city great. i want to thank all the small businesses in the city. they are providing amazing goods and services but also making tremendous social and cultural contributions. we will all be recognizing the small businesses in the district. i would like to invite the president and the small business commission -- i hope that he is coming soon. he is coming. in the meantime, the order in which we'll make the presentations will be different. we will go in reverse order of the role call. we wil lstart with supervisor cohen. here is o'bryan, president of the samlmall business commissio. he will make the opening remarks. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. on behalf of the small business commission, i would like to thank the mayor and all the members of the board of supervisors, with these outstanding small businesses. there are a thousand small businesses in the city, and these comprise of less than 100 employees, constitute 90% of the businesses across the city. although there are only 13 businesses being recognized, there are tens of thousands of

those plans included strikes against small cities and targeted planes and trains.ams will have more on the story coming up at 5:30 after this news cast. >>> on his last day in office, governor schwarzenegger reduced the prison sentence of a friend's son. today the san diego da's office filed a civil suit to overturn the governor's decision. schwarzenegger reduced the prison sentence from 16 years to seven years. esteban nunez is the son of fabian nunez. the younger nunez pleaded guilty to the stabbing death of a staying college student. today's suit names the current governor, jerry brown, the director of the state department of corrections, a warden and esteban nunez. >> the last-minute come mutation made without all the facts or input from the parties only fueled the public's mistrust of government and greatly diminished justice. >> the san diego da's office says the lawsuit is believed attorney the first of its kind in the nation. >>> a dogfight brewing tonight after santa clara county now decides to hold owners of pit bulls and other dangerous dogs accountable

the small city incentive spurs the private sector -- it attracts the building owner to energy efficient programs. by the way, since solar does not use water, we also benefit from water savings. the city has supported a bundle of low and high cost energy programs. this is no different. this is a tiny budget funded by water resources. please do not cut a program that seems to be working. thank you for listinening. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is walker wright. i work with petro solar. i work with an east coast company currently distributing the largest project that has created over 100 jobs in new jersey. i'm currently advocating to our company to open a fully staffed office in san francisco. i think the reason we are trying to do that is because we firmly believe that programs like go solar represent policy leadership in our industry. the suppliers are here. the people are here. we can continue to grow our industry and be a part of a movement. i fully recommend the continued funding of go solar sf for these reasons. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. from here on behalf of

new this morning police in the small city of rodeo are investigating the city's first homicide this morning. today in the east bay is christie smith is live in rodeo this morning with more on the story for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. i can tell you sheriff's deputies have two streets blocked off here. they are investigating right now, have been here for several hours. this is a homicide that happened last night around 10:40. they believe that the victim may live in this area. here is what they are telling me. he was sitting in a white van when someone on foot opened fire and neighbors reported hearing a barrage of gunfire when deputies arrived they tell me the victim only identified at this point as a white male in his 20s, was dead on the scene. they are telling me this found nothing unusual around the van that he was in. they still, though, have not gone inside of it. they were waiting for the coroner to arrive who just pulled up within the last two minutes or so. at this point they are telling me they are not getting a lot of cooperation from neighbors out here. s

tampa was off the radar was tampa was for a very long time a small city. it wasn't a big metropolis like new york or boston. you didn't have the real flashy gangsters that you had up there and really these were small pockets. these were mafia families and organized crime were 20, 30, 40 guys and another reason is because the gambling that was going on at the time was really ingrained into the community. it wasn't really seen as being this terrible vice. so i think a combination of those factors but certainly a guy like santo was certainly known outside the tampa area and i think in terms of name recognition he's probably one of the more recognizable mobsters in the country. some interesting pieces was the mafia itself is a strictly an italian organization. you have to be sicilian to be made into the mafia but there were guys in organized crime that were spanish, that were white, that were cuban. that was very influential and it was an interesting ethnic mixture that you didn't have in any other city. you didn't have that in new york. you didn't have that i

and i do believe it will help small business just like you're keeping money in the city and that money is going to go. those people are going to shop at the flower shops and they will go to the restaurant and bars and small boutiques. these people live here in the city. and i really like both pieces of legislation. and i support both of them. president o'brien: i would like to be clear, are we agreed that they are -- if we approved supervisor mirkarimi tonight as commissioner clyde suggested, an open end to hear back from the controller's office, would we still have the option then to make changes that would maybe reflect a bigger picture that we might have after the second report? could we do that? >> thank you, commissioner, i believe you could, depending on when your next meeting is scheduled here. i believe the intent is to continue to move mine along, along with the controller's report so depending upon when the next hearing may be, maybe after we have decided upon it at the board. president o'brien: will we have the time to, director? >> our next hearing, next meeting is june 13t

the present small business commission, 90% of all the businesses in our city are small businesses. it was not until 2007 that the city and county of san francisco created the office of small business to serve all of you. there are only four staffers working for the office. and i hope that we can continue to think about increasing this office with a budget compensation. we have an incredibly -- an incredible executive director, please give them a round of applause. they're not the people i am about to recognize. the individuals i will recognize are responsible for assisting 2600 existing small businesses per year, and this is an incredible number. thousands of businesses come to city hall with their questions. they worked tirelessly every day to provide tremendous customer service to the businesses that are creating jobs and building the economy today. these individuals are fluent in chinese and spanish and have provided a tremendous outreach to the latino and the chinese and asian communities. everyone of us have probably referred dozens of cases to these individuals. can you join m

companies, larger corporations not paying their fair share, but having owned and operated small businesses in other cities and other small business owners here, we are proud to be in san francisco, and san francisco gives us an unfair playing advantage because it's better to have a small business here in a lot of ways because there's higher density, there's more people active, there's more people out and about. there's certainly more tourists. and in compared to my business in oakland, i can tell you it's far easier to do business in san francisco when it comes to attracting people. having said that, i'm still on the fence of which one i'm going to vote for. i want to study it a little longer, but i feel small businesses and particularly large businesses have to pay their fair share of taxes and this building and the people in this building and city hall have to be able to spend those taxes wisely. and -- but first and foremost, i'm on this commission to defend and support small businesses in san francisco and have i to analyze this legislation and see how it affects small businesses. i don't want to scar

, we can perhaps ask them to take on an agreement to help small local businesses in the city as well and be dead go-between between creating relationships between big and small. even a company like wells fargo, bank of america or other larger businesses can actually when they are establishing their offices, look to some of the neighborhood corridors and support neighborhood programs. i also want to suggest that we have a planning process that invites the community in these major corridors to work with our city in a very tight way. what i am bothered by in some of my walks is some of those long time vacancies we know have been there not just for a few weeks, but for months, if not years. they are problematic for a number of reasons. why don't we have a more creative process where the neighborhoods, along with the business corridor, can work with city hall, the mayor's office and talk about what are those priorities in the neighborhood that might be suggested of good, well supported, new small businesses that might be supported there and how can we support that? for example, --

dugout moleski market it's very old over here in nineteen states and sinks and having survived the small cities history of the country today you'll see an impressive collection of christ's colorful displays of various parties caressa as the former soviet republics says our media is back to saudi arabia and the ukraine it was a one. to see the. price just a much cheaper here than in the city sparky supermarkets is the good stuff fresh going but it's not a good news with the devastation fine as of last summer the prices of many everyday popular goods have considerably increased that said don't acknowledge the market still attracts many businesses if only to look at the various interests of goods on display the. smell is how the freshest goods are still quality the series of course is marriage and friendly but the most important thing is there's no fresh and tasty here keith tennant. from soviet style kill some farmer's markets three expense if you cheeks i love to show you moles most certainly cases full well fresh foods and i love price i love us unfortunately that's all that's how we have on th

. >>> a survey of small cities has bestowed a new title on college park. it's been voted the best place to raise kids in maryland, because the crime rate is low, and housing is affordable. jane watrel headed to college park to find out what makes this community so special. >> reporter: known for the university of maryland and the root 1 corridor, college park has a new designation. chosen by bloomberg business week as the best place in the state to raise children. no surprise to this mother of four, whose family moved from montgomery county. >> there's not a huge income gap in college park. there's lots of middle class families, lots of kids the same age. lots of diversity. i like it much better here. >> reporter: college park's kid-friendly designation was based on several factors. among them, good schools, recreational opportunities, affordability, and unique attractions like the college park airport, the oldest continually operated airport in the world. >> your average pilot. >> and its aviation museum. >> we get a lot of families with young children, a

yes but for one small city in russia that perception of kellogg's is difficult to stomach. more generations of families that work here grandmothers margulis hardest stance daughters we've all been left feeling devastating. a few years ago kellogg's to caver one of russia's leading cereal brands including this production factory in go to vets in the vladimir region as a global giant of industry it should've been an exciting time for the workers and the reversal but on march the fourteenth we came to work and were told that the company would be liquidated this year it would have been the company's seventy fifth anniversary despite a generous redundancy package job single vets are scarce and for generations of families the factory has been the economic heart of the city yet it was more than just a job the plant was everything for the people it was our way of live now with the plant closed and showing no signs of reopening people here is struggling to find even low paid jobs crowds of people are being sent to the same places and those jobs come the blackmailers they'll say ther

there are not a lot of small businesses in this area because there are not a lot of employees. this city is unique because of small business. thank you. commissioner clyde: i also want to thank everyone for being here and showing such a great solidarity with this issue and with the small independent stores. the effect of predatory pricing is, and has been demonstrated repeatedly -- one small shops go out of business, then the prices increase and increase. i have some experience with a local safeway that is exponentially higher than other safeway's simply because it does not have any competition in the area at all. this has been happening for years. it continues to happen. there is that time where a community might enjoy lower prices, and that is great, but once those little shops close, then the price goes to what the market will bear, and prices are often higher. in san francisco, with high incomes and high disposable income in many of our neighborhoods, we know why these companies want to locate in our neighborhoods. we have high disposable income. that would be death for our city. it

that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain heavy taboo in navaho culture about death and he said after we left this cliff dwelling, he said, i need a ceremony. too much death. yo

marking the moment one week ago when the deadliest twister since the 1950s touched down in that small city. and when we landed there to cover it just a week ago, these are the images i took with my blackberry. the snapped trees, the homes destroyed as far as you can see. there, the truck flipped over. the trees with the bark peeled right off of them. and the homes. this one, one of the few with any walls still standing. tonight, one week later, president obama was in joplin with a message about the strength of the people there, saying there are heroes all around us. matt gutman leads us off in joplin tonight. matt, good evening. >> reporter: hey, good evening, david. you'll find a lot of those heroes here at the new st. john's hospital. now, you visited the brick and mortar version across the street, that shell of a building. this place is now operational and it speaks to the resilience of these people. but all around, 13 miles of devastation, and that's what the president saw today. block after block after block. this is what the president saw on his drive in. disorienting sea of shattere

to be a european court of human rights did which took place by thought it was for years that the small city should was politically motivated will be cited. a lot of incontestable proof basically the lawyers the protocols they were not able to provide the sufficient proof the support sufficient evidence of these claims to back up these claims that it has to be said though that when he was arrested in two thousand and three he was financing opposition political parties and upward into other calls me and his supporters it was because of his political staff that he was arrested in the first place now as of today though the european court of human rights again has injected those plans and has they got to rest for the time being now on the other point though that difficulty has brought to the court he was claiming that his rights have been byways with regard to his pretrial detention where he was detained without sufficient justification as well as the visions of the unsanitary conditions with the list up to now on those points the court had agreed with her post yet they had ordered the i'm also

this is a wonderful partnership that the city has created to crit these public spaces. any small business owner who ever has the opportunity to join with the city to volunteer and give back to the community, this is a real interesting and a wonderful learning experience to do that. thank you very much and we appreciate it. [applause] >> colleagues, as we know and as we often paraphrase, small businesses really are the economic engine of san francisco. before i recognize the small business for district 5, i would like to say thank you to the small business commission. i think this process has grown tremendously over the past few years. last week, i was actually at an event sponsored by "the bay guardian," that does a great job of recognizing the small businesses. i think that san francisco

tampa was off the radar because it was for a long time a small city, not a big metropolis like new york or boston. you didn't have the flashy gang steers that you had up there, and really these were small pockets. these were, you know, familied and organized crime groups with 20-40 guys. another reason is because the gambling going on at the time was really engrained into the community. it was not seen as being a terrible vice, so i think a combination of those factors, but certainly a guy who was the mofia boss here from the early 1950s through 1987, he was certainly known outside the tampa area, and i think in terms of name recognition, he's one of the more recognizable mobsters in american history. one of the unique things about tampa's organized crime history is the mofia itself is a strictly italian organization and have to be sicilian to get in the mofia, but there were guys in the organized crime that was spanish, white, and cue babe who were influ enissue. it's an mixture that you didn't have in any other city. closest parallel was new orleans, but tampa has a unique mix to the

if the job of san francisco is to protect the city and keep it strong and vibrant, i think it is in its best interests to protect small business. we helped to foster creativity in the city by supporting small-independent manufacturers. they can walk into our store and provide their products out of their apartment. big business does not do that. big business is going to be bad for san francisco for numerous reasons. i just hope you guys can see the wisdom in keeping small business is strong in san francisco. obviously, the lawyers are here. that is what big business does. your job is to help maintain this city pepys strength and fiscal vibrancy. thank you. -- this city's strength and fiscal vibrancy. thank you. >> i am a resident of the richmond district. i live about eight blocks from where the proposed store would come in. i want to point out a couple different things. it is disingenuous for petco to say they reached out to the neighborhood. dignified people within 300 feet of the proposed location. if you wanted a genuine dialogue with the community, you would notify the neighborhood. there are many people in our ne

. >> a federal judge has decided it's better take sacrifice crop land than a small city as floods threaten parts of the midwest. the army corp of engineers will destroy a leyy along the mississippi river. it's hoped it'll keep flood waters hurting a town, population 2800. it would affect 100,000 acres of farmland and likely destroy 230 people's homes. no action has been taken as engineers watch the rising waters and weather reports of more rain. >> prosecutors say they won't seek the death penalty against a man charged with strangelling a hospital worker. a patient at the state facility is a accused of killing a tech last october. the da's office said it'll pursue a life sentence without the possibility of parole. a preliminary hearing is set for monday. senate city of livermore is encouraging photographers to make a permanent record of a first ever event for the city. the bike tour will pass through on its way to san jose. the city is holding a bike race photograph contest to mark the occasion. there will be two entry levels, one for those under 18 and 18 and one for adults. >> 3,000 volu

larger public companies employ a ton of people here in san francisco that allow small businesses to be created in our city. all of the ancillary small businesses support jobs and all of the ancillary things that come out of employing people in larger companies here in the city, which is why i think it's important, from my perspective, to create a city wide perspective. president o'brien: commissioner o'connor? commissioner o'connor: how are you? i supported the twitter tax break for the reasons which you just stated, which is i wasn't so concerned with twitter, although i think it's great to see the furniture mark building filled with workers who are going to support all of the small businesses and revitalize that area, which has been struggling for a long time. we all know that. however, having said that, the idea that this city could enter into a quasi partnership in supporting and keeping developing companies staying here with the caveat that we would as a city share a potential gain when that company did go public, that's very attractive in lieu of these payroll stock options that are going to be taxe

small businesses from succeeding. so it is so nice and so productive when the city is able to take a pro-active steps to help small businesses financially -- take a pro-active steps -- take pro-active steps to help small businesses financially. we have a real diverse array of interesting small businesses, so i am proud that we have been able to do this, and especially what we have been able to do on valencia's street. so congratulations and best of luck. -- especially what we have been able to do on valencia st.. >> a quick word before emily speaks. the money is critical, but what we have seen is the really critical things the city can do. one of the things that we like working solution so much is not just that they are able to make loans but the kind of business solutions they are able to give to owners, so i just wanted to put in that little plug. [applause] >> good morning. i am the executive director of working solutions, and i also am so excited to be here to kick off small business week this year as we celebrate the success of mr. and cheese. sarah, congratulations on all your hard work and achieving your dream. we all