one of the programs we operate is the richmond senior center, which is out on geary boulevard between 26 and 27th ave. i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you tonight. golden gate senior services is a non-profit agency and was established 37 years ago to provide services to seniors at about half the cost to the city if they were to provide similar services. we can do this because our salary scale is about half of what the city would pay for similar positions. we have a scaled-back health plan for our staff, and i'm ashamed to say we have no retirement for our staff. there are over 15,000 seniors in district 1, and the richmond senior center is full every day providing a full range of activities and lunch. each year we are asked to take budget cuts. in the past, supervisors have helped to restore some of these cuts. last year, mayor lee added money back to the department of aging. i appreciate and am grateful for this. for this upcoming budget, the human services agency and the department of a bold an aging services have submitted a budget to mayor lee with no cuts to service pr

i live in the richmond district. i was appointed to the mta citizens advisory council by supervisor mar. thank you, supervisor, for appointment to that and for inviting me to participate in this event. when it comes to transit, municipal transportation agency is an enterprise agency, so it is -- there are budget discussions around the transit agency, but it is supposed to have its own budget, that is past due balance annually. the mta already did its budget and balanced it, but there are ways the general fund budget can impact the mta. when i come to the issue of transit, on a personal level, i look at the big picture. in our current transportation system, we do not have enough money in general every year. we are cutting corners here and there in the agency. we might be cutting service, we might be raising fees. we might be raising fares. so, that is one issue -- an ongoing issue with the agency. we are also not using energy efficiently. we need to have enough money to run the system and we need to use our energy effi

there are over 15,000 seniors in district 1, and the richmond senior center is full every day providing a full range of activities and lunch. each year we are asked to take budget cuts. in the past, supervisors have helped to restore some of these cuts. last year, mayor lee added money back to the department of aging. i appreciate and am grateful for this. for this upcoming budget, the human services agency and the department of a bold an aging services have submitted a budget to mayor lee with no cuts to service providers. i urge you to accept their budget. at the same time, the cost of doing business for nonprofit contractors, like golden gate senior services, has gone up year after year. over the last five years, our health care costs have risen on an average of 7.5% a year. that is about 30% over the last five years. it is now costing us on an average of $858 a month for each employee. this is just one example of the rising cost that we have just to keep our doors open. this responsibility for our staff and seniors sometimes seems like a heavy weight on my shoulders. if at all possi

she and her husband were instrumental in the beginning of the richmond district neighborhood center. that was 36 years ago. totally a grass-roots effort to save the school district law from being turned into condominiums, and turning it into social services for the richmond district, which there are very few social services. we now have served over 3000 people per week in all of the schools and other sites around the richmond district. we do that on a $3 million budget. our main focus at the neighborhood center is that we are trying to keep families in san francisco. all of you have read over and over again how we lose our families. you see corridors of the city where there are many strollers about, and then you say, happens to all of them? they move out when they want to buy a home or go to a good school. we have to get the word out that we have good schools. we are proud of our schools in the richmond district. my children went to alamos school. i personally would not run a program that i would not send my own child to. i challenge all of you to have that same mantra for yourselves,

i live in the richmond district. i was appointed to the mta citizens advisory council by supervisor mar. thank you, supervisor, for appointment to

[applause] also, many leaders from the richmond district that our office's work closely with over theyou'll hear from them a little bit later we hope that the budget process will be one that is very sensitive and transparent, especially fair for our communities. district 1, the richmond district, and the other neighborhoods of district 1 feel strongly that seniors and the aging population of our district are critical, part of the critical safety net. we have a number of speakers that will be speaking later. nick and linda from the golden gate senior service center. seniors in our aging population is critical. also, for transportation and transit needs, we have a leader from the sierra club in the richmond district. sue is on our committee for a transit as well. i want to acknowledge that children and families are critical to the nature of the richmond district. i am happy to be working closely with the richmond district neighborhood center and the staff there. they will make remarks later. the community-based organizations, the schools, the parks, and the many neighborhood clubs and o

we're not a member of the richmond. [tone!] we're asking you to consider the other residences. they have 391 people. we have 309. their 64% white. we're 74% white. they are 27% asian. we are 9% asian. they are 4.8 hispanic. we are 6.8%. [tone!] their neighborhood more closely reflects the demographics of the richmond and they would be a better fit. we're not related to the richmond and like to remain a part of district 5 as we have been from the beginning. >> thank you. >> gillian gillette? >> thank you so much for the opportunity to make comments. thank you for all of your work. it is extraordinary the san francisco has so many citizens willing to step up for hours of testimony. my hat is off to you. thank you for the action you took earlier this week to close the block into 8 and into 9. i think it was a mistake you corrected. we're all grateful for that. i want to suggest today that you make another move, that you consider not continuing to gerrymander the neighborhood are live-in -- i live in by not going west on randall and then back east on 29th street. just stay north al

i am the commanding officer of richmond station. to prepare for this hearing, i did extensive community outreach to the residence at the richmond district. i have advertised this hearing in my weekly newsletter. i have spoken about it in my monthly community meetings. i have spoken about it to my police community advisory board to inform them of this hearing and subway's intention to be open 24 hours. i have reached out to the geary merchant association and the planning association for the richmond district. so far, i have had no objections to the after-hours permit from the residence, through e-mail or phone calls. i have researched this service for the past two years, especially between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and there had been very few calls for service related to the subway establishment. the only call that we can say -- we can pinpoint to the subway was on trade 3, 2012. the manager was cited for not having an after-hours permit. that was the only call in the last two years between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. we submi

opposed to the -- the doe'[s richmond district. i don't know that we need to make specific reference to doe in this section. ms. tidwell: can i make a suggestion that we clarify that i write down the deviations' currently in these districts, and then we can work on incorporating the other comments that we decided to do? we will come back with a final draft before we get to this. i will e-mail it and then i can include it. give me some time to draft. >> as and give you time to make the draft? >> the rest of the needs 10 minutes to include and create a more final draft before we get to the question of what should go in each district. mr. mcdonnell: ok. let me suggest this as a weekend fully utilize the break for all the editing we need to do. there is another question that memberpilpel is raising. we will need to visit that. we have two sets of information. we have what is in the draft, and we have what is on the one- page that the consultants provided. member pilel is suggesting -- pilpel is suggesting we go district by district. mr.

one of the main reasons i supported it, it will improve the richmond district. i know the 2008 bond allowed us to make major improvements or begin improvements with the playgrounds. they have made improvements to golden gate park. i would not support the bond unless there was oversight built into the bond as well. various community bodies by the capital planning committee, the general obligation bond oversight committee, or public recreation and open space advisory committee, to help ensure that there is fiscal accountability for the measures. our parks and the richmond district are what makes our community is so unique. this is an important investment we're making in our neighborhood. in addition to meeting the huge capital needs. there is an $8.2 million improvement to the swimming pool. i know the pools have been in need of renovation for a number of years. iconology that mountain like part, -- i also acknowledge that mountain lake park, there is a $2 million improvement for that park. my colleague talked about mclaren park, which is shared by -- i know the ma

is the richmond a good place. say are you on top of an old farm pond or creek or garbage dump? it can have profound impacts in the settlement over long term and if there's an earthquake, that can amplify the ground shaking; is that right? >> absolutely. it can affect the behavior of the home. one of the things pat brought up is the wide garbage door opening i guess it's an issue you guys call soft story? >> exactly. >> what is that? >> it means the upper floors are rigid and in an earthquake the building will wanted to drift sideways a certain amount. if the upper floor the rigid and it doesn't occur there, it occurs on the first floor and if it leans so far the build willing lose stability and collapse. that's one of the projects the city is working on to try to come up with an economical efficient way to retrofit the doors so they don't become projects unto themselves. >> i think there's a limited likelihood in the middle of the block, buildings are going to collapse. you have buildings on either side holding it