To my parents who had immigrated here to the u. S. Actually, i started really becoming active in working with the community when i was in high school. Came out to california for college, went to stanford. I was always politically involved. When i was a college student, i worked on the initiative to get rid of affirmative action in our public government system. Currently, we have 3 legislative items that are pending. The first is going to be coming to a final vote on tuesday, our midmarket uptown Tenderloin Task exemption legislation. It is basically an incentive to encourage businesses to come to midmarket. In particular, where we have the highest commercial vacancy. And then when i graduated, moved out to San Francisco about 12 years ago. I always loved Sanford Cisco in college, and i just wanted to try it out. I started working in Economic Development policy. I was a Community Organizer for six years. I worked with young people, parents, and families around issues that concern our ne
I just want to make a Public Statement to acknowledge that appointments to the Police Commission and any commission which is a policymaking body is very important. I want to encourage about keep in front of our minds the importance of not only to elect women, but to work to get more women appointed to these bodies that help make legislative decisions for our city and county of San Francisco. I am from San Francisco. I grew up in the local neighborhood. I did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied Political Science with a concentration in Public Administration and worked eight years largely in the public sector. Then i earned a masters degree from carnegie melon in pittsburg, pennsylvania. I spent some time as assistant executive director for a nonprofit. We did work if a lot of kids in the neighborhood. I have done fundraising for candidates and issues. I have experience with the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. When i look around my neighborhood and see th
I am back up, all right. So now, i have another certification and another challenging opportunity for us. Am i pronouncing it correctly . Because you know that i will mess up the pronouncation in a minute. Matricia, is that right . Yes. Come on up here, lets have everybody get a look at you. [ applause ] okay, let me tell you about what patricia did for us for the city. On march fourth, at 6 25 p. M. , Public Safety dispatcher patricia marcuchi. Received, i am just waiting for her to look at me mean and say that they said it wrong. Received a call from a 9yearold boy named jason, now he called 911 that day and he reported his grandfather who was having an asthma attack. During this call, she provided jason can medical instructions and assistance and most importantly comfort and reassurance. There is an added level of difficulty for her in that jason was translating for adults who only spoke chinese. Even under these difficulty situations they worked to help to insure a successful out c
The views of San Francisco. It is this that makes the name lumina. Thank you very much thank you. Now mayor lee and sherman and the other ceremony hello, welcome to meet our District Supervisor. Ive neon norm from district 7 which includes accident twin peaks and San Francisco wood and other neighbors neighborhood today, well get to know him and talk about the tough issues. Welcome supervisor thank you for joining us lets talk about our background. I was born in San Francisco and i grew up in the north area and basically went to the Public Schools and jean parker and san frays parker. I lived in this area and from there, i went to city college then i went to cal and received my bachelors in Civil Engineer and worked there for about a decision thats not where my passion was so i left the job and went back to school and never turned back. Thats what ive been doing pretty much all my life in the classroom or working on organizations that will focus on children and families. Thats a little
The Richmond District center. I grew up in the california area, ended up at ucdavis. I made my way out to San Francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. I remember growing up on clement street. I have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering San Francisco in the 1980s. I am hoping we can not support Small Businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. I have also been active as a community organizer. I worked at the chinese progressive association. I also worked at the Mental Health center in the Richmond District. I have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. I have a 10yearold daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. I guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. Very soon there will be of