francisco and in the lack of ability we have in the southern part of san francisco that are leading to housing units that are not up to code. while i believe this legislation is incomplete, i'm happy to work on it to help create the incentive that is lacking here. i have actually talked to the mayor's of housing in this very room about the lack of attention they have sgliefrjtsdz -- p support the southeast of san francisco. something has to be done about it glathsdz today talked about it. i want to make sure we can look into this. i think this legislation will open the doorway for that to happen. i really appreciate this legislation coming forward. i also want to appreciate the work of asian and vantage justice who talked to many households that have in law units that are secondary units. they found that a great number of the people living in these households are immigrants and transit dependent. that they are typical san franciscans that you find in the city of san francisco unified school district which is mostly low income, people that have the right to san francisco and we shoul

francisco for a lot of reasons and, in fact, our percentage of children in san francisco is the lowest of any major city in north america forgot about the united states just in general. here we are we're in the position of reauthorizing and supervisor avalos and supervisor kim b will talk about is children's fund and peace but we're in the position to reauthorize we can look at this like we have done a good job or how can we improve the effort. one of the things in talking to people in the field and talk to others that care about our children population in san francisco we realize that there's one - >> couple aspects that we have to focus on the service end and the educational end in which we were doing but one of the - part of the discussion that gets lost is other things the infrastructure that supports families and children in san francisco. that doesn't seem to get the same focus as our service or education yet when you look at it there's a big factor in why children and families especially those that are in the low income and middle income don't succeed in inform. i'm proposing to

we think we'll help san francisco. we went to the biggest that ball terminal in the world myself and peter we had jim who's the president of the metro ports we went collectively together you had the iowu so when what we talked about to the electro customers we spoke as one voice and able to market the port of san francisco. i really want to thank jim and peter for the meetings it engaged us to put the port of san francisco and we were able to put a working group together with the port of san francisco and i o w and role want to develop pier 92 and 96 because those are jobs. unfortunately in this world we will in we've got to compete but we have a very, very good port we have basketball stadiums and restaurants and a crews term maybe a baseball thing i don't know but i'll be leaving next week and go to washington, d.c. and was promote the port of san francisco i thought our trip was really, really good i'm going to save a few minutes for jim and pete we had dinner with the port of san francisco but if china they don't l

i think i'm my fourth-generation san franciscan i'm afraid of the future for san francisco for our children. i do this somewhat out of fear for our families that find it harder and harder to live in san francisco and survive here but i also do it for the future of the children and the families and in particular our students that will graduate from our city hall's and hope they'll be able to live here and raise children. i believe in order to do that we must work with the city to make it happen. and i think that we can hold everyone accountable. they're not the ones to evaluate us around the student achievement we evaluate ourself but the commitment so the 55 public children and those who will come to us. i'm okay with this. i have to say it's a leap of faith but i'm okay i feel like the way we've been doing it is not effective we're losing more and more of our african-americans families it's a hard gap to close we only have them for 6 hours a day and there's a larger community that needs to support our children this is a way to work together so it's more efficiently and finishing. i'm going

a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers (clapping.) this means good height and good look. thank you

health rltion san francisco human service agency, san francisco and marin food banks. sf environment, st. anthonys, tenderloin development corporation dn -- and center for vulnerable populations and many others that are with us. also the executive directors and staff of community and public agencies providing low income san franciscans. many consumers and cats and senior disability folks here and educators and researchers and students studying hunger and food insecurity. i wanted to thank chris of the report and those that assisted with the research as well. what we know of san francisco insecurity are a couple of butet points and i will highlight it and i know paula jones will highlight this as well. nutritious and this food is essential to health human and maltrusion affects development, insecurity, disease and institutionalization. supporting this local economy. this supports the local economy and ensures better outcomes. one in four san franciscans lack nutritious food and this is in every neighborhood in san francisco. what the resolution from december included an

san francisco as you said is a city of diverse community. very the ordinance that's being passed rec the filipino has a third language is certainly a recollection of the transcribes of this great community the filipinos. and certainly its very significant for them because not only is it access to language and services because it makes them open up the city to themselves and feel like a home to them. certainly for any filipinos for the first time in the bay area this is wonderful and truly different when they're far away from home. i want to thank you. again mr. mayor and supervisors ms. city administer ms. kelly for the camp poosht timing for the community >> (clapping) >> thank you next i'd like to introduce terry valencia who the founder the community center terry served as the national alliance for filipino concerns and a great partner with the office of urban affairs part of the network and was helpful during the 2010 consensus so terry (clapping.) thank you all for being here today for spornl this press convention and i went talking abo

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 today. >> that's what i want to hear once you hardy folks have come it together to talk about those san franciscans toss from their you beds one hundred and seven years. the one hundred and 8 years powerful seismic waivers were across san francisco about 7.9 on the scale the san francisco would succumb to a wairj inferior for 74 hours. right now, i'm i i'd like to give you a moment by moment account of what happens one hundred and 8 years. this is not a borrowing history ladies and gentlemen, it's very real and can and will happen again. later on i'll introduce some san franciscans who worked not only on those days to make sure we all will be survivors of the inevitable next big one april 1906 at the 712 a great shock is felt some 25 seconds later now 3545 to 60 seconds along the first causalities when los al

at the end of the movie the san francisco survivor declared we'll build a new san francisco and on market street honors the survivors and celebrated those who kept the father. although we have no survivors expected to show you the question is why are redoing this ask the hundreds of folks who come out like you to gather at the moment and stair at the sky wondering why. if you ask chief joanne haynes-white and the city of the department emergency management they know this will happen again and ask the young people who are showing up knowing about the past and future this is why people keep doing this because everyone in the san francisco bay area they're the ones that ride out the tremors and they're the ones who will be there to help when the next big one comes to call. ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the survivor families and here to give us an opening address welcome our fabulous mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> wow. this is what a crowd you have one hundred and 8-year-old people look like. i had breakfast with anita and we wanted to joi

now san francisco don't have one. so, i see what is going on, most black people don't see it, but i'm saying to you. we are tax payers. we live in america. i'm a disabled american. when i come before you y'all act like you can't hear good. but hear me, you promised us you'd put off-street parking. now you're gonna say you don't remember. well, i have the notes from the meeting and you haven't done nothing about it and i've been here five different times over the last five years. this is not fair to us. now you're going to take something else. this is crazy. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> chris bowman. [speaker not understood]. barbara [speaker not understood]. tony robles. [speaker not understood]. >>> chris bowman. i walked here. i came from the performing arts garage two blocks away. the problem with sunday meters is that muni will not get you to your churches directly. if you have to walk one or two blocks and you have to be disabled or senior, you're out of luck. i would argue that unfortunately a lot of t

meals on cheryls in san francisco is a provider in san francisco and providing 1.3 million meals to 3,000 seniors and we're the safety net to those that need the meals. the best indicator of a policy is to see what happens in the past. we adopted the standards and emergency standards with the city in 2007. what did that do? we were serving 11 hundred people a day and now we're doubled in size. what happens when you back off of that commitment? this year because of funding we had to pull back and we were averaging 22 days and went out to the 30 day maximum. what happened? the wait list doubled so we encourage you to stay with it and invest in the policy and without you we can't maintain this commitment so we implement it city wide and fund it and stem the need. one this web that we all work on is exactly that. when one part fails we all fail so we need to invest across the board. i invite you out on the route and see the seniors that we serve and they're on the poverty agenda in the city. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i am marianne hayward and moved from southern

gab members, the san francisco arts commissioners and staff and artists and san francisco beautiful and its members. thank you all for helping to craft this proposal. i want to give a little background about the reason why we came together to really address this particular issue. according to our knowledge and legislative analyst, it costs the city close to $20 million annually to abate graffiti on our buses and property and all throughout the city. and the city could use this money to use for other things. as former director and supervisor now, i see the huge cost of graffiti incur. and i hear from property owners that paint over offensive graffiti and to return the next day. i have seen people wait for the muni buses. many trying to remove graffiti, and needs solutions. i didn't want to use those who view crime as a harsher punishment. but yet to research best practices in jurisdictions all over the country, new york and chicago and san diego, and to create a nuance plan to reduce graffiti and provide better outcomes for offenders. most of our proposal is administrative, not just

francisco i have to say women hold up more than half the sky in san francisco so you thank you, very much for working with us explaining. >> thank you all for joining us this morning to celebrate women of extraordinary character and commitment and encourage and i want to thank the commission and the friends of our commission on the status of women for your generosity and our energy in having an women's human right in san francisco and certainly beyond our city. i'm sure you're aware of emily described in 1998 we became the first city in the nation to reflect our principles felt united nations on all description against wjs that's called sedot and given out of cities leadership the united nations has asked us to a city to lead the campaign and i take it correct even though anita was in new york last week she sent me a photo they're in a foot moose age particularly in some exotic city i get to only work harder. but she was there in new york i was proud of her a as she joined the department and the united nations convention commission on the status of women conventional in new york to c

we like to employ people in san francisco. i like to walk to work so we're going to stay here but i want to reinforce the support we have and i will let our product manager speak more to that. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. you my name is nora hernandez and i am the product manager and i would like to speak of the jobs we created. the majority of the management is women which is rare for companies. we also have internship programs with some of the charter and public school here in the city so it gives the kids an opportunity to get excited about futures and typically they're not excited about the futures and once we go through the program they love being at dandy lion. i like that i can take muni to work and the majority of our employees bike to work. we really want to stay in the city and work with more kids especially in my department. i have -- we're working with youth made through sf made to have an intern work with me, and yeah i think it's really important that small businesses outside of tech stay in san francisco.

francisco footprint using a different model but this looks at our consumption so while san francisco is recycling and compost more than ever before we're generating more waste we've done a great job at compost but every year we're producing more than ever before. in addition >> how it is possible can you give us a professional. >> certainly we're beau for products and maybe sorting better but our increase in the weight of the blue benefit and the green bin is going up and not necessarily at the expense of the black bin so we're doing an excellent job at dissipating out waste into our various streams we're consuming more as san franciscans. in addition even though our miles per gallon fuel average san franciscans are driving more. so again, we have more efficient cars we have more efficient fuel but with your driving more and even though our energy portfolio in san francisco is good we're using for energy we have to think about this context. the biggest change to using the consumption methodology that food is the biggest part of the pie and energy is consumed in the process. taken int

., but i reside here in san francisco ~. and for the past 30 years i've been involved with the former soviet union and russia's human rights situation and have degree in russian and soviet studies and have been traveling there since the mid '80s when i worked on soviet jury matter. since then i have focused my entire career on defending the rights of lgbt people globally. to add to that background to what you obviously all are knowledgeable this particular anti-gay crack down in russia right now, i think it's important to under a teeny bit the context for that, which is that president putin, after his second reelection, experienced for the first time opposition, and this has been part of an overall crack down to keep opposition at bay. and in particular, to take all the freedoms away from civil society actors. the most important law that has impacted lgbt people in russia is actually the foreign agents law which is in the process of taking down any civil -- any no. nongovernmental organization that receives funding from outs

francisco, work in san francisco, and have for 15 plus years, so they like working in san francisco. >> yeah. >> and living here and we really like manufacturing in san francisco so thank you. >> thank you. thank you for running such a great business. next speaker. >> hello. my name is autumn [inaudible] and i have dark garden [inaudible] in san francisco and [inaudible] who is our production manager. we have been manufacturing in san francisco since 1995, and have a production staff of 12 people. we also ve a retail store in hayes valley where we sell and represent several san francisco based artists. we're interested in this because one of our -- one of the people that we represent has recently lost her space and wasn't able to find a suitable space to work in and now is moving her business to the other side of the country because it's easier place for her to work in the fashion industry. that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am christian and have been working in textile manufacturing in san francisco for 30 years and i think we have lost a lot of our manufacturin

francisco to continue renting here in san francisco. and so that is something that definitely does concern me. the other thing is that i'm not sure -- i want to appreciate the controllers office and making sure they come up with a neutral and the most clear way they possibly could, i think, formula for determining this, however, it is based on a two year period and what happens after a tenant receives this relocation payment and after two years, they cannot have the income to sustain themselves in another unit that is higher rent than what they were paying previously. there's a host of other questions i have and not sure about the impact on this legislation, our goal is to make sure that tenants are stay here and live in san francisco. i'm not sure that this will achieve this. so that's why i'm uncomfortable with supporting the underlining ordinance today. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. so i will support the legislation. and i appreciate all of the dialogue that we've had in committee and also here at the board. i kn

it's what makes san francisco so amazing. this is a crisis that all of us have witnessed on a daily basis given what's been happening throughout the city. this phenomenon is relatively new and has made a tremendous impact on my office hearing the stories from people. the ordinance that we are voting on today will require landlords usage of able to evict for the market rate during that period. this ordinancen insures that relocation payment adequately represent and allows tennants to have an opportunity to have a fighting chance to stay in san francisco. the rental and purchase prices for san francisco homes have increased dramatically since 2005 and we last have the ordinance requiring relocation assistance payments to tennants at that time. currently landlords are required to pay relocation assistance in the amounts of $5265 per tenant and they must pay $2500 to displaced elderly. anyone who knows the market rate in san francisco has the highest rate in the country know it's not sufficient to allow to stay if evicted. the ci

and black people do add to san francisco. we make san francisco what it is as well as the asians, as well as the latinos, as well as the pole indonesians and as well as my fellow caucasian citizens ~. so, do what's right. stand by us. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> my name is don el boyd and i've come to ask for increased funding [speaker not understood] and more funding for legal representation for all tenants facing evictions. and i ask you to put limits on developers and speculators in our community. i would like you to stop evictions of seniors that are 70 and older immediately. i would like for you all to produce -- develop free zones and certain neighborhoods -- when the neighborhood is super poor, developers shouldn't be able to come in, buy low, sell high, and kick everybody out. i think the wording for eviction should be a more kinder gentler evictions. i think that the wording shouldn't be threatening. i think that we can discuss eviction, not lapped ~ landlords threatening you with eviction. i

children in san francisco and their families to reappoint angela chan to san francisco police commission. thank you very much. >> thank you. (applause) >> there are a bunch of people outside and probably in the other room. so, the way i want to proceed is that i've got lots of cards. so, i'm going to give each speaker from the public one minute and i'm going to call -- i will call the names on the cards. and the way i'm hoping to do this is that i will call the names of people that are supporting angela chan first. so, if i happen to -- >> [speaker not understood]. >> i was outvoted. this is democracy up here. i heard you. i okay. so, i will try to call people and if you happen to be in the other room, make your way over here and get in line. we're going to be lining up to your right on this side. so, joe whackverctiontion, you're up first if you're here. jim salinas. ~ wang win ho [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> is this translation being -- is this translation right now? i mean for the audience, do you know? [speaking through interpreter] (applause) [speaking through interpreter

if san francisco wants to reroute the commuter buses, it did you tell does an eir. why should google buses we preferentially treated to our system. >> we are including data to inform the best policy that we have. >> over an 18-month period is a long time and before the government takes a year 1/2 and starts moving things around without knowing what kind of impacts we are going to have, it's important to do the ceqa review now upfront and that's what the law requires. we are not talking about, we are talking about two things, policy and law. the law is meaningful and ceqa says before government takes action you have to be fully informed. you have to analyze the environmental impacts and alternatives before you take action. ceqa says look before you leap. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you for the presentation, mr. drurey and for the very helpful submissions. i have a number of questions for you about some different contensions that you've raised. so, the first is you made a couple comments today and also rethinking your brief. in your presentation today you talked ab

a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers (clapping.) this means good height and good look. thank you >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta leaders. >> hi everyone i'm patrick the director of earthquake safety forever for the stoifbl and we have the ryan white fair to teach people about the made sure soft story ordinance and connect them with the services they need you can save thousands of lives and if those buildings are rooiftd

a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers (clapping.) this means good height and good look. thank you >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect f

we talked about segregation at san francisco. i was invited to be on that committee by the rabbi men of congregation. and at the beginning of my involvement. it goes back all those years and i think that was 1 -- 1 could say that was really the beginning. >> at the very beginning coming together to stop an injustice to stop that which is darkening the world and bringing all the light together to focus. >> and talk about racism. and lots of people think that racism is limited to the south, which is certainly true. we have our own form of ray schism right here in the bay area. we have neighborhoods which have covenants which say no negroes around, that kind of thing. >> looking now at the year 2014 and looking back at all of that history the years and the itchness, how -- the years of the richness, how would you share your perspective about the relationships now. >> well, i think they've changed considerably. there are people who think my way is the only way but there are others who see there are many paths and we respect them all.

the san francisco full board of supervisors madam clerk, call roll. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee mr. president, all members are present. ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. colleagues, we have our march 11 board minutes motion to approve witness box those minutes are previewed madam clerk any communications >> none could you read our special order. >> it's the special policy discussion between the honorable mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors representing district 8 and the members may present their discussion up to 5 minutes. >> mr. mayor welcome back to the board of supervisors. >> members thank you for being her and supervisors thank you for having me happy tax day we met with our first meeting and i'm grateful we can take on the discussion to the next level. th

san francisco either to enjoy our night life or enjoy a living. we are very limited in late night and morning options. particularly when you talk about people getting to and from work people shouldn't have to take a cab. a lot of people can't afford a car or earner a car yet we're forcing them to own a car because we're not giving them late night options. yesterday, i didn't request this but i'll read it from admission pie they posted this on facebook there's something on your minds it's hard to get to and from work when you work in the east bay it's more affordable to have a - it's a show stopper bart didn't run earlier enough to get to work and face it whether a bar person or people who work in sf if you are young and want to stay out later you can now thanks to supervisor wiener it's on the land use committee and so forth. this isn't a monolithic situation there are many people who rely on night life transportation. i want to my aid adam is here to put up photos on the gene. i actually on saturday night i take the subway a lot including on week

it's the oldest divorce health organization in the san francisco bay area. brief california was founded after the precipitation of tuberculosis in 1908 to create critical health care services they've placed an important role for the policies as well as the board of supervisors. i'm proud to work with them and declaring april 21st as the brief california day. also on the theme of earth day i wanted to ask many of you many of you are going to be participating in bicycle and role to school week in the richmond district will be participating with a number of schools throughout san francisco 60 schools will participate to celebrate the joys and many benefits of biking to school. i biked to school when i was a high school student the majority of the districts are participating pea body elementary and roosevelt and washington high school. it will promote healthy activities the safe routes partnership will provide resources to participating schools to host an event one week each spinning it's cooperated by bicycle coalition some members are here. i'll be visiting as

and safety providers and san francisco taxpayers. as a result it is critical now more than ever that we eliminate this perverse incentive for employers and businesses to use accepted benefit hra's in the hopes of e evading their spending obligations by requiring that only irrevocable expenditures count towards meeting san francisco employee health care requirement. the second aspect of this law is we must bolster this san francisco ordinance to get as many workers insured as possible. my legislation has introduced a new program called covered san francisco. when an employer chooses a city option to meet it's spending requirements under the law, the department of public health will enter the worker into one of three programs. for those eligible for insurance through covered california they willen roll the worker in covered san francisco to allow a worker to purchase a more comprehensive plan. incidentally covered san francisco is not a new idea, the state of vermont and state of new york new york and massachusetts have created a local

i know for the port of san francisco and oakland who hosted and all the others it's important. particularly pleased we have an criminal day with the port of oakland encombhuz the control tower a meeting that was facilitated by all participant it was tremendously successful generating opportunity and comradey amongst the port and a tour of the port crapes so many of us had our first walk above the catwalk from the port of san francisco we have several planter

francisco there was no hesitatetion in accepting this the port san francisco of the last 20 years i think today is another wonderful to see the strength here. children and technology are an easy fit and children are curious about knowledge. this week was made possible when i many people thank you mayor ed lee and you'll our staff thank you very, very much and the staff of the impeached of science and finally the children from the los angeles they're our future and when they leave here and welcoming all the other children and one of the things it's a great pleasure to be here thank you for the wonderful opportunity for the children (clapping.) and another person is mr. colin huey from the cork chamber of commerce >> thank you and hello, everybody it's fantastic to be here and mayor ed lee we wouldn't be here without our kind invitation over stds is it fair to say a fantastic visit and really positive development of the relationship that our mayor a ongoing from strength to strength. i'd like to mention to another person in the room to laurie and others we've got the vice council kevi

so have san francisco housing development corporation. and, you know, i was sitting there and sometimes i hear the word disabled and disability and i start wondering, which one makes me feel bad? sometimes people who have disabilities, people think that we're disabled and it's amazing those two words in the world they mean different. someone can say because i have a disability, i am still someone, i can still do something. i know about this 504, when they took that over because we learned that through [speaker not understood] s da, we used to have a banquet over at the hilton ~. i thought about my years i been work,. 1979, i started working at the [speaker not understood] ~ colony, arkansas for kid with disabilities. when you get your printout, you'll see a work history [speaker not understood] from '79-2006 at the san francisco jazz [speaker not understood] local 2 ballpark. i look at all those years, it's almost 30 years, will be 30 years in 2009. when i look at your work and when you cannot be respected in disability or been a disabled

awesome day in san francisco and 7:15 first pitch. winds 10 to 20 miles an hour and the game will be here on nbc bay area. let's get to the rest of the microclimate forecast. across the north bay 80 napa. 82 santa rosa. it will be good enough to get us close to record-setting heat. trivalley upper 70s and low 80s. no rain in the forecast the next six days. the biggest thing is it is warm tomorrow and upper 70s in san jose by thursday. by friday a little cooler with low 70s and cloud cover but smooth sailing in to the weekend. so if you can't get the rainfall, might as well enjoy this. some chamber of commerce weather the next couple of days. >> thank you, jeff. >>> up next, the protests about twit wither. we will tell you why. >>> the growing debate and bitterness in san francisco about the tech industry. a sidable protest against twitter. hundreds of union workers marched from city hall to twitter headquarters on market street. they blasted city leaders and the tax exceptions that the city of san francisco gave twitter an other high-

for additional units in san francisco. but we will be behind the rest of the people who have applied today. the other thing about this where we are, san francisco portfolio, though we are not the largest to apply. we were the largest portfolio to apply and be accepted. the chicago portfolio is awaiting. they are behind us. so again the central component of this is preservation. the $312 tenant rent is not sufficient by itself to even cover operating expenses. clearly there has to be an operating subsidy some place to cover operating expenses. to run the buildings in a manner that renters and investors would like, that level of support has to be higher. we talked about how we are converting this from section 9 funding to section 8 funding. it provides a more stable, long-term subsidy and provide for that leveraging. again this is a combination of two different programs we are doing. we are doing rad, which we applied for and the house authority has applied for which they have received authorization. the housing authority is

it's a big accomplishment for san francisco. we want to be very clear that the sfpuc likes go solar s.f., we think there is a lot of value added to diversifying the production of renewable power and locally generating those in our city. and we're very proud of what we, with your support as the board appropriations, have been able to accomplish in san francisco. as a second point, as you consider future funding for this program -- and i know you do deliberations on an $8 billion budget of which ours is a smaller 13% or so of the total, but nevertheless every dollar is important and we want to provide a broader context for you as you look at specifically our budget in the coming weeks, in may as well in particular. let me provide a bit of background to put it into context. hetch hetchy power has provided many benefits to the city, and we've been generating power since 1918. nearly 100 years we've been generating greenhouse gas free energy for the city central services. this saves the general fund $50 million a year. i think that's

>> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta hey guys nona businesses worthy he event we have a jam session and get a principal this is the weekly buzz. this wednesday is free occur can say class day looking at getting to have fun and pick up now skills under 7 to 9:00 p.m. and head to treasure island the attendance is free phenomenon the past, present treasure island association be there as 10:30. and on sunday checkout you tell rock fair the rock is a giant music lovers dream where people come from all

radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ welcome to let san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, april 3, 2014. started please silence any mobile device and speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll. commissioner president wu. commissioner fong. commissioner antonini pr commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioners first