task force had an issue, a staffing issue, so ended up not being able to attend the meeting at that time. i know the executive director is currently trying to schedule the meeting and negotiating schedules but it's proven difficult in march so it sounds like the meeting is going to happen in april at this point, which is certainly later than any of us wanted but logistics -- we would like it have as much participation as possible so that's one of the issues we're dealing with. >> the last date that i heard was march 23 as a possibility but a member of the sunshine ordinance task force had an illness that came up so i think you've all made yourselves available and it's kind of on them to be available. i look forward to that meeting happening in our lifetime. thank you. chairperson hur: the next item

on the agenda is items for future meetings public comment expert which a public,? the to public comment? >> i was quick to do this now or in general public comment. there was a recent complete shown to me by a complainant or co-complainant, and the response letter. i do not know whether it was a dismissal letter. it was a form of a dismissal letter. i do not know that i want to be specific about the complaint. i am not sure if you have seen either the complete or the letter. because of the nature of the thing, it may have been dismissed by staff and an early stage, such that it did not get to you. i am not clear how those complaints work. in any event, the issue as i

understand it -- the matter was terminated because t evidence te individual was personally and substantially involved in the specific matter. my concern is the understanding of the terms "personally" and "substantially." my idea was different about what that meant, that it was more broadly involved in a matter, get personally and substantially -- my new understanding is that staff of use it in a different way, as relates to the rights and obligations of parties more in a legal or contractual cents. i am not sure that is the only way to interpret it, nor am i sure that is what the original

intent was about personally and substantially involved in a specific matter. i think it is difficult to talk about these things in the abstract. maybe with some specifics are hypothetical, it would be worth having a public discussion on what was intended by personally and substantially involved. i suspect this was either not the last complaint that we will see in that form, and that there will be others, particularly as we talked earlier tonight, about the post-employment waiver and what that means, going forward -- i think it is helpful to have some understanding of what people think that means. is that good for specific and get vague? thank you. -- and yet vague? thank you. chairperson hur: public comment

on matters appearing are not appearing on the agenda. hearing none, mr. renny, welcome to the ethics commission. thank you for participating in your first meeting. this meeting is adjourned. >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause]

>> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel.

theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture.

strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an

older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on

stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with

that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> thank you very much for that kind of deduction. good morning, everyone. i want to thank john, wade, steve, and the entire chamber for the invitation to address you. i know i am the last speaker, and after that panel i am eager to have to go back to work. sarah, thank you. cady, and george, very appreciative of the dialogue. as you can tell, when you hear

about all of that, i could spend hours going through all of the tech companies what they are trying to do. ultimately, it is about job creation, and i get excited about that. it does keep me getting up very early, murder this of how i get there. if i can create one job every day for somebody here in san francisco, that will satisfy me greatly. guess what? there are hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake. i will continue to make this my mantra because i think it is the right thing to do for a great city. i want to also acknowledge the members of the board of supervisors here today. they were announced earlier. we all work as a team and it has never been about the mayor, him or herself, and i have learned that working in concert with the board that we have clear tones of communication, making sure that we speak more and more in

the language that is important for this city. language and policies and ideas that create investor confidence in this city. that is what i have been talking about more and more. we have got to have a city that is investment-confident, that one -- that one does not have doubt. if it is your family, small business, someone joining another one's business, we have got to have that level of confidence to see things through for you, so your investment is one that is positively welcome, taking care of, and prosperous. that is how we get to the theme of today's breakfast of prosperity and sharing of that prosperity. i want to take a moment to thank my friend john. he has been at the helm of the chamber for the past few years.

he has been an important aspect of the work that i have done over the years. as you know, i started at the human rights commission and then i went to purchasing, which was the most fun i have had. who could not have fun buying a billion dollars in supplies every year? then the former mayor brown gave me the heart to work in public works, engage in conversations with everyone about what was wrong with our streets and making them right. it was in that toughest job that i had that i have a lifelong friends, people who care enough about the city that picking up somebody else's trash is nothing when you can work together and dream about how better the city can become. i want to recognize john because he is one of those few people who i can properly engage in

trash talk and still talk about the city in a positive way. thank you, john, for your wonderful service. [applause] when i came to all of you a year ago, san francisco's on the planet rate was 9.5%. we just heard a fantastic presentation by j.p. morgan and their analyst as to how we come about in making that change. at the time, we faced a $380 million budget deficit, and we were struggling on how to meet the increasing cost of our pension and health-care obligations. remember that discussion about our pension? we have come a long way. it is not even mentioned anymore but it is still prevalent, and so are our health-care obligations. one year later, our city, the supervisors, mayor, elected officials have all come together with the help of great city department leaders that are also

here today doing everything we can to make sure that we tackle the pension issues and make sure that our budget is balanced. more importantly, we put people back to work. that is the most important thing all of us have joined together in doing. in the last 12 months, guess what we have done? we created jobs for an additional 17,300 san franciscans, bringing our unemployment rate down from 9.5% to 7.6%. that is in just one year. thank you for your help on the [applause] at. -- for your help on that. [applause] two weeks ago, we got another piece of positive information, news on the economy. our revenues became $129 million in greater, than projected in

the first six months of the fiscal year. that is wonderful data for san francisco because, guess what? for some years now, it has been deficit, deficit, deficit, no increase, no revenue, and all of you know how wonderfully negative that discussion has always been. now we have some positive light. i stand before you today, just a year in office, in my first year as mayor, to say that the economic recovery is under way, it is a real, and economic policies and strategies we have pursued are working, and they are working well. our city could not do this without the partnerships of many of you who are here today. san francisco is back on track

and but we must stay the course. what i mean is, even though our revenues have surged from the economic growth that our tech companies have provided, a traditional companies that have been here for so many years. by the way, let me do this. i have been known as the attack may year -- tech mayor. how one thing that i have come here with, puget you have always been excited for the city. we come to you. you helped us on a tremendous number of thing last year. i want to thank all the members of the chamber as well. whether it is a wells fargo, a pg&e, recology, the numerous sponsors that continue to come

here, you have been part of the life blood as we welcome in the clean technology and biotech. you want to make sure that we are growing a family steeped in tradition of people that love this city, that love every neighborhood, and who have experienced all the great positive dialogue, but have also been concern about negative dialogue, sharing in every aspect of the city has. i know many of you have joined with me some weeks ago when we celebrated the 50 years of tony bennett and his wonderful song. we have much more to celebrate in the coming years. i hope you all join the chamber in making sure that we share this prosperity. having said that, knowing that our economy is improving, i want to make sure you know i will be at the home with the board, making sure we are not tempted to return to spending habits and

short-term choices that got us into trouble in the first place. we have two-year budgets, a renewed sense of obligation and responsibility, talking about our infrastructure, things that allow our tech companies to be successful. we have to solve some serious transportation issues in the city, and that is why at risk in and i spend hours saturday morning at a technology hackathon. not trying to create a new application but try to solve some traditional problems with our taxis, making sure that someone can get a taxi, rather than waiting in being frustrated, another aspect of our transportation issue that we would try to get solutions to. more than ever, we have to double down on reform, on innovation, an investment. that is why i will continue to announce we are the innovation

center for the whole world, right here in san francisco. soon enough, there will be cited to reflect that in the city. we had to break with some traditional things from announcing that in the most broadway, letting everyone know that this is the center for a lot of things to happen. reebok to keep that innovation strong, keep the dialogue, as the panel has been talking about, keep salesforce growing, twitter growing here, keeping us all engaged as technology helps us to solve many of our problems, and finding solutions that we have not thought about. once and for all, we must treat government and our responsibility as mayors, as families do, find savings where we can, reduce unnecessary spending, and importantly, in best. invest in our people and our infrastructure. as said earlier, i will continue

to talk about jobs. i do not care if i'm called the most boring guy that got one thing. i will repeat. i come here every day to the office asking whether or not i created another job for somebody else. when you learn about the statistics that sf city is sharing with us, if it is jobs for seven siskins, it is worth to get up early for, sacrificing late-night meetings, working on the weekend -- except my golf. [laughter] we are attracting tec, biotech, clean tech. we are supporting local manufacturing. we are going to be making more things. fashion is coming back. technology with passion will be an exciting areas that we can hopefully unleashed soon. i will also tell you this.

there are areas that we do not pay attention to that are not only stable, increasing, and wonderful when you hear this, but did you know -- and i got this from the recent reports from our hospital council recently -- did you know that our health care industry in san francisco generates economic impact of over $15 billion a year? our own health care industry. 99,000 jobs. that is a huge contribution to our economy. i do not want them to be silent any more. our health care needs are important, and we will be getting that cpmc job done very shortly, wade. [applause] with our elected officials and board, we need to continue to reform the peril tax. we have got to incentivize

businesses to create those jobs. -- payroll tax. the conversation in the board has been very good because we have not forgotten those that are not skilled as well as others. we have got to get that employment training center up, we have to invite those who are living in the tenderloin, amid market, south of market, the traditional groups that have struggled, they have identified issues in the past, the digital divide. they were not caught up to the lunch alt -- level of education and technology they needed to be. we have got to help our returning veterans get those skill sets. people who are in the middle of their careers get those skills sets. that is why employment training is so important. we need a stronger training partnership. we also need private and more public investment in our schools. i will be talking a lot about that with the new president of

our school board norman yi, carlos, organizations at the school board. i will be talking about how our schools can participate in this employment training and make sure there are generations of kids who do not lose hope in this city, do not look elsewhere when the best jobs are created right here. all i have to do is do their part. when they do that and complete their job education, that will be there for them. i want to say one thing about our infrastructure, something that i want you to remember as you leave today. i just want to mention something about hetch hetchy. some people out there are suggesting we can tear down that dam and still survive as a city. i want to let you know, as

insane as it is, it is, in fact, insane. [applause] there will be some leaders that approach you, others around the city that suggest tearing down hetch hetchy is a good idea. they will start talking about water sustainability issues. but know this. not only do we have the cleanest water, not only have we spent serious amounts of money upgrading seismically the whole system to deliver that clean water, but it is also one of the strongest clean hydroelectric power sources, it infrastructure, that any city across the country has had. i want to make sure you know that as this public dialogue begins. do not be misled on the discussions by people who will

connect something that we want to have, which is sustainable water, but not by tearing down our dam. finally, i want to end with a discussion on america's cup. yesterday, we made the announcement that pier 30 and 32 are no longer part of it. i think the public discussion and discourse around the investments that we do need to rebuild the piers, including the horrible conditions at 30 and 32, it got away from the focus, which should be on hosting the 34th america's cup, one of the greatest sports event we will see. it will probably be the only international sporting event and all of 2013 in any part of the united states, and it is coming here to san francisco. it will be a blend of technology, with boating, will

be viewed by new technologies to introduce us to generations of new sailors, and using our waterfront and bay in the right way. i spoke to larry ellison directly for a good few moments. we reiterated our excitement about the race. it is on for this year for the smaller boats, next year for the larger ones, and we do expect hundreds of thousands of people to come to our city. we have figured out, through the work of the event authority and host committees, all the different plans we have to use properly our open space, transportation lines, making sure we create positive then use. i want to let you know about the change in investment and topic this course is a very key

reminder of how sensitive we have to be to this whole dialogue about investment. it can go different ways. the thing that i need to make sure we do at the board of supervisors, mayor's office, keep a strong foundation for economic growth in this city, keep talking to audiences like you and others who can help us, talking to neighborhoods, making sure the dialogue understands and job creation is still in the misdirection. this whole theme today, prosperity together, sharing it, is consistent with what i have been saying throughout the city. we are the city for the 100%. we will work together. i will make sure the city's discourse is positive. we will not prevent the foundation that provides us with economic growth. let's move forward together. thank you very much.

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