kim: not at all. they have the mistaken impression that i have access to cash myself, so they are trying to get that from me. david: i see. let's talk about your background. why did your parents come to the united states? your father was a dentist and your mother was a professor? dr. kim: professor of philosophy. my father was a refugee from north korea. david: he escaped from north korea to south korea. dr. kim: he escaped to south korea at the age of 19. he went into the army as a dentist. and because he worked so hard on his english, he became a translator for many of the army dentists and became good friends with them. so they gave him a scholarship to come to the united states. my mother was the top student in the top high school in korea. because they ranked everybody, literally, in terms of your high school ranking. she got a scholarship and came to tennessee by herself. at the time, this was the early 1950's. there were probably 300-400 koreans in all of the united states. so she and my father

>> supervisor kim: yes. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. clerk, and we do have the sponsor of the budget here today, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, chair kim, colleagues. want to thank, also, the budget and legislative analyst's office -- oh, i see severin. there you are. want to thank the department of public health. actually, this was the first thing i did when i came into office the very first day at the board meeting, i asked for an audit of mental health services in the city and county of san francisco. i want to thank former director barbara garcia for immediately engaging her staff and asking them to dig deep on this. this was something that had never been done to my knowledge at this period of time. this was an analysis of those that might be incarcerated, those that might be in the community receiving medical care, doing out patient services. and it was very important to me because as we talk about the issue of homelessness and those receiving emergency care and the way in which we're reacting to this issue at th

. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. any other members of the public that would like to speak on the minutes of october 23, 2018? seeing none, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, can you please call item 5? >> clerk: we can take roll -- >> supervisor kim: sorry, can we take roll on item 4? [roll call vote] >> clerk: we have final approval. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. can you please call the next item. >> clerk: approve the treasure island transit pass and affordability program and additional element the of the treasure island toll policy. this is an action item. >> supervisor kim: thank you. we have planner and executive director to present on this item. >> good morning, commissioners. rachel hyatt, principal transportation planner. i wanted to share with you the information we presented to the committee on november 27 and also the amendments that the committee made in their recommendations. so as you all know, treasure island is growing. it's planned to grow significantly, into a large, new neighborhood i

supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: i shouldn't have anything to submit, but i am submitting a resolution of intent to form the central soma c.b.d., and i look forward to my colleagues passing that in my time after my time serving and also a c.a.c. for the new east, west, and central soma c.a.c., which will be divided from the current eastern neighborhood c.a.c. and look forward to input from supervisor mandelman, ronen, and supervisor-elect walton, as well, as we move to form a different way of overseeing the new development in our district. and i'll make my comments later, but i do just want to thank members of district 6 who came out here today for my last board of supervisors meeting. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor mandelman? okay, madam president, seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, i believe that brings us -- oh, one thing. i'd like to be a cosponsor on supervisor ronen's police officer

could you make a motion, supervisor kim, please? >> a motion to continue. >> i'll make a motion to continue to december 11th as a committee of the whole. >> thank you, madame clerk. >> supervisor: without objection. without objection objection. >> who was the second? >> hilary ronen. >> clerk: thank you. >> as amended without objection. all right. madame, i believe it brings us to item 25. >> supervisor: >> clerk: this with us heard and an ordinance amending the police code to aplow cannabis businesses to allow 35. of the new hires should be enrolled in apprenticeship programs with a memorandum of understanding or m.o.u. with the pre-apprenticeship program if a relevant program has such an m.o.u. >> i have a question for you before the opening remark. >> i'll make a motion to continue the item for one week. >> supervisor: all right. i still a question for you though. my question is for what reason is this in the police code? >> i would defer to the city attorney but it's where the code governs how mandates are for hiring practices.

supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: i want to thank you supervisor yee for introducing this. this is an important part of the american story in history. as we're seeing today with some of the xenophobic policies and leadership and speech in this country, it's just a reminder of what has happened in this country more than 100 years ago. the very first racial band was the chinese exclusion act of 1880. and the first racial registry was established soon after that, akin to the muslim registry and travel bans that we hear our president talk about today. and a lot of folks don't know this, but it was here in san francisco that the chinese six companies organized in the late 1800s to lead a civil disobedience protest asking chinese and chinese-americans not to register in this national registry. and it happened here in the city. and it's important for us to remember the city and for young asian-americans to know that we've long fought for the civil rights and expansion of liberties in this country and also so it doesn't happen again. similar it with the we're seeing today, asian-am

kim ringeisen/donating items to firefighters:"oh absolutely."vicki gonzalez/reporting:"because you have extensive experience." kim ringeisen/donating items to firefighters:"i'm also a combat veteran but this was unimaginable."natsafter watching our story of a firefighter losing his home in paradise..."i was looking for a firefighter with a family that i could donate to and then i came kim and his their home in a show of compassion. kim ringeisen/donating items to firefighters:"this is all the stuff we've donated and wi dolls."connecting with a fire department in oroville and giving away everything that could fit into a 26-foot storage truck...kim ringeisen/donating items to firefighters:"we want to turnkey everybody back up in their lives so they can put this behind them and move forward."an act of generosity helping dozens of firefighters who've lost their homes.kim ringeisen/donating items to firefighters:"we didn't lose something to a fire very abruptly. so for us, i think it's good that if we can donate everything we have, we'll start over.

kim jong-un has said that he now wa nts here. kim jong-un has said that he now wants to shift to pursue economic development. it is really important to keep in mind that actually, human rights are a very important part of economic development because of unease, the international community thomas cannot invest in north korea if north korea continues to conduct these kinds of human rights violations. so, for it to have opening and economic development, it is going to have to change and stop its human rights abuses. does it also tell us that we are not really go to see progress with relations between north korea and the us if donald trump and kim jong—un operate ona donald trump and kim jong—un operate on a warm level, but the senate and government on a different level is not wanting to move forward because of the issues you mention?” not wanting to move forward because of the issues you mention? i think our government does want to move forward , our government does want to move forward, i think the senate and i think the stat

let's begin. >> good afternoon, commissioners, chair kim. i'm a long-time, 19-year resident of treasure island. president of yerba buena residents association and i've drafted a petition to oppose the toll. first of all, let me say in great appreciation of the work that timma has done, including mr. cordoba and his team. there are too many open questions to proceed with voting on this item. to ask a san francisco resident, neighborhood, the residents of a san francisco neighborhood to pay a toll to get to and from their neighborhood seems outrageous. my point for the last half year has been, what are we doing next? build a fence around north beach? ask people to pay $3.50 to get in and out. i don't think it's reasonable. i appreciate what you have done to raise additional funds to find additional funds from the state of california, city of san francisco, or federal funds to build the much-needed public transportation system. and, guess with the, i have great faith in you that you can find more funds to do that. we've heard from you that the

>> supervisor kim: i did. >> supervisor safai: okay. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: i just want to thank jamie and members that serve on the single room occupancy task force for working on our office on this. i do really support the task force. this group has really done eye lot to both empower and organize and educate our residents and single room occupancy hotels that are largely based in the mission and chinatown and south of market and have done some incredible advocacy work throughout the city, certainly in my time in office. it was truly a remarkable group of residents, operators and s.r.o. owners, as well. i'm happy to offer the code to authorize the continuous of the task force, and i'll ask the committee to support this with recommendation to the board. >> supervisor safai: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, supervisor safai. i just want to echo supervisor kim's comments. with that, i would like to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor safai: can we do that without objection? w

i'll take some offline with supervisor kim. thank you for your work on this. as i said to supervisor stefani and brun, i know both had suggested amendments but it was not time for me to work with our coalition and have them see it. we didn't have time to vet it with them. what i will say is this board via ordinance can do many things and we'll have to have an oversight committee to make sure the dollars are constantly being sent down and supervisor mandelman will take the ordinance and they can go into the oversight committee analysis. keep in mind, the charter amendment guarantees we'll fully fund the program. we won't understand fund as we have in the first two years of the pilot program. this is the reality. there's different competing means in our buckdget and the mayor was only allocating $5.4 million to the program. >> mayor lee at the time only felt comfortable contributing $5.4 million of the $28 million of the program. this board through its very limited budget was able to add $1 million. it's a huge sum of money considering the $20 million we get to

>> supervisor kim: no. it says "any such use lawfully approved and existing as of july 24 can be maintained." >> planning department staff. there are about 45 to 48 already permitted cafeterias. d.p.h. has to go in there for health reasons and we have records about them being accessory uses to office spaces as well. >> supervisor kim: okay. but may not be expanded or reinstalled if abandoned. so those are two separate sentences. so can't be expanded, period, versus they can't be expanded if abandoned. >> supervisor safai: that might have been previous language from the existing. so i -- >> supervisor kim: i wanted to clarify. i could read it as may not be expanded. or if abandoned may not be reinstalled. sorry, just being -- >> supervisor safai: i believe we wrote that as to tie into the prohibition, so we might need to strike that last. after the but, we may want to strike that. >> we understand that existing legally established cafeteria couldn't be expanded. if one were to shut down and want to reopen, i

chairman kim expressed a strong willingness to visit seoul as he monitors the situation kim also stated that he is willing to meet often with president moon in two thousand and nineteen to advance discussions on the peace and prosperity of the korean peninsula and to resolve together the issue of denuclearizing the korean peninsula. and rob all eyes of course will be on kim's new year address and what it might mean a further u.s. north korea talks. indeed daryn in the opaque world of north korean politics this new year address by the leader of north korea offers a valuable insight into the current thinking in the north now you'll remember that last year we had a very strange mixed message on the one hand kim said very scary that he now had a nuclear button on his desk but at the same time saying that north korea had achieved its objective of gaining a workable nuclear arsenal and that maybe will come to the winter olympics well as we know the past twelve months it did lead to the most remarkable set of diplomatic maneuverings three summits between north south korea of course the trump k

. >> supervisor kim: not a competition. >> to supplement their income >> supervisor kim: do you think it will be helpful if you provided more flexibility on choosing hours? i'm picking your shifts and hours would that attract more folks? is this model working in terms of attracting workers. this the--they get to pick when to wk andives are needed the most. is that something that's attractive to your members or to potential muni bussives. >> drivers. >> i think the reflect is there and we have signups. you can pick a shift to work with your family, school and summers. that's there already. i think it's really the problem is the pay. >> supervisor brown: did you have anything else to add? >> that's it. thank you for your time. that might be some members that want to share. >> supervisor brown: i have one mr. speaker. the next person is cat carter from the transit rider. >> good afternoon chair kim and supervisor peskin and supervisor brown. thank you for calling this hearing for inviting san francisco transit riders to speak. we hope this will lead to improvements what is chronic proble

after being in power for seven years kim made his first ever state visit it was to china and two more trips were to follow north korea's relationship with china had hit a historic low but now kim was looking for friends. for its part china wanted to reassert its traditional influence the outcome was that china would be at the table whenever intra korean solutions were discussed and then there was the elaborately choreographed summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump in singapore. high on production values low on concrete results according to trump north korea's nuclear disarmament was a done deal trump was pleased with the results. better than anybody could have expected. in reality kim had signed only a vague declaration of intent similar to his agreement with south korea business as usual for the supreme leader. kim had tunnels destroyed at the nuclear test site in the run up to the summit it was a sign of diplomatic reproach miles but total disarmament will not be coming anytime soon the weapons are as bargaining chips came wanted sanctions loosened but trump didn't budge

but kim threw a curveball. he departed from the official protocol and asked moon to join him in stepping across to the north. archenemies holding hands in the spring sun. >> i'm hoping for a meaningful agreement that will be a big gift to the entire korean nation and every peace-loving person in the world. reporter: the talks culminated in an agreement that was signed in september. its motto -- cooperation, not confrontation. the two koreas were in charge. washington found itself sidelined. after being in power for seven years, kim made his first-ever state visit. it was to china. and two more trips were to follow. north korea's relationship with china had hit a historic low, but now kim was looking for friends. for its part, china wanted to reassert its traditional influence. the outcome was that china would be at the table whenever intra-korean solutions were discussed. and then there was the elaborately choreographed summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump in singapore. high on production values,

. >> supervisor tang: supervisor kim? >> supervisor safai: thank you for the feedback. it's right on point. >> supervisor kim: so i missed the land use committee last monday when one of the other amendments went in. >> supervisor safai: there wasn't any. today is the first day. they were under lock and key until this morning. because of the sensitive nature of this conversation, we wanted to make sure we had it done properly. >> supervisor kim: i read through the planning commission and staff's report and thought it was very thoughtful. i think it's important to put in an incentive program, too. i did like the idea of providing ground floor incentive.

north korea the president announced that he and leader kim had fallen in love. i'm going to guess you don't quite share those emotional feelings. >> sen. bolton: look, the president has stbled a very strong personal relationship with kim jong-un. i think i have a relationship with kim jong-un, he said at the lunch we had at singapore you

that message, according to moon, was to tell kim that trump has a, quote, very amicable view of kim and wants to implement the rest of their agreement. wolf. >> very interesting. brian, thanks very much. brian todd reporting. >>> breaking news next. president trump's long-time confidante roger stone invokes the fifth amendment in the senate russia investigation. why is he refusing a request for documents and for an interview? >> i answered all of the questions -- what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley >>> happening now, breaking news. pleading the fifth. the president's long-time confident daunt roger stone is refusing to comply with a request for an interview and information in the senate's russia investigation. is stone hiding something? >>> flynn's assistance. at any moment now robert mueller is expected to reveal new details on what he learned from the president's fo

kim jong un kim jong un's biggest test may lie ahead. will ripley, cnn. >> when you look back, a pretty amazing year. will he pass that test or could we face a return to the troubled relationship of the past between north and south korea and the united states? we super two smart people to discuss this. kimberly dozier from the daily beast and author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. good to see you both again. >> thank you. >> kim, what should we make of this letter from kim to the south korean leader? do you think he is earnest in wanting more dialogue or could he head south to seoul or anything like that? >> i think he is earnest about building on every possible pathway around the united states to build a momentum in terms of not just what south korea sees as possible, but what the south korean people see as possible in a future relationship between the two. as that momentum builds also with china opening up a lot more trade routes quietly with north korea, but it's going to get harder and harder to build that moment

thank you, chair tang, and supervisors kim and safai. this matter first came before this body back in october, october, 2013, when owners of the san francisco design center submitted an application to designate the building as a landmark. at that time, a landmark designation would have allowed conversion of the entire building from p.d.r. uses to office uses. there was a lot of consternation and a lot of concern given, which i shared. i did not want to see our coveted p.d.r. space cannibalized for office space. so given the amazing p.d.r. tenants that we have that are centered in the san francisco design center, this situation concerned me. and i think it's important to note that it's an important consideration for district 10 and for the entire fabric of san francisco. i don't know if any of you have been to the design center, but it's a gem. and we deserve -- we have a responsibility to maintain and to preserve it in san francisco. so what we did in order to maintain the p.d.r. and design space, in february, 2015, we passed legislation

tang: thank you, supervisor kim first. >> supervisor j. kim: thank you so much. thank you so much, chair tang. we actually heard this at land use committee. it began as a re-do of our better streets ordinance clean up language around curb cuts and also what we may require, or ask developers to include as part of either a change of use or new development throughout our city. through that process when we went to the planning commission with this ordinance, the planning commission, to actually, to my support suggested we eliminate minimum parking requirements citywide. just to clarify what this amendment would do, it would not prohibit parking in any new development. it would merely remove the requirement that developer would have to build a minimal number of parking spaces. currently, many of the policies and programs that this board of supervisors has already passed has basically allowed us to waive the minimum parking requirements whether through t.d.m. policy or a.d.u.'s, we allow developers to build bicycle parking instead. this feels pro forma but still is a v

absolutely, kim, set not to do any missile test late last year. he said he didn't have any need to do missile test, no need to do nuclear test. so yes, there was that progress, but if you don't have real denuclearisation occurring, that is not the kind of progress that the united states needs. kim is tried to build a force of nuclear weapons that can target europe and the united states and thatis europe and the united states and that is what president trump does not want to let out. we will have to see if that promised summit happens as well between the two. the follow—up summit. bruce than that, thank you very much. —— bruce bennett. thank you. in sapporo, in northern japan, a huge explosion and fire has left more than a0 people injured. the blast happened at a restaurant and it damaged surrounding buildings and scattered debris over the area. police have launched an investigation to try to find out what happened. gemma coombe reports. bright orange flames and thick black smoke. the immediate aftermath of a huge explosion at a busyjapanese

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