delighted to be here in chinatown. thank you to all of you who came out. there's going to be some noise during this event. this is a very busy street. that's one of the reasons we are doing this project. we are here today -- i am transportation director with the sfmta. thank you, boss. we're geared today to mark yet another important milestone and the steady, continued progress that we are making for the future generations of san francisco in this critically important project criticallyphase 2 of the light rail, otherwise known as the central subway. it is a project that is very important for building capacity, to move san francisco in the future. it also has benefits for current generations of san franciscans. the benefit comes in the form of jobs. you cannot mention the word jobs these days without thinking of our great mayor lee. out further ado, i want to ask mayor lee to come up and say a few words. mayor lee: thank you. thank you for your great leadership. we would be dryer if the subway was built. we would be right here. i'm looking forward to it for the work that is about to hap

, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandpar

families will be able to be connected to folks who live here, not just in chinatown, but north beach, and fisherman's wharf. i know there have been a lot of thanks. i want to take a moment to thank the community partners that helped to make this happen. we spent a lot of time working with the residential tenants and the small business tenants who are here. thank you to ccdc and your advocates for working with the mta staff and others in making sure the transition will be a smooth one. the reason we have this beautiful our work behind us is because of the work of the chinese historical society. thank you. i also want to thank the chinatown ymca. the young people helped to create the minerals. from left to right, it tells the journey from our past to our present and really to our future to a beautiful new structure that will be built. this structure is being billed with the generations of struggles and advocacy represented by all of us here and by the good work of the city, working with the private sector, working with our community. thank you for being here today. look forward to futu

chinatown which was rebuilt after the earthquake and fire. virtually every building in chinatown except for old st. mary's church was rebuilt after the fire and earthquake. there have been few sites that have been we developed since that time. one exception is this building right here. it was truly transformational in that it constructed decent affordable housing for china totwon's overcrowded citizens. the advocacy for that housing took 20 years. advocacy for public housing in chinatown started in the 1930's. we are pleased that the artwork has always been a part of major public projects. this will be the new central subway station for chinatown, which is also transformational for chinatown. not only will it bring visitors, workers, shoppers to chinatown. it will provide much-needed transportation connections for chinatown residents to go elsewhere in the city. it is transformational because it will transform this corner. this building was built after the earthquake and will become a new gateway for chinatown. really positive things for the future of chinatown. we are not a stag

significant transformational projects of chinatown. it was commissioned for the opening of the public housing in 1952. it depicts 100 years of chinese american history. it reads from left to right. the original is donated to the historical society. it was restored by the historical society. it hangs in our wells fargo learning center. members of the public are welcome to visit the actual mural. what i said about transformation is so important. we are standing in chinatown which was rebuilt after the earthquake and fire. virtually every building in chinatown except for old st. mary's church was rebuilt after the fire and earthquake. there have been few sites that have been we developed since that time. one exception is this building right here. it was truly transformational in that it constructed decent affordable housing for china totwon's overcrowded citizens. the advocacy for that housing took 20 years. advocacy for public housing in chinatown started in the 1930's. we are pleased that the artwork has always been a part of major public projects. this will be the new central s

, self-help provided hot meals to those in chinatown, but today it provides training and social activities to more than 35,000 seniors across the bay area. opened in 1992, our senior center serves an insult -- an important community hub for seniors. our ongoing partnership with self-help for the elderly is significant because of our commitment to provide quality programs to the the elderly. the self-help director betty fung is here. i just wanted to congratulate her on 20 great years and present this certificates on behalf of staff. [applause] >> commissioners, on behalf of self-help and the many seniors we serve, we thank you. thank you for your help for the past 20 years. we have been operating at the sunset playground, providing daily hot meals and activities for seniors in the sunset. for some of the scene is we serve, that is the only hot meal they will get during the day because of their financial situation, and also with activities and socialization opportunities we provide, it helps promote physical and mental health. we are thankful for the partnership that has been exp

regard to the project, for the chinatown station, i think we had mentioned before that it would be going to the board of supervisors committee after it came from the planning commission. it did go to the committee last monday and went to the full board on tuesday and passed unanimously, so it will have its second reading, and we expect that to be done. we have issued the first of three notices to proceed to the tunnel contractor that allows him to purchase the boring machine any day now. a second notice to proceed, which will allow for construction of the launch box for the tunnel. in terms of chinatown, we have now taken possession of the stockton street building, which is on the site of the station. we have moved successfully everybody out, and we have now hired someone to basically clean up the inside of the building to seal the outside of the building to make sure that in the interim, until it is removed, that is not only does not become a polite to the neighborhood but that is attractive -- does not become a polite -- blight to the neighborhood but that it is attractive. that

richard chen, a longtime leader in a businessman in the chinatown committee that passed away on february 5. i want to take a minute to acknowledge and thank his family members who are here in the chamber today. he was born in a humble village in canton province in china. he proved over the course of his career to be a man a significant talent. after burying his wife in 1929, he began a remarkable military career with the chinese national party as a lieutenant colonel, later with the united states army, where he supported the famous flying tigers air force. soon after that, richard retired from his well decorated military service. he moved to san francisco with his wife and children. despite a modest start in the food industry, his hard work and dedication allowed him to build several successful grocery and restaurant businesses in chinatown. richard was highly respected in the community as an entrepreneur and business leader. in his story epitomizes the american dream. i want to thank him for his love for his wife, his children, his family, his compassion, and dedication to the

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worked on a series of community plans for neighborhoods from visitation valley to chinatown. we always begin with the same starting point -- start with the people who live and work in the community. we have worked with various diverse communities, which means doing processes in multiple languages, getting communities to listen to each other, and understand development projects, their impact, their benefits, and the trade offs. in this project, we began by looking at the waterfront from the existing pattern interspersed with buildings that build up to the topography of san francisco. the vision created by the community that looks at all of the publicly-managed locks and crosstown connections. we believe that this is where the port should have begun with this process. i will talk about five major points of the vision that was created. what you have before you is a summary map of what the community came up with. these five points stand in stark contrast to the point that is before you. first, it begins with a comprehensive development plan for the entire waterfront, not a plan driven by a

edge of chinatown, which are neighborhoods with the highest concentration of the sorrows. i think i am qualified to sit on this body and i'm happy to answer any questions you have. supervisor kim: any questions? thank you for your work on the bed bug ordinance which affects many san francisco residents. supervisor campos: i think this is an excellent choice to serve in this body and we are appreciative of your interest in serving in this capacity. thank you for putting your name for. >> i have been working as a community organizer for two and a half years. working on tenants' rights and community organizing issues. i would be honored to serve on the task force and i think i bring my experience, knowledge and expertise that i have gained. supervisor kim: any questions? i did not know you had studied in zoology. how did you transition into the work you do currently? you do amazing work in our district. i was just surprised to see that on your resume. >> i was a very much interested in science, but in college, i decided to do community organizing. supervisor campos: i think that's the

we have in the mission, chinatown, north beach, at our main campus. [applause] i have to be honest with you, our performance leading up to this over the past seven or 8 years has been more in some respects quite disappointing. quite disappointing. no argument about it. you have to give the devil his or her to. if there is change, and we believe we have made significant change, we want credit for the change that we have committed here. our board of trustees and myself have committed extra resources for this facility and when we were taking those away from other areas of the city. >> thank you, chancellor. >> i think we have to time you add three minutes to be fair to the other people that we will be speaking to. >> here is a man to my right, he spends every day in a facility now. he is not an absentee coordinator or administrator. his face is known to the people here, he has done an outstanding job since he has taken over and he has been the man on the spot. >> thank you very much. good evening, commissioners. i was asked to tell you about some of the things that we have done here a

the one-stop career center in san francisco chinatown and oversee and manage a team of seven full-time staff. one stock is a comprehensive and integrated workforce development center, operated by to debut of nonprofit organizations. -- two nonprofit organizations. both agencies have more than 45 years of combined experience serving job-seekers and people with multiple barriers to obtaining economic sufficiency. we have those organizations with many training programs. it allows us to assess the needs of residents of san francisco and provide services to mitigate those needs with the goal of economic self-sufficiency for residents of san francisco. i am plunge in english and three dialects of chinese. -- i am fluent in english and three dialects of chinese. i believe that my experience operating the one-stop center allows me to provide a voice for immigrants and other job- seekers who have multiple barriers to employment to be able to fully integrate. supervisor kim: what would be one of your priorities in serving an advisory capacity? >> the priority is to reflect on the debut of y

. members of her group call chinatown community against the recall held a fundraiser for mayor quan. the recall effort picked up momentum after a police crackdown on occupy protesters at city hall. that's what you are looking at here. the chinatown group says the recall is an unnecessary sideshow. >> it is going to be devisive, and it is going to be counterproductive. so therefore we want to be having a more productive oakland for all of us. >> two groups are circulating petitions. one has until mid-may and the other has until july. >>> up next, pope benedict's visit to mexico. thousands of people visit to see the pontif, and they got an earful. also, tonight's massive mega millions jackpot almost $300 million. but will anyone claim the huge prize? and spacestation astronauts take cover. the floating junk that is drifting ever closer. all of that is coming up. and then later on "nightline." >> i'm bill we are. coming up, imaginary gastric bypass. one woman's journey to lose major pounds by fooling her mind into believing she has surgery. and the national memory champion teaches us all ho

-- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. we are very grateful for the years of service that she has provided this community. commissioner buell: let the record so reflect. second to that motion? moved and seconded. unanimous. >> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accid

and 4ordinance amending the san francisco planning code section 249.66 to: 1) create the chinatown transit station special use district at the southwest corner of stockton street and washington street (assessor block no. 211, lot no. 1); 2) permit the demolition of a mixed-use building in the chinatown residential neighborhood commercial district. president chiu: colleagues, can we do these items some house same call? items are passed. item five? >> item number 5. ordinance: 1) accepting the irrevocable offer of public infrastructure improvements associated with mission bay south blocks 2-7 and 13 phase i including acquisition facilities on portions of fourth street, mission rock street, china basin street, mission bay boulevard north, and mission bay boulevard south; 2) accepting additional property on portions of fourth street, mission rock street, and china basin street; 3) declaring city property and additional property as shown on official department of public works maps as open public right- of-way; 4) dedicating such improvements for public use and designating such areas and

. members of her group call chinatown community against the recall held a fundraiser for mayor quan. the recall effort picked up momentum after a police crackdown on occupy protesters at city hall. that's what you are looking at here. the chinatown group says the recall is an unnecessary sideshow. >> it is going to be devisive, and it is going to be counterproductive. so therefore we want to be having a more productive oakland for all of us. >> two groups are circulating petitions. one has until mid-may and the other has until july. >>> up next, pope benedict's visit to mexico. thousands of people visit to see the pontif, and they got an earful. also, tonight's massive mega millions jackpot almost $300 million. but will anyone claim the huge prize? and spacestation astronauts take cover. the floating junk that is drifting ever closer. all of that is coming up. and then later on "nightline." >> i'm bill we are. coming up, imaginary gastric bypass. one woman's journey to lose major pounds by fooling her mind into believing she has surgery. and the national memory champion teaches us all ho

don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> good morning, everybody. welcome to our america's cup center here at pier 80. i wanted to make some further announcements in light of the discussion that has been happening in our city on our america's cup event happening, starting this year, and will definitely have been in 2013 as well. i am here with stephen berkley, the head of the event authority. thank you to you and to jim and mike and our team for working intensely for months on the last few weeks, putting together the development agreement that is part of the investments on the america's cup, which oracle and others have been working on. the last couple of weeks, i have been a key participant with members of the board of supervisors but als

very important. you have to learn about the high spot, and we're making money on the chinatown and union square. you have a couple of bus stops and that is all. people don't mind walking three or four blocks. i want to go to sunset -- or to richmond. this is good because the kids are too fat, they gain weight in the e to good. thank you. >> david snyder? >> the is not here? >> >> good evening. >> there were no cards here. i am barry korngold. i am on the taxi advisory council. i came down here even though i know you are not talking about tax the items, but i know in the future you will talk about what to do with medallion reform, and i wanted to say that won't -- although the industry needs regulating, and you have been given the task of regulating the industry, there is a big difference between making things fair and safe, and going into the business of the taxi business, of selling or leasing the dalliance. and when you do this for every medallion that he sell out right, this is coming from some career cab driver who has sometimes waited decades, taking all the risks of being on

cut, many will have to rely on muni for transportation. afterschool they walk to chinatown. this is a really long distance, trust me. that's because it's unaffor dable. when i mean youth, i mean

, one of my favorite hotels down near chinatown, a have a charger there that is in use. people are proud of driving their vehicles in there for that use as well. the label themselves as a green hotel precisely because of these ev charging stations. these chargers, because of their newness, they had to be introduced to interrupt the culture, i have had the pleasure of working with eight apartments coordinating themselves together from our office of disabilities, public works, mta, puc, fleet managers. and including our own fleets, we can make sure that we transition. the weather is the chevy volt that i have had the pleasure of writing in or the nissan leaf that is the newest coming out in the market very soon, i believe that these are the cars of the future. while we embrace transit first in the city and it will be forever our number one priority, to the extent that we must use vehicles, at some of us have to to get around in different schedules, that we do so in the most environmentally supportive way. it is a reminder that we can get off of oil. the reason why i think the popular

my 22nd birthday with you. i explore the depths of chinatown. i toured the rock and froze my but off at a giants game in june. i was hooked. unfortunately, i had plans. plans with that boy in missouri, but how i was wrong to leave you. when i found out he was cheating, i ran to you and you took me in without asking questions. i packed my bags and never looked back. every day, i love you more and more. you had made me the happiest girl in the world and given me a real love. i want to spend my life with you exploring every corner and the depths of your soul. i cannot imagine being with any other city. thank you for saving my life. you truly did. sign your is, until the big one kills us all" -- [laughter] "andy." andy is with us, too. andy lives in the haight. right there. thank you for your love letter to the city. now, i believe we are ready to take a trip down memory lane and check out some of those san francisco landmark that you have made famous, mr. bennett, with your incredible voice and visit some of your longtime friends who also want to pay tribute to you today. >> dear tony,

activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatown community development center gordon chen, strychnine shirley chen, district 10, a community leader and visitation valley, and last but not least, the business woman and president of an iron works co., florence kong. could you join me in thanking all of their leadership? [applause] the last thing i want to say is we have been celebrating our heritage for 163 years, and i look forward to another 163 years of celebration. thank you very much for being here. >> supervisor chiu, thank you very much. this is the seventh year that san francisco has held an official celebration for asian americans. the plans are the culminated efforts of the members of the mayor's asian-pacific american heritage celebration committee. please welcome me and joining claudine cheng for her remarks on this year's celebration. >> thank you, everyone, for joining us for our celebration this year. the theme of our celebration is celebrate heritage, celebrated community voices. the community is selected this team for two reasons. one -- the community r

gang member of a chinatown gang years ago. they were specifically targeted but the reason is unknown. >> we have concern. >> residents deserve answers and peace of mind. >> we want closure. we don't want this to linger on and never know what happened. >> police are not talking about, what the causes of death were, whether they found a weapon and whether or not they are searching for a killer. we hope to have some of those answers soon. >> carolyn: in sacramento the search has begun for a 22-month-old baby who has been missing for nearly a year. this is dwight and has not been seen for year. family members were asking about him after the mother was arrested on probation violation. officials say they tried to make several welfare checks edwards and her son before last april but weren't able to find him. edwards is being health without bail. >>> another vigil for sierra lamar is planned for 6:00 in morgan hill. there has hen a huge outpouring of support for the 15-year-old who disappeared a week ago friday. yesterday more than 90 people including the f.b.i. scoured a 12-mile are

financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for h

pageant just happened this yesterday -- this weekend for miss chinatown usa. they have been a wonderful several weeks of celebration as we enter the year of the dragon. as i said many times, the year of the dragon is phenomenal, because it is a time where we are confronting our challenges. we are taking on more risks. we are embracing innovation. and that is exactly what i want to do, in concert with our board of supervisors, to help lead the city and make sure we are boldly going forward in our recovery of our economic challenges, but also, most importantly, to provide opportunities for everyone in this city, regardless of your background, to fully participate in everything that is meaningful in the city, whether it is raising a family, joining in a business, or getting a job. there is such a wonderful opportunity for everyone to work together. this is meaningful for me. i personally am celebrating this with anita. we cleaned up the house a couple of weeks ago. we are still cleaning it out to get rid of stuff from old years. because of the opportunities i see for this city, w