Of putting into place, theories into practice. Theres a video online of 2011 Martin Luther king day labor breakfast where he roused the crowd saying, were thinking individuals and we act and the two bring us forward. Fred is a communitybuilder. He holds friends close and long and finds way to bring people together. After the november, 2016, election, he and susan launched friday night potluck dinners opening their homes to build the movement over food and politics, a place for new allies to meet, strengthen our resolve, and imagine the posttrump future. Fred has a big heart and shared it generously, true to his values and ideas and actions to move us forward. Brother fred, we love you. We celebrate you. We thank you deeply for a lifetime of profoundly important work. Your friends and family and loved ones are here to celebrate you. [cheers and applause] supervisor ronen i wanted to see if any colleagues wanted to share a few words before we turn it over to him. Supervisor kim i will be
[speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] in this election, we had over 100 members to march around chinatown to ask members to vote yes on prop c. I know that there are volunteers all over the city every day and night. They are a member of families, nonprofits and homeless people. Its the people power that made prop c pass. Yes, this is just a first step. I hope that the organizations can continue to work hard together. Always remember, our goal is to protect our home, our city, thank you so much. [cheers and applause] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] interpretor hi. My name is amy, one of the organizers. Today i represent the family in chinatown. The passing of prop c means that families will get adequate housing and the help they need. In chinatown, there are around 400 families that share bathrooms and kitchens. Its too small. And parents have worked hard, but they still cant afford the expensive rent. And this is the
Why wouldnt we give developers that discretion . To reemphasize, this policy is already basically in place. We already have removed the minimum parking requirement here in San Francisco. We already allow you to replace it with bicycle parking. We already allow you to figure out other incentives and ways to reduce the parking minimums. This does not change anything. It is, of course, symbolic, and i think the symbolism is very important. I think more than impacting San Francisco itself, it really impacts land use and Housing Development and thinking throughout the country. What im hoping for here today is that San Francisco is a leader in that. I want to emphasize. If you want to see parking and projects in your district, you will get parking in the projects end your district. If the community, who the project sponsor is endeavoring to get support from, hears they must build the minimum or the maximum allowed, you will see that in that project. In fact, its always the opposite. In fact,
President cohen congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, well be hearing from you next, okay . Supervisor peskin okay. President cohen ladies and gentlemen, supervisor peskin has a group of folks he would like to recognize. He would like to honor the chinatown cohort that advanced our city our home. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin i think there are a number of remarkably important organizations that span virtually every neighborhood in the city and county of San Francisco. I was remarkably impressed to see the work of the chinese progressive association, the Mighty Community Tenants Association represented here in the board chambers. The chinatown s. R. O. Families collaborative. They were an incredible work force that was remarkably dedicated. There was no aspect of this election that they did not play a role in. You could see in the results where our city our home, proposition c, rolled to victory with 77 of the positive yes on c. I. D. S in the Chinese Communit
I heard about it actually. i was at work i was not listening to my scanner i got a text message from my daughter who was in the next building and it said there was an active shooter and i think i m safe and i m in the kim building or chem lab and i love you. and that was the alert that i got. and then i opened up facebook and it exploded. becky, can you ask your daughter about how she felt about the situation, being so incredibly close to the horror? they re asking how you felt about the situation being so close to the horror. at first it was really terrifying. i didn t think that it was an actual event. i thought it was just a drill. but then they said that it wasn t a drill, it was real and so we all got into a back room