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And the needs of the children, youth and families of our city. Clearly were seeing increases of violence amongst the population of lgbtq young people, a sobering 97 of violence and increases of homelessness from 39 six years ago up to 68 in this past year. Thank you. Hi, im tracy, a native of San Francisco, homeowner and an advocate for the community. My community is under attack and underrepresented in City Government and the setasides make us feel part of San Francisco. This is my city. This i...

And that ultimately was, in 1999, as the result of a Charter Amendment, proposition e, became its own independent, what we call the sfmta. And certain powers and authorities that the board of supervisors had relative to Budgetary Authority when i first became a member of the board in 2001, the board of supervisors would literally approve each and every yellow, red, white, blue curb, and i dont know if you remember, but the land use and Transportation Committee used to have pages of red zone 25 f...

Department we issue thousands of permits a year. And i dont want to minimize this, but i really think what were dealing with here is a small fraction of a group of people who seem to be continuously coming across and doing the bad apple the bad projects here. I see as i breakdown today, i think one thing to start with i kind of direct my comments the the director and as a commission i think this is something Going Forward this year is going to be one of the top issues, is and mr. Duffy touched o...

Warshell. Ill close out comments. Obviously thank you all for coming out and having a meaningful conversation about a topic that kind of haunts our Building Community for many, many years. So i mr. Duffy, you wanted to Say Something . Just before you finish, joe duffy d. B. I. Mr. Butler referred to me on a building permit. I want to say it was temporary shoring of a building. Those do not go to the Planning Department. We need to approve them, when it comes to someone on the third floor, were d...

Accidents and dismal customer service. In 1999, there were expectations by the voters that mta would bring improvements. Theyve had almost two decades to do that, but has that happen . Now is the time for voters to weigh on whether the mta experiment has been a success or not. I would strongly urge the board to respect the voices of the voters and place this charter on the june ballot. Let the mta and others make their case in the voter handbook, not in the board chamber. Thank you. Supervisor s...

Do you do with like if the City Attorney wants to get involved, go ahead. I dont think anybody at d. B. I. Will ever object to that. And if you want to change the codon the penalties, go ahead, thats fine as well. Were all for that. Thank you mr. Duffy. In regard to, i would close out the comments here but first of all thank you for the speakers coming out and discussing the conversation that was badly needed and its been an ongoing blackmark for our department we have been trying to deal with f...

And i do hope we are able to take this as a very sober time to take a look at systematic problems which can be solved and elements that through bringing all the players together that need to be part of a solution can commence now. Thank you. Thank you commissioner warshell. Ill close out comments. Obviously thank you all for coming out and having a meaningful conversation about a topic that kind of haunts our Building Community for many, many years. So i mr. Duffy, you wanted to Say Something . ...

An ongoing blackmark for our department we have been trying to deal with for many years and i concur with all commissioner comments on the next steps. I want to also point out, as a department we issue thousands of permits a year. And i dont want to minimize this, but i really think what were dealing with here is a small fraction of a group of people who seem to be continuously coming across and doing the bad apple the bad projects here. I see as i breakdown today, i think one thing to start wit...

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1960 to the present. The change good afternoon. I am in the a and i am here with gail collins. I dont think i have to introduce everyone. She was the columnist for the New York Times, among many illustrious points in her career, and time at the end for questions. I want to start by saying this panel, i titled it, it is called dancing backwards and come from joe russells house, dont know if you remember bill russells house. He was in the nixon administration, and his wife was a policymaker and wo...