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and you know there is not much that you do really that helps this city. and at least, there are people like dr. derek kurr who are willing to take the heat and take the actions necessary to actually do something. >> thank you. >> any further discussion on the minutes? >> do i hear a motion to approve the minutes as corrected by commissioner keane? >> so moved. >> corrections. >> okay. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> and the motion passes. and mr. st. croix will make a note of that correction. >> yes. >> all right. >> and on the report i want to point first two typos on page 2, under section revenue report, where it says 0.65 percent, and it should just be 65 percent. in that paragraph before the xhart and where it says 0.62 percent it should be 62.5 percent. and i apologize for those typos. and last month, commissioner keane asked about the bdo referrals. and i just want to give you an update on those first one and two have already been litigated. and in favor of the city. and the bdr is conducting collection efforts at this point and the thir

just millions and millions of dollars are spent by our visitors in this city. so we have to keep it beautiful, we have to keep it updated and informative. we have great partners that have known over many decades that this is the heart of our business, tourism, the hotels, some of the greatest hotels in the world are here in san francisco and they will be welcoming all the people that come from 55 days of sailing. event after event find it's way to san francisco, the bay area because they know we know how to host this. i want to welcome bob from our chamber of commerce because he's learning very quickly how wonderful this place is. [ applause ] and how we do things and how we do things successfully is to identify or challenge and get really bright creative minds like joe, and you start working with union square and you discover and help everybody be successful and you find john, who gets this going. you get all of these discoveries like people in the city like john, who has been there year after year operateing the whole convention visitor center and you start to

i have learned everything i know about life living in this city and i become an artist in this city mentored by artists. artists from the mission district two artists that are fighting eviction right now. the people who are sharing stories today are articulate and brave. i know a man, we were not close but known him for many years he was fatiguing the ellis act eviction and took his life. i've been watching this for a furious it's heartbreaking and painful. i see the character of this city not just changing but vanishing and the families gone and the worker families gone and artists begun. i've witnessed as an obviouslyer. a couple weeks ago any landlord was in the building making repairs he is a good guy but i heard him tell his worker i want to see how much i can get for this place i know my number is up i don't want to leave the city but yet my problems are nothing to what we've heard thank you, thank you next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm daniel whitaker and i was born in san francisco. i was raised in stockton but moved in 1982. i lived in any current residence in the inner sunset and

when this is has been brought to us by the city attorney's office. but it certainly is something that falls within our jurisdiction as well. but when something is brought simultaneously to the ethics commission and the city attorney's office, as i understand it, then we have... i don't know if it is... >> normally... >> if it is just a process? or if we are bound to let the city attorney's office take over? >> there are occasions when we have done the joint investigations but generally speaking when there is a complaint filed in two places we tend to defer to the higher authority, mostly no resource and issues, but that has been our regular process. >> and this fell within that boundary? >> yes. >> i think that for explanations of the public as well, that even though the city attorney brought it, we are going to be talking to the city attorney as our lawyer as well, in this closed session, so in order to protect the attorney, client privilege that any individual or any body has. we have an obligation to protect and keep it private and so going into t

the infrastructure of this city needs to reflect and change the way that drivers are thinking. the infrastructure of the city allows the allusion that drivers aren't apart of the community that they're in where they're driving and makes it much more frightening and much less safe and i'll tell you after that incident, we've been afraid to walk in a city that's supposed to be a walking city, so i urge you to put the pedestrian and the citizens of this city before the cars that drive-thru the city. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> winston followed by ellis and then fernando. >> good morning. >> good morning. my name is winston and i live at pine avenue. born and raise in the city and i work with a wise bike program. we're one of the educator that work with youth to teach them how to walk and bike safely in this city. i'm excited to see bicycle and walk safety being done in this budget. it's a step in the right direction but i think there needs to be done. i like to echo brickman comment, that network, this connected network stops those in their -- i

important place to find your friends and people. >> you love my city san francisco has a good name and a reputation and has every culture in this francisco. it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i role like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and after living here the entire time there's one thing that's important the people talk about seattle and they talk about seattle and san francisco. or portland and san francisco. san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of coffee scene in the entire nation >> there's so much romance in coffee it is around the sourcing of it and how it got her it's a complicated thing. >> i know for a pharynx born to make coffee i got it from my dad that's the life i live speaks for me. let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hi, i'm lawrence. we are doing a special series about staying safe. let's look at issues of water and sewer. we are here at the san francisco urban center on mission street in san francisco and i'm joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. what are things we should be concerned about water. >> you want to be prepare

and for this body in this city which does say that it is a bastian of diversity which we know to not be really true based upon these kinds of investigations and this kind of scrutiny of african americans and other people of color. so, i urge you, one, to reconsider and to vote this a no resolution and not to move forward on this issue because it does call into question your ethics as a commission and the way in which this city in particular treats its african-american community and the way in which it seems to overly penalize african americans. and i really hope that you will look into your hearts. and someone earlier said that you should look at your values. and i have to question where your values lie given the fact we are here tonight? thank you. (applause) >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is dwayne jones. i'm a business owner here in san francisco. i've also had the pleasure of serving as a department head here for this city for the office of community development and also serving as one of the senior advisors for mayor newsome for the 7 years he served as mayor here. th

they know that this city and this community, we love city college. it's a jewel. it's one of the most important gains, it's the backbone of our democracy, the heart and soul of our city. to destroy that, they cannot do that with an aloe he electricitied board because we would speak their accountable whether if we don't agree with a decision, they're answerable and they can be removed. that's the heart of democracy and you have to impose, like they do in michigan, or like they've done in greece because it all stems from the same banksters mentality. they have these special e-u commissions to impose policies where even the governments in europe cannot make the decisions. those are made by committees and banksters beholden to imf. this is the same agenda. (applause) >>> so, we need to -- is that my first or second? >> time, okay. >>> thank you. >> thank you very much. (applause) >> [speaker not understood] clemmons. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. demetrius [speaker not understood]. next speaker. >>> hello, my name is angel van stark and i am the

this city and county now for all sectors of the bill. this city is experiencing the economic boom i think is bigger than ed lee or whoever [speaker not understood] ~ runs the city [speaker not understood]. it has been affecting african americans and negros, a number of years. the asians, every sector of city hall is complaining now. so, now it's time to get to the nuts and bolts and accountability. yours truly, ace washington has been working shes shesfully 20-year [speaker not understood]. we're going to try legislatively to make it happen ~ with our new leadership here at city hall. [speaker not understood]. you say what is community reform, ace? well, i have a blueprint plan that i'm going to present and put in your hands sooner or later. but i cannot expose it now because over the years, even in my community when people come up with new ideas, they are taking it and implementing. but i am so happy that we are at the accountability and grand jury has come up with all the properties because we have some properties in the western additi

i'm a san francisco an and a student of city college ~ and i am studying to be an educator. and for this reason i am especially concerned about what's going on on a city-wide, statewide, national level and i feel like we're entering a time where we really, really must defend our right to an education. it's going to take -- it's going to take all of us. so, right now i'm especially grateful to have and to hear the support from city hall such as this new proposal and it's just like we need all levels to work on this. we need all the students, we need all the teachers and it's so amazing to see everybody who comes out for these actions and to show support. that's when you really feel the strength of this community and it's the community is going to see us in this struggle and really bring us to a better day. so, thank you to all of you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> how y'all doing? i'd like to thank you guys for having integrity and being real -- (applause) >>> and not, not just a puppet for various corporations and et cetera. i'd also like to thank the students who ha

san franciscans we've come a great distances and there's still too many in our city owe too many we have to help to insure this will be their city as well our work is far from done. nelson mandela taught the world a thing about bringing up people together and reminded us that after climbing a great hill one only finds there are many more hills to climb and we may take a moment to rest and look back at the distance but only for a moment we have responsibility we dare not linger our long walk together is not ended. let's go forward together in 2014 and keep the state of the city vitality and strong and insure that san francisco remains a place where everyone can afford to call home. thank you and goadjourned. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to this presentation. i'm san francisco purrs since that time we've helped people clean up their criminal records. we created this to help you understand how this worked. we'll plan or explain all the steps. after watching this program you'll know what to expect after completing the process. hi, there are i'm deputy and i'm part of the clean slate team. the first thing we will need

this whole city is my city. now, what i have heard and when i found out about this, it hurts because i have been jumped on, beat up and tried to be framed by the police. and my question is to the black, the chinese and any other culture in here, do you remember your history? when you put too much pressure on a twig, it will break. when you put too much pressure on a twig it will break. just like everyone's history in this room. you put pressure, they will fight back. god bless you. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello, my name is shane. we are just moving in to the block on third street and i'm here to speak on the shooting and i would like to extend my condolences to the family of mr. nieto. as to the shooting on sunday night. i'm a new member of the community, a new member and we are committed to the positive am -- acclimation of that block and willing to work with the community and the police to make this a livable neighborhood. i would ask the police commission support all his staff in the engagement work they ar

and cities dodo this they'll be in trouble trouble. jose thank you and now you're going to work closely with me and many in the city and a entertain our businesses as and transform from a payroll tax to another tax system and low encourage job creation. he will be asked to step out of the traditional you've got to get it done and how do we help you do get under and city maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the sa

, so the city, will pick up the injuries to those people if they don't have insurance, no workers compensation, if a driver gets hurt one of the drivers who was unknowingly participating in this scheme, gets hurt, the city will pick up that person's wage loss potentially under the ga. and it may pick up their medical expenses and it is other vehicles that are hit that don't have the appropriate insurance, and the city will be picking up their tab as well. so this is what is happening is these businesses are shifting the cost of safety that the taxi industry builds into its pricing mechanism that the taxi and limo commission takes into account and why these companies are being so successful is it is pushing off the cost of safety, maintenance and driver training and the injuries that is causes on the community and these taxi drivers and yes, i see them too and so no love loss there. but these taxi drivers are not going to be able to compete and what is going to happen is that we are going to destabilize the transportation industry, if the taxi cabs are driven out of business and then these folks get to surge the price and which means that it is raining and we are going to doub

san franciscans we've come a great distances and there's still too many in our city owe too many we have to help to insure this will be their city as well our work is far from done. nelson mandela taught the world a thing about bringing up people together and reminded us that after climbing a great hill one only finds there are many more hills to climb and we may take a moment to rest and look back at the distance but only for a moment we have responsibility we dare not linger our long walk together is not ended. let's go forward together in 2014 and keep the state of the city vitality and strong and insure that san francisco remains a place where everyone can afford to call home. thank you and go >> hello, i am with the san francisco parks department serious we are featuring some wonderful locations in your and very own backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in san francisco with someone special. we are here at the lovely and historic palace of fine arts, located in the bustling marina district. originally built for the 1950's exposition, the palace is situated along san francisco's waterfront. it i

we shouldn't have winners and losers in this city. that's why this site is important because it's complicated and we like the complicates. bay 26 percent of the contractor on this are local people already being hired 60 percent minorities so the contractors as subcontractors are also incriminating the city while their building this wonderful project. we're going to have businesses on the waterfront they're going to be welcomed with retail space and they'll have some needed open space for everybody to ask enjoy. we had this vision to get the site under our control because today represents what that control meant. i felt it with the willie brown center we kind of indicated that this whole corridor would be an exciting part of the housing and have more thing we do. i'm proud of the agencies that have come together. let's take the examples and tell the rest of the city and the rest of the country you can mold great transportation with housing and with the quality of life and get everybody to participate apart appreciate all of you for bein

because if you look at this chart, what you are going to see is we have an astounding number of city departments that currently fund children's services. looking at this you have different departments, human services agencies, first five and libraries and that's a large number of departments that are working together to try to improve the outcome for first to five and then we go to young people from kindergarten to 5th grade and we have a number of departments that are putting a lot of resources towards these populations. these are resources that are above and beyond the children's fund dollars and as well as the enrichment k funds and bringing federal dollars to the table. as you can imagine if we were to align the services around core outcomes, can you imagine the impact. i'm not saying our departments are not working together as you ler -- already heard from a couple of partnerships. we are working together. the partnerships that we are forming up now are not institutionalized. they are strong because of the people in the leadership position that are really pushing the work. we nee

i also teach the city mandated class for new cab drivers. this includes several hours of sensitivity training, for the people with disabilities. the puc spokesperson was a complete disappointment. she sounds like the famous court craze that argued that separate and equal were going to

that starts with passing this legislation. sf citynd the tech community will get even more involved in housing and all i can say is stay tuned. (clapping.) >> ms. moore rank was supposed to be here i'm not an adequate substitute for sister moraine they'rhe

city college, in my view -- and i say this as someone who is an immigrant who came to this country in search of the american dream -- city college is making it possible for the american dream to remain alive for thousands and thousands of san franciscans. and it is for that reason that we are here today. today's special meeting of the neighborhood services and safety committee is devoted to the very important issue of bringing our community voice back to city college. we will vote on a resolution that i introduced, and that has been co-sponsored by a number of my colleagues, and i want to thank my colleagues beginning with supervisor yee who is on this committee, supervisor mar who will be joining us shortly, as well as supervisors avalos, wiener, kim, chiu, and cohen. the fact that a super majority of the board of supervisors is supporting this resolution gives you an indication of the importance of this institution. it also provides an opportunity, it provides a forum, this hearing today, for the very first time in a very long time for the community of city college to have a place w

not crack addicted and this city has a lot going on. so, african-american people, we are really -- we're not getting the service. we're not getting attention. knowing that this lady is working out in bayview where it's 500, $100 million homes being built, when you're trying to take the project monday and i build those homes out there, knowing that, you know, we're trying to put even the plane crash in the plane, a black lady, [speaker not understood]. the black policemen get beat up in bayview even though he's a policeman. you see this noose on my tie? someone tie this into a noose. things like this in san francisco, we've become known for people -- giving people apartments, [speaker not understood] put a noose on this side. i have a black man [speaker not understood]. but stuff like this going on, i'm not surprised that we're here. tonight is really a good meeting of the minds because ethics, you know, should be part of all of our lives. and san francisco stands tall on the mountain, but we have to know that african americans have made

but there is going to be a referendum on crimea's future this city has already voted. this is the first place where activists lowered the ukrainian flag and raised the russian flag on city hall. this is the first city where russian troops arrived, taking over the ferry terminal, and russia is only three miles away. the family has lived in this spot for decades, and they have always looked east. >> i served in the soviet army, he said. i feel it's unpleasant when i'm forced to speak ukrainian. today he relies on a well. he accuses ukrainian government of letting crimeaens live in the stone age. >> i don't believe in any ukrainian government, not the old one. not a future one. not the current one. thanks to these men he now lives under a new crimeaen government. they leave the headquarters. he is a political organizer and militia leader. he said he has 4,000 fighters. >> we can mobilize a big arm within an hour. he wants to join russia because he feels that they're culturally different and spreads hate towards europe. that hatred targets this city's few pro-western activi

this city and county now for all sectors of the bill. this city is experiencing the economic boom i think is bigger than ed lee or whoever [speaker not understood] ~ runs the city [speaker not understood]. it has been affecting african americans and negros, a number of years.

this city and county now for all sectors of the bill. this city is experiencing the economic boom i think is bigger

if there is going to be a referendum on crimea's future this city has already voted. this was the first place where pro russian activists lowered the ukrainian flag and raised the russian flag on city hall. this is the first city where russian troops arrived i taking over the ferry terminal. from the hill on the terminal russia is only three miles away. for igor, his family has lifted in this spot for decades. first he was soviets, they are ethnic russians, and they've always looked east. >> i served in the soviet army. i speak russian. it's unpleasant to speak ukrainian. >> reporter: in the 80's his life was better. at the very least he had running water. now he relies on a well. he accuses ukraine for allowing crimeaen to live in the stone age. >> i do not believe in the ukrainian government, not the old one, not the future one, not the new one. >> reporter: constantine is a political organizer and militia leader. he said he has 4,000 fighters. >> we can mobilize a big army within an hour. >> reporter: he wants to join russia because he feels that crimea is culturall

thank you for honoring the women in this city and just thank you for being a city that we can be really proud of on this issue. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor farrell. and our last presentation, certainly not the least, from our district 1 colleague from the richmond, supervisor mar. (applause) >> thank you, chair. nancy fisher rodriguez, the chair of the [speaker not understood] and dr. emilie [speaker not understood] and the whole commission and the staff for bringing this to us every year. as i struggled with a number of other district 1 richmond district leader and my staff to come up with an honoree, i'll just say i thought about the history of international women's day, march 8 every year, that's coming up on saturday, and the month that's culling that we will be celebrating this whole month, i tried to think of somebody that represented the history of the 105 years celebrating the struggle of women garment workers in new york city in honoring them, but also organizing as a key vehicle for social change. our honoree kind of represents that. as a father, i thought about my str

this is about people in the city, this is about families. this is about taking my experience of 55 years of life which to me seems inconsequential to what i see every day on the streets of san francisco. i would just like to be able to bring a sense of care, value, and responsibility to the families in this city and hopefully through this appointment of the mental health board i'll be able to do my best to do that. thank you. i appreciate the time. and if you have any questions, i'll do my best to answer. >> sure, thank you. any questionx? seeing none, thank you very much. >> appreciate it. >> please keep up with ccsf. that's really appreciated. thank you. [laughter] ~ >> >> vanae tran has withdrawn her nomination. the next person is idell wilson. >> yes, good afternoon, supervisors. and i have to apologize. i can't talk that long because i have sinuses. the pollen and stuff in the air. i did submit my recent resume to you guys. i have been aes are ~ resident in san francisco all of my life, born and raised in general hospital, raised four c