it increases the housing stock, it creates a park in an underserved neighborhood, and you protecting ratepayers interest because you're getting market value for the property. what we're asking you to do, this property is surplus to our utility needs. that is one of the findings you have to make today except for a portion that is about 16 feet by 16 feet where we have a pump control station, if you remember, numerous flooding events, we put in a pond control station. we will be retaining that portion of the property. he will authorize the general manager to sign behalf -- the mlu. you are going to request the mayor and the board of supervisors to create a transactional jurisdictional transaction between the departments of this property. you will receive the benefit from that. and finally, you are adopting the ceqa findings. we will be responsible for cleaning up as the development goes forward. those of the actions before you today and i know there are members of the committee that want to address you and i'll be happy to address them. >> if we get a motion, we will take some comments

them either get hired or start their own business, so we need this right now, especially in our underservedommunities right now more than ever. [applause] there's hiring credits if you hire veterans, and as the president said, these are people who as you know fought for their country. they should not have to fight for a job when they come home. [applause] and one last point, but not least -- $50 billion in infrastructure. i know some of you are contractors out there, small contractors are really going to benefit from the infrastructure investments that are in this bill. i'm also particularly happy with something else that we're doing for small business, and these are the small businesses who do business with the federal government like many of you here. a couple of weeks ago, the president announced and then told all federal agencies to start paying their small business government contractors in 15 days instead of 30. [applause] it's an idea called quick pay. yeah -- [applause] so i want to thank ron busby and a lot of you who supported this. i'm delighted to talk to an audience of small bu

single step to reach out to the community, to create racial harmony, to provide resources for our underserved youth in the community. so i hope that we will continue to have this partnership with our african-american community leaders in our community. also i want to introduce one of our youth advocates, who will be joining us to make this happen. and i want to welcome brandy wyndham from our baby youth advocate program. [applause] >> hello, my name is brandy wyndham. i'm 15 years old attending thurgood marshall as a junior. have i been living in bay view all of my life, witnessing and experiencing many thing that's have taken place in my community. what i like about my community is we're able to relate to one another with similar views and do our best to stick together as a community. bay view is facing bad publicity because of the thing that's go on within it. i can personally say bay view needs a huge change. this community lacks support in different areas. teens walk around streets with low self-esteem and no hope so they decide to run to the streets with their friends. they barely have a

that part of the city is greatly underserved. the waterfront recreation, and that particular project was a major -- this particular e.i.r. and the plans for the america's cup seem to be kind of looking at that particular project site a little differently. the next point, and you have to really look is the treasure island plan. the treasure island sailing center is the only public water access non-profit organization on treasure island serving families. the deir identifies the parking lot, a very small area, as a helipad location. helicopters and water sport in that location do not mix very well. i have to soon that is a contradiction in the way we looked at that e.i.r. it goes on to say adaptively reused for the america's cup. i hope there will be significant push back to properly sort that out. there is a series of implementation plans i would have liked to have in order to look at the e.i.r. and look at the impact plan. i have never seen the plan. i am not familiar of any draft of the park event operations plan. only in draft f

he's trying to build grocery stores for the underserved lower ninth ward.is complicated it's going to take a lot of determination, but wendell pierce i know you well enough to know you are exactly the sort of person to get it done. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate that. >> thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> you and i have been political opponents at various points. there was a point where i was mean mugging you in green rooms in the back. one thing i know for certain about you, is that you have a profound commitment to this city. to your city. when you think about how tough it is here, after the storm, is it the kind of tough you expected, or is it something different? >> it's the tough i expected. i realized this wasn't going to be a recovery happening within a week, a month, or even a year. our recovery is going to be measured in decades, unfortunately. have you to realize that 80% of this great american city was destroyed. the one thing i knew that we had here in new orleans. and that is on display now is the greatest display of t

they are clearly underserved populations, the city and county of public health. one of the key issues to really underscore is why we're here. we're healthy, but we're here. i think one of the other important things to point out, it is not all american and alaskan natives. we have a post-colonial stress disorder. we don't come to city funded programs and therefore we must not exist or we are very healthy. that is not the case when you look at all of the other statistics. in talking about all of these health disparities, one of the key things that we helped speak to that we demonstrate when asking for funding, what is that we have to show need -- one is that we have to show need. we have statistics and numbers that really impact whether we are going to get funding or not. it is very clear that we have a lot of health issues. we also have to demonstrate and talk about, maybe explain how to address some of these services. if you do some research, they are not effective for native people or effective for people that come from cultural backgrounds. we have to go back a

they've come to work together to enliven the effort to create a place where the underserved youth can about camera works. this is been on my mind for a long time. do you know the old original joe's place? they have brought in a theater piano fight. that is a wonderful addition. it will be starting this fall. the dugan family will locate in north beach. i have been a patron of the original joe's for many years. i want to specifically thank the piano and fight -- piano fight theater. thank you for starting the wonderful theater. i know you will be asking for a grant. you have been a wonderful partner in looking out for the start-ups and helping them along, helping to identify where they can be and how they can get started. we both started the arts foundation at the corner of sixth and market. there are so many people to thank tonight. i wanted to begin with this list, the freshest efforts to start up. it is a signal to you that we want to thank you all for reinvigorating this central market with your arts activity, innovation, enthusiasm. there is not going to be a store front available

remember going with my mother as part of our jewish organization and synagogue, and we went into underserved parts of memphis, tennessee and delivered fresh fruits and vegetables. this was 1968 and 1969. and it is about time in this country, and it is about time that we have leaders like fresh & easy, but it is also about time that communities like bay view and the city, mr. mayor -- thank you. david, thank you. sophie, for your leadership, thank you. it is time that bayview gets recognized for seizing what we have all known, and that is that communities come together when we do things like this to make sure that it's not just us, but our children and grandchildren can now not have to walk, not get on buses, not have to struggle and not have to start to get access to fresh fruits and vegetables. so i want to say congratulations to all of you. i hope you'll think ahead in the future, as i think all of us are doing. i cannot help this morning but thinking back to being a 6-year- old and a 7-year-old and hoping that one day we would have organizations like this of communities and organizations

>> i think there is no question that this is an underserved area and it is a unique opportunity to add an asset to the department and i want to commend the neighbors and the community for their hot tenacity over the years, and i think you can be very proud of what you're doing and how you're doing it. with that, i will entertain a motion. all those in favor? it is unanimous. [applause] >> of like to thank a couple of people that were working on this before my time. for years, they have been shepherding this to the place where i was able to get and work on and harder. and the landscape architects for making this happen. >> we are on item 12. is there anyone that like to make general public comment who did not comment under item 4. general public comment is closed. commissioner's matters? commissioner lee: last month, asked about giving a presentation on the recreation and advisory policy. the recreation advisory committee. the recreation the advisory committee counsel. to see if we can get that on the calendar for next month or october. >> is there any public comment on commissioners' m

able to provide increased voice and data -- [bell ringing] >> which are desperately needed in the underserved area to the r residents, shopper, and visitors. third, it will involve the resolution of the lawsuit and prevent the loss of time, expense, and delay that uncertainty that are necessarily the part of litigation. supervisor kim: thank you. i believe there is a question for you. >> not a question, just a comment. if you could pass on to your employer, your community relations is abysmal. you are ruining the entire industry. you are not just hurting t-mobile. you are hurting all your pierce and the manner in which t-mobile deals with the community is shockingly poor. and i would strongly, strongly suggest you find numerous ways to improve it. we will deal with the legal issues in closed session, but this is separate and apart from those legal issues, but i would strongly suggest moving forward t-mobile find ways to vastly improve the way they deal with their customers because you are not just hurting yourselves, you are hurting everyone. >> i appreciate your comments and will definitely

we are going to those most underserved communities. it is a case with the prosecutors, my plan is to have every police station serve quarterly. i am working with community- based organizations, working with foreign council. in order to reach out to communities. but in order to make ourselves more accessible. we actually have to tell you are absolutely right, this is one of the biggest problems facing all of us. public safety depends on the community trust in law enforcement. we need to have the highest ethical standards to be completely transparent and we need to work with every community in this city collaborative way which, again, is what i have been doing for the last 20 years. who are leaders in the community based organizations? they work in partnership with them for 20 years. i have worked on focusing to reduce the representation of the use of color. we need to change our policies and practices to make them fairer so that everyone is treated equally and we need to have the community partner with us that we build trust. >> our bla

today you will likely your claims that they have helped underserved women who need support during their pregnancy. we support improving services for women who choose to continue their pregnancies, and we think americans are free on this point. many misinform women about the health care options. we believe we can help expectant mothers most when we do not mislead them and give them full comprehensive medical advice. supervisors, i strongly urge you to vote yes. thank you. >> kay vesalesa. next up, tanya smith, laura hornberger and paul solis. supervisor elsbernd: supervisor avalos avalos: for those that do speak, i would ask that you clear the room for those that would like to speak. thank you. >> i am with the symphysis the women's political committee, an organization i am very proud to say supports this measure and ordnance 100 percent. at the young woman who has been in the position to counsel my friends who have gone through this serious process, i have to say, no woman makes the decisions to end a pregnancy lightly, and it is not something that anyone takes lightly in this case. any

to give you a sense of who we reach, we are really seeking to lind to traditionally underserved communities. for example, 35% of our borrowers are hispanic or latino. 22% african-american. 60% free mail, and 30% immigrant. -- 60% female. types of businesses -- we will make loans as small as $500 and as large as $100,000. they can range from home-based very small businesses like child care, people selling in the flea market, on up to janitorial, landscaping, restaurants, dry cleaners, and in some cases, small manufacturers. we sometimes bridges of it in even larger transactions if we think there's community benefits, we might wind collectively with the city's working solutions fund or with another lender. so far, -- and we work throughout the bay area. we work in four bay area counties, said francisco obviously being one of the importance, but also said the clara, san mateo, alameda. we have laid out over $15 million to bay area businesses with a medium loan size of about $7,000 -- median loan size of about $7,000. who do we work with? principally, we want to work with businesses that have a

kind of innovative programs that had not been used because of a community that had been woefully underservedbut making sure we were able to marry the power of redemption on one end to being smart on crime in the other. long story short, we have been able to reduce violent crime to the point where i now had the largest reduction in the murder rate and violent crime rates throughout all of the city in our district. as evidenced by the visit darrow, the fillmore west addition and surrounding neighborhoods. during this time, cultivated a relationship with sheriff mike hennessey, the longest serving sheriff in san francisco history. he has been our share for more than 30 years. sheriff hennessy has endorsed me to succeed him as sheriff. sheriff is much more than managing the jail system, which we have a population of about 1500 inmates a day, or protecting government buildings and what share of tennessee did was add it to rehabilitation and re-enter programs for -- before their release from county jail. we need to build on the foundation of sheriff mike hennessey and demonstrate it want to improv

we want the digital inclusion program to make sure we address the needs of underserved vulnerable communities, not communities that are already very tech savvy. we are here to provide a, b and c to the seniors. a stands for access. b stands for basic skills and c stands for content. and unless we have all three, the monolingual chinese seniors are never going to be able to use the computer or the internet. >> a lot of the barrier is knowledge. people don't know that these computers are available to them, plus they don't know what is useful. >> there are so many businesses in the bay area that are constantly retiring their computer equipment that's perfectly good for home use. computers and internet access are helping everybody in the community and people who don't have it can come to us to help with that. one of the biggest problems we see isn't whether people can get computers through programs like ours, but whether they can understand why they need a computer. really the biggest issue we are facing today is helping people understand the value of having a computer. >> immediately they would

official in maryland says no child left behind highlighted the fact that too many kids have been underserved for too long. but -- >> no child left behind has outlived its usefulness. we need to start looking at 21st century skills and we need to be more innovative. >> reporter: turning the page on public education and the way students learn. kristen welker, nbc news, the white house. >> on the subject of education, a reminder. nbc news kicks off our special series and more importantly our special gathering, education nation, this sunday. it runs into next week. talk about a big tent discussion. we have constructed just that out in our backyard here on the famous plaza on rockefeller plaza where this broadcast and others will originate live. special coverage begins sunday morning on msnbc and nbc. i hope you will join me at noon eastern on sunday on msnbc for our teacher town hall event televised live from the plaza. >>> when we come back, our exclusive interview with kate edwards about her father's troubles with the law, her mother's cancer, her mother's legacy and kate's decision to change