another 41 million where the factions were started in november. -- another $14 million of actions were started in november. discount passes will be raised to $30. the board of directors did not move forward on that item. they did move forward on the 10% service reduction for the me system as well as other items. some uncertainty remains in the current year budget. we watcare watching it closely. there are revenue items budgeted that we are watching closely. we're expecting $11.2 million from the taxi medallion program. we're still working on that. it is not a done deal yet. there are $5 million in overtime reductions that we began in order to address the deficit. that does mean a reduction in service for muni. i want to emphasize that the single biggest contributor factor to the deficit has been the loss of state transit assistance revenues, operating funds from the state of california. that is because of the nightmare in sacramento for the budget. over the last three years, we've lost $179.1 million. if we were getting the revenue the voters have approved from the state, we would be g

some of them total millions of dollars. i was talking about $700 million last week. the settlement was a good deal. for the golden gate parking lot, what was reported was $5 million. the performing arts parking lot , a federal investigation noticed that there was swing shift revenues they're being lost entirely. we are aware of other issues. there are lots sell the market. there are also workers paid in cash. we are asking again for strong good and clear enforcement. we want to come up with a mechanism that identifies parking revenue. we are being skimmed. thank you for a much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. plan with the california parking company. i am also with the san francisco parking association. last week, we talked about a $20 million shortfall and we will try to substantiate that. with that number came from, but three or four years ago, a nationwide firm that specializes in blocking such parking audits -- that specializes in parking audits. so far, he has collected over $15 million per year. the way he came up with the to $20 million was that he extrapolat

the department of public health. 1.4 $4 million budget. at the end of today common -- at the end of today, the general fund is reduced. let's put that in perspective. 1.5% reduction in the budget. the operating budget actually goes up. it is because his team and all the good folks in my budget office got aggressive arms budget revenues. $80 million was new revenue. without that would be cut off. what city is fully funding universal health care? san francisco is fully fund universal health care in this budget. we got some enhancements. folks in this room know a lot about that. do not worry about it. $12 million in mental-health funds. a significant portion of the target was done for new revenue and not through cuts, so here are the cuts. i told you about some of itthe prop j. i will take that any day to a mental health cut, but that does not deny the fact that even with that we have to make tough choices, and in that budget there are some tough choices. our priority is residential drug treatment, and not only is it prioritized -- is substan

, $1 million to $5 million, and $5 million plus. on the right side of this table, the less than $250,000 to stay, the 250,000 to 1 million stays the same, the 1 million to 5 million stays the time. a new bracket from $5 million to $10 million is created, going from 1.5% to 2%, and a new bracket from $10 million above and that goes from 1.5% t 2.5%^ ^. designed in this way, the increase to this tax would almost exclusively go to commercial properties, and in particular office properties in the city. in terms of the fiscal impact of this, the transfer tax is the city's most volatile source of tax revenue, estimating in any given year changes to the tax for the amount of revenue the tax generates always involves a lot of uncertainty. if the tax of these rates had been in effect over the past nine years, in some years the city would have generated as little as $6 million from this increase. in other years, the city would have generated as much as $90 million. because this is a tax on the upper end properties, and there are relatively fe

as the $6.8 million regarding i.t. expenditures. >> can we do that without objection? without objection. so moved. supervisor daily. >> on the sources on the technical adjustment no. 5, just to confirm the health department revenues that fail on this surplus property. >> that is correct. >> colleagues, i have a running tradition to honor the surplus property ordinance which states that proceeds from the surplus city property shall go to housing for formerly homeless people. there are were the things on this list. -- were the things on this list. to me, that is no good until it comes to budget time. the losers are homeless people, who would otherwise be getting housing. i am going to somehow attempt to cast a vote against this $1.4 million from the sale of property. >> supervisor campos. >> i do have a question for the mayor's office. is there any other property sale that is in the works or is currently pending that we now consider as part of this budget process? the reason i aske is that i appreciate there is a process

we have big contracts that will save $7.7 million. there is a new contract that will save $1.7 million. we restored a couple of the outpatient programs that you did hear about. we have enhanced the despite a million dollars. i appreciate that feedback and support. i believe this is in the budget. that we can advance it. their budget, six and a $62 million. again, substantial new revenues. we do not cut in home support services, we do not increase the copay. there is not a city that can claim that and i hope that we can get a thank-you card because i do not always get those not that i am looking for them. this costs money and it comes out of these other things that they are all criticizing. we want to prioritize this. no domestic cuts. no cuts to women's programs. none. [applause] we have some controversial cuts in nutrition programs. people can disagree. that will be controversial. this is the top of my list. here is in number. i am really proud of this. 4027. this is really amazing. my party has always been homelessness. that is what

to $20 million.the lessons learned from proposition r, passed in 1980, the last time that san francisco had passed a parking tax, so 30 years ago, which was it was increased from 15% to 25% in 1980. interesting that all the same arguments that we've heard in opposition to the -- or doubt or concern about the current tax that we're proposing are literally mirrored in the arguments in 1980 to proposition r, which is then placed by then mayor feinstein and supported by so with the ones expressed back in 1980. i have asked the treasurer's office if they could come and speak briefly for one thing. there has been assertions by a number of the parking garages that the city is not doing the job that it needs to do to try to recover funds from the nearly 550 funds that exist. a want to keep in mind the reality. i have asked the treasurer's office to provide for me what the recovery strategies are and what the numbers look like. it has been asserted that there is upwards of $20 million of unrecovered funds and

of about $1 million. in terms of education assistance, there are funds set aside for the baby residents. $3.5 million. there are other funds that must be used for improvements. it will be determined by the bay view community in partnership. the project provides $2 million targeted at pediatric health and wellness. that could be used towards the southeast center renovation or expansion. there are other local business programs like the community builder program. local builders will have an opportunity to participate in the building of these homes. local real-estate programs will give special support for bayview based realtors. 0.5% of every market rate home sale will go into a bayview community benefits fund. that will benefit the bayview community. there are also robust community facilities. the project provides for library space, an arts center, 65,000 square feet of retail and community facilities that could be used for small-business is expanding in starting up, and other related community services. all

it received more than $80 million in requests. san francisco was recommended for funding for all the projects sub. in fact, about 17% of the total amount of money available regionally, just for reference, our population share is 11%, so this is is a commitment win for san francisco. the projects recommended for funding at up to $7.4 million. that includes the 24th street bart plaza, market and haight street granted in pedestrian improvements, public plaza development, the san francisco redevelopment agency alleyway improvement project, $1.3 million. these are big wins for the city. i am delighted to be able to announce them. i am indebted to the policy division, particularly, i want to recognize the good efforts of the senior transportation planner. he was the one leading the effort. of course, i want to also congratulate the project sponsors on this major piece of news. supervisor avalos: just a question on that. how were these proposals vetted and how was it decided that these were the ones that we would go after? was that a dec

office supplies, we reduced our purchases by $3.1 million. we also made some staff reductions, and this was not easy, but it was a lot better than we expected. one of the agreements we made is that we would have the number of positions that would be eliminated -- we would cap the number of positions that would be eliminated. with this budget, we are looking at about 350, and we think we can get that down. we came in under the cap. we addressed the issue of managers, because we agreed that we needed to do more with managers commo. we made some choices that are reflected in this. 993 positions that are reduced in this budget, a number that gets more attention than it deserves. that puts our total number of positions at the lowest level they have been since 1998. we still have a lot of city employees. that number changes every day, and it gives you a sense that whatever we have done we are back to where we were in 1998. the chief of staff gave up wage concession. i did the same on top of not taking that wage. we reduced the size of all employees

of the $15 million, over $1 million came to the city. those funds are available in fiscal year 11 and 12. we have decided, along with the school bus coalition, to split the money in half, five under thousand dollars for education outreach, -- $500,000 for education of reach, capital projects. -- outreach, capital projects. this is a nationwide movement. the trend that we most often look at ouare -- 25% of morning traffic is driving kids to school. it goes without saying, but there is an immense amount of public health, safety impacts. how could obesity, asthma rates, more traffic around the school, global warming. we would encourage kids to walk and back-to-school period the . the best way to look at this is through the five e's. 4osáeducation is essentially teaching walking and biking skills. the current school system to teach as bike safety glasses to fourth graders. encouragement. the use of contests to encourage parents and kids to walk and a bike to school. there is a current bike to school day. engineering, to create physical impro

that was $34 million more. $64 million in carryover funds. how did we do that? we reduced by $17.7 million. we had a strong hiring fees, where we actually had a team and my budget director -- to actually find out on every request the position. it did not make a lot of folks have been. i get it, but we needed to do that so we could nail the problem and save jobs. we did the math on that. have we not have a hiring freeze, we would have had an additional 193 layoffs. it is critical. it is essential. the budget should not be managed once a year. it needs to be managed once a day. we asked departments to make a media and budget cuts, not just some it budget cuts, but how many of those -- not just submit a budget cuts, but how many of those meetings did we have? they were not easy, but we got a lot of the work done, and because we made an immediate decisions, we were able to address the shortfall. we leveraged state and federal dollars. i will talk about that in a moment. $88 million we leverage from the state. of the san francisco, $26.7 million we were able to lever

>> over 2 million people. we are the fifth largest network in the united states, and people do not realize that, and in the mornings, sunday mornings, maybe about 1 million people. >> there was a time when another person ran univision, and several people have run it. who owns it now? >> it is a new group. it is in charge. there is a group of investors who trust in us, and i think they believe in us. we are going to keep on going. what is so interesting is that while the networks constantly complain about their declining ratings, we are going exactly the opposite way. now, with the world cup, we had a game recently with mexico playing against uruguay, and more than 9 million people tuned in, so something is changing in this country, something magnificent going on in this country, and not only are there more immigrants coming in, and most of them speak spanish, but we latinos love each other so much that we tend to have more children, three children per family, in comparison to about two children per family for

a price tag of over three million dollars. half a million for the flowers alone. they stayed overnight at the hotel where guests will be used. >> latest events, tents. tents are reported to cost $600,000 complete with glass walls and a.c. total cost is reported to be three to five million dollars. a price tag, a full one million dollars more than the nuptials of tom cruise and katie holmes. flowers said to be designed by arctic particular director from paris. >> this is coming together like a formal wedding, sort of a grand classic american formal wedding, probably a lot of white. >> because it was said to be using local vendors, wedding cake from nearby town and wine from clinton vineyards, no relation. chelsea's dress is said to than classic. >> she dresses conservatively so we'll see it in the dress, as well. >> they are expected to spend a weekend here, oldest inn in america a place to sleep off the festivity. a local newspaper is confirming that the bride's proud parents will be starting at at home, daughter of billionaire of george soros. >> the washington p

millions of pilgrims converged on the saudi city every year. on many occasions, many lives have lost. the major disaster was in 2006 when more than 350 people died and many more were injured. the saudi authorities responded by seeking advice from the german researcher who had been consulted for the world youth day in cologne. it was an enormous challenge for the experts. but they were able to come up with a concept that brought structure and order into the chaos of the haj. so far, that concept has worked. but even the experts said met -- but even the experts admit that it is difficult and risk to life and limb is always there. >> thank you for watching. >> the weather forecast from germany, conditions will remain changeable with overcast skies and not much sun. there will be grain in the west and south. the next few days will be the same, but friday will be drier. elsewhere in europe, northern countries will be cloudy and wet. russia and mediterranean regions, the weather will stay fine. here is delicate the forecast for cities around the worl

if you look by 2017, just going from a cash-funded program from $43 million a year down to $39 million. the other way that you could go is you could ask us with operating budgets as well to say, hold the budget flat. we have held the operating budget last because of our extreme success, water conservation efforts and lower usage. that would be another alternative. all the models, we have always assumed, grow at that inflation rate. so we are not going to do than one year and take a holiday on the increase. the other things we do not control would be the marketplace. while we have been successful in our borrowing as of late, that is a record in our generation's time. the market, when we issue debt, maybe it decides that we are good again and the cycle will repeat itself. the other thing we do not have control over is consumption growth. because folks have done a poor job of conservation, at some point, we are only using 51 gallons per household per day. that is incredible. one-third of what the rest of the state uses. we cannot go to zero, but we know we are being efficient users. if co

we have big contracts that will save $7.7 million. there is a new contract that will save $1.7 million. we restored a couple of the outpatient programs that you did hear about. we have enhanced the despite a million dollars. i appreciate that feedback and support.

up to 20 million people by 2007. by july of 2009 they had 350 million members around the world. for the users it has begun to reach into every area of their mind. >> it is a clever product enabling people to create their own communities. >> facebook did not invent social networking. my space was huge for a while, particularly in the u.s.. but it faded, leaving facebook as the undisputed leader. as it continued to grow, so did concerns over two issues. >> this parent wishes to remain anonymous as he fears repercussions for his daughter. >> how many million are underage? in my daughter's class, 58% are age 10 to 11 on facebook. these underage users do not necessarily know how to handle things when they go wrong. an achievement that stands to make him more than half of a billion dollars. >> time for a quick reminder of our top story, it deaths linked to asbestos particularly in the developing world. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold. get the top stories from around the globe and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting

, to the total of $4.3 million. staff will only fund 21.1 days of payroll, and i just wanted to add that i would to some training yesterday with controller's office of emergency management, and one of the things they said was departments need to maintain a positive sign balance in the event of an emergency because that is what we would need to draw on initially. so i think we have done well in controlling our revenues. one of the things is that we have done a really good job in bringing in additional revenue. in terms of the way the revenue is proposed, we would have a total of $3.95 million before you drop money into the fund balance. as of that, $3.41 million is in the apartment, until, and hotel license fee. we are still under recovering in housing, but those increases that we establish for the 2009- 2010 fiscal year has yielded additional revenue. we are still having some bumping around in terms of the revenue for apartment license fees. there are some entries that the controller's office is making, adjusting so

you 3 million. this is the future growth of that part of the basin and terror behind this compact call notion, i have not mentioned the environmental issues out there that hang on this. dangerous species on all aspects of the river and the delta as well. there are two wild cards. what happens with fires in the upper basin especially with the beetle kill in colorado. the international forest says we will lose 90 percent of the dominant tree species and if you have not been to grand lake or any of those places you will be shocked at what you see. it's clearly a change. i know all the messages today are apposing and i look at this sort of like mountain climbing as a former and pretend mountain climber, thankfully when you climb mountains the levels of steps are right when you begin and that's what we all get to deal with. i take t comfort from the writer that said we were not really lost, merely where we shouldn't have been without knowing exactly where that was. thank you. [applause] >> i'm not going

the request totals 3.4 million dollars, leveraging over $13.4 million in prop k funds, better than expected in the expenditure plan. these projects have been funded by past prop k allocations. you will see those in particular for projects where we recommendm multi-phase allocations where the design phase is straightforward. the first project is for $3.1 million for the automatic fare collection program, the clipper fare collection system, the bay area's translink card. by fall of 2011, clipper will by the exclusive payment system, so all transfers and the transition plan, shown on page 64 on your packet so you can get an idea of the schedule for implementation of the project. this is a two-phase project, managed by mtc, who holds the operate and maintain contract, and there is an mou in place for phase 1, for phase 1 systems, so the mou will be amended to encompass these two, the subject of this request. section 2 will be funded by prop k and formula funds. the system is currently accepted in ferry, mta, and vta will offer clipper in 2010. the clipper program is also included on page 55 of

>> $100 million a project. that is because we are spreading it out over 30 years. >> are you looking for the commission to give your feedback with respect to the rate increases, is this just informational? >> it is an informational today, but it is meant to help us, as you start talking about services this afternoon, when you think we need to pursue more aggressively or not. as you give us that feedback, the level of feedback is more difficult to say. i think a real impact is as we start to bring back the actual projects in the capital plan. then you will see the real rate impact. it is much easier to make those decisions. for example, if you all said 10% seems unreasonable, that would make us look at how we bring something back to you later on. >> are we going to have that discussion later on today or now? >> you may have it whenever you would like to. this is certainly not your only chance to have a discussion. we can certainly talk about the capital program and what is affordable, but i am happy to answer an

million of them.- only 11 million of them. probably the percentage of immigrants in this country are foreign-born, it would be about 14% at this point, so, yes, we are talking about 35 million immigrants. >> i want to get to how you are thinking. i have heard them, americans here are very much in favor of people from outside of your or certainly people from mexico or anywhere, hispanic, but what they really do not like is the fact that they are not here with documents. i mean, is it possible, because this thing get so emotional that people have a legitimate reason for not wanting people here that are not documented? >> i understand, and i think we can all agree that the immigration system is broken. we can all agree that nobody wants or likes undocumented immigration, not even undocumented immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants. i think we can all agree that the u.s. government should not separate families and that it is impossible to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, and also, i thin

it adds $10 million to the v.a. major construction projects and subtracts $10 million from the general operating expenses. much of the v.a. medical structure is outdated and in many cases obsolete. according to the budget which is written by some of the largest veteran service organizations, a great number of current medical facilities were built after world war ii and were constructed with a structurally obsolete design that, quote, do not typically meet the needs of modern health care delivery. the result of these outdated buildings has left them with a long list of major construction projects waiting for congressional funding. right now there are over 60 medical construction projects in the backlog. that means there are over 60 locations that are in need of major construction, renovation or modification. it means that there are 60 locations where our veterans are not receiving care in modern facilities. unfortunately, this bill was only able to address a total of five of these projects and only two of them are ne

today, a million more were added to the list. a child nearly died. smith and noble recalling 1.3 million of these roman shades and roller shades following a scary incident in which a 5-year-old boy was nearly strangled on the cord of a roller shade. the shades were sold on the smith and noble web site. and i've post that had link on our web sites well. just click on 7 on your side. >> so important to be aware of that. thank you. >> and the best have been showing their stuff inside of the golden gate today. national championships for the sport. and looks like good winds are blowing out there. >> yes. and this is not enough, they've just ended it for the day. saying they'd like more wind to ride waves this, is a big deal. and take a look. there are 44. this is the slolum course. there is men, women, young and old. a race took them to treasure i'll yanld. wind surfers come from hawaii, brazil, france and australia. one of the champions lives in sydney and says longevity is one of the keys to winning. so is staying fit. >> this is probably better than i'

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than twenty five million dollars last year a thirty percent. pay rise but drew owner of the plan the suffered a terrorist blows yesterday is down. food chain length says he's back in the black the same petersburg based discounts are posted a profit of eleven point three million dollars last year after a twelve point four billion dollar loss in two thousand and eight the firm has thirty seven hypermarkets across eighteen russian cities. now russian social network class nicky the rue says profits increased knowing times last year their profit jumped to twelve million dollars compared with only one point three million a year earlier the better than expected result was attributed to new paid services and cost cutting class thinking as to thirty five million members and received ten million hits a day the profitability of russian business increased by eighty six percent in the first five months of twenty ten compared to the previous year the statistics service says the combined pretax profit in launch and midsize companies climbed to eighty billion

we have to know whether it's one-in-a-million, whether it's 100-in-a-million. you poke around, and find out there have been five incidents-- still only one fatality. then that's an enormous risk. we have to understand what that risk is. tapper: i'm the head engineer. this product is fine. but, you're my bosses, i hear you. we're going to hook maximiles up to a bunch of engines, and we're just gonna let them go at different speeds. it's gonna take about three weeks for this to happen. you're gonna want a third party at this stage. you're not gonna leave it to your own company. you're gonna get a third party who's gonna either work with your engineers, but is going to provide some check on the credibility of what he says. abele: here's what we want to know: we've got a-- what appears to be a rare incident, but a devastating incident. and we want to know whether, in fact, this is something that is related to the product we've got, or is just an incident-- one in a million is probably what any car has in terms of rear enders. their tests are going on. i forgot to t

out of $4 million, there are about $2 million to spend. >> theres

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a couple of million dollars? -- >> what would be a comfortable balance in that fund? a couple of million dollars? they could say let's take it out and put it in the general fund, which they have done in the past. >> that is something i keep hammering home to the various entities that could make decisions on our budget, that we need to maintain a fund balance, and it should not be used for anything other than repairs, but you hear anything from having six months of payroll, which is in the $16 million range, which, as we know, when we were in the $14 million range, of the money was siphoned off and used for other projects. it is really kind of -- i think the best thing we can do is continue to keep in mind and remind others that we are good stewards of our money and that we need to make sure that we are prepared and that we are self- sufficient. >> we also now have the support of the mayor's office, and there is a recovery initiative out there and recovery program that also directs departments to start looking tow

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