Supervisor Mar Spring 2012 Newsletter

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ERIC MARDISTRICT 1 SUPERVISOR

Dear Neighbors,

Happy Lunar New Year! And Happy Year ofthe Dragon, which is considered the luckiestof all years!

This year, I am continuing as Chair of theLand Use and Economic DevelopmentCommittee. I will also be a new member of thePublic Safety Committee, where I will be ableto address many issues that are important to

District 1 residents.

In response to various public safety concernsthat have arisen in the past several months,my focus is to strengthen community relationswith local merchants, the San FranciscoPolice Department, and community groups tokeep the lines of communication open. Thesafety of our community is of utmostimportance.

In this auspicious Year of the Dragon, I will

continue to focus on the well-being of children,seniors, and families to ensure that seniorscan remain active, our children thrive inschool, and our entire community is healthy.

-Eric

Introduction 1

Announcement 2

My Committee Assignments 2

Community Work 3

Achievement 4

Community Calendar/Events 6

Staff Change 7

Community Resources 7

Credits 7

SUPERVISOR ERIC MAR.

CONTENT

Supervisor Eric Mar | San Francisco City Hall, Room 284, San Francisco, CA 94102 | phone 415.554.7410| fax 415.554.74

Spring 2012



ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARING ON BIG EVENTS IN GOLDEN GATE PARK

ERIC MAR IN GOLDEN GATE PARK


For more information, please contact myLegislative Aide, Nick Pagoulatos, at(415) 554-7412 [email protected].

On Monday, February 13 at 1:00pm, the LandUse and Economic Development Committeeof the Board of Supervisors will be holding ahearing on the community impacts of largeevents in Golden Gate Park.

The purpose of this hearing is to allowresidents to speak out on issues of concernwith the City Recreation and Park Departmentand the Police Department and staff regardingfuture plans for large events in the park, suchas „Outside Lands‟ held in August and „HardlyStrictly Bluegrass‟ held in October.

We will discuss how these events impact ourcommunity and, most importantly, it is anopportunity for you to raise concerns and offersuggestions for how our City can best addressany problems that may arise from theseevents.

ERIC MARDISTRICT 1 SUPERVISOR

I also hold the following positions:

Chair of the Land Use CommitteeMember of the Public Safety CommitteeBoard Member of the Bay Area AirQuality Management DistrictAuthority Commissioner on the SanFrancisco County Transport Authority

Board Member of the Golden GateBridge District CommitteeBoard Member of California StateAssociation of CountiesChair of the First 5 CommissionFinance CommitteeBoard Member of the San FranciscoCounty Transit Authority

My Committee Assignments

SPRING 201

Spring 2012

mailto:[email protected]






ENTER MONTH/YEA

Spring 2012Community Work

New Housing for Homeless Families

In December, I, along with the rest of the Board of Supervisorsheard the heart wrenching testimonies and stories of hundreds ofhomeless families and children from across the City at aNeighborhood Services Committee hearing. The testimonies andofficial reports clearly showed the number of families waiting forshelter in San Francisco has reached crisis proportions. Accordingto the San Francisco Chronicle, there are 2,200 homeless childrenin San Francisco schools, “some in shelters, others in cars, or oncouches, or in long-term hotel rooms,” which is 400 more homelesschildren than a year ago.

Mayor Ed Lee announced that the City would find housing as soonas possible for homeless families in shelters and on the shelterwait list. In response, Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com,and his wife, Lynne, donated $1.5 million to assist with efforts tohelp homeless families in shelters and Mayor Ed Lee said that theCity would match the Benioffs' gift.

I have also been working on assisting homeless families. In the lastweeks of December, I helped convene community meetings withCatholic Charities, our neighborhood Star of the Sea Church‟sFather Brian Costello, the San Francisco Organizing Project Local

Organizing Committee, and local merchant and neighborhoodleaders to discuss the need and give feedback on a proposal byCatholic Charities for a „Star Community Home‟ for „clean andsober‟ formerly homeless mothers with children. Mayor Ed Lee, hisstaff, and our Richmond Station Police leadership have beeninstrumental in working with relevant City departments to ensurethat this critically needed project is open as soon as possible.

As a result of these meetings, I am proud to announce that theRichmond District will now have a home located at the formerconvent at Star of the Sea Parish located at 4350 Geary Boulevard

at 8th Avenue, which will initially house 12 families. As families areable to transition to permanent housing, new families will move in,allowing Catholic Charities to serve many more families over theentire length of the project. The home aims to provide a safe placeto live for some of San Francisco‟s most vulnerable homelessfamilies while stabilizing their living situation, developing a plan forhow to secure family stability and providing intensive support tofacilitate their move to permanent housing.

“Nearly 2,200 of SanFrancisco's public schoostudents are homeless,enough to fill five or six elementary schools or anentire high school.

That's nearly 400 more homeless schoolchildrenthan a year ago”

(San FranciscoChronicle)

Above: Bedroom at the newStar Community Home.



Supervisor Mar and Captain Vintero walking inDistrict 1 promoting SF Safe.

Achievements

“ The Commission also adopted my stronger safety recommendations,including increasing security presence to 7 days a week from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.” (Public Safety)

I am working on a comprehensivesafety strategy with SF SAFE,

merchants, residents and theRichmond Police Station. Inaddition, SF SAFE through theirdirector Cindy Brandon has agreedto do workshops with neighborsand residents surrounding the Jackin the Box to help develop blockgroups to raise the safety level ofthe neighborhood.

Thank you to the neighbors thathave participated in efforts to

promote a safer community in theRichmond, to the Richmond PoliceStation and to SF SAFE, forhelping to develop acomprehensive community safetyplan for our neighborhood.

Spring 2012

Jack in the Box

As many of you know, onThanksgiving Day last year a manwas hit by a car after an altercationat the Jack in the Box on GearyBoulevard at 11th Avenue.Because of repeated incidents andissues arising from Jack in the Boxand other late night businesses, Ihave been working hard to createa proactive community plan tomake our neighborhood safer.

After meeting with Richmondresidents to hear their concerns

and working with various groups,including the Police Department,the San Francisco EntertainmentCommission, and SF SAFE, Iadvocated for the restaurant toclose during early morning hours. Iam pleased that the EntertainmentCommission is requiring Jack inthe Box to close between 4 to6am. The Commission alsoadopted my stronger safetyrecommendations, including

increasing security presence to 7days a week from 10 p.m. to 4a.m., adding a second guard forFriday and Saturday evenings, andpreventing customers from eatingoutside in the outdoor seating areaafter midnight.

One of my points of focus is to

ensure that our vibrant local arts

community is strongly supported by

the City. To that end, in November Iheld a hearing examining how the

Americas Cup cultural program will

be inclusive of local artists from

throughout all of our Districts and

looking at how revenue generated

from the event will support our arts

community.

I am also in the process of drafting

legislation that will allow our City‟s

Cultural Equity Grants Program to

better support San Francisco‟s small

arts organizations.

Finally, in January I introduced a call

for a hearing focusing on the critical

role that the music industry plays as

an economic driver in San Francisco

and what the City can do to support

local artists, producers, venue

owners, and festival promoters.

“In the coming months I will be looking into how to deal with the impacts caused by the large number of tour buses in our District.”

(Transportation)

Supervisor Eric Mar | San Francisco City Hall, Room 284, San Francisco, CA 94102 | phone 415.554.7410| fax 415.554.

Supporting the Arts



Over the past months Isuccessfully worked with 8th Avenue residents who wereconcerned that an abrupt andunannounced MUNI rerouting ofthe 44 O‟Shaughnessy bus from7th Avenue over to 8th Avenue wascreating a safety hazard for schoolchildren from the Star of the Seaand Peabody schools who walk toschool along the route. I workedwith the San Francisco Municipal

Transportation Agency (SFMTA)staff to devise a more appropriateroute. After directives from myoffice and advocacy fromcommunity members, the SFMTArerouted the bus line so that itwould go down Clement, up ParkPresidio, and down California,thus, avoiding residential streetsaltogether. This solution waspresented at a community meetingand embraced as a sensible new

route.

“In the coming months I will belooking into how to deal with theimpacts caused by the largenumber of tour buses in ourDistrict.”

Achievements S rin 2012

Making Transportation Work

Neighborhood Economic Development

I am proud to have worked closely with the greater GearyMerchant Association, Clement Street Merchants, and the

Planning Association for the Richmond over the past year tomake our commercial corridors visibly cleaner and morevibrant.

After several weeks of conversation with the Director of theDepartment of Public Works (DPW), I am happy to announcethat DPW has agreed to include the Geary corridor from 14th to 27th Avenues in the city‟s Corridors Project. This meansthat additional resources will be devoted to keeping thatsection of the corridor clean. Thanks to the groups Imentioned above for helping achieve this significantcommunity victory.

On December 5th, at the Board of Supervisors‟ Land UseCommittee meeting I convened a hearing on the impact thatformula retail is having on our small business community.My goal is to protect our neighborhood small business sectorand to develop legislation that will make formula retailbusinesses better neighbors and employers.

Above: the map of the rerouted 44 O‟Shaughnessy bus




COMMUNITY CALENDAR/ EVENTS:

My monthly coffee hours will be:

Thursday, February 16, 2012 at6 pmToy Boat Dessert Café401 Clement Street(Between 5th and 6th Avenues.)

SF Nert is hosting a variety ofEmergency Response events.

For more information, please visit:http://sf-fire.org/index.aspx?page=884

Free Zumba/ Line Dancing ClassesZumba: Tuesdays 8-9pm.Line Dancing: Thursdays 8-9pmLocation: Richmond Village Beacon(located on the George Washington HighSchool Campus near the entrance on30th Ave. and Anza)

More events hosted within the RichmondDistrict can be found at:http://rdnc.org/home/index.php/involvement/community-calendar.html

-Support your local businesses!

-Watch a movie at a theatre near you

(Balboa Theater, 4 Star Theater).

-Visit your local library!(SFPL Richmond Branch, 351 9th Ave.)

-Richmond Recreation Center has avariety of activities for everyone in thefamily. (251 18th Ave.)

Public Hearing on:Redistricting Task Force

Date: Saturday February 11,2012Time: 2:00 p.m.Location: Washington HighSchool(600 32nd Avenue)

Above: SF Neighborhood EmergencyResponse Team in action.

Many Events hosted in GoldenGate Park!Please visit: http://www.golden-gate-park.com/ to find out aboutEvents held in GG park eachmonth.


http://sf-fire.org/index.aspx?page=884


http://rdnc.org/home/index.php/involvement/community-calendar.html



http://www.golden-gate-park.com/











Special Thanks to:

Catholic Charities CYO

San Francisco Chronicle

Richmond DistrictNeighborhood Center

Staff:Nickolas PagoulatosVictor LimKeenith ChanShanti PrasadPavel Kniha

Tony Chen

Community Resources:

- Richmond Public Library

- Richmond RecreationCenter

CREDITS:


Spring 2012 Newsletter

Staff Changes

Introducing Victor Lim

I hope you will all join me in welcoming Victor Lim to the office ofDistrict One. Victor took up the Legislative Aide position for DistrictOne on November 14 2011, taking over Lin Shao Chin‟s position. Iwant to thank Lin Shao for her outstanding work and wish her thebest in all her future endeavors.

Victor has taken on the responsibility of assisting me with ease. Inparticular, he is in charge of overseeing media relations, communityrelations, scheduling, and public committee work for District One.

Victor is a native San Franciscan, born and raised in North Beach;

he also spent two years living in the Richmond District. Victorattended Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, and holds adouble major degree in Asian Studies and Asian American Studiesfrom UC Berkeley. In addition, Victor is a talented linguist, who isfluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Toishan.

Victor comes to us from a rich background in public service: hebegan his career at City Hall as a part time Legislative Aide for thePresident of the Board of Supervisors, and prior to that, Victorworked as a dedicated Community Law Advocate for the Asian LawCaucus on naturalization issues with low income migrants. I am

certain that Victor will serve the District One constituents withdedication and commitment. We welcome Victor to the team.

Our Russian Speaking Interns Pavel and Andrei

I am happy to announce that for this year we will have two Russian-

speaking interns: Pavel Kniha and Andrei Jingan. Russian speaking

constituents can call or drop into our office on Tuesdays afternoons

to speak with Pavel. We will be glad to help you.

Уважаемые жители Ричмонда! В офисе Члена Совета

Депутатов Эрика Мара есть русскоговорящие работники

Каждый вторник с 13.00 до 17.00 Вы можете обратиться в наш

офис на русском языке, мы будем рады Вам помочь.

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