San francisco is one of those incredible cities in the world. I would rather be around trees, than like flat land, you know what i am saying . The fact that it is separate places it gives a lot of space for the amount of people that is here. I really appreciate that. San francisco, what is not to love . A blessing with the space and a blessing being here and everyone else being here on public land and sharing this music and vibration together and we are grateful for the city and the park and rec for making it happen. We are keeping it cleaned by picking up, everything that we need help with, we cant do it without your help. It is amazing for San Francisco and the music scene. This is a job creator and they hire over 3400 people. We bring in 50 to 60 restaurant and winerries. It is crazy. And it never stops. I only came to see stevie wonder. I just got a ticket. I am so excited. We are so blessed out right now. It is amazing, i came all the way from israel to meet the people and hang ou
Proclamation declaring the month of oct filipinoamerican month in San Francisco. Come on up here. Get up here, so everybody can take a picture here. If i may, i just wanted to Say Something as well. You know, there are many streets of our great, great city and everybody i think is now enjoying so many of the neighborhoods that are rising up. But there have been neighborhoods like desoma and the excelsior, critical names of streets that we named after filipinos who really served our city and country in a fabulous way. I want to make sure that people remember that. Because its part of our history. So let me say some of them that many of you in the room know, but a lot of our people dont know that. You ever see the names . listing names if you were really smart and if you are as smart as hydra wants everybody to be in San Francisco, because of her board of education work, you should know victoria manalo dreys park. That was named after vicky dreyes, a filipino olympian from San Francisco.
Adequately funding muni needs. But this is die weve heard this is indicative of what we need to do. We need more light rail vehicles to rehabilitate them and get more useful life out of the ones we have. We need to make sure as we go through the procurement process were getting light rails that meets the need of the san franciscans. Whether that means they dont breakdown because of doors that fail or easier cup listing or dekidnap listing so we can once again have 3 car service. Those are very, very important aspects of making sure we get the right kinds of l r vs. Im very excited were going through this processing process. I hope we see the light at the end of the tunnel and we have better designed vehicles so colleagues if there are no more comments can we have a motion to continue this 80 to the call of the chair. That is adopted. Madam clerk any additional business before the committee. No, that includes our business before the committee. Business before the committee. Ladies and g
Please nominate me to fill seat number 4 on the Pedestrian Safety advisory committee. We he thank you. Any questions . Seeing none, thank you very much. Thank you. Next applicant is howard strassner. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im reapplying for seat 6 for the umpteenth time. Ive been a member since psac was formed. It formed ~ with the seniors. The Pedestrian Safety task force that was predecessor, and we finally came to conclusion it would help the city and help move our issues better if we became an official cac with the city and that was accomplished many years ago and have been on ever since. Since then, since we set ourselves up, we promised we would not cost the city too much money. We provide our own secretarial service, which ive been doing since the beginning and i continue to want to do. I want to continue to serve because now things are getting hot and heavy as you well know and something has to happen. We should be advising the supervisors of what good policy is. We recen
Youre watching quick bites, a look at San Francisco foods. Today youre in for a real treat. Oh, my. Food inspired by the mediterranean and released with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in San Francisco. The 56th annual armenian bizarre, this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much deliciousness here and i cant wait to share it with all of you. Lets go. Armenia, culture and cusine has had many cultural exchanges with its neighbors. Today armenian food has food from the mediterranean, middle east and europe. This is San Francisco with the largest armenian Food Festival and widely recognized as one of the best Food Festivals in the area. We have vendors that come up from fresno, los angeles. We have everyone here in the neighborhood. Thats really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. We are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work prep