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That were very proud of. Im honoring him for his social justice work. He has been active in the Asian American community for over a decade. I know he looks a lot younger than a decade, but he has been extremely active. Hes been involved in grassroots activism in the Asian American immigrant worker and lgbt communities on both coasts of the country and his vision for social justice is grounded in the realities of those communities. After graduating from Brown University and ucla law school, chris...

It also makes it really complicated because you have in any one grant year, 50, 60 different organizations receiving grants but thats the way we do it and i think that kind of patch quilt is a good thing in San Francisco and that covers a whole lot of work in housing for example, there is tenant counseling, theres first time Home Ownership, its done a lot to support the housing programs, the hope sf x the envisioning program, we have Small Business assistance, we have child care services, so its...

Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that beca...

Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Pu...

The city of san San Francisco sfgtv meeting of rules committee occurring may 28th 2015 will begin shortly. Good morning, its thursday may 28th. 2015 welcome to the rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors, my name is john avalos, the chair of the committee, to my right is supervisor katy tang, the vice chair we will be supervisor cohen is not going to be able to make it today and would like to motion she be excused for her absent so moved i will second we will take that without ...

On the june 9th. Board of supervisors unless otherwise stated, lets go to first item please. Appointment, Citizens Committee on Community Development. 2017. There is one seat, and three applicants. Ook, good, i did good i did hear this item be requested to be continued. And actually thought, since we already continued this item to this specific date. By the office that is seeking to continue, i thought it might be better especially for the people who waited, and present to this to have this forw...

Silence all cell phones and electronic devices, and the cards, documents should be filed to the clerk, it will be appear on the june 9th. Board of supervisors unless otherwise stated, lets go to first item please. Appointment, Citizens Committee on Community Development. 2017. There is one seat, and three applicants. Ook, good, i did good i did hear this item be requested to be continued. And actually thought, since we already continued this item to this specific date. By the office that is seek...

Across the globe here in San Francisco and in many ways for many year, San Francisco as a City Government has been behind of adopting that innovation, were doing a ton of work on it, we have a long ways to go, open data is but a part of that in a way to have an impact, i think the impact can be real within our City Government, but i think what youre speaking to is a broader topic of how we use technology to apply to our City Government and our daytoday jobs as supervisors or people within differ...

Information thats being transferred from nonprofit to our city through the grant process and i think theres plenty of opportunity to make it better. And just two more questions, number one, how much is this going to cost us . I mean, you know, from our perspective, there isnt a massive cost involved, some allocation within our city departments with time to put this together. Theres money i know already allocated to many city departments in order to develop a lot of these systems in the first pla...

Nomination and i also hope that i can be of use to the city in helping move Treasure Island along. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions . I appreciate that you reached out to our offices and i realize that we may have intersected in life about three decades ago was when the gardens project when i was on the committee to look at all the childrens development, and what a wonderful place that is for San Francisco, so are there any Public Comments at this point . Come on up, two minutes. Im phil che...