city. it is my privilege to introduce someone who is very supportive of sister cities. we have 18, as you know. someone who has visited many of the cities. a mayor who has brokered -- this will be the fourth sister city in his administration. may i introduce the other two sister cities, the father of four cities, mayor gavin newsom. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out. charlotte, matthew, the protocol team. getting you all here on the balcony in city hall. i want to welcome my friends from spain. thank you. thank you for your leadership. i want to pay particular note and complement to supervise a david campos for his hard work and tenacity and commitment to this sister city. he has been talking about this for months. i want to congratulate him on a job well done in helping to organize this and being a good steward in the process. i also want to thank --where is he? but they acknowledged supervisor bevan dufty. there is jose cisneros. we thank him for his strong support. as well come a d

that is the commitment of the sister city committee. it is my hope and expectation and certainly my belief that there arthis will be a robust ad meaningful sister city. i have done only four and six years. i have done only four to make sure that there is a real commitment behind them. there is nothing worse than making false promises. i have a good feeling here. there was a commitment from the committee formed with the council's general. so i have great hope and expectation that this will be a successful sister city. congratulations, thank you. i will bring charlotte back and leave the continue with the ceremony. his signature as well as our signature will affects this sister city relationship. [applause] >> thank you. you said we were alike in many ways. how about our soccer? >> i do not want to talk about that. >> the counsel of general said that you have not got much work done there. congratulations. supervisor, the mayor has said many nice things about you, with -- which are worth it. you have shepherded us through that process, said i

it's the highlight of my career with the city. what has been the impact of the crouching spider in san francisco? >> i think it's been an incredible coup for the city. a lot of her work came from her mother. her family repaired tapestry. she thought of mer mother as the spider, someone who protects her young who prepares the nest. and she was very, very de voted to her mother. i think it's gotten the public excited about public art. people pay attention to their environment. they wonder what's going to pop up next. so it's been incredibly positive. >> the public's art program, it's reputation has been spread nationally and internationally. so what do you think has been the affect or the utility of having a temporary arts program for you? >> i think with the temporary art work, everyone is sort of willing to take a chance. it allows us to be a little more risky. look at risks that are a little more experimental, a little more edgy. and often it represent less of an investment to public funds because we're not acquiring a work. we're

it will cost money and when we talk to the city, they say it's the state's problem and they say the city to ask for it. that is something that would bring improvement to the neighborhood. >> some of the great changes are, more of the jewels of the district, coming back alive. point to lake muset and the water levels were dropping and now it's coming back. and the park and zoo. we are doing basic infrastructure work in westportal and the tracks and those will be replaced and library will reopen in november and a park just reopened and school will get ada work done. >> westportal play ground went under renovation and that's a boom. >> as much as things change they stay the same. we have taken our infrastructure and improved t >> when i moved here 8 years ago you would walk up the street and seniors and older people and everything would be closed at 9 at night. and within last 4 years there are younger familys and people with kids and dogs and we have new restaurants and night spots that the sidewalks don't roll up at 9. >> i think district has beautiful new restaurants and the theater is v

bacon be doing it without the city. -- they can be doing it without the city. a second picture, similar location, downtown. there are several streets. there are buildings on this street that are boarded up. the role of the client patrol special is to go there and make sure the doors are still intact. at the boards are still on walls and that any cameras that are on the building have not been damaged. >> that is my old office. >> you are not supposed to know where that is. >> sorry. >> this is another. that is a patrol special area. there are many small businesses and the it's a large warehouse buildings and a hired to patrol specials to go out nightly and look at the buildings to make sure they are intact. a good, fine service for a security company to provide to a private location and private client. we're not dismissing that it is an important service, it is just not one that needs to be done under the auspices of the police commission. this particular location is in a neighborhood. again, people go away. they might want their house checked by someone. perfec

. >> its one of the few neighborhoods that remains affordable in the city. there are a lot of families with young children in the neighborhood because the less than ideal urban planning results in less safe places but an over all housing stock. its not noe valley or the mission its in limbo. second is the diversity of people. there are a lot of terrific people that live here that are open to all sorts of possibilities. i was in portland before this which i liked for a lot of urban reasons a likeable and walkable city but its the widest cities and it freaked me out! so, growing up in chicago and new york you know i had sushi and chinese food and everything cuisine my entire life. i like different people. if i don't have somebody disagree with me once every 5 minutes something is wrong. this neighborhood is like that. the one problem i had never had to face as being supervisor is apathy. i never had a day when people don't care to call me that something's wrong and i want to do something different and new. >> y are lucky in the castro because the resident's ass

its world-class status. means we have to be a city that is friendly to bicyclist. means we have to restate that recognizes that we cohabitate. this is not the old days where it is about bicycles versus cars. this is about bicycles and cars. this is about, again, quality of life. i want to congratulate everyone who worked so hard to get us here. this took a lot of time, a lot of money, and at the end of the day, what did we prove? that you can delay things, but you cannot and things, so it is in the spirit of that recognition that there was a delay, but there is now a real progress that we are going to see things really take off. i'm really proud of all our team behind me and those that were in the city attorney's office, the planning department, and other agencies. final point, what i think it's also important to note, when we had that partial injunction lifted a number of months back, you saw how quickly you part of public works went to work, the department of traffic went to work. mark my words -- you have seen nothing yet. they are ready to go, full-time commitm

it formed the foundation of the city plan. it is our plan for -- our five-year plan for the city. it informed our 2010-2011 fwranlt-making decisions. there is an organization dedicated to meeting the needs of manufacturing businesses. we were their first funder, and we are really proud of the explosive growth they have seen and excited about what they are going to accomplish. finally, eowd has already been acting on some of those recommendations. we are taking a more active role of convening grantees, strengthening network providers and filling vacancies. that is what i have for you today, and i am eager to answer any questions you may have about this. >> thank you. what specifically are you working on in terms of helping to fill the vacancies? >> right. so we have a lot of -- you may be familiar with our neighborhood marketplace initiative. we have commercial corridor managers on, for example, third street, and a number of neighborhoods throughout the city. we have those folks on the ground. they know very well where there are vacant properties. we have other partners who also hav

so if you cannot do it, city hall, i will do it myself.o i wrote a check, and we put that temporary ramp, which has been made a permanent ramp, that is still there today, and made that chamber accessible. that is not to impress you but to impress upon you that i recognize that when we got here as a supervisor, we had a lot more to do that i could ever imagine. we worked to get more van taxis. we worked to focus on making sure the decision was made real. we worked to make sure there were more buses, signals, and the like, but when i became mayor, i had a little more leverage. here is just some of the things we have done just to highlight the point. we started with boating because there's no more principled thing there. in 2004, we made some progress, but just north of half of our polling places were accessible with accessible boating equipment. today, i'm proud to say, we are not 100%, but 95% of all the polling places now are accessible with voting machines that people can use in private, which is good. [applause] we then stop at the war m

so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines call

a city is only as great as its people. san francisco is a great city. and its cultural life is only as great as its artists and the creativity, inspiration and things they bring to the life here. we are glad to be able to call him one of our own. [applause] >> good morning, my friends. [speaking chinese] >> i'm really honored today to share this moment with everybody here in san francisco , to actually have this ceremony of this giant god from the orient to san francisco today. [speaking chinese] >> he wasn't expecting that the mayor is so young and handsome and has such good taste of art. [laughter] [speaking chinese] >> he was hoping last night that the mayor can honor him as an honorable citizen of france -- san francisco. [speaking chinese] >> in about five years ago, i actually spent more than 10 years to go performance art, and i was really young and energetic. and i have a strong hormone in my body, so i want to use them all. [laughter] [speaking chinese] >> now i am 45, and the level of my hormone in my body has gradually lowered down, but i want

represents the geography of the city. it is positioned right next to another work by an artist who took a 77 taxicab runs and let the potholes and the city turns of tehran dictate how the city would be portrayed. >> [singing] >> one of the

it's not commun common to take out a city tree and replace it with another one. in this case, because of the steepness of the grade, i think the tripping hazard is even more of an issue. you know, basically, the momentum of somebody going down steiner and catching even a small heaved piece of concrete i think is an issue. the red flowering gum and a lot of residue that then grows a certain type of mold and creates kind of a sticky and sometimes even slippery surface and i think that's just another issue. i think overall, i would just say personally that i think having a more uniformed look and getting rid of some of the hazards of these trees would be a good thing for this block. >> i have a question of mr. bartlett. i don't know if you have any further presentations on your rebuttal. >> i don't. >> so you're the owner of one of the properties on that street? >> 940 grove. >> i saw a different address it says here, -- are you ted bartlett? >> yes. >> 954 ashbury street. >> that's where i live. >> are you a developer? >> developer. 940 grove. the previous three ow

it was really a city effort to make it what it is. thank you, fran, thank you, nick. thank you for all of your work. thank you. thank you supervisor maxwell for the leadership. if it weren't for her, we wouldn't be here today and you wouldn't seat library and other things happening. we had references to the public utilities commission. on the face of it you may say what do they have to do with this? >> a few points on that. one is when we talk about the surface infrastructure and the investments, a lot of condition of our infrastructure is dependent on what is underneath it -- the wart water and waste waterlines. that's managed by the pufment p.u.c. we have been working closely with them as they have been ramping up their repair and we have been ramping up ours. we benefit each other when we could coordinate and join and get all of the infrastructure repaired with less money and less disruption, so we have been making great headway in that regard. but specific to this project, what you're seeing here is not just -- not just beautiful and inviting and attractive and fu

this hour and we are looking at live video of dozens of house fires raging across the city of detroit michigan. but it's there. the detroit free press said the homes are scattered at 20 different locations about 20 structures are reported burning in the area near seven mile on the city's east side and spread over three sidestreets. fires also been reported that other locations on the city's east side including mcclellan and buried. detroit's northern border a total of the least 15 fires have been reported on the city's west side multiple houses are ablaze at curtis. it many homes have already been destroyed in part crusade strong winds are making it more difficult to get the fires under control before new loans catch fire. investigators are trying to determine whether the same person has been moving about the city setting the fires. we'll have more on this as it develops live in the newsroom kron 4 news. >> were trying best we can keep up with the fires as they burn throat to trade cash just to give you an idea let's look at google earth here. will take this: one injury and damage talking but fires burn

would the 7 hucks block be i conic if the city had said no for tourists and film companies be what it is today had the city said no. my wife and i apale to you to say yes instead of no. doing so will be a win-win for our neighborhood and for the city. moreover the hundreds of thousands of people who visit our historic district each year will applaud your decision as enlightened. and why? they will have two blocks of steiner painted ladies side by side to appreciate and won't be tripping, falling and possibly suing the city to see them. thank you. now ben alison. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is ben alison and i live at 892 steiner street. i'm the president of the alamo neighborhood association. the board voted unanimously to support our proposal to replace the trees. alamo square is the heart of our neighborhood and tourists come to see our victorian homes. we have fillmore street and we also have the corridor, which has transformed the neighborhood into a wonderful boulevard of shops, restaurants, art galleries and coffee shops. this included planting of trees and adding la

city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold mo

as well as the city attorney. it is not that all of the revenue generated goes to the city, just that the revenue due to the city goes to the city. >> one of the pressure points that was brought to bear back in 2002 was this notion that the city, for decades, had generated revenue from golfing and never put it back into golfing. that is one of the reasons that the fund was put in place, to make sure that the funding revenues would go back to the golf. supervisor avalos: in this case is going back to the instructors in the contract rather than to the courses? >> absolutely. and that would be the same as what happened with management fees, $192,000 each year. supervisor avalos: from instruction? >> from the entire pot of money. supervisor avalos: now we are saying that we're taking one strand and moving it directly to tpc. >> i know that this issue has been raised, but this is the model for how a golf course construction happens. the person giving the lesson with a certain skill set, then another percentage goes back t

it's at. very good. thank you. [applause]. across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. woman: okay, so today, we're going to look at how do we get our water? narrator: and today, it's a matter of simply turning on the tap. so often, we forget about the value of water. water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water. and now, it's an expectation. narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, a

its offices and seed bank in the city center since it was impossible to evacuate the institute's vast collection of. scientists to protect the unique collection from fast and. located the collection was stored in boxes like these. there is a hole right here. on the other side of the same one. one of the institutes. now. the real story about the heroism of the scientist on the verge of starvation. seed bank is still a national asset. the collection of eight trillion dollars. there was a lot of. we. barley. lots of. starving people. why. they never thought that they might eat from the seed bank you know. that. the hermitage russia's largest museum of fine arts was ready for evacuation. crates for exhibits and being brought into this building on the embankment of the nevada river at the very start of the rule. and. priority was given to paintings and objects from the collection of antiques to wagons with paintings and sculptures was sent to the urals but another wagon was left behind as the city became encircled the museum's valuables was stored in its basements. just empty frames hung o

it will be a cherished part of the city and a worthy addition to what is there. >> it will be a safe and beautiful entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. my name is susan leya i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission and i am pleased to welcome you it our summit on climate change. as you know, throughout the country there is a number of meetings, discussions, probably even other summits on climate change. and you are probably wondering how this one is different, how this one might be more important or is important. and the reason it is different and it is essential because what we have gathered here today are the decision-makers for one of our most precious resources: water. represented here today are the heads of the largest water utilities in the united states. as decision-makers, we are responsible for providing water to tens of millions of americans. we are also pleased to bring together other government leaders and scientists that are experts on the environment, water and climate