>> no, mr. chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. meeting adjourned. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice of waiting for it or perhaps doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee. it also gives a greater sense that they can count on you to get to their destination on time. the next bus our arrival information is also transmitted to bus shelters around the city equipped with the next bus sign. riders are updated strictly about arriv

>> no, mr. chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. meeting adjourned. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death.

>> no, mr. chair. chairman campos: thank you very much. meeting adjourned.

>> no, mr. chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. meeting adjourned. >> thank you. thank you. thank you for being here. >> santa clara graduate. truth be told. i couldn't get into cal and berkeley. it is not all about cal and berkeley. but of course drew is a better baseball player and moved on in his life and i'm stuck in public service which is hardly a place to feel stuck. i'm very enlivened by it, but i'm trying to make public life more entrepreneurial. that's why i'm here. i am here because i admire the work you're doing and i'm frustrated by what we do in government, it it doesn't necessarily match the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit alive in this room and nom the city and state but across the country and the world. i want to say a few things. we're in san francisco, in one of the most diverse cities and the dirs states and the world's most diverse democracy. people are prospering and living together across the most imaginable difference. why do i say that? birthplace, united nations, why do i bring that up? i do at the end of the day make this strong point, that n

>> no, mr. chair. chairman campos: thank you very much.meeting adjourned. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking

>> no, mr. chair. chairman campos: thank you very much.meeting adjourned. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go.

. >> good morning, mr. chair, directors. thank you for having me here today.s we all know, proposition a adopted by the voters just a couple of years ago now included a number of important changes to rules and policy and governance for the m.t.a. specifically two of those provisions that bring me here today. first being a requirement that the m.t.a. board complete a certain amount of training each year on a host of governance and financial issues. and it's in that vain that i'm here today. and secondly and perhaps more significantly, the extension in proposition a for the authority for the m.t.a. to issue long-term debt. this is something that has been scarcely allow indicated to the department by the voters in san francisco so only a handful of city agencies are extended right by the voters to secure long-term operating revenues in many cases to facilitate short-term, one-time improvements. either for infrastructure or other certain costs which you'll hear about today. it's a powerful tool that the voters reserved the right to very scarcely extend. and you no

>> no, mr. chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. meeting adjourned. >> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco b

. >> mr. chair, and i am here to represent the california healthcare institute, a statewide association of 250 entities of pharmaceutical companies, like science companies, medical of but manufacturers, and universities. there are 275,000 employees in those companies. chi has submitted a letter that i would encourage you all to read. i will lift a few comments and then the conclusion of a letter. product stewardship programs must be a shared responsibility. in your proposal you define extended producer responsibility as shared responsibility. this is not shared responsibility, it is sole responsibility placed on the manufacturers. the disposal of pharmaceuticals in the sewer system is a minor cause of the amount in the water system. most of the pharmaceuticals that wind up in the water supply are the result of patients taking those drugs, not metabolized and extreme -- excreted. let me point out, in a letter there is a reference to a german study in 1998 from german sewage plants and rivers. in that

>> no, mr. chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. meeting adjourned. commissioner fong: good afternoon. calling this meeting to order. >> [roll call] item two, approval of minutes for the september 28, 2010 meeting. commissioner fong: all those in favor? suppose? ok. >> item 3, public comment on the executive session. commissioner>> i move to reconvn session. >> second. commissioner fong: all those in favor? >> i move that we disclose the agreement with the ferry building partners in the amount of $46,230, and i also knew that we do not disclose anything else discussed in executive session. >> second. commissioner fong: discussion on that? all those in favor? >> please be advised that the use of cell phones, pagers, and similar electronic sound- producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. the and priced that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of persons responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic device. the advice that a member of the public has up to three minutes to

>> i'll defer to the department, mr. chair, but i can tell you there is no termination provision like this in that kemper agreement. >> now we have a dollar amount based on what the standards -- the dollar amount versus actually standards of how we're going to do the maintenance of the courses. >> that's my understanding. and our only point is that we agree that the city should be obligated to maintain the course up to the pga standards, but the city should not be penalized if they become more efficient. >> one other point we talked about yesterday. you said the city cannot drop below this number. but that's not accurate. if the city chose to, it absolutely could. what would happen is we could go to arbitration and the manager if they so chose could leave and we would just issue an r.f.p. and find a new manager. when you say the city can't do this, that's not accurate. the city absolutely has every right to do it if they so choose. we just have to do it eyes open knowing we may have to go through at r.f.p. process and find ano

mr. gonzalez chairs the department of journalism at the city college of san francisco where he taught the first college course on hispanic journalism and where he currently serves as an advisor to the campus newspaper. mr. gonzalez is also a founding member of the national association of hispanic journalists, the national association of hispanic publications, the association of media alternatives, the national association of third-world journalists, bay area chapter, and also he is part of new america media. mr. gonzalez is also the director of the voices for justice project that will document the history of the latino presence in the u.s. by producing a film, a book, and a website. what's very interesting is that you still see mr. gonzalez in the mission talking to young people, speaking in english and in spanish, or sometimes he doesn't talk that much. he listens. and so he is absolutely a hero for the latino community. thank you very much. juan gonzalez. [applause] >> the next award goes to march sella medina. she is a former vice president and manager of some businesses. she has acqui

so having that said, ten minutes the chair recognizes mr. wilson of south carolina. >> thank you mr. chair and thanks for being here today. i share the concerns of congressman forbes. your testimony is that the joint forces command decision was made for several odd hock among senior dod officials. i know they have reviewed documents that outline their military rational for the decision, knowing that there's been documentation, considered, i request those print and electronic used as basis for the military decisions to be provided to the committee. additionally my question is to secretary carter. the national guard and reserve. forces have been instrumental on the global war of terrorism. i know how successful and capable guard and reserve are. i served both for 38 years and have four soonns. but guard reserve faces still shortages of proper equipment for use in theater. how are the proposed acquisition reforms going to e foekt the guard and reserve? >> it will effect the procurement of equipment in respective of the customer, but i think the

about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown they're going to divide with mr her chair of the church where are you with her own historic claim of kirkuk is a unique city in iraq a true melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile ethnic tensions the two thousand and nine field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that without strong and fair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw. in terms of security when the us leaves it will be no independent security force right now the security is from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the u.s. leaves things will get worse it will be conflict arabs will stand up and prayed and we should say with their men and this will buy loads of god for a bit but wars will begin between the ethnic groups and we are not an example of this violence wasn't long in coming no more than five minutes after we finished the interview a roadside bomb targeting th

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. >> madam chair, supervisors, in mr. hartman. -- i am mr. hartman. only a few of the many, many volunteers who are trying to secure this extraordinary event for the city. with all of the great opportunities of the sport that to articulate it, there are also extraordinary opportunities in symbiotic opportunities, and she mentioned, to capitalize -- extraordinary opportunities and some biotic opportunities, and she mentioned, to capitalize. unlike other venues -- and some biotic -- some biotic -- symbiotic opportunities. the bay itself, the port, -- ok. we are set up for this kind of event in the city. this is a tourist city. of course, we have the hotel rooms and the office space to accommodate some of the scale, this magnitude, and to benefit greatly and to expose the city. supervisor maxwell: you mentioned office space. what do you mean? most of us do not think about that. most of us think about boats. >> there are support facilities. supervisor maxwell: so some of that would be over years. >> yes, and there are hotels. it is far reaching. in terms

. >> madam chair, supervisors, in mr. hartman. -- i am mr. hartman. only a few of the many, many volunteers who are trying to secure this extraordinary event for the city. with all of the great opportunities of the sport that to articulate it, there are also extraordinary opportunities in symbiotic opportunities, and she mentioned, to capitalize -- extraordinary opportunities and some biotic opportunities, and she mentioned, to capitalize. unlike other venues -- and some biotic -- some biotic -- symbiotic opportunities. the bay itself, the port,

mr. poe for his five minutes of questions. >> thank you, madam chair. for some reason i don't understand why some of the witnesses do not make the distinction between the people that are here legally from other countries and people that are here illegally from other countries. there is a difference between people that are here legally, came the right way, did the right thing. even waited and those people who just flaunted the laws and other reasons came into the united states now expect us to give them amnesty. i'll make it clear, i think amnesty is a bad idea. history has proven it hasn't worked. so what do we do? the proposal is let's do it again. maybe the results will be different. i don't think so. houston area, just a couple of statistics. 18% of the people in county hospitals in houston, texas, are illegally in the united states. 67% of the births in the lbj county hospital in the last four years, 67% are born to mothers who are illegally in the united states. now, somebody pays for that. and who pays for it? it's citizens and it's legal immigran

nor would a great number of the commentors on fox news. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. urdoch, i would suggest that you do that. thank you very much. >> the gentleman from texas, the ranking member of the full committee is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. mayor bloomberg, you and i agree that highly skilled immigrants do create businesses, do create jobs and we need to welcome more of them. you had this statement -- this sentence in your statement. there are 1 million high skilled jobs that companies cannot fill because they cannot find the workers. to my knowledge, we've only had 39,000 applications for the highly skilled h1b visas and i just wondered what the source of your figure was of 1 million? >> we've done a survey of high tech companies of what the needs are for doctors in this country. >> if you can, share that survey with us because -- >> we'll be happy -- >> you assume if they had the need they would be applying for these visas and that doesn't seem to be the case. >> one of the problems we're having, i can just tell you with my company

mr. president, colleagues, i appreciated the discussion both yesterday chaired by supervisor maxwell from the land use committee and believed all very good points were exchanged. as soon as mr. ellyson's oracle had won the cup and secured the rights, i moved with a resolution which we had passed unanimously and then the mayor had also said that san francisco should do everything in its power to become the host in the america cup races. i still feel the same way but not, of course, to the exclusion of the watchful comments that i think have been chaired by supervisor daly and a number of you colleagues. but i do think this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. i have lived and seen this opportunity where i spent most of my youth in new england growing up with a single mother, very working class, blue color community and witnessing the generational effect economically of what this race did for 53 years when it was hosted by new port, rhode island. we lived off the port of new port. we couldn't even get off the mainland unless there was a boat to do so. that's how isolated we were until they

nor would a great number of the commentors on fox news. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. murdoch, i would suggest that you do that. thank you very much. >> the gentleman from texas, the ranking member of the full committee is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. mayor bloomberg, you and i agree that highly skilled immigrants do create businesses, do create jobs and we need to welcome more of them. you had this statement -- this sentence in your statement. there are 1 million high skilled jobs that companies cannot fill because they cannot find the workers. to my knowledge, we've only had 39,000 applications for the highly skilled h1b visas and i just wondered what the source of your figure was of 1 million? >> we've done a survey of high te companies owhat the needs are for doctors in this country. >> if you can, share that survey with us because -- >> we'll be happy -- >> you assume if they had the need they would be applying for these visas and that doesn't seem to be the case. >> one of the problems we're having, i can just tell you with my company, i

chair was appropriate. and as the republicans took the majority in 1995, that was an example -- certainly in mr. gingrich's mind, who had to retain our services -- that, yes, we could give impartial advice. but the politicization of appeals, brian, was what i was trying to suggest. these days, when the chair will make an obviously correct ruling under some obscure rule of the house, only to have -- and it'll usually be on a question of privilege raised by the minority leader or a member on how the house is running itself. just last week there was one on whether there should be an active lame duck session, and the chair ruled that was a rules change and not a question of privilege. they appealed. they had a roll call vote. and immediately, those votes on the appeal were spun in various districts, majority districts, as votes on the merits of the proposition, should there be a lame duck session, rather than on the correctness of the chair's ruling. and that's wrong. >> mr. mckay, what moment do you remember? >> oh, i remember very clearly. it was the early 1990's. the house of commons was faced wit

terrorist group in the region itself with links to al qaeda let's hear more from mr bought the call from self. the chair attack has been solved three suspects have been arrested and they are now in jail the organizer of the blast is a close ally of the chechen militant or call morrow if you should google his gang is believed to have carried out more than ten bombings in the neighboring republic of finger shittier and numerous attacks on the police force two other suspects who put up unarmed resistance to their rights to work. so there we have it be this case solved but then uncovered really links to greater terrorist elements in the region. doco. as we've heard there is among the world's most wanted terrorists what else is he thought to have masterminded. he is indeed as we heard there he's responsible for around ten blasts in this region going campaign of violence in that region he's also responsible for the moscow bombings earlier earlier this year was killed thirty eight people on the metro system here in moscow he has links of those as well and links to the al qaeda organization a crackdown by autho

mrs. pagan, welcome. >> thank you very much. thank you chair avalos and supervisors.hank you very much for considering this resolution of intention to form the civic center community benefit district. today we are submitting an amendment to the whole for your review. we are happy to announce that 30% petition support has been achieved. so at this point we have -- the mayor's office has introduced a resolution of intent to form the civic center community benefit district. if this is approved, the department of elections will be expected to mail ballots out to property owners in the proposed district. a final hearing could be scheduled. we are suggesting january 4th, 2011. we have submitted for your review amendments to the management plan, engineer report and the resolution of intent to reflect some of the property. in the petition phase, they corrected the parcel data on their petitions, and they provided new information on their parcel data that was different than what the assessor's rolls had. we have updated their assessments based on the corrected parcel data they