the city i saw as a child is not the same city i see now. the city that housed and protected my whole family. i've seen my tias and tios get forced out of their houses. i've seen community businesses that have been around forever get shutdown. i've seen our beloved trees fall just for generic condos to be built. every week, new monsters loom over our heads. the frisco i saw as a child walking through the mission is not the same. yuppies enter this town like it's theirs, making their patches grow into monsters, expensive monsters. only thing they do is shadow our schools, make us wait for grandmother's son, make our neighbors have to pack up and leave. now it's our turn, our turn to take back the family businesses, our turn to make the mission fluorish with art. >> president melgar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is allison. i'm standing here with the others today to say no to the monster and yes to the marvel. the city's priority must be on providing 100% affordable housing to actual low and no-income san franciscans. the

the city up to $12 million. today you said 8. is the 8 in addition to -- >> no, i'm sorry if i misspoke earlier. 8 million is what we reported in the november report and the same number we're reporting in our january report. >> ok. and then when -- that 8 million is because there's been unanticipated delays. it doesn't take into account that figure, other problems that result from those delays like when a family continues to live in a tent on a sidewalk because they can't get into that affordable housing and drum up hospital bills and having been exposed to the weather. we're not even really capturing the true costs to the city of these delays. that's just in terms of construction delays and projects, et cetera, i'm assuming. >> yes. it's definitely an estimate an understatement for the additional indirect costs that you're calling out. these are more direct costs. you know, did we have to do additional engineering work, did we have to pay a contractor to mobilize, demobilize, because the project site wasn't rea

one of my favorite cities is mexico city, and their parks are so amazing. everybody there feels they have a community gathering space, so i would appreciate being reappointed to this community and continue serving on prosac until my next term expires, and then continuing to serve on prosac. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: i just want to thank you for your work on this committee. it's extraordinary. i also want to thank you for bringing up the nonaffordablity of camp mather. i go there every year with my family. it's a city treasure, but it's very expensive, and i think that making that city resource more widely available is really important, and hearing you say that makes me really excited. please keep up that work. i will support you any way i can, so please continue to represent us well as you've been doing. really appreciate that, and with that, i will make a motion to repaappoint wendy aragon to the rec and park open space advis

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housing can no longer be a city by city issue. we have to work, we have to work together, large cities or small, or the bay area will not be affordable for workers and family. our cities will never solve this crisis alone, that we can do better. since taking office, this has been my focus. to get rid of the barriers and bureaucracy that get in the way of housing production, and to build more housing for people of all income levels. san francisco, are ready in my short time in office, i am moving forward with 300 million-dollar affordable dollars affordable housing bond. i directed my department of building inspection to get rid of the bureaucratic red tape that gets in the way of building we had 900 us -- accessory dwelling units backlogged. imagine putting 900 units on the market? eliminating the backlog, and most recently, i put forth legislation to eliminate the fees for in-laws, and affordable housing, 100% affordable housing during affordable housing projects, providing more affordable housing, and to get these in-laws into t

and the city and county of san francisco. so i would like to -- i don't know if this is a question for the budget analyst, but in many of these instances, we characterize these things as loans, knowing that they will never be paid back. so then, maybe why don't we just call it what it is and say that it's a grant and get rid of the fiction of it being a loan? and then, i'll get to my specifics about this one, which is there's a sea difference between when we do that with a nonprofit like the tenderloin neighborhood development clinic or c.c.d.c. than when we do it with the john stewart company, which is a for-profit company. so if we're giving a loan to a for-profit corporation, shouldn't we call it a loan and say it's not forgivable? those are my thoughts. >> so if i may address the first part of the question, i think it's a good one, and we can policy wonk out on this for quite a bit. in short, you'll probably notice over time when we do look back over those 35 years that the method of sending out the funds has changed over

to honor him in the city in naming this as a city landmark. and as it's said before, the school district is a state agency, so really, they can do -- they don't need to follow the san francisco building codes or follow the landmark status, so it's just an honor of a recognition. and i think would be a great honor to -- for his tribute to make this a city landmark. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. rothman. and as the previous speaker said, there is actually a benefit to the school district which is this designation can actually allow the sfusd to avail themselves of the state historic building code instead of the uniform building code of the state of california. both of these case reports -- and colleagues, i don't know if you've read them carefully because there's a lot of pages in them -- were prepared by christopher verplank and donna graves. and mr. verplank is here. i have to tell you, i enjoyed reading both of these case reports this weekend. mr. verplank, the floor is yours. >> greetings, supervisors. my name is christopher ver

a safe city. being here, and thank you for all of your support to, because getting this information out to the public is one of the keys to being unaware safety, and a resilient city. thank you. [applause] >> we will take a couple quick questions, and then we will do interviews afterwards. [indiscernible] >> there is a jump and we are looking at that very hard to. we believe two things. there are things that happened over the past year, we increase the training to our patrol officers, there was a lot more awareness, and we wage that cost and some of the increase. we actually are looking at the impacts of the closure of a red brook, which was one of the sites that facilitated a lot of the activity, the prostitution activity. that close down. we drove more activity onto the streets. those are factors we are looking at, and also how we report. we believe the increased training expanded the amount of cases that were actually recognized as human trafficking, and we wanted to make sure that we captured

sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be conside

the fee has to be tiefd to the city -- tide to the city's cost of the program. i don't know if there would be additional cost to the city in terms of inspecting larger properties with more vacant storefronts. that's something d.b.i. and the controller can look at. >> commissioner: i'd imagine the cost associated with administering the program wouldn't just be based on the actual number of places but there should be a cost associated with looking at the size of the property. i don't know if the sponsor was amenable maybe we can ask d.b.i. to look into that. that's one thing and this is something we heard on the land use and transportation committee for years but the issue of lighting, a lot of the storefron storefronts not only have they abandoned and unoccupied but don't have proper level of lighting. i wonder if there's a way we could look into having some of this fee be associated with or maybe a small percentage of it abated based on lighting if lighting were provided. if the storefront owner did provide lighting though the storefront was inactive and shown t

city borders. there's a lot of folks in the smaller communities, neighboring communities. i'm the mayor of everett, washington, just north of seattle. so what are you doing on a regional level to address this, and empower the local smaller communities to come up with solutions that may look very different than what you're doing in the larger cities? >> well, i'm glad you asked that question, because, in fact, we actually are working on a regional approach, and will be assigning an agreement that outlines things we could be doing in the bay area specifically that i think can transfer to the entire state of california. and i know this is the u.s. conference of mayors and we're talking about other cities and other states. but we're really focusing on, you know, even the smaller cities. we've been participating in a group called casa, bringing together a number of people in the advocacy community, the business community, the tech industry. elected officials. all over to talk about what are we going to

they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. >> because there are so many pieces of industry that people haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate hea

city plan p.p.o. rate. presentation by mike clark from acon. >> we talked little bit about rate stabilization reserves in the last presentation. page 3 give background on each the last two years. for the 2018 plan year, that was approved in june of 2017, the agency approved using was a $4,000,529,000,000 rate stabilization reserve to be applied by down 2018 premiums. we expected at the close of 2018 cycle, that we would have spend down the rate stabilization reserve. we looked at 2017 plan year experience. with that determined because of favorable experience, there was $1,000,661 available. that help all else equal to reduce the total rate increase by 4%. $1,661,000 equates to 4% of the expected city plan spend for 2019. we have slides in appendix that provides more details for your convenience. >> president breslin: when you apply a deficit, how does that work? i don't understand it. >> the deficit will then slightly increase the rates that we present in may and this is the case presently on the blue shiel

this is a city that knows how. the innovation capital of the world his. [cheers and applause] >> the national leader on lgbt and immigrant rights, environmental protections, healthcare, and so many other causes. the place where my angelou rang cable car bells -- the place where my angelou rang cable car bells and the place where a girl from public housing became mayor [cheers and applause] >> our congresswoman is speaker of the house. our former mayor just became governor. another is the california senior senator, the state's lieutenant lieutenant governor, controller and treasurer are all san franciscans. [cheers and applause] >> our former district attorney could even be the next president [cheers and applause] >> it is time that our city holds its head up high again. it is time we believe again. yes, we have our challenges, i see them every day, just like you. i'm frustrated just like you about the issues that face our city, but i'm also motivated, because there is no problem we caps off together, no challenge we won't face together, there is , as pres

the aztec had their aqueducts and water supply for the city. we bring water from the hetch hetchy reservoir, and we don't pump it. the romans would have been proud. my name is travis ong. i'm a senior i.s. engineer >> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also hav

no large city in america is going to be exactly the way it was. this is where the jobs are you guys all see the amount of technology and creativity that is happening in san francisco, and i just see continued job growth. as we talked about though, the job growth and office growth has to be in conjunction with transit growth, and with housing growth. his the last eight years we have really seen that office go out of whack, and we are feeling the pain on that. one of the speakers had mentioned emphasis or attachment to transit spending infrastructure spending. i have to agree that should come along with the housing considerations. i am supportive of the work that is going forward to. we need to hustle up here. we are probably already too late, but it is never too late to start, and get ready for that growth as it is coming. >> thanks. i want to thank staff. i actually am very supportive of what is happening at the regional level because i think we all know from our own experience that we are in a regional problem, you know, i think we all know frien

thank you to city hall. [applause] >> thank you, supervisors naomi kelly, to san francisco arts community for allowing me to work for you and with you at what i believe has been the best job in the world. thank you all. >> president yee: thank you. don't go away, i was going to ask the president if we could invite you in and give you this proclamation and have all of our pictures taken with you, if you would be willing to do that. or if the president would be willing to do that, it's his call. >> president yee: how could i not? make sure the photo is artistic, ok? [applause] >> president yee: so, next up -- i just want to remind, we have three more commendations and i would really appreciate it if we stick to our five-minute rule of presenting and, you know, and giving the person getting the award a few minutes to talk also. so, that would be nice, ok? so, supervisor brown, would you like to share your commendation? >> supervisor brown: yes, thank you, chair. president yee. today -- hang on -- is my mic on?

she's willing to look at other solutions of the city that have been -- of problems of the city that have been around for years and decades. so we're very proud to have mayor breed with us today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, claudine. you know, when i first started on the board of supervisors, i attended this event, and it was always in room 201, in the mayor's conference room. and i would always say, claudine, we're growing. we need more space. and finally, she took me up on my word, and she decided we were going to move this incredible celebration to here, the north light court. this is our great celebration of our a.p.i. heritage month kind of kickoff. even though it's not in the month of may, it is during the lunar new year which is of course fitting that we celebrate such a time honored tradition here in our city. i want to thank so many people who are joining here -- joining us here today, including so many folks from the leadership, many of our sister cities, folks from manila, from osaka -- yes, you can clap -- from seoul, taipei, ho chi mint cities, places that

hostage at the city and county of san francisco here is the map of city projects that they are holding hostage. they range from the police academy to thousands of units of affordable housing, to restrooms for our bus drivers. it is shameful, it is time to stop. the best way for us to do that, either through negotiations, or eminent domain, is to take control of the local distribution system. this resolution is a step in that direction. thank you for allowing me to speak on this day in san francisco. [laughter] >> okay. colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call. >> mr president, supervisor peskin has made in an amendment. >> i did make that one amendment , line one on page 2. if we can take this amendment -- is there a second? >> super -- seconded by supervisor walton. and we take this amendment without any objection? can we take this resolution as amended, same house same call? okay. it is adopted unanimously. okay, let's now go back to 64. >> item 64 is a board of supervisors convening in closed session, scheduled pursuant for the motion, approved on october 30th, 2018,

state legislation committee and the city lobbyists when lobbying on behalf of the city and transmitting the official policy positions to external bodies and agencies. >> thank you. once again, supervisor peskin, the floor is yours. >> thank you. i want to make a motion to continue this to the next government audit and oversight committee, the last day for introduction of bills at the state is this friday, so the city lobbyists is engaged in their job, so i'd like to continue this item for 1212 weeks. >> before taking a motion to continue, are there any members of the public who wish to testify? singh then, public testimony is now closed. can we take this without objection? >> i am hearing a continuation to the date specific of the 7th of march, 2019. >> thank you. mr. clerk, please call item number 5. >> agenda item number 5 is a hearing on the recently published 2017-2018 civil grand jury report. >> thank you. i would like to welcome some people from the budget and legislative analyst office were here to present on this item. >> good afternoon, supervisors. we were asked at the time of

of brisbane and operate out of city boundaries. another term we use is community choice aggregator or cca program. that is a statutory program that is authorized to procure power which would then be distributed through the investor-owned utility infrastructure. so a cca under the statute doesn't exist in the absence of an investor-owned utility and would not order near overlap with a municipality or municipality utility district and we use iou or investor owned utility to describe pg & e or edison or san diego gas and electric. so in order to form a municipal electric utility and again, we have in san francisco, any municipal corporation or city can distribute that under the california constitution. municipal are not regulated by the california puc. the san francisco charter includes express provisions allowing san francisco to procure and distribute power and also allows the city to expand its municipal utilities if it chooses. so it could be an oversight role for the lafco. as distinguished from the municipal utility, a municipal

cities in this country. it is our responsibility. we don't take that lightly. we'll continue to fight and focus on that. this is not the end. we have bigger budget as a city and county of san francisco. there are more resources that are available for us to fight for the things that we need and the things we need to get done here in this city. we're going to continue to do that through the budget process. i know we're all committed to that. i'm not going to take up much more time. i know you've been here all day. i want to thank my colleagues. i want to thank the chair for her leadership on this and for corralling all of us and making sure that we push hard to come to a place where we can all be willing to move forward. i too would love to be added as a cosponsor with the amendments that have been presented today. i want to thank everyone for fight sog far for the priorities we have here in the city. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, now supervisor brown. >> i want to thank everybody who has come together. i kn

>> the city refunded those 2006-2007 bonds, and in the process of one saving money for the city, the debt service reserve that was placed for those bonds was no longer needed because those bonds have since been made off by the refunding. so it wasn't that we were not spending the money fully. those moneys were in a reserve for those bonds self- >> supervisor fewer: -- specifically. >> supervisor fewer: and it was 4 million. >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you. i look forward to those projects being done soon. >> we're working on them. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: okay. do we have a motion for this? yes, from supervisor mandelman. so i think we can move this with a positive recommendation to the board. thank you very much. [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please call item number 10. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have sarah nester here from the mayor's office of housing to present on this. hello, sarah. >> hello. good morning, chair fewer and supervisors stefani and mandelman. i'm here to present on item ten, a

it was formed to respond to the city's homeless crisis. what began as a one-year emergency interfaith winter shelter is now in its 30th year of providing shelter and meals to between 60 and 100 homeless men each night. beginning the sunday before thanksgiving, through the end of march. 18% of those self-identify as aging adults that are our clients. at present, our organization in collaboration with the major faith-based social service agency has applied for substantial grant with the hope of expanding the interfaith shelter for care for seniors and those during the inclement winter months. due in large part to the success of the interfaith winter shelter and the council's work in responding to homelessness, in late 2014 the city called on the council for the recipient of anonymous $3 million donation which enabled expeditious funding for the first navigation center. the success of the pilot led to the replication in other neighborhoods throughout the city. mission of our organization is to bring people of different faiths together to cele

we know that our city supports us. 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

you never think about that when you are a mayor and you are thinking about your city and your city will go down in history for this. it would never happen at tree of life because tree of life is literally mr. rogers neighborhood where fred rogers lived, two blocks away. it is where willie started we are family lived. it is the most diverse neighborhood in all of western pennsylvania. people choose to live in squirrel hill because they want to live around people who are different and they embrace that. that is my neighborhood. i live seven blocks away. those words just hit like someone punching you in the stomach and taking the wind out of you. everything you thought about your city has completely been changed forever. and of course pittsburgh being the city it is the victims themselves were friends, they were family members of her friends they've known 20 years. you get to go through this process of trying to operate and act rational in a time when emotions really are taking over and it becomes difficult. you hear about the stories of how the first officer arrived and upon coming out of

most recent, city build cycle 29 produced 49 graduates. [inaudible] >> recent milestones for that project include completion of a third cycle of the chase center academy which graduated 30 participants. city build -- or the chase center was also able to create 85 local resident sponsorships with different contractors on the project? and in total, 271 local residents have been placed on the chase center project in total. ultimately, what i hope is taken away today is that while s.b. participation and workforce numbers will continue to fluctuate, ocii and our city parters will continue to increase small business opportunities by encouraging supplier participation, encouraging joint ventures and associations, continuing networking and outreach within the s.b. community, expanding l.b.e. certifications through ongoing relations are the contract monitoring division, coordinating with the monitoring division. promoting advocacy and technical assistance through organizations like bayview business advisory committee and bayview renaissance and wor

, a monumental city possible. it was mentioned earlier that thomas jefferson also drew his own plans in 1791 for the city. and it very much reflected jeffersons preferences for american architecture. we see a very basic grid pattern, relatively small is the city, not as expensive, there are no wide boulevards, and there are no vistas. there is nothing that represents a european city. it is much more of an american basic plan and there you can see the presidents house, left roughly where it is today, and then the capital actually directly east of it. jefferson also desired to have a lot of these buildings made of brick, he thought the idea of having these massive stone buildings seemed a little bit regal, a little bit aristocratic. and he made these opinions known to washington but you know by the law, washington had the authority in many of these decisions. and it was the commissioners who were tasked with that. so by keeping those relationships viable, washington was able to exert his influence and push his visio

like to thank our city administrator. i like to thank the public works engineers and architects who designed and managed this project. a special shotout to the project manager. our city architect edgar lopez and roebuck construction, give them a hands. they really had to work hard. thank you. of course, all of the voters in san francisco that made this possible. this funding was passed in the 2010 earthquake safety emergency bond and this is the first of the full complete fire houses that the city has produced. isn't it beautiful? the bond which funded this upgrade is a voter-backed initiative and aimed to strengthening earthquake resiliency. public works takes great pride in overseeing some of the city's crucial capital and improvement projects. with the support of voters we can componen continue to work on world-class facilities to many diverse neighborhoods. at this time, i now have the honor of introducing our mayor london breed who has been champion making sure that san francisco is kept safe. join me in welcoming ou

and the city for a ten-year term and a first-year mag of 440,000. item 27 approves the terminal one retail concession lease number seven between skyline concessions, inc, and the city for a seven year and two one-year options to extend with a first-year mag of 220,000. item 28 approves the retail terminal less concession between raca, inc and the city for a ten year term with two one-year options to extend and a first-year mag of 125,000. >> president yee: okay. thank you. does any supervisor want to sever any of these items? supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: 23. >> president yee: 23? supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: i was going to ask for the same one, 23. >> president yee: 23. >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, could i take items 20 through 29, except for 23, same house, same call. without objection, then, these items pass -- are adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you chair -- president yee. this has nothing to do with the fact that this happens t

we are a city that is on the water. we need to act, and i believe that all the resolutions that we want to put forward will be helped immensely by that. having money in a public bank that is our own, that is the city's taxes, our constituents would see the results of the money going to us, so i urge you to support this unanimously, and help us move it forward. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i made district ten resident, in the electoral cochair of the san francisco democratic socialists of america. i'm here to speak in adoption of the it public bank measure, specifically the public benefits of community investment in a public bank. we talk about divestments as a benefits. we know the current general fund goes to the big banks. they put that into predatory loans and investments that are hostile to the businesses of san francisco. shark no shareholders around this country and around the world have more control of the san francisco economy and people's livelihoods and our reside

i but then the city has an idea. today six outdoor escalate has extended three hundred eighty four mates has up the hill sides now the one hundred forty thousand residents of community one of the city's poorest neighborhoods no longer need to make the climb by foot. jayco because donna is well aware of how the escalators have affected the district . i'm thirty three and i've lived here all my life here with my mother sister and son. the escalators are a major tourist attraction a bonus for locals like j.k. iraq but who gives guided tools to the area's best graffiti. in the past few visitors would have debt to venture into comune that tessa reputed to be the most dangerous neighborhood of what's often called the world's most dangerous city. there's more to me with many friends of mine lost their lives many neighbors lots of people just disappeared it happened a lot around here over the school. improving people's minds this was the vision of powerhouse today that gratian also encompasses infrastructure projects like th

in the last 30 years from a city that was lost, literally, to a city today that is the most dynamic city in america. it really is. that deserves a big round of applause. [applause] what has happened in this neighborhood is many changes have taken place in this neighborhood. with the capital crossing's project, that was a scar through our city. to cover that over and connect the east and west of our city will be an enormous achievement. now to have the capital jewish museum centered right here in this location is going to be an enormous addition. i have been around when we did a couple other things, too. if you remember the jewish community center on 16th street. that was an abandoned building. i was the ac chairman. that's how long ago that was. back in those days we were able to reclaim the building for the jewish community, and now it is one of the most vibrant community centers in the district of columbia located on 16th street. and the synagogue on sixth street. what is the name of that one? it had some name, i knew. [laughter] i get them all mixed up. we claimed that. now it has bec

city departments? i think that might be ops -- like, appropriate for operations? and the other think just thinking about the five values and the equity lens? i know we had a presentation years ago on product diversity, and i thought that would maybe not an interesting thing for us to cover, as well. >> thank you, commissioner. we are -- have taken note of that. i believe for the green purchasing item, i believe we might be bringing that forward in the may operations meeting, so stay tuned on that. >> okay. commissioner wald. >> and i was wondering whether or not it would be appropriate at some point in time for us to hear a presentation on pg&e bankruptcy and options and what the department is doing with the p.u.c. to examine those options and make recommendations, if any, to the city as to how we should respond. >> thank you, commissioner. >> it's a little tricky, i understand. >> yeah. we'll have to take that back and obviously talk to our p.u.c. colleagues. >> but i would be interested in hearing ab

in the city, right at the freezing mark. san jose, 35. but not everybody lives in the city. outside the city, less of a heat island effect. you make it to the upper 20s. the sun and cloud mixed tomorrow. we get rain on friday and then we're unsettled for the weekend. below average, by seven degrees in san francisco. it should be 59 tomorrow. only 52. couper teeno -- cupertino 54. partly sunny in danville and fairfield. pleasanton, 54. 51 for daley city. 55 tomorrow in oakland. only 48 for a high tomorrow in clear lake. the extended forecast brings the rain back friday morning. obvious and off rain throughout the day. scattered showers saturday. more light to moderate rainfall late sunday. and once that pattern breaks we get drier, but we don't get warmer every day for the next seven we will only be in the 50s for highs. that is your forecast. >> all righting paul. >>> she has shared the stage with legendary artists. how our jefferson award winner is passing on her passion for music to thousands of bay area kids. marvin gaye, ray charles. and she's also shared her love of mus

this wonderful city. another huge influence was my brother who really believed in how precarious and short life is and that if we had to work, we better make sure that we live someplace that the few hours we had off really meant something to us. and that drove me to drive across the country and move to san francisco as one of those many people who left their heart here. it gave me the opportunity to work with some really innovative, talented, wonderful people and departments in city government, but some of the greatest business leaders that i can imagine in terms of their support of the environment, the property managers in the downtown corridor of our office buildings, hotels, and certainly the convention industry itself. so it's been nothing but joyous. i look forward to lots of new adventures. i like to quote david osmond, many of you know, when he retired. he said something to the effect that he had worked his entire life in the environment. he just wanted a little time to enjoy it. that's truly how i

that's why they come to city hall to get shelter. we spend an inordinate time in our rest rooms and all over the city. anyone can talk the talk but when we give shelter to a human being specially for the night, let us give that human being a bed. if not -- [chime] >> clerk: thank you, m mr. decosta. >> commissioner: next speaker, please. >> i'm lavette arnold and born and raised here 58 years. i'm having issues. i'm disabled but also i have health problems. i came here years early talking to a lot of you guys. a lot of your faces are new here. i have constantly said something. i'm born and raised here. this is my home. i was born in a hadn't hospital here and my son died at 21 here and for people to say get out because i didn't want to do sexual favors and my rent went from $788 and i was only getting $888 this sis unreal. they say america's for everybody but this is my home. this is where i came out of my mother's womb and it's sad nobody's doing anything and section 8 is terrible but i'm talking about my issues. i'm a mother, great