i want to hundred more gardner's in our parks. i want more patrol officers. >> and we can provide the kind of funding in 2009. we should have done this last year but we did not have the ability. >> i live relatively close to the garden and i go there from time to time, sometimes with my kids and sometimes myself. i also observed anecdotallynope. -- i have observed this anecdotally. at the end of the year. we will have approximately 45,000-50,000 residents who are contributing enough funding to actually keep the guarding reckoning -- keep the garden running. when you talk about some of the concerns, and i do appreciate the fact that we have had some residents that have been inconvenienced by this. we have had frustrated customers from time to time throughout our operations. we have those that have to deal with the rec center that is closed on sundays. we have to deal with frustrated residents that have to deal with our inability to staff the clubhouse. we can cause we have to deal with those who cannot get a water fountain -- we ha

this is needed, if we don't get it, we will lose the maintenance gardner's. i want to speak one -- to one thing that was mentioned i feel that we have less than a year's worth of data. if you don't remember, we had a very cold august and september. san francisco, you know that those are great months. the visitation is really climate-driven. we had a couple of great weeks of really good weather in february. we need a little bit more time on that. >> thank you. >> a final announcement for those who might be in the overflow room. we are ending public comment fairly soon. please make your way to the board chambers and line up in the center aisle? >> good evening, supervisors. i am representing the san francisco green party. i want to bring in a big picture of why this is important. whenever there are great recessions like the one we are in. people want to exploit that. budgets get cut and then up the corporate entities go to you and say, we have to have a fee. well, we have to cut labor wages and benefits. ology labor folks that have been speaking in favor of thi

position because she had to leave. -- angela gardner's position because she had to leave. ggnra says that the current situation has not been sustainable. it has been in place since 1979. we have the most beautiful place in the city. we have people from all over the world looking at the facebook page. why can't we have this in sweden or all of these other countries? one more thing. as a walker, i have to see this. we have a gigantic industry in this area and in this city that is seriously threatened by this. you're going to have hundreds of people unable to work, thousands of dogs and able to go out anymore. it will be a big deal and all of the ways they already told you about. >> i am an auditor with over 15 years experience. i was with a major public accounting firm for the city of san francisco otic. this environmental impact study and plan is overwhelming and misleading to the public. the national park service claims that the dogs are public safety record. the actual data shows that about 1% of the public safety risks are actually related to dogs. this is in contrast to

>> well, $250,000 in net revenue supports slightly more than the cost of three gardners. >> in terms of next year if this fee does not continue, what does that mean for you? you keep talking about recreation centers and all of that. what will that look like for you? >> really, we are talking about recreation centers, gardners, parks. >> we will have a structural whole of at least at a quarter of a million dollars. we will have to figure out a corresponding cut. >> just to follow up on the question, but do you know what the general ratio per dollar for some of these other facilities are? just a gauge of the cost of the commissions. -- the cost of admissions. the rise in the teagarden and attendance, was that a rise in the cost of admission or a rise in people? >> both. >> we increased the nonresident rate from $5 to $7. again, we -- in

i'm jack gardner, president of the john stewart company, co-developer with the booker t. washington community center of the affordable housing component of the probably before you this afternoon. the john stewart company is a statewide developer and manager of mixed income and affordable housing. we've been in business 33 years and currently manage over 33,000 units of mixed income housing throughout california. we will serve as the management agent for the affordable housing units upon their completion. as the largest manager of affordable housing in california, j.s. company is dedicated to the creation and preservation of affordable housing. every day we see the enormous need for safe, affordable housing for vulnerable populations such as transition aged youth. j.s. has managed several such properties around the state including weldon place in san francisco's tenderloin district, that includes 27 units for young adults aging out of foster care. in addition dour doctor during our 33 years of operation we have developed over 3,000 units of affordable housing through const

giants' bullpen coach mark gardner. the pitching coach, did a pretty good job, i thought, dave righetti. [applause] how about the giants skipper, his second world series, the manager first with the giants, i think he made all the right moves, brought the giants the world championships, bruce bowen g -- bochy. >> bochy. bochy. bochy. bochy. >> all right, let's meet the members of the 2010 giants ballclub. he was injured, it did not have as much impact as he was hoping, but we will be hearing a lot from him in the future. ladies and gentlemen, infielder, emanu-el burris. [applause] how about what this guy did, not just in the regular season, but in the post-season, the series clinching home run. started i guess against the phillies in game 6. the three-run homer started in game one of the world series, shortstop juan urribe. ooh. sounds good. this guy was also his season cut short, and we will be seeing a lot of him next year -- outfielder, infielder, a great guy. mark to rosa. played in 29 regular-season games for the gi

barry gardner thanks so much for joining us live here on r.t. good to have you with us now understand that you welcomed the u.n. resolution but you are actually against ukraine both went in libya's conflict many will see this is a contradiction so you can explain your reasoning behind your thoughts here. yes of course i felt it was right that there should be a resolution for humanitarian protection to stop the initial strike that gadhafi was going to make on benghazi because i felt that many many civilians would be killed in that but i don't believe it's right that britain or indeed any other powers should be intervening in what is in fact a civil war and unfortunately the terms of the resolution were far too wide and they had permitted britain and france and the other nato forces to get involved in part has now been very evidently made clear is the civil war would you like to see britain. not withdrawing from this campaign but taking more of a back seat in the way we've seen other allies within the alliance the nato alliance taking part in this

---los dueÑos de los edificios, "hong y john gardner" alegan que son ellos las victimas, ya que los inquilinos los departamentos. --los supervisores de san francisco estan analizando una resolucion que busca proteger de la discriminacion racial a miembros de las comunidades arabe, musulmana y otras de medio oriente y el sur de asia. --esto, despues de que la comision de los derechos humanos de san francisco realizara un estudio sobre la relacion entre las autoridades y estos grupos.--en el reporte se citan casos de personas que supuestamente fueron cuestionadas en el aeropuerto internacional de san francisco en base a su perfil racial, tambien de otros hechos en que agentes del f-b-i realizaron visitas a organizaciones musulmanas. --abril es el mes de la "concientizacion contra los conductores distraidos" en california y ante ello, las autoridades del area de la bahia anunciaron que habra cero tolerancia hacia quienes menejen violando las leyes de transito.--ramon adame tiene el informe. ---enseguida en noticias univision 14......un video muestra a policias sometiendo violentamente a un hincha

gardner as well as mr. bishop, it brings back a lot of thoughts and experiences serving not only as a legislator but also a business owner and farmer, small trucking operation that we have a family business back in indiana and thinking about how the freedom that we have comes from not the constitution. it comes if god. the rights that we have are god-given, the constitution protects those rights and i know that many times in -- over the years, we look at the constitution as a dry document. it doesn't seem to be exciting. it doesn't seem to be one of great interest. but i can tell you today, mr. speaker, as we watch our federal government, as we start to the debates of budgets, of health care, of our military actions around the world, of the size and scope of our federal government, it is crucial for us, for all of us to remind ourselves to reeducate ourselves on what our constitutional role is. as mr. bishop said, many times we talk about the horizontal separations of our government with the executive, legi

gardners have been told to go out flower by flower and make sure that any of the flowers that are not up to par be trimmed away. sometimes the most obscure, minute preparations are the most interesting to hear about. >> no wilted wisteria for the princess and prince. >>> between the royal wedding and easter sunday, hat makers are certainly staying busy in london this week. hat makers to the stars are working overtime. >> hats are about spectacle and about tradition and about making the woman look attractive and festive occasion and there's no bigger festive occasions is a royal wedding. >> one of the biggest consumers of hats is the queen herself. bookmakers are already betting the queen will wear yellow to the wedding. there's also bets being made on which designer headpiece will be worn by kate middleton. a security guard accused of sexual assaulting a woman at a major bay area company. and the victim scared into silence. plus the chaos inside the st. louis airport as a tornado tears through the roof. we get a firsthand look and winds whip through the terminal. >>> and social net wo

--"berenice gardner", nos tiene utiles consejos. >> tiene útiles consejos. >> las ofertas siguen llegando. >> por ejemplo muchos consumidores prefieren utilizar el teléfono en casa. averiguar cuando le saldrá el paquete. para varias opciones. quién ahora va ahorrarse. llame y averiguar. en la oferta. de todas las dirección más para pagar. por eso después en casi 70.000 lectores. siguen siendo la mejor opción para ahorrar. sí, no tienen las opciones. más ahí está. eso sí, en todas las promesas por escritos escoger las compañías y negociar pida los equipos y la instalación gratis. es mejor para el bolsillo de uno. en noticia de américa latina el consulado de los estados unidos en mata mora méxico por tercera vez. para que no viaje por las carreteras. en la desaparición de un estadounidenses ocurrido en el autobús en el estado, mientras tanto continúan enfocado en la investigación para tener las información relacionada con el hallazgo de una fosa común. después de conversar. en el inicio del trámite. en el estado americano. bajo el concepto del mandatario centroamericano. colombia en instanc

now, we are going to invite our mayor to the stage and also our managing editor, jim gardner, who is going to moderate a conversation with the mayor. first, we will hear from each of them. they will tell us about their priorities and their outlook and vision for the city, and jim has prepared a number of questions. after that, we will also ask if any of you would like to send up some questions for gin to ask the mayor. there are some little index cards at your table. throughout the presentation, you can write your question down, just hold your hand up high, and we will circulate through and grab those. just make sure we can see you, and we will bring them up to jim. something about jim, one thing to know is that he writes the editorials that appear every week in our newspaper. we get a lot of kudos for his work on that, so pretty proud of him at that level. there's a lot of things on the business side, but that is the one you can count on him for every single week. since san francisco is the host city, mayor lee was gracious enough to allow mayor kwan to go first. well, zack, and wel

[applause] >> thahalwelcome to jim gardner. >> having been involved in moderating this for a good few years, we saw examples from the first thing this morning that both -- that mayor's can relate to. and they have sat down beside each other and they have sat down with each other and that was nice to see. what did you do to reenergize oakland as a good place to do business? >> the core of the plan was to revitalize downtown and he has this famous goal and it got to about 6000 if you include the projects and they are waiting for the economy to come up. that was critical to revitalizing downtown. san francisco as the number 1 retail city in the bay area. oakland has made an amazing investment. we have industrial areas. >> how much will your strategy rest on luring companies from elsewhere in the bay area? you have highlighted that you are cheaper and more interesting than san francisco. >> you're referring to our pawed industry. that gets a lot of great publicity but is probably only worth a couple of million dollars in sales taxes. that is not a major thing. it was really difficult for

>> covering the meeting, tom gardner and thomas to work. we thank them for their work. please call item number two, madam clerk. >> approve the menace of the march 22, 2001 meeting. supervisor campos: colleagues, you have before you the minutes of the march 22 meeting. is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have a motion on item number two motion by supervisor avalos, seconded by supervisor wiener. madam clerk, call item no. 3. >> citizens advisory committee report information. supervisor campos: thank you. now we will hear from the citizens' advisory committee. good morning. >> i am the former chair, but in the absence of the chair and vice chair, i am here. we had three items on our agenda that were also on your agenda. two of them were action items. your item number four, about the bikeway in golden gate park, it was approved unanimously. i do not remember particularly who -- i'm a member of the bicycle coalition was wondering -- i will say the park commission, but we had to revisit this. there were areas where the road was

staffed with just three gardner's. for the last 56 years we have been aided by the support of the san francisco botanical garden society, a nonprofit member- supported organization. the san francisco botanical society only exists to support garden operations and activities. since 1995 the organization has supported the city with $9 million in direct gardening expenditures. $6.8 million in educational programs connected to its library, youth program, and volunteer program. on average, the botanical garden society has supported this city, the parks department, and our botanical garden with approximately $1.6 million in services. those services include a program whereby 10,000 school children from all over the city participate in educational programs at the garden each year. overall it will look 30,000 school-age kids visit the botanical garden. taking part in two hours, story time walks, and treasure hunt. students learn lifelong lessons on sustainability, conservation, and ecology. in lieu of cuts last year, the departm

these positions, there is now $250,000 that can be eliminated by the budget thereby supporting the gardners. i am not suggesting that we don't take on the idea of having additional funding streams coming in through the property tax. i can put on this table $250,000 without this fee. this is very very disquieting to have to deal with this problem. also, supervisor kim asked what it does for rec and park. it pays for a police officer and a representative. it limits where we can go to experience the diversity of nature and golden gate park by requiring an identification and money. please and this fee and support the spending on the new transfer tax for gardeners. thank you. >> good afternoon. i have lived and worked in district 4 and i have an infant who is 3 months old. i'm having very difficult time to get out to my work at 3:00, go home and get -- before 4:00. a couple of times, my wife and i arrived at 3:55 and they shut the door. they handed me a business card for nancy johnson. i called and left some messages regarding this incident. that is the first issue about the arborists. the secon

tin gardners. do you know how many gardeners i can afford? 3. difficult choices. we get no joy in charging fees. we will fight, fight, fight to raise revenues so we can continue to provide services to our community. supervisor cohen: ok. we have five minutes. i am going to give mayor lee an opportunity -- >> [unintelligible] we need to hear from you, supervisors, the mayor, and everybody here. we need to hear from you all. i ask respectfully you make a comment about that. supervisor cohen: all right. that is a fair request. is there anybody on the panel who would like to address this. >> we fully support the program. i think the best news for our department is because of the 2008 and the money we of been able to obtain from the state of california, we are building new direct centers -- rec centers. you talk about social enterprise. here is finding that can begin to address our $1.6 billion of means, and to a higher san franciscans. i had the pleasure of working with the mayor and many people at this table. the rec center will be our first project of the gate. we h