right about san francisco. today is an example of that. i want to welcome everyone to district one. i want to acknowledge all the people here who's leadership and hard work was vital to it project. thank you to our amazing san francisco fire department and chief joann hayes white and to our fire commission president and fellow fire commissioners to our service. thank you to public works and our director for delivering this incredible project and doing it on budget. it was definitely worth the wait. finally, i want to thank the residents of district two and san francisco for your support and commitment to prepare a resilient city. we know this project could not have been possible without passing the bond in 2010 and 2014 and your commitment to earthquake safety makes all the difference in the world. it was worth the wait like i said. fire station 16, originally built in 1938 has been a home for the firefighters who proudly served geldengate valley and marina for the last 81 years. it's not just a building. i liv

infections in san francisco. [applause] >> we need to reach our most vulnerable populations, particularly are african-american and latino communities who are not seeing their h.i.v. infections drop as others do, this means getting everyone, and i mean everyone access to services, treatment, and preventative medications like prep. [applause] >> and i'm confident that dr kovacs will get us to our goal. we are also confronting san francisco's other allegedly impossible problem, housing. housing. we have to produce and preserve housing, and keep people in their homes. i will continue to support the rights to civil council which we funded it last year's budget with $5.8 million so every tenant who needs a lawyer can get one, and through our small sight -- his most -- small site acquisition program, will fight to preserve rent-controlled buildings to keep people in neighborhoods secure. [applause] >> people like ms. miss wu, and 99-year-old woman who has been living in the same building in the richmond district for the

welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thi

requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with next village san francisco for the provision of the village model during the period of january 1, 2019 through june 30, 2019 additional amount of $50,000 plus 10% contingency for the amount not $291,636. thank you again linda. >> commissioners i take your approval for the budget modification with next village san francisco. next was founded in 2019 and served northeast sector of the city. next stands for in th northeast exchange team. they have local restaurants. there are film showing. there are writing classes. big part of village infrastructure is volunteer coordination of services. part of the fee for membership, you have the opportunity to call the village office, ask for a ride to the doctor and that volunteer services coordinated for you. the more members you have the more request come in and the more volunteers are needed. this is a big part of the village infrastructure maintaining this program. daas funded village program have a membership fee that encourages the active involvement of its members. this member

san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and th

i am a fifth-generation san francisco suggest san francisco and. i live in district ten, and i have also lived in the sunset and the richmond, and i have two boys that go to school here in the city, i'm also a member of local 16, the stagehand to charge a union. i support the permit going through, and ask you to all help keep these jobs here, and help keep me and my family and the city where we have always been. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am an owner and operator of downtown san francisco. we have three locations now. i'd like to reiterate that outside lands has a huge economic and financial and marketing impact for our business. we rely heavily on outside lands to carry and market our business to not only san francisco residents, or residents that visit alike. i would like to clarify that outside lands is not just another music festival, it is absolutely an arts and cultural and culinary events, which makes it different from all the other music festivals in the u.s. it makes it stand out for san francisco. thank you. >> th

i was born and raised in san francisco. i started my cannabis business here, i support the creation of a public bank to help all mentioned before me, but also to create a safer path forward for the cannabis industry. this could create safer transactions, help us get funded as a new industry, and help control the illicit market. we have embraced cannabis, we should put supported all the way. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, board of supervisors. my name is monica. i don't usually come to these meetings, but i am very interested in a public bank because banks did used to be local, and there weren't layers, and layers, and layers of decision-making that now exist with the corporate bank structure. i think that if we had a public bank, there would be a lot of transparency. there would be -- the decision-making would be localized, and the decisions would be made by the community, the actual people, rather then the so called citizens united meaning the big corporations who use cities as a form of laundromats for thei

i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy. as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being

all immigrants of san francisco. it would be the right thing for the working people of san francisco, and also it would be the right thing to have a wonderful and strong, independent, fierce, loving woman be the president while you have a good woman also being the mayor. a woman that can get san francisco fixed up, and get things done. i don't know half of you here. i usually do not come to the halls of city hall walking around and mingling with politicians but i do know hilary and i do know hilary because she made her business to come to the communities, and to, back in, if i am doing this right, or what is going on. i really need is to talk to about this. and this was from the beginning that she was elected. therefore, our community, our immigrant community in san francisco are not just the mission, this takes the support of hillary, and we want you to do the right thing today. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm executive director to supports the selection of hil

in san francisco. and here he is now, the president of the board of supervisors, along with his colleagues, and they'll be talking in just a minute. so i am just here to say thank you to so many of you, especially because as we know, it takes a lot of resources to put together so many amazing community activities that promote our diversity and our culture, and i just want to thank the a.p.i. heritage committee for their continued work and fund raising and bringing people together. and claudine, at this time, i'd like to honor you and the members of the committee with a certificate thanking you for your service and the work you continue to do every year, not only asking for support, but twisting our arm and making us all participate and help us to understand how important this is to so many of our asian communities around the city. thank you for being a real advocate for the a.p.i. community in san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, everyone. [speaking chinese language] >> so und

of san francisco. and while you have heard some really compelling testimony and experiences from teachers and from other parents, i want you to know that there are thousands of parents -- and thousands of residents -- who voted to support prop g and prop little c and prop big c. and the second district is a membership organization and we voted to support prop g because we know how critical it is to support our teachers in our community schools. and we voted to support prop little c because we know how critical early childhood education is for our students. so all i'm asking is that you support the will of the voters and the families and the residents, many of whom you have met here today, who really support these issues. you have an opportunity to support the will of the voters in a real tangible way right now when you allocate this funding. and i appreciate your continued support for public education. thank you. >> hi. my name is allison eddie-brodman and i'm a resident of district 5. i understand tha

as goes san francisco, so does san francisco, as goes california, so goes the nation. let's give it a shot in san francisco. but basically, this legislation would require departments that are seeking public funds to acquire or use surveillance technology to have a surveillance plan and a policy that would become -- come before the board of supervisors for approval, and as to existing technology, they would have 120 days to bring that before the board of supervisors, but most importantly, this legislation bans facial recognition technology, which we know, and the literature absolutely shows, and the concerns not only come from civil liberties groups, but they actually come from the tech industry, that facial recognition technology, which has the biases of the people who have developed it, disproportionately misidentified as people of color and women. this is a fact. you can read it and countless pieces of literature, and san francisco is a city first, and i am persuaded by the broad coalition of supporters, including the aclu, color change , council on american relation

and the san francisco unified school district used to do it. i'm wondering, have you heard if there's a need for a fund maybe or some program to teach youth to drive? and then i'd love to hear about that. and then i think i just want to echo what my colleagues have said about the tay housing. yeah, considering that the money's been budgeted, what the heck, and so we'd love to follow up on that, too, because the money has already been funded, so what's taken so long, right? yeah, and i think the mayor has requested cuts up to 6%, and we will see, you know, we have very little control over the mayor's budget instructions, and it's true that the mayors and the departments get first dibs at the budget, and so i don't know what they would be actually cutting in there, but i would say that if you are -- that you may want to meet with some large departments and ask and meet with the department heads and ask them about the 6% cut and request that they make the cuts to youth and tay-specific programs. >> all right, so a lot to touch on there. firstly, w

i grew up in san francisco. so to be standing here in the city that raised me amongst the finest in blue, sfpd cat give yourselves a round of applause. [♪] and thank you to everybody who got time off. i come from a family of law enforcement. the government his name is clemens, so you might know my aunt and uncle. my aunt is lucy clemens. they are happily retired, so i wish you all the best, and thank you for all your service. nevertheless, i want to thank chief william scott. [applause] thank you for having this event and understanding how important it is to celebrate black history in san francisco. people have gentrification, no, no, no, we are still here. there are still so many generations of black history here in san francisco, and i think everybody, i thank you all for coming out here to celebrate. we have to give a huge thanks to our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] >> and i want to give a special shout out to the mastermind behind this event. brown. [cheers and applause] can i just say how hum

really only in san francisco, we often talk about how special we are in san francisco, and generally it is true. sometimes we are exaggerating. on this project, i think if you look around the country and what was able to be done around public housing preservation, there really are very few examples that if you look at the trouble they are having in new york city and all around the country was doing what san francisco got ahead of, you can see what a special opportunity this was, and how much work it took to get there. part of doing that was to recognize that we had to have an unusual financial partnership. to -- san francisco developers were very special people. we want to be treated differently on every project. it was the mayor touch office of housing that said we would not be different from each other, we would all do it the same way, which frankly hurts. we did not like to hear that message. with that said, we didn't have a choice, and may be that is a lesson for leadership, but they turned to a single financial partner in order to make sure they made this work. there are few org

i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. a real joy. it's been a real joy. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world-class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. - our 28,000 city and county employees play an important role in making san francisco what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competiti

of san francisco. so until you walk in our shoes, the rent that we have to pay -- we don't have walmart out here. we don't have all this extra stuff as if we live out -- and i'm not going to leave here. i've been here since 1963, and i don't plan on leaving here. i want my kids to have what i had: schools that's going to help them, doctors that's going to help them. in order to go to school, they have to be healthy and do the other things they need to do otherwise they get sick. i want help from my schools, teachers. one of my students -- i have straight-a students in the class. don't you know, one of my straight-a students snapped. when you drive home tonight, you get on that bridge, i want you to think about what my child had to do because i don't want to take that risk to go over the bridge because basically i don't have the gas to go over there. so look at me. my name is linda. i helped build carver doors and walls. i'm tired of coming here and everything that we want, you all slap it under the rug

we are here to work with you and to create a safer san francisco. happy lunar new year, and there's one person i would like to recognize. there is a change in command we have in the central district. captain paul yep has been a major player at central station, and our new commanding officer, captain robert yeh, as well, and paul has helped with that transition immensely, so we're looking forward to the lunar new year. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> now, i want to introduce supervisor aaron peskin. [applause] >> supervisor peskin: thank you, miss worthy. miss worthy is worthy, and sf safe is a great organization. i just want to say that that joke was so funny, i regret having you to arrest you a few years back. but in all seriousness -- [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> supervisor peskin: mayor breed, to the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, norman yee, to the representatives of the other supervisors and elected officials gathered here today, to the command staff of the san francisco police department, to the represent

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we have 15,000 members in san francisco. i'm an open source paper ballot voting system advocate, very important to get transparency in our elections. i've worked with christopher jerdonek personally for the past two years on this issue and his expertise is absolutely incredible. i want to thank you, supervisor ronen, for the $1.55 million budget support you gave last year for open source paper ballot voting in san francisco. i ask all of you to pass the additional 3 million request for the coit budget for this project. chris has 15 years experience on election and voting issues. san francisco voting system specific knowledge which is important. he's a software developer and he has excellent expertise on open source software, and it is critical that we don't change horses in the middle of the race. this project is critical, not only for san francisco but the nation. san francisco is the only place working on open source paper ballot voting. once we do it here, the software can be shared nationally. so, i just want to say that

i'm from the san francisco public utilities commission. the program came about with state wide legislation in 2002 to enable people to take more control over supplies. i first heard of the program when the organization was advocating to launch clean power sf. what i'm most excited about, it's going to bring 100% renewable energy to my home and reinvest into renewable energy infrastructure and jobs. i had gone to a lot of street fairs and heard from the staff at the san francisco public utilities commission to sign up for clean power sf even before it launched. >> we learned about clean power sf because our sustainability team is always looking for clean operations. linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. in this san francisco office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new wheel electric bike shop

we are here at the san francisco urban center on mission street in san francisco and i'm joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. what are things we should be concerned about water. >> you want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. we recommend that you have at least 3-5 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. >> the storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. >> right. of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles t

at san francisco city clinic. we are here to provide easy access to conference of low-cost culturally sensitive sexual health services and to everyone who walks through our door. so we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. we also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for people living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them health benefits and rage into conference of primary care. we also provide both pre-nd post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of women's reproductive health services including contraception, emergency contraception. sometimes known as plan b. pap smears and [inaudible]. we are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. weight buries a lip it could be the first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. there are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. in general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. >> my name is yvonne piper on

the women of san francisco, labor in san francisco and the progressive organizations of san francisco have all come together and spoken in one voice and that voice has said elect hillary ronan. >> thank you for your comments. [applause] [please stand by] [indiscernible] >> last november he got the offer to help proposition c. supervisor norman yee -- [indiscernible] >> i am here to speak in support of hillary running for president of the board of supervisors. as a young and aspiring leader, hillary ronen is an example of what bold leadership is. it is important to me to come here and speak on behalf of someone i considered has set a new standard for future d9 supervisors. i believe what makes her different from the rest is that her ability to connect with the people of her district. the ability to convey her passion and love for this community and this city. she has given this community a voice against displacement and gentrification, and relentless courage to drive the work despite the opposition. this is a time for bold and ambitious, pushy leadership. this is a time to be unafraid

not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafÉ. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engage