i am here speaking on behalf of the youth in the excelsior as well as the omi community collaborative. district 11 is diverse in its members, but also in this agency and the work we do. our agencies that are culturally competent. many are currently working together to bring diverse groups of people working across different cultures. we are working collaborative way on a number of different community events around health's, families, resources, and art walks. dcyf funded a collaborative, but even now the funding is not there anymore. we continue to work together. in 2004, dcyf reported that district 11 is the most underserved community and has the highest concentration of you off. we are not only serving youth in our community, but we are serving youth from other districts. in addition, district 11 also has the highest number of schools in one district alone. a high population of youth resides here. they come to the district to attend school and after-school programs. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the program director at out of sight youth arts center. i want to talk about the curve

this is in the excelsior district, in partnership with the mta. they had a private to do some capital improvements around sf community school. we did a street banner campaign, blanketing the excelsior up and down. supervisor avalos: i thought it was all over the city. i live in the excelsior, and i assumed it was everywhere. >> we started the seven years ago in the mission district and tenderloin. it was so popularly received, as grant funds come in, we try to rule that out, but again, as funds become available, it is not a consistent, persistent effort. supervisor avalos: i liked the banners. >> thank you. >> in terms of the other ongoing projects, we are working to improve the pedestrian mall that i approved -- described earlier. right now, it is on census tract level, so we are hoping to modify it more on the intersection level. this is using current best practices from the highway -- federal highway administration. we have also developed and applied and environmental quality index which considers over 30 factors at st. and intersection level.

so the staff at the excelsior family connections some crying, and they came up to me and asked if i was ok. they are just like my family. i go there every day, and i see the staff there more than i see my siblings. they have therapist's there to help me solve my family problems, my stress, and they are the ones who told me that i have the postpartum depression. so i am so glad they found out my depression. and i am able to go to my doctor. i did not realize. without them, i think i would have gotten a divorce from my husband already and have a broken family. i really hope that -- please, do not cut the funds. and i really hope that they can continue the service that they have provided to me, and i really want the service to be able to provide to fit people like me and families like my family. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. i am director of economic development department, self- help for the elderly. self-help for the elderly has 45 years of history serving opinions, and we are serving 35,000 seniors annually in the bay area, and our senior community service employment

as a vibrant community, working families with deep roots in district 11, an immense pride in the excelsior and entire community.

we have the excelsior, our mission, like mile, all the neighborhoods in between. it is exciting to see all the neighborhoods here this evening. tonight, we want to take you on a tour of our district. our tour guides include some of our neighborhood leaders, including young people, parents, from my staff, community organizations. we are all represented by many of the collaboration's in our district, including the omi community collaborative, communities united for help and justice. a first thought on our tore his desperation. -- stop on our tour is desperation. we know that low income communities are hit first and worse when economic problems it. our families are experiencing troubles from the immigration and customs enforcement, and are having trouble finding jobs. but we are resilient spirit and that leads us to the next up on our tour. the people in our district are doing amazing things every day, working hard, raising families, helping neighbors, a volunteer at school, celebrating culture, and there are doing it and develop, spanish, chinese, and over 70 other

i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived in a city in los angeles, but when i lived in massachusetts, where i live, i was close to boston. i had such a great time in boston but i did not like massachusetts so much because it was cold, the culture was foreign to me. when i came to san francisco, the first time i came, there was a rainbow over the bay and there

we are talking about a working- class community, the excelsior, the bayview, all of these different neighborhoods are smaller enclaves. we still see the same kinds of challenges. when the schools begin to perform a stellar academic programs, businesses will continue to relocate because the employees will want to live in san francisco and want kids to be educated here. it is a cyclical and symbiotic creation ship. another challenges that we have the highest unemployment rate in this part of san francisco. san francisco before, the numbers are starting to come down a little bit. we have high rates in the latter part of last year, but it is starting to -- it is starting to normalize. it goes back to education. what i would like to see our pathways. not everyone will become a doctor, lawyer, or journalist, fantastic tv host. what can we do? we live in a society where we need engineers. we need sound engineers. we need graphic designers. there are people who prefer to learn with their hands. they like mechanics. we need to bring back some shop back in schools and allow people an opportunity for a diff

she is concerned that because it is so close, it will provide, and this is in the excelsior district, there will be the ability to crawl in the second floor window. >> we are down to just that issue? accessibility to the side of her house? >> that is the primary issue, yes. >> does it have to do with safety because of access to her property and privacy? >> exactly. >> thank you. >> the permit holder? please step forward. please state your name. >> this is the second meeting between the owners -- the neighbors and the apartment holders. i spoke to commissioners already. the second one, we talked about the deck. at the back is this deck. we were talking about the privacy issue for this window, which is higher than the deck. from the floor plan, you can see the deck actually is further back. whoever stands on the deck needs to stand on the edge of the deck and turned back to see that window. that is why we talked about setting be set back, so whoever who -- whoever is on the deck cannot see it from the deck. that is what we are trying to address the concern from the neighbors. it looks l

the excelsior. we operate 10 different facilities. most recently, we opened a center in bayview hunters point through a collaborative effort. as you are well aware, but you hunters point is probably the most toxic area in the city and county of san francisco. it is also the area that most low-income folks are moving to. in response to primarily the relocation of low-income families in the mission, we formed a collaborative and introduced a continuum of care facility, providing services to 34 children, all children of working, poor, low-income families. i am proud to say we are here this evening in support of the rebuild plans of cpmc, including the rebuild of st. luke's hospital. we are not here to tell cpmc how to work with community, but rather to say that we appreciate that cpmc knocked on our door when we first moved in to bayview hunters point and asked how they could assist in providing services directly to the bayview child health center, the only child facility in the bayview hunters point o

[applause] >> i'm jacki cash, president of the excelsior district improvement association. i'm going to say this wrong. we just need to get that out there ahead of time. the main thing i wanted to talk about when i got up here -- for one thing, yes, youth. anything for kids or for seniors. those are the most vulnerable populations we have. the people in the middle, the people who are able-bodied, the people of working age -- we will muddle through, but to take care of our most vulnerable population is the top thing because when you allow that to disintegrate, you end up with calcutta. you end up with these really creepy conditions that nobody wants to live in any way. people will just leave the city in droves if you have to look at old ladies lying on the street, which, by the way, i have to do. that comes into another thing, which is code enforcement. there is a lot of congestion in my neighborhood, and a lot of it has to do with people who are taking advantage of people of color, people of low income, dividing up their houses as much as possible, putting 18 people into a

in my district, i have two pharmacies that are clinging to life in the excelsior district. walgreen's has moved on to geneva. they want to sell alcohol there as well. that could make them more competitive against smaller businesses that are clinging to life. i think we should be thinking of the city overall, what our policy is around pharmacies selling alcohol. what is the change in the law that has happened in the city over the past few years that has seen now we are going to see more pharmacies looking to sell alcohol? >> let me go back. you are correct. many years ago, i would say approximately 15 or so, they did have a liquor licenses. my understanding of the history was that they were more of a nuisance at the time than they were worth, and it was actually the chain that elected to surrender them, and they subsequently did and got rid of all their licenses in the city and county of san francisco. the correctly stated, we had rite-aid come to san francisco, and they did acquire some liquor licenses. most of those locations, that altman gave up the san francisco market,

i was a kid who grew up in the excelsior district. i counted on a recreation director to be my father. it meant everything to me. when we had to lay off folks that are the common faces in your facilities that you can relate to on a daily basis, we understand that impact. what we are trying to do is hire some folks back as our budget recovers a little bit. we have been able to generate a lot of revenue. we have prioritized revenue over cuts. we are looking to hire, and faces again. jerry jack came up. he was a recreation director here. we are looking to hire him in a different capacity so that he can be back here at the center. i know that we are waiting for some position authority in order to have an after-school position here. he would be one of those folks we would be looking at to fill that position. he has been a recreation leader, which is a part-time position, which i understand people want to see his face. there were other folks who were here. victor jones is in the back. i spoke to him earlier. a lot of folks have a lot of val

it was 16% on the treasure island line and 14% on the 23 excelsior and 14 mission lines. >> boy. it adds up. >>> all right. you might have received one in the mail a $25 prepaid debit card from pg&e? some customers are confused about whether the card includes some hidden fees. on the consumerwatch, julie watts explains how pg&e has some growing pains with this new program. >>> reporter: dorothy janson is one of 266,000 pg&e customers to get one of these $25 debit cards as a reward for reducing december gas usage. >> i was really happy when i saw the card. >> reporter: until she saw the fine printed and fees that came with the card and was hesitant to use it. but then she saw this consumerwatch story last week. >> important thing here is that there's no fees associated with this card. >> reporter: pg&e explained the fine print was standard on all debit cards and apologized for the confusion. >> i thought, that's great. so then i went to use it the next day and you got my email. >> reporter: she tried to apply the rebate to her pg&e bill and was told the card had to be activated. b

ness, the 52 excelsior and the t line just to name a few. there's so many people skipping and paying their fair last year that muni lost $19 million from derivation alone. the 14 in the 49 both rundown mission in the mission district. finding people boarding for the back was like shooting fish in a barrel. i spoke to many people who admitted writing thibus without paying. another person told me they never paid and have no plans to start now. now let's talk about the t line in the bay view. the only train listed as the worst line to find fare evaders. some people call it the t line shuttle because for many residents they use it to ride two or three blocks. they see absolutely no reason to pay $2 for what my mother used to call it a hot skip and jump. in san francisco, stanley roberts kron 4 news. >>rob: he was considered something of an outsider but a hollywood legend. we will look back at the life of director sidney linacs. we will find what's hot and what's not at the box office this weekend. stay with us. after the show a 10:00 p.m. kron 4

i mean, this was 1991 at the excelsior hotel. she told her friends and her family about what happened and they said well, you need to say something and bring a case or complaint. and she said no. she said this was -- there was police guarding the door. i will perhaps lose my job. i may lose my boyfriend. nobody will believe me because it is head and knee. and she said no, i'm not doing anything. the only thing she did was register to vote and she voted to a republican and a republican candidacy in that state in little rock. and so, i just think that the delay and a lot of people said why did she do it quite well, it's clear. she didn't want to bring a suit. when it was put in her face as she had to say yes or no with the american spectator and "the l.a. times," she got her back up and that caused the thing to go forward with it. >> if i could just jump in on one of the one what it do so which are seen as they interviewed robert jarrell, editor of the american backed tatar magazines and he said it was a mistake that they ever publ

are most in need of support, like third street and the bayview, mission street and excelsior, and we just expanded to fillmore street in the western district. city staff and our nonprofit partners are providing direct support services to merchants, bringing merchants and neighbors together to come up with an action plan for how want to improve their community. an independent analysis just completed a five-year evaluation of that neighborhood marketplace initiatives program and found it is very effective at creating jobs in neighborhoods and produces a variety of other outcomes like improved safety, cleanliness, and access to goods and services. that valuation will be published within a few weeks and i will make sure every member of the board of supervisors gets a copy. we also have 11 community benefit districts you all know of. the mayor's office works closely with over a dozen different organizations that provide direct assistance to any small businesses in the city that need help, such as meta, the bayview research center and the small business assistance center right here at city

the westbound onramps at park boulevard and excelsior streets are also shut down. the closures are needed so that crews can fix problems with the pavement. they are expected to continue through sunday. >>> all right. right now it's 4:39. for more on the roads check in with sal. sal, a little road trouble of your own i hear. >>> i did. i want to thank the chp officers who helped me out. so i'm here at work safely. >> good. >> i know a lot of chp officers apparently watch our show. >> good. >> let's go out and take a look at our commute now. traffic moving along well on 80 westbound. head out to the macarthur maze it's a nice drive. and it's nice and dry on the road. traffic is moving well as you get down to the bay bridge toll plaza although i do see in this picture here looks like there's a bus that's stopped in one of those lanes there. the diamond lane. and behind that i see police and tow truck there. so we're going to figure out what's going on there. it's so light that it's not causing a traffic jam, but we'll let you know what that's all about right here. mov

i also as a resident of excelsior district said that i am also in the same position, opposing a recommendation. i am concerned about if the question is really about the open competitive bid, looking at how much the fee is because so many questions are related to that. that is really beside the point. most of the union members and working people and all the residents are really concerned about the quality of the service they are providing. and if money and nichols and dimes is concerned, ahead of the party service, that we are going wrong way. we need to take a look at not about this, whether waste management they can put a lower bid. it is really other elements. we want the city to be right. zero ways and other quality service. so i hope you consider that. thank you, commissioners. commissioner campos: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning, commissioners. in general manager for west -- a tug and barge marine company at year 50. we have been a tenant of the port since 1976. our crew members are union members, and we provide a living wage for approximately 65 employees at that locat