the city? yes, i am optimistic. get out! i would say i am a pessimist with information. oh! that's a good one. yes. a pessimist with information. yes. yeah, we are optimistic, you know, because that's why we're still fighting. yes, i do think things could get better. i do believe in our power and our historical power to fight for better conditions. so yes, we're going to push it a little more. - as i've seen in many other cities in the world, social inequality is on the rise here in buenos aires: the wealthiest 10% earn almost 17 times more per year than the bottom 10%. now, to give you some context, in canada it's only 8.6 times higher. but there are things that can be done on a smaller scale to help bridge the gap for low-income citizens - simple things like sharing and saving basic resources. - what began as a group of friends trying to do some good has evolved into plato lleno, an organization managing some 200 volunteers who carry out over 70 "food rescues" each year! how cool is that? and

place for the city was built. >> this was the city built it was a perfect storm, it was a city built of wood in place experiencing incredible drought. >> and understaffed fire department and beaten down in the night before, something called saturday night fire that they fought for like 16 hours and one third of them already too small fire department was basically out of commission and so was a lot of their equipment. then less than six or hours later comes the one for the "chicago's great fire" and that alarmed basically for various reasons we don't understand, came a half-hour late so the fires going the time we get to the scene. >> basically they had a guard wandering the top like looking out like someplace like the city hall, it seems prehistoric but look there may be a fire over there, what is that over there. >> it had too few people into little equipment and there were one or 95 fighters of the city of 3,130,000 people but they had a state-of-the-art as it were, equipment and steam equipment and they also had a telegraph alarm system, it just did not work at night. someone thre

same thing, the commonplace and why should the city burn down and he blamed the way the city was built pretty. >> is your take, it was a perfect storm, is a city built of wood, a place that was experiencing an incredible drought. >> grout with hundreds of fires and understaffed firemen. >> and they were beaten down. >> is saturday night fire they had fought for 16 hours in one third of them already too small fire department was basically out of commission it and so a lot of their equipment was as well and then finally gets struck and then six or seven hours later comes the alarm for the "chicago's great fire" and that alarm basically for various reasons became half-hour late in the fire was going and by the time we get to the scene. >> so basically the way they sought the fires those days they had a garden wandering on the top of the people of the city call like looking out that seems prehistoric but that maybe there's a fire over there. >> and chicago had as good of a to few people in two little equipment and 190 firefighters for the city of 3,130,000 people but they had a state-of-th

the cities making in the fight that i'm having with the city continues. and i told them what you and i have talked about before. like if you tell us where the baby is, they'll drop the lawsuit today. that's what this is all about, that we're trying to find out. they don't believe us. i think it's about money. it's time. it's about to search for truth. one of the issues to the city here katrina is if we establish here that they don't know, there are other cases like yours that are out there are pending and they don't want to make bad law. they don't want to make their precedent. so the further they could push us back and slowest down both the ladder to do things and bad things will happen to the city. so they're part of their delay is to not but this case come to trial because there are other cases that are going to fall shortly behind. tampa. i feel that they really don't much because all they thinking is about the money. and honestly, like i said, i love to win this for money. i want my son back there. say lou, what we know right now from, from the recor

people of the city. we're next to the jacques-cartier bridge, we're by the st. lawrence river, we're between the port and the highway. it's kind of a bit of a ridiculous spot, but it works. just last year, we had 120,000 people come in four months. people need spaces like this. you see so many people move to the suburbs these days and try to find a safe haven or some peace. we've kind of wedged it in and tried to make something happen where people maybe wouldn't have thought it was possible. - this odd and interesting place is called le village au pied-du-courant, which roughly translates as the village by the river. the non-profit behind it and behind many public space initiatives throughout the city is la pépinière, "the nursery". it's an urban lab focused on innovation, creativity and community engagement to redraw and rethink unused urban spaces. violaine is the project manager for this very successful project. we're on a snow dump here, so... wait! what? sorry. you're on a snow dump? yes. what's a

and during such time as i serve as the city attorney. >> the city attorney. >> for the city and county of san francisco. >> the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. (applause) >> i am so humbled by this moment. this is overwhelming. and with all of the amazing things that have been said, i almost feel like i should shut up and just sit down. let me start with some profound thanks. first of all, i want to thank mayor breed. i want to thank you not just for this incredible opportunity, but for your leadership during these incredibly difficult times. (applause) i am looking forward to working with you with every single member of the san francisco board of supervisors in an attorney/client privilege way. with all of the elected officials here, the judges here, the over 100 city departments and agencies and commissions to move our great city forward. i of course want to salute my predecessor, our outgoing city attorney. (applause) for 20 years as has been said, you have built the gold standard for what a premier public law office means in this country. you have done it with

parts of the city. so if you move one example we give is in new york which is on the opposite coast is your folks will know intimately, you can go 12 minutes by subway and use 12 years by life expectancy. and just to give you a sense of whatthat means , smoking rates, smoking cuts about 10 years off your life expectancy is the equivalent of taking the subway ride and going from a place where everyone smokes to a place where nobody smokes. and even then there's not a whole lot. so it's just this huge disparity and you say to use the analogy which is perfect on the escalator. you say how can you have an escalator if in one part of the city you have people who are rich and wonderful and fulfilling lives. the other part of the city it's a struggle to live as long as people in low and middle income countries. that's just not working for everybody. so you have to find a way to make this work for everybody or people are going to get really frustrated and that is not a recipe forthings going well . >> we have o

the cities making in the fight that i'm having with the city continues. and i told them what you and i have talked about before. like if you tell us where the baby is, they'll drop the lawsuit today. that's what this is all about to. we're trying to find out. they don't believe us. you think it's about money, it's time it's about to search for truth. one of the issues with the city here katrina is. if we establish here that they don't know, there are other cases like yours that are out there are pending and they don't want to make their law. they don't want to make their precedent. so the further they could push us back and slow us down both ladder, that is things bad, things will happen to the city. so they're part of their delay is to not but this case come to trial because there are other cases that are going to fall shortly behind. and i, i feel that the really in doing much because all they thinking is about the money. and honestly, like i said, i love doing this for money. i want my son back there say ah, what we know right now from, from the record

in the city. again, i want to thank the p.u.c. for following through and meeting deadlines on these three reports. i want to highlight one important deadline coming up. december 31st as laid out in the resolution. they are to brent to the board and the public comprehensive plan for expanding the efws to all neighborhoods including financing plan. that is coming up. finally, one additional piece of work happened since the last hearing in january on this issue. budget and legislative analyst office did a supplemental report looking at financing options and how we can really finance and pay for this extremely important infrastructure and emergency preparedness project. today we want to have an update from the p.u.c. and the bla on the additional work they have done and allow for additional public comments. i know there are members of the public joining us to share their comments. >> thank you, supervisor mar. i did want to -- i mentioned 10 minutes per speaker our usual. we did have a request for a p

in arguments the cities making in the fight that i'm having with the city continues. and i told them that you and i have talked about before, like if you tell us where the baby is, don't drop the lawsuit today. that's what this is all about to. we're trying to find out, they don't believe us. we think it's about money. it's time, it's about a search with truth. one of the issues to the city here, katrina is if we establish here that they don't know, there are other cases like yours that are out there are pending and they don't want to make bad law. they don't want to make their precedent so the further they could push us back and slowest down both the latter and a distinction bad things will happen to a city. so they're part of their delay is to not that use case come to trial because there are other cases that are going to fall shortly behind the i feel that they really don't know much because all they thinking is about the money. and honestly like has said a lot of this for money. i want my son back there. say lou, what we know right now from, from the record. so we

in arguments the cities making in the fight that i'm having with the city continues. and i told them that you and i have talked about before, like if you tell us where the baby is, they'll drop the lawsuit today. that's what this is all about to. we're trying to find out, they don't believe us. we think it's about money. it's time, it's about a search for the truth. one of the issues with the city here, katrina is. if we establish here that they don't know, there are other cases like yours that are out there are pending and they don't want to make bad law. they don't want to make their precedent so the further they could push us back and slowest down both the latter, the distinction bad things will happen to the city. so they're part of their delay is to not, but this case come to trial because there are other cases that are going to fall shortly behind. pi. i feel that they really don't know much because all they thinking is about the money. and honestly like has said a lot of this for money. i want my son back there. say, lou, what we know right now from, from the r

arguments the cities making in the fight that i'm having with the city continues. and i told them what you and i have talked about before. like if you tell us where the baby is, they'll drop the lawsuit today. that's what this is all about, that we're trying to find out. they don't believe us. we think it's about money. it's time it's about to search for truth. one of the issues to the city here, katrina is if we establish here that they don't know, there are other cases like yours that are out there pending. and they don't want to make bad law. they don't want to make their precedent so the further they could push us back and slow us down both ladder to do things bad things will happen to the city. so they're part of their delay is to not but this case come to trial because there are other cases that are going to fall shortly behind. tampa. i feel that they really don't know much because all they thinking is about the money. and honestly, like i said, i love doing this for money. i want my son back there. say lou, what we know right now from, from the record to we

the city. they don't often know how. and i think we're lucky at this moment coming out of this pandemic we have all these new groups. so, today, this event was organized by together sf which is a new organization helping to get people informed and engaged in their communities. . we have vince young who's helping us lend a hand and so, together, we can refuse refuge. and then, of course, we also have shine on sf all of them figuring out how we can work together and i really want to say thank you to the mayor for bringing this together. the private resources. we have public works who's out there every day cleaning up we have all the private resources coming together. and this is i think the first of many events that are going to be about cleaning up this city and bringing those public and private resources together. today's obviously about cleaning. we're going to be picking up litterment i want to make two points. this is really about bringing that neighborhood pride. so bepaired you with a clea

the city. i can give you the article of commission president mr. murphy, and now years after the settlement, the permit issues remain unresolved. you would think that a former commission president who got sued by the city attorney would be held to the highest standard. i would like to understand this beyond mr. santos -- i don't want to prejudice the matter, but he seems to be in some sort of significant trouble with the united states of america. it would be nice if we could clean our own dirty laundry without the f.b.i. having to do it, and d.b.i. seems to be where the rubber hits the road. thank you, madam chair. >> chair melgar: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: mr. duffy, i think you have a short presentation? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm joe duffy, senior inspector at d.b.i. today, i'm here to provide a report on the expanded compliance control ordinance. next slide. this codified and strengthened d.b.i.s expanded quality control program, which we've had in place since 2018. it

this is about the whole city, the many city departments and the community coming together to help with education and helping people understand and abide by our health orders. helping seniors get to medical appointments and reaching our most vulnerable who are unhouseded. we have so much to be proud of and the challenges ahead. i am confident we will meet them together. thank you for your dedication and partnership with the city. let's keep it going and let's get our boosters. all right. so we are now going to recognize our vaccine heroes and i will read the name of the recipient and the mayor will present. correct? okay. bay point advocates. bayview. we're doing a photograph with each one and then a group. correct? >> i didn't even know i was supposed to speak. i'm honored to receive this award. representing the folks in bayview hunter's point. through the pandemic, it has been such a life lesson learning and just an experience because i experience and got covid myself. so that was just, you know, an eye opener for me just one of those things. i'm in the community. when it came down to

owed to the city and not another rate payer. we've requested that information from recology, but we have not yet received it, and we'll report back to the board as we have answered on it. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you. so, mr. rosenfield, they sent you or the city a check with $461,000 with no explanation as to how they calculated it? >> part of the reason why we're being careful is because this is money that the city has not requested. it was a check in an envelope with no information behind it. >> supervisor peskin: and how long did they send this? >> this was middle of september that they received the check. we requested information from recology within a week, which as of yet we have not received. >> supervisor peskin: in the past, has recology ever sent anybody in the city unexplained unrequested refund checks? >> not that i'm aware of, supervisor. >> president walton: and supervisor safai -- oh, go ahead, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: mr. rosenfield, i know th

the new steps being taken to help stop the violence within the city. and we are just moments away from that news conference coming for us. >>> i'm marcus washington. i want to thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. >> i'm laura garcia. we'll have a live look in oakland in just a minute. we expect laron armstrong to respond to city leaders now calling for changes in policing and a crackdown on crime. the chief is expected to talk about the recent murders in the city and the additional staffing of tactical units. oakland mayor libby shaff wants $18 million slotted for programs to help deter crime to go to oakland police following the recent spike in homicides there. the money was diverted from opd following a city council vote in june. >> the news conference follows the death of a man near lake merritt. eric davis worked in construction, before he came to oakland two years ago. heavily involved in his church in los angeles and we spoke with his mother and aunt who are just heartbroken and pleading for answers. >> he was our heart. trying to pr

to the city. we waited 15 months for the library to issue the letter exhibit d on the last page of your packet. i believe that is did city's responsibility to serve as role model to private property owners and ex he diet the resource -- expedite the resources. i appreciate your review and efforts to get us where we are. i will answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. that concludes staff presentation we should open public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. press star 3 to begin speaking. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am robert tourney. i was a member of the landmark preservation advisory board when we landmarked the other six carnegie libraries. i shot we had done them all. better late than never. i have just two comments for you. one of them is the line from the historic context statement for all seven carnegie libraries which describes this one as the jewel of the seven. i think that you should certainly go ahead with thi

the city attorne , negotiated by city staff and the city attorneys and approved by the appropriate oversight body. in response to the controllers report and more recently the bla report, i'd like to just reiterate that last year when the mayor introduced her directive changing the way that forensic group work with the city we immediately implemented a series of measures to increase our accountability for alliance including eliminating all anonymous donations over $100. and listing all donors on our public website. we also have upgraded our customer engagement tools that we are able to collect and track disclosure information. just to be clear the bla report did reference $3.5 million in anonymousdonations. since that time , 3 million of that 3.5 was from one donor. and since that time that donor has agreed to not be anonymous. to be clear the other $500,000 was from many different smaller foundations given before this new implementation of not being allowed to be anonymous. and i think earlier there was a question about being anonymous and just to be clear we don't have that many. that's not

city have their business name on both and it's all over the city. the reason this came to my attention, during the pandemic, i had a business in district 2 contact me to tell me he was being fined $100 a day by the planning department for being out of compliance while we're forcing them to shut down because he had his business name on both the awning and projecting sign. our planning department was spending resources and enforcing this law to really cost this business even more harm than it is going through because of the pandemic and because he was out of compliance, charging him $100 a day and the money it would have taken to come into compliance by changing the sign, deciding which one to change was honestly to me unbelievable and i knew i had to do something about it. i want to be clear, the matter before you, i really believe presents a policy choice with respect to how we treat small businesses in the city. the covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on small businesses and we have done a lot to help with that at the board of supervisor

who are coming to the city. i'm fighting to get all these conventions and other activities and things here, but we know there's so much more work to do. i want to thank our deputy chief and david lizard. so many people working collaboratively together in order to ensure that this city is open for business, it's thriving and we're taking good care of one another like we did throughout this pandemic. thank you all for coming out here today. [ applause ] i always forget my job. and i also want to introduce this supervisor that we have been working hand in hand dealing with so many of the challenges that this community faces, but also we take a moment to. yerba buena as a whole. and we want to keep it that way and the supervisor who represents this community. supervisor matt haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you mayor breed and for your entire team. one thing we all know about mayor breed is that she loves the city of san francisco and she also loves to show off the city of san francisco. and this community in parti

to the city. if the controller has additional information, i would absolutely welcome them to weigh in. >> good afternoon. i do not and i'm happy to confirm that and i can get back to the committee. >> ok. thank you for just confirming. that was comparable to the settlement agreement that was reached back in april. even though our -- the rate structure for our city contract with recology is based on the commercial rates. so i don't know if that is something that we hadn't looked into, whether how much we would -- the city was being overcharged. given that the commercial rates were, you know, recology was overcharging commercial customers. any idea how much that might be worth? >> we're happy to work with any overages on this contract. >> i was going to say that we would work with o.c.a. >> ok. great. thank you. would appreciate that work and would love to see what you come up with. thank you. thank you, chair haney. >> thank you for the question. let's go to public comment, please. >> that, chair

in the city. i uncovered i have to say harrowing memoirs, letters and diaries of the women who suffered enormously when the army came in to berlin, the soldiers were literally drunk on victory and they were drunk and came through and they raped and abused many of the women in berlin. it was very important and a difficult story to tell and a difficult story to read. but it was very important to tell it because it was part of the story that women of berlin would live with this for decades "afterwards". it also explains partly why the women in berlin were so desperate for the americans and british and later the french as well. desperate for them to arrive to bring some sense of order because it's not only a city in ruins, it's a city without any government at all. without electricity or gas or water without anyone, anything. the americans in the city bringing in 25000 troops each, they are coming in to a place of total anarchy. it's important for people to realize just how trashed the city was at the

food in the city. the surprising thing is that the chef is an out-of-towner... ...and no he's not from naples... ...or even milan... ...he's from japan. >> stanley. >> kotaro. nice to meet you. >> pleasure. nice to meet you too. kotaro noda was lured here 20 years ago by his obsession with the flavours of italian cuisine. >> noda's food has won praise for its creativity but tonight he's making the simplest roman classic. it's one of the famous four pastas - cacio e pepe - literally 'cheese and pepper.' >> there are just three main ingredients but it takes great skill to make this roman favourite perfect. >> of course, another italian kitchen secret . >> could take a while. i know you may be thinking this is ludicrously simple food but believe me, it's extraordinary and don't just take my word for it. where's karen? karen? come here. >> right. >> ok. >> ok. ok. >> this is karen who works with us - one of the producers. she's from rome. so you tell us what you think, karen. >> ok. ok. no pressure. >> no.

[inaudible] the state and the city the state of emergency in the city. >> we really want to get that vaccine approved for them right, dr. baba. do you have someone under 12 at home? you're asking for others. >> for others. >> i'm still going to get asked by potential students what's step one and step two how to go about. >> i hope you'll correct me if i'm wrong. we have things set up all across the city. we'll do that annually and run that against our add missions records. one of those schools have their tuition covered for eight consecutive terms. >> do you mean physical or online? >> the physical site. we're going to send them out. >> thank you. >> placed across the city. >> i'm from the san francisco examiner. we know people from all walks of life and also the age group between 25 to 34 is really the lowest vaccinated age group right now. so can you talk about why this is specifically for the age group that it was and kind of what your thoughts are with kind of getting that younger adult age group vaccinated too. >> we're focused on this group because they are so far our largest i

and me and all of the city departments is we want to re-open the city the right way. as you saw just last week, we had fleet week. we had the giants playoff game. we had chase center. we had a lot of people in the city again for the first time in two years and it was great. it was outstanding. it got national coverage. our city was on the national spotlight and people came here and enjoyed themselves. that's what we want. that's dwr we're doing this work. so this work will continue. we will sustain it and i would like to say also, again, you know, we don't want to make ourselves easy targets and as you walk around this area, particularly this area, you will see on the parking meters, you'll see signs that say 'park smart' and what that means is don't make yourself an easy target. these are the folks that are being victimized the most. it's a shame we have to say this, but we do, and we also know that this works. when people are resilient and vigilant about not making themselves easy targets, we've seen these crimes go down because there's nothing to steal. so word to

in the city. again, i want to thank the p.u.c. for following through and meeting deadlines on these three reports. i want to highlight one important deadline coming up. december 31st as laid out in the resolution. they are to brent to the board and the public comprehensive plan for expanding the efws to all neighborhoods including financing plan. that is coming up. finally, one additional piece of work happened since the last hearing in january on this issue. budget and legislative analyst office did a supplemental report looking at financing options and how we can really finance and pay for this extremely important infrastructure and emergency preparedness project. today we want to have an update from the p.u.c. and the bla on the additional work they have done and allow for additional public comments. i know there are members of the public joining us to share their comments. >> thank you, supervisor mar. i did want to -- i mentioned 10 minutes per speaker our usual. we did have a request for a p

so sono live through the famine in the country's and the city and is in this social panic in the city and has a lot of trouble finding work and ultimately has to leave but i think that it was really interesting to think about the social life of the cities and then to be hit with the pandemic in which many of the same issues came up for different reasons. for example, when people werewh talking about hair dressing which came at major issue in a pandemic, is a frivolous to get your haircut is it it essential or something you really need to be doing made me think of the fact that hair dressing was also really central cute bar that is privileged for people to go to the hair and obviously is an kind of a concern over sanitation a big part of this world concern and it was really kind of chillingce to watch the cities be completely shut down but on the other hand the gorilla hope because of course edo recovered it from the reform and the big earthquake that followed and the arrival and opening of the season recovered from losing aphids population and cities are really r resiliet is one of th

the city and county of san francisco. members who wish to provide commentshould call public comment line 415-655-0001 answer the meeting id , 2493 569 4649.then pound and pound again to connect. once connected press start 3 and a quick system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait for us tocall public comment and when the system indicates you have been unmuted you may begin your comment . mister chair. >> chair: i'd like to welcome back officer tomlinsen to present the alu report on this item . >> bottle back now is a type xxi license and this will allow them to operate on general premise with zero letters of support. they're located in platte for 17 which is considered ahigh crime area in district 205 it is considered high saturation . the station has no opposition and alu approves on condition the positioner shall monitor the area to prevent the loitering's of persons on any property adjacent to the premise as in abc 253 and as of november 9 they have agreed to that condition. >> chair: thank you officer.

stock in the city. the largest barrier is a lack of public funding. this allocation can allow us to keep hundreds of units from hitting the speculative market. [please stand by] [please stand by] >> clerk: hello, speaker, you are connected. please begin your comments. [speaking spanish] >> interpreter: i will proceed to interpret. good morning, i live on mission street. 4830 mission street apartment 204 and i'm here, i have been living here since i got this house. now i'm not afraid to be evicted. please approve the funds so they can continue buying buildings. thank you very much. i hope you have a great day. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: hi. i'm a resident of district 8. i fully support using this money for affordable housing. i hope we can move forward quickly as possible. it's crucial that we protect tenants. it's crucial that we build and maintain housing for everybody. not just for the rich in san francisco. i urge this committee and the board to support this legislation with

in the city. i uncovered i have to say harrowing memoirs, letters and diaries of the women who suffered enormously when the army came in to berlin, the soldiers were literally drunk on victory and they were drunk and came through and they raped and abused many of the women in berlin. it was very important and a difficult story to tell and a difficult story to read. but it was very important to tell it because it was part of the story that women of berlin would live with this for decades "afterwards". it also explains partly why the women in berlin were so desperate for the americans and british and later the french as well. desperate for them to arrive to bring some sense of order because it's not only a city in ruins, it's a city without any government at all. without electricity or gas or water without anyone, anything. the americans in the city bringing in 25000 troops each, they are coming in to a place of total anarchy. it's important for people to realize just how trashed the city was at the

rest of the city. thank you, supervisor -- >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar? i don't -- i'm not worried about that part, but i do worry about our discourse in terms of private fill anthropy because i am leading this effort with supervisor ronen to raise a bunch of money for community schools and other things that we try to raise money for, and i think that the private sector can have a role in things. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton, and thank you, colleagues. i just wanted to comment on the comments of my colleagues. i don't think that questioning this bloomberg creation of an office funded by bloomberg on the heels of endorsement, like, that raises a whole different level of concern. i didn't hear from miss kitler a statement saying she's not in the room and a party to endorsements. fair enough. i think that the mayor's office can come forward so soon after endorsements with a big chu

people living at the city's marine ship. part camps say they started noticing a horrible smell and some sort of fluid bubbling up from the ground after last month's big storm, the residents claim they had the fluid tested at the lab and say the results showed high levels of fecal matter. there are rooms. i'm sure available somewhere that the city can find for us to get off this contaminated soils. they just don't want to spend the money on it. according to the marin i j. the city took its own samples of the soil at the marine ship park camp last week and are still awaiting the results. oakland's police chief spoke out today about the city's recent rise in violent crime and lack of officers. the chief says the staffing shortage will only get worse next year. but. as ktvu is, amberleigh tells us some residents question whether public safety will improve even with more police officers. oakland as say the recent surge in violence brings caution and situational awareness at night. i take my dog around and i choose a particularly

covering the city as well. to singapore, in government avoided talk, loyal it's coveted, platinum, green mark, the nation's highest environmental satilla cation is part of a white, a scheme to promote environmentally friendly buildings and investment into green city solutions. to understand more about why this city's the greenest in asia, i want to see what's happening at the grass roots heard about a non profit cross tennis, providing employment and supporting accruing into community. i've come to meet the funder like hot comment. i came here trying to get people to go back to basic, and i thought as a result that we have a nice ation, globalization and digitization, that we come disconnect. so i was trying to create, using a space to connect back people and to bring better spirit the community. and it's very strange for a country like things well with us where so top down. and that's why my name is called ground up in a shaky ground. up initiative started in 2009 and secured a piece of land to provide environ

to the city. if the controller has additional information, i would absolutely welcome them to weigh in. >> good afternoon. i do not and i'm happy to confirm that and i can get back to the committee. >> ok. thank you for just confirming. that was comparable to the settlement agreement that was reached back in april. even though our -- the rate structure for our city contract with recology is based on the commercial rates. so i don't know if that is something that we hadn't looked into, whether how much we would -- the city was being overcharged. given that the commercial rates were, you know, recology was overcharging commercial customers. any idea how much that might be worth? >> we're happy to work with any overages on this contract. >> i was going to say that we would work with o.c.a. >> ok. great. thank you. would appreciate that work and would love to see what you come up with. thank you. thank you, chair haney. >> thank you for the question. let's go to public comment, please. >> that, chair

rest of the city. thank you, supervisor -- >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar? i don't -- i'm not worried about that part, but i do worry about our discourse in terms of private fill anthropy because i am leading this effort with supervisor ronen to raise a bunch of money for community schools and other things that we try to raise money for, and i think that the private sector can have a role in things. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton, and thank you, colleagues. i just wanted to comment on the comments of my colleagues. i don't think that questioning this bloomberg creation of an office funded by bloomberg on the heels of endorsement, like, that raises a whole different level of concern. i didn't hear from miss kitler a statement saying she's not in the room and a party to endorsements. fair enough. i think that the mayor's office can come forward so soon after endorsements with a big chu

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