robert weber, robert chambers, ma lisa thompson, and joe wilson, and dan bowers, and adelman, and moniko. >> so those individuals come forward and come on up to the podium and everyone has two minutes to speak. sir if you want to come up. >> i'm robert khamers and a participant in hospitality house and also the client of other services in the neighborhood nearby. and i was aformally homeless and in the end of 2011 and i was successful in having the table housing now, and through, the help of and in san francisco who provide the help to the community and so my point of view is that san francisco is effective with i had to address the other parts of my life to improve those so that i could, or that i could like, basically socially and network, and get, to what ended up happening is that i got a roommate situation, and so, school, clothing pantries and everything, was important, and healthcare, and so i would say that the top quality of life, like, big businesses that are new, to the area, needed to address, and the lowest quality of life which is homelessness, and so the other, and as they

not what our body uses it's really gloous so your body doesn't use the from us to say it has to be ma tabbed by your liver. so of it will be converted by the problem is when your liver gets all the fruit to say remember we didn't evolve having frustrate to say in this form the fruit to say was in fruits that comes with fruit. so the end ups causing fatty deposits in your body it causes insulin and leads to the metabolic symptom and ends up being high levels of insulin resistance and the leptin causes people to eat more and exercise less >> my comments on the asian and african-american and asian pacific islander population if we see the rise no health problems if we do nothing in san francisco what should we expect as growing challenges for the chinese community. >> that u when you look at san francisco on average it's healthier than other places. it's true we have imagining equalities within the city we have an opportunity before the horse is out of the barn this is a good opportunity to help to protect and sustain the healthier san francisco we currently have. its costs a lot. once y

in the old days myelogram ma get together >> i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. >> when i was younger i know it did something to my body. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've been drinking coffee since i was 17 really the only thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. >> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blen

of the street vacation which is a portion of the gwyneth, 92 come and ma kilogram as shown on the map. as the supervisor mentioned it is all about the existing brooklyn bridge in its delipidated condition and this is for the project a shot of the bridge. i would dive in with further daily detail and this bridge was constructed in 1911 >> that sounds like it's right showing it's age. as am i. this particular item is a notice of intent to have the hearing for the street vacation which will be at the full board at the dates noted in the amended resolution. as the supervisor mentioned i'm joined by mta staff if you want further details we're happy to answer questions but i'm happy to entertain your questions. we're seeking a no recommendation full load with the out of committee load >> thank you, john updyke. >> thank you. i'd like to call up the representative from caltrain for a short presentation >> thank you. would you like to see the presentation we've prepared and shown to the board is that it and sure if you have any other comments you've seen the presentation haven't you >> can yo

in 1974. 10 years ago my daughter graduated from there and many, many parents point to woody allen ma as one of the unique and invasive schools and. i also wanted to say i served on the board of what ma it's brought together child education experts and also parent and community leaders to advance the model of immersion education throughout our schools. woody allen may is committed to providing services in a safe and caring environment that helps children with the cognitive growth through age experiences for all children of san francisco. over the past 40 years the school supports multi lingualism and helping the kids in the movement. i want to commend and congratulate judge julie tang and wesley wu and many anothers. they'll be honored at the fry forgetting anniversary woody allen may school the 40th anniversary is at king woody allen restaurant i'd like to ask if commissioner chiu, supervisor yee or supervisor tang wants to make any comments about woody allen may school >> supervisor yee. >> yeah.. thank you supervisor mar for bringing this up. i'm one of the parents where my two dau

want to emphasize that when you consider staffing that the clerks provide the main support for the mas and the nurses. we are the worker bees. we are the front line people. at family health center, the amount of patients has grown so much since 2008 and the amount of clerks have decreased. so, apparently we're still short three clerks and every single clerk that i work with, all my colleagues, we are getting burnt out, you know, and we're tired just like the nurses are. and yet we have to, you know, uphold the mission of general hospital to provide excellent, you know, care for the patients. so, when you consider the budget, you know, please keep in mind that the clerks play an important role because we provide the main support for all of the staff. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> hello. hi, my name is john was worth. i've been with the pharmacy department at the hospital for about 10 years. i work specifically in the inpatient department. my areas of expertise are in the area of chemo and [speaker not understood] mixing and [speaker not understood] compounding. i wa

this ordinance would be a step with a feasibility study, ma [speaker not understood]. what we have before us does not authorize san francisco joining the jpa but just provides a step in that process towards that. so, i would like to, you know, urge the committee to send this forward with recommendation and we can study this as an option that can be before us. it will cost a little bit of money, but we have funds moving in the lafco account to be able to cover these costs and i think they are appropriate uses of our funds to move forward on clean energy and i hope you can support this ordinance, colleague. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. and for clarity, in the past i don't think we've used all of the funds that have been made available to us in most years. we've actually returned significant amounts of that money to the city general fund. and, so, this is what i believe an appropriate use of those funds so that we can explore all options that are available to us. this is a huge endeavor to undertake for the city. and not only should we be looking at the possibility of

the number of homes and with respect to to the parking spaces and the number of homes we'll retain ma of the traffic calming measures and keep the the bulb outs and we've accommodated some plays but where we thought we couldn't and shouldn't we reduced the widths and made the recommendations he i believe dpw accepted the recommendations. >> i understand had a i guess there's a vote that's happened at the dpw they've accepted the map? >> for alice griffith but not candle stick. >> okay. thank you. thank you >> my understanding is that on a number of streets not all of them to accommodate the increase in strth width the sidewalks are being reduced from 15 to 13. >> yes. we've frankly reduce the areas with the infliction areas and we're elongated them as opposed to to keeping the width. >> my office went through the material that grifbt and ocii gave us, however, you want to describe it that there was some park space mann than bs been reduced that was described as four or five months ago but overall to 2010 that was some increase to the project and as a result of the square footage devot

begun wrong and we were able to address the issues by particularly ken and robin in particular the ma copy i think hub is important to activate that part of the city. so bring the straight and this will be a tremendous boon to the neighborhood and thank you. again to supervisor cowen >> okay. so supervisor cowen would you like to make a motion >> sure i wanted to make a motion but acknowledge my staff that's been helpful in getting this through and working closely with robin and ken and john you had a piece of the action so thank you nick and john updike as well and dpw and rec and park and everyone give you irs a wonderful pat on the back we're going to make a motion to move this for the record or forward with positive recommendations. >> move items 3, 4, 5 and 6 we'll take that without objection. mraild madam clerk, is there any other business. >> no further business. then we are >> hi i'm a assembly member ting i'm running for re-election representing districts 19th street which includes the western neighborhoods of san francisco and daily and part of south san francisco thank the

ma lane i didn't. >> it's irish. >> m u l l a n e y. thank you it's great to have the excellent candidates. are there any members of the public who wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor cams >> thank you very much mr. chair green again, this is one the situation you have more than

ma lane i didn't. >> it's irish. >> m u l l a n e y. thank you it's great to have the excellent candidates. are there any members of the public who wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor cams >> thank you very much mr. chair green again, this is one the situation you have more than applicants than seats i hope the person that doesn't get the seat will continue to be involved you, you know, it takes a couple of times and so i really encourage each one of you to continue to be involved and i'm epa delighted to see the young people interested. with that, bans my experience i just want to be clear i'm going to support leo today. you know, i've said this before about here, you know, some point she'll be running muni and we'll all be working for her i think it's good to get her started but again, i also think that mr. ma lean has a great deal of experience and a strong background and hope he continues to be involved >> thank you supervisor yee. >> yeah. i echo supervisor campos statement in terms of having qualified p

a vital role to the space in the center is the chief who's also known as mom or is mayor of summing ma who said i'm proud because everybody calls me that i have lots of envelopes and noise. they own the jc restaurant with her husband who she neighborhood in 2010 originally from the provisions of laguna in the philippines she started with an organization south of market and also the alice fun seminar center she cooks for them her brother who owned a filipino restaurant she took over in 2010 and renamed j.t. i want to read a little excerpt if an article a mom. in selma residents over the age of '65 make up over 10 percent of the population and many living before below the poverty line so the snvr sdrablz folks says it is important if you live in a small room or places like testing i didn't see they provide the community ways to survive i mentioned before many of the community call her the mayor the selma it is used by central latino and other residents for example, the west by the way, mutilate you center sing carr i don't care and they want to cook at the home to save money but they com

deanna ma destine it's important to recognize her, she has a jewelry store on mission and cap street on 24th near 24th street as we're working to designate 24th street in the mission a latino culture corridor it makes sense we are recognizing this business i'm going to say a few words in spanish she's originally from mexico city and began her city in san francisco as a small be mobile fan and through her hard work and dedication she expand her business to a brick and mortar location in may of 2008. deanna medina has participated in amazing programs including the women's initiative and worked with the agency through its business program i know that the person who used to work at the meadows here is an incredible success story she's been an incredible business through the 24th street bar plaza as part of the small property owner association messing pa that established the mission 90 in san francisco and 24th bart plaza as her business has been successful she gives what can backing to the community she's a member of the council and a member of the mission small property owner associatio

[applause] >> good eveninging commissioners and superintendent, i'm gem ma and i filled out one of the biggest problems at our school is having only one guidance counselor. he helps kids find the high schools that are right for them, but helps kids with big problems and handles discipline in our classrooms. he is too busy and needs help. i'm worried that when i'm trying to find a high school i'm not going to get the help i need because he is too busy. i'm also worrying that kids at bigger middle schools will have an vantage over me because they have the help they need. >> one common thing people think of when they hear rooftop alternative is hard working pta. the truth is we only have such a strong pta because of necessity. our school would not thrive as it does if we didn't have a counselor or social worker. we understand that we aren't the only ones that need this funding and we might not be the most high needs school but shouldn't be put lower in the line of need because of our pta. [applause] >> good evening, my name is gabrielle and i'm a 7th grader. what it comes down to is that

[applause] >> good eveninging commissioners and superintendent, i'm gem ma and i filled out one of