the whole city? >> the whole city. so i think because still promoting the program and getting the word out there and not doing it in time to get people the time to plan. because you can't just do it all within a couple of weeks. you have to plan it in advance and apply. >> how many more businesss will take advantage of it -- >> yes. >> commissioner white? >> do you have anything from the office as far as a flierer to go out to merchant the associations? >> yes, the department's responsibilities around each permit and fee schedule from dbi and planning and that is all translated into chinese and spanish and i can send that over as well. >> perfect. >> any other comments? let's open it up to public comment. do we have any members of the public to make a comment on item no. 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? >> i move we approve the fee waiver as presented. >> i second. >> you want to do a roll call? >> commissioner adams? >> yes. >> commissioner dooley? >> yes. >> commissioner dwight? >> yes. >> com

and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take

the city. and the whole city and the whole tourist can use it. the cable car runs up and down hide, the tourist are all throughout aquatic park and fisherman's warf, so it's a jewel for the city but the attraction for the tourist. thank you very much. >> rachel. >> good morning commissioners and general managers. i wanted to speak about the acquisition today. we want to cheer you on and say, get this acquisition done. this parcel represents the last, one of the last if not the last privately owned parcel on the water front and we see this area as just a tremendous opportunity for the city to create the chrisy field over the southeast. we worked with the epa to determine the level of environmental -- we think it helped with the property. we want to commend the india base neighborhood association. i saw joan here earlier and they have been cheerleaders for this acquisition as well. so keep moving, we're very excited for it and as always, the san francisco parks alliance is ready and willing to help you. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone el

the city. , they havet year been reaching out to voters and building up support. >> how are you? as long as you're with me, i'll get there. us, sheng up along with says the whole city deserves the kind of growth that she has seen. >> we are on the brink of taking our city to the next level. we still have political leadership that is now leading us in the right direction. >> all of the top challengers have recognize that d.c. has made remarkable gains. there is a rising crime level, it jobless this, and homelessness. it is a 15 second month of joblessness. nobody -- the mayor has created as many jobs. 600 district residents will be employed, may who do not have jobs before. it is one example of many that i would do as mayor to get the president back to work. , hen his campaign criticizes his opponents for allowing what he calls a system for developers. >> the one thing that kills off the growth is corruption. >> he believes transportation education are key to economic growth. >> are your family going to vote? >> awesome. their job training and creating new partnerships to raise the city growth. but that would take a new ceo the city. cannot going to four years

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rate and use that has a as a rate for two years is problematic and to have a market rate for the whole city is problematic and in the excelsior it's different. one of the other issues i want to talk about is hardship that came up before. i want to point out a fundamental difference between landlord and tenant hardship that's the consideration of assets. if the landlord is filing an petition the property is considered if a tenant is nil i filing a hardship the tenants assets are not considered and then to help low income tenant to relocation we're asking this testing of the amendment. if the stated goal is for the higher location goal money needed then we ask for the testing. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> after that supervisors. i'm stephen vincent i've lived in san francisco since 1962 and been an artist and writer and publish i've made contributions to the city and the state. i've lived in any residence on 23 reading street for 23 years. the building was acquired and i was immediately threatened with the ellis act the owner said he was going to do some improvements and if i didn

that impacts the whole city. >> we are seeing some degree of job growth in places we haven't, how would you sustain that growth and even ke it bigger, especial given -- especially given the federal government may be downsizing. >> there a two major things. you haveve to have aa good publc transit system. it doesn't matter if you get a b but you canan't get to it. lawyer-er one private private employer is georgetown university. it takes one or two buses. then you havave a snow evevent. work fore late to five timeses you'rere fired. having great trait system is what interconnects our cit y. >> what would make you a good ceo? of things. one is that i would go back to hiring managers instead of risk takers. we have gone back to the old kind of government where everybody just covers their rear. once again you have people saying, that is not my job, you have to call somewhere else. we would go back to hiring risk takers and folks that also understand not just the new economies but how a communication works. predict the trends and what we have is we are trending -- as long as you don't mess th

she's going to work side-by-side with me to implement the reenvisioning of public housing to the whole city and that's important to this city. that is so important. [applause] 'cause i've stated over and over again, and you know the reasons why, we will not allows people to live in poverty housing anymore in san francisco. we are beginning to see the light of how when the city breaks that barrier down, how all of the resources and the talent in the city come together and start building housing that is part of a community and not isolated by itself. that's the vision. we're going to implement that. public private partnerships that we're already identifying that's already working its way through many parts of the southeast sector will become the natural way we do things already. there's a lot of hope, a lot of work, but tamika's going to bring hope into reality with me as she bridges all these gaps helping implement that. as i said at the state of the city address in the shipyard a few weeks ago, income, inequality, the challenge for an affordability agenda reaches every community, but i will

every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a wholean recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building

last year there was a introductory briefing of a comprehensive assessment led by sfmta with the whole city family involved in doing intrarthd transportation planning between handling all the existing uses and the projected growth and using that to incorporate into perspire tiger's and identifying strategic transportation improvements for the waterfront area. so i really want to give credit to peter and albert who's led on the overall waterfront transportation area. today aaron miller will be talking about that as it gives me revises to pilot transportation prongs mta will be carrying out in the south beach area. it grows from a number of transportation solutions strategies that have been identified and we wanted to test them. so she is focusing on one important element of that testing program. there's another transportation poise of the testing program that aaron will speak to that's been conducted by the transportation authority as well. thanks very much if you have any questions here aaron miller is. >> good afternoon, commissioners. commissioner president katz i'm aaron miller i'm the t

compound has become a growing headache was and is rolling and see policy six weeks before election the whole city which has ruled since the end of apartheid in nineteen ninety four is still expected to win the maple the wall the democrats reliance this is also planning to start impeachment proceedings against him in moments the gem and to detect fingers and sixty thames in a bid to reach this goal twenty nine year old was quick to discover that it went on to achieve that victory for the most recent stops at saatchi she showed her versatility winning gold in the super combined and silver in the super g four years at the vancouver games sheet of gold in the super combined and asylum. before announcing every time and the end of one of the greatest peace in korea is in alpine skiing. she received it on to a crisp low prices. with this issue to contend with and the intensity it was a very very difficult decision for me. on the one hand i love this pool. it was my sole rezoned and the last fifteen years and everything and it really isn't about it. but after the two thousand and ten olympic games which

measure thises fall and i hope that several of the organizations have offered support for that and it is really important going forward that the city as a whole, unite behind these because it is good for these programs, and it is good for the system as a whole and therefore, the entire city. so with that, vice chair, we have... >> yes, thank you to everybody who showed up to talk on this issue. it is really good to hear from you all and i always enjoy seeing all of you come down here and so i do appreciate it. i agree with chairman nolan and i think that keeping the free muni for youth, including students who are 18 and still in school and extending it for low, moderate income seniors and the disabled i think is really, to your point, what we are about at this transit agency, which is helping people who we need to help the most. i think that as i look through the possible revenue sources and the possible things that we wanted to extend it on, i noticed a couple of things that i think of as sort of policy issues and things that are more affordability issues so that will include the free muni for the low, income youth and seniors and people wit

the whole city was basically shut down here on monday. a lot of the governmental offices were closed. but i really like this image, i wish i was actually here doing this. because it's a giant snowball fight at the national mall there in washington, d.c. so at least some people getting out, enjoying it, but as far as travelers, not very happy. 5,000 flights were cansinged because of this storm. let's take a look at your temperatures though. i do want to talk about the northwest out here because you're going to be seeing a gradual warming up of your temperatures. seattle getting up to about 13 here. portland around 14. staying right about normal even over towards sacramento, gradual warm-up. also on the eastern seaboard, too, looking at these temperatures getting warmer so some good news there for you. now, as far as europe is concerned, well, the western parts of europe, we have a high pressure dominating the iberian peninsula. that's going to bring some fair weather throughout the rest of the week down towards italy, low pressure system is

we have the whole city. and immediately we started making calls and you guys were amazing. the city departments came through. in fact, a lot of you said, oh, my gosh, that's a great idea, yes, yes, count us in. and that's why we're here today. the business development group would like to thank the city departments, honor you for your commitment and your dedication, your support on making them successful and making us look good. so, please just take all the kudos today from them because it's coming from our hearts. thank you, and i would like to introduce her for a few words. (applause) >> [speaker not understood],. can i get a hooa? >> hooa. >> it's international women's day t. was saturday, but we're celebrating it today here in san francisco city hall. they say the british are coming. they say, the italians are coming, but the women are coming. they're coming to city hall government. they want contracts. they provide good services. women are the ones that fuel our economy. they're the ones who give back time, volunteer their time in the school district, work with children

. >> they really thought that every area in the entire city was going to be boom and the whole city was going to be gentrified. and they made the wrong bets in some neighborhoods where those neighborhoods are still a long way from being gentrified. >> paulino's neighbor, kim moore, is also struggling to maintain an apartment at faile street. >> i came into this apartment from a shelter. when i seen this building, i freaked out. i was like, "oh, no." just from seeing the outside and the area, i thought of the worst. when it rains, all the water comes in here and in my bedroom. and look over here. i had termites. critters, you can see them. all the kind of crap that was crawling in. just to give you an idea what i have to go through cleaning up. it's gone on two years now i haven't had a fridge. i put the food in the refrigerator and a couple days later, i guess, since the refrigerator wasn't working, everything went bad. and i woke up one day and there were all type of black, wiggly wormies coming from out of the refrigerator, crawling all through my house. terrible. i have to go to the

building right next door and you go up the elevator and there is a rooftop terrace where you can see the whole cityhave about eight bronze sculptures up there including some recent gifts that were given to us. >> are you surprised that there is this collaboration with the -- with the university itself has ventured into it? >> i'm an alumni of the university, you know? >> okay. >> and there is this -- this, fort effort on the part of the university to encourage the general public to come in and walk on the campus and see the library and other things there. there is a gallery in the library now and so the art program and then the latin american program at the university have really grown a lot since i was there in the 1970s. so it's a perfect match for the museum and the university to share resources and then, of course, we are training young people to go into the field. >> that was my next question is how difficult or easy, maybe, is it to attract the young folks to come in and appreciate the art? >> it's a very interesting question because nowadays, as you ow, there are generations under us or on t

have 30 days to reply or they sign you up automatically, that one person in the department does the whole city and very easy to do with a computer. thank you. >> hi, and getting back to commissioner about the supplies inspection at the svos and i am a frequent visitor to these places and so i can tell you that a lot of the tenants are not comfortable with that and they want to have a 24-hour notice and we had a inspection the other day and got a complaint that they never got notice on this and i just want to bring that across and i am sure that if you can catch somebody doing something wrong a lot of times these are existent and have been around for a while and i will tell you that and you need to give your tenants notice and they do regard their place as their homes. so they don't want to be invaded, thank you. >> thank you. >> and deputy, director lowry, just a secretary on the abandoned building you shared a statistics with me yesterday, and talk with regard to what you did there, for one of the supervisor cohen i believe. >> right. >> we had a meeting with supervisor cohen and we were aske

will be -- we're working on this portal that we'll be able to have information that anybody in the whole city can access about affordable housing developments that are opportunities that are here. it's not going to be ready in july. i really don't think the portal will be up and running in july, but we will advertise on our own website, on the mayor's office of housing website and send out to our e-mail list of like 14,000 people who are -- who sign onto our e-mail list in order to find out whether ~ when these kind of opportunities become available. we have been working with developers and we'll work with lennar on how to make their applications digitally accessible and be able to meet the digital needs of folks that are serving. so, that's my professional -- >> okay, quick question for you. you said the portal will be ready by july? >> july of next year so more than a year? >> no, it should be ready by july of next year. sorry. ~ >> okay. since you're here, next question is, so, this is a form of lottery, there are a couple ways to do it, but this is the form of lottery the developer actual

democracy works in dallas, they will reject this idea of somehow taking dallas and turning it, the whole city, into a charter district. >> you have said that within ten years, there'll be cities in this country without public education. >> i think at the rate we're moving now, we will see places like detroit, new orleans, washington dc, philadelphia, kansas city, indianapolis, and many, many other cities where public schools become, if they still exist, they will be a dumping ground for the kids that the charter schools don't want. we will see the privatization of public education run rampant. >> but not everyone will grieve with you over the loss of public education. there are parents across the country who feel that public schools have let them and their children down. and they're looking for alternatives. they're not going to grieve with you. >> one of the points that i wanted to make strongly in this book is that american public education is not failing. it's not declining. it's not obsolete. >> contrary to the prevailing public mythology? >> absolutely. american public schools deal with

. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >>f you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> 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. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts

. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee. thursday, march 8th, 2014. my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by supervisors eric mar who is the vice chair of the committee and supervisor norman yee, the clerk is derek evanand we want to thank the district attorney, and sfgtv who are covering the meeting today. and that is jim smith, and jessiy larson. >> be sh you are to silence all cell phone and devices and cards should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted upon today will be provided on m

. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >>f you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience.

. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >>f you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this fac

try to resurrect other parts of the domain awareness center -- >> she wants to pull it back to the whole city>> thank you so much ali winston and aarti shahani. >> thank you. >> one more note on this, we will be taking a deeper look at these issues in an up ecoming special produced with the center for collaborative reporting. "state of surveillance" will air on friday, april 11th. >>> as california's drought continues, the recent rain brought more hope and relief. last week, governor brown signs legislation that could provide millions of dollars for water conservation efforts and to expand the use of recycled water. silicon valley has a head start on that front with a new facility in santa clara county. as craig miller reports, it purifies sewage water, making it clean enough to even drink. >> reporter: as california's drought drags on, washing and buffing the cars at a.j. auto detailing in san jose is a bit more of a challenge these days. >> because you're not supposed to wash your car in your home, so people are taking a long time, and finally, when the car's really dirty, they bring in the

. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >>f you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> here. >> dr. murase. >> here. >> wines >> here. >> wei. >> here. >> and mr. logan. >> here >> join me in the pledge of alee ans. pledge of allegiance. >>s this is the approval of the board minutes, we are voting on the regular meeting minutes of february 11, 2014, and can i hear a motion and a second for the minutes adoption? >> so moved. >> any correction? >> roll call, vote. >> thank you, miss wei. >> yes. >> and mr. logan?

this hurts the whole city. you know? >> police have released few details about the shooter saying a black man got into a sedan and got into the passenger side and was driven away. they're trying to get a better look at that car. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> activists from the lgbt community held a vigil today to support a colleague detained by immigration authorities last week. alex aldona was detained last week, there taking part p a protest by deported immigrants wishing to be reunited with family members. he's undocumented and had been living in the bay area ten years and had become a mentor for gay immigrants. >> he brought in a commitment to fighting for justice, ensuring with our young people, who are disconnected from the stories so he was able to really give contacts to their experience. >> he had gone to visit his aling grandmother and being held by immigration authorities near california-mexico border. >> the operator of a commuter train that derailed a chicago o'hare international airport apparently dozed of

. >> the energy is not just in the building, it is throughout the whole city. new york city, the fans the support baseball has made it's return to australia correct ground. team australia was not surprisedly beaten by the dodger ins this game. the dodgers will play the diamondbacks at the same venue on saturday to get the mlb regular season underway. well, three time olympic champion has announced her retirement from alpine skiing. the 29-year-old german won gold in the super event. she also won two golds at the vancouver olympics in 2010, but her season came to an end after crashing last week in the downhill event in switzerland. it was a very difficult decision for me. everything i did related to that, but vancouver, where it was a perfect time for me with two goal medals the next big challenge, and possibly the final one as they even said then, was to once again win olympic gold. and i did that in sochi. for all the latest you can check out aljazeera.com,/sport. plugs we have blogs and video clips. that address again, aljazeera.com/sport. that's it for thousa