you have to be assessed for that. i think that is a very green thing to do because you do not have to add building. do you have anything to say about general improvement? >> it is a big additional we are talking about attic space. when you are retrofitting for earthquakes two stories up in an edwardian, the expense involved, i think, would be hard to justify in most neighborhoods. >> it is hard to get enough windows with dormers, etc. >> how about converting the attic into storage? >> you said you recently did that, alice. >> that is fairly simple. i would get a permit. and you are allowed a certain amount of space. you have to have ventilation. i do not remember all the rules. >> will the property tax increase? >> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that pulls down. a staircase would have to be deliverable area w

storefront on the ocean assessed at less than $25,000 each year. we achieve that goal by establishing a linear footage assessment of less than $30 per foot. the second way is that we did not, unlike other districts, we do not assess the linear footage for the quarter buildings on the side streets -- for the corner buildings on the side streets. third, we have committed to no increase assessments for inflation of call -- or cost of living. second, i would like to point out that this is a great opportunity for merchants and property owners to come together. in discussing this item we have come to the realization that the big issue that we need to work on is not something as simple as sleeping every day -- sweeping every day, but complicated like what happens when there is a graffiti attack on the entire street. big property owners, tiny property owners, they all agree that that is something that we should work on and tried to resolve in a better way. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. i also want to thank you for a lot of the work in developing

and, conversely, you know, if we were able to assess, as dr. clark has mentioned, find them some permanent housing, and what other aspects are necessary. employment? well, we haven't talked about that, and i think that is important. i think many homeless people have the potential to get back into the workforce. in our studies, most of the people, on average, have been employed for five and a half years before they were homeless. so these are people that have the capacity, many of them, to return to the workforce. and i think the programs that do the initial assessment, as dr. clark was saying, and find that they have that history, and they want to get back, they don't have a disability that would interfere, then the service package needs to include employment and vocational assessment, and what are their skills and where have they worked before successfully. and training. and training, providing new training, and in our part of the country we provide transport and take them to interviews. we provide opportunities to practice interviews and how

so, the assessment revenue has been estimated to be collected in the first year, changed to $239,578. supervisor avalos: [inaudible] the actual changes that you were proposing were not in the proper form. but we could accept the amendment as a whole and it should be fine. >> ok. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer. supervisor avalos: i think that it would be great if you could summarize the services that will be performed and what is currently being done, as well as what will be done in addition as it is established. what will the services be compared to what is there now? >> the office of economic and workforce development has had a relationship with the collaborative since its inception, helping to fund with our partner the planning process on mission ave in 2005, was led to the establishment of this collaboration, including property owners and residents in the area approving the ocean avenue commercial district. since 2007 they have looked at the concept of performing as a way to enhance services to the district. currently they do volunteer cleanup every once in a

a lot of people are doing assessment. assessment seems to work.are truthful in their assessments on the computer. in fact, they are more likely to be truthful now. about 30 years of research shows that they are more likely to be truthful on the computer than with a human being, with their own clinician. now does treatment itself work, not information exchange, but treatment itself work. that's even more complex because it requires a relationship. and do we establish relationships online. the answer is unquestionably. if you have frequent contact, you do establish a relationship, even if you're anonymous. so your counselor knows you. you know your counselor. every day, you have exchanges or nearly daily exchanges, then yes, it absolutely works if that's the frequency. less frequency, no, it doesn't work. there is no relationship. eric, you were saying that boston university has also done some research through join together in terms of some of the services that you offer. what have you found? we extended alcoholscreening.org for a study with boston

when you combine the fact that the assessment -- that's a $400,000 is the analysis that we did. is about an $8.62 increase in their taxes from a level of $4,555, to $4,563 rounded. that's as a result of people who have not had other adjustments in their property tax this year would have seen a slight reduction in their assessed value through the automatic cost of living increase. because of an actual negative in the cola, then the slight increase by this rate results in about $8.62 increase. i'll be happy to answer any questions about the components of the rates. the other piece of legislation before you is required by the state constitution that there be a report on the limit that limits the amount of spending under certain conditions for both the state and local governments. what our report shows is that the city remains well under our limits. this establishes what the limit would be for the city for these types of spending is about $2.4 billion. and that the amount of spending subject to this requirement is under $2.1 billion so that we are still well within that limit and do

there is also more training regarding risk assessment for police officers. advocates are training officers on how to conduct risk assessments with the victims in the field to understand if there is any fallon -- fallibility in the case. the court is also going to create a number of new safety measures. there is a benchmark created. different issues that may arise. there is also a collaboration between the sheriff's department and police department, such as getting escort for families as they leave the courtroom. a 15-minute hold policy to allow petitioners to leave early before the batter leaves so that they can find safety. there are also a number of community meetings to coordinate with other deadlines. training of officers has been an ongoing issue, need, adequate training. we had a number of grant programs to address this. bridges to freedom, language fluency project. this just concluded in june. it addresses the language needs of the towns by helping first responders learn domestic violence-specific language in chinese and cantonese. criminal-justice ag

government threat assessment. this was the national intelligence assessment produced by the national intelligence council in july 2007. it was important to establish a foundation or baseline assessment of the threat as it exists today. more importantly, how it has evolved and changed since both the 9/11 commission report and the assessment from three years ago. fortunately, we have had wide access to an array of single policy makers across the united states government to were open and frank with us and gerously offered their thoughts and their opinions. this, of course, was supplemented by the ongoing research that peter bergman and i have conducted on this phenomenon. the fundamental conclusion is that the threat is both a diversified and has become much more complex than it has been at anytime since the attacks of september 11, 2001. equally of concern is the fact that there is no single profile of the terrorist threat in the united states today. what we see as an adversary that is drawn from all sectors of soci

we have not yet done in california a systematic assessment of reservoirs.here have been some studies on specific reservoirs or river basins and how flexible or inflexible they might be under existing rules and there are a couple of studies that look at different kinds of reservoir rules but not systematically and i don't think there's been any system reoperation. corner me later and tell me i'm wrong but i would argue that on the demand for water. it has been mentioned a couple of times here. seattle may have done that and port land may have integrated it into management. temperature is going up, demand for water is going up. how many of our water agencies include in their demand forecast for the year 3020, 3050, climate effects on demand. the last california water plant did a much better job of acknowledging the issue of climate change but not yet adequately took action. we're beginning to work now on the next one and the intention i believe, is there will be a more deeper analysis and i look forward to that. next slide. this is a graph, and i want to say

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district) to be known as the "ocean avenue community benefits district," and levy a multi-year assessment on identified parcels in the district; (2) approving the management district plan and engineer's report and proposed boundaries map for the district; (3) ordering and setting a time and place for a public hearing thereon; (4) approving the form of the notice of public hearing and assessment ballots; and (5) directing the clerk of the board of supervisors to give notice of the public hearing and balloting as required by law. supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. young. colleagues, this is an item

said in their assessments that we need to do a long assessment for the renewables and their efficiencyand a comprehensive outline about how our renewables and efficiency assets will roll out so that the r.f.p. can be sufficiently informed that bidders can be excited about it and bidders can know that they are bidding on and give us a project that we can vote for. that will take a few months, but now that prop 16 is over, that's what we need to do. we need to gear down and do this right, not rush it forward. we need to do it properly, not rush it forward. so all the things that i said in the email i would also reiterate, but i'm not going to repeat them. the main thing is that study work needs to be done before this goes forward or we're not going to be -- the advocates, especially, are not going to be comfortable with it. we're not comfortable also with the sfpuc making individual r.f.o. decisions on various different projects when we knew this project, as we've said for the last seven years -- we need this project to be designed comprehensively with a careful mix of resources and pay-

the first is risk assessment. the district attorney's office assesses risk in terms of referring all victims whether the case is charged or not to victim services for support services and resources. in terms of languages and cultural competency, we have a grant for limited english proficient victims. we have one assistant district attorney dedicated to prosecuting all limited english proficient cases. those coming to the domestic violence response unit of the police departments. this prosecutor works closely with feet dedicated dictum advocates who are bilingual in spanish and cantonese. i also want to include that in terms of our domestic violence unit alone, we have bilingual speakers in chinese, spanish, vietnamese, korean, arabic, and italian. we tried to bridge the language gaps. in terms of stoking stalki --ng , we're starting up the task force meetings. the next meeting for the task force is scheduled for this month. the purpose is to educate and to train about stalking. our office did implement a resource

this mother has just brought her baby in to be assessed. this is the mother's third child. he is one year old. she will be admitted for attention, but the doctor says it is difficult to have to decide who is accepted for treatment. >> there are places that have had to make choices between children. so far, we have not. it is difficult. >> the mothers here work four hours, sometimes even days, across the searing heat of the desert to get to the feeding center -- the mothers here walk for hours. the number of children coming for emergency treatment is increasing. this little boy's grandmother who has brought him in. he is so underfed that he has become more prone to disease and suffering from malaria. this baby has been left by her mother, who is too busy looking after her other children. the child is obviously in an acute state of malnutrition. the governor knows the plight of the people here is dire. >> has a poor country, we always are in need as a sense. it is not easy. why? because the situation worsens because of the climate. >> the piece of niger has a long and proud h

middle east envoy george mitchell's assessment of the talks between israelis and palestinians. a senior vatican official describes the uk as a third world country. he has pulled out of the pope's statement. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america, also run the globe. coming up later, outside, the streets ring with protests. inside, france's lower house passes the bill which will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, and serving therapy. can riding a wave help you call for mental health problems? public service is putting in health care money to find out. hello to you. millions -- yes, millions -- of people are going hungry at this moment across central and western africa. the worst affected country is niger, a country even larger than the united states of california and texas together, but with a population of just 15 million. the drought's amid flooding of ruined crops. help has not been enough. we go to niger for this special report. >> according to the united nations, in development terms, niger is the world's poorest nation. for the past year, the united nations has been

formal assessments, yes. tracking student data, yes. planning lessons with clear objectives -- you know, if we're not doing that, then we have bigger issues. so i'll just go and give a few of my experiences as a classroom teacher. i was fortunate enough to have a really great support team from my team at teacher america, to district mentors to the two principals i worked under who had strong and clear visions for malcolm x academy. we worked really hard -- and i mean really, really hard on our balance scorecard, making sure that our access an equity and student achievement goals were clear. we internalized our goals and really took them to heart. you know, we heard superintendent garcia and many others speak on many occasions about eliminating the predictive power of demographics, and we knew that what people were saying about our kids, that they were failures, they couldn't learn, they weren't smart, they weren't going to go to college, they weren't going to get good jobs, and we took that to heart. i actually spoke frankly with my sec

in the recent california assessment, we used three of these scenarios. or at least models that were based on those to guide us in assessing what might happen in the state of california in sort of a broad base of different impacts ranging from water resources to forest, human health, beeches, coasts, agriculture and so on. let's go on to the next one. okay this is kind of one of those tricky power point graphs and this is where i pretend i'm al gore. now we're taking longer point of view and these three traces here at the bottom is global temperature, surface temperature of the earth. this is made out from proxy records and we did not have thermometers a hundred and fifty years ago so this is reconstructed from sediments and ice ansisotopes and so forth and the top is co2, so this is in hundreds of thousands of years and it's interesting that you see this pretty remarkable sigh lick or cycles and this is the climate and other periods of earth history we would be huddled in a cave right now or something. the - one of the primary factors in causing this per

of each individual home to assess the needs of the victims of the fire. we have caseworkers who will start those interviews beginning today, and we are also sending from the six counties our disaster mental health service specialist to help out in that area. it people are concerned about the well-being of their family or friends, they can register themselves at our safe and well website, or they can call 1-800- red-cross and file their information about their concerned parties there. mayor newsom: appreciate that. you have another site that was set up for city employees. >> yes, so for san francisco employees as well as residents, it is called sf gives back, and that can be found at our city's official website. recovery is the long, hard road. people have lost their homes and probably all their possessions, so this is a long-term effort, never short term. that is why we set up with the mayor's encouragement something that will be ongoing, that can deal with disasters like this, so we encourage people to use that. clearly, that is an option along with the

action requested this be abatement be ordered and the cost assessment fee be waived. >> good morning,missioners. i am a senior housing inspector. let me give you the time line of the case. this is a single-family property. basically, our division responded to a complaint in august 2002, an anonymous complaint that a deck had been built without the proper planning department approvals. inspections confirmed this in 2002, and a check on the permit history, the inspector notice of violation of earlier in the year, notifying the owner to get the proper permits. on october 4, 2004, the housing inspector realized that no building permits had ever been issued. he issued a final warning letter. on april 15, 2005, the owner filed for the building permit, legalizing his death. -- deck. on september 3, 2009, the building permit expired without any inspections. our division, we had a new division director assigned. from research, he discovered that the permit has expired and issued another final warning. on march 29 of this year, the officer tried to do another it out with some of the property bu

were trying to put a damage assessment together probably by tomorrow. pardon?t intermission. (no audio) can you tell us about piccinni's involvement at this point? >> i don't see any representative here is they're looking up there the power lines in reconstructing the gas line. the looking at the water c,gv)+pvzsé÷hz46>r4se8mhppr,jsú >> any records of peoplehppr,jsú complaining about to gas in the area. >> at this point have not had an opportunity to go back to our dispatch records and to see the were requested to go up there and i can't speak to pg&e. >> (no audio) >> were fairly certain we have a hundred percent contained at this point again, there are hot spots we have to dig up the debris to get to the hot spots. >> and reports of utility crews around there either yesterday or the day before? >> i do not have that information carried >> up to this point no i have not had an opportunity. i'm sure it's probably a permit that there is work done in that area. >> were not sure how they're doing a damage assessment whether it's the gas pipelines going into the h

that's the plob i have, is accountability. >> we do not assess the vat ewe. they are now providing a service that is utilized and can be utilized by the commission orp -- or the police department. under the correction direction and control of the police department. that is different than a private entity. >> certainly the police can at any time can enter groups. this is something that is very good going on

that's the plob i have, is accountability. >> we do not assess the vat ewe. they are now providing a service that is utilized and can be utilized by the commission orp -- or the police department. under the correction direction and control of the police department. that is different than a private entity. >> certainly the police can at any time can enter groups. this is something that is very good going on in the city. here in the city you call it n.e.r. t. on the east coast, we call it same, c.e.r. t. ergesy response team. -- neighborhood emergency response team. the issue about bias, i'm not sure i work -- i certainly do not work for the p.o. a. this was under the direction and control of the controllers office, and that's who we report to and work for in this study. so i appreciate you letting us make that pot point of plirks clarification. one of the other things under that bias and a notion that we didn't meet with community groups, we were working here i

you want to assess the type of damage there is. what kind of situation is it? what is the issue? is it a medical problem? if it's a medical, is it a big hurt or a little hurt? is it a rescue situation and if it's a fire, do you have the resources to control or extinguish that fire? how about your situation, do you have all your people? do you have all the resources that you need? have you collected all the material that you need if you are going to start doing a lifting exercise because someone is trapped? because you never start a rescue, you never start a lifting exercise, never start anything, unless you know you are going to be able to finish it, have enough of the resources to do it. and do you have the right equipment? you need specialized equipment? do you have access to that? maybe, maybe not. so size up, you want to establish your priorities, make your decisions. you want to come up with a plan and after you have a plan, you want to take action. remember, it's continuous fact gathering process. you want to evaluate your progress. there are 50 percent of the people can be