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san francisco is often known as the kansas city. -- as the can-do city. we also believe we are a can-do city. our futures are so links to each other that we will rise and fall together. thank you for coming, so many of you who did come. please join us on a first friday, and join us for some of the best art galleries and restaurants. it is basically a party downtown. if you are coming early, give my office a call. we pour a little bit of wine on the first friday and invite you to stop by the mayor's office, if you are looking for real estate. fred can help you any time. we often will show people around on first fridays. >> thank you, mayor quan. to introduce for the q&a portion, and again, hold your please welcome dan angell, president and ceo of golden gate university, who will introduce our moderator. >> recently, i saw a sign coming down the highway, and it sent a simple message. it said paradigms' may have changed while in flight. a lot of changes going on very quickly. at golden gate university, we have been part of the greater bay area economy for 11

not many cities can boast that. in the last year, it has dropped since mayor lee and we at the border supervisors came into office. for me, this continues we are doing at city hall, our mission. and a real point to the students here. please know that city hall and your local government is here because we want to create a better future and we are working for you. we will not rest until we deliver on that promise. congratulations to everyone. we look forward to seeing this make a difference four years to come in our city. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisors, for being here. as i mentioned earlier, when our students finish, they move onto internships with 22 companies, including mozilla, j.p. morgan chase, and micromenders, among others. the first of them to join us was salesforce.com. they are the enterprise, computing company that is leading the ship to social enterprise. one of the largest and best employers in the city. it is my honor to welcome one of our best friends from salesforce.com. [applause] >>

i will make sure the city's discourse is positive. we will not prevent the foundation that provides us with economic growth. let's move forward together. thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i am the executive director of the bay area. we do not get a turnaround you get. and is our honor and privilege to host you, mr. mayor, city college of san francisco, a leading companies in san francisco, and fellow community organizations. we open your bay area three years ago this past tuesday and will come to our class of 80 students. we are trying to solve two problems of the same time. the first is that companies are struggling to find talent, particularly in the field of technology. at the same time, there are thousands of talented young adults in the city and more than 5 million across the country looking for the opportunity to build a meaningful career. our students go through five months of intensive training and hard i.t. skills and the increasingly important soft skills of communication and professionalism. this is

he is very familiar with the incredible work that spur does with the city, because of his work as a cityistrativor,a lot of us from his vantage point of the mayor's office. i would like to recognize the department heads and elected officials. i know i've seen some of you here. thank you for coming out to support the fund workover our city employees. it is a privilege to me in particular to be here because i have had the opportunity for the last several years to be on the selection committee for the good government awards. it is really a treat. as a human-resources director, i get a lot of bad news. some of that gets in the newspaper. with all due respect to our brethren in the press, it's always a good story to write about bad behavior that may happen in a city department or that a public employee may have engaged in. we are the largest employer in san francisco. it is only natural as some of that bad behavior may fall on our doorsteps. it is refreshing to see some of the wonderful work people are doing, who really personify the ethos of san francisco. i want to celebrate that. on behalf

so cities do suffer. cities do suffer. keep in mind, though, too, that there are always local people in these cities, residents, activists, housing advocates, teachers, union organizers, there are always people in cities throughout the 20th century trying to fight against these issues. there's always people who are doing that. even though we don't usually think about them. we don't usually study them. they are there. right? they are there. i want you to keep that in mind, too. but as you saw in the article about the bay area, you saw in the article about the oakland corridor, fighting against these issues is extremely difficult. it was extremely difficult. the forces of history that urban activists had to fight against were entrenched. they're entrenched in structures of inequality, spatial structures between where people live. they're entrenched in structures of income divides, between who has access to jobs and who comes at kind of the moments of the industrialization. there's historical structures of political divisions

cities after world war 2. this lasts an hour and 20 minutes. >> so today is a lecture on the origins of the urban crisis. the term urban crisis is in the title of this class. all right? race, class, gender and the urban crisis. we use the hbo miniseries "the wire" as a text to study, or to think about the urban crisis. and also, again, we use "the wire" for the sociological presentation that gives us the post-war american cities and also to ask questions of it because it gives us the window into the post-war police procedural, through fighting crime, or through police and criminals, which allows us to see a great many things. but it also occludes and hides other elements of life in post-war cities as well. so we use "the wire" both for what it does and what it doesn't do. but today's lecture is more or less a historical overview of the origins of the urban crisis. and that comes from the title of a book of a monograph 1995, a book that you read an excerpt from it. he concentrated on detroit. and that's where i

and we have two cities that are top of our bike use. the city of gronig and the city of shola. over 50 october of of all trips daily made by bike. and for regional use of the bicycle. got some figures compared to a car. then you can see that schoolchildren use the bicycle very frequently for education. and still businessmen use the car a lot. and social recreational reasons.

they're probably more in this city than any other city in the country. it may not be a major consideration. there are a lot of other factors affecting this. with also want to look at maintaining a diversity in the population. low-wage earners, who also providing many of the services that we depend on. maintenance, we don't want the low wage earners are leaving the city. we want them to raise the families here. the real question is, how do we shift resources and approaches in the infrastructure and the most important, development capital. what is the game plan? where do we start? i'm sorry that this did not have all lot of specific data. we were trying to present this as a snapshot with the family fight issues. we would be glad to provide you with significant information later on. supervisor farrell: next, i am going to ask chris from the seine and cisco unified school district to come up. do you want to talk real quick? i know you have to leave by 1:45. here we go. >> i will tell you, we are focusing on trying to help the solution. >> we have the populat

the city. your members have been with the city struggling with us, we come to you to help us. you helped us tremendously on a number of things last year and i want to say thank you to all the traditional members of the chamber as well. whether it is wells fargo, pg&e, or ecology, and the worst numbers of sponsors who have been here today and continue to come here. you have been part of the life blood as we walk them -- welcome in the biotechnology and green tech. the people of this city and every neighborhood and who have experienced all the great, positive dialogue but has also been concerned about-dialogue -- about negative dialogue. many of you joined with me weeks ago when we celebrated 50 years of tony bennett and his wonderful song. we have much more to celebrate in the coming years and i hope you join in the chamber in making sure we share this prosperity. having said that, and knowing that our economy is improving, i want to make sure you know i will be at the helm with the board making

city, and to attract new families to come into the city. i, for one, and a transplant from the east coast. if people were to ask me why i came to the city, and number of things. i love the environment here. i love the culture. i want my children to grow in a place that has lots of diversity. i want my children to be exposed to the way of life and thinking in the city. one of the reports you have in front of you is dated 2005-2008. it is called tackling family flight. back in 2005, mayor newsom tasked the city to strengthen the foundation of support for children, youth, and families. we know the only way to really tackle family flight, because it is multifaceted, is by creating a collaboration with in the city and with our private partners. i believe this is the key. we need to get everyone in the city on the same page having this conversation. it is one thing to have city officials having this conversation, but we need to bring philanthropic and corporate partners. the council identified seven key areas that impacted family fight. nothing s

welcome to city hall, your city hall. i wanted to make sure -- i know supervisor mirkarimi is here. supervisor jane kim is also here. they are both here because i know both have a strong commitment to our youth in san francisco. i want to welcome all of you here tonight for two reasons. one, i know we are going to give some awards out for our youth leaders, but the other reason i wanted to make sure you had a good invitation to come to city hall tonight was because we have been waiting for one of you to register, wondering if you are going to run for mayor or not. there is a vacant seat for youth to lead the city. i think you can take this job and run with it. this city needs to be more kid- friendly, more youth-oriented. i think you could have a big input to make sure that what we are doing will be there for you to raise families as well. i want to congratulate all the nominees tonight. all of you who have been participating in this competition for the fellowship have been doing great work. i have been reading through some of the accomplishments that you are a part of. i got to mee

it forces cities -- gives cities a tool to mediate. before you can go to bankruptcy court and go that extremely drastic measure, you've got to go through this mediation process. essentially it's 60 or 90 days depending on how it goes. the city brings in a retired federal bankruptcy judge who has been to hell and back so to speak. they sit down with creditors, retirees and labor groups. this is what will happen when we go to bankruptcy court. let's talk and make a deal. >> belva: we're waiting to see if a deal can be made? >> we're hopeful. >> belva: i don't imagine folks over at google are worrying about it, but we'll wait to see what kind of deal they'll make if they make a deal at all about their new approach to privacy rules. >> i don't think google is in a position where they have to make deals with consumers to be frank. >> where are we on google and its announced change of the way it will handle it's privacy? >> as a matter of pure fact, they're not really changing anything. they're still handling your data the same way when you

i was most proud to work on city hall. the integrity of the san francisco waterfront partners preserving the interest of the city's community. the plan shows details of a pretty open space. of course, jackson, and so it's very impressive once they get it done. listening to the committee, waterfront partners has added amenities which include an addition of the 4500 sq. ft. children's park, which is pretty much needed down there, too. ground level dedicatee 77% of the land. the public and neighbor of use. lawn areas, benches, trees, and more. so everybody can use them when they go walking around the waterfront. how many residential housing projects have bicycle facilities with showers and a locker rooms? kudos to the person who came up with that idea. the time and energy producing a project of this nature deserves its due. again, i support the approval of this project. thank you. >> tim, allen, jay. >> good afternoon. my name is lilly. i am an artist. the golden gateway development was once used to demonstrate accident -- ex

and we have two cities that are top of our bike use. the city of gronig and the city of shola. over 50 october of of all trips daily made by bike. and for regional use of the bicycle. got some figures compared to a car. then you can see that schoolchildren use the bicycle very frequently for education. and still businessmen use the car a lot. and social recreational reasons. a reason for using the bike and shopping. we like to go shopping on our bikes. come to that later. and when it comes to gender. who's using the bicycle. i'm told that the netherlands is very typical on this. we have more women on bikes then -- than men. and the most intense users are girls from the age of 12 to 18 and that's easy to explain because i once was a girl of that age and to me, mabika was my ticket to freedom. i didn't want my mom and dad bringing me by car somewhere and then say well, i'll pick you up at 6:00. i go on my bike and i'll try to make it at 6:00. most of the time i was there. 6:30. and then later you can see at all

bring on the entertainment bring it here today city city you know that it is true we need entertainmenthinnied in good from you i say city i say city i do not want to find that we do not have entertainment and are not even one dime i say city you know that it is true we need good entertainment and we needed from yeaou ♪ >> thanks. supervisor wiener: thank you. by the way, we have now gone through all the cards. >> hello, i am is small business owner, and we were mentioned earlier. we were trying to put up a nightclub at 43 sixth street. we keep hearing that there has been pushed back from the city. we're fighting this constant battle to put a bar in that location. i wanted to also mentioned that this has been historically a bar in the same location for over 40 years. so i do not know why there is a push back all of the sudden now. as far as our business, we're definitely committed to putting the security there. surveillance cameras, a lot of lights. make the facade lignites so that it brings a lot of professionals that the mayor's twitter tax break would bring in that neighborhood. you

in terms of general, broad and -- what parents are saying broadly in the city, the city issued a city survey back in 2009. i have a few points from that survey. one is that parents report that amid news of children's programs and an increasing rate. that is seen in our database. we saw a significant increase in children and entered into our data system being served in the last two years. another point was that although there is a level use of top care programs in the city for children under 6, we are seeing a huge intake in after-school programs, youth employment programs, and counseling programs for young people. parents who send their children to san francisco schools, public and private, say they really love their school. i think this notion of a school being a bad school, and that is why they are leaving, is perhaps a small portion of the population. i will admit it is difficult. being a parent who had to go through the school enrollment process, it was difficult. but we have lots of parent organizations out there that support the parents in trying to maneuver through and understa

as a kid born and raised in the city, a number of my friends live outside of the city right now as well. it is a very personal issue that concerns everyone in the city, everyone on the board, and it is something i thought we should make sure to bring to the forefront. the reasons vary. but the facts are the facts. the recent census figure shows that most are younger than age 18. in 1960, that number was 24%. we have struggled to attract and retain young families. the city has 3000 more children than it did 10 years ago and has lost more than a thousand children between the ages of 5 and 18. speculation as to the causes of family fights, -- flight, the cost of housing, the education system, the cost of living in general. and quality of life issues like safe streets and neighborhoods. i of the issue of family flight has been looked at, but i wanted to call this hearing to bring everyone together to get the data together in a once in the place and start thinking about and having a dialogue about what we are doing in the future. why does this matter? to me, it is quite simple. keeping famil

one of the first in the city. it found that the heights that were approved for golden gateway were a violation of ceqa, and they made a unanimous recommendation that they could not be built without violating ceqa -- unanimous recommendation by the planning commission. that triggered a three-year process. in the end, they changed the he

, a city that knows how to get stuff done. that is all what residents and voters want. they wanted these simple times of getting kingstowne and collaborating and communicating. i know it has become much more difficult with the huge regulations. with financing, it has become more difficult. with the loss that we're faced with and how to manage the project -- with the laws we are faced with and how to manage the project. with the laws imposed upon the port, airport, muni, and other agencies, we needed to permit that goes beyond sitting back and awaiting root for things to happen. there are actively looking for relationships with our general hospital. our general hospital has already starting to talk to me about, ok, when we're finished with this, there is another project that money to pay attention to. they're thinking ahead about the medical needs of our community. that is why it is so wonderful to be out here, because people are not just taking care of immediate emergencies. there also assessing have those emergencies can be p

a city for the 100%. everybody gets to live in our city and live with dignity.t is what i am going to be doing in all my years is making sure everyone can be here. [applause] we are recognizing the celebrates the spirit of our african-american experience, the contributions that everyone has made to our great city to make sure it is a diversity. that is why i moved here. it is why you moved here. that is why so many of her friends decided it would make their mark here in our city because of our diversity. this year's theme could be no less important. black women and american history and culture. absolutely. and it is particularly poignant that it highlights african- americans experiences through their patriotism, through their labor, leadership, motherhood, intellect, and artistic expression. all of us regardless of ethnic origin or social and economic background have benefited from the contributions of these women. in the american culture, menino of the historical accomplishments of the african- american women, phyllis wheatley, harriet tubman, leader of undergr

at its best, san francisco is a city for everyone. we are a city for the 100%. [applause] we will only realize our true promise and potential when we serve the needs and aspirations of each and every one. i will tell you one of the ways that we can do that. we need to create a permanent source of revenue. for funding of production and housing in san francisco. creating a space that is livable for everyone at every end of the spectrum. but just low-income housing, but working-class housing. we must never let up on our efforts to fight homelessness, move people off of the streets and into supportive housing. we must continue to embrace innovative approaches to help families and individuals find permanent homes. so, this week that will direct the mayor's office of housing to convene a broad working group of housing advocates, city officials, developers, and community leaders to develop a measure that we can place on the november ballot to create a permanent housing trust fund. san francisco must remain a place. [applause] san francisco must remain a place where eve

we are the city for the 100%. we will work together. i will make sure the city. discourse is positive. we will not forget the foundation that provides us with economic growth. let's move forward and let's move forward together. thank you very much. [applause] >> i guess that makes it clear why mayor lee's approval rating is soaring. thank you, mayor, for your leadership and vision and since we're running over, i will do just a very quick wrap up. prosperity together as possible. but it is only possible when business, labour, and government work together. that was our theme today. that is the goal for the year ahead. we could not bring new programs like this without our great sponsors. let's get around the's to jpmorgan chase and all our top sponsors -- let's give a round of applause to jpmorgan chase and all our top sponsors. thank you to our board members. thank you for support. it is going to be a great year ahead and think you for coming out this morning. -- thank you for coming out this morning. [applause] >> which celebrated the electric vehicle charging sta

city. specifically to measure the economic impact of my life in san francisco. a frequent topic of discussion frequently, we focus on the negatives and we give very focused on that. we are focusing on these sporadic,-events. we have not put together the positive economic solutions. the cultural importance of lite light in terms of defining the community and attracting the people of all ages to this city, having diversity in the city, in the lgbt community, the importance of my life to building community when people come out of the closet and thereafter. i requested that the city economist conducted this study and they will be presenting this study shortly. this study required a lot of thinking outside the box and a lot of hard work. i want to thank mr. eagan for his very strong work around this study. in the future, it is my view that this study will provide us and others with a quick, actual data with which to make policy decisions. sometimes with nightlife entertainment, we make decisions

they impacted all city employees. it is sad to see people put things on the ballot that attack people that works and votes for them, who trusted them to make decisions based on what the people need, not what their own personal agenda is. my thing is a lot of issues that need to be repeled. proposition e which established the mta is taking money from the citizens of san francisco, with high fares, reduction of service, putting parking meters in front of people's houses, and charging people to park in front of their house they pay property taxes for. that is double dipping. another thing is proposition g needs to be repealed. it is a personal tax on minority employees. proposition c needs to be repealed because it attacks all public employees in the city and county of san francisco. these things are racially motivated, and these decisions need to be thought about. some ballot initiatives need to be put back on to repeal these propositions, effective immediately. the citizens of san francisco are disenchanted. public emp

the unemployment rate in our city was 9.5%. our city was faced with about $380 million deficit, and we were struggling with how to meet a rising and increased cost in our pension and health-care obligations. a year later, our city has come together to tackle pension reform and balance the budget. most importantly, we put people back to work. in the last 12 months, we have created jobs for more than 17,300 san franciscans, bringing our unemployment rate to 7.6%. that is the third lowest behind marin county and san mateo, but i will tell you this -- as i study marin county and san detail, you know, they have got that wine up there in marin county. i think we consume the most of it. and in san mateo, i notice we have got a big airport there that is bustling. we have a lot of contributions to the other two lowest unemployment rates. and just yesterday, our city controller's report give is more positive news about our economy. with revenues of about $129 million greater than expected and projected in the first six months of our fisc

i will make sure the city's discourse is positive.will not prevent the foundation that provides us with economic growth. let's move forward together. thank you very much. [applause]

-- done for our city. to our friend, tony bennett. ♪ >> ♪ the fabulous tony bennett home the world all seems to know sang a song about this town and it left our city of low -- aglow grammy awards, and the awards, and a kennedy nominate a star on hollywood and vine all to honor his legacy he's a painter his picasso he's got the class of fred astaire and today, we are gathered here to show you just how much we care you hold our hearts in san francisco so many songs you've sung to me and the rags to riches what a sound and a man who sings never retire of san francisco i love your album "duets" both i and ii for there is no one quite like you you are the heart of san francisco one of the greats we know it's true for when you graced us -- our town of san francisco our golden sun will shine on new -- you ♪ [applause] mr. bennett. ♪ it only takes a tiny corner of this great big world to find a place that you love you have brought us so much joy you are a golden boy we love to have you here in our great towner of

in moving the city forward. i agree with an approach that focuses less on a site issues and more on bringing people together to address the problems that we face. because there are simply too many conflicts and issues, including the creation of good paying jobs, which i think should be one of the top priorities, and i am sure it is a concern to many of the constituents in district 5. strategies to deal with changes in redevelopment and its impact to our city. improvements to public safety in district 5, and the exploration for obtaining more affordable middle, lower, income housing. these are the basic kinds of issues i want to tackle. with all of your help, i believe we can make the kinds of lasting impacts that will improve the daily life for all of us here in san francisco. finally, i want to conclude with a pledge to the residence in d- 5. i know you did not elect me, but i promise you i will work hard to earn your respect and trust. i am prepared to go that extra mile on your behalf to improve the neighborh

we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services, we will pay the price. it works out from there in terms of budget priorities. >> with your plans on dealing with homelessness? >> it is homelessness in general and behavior on the streets. we need to make sure people have access to services. i was a sup

departments, all city commissions, all city employees, all city officers. that is in the law itself. with respect to most other employees of other departments, for instance, employee with the ethics commission, the one-year ban would only apply to communications with the ethics commission to influence a governmental decision. but there is an exception carved out for the mayor, for the members of the board of supervisors and also for the legislative aides of the supervisors so it is in the law itself that the one-year ban applies to communications with all city departments. commissioner liu: thank you. chairperson hur: any further questions for mr. selna? >> just a comment. my feeling is that you're presenting us with a problem that doesn't yet exist as the previous commissioner mentioned. this is all hypothetical. this legislation is not intended to prevent you from gaining employment and as someone who spent many, many years as a public affairs professional with many companies, there's no reason to think that you can't find a public affairs position and th