your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission i've lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and san francisco. 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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good afternoon and welcome to the thursday march 12th special meeting of the san francisco transportation authority board. i believe we will be joined shortly by other members

francisco city attorney mr. herrera is going to do that and if it's shoop and hailey that's what they're going to do, and we have to decide which way to go, and it maybe fine -- i mean just leaving it that way, but we're going to see a lot more out of the san francisco city attorney if we just leave things the way they are. >> perhaps we should just direct the executive director to follow up and engage with the city attorney to see what he would propose in terms of what he would like to change to be in effect the general counsel for the authority. >> can i -- >> yes supervisor. >> thank you. through the chair. a couple of things i would say. actually i should ask the question. i know we had this legal bench for a while and who does distribute the work when it's decided that certain attorneys can't take on specialty legal areas? >> sure. various staff work with each of the firms depending on the area. we do it through requests for services. those have to be authorized by the executive director so they incremental

francisco city attorney mr. herrera is going to do that and if it's shoop and hailey that's what they're going to do, and we have to decide which way to go, and it maybe fine -- i mean just leaving it that way, but we're going to see a lot more out of the san francisco city attorney if we just leave things the way they are. >> perhaps we should just direct the executive director to follow up and engage with the city attorney to see what he would propose in terms of what he would like to change to be in effect the general counsel for the authority. >> can i -- >> yes supervisor. >> thank you. through the chair. a coup of things i would say. actually i should ask the question. i know we had this legal bench for a while and who does distribute the work when it's decided that certain attorneys can't take on specialty legal areas? >> sure. various staff work with each of the firms depending on the area. we do it through requests for services. those have to be authorized by the executive director so they incrementally

it but look at the san francisco with the largest cities in the united states it is increasing even faster i believe it is maybe ranging thirty in the top one hundred among the 10 or 15 faster income levels with the last two or three years i don't know but income and equality for loans i've tracked it that problem has not gone away. >> i have another point i know that our former school president of the school board was in the chambers i'm pleased on the oewd pathway and the work with the school district but one thing was not mentioned or mention the city college for displaced workers to retrain but for the young people to have the skills hard and soft skills to find the jobs in the various experience and knowledge and thanking our sector that are growing it's a big concern concern our local industry is dloin and the middle-income jobs are decreasing with the governments how to look at low wage workers to pull them up. >> construction and other industries are critical i know it is mentions in here that construction jobs are local but my understanding a lot of unions many of the jobs

has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give

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government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill

i work closely with the city college of san francisco's dean of students, president paris, chancellor tyler and other administrators on behalf of our veteran community. my role is to ensure that all veterans are delivered with the continuously update and resource -- ensure that a voice for veterans is delivered and that we continuously update the resources available to current and future set tran students on campus and in the community. i am currently also a student at city college, double maipk erring in administration of justice and social sciences, i will be transferring in the fall to the university of san francisco to pursue my juris doctorate. i am a united states disabled veteran from the navy i served from 1991 to 19 95 i was in desert storm, i am also a combat service medal recipient. i think that's it. >> thank you. what would you like to be able to apeeve, what do you think your big contributions could be? >> i think big areas for me is to be sure we do more to help women, also lgbt, minorities and especially men of color. i am finding that a lot of veterans at school are h

the motion carries. he sfgtv city of san francisco public utilities commission, has now gone into closed session. >> >> the commission is now back in open session. item 16 and 17 was settled. may have a motion regarding whether to disclose? >> not to to to disclose. >> second. >> all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. >> is there any new business? >> earlier today we heard a little bit about the urban agriculture program and identifying those parcels in 2011 i want my colleagues to know and i'm looking forward to meeting with our new commissioner quan right? and to talk a little bit about conversations regarding the southeast sector. juliet who has been a huge help to me especially to me especially recently trying to decipher because i i get accused of speaking in riddles a lot of the time but we often hear about the parks and recreation department and i think we're on the verge right now of having a little more robust conversation about something initiated and in line with our goals and i look forward to having an item on the agenda and an opportunity to take some formal actio

and we have saving lives in san francisco we've heard the mayor the city has joined i'm joined by our city agencies let's hear if for our city agencies. >> i'm happy happy to reporting we have housing authority and at domestic violence brochure out to the city employees we've trained people in our housing authority and have a new officers involved domestic violence policy at the police department. (clapping.) in human trafficking supervisor tang has lead the way to go after our logically massage mroorldz we have eric mar and trained 88 did that want public health inspections how to look for signs of human trafficking (clapping) so, now it's my great pleasure to introduce a dear friend and colleague teresa parks head of the human rights commission teresa is truly a revolutionary woman as a transgender advocate and director of human rights commission has participated with us in the department to fight human trafficking which again your mayor has made a exempting commitment in his priority on the women's empowerment please help me welcome teresa (clapping.) >> you know your emergency is

today san francisco will become the first major city in the u.s. to considering lowering the voting age to 16. >> it's an interesting proposal. "today in the bay" stephanie chuang joins us live at city hall where a supervisor staff will be introducing that ground-breaking measure later today. >> reporter: good morning, sam and laura. supervisor john avalos wants the teens to take the lead. allowing 16 years old and 17 years old to vote in city and school board elections. this effort is spear-headed by the san francisco youth commission, a group of 17 san franciscoans between 12 and 23 years old that advises the supervisors on the issues. 16 and 17-year-olds can drive, work, pay tax, they can be tried in adult court but cannot vote. these teens have some big public figures behind them including sf public defender jeff addachi. >> i think by giving young people the right to vote we can encourage adults to vote and exercise their rights. >> democracy! >> we want our young people to step up and be leaders for the future of our city and we want that to

wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their us

this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we gratef

francisco versus others cities in the san francisco bay area how much for labor or office space and how much to pay for taxes in terms of what the survey said those are the 3 points the businesses pointed to a difficulty of finding releasing that is probably since this research observations of labor costs were high and the this is sdouj job creation and also difficulties related to business taxes and things came out of survey when we look at the numbers ourselves we found that labor costs are the biggest between alternative locations that a business might stick within the bay area we didn't compare san francisco to metropolitan areas or move to a metropolitan area in texas it maybe cheaper but not all the benefits in terms of the workforce and the quality of life and everything else but if you move to other places in the bay area looking at how san francisco ranged compared to other places in the bay area was important in general san francisco and places are the high cost places and the bay area is the less extensive the office space to a lessor is we have relatively high taxes in s

i'm so luke for the mayor of a great city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we don't have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word we're challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months we'll have 4 major fires in the city some of them as high as three or four alarms they've effected they've had the effect of us losing over one hundred living unit and more importantly interrupting sometimes tragically the lives of so many families in the city those are disasters tha

>> it went back to the city and county of san francisco. i understand the city and county of san francisco deals with this item --. >> excuse me a second, if the people in the back of the room could keep their voices down, it's distracting. thank you. >> the city and county, from what i understand, has our budget as a line item under the board of supervisors so that's how it works within the city and county's budget. from our perspective it's the city and county, it's not where the line item exists. and then outside of the general fund money that we have, we also have the mou with the sfpuc for our cca monitoring activities. that money also exists but that is not part of our budgeting process that is required by the act. on the screen in front of you you have our proposed budget. there are a few changes and they are all described in the memo that's in the packet, describes what all the changes are that we're looking at doing with the budget. first off, we were paying at one point one price for both our half clerk and a whole bunch of admini

. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring

the city and county of san francisco and versus gas and electrical and city and county of san francisco 22 pacific gas and trek vs. the city and county of san francisco 23 exciting rehabilitation for the city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric 24th pacific and gas and electrical and 25 existing rehabilitation for pacific gas and electrical and 28th existing litigation for pacific gas and electrical 26 will not be heard any public comment on closed session. >> mia any motion to assert. >> all in favor, say i.. >> move no did inform disclose. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> other new business for the commission. >> seeing none this meeting is adjourned at >> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and megan our program managers i offer see the responsibility of zen detect when we they moved no inviting one of the things we've heard loud and clear was the importance of the hiring locally and many technology growing companies we're dista

san francisco city leaders talk about real changes at the ballot box that could be the first major city in the country to lower the voting age to 16 years old. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang live in san francisco this morning and steph, some powerful adults are all for it. >> reporter: that's right, good morning to you laura and sam. consider this, a recent uc davis study found that only 8% of eligible 18 to 24-year-olds, californians voted last november, that's 8%. so the idea here is to increase that number absolutely and lower the legal voting age to 16 years old, and increase the civic participation. the san francisco youth commission a group of people between 12 to 23 who advise the board of supervisors point to the fact that 16 and 17-year-olds can drive and work and pay taxes, be tried in adult courts but can't vote and the teens have public figures behind them including sf public defender jeff hidachi. >> i think that by giving young people the right to vote, we could actually encourage adults to vote and exercise their rights. >> reporter: this would need majority vote b

city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we don't have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word we're challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months we'll have 4 major fires in the city some of them as high as three or four alarms they've effected they've had the effect of us losing over one hundred living unit and more importantly interrupting sometimes tragically the lives of so many families in the city those are disasters that are felt he very environmental by th

the city and county of san francisco and versus gas and electrical and city and county of san francisco 22 pacific gas and trek vs. the city and county of san francisco 23 exciting rehabilitation for the city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric 24th pacific and gas and electrical and 25 existing rehabilitation for pacific gas and electrical and 28th existing litigation for pacific gas and electrical 26 will not be heard any public comment on closed session. >> mia any motion to assert. >> all in favor, say i.. >> move no did inform disclose. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> other new business for the commission. >> seeing none this meeting is adjourned at. >> i want to welcomed everyone today, we have a wonderful set the of speakers i'm sure everyone is incredibly that i have i didn't in their remarks you won't have be here longer a half hour and lunch break with tour 90 wonderful affordable housing for seniors and here to celebrate an unbelievable partnership are the st. anthony's foundation we've had the privilege to partner with them and

is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our

we can't even afford to stay in this city let alone working as a city of san francisco. they weren't talking about people like me to benefit from this hiring. if you drag this down, you have some big big challenges. but let's not go into that. let's talk about how we can change that around. i have a solution to all of this pollution. let's look at local hiring again. i need to take out some of these people like city build, oewb, these got together because they came and filed a lawsuit. there is plenty of jobs in the western edition. we are surrounding by buildings. it's too late now, most of them are built. we still got them but there was nobody monitoring. i have to go there. i don't get paid. what they tell me, go see city build. i go there and find out city build is revamping their leadership. i found out ms. simmons and autumn of those people, they are gone. we need to bring it back to the community. you have all of these agencies. the only thing missing is the community. we'll talk about that later. >> thank you, do you have a speaker card? that's okay. state your n

the city and county of san francisco and versus gas and electrical and city and county of san francisco 22 pacific gas and trek vs. the city and county of san francisco 23 exciting rehabilitation for the city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric 24th pacific and gas and electrical and 25 existing rehabilitation for pacific gas and electrical and 28th existing litigation for pacific gas and electrical 26 will not be heard any public comment on closed session. >> mia any motion to assert. >> all in favor, say i.. >> move no did inform disclose. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> other new business for the commission. >> seeing none this meeting is adjourned at. >> okay. good afternoon. >> we're going to start the program if edge can come in thank you so much for being here on behalf of the 24 housing for youth at risk of homelessness i'm the executive director and believe it or not we're going to have a beautiful brief program so people can get to know each other better i want to thank everyone in the room everyone in the room that is structural

that was maneuvers now my pleasure to introduce you 0 laura the san francisco jewel city and coincidentally may not she'll be apple graphing book in the ferry building dribble after our ceremony so laura know about the panama than anyone in the universe really, really i'd like to introduce her right now to talk about the illumination of the infection and also the ferry building laura (clapping.) well, thank you donna i'm sure no one's extensions are set high i'll endeavor not to disappoint to ladies and gentlemen welcome and i wanted to point out we're about to be luke enough to see a splebd site the ferry building belching people in lights like it did in the 5 recycle all over the world to the panama exhibition that is as beautiful as the tower is going to be i want to talk about the refutation in lighting that took place other than the north side of the fair where dorsey ryan was so initiative many said it couldn't be down but beyond the imagination changed the course of history the first he created at all light standards that filled groups of lights and those lovely structures had has no

. >> and now i want to present on behalf of the city of san francisco a special city insignificant ma heart i hope you'll receive it with the feeling we're in deep appreciation of the work and commitment to the city and for the audience i'd like to just say shop locally because do as much locally has possible you know be know someone that is online a barky could be the hero in the city thank you, everyone for being here i'm going to ask the supervisors to help me do the pinning and if the chief could help i want to make sure i acknowledge the san francisco fire commission i know you're helping just making sure that we do all the right things in the city continually goorndz thank you very much on behalf of the city of san francisco. >> welcome everybody i'm going to start the program well, to 1915 yeah. >> yeah. >> and if you look around you might see charlie chaplin and laura is here and if you look really closely that devil art smith that here so i'd like to start the show with first of all, how many were you at the palace of the fine arts did you have fun and go to the ugly this one

and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928 the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in

ktvu's rob roth is live at san francisco city hall with what is happening. rob? >> reporter: the meeting is still going strong here at city hall. at issue is the safety plan for polk street. >> the meeting was packed with residents, business owners and bicyclists. >> i would like to be stopped having to be hit by cars. >> reporter: the plan before the board of directors. it would eliminate 140 parking places. in one stretch parking will be eliminated during the morning commute hours. many businesses are against the plan. >> it will be less people to come and buy in the stores. >> reporter: the city concern said about safety. 122 people have been injured over the past 5 years. >> three weeks ago i have a bicycle accident. bad. they need to -- i don't know, do something. >> reporter: after two years of planning the mta came up with a plan that includes building a raised bike lane on one side of the street. >> our priority is reducing fatalities and reducing traffic injuries. anything we can do is what we concluded. >> reporter: they oppose the plan, it wants protec

if you're headed to the city count on big crowds. a block happening in san francisco. a forecast for that in the next report. tell you what else is going on if you want to get out there and enjoy the holiday. but you know what? we have another big event happening when it comes to weather. we're going to kick off spring as we head throughout your friday. that's something to look forward to. we'll hit the equinox, day and night of equal length worldwide. we'll show you the science behind that why we get the seasons here in the bay area in the next report but here's the trend you can count on. 73 degrees on wednesday. warming steadily all the way through thursday. up to 78 degrees. then friday into saturday temperatures start to level off. we'll see more clouds increase. the stormtrack sitting just to our north. our next best chance for shower activity looks like the north bay, and that will be saturday morning. futurecast bringing that in. basically, if you want to make outdoor plans for the weekend, you'll be better off on sunday than what we're exspecting for saturday.

the city continually goorndz thank you very much on behalf of the city of san francisco with. to the planning commission for commission for thursday march 19, 2015 does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. please silence all electronic devices that may sound during the proceedings and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this point commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner antonini is present we expect

. >> and now i want to present on behalf of the city of san francisco a special city insignificant ma heart i hope you'll receive it with the feeling we're in deep appreciation of the work and commitment to the city and for the audience i'd like to just say shop locally because do as much locally has possible you know be know someone that is online a barky could be the hero in the city thank you, everyone for being here i'm going to ask the supervisors to help me do the pinning and if the chief could help i want to make sure i acknowledge the san francisco fire commission i know you're helping just making sure that we do all the right things in the city continually goorndz thank you very much on behalf of the city of san francisco adjourned. >> it is been an honor to work with mayor ed lee over the couple of years both as supervisor and now as president of the board i want to emphasize two areas i'm particularly proud of our work on omaha and our work on public safety together mayor ed lee and i have invested $5.4 million in incredible elevator repair at 9 inform public housing sites

it clearly impacts our city of san francisco the most the city has to deal with how to prepare for growth. and the nps does not and the city has to provide transportation options and the nps does not. i will do everything in my power to transfer this contract ve it should be managed by local city government because it directly impacts our city the most. we can send a strong message to fort mason. >> thank you supervisor farrell . >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. two things first i want to give an update today on the impact of the communities collective support for the five tenderloin families on january 29th only a day after a fire displaced a larger group of residents in the mission district. i just want to recognize -- actually reaching out to one of our district businesses start-up hand up and also project homeless connect to create an awareness campaign to get many folks involved and i want to mention this fund has now raised 25 thousand $25,000 and these funds will all go go to the families and they have agreed to split it evenly so there's still time to donate either to my facebook