to the needs of the community. people, especially waste water, they are so enthusiastic about what we do. i am proud about utilities and public utilities. we are ahead of the curve in some many different ways. i want to thank all of the rest of you. i know them all by heart, thank you for all that you do. >> we also want to thank you for your leadership. so much of what we are dealing has been -- of what we are doing is spearheaded at the board. we bring good, clean water to san francisco. we take away not only sewage but storm water. we have carbon-free hydropower. some things are not so positive. we have construction impact that includes things like noise, holder, things that are not welcome -- odor, things that are not welcome in the neighborhood. we are hopeful to have a net positive impact on the communities that we interact with. we are looking at a more focused effort to make sure that we are doing that well. we have of a lot of programs and it is a little scattershot. part of it is to add stocks from other p

the subcommittee, various others. we also developed a community benefits website that provides all of the information that we are providing to you today as well as the power point presentation and definitions. and an online survey that provides people the opportunity to give their feedback. we want to reach out to the broadest group possible. we also looked at the states across the country that are most similar -to san francisco when t comes to community benefits. chicago, new york, portland, los angeles, san diego, and silicon valley. none of those utilities have a comprehensive program. san francisco can really be on the leading edge. supervisor maxwell: are most of those -- those aremunicipal -- are municipally owned? they are. -- >> they are. we talked to the community relations department to find out what they are doing. they are mostly related to infrastructure projects and related to shared agreement between construction projects and the community as opposed to a more sustainable at a long- term program. most projects are decentralized. the

seven years later, the chinese community here worked shoulder to shoulder with the african- american community to expand civil rights and public education. we have a history of working together. mayer brown, and reverend brown knows very well. in the early 1970's, a community leader from japan town and let the board informed of the african american roundtable to improve relations between japanese and african americans in the western addition, but it is going to take a lot more than just groups coming together to talk about stereotypes and misperceptions. for these tragic deaths, they must rise a responsibility to reach out beyond our communities and make sure that we understand that there is a cost to holding misperceptions and believes that oppress us all. thank you. [applause] >> we have got a great program for you, and for those of you who have attended in years past, you know that we celebrate with song. we celebrate with dance, and we celebrate recognizing different cultures from around the world, so leading off today is a wonderful performance by students -- yes, they are all st

and still retaining parking but also giving more to the community in term of open spaces by the park. moving forward, we looked at traffic and what the traffic calming would be and one of the streets was hoff street because it's basically surrounding an area that should be protected from high-speed cars and traffic to be able to foster gathering places and community activities. so hoff street would become one of these streets representing the residential streets. and the ideas is a selected intersection in traffic circles. you might have seen some of those and you might have seen them around the bay area. and the purpose is lowering down traffic and creating traffic and in the middle of the block, we would have more mid block c chicanes that create not only a shifting of the lane, but slows down cars and also more importantly also brings opportunities for gardening and for other management features and maybe even paved area for public space. the two treatments can be seen in the existing condition of traffic calming. and the street is already wide with parking on both sides, so the st

initiative that works on community benefits. and they can set the standards and benchmarks for community participation. the recommendation is the puc adopt the policy statement and agency wide program that is integrated with the core mission. there are methodologies to determine whether adequate resources have been allocated to the program. it is not an afterthought, what you're doing for the community. but the concerns about community involvement and community ideas -- the policy will be brought in the sense that it will not be prescriptive as opposed to giving policy guidance to integrate community benefits from the puc. the third initial recommendation is to develop long-term plans to sustain and fund public involvement beyond completion of these capital programs, the water system improvement program and the sewer system improvement program. projects are about to be embarked upon. it is important that that involvement is sustained over the life of the program. supervisor maxwell: it also could be a policy for the city as well, it could do somethi

and then framing our responses to what the community has to say. hank you. president buell: maybe i'll make a comment before the general manager weighs in on this. for those of you who saw the agenda, this is discussion only, there's no action before us. for those disappointed we won't come to any conclusion, we approved the permits, and this has nothing to do with la cocina, it's really siting the vendor, it's trying to put it away from other businesses. we've heard about the size of it and that it would be on and offsite each day. we limited the lease to two years as an experiment to see how it works. having said that, that's what we have done. having heard you today that informs the staff. i think everybody would agree including the staff that we haven't had the luxury of the kind of outreach we'd like to do on any of these things. we've had a gun to our head on finances, always behind the eight-ball, we have limited resources and so i think it's fair to say we haven't done the kind of job that would be perfect. but i don't think anybody should c

so, what i the signs i get are community involvement. the pta i like seeing people at the meeting it is because they are members of the community that are coming together to try to make the school a better place for their kids. which can involve a lot of things but often tytimes is removing graffiti and community gardening and taking back the neighborhood. they are doing the same work kid serve is doing. the fact that parents and teachers show up because they are interested says community involvement. those other things i look for when i get on the phone and try to create a meeting. the one thing i will say is i know the deadline from this grant is the 19th it's soon. >> it's actually you should know the deadline was extend to october 12. >> okay. if for some reason it takes time to set up meetings. there are new deadlines in the spring. if for some reason you miss this deadline stay in touch with the website because there are new deadlines that come up. parent teacher association, these are parents and grandparents that live in the neigh

thirdly, the neighborhood and the community supports and loves our nonprofits. this is not about la cocina. we believe in nonprofits. but this leads into my largest points, and i'm echoing points made from the gentlemen about marina green and hidden taxes. this is about unfair business advantage. the brick and more tar businesses in the neighborhood have my overhead. they have been in the neighborhood a long time and they have brought it from the heroinally -- heroin alley to what it is. they should get the benefit of hard work. to have businesses come in now with a very low overhead, that does two things, one, benefits them, and, two, undercuts the purpose, which is to generate money for the park. if you're going to have them in there, charge them the going rate. don't make them -- don't move the money from the people who have done the hard work to people who are coming in at the last moment. president buell: thank you. >> you're welcome. [applause] >> james freeman. and then if there is anyone else who would like to speak, could you please line up over on eithe

, but also the religious community, the faith community. and the african-american community, i suspect, that's critical- that plays a major role. so you want to reach out to the pastors, you want to reach out to the reverends. but not just in the african-american community, because your religious leaders in any other community, whether it's buddhist or sikh or jewish or muslim, you really want the religious leaders to understand that nobody escapes alcohol and drugs. the majority of your congregation may be alcohol and drug free, but there are people in your congregation who are not, and it's an issue, just as we're talking about. so using community coalitions, outreach in the faith community regardless of your religious orientation makes it clear that alcohol and drugs are a problem and that recovery from them can occur and that prevention is an important message. because we find silence- when we look at our household survey data, when people stop viewing a particular drug as a potential threat to the community, that drug becomes a threat t

the community it's your responsibility. that's your role. >> yeah. >> yes. >> you are asking the question is, in your case there is purse snatchings in your neighborhood and you would like to know what time of day they are occurring. who the suspects are, the descriptions and what's occurring. >> okay. we actually have a break down by neighborhoods now. it's totally available. you can work with your district station captain to get that information. you can kault police department and kault district station captain he should be able to get you. everything's broken down by neighborhoods. we can break down the crime by specific crime to specific areas. we call it the pin map. because we identify on a map where everything is occurring so we can have the officers target that. if you notice i never refer to the officers at foot beat officers they are beat officers i expect them if they have a purse snatching situation and they need to handle that they can go in civilian dress or bicycles they can use a car. i'm not restricting the

part of it is the definition for community benefits. we have to refine the definition, and we can refine what we are spending on it. we know the budget for the puc is roughly $700 million a year. the sewer system improvement program is going to be $4 billion to $6 billion. those are the bonds. those are eight to 10-year numbers in both cases. we know that there are specific programs we do -- the garden project, will spend $1.5 billion every year. a lot of that stuff is very separate and very easy to track. there are other cases where should we build the recycling plant, we are building the community to be part of that. supervisor maxwell: you said if? >> we would have to go through the process before i can make any kind of assurances here in our plan would deal with the education process of what goes on in the building. how you use water, how you recycle water. we are building the educational things into our projects as we build them, so that are not separate or discreet. supervisor mar: i was talking with suzanne about the public engage

anybody in the community. we have people who own homes who live outside of san francisco who come to our community meetings. it's important to include everybody and try to get as broad range of individuals in your at your meetings. i think that's part of the success. how you go about doing that we can go around the room and i'm sure everyone has suggestions and ideas. the key is being inclusive. [inaudible] [laughter] >> the question is how dou break through the wall. how do you break through the wall of associations that have built up around issues that don't reach out to the whole community they serve? >> well, not just issues but it's a culture of personality i believe she was speaking to. 2 of the main things that you can use are look at the by laws of the organization. are there term limits? what are the by laws state? and secondly, the actual meeting itself. assuming there are regular meetings, what kind of structures? parliamentary procedures or roberts rules of order. there are coalition of san francisc

if you benefit the community, you benefit the organization. it is not either or. >> there are other areas of involvement. and again, we will have some recommendations specific to this, because we think it is one of the core values in terms of community benefit the community be involved in the design and evaluation of what is ultimately supposed to benefit them. all of us, not them. us. this is both internal and an external. i want to just take a minute to talk about that. when people think about work force development, they think of it in terms of the external, ensuring people in the community get jobs. i think we heard from representatives how important it is to have the work force development for needed between puc and the rest. we are tracking what is happening at the supervisor level. undoubtedly, it will impact the puc. there is work for a development that can influence what happens externally. -- or work force development that can influence what happens externally. there is a multi agency, multi- region commission to ensure that those th

a lot has to do with educating the community. not by believing what you see on tv you can't call thecops and say there is somebody outside doing drugs and we will come arrest them and that's the end. we have to know with the person is keeping the drugs, there is a lot of stuff we have to know that we need to educate the community and we work together to stop the drug dealing or the shootings or homelessness. we all work as a team and that's the most important thing to get across to everybody. i want to say that the best tool so far that we used is the stay away orders and we will get into that. my partner will talk about the good things that we do besides just arresting people and putting them through the system. so -- here you go. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm officer antoine baron stationed at northern station. my partner ron. i'm a sports fan i will use analogy. those of you who are not bear with me. i like what we do at foot beat officers to playing basketball or basketball playerers. you are close to the court. you s

they are great in the community. every time we have had a neighborhood cleanup event, the have been the first to donate their time, their resources, bagels, muffins -- whatever is needed to help at the committee. they are set apart from other places in the district. for many people in the district, java beach service at a second home -- serves as a second home. they will meet up to reconnect. it is a second home for many in the sunset district. pat and buffy our family folks. they have three great boys and their place represents that. they do invite the atmosphere of a family-oriented business. if you go on any holiday, you will see they have this great christmas party every year, kids running around, karaoke for everyone. they truly embody the spirit of having family-oriented restaurants. finally, one of the biggest reasons i wanted to recognize pat and buffy is for the tremendous work in turning around the neighborhood. a lot of people talk about what the benefits of restaurants are. there might be empty storefronts

talking to people is the best way to build communality. we do organize a lot of activities in our neighborhood. the reason why we are successful in organizing all the activities is we have a large shared leadership organization. all of us our volunteers and 11 board members we have over 60 volunteers in our neighborhood distributing on a parent's group or safety team. they are helping with marketing and pr. they are helping us with reaching out and setting up meetings with the mayor. we also set up meetings with the mayor and our city representatives. so, through those organization and volunteers and the committees we get a lot of community building everybody knows somebody else the classic network model. we do have meetings general meetings for the neighborhood and those are we communicate those meetings through the news letter through the yahoo group and fliers we generally get 70 people. the last had 160 meeting. the driver was because we had shootings in our neighborhood. the neighborhood association got a lot of big hitters to our meet

as far as the criminal community. the da hands the letters to the judges and the judges read the letters and realize it's a real impact in the community. that way you don't see the person back on the street within 5 or 6 days. if they are doing the same thing or in the area these guys can arrest them right away without probable cause or anything like that. i will turn it to ethyl and she will talk about the d's and the stay orders. >> thank you, valley. as the officers mentioned it's not always like it is on tv. when you see somebody doing something on the street they will not be in jail for the rest of their life. a couple of things have to happen. one thing that has to happen is they have to be arrested. in order for the district attorney to prosecute anyone they have to be arrested. just because you know and i know and they know that something's been done doesn't mean they are going to jail or prison. the only way the officers can arrest somebody if they have probable cause. sometimes the probable cause is you calli

so then to further emphasize the community challenge portion of the match, we then score applications once they come in. with a heavy emphasis on community building and community benefits. if you have the application package it's self explaintory 35 points to community benefits. 20 points to neighborhood participation. 30 pounts toward project feasibility. the paps, 20 points is sort of furthered by 10 points in the community benefit's section. a lot is geared toward projects that have a lot of neighborhood involvement. >> go through that one more time. >> it's on you have the package? >> it's there in the box up there. there is also it's on s fcc gp. org has the application the community challenge grant web page. so, let's see. it's a highly competitive grant. there are 200 officially recognized neighborhoods in the city of san francisco. check it out if you go to sfgov. org and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many ar

but civilian oversight is critical and only works when the community is engaged and when the commissioners are able to hear and give voice to community concerns and consider them in making the decisions. how do you engage the community? there's many different ways to do it. obviously the community meets regularly every week. we need to encourage the community to voice their concerns. 7 i think having meetings throughout the city, which i know the commission does occasionally, fosters that idea. i think as an individual commissioner, you need to do what you can to ensure that you're getting out and seeing the community whether it be on the weekends, whatever you're doing. sort of say i realize i live here. my kids go to school in mission. work downtown. but perhaps when we go out, we'll go out in this direction. or do ride alongs, maybe not just in one area but occasionally get your breath of the city. if you don't have that experience, it diminishes your ability to understand and make judgments on the yishes -- issues that come before you. chairman campos: thank you. colleagues, any other

the sunset community festival. one of the tools that we use is to try to make the event really run, really entertaining and try to make it culturally appropriate for the communality. one of the tools we use to try to make it appropriate is that in all of our fliers and out reach materials we try to translate all of them to the different languages that our community members use. and also we try to build relationships with our local media. i think that is one of the most effective way to let all of our community members know about our events. not only just english but media press with the local chinese narp or whatever language your community may need. thots one of the most effective way to get to community measures that may be more isolate the. and i think fundraising campaign is also a great way to build community because in our community, there are play grounds that are old and i'm sure there are play grounds in your community that are old and needs to be renovated. and i think play grounds is the way to bring peop

but the concerns about community involvement and community ideas -- the policy will be brought in the sense that it will not be prescriptive as opposed to giving policy guidance to integrate community benefits from the puc. the third initial recommendation is to develop long-term plans to sustain and fund public involvement beyond completion of these capital programs, the water system improvement program and the sewer system improvement program. projects are about to be embarked upon. it is important that that involvement is sustained over the life of the program. supervisor maxwell: it also could be a policy for the city as well, it could do something that all the departments -- it could be something that all the departments looked at going forward. >> if the best practices are looked at and inc. early on -- for instance, all the parties need to know the community involvement is going to be critical for the development of the project. but not a puc it's the a -- it not only sets the puc apart, but it sets the city apart. it needs to be sustainable across all enterprises, outcomes wil

expanding the spirit of community, casino is working to bring farmers markets to the neighborhood, as well as turning a vacant patch of land into a community garden. thank you for your culinary traditions and your community support and commitment. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you for this recognition. it is really appreciated. president chiu: now, we have supervisor avalos from district 11. supervisor avalos: due to the rigors of the restaurant industry, the restaurant i am honoring today is not able to make it here today. but i want to honor them. they have been struggling in a difficult place at mission and excelsior, a difficult place to have a restaurant. they are making a go at it. i want to encourage their success by honoring their work here tonight. also, i will be going to have, next thursday, november 4, at 6:30, a family night, inviting people from all across the city to come to zab thai in the excelsior district. everyone is welcome to come to that event. they opened their doors in 2008 with a promise to provide tasty, healthy food, and excellent, friendly service.

, the italian- american community, and folks from the lgbt community.that's what we need, a unified voice and a unified vision. no more can we stand to be polarized. thank you. >> once again, well done candidates. Òt[lágnow we're really going tot you. we start this time with mr. jackson. what do you think can be done to address the unacceptably high rates of asthma in district 10 children, and the health problems caused by pollution? >> that is a great question. we have our wonderful current supervisor here in the audience. i want to commend her leadership on beatin

i'm excited about the valley community, the library is amazing. and that's because community and people had a lot to do with it. the center is really off the hook, real different, so come and see and you'll get a taste of the valley greenway. i have to thank the p.u. crfment but because -- because a lot of property came from the p.u.c. i want to thank the community and the folks that made this lap. it was really a city effort to make it what it is. thank you, fran, thank you, nick. thank you for all of your work. thank you. thank you supervisor maxwell for the leadership. if it weren't for her, we wouldn't be here today and you wouldn't seat library and other things happening. we had references to the public utilities commission. on the face of it you may say what do they have to do with this? >> a few points on that. one is when we talk about the surface infrastructure and the investments, a lot of condition of our infrastructure is dependent on what is underneath it -- the wart water and waste waterlines. that's managed by the pufment p.u.c. we h

, the italian- american community, and folks from the lgbt community.that's what we need, a unified voice and a unified vision. no more can we stand to be polarized. thank you. >> once again, well done candidates. Òt[lágnow we're really going tot you. we start this time with mr. jackson. what do you think can be done to address the unacceptably high rates of asthma in district 10 children, and the health problems caused by pollution? >> that is a great question. we have our wonderful current supervisor here in the audience. i want to commend her leadership on beating the fight to close down the bay view hunters point power plant. those steps have been taken. the community leaders are also working to make sure they are closed. we have to continue to push for a land use issues. 258 bed hospital is being built. we need to make sure they provide enough charity care to provide access to health care in this neighborhood and in this entire district. the program that i was working on -- we need to make sure it is not cut and ensure that our residents who are un

medina has garnered a well earned reputation for serving the latino community. she served on the board of the san francisco foundation, the latino community foundation, and on the commonwealth club of california. she has also served on the national association of broadcasters and the national academy of television arts and sciences among the many others. she studied philosophy and literature in connecticut and holds a-degree of communications from new york city. she couldn't be here this evening, but the c.e.o. of the san francisco hispanic chamber of commerce will accept the award on her behalf. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so this is how we recognize the contributions of our latinos. thank you to the men and women that we honored here this evening for your contributions in making san francisco a better place for our community and a better place for all san franciscans. thank you. >> and now we have a very important part of this reception, music, food, the opportunity to network, the opportunity to learn about each other and