healthier san franciscos bicycling helps and if we want to reduce emissions and greenhouse gas emissions biking helps. there is a whole host of things it helps. the thing i wanted to draw more attention to is the equity piece. we often talk about funding and we talk about these projects but the opportunity is funding the network and like all networks the more et cetera canned it is the better it does for everything it tries to do -- i have 30 seconds to say -- that given that if we really get serious about funding the full build out, not one of the partial plans, but the full build out, the improvements will be much more dramatic and than the half percent we're seeing now. we will get a much larger increase in all of the goods that bicycling provides us so i really hope that you start looking at the recommendations which was to come up with actual funding options. thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to call a few more names. >> i am jenna lee and with the fran bicycle coalition as a community organizer. many of our 10,000 plus members couldn't make it in today and we had letters send emai

is comprised of girls from six different supervisor districts throughout the city of san francisco, and the name courage encourages those girls and these girls to do their best and challenge their fears and work together as a team which they've obviously done. over two weekends, courage won six straight game. their team, coaches and family came together as a group and were tested not only on the field , but as a parent of three young children i can empathize with this. came together in their transportation process, driving back and forth between manteca and san francisco several times to fit in the san francisco championship victory in between the norcal state cup games. and embodying the name courage in the championship, they were down 1 to 0 at half time and came back to win 3 to 2 in double overtime. there are six straight wins earned courage the norcal championship and demonstrates to us what hard work and teamwork can do together. first of all, girls, the board of supervisors would like to say congratulations to you for really understanding the true meaning of hard work and for rep

tremendous work that happens in san francisco. we know that the latino community has great contributions through economics but culture and every aspect of the cities life (clapping) >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping). >> more many years we've seen latino impact san francisco for so many ways. we've seen san francisco grow and it's amazing celebrations alongside with impacting policies with the city of san francisco. this year once again, we're honoring young people and showing the excellence on and he impact our lives and families. this year we've identified many community based organizations and have highlighted a pitcher with the san francisco school district to highlight the services we have here in san francisco >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> we would like to thank all the parents and the community members and the dignitaries that are celebrated the lives of young people here, no san francisco. >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping). >> and now it's my honor to

florida. he wanted to come back home to san francisco to be surrounded by a community that he loved so dearly for the last 2 decades. he took a bus all the way from florida to san francisco so that he could be with his friends and community when he passed away. many of you have had the opportunity to hear lionel sing or maybe he grabbed your hand as you walked down chambers as he told you what he thought we needed for the city. many of you may heard him sing lolita. he head rich bear tone and loved music and he would share his music with office interns, educating us with jazz and rhythm and blues. he was act ive with many organizations, with community actions and episcopal organizations and senior organizations. many of you were seen lobbying by him for homeless shelters which you know is a growing population for homeless shelters. he was also the longer senior serving the center. people will mark their time as before or after the appearance of lionel. we spent a lot of time this year talking about the need for housing here in san francisco. lionel always reminded me that improving hou

local economy, our economies local back bones. 3 decades ago this san francisco board of supervisors has experienced passive and active discrimination in practices and recognize that history no longer had a place in our city acknowledging that millions of dollars that we spent for services could be a tool to help disadvantaged minorities to increase businesses. chapter 14b now helps all of our businesses in cost operating and it's hoped to level the playing field as city and local businesses compete outdz outside of san francisco. we know when this law has worked our city's contract practices can keep tax dollars here in the city which will do most good for our residents. we know when 14b works we know that san francisco is doing all we can to end discrimination and to ensure that we are not contracting with businesses that discriminate. the hearing that i'm calling for will help us chart a progress in full filling our cities policy on discrimination and we hope in the light of legal adjustment to better award and administer a contract that is better and fair and effective to provide

. without a reservation. both the homeless outreach teams and the san francisco police department through over night wellness checks and we increase transportation to and from shelters. mayor edwin m. lee: really we really appreciate their partnership. while giving and volunteering should be at the forefront of all of our thoughts on a year round basis, it's especially important for each of us to put others first during this holiday season. so during the season of giving, i encourage not only our city residents, our businesses and our visitors, but also you, supervisors, our city department heads and staff and those joining us here today in the audience to don't whatever you can to organizations that are so important to our city's social safety net and those organizations that serve our homeless, veterans and our most in need during the holidays and throughout the year. thank you and let's go to your questions, supervisor. chiu president david chiu: chiu thank you mr. mayor. let's go to supervisor supervisor mark farrell: mr. mayor, g gnra is a recreation area. as the recreational use for

item, please. >> item 8, presentation and discussion on the san francisco transportation plan and the early action program. this is a discussion item and we have a presentation by rachel hiatt, principal transportation planner, san francisco county transportation authority. >> good afternoon, thank you for having me. and i did bring some additional handouts from our website. should i hand these over to you for disparate -- and i left some up at the -- i had one for me and one for everyone else up there on your table. could you advise me, how much time would you like to spend on this item? i can walk you through this handout here or the handout that you have there, or i could just give an overview. >> overview. >> okay. >> just a quick overview. >> so, the san francisco transportation authority, our governing board, is the board of supervisors. we have a couple different roles where we're responsible for administering the prop k half cent sales tax dedicated to transportation in san francisco. about $80 million a year devote today all modes, all operators, we administer that in the tra

san san francisco. i look forward to the center becoming a focal point for united states and china. to further their research to open up a new era in business 13 from the japanese folks. thank you very much >> (clapping) >> okay. so now i'd like to ask an important dpoifts to please come to the stage for a brief speech. i'd like to ask mr. mayor ed lee give him a round of applause >> thank you, my japanese is not as good as yourself. i'm glad to be here as the mayor of san francisco and joining jane kim in welcoming the first international incubator right here on market street the innovation capital of the year. i want to thank the general for being here per he's here because he knews we're an international city. we host some 72 foreign consulate offices here. we're host to 18 sister centralize and one is in japan. i'm delighted that today on this wonderful announcement of digital garage 707 is in the heart that combination of the digital garage incubator headquarters in the innovation corridor. i was talking to some of the media they know this is part of our commitment to market s

area but for san francisco, and sacramento has a hard freeze warning with temperatures below 27 for several hours. we will have temperatures sub-freezing through 9:00 through the entire commute which will be chilly. from the tower you can see the air is clear. unfortunately, it is stagnant. that means with below average temperatures we will have poor air quality and the possibility of it especially in the north bay so it is a "spare the air" day. poor air quality means no wood burning. 46 to 52 inland and the spread around the bay is 48 to 51 and the coast is 46 to 49. leyla gulen? >> we have a sig-alert in effect in oakland, northbound 880, with video shots from northbound 880 at 5 the avenue where a big rig hit the yellow barrels that hold the sand to block off lanes during construction. it looks like it is a mess. the sig-alert is in we if equity for the next hour and a half. we will have 5th avenue blocked off until that time. we still have delays, though, because of the off-ramp shut down. you can take oak street instead and hopefully it will be cleaned up but they mopping thin

rarely are new trials granted. even here in san francisco we have struggled to fill three investigators positions for the last six months and we have hundreds of cases that need the attention of an investigator. so today we are going to study the aftermath of gideon and discuss what has to happen in order to fix it. i want to thank everyone who has made today so possible, all of you for being here. i want to thank or sponsors, kicker and van ness and jim and douglas and maratel and investigations. i would like to thank all the volunteers who made this possible. kathy, angela and everyone else who helped out today. 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

. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries

i think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a seve >> (clapping) all right. thank you erica and thank for the great work. leader pelosi and mayor ed lee thank you for your attention. welcome to yelp. i'm excited to have you here at our new headquarters. as you know yelp has lived within the same radius. we've moved a short distance away and to keep our headquarters in san francisco was a conscious one. san francisco was a key player in the yemz story. we realized that yelp mig

you the parties taking place overnight. >> if fireworks are not your thing a san francisco museum is giving people a unique opportunity to celebrate the new year. >> happy new year's eve. >> whatever your pleasure tonight, it is for weather if fireworks viewing and whatever else is planned. >> we have a morning show tomorrow so join us if you are still up, partly cloudy, and 43 degrees, poor air quality at noon and 54 at noon. cooler this evening at 49 degrees. inland we have fog and frost. no word of black ice. 56 at noon. high clouds and sun at 61, clearing and 48 by 7:00. sue? >> we have good news with better conditions moving eastbound from town on 580 over the altamont pass with the early accident overturned now cleared. for an early start to new year's eve day you can get eastbound. westbound is looking great with no issues from the central valley. how often do you see highway four clear and at the limit into the concord area westbound? it is good. we will look at san jose 101 at 880 traffic is light and mist and fog settling but no delays. kristen and matt? >> thank you, austr

the need for housing here in san francisco. lionel always reminded me that improving housing that we house seniors with dignity should be a top priority for all of us. lionel passed away before he had a chance to move to a bigger space from the hotel he lived in . he in fact lived in one of our neighborhood hotels and part of a garden they were able to initiate this last year. lionel was not only a lover of music but a cooker and entertainer. and reminded us that seniors were not interacting and his wish was to bring other seniors to socialize. he was the only senior that granted from the chef program. a 6-month program that includes classroom instruction, hands-on kitchen training for institutional restaurant setting and job placement and coaching and we have a small business around the corner pink bake ry that utilizes some of our chefs from this restaurant. this was his way to contribute back to the community. lionel will be greatly missed. i think there are people here that would like to speak in his memory. i would like to ask supervisor avalos who is sponsoring this memorial

love you all. thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm lolita. i'm from the san francisco senior center. we would like to take this opportunity to thank the board of supervisors and everyone who are paying tribute to lionel today. i have known him for 16 years. he was able to get a home when he was homeless. we would like to thank supervisor john avalos who came to join us last friday. i would like to read this short oed to lionel. i will miss you that much i know. your happy smile, your warm hell o. you showed your kindness in many ways. you warmed our hearts. yes, i will miss you. we never sang a duet. many memories of you will linger for years. when i think of you, i will think he did it his way. rest in peace lionel. thank you so much. president david chiu: we have one other colleague who would like to say a few words. supervisor cohen. supervisor malia cohen: thank you. i did spend some time and began to know lionel and he was very special. he was sitting there not far from the banister. i was sad to hear he passed away. i hope he's able to rest easy now. president david chi

working on local contracts on local projects so we keep money and workflow within san francisco and continue to boost our local economy. i want to thank pat muligan from city build in particular, for all their hard work in the workforce component on that as well. we are confident that san francisco's program can now move forward and be successful. we've seen countless programs up and down the state of california and nationwide operates successfully now for years with no threat of it being shut down, we want to protect property owners and give them the comfort they need to part pate. our governor jerry brown passed in his budget reserve funds that will address sfha concerns and make sure that they are not impacted by pace impacts mere in san francisco, we will be participate ining the state reserve fund so that our property owners are fully perked. green finance sf is the environmental solution we've been searching for in san francisco that will build out local energy sources and will create local jobs, it will reduce the adverse effects of climate change, make it easier for property

continually of san francisco since 998 and have been developing skills based programs for our students where they could get wonderful jobs. many of our students have come from the bayview hirpts point area and have been working in a variety of life science careers one has a job at the man technical and has started a girl's club. beef about that very, very excited about the possibilities of adding certificates and stackable credential were with that in mind last year we were part of receiving a $2 million portion of a 15 million take grant it stand for community career training by the department of labor. with that funding we were creating an environmental monitoring certificate and have been working with the faculty who have been working hard at the park. it's my great pleasure to be here and share that with you and be very, very supportive of the proposal. thank you. >> (calling names). >> good morning, commissioners and staff. of the port. thank you very much for everything you do on behalf of we the citizens of san francisco. i'm thus exposed to talk with you today because inch i i'm a no

the board of supervisors who in many respects, is the grand of the san francisco democratic party, so jane, if you could please. jane morrison. >> item one isordinance amending the police code to update the list of city job classifications responsible for enforcement of litter laws and having the power to issue citations for that purpose.. >> this has been introduced by supervisor cohen and we have a presentation. >> good morning supervisors, doug from the department of public works and if there are any questions, i am joined by sandra from the dpw operation's division and before you is an ordinance which is really a clean up ordinance on adding and subtracting certain city classifications who can issue the citations under the police code. for violation of various litter and ref fuse laws. we bring it before you today because we are on the verge of launching a new education out reach and then enforcement program that is funded through the garbage rates. and that program is going to be led, with the class 2917 rkts and so there will be a total of 8 people. >> and on this team there are

number of sponsors to the snacks to the youth in san francisco and to report back by march of 2014, and i am glad that okeefe who all three of us have worked with has been here and the coordination with the school district and many community based programs is really critical. but i think that my eyes have been and my stomach have been opened up in a lot of ways to a lot of the comments, and i think that innovative ideas on the eseros and the working kitchens and the wiring and a key goal and we need to look carefully at a lot of the suggestions and the suggestions of new concepts like food gentrification, or the food used as an economic development tool that can provide the jobs and better access and roof gardens, in many of the hotels and the strong coalition building among the leaders has been really inspiring. and from the food stamp kids and others, how we work to educate more people of the one in four people in our communities that are at risk of food insecurety and how it is very, very common, yet, some what invisible in this city among the richest in the nation, that we shou

into san francisco. but we're getting word of a new accident on the opposite end. southbound 101 near eastbound 80. all the details on that coming up. >> thank you liz. >>> well happening right now, tens ofthousands of people and several world leaders including president obama honoring nelson mandela in south africa. you're looking at live pictures from the world cup soccer stadium in sew wee toe. the people who braved the weather danced and sang in the rain today. during the speech, president obama urged to world to act on mandela's legacy. >> around the world today, men and women are still in prison for their political beliefs and are still persecuted for what they look like and how they worship and who they love. that is happening today. >> first lady michelle obama along with former presidents george w. bush, carter and bill clinton accompanied the president to the funeral this morning. the south african embassy in washington, d.c. will also hold a memorial service for the late leader this week and a group of bay area kids were invited to sing this week. kpix 5's christin ayers in

christopher dolan and i earn the dolan law firm in san francisco and i started the business myself with one secretary and i now employ 45 people and i have commerce in the city, that brings people to the city. and i have employees that live in the city that need to get to work i have folks that need to get to court and go and go. i need transit. and i want to just say that on market street, i bought a building between polk and van ess where you need the courage and the bullet proof vest to get to work every day and i stayed there it seems to be a great place, twitter finds it to be an ideal location to be but it always wasn't. and what made the difference is the way that market street has evolved. and one of the most important going to collapse. transit is like water, if you put in a block in one place, it will move another place if you give that need another avenue it will take it and as a small business person, thank you for holding this meeting and thank you for helping my people get to work and my clients get to my office and to keep the city alive, thank you. >> thank you. >>

climate action plan as a city so san francisco cannot afford to not invest in bicycling infrastructure according to the report and even the mta's own bicycle plan from five years ago to the plans of the bicycle strategy today in 2013 point us to really put our money where our mouth is and fund much more aggressively the bicycle infrastructure suggestions of the mta and i would like to ask fred rousseau from the budget analyst office and katie who did an incredible job on this now to present. thank you. >> chair farrell and supervisor mar fred rousseau from the budget analyst office. i will provide an overview of the report and katie who is staff on the project and then i can respond to questions or provide more details. could we get the laptop here? great. thank you. quickly the scope of the analysis. we were asked by our office and you supervisor mar how sfmta bicycle strategy strategic plan could be funded and implemented. how much of the current capital and operating budgets are now allocated to bicycle mode projects? how projects and funding is prioritized by sfmta by mode -- in ot

think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe >> pledge of allegiance. 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 >> please be advised that the ripping of and use of cell phone and parnlz and other electronic devices are not presumed to be innocent and a anyone maybe lead-out of this meeting. please be advised the public has up to three minutes unless the port commission adapts other

francisco and 46, 999 diabetic adults in san francisco. those populations are not necessarily distinct. so there is likely overlap between them. according to the agency for health care research and quality, there is typically about a 54.8 percent prevalence of obesity in diagnosed diabetes. we applied that rate to our san francisco numbers to get a better sense of what those distinct populations likely are. doing that we found there are likely 83, 249 obese adults in san francisco and 46, 909 diabetic adults in san francisco. in order to measure the cost related to the consumption of sugar sweet and beverages and the health impact that causes, we have to understand a few different factors. so, the first is the direct and indirect cost related to that consumption. direct cost would be the cost of medical care that are directly related to the intervention. so inpatient visits, outpatient visits, drug care, etc. indirect cost are related to work force productivity. these include absenteeism which is sick leave and disability and presentism. which while being present at work, peop

you call the next line item >> vote to elect to disclose any item in the san francisco administrative code 12 point a. >> i move not to close. >> i all in favor. >> i. thank you all offered. mr. secretary >> item 12. adjournment. once again members of commission and public we're john sharp together meeting in honor of star 2124 who started with the at the present time, in 1981 he worked aliens at central and speech operation and gang task force and the domestic violence staff unit and public fisherman's wharf foyers. on november 28th he was promoted and retire the department after 29 years of serve lieutenant passed away on december 1st, 2013, he will be greatly missed terry thank you lieutenant givenz for your faith service. i have a motion for adjournment >> all in favor, say i. we're adjourned. >>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, december 17, 2013. madam clerk please call the roll. the clerk: supervisor avalos, chiu, cohen absent, ferrel present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar, present, supervisor tang, present, supervi

item is simply to note that you know, tomorrow will be a very significant day in san francisco. it will be the 35th anniversary of the assassination of mayor mosconi and supervisor harvey milk, it is amazing to think that 35 years have passed but i think it's very important for us as we're nearing the 35th anniversary to take a moment today to remember the memory of mayor mosconi and supervisor milk, and as an openly gay man, i know that supervisor milk sacrificed his life to protect people like me to be able to be themselves in this city and it's sad in a way that history's repeating himself because at the time of harvey milk, the state of california was dealing with the initiative that was trying to force gay teachers out of classrooms in california and now we have an effort that is once again targeting the lgbt community and specifically the transgender community ref rend dumb that if it gets on the ballot and succeeds will take basic rights away from transgender young people in our public schools, but i think that in the memory of harvey milk that we need to rededicate ourselve

on something you had mentioned rising rents that we're all experiencing in san francisco the ability to provide someone housing most likely will be decreasing in reference to how that relates to the 500 units originally demanded in that lawsuit how do you feel the number leftover will be impacted by the rising rents. >> i think it's going to be a matter of the pace of the demand for the scattered cite and it's possible that if the demand is not suddenly going to spike that we will probably be able to accommodate despite the fact that the rents are increasing. the a arra y of selection is going to shrink as time passes that will get more challenging. i think it's early to say whether or not we're going to have to scale back but right now we've been able to accommodate to the demand so it will definitely be something we'll keep an eye on over the year or two. so >> thank you very much. that would be great to have a follow up report to this in the coming year just because of the rent crisis i would say so thank you. >> yes. >> councilmember wong? >> about the increased rents and all thi

-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for

planned in the bay area, san francisco mayor lee. post a memorial in the city hall rotunda at 8:00 a.m. and in oakland a celebration is planned for noon at the plaza tomorrow. >> san francisco firefighters have a tough time this morning with the fire burning out a recycling plant that break out last night across highway 101 from candlestick park. matt is on the scene. matt? >> the smoke is still a major issue and it billowed out of the recology warehouse in san francisco. the fire has been burning for several hours first reported 598:30. the warehouse contains basic building material where contractors come to dump items like sheet rock, yard debris and lumber. san francisco fire department says the bulk of the fire is knocked out but a pile 100 yards and 8' tall continues to burn. it is generating so much smoke it has been difficult to get the crews in there. firefighters put on the oxygen tank and rotate shifts every 20 minutes. >> normally the facilities when we do not have a fire have large back hoes and front loaders that operate and move the trash around but because of the smoke c

. the commission reports the prevalence of disability has increased dramatically in san francisco. the report admits the number of placards far exceeds the number of blue zone parking spaces. with only 670 blue zones and a projected 1,141 to be provided in total with these recommendations in kupb kupb conjunction with only 27,000. the agency's allegations that legitimate placards are being misused by people they don't belong to, increasing the rates of use, is wrong. there is absolutely no data to support this claim. the report admits it is impossible to report if a placard was illegitimately obtained. that does not constitute widespread misuse. that's a point 003 percentage rate. this report or this investigation was spurred off a visual observation of 45 percent of (inaudible). >> my name is richard ow, i'm a member of the commission. we understand and i support every one of these items should be enacted and i know the problem of the parking. i live in chinatown. in the meantime on grand avenue and columbus avenue, stockton avenue, 60 percent of the parking space i see the blue placa

. >>> that kid is returning to san francisco for the first time since taking down villains in gotham city. we will tell you what he has been up to. >>> rain is hitting the bay. snow in some areas. we have the weekend forecast straight ahead. >>> our top story this morning, the korean war veteran held in north korea for more than one month has been deported back to the united states. merrill newman is expected to arrive in, what, a couple of hours, mike. >> reporter: yes. i just confirmed with airport officials that he is expected to arrive around 9:00 on a united airlines flight coming from beijing. his son will be here to greet his father as he finally arrives back in states. he is 85 and from palo alto and has been held by the south korea an government since late october. before he was scheduled to leave, korean authorities detained him and held him for weeks. he is a korean war veteran and televised an apology for his part in the war. he briefly spoke to reporters on his way home at the beijing airport. >> i'm very glad to be on my way home. i appreciate the -- so i can be on my way. >

this for the past 7 years and since i moved to san francisco. i want to just echo what oscar said and also what kim said previously, regarding how it starts at home. and the familis that come in they are constantly coming in and there has not, and it is just been getting progressively worse. they either doubled up, tripled up, or they are displaced and they have to leave the city. south of market, the action now currently serves over 200 families and even with the application process of trying to get them into the affordable housing, that process is also very difficult because it is also in the language. and so, it is i think, it is important that we are having this, and in this conversation continues. and we continue in that, and because we are all part of this, and affordable housing needs to be for the families and our working families, so, thank you. >> >> good evening, everybody, my name is ramond and i am the lead organizer of the community action network and currently i have been working with 25 to 30 youth, and you know, regarding this issue, and i have had the privilege of ta

the work itself and making sure that the small business community and the san francisco businesses benefit from that and so, there are a number of things that we do. and i think that regina also made reference to things like small business week, which we host with the office of small business. and working with sf travel and working on things like small business saturday and helping advertisements for those, and i think that there is a lot of things that we are doing outside of the big projects every day to try to facilitate and encourage commerce, particularly small business commerce in the city. so, in terms of the projects, the capitol projects, which i think have been probably the main source of concern, this flowchart is meant to show kind of an over all, over all process. and one of the things that i have spoken to a number of you about, is our opportunity to do the public engagement and out reach, better, including engaging people sooner in the process, and as i have also shared, we are developing a new approach to that. and which we should very soon have a draft of and be ha

friendship house drum. this is hosting by k q e d the san francisco home matters symposium height center of santa clara county and the friendship of home matters symposium associated. how about a big hand for our hosts. thank you. thank you, thank you i want to welcome to the stage suzy from k q e d (clapping) >> great to see you. hi, everyone i want to say thank you for this event without our help and support this community dpent event wouldn't be a great over the last 9 years. i want to say thank you to our heros thank you for our continued work with our community you're going to do a lot. that thanks to the sirens and dancing this is a wonderful night to here the sound offering through the walls. we celebrate of the fist by comement the american heritage indian month. we've scheduled over thirty programs. those programs are highland on k q e d website. we have a couple of events. primarily we have on monday november 18th we'll be showing a film and items teams from 3 american think indian families compete in bare horseback riding and on november 25th k q e d at 9:00 p.m. will be showing

what i know about mrs. moedz anonymous to the immigrant but to san francisco. i only had an opportunity to meet with phil and i was very optimistic because i know how hard he worked and i i know about some of his ideas for this particular commission he will bring a missing voice. the gaps in this particular commission include the youth gap. he's not as young as i am - i'm kidding with that - he brings a prospective that seen always one of the gaps that is missing and i look at this commission and look at it how incredibly diverse s it is and how you have some really credible people. i came here concerned about the residency waiver and the attendance. i was definitely looking at mario he has incredible kre78d he credentials and below p blew me away with his presentation. it would be easier to appointed someone i know like phil who i actually had a had an to know he worked for me in my office he's hardworking and a great person and would do an incredible job but it's hard for me not to support the continuance of those candidates that are applying particularly with mel have a she wants one