as the city grew it got all of the amenities that most cities have. water, rotter -- running electricity, they had one phone at the beginning. it was crazy. it was like going into the frontier. so lake havasu museum of history has really try to preserve a lot of the history of this town. , as a city, you would think there is not a lot of history here but there is a lot of history. museumsion here at the is to try to preserve that for the future. >> lake havasu located on arizona's western border offers seven recreational opportunities for residents and tourists. an border of southern arizona and california. we will hear about the construction of parker dam and how the two states manage this important resource. the colorado river is essentially the only major river in this part of the world that will supply -- it supplies 40 million people total. it is a big deal. be major problems if this river dried up. this is the economy and the lifeblood of this area of the world. the colorado river borders two states, california and arizona. california and arizon

but on working people in this city and in fact on this city as a whole. and that's why we're here today. we're here to tell our stories. we're here to tell you about why workers have taken this step. why we're out on strike. what this strike means to us. what it means when we say one job should be enough. at the end of the day, when you boil it all down, to its real core. when you think about those words. one job should be enough. it really is a modest demand and it's something that marriott can achieve today. we go back to the table with this company here in san francisco on november 12th. we know we're gathering stanley cup or the and we're stronger by the day. we will last one daylonger than the marriott corporation. with the support of this board and the city and the mayor, we know we're going to win this fight. i can't say it any better than the strikers themselves many of with that i'll turn it back to the chair. you will hear testimony today directly firsthand from striking workers that will really tell the story of what this campaign is about. i t

it says we believe in free city because city college is fun. our judy goodman, she's the best teacher in the world, and i'd like to say maya scott, you know her, maya scott, she's the teacher. she's from the city college. i do. i like city college a lot. i like it. no, i think that's it. take care. love you. yeah, love you, too. bye. >> good morning, supervisors, and welcome, supervisor stefani. my name is sue ann linder, and i'm a professor in social science. i first came to city college in 1977, and i came back as an older adult to transition from nursing to teaching history. i'm devoted to student success. recently, the new york state legislature passed a bill for $7.5 billion to implement free state and city schools. we don't have that option because of prop 13. we must do a set-aside here, and this is not a set aside, it's a payment forward for real student and adult success in san francisco and huge social and economic impact. thank you so much for your time. >> hi. monica collins. i did work at city college for a long time. i went there

and picking up litter and making our city, loving our city. and importantly when delegates got off the plane they were welcomed to s.f.o. with messaging and welcomed and there were light poles across the city. but we as a department wanted to take more of a personal touch. so we spent time in advance of the summit creating partnerships with the hotels. and these are really important because we wanted to help them to share their sustainability and successes and highlights with these delegates when they came to each hotel. but beyond that we wanted to create partnerships because we wanted to do things that we were really proud of, like remove single-use water bottles from the rooms of delegates. and for the hotels that had the majority of delegates attending them we removed them and replaced them with reusable water bottles that are all in front of you. not just a welcome though, but a welcomer and a celebration and a recognition and appreciation. but this wasn't just about the delegates. this wasn't just about the summit. this was about bringin

to the city go to city college and are spent wisely. they are spent wisely. we have had many discussions about how to make sure that every single penny that the city gives that city college spends in those invoices that we get are justified. the funding of this thing right now is going well. it is being served by everybody and i definitely support this. i also support supervisor yi's moved to make it a 20 year program. it should be unstoppable because of the advantages you've heard. i can't speak anymore beautifully as you have heard today here. i support it all. thank you. >> good afternoon again. i spoke before you all two years ago after the voters of san francisco past prop w. i voted for that. you kept your promise. now i support locking in that promise with the charter amendment. i say if a program is successful it helps the diverse community in the city in an extremely equitable manner we should continue its. given the realities we live in now, the only people who oppose this amendment are republicans. do not want to be -- not be a republican swamp mon

they make $15 an hour in our city. the average age of 58 years old, and 78% of them are women, and almost 80% of them are people of color. they are on the verge of homelessness themselves. second, this legislation demonstrates that we value this workforce. they do important necessary work that binds our community together, at that allows our seniors and disabled to age in their own homes and with greater health out comes and also to greater mobility. and so i think it's so important that this legislation actually lifts up the work that they do, and the city as a whole recognizes how important that work is. and third, this reinforces our commitment to seniors and people with disabilities, children and their families, and we are planning for the future of our senior population that will increase 69% from 2010 to 2030. this, to be frank, is not a living wage in san francisco. this will give workers some relief, but this is definitely not a living wage in san francisco. we are experiencing the largest wealth gap that we ha

and then, also, free city college. so we're going to actually have a large community hub going on in the fillmore heritage, and i'm excited about that because that will get people ready for this development -- these developments coming through the western addition, that they can apply and actually get this affordable housing. if anyone has any questions, i'm ready to answer those. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. colleagues, questions, comments? all right. seeing none, would planning like to make another presentation? okay. let's go to public comment on item 2. any members of the public wishing to speak on item 2, please come on up. >> good afternoon, chair tang and members of the land use committee. my name is gus martinez -- first of all, i just want to acknowledge that it was affordable diviz who initially requested this legislation, and we are very happy to see it moving forward. we did have concerns that we expressed last hearing, and i kind of want to summarize our concerns. so we request the following am

rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking to me that you would that's the first thing that comes to you it comes to your mind in describing moscow because these urban improvements as i said do not live it not limited to the city center in fact over the last year or so they have moved to the suburbs i mean i live in the suburbs and all the four parks around my house have been renovated to be very active participation of local residents the major improvement in terms of the playgrounds and other public spaces what makes you believe that it's all about the . each muscovites well i mean the

i went to the city h.r. and met with them. the city h.r. sent me a letter saying that she wasn't going to investigate either. i had a press conference with channel talks what with my attorney january 2016, and after my press conference, they spoke with the city of human resources department, mickey callahan's office, and this is what they said. while we acknowledge the extreme offensiveness of the n. word. nonnote one comment is not sufficiently severe to create an abusive working environment. how can you tell me it wasn't abusive to me? being called a nigger. had i called someone in that office a racial slur, it would have been a different outcome. the one that called me this scary nigger, she is still working. and i have no job. >> chair peskin: thank you for sharing. thank you. thank you for sharing. thank you. we hear you. >> good evening. thank you, board of supervisors for giving us this opportunity. my name is brandon. i am an employee. i have been with the city and county for ten years in department such as the fine arts museum, m.t

officials starteted rethininkg things in the cities, and in city governments. it's a big discussion in many urban areas today all over the world -- the question of how we can get people to enjoy riding bikes. reporter: most roads in beijing have bike lanes like this. we are going to look at what condition they are. this one is nice and wide, and pretty comfortable to ride on. even if there are a couple of obstacles along the way. i just manage to squeeze past one car making a turn. and the is anoth issue.. o many vehicles stop o or park on the b bike path. then you h have to swerve into e car lane. so a less than perfect situation. and ere are otr negative aspects to bike sharing -- like the numberof rental bikes clutteng u up streets and sidewalks. authorities now often just pile them up onto what look like scrap heaps. the bikes the city administration has cleared are now w unloaded herere, on te fringes of the capital. every major chinese city has bicycle cemeteries like this one.e. the e remaining rental companis have to take back some of them. nobody knono

i found in city after city the story is often the same. i am a boomer myself. the homeowners who bought when things were cheap often are preventing new housing from being built in their neighborhoods. thereby pricing out millenials. also making climate change worse. those folks drive in creating greenhouse gas emissions and that is not sustainable. sabine and environmentalists is more than driving a previous in recycling. that is what i talk about in my book. and just to give you a flavor because our theme is about tech. had people seen the oracle facility in riverside. what used to be there. heavily lieutenant. we always say in austin we want to keep diversity. we head at their but right near the lake and they can walk down. you are all being evicted. didn't say why. he affected all of them. demolish the building. built new luxury apartments and then it's announced oracle is coming. ceo is here for four hours. there used to be 244 family units. i talk about in the book. we need to create opportunities for them. there is no question but you have to provide the

the city is better for it and the public is better served. similar to that original legislation, we brought through a goal of achieving zero waste by 2020. we discovered last year when we held a hearing at the public services and neighborhood committee that we will not achieve that goal by 2020. we are doing significant work. i think we are no longer using the word diversion rate but we have one of the highest rates of diverging waste from landfills than any other part of the world , if not the united states. one of the things that we discovered, and this i think was a shocking finding in our hearing was that 60% of what we send to landfill is still recyclable or compostable. the department of environment will have a good presentation that will dig into the data but i want to let that sink in again sixty% of what we send to landfill is compostable or recyclable, still, to this day. and so at that hearing, and that is where we really put the pedal to the metal in terms of drafting this legislation, we had the department of environment zero dow

across the city. the families that i work with and represent have cars because they have to have cars. not because they want to cars. but to be able to get from the presidio at 11:00 am and then turn right around and get to the sunset at 1:00 pm, given soccer game schedules, whatever activities you are doing with your children, that is on a saturday. there is absolutely no way i could get to my children's soccer game without a car. that is just the truth. because of the proximity of the way the schedules work. that is the absolute truth. i wish there were a way i could do that. that doesn't mean that minimum parking requirements have anything to do with that. i understand you would say that having less cars would provide for less traffic and then you could -- but the point is, the people i represented my part of town have cars. you're having a parking summit this thursday because we are going to forward the conversation about limiting the number of -- we want to have residential permits and have a rea

the city can also be a city where its access to transit and transit performance is subpar. so this ordinance addresses those directly. what it does is makes sure as big development occurs, hopefully we make our streets and sidewalks, transit access accessibility for seniors, pedestrians, people with disabilities, etc., we make those better and at least don't make them worse. so we think closing the loopholes, some very large projects that we're able to flip through doing no improvements and also exempting some small projects. and small residential projects won't be required. we think that is right-sizing the current right. requirements. we like the emphasis on improved crossings as well. section 155-r, same thing. we piecemeal extended these curb cut restrictions along various streets. this does all streets of a specific type. the most important transit systems and the most important walking and parking streets in the city should be street where is we want to minimize the curb cuts. it protects them in the same way. clearly exempts them on the streets from minimum parking r

so well while city water supplies are filling up with lead over thirteen million u.s. children face food insecurities and more than forty million u.s. citizens do live in abject poverty are democrat republican friends are spending billions to enrich media moguls and get themselves elected. i think it's time to start watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this. because. he was the number on the watch for the hawks i am tired robot and on top of the other tab of the interview taken twenty nine trips around the sun many years in a row yes. as a campaign ad you know the ones that see it to be as one ever ever influenced your vote for like who you're going to vote for like you were you know watching dynasty and saw the ad come out of dinah diocese and i would think anyone have a falcon crest probably that it's about yourselves. yet right now never tell us your question never i have i have been i have been i have had my opinion about. but he changed in the negative that i wouldn't vote for them due to one of their ads but i've

it's a city issue. the airport commission could say they can't pick up at the airport, or we're going to have an equal playing field. let's ask for background checks, safety vehicle inspections and exterior trade. this is something they could do, they have not done it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i've been a cab driver over 12 years in the city and it's mind-blowing that you think taking options away from cab drivers would be a solution to anything. please reject the proposal. >> thank you, mr. lewis. next speaker, please. . >> good evening, gentlemen and ladies and gentlemen. my comment is simple and easy. >> give us your name. >> abraham. i drove over 12 years, yellow taxi. my comment is simple and easy. i hope this will give you sense. there is four, five times uber and lyft picking up more than taxis at the airport. uber lyft in the city. i drove uber to evaluate for 2-3 months to see how it works. in the airport, when you drive ubner the airport, some customers they pick up be

so it creates a sort of regional tourism industry in the city as well. but a key factor in all of this, in terms of demographics, is the slave population. the cotton industry, whether it be the picking of cotton, ginning of cotton or shipping of cotton, all relies on slave labor. that means there is a large african-american population in memphis. walking the streets every day, working in all of the industries we have been talking about, but particularly the cotton industry. so at the various what are called gins where they process the cotton, bale it, get it ready to ship to market, african-american slaves are doing that work. 16,000, there were about african-american slaves in memphis, and there were about 300 free persons of color in the city, who had either father way out of slavery or had been emancipated by their owners and allowed to stay in the city. inthe population of memphis 1860 is about 35,000. so we are talking about a third of the population, roughly african-american. so it creates the white-black dynamic in memphis that dominates the city

to be here, in front of city hall, in the heart of our city, it's kind of a dream, right? it's -- i'm excited. i'm excited to be partnered with everybody on this project. super excited about the alignment of vision and how perfectly, you know, our cafe being right here on this corner lines up with our community for food. i saw the impact we had on our community. that block, when i took it over, had storefronts that were covered with metal grates. we took those grates down, and all of a sudden, we saw things happen. 300 jobs are created in that 1800 block of eighth street. things had happening in the divisadero, and that's why i'm excited to be here now. that's the power of good food. it brings people today. it slows us down, it allows us to communicate -- except when your mouth is full, right? i'm excited to feed kids, to partner with this library with the program that we're going to have with the main library. we're going to continue working with the same businesses that we've worked with the same dozen years in this community, but we can't do it alone. we need you to com

, on the city side of equation. some consideration given to our budget process. so, the audits happen outside of the budget process as it pertains to city agencies, and we give consideration to the budgeting and hiring process that the city has to participate in. so they would not be required to have the same turn around of 60 days as everyone else is, and so there is more discretion in this realm, in city agency realm than there is to your original point. and director, not to put words in her mouth, felt more comfortable as it pertained to the city to have that discretion to work with city departments. the truth is, as the budget chair, it has not been authorized, not required to hire additional staffing. so we wanted that discretion, and that is already reflected in the legislation. >> all right. supervisor mandelman. >> happy to be here, my first meeting in budget committee, learning my way along the way. i have a question for supervisor safai about the legislation, stemming from the flower mart issue. so, the fo

we will talk about all of the economic subsidies in virginia -- what new city york city gave out to amazon. you did a study of the large-scale bidding war that did -- went around the country for amazon. what did you find? >> i found the average size of the bid for hq to was about $8.9 billion. at least the probably available bid. so many of the bids were secret. the funny thing is if you look , at the academic research, it finds they don't actually change a firm's location decision. that means the vast majority of , the time cities and states are wasting billions of dollars every year. company -- does a host:, what does a like amazon look for? what were they looking for and what it arlington and new york city have that they would have with or without the subsidies? guest: the number one thing firms look for, and the research is clear, is a skilled workforce. that is exactly what amazon said determined its final decision. four different places said they were making the decision for virginia and new york city, in addition to nashville because of the local tech talent. host: are you saying th

city they arest doing is the government one. a group of city planners got together and took the idea to the government. he said, start with one city. there are problems in this project. the designs are going to show a bottle of water elements. lot of water elements. it'san issue in cairo. are going to have to siphon supplies from other cities in the area. carol: nature here is dredging up the atlantic to create a new is dredging nigeria up the atlantic to create a new community. cristina: lagos is sinking. it has this issue of not being able to grow any further. chinese dredgers were brought in. they dredged up ten kilometers off of lagos. we see big towers in the middle, a marina district, renderings showing beautiful buildings. there is a gigantic sewall -- se awall that will protect the island from surges. redging causes a provision in the surrounding areas and may cause more damage from storm in the-- erosion surrounding areas and may cause storm surges. activists have called this a climate change apartheid. many stories tal

and we saw the democratic party establishment of the city that controlled the city completely capitulate to amazon's bullying and so the only alternative we are left with is exactly what the working people in queens are doing which is fighting against big business by building an independent movement on the ground in the workplaces and we need to unite workers in the warehouses that workers and all working people together and i should give a shout out to all the working people and their voters in san francisco in mountain view and east palo alto all three cities in california that passed a big business tax in this midterm past midterm election to tax big business to fund housing and infrastructure that's the kind of independent organized grassroots fight we need to build a movement we need to build to make housing affordable to fight against the inequality that we are handed down as inevitable under capitalism and i. why we need to look beyond this system is well i mean the only way jobs are offered in this system in the system of capitalism is to make massive profits for a very few peopl

second in the city they are hunters. on the other side of berlin and the tear proxy to leon battle is looking for a hedgehog now it's he's a biologist at the life institute for a zoo and wildlife research and going to home. when he. jokes made use of this tree trunk but he's not here at least. not in the third nest. hedgehogs go out at night and sleep all day but as we've just seen not always in the same place. this could mean more hedgehogs in cities than in the country. because our gardens and parks offer great natural habitats. the project he's working on is about how hedgehogs bats wars record moons and other wild animals live in cities. not the ones in zuma enclosures but those living free. like it's in front of our aims is to inform the public about the animals that might be living in their gardens and to encourage them to leave the creatures a little space and leave gaps in their fences so animals can come and go. that we can that's important if certain species are to survive what many people don't realize is that

so that city departments that are large refuse generators. to the point the commercial property owner representative, we are accepting one of the amendments that was proposed under the audit findings. it talks about how the report may identify commercial tenants, who are the audit findings suggest are responsible for contributing contamination in large refuse generators. that is in a building with 15 tenants on different floors, we can pinpoint who that person is to work with. so they might be able to work more aggressive. page 6, line 5-7, we add not more than once per year. that goes to your point supervisor fewer and supervisor cohen, knowing what the standards are for zero waste and what the guidelines are. it's only going to be updated once a year. on page 6, lines 19-21, we say the director may use any of the relevant information and evidence, including information provided by the collector to determine the required remedial steps. so we're getting feedback in the process. on page 6, line 22 and page 7, line 4, we add -- we strike minim

works, who knows the city, who has respective folks in the city but is outside the city to come in and get a sense of what's going on inside the agency and particularly deal with complaints. >> is that under way? >> it is under way. she started a month or so. >> who is this personal? >> delores blanning. she was with the city for a few decades. spent time at the airport and a number of different agencies. she's come back as a retiree employment -- employee to help fix things. she's in charge of process improvement, but she's serving an ombudsman process role. employees are going to her to say, here is what my issue is, and here is how the system is not working for me. she's looking at our process, at the eeo investigation complaint process, and really coming up with a number of recommendations, which i think will be very helpful. her options have been very helpful, anticipating what will be coming out with that, what i recognize is that our own -- we have not given our own managers and supervisors the training that they need to be effective in dealing with some of these issues before t

i'm saddened that the city attorney's not here or deputy city attorney because i have a drafting request. so i will save that, because he's probably listening close by. i will move on. talking points. talking points for the introduction of the african-american arts and culture district. the concept came about when supervisor david compost introduced the cultural arts district. i'm so pleased that you honored a great infrastructure. so i'm introducing legislation to establish the district in hunter's point neighborhood. 4% of the population is african-american. 28% remain african-american in the bayview community. now it is arguable. it is the largest group of african-americans, homeowners, in this neighborhood. i think it's probably still the case. bayview, as many of you all know, is a vibrant community that embodies the history and tapestry of the african-american experience in san francisco. from those that worked on the shipyard to those that work at general hospital and the industrial parts as well as the small businesses that pepper the 3rd street merchant corridor. it's time that

it's the consistent design that the city approves on our city owned poles, so it is the most stream lined design that we have approved. it's what we have determined to be one of the more minimally visible root kind of pole top appendages that the city departments have come to an agreement on. they are a stream lined design. they are painted to match the pole. in addition to the antenna, there's also the equipment. so this particular site as was pointed out by the appellant in different photographs has a different -- a type of equipment. they showed another carrier that had maybe two pieces of equipment on the pole. this particular carrier chooses to shroud theirs into one particular component. overall, we've seen that this particular equipment is about 1 inch larger than kind of the other carriers on average. so we feel that's pretty minimal as far as comparison, and as a perception, we feel that's deminimous. so overall, we feel the pole itself is pretty distinct from the residential feelings. it's close to 14 feet, 15 feet from the actual building itself. so if something is done about t

we have a license with the city. so we on look at sprint, who says we're having issues in this area, and we look at the area, and this pole was near the center of that area and -- >> vice president swig: yeah, i think i'm going to question your wisdom on that. not because i have any special knowledge, it's just that we -- as commissioner honda said, we have had many, many, many, many of these, and in just about every one of them, somebody on this panel will ask that question, and answer has been yes, we looked at many, many sites, and nobody except yourself has answered that no, we don't have to do that. so i'm going to ask that to d.p.w. because i question your wisdom on that. >> please do. it's frequently a requirement for larger macrotowers or rooftop. >> vice president swig: yours is the largest that we've seen. it's really large, but of -- you know, we've been through this horse -- this little rodeo before, and this is the first time that anybody has resisted a conversation to did you look at any alternatives, s

ballots that were filled out at city hall before election day. tomorrow there will be three hundred workers doing that job here in the city. polling locations across the bay area will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. keep in mind...if you are in line when we hit 8 pm hits you are allowed to vote but you have to be in line at that time. i asked voters at city hall this afternoon why they came out and what issues matter to them. this is what they had to say.as for the voters i talked as for the as for the voters i talked as for the one person mentioned an actual candidate when i asked why they came to vote. many here in san francisco talking about the homelessness issue and some of the propositions on the ballot. live in san francisco, j.r. stone kron 4 (jrs) (vicki) it has been a midterm year like none other -- from a very active, very vocal president, to a record number of women on the ballot, and unexpected events that kept changing the game for both parties. (grant) karin caifa (kay-fuh) is in washington tonight with the very latest. in the f

i am very grateful to the city of san francisco. our sustainable plan is to see more funding so this program can grow, providing homelessness prevention services to the greater community has been such a big need to. as you know, we are seeing the numbers of homelessness increase our brothers and sisters are suffering every day on the streets. there are many who are not even counted. there are families living in their home, up to 20 people in a small space and they are often not counted. i would suggest to you that we have to work together, along with the city, and other nonprofits in our community, and our business community. those private-sector communities , to come together and solve the problem. none of us can do it alone. i am grateful to the mayor because i know she is committed to helping us solve this critical problem. bless you all for being here. we serve everyone. i want to make sure everyone knows that. we do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation , or faith or anything else. the catholic charities ar

city dollars going to a city infrastructure project. we are not intending to make those available or otherwise re grant to specific community groups, including the current -- the perp -- or even our long-term partner. i wanted to clarify that. maybe there was confusion around the $20 million going to particular neighbourhood groups. city dollars for a city infrastructure project investments. and then lastly, both the proposed interim lease, which is a separate item at a separate board file, the intention is to activate and steward the mint for the next few years until such time as we are ready to proceed with the fiscal restoration project. both as proposed with the interim leased and -- lease and the long-term restoration project. they are built around this concept of public access and community activation. and with the chair's permission i was going to ask to share a few words on the long-term project this notion of a cultural community commons which is really core to -- there has been some conversation about how we will partner in th

we have history in this city. we can directly trace the lgbt civil rights movement back to the corner of turk and taylor where in 1966, the riots was the first documented collective uprising of lgbt individuals in the country. [applause] >> the riots recently inspired the founding of the transgendered cultural district. the first officially recognized transgendered district in this country. [applause] >> it's important that we remember this history. and that we consider how it impacts us today. the tenderloin is still has the highest concentration of trends -- transgender folks in san francisco. this is changing with the tide of new development. the transgendered cultural district was created not just as a way of preserving the importance of the legacy of the tenderloin, but also as a mechanism to push back against the displacement of the transgendered community. it was created to be an advocate to serve as a resource and a safe space. it is has been -- it has been my honor to present the district thus far along w

-- pipeline into the city. we had an apprentice ship fair which have not been diverse historically and we had over 300 people attend the apprenticeship fair and over 80% were persons of color and there's a great way to move people into city employment. i've met with director torres on ways to ensure people who graduate from the tech training programs will qualify for city jobs and we created city jobs at the training level and one is classification 10-10 a basic tech support job with a lot of opportunity for growth and does not require a degree. expanded training is key and we found disparities in discipline, disparities in probationary release. we don't know why that is. one way to reach out is to ensure there's appropriate training and what the expectation to treat people fairly and what fair grounds for discipline are. beginning january fir1st, many l take training to empower people to stand up and speak out maybe when they themselves are not the subject of discrimination but see it happening and provide res