serve me well as a city administrator. within this last year, my role as deputy city administrator and acting, my partner focus has been creating jobs for san francisco. i facilitated rolling out the city's mandatory local ordinance and it's simple, fair, and transparent manner, and i did this by engaging the public works department, the committee- based organizations, unions, and vendor community. this week, i signed the community benefits agreement as part of the mid market payroll tax exclusion, which was the culmination of our work with your office, supervisor kim, amid market citizen advisory committee and zynga. ibm my career in 1996 in the mayor's office of policy and legislative affairs. my management to a victory begin with the city in 2001 when i became the executive director of the taxicab commission. i promise achieve that there was successfully implementing security cameras and all san francisco taxi cabs. in 2004, i accepted the position of city purchaser and position of office of contracts administration and

hall and city staff as a model to foster partnerships between and our neighborhoods and city government. it is a model we have been working on for a couple of years in district 3. i hope to replicate it to out san francisco fairly soon. >> we are out of time. thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted

i am here to ask you to confirm naomi kelly as city administrator. naomi kelly has proven that she is an asset to the city and county of san francisco, and i know she will continue to do so. so thank you for confirming her, and remember, when you do right, you cannot be wrong. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, dr. shelton. next, richard, gus, shelly bell. i think this is al williams. and tiffany. >> i do not know why i walked all the way i run. so the vice president of the i.t. chapter for local 21. when i worked with naomi kelly as a purchaser, we had some issues aboutomputer store was being used for personal services in i.t. we went to ms. kelly. she listened to us, worked with us, addressed the issues, and gave as mechanisms to review. the use of the computer store for personal services. she was very insightful, understood our problems, i think she would be terrific as the city administrator. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> supervisors, my name is gus, president of the i.t. chapter, local 21. as richard said, we had the opportunity to

but as the city grew, just as any city, we need public gathering places, places where people could go who did not know others. you know, one reason tourists go to union square, and they go to a public place where they can belong without knowing anybody. every city needs space like that. we realized at our scale, we needed a civic plaza. we thought about bands, but as soon as you put them up on stage, you have these consuming crowds listening to the band. the longer they stood there the

they can pose to us, as well as the city. first up, we have someone from -- what was it? from the mayor's office. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. good morning, supervisor elsbernd. i know we're waiting on supervisor mar. i appreciate hearing about the plight of homeless families in san francisco. i want to give you an overview of the situation as we see it and then type for the city departments to talk about our response to the supervisor -- superintendent garcia needs to leave a little early, so we may start with the superintendent. in sentences go over the last 24 months, and nationwide, we have seen a marked increase in family homelessness. this is a difficult statistic to track, and i think you know that, largely because it is a difficult thing to talk about and a lot of the shame and things that may exist around that, but also sort of putting our hands around that and understanding the situation. the primary data point to use in san francisco is demand for a full-service shelter system. folks who have said they're absol

as the city is selling this parcel in a proprietary capacity but also has a regulatory capacity under ceqa, whereas clause 9 and 10 have been added to further refine that distinction. whereas the boys and girls club of san francisco will submit an application to the environmental planning division of the city's planning department for environmental assessment of the project and in the project is found to cause significant adverse impacts, there is the right for the city in its discretion to modify the project to mitigate the environmental impacts, to select feasible alternatives to come to regret the implementation of specific measures to mitigate the significant adverse environmental impacts of the project. in compliance with ceqa and the city's environmental quality regulations to reject the project as proposed if the benefits to not outweigh significant adverse impacts of the project. or to approve the proposed project upon the finding of the economics, social, or other benefits outweigh the unavoidable adverse impacts. i am happy to answer any questions that the committee might ha

the best mayor in the whole world in my opinion, but now, he got elected by the people of the city as the first asian elected mayor. should we all give our wonderful mayor a 22-year experience in city government a big round of applause? [applause] as i said many times during the several events that i was involved, you can see the history continue to be made by our great mayor in the next four years, eight years, and beyond, believe me. our mayor has already shown his leadership ability to all of you. you know, what he has done -- i do not have to repeat what he has done. you have your own judgment, and he is a visionary mayor. he has done everything for us. not only chinese americans, but the city and every part that is involved. we're so grateful that the mayor, together with our president of the board of supervisors approved this program. we started talking about it maybe three weeks ago. can you imagine within the short time, three weeks, the department of public works, under the leadership of director -- in oneand last night, we had a meeting from 6:00 to 8:00, and we completed a

the city forward as a whole. these are the neighborhoods i grew up in, so for me it is fun to be in them to really understand what is going on and be able it fundamentals some of the thinking and some of the people that are making decisions. >> right here we played football. flag football right here every year. we hung out right in the gym. directors looked after us. parents used to check in but not only one parent, they checked on all the kids. that is what is great about this district, the community. the family base of everything. >> exactly. and look how you turned out. you are doing ok. >> doing all right. two local city guys. >> there you go. supervisor chiu: i fully appreciate the concerns raised by some tenant leaders. i would never supported the project if i did not feel comfortable that tenant rights have been protected here with parker said -- part merced. i say this as one of the few tenants on the board of supervisors, who has been a staunch advocate of tenants before i was elected and with my votes o

-- districts 10 and 6, but also in the city as a whole. there are existing contractual obligations, such as mission bay development, candlestick point, and trans bay. however, this ruling has significant impact for affordable housing and other investments that the redevelopment agency was making in our more challenge neighborhoods, such as funding for local hire opportunities for at-risk populations, funding for neighborhood revitalization work. that includes small business support and improvements. project that completed the re- development planning process m were negotiated contracts -- in were negotiated contracts. under the assembly bill, the city must immediately do a number of things to protect the supply of affordable housing in the projects that will be able to continue. therefore, today i am submitting and introducing a resolution that transfers the redevelopment agency's affordable access to the mayor's office of housing. it also provides for required payments of enforceable obligations by the city, as well as authorizing a new o

[applause] >> and then when you got someone like dennis as city attorney who is always find his way into prosecution is helpful. so it's a great job. it's a wonderful job. i remember when gavin as mayor talked to me about the fact that he was going to bring in this new police chief and i had actually heard about him from bill bratton, who was the police chief of los angeles before the current police chief, charlie beck. bill called me up and says there is this guy george gascon, he is considering to be the chief of san francisco police department. he is a really great guy, would you talk to him? and i did. and then he was appointed as police chief. i have to tell you, he would come down to the office at least on a weekly basis and we had many conversations over the course of a couple of years. and his perspective, the perspective of george gascon has always been the perspective of a leader in law enforcement who has, as a first priority public safety, but always with a mind toward how we can do the work better, how we can think about reform and how we can always aspire to that goal that

it says a lot about this place as an employer that someone could come here 12 years ago as a deputy city attorney and leave here to go being a city manager. the fact that there is such opportunity for that kind of growth and change and support for that is a real testament i think to this place and how special it is. and of course, i have worked with many wonderful people, including many supervisors, i do not have a list nearly as long as our share of. i will not name names. i do have a contingent here from real-estate i know and other colleagues in the chamber and i am appreciative to them for the opportunity to work with them and i want to acknowledge the support i get from home. my spouse lisa is here as well. i got a substitute teacher for her class and cut out a little early to be here. definitely a team effort and i am incredibly appreciative and honored. thank you very much. [applause] president chiu: supervisor chu has some concluding comments. grow up wanted to take -- supervisor chu: i wanted to take the opportunity to thank amy. you always work behind the scenes and make things

s play god separating saint from sinner, student from statistic, private from public, and in a city as diverse as san francisco, people of color make up 50% of the population and almost 90% of the public schools. it's no coincidence, perhaps it's beautifully deliberate. this state invests almost $250,000 for every juvenile in prison as opposed to $6,000 for a student in the oakland public school system. in other words, they invest more in us when we fail so they won't send us to study hall. they would rather send us to jail. fire our teachers and replace them with correctional officers, turn or public schools into playpen ten shares, 1/3 of our generation to be incarcerated. there is no such thing as segregation. young man, you will always be brown versus the board of education. [applause] >> and i can't help but see myself in you. i was bred to be a worker, too, taught to fill out a job application before i learned to apply for college. my counselor suggested i stick with something special. garbage brings great benefits. i threw away my education. stuck at community college, a place w

adding with all come together as a board, as a city. we should come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community. for a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. i know the ed and all of us of asian-american decent feel the legacy. i want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen. and say that this is obviously not just about a chinese- american community or an asian aman

mabel you know i actually think it's so complicated as a city this size is so complex it's hard hard to say in some ways you mentioned silver age moscow in some ways moscow has returned to its overage character a commercial city an aggressive city a city with a great mix of people who are elbowing their way around and so in some ways this is a moscow that existed before but of course the scale is different is ten times bigger so all the problems become to become times bigger than it would have been one hundred years ago so so more or less so that's that's a huge qualitative difference what in terms of the moscow of the soviet union it's better has worse in a sense there was top down planning that on one level was very effective but there were all sorts of problems with planning with supplies with the problem of population control what were called limits to keep people who would come in and so i think we tend to forget that there was a certain amount of disorder in soviet moscow as well but clearly there is aggressive spirit about moscow that's new and you see it in the cities when yo

well, but i think those are key questions as the difficult budget for our city comes forward. i will be working with a coalition of family-based and community-based groups and seniors to ensure we protect our community-based services for seniors. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness? >> i think homelessness has been this structural problem, not just in our city but other metropolitan areas, and i think, at least at the short term level, we have made some progress ensuring there is cleaner and safer shelters so people have somewhat of a transition to transition from homelessness to a stable housing, but when we look at the numbers of affordable housing units that might allow people to get more on their feet or even work force development or educational opportunities to help a mother who is homeless, for example, to get on their feet, we need much more of that, and we cannot cut programs that will increase the roles of the homeless. i believe that the project homeless connect and some of the projects created by previous administrations are not enough.

as you can imagine, this proposal has generated significant debate, as well as along the city. as i heard more about this, i had growing concerns about it. there is a question as to whether it is appropriate to reach the consensus about heights on the northern waterfront. there are other questions regarding the policy change. for example, what kind of housing is appropriate. particularly as working families continued to lead our city. or, what kinds of benefits are appropriate. the community needs benefits, but what sorts of benefits, and what level of benefits are appropriate, particularly given the needs around open space? when i first came into office three years ago, because there were so many constituents i had that were opposed to this project, i asked them to do a comprehensive study, and i had hoped that study would lead to a consensus on how development in the area would be better integrated into the surrounding neighborhoods. unfortunately, they provided a design plan, but it was not the comprehensive plan many of us were hoping for. increasingly heights just for the

school student and showed as offices in a city hall. at that time, the city administrator's office was larger than the mayor's office. so i just wanted to say that you have an opportunity today to make an appointment or to confirm an appointment. that is a really big deal to those of us who grew up in san francisco. and i want to thank you for this, and i want to thank the mayor for this historic appointment. and i want to congratulate ms. naomi kelly, because i know she will be the best city administrator we have ever had. supervisor kim: thank you. >> a good afternoon. my name is floyd, and i am a member of the executive board of local 798. i want to speak in favor of the selection of naomi kelly and to congratulate her and wish her all the best. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> joshua with brightline. i wanted to join in my support for ms naomi kelly as city administrator. it is very exciting. she is incredible. i first worked with her a year ago. i got a call saying the mayor wanted to implement the city's new local hire law

as city administrator, he spearheaded reform that would be reduced the size and cost of government, from reducing the vehicle fleet, to consolidating departments, to saving tax dollars. he implemented the city's move to cleaner vehicles and infrastructure to support electric vehicles. mayor lee also developed and oversaw implementation of his first 10-year capital plan, to guide our capital and infrastructure investment. mayor lee has a long and distinguished career in san francisco. since 1989, has held a number of senior leadership positions. he is a fellow cal graduate. as you probably all know, last tuesday, november 8, the people of san francisco elected edwin lee in his own right, to serve as mayor of san francisco. let me say, on a personal note, the day before the election, i was having coffee at my favorite cafe in glen park, and lost in my e-mail, whatever i was doing in the moment. all of a sudden, i hear some commotion and see the mayor coming in to shake hands with me. he was doing parts of his campaign stump. it is already a tradition, in a few months that he served as inte

it gives me tremendous pride as a san franciscan first and foremost, as mayor of this city, that our san francisco girls chorus and our san francisco boys chorus have been picked for this historic event. it is an extraordinary privilege that we collectively are being afforded. but all of these young men and women in the back are being afforded. and to all of families and friends, i know that this is something you will never forget. as a san franciscan to see san francisco speaker nancy pelosi up there with senior senator diane feinstein front and center in this, and our boys and girls chorus -- [applause] i know not everyone of the same political persuasion. but yes, the president that we have chosen, which we chose wisely from my humble perspective. [applause] but we are from san francisco. we can say that. this is an exciting moment. we're here because these folks are extraordinarily talented. these are grammy winners. isn't that amazing? what have we done in our lives? these are grammy winners. albums, prince charles comes in, let's bring out the boys chorus and the girls chorus.

not experienced as much as other pockets of the city. so this is yet another way we can do it. i know north beach has some special needs. we can pay attention to that in the very near future. there are other pockets, but this is part of what i wanted e merchant quarters, hear what they had to say, respond in a positive way and experience and experiment with ideas that innovate with our emergence to try to enhance their ability to make a little bit more, and also help with the cultural scene. this year is the year of the dragon. eat you know anything about the dragon, you know that the dragon is kind of like the big leader of all of the zodiac animals. they are fearless. they have the big dragon breath. you know, the fire breath. they are not fearful of hast things. they want to just flows through some new ideas, and i think that is what we wanted to boldly this year, kind of use the spirit of the dragon to say, cassette and let's do some new ideas. let's be bold about it." let's do something that enhances the cultural theme of chinatown

cheryl served as city community development western region director for many years. cheryl had a passion for helping underserved people in our communities throughout the bay area and she is a long-time bayview resident and also has a strong commitment to improving the community and particularly had a special interest in san francisco and district she lived in for 15 years, worked tirelessly with organizations to encourage affordable housing access and revitalization of the third street commercial corridor, all of which i continue to work to help implement, not just her vision, but the vision of many people. i'm honored to recognize and honor cheryl's work and commitment to the bayview community tonight and i ask that we close in her memory. thank you very much. clerk: thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: thanks, madam clerk, colleagues. one in memoriam today and i would like to adjourn today's meeting in memory of a good friend, patrick landers, who died on tuesday, december 6, after about a one-year battle to lymphoma. patrick was a n

the city council is trying to maintain as much flexibility as it can and give as much notice as it can so it can figure out where the positions need to be cut. the redevelopment funds are part and parcel of the city budget. they extend into so many different departments this impacts way beyond the community and economic development agency. there are 17 police officers whose salaries are paid for by these funds. their contract protects them from layoff so other people will have to be laid off in their place somewhere else in the city. there are people in the city administrators and city attorney's office and so on and so forth. really no part of the city is likely to remain completely untouched by this and this is what has come of this budget deal that was struck last year where the legislature -- >> there are about 400 similar cities across. >> oh, yeah. >> belva: why this one so rapidly? >> oakland perhaps the money is more deeply embedded in oakland's infrastructure. but all cities, los angeles is also moving to shut down its redevelopment agency and grapple with the loss of funds do