa using shuttle buses on three trolley routes, 15 101 and 102, chris and alex, back over to you. >>> 60:00 46789 quick kill order loose is finally caught. david sweat was shot twice after confronted by a new york state police sergeant yesterday. on june 6th you will remember richard matt and david sweat cut their way out of the maximum security prison using power tools. they were helped by two prison workers. there were number of possible sight goes i

the embarcadero the way other neighborhoods felt simultaneously i went through many years with the chinatown businesses and residents to suffer the impacts of that and so this is one of those rare moments what years after we get to celebrate a few of the things that many parts of waterfront celebrated many, many years ahead of us this is why wore in a hurry this is why we want more andreas and by the way, fiona i didn't move in about mrs. flores he welcomed her i want to make sure i said that correctly in those election times you never know when the media is looking for in this borrowing year but i wanted to say i'm appreciative of all the elements of our community coming together i'm going to ask to you stay together on the sites like here the sites we respect opened in the tenderloin and ocean avenue and fourth street mission bay all those citing sites we need to accelerate this so it it if take 7 or 9 years in the case of the last place we gave keys to families i want the andreas and the others of the displaced resident we're working harder and faster cd c has many more projects along wit

. >> my mom a a long time ago at the chinatown center we had a lunch center i've been had whatever movingaway from a national location because of the renting of money no mcdonald's thank you. >> thank you very much anything else wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed colleagues, can i have a motion to move this forward. >> i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> mr. clerk any other business before this commission. >> no other business before this commission today and thank you very much we're adjourned you. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businesses

chinatown is resilient. it is a lot of things being built here. if you look at theinatown. no highways. they were going to make a highway around here as well. if you notice on the top right over here you see guy ringing out sweat showing sweat, blood, tears they have put into their hard work they are doing here in our chinatown. the lady over there that is ironing that is supposed to represent the very first chinese owned business that opened up in our chinatown. it was a a dry cleaner. >> a lot of people, well, this tour, just this morning has helped me. this thing has a lot to offer. they have a lot of cool things, in the just for people that are coming in for city to tour but we need to take the tour as well. >> that is right definitely if you are a local check out our tours. if you have been around the city we will take you to a spot you have never been to before or even after you have been to that part of the city you will learn something you have never known before. >> bee were running into friend, we saw bernard hopkins. >> is what the phone number. >> the ph

. >> my mom a a long time ago at the chinatown center we had a lunch center i've been had whatever moving away from a national location because of the renting of money no mcdonald's thank you. >> thank you very much anything else wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed colleagues, can i have a motion to move this forward. >> i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> mr. clerk any other business before this commission. >> no other business before this commission today and thank you very much we're adjourned . >> cynthia goldstein welcome to the board of supervisors budget & finance committee dumb my name is it supervisor farrell i'll be chairing and joined by supervisor tang and supervisor yee and supervisor mar and supervisor wiener want to thank the clerk andrea ashbury as well as the members of sfgovtv jessie larson and charles kremenak that madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today wil

i bumped over a couple on market but race street closed right there at tenth in the heart of the chinatown. they are still work ago long the pennsy turnpike when you come over the connection bridge in toward pennsylvania, a work crew between the bridgette self all the way over through philadelphia bensalem in towards, route one. and in new jersey, again storm damage, remains with us here the 295 ramps to exit 17 remain closed. otherwise bridges look fine and no delays on mass transit. lauren, back over to you. >>> lets look at our top stories. gloucester county resident, six days after losing power from last week's powerful storms. fox 29 steve keeley live in new jersey with more. i can't imagine steve. >> reporter: he well, hard to believe that here we are in the seventh day without power, from tuesday all the way to monday we are batting around as they a in baseball. if you heard bob kelly, ad nauseam all last week talking about exits off 295 being shut down. they are still hut down as we start a second week and here's why. the exit signs themselves are down. that is the exit sign 295 so

. >> my mom a a long time ago at the chinatown center we had a lunch center i've been had whatever movingaway from a national location because of the renting of money no mcdonald's thank you. >> thank you very much anything else wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed colleagues, can i have a motion to move this forward. >> i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> mr. clerk any other business before this commission. >> no other business before this commission today and thank you very much we're adjourned >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. i

. >> my mom a a long time ago at the chinatown center we had a lunch center i've been had whatever movingaway from a national location because of the renting of money no mcdonald's thank you. >> thank you very much anything else wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed colleagues, can i have a motion to move this forward. >> i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> mr. clerk any other business before this commission. >> no other business before this commission today and thank you very much we're adjourned >> pilaties. it's a creation, an old regimen of exercise. really based on core engagement and core structure and core development. we do a lot of exercise in developing that and think about lengthening of the spine and our muscles. if you're a runner, if you're into kayaking, martial arts, cycling pilates are for you. >> programs are variety year around at various locations and to learn more come to the . >> cynthia goldstein welcome to the board of supervisors budget & finance committee dumb

one of the early implementations and along with the chinatown. >> i think this is a fine one i continue to be interested how we are going to measure the effect on those promotions we think there is a bunch of benefits in terms of taking some of the peak off the initial sewer system and the ground water it is challenging to measure those promotions and no simple place to put a flowmeter but it is important to test and i'd like to have an explanation at some point how we are going to go about measuring this how do we know whether we've succeeded or now whether we should put more money into share projects so if at some point we could have a report how to measure the report and the success measures i'll appreciate that. >> that's why their earlier implementation projects to answer those questions. >> i think this quick emerging there's a lot of data out in the country and looking at the construction projects to monthly manage the water flow and quantify them i think if we can sooner rather than late in realtime getting the opportunities to - i know we're to have much bigger discussions comi

the desk clerking for the public hearings on sro's is to the the inclusion of the tenderloin or the chinatown area. >> not at all marie eye were cop vs. it should say tenderloin and it is citywide there's a concentration in the south of market area. >> i'll stop there. >> no keep going. >> not with that hat. >> bottom of page 2. >> you'll be here until tloushgs. >> this goes along with what the commissioner said i feel a lot seniors will not rent their pope property 0 out it is a headache let it go let it go any other comments i call for the vote. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? i's have it so the vote is carried next we just on the c where am i okay requesting c request the authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with seniors and disability action for the consumer rights for the term july 1, 2015, to june 2018 in the in the amount of of $322,000 plus a 10 percent contingency for not to exceed in the in the amount of of $30,044,512 can i have a motion to discuss. >> so moved and second. >> thank you, commissioners that advocacy assures that individuals said their rights an

one of the early implementations and along with the chinatown. >> i think this is a fine one i continue to be interested how we are going to measure the effect on those promotions we think there is a bunch of benefits in terms of taking some of the peak off the ini

installations will be putting and we will be including monitoring in each of the locations except for the chinatown locations. because those are really flow-through planters. i think as you noted in previous presentations, is not a huge performance is because of the soil in the location. we'll be monitoring these over the long term to see how they perform based on how we anticipate they will based on her modeling and will be monitoring over the long term to see others technology hold up . if performance changes after they have been in overtime. i wanted to give you an idea, some of the other challenges we've had with green infrastructure. so, what we're building is really active performance-based. were trying to remove flow. try to capture the flow, infiltrated, hold it, reduce the peak our source system will see because that increases the potential for localized flooding and also overlies from the clintons and in an active infrastructure versus passive green space that may be planted with trees or otherwise but does it really take advantage of moving rainfall into the space. this sometimes is a re

i believe all of this is related to the transformer fire, that occurred, saturday night, in chinatownso this is going to cause delays for anyone coming through that stretch even the herrs potato chip guys that will make u turn there and again, it is the seventh and eighth street at race and it is also blocking the traffic lights or i should say defective over ben franklin bridge into philadelphia a race street is blocked as well from seventh over to tenth street. so a a lot of confusion for the morning rush hour in this area. that will impact everybody coming over the the benny coming into downtown philadelphia we will have breakfast later on for this monday we will go to pete's clown house right behind old north east catholic high school. this actually was a place that served food for all of the rescue workers when that train accident happened there in the port richmond section. so we will set up shop, bring the kid, we will have tv cameras from 9:00 to 10:00 for everyone coming back from the shore this morning you stayed down an extra night and going to come in the office, no proble

. >> this is the chinatown section of san francisco. using a hidden camera we saw ivory for sale. while the u.s. bans ivory tusks there's a loophole. anteeing ivory is league -- antique ivory is legal. it's nearly impossible to tell what is new and not. sellers often treat ivory to make it look old. >> reporter: you don't have to visit chinatown, it's available a few keyboard clicks away on the internet. in march the international fun for animals conducted a survey on 28 cities and towns on the popular trading site craigslist. investigators found more than 500 ivory its for sale. altogether the its were advertised for 1.5 million. >> and that is a fraction of what is out there. >> there are many many platforms out there. there's the winners like ebay craigslist has traffic. and there are other smaller its. >> californian laws are pushing laws mapping all sales of ivory, no matter how old, beginning next year in america's popular state. animal rights activists say the californian law is an important step setting examples and helping to stop the elephant's march to oblivion. >> all t

in the chinatown metro station. a woman and two men were stabbed. everyone is expected to survive. no word on a motive. >>> right now president obama just wrapping up a meeting with the president of france. the white house says both leaders agreed that sanctions against russia should continue. the president is in germany for the g-7 talks. russia just one of several tricky issues for the group right now. they're also discussing a massive trade deal making its way through congress. coming up in the next -- rather within this hour we'll talk to nbc's edward lawrence about what we expect when president obama takes questions from the press this afternoon. >>> it is now 6:06. new this morning, united airlines is confirming a mesa airline plane skidded off a runway in buffalo around 11:30 last night. the plane was coming from dulles airport. there were 69 passengers on board along with three crew members. there were no reported injuries. the accident may have been caused by high winds. >>> new details this morning in the on going scandal surrounding former house speaker dennis hastert. wh

the old st. mary's it predated chinatown when it become time to take advantage of the historical transfer development rights moving it into the c-3 makes sense but only to construct that for this site in a chinatown special use district as i remember or chinatown commercial i can't remember the zoning by that's why this legislation is gnarling craftsed we don't want mom to take advantage of that unless they're an anywhere image of momma's you've got a 50 percent usage for the grocery stores component and total size of 5 thousand square feet and ground level 15 most years vacant and couple of thing we have on this it make perfect sense a lot of work went into constructing it, it is going to do this this is an outline win and no loss mraundz mr. sanchez said it is imperfect hard i'm going who is the - would wanted to take over this is a concept that has to stand alone you have a loss leader of the grocery store from the grocery store didn't generate enough to support it's will will feed off the profit from the restaurant there are conditions included and call roll anyone what make sure it is, in fact,

and this is just the beginning here in chinatown. so i had to ask, how legitimate is this? could this actually feed people? >> absolutely. up here, this is mostly going to be a roof for the restaurants but on our other roofs we're planning on having eight to 12 inches of soil in which we can grow root vegetables, like potatoes, carrots, beats. >> reporter: the food doesn't go far. visit this restaurant just downstairs and you might see one of these edible flowers on your plate. >> garnish dishes that add flavor. they're packed with flavor and nutritional content. >> reporter: providing a service, filling a need all of it back home. reporting in northwest d.c., zachary kiesch, news4. >> it's the future and it's looking cool. >>> in the next couple of weeks that group plans to open a 7,000 square foot rooftop garden in the heart of downtown bethesda. >>> it's oochb the case during brain surgery patients are kept awake. ♪ but most of the time they aren't playing a guitar. this brazilian man his doctors by playing several songs on his guitar while surgeons were operating on a tu

principle frank middle school he's a third-generation san franciscan grew up in the north beach chinatown neighborhood where he's a principle and tended francisco middle school and norman did you you're a francisco; right? >> four years as principle after 5 years he's worked as a teacher at dean at various schools to make the school strong comprehensive services for families he coined the modesty work harder and kick it up a notch one of the amazing leaders and we're going to miss him he's retiring this year but kenny congratulation and thank you for your terrific work (clapping) and what did you get. >> san francisco opera and historic john's grill. >> thank you enjoy that thank you (clapping.) and last but not least barney i didn't pain lee (clapping) the principle of abraham lincoln high school he's a noah valley native attended another lowell high school graduate and okay ease an everybody else scout part of cities interest group in the 19 year at sfusd and previously taught eight grade and as a principle never sits still has a standing deck in his office we've been somewhere with bar

the potrero hill. >> potrero hill just like chinatown for the people of value no help you try everyday if you try me from potrero hill i just see what will happy no hope no hope with them i try to expand talk with them everyday. >> thank you next members of the public please. >> good morning, commissioners i'm the rebuild potrero hill director thank you so much for letting us speak thank you, michael in the mta for the planning and design for the pedestrian improvements as you know bridging bridge housing will rebuild potrero hill this is a long process at least 10 years in the meantime we need the interim projects to expand have a visible change on site this improvement process is key to expand having residency see visible change rather than waiting for the 10 year police i want to expand talk about a nonprofit that we're working on site called the healthy generation we've worked closely to develop the walking school bus they walk 50 kids to the to expand elements daniel webster and stair king as you can imagine with the star typography and cars any member of the public wish to speak on any item up

the incidents. one went down sunday morning near chinatown and the other near logan circle sunday night. >> everybody is asking what is going on what happened. suzanne: 9:30 sunday night a 70-year-old man an apparent resident of the apartment building off 14th street northwest is alleged to have gone on a stabbing rampage. one of the four alleged victims a 64-year-old woman died from her injuries. neighbors say the victims and the man charged manual ramos are members of the same family. they say they lived here for years. the suspect and the woman who was killed are familiar faces to those who live along this stretch of 14th street. >> yes i know them. for 18 years. >> i think it's like a community sometimes. suzanne: family and friends are now struggling to figure out what would have prompted a 70-year-old man to fly into a deadly rage. ramos is in jail this evening, charged with murder. in the newsroom, suzanne kennedy, abc7 news. maureen: baltimore's mayor is focusing on youth to curb record-setting violence in the city. with the riots stemming from freddie gray's death. the today the mayor and ci

that is as a result of the power outage of the transformer fire that occurred in chinatown, race streetblocked from seventh to tenth street. now over the weekend i had a chance to take part in my very first, color run. you guys ever do this. >> i have not. >> so we were in east goshen park and they give you bright colored shirts. we walk around the park and different stations, they threw different colors on you like chalk. i had my hair, was all pink. there was green, pink, yellow, green, and it was every where. >> what is the purpose behind this. >> we raised money for local charity. >> it is fun. >> kid got a kick out of getting colored up. they were in neon colors from head to toe. >> was it hard to wash it off. >> it was tough, because i was concerned, i got home on saturday. i washed my hair two or three times. i could not get pink out. yesterday i washed it two or three times. i got most of it out. >> getting back in the car. >> well, i haven't work on the car yet, seats and rug are cars we will work on that today. shop vac to get the dust up. >> it was a lot of fun. >> 8:32. >> d

you can look down here in the chinatown area where after the fbi center went in, a couple of businesses went into that area or downtown silver spring in maryland where the discovery store went in and they created a pedestrian mall. so once you can get one or two to anchor the investment others will follow. so i think it's going to be be a multi multi-year process. you're going to have to deal with other things too, educate the work force which means changing the schools deal with all these other problems as well, deal with drug wars so you don't have the high crime and so on. it's not a single magic bullet but it's certainly part of the process. by the way this one store's moving in, let's tack the heck oust them. you can't do that. >> all right. there's time for one more i guess. >> can you identify by name any presidential candidates or leading congressional figures that have got this message of saying let us decriminalize, back off of this stuff and can you make any statement about either party or caucuses like congressional black caucus or whatever, any group that has stature within

police have a man in custody in connection with a stabbing near the gallery place chinatown metro station. just before 2:00 this morning on 7th street and north of h, a woman and three men were stabbed. everyone is expected to survive. no word yet on a motive. >>> right now take a live look at our storm team 4 radar. things are fairly calm at this time, but we are tracking strong-to-severe storms for tomorrow. and meteorologist amelia siegel joins us with the potential impact. >> because of the heat and humidity, as well as breezy companies in the forecast for tomorrow scattered thunderstorms are likely and because of the heat and mugginess, like i said, breezy conditions, any storms we do track later in the day could be strong to severe. here's 8 a.m. a dry start. and we are dry, in fact, through the early afternoon hours, but by 2 p.m. storms will start to fair back around the corridor. 4 p.m. notice this heavy thunderstorm activity moving through parts of montgomery and loudon counties. 6 p.m., tracking some of that activity in the d.c. metro area. heavy rain and thunderstorms moving t

. >> police have a man in custody in connection with a different stabbing near the gallery place/chinatownh, a woman and three men were stabbed. everyone is expected to survive. no word on a motive in this case. >> >> two dangerous convicted murderers on the lam after escaping a maximum security prison in upstate new york. tonight police say they could be anywhere. nbc's john yang has a look at their elaborate prison break and the note they left behind. >> more than 250 state and federal law enforcement officers scour the area around this village in the adirondack mountains looking for clues that could lead them to the two convicted killers discovered missing at a 5:30 a.m. saturday bed check. >> leaving no stone unturned. been 36 hours since the inmates escaped. they could be literally anywhere. >> officials describe both men as very dangerous. david sweat 35 serving life sentence with no parole for the 2002 killing of a sheriff's deputy in new york. 49-year-old richard matt sentenced to 25 years to life for beating a man to death and dismembering him near buffalo in 1997. authorities des

interim controls are initiated in nature changes in the 1980s under mayor feinstein the controls for tenderloin and chinatown those areas were rezoned and in 2000 in the last bubble the eastern neighborhoods had interim controls for the whole sdriblthd to protect the pdr beyond this what they do you the control the department will discourage quote divulge the daytime of pdr or possibly development potential affordable housing sites or other categories that you define it is normal normal that interim controls yet there's nothing coming from here nothing i'm astonished okay being a 40 engineer observer i'm astonished no leadership okay. what every happens in the mission good by art and pdr i'm astonished this commission has advocated limp obviously the neighborhood is extraordinarily aroused i can't stand why you're not doing anything. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'd like to make a comment on an item that had been couple for discussion in other month or so i understand it is a time when i'm out of town the 5 m project an important issue for the future

last night around 6:30 after almost a day of searching she was finally found safe today in the city's chinatown graduating high school seniors say they were left out of their yearbook because of what they were wearing. >> we're not talking about wearing something racy we're talking about a tuck seed dough. this picture from one of the students former schools you can see the suit she's wearing both young women say they did not want to wear the black drape that school policy for female students. neither student knew they had been cut from the yearbook until they opened it and their picture was not there. >> kind of surprised and i was disappointed in lincoln for doing that and i was more upset when i found out why they did it it. >> this is a learning opportunity to address all the discrimination that these kids feel. >> the school superintendent did call both families offering to reprint all year books to include both young women. >>> do adorable kitten escapes flooding in houston texas by hitchhiking. a woman was evacuated in the middle of the night and drove off in the rain. she thought she he

earlier in the morning four people were stabbed in chinatown following an argument in a store. the weekend violence has some people, who live here, worried and others bracing for more. >> during the summer, violent crimes increase. so, i am will not -- the weather is getting warmer. so, unfort fatly i think that will be just par for the course. >> i always -- unfortunately i think that will be just par for the course. >> i always look at the people around me. not to live in fear but to be responsive. >> right now the homicide rate in dc is 8% higher than last year. >>> a northern new york town is on a lockdown. two convicted killers are on the loose. they broke out of the maximum security prison over the weekend. their deeing escape was like a real live movie. popping out of a manhole and make a run for it. so far the police say they are not sure how they got away with it. >> there is limited surveillance tapes, nothing is fruitful for us at this time. >> now, matt was serving 25 years to life for killing and dismembering his boss. sweat was in for life for killing a sheriff's d

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