francisco is all about we're going to get all our communities because every community in san francisco, california participate in those wonderful jobs this is where used to be what we called our blue-collar jobs it's not light industry jobs making wine and produce and making series rids for the new talent and all those wonderful things the care masks the things we're to sell widespread that given with the the commitments in the city recognizing worker folks how people use their hands and art and talent and go back to making things those are good paying jobs congratulations larry to the produce market you have a pledge to introduce space and underutilized space maybe empty wlarz and bring nor good paying jobs thank you supervisor malia cohen for her wonderful leadership and hathaway defining witness they're a wonderful company they did the gold standard i want to thank them as well all of the communities down here have it be thanked they have not only talking about the taught united states this bug protected it and preached it now the citywide family has to recognize that thank you, eve

franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom >> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car.

francisco, san francisco state, and the university of san francisco. every year pep sends hundreds of students to college, graduate school, and credential programs. pep is proud to have produced hundreds of critical teachers, scholars, social workers, organizers, all of which are serving our communities and social justice organizations in teaching in schools, and colleges across the nation. pep has published numerous book with lesson plans, units and workshops that highlight the marriage between critical filipino, filipino-american studies content and the practice of critical pedagogical i. pep has also worked with community organization and educators to institutionalize ethnic studies in high schools and the san francisco -- in the san francisco unified school district ~. the founder, dr. alison [speaker not understood] who is a long-time district 11 resident could not be here today, but two of the co-directors, dr. allene and [speaker not understood] are here to accept this recognition. thank you for being here. do you want to share any words with yo

or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

and in the early 20th century, san francisco becomes known for other foods, than this cuisine, san francisco becomes known for fisherman's wharf and for china town dishes and for sour dough bread. but none of those tifts as far as the research shows, none of those taste goes back to the 19th century in san francisco, they all became popular after the earthquake, when the city is desperately trying to come up with a simple way of selling the city to the tourist industry. and simple iing, and it is different from what you would get in boston or new york and coming up with the distinctive dishes, that was for this market. these became associated with san francisco, right at this moment for marketing reasons. north and italy ans came to san francisco and had a talent for fishing and liked eating fish stew, they called it chupen. the first mention in the san francisco press, of this dish, came in storis about this colorful fisherman community and there is a reporter in 1901 who spent a day with the fisherman in search of this colorful story and gets the honor of being the first person to try to s

or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ food in san francisco isn't just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming w

radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪

and authorizing the imperial council of san francisco to use the city and county of san francisco's official seal in connection with this important event. it is a big deal and not very common for us to authorize the use of the city seal but the imperial court is a big deal, as is its 50th anniversary. the imperial court is one of the core community institutions in the san francisco lgbt community and one of the oldest lgbt community organizations in the world. next year it celebrates its 50th anniversary. the imperial court was founded in 1964 by jose saria, who recently passed away and was honored both before his death and after his death by the board. jose saria, who ran for the board of supervisors in 1962 and did very, very well in that city-wide race went on to found the court two years later and become its first reigning empress. each year the community elects a new emperor and empress who reign for a year and raise significant sums of money for charity. over time the impeer yad court has raised a very significant amount of money for hiv services, breast cancer, domestic violence preve

francisco is actually a part of the infrastructure of san francisco that makes it so fabulous and why people stay here. it is because we have a high performing school district and it's part of the infrastructure for the future residents of san francisco. in order to protect that we need to have people here that can do the job and do it well and to keep them here. and so, as i said, this is a burden on us too that what is happening in this city and as a board president i take great responsibility again in protecting those funds that are earmarked for our most vulnerable students and personally, myself, i will not go there. that is a population that has been underserved for way too long and we have an opportunity to use some funds and it is not a lot of funds, as you know, in this state it is a minimal amount of funds to serve these students because they are so high need. i am happy to address any questions that you might have. >> if i may just make a comment. >> yes, you can make a comment. >> because i appreciate you being here and i know that we're going to hear from our deputy super

francisco beautiful san francisco's market because of its unique character will be instituted. >> put in place to guide the plaintiff and how better to protect the character of our neighborhood thanks to the supervisor mar and we're happy to see the signage and toifgs for ground floor retail when i here people talk about again and again how difficult and on and on reduce it is for small businesses to get their conditional use we added planning staff to see to the enforcement and expediting the permits so if it takes 4 months we look to the city in helping them ousted and thanks yourself work and i support the amendments to the regulation and thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors eileen i'm actively representing the building owners and sf my client is behind me i want to pick up but i want to start with you was brought into this process to participate in first, the study that was funded and instigated by the plaintiff and thanks again for taking on a topic you don't see this regulation for but the plaintiff was looking at the proposals by the members of the

new people in san francisco by 2040. and about 190,000 new jobs in san francisco. we need to start breaking this down into new terms and that is the scale of growth and you can imagine 200,000 coming as it is the whole city's worth of population. we have tools that we have been using to plan for the growth and make sure that the amenities and services are there, we have plans and agreements and some redevelopment that will take some of the growth that have enforce able obligations and a smaller amount of growth outside of these areas. and these, and this map is sort of a depiction of the area plans that have already been done. again we expect that a lot of this growth will land on the east side of the city and the south east side in particular and, supervisor kim alluded to earlier but that is not an exclusive phenomena, there will be growth and change in other areas of the city as well just not to the extreme extent. remember that this slide is really depicting new growth and how the hold holds change in the existing st

san francisco. instead it served as a sad reminder to see how ill prepared and in adequate staffed we are. on wednesday evening the world witnessed our city shamed and embarrassed. residential process damaged. defacing businesses with graffiti. public urination. fires being discharged illegally. physical -- altercation and gun violence. thesen suing post game mob scenes in san francisco painted a different source, the san francisco police department in a run away shutdown. what did our city government do about this? they rewarded the city and fans with a victory parade, of course. go figure. most educators and parents know that you cannot promote healthy development and teach important life values to children. if they are continuously rewarded for their bad behavior. i don't know how our city gets this. the city and staff should be held accountable for footing the bill for properties and damage caused as a result of the relay. they have acknowledged the previous history of probability offen suring.

and the san francisco transportation plan is the formal mechanism for inputing san francisco priorities into the regional transportation plan and ses. so the 2013 update and the comprehensive update, included a broad out reach and a trade and sequence strategy, with several different city agencies to take into account, the different components including the climate and the air quality component and the land use component and the economic development components and the transportation, and in addition to that there was coalition building with the staff from the city of oakland and san jose and cal train and bart, a multiagency approach was taken to update the plan and emphasizing that we need to speak with one voice in san francisco to be most effective in this process. so, few of the attributes that make the sftp a strong kaor lacing and a planning mechanism, first one is long range system planning it is multty operator and model and network and it is performance based and that allows us both transparency and objectiveness in identifying the priorities for san francisco in terms are what

francisco i don't know what is i'd like to stereo san francisco's mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) well, good afternoon everyone. >> good morning arrest we're loving san francisco all right. (clapping) well, that morning coming out and being hit by that the sun my first question was when is the first time pitch paul mccartney i want to congratulate you 23 years i know somebody else who has been working their love 32 thank you for the food bank and helping the needy in san francisco it's my delight so join the chronicle and sf to push this wonderful and depriving love of our city everything local it's a wonderful 0 movement they've started and we want to be a part of as well i also want to say thank you to everyone here that been volunteering with our food bank and sharing their love i know the success the food bank and so many other things to help each other is do not on volunteers for the hours you've spent thank you very much for sharing this time this is a great time for the city not only because of the things we did tomorrow with our elections we can do better and more we can m

the imperial council of san francisco has raised lots of money for charities in san francisco and in other cities. with pomp and circumstance and tongue in cheek performances, even employing pets like my dog who has raised thousands of dollars for paws, i am also happy to say that the money that we raise does go to all the charities in san francisco, including services, hiv services like magnet, which i was unfortunate to have to go to and use but was happy they were there for me. so i implore you to pass the resolution to recognize the imperial council of san francisco on their 50th anniversary gala. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? come forward, please. >> sure is easy shemale totally disgusting that they treat special all intention to keep people of true talent that have success in society. i mean most of us beyond the age of 50 this is maybe 15, 20 ye

if san francisco you understand administrative fees are being waived. in (inaudible) there are no fee waivers. in concord they also waive the administrative fees but they do that for all people who are towed, not just the residents of concord. in kansas city the tow fee is discounted 50 percent and there's a 4 day great period for the storage. in indian nap police nothing is waived. in baltimore county, likewise nothing is waived and the same is true for the pennsylvania state police where we are conducting a pilot. there are incidents in all of these jurisdictions where there will be extenuating circumstances where the police department might choose to waive more of the fees just due to the circumstances so that's what we see from the other jurisdictions and then we also hear from all of our police department clients that they also are very mindful of the fact that many of the individuals, there is insurance coverage in place so they tend to try to incorporate that into whatever policy they put into place as well. >> i mentioned this at the beginning o

i really like the work san francisco heritage has done. i've been to some of your functions in the past. i like what you do. you guys do amazing work, so, thank you for being here. >> thank you very much, commissioner adams. of course, you participated in our early work in june of 2013 when he we convene a community summit entitled sustaining san francisco's living history ~ that looked at these very issues about how do we provide assistance to struggling businesses he and nonprofits facing displacement in san francisco ~. and really that workshop, the genesis of that was recognition on our part as a historic preservation organization that landmark protection is ill-suited to provide assistance to these really cultural establishment that are so valued by the neighborhoods in which they exist, and that was really -- early our first step which culminated in the report that i believe you have the executive summary in front of you, the sustaining san francisco's living history report, that not only discussed the community summit that you parti

francisco. >> as mentioned measure f is fully client with proposition g and san francisco is in serious housing countries today part of the plan for pier 70 is thirty percent of the housing opted below market rate to middle-income and low income folks this is 3 times such as city lay requires but in addition to building housing measure f includes other public benefits 9 acres of parks and playground and that triples the amount of space in dog patch and there's rehabilitation and historic buildings on the register in the historic district a preservation of an artist community currently at pier 70 by building now studios the investment of $20 million for transportation improvements and 2 hundred million for infrastructure including for earthquake safest and addressing the seawall rise and and terrance. >> the more density in san francisco and we have the highest per family per space and more traffic problems and automobile and diseases and san francisco as some people know 19 hundred to 190 six the bubonic practically they were able to stamp it out it was based on largely the density of o

we wish every single school-aged child in san francisco would use our wonderful san francisco public schools but when you can't hire enough teachers to be able to have a qualified teacher in every classroom, then that's a problem. so i do think that the city takes some responsibility in this. our families can't live here. our teachers can't live here. our paraprofessionals can't live here and every time a eusf member comes to the board of education and says i can't live here, i have to move, i want to tell them, go to city hall and tell them that, because that is not our jurisdiction, this is your jurisdiction. the housing issue is your jurisdiction. i don't know if you realize our teachers can't ard $5,000 a month for rent. they are a -- they don't serve a capitalistic model, they serve the children of san francisco. and that is noble work and that is hard work and by offering -- i would love to give them a 300 percent raise. we just don't have the funds to do it. but i want to be honest that even if we did, they still couldn't afford to live here. this is a really expensive city. t

i helped the city of san francisco. you can look at my website, my name is nissan [speaker not understood].com, look it up. i have built and remodeled more house he in san francisco than you can believe ~ houses i own more buildings here than you can believe. i've made a fortune here for a reason. it's not because i'm good looking. i'm a hard worker. my family, sir, at the age of 21, i managed 50 stores in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. in 1976, sir, i was a district manager of an office on [speaker not understood] street managing 50 stores. by 28 i managed 500 stores. now, in san francisco, sir, i created employment, [speaker not understood]. i have 20 stores, [speaker not understood] -- may i finish the sentence? >> you have 27 secondv. ~ second. >>> thank you very much. you can look at my website. i'm not only funny. i'm honest, mister -- who is the man who died? robin williams. he's bipolar, but he died. i'm bipolar, but i'm cool. you're going to see me around. you're going to love me because i'm funny up here. [speaker

, and we shared being big fans of san francisco giants and the san francisco 49ers and she was actually, a very avid fan of both. mary was found dead in her home on august 26th and the cause of death is blunt force trauma. and according to her neighbors, her boyfriend of 12 years, who she lived with, she would hear her boyfriend slamming her against the walls during arguments. mary did not confide in this and although i loved her i never knew that this was happening a group of us attend every court hearing, for joules, and he has been accused of homicide, one of our friends has said that following this process and the judicial process is the most painful thing that she will ever do in her life. i am a human rights lawyer, and usually this kind of thing is a professional thing for me and not a personal thing, and i have been living in porter prince and i work for an organization that represents the victims of violence and we help to prosecute cases just like this case. and unfortunately there, the judiciary and the law enforcements don't have the political will to pursue cases like this.

francisco travel san francisco chamber merchants together at the table with the city in overall the support of the effort this year it is just the original neighbors as well as the san francisco arts commission and the santa fe san francisco metro authority working together has really enabled us to provide a comprehensive plan promotion and schedule for the overall activities and 2014 represents an incredible year there's significant investment being made in as i recall both from american express and the investing neighborhoods and the arts council 0 overall their pledging $13,000 there's to the american express is 75 thousand total in engages for the city before i go in depth of the engagements there is just posted a new san francisco promotional video it is currently on youtube will be available via the shop small damn and running exchange if you go to youtube and making the most of business saturday there's a fantastic video focusing on the toy stores. >> you said it was running. >> the ad campaign ran about two weeks ago they're doing more of a building campaign it's sort of mor

we serve one hundred and 50 megawatts and outside of san francisco so inside of san francisco those customers are for example, our wastewater and city hall this building and ferry this and the police and fire the public utilities outside of san francisco we serve the facilities like much of our water facilities some in milling ray and the san francisco i want in san mateo county and alameda county and the towns in the surrounding area we provide the bundled service like pg&e and fund the efficiency like the improved lighting in the customer facilities and distribute enter projects like rooftop in chinatown the health and the moscone center we're building solar on this roof of this building we have rates less than or equal to the rates that pg&e charges the customers like the utility we rely on infrastructure that is aging and in need of capital improvements our steno year capital improvement plan we'll be spending $760 million on power to 2023 those improvements are funded by the revenues from the sale of electricity on an annual basis we bring in $115 million about 85 percent of th

, is a very timely issue this past weekend the san francisco chronicle had a lead editorial engrossed the city to do more to help the assets in facing displacement in san francisco for those of you not familiar with san francisco heritage we're 4 that-year-old historic preservation organization our initial focus in our early decades was primary an architecture presentation, however, in recent years increasinglyly we've focused on cultural heritage preservation this is a timely topic in san francisco as we see in the news everyday to give you some examples of why we undertook this report and felt the need need to do so first of all, let me describe with cultural heritage assets are their primary intentively cultural heritage nonprofits and cultural establishment not protected by traditionally landmark protections we've found like marcus books that the landmark protection will not help those businesses find a way to find protection against evicts and rent increases or provide assistance with property acquisition that is so necessary included in the second slide examples of ongoing issue

francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the

francisco businesses and i think the city and county of san francisco should require it in their perspire orders for everything they buy they do it for social issues when there was problems with south africa and we don't buy from cities from the hardwood, etc. but when it comes to paying a nick you will e he will out from san francisco businesses they won't be buy if from us you guys should consider this legislation. >> thank you very much. >> any more speakers? seeing none, public comment is closed commissioners do we have any comments? commissioner riley >> i agree with one of the speakers we should recommend to combine those two protections into one. >> okay commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> thank you, everybody for coming and speaking and the spirit and the intentions i'm obviously supportive and understand the benefits to the workforce i have questions on the first ordinance as the commissioner riley had also i too would rather wait until the formula retail is defined and maybe get more input from small businesses your commission to protect small businesses and the intent and spirit o

in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> san francisco supervisors david chew and eric maher are celebrating a bill of rights for the city retailers. the board voted unanimously to approve the measure today. it seeks to end what they call discriminatory and erratic practices at more than 1200 large retail chains. 40,000 people will be impacted by this bill. >> these are the people that serve our food, stock our shelves and sweep our floors. this legislation will help give them predictability and stronger rights to organize for even better conditions in the workplace. >> the provisions include requiring workers to get paid a minimum of four hours if they are on call, or if their shift is canceled with less than 24 hours notice. and making companies offer more hours to existing employees before hiring new workers. >>> the chp is still looking for a driver who left the scene of a fatal crash on interstate highway 580 in oakland last night. one suspected drunk driver was arrested. a mini van driver was killed when he crashed into a pile-up caused by a disabled vehicle and that su

franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom >> good morning, today is november 25, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and today, this meeting is being clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to your first leading, clerking the transportation authority, the meeting is brought to us by the staff, and hegan and thank you for your service, steve, would you please, call the roll. >> roll call? >> avalos? >> present. >> breed. >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu. >> here. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim. >> here. mar. >> absent. tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner. >> present. >> commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> very good, and let's call the next item please? >> item two, approve the minutes of the octo

not only soon to be san francisco warriors but also the san francisco giants. filipino cultural and heritage nights at our ball parks and our arenas. he also works to organize those nights with the oakland raiders and athletics for that we forgive you here in san francisco, al. al serves in a number of other organizations at the asian street heritage celebration, the san francisco be free campaign and the filipino women's network. for all the outstanding work over the years he's also received presidential citations from former presidents of the philippines. he's an amazing leader. someone we've all gone to work with in the role of the entertainment commission now. i want it thank you for all of your service to the city, to the filipino community and congratulations on this award. (applause) >> thank you so much, supervisor mark farrell for this honor, i'm really touched and really honored to be here. i share this award with over 200 volunteers and staff of the filipino-american arts expo significance, faae is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization. our mission

or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we've never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. we send verizon's it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. dismissals is a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old he's 5 hos

so the san francisco transportation plan is san francisco's long range blueprint for the city's priorities in terms of transportation, and bringing both the multimodal and operator and network approach. and the management and agencies are charged with updating the county wide transportation plan and for the mtc updated guidelines and we are recommended to update the plans to track the regional plan in the community strategies every foreyears. the first long range county wide plan was adopted in 2004 by the transportation authority board, and emphasized among other things, an investment extrainggy for prop k, and as well as strategic policy initiatives that led to studies further down the line, including the parking and pricing and the pilot studies and the congestion and pricing, and the muni and among others, the comprehensive update on that county wide transportation plan was the san francisco transportation plan and that continued the update of the plan, and emphasized additional areas, including an investment plan and an investment vision, which anticipated new revenue sources that cou

every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in san francisco. whether it's helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. if there's a way to help the people of san francisco thrive and succeed, we'll find it. that's the power of local connections. that's bank of america. >>> the fbi is investigating a massive cyber attack on the u.s. postal service that put employees and customer's information at risk. the information includes social security numbers, addresses and emergency contact. no word on how many people have bib effected -- been effected. the hackers may work for the chinese government. >> we have seen china go after different government inties. -- entities. they are trying trying to learn our government, our structure. >> it tarted customer whose targeted customers who cause -- targets customer whose wassed the call centers. they -- who used the call centers. >>> a new video from