test largely for the urban agriculture resolution and program is to have sort of the front door for urban ag. so, we are not planning to take over other urban agriculture activities that are going on from other departments or other cities, but rather to be a front door so a member of the public can know if i'm interested in working on this land or i want to know what's going on here, that there's a clear contact person that they can come to who can then point them in the right direction. so, our plan is to develop a process calendar to outline year one which i'll show you in just a moment, to hire a full-time urban agriculture program coordinator to build on the work we did in the fall. and also to develop the urban agriculture program alongside or in conjunction with our community gardens program. so, the rec and park -- so, i will continue in my role as community gardens program manager and that the urban agriculture program will be looking at how to improve the community gardens program, but also looking at other initiatives that are going on both on rec and park properties and of course

and i would also advocate for having one or two representatives from the urban ag alliance be involved in the hiring process. thank you. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment? mr. chair, i think we're at the end of public comment. >> public comment is closed. [gavel] >> again, i want to thank everyone that's been involved from the city end to the community end. colleagues, as i mentioned before, i have an amendment i'd like to assert as a whereas clause. as we're centralizing the development of an urban agriculture strategy, that there will continue to be coordination and enhanced inter agency collaboration. so, if i could ask -- i'd like to make that amendment. >> any discussion? okay. without objection we'll accept the amendment. [gavel] >> with that, colleagues, i appreciate making the motion to move this out of committee with recommendation to the full board. >> without objection? that will be the order. [gavel] >> thank you, colleagues. and thank you to the community. >> okay, thank you. madam clerk, can you please c

i came here for the consideration of the urban ag legislation because i'm a community garden coordinatorbut i felt compelled to rile forfeit my speaking on that issue to address this one and with all due respect to the previous speaker, i want to comment on this to be the jaw dropping cost of providing rest room, individual rest room facilities for muni workers. i'm a muni rider. i took muni here. here's my clipper card. so, -- and i don't denied the need for facilities, but i simply can't fathom that this is a credible use of very scarce public dollars. and further investigation, just looking at the list there, i know there is a 24-hour walgreens at 24th and potrero avenue. san francisco general is right there, which is a very dignified institution [speaker not understood]. based on my calculationn'tv the entire budget for the city-wide urban agriculture program which is about $100,000 is roughly half a toilet. and i find that outrageous. and it seems to me that it can't -- the -- even though this is only one piece of a very complex piece of legislation and a complex issue, it's not pos

frankly in the urban age in the metropolitan country in the united states and abroad. that is the way this country is going to power itself. >> it seems that the challenge here is that one clause, which is when they come together. that seems like it is harder than it sounds. >> it is. but we have found that functional metropolitan areas understand that it's worth it. in the book we tell the story about northeast ohio. rather than sending cleveland or akron or youngstown. those areas understand make an impact on world stage the world stage not when competing with shanghai and other metropolitan areas of rising nations their interleague and they cannot force of all the places around him are thinking. so a group of foundations in these communities got together and they said, what can we do to change our economy with the decline of manufacturing throughout the 70s and 80s that hit them hard. they say that we have been funding arts and culture and social issues and none of that is going to matter most people have jobs. they invested this to you suppliers and industries and

change happens where you live in this decade and frankly and urban age in a metropolitan century in the united states and abroad. that's the way this country will power itself. see jennifer seems the challenge here is when they come together. that seems like it's harder than it sounds. so be it is that we have found that metropolitan areas under functional metropolitan areas understand that it's worth it. in the book we tell the story of northeast ohio and we stayed northeast ohio even though it really doesn't roll off the tongue rather than saying cleveland or akron or canton or youngstown because those for metropolitan areas understood that individually they couldn't really make it dent on the world stage not when they are competing with bangalore and shanghai and the megametropolitan areas of the rising nations. so they understood that they are interlinked economically. cleveland can't flourish if other places around that are sinking so they got a group of foundations and these communities got together and they said what can we do to change our economy? the decline of manufacturing t

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but they all kind of rollup, we operate in a dense urban environment, we have a lot of stops [speaker not understood] every block and a half. we have aging equipment so our vehicles breakdown often and we have narrow streets with constrained right-of-way. all those relations to the customer, you can see these pictures right here, how those challenges relate to the customer. there's a lot of gaps in service, crowded conditions, the buses are overcrowded especially on some of our major corridors. and buses get stuck in traffic because we operate at grade with the congestion that's out there right now. so, what is muni doing to address some of these issues? there's a lot of different attacks we're taking. system wide we're really focusing a lot on trying to improve the mechanics, the operations of our service, and from a management perspective so we're trying to manage lanes differently, manage our service differently, including our boarding pilot and our brand-new management center that we have. real continueheim supervision. i'll also be replacing our equipment quicker. [speaker not understood] we're trying to make people aware of when th

but we have an urban problem and a problem where everybody is dividing by many things. by race, income, age, and that has gone on through the this country. the president understood this in 2008. i thought the president spoke very well about it. he hasn't done much to bridge the divides. he fives a great speech. he hasn't done well. but i agree. if i were a republican candidate like chris christie or somebody, i would have an urban-centered strategy. if you can improve that, improve the economy. >> even if you don't get urban votes, you do it to signal that you care. >> it's the right thing to do. education, when george w. bush runs on to child left behind, that was about the suburbs. that was urban schools and the low expectations of african-american and hispanic students. >> but i think it's also, you talk about divided long the lines, but less divided than we used to be. a more perfect union. we have intermarriages have doubled in the last 30 years, inter-racial marriages. and the new marriages, it's 15%. so you start to see people mingling in ways that was never the case before. >> we ha

trouble finding a toehold f they don't-- i just read an urban institute study over the weekend about how 30% of-- how young people under the ages of 30 and down today are not doing better than their own-- then the generation just above them. you can't have this set in, you can't have it be a perm innocent reality without great cost to the belief in democracy. >> rose: numbers tell you there are momo of them then there are rich people. is it a failure of politics that politicians are saying i'm going to go for the 99%, not for the 1%, and i'll win elections, or is it simply money and politics eliminates that for a possibility for electoral success? >> it's the logic of current reality, which is that you have to have a lot of money to get re-elected. and as will you see good people go to congress and wind up spending four hours a day in the calling rooms off the capital grounds and they're lking to the people who have money to give, you know, something like a third of the money given to the campaigns in 2012 came from 138,000 peoplele that's a recent study by the sunshine-- by the sun foundation in washington. and so the politici

aging. i'm glad to support this moving forward. >> great. we can take that without objection. >> item no. 4. >> item 4: [restated option agreement - sale of surplus real property in mountain view to mv urban village homes, llc - $8,100,000] 4. 130658 sponsor: mayor resolution approving a restated option agreement for the sale of surplus lands under the jurisdiction of the san francisco public utilities commission sfpucc located in mountain view, santa clara county, california near the intersection of whisman and tyrella avenues, to mv urban village homes, llc, a california limited liability company optioneee, a joint venture between kmj urban communities, llc kmjj, and summerhill homes, llc summerhilll in the amount of $8,100,000, and reserving an easement to the sfpuc; authorizing the director of property or the sfpuc's general manager to execute documents, make modifications, and take actions in furtherance of this resolution; and adopting findings that the transactions contemplated by the restated option agreement are consistent with the city's general plan and with the eight priority policies of city planning code section 101.1.>> sf 4. [!ez >> good afternoon. today we secure your app

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urban violence emergency summit in chicago on july 26th. as i shared we are working on an advocacy day and having them speak to congress. i think the pressure needs to come from all entities, all ages, all races. i've gotten calls from many of my friends and some are plaque and some are not and a lot of people concerned about this but i think it needs to be an organized concerted effort and i think that is what they are trying to do today but we all need to work together and kind of sing from one choir. >> we are out of time but i want to ask you this one sort of big question very quickly. do you think that we're at a turning point, however horrible so many people think that this outcome has been, is it enough to motivate a change in a world where african-american parents still feel they either have to tell their sons to stay indoors or always be completely differential whenever they are out and be very careful where engineer they are? >> i say no. >> not at a turning point? >> i don't think so. as hopeful as i am that we will get to that point, black death still doesn't stimulate policy changes. it still doesn't stimulate radical social change. i'd love to see people organize and

was bringing more rural issues into urban areas so young people especially could understand where milk came from cows. we brought cows to the schools. but i think this agt we defeated rightfully so, was a terrible bill. and now it is my understanding the republican leadership are going to bifurcate. they're going to separate out the nutrition section from the farm subsidy. it is totally outrageous. >> bill: one of the most important parts of it so the whole food stamp program, they want to get rid of. >> they want to get rid of it. i was proud of the 29 members of congress that took the food stamp challenge. we lived off of food stamp allocation of about 450 a day. it was just quite amazing how we were able to let the public know what exactly was at stake and it took a lot but members of congress came forward talked about the unhealthy diet that people who were on food stamps and snap have and why we don't need to cut that but why we need to increase the allocation and you know, so many people are eligible, aren't even on it. people deserve this bridge over troubled waters. no one wants to be on snap or food stamps. i'm a former public assistance recip

ages. a criterion for teacher development is so important. if it isn't, it would hurt children in red states and rural areas as well as children in blue states and urban areas. i urge my republican colleagues stand a -- take a stand for low-income children. please support this amendment. i yield back to my colleague. the chair: the gentlewoman from wisconsin. ms. moore: we yield back the balance of our time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from indiana. mr. rokita: i rise in support of this amendment. i would say to the gentlelady who just spoke that this is not experimenting with our children. we are empowering parents, empowering teachers so that the students can have better success. this is an evolution of our education policy in my opinion. in that same vein, the gentlewoman said that teachers matter. and in that respect, i want to again reiterate for this house, those of us who have shown in writing their strong support for the students success act, including the american association of school administrators, the council of forf state school officers, american private education. concerned women for america, national associat