Howard moved to San Francisco in 1967, with his lover, roger. He continued to work in the Antiwar Movement as a organizer in opposition to the vietnam war and staff organizer for the National Peace coalition. His efforts and those of other progressive activists to bring into the movement to bring labor into the movement were very successful when the Northern California Labor Councils were the first to actually oppose the vietnam war. With the rise of an organized movement in the Gay Community in the early 1970s, howard founded the bay area Gay Liberation inkn 1975, which was to advance lgbt rights here in San Francisco. The organizations life was actions for lgbt rights and dramatically increased the San Francisco. During that period he formed the committee to defend gays in the military. This was back in the mid1970s. And he began his work on the boycott in 1975. Of course those of us who know a little bit about harvey milk know a little bit about his involvement in that boycott. As h
Predicating the resolution of those issues solely or primarily on whether or not to put this thats the right way to frame this. The last thing that i would say is, as you correctly noted, the board of supervisors has acted before on this. I dont know that there has been any new information or evidence thats been presented here about the pros and cons of this system. The fact is that the folks who have raised concerns about the free muni for youth for low income youth pilot have consistently been against that. And i respect that. But there is nothing new that theyre saying in terms, respectjjp 9 terms of their opposition. So the amendments that are before you reflect the fact that this board of supervisors has been on record before, and we believe should be on record again, asking that we commit to making this pilot a reality on the premise that working on this pilot that makes muni accessible does not preclude maintaining the system and if so it is in that spirit that this amendment i
New york. Today im launching a participatory budgeting Pilot Program to give residents the power to decide how to use this discretionary funding. My office will be partnering with the controllers office, and the right to the City Alliance to implement a four month process to engage residents, neighborhood groups and other Community Stakeholders in dialogue and to vote on proposed projects. Im interested in bringing participatory budgeting to San Francisco because increased civic participation will help make our city allow our city to make better investments in our neighborhoods and empower residents to get involved in our democratic process. Colleagues if you havent get figured out how to spend your discretionary funds i invite you to join us. I look forward to working with our partners and the public to create a vibrant and effective budgeting process. The last item i want to mention is a resolution that i will be cosponsoring with supervisor farrell, urging the National Park service
With office of Small Business and also invest neighborhoods to find a consistent approach. I think the commission has ideas as well on where it would be a good target point moving forward. I think wed definitely appreciate that. Commissioner riley. Yes. Hi, welcome and thank you. This questions for francis cause i know thank you for handling the language barrier in the clement street area. But the language part is pretty complicated in the Chinese Community because of the different dialects so do you find that challenging and i think thats my professional background cause i have a multidegree in chinese languages and also i come from hong kong so im hopefully fluent in cantonese and mandarin. I think besides the language how you present yourself is going to be a very crucial factor. Even with spanish populations, like, for the last week, i spent almost a whole week time at middle mission cause we get a call that the whole 16 to 24 corridor was being sweeped by an attorney thats sending
Paid for by qualifying merchants in San Francisco and there are short term Parking Zones to support local businesses. Currently placard holders can stay for an unlimited period of time at green zones and we have heard stories of some businesses choosing not to renew their green zones because its not helping them, its not serving the short term parking purposes the way its supposed to. At the state level the Committee Recommended that local jurisdictions would have the option of instituting time limits, but no shorter than four hours at regular and blue meters and no shorter than 30 minutes in green zones. To let you know what the next steps are and what weve been up to since the committee released the recommendations in may, weve been conducting a lot of outreach. Since may Committee Members have done 20 presentations to stake holder groups and we had forum open to the public, widely publicized a couple weeks ago as well. This fall and winter we will be seeking support from the sfmta b