francisco department of recreation and parks, karen kidwell at the san francisco parks, casey allen at s.f.

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what the city has done and what s.f. environment has done is you've identified the elephant. you wrestle him into the room and then you invited us all to sit down and share our recipes. so we look forward to dialoguing with y'all. thank you. [applause] >> hi, mayor lee. my name is melissa. i'm the director of environmental affairs for gap , inc. as members of the san francisco business community, we're writing to express our support for the city and county of san francisco's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal. as participants on the business advisory panel to the san francisco climate action plan, the 12 businesses listed below appreciate the opportunity to learn more about climate change and to seek solutions that benefit all of us. we recognize that the commercial sector comprises approximately 40% of san francisco's greenhouse gas emissions and that as such, businesses play an important role in meeting our community's emission reduction target. excuse me, i'm pregnant and i can't catch my breath. business advisory panel members include small and large businesses acros

do not stop them by reducing funding for go solar s.f. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much. are there any other members of the public who wish to comment on the enterprise department budget? my time's up. for rent board, airport, environment, p.u.c.? seeing none, public comment is closed. ok. we got a number of items before us, colleagues. i know we have actually two sets of recommendations that have been before us, both the department of environment as well as the public utilities. i'm wondering if we can take action on the department of environment recommendations. from my understanding, the budget analyst recommendations are something that the department of environment is in agreement with. can we do that without objection? supervisor kim. supervisor kim: i missed a question i written down for the department of environment. sorry. i missed it in my notes. my question is just around the retrofit california for buildings that consume high energy such as multi-family buildings which i think is a great program. i was wondering how the outr

ladies and gentlemen, without further read too, welcome s.f. mayor, ed lee. [applause] mayor lee: good morning. thank you for that wonderful introduction. i just want to preface it by saying, when you get a call in your in hong kong, and that call comes from former mayor willie brown, it is hard to say no. i have taken up this challenge. i want to thank you, members of the bay area council, for your tireless work periods it is significant -- for your tireless work. it is significant this group has come together this morning around the critical issues of the bay area. education. infrastructure. sports. there is no issue more important today than the bay area's ability to compete and win business in the global economy. in san francisco, creating and retaining jobs has been a top priority, because that is what helps keep families in san francisco and helps them thrive. we are leading the way in education, health care, and the environment. for the past three months, we have made significant progress in making sure our business climate is alive and welcoming. let'

why s.f. cat? and why carnaval? so the first question, at least some people are asking, is why a half-white, half-lebanese guy from ohio heading up this organization? and i'll tell you, it was pretty easy, it just took 20 years of participation and commitment to the mission district and to the carnaval community. i've been involved, my first -- i took part in 1991 and i performed as a dancer, a d.j., a drummer. i became king and i also performed with over a dozen groups including aqra rela who are going to perform today. i guess could you say i'm culturally curious. and fortunately for me san francisco is, in my opinion, and i've traveled quite a bit, this is the best place to be culturally conservative. i'm sorry, curious. did i say conservative? yikes. now, there's one little tidbit i'll offer you that you won't find on -- i don't know if supervisor avalos has arrived, but you won'tfight find it on his web-page or wikipedia but i danced in a dance group with his wife and i d.j. their wedding reception. i'm going t

resource issues, we took as an expeed i can't the -- expedient the measures previously used by the s.f. staff program. so we transferred those over knowing that the data is easy to collect and also very easy to explain. already we have a process set up to do that. we do agree that some of them could be refined and we look for the opportunity to do so as we update our strategic plan in the coming year. that would be a great opportunity to update that. also, the audit team noted our ability to coordinate a vast array of often complex inner agency multi-year projects, but they did find that we lack the one complete mechanism for managing all of them uniformly 68 this is a result of us coming from different places with legacy systems that we use to monitor and track our progress of our various projects. we do agree with this recommendation and we are working with the capital programs and construction division who is investigating the propriety of the overarching software system that the entire agency can utilize to manage its various programs and projects. it's going to be somewhat of a ch

one of the pilot projects or one of the s.f. projects is in market and octavia. bicycles, there's a lot of support for bicycles and have a list of all the bicycle projects that have been completed in the planned area, if anyone is interested in that one as well. i just read an article about electrical car fueling options and apparently there is some agency in the city that's going to create a plan to make sure available citywide. the last issue that was raised is coordination, the c.a.c. and how it's been going. there are a lot of really interesting ideas about updating their website, get a mailing list going. we're working with our technical support staff to see what we can do. we've been meeting for two and a 1/2 years now with market octavia and the c.a.c. we have a list of priority projects. these projects are including things that have been implemented the hays street and the hape street two-way. and they're familiar with our agencies and they're starting to see it as part of our work program. we've also recently with sarah dunna phillips have been working w

i pulled out another hundred and that 50 and all time i'm looking over my shoulder at the s.f. 78. -- the ss mta. -- the sfmta. this organization as paychecks, health care, retirement plans, sick pay, vacation pay, they have taken $10 million from us this year to fund this great boondoggle. it's not a boondoggle. these people deserve what they're getting, but they don't deserve to get from's. these other things we are discussing are distractions from the fundamental cannibalism that's going on. [applause] [reading names] >> can i get a projector? san francisco could be getting a pricey right -- it's the priciest city in the world, one of them. gas is the priciest gas. what's wrong with a pricey taxi system? how was the merger going? how's that seamless merger going? mta defines the word dysfunctional. it's the time you woke up rape than doolittle and smaller coffee, but i don't recommend a triple dose of espresso. a special tax the meeting was held for a meeting increase and that was yesterday. in your comparative analysis from fares and other cities, why weren't extra fees included?

the paper ran a front page article critical of then police chief dick hungy stow and s.f. p.d. he and other cops were caught and given a slap on the wrist. their defense, they did nothing wrong because the newspapers were free and therefore you couldn't steal them. more important than that, what they did was an assault on the first amendment. any cop that violates their oath to uphold the law is a dirty cop. gary fits that description. jeff, a media whore? no, delaineous is a political whore. where bottom feeding and brown knowsing his way along the edges of san francisco political influence. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, sir. >> good evening, commissioners. mr. harrison, once again i'm appearing on behalf of justice for my brother charles harrison. i spoke with some of the my family members today then asked me to point out the fact due to the fact of my brother's untimely murder, two children have been left orphaned at this time. one wasn't yet born before charles was murdered, and then this child came to birth. we had been watching the news recently and we had bee

you brought important issues, particularly how can s.f. pd response to levels of violence and homicide in the bayview. what would you like to work on to better police relationships with the community and help reduce violent incidents in san francisco? >> i have worked with greg suhr a few times. they will say, what do you think? what do you see that we are doing? is there something we can do? i think there is a lack of respect in our community. they do not respect us. ," seen them put an elderly 79- year-old woman out into -- out of an old civic because maybe she did not have a license. i am like, come on. you have your guns drawn. i am just going to tell it like it is. they have no respect. i have seen them pull a young man to the side, and there was a lady trying to rush to the hospital. i walked over to the young man, i said, excuse me. could you allow this person to go? she needed her chemo. she was sick. they acted like they did not hear me. supervisor kim: i definitely see an overreaction by sfpd, and we know that's racial profiling

what type of training do we provide to the s.f. police department after they've come to us? >> that's correct. they send themselves through the academy. the basic academy is 990 hours. the department gives them four hours of training per month, usually a parishable skill as in low frequency, high liability issues such as firearms, takedowns, baton training, laws of arrest or procedures. they also -- also during the summertime we try to unplug them, the availability of the police academy, to a more thorough four-hour block to two 16-hour days and depends on the availability of the police academy. >> are we actively recruiting reserves at this point especially in light of what we heard from mr. delanus' soon to be shortage. >> yes, we're constantly recruiting the reserves. we see that some departments that lay off employees, a way for those employees to keep their active post credential, standardized training credentials and is for them to volunteer their time. unfortunately, sometimes other departments steal them from us. and i don't have an explanation for that other than th

would you rather have people doing that or the s.f. hot team taking care of it? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is vitka ivan, the c.e.o. of walden house, the ash bury free clinic. i just got married. actually, our wedding date is july 1 and you know, sometimes in a wedding you think maybe you'll get flowers, maybe a nice little card, but you don't expect nearly a half million dollar budget cut. and so -- and that is actually $487,000 cut to outpatient services for both walden house and haight ashbury free clinic and want to talk about what that means in terms of client care. there's a $128,000 cut for the ocean center, a safe place for women to be. it's not quite a shelter but operates on a 24-hour basis. >> that was quick. >> i think that was a quick two minutes. why don't we give another minute to you. >> ok, thank you. >> it's a possibility -- it's a thinly staffed program, we have middle-aged women typically in their 40's, between 45-60 who are there and always is full. it's unlikely we can operate with any less staff than w

have i worked with sally for many years on the executive committee of s.f. dog. and i have attended many animal control and welfare commission meetings, both pre-sally and with sally both as a member and now as chair. you have a letter from me in your packet talking about sally's intelligence, her thoughtfulness and her excellence as a mediator and moderator in a commission where as a number of people have pointed out, proponents and opponents, tend to be passionate about their positions and sally has been exemplary of presenting items for discussion and action and making sure that all sides are heard and decisions are not taken into there has been full and informed discussions of the issues. under sally's leadership, also the commission has become more responsive and more time sensitive in a broader context. so, for example, the cat declawing, which was has been mentioned by several people, this ordinance was ultimately supported by the board of supervisors and became law in san francisco just before a state bill would have precluded the city protecting cats in

. >> the debit card is issued by the mission s.f. credit union. customers can sign up and put money in their account online. organizers say shoppers and store pay no fee. there are 400 businesses in bernal heights. so far, 400 businesses signed up. >> we all think and assume and hope that we are mostly supported by our neighbors and people, residents of bernal. with a bernal bucks program, we can hopefully track it a little more. >> a handful of people signed up for the debit card. organizers are hoping eventually 2,000 people will be on board. in san francisco, john alston, abc7 news. >>> it is 4:46 now. coming up, the surprising result of a new poll of feelings of republicans toward presidential candidates who happen to be mormon. >>> also, why one of the nation's oldest and most colorful parades will miss some floats this year. >> this is the nozzle that we have. >> they've got the gear, but do they know how to use it? why concerned homeowners aren't getting the training they want from local firefighters. >>> welcome back. look at temperatures