the meeting will come to order, welcome to the february 13th meeting of the neighborhood and services committee. our clerk is john carroll and i want to thank matt ignao and corwin cooley. please ensure you ve silenced your phones. any documents to be included as part of the file should be included to the clerk. items will appear on the february 25th 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. please call the first item. to consider the issuance of type 57 special on-sale beer, wine and liquor doing business as shack 15 at the ferry building will certainly the public convenience for necessity. we heard from the alu last time and i want to see if the applicant has any additional words you can speak or don t have to and we should take public comment. so if there are members of the public who would like to speak, line up or i will call some names. bl lotty ben davis and anyone else. if you have prepared a statement, leave it with the clerk for review in the file. we ask tha
with one core message we count and we will be counted. [applause] from community members to non-profits, to our elected officials, such as assessor howard chu, and ta collector, ad norman yee and supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer, we are so excited to get this done together. every 10 years the federal government puts together a census to count everyone and to make critical decisions about our future. yet the hard work happens in our local communities right here on the ground. this time we know that it will be harder because the census is digital. and so we must bridge that digital divide. some people discrust government, distrust government, so we must work with organizations such as the institute and self-help for the elderly to educate them and inform the community on why it matters that we get counted. let s face it, san franciscoians, many of us live in apartments and s.r.o.s. and folks are just plain busy and may not get around to being counted. so we have to r
. i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave san francisco. i found out about the san francisco mayor s office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor s office, and i told her hey, you ve got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf may
[applause] good morning, everyone. how s everybody doing today? thank you. thank you for joining us today for this historical occasion. my name is kayla smith, and i will be your mistress of ceremonies for the evening. growing up in san francisco d-5, hayes valley, to be exact, since the age of four, i have been privileged to receive mentorship from my community. i went from running departments at project level to now earning my internship at nbc this upcoming summer. [applause] i ve always been ambitious, but i was lucky to have women in my life that looked like me and achieved great things, and one of those great women that i looked up to the most, our current mayor, my godmother, london breed. she wasn t changed much, by the way. to this day, she is still the same wise, inspiring, and supportive person that she was when i was a child. i know all too well the impact that mayor breed has had on myself, and i am extremely excited to see all the wonderful things that she w
gentlemen how about ryan dance? love them. they already body. they their elementary school children as well as all the way through high school. they re all volunteers. they live here in san francisco. thank you. see what i mean? five years old. giveaway giveaway. thank you, lion dance me. thank you for coming today. i m jianyang a hero and i m delighted and honored. to serve as your emc this afternoon. as i mentioned this is going to be a dynamite program. i mean, you re just going to be so uplifted as i am , so we will definitely hear from. of course, our brand new district attorney, brooke jenkins. yeah, we can have it loud and clear, loud and clear. and speaking of the jenkins family. i understand there about 100 of you in the audience, right? let s hear from you. and thank you for braving the weather. um, i m from hawaii and in hawaii. we say that rain is a blessing from the gods. so we are very well blessed. alright just start our program off. i d like you all to