keep san francisco green. no on prop a, coalition of ecology, labor, business and environmentalists, major funding by [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. rodrigo santos [speaker not understood] 2012. reelect supervisor david chiu 2012. protect our benefits, teachers, nurses, neighbors supporting eric mar for 2012 sponsored by san francisco labor council, san francisco labor council, labor and neighbors independent expenditure political action committee, building owners and managers association of san francisco political action committee, expenditures a.k.a. boma s.f. p-a-c ie. san francisco for women accountability supervisor opposing christina olague 2012. coalition for a safer california. committee on jobs, government reform fund. san francisco democratic county central committee. mayor ed lee for san francisco committee. coalition for sensible government major funding by san francisco association of realtors. san francisco alliance for jobs and sustainable growth p-a-c. service employees int

thirty% are san francisco residents that is 500 san francisco residents working with their hands to build the brand new hospital for our future generations. they have done it right. it's on time, $63 million to local businesses as a result of the construction of this hospital. so i'm looking forward in 2015 to join all of you in opening this hospital, making sure we are doing everything to keep people healthy in the city and congratulations to the foundation for your wonderful work congratulations to all of us nobody has got it better than us in san francisco congratulations everyone. (applause) . i don't ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage grace davis, director of california corporate affairs intell corporation ... >>> okay with today being valentine's day we are thrilled to help present 13 new heart art works we see these hearts all around san francisco, reminding us that the general is the heart of our city these hearts generate we have a remarkable roster of artist and is this year is no exception and please join me in welcoming to the stage this year's heart artist and

san francisco travel. as joe mentioned, i kind of wear three hats but i'm standing in the middle of my world. union square improvement districts and tremendous work that they are doing down here, joe dell sandero with travel and of course due to mayor lee's efforts it's a time for tourism and general manager in this city. thank you. visitors information center. it was a freudian slip because it improved tremendously and it couldn't be in greater location. so all the visitors that come to san francisco from the airport stop right there and come here for information on things to do in the city. it's tremendous for me to be the general manager because i have concierge but the volunteers and the people here are an extension of concierge and giving information for all the visitors that come in and make this a world class city and really visit all the areas, the restaurants, the attractions and everything else this city has to offer. i want to thank again san francisco travel because they are the ones who market

beer here in san francisco. and it's my great honor to introduce entrepreneurial spirit. mr. gregor was born and raised in the united kingdom. he then moved to singapore at the age of nine. he's lived in amazing cities around the world. so he brings with him an international spirit. but also a passion for san francisco. he and his partner, tony foglio are known for building up the best brands and keeping them both emerging but honoring their roots. so i can't think of a better tenant and partner for this historic pier 48 than anchor brewers and distillers. join me in welcoming keith gregor. [applause] >> thank you. is everyone warm enough? this is great weather for making beer. anchor is one of america's oldest breweries. with origins back to the gold rush. by 1896 the famous brand emer emerged. a real san francisco icon and only 118 years old at the moment. not that many years pass easily. earthquakes. fire. and prohibition and bankruptcy all stood in the way. but they would not end our history. anchor brewery

programs as healthy san francisco. so please join me in welcome can mayor edwin, lee. . >> thank you crystal and may i give you your value tine. >>> thank you. >> mayor khan, made in san francisco ... all right, good morning everyone. okay. i'll try not to isn't that correcty. and i isn't that correct isn't that correct key. and [spelling?] and so i want to thank all of you for being in san francisco and webcore and others who have been such a great part of the success in this city and i want to thank my great friend mayor khan for coming over here and later on, later this year we are going to be traveling over the new span of the bay bridge and joining each other with governor brown as we celebrate in september with largest construction project in the history of the bay area and we talked about it last year when we were thinking about how to celebrate this bridge crossing and we made some cultural connections. and something about our ancestors helping to build the railroads here in the 1800 and is now two chinese amer

it sends a message for all student in san francisco. you know that this city's future don't understand on the education we provide for all our children. it's with great pleurisy introduce the mayor of the city of san francisco. good morning thank you laura republican for that kind introduction and thank you for opening your divorces to me this morning. i want to honor david and all your supervisors and to our two newest supervisors. mayor brown thank you for being here and taking the time to join us this morning. you have done so much in this county >> and since this is my first city address i'm hoping you'll cut me some slack if you chose to write about it in the newspapers. to the department heads and consistent leaders and education leaders to all of you who are online and thank you all of you for joining us this morning. and, of course, to my wonderful wife, mother and friend thank you for being here and pitting up with me for all these years >> a year ago i stood before i and score my term of office pledging to seize the year of th

reported that properties as san francisco and boston properties has emerged as san francisco's biggest office developer. we thank boston property for paying san francisco such a huge compliment. we welcome zuckerman for this project and thank you for this project and thank you for all you do we look forward to working with you in this partnership. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i speak here on behalf of boston properties. i think we are looking for very much to expanding the company's name to boston san francisco properties when this the building is finished. it is no great challenge to be difficulty for me to stand here and express a lot of enthusiasm for it captures the of the things that means most to me in life. one is, i am an urban alcoholic. i love city life and anybody who loves city life cannot help but love san francisco and everything that is happening here. i love to work with great people and jerry heinz for those of you who know him, know that he fits into this category, if you think this is the tallest building west of the mississippi river, jerry heinz is the tall

in san francisco is very high. the next things i want to mention is status of citizenship. with working solutions we had to turn down entrepreneurs who didn't qualify in terms of citizenship status. the next thing i want to that talk about is affordable space. a number of businesses are approved but not funded because of losing space or not able to find an amenable space for their business. another thing that i wanted to mention that i didn't put on her are child care services. that has come up quite a bit recently. in terms of post and business monitoring some of the challenges our entrepreneurs are face ago so these are people that have obtained a loan and operating their business and these are the struggles they're facing. the biggest one hands down is financial management. keeping a close and careful eye on overall finances of the business. this proves to be challenging. a lot of times is because the people that come to us they're extremely passionate about their product. they have been a barita for nine years

first off the san francisco district serves northern california, santa cruz to the border and san francisco is not all of what we do. in san francisco last year we did about 200 sba loans and average loan size is $500,000. it's pretty good size. it's not the micro-programs that we support through the lenders and working solutions is one of those and we have others in the city and the bay area so we so micro-lending support but the main program is a guarantee loan program and 100 banks do those loans in the area and just san francisco city we did about 200 loans for about 105 million -- at 100 banks in a year. of that about 25% of the total for women owned business and 10% in addition were 50-50 ownership so about a third of the lending in san francisco we did last year were for businesses majority owned women or 50-50 women owned business so a significant percentage. nationally it's 20% of all sba funding is to women owned business so compare san francisco to the rest of the country we do larger percentage in san francisco. again those are larger businesses. as i mentioned they're businesse

to what makes san francisco -- what makes people want to come to san francisco and live in this city. it is important to what we do and many of the businesses that exist here on an ongoing basis. we have 16 million visitors a year. that is in no small part due to the activities associated with the night life and this city. that is not lost on all of us. one of the things that i think it's important to the mayor and myself as i sit here today, and i know that you guys are going to be focusing on, i looked out and i see so many pieces of the city family here engaged in this conversation. i think it is really a measurable thing that you have the chief of police introducing today's conversation and today's forum with you in addition to having the board of supervisors as civil the understand the work that you and why it is so important. having individuals like -- one of the board members spoke earlier about having oewd focusing on this. all this matters when you're trying to work collaborative late. part of the problem in the past has been people working in individual silos and not sharing

sir i welcome you to san francisco. i want to thank all of the city staff here lead by -- the department of public works. we know that graffiti impacts every neighborhood. as the city not only does the department of public works spend four million dollars a year but collectively we spend 20 million dollars fighting this crime. we can do better. i look forward to a fruitful conference and hopefully someday stamp out graffiti. thank you very much. (applause) >>: thank you supervisor chiu. the next person i'm going to introduce, he is and original graffiti fighter, past chair of the graffiti advisory board and the main reason you are here. -- international conference was something he wanted to see in san francisco. mohammed -- has worked in san francisco -- responsible for dozens of community engagement programs, (indiscernible) (indiscernible) he knows every inch of this city as a steward of this beautiful, vibrant city. (indiscernible) strengthening and improving the community with partnership and support. (indiscernible

san francisco chronicle and san francisco gate.com and san francisco mag magazine and beach pointed babylon and thank you to awful you who support the foundation, the general and this event we look forward to seeing many of you this evening at hearts after dark. ladies and gentlemen ...

home in san francisco which provide post-acute care and community reintegration services for many san francisco residents. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor cohen. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you very much. i have one in memoriam today that i'd like to submit for this body to consider. this is an in memoriam of robert chris man. robert chris man was born in 1938 and is the founding publisher and recently retired editor in chief of the black scholar. he died on march 10, 2013 after a lengthy illness in his home in san francisco. mr. chris man and his family moved to the bay area in the 1950s where he immediately became involved in the lively and diverse cultural scene of our city. he entered into u.c. berkeley english department to study literature and quickly discovered the works of frederic douglas, w.e.dubois. [speaker not understood]. the black scholar journal is devote today black studies and research and serves as an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to unite activists and academic intellectuals in common advocacy for the needs

hope you enjoy it. >> good morning, we are going back to san francisco where san francisco p.d. has streets shut down because of a suspicious package right around union square area. third street is affected between mission, market, and grant, and those streets are closed down until further notice. they are investigating a suspicious package found in that area. also, earlier, or, rather, later this morning we will be having a commemoration of the 1906 great quake and that is put off until this situation is cleared. as we move on, we have bart station and the union station at montgomery street shut down. this is due to the suspicious package. as we look at construction southbound 101, that is closed to the eastbound 80 freeway until 6:00 a.m. >> at&t hopes not just a reward will help crack the vandalism case but coming up the public appeal the company is making. >> why a federal court could be a ruling away frommen bag the controversial gay conversion therapy. >> we follow breaking news from texas in the aftermath of the devastating explosion at a fertilizer plant. as daylight bre

located anywhere and we are located here in san francisco and because san francisco in because san francisco values our values, equal to women, marriage equality and people before cooperation and this is why we are a san francisco based company and we are proud to be the biggest doner to planned parenthood not just in the city and in the country, i am here representing members of creo 854 of them signed it in support of supervisor campos's ordinance, these are residents of san francisco and the people who live in san francisco county and many of them who live in the neighborhood near the clinic and i personally have lived here for 20 years within two blocks of the clinic on valencia street and i see every day when i commute to my job, how it infringes on the right of the people and the neighbors that pass by and i would also like to say that i have organized at least a dozen protests here in san francisco only the years and we very much support the right to free speech and the right to protest and in no way do we think of the 25 foot buffer zone would encrouch on anybody's right of free spee

i think we'd all agree in this room we left san francisco in large -- love san francisco for because of victorian architecture. the san francisco everybody loves was built before ceqa was in place. a lot of san francisco that people find offensive was built after ceqa was in place. so, it's not necessarily that ceqa protects -- does the protecting that everybody expects it to do. and if we can streamline the process that's much better. >> thank you, mr. levitt. next speaker. before you go, let me call a few more names. i'll start your two minutes, don't worry. [speaker not understood]. fernando mar tee, peter [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. go ahead. >>> great. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is mark english. i am on the board of directors of the aia san francisco chapter. we represent 2300 members. about 80% of us are involved with small businesses. we design obviously everything around you, affordable housing. we include preservation specialists. and i've been practicing for about 22 years on my own here. because of our role as architects, we're in the midd

it's done in many places in san francisco. you don't have to look very far in our public parks to see see facilities named after individuals, families or in some instances local companies that point to support that particular facility. many of you have been to the many exhibit that again bear the names of many san francisco's most generous families. many employ that task to raise the fund. and it can take many forms from any think i have that articulated in exactly what we're looking at. specifically we're looking at pierce 27 and 29 as this is going to be the site of the americans cup this summer. those facilities are going to be leveraged for the cup. and we'll have the northeast plaza and park and the other amenities. we're talking about perhaps a staircase or an outpost that would be to be recognized as a donation point. and then sites within the northeast plaza i think there, there are into 50 or 60 benches. there's going to be a walkway at setting we're looking at ail those assets to see what would be appropriate and wha

you know, san francisco is incredible. i just came back from the international city cities of cork ireland, paris, france. they marvel at how well we have done things here in our great city and keep it going and remake it. they also have a sense that anytime their members come here, they are experiencing a huge amount of warmth from people who serve them. i know the quality of our hotels is one of the main stays of why we are such a really and successful tourist center for all over the world, not just in san francisco or california, but all over the world. these workers who have in past years probably didn't have such smooth negotiations in the past, we are reminded of that through some couple of decades where everybody struggled, but it's quite apropos that we have stressed the important collaboration of talking with people and making sure we understand their needs and necessities early on that not only are they going to have wages but a health plan and pension for years to come. when you have hotel workers, working class

i am mayor aye hustles i'm san francisco public blood pressure of san francisco business times and on behalf of our partner criteria require and carey and knew mark frank and all of our sponsors welcome to our annual mayor's annual for cast and happy valentine's day to awful you and i have already gotten a value ten from mayor lee. are you already fee feelings love this morning we have later pastries for you. this is the 14th year we post together this to look at the i state of city in his our region and there have been so many changes if you think about that have happened in each of these cities and sounding bay area it is last 14 years and if you look at the activity the cranes until the air the hospital building activity the activity ature ports and airports and hospitality sector the booming tech sector and all of the future plans, think about the changes that will happen in the next 14 years and each of these cities and in our region so we are going to hear a little bit about the future and some of the priorities and what the outlook is into this coming year and we are really del

the three organizations are san francisco child care provider -- sorry, san francisco child care planning and advisory council, family child care association, and the san francisco child care providers association. today i would like to honor these three organizations for all their work that they've done for decades now. and i'm really proud that i've been associated with these organizations for the same amount of time, decades. so, if you'd like to say a few words, please. (applause) >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is candice wong, chair of the advisory council. we are the state mandated body appointed by you and the board of education to advise -- plan and advise on behalf of early care and education in the city. and we are proud to serve you in that capacity. we're only able to do that work because of your support and that of the board of education. i feel like norman covered is all in terms of his eloquence. i won't say how many years, norman. we appreciate the fact that we have a child care champion added to this board in addition to the supervisors who have been supportive o

i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. test, test, test, test, test, test >> call meeting to order. >> (calling roll). >> item two approval of meeting for the meeting. >> second. >> motion to approve. march 26th >> second. >> all in favor. >> i and a item 3 pledge of allegiance. >> flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> item 4 please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and paramedics and similar devises are prohibit at this meeting. please be advised that a person maybe escorted out. and a person may commit on the report. member of the public and port staff thank you for joining us. on behalf of my commissioners we're at 5 now commissioner murphy. and commissioner brandon is still sitting in the jury room and hoping to be realized. but it's my honor to welcome you commissioner murphy. i want to give a little bit of background on you if that's okay. and

i want to express my gratitude to the san francisco library for the last ten years and there is san francisco government tv and this is going to be broadcast throughout the year. so thank you. i would like to thank julie tron from the bar association. the bar association has been our partners in terms of providing defense for poor people. in cases where the public defender is not able to provide representation, those cases are handled by the private bar and they are doing an incredible job. so thank you very much for that. i want to thank jose as a who is a public defender and here to celebrate with us. we are going to start today by showing a brief video explaining the gideon decisions >> take this empty lot. today you would never know it but history was made here. mostly all is gone and so are the people. the principle they left is still standing. it was almost as bad at life. >> it was a constitutional hero, but the cases that come to the court don't come from the winners in society. they come from the losers. clarence gideon was involved in the justice system since he was a kid. he had be

gavin newsom said san francisco is not for sale. san francisco has not lost this lawsuit and can still win. it's a health fact sheet [speaker not understood] by judge alsop. the u.s. 9th circuit court went ahead and in a cursory nonbinding decision declared the health fact sheet controversial and therefore a violation of the cti [speaker not understood] amendment rights. the city's website states clearly as a first city to adopt the precautionary principle, san francisco trixv to protect the health of its residents, visitors, and local environment. lastly, i want to mention that i find it surprising that the committee will not allow members of the public to yield their time to well respected doctors that have traveled across the country to be here today with us. i do ask you to please vote against approving item number 8 on the rules committee agenda today and thank you so much for your consideration. (applause) >> [speaker not understood]. is there anybody else from the public that wants to testify? seeing none -- please get a card

born and raised in san francisco and worked for the city of san francisco for the last 20 years. since 2009 we have experienced multiple cuts in san francisco both in public healthcare and other services. as we look at what's going on with the financial system and the money they've taken out from us i urge the board of supervisors to investigate any form of fraud or any pleens by which we can recoup money taken from the city. it's a great city and we need to fund our services and not allow the banks to take money away from us ever again. thank you. >> supervisor avalos: thank you. >> i'm rebecca morrow, the public health nurse and i live in district 5. i think about this kind of in general terms, in family terms. when you have small children, and they have done something inappropriate, they have a time out. when you have a kid in high school, and they're not making the grade, they're acting up, they're breaking the rules, their report cards, their sat scores and there are consequences for what they do. if you're an adult and u a dui and you hit somebody you don't just pay the fin

your yacht repaired here in san francisco. or you'd have to go to alameda or somewhere. lovely vessel there. and then directly across the street, we have mission bay, wow, the epicenter for neuroscience research. that's unbelievable, right. it is unbelievable how much is happening there. we have the new giants ballpark and this is mc covy cove. and there are boats out there waiting for barry. this was taken the other day, just hit one into the cove. i said pier 40, somebody said you row out of pier 40. somebody else said they sale out of pier 40. pier 40 undergoing some major renovations. and the ballpark is right next to it and there is almost no impact on pier 40 when there is a ball game. almost no impact other than muni is crowded. it's amazing. we all thought oh, my god this is it, hot dog wrappers all over the place. enthuse a new handicapped ramp and a new dock, commercial dock on the north side of pier 40. on the south side of pier 40 is an historic (speaker not understood) if you really want some, that's the place to

on san francisco policies. individuals must make a complaint on the police officers. many have a system for that purpose. the office of citizens complaint service that purpose for the san francisco police department. the occ is staffed by a diverse group of civilians who have never been san francisco police officers. although they may have been police officers or other law enforcement employees in other agencies. the occ currently has a 33 member staff. the majority of the staff consist of investigators and the balance of the staff consist of attorneys and support staff. the occ conducts investigations to find out what happened. we follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint, the involved police officers and civilian witnesses. we have subpoena power to compel testimony and obtain evidence. we obtain additional evidence from the police department in the form of police reports and other documentation generated by the department. we go into the field to visit the site of the alleged o

rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was speaker of the house. she had had 16 tax cuts signed into law to help small businesses grow and thrive. as we know, during the last 15 years, small businesses account for about 2/3 of the job growth in our country, but when the bush recession hits in 2009, 2010, small businesses were hit particularly hard. small businesses are the center of her agenda. congress under her leadership gave 27 million small businesses tax cuts. two main pieces of legislation -- the small businesses jobs act in the information you have, will create a total of 500,000 jobs and create eight tax cuts. they are all described in the packet you have. also, unleashing up to $300 billion in credit for small businesses to access. there are another eight

it's not you. >> so definitely people growing older in san francisco in san francisco housing stock is a huge issue. the lack of elevators and available units and as we know ada housing is many years wait at best. definitely if the wait list is even open. so basically what we're doing right now is part of is we investigate and look at complaints of discrimination. if someone feels th discriminated against we will investigate those complaints and by the lgbt task force and with [inaudible] and serving the lgbt community and senior community and figure out what the needs and definitelying in out what are possible solutions and we will continue to do that with this body and the mayor and the board of supervisors. >> great thank you. can i just ask. you said 40% are disable or sexual artation gender complaints so you don't break those down separately? >> about 35% are disability. about 5% are actually sexual orientation and additional three to 5% are gender identity. >> okay. >> so it's a little over 40%. >> okay. great. thank you. can you stay up there for a few seconds if people have que

in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> supervisor, campos, my name is elizabeth (inaudible) and i am here with the coalition for reproductive justice. i want to thank you so much for your leadership and point out in this week that these last two weeks that san francisco continues to be a bright spot of leadership and progressive thought, in arkansas this week have openly defied to challenge the supreme court bypassing the most unjust laws in the nation and it is clear that they are leading a path towards the supreme court and it is important that the leadership in the board of supervisors in san francisco continue to find ways to protect choice and to protect woman's health. and it is a sad state in america that a federally guaranteed rights are applied so unequally and it makes it important to do what we are doing today which is gathering together in support of this right. i am here as a patient of planned parenthood, i have accessed abortion, i have accessed birth co

when i graduated, i move to san francisco. my first job, i started working developing economic policies for low-income communities statewide in california. i worked with young people, parents, families are around issues that concern our neighborhoods, whether it was communities, affordable housing, public schools, or just planning issues in neighborhoods like parks. i did that and actually ran for the board of education here in san francisco. i got a term on the school board working for families in our public school system and actually worked for the lawyers community and i came to the board of supervisors. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor kim: you know, i do not know if i have a good answer for that. i just wanted to try it out. >> tell me what motivated your interest in politics. supervisor kim: that is a tough question to answer. i never had any intention to get involved in the electoral process. >> really? supervisor kim: i was always politically active. i was always working on statewide initiativ

francisco and 10010 merchandise sale least back of it's san francisco 5012 head quarters san francisco projects represent or 200 million square feet. in pre-leased to single user ice tenants while 2,222nd and five thrive mission are scheduled to break ground later this year with escalating represents triggering new office instruction construction in san francisco oakland's turn to build is around the corner now fraction's mid market is part of the city's most significant public transit corridor in 5012 the building at the edgy intersection of sixth and market and also hometo mayor lee's election head quarters was leased by benchmark capital from the not to edgy sand hill road in pal low alto we have seen mid market morph from michael douglas and carl mailed den chasing bad guys to twitters 2012 move into 10th and market and now, onto doll bee sounds one million dollars acquisition of ninth and mark along with squared 250,000 square foot least at 11th and market new apartment construction continues as well this crescent heights high rise at the tenth and market and one money hundred van