much more on the kids suicide tapes some activity as well as well as the team as well as the celebration as well as the joy of it and get up there and ring the bell as well i mean we're talking about it earlier on the big day for families for families to get together around the table to speak to be is one yes exactly and probably not only among the families but also. different people who will probably come see a child at the sound time these celebration would bring them together you know just during the whole week at least at the use of the brakes in this case and i wish this whole week will be. probably in some way wrist future. walk off. after breakfast to morrow when people have recovered you say they will then go and see their friends or go and see their colleagues and there's also the giving of easter eggs isn't it yes it's a good tradition actually some of the easter eggs so will be. given to the participants of the service after the end of it and tomorrow in the evening they'll be served their pasco evening service also by his holiness petra. and all the adverts for actors of diff

the transportation program includes both incentives to use transit as well as ways to discourage car use. there's congestion pricing on the bridge as well as a requirement that pre-paid transit vouchers be purchased by every home on the island. there's a capital investment of $145 million including a new ferry terminal, new streets and road ways and bike path, new buses and shuttles as well as a $30 million transit operating subsidy to be used for a.c. transit and weta to subsidize the ferry service. 2/3 of the land dedicated to open space at a cost of $124 million for the improvements and o.& m. costs for the open space paid out of the project. affordable housing, we discussed 2,000 new units of affordable housing, and units dedicating to tihdi use for homeless as well as inclusion units. again, we have the opportunity to increase the number of units over time if we're able to get additional resources from the state or on the local level. community facilities will be renovated public school as well as new police and fire station and up to 33,000 square feet of additional community s

as well as traffic restrictions and parking changes. the more complex projects we are also considering, dedicated lines are the upper bound of what we would like to see in terms of transit priority. supervisor avalos: what do you see in those proposals? >> we are currently developing the package, but currently where we have the right of way. we would not consider it on a street that is like san bruno, only one lane in each direction. there we might look at a q jump, a dedicated line for only a short time in the parking lane. mission street is an example where we are looking to see if there are opportunities for dedicated transit space. finally, we are recommending that with all of these projects they are complemented with a $500,000 per mile investment supporting the goal of the travel time reduction project, including ticket vending machines, a better sign image on how much to pay and what routes are there, as well as complementary pedestrian improvements. for example, if we look at removing a stop, it might be an opportunity to put in

with senior group's ideas of how to create more aging in place programs neighborhood by neighborhood as well, but i think those are the key issues. i am also, kind of as the father of a 10-year-old -- i have anxiety like other parents right now as we apply for a middle schools for my daughter. as a member of the school board for eight years, i know that a strong school system and strong schools in the richmond is key. but also, i serve on the first five commission. each county has a commission that oversees money that supports children, and toddlers, and infants to pre- kindergarten kids, so i'm trying to insure that at the state level, we have a case for strong support for young children and their families and good parenting support as well, so that is another key focus, in addition to continuing my work to improve schools and make a more equitable and socially just as well. >> again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including word and make cuts and where to increase taxes and fees. how are you going to approach these different choices? >> those are really tough choices. i thi

over his hand again the person caught up in this having the presence of mind a guest to to film it as well as trying to get out. there with a black and face completely shocked. sitting down there trying to make out what what's happened obviously. there's a say a lot of shocked. people looking reasonably karmas referring to that just now trying to get out of the station as quickly as they could we're hearing tonight two russian citizens injured in the metro blast according to the russian embassy blast thoughts with the eleven officially confirmed dead by president lukashenko earlier on in the explosion at the doctor prescribe ration the number of injured as well my friends and families climbing two hundred three sara first across the latest information for syria just look at those pictures that came through very shortly rusty said after this awful incident happened down in the metro tonight what do we know this explosion. this is said in the still think is they love think that that's by the batteries president aleksander the passaic play in stealth in lakewood siddiqui i reports think the l

s budget as well as other sources for such stairway improvements. often times a lot of the funds that are dedicated for streets and roads and it's hard to find such funding for stairway improvements. so the agency worked with several other city departments and we concluded that there are no other funds in the city budget available for this project. the final -- the third finding that i must make as part of section 33445 is that these public improvements are consistent with the implementation plan for the bayview hunters point project area. improvements to deteriorated public facilities, removing public safety barriers and creating access and installing needed site improvements to benefit access to open space and employment opportunities are all listed in the bayview hunters point implementation plan. five-year implementation plan. so therefore we conclude that the project is consistent with the implementation plan because it provides an improved access point to such opportunities. on march 29, 2011, the redevelopment agency commission authorized age

cards on the open space as well as transportation all below 10%. second, for every dollar reduction in affordable housing, you would actually get a $3 benefit back to the project, and the reason is you convert and affordable housing block to a market rate lock, which allows you to get revenue from that back into the project as well as generate additional revenue from the project. we also think it is probably the most likely we would be most successful in going back to the state to try to get affordable housing money back into the project. again, the physical project remains the same. our agreement with the navy and state lands agency remains the same. the only difference would be this reduction in affordable housing with the chance to get back up to 35 percent said. we do intend to seek legislative changes to change the law to make them easier to use for large scale projects. allowing the general use of affordable housing and perhaps requiring a certain percentage for affordable housing, much like redevelopment does, and we are working with afforda

he will be sorely missed here at the agency as well as around the country and definitely internationally as well. >> it would be nice to see him on the national level. there has been a lot of -- from around the world. this is in fact a huge loss. we mourn his passing. director beach was share of our policy and a governance committee and i would ask the vice chair to serve as the chairman of that committee and we need one more director who might be interested to please let -- know if you are interested in meeting. especially if there are major policies that can come before. is there any new or unfinished business? >> mr. chairman, can we close the meeting in his honor? >> we will adjourn the meeting in mr. beach's memory. ok. >> item 7, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman, members of the board. as is our custom, we will lead off a special recognition awards for three of our talented and a valued employees. the first award will go to -- of the transit services division. will you please go to the podium? [applause] -- is a transit operator and has been with the agen

we look forward to hearing from you in the future as well. now we are going to hear from our very own catherine dodd. as was noted earlier, you will not find anyone who knows more about these issues than she does. so, to our wonderful director of san francisco health services. >> thank you very much. i have to say that the fix sort of precluded me from even speaking to her before this, i had nothing to do with that comment. [laughter] it is great to be here, and i want to thank you for shedding light and shining a light on the increasing cost of health care for our own employees, but also for employers and employees throughout the bay area. the health services system provides coverage for not just city and county employees, but also the community college district and the superior court. something that is unusual is we have been collecting data for more than three years. we have been looking at inpatient and outpatient utilization data, as they are reported by managed care. we have used this data to date to kind of great our medical vendors as

which also is a huge budgetary impact on the city as well. as you guys know so intimately. so we have five seats, we have now eight applicants. i may know mr. ford, mr. castaneda is not here today. so we have seats -- for two seats i know that we do not have -- we only have one applicant for seat two and five. supervisor farrell: i make a motion with recommendation. supervisor kim: great. i think we have a motion. without opposition to appoint the following to those seats, again, thank you so much. mr. ivey, i would love to work with you, pedestrian safety is going to be a priority issue for our office and we hope that we can work with you in other capacities around this issue and would look forward to seeing other ways that we can get you involved. thank you so much for your application and congratulations again and thank you to all the members for being here. we'll move forward this recommendation to the full board. madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: there's nothing further, the meeting is now adjourned. >> i work with t

as well as truancy prevention. >supervisor chu: just to be clear, the greatest impact is from the of empowerment and development? >> as well as family support. there are potential cuts there. supervisor kim: the program areas that you worked with mentions truancy? >> and arts, transportation, athletics. i can share with you the list of our education partnerships. we provide support for field trips. the implementation of the allocation plan was all of those dollars and numbers. this gives you a visual of the dollar is connected to the children. the children's population. the small circle shows hall of the children that are in san francisco based on 2009 data. this is by age group, and how the funding breaks down. even though there is a disparity in terms of dollar amounts, it also brings a large amount of money to the table. even though there are 40,000 children in the service area, it allocates a small portion of the dollars to that. our partners also bring in a large amount of money. it would balance out my statem

but we have minimum staffing as well. there are many layers of complexity. >> i think we still have four times as many firefighters per- capita as other jurisdictions around the state, right? >> i cannot concur -- i cannot confirm that. that sounds high to me. we have a far different challenges than most cities west of the mississippi in terms of the fire problem in the challenge related to wind. you just ask supervisor campos who joined me a couple of weeks ago -- a wind-driven fire with wood frame construction -- every fire station we had in every firefighter we had was worth every penny. it is a matter of -- it is a matter of managing risks. there are many challenges associated with fighting fires in san francisco then save phoenix or los angeles county. >> i appreciate that. the challenge is we are expecting 20% general fund cuts in all of these apartments. what i'm hearing from you is we have figured out solutions to get about 10%, which is not actually 10% of your entire department. italy a handful of a percentage of

state crowd as well as parkmerced. there would be plenty of room for people to wait for trains and pick up a cup of coffee. it would become a new central gathering space. lastly are the community gardens. there is a small community garden on site, located between the existing powers on the west half of the site, but it is pretty small. the proposal is to substantially increase the size of the community garden so that residents have an opportunity to garden and grow vegetables and flowers and so forth. there are components to improve some of the existing open spaces around the towers that will remain. today, they are primarily on program lawn area. the project will be improving those with new landscaping to make more ecologically sustainable as well as more useful areas. another important component, which is not part of the public open space, but which is more of a semi-private, semi-public system, is a system of courtyards. there has been a question about how much existing residence cherished their courtyards and how m

various countries today he's been meeting with the indian prime minister a south african president as well as chinese president hu jintao to as this is an economic forum big b. they cannot ignore the what's happening in the world so they can't just stick to economic problems another issue of course is the issue in libya now we know that the four countries out of five brazil russia india china did abstain from voting on resolution one hundred seventy three which allowed the the air strikes on libya but south africa did vote in favor of that however still the consensus here is that they are not happy with what nato is doing in libya now are we did hear from the chinese side that it may repeat may be raised that they're going to show a strong front against this move by the west and russia as the president to make sure that it did give an interview to the chinese media and here's what he had to say we. should understand that the viability of the libyan state itself is now at stake. i mean the international community. and certainly the people of libya have a single libya or several states gover

susan from the mayor's office disability, for helping us out, as well as the mayor's office of neighborhood services. i will also want to of knowledge the mission high school wrestling team, which was here earlier, which is doing really well this year. was not able to -- the team partnered with the eureka valley recreation center and golden gate wrestling club and went from doing really poorly to be invoiced to when the city championship. so we are really proud of the wrestling team. [applause] this is going to be a really simple format tonight. i'm going to turn it over to the mayor, and he is going to speak. as well as greg wagner, the mayor's budget director, to talk about the mayor's budget to talk about the budget situation. you will hear briefly from a number of department heads, and after that, we will have questions from members of the audience and whoever is the appropriate person to answer the question. that said, why don't we grabbed the microphone here. turn it over to mayor lee. mayor lee: thank you. good evening, everybody. i am not too prone to give long speeches, so that is

here into the north bay already seeing showers, inverness, san francisco starting to see showers as well. temperatures are mild this morning mostly 50s. 52 san francisco, pacifica, oakland, liver more and fremont and 57 san jose as you make your way into the afternoon we are not going to get too warm, we are only going to make it into the high 50s. low 60s. 58 is a high san raphael squeezing out low 60-degree readings, 61 redwood city, 63 livermore and concord. extended forecast, showers throughout the day, start the dry out for tuesday and then another system makes its way to the forecast wednesday thursday and friday looking pretty good weekend looking good as well. highs high 60s low 70s. that is a look at your weather look at traffic. >>> tank you. -- thank you. i checked with chp here is a look at the live upper deck. we can see lots of nice conditions as you work your way across the span into san francisco no troubles there. elsewhere headed toward the toll plaza metering lights are off. 18 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the maze. effecting your drive highway 1, to pacifica a

we see this legislation, as well as a reinvigoration of our public spaces, and expansion of our public spaces and a refocus on public transit and biking -- i think this is part of a greater transformation of the city, recognizing we can be very modern will still embracing some of the great things that we have had in the past. i enthusiastically support this. chairperson mar: if there are no other questions, can we move the amendments without objection? without objection. on the item itself -- supervisor weiner: moved it be forwarded to the board without objection. chairperson mar: our city attorney has ruled that all of the amendments are not substantive so we could do what we just did. thank you, everyone. [applause] the next item. supervisor elsbernd is the sponsor. he is not yet here. i suppose we can start the item and then supervisor elsbernd can make his remarks as he comes in. please call item three. >> informational hearing on the parkmerced project. chairperson mar: thank you. this is an item called by supervisor sean elsbernd. from the office of economic and work force develo

a commission feel is important as well as retaining flexibility for items that come upped as well as keeping in mind that we will have a new chief at some point soon, i think that we can accomplish all of that in terms of honing in on what our red tier would be, as well as new items that we bring up tonight. perhaps we go item by item and have a vote if we need to get to that point in terms of getting items into that. vice president marshall: i am fine with a couple of folks working on it. i do not know if you want to go through the whole list like we did at the retreat. assigning priorities, five or six things, continuing on to page two we could do it here, but i would be happy with a couple of folks working on it and then bringing it back. commissioner kingsley: one of the things is whether or not we agree with certain new things being added to the list, and this is something that commissioner slaughter raised, as well. new items. vice president marshall: i do not have any problem with foreign them in if they are still o

i know the applicants are here before you, as well as their representative. again, this is a spot where we had quite a bit of trouble, or we did, a few substantial corrective actions, and these are new operators that we are hoping will improve the neighborhood. with that, staff is recommending the grant this permit, it i know that there are some here who are interested in speaking with the commission, as well. >> i have the proprietors of this establishment here. the name of this lounge is a bar/lounge, and tapas restaurant. it is located near pacific, and i believe there are 96 seats. mr. gor and mr. lwin have another restaurant which does pretty well. in terms of outreach, on march 1, we held a meeting with the interested neighbors. we actually had a printed noticed that was sent out. i apologize, i do not have any year. i got from the planning commission a list of interested parties, and in that the tichenor neighborhood, we send out a notice to them. -- and in that particular neighborhood, we send out a notice to them. -- sent out. we have had discussions

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come to us for a loan and we think there is potential for one, we will provide business advising as well as a loan. to give you a sense of who we reach, we are really seeking to lind to traditionally underserved communities. for example, 35% of our borrowers are hispanic or latino. 22% african-american. 60% free mail, and 30% immigrant. -- 60% female. types of businesses -- we will make loans as small as $500 and as large as $100,000. they can range from home-based very small businesses like child care, people selling in the flea market, on up to janitorial, landscaping, restaurants, dry cleaners, and in some cases, small manufacturers. we sometimes bridges of it in even larger transactions if we think there's community benefits, we might wind collectively with the city's working solutions fund or with another lender. so far, -- and we work throughout the bay area. we work in four bay area counties, said francisco obviously being one of the importance, but also said the clara, san mateo, alameda. we have laid out over $15 million to bay area businesses with a medium loan size of about $7

also how you plan to interface with the broader community as well as the representative? >> yes. through effective presence in neighborhood associations, to have dialogue and to dispense information in effective means, not be a paper pulpit dispenser but to have effective dialogue and resources to the existing agencies and to introduce them with effective presentations, with open invitations for the livable streets program and the department of public health. the injury prevention center, whose primary goal under the direction of dr. dicker, is to prevent injuries, does the alamo square neighborhood association know they exist? and the development project in how they're putting new crosswalks. that's throughed -- introduced the agencies that exist and that's what i would do for seniors and disability organizations. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. lowell. are there any other questions for applicants? thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for considering me for seat number four, the senior disability organization seat. thank you. supervisor kim: next applicant is ms. mari h

as with some of our -- as well as what some of our priorities are at the local level as well as policies to partner with the board of supervisors to move to. president vietor: i have one request for next month's update and that would be on the redevelopment agency situation, specifically as it relates to the puc's projects and what that might mean. >> in line with that, we are scheduling a discussion of treasure island of this commission meeting and we are asked to postpone that because of the uncertainty with redevelopment. >> we could have available frank blackwell who heads of the redevelopment agency because he is tracking what the implications would be. >> are you referencing the redevelopment legislation? >> yes. >> specifically for san francisco and puc plans. >> i don't think we're going to see a compromise soon. i anticipate as having a special election in june. governor has been working so hard to get more republicans on board and has been unsuccessful. this weekend's republican convention was like a salem witch trial for anyone who seeks to even have the people vote on a tax,

i went through all three rounds as well as eastern neighborhoods. the planning department kicks over the local transit issues and the mta does not follow through. we have not added a massive infrastructure. we're waiting for the solution. we don't have a transit system south of market. they are long walks. it is a long walk to the streets. that is not factored in right now. i can take you down third street. as you go through mission bay, we have the t-line, but no connecting. we do this all the time. it is a wasteland for transit, but whatever was going the walk. it is hard when you are walking uphill with groceries or you are a senior citizen or you have kids. we have done all of these studies for these tiny little segments that are just a tiny little bit. it is not the solution. south of market has cracked transit -- crap transit. the planning department has as much responsibility as muni does. you working the problem down the road while you are adding he density and we don't have the transition. i challenge anyone to use it as your way to get aro

it goes to the website and pulls of in-house the building permit information as well. the other permits are miscellaneous permit. as you scroll down, we have had complaints related to the planning department. as far as the vacco is, if you are not sure where you're going, but you have a street or an address that can get you close, you can move this icon around and placing it on the parcel that you would like and get that information as well. you can tie that in and it brings you to the church. there are a couple of tabs here that are nice. the preservation haphazard who gets you to more survey field forms. if he wanted to use a case number, there is an example. the reason i am pulling this up is because under projects, where an of linking all of our commission agendas on line. this is a your case. you'll be able to click on the commission packet as well. we will be joining or adding more information. [inaudible] we will be progressing this and moving in for for the public, i think it is a great tool. if you have any questions, feel free. commissioner miguel: i went on t

we obviously have to make sure that all of those bases are covered, while we are renegotiating as well as having additional discussions. i will say that our concern is that there will be -- it depends on the process of how some of those items may be addressed. that is the question for us because there are some processes that may very severely disrupt the work of the department of environment. if certain facts are taken to address those questions. i will say we absolutely respect those questions being asked, and this is a very worthwhile discussion to be had. we have concerns about the different ways that that may take shape and how that will ultimately affect our department goals. commissioner campos: thank you very much. why don't we hear from recology? again, i want to thank recology and their cooperation with the city and county throughout the process and for being very open and sharing information with us. one of the things, by the way, that really impressed me was the respect that is accorded to your employees who ultimately are the owners of the company. >> thank you. we want to

golden gate bridge to ellis with one for the south bound ride as well as northbound.gh there are only two lanes on the northbound side. >> darya: it is 6:51 a.m. the issue of violence at hayward high school has come to light after several videos posted that show fights at school. we spoke to the mother of one boy whose beating was posted on the internet. >> reporter: this shaky video was posted on www.youtube.com earlier this month the beating of a 14 year-old hayward high school student. he is then pulled out and is being home schooled. she did not want her full name or her face to be on camera because she is afraid for her son's safety. >> they attacked him. i could see my son hit the floor and numerous kids, that spirit you can see the campus is out of control. nobody is doing anything. what are they waiting for? somebody to die. >> reporter: is bad enough but she says the school did not let her know her son was in a fight. >> i was notified not by the school but a family member that my son had been attacked by numerous individuals >> reporter: the superintendent d

temperatures today actually running a little cooler than yesterday, as well. he system to the north of us bringing most of the rain to northern california and the pacific northwest. but as it drops down going to bring us some showers in the bay area, as well. you are, the area of low pressure -- you can see the area of low pressure north of us, bringing breezes and cooler conditions. you will need an umbrella midafternoon. you can see those showers starting to push in by 12:00. good chance for sprinkles throughout the bay. early afternoon hours, start to see the system dry out. by this evening, shouldn't have to worry about rain. we'll bump up the temperatures, too. but in the meantime, cooler temperatures today still running below average for mid- april. and temperatures are running cooler than yesterday. so high of 61 for concord and fairfield. 58 for san rafael. 57 for san francisco and for pacifica. here's a look at your extended forecast. that chance of showers throughout the day today and then we dry out bumping up in temperature degree by degree, slight

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now sta

review process as well as our agreement with the navy. all those remain the same, except we replaced the redevelopment plan with, as i discussed, the special use district, which is housed in the planning codes. the planning commission would have more jurisdiction over the project. the land use plan the ec remains the same here again, for reference, the northern wells and sports bar are in the northeastern portion of the project. it is the biggest part, but probably the least improved, and that would be the one we would consider cutting if the policy makers, you, and others were not comfortable with the reduction in affordable housing we are recommending. again, the land use change will document the changes in the special use district, but the zoning, which is included in the design for development document, remains the same. i think it is just referred to in the planning code. supervisor mar: i'm going to have to ask you to try to make this really breathe and try to wrap up. >> we have two more. we're going to talk quickly about sea level

we insure both early retirees as well as medicare members. we have 197,000 members in our medicare supplement and senior advantage plans and another 187,000 early retirees. you have seen quite a bit of data coverage in terms of costs and utilization. because the federal government funds medicare to approximately 80%, we do much of our own data analysis on our commercial plant, and we have over 900,000 of our members in our commercial plan. the reason we look primarily at the commercial plan is because calpers or the state of california and its contract agencies are covering 100% of the cost of health care. i also want to mention the we have three association plans. approximately 93,000 members in those plans, but you have to be an actual member of that association to take advantage of any of those health plans. in 2002, faced with premium increases in the mid-20% to 40% range, calpers launched a series of efforts to focus plan competition on effectiveness in managing costs. but we did not just stop at a price. we also look at quality and outc