i serve as the program director of the resilient s.f. initiative and i'm excited to be here talking about this initiative and its relationship to capss. i hope there's an opportunity to come and do a presentation about resilient s.f. because i think it is an internationally unique program looking at all of the possible ways the city and county of san francisco as a government entity can make sure we can do ast many projects as possible. it is sponsored by the general services agent under the director of ed lee our city and the director of d.e.m. it is based on a harvard kennedy school acting in time initiative and it is a neat program. we have enjoyed working with the capss group because they have given us the data the we needed to be able to determine and assess the areas that the city and county of san francisco need to work on and projects we need to work on to implement these programs that are part of resilient s.f. it has given as you baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans on. baseline for t

luke's hospital and s.f. general which both receive a plegget la of patients daily. this fact alone clearly demonstrates the need for a master plan. san francisco need to be thinking strategically to serve the needs of the people. so for the good of san francisco, we need to lift the veil and see that there are people out there in need. san francisco needs to be accountable to its residents. it's time that san francisco had a plan, a vision of a healthy san francisco that provides awful its residents and not just a select few. thank you. president chiu: thank you. natalie, lee, alex. emily. >> [speaking foreign language] >> hello, everybody. my name is michelle. i'm a member of c.p.a., a volunteer, and a i'm a resident of chinatown. i support the health care services master plan because this is very close to the personal interests of immigrant residents in chinatown. i'll leave myself as a personal example. i have had health problems since last year and it's been getting worse and worse. my family doctor is at northeast medical services, but in order to book an appoi

and the neighbors of my class who participated in your class and other classes at s.f. state get as much pleasure, i think, out of teaching those classes as the students do. it is really refreshing and affirming to have that kind of enthusiasm from students. president marshall: if there is nothing else, we can proceed to the next item. director hicks? >> thank you. you also have in your p

>> i believed at an auditorium at s.f. state. thank you for holding out. i will try to be brief. it will be helpful to go over the highlights. i would like to address the issues such as the density. this is surprisingly low by san francisco kosh -- san francisco standards. these are within the range of what we consider a normal neighborhood. in fact. 21 is low. >> before i launched into this presentation, there is a question about what sort of meetings and interactions that happened the. i would offer a list of those meetings and contacts. we can certainly post this on the web site as well. from november, 2006 to the present day, there has been about 176 formal schedule of meetings between the city and county of san francisco agencies and the project sponsor. the planning department has met most with the project sponsor, approximately 70 that we have documented. 36 with our office, 13 with the public utilities commission. i mentioned this to let you know that there has been a lot of setting and work and also the plant documents that we distributed. the division planned has gone t

about a cable car conductor attacked on the job over the weekend he remains in critical conditions at s.f. general but it is improving. he is working in chinatown on sunday when he was attacked and stabbed repeatedly. kron 4 caught up with a co-worker of his who tells us more about the victim. >> he had a pretty easygoing personality and was always very mellow. it was a nice guy. we don't have speculation of why this happened. of course i'm not that i could think what ever happened to. he is promoted to a position a little while back good for whatever reason he turned it down and came back to the cable cars because there's a certain field for cable cars where we are really tight family. him being a really nice guy and always pleasant to talk to, it was the right to feet. i can't speculate what might happen but we know what happened we just don't know why. it just as matisse and said yoko care how many times to go run the bush is trying to figure out staff does a makes sense of weakness in a lot and we hope he gets we'll soon comes back over here. we really miss him and wish him the best.

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and the neighbors of my class who participated in your class and other classes at s.f. state get as much pleasure, i think, out of teaching those classes as the students do. it is really refreshing and affirming to have that kind of enthusiasm from students. president marshall: if there is nothing else, we can proceed to the next item. director hicks? >> thank you. you also have in your packet the o.c.c. 2010 community out-reach strategic plan and the o.c.c., as far as we know, is the only civilian oversight law enforcement agency that has a community out-reach strategic plan. sam walker, who is an expert in police accountability advised me last month that the o.c.c.'s out-reach plan is the only one he is aware of that exists. he posted it on his criminal justice web site, sam you'll walker.net so -- samuel walker.net so they can use it as well. the coordinator and policy analysis at the o.c.c. also helped. in addition to reviewing preliminary findings and hearing your request, she also coordinates our mediation and outreach program. and as a policy analyst, miriam has

and what we end up doing in that situation is we work with the relative police station, s.f. politician in that district. police station in that district. and we work in a support position with them and we work on it more together where something on the watch list we take more of a lead role on. >> with the tecal bar, our only recourse would be to suspend their pool table permit? >> we could do that. but the time and effort it would take to do that is probably not worth the outcome. i think that was -- on your point. >> we can get much more done and much more accomplished working with the a.l.u. unit, the a.b.c. unit and sfpd in helping them do that kind of stuff. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and i have one question on the earlier presentation on the promoter legislation. and did any type of citation get discussed or put into that or enforcement against promoters that don't comply? clubs that don't -- >> well, there wasn't a discussion of any kind of citation issuance. there is in it some manner of recourse or regulatory sort of enforcement or punishment if you will. there

i've done business with brian for, i think, 12 or 13 years, with matt west, s.f. electric. i think it's already been said. everyone is very supportive. i'd like to fully support the addition to golden gate park. president kim: thank you. >> brian. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm brian huber. a couple of people mentioned my name earlier. the park staff did a great job of covering our operations. first, i want to thank you for putting this r.f.d. out here. it's a great opportunity for my company and to have a new activity inside the park. and i want to thank everybody that worked on the 2008 pilot program. they did the hard work on this and we're going to get some of the benefits of that. we operated the last five years, we are very safety-focused, and i'd like to welcome anyone to come out on our tours. we started doing test tours in the park and we don't have our route down yet. we're still working on that. we're offering free tours, so come on down and we'll take you out for the part of the route that we know. our material is not quite up to snuff yet, but we're gett

it will also help those who need care the most and will contribute positively to the s.f. communities as a whole. health care is a human right and the master plan will carry out that right to its highest potential. i sincerely hope you will vote in support of the mast plarn. -- master plan. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a member of the chinese progressive association. i am a student at lowell high school and currently live in the sunset district. we fight against local injustices. i'm in support of the health care service master plan, the health care service master plan will identify gaps in service and medical underserved areas and will help meet the health needs of all communities in the city. i had an incident when my grandma had hurt herself and my dad and uncle brought her to the chinatown hospital but because they lacked the right department she was sent to ucsf. however, because they didn't speak english, my aunt was contacted whenever a translator was needed or she would stay at the hospital the whole day. more translation services are needed and the health c

campus they were telling me their assignment was to come directly here to give help to the you see s.f. police officers here so they will be ready to go. protesters are not just coming from the bay area supposedly they will be coming from ucla, uc santa barbara all over the state to come here to let the very least give their peace of mind every time there's a proposal it seems that almost a done deal students pretty much know that. they want to tell the regions they are not accepting this without a fight. we will get a video and reaction when they arrive. >> we will get back to when the protest gets under way. >> caltrans to stop polluting rivers and streams. epa warned caltrans it faces penalties if the agency storm water management program does not control discharge within a year. epa audit found store mortised. they found numerous. >> a plan to vote on an inter mayor was delayed the board of supervisors meeting yesterday they did not have the six votes necessary to agree on a replacement instead of choosing someone the board decided to get public input first. supervisors are split o

s.f. mission bay campus after a dramatic day of protests that included that u.c. officer drawing his gun on a crowd. they quickly became a volatile confrontation between the protesters and the police. three officers faced off with a crowd of about four dozen, attempting to enter the conference hall through an adjacent garage. one officer got into a confrontation as he tried to clear the crowd. he drew his gun on the protesters while keeping his finger off the trigger. >> the crowd disarmed the officer of his baton. that officer was injured. he did draw his weapon to protect himself. >> reporter: the regents are set to vote tomorrow on an 8% student fee hike. the university officials say it is necessary to close a billion dollar budget shortfall. >> my family is around $50,000 in debt because of all of these student loans. >> our funding from the state on a per student basis has declined about 50% in the last 20 years. >> reporter: as the students and workers spoke out, the protesters outside faced off against ucsf police officers. >> an officer was rushed. the bar

. >> here and severed his go s.f.plebehavingbadly@kron4.co m said those planning to drive their own cars to the giants parade to consider parking at a place like this. this is the mission street grosz it has over 2200 parking stalls and an all-day parking pass will cost around $32. in addition there is ample parking garages on a side street just off the parade route. the trick is getting there early grosz miniatures i spoke to told me they anticipate filling up fast with street parking being limited due to the parade. in san francisco kron 4 news. >> the other for the victory parade is looking pretty nice week and enjoying a nice weather sunny and warm conditions to prevail out there tomorrow. at 60 degrees from 11:00 tomorrow. it definitely going to be messed up there. but the nice weather continues for the next couple of days the keating on thursday before things go back down until friday. mostly will see cooler temperatures and increasing cloud cover and a slight chance in freight in the north bay. cooler temperatu

hospital officials say his condition is improving he was admitted to s.f.al with life- threatening injuries but he is an upgraded to fair condition. this is good news for his fellow cable car operators to work on this line in north beach. i talked to a coworker of his 2 said larry is a dedicated employee and described him as a family " had to work with. everyone is pulling for him here and can't wait to see in back of the job. in san francisco kron 4 news. >> and another big story u.s. stocks to tumble in their biggest one day drop in nearly a month. the analysts we spoke to the cold university said a drop pass to do with the mixture of things including concerns over what's happening in ireland and a possible bailout there. and worries of the chinese economy could be seeing a slowdown. analysts to believe there is hope on the horizon. christine conley kron 4 news. >> in tech news google is taking another stab at changing the game change in local phone by including a built-in payment system that could eventually enable the device to replace credit cards. the

h'o s.f. 0 you not having any delays. same is true from san francisco to oakland. it looks good.isco is next as you check crosstown freeways and that the drive, no delays at all. in or out of the city. mark. >> thank you, following the final preparations at memorial church in san francisco they will be feeding 5000 people a least 5000 meals to be served. jackie sissel is live. jackie. >> good morning mark, and ordered to serve five dozen people it takes an army of volunteers right now the second shift is getting ready to begin. 500 volunteers all lived here this morning helping prepare the thanksgiving meal. this is a tradition at memorial church for the 30 years. today they expect to serve 5000 people. they have 300 dams, 500 turkeys, plus all of the extras. it's not just today they started preparing this mill weeks ago. obviously you cannot cut 800 hams and turkeys in one day so they started that process in the beginning of november. today is just the extra part. you can see the cutting of the vegetables for the salad. it goes along with the meal. it's not just meals here at li

. >> and then minister at s.f.lan to tell us the condition of the conductor sometime this morning in fact the should've happened already says that as of 7:00 a.m. it was going to happen any minute. i put another phone call in and as soon as i find out i will pass that information along to you at last check 9:00 a.m. the condition of the cable car conductor was still listed with a life-threatening injuries. >> the haaziq struggle of charles rangel is moving ahead after the requested in his request to postpone the trial. before leaving the hearing this morning or ankle made opening statement saying he had run up of money to pay his attorney after spending nearly $30 million he's accused of its 13 counts of fund-raising mishaps. >> this just in, more of ration on that high-rise fire in shanghai the debt toll has risen to 42 we have video of the high-rise that erupted in flames you can see here it was under renovation at the time. more than 90 injured, one witness came forward to say building materials caught fire firs

>> part of the resilient s.f. is looking at improving our relationships with fema. the department of emergency management already has existing response relationships but we are looking at administratively what can we do to set the city up to make sure we can interact as fluidly and efficiently as possible with fema so it is a huge part of the work we do and the underlying motivation to make sure we have the cash flow, the administrative issues in place, the process is in place, record keeping, economic analysis. all of that. commissioner walker: i understand we applied for a grant in advance work of an earthquake to work on issues like the soft story initiative, from fema, which would be historic because they usually only bring money in after the fact. do you know the status of that? >> we have tphnot -- our priori is just to submit the soft story retrofit to the fema hazard mitigation program which is the pre-disaster mitigation program where each jurisdiction is allowed $2 million or $3 million per project per-year. so they are prioritized for this but we have in