a vision. the public gardens connect us to natural beauty. they give us a sense of community pride. they provide habitats for bees, butterflies, and birds. they represent what is best in us as a community. the bench represents a window on the past. it was once a curb in downtown san francisco. we've simply connected it to the future. another purpose for the garden is that it provides a place for people just sit and reflect and pause on their journey. it provides a kind of common duty that we all share. it allows us to stop and reflect on the shining city beyond which continues to reinvent itself. today, we dedicate this beautiful public garden. made keeps a loy it keep so. thank you. [applause] >> those are beautiful words befitting and beautiful their part of our city. -- befitting a beautiful new part of our city. mohammad thanked a lot of the donors. the mayor referenced the grant program. there's the whole group of the friends of bernal gardens that we want to thank. finally, it is not just community partners. in his community organizations that we partner with to make things like this happen. -- it is committee par-- communy organizations that we partner with to make t

[laughter] but they will really do wonders for us as a community when they start dreaming and planningthe library is a place where different individuals, that may have different attitudes and ideas, different points of view, find themselves in one room, and all this sudden start talking to one another. then magic happens. differences melt away and you come together as a community come as a neighborhood. those are the magical things about a library. that is one of the reason why the commission, the city family, decided that we would not simply open up a place where there was going to be a bunch of tables and everyone would sit there and be quiet. it is a place that is vibrant, a place where things happen for children, adults, and the community. i want to say thank-you for all of you, for your hard work and commitment to making sure there is a place for us in the bayview for all of us to dream once again. [applause] >> thank you, senator. it is also my pleasure to introduce mark leno. he has been to just about every single ribbon cutting, and he really cares about libraries. so it is my

[laughter] but they will really do wonders for us as a community when they start dreaming and planningthe library is a place where different individuals, that may have different attitudes and ideas, different points of view, find themselves in one room, and all this sudden start talking to one another. then magic happens. differences melt away and you come together as a community come as a neighborhood. those are the magical things about a library. that is one of the reason why the commission, the city

[laughter] but they will really do wonders for us as a community when they start dreaming and planningthe library is a place where different individuals, that may have different attitudes and ideas, different points of view, find themselves in one room, and all this sudden start talking to one another. then magic happens. differences melt away

as a community. we have in business leaders here to help us guide through this transformation from point a to point b, and beyond. so with that, this is a positive day. we will continue to take this momentum and move forward and continue to build. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. indeed, a positive day. i also want to take a moment to acknowledge the terrific support we have had a leading up to this groundbreaking. former supervisor sophie maxwell. she may be here later on today. she was fantastic to secure funds. supervisor cohen alluded to the support from other mr. supervisors. it is my pleasure to introduce supervisor scott wiener. [applause] >> thank you and congratulations to everyone on this amazing progress. all the three branch libraries in my district were open before i took office, so i like to live vicariously through my colleagues to help celebrate something so important. in a time when we all get down on our city government for not doing as well as we want them to do, in terms of services, what our government has been able to do with renovating and opening libraries, helping to buil

at a town hall meeting saturday afternoon in richmond, many people said change begins with themselves. >> it starts with us being better people and us coming together as a community as a whole. >> at the community we are so divided in territorial it is important for us to come together. >> they also believe that they need to build a strong relationships with the police officers. right now they say when it comes to trust, there is a big gap between cops and community members. >> it is a pretty big gap but not one that we cannot close. >> they say that the police can rebuild that trust by becoming more transparent. >> transparency in the operation, in their review process, transparency. >> antioch is using police chief to enforce its curfew for minors. it is meant to reach out to the teens in the east bay city. >> antioch held its second citywide curfew sweep of the summer friday night. police say they detained a total of 35 miners, compared to 37 last month. this is done in partnership with the reach project an effort to reduce the number of young people under the age of 18 who are out past curfew. >> to prevent them from being victims of crimes, or even responsib

it's how all of us, as a community, can give something back to our heroes.ou and assure them that their sacrifice is recognized and appreciated by every one of us. what? it's good to be back. join us. visit uso.org to learn how you can make a difference in the lives of our wounded warriors and their families. the uso. until every one comes home. [applause] >> mike: one of the reasons that standard and poor's gave the downgrade when they did and how they did, was the debt ceiling deal with 2.1 trillion in budget cuts didn't go far enough. isn't that what the tea party was saying all along. we'll ask the founder of the dallas tea party and welcome back. david, good to have you with us. the tea party all along said 2.1 was not enough and there needed to be a much larger deficit reduction in order to make the deal work. we got snubbed and pushed out of the way. you foal vindicated. >> i feel sad for our country. i woke up this morning feeling sad for the future of our country and feeling angry at our government. leaders in washington seem to be the only ones in

us a little bit about district 2. >> district 2 definitely relies on muni quite a bit, though perhaps not as much as other districts, but it is so important for a number of people, for a communityerspective to and from work. the mainline, stockton and the marina. the one california is a major bust the comes through the district, and a few other lines, of course, on the borders of our district. it is a huge deal for us, and we need to make sure we continue to provide a great service. we are transit first here, and people embrace that, but we need to make sure we have a reliable, robust public transportation system, so it is a big deal. we do have a lot of people in the district that drive cars, a lot of people that have families. i'm one of those as well. i take it was once in awhile, but frankly, the way we have arranged in our family is i spend my morning with my children, and time allowing, i take them to school in the morning, so i drive them with my car. i do not believe the way to achieve our goals is to make parking so inconvenient, so expensive, such a bad experience that people, so to speak, capitulate and take public transportation. that is not the way we are going to

i think the partnership with community-based organizations and departments inside the school district, really having a strong foundation which ripken use as a model for community input -- it has improved each time we have done it and i think the continue to. i want to acknowledge that and tell you how much i appreciate it. second, i should say i was the person who authored the resolution to form the pac. i wanted such an entity at the district level for parents to have input in policy making at the district level. it was sort of the third iteration. we tried a couple of other things that did not work as well as we like. i think all the members who have served. -- i want to thank all the members that have served. i want to say something about the student assignment policy development. i think this is really tough. i think i was in the minority in that i agree more with the pac recommendations then other members of the board. i acknowledge some changes were made. that is the important thing. what we have done is develop a way to get community input and make policy on complex issues that is able to be modified, that is not set in stone once

he felt that was the responsibility of us as a community to take care of our young people as well as our seniors that they wouldn't be just thrown away to die in a rest home. we should have our own rest homes where we can have people in there 24 hours a day making sure they get quality care and love. >> i visited my sisters in redwood valley in 1974. and i have to say, it was pretty amazing. there were homes for people who had been released from the mental hospital. there were homes for senior citizens. there were huge vineyards. i visited a home for mentally retarded young men. >> jim jones and peoples temple seemed too good to be true, and they were. >> he had a lot to hide. ♪ this is our pool. ♪ our fireworks. ♪ and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we have ours. now during the summer event get an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz for an exceptional price. but hurry, this offer ends august 31st. for an exceso i takerice. one a day men's 50+ advantage. as a manager, my team counts on me to stay focused. it's the only complete multivitamin with ginkgo to

a passionate advocate for diversity. i think diversity helps us connect with our different communities and different constituencies in a way that makes us much more effective as a police department in the community. i am glad to see that employee groups had an opportunity to comment on the development of this general order for career development goals. i would like to hear a little bit more about it. another will probably be more specific outline of what that looks like, but i would like to hear more about its structure. one thing i have learned coming on this commission is that in a city like san francisco there are no gay men above the sergeant level, which means that -- i believe you must be a lieutenant or higher to be eligible for command staff. the understanding that there have been issues that have affected those ranks, what is particularly troubling to me in the u.s. attorney's office and the d.a.'s office is they have found ways to replenish those ranks and put game man in position so they can move up that scale. certainly, and i would like to hear a little bit more about do we have statistics that tell us where other groups such as women and people

. >> it is a good way to stop it and for us to come together as a community. >> there were five partiesghout east palo alto. people mingling with our neighbors and enjoying what has become a traditional and growing potluck. >> i made 200 deviled eggs. >> i'm the spaghetti lady. every year i am here and i bring the spaghetti. >> reporter: the social gathering is one way to counter the spike in violence. there have been six murders in east palo alto this year including the shooting death of a three-month-old baby in june. it seemed to galvanize a community fed up with violence. >> baby isaac got killed. >> the police chief has launched a number of community out reach efforts that many say are having an impact. >> we have a wonderful chief of police. he is doing a good job. >> with the successful night, it is just one sign the community is working with police to achieve a more lasting peace. >> this is our problem as a community. it is not one person's problem and not that person's problem. it is a community problem. >> and given the last couple months, this month the police chief took the

supportive as we put in the grueling hours in the evenings, weekends and all nighters to do the work that we do. we would also like to thank chinese, affirmative action for nominating us and being a communityboth in terms of providing us space. but also providing us a lot of support and advice. and friendship as we've done our work. i also want to thank you as a larger asian pacific american community as we feel like hyphen is just a part of the community. and we feel like there's such incredible diverse scompit complexity within our community -- diversity and complerksity within our community and hope to express as much as of that as possible and hope hyphen captures the wealth of stories, wisdom, in our heritage and also struggles and hardships that have brought us to this point. and that are still part of our community that we need to be aware of and attend to as well. we believe very much in the work we do and we're very passionate about it because we feel like hyphen is just part of this community that needs to celebrate as well as document what our community is about. both in terms of our heritage, especially during this month. but also in terms of relevance and our part today and as

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community policing. there's not a practice where i think police effectively engage in community, barring from the examples of new york, boston and chicago. i used my district as an example to show what community policing would mean, a bit of a lavatory. now i had the greatest drop in violent crimes city wide in my district holding three years. in japan town nearby, their struggles for land use. two-thirds of the commercial property had been purchased by venture capital from los angeles. because of the economic downturn, the certainty of where japan town direction is going is really in doubt. when you have one of only three japan towns in the united states and oldest being in san francisco, city needs to regroup to its commitment in making sure that we preserve the culture identity and the uniqueness of japan town just as we would for chinatown or just as we would for any other part of the culture. the same theory returns back in approach to the african-american community and the fillmore, which was really the epicenter of the black community. sunset dealing with quality of life issues, upper haight, gateway from the west side to the east side of the city deal

so a lot of the inspiration, especially among the immigrant community, we see is communications with people from their home country but we as much want to use the internet as a tool for people to connect within the local san francisco community. >> i think it's our job as public educators to give them this access and give them this opportunity to see that their efforts are being appreciated beyond their immediate reach. >> you have to blend this idea of community network with computer equipment with training and with support. we can pull all that together, then we've got it. >> it's as much about social and economic justice -- in fact it's more about social and economic justice than just >> this is a dpw corporation yard. i work for the bureau of street environmental services used to be street cleaning. we are a new age. >> here we are. >> here we are. >> clean. >> these are our communications dispatchers. hi. okay, no problem. you are welcome. bye-bye. >> all the information about the location, the nature of the complaint and we dispatch it. >> near the steps. >> by new they have started a hundred calls for dispatchers. >> once a get a req

so a lot of the inspiration, especially among the immigrant community, we see is communications with people from their home country but we as much want to use the internet as a tool for people to connect within the local san francisco community. >> i think it's our job as public educators to give them this access and give them this opportunity to see that their efforts are being appreciated beyond their immediate reach. >> you have to blend this idea of community network with computer equipment with training and with support. we can

thank you for your work as liaison and the superintendent for his support, it has meant a lot to us to know that the district wants to continue supporting this station as a community resource. with a visionary educators who began the station in 1941 when believe me, no one was listening to fm radio they didn't know what was going to happen in the future. we're in a time of changing technology that will be at least as challenging but i think the commitment to community service to public interest journalism to bringing new voices forward, is going to continue to guide kalw and i thank you for your support in this year and over the long-term. and i look forward to continuing a dialogue with you about where we go from here. of course the board meetings are broadcast on kalw and i know we have many listeners who tune in to stay abreast of what's happening in the school district. it's this community that comes together to make this resource grow and become more, so thanks to all of you and i look forward to continuing to work with your support and partnership. president mendoza: thank you. the student delegate's report. we have a new stunt delegate, karissa tom. delegat

militias, as kathryn mentioned, so a vast majority of folks that we're seeing in the psychological health program, they've never been deployed. so, it's very important for us to look at community resources, as kathryn mentioned. absolutely, and hector, you're in the thick of it in the community. take us through a cycle of some of the folks that you counsel and that you work with. the most important part, when we think about these veterans and when it comes to homelessness, for me, the key is how do we get the information to them? it's hard for them to get to a phone or seek, because the level of hopelessness, it is just completely eroded. so i try to get to them in a way that they will go ahead and seek and lead them to the local va facility. now, some va facilities in local places, they may not have a facility to take these people. i mean, this is what they talk about at certain times; we don't have a place nearby and transportation, a lot of factors that fall into this. and what i try to do is get involved at a level that they don't get left by the wayside because the assets are there, the programs are there, but we need to get them involved and bring them forward so they ca