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on the tv and the first responders make a big connection when they see things on scene and when i saw the images and find out what was going on, it was tragic, but it was interesting to see what kind of happened because i was working from one second to the next and not thinking about what i was doing. but my training kicked in so i was thankful. i just wanted to say thank you very much for the award and i appreciate it. thank you. [ applause ]. thank you very much. thank you again. thank you. thank you, supervisor breed. so i have the honor of making the next presentation and i like to invite the university of women, catherine is president and roberta bird. you should have in front of you a payday bar and you may be wondering why you have a payday bar in front of your desk. today april 8th is known around the country as equal payday which is the symbolic day when women s earnings catches up with men s earnings. this is because the 23 percent wage gap that wo ....
today s approval is absolutely necessary for the city to deliver on the promises made as part of these approvals. and therefore, i am here today to hold you accountable to these historic approvals which has decades of planning. by approving these street vacations, you will in locking benefits including more than 3,000 units of new affordable housing starting first with the rebuilding of ellis griffith public housing. more than 12,000 permanent jobs and thousands of annual construction job opportunities throughout the build out of the project, and $83 million in community $83 million in community benefits package that we fought hard for to insure that this new development benefits the resident in bay hunters viewpoint who live in this community. i m asking you to up hold your commitment and show your support for all the work we have made and all the work we have put into this area by voting in support of the proposed ordinance. thank you very much. thank you. any oth ....
which makes this pay critical and impactful ful on our families. equal payday has been celebrated as the public awareness campaign and to mark this day, president obama announced a pair of executive actions that will hopefully strengthen the enforcement of equal pay for women. one of them will band federal contractors for retaliating employees for discussing their pay. i want to take a moment and thank aew which is a wonderful organization that empowers women and who has been doing so for over 130 and aew has been organizing events all over the country on equal payday. this is an organization that i worked with washington d c years ago and their san francisco chapter has been involved in education, research, and fa falanthropy. they draw a tense and awareness to young girls in our city and in our country, so on the occasion of the 2014 equal payday, on behalf of our board of supervisor, like to command ae work for raising awareness and for all of your efforts in the pay ....
sectors. and as cathy noted, this booklet is full of information, and if you have a moments afterwards, you can go online and see the resources that aeg.org, the parent organization provides across all areas, not just on equal pay, but we want to thank you so much for acknowledging equal payday and acknowledging aew san francisco and helping us to continue to do our advocacy work on behalf of the women and girls and families, parents and our great city of san francisco. thank you very much. colleagues, why don t we move to the regular part of our agenda. mad am clerk, can you call item 7. ordinance amending the planning and building codes to provide a process for granting legal status to existing dwelling units constructed without the required permits, temporarily suspending the code enforcement process for units in the process of receiving legal status, and prohibiting units from being legalized under the provisions of this ordinance of there have been no-fault e ....
a good amount of traffic headed from san jose avenue off-ramp northbound wants to take russo to go into glen park so you have crossings on the bike lane. that is the problem. in a more robust planning process where we are able the bring transportation engineers in and designers there could be an opportunity where all three connectivity points could be preserved but might involve more aggressive changes to how that is configured or how land use trade-offs or circulation trade-off modes so those are questions we want answered in collaboration with the community and partners. is there more discussion going back to san he say between randall and all the areas were, this convergence, where the gutter is. actually talking about using the sidewalk area to be both bicycle and pedestrian there s very few pedestrians but a lot of bicycles that use that site. i would be great to move out of the gutter to that space. sure. if i understand your question, you are talking abou ....