i know there is a few people who want to speak on this item and i want to thank them for coming to city hall. i think this is a critical measure that we need to make sure that we create housing that's affordable to san franciscans. i know there is a sentiment that's been expressed time and time again by people in this building that we want to do that. bottom line for me is that you can talk about affordable housing but until we actually make it happen, nothing is going to change. the fact remains that for most of us, it is simply impossible to be able to afford to live in this city. unfortunately the housing that has been put forward and has been created is housing that is out of reach for most of us. so this legislation i think it's a very motion dest approach that simply says that as a matter of public policy it makes sense that 30 percent of the housing that is created be affordable for most san franciscans. i don't believe it's a radical concept at all. i think it's a very motion dest concept that ensure that everyone who has made this city what it is, working people, middle income

i love this city. that's why people want to live in the city. right now people can't afford it. i ask this measure gets passed. and talk to your colleagues to make sure this is fully passed from the board of supervisors. thank you. >> thank you, mr. hernandez. i believe one of our community members has to go because they have an evening commitment. supervisor campos. >>supervisor david campos: i apologize. i have to leave. we will continue to have a quorum. i just want to thank all the members of the public who have come out to speak on this item. i just want to say that one thing is clear, how much all of us care about this city. i love san francisco. i think it's the greatest city in the world, but i do believe that it's changing to the point that i think the entire city is becoming gentrified to the point of pushing so many people out. that's what this is about. i want to reiterate my thanks to supervisor kim and the staff and all the cosponsors of this and i was very moved by the testimony and i think the more you talk about what's happening, you more you realize that somethi

this opportunity to speak. i do a lot of volunteer work in the city. 13 of years i lived at market street. i'm sure you are familiar with 1049, i was in the middle of the catalyst of this housing problem. when people started $100 rent increases on $400 and $500 units, every night not knowing if i was going to have a message under my door that would make me homeless was difficult. i was fortunate to find housing. i'm grateful but there is a lot less fortunate people who can not find good housing. health care workers, teachers, disabled, poor, seniors, there is really no excuse for seniors ands of course veterans. choices, realistically, as i was looking at housing it was over crowded sro or on the streets. that's unacceptable for a city of this caliber. i support the balanced housing. $900 below market rate for a 400 square foot studio, is really not affordable housing. i hope you all do the right thing and really stick up for the real people of the city ands bring you us to affordable housing. >> my name is sade. and i represent the tenderloin district. first of all our community center use

we know we need to prevent the eviction and we need to build more affordable housing in this city. i'm excited that we have this agenda moving forward for the november ballot and i want to thank those who made it possible to introduce these measures. the organizing that's happening with the labor is in incredibly exciting. i want to thank all the supervisors that are here, they are all cosponsors of the minimum wage proposal. >> thank you. i would like to add to the course here and thank you for your leadership on this and also with the may i see -- mayor's office and community members and all the people that have made this possible. i lived through many many years of minimum wage myself and it was a struggle. as many of you know, i spent most of my life in the nonprofit world where it was pretty much minimum wage. for me to see this little bump up in salary for the people that actually run our city and make our city as rich as it is in terms of what's available for other people, i am happy like probably everybody else here on this committee to be a cosponsor of this item. so, if th

helping us resolve some of these problems in district 11, your district, and other districts across this city. my heart is heavy today. my heart is very heavy because this is the third time in a row that our young children have to witness a homicide. our children have to witness a homicide in san francisco and no one came to their rescue. 40 kids on the playground at hahn playground in sunnydale, it was a still where was the mayor? if this had happened in any other community, i'm sure everybody would have showed up. ~ i remember when the families of new town came here and the mayor acknowledged them and honored them and we stood with him. but to ignore your own people and the people that voted for you in office, it really hurts. it hurts very bad. this friday -- this thursday, the 17th, will be 19 years my son gerald c. scott was murdered. his case and his homicide did remain unsolved, but i will not stop. i will not stop for the children that's on the border a we stand on the steps together with supervisor campos about the violence that's happening to them, to the violence that's happening t

in terms of the children, this is a travesty and this is something that is breaking hearts across this city and that this is what we really, really need to focus on. i'd like to thank supervisor cohen and also supervisor breed in letting us know that this is a city-wide issue and our babies are at stake. the resolution is to support the increased funding to the violence prevention programs for board of supervisors to adopt the community's parks which stand for public area recreation remaining kid friendly and safe initiative. i'm going to go down to whereas. in the past president public official have promised [speaker not understood], however, much of these promises have resulted in a [speaker not understood] approach of police. the park initiative is to start -- a start towards a more multifaceted approach that empowers the community to protect them self. whereas parks initiative is a community driven resolution, it features two very basic solutions for community policing, which is one, the information of high quality surveillance cameras at the public recreational facilities, and two, an

so supporting something like this would be quite helpful for our city. it's something to weigh on. this particular measure in question is to go for. i would stress the unanimous support. anyway, thank you again for your support. i want to say myself, supervisors daughter, i'm going to be married in a year and i would like to stay in san francisco with my wife and have an actual place to call home. that's something to think about too. there are a lot of people that really love this city and we would love to stay here. thanks again. >> thank you and congratulations on your engagement. >> good afternoon, my name is kathy lip skon and i'm involved with senior disability and ace. it's very touching to see so many young people here. thank you supervisor who helped this get on the ballot and all the circumstances -- years of work you put into this. i'm glad you are mentioning this housing element. it says that 60 percent of all new development should be for very low and motion derate -- moderate income people. this is a motion dest one. it takes account affordability and sunshine. i think

francisco and my youngest daughter who graduated college, she has no hope finding an apartment in this city. she is still at home with me. she wants to work. we need affordable housing for people who have jobs but don't have exorbitant salaries. i'm in very strong support of this. it's going to be hard to catch up that we are so far behind. i'm urging your support. thank you. >> thank you, ms. bryant. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, mr. chairman, may we close public comment? >> public comment is now closed. i have been instructed to have somebody make a motion as supervisor campos for the remainder of the movement. can i get a motion? >> i so move. >> supervisor kim and supervisor breed. supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i wanted to be a part of this hearing because housing is important to me here in san francisco. i grew up here in public housing and when i graduated from college i came home and there was no housing in the 90s. there was an application process for fousing and many who did not get access for housing. it was a process to dea

city budget. you're only spending it '02% on homelessness, 2% ~. this is a rich city. this is an affluent city. you need to act. as the board of supervisors you need rip that money out. do we really need $86 million to pave our general fund? do we need [speaker not understood] to sweep homeless people six mornings a week to harass them? take it and invest it. fund the rapid rehousing subsidies and the subsidies in nonprofit housing so that over 500 thousand holds can exit homelessness. level the playing world -- playing field so tenants actually have some rights. they have access to full counsel. we can do something about this eviction epidemic. we can halt all displacements. we can keep 27 household in their homes. all this is only going to cost $11 million. [inaudible]. [cheering and applauding] >> next speaker, please. >>> thank you, debby. and good afternoon now, supervisors. my name is deborah eddleman. i'm the deputy director at hamilton family center and the co-chair of emergency homeless provider association. i've met many of you many times before. i want to thank all of you first for t

you can be black and have aids in this city and you cannot live here. this is the same thing that you are doing with the [inaudible]. aids was a disease that made you age and if you let them take away these things out here it really just go to show that money means everything in san francisco and we can't keep on doing this. you know, you coming next, the richer get rich. the rich eat the rich. you know, so it's amazing that housing in san francisco you got rid of the blacks, you got rid of the mexicans, now you going for the seniors and disability. this is what it boils down to. you know what? you go on to different levels, but it's not right and i hope the president announce [inaudible] will get here. housing right is a human right. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. with that, item 49 is in the hands of the board. supervisor campos. >> thank you very much. i want to begin by thanking you for letting us have this hearing today and i

this is not the way we treat those who sacrifice for the greater good of this city. this will end this practice, the legislation that you advance will insure that every firefighter and police officer while they're fighting for their life won't have to fight for a check and their families who are left behind in the event they don't win that battle won't be left to start over again and be left in economic distress. we witnessed a dramatic increase in the job related cancer that many firefighters are circuming. new chemicals that mass camacho raid that's in our furniture and clothing. a flat screen computer in every room that releases deadly toxins. our cancer foundation has led the way in research and prevention to mitigate this to ourselves and the efforts of tony, our president, he really has become the national figure head on this, and he's been inspiring and amazing to work with and we need to back up the work that he's done and insure that all the firefighters that he's advocating for, again, aren't left economically damaged once they give their bodies to the city

this is my therapy being here in front of the city hall. i live in district 5. my son was murdered in district 5. and i've never moved. i have to walk out the house every day and see where he laid. this is something a mother should not have to go through. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >>> i have some papers here, the e-mail concerning my deposit from san francisco housing authority from may 1st. i came to mr. chiu's office and i asked your staff could they look into this. i have e-mails that say i don't owe any money and where they have overcharged me -- i mean on rent and all kind of stuff. and then they tried to [speaker not understood] telling me i was given $146 when i'm still owed 365. all this paperwork that i have shown your staff and when i called today, i asked how far did they get in the investigation. nobody could answer because they said there is nothing in the logbook. like i said, i'm trying to break the ice. i've been waiting for this denial letter from housing for a while now. i have not received it in the mail so i can go to small claims co

what i'm seeing in this city being a san francisco housing authority, semi resident and i put it semi resident for this reason, i've seen the issue was public housing and they are far outweighing the benefit. and with that said, i waited 13 years for my housing assistance and that is too long. nobody in this city that is a single parent should be waiting 13 years for housing assistance nor should they go without housing, and that goes for anyone. it should not be based upon a race. it should be based upon humanity. we are human beings and we need housing. we need food. we need the basic necessities to live in this city. unfortunately a lot of people are met with great adversity and challenges and have found it impossible to obtain these things. personally i believe that we don't need to write a blank check, but we do need to write a check. you need to write a check with the condition that these issues will be taken care of and put a date next to those issues. also, i want to point out something with san francisco housing that is kind of alarming to me. they require the residents under

this is st. francis city. i'm not a religious person, i'm a spiritual entity experiencing a human experience. people visualize the state of the city or the community and it reflects on how the visitors and citizens see compassion dispensed by the people. and you are the representative of the people. i help dispense wellness to mostly veteran patients and some of them can't be here today because they suffer for such extreme cases of ptsd which includes insomnia, depression, anxiety and panic attacks. regular meds given to them by their -- the federal government or the state government rarely works or it is so strong that they can't function, and which points to its toxicity. a couple veterans tell mel the only way they get sleep is from cannabis. no matter how strong the drugs they're given other than cannabis, none of them seem to work. anyway, i hope you can see yourself to express grace in your decision about 5% compassion in our community because one out of six people living in this city are disabled and a

i'm wondering how this fits into high needs if you can explain as to why those sites if it were in the city or in chinatown where there is clearly a lack of open space and definitely a high population that's always there. >> right. so yes, we are hoping this park would be a citywide resource and go a little bit yovenltd -- beyond. it's initial service area to serve the needs of the whole city. we look at acquisitions that come before us as well as drive the process to find different acquisitions and other neighborhoods. some are more available than others at different times. so we have to play a balancing act really a game of figuring out when we are able to purchase and purchase the right things that are going to be lasting resources for the city. we have, we do try to look at the city as a whole and assess what's available and where we can purchase property. our department has been working very strongly, very closely with supervisor kim and john up tike to look at those responses there throughout the city. we have looked and see where things are available and make the best decision. >> i

no one in this city is complying to anything. and that needs to be checked out. why is it, that the city has been getting away with this, for quite some time, so you are not going to get no answers, they are going to come with the excuses and they are still going to be spending money that you don't need to be spending because you don't know where it went, and so i would just like somebody, to find out why is it that this is continued to be happening in this city, without a city certificated compliance officer? and there is not, none, and that is certificated, they got compliance officers. but they are not certificated. and they cannot be certificated. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> i do appreciate supervisor london breed for you calling about these audits and your question is of two years and how they have not done it before you got in the office. but let me say to you perfectly clear. that this has been going on for years. and the corruption, and that has been going on here, in the city hall and you need the papers today, and this is the hea

the employment impact is whether this city's economy will be growing during this period and whether growth is enough to continue the job expansion into city's economy. to do that we need to look at different projections at the city's employment during that time period. we rely on three sources of employment projections. they are all projecting significant amounts of growth from 27,000 to 59,000 new jobs. what that means even the least optimistic employment projection we have will see the city continue to see 25,000 new jobs even if the effect of the new minimum wage comes into effect. we looked into industry by industry and it's a little less clear. the projections we looked at arrest unanimous -- are unanimous like the restaurant industry which will continue to grow even with the minimum wage impact. the personal services are a little less clear, some are projecting healthy growth and some are not. the overall story about the employment effect the city's economy will improve. the number of the jobs in the city will still be less than the city will expect to have with natural growth over t

know what i mean you know jim gym and structure today. >> to make this a park that everybody can enjoy, a diversity that would show the city that this is what san francisco is all about. >> what we got here is 3,000 new square feet of places for people to be healthy and be active and the community to gather. >> if you see /kaelly's mural in the building, there cannot be an imagery that's more related to this place. what people told us about what the importance of the windmills and the green houses and the flowers that used to be grown here and the wind, let's not forget the wind. >> we have to continue to invest in our city's infrastructure and creating new. this is a recreation center for the 21st century and for the 21st century communities. >> we finally made something after somebody that everybody needs and this is the park. (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so t

appreciate you and your staff per variance and happy to be is co-sponsor to rename this block for one of the greatest leaders in the city of san francisco. with that, open up open this up for public comment i have a few public comment cards which i'll read out (calling names) okay. okay go well, you, come up and don't have to testify in the exact order >> i want to thank supervisor kim on his own he merit woody allen dell stands up on highs own it makes sense to do that give the comments of that person and to choose small business lib woody allen dell so it makes sense on our part so thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> okay. if you don't mind i'm going to read tom was my father he was a remarkable man a patent and friend and role model i couldn't accomplish what he did i will live by his belief and fight for a better tomorrow it is amazing to honor him with a street nominated after him it's important despite his contributions he was an activist with the remarks that were derogatory and contrary of what san francisco stands for its important that sorry. to further this in our beliefs in human right >> what better w

redemption recycling is provided immediately nearby. ~ city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you, president chiu. on this epidemic of the evictions of recycling centers in the city, i'd like to move that we send this to committee. i'm still in the process of communicating with safeway executives as they have closed not only the market street safeway, but also the ocean beach safeway, and also with the head of our department of environment debby raphael and her staff on how we can create more of a city-wide plan. and i think going to committee would allow us to have a fuller discussion. so, i motion that we send this to committee. >> it just takes one supervisor to send it to committee. supervisor mar moved that we send it to committee, that is what we will do. we have one final item. we called item 6 related to the 2014 update of the recreation and open space element rose. [inaudible]. back to discussion. supervisor wiener. >> i thank you, mr. president. thank you for delaying this till the end of the meeting. so, this is as i mentioned at the beginning, it's very challenging because we have to vote up o

in that case this measure is about protecting the very soul of this city and that's why we have to go after speculators so i'm very proud to be supportive and thank you to all the community members who have worked on this and what i appreciate thabt measure besides the fact that it's connected to harvey milk is the fact that it also comes from the grass roots, from dozens of meetings throughout neighborhoods in san francisco where we hear directly from the people that it was time to address speculation. thank you. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. i definitely want to acknowledge how difficult a lot of our housing challenges are here in san francisco, especially. i think that i mean, i am one of those who struggled here in san francisco as well so i want to make sure this measure is doing what -- doesn't catch some of the other folks in it that we don't intend to and so with that, i do have a couple of questions and i am trying to figure out if it might be directed towards supervisor mar or perhaps the city attorney who worked on drafting this, but given that the structure of this mea

is not just a board of supervisors, problem, this is a city as a whole problem and this is a leadership problem and we can't be greety about me me me and my my my i want to basically do well with my business and not give back to do anything for anybody else. that is bigger issue here, when we are talking about the solutions we need to put it all out on the table and talk about what is happening now, and in the organizations that are funded and not doing the work, what is happening with those organizations and the poverty pimps who are getting millions of dollars to take care of our community and they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing we, have to all put that stuff aside, and figure out ways in which we can come together, as a community, and be responsible for making a difference for the people who need it the most. no, we can't, help everybody, and there is some people who we know, there are amazing workers out there, but can't pass the drug test in order to get a city job, and we know that we have folks in the community that need a little bit more help and a l

next speaker, please. >> supervisors, my name is gene top an and resident in this city. i heard about this park. even though i don't live around the area but i am a big supporter of open spaces and parks in san francisco. i feel it's always important that whenever the city gets a chance to create a new open space, a new park for the city that we should take it. this is a great opportunity to dough so. -- do so. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. my name is nancy yee. i'm addressing you this morning in support of the san francisco reservoir park. wearing three different hates, from -- hats from the child development center and serving many families, second, as board member. >> it's wonderful to have you back in the chambers after a day. congratulations on your retirement. >> thank you very much. second as board member of the head start, an early care education agency serving close to 300 low income preschoolers and their families. it currently operates three centers in the north beach area and third as cochair of network for healt

san francisco is a beacon of hope for you'll and tom woody allen dell was inspired by this city and this city made the gay games a reality he didn't seek family or future his memory lives in the gay games so the street associated with his life hacking take his name to inspire generations of athletics and activists you thank supervisor kim. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> he hypothetically leader position petitioner of the world western society for the entire japan in terms of this movie i think the best movie will be indescribable with clint eastwood and richard gere and babylon with steve ma gene and other this is a great team the tragedy of mr. james bond unable to retire all of that movie into the focus of the life factor separation together isness and sadness and the way of life. thank you. >> thank you is there any further public comment on item one seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor kim >> thank you. i just want to thank both sarah and jessica who came today to talk about your partner and friend and it's special to have his family on the work i've r

i love living and working with san francisco because this city has a reputation for understanding the need for the arts in the community as well as the need to support its artists. our arts organizations including our theaters, museums, music and dance performance programs and more took significant cuts during tough years. and although we are grateful you have been steadily increasing fund the last few years, we are still way behind the funding levels from 10 years ago. grants from the arts alone is down 22% since 2004. we need to increase this funding so that our artists can continue to live here. recently one of our orchestra had an international position. candidates are one of the finest in the world. yet upon moving here he could hardly afford to rent a single room in the city. our city's arts organizations and its artists are not able to keep up with the incredibly high cost of living in san francisco. increased funding for grants for the arts will ensure that our artists can afford to live in san francisco and will enable the arts community to look toward rebuilding their progra

you can be black and have aids in this city and you cannot live here. this is the same thing that you are doing with the [inaudible]. aids

have an ordinance to join jpa with the city of richmond and have all of our questions answered as we're going through that process. and, so, i'm hoping by the end of this month to be able to have that and working with the controller's office and the city attorney to answer a lot of questions that still remain. colleagues still have regarding the open principal reduction program. first i want to thank my colleagues who are co-sponsors, supervisors campos, mar, and kim, and i want to acknowledge that in san francisco there are many communities, especially on the southern and southeast part of the city that are experiencing the kind of economic boom that is happening elsewhere. we have many, many households that are still under water. we have many households that have predatory loans and they're still mortgages that they're still paying and not able to get out of, not able to have any real relief of the high rates that are there. and we need to have some tools in place that can really help that. we'll go principal reduction of the s.f. cares program or the cares program joining with richmond and jpa would help to enable that to happen. [speaker not unders

city. we continue to live in what is becoming the global center of innovation and this is one way to engage our residents what we do in city hall. look forward to continuing to utilize this tool and technologies to modernize what we do herein side of city hall including our legislation. and, again, i want to congratulate the scholarship winners. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. okay. supervisor mar? >> thank you. i have several item. the first addresses san francisco's growth wealth divide between the haves and the have nots. i'd like to thank supervisors campos, cohen, supervisor chiu for joining me in calling for the digital divide in our city. last week the san francisco chronicle came out with an editorial calling the digital divide a disturbing divide, citing a field poll study done saying 25% of californians, about a quarter of everyone living in our state do not have adequate access to high-speed internet. i think it raised some concerns for me of one of the wealthiest cities in the world. one of the regions of the world that perhaps is a tech capi

i want to especially acknowledge that this city, this jurisdiction maybe the first jurisdiction in the country that from the beginning acknowledged the necessity to speak to the non-profit partners in developing a fair and equitable minimum wage measure. and it's typical of san francisco that it steps for it in all of these issues. we appreciated being in the conversation. we also appreciated the tone of the conversation with community activist labor and the non-profits all trying to come together to find something that was going to work and move our city forward. so we are very pleased to encourage the committee to move this out with a positive vote to the full board. the non-profit sector. even though the vast majority of our workers meets beyond the minimum wage wage and there is a sector that this is benefit and we hope with the rising tide raises all boats that will help those that are barely make it to see economic growth in their life so families can stay in this city. i want to thank you for the long meetings we had and i look forward to the campaign. >> thank you, mr. fields.

. >> its rise was really during the industrial revolution, some called it the gilded age, this city was not alone, detroit and new york and chicago seeing tremendous growth in development. >> absolutely. i think what was different about coke and i think this guess to the heart of what i was writing about. unlike u.s. steel, you think of steel towns and the sugar trusts and these big vertically integrated empires. coke was very different, it chose not to vertically integrate. the key to success was actually the unique corporate structure of outsourcing and franchising. by the end of the 19th century it was all over the country. in every state of the union. the ability to do that through the bottling franchise system that makes coke really unique in terms of the pace with which it spreads and then of course the globe in the 20th century. >> let me ask you about the bottling and the so-called new coke. the formula that was so much attention when? >> in 1980s and 1985. what's really interesting about new coke. i traced the ingredients in the book. i talk about water, sugar, caffeine. i deci

what i'm seeing in this city being a san francisco housing authority, semi resident and i put it semi resident for this reason, i've seen the issue was public housing and they are far outweighing the benefit. and with that said, i waited 13 years for my housing assistance and that is too long. nobody in this city that is a single parent should be waiting 13 years for housing assistance nor should they go without housing, and that goes