i am very fortunate to participate with the "x" excelsior action group on the board of supervisors and have long been doing that for several years. i have worked the transportation authority in the past and we look forward to doing the same in the future. i think by virtue of my participation not only on the board of advisory i'm chair of their business attraction committee we're trying to get now a businesses into the community especially along invention even if i'm able to provide some very significant and meaningful advise to the committee. we regularly hold meeting and partner with other groups in the community the associations the mission terrace association and the "x" excelsior district association and so as such i think i'm well positions to bring to this feasibility study, you know, a significant and broad spectrum of community opinion. so thank you very much and i'll look forward to working with each of you >> thank you, mr. cowen next speaker. >> anyone else who wants to speak seeing none, pubd. >> one other point i should have mentioned we've been asked to suspended one of

this is right in front of excelsior middle school. a mother driving a black gmc yukon had just dropped off her children who attended excelsior. he was making a right-hand turn out of the school's driveway when she ran over what she thought was a ball. she drove another 50 feet or so, pulled over to the side of the road to find out what was under her vehicle, and to her horror, she realized she had hit, run over, and dragged a 12-year-old boy who had been riding his bicycle. chp says he was pronounced dead at the scene, that he was still wearing his bicycle helmet with a sheriff's sticker affixed to the side. the driver is cooperating with investigators. the boy's parents were called out to the scene, obviously distraught. grief counselors with not only weiner unified by oakland school district will be at excelsior today. that school still in session. it was not canceled in spite of this morning's tragedy. chp is still trying to determine which direction the boy was traveling on byron highway. if you're not familiar with the boy, byron

i actually to a fault i sometimes speak in excelsior eccentric way and that my neighborhood all have a high concentration of school aged children that are there and we lack a lot of services. we look at what's happening in the mission and i'm working with a lot of organizations and leaders and trying to build the organization. this provides for a lot of learning not just excelsior but my neighborhoods. >> we won't tell your constituents. >> any public comment? >> seeing none. public comment is closed. >> i want to thank everyone for being here, sfgtv, thanks for taping today's meeting. we just want to congratulations meta and louis on your 40th anniversary and glad that we have one of your awardees tonight. seeing no comment. meeting is adjourned. >> >>

i actually to a fault i sometimes speak in excelsior eccentric way and that my neighborhood all have a high concentration of school aged children that are there and we lack a lot of services. we look at what's happening in the mission and i'm working with a lot of organizations and leaders and trying to build the organization. this provides for a lot of learning not just excelsior but my neighborhoods. >> we won't tell your constituents. >> any public comment? >> seeing none. public comment is closed. >> i want to thank everyone for being here, sfgtv, thanks for taping today's meeting. we just want to congratulations meta and louis on your 40th anniversary and glad that we have one of your awardees tonight. seeing no comment. meeting is adjourned. >> >> >> when you have a drug or alcohol problem, your whole world stops making sense. you can get help for yourself or a loved one and make sense of life again. for information, treatment referral, and most importantly, help call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services.

avenue in the excelsior district. my other item for introduction is a hearing request based on the budget analyst report of prosac, park recreation open space advisory committee, and the open space fund and the rec and park department's acquisition code. over the past few years we have approved five acquisitions of private property for the -- from the open space fund, for the public uses. the most recent one was 24th street, noe valley, i approved that, i voted to approve that acquisition, but i also in the process noted that there are a lot of parts of san francisco that are considered high needs areas that actually are in need of being able to find greater open space for recreation in the city. i want to make sure that as the city -- budget analyst report indicates there is a discrepancy between the actual acquisition policy and the rec and park department and what is actually in the park code about how we should designate certain high needs areas for acquisition of property for open space. so, this hearing, hope to

i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community from the outside, community organizations supporting young

i actually to a fault i sometimes speak in excelsior eccentric way and that my neighborhood all have a high concentration of school aged children that are there and we lack a lot of services. we look at what's happening in the mission and i'm working with a lot of organizations and leaders and trying to build the organization. this provides for a lot of learning not just excelsior but my neighborhoods. >> we won't tell your constituents. >> any public comment? >> seeing none. public comment is closed. >> i want to thank everyone for being here, sfgtv, thanks for taping today's meeting. we just want to congratulations meta and louis on your 40th anniversary and glad that we have one of your awardees tonight. seeing no comment. meeting is adjourned. >> >> >> welcome everyone and thanks for being here today. i want to extend a special welcome to all of our distinguished speakers. so first, the honorable edwin mayor of san francisco. san francisco (clapping) thank you. san francisco board of supervisors david chu and san francisco port executive director monique mirror (clapping) and our

i actually to a fault i sometimes speak in excelsior eccentric way and that my neighborhood all have a high concentration of school aged children that are there and we lack a lot of services. we look at what's happening in the mission and i'm working with a lot of organizations and leaders and trying to build the organization. this provides for a lot of learning not just excelsior but my neighborhoods. >> we won't tell your constituents. >> any public comment? >> seeing none. public comment is closed. >> i want to thank everyone for being here, sfgtv, thanks for taping today's meeting. we just want to congratulations meta and louis on your 40th anniversary and glad that we have one of your awardees tonight. seeing no comment. meeting is adjourned. >> >>okay. our final speaker is a friend a friend to the business community. a man who understands was it take to a create a job which is an investment. mayor ed lee is a person who have's brought a lot of stability to san francisco especially, after steady eddy were because ed has a background in administration and being tasked what gettin

i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived in a city in los angeles, but when i lived in massachusetts, where i live, i was close to boston. i had such a great time in boston but i did not like massachusetts so much because it was cold, the culture was foreign to me. when i came to san francisco, the first time i came, there was a rainbow over the bay and there

>> parece que una madre dejo a los niños en la escuela excelsior, >> de inmediato avanzo a un costado y detuvo el vehículo ahí se dieron cuenta que había un vehículo >> ha sido una mañana triste para el distrito escolar de byron, traen consejeros que apoyan ala jornada de mañana >> el niño era popular y conocido >> honraban la memoria del menor que no sobrevivio las heridas >> la conductora esta colaborandocon las autoridades >> la velocidad ni el alcohol fueron motivo >> una persona perdio la vida después de caer de un paso elevado en novato, la mujer fue arrollada por 2 vehículo cuando cayo >> noel gallo propone penas de cárcel para niños >> >> >> >> >> el bart ofrece un aumento y los sindicatos piden 17 por ciento a 3 años nadie de su brazo a torcer >> la ruptura de un gasodicuto dicen porque pg&e no había cerrado un escape de gas >> en san bruno causo una explosión que cobro la vida de 8 personas en septiembre de 2010 >> los tecnis repararon hasta la mañana del lunes >> en esta situación queríamos tomar medidas de seguridad, debido que no queríamos que los client

. >> candles burn as hundreds of people show up to excelsior a middle school. the place where a purchase you his voice it scout troop marched on stage and honor of him. he wrote to and from school every day and this tragic accident left many morning the loss of their dear friend. now this is what they remember most about him. >> full of energy and he was always something everyone up. i am going to miss that. >> every time he walked out of that class and it came back again, ms. caldwell looked to like my pencil? at t. that she would say went for? and he would say pencils make you work at work makes you succeed. >> he could finish a book like that the big in a day or a week or two days. he was so exciting. he was so enthusiastic. he always wanted to come to school and he was always happy and he didn't care what anyone else said. >> he would want us to be happy. and i felt like he's just going to come back to school of. i don't want to believe it. >> that school will continue to make brief counselors available to students brought the end of the week. reporting and

byron highway near hoffman near excelsior middle school. an 11-year-old is in critical condition, according to reports. we're trying to find out more. let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, westbound. that's backed up for a 20- minute delay getting into san francisco. no major problems. a lot of people going to oracle open world. south of market will be crowded for the next few days because of the closure of howard street. all of the traffic will be getting very slow. let's take a look at san jose. northbound 280, your drive into the valley will be very slow coming up to highway 17. it gets better finally after the lawrence expressway. let's go back to the desk. >> thank you, sal. >>> frustration is building among people who live near a wetlands plea serve -- preserve who fear it will be ruined in the santa clara area. controversy started because city leaders found out there is a lack of parking spaces at the 49ers' stadium. janine de la vega is live from santa clara. you just talked to one of the residents pretty upset about this.

have a discussion about how you we do investigations and make sure there's a process in place that we excelsior that is expensive and certainly addresses a lot of our victims and i submit the rest and a thank you and a few moments ago i read a couple of lines from the can deed but i read that because it was so perfect that the states from the school arts see this because ruth helped the garden in the district grow. as she was working with the air force rad subject she spread to other districts and our gardeners were two people that were inspired. i was there with the architects and many others last week and i think ruth's example of growing beauty is amazing. when joel was - when i was on the school board i was introduced to the family and her husband and i remember going to the house and seeing so much of how art was integrated into her lives and the grandchildren and i also want to say in any district, district one we have the beautiful young tower baskets. in japan town when my daughter and i go to hallow la lessons we see the great sculptures in buchanan no one mall. my daughter had a chanc

we are here at excelsior. there are grief counselors that have been at the school to try to help school with this terrible situation. and we can see this makeshift memorial there is also a vigil last night for this 12 year-old. he was hit by a car when he was riding his bicycle to school. this was an s u v driven by a parent. when she got back on to the byron highway he was on the shoulder. he was wearing a bicycle helmet but the impact was too much and he was pronounced dead at the scene. of sunflowers and this is what she said about burgess. >> he was with relief always happy and smiling and one of my favorite students. he was -- really happy. >> reporter: how long did you know him? >> since the first day of school. >> reporter: what else are people saying today? >> they are sad. and we all love purchas purcha we live pams name is burgess. and just a few moments ago, a friend of mine who had seen him riding his bike on the shoulder said that he saw the accident and was absolutely horrific. he could seek the

we had a few homicides in the excelsior district, one that is very well known, the bologna homicides. these tragedies are horrible if nothing else but to help communities organize. nay street neighbors really did that. they looked out for one another. they reached out. they created relationships where perhaps they didn't exist before. they looked at their neighborhood and thought, how can we make this neighborhood safer? and they've done amazing things. they've done greening, they planted last month scores of trees in the neighborhood. they brought the community together around garage sales. they actually are holding a market that has not been really a good neighbor in the area accountable to the neighborhood, which is an amazing feat. all of this is done because they love their neighborhood. they are inspired by community. that's what brings them together. so, i want to call up linda and -- linda cook and patricia de font. (applause) >> now, they're both part of nay street neighbors. linda actually nominated the group, but i really think that they're worthy of coming together to be h

the chp says it happened at about 7:45 this morning at byron highway and hoffman lane near the excelsior middle school. the driver of an suv told officers she dropped off her own child and then hit something while turning around. she got out and saw the boy under the vehicle. police say the driver is cooperating with the investigation. >>> and a parking glitch involving the new 49ers stadium in santa clara causing new headaches. a shortage of parking spaces has the city eyeing a nearby soccer field. now the kids are upset, the parents are upset and sue kwon has the story. >> reporter: a sea of freshly painted parking spots welcomes 49ers fans. but the team is still about 5,000 short of scoring their 21,000 spot goal. so they are eyeing this field, the soccer field on the opposite side of the new levi stadium. and that means moving the grass, turf and lights a half mile down the road to another area. >> you see those tall trees in the back there? they are all going to come down. the soccer field footprint would take out over 370 trees as well as trails and hundreds of plants and trees tha

it happened on byron and hoffman near excelsior middle school just before 8:00 this morning. ktvu's tara moriarty is on the scene and just talked to chp about how this happened. >> reporter: good afternoon. a lot of heavy hearts here. about four hours ago it was a very horrific scene. a woman was trying to make a right-hand turn turn when she was coming out of the school when she hit a boy right there. he was dragged for about 60 feet and now two families' lives will never be the scene. a smashed bicycle lay underneath this black suv off byron highway. >> he was crushed underneath the vehicle. >> reporter: the boy was riding his bike when hit and instantly killed. >> she felt she struck some sort of object and immediately pulled over. >> reporter: the chp said the woman who struck him had just dropped off her own children at the school at 8:45 this morning el. >> it's an unfortunate set of circumstances. our heart goes out to the family of the young boy. >> reporter: a parent told us the 7th grader made good grades and said her mother survived cancer. >> he was wearing his sa

historia, adelante angel... 00:01 00:12 00:46 01:22 01:36 continua el dolor en la escuela de secundaria "excelsior" al este de la bahia... alli, "burguess hu" un popular nino de tan solo 12 anos de edad encontro la muerte bajo las llantas de una camioneta conducida por una madre de tres menores que los dejaba en la misma escuela... el hecho ocurrio a las 7 y 45 de la manana y durante el dia y parte de la noche los investigadore s intentan descifrar como la mama despues de dejar a sus hijos paso por encima por encima del cuerpo del menor que llegaba en su bicicleta, sin siquiera notarlo... en la tarde de hoy, la directora del distrito escolar de byron se dirigio a los medios de comunicacion, indicando.... entrevista debbie burnette directora del distrito escolar que los ninos estan muy tristes y la escuela esta unida intentando superar la terrible situacion... las auotridades tambien indicaron la posibilidad de que burguess condujera su bicileta en sentido contrario al trafico... la policia de caminos indico que el menor tenia el casco puesto pero esto no impidio que muriera al instante, pues la ca

. >>> community leaders in the excelsior district are try tog shut down an -- trying to shut down an internet cafe. critics say they've seen plenty of gambling and very little googling. they also say they've witnessed drinking, drug use and lightering. >> there are individuals who go into the business and they come out $200 richer. it looks like there's a gamble going on. >> it's not gambling. it's sweepstakes. it follows the law very closely. sweepstakes is predetermined prices. gambling you take chances. there's no chances here. >> last night a meeting was held to discuss the issue. police say the cafe has been the subject of numerous complaints. >>> general motors unveileddable electric car plan -- unveiled an electric car plan that would challenge the tesla. it says it is developing an electric car that would go 200 miles on a singing charge for about $30,000. right now the bay area's tesla is the leader with its long- range model-s. but the cost for the car, $70,000. >>> strong winds could detail team new zealand's chance to clinch the 34th america's cup today. the team needs tw

excelsior middles school is in the background. byron highway was shut down in both directions.but has since re-opened. >> catherine: a developing story. in kenya -- security forces are struggling to capture or kill the militants who took over a nairobi shopping mall saturday. they've killed more than 60 people.and there may still be hostages inside. and the heavily armed islamist militants seem determined to fight to the death. we want to show you video taken as the attack was beginning. you'll hear the gunshots inside the mall. you see people beginning to take cover as they realize those are real gunshots. the gunmen were systematically slaughtering civilians. >>gunsghots >> catherine: scores are injured. among the people who were there -- a nairobi radio worker.who talked today about the children she was trying to help. a bullet narrowly missed her son - but she saw others shot. also injured - and american woman with ties to california. >> i saw one goal pass my son's head. and i hit the little boy over here who was standing nex

i was talking to commissioner mendoza could this work in the tenderloin and excelsior, because if these are programs we can model we can bring to other areas with similar demographics. a couple other things i wanted to bring up is looking at surplus property in the mission within the boundary lines. i know 1950 mission is there and we looked at putting affordable housing on that site because we understand the opportunity gap is more than achievement gap in the classroom. one of those opportunities is housing. how can we be creative about the assets we do have in the school district family. rent is expensive in the city. we were at an eviction, unfortunately yesterday of a senior elderly couple and their daughter in china town. we know land is expensive. how can we serve gaps that aren't provided by the market. so i'm really xientd to continue to work on that. i wanted to bring up dbi, we have to bring these out. i have to say some of the worst conditions i have seen were in the mission when i went door knocking. we have to contact and see how we can even support these property owners, m

we are talking about a working- class community, the excelsior, the bayview, all of these different neighborhoods are smaller enclaves. we still see the same kinds of challenges. when the schools begin to perform a stellar academic programs, businesses will continue to relocate because the employees will want to live in san francisco and want kids to be educated here. it is a cyclical and symbiotic creation ship. another challenges that we have the highest unemployment rate in this part of san francisco. san francisco before, the numbers are starting to come down a little bit. we have high rates in the latter part of last year, but it is starting to -- it is starting to normalize. it goes back to education. what i would like to see our pathways. not everyone will become a doctor, lawyer, or journalist, fantastic tv host. what can we do? we live in a society where we need engineers. we need sound engineers. we need graphic designers. there are people who prefer to learn with their hands. they like mechanics. we need to bring back some shop back in schools and allow people an opportunity for a diff

may wong from the excelsior representing friends of the m. first of all, i'd like to thank each and every one of you for supporting our dream to bring more programming to the amphitheater in mclaren park and let the public know we have a wonderful park with wonderful facilities and we'd love to have sir paul mccartney at our -- [laughter] >>> so, as our first show is this saturday, if you're at the opening of cayuga and you're done there, please come up the hill. we'll feed you lunch, and then you can sit back and enjoy the entertainment. so, once again, thank you, thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment under the general manager's report? okay, being none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 4, which is general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission but that do not appear on the agenda. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will

happened also in eastern contra costa county where a woman in a yukon who just dropped her kids off at excelsior middle school in byron hit and killed a 12-year- old boy on his bike this morning. that boy burgess who was from discovery bay that, woman cooperating with police. >>> there's a new law that every california driver needs to know about. it's supposed to keep bicyclists safe. kiet do explains the new road rule from a cyclist's point of view. >> reporter: the law now says cars must give you a full 3 feet if they're passing you on any roadway. that is a full 36 inches from any part of you or your bike to any part of the car. if a car cannot give you 3 feet, then they center to slow down until they can. violators will be fined $35. bikers we talked with think it's a great idea but are skeptical. >> it's wonderful. >> reporter: yeah? why? >> it protects the bicyclists. >> i've been riding many years and it pretty much sucks. they're right up on you. >> reporter: you don't think it will happen? >> it's not too bad on a wide road like this, but on some of the narrow roads if you're riding a b

i have been in san francisco since 1989, have lived in the excelsior since 1999. the difficulty is, muni often sees it as an industrial area, not a neighborhood. we have to figure out how to make it work as a neighborhood and as a place that can service the light rail vehicles. i have had lots of different jobs. my main job has been doing social work for san francisco state university. i have been a community organizer, a social worker, but i have also been a legislative aide. i worked mostly for community- based organization supporting kids and families, working for labor. i got to see how city hall could be an effective tool to create change. i looked at running in 2007, 2008, and somehow i made it. i have been in politics for so many ways, doing work around central america, supporting people in central america against u.s. imperialism, their right to live, self determination. i did a lot of work on that on campus when i was in college. a bit of work on apartheid when i was in college as well. >> i never got involved in supporting a candidate. i never thought a

on july 14, 1897, the ss excelsior arrived in san francisco. on board was more than $750,000 of raw gold from a new discovery in the klondike region. what would follow was the last great mineral stampede in north america. >> you have one alaska before the gold rush. you have a brand-new alaska after the gold rush, and then after the gold rush, alaska is populated with non-natives for the first time, and it's characterized, at least through 1920, by lots and lots of american investment. >> narrator: the influx of prospectors with the great klondike stampede led to smaller mineral discoveries in the alaska territory, including a frenzied gold strike on a remote beach in northwest alaska called nome. the nome gold rush included many of the original characters from the klondike stampede, but one of the new faces was alexander mackenzie, who, through political connections, installed a crooked federal judge in the nome district named arthur noyes. >> alexander mackenzie has to be the biggest crook who ever came to alaska. he masterminded this scheme

probably most importantly that i'm here, i'm a public high school teacher working with students from the excelsior, bayview, and sunnydale districts. my students and their siblings will be most affected by the loss of accreditation or any downsizing. many of my students from low-income communities can't afford to go straight to a four-year college. they have families to support, jobs to maintain, and simply need city college as an option instead of nothing at all or going into lifelong debt. a 12th grade student can take a class [speaker not understood]. what would they do if city college close e what would we all do if city college was gone? thanks. (applause) ~ >>> hi, my name is patty chung [speaker not understood] i'm a city college counselor with city college of san francisco. i'd like to thank you for holding this hearing today. first of all, i want to let you know my dad attended college city college of san francisco in 1951. it was because of city college he was able to learn english, find a union job and support his family. if it wasn't for city college of san francisco, i don't know wher

the driver had just dropped her children off at excelsior middle school in byron and police said she struck the boy on his bike. the victim burges hu from discovery bay. the woman cooperated with the police. >>> new rule on the road now aimed at keeping bicyclists safe. kiet do explains the law from a cyclist's point of view. >> reporter: the law now says cars must give you a full 3 feet passing you on any road, a full 36" from any part of you or your bike to any part of the car. if a car cannot give you three feet, then they have to slow down until they can. violators will be fined $35. bikers we talked with think it's a great idea but are skeptical. >> it's wonderful. >> reporter: yeah? why? >> protect the bicyclists. >> i think it's great. i have been riding and racing for many years and it's pretty much sucks when they ride up on you. >> reporter: you don't it will happen? >> no. >> very rare. especially on a wide road like this. but around the narrower roads, you will be lucky to get 3", nevermind 3 feet. >> reporter: the law goes into effect next year, kiet do, kpix 5. >> if th