Vista there is an accident on the shoulder. Traffic is a little slow but its still very slightly traveled here from the martinez area and the benicia area toward walnut creek. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you. We are beginning with breaking news from novato. Police investigating several suspicious fires. Eight of them since last night. Police tell us one of those fires was at a home on trinity drive. The homeowner was hospitalized after suffering smoke inhalation trying to put out that fire. The other fires are all believed to be vegetation fires at other locations across the stay. Investigators say all the fires are suspicious. But we dont know if they are connected. Alex savidge is out there. He is talking to fire investigators right now. Alex will bring you a live report later in this half hour. Novato has had problems with arson in the past. Back in january of 2012, arsonist is blamed for setting at least 56 small fires there during one weekend. A 15,000 reward was offered to ca
He has been quite a main stay in the excelsior district. He passed away at the ripe age of 97 last tuesday surrounded by his children in the home where he was born and raised. John was known as mr. Excelsior because of his dedication to the community. He helped to revitalize the excelsior District Improvement association, the edia. In 1959. And to this day the edia holds its monthly meeting in the spacious basement of his home on santa rosa avenue. John continued to remain active as the sergeant of arms and led the pledge of allegiance before each meeting. As a former president of the edia, one of his proudest accomplishment was to safe 88 homes from the demolition for a parking lot. John organized a petition drive and delivered 8,000 signatures to city hall to successfully stop the demolition. I cant imagine that happening now, what an incredible feat that would be. John was a very active member of Corpus Christi church which is right across the street from his home in the excelsior.
Family using taxpayer dollars for providing housing even though they have outstanding violations and continue to deny residents health, safety and tenancy rights, including participating in on a legal policy of rotating tenants out of their room so they cannot achieve their tenancy and therefore the eligible rights to that unit. I am introducing a resolution today to urge dph to divest all city resources, investments, and financial contracts related to the substandard sro hotel owned or operated by the family and to also catalog all the sro hotels that have a history of health, safety and Building Code violations and to establish a plan to similarly divest city resources and to develop and implement a plan to relocate all tenants who are still living in these substandard residential rooms in sro hotels named in the City Attorneys civil action. I look forward to working with the department of Public Health on this issue. I think its incredibly important that when we fund housing, partic
Me questions about, you know, what happens when there are vacancies, including vacancies on those board of supervisors and consistent with the statements that i have made, i believe that it makes sense that when there is such a vacancy on this board or any other office, that it is up to should be up to the electorate to the voters of San Francisco to decide who fills oyez vacancies. In the past we have seen a power struggle between the board of supervisors and the mayor which is one of the reasons i really appreciate the way that supervisor avalos has approached this because instead of actually trying to engage a power struggle or a tug of war between the board and the mayor, i think that this takes it out of that and brings it back to the voters. I think that makes a great deal of sense, letting the voters decide. I also think the study that was done by the lafco on this piece on this issue is very informative because it actually shows that San Francisco is the exception, not the norm
Angelinas. I hope everyone will attend the meeting and join the conversation. Thank you and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor tang. Thank you. Today i have an in memoriam for someone who was a huge member of our Sunset Community and was really respected and well loved by all of her fellow animal lovers. Jennifer jamison is someone who has served on our Animal Welfare commission and actually as the, i believe the vicechair in this past year. And, so, ashley from my office sfgovtv will allow me, we do have a few photos showing jennifer. She did pass away unexpectedly and we are just so devastated to hear about her loss. She started a [speaker not understood] rescue in 2010. They are dedicated to rescue and rehoming black and dark coated companion animals from shelters. Believe it or not, they are actually disproportionately euthanized for their color. Black cats are often associated with superstition while black dogses are the last to be adopted from shelters and a