i work with the economic side as well as the work force side. i do not know why they are not connected. i think that is one of the problems. we build housing, and that brings on work. construction work, but one thing we have not seen is the actual offer care. after the construction goes away. the restaurants are not hiring from our communities. one of the things i provide is job creation. i am currently working with usf to build the culinary institute that will be a certified training program for the state of california. folks will get a certificate of training and be able to tap into the hospitality of san francisco. that is the backbone of san francisco. the hotels, restaurants. i know what is going on in san francisco as far as business. as far as the media, yahoo! and those groups coming to town. we're also supplying the job training for janitorial services also. that is who i am. i am still living and working. i have been office space, i am the cca -- a ceo. what i bring to the board is job creation. we spend a lot of time trying to find jo

to perform that work. following procedures that the city had proposed as part of the disposition and development agreement. essentially, looking at a field of qualified bidders, knowing that field based on qualifications to two bidders and making the two bidders bid on the project. they had completed that process. the two qualified bidders on that project work howard -- were power engineering and dutra. power engineering and process. because they have done a lot of sight due diligence and are quite familiar with the plans for this site, that they would enter a contract. i think the port's strong preference is that the port manage the contract for that work, so the assignment would allow them to be managing the work of power engineering, if that is the path that is selected. as i will describe in the presentation, we have a preferred alternative to that approach that the ordinance permits. it waives certain competitive bidding requirements to allow us to use our previously bid contract to do a lot of the wo

while we grapple with policy, to be effective in our work, it's based on our relationships and working together and you exemplifies that immensely and i want to congratulate you on your great work here and wish you the best of luck in years to come. you are just going to have to sit there and listen. declaring today april 10 susan misner day in honor of her work for the mayor's office of disabilities. she has made it the fight for the civil rights and civil rights of her passion and continuing our work at the homeless advocacy project, she has been a leader in the city's efforts to fill the mandate of the americans with disabilities act of 1990 and ensure the city's programs, policies and procedures are accessible to and usable by people with disabilities. whereas she joined the city family at the mayor's office on disability in 1999 -- i did not know that. to advocate from the inside as a champion for disability rights and built a strong and productive relationships between the city and the disability community. relationship to put a human face on the issues and helped informed the ci

[applause] >> i started working for the public works department 15 years ago. we are like a family. it is a very close-knit group. i think, because of that, we get the best out of people. one of the problems we encountered in the city was we were not able to pay our vendors and contractors. people were entering data inconsistently. documents were always getting lost. payments were not going out. the numbers do not add up. everything has to flow horizontal and vertical leap. we created several modules to make it easier for contractors to attach the documents in a standardized format. we do not have to go deeper anymore. i don't have a formal education in i.t., however, i have deployed some systems when i was working for the industry, and i brought in young, energetic staff to help. we implemented this. it took three months. people knew when they were going to get paid. i think we have a happy contractor community. >> these system improvements have really it increased service to our clients and reduced costs and really improved the bidding environment for our contractors. it's remarka

los angeles is working on it. berkeley is working on a project. washington, d.c. is, too. cities are looking at parking management differently than the have in the past. >> later this year, we are gathering all the data we need to evaluate rigorously all our expectations of how this can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, improve transit speed, reliability, reduc. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the director of transportation. for me, this is not the academy awards. this is the all-star game. the folks sitting over here are truly the all stars of the city. i've had an opportunity to work with ed, harlan, and jocelyn. behalf of all of us. we are also very lucky to have a bunch of people from sfmta, many of them are here. my job is to introduce the awardees. please join me and give a hand for jay primus, george reynolds, steven lee, and lorraine fuqua. >> thank you. this is a tremendous honor. it really does feel fabulous to be recognized. one of the relief fund things about this project is that it is just complex enough and just big enough that it is truly a case w

i like to take things that do not work and figure out how to make them work. when i got there, it was the place you went to get a no- answer. if you are thinking about a place to go in san francisco, you have a place to move something forward. you go to the co ntroller's office. there are no more important things that government does been water, sewer, and power. coming here was a great choice. a got all excited again about government and doing work. i've always had the view that all work is honorable. it does not matter what level you are at. if you are getting something done, that's a good place to be. you're looking at folks who have really stepped up. they have taken risks. they have made differences in lives and the work of the city. you do not stop and thank people often enough. you did not just to the regular job. you did more than that. you did it very well. that is so important for the business community. i was born and raised here. it is home. it ihas always felt a comfortable place to live. it's part of my life. [applause] >> i want to -- here we go

as you can see, about 70% of the work echoes on his work orders. we do receive some gas tax and some borrowed funds. and some general fund in addition to fees from st. use in developing, and a few other funds that include a with miscellaneous revenue. in terms of how it is broken up, which have several bureaus. the environmental services that does most of the street cleaning and most of the graffiti removal as far as the funds go to support that bureau. and on infrastructure and the design division, about 14%. project control has about 12%. and if you others that we mentioned, urban forestry has about 8%. a pretty good divide there. in terms of expenditures, this is the history. using the general fund the gas tax and road fund, you can see most of the general fund goes towards street cleaning, illegal dumping, graffiti, road repair, and permiting. the fiscal year 12, it is quite a bit of a decline in expenditures. and likewise, from 2008 to fiscal year 2012, we have 418 people in l.a.. -- in 2008. supervisor chu: in terms of street cleaning, can yo

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so we're grateful for the work on that. i know there is more work to be done on that. and in the interest of time, i'll stop there. but madam chair, thank you for your leadership on this. >> thank you very much. and now -- turning to senator grassley, i just want to thank you for your knowledge and advocacy on agriculture over the years. and your tenacity. we have -- substantial reform in this bill, because of your tenacity, and commitment and we want to thank you for your leadership. >> yeah. and thank you, madam chairman for your cooperation on that issue. it's the most cooperation i've ever had in the 10 or 15 years that i've been working on the issue of trying to bring some reform to make sure that the 10% of the biggest farmers that get 70% of the benefits are the farm program are not being subsidized by the federal taxpayers to get even bigger. it's nothing wrong with getting bigger. but when the taxpayers subsidize it, i think that it's bad. and thank you for helping us improve that situation. and i also appreciate, madam chairman, the work that you and ranking

if ensured a hostile work force -- it ensured a docile work force. the center strong message to the rest of the workers and to all the workers, keep in line and keep your mouth shut. fast-forward to 2012, the city government as one of the biggest employers in this city and county and operates a similar labor scheme called of the temporary as-needed. they are hired at the whim of a supervisor and are consistent for favoritism and cronyism and nepotism. you will hear testimony today about the abuse of the system. does that speak out against the system are often retaliated against, and valerie retaliation is often swift and brutal. they will be reacting -- retaliated against. what they will be told is that they are no longer needed. the first speaker you heard today worked for the city for 21 years. the day his picture showed up a lot of fire about the as-needed problem, he stopped getting phone calls that come to work. he was told that for the time ahead, we're probably not going to call you as much. in fact, we are probably not going to call you at al

, that it can work even better. we can get more people. we can double this group behind us next year. we'll have more smiling faces, more people paying taxes, more kids in our schools with hope that they can come out and get good jobs in this city. i also want to make two more announcements. as this, as the goals of this ordinance get more challenging yet more accomplishable. i want to let you know we're bringing more people to come in had to think through some of this stuff. i would like to lead with supervisor avalos' help in creating a local hire advisory committee, get more people involved with us to make this even more successful. communities, folks, advocates as well as government people. and then i want even more of a dedicated leadership and thanks to the leadership already that naomi has given and o.e.w.d. and the wonderful staff focused on city build and the lower hire ordinance, we're bringing in a very experienced person to head up city build. his name is pat mulligan, he is from the carpenters union. [a

through her work, a lot of contracts and a lot of work that she does -- she has brought new systems that have saved a lot of tand time and allowed us to give contracts and make payments very fast. please meet jocelyn. [applause] >> first of all, i just want to thank spur and mfac for giving me this honor. i've never really won an award. it does feel like you won the oscars. it's different when you are standing here. i do not even have a written speech. i will speak from the heart. today is a very important day for me and my family because this happens to be my father's death anniversary. i want to dedicate this to my father. my mom flew in tonight. my brother, who works for bart. [applause] i have my nephew, who is here tonight. i want him to see me so he can follow my footsteps sunday to give back to the community. with me here are my managers and supervisors. i also have my longtime friend, jamie, who has been here. i see my former boss here. i have been nominated so many times. it really feels like you won an oscar. lastly, i wanted to thank my husband, who has been not just a husband

>> they said that i needed to get the work done. that they notified me and went through all that and said i had 30 days to finish the work. >> and yours was to come in and get it signed off? >> i was supposed to call and make sure the work was done. at the point where i got the work done -- the same day of the meeting -- the person that was running the meeting said he did not want to see the pictures. i called that day and left a message saying the work was done, could you come out and see a? at least the scraping part. that was what i needed to do was get the paint off and private, am i correct? >> i think you had to finish the project. >> from what i understand -- at that particular point, the issue was the lead paint and having the paint chips peeling off of a wall. i scraped it and private and that settled the issue about the peeling paint and there being any lead paint exposed. >> you never had a final inspection to sign off on what the violation was? >> the final inspection came after i got notice of the directors' meeting tha

we need to work on it. we will ask for our partners to help us on that. >> what sort of financing goals to we have laughed at our disposal? it is more on communicating. you mentioned the stakeholders. people have spent many years of their lives participating in a project areas and participating. they are looking to have answers to understand how they will supplement their budget. what is the communications plan? down to the detail of noticing meetings. in the past, redevelopment had a staff person. now that no longer exists. who's responsibility is this to communicate these changes? what is in store and what is not in store? that is a little bit more of whre i'm coming from. what is the specific and detailed plan? if there are no details, that is ok. from my constituents, that is a big question. >> it is fair to say that we are still in a period of transition. we are still in a period of transition at the state level as far as what obligations remain. we are working on it. we welcome your thoughts and input

and i look forward to working with ms. taylor mcgee. >> thank you. >> i'm happy to second that motion. >> thank you. i want to thank ms. taylor mcgee for your willingness to work on this commission. for me, coming to realize my work and representing the tenderloin and the market in treasure island, help is an important public issue to our constituents. and i have a lot to learn. i really want to work with the help commission, and i think it's great that the mayor has appointed someone with your level of expertise and in working with the communities directly in san francisco. we really do need the level of expertise that you have. as well as our international experience. i'm happy to forward that to the full board as well for the health commission. i know we have a motion here to move forward on ms. taylor mcgee. thank you for being patient. what i would like to talk to about is what we can do to address homelessness in the future as a city. >> the clerk informed me that my motion is a motion recommending appointing the may

richard and vana have been working on this since day one. they have been fantastic to work with. mimi sullivan is here from sullivan design partners, our other designer on the project we have the highly capable team from cahill contractors and our construction manager. thank you all for your hard work over a number of years now. we just have a couple of years to go. no congratulations yet. a special note of thanks to bill moffitt provides invaluable guidance to our design and construction team. i want to thank a few specific consultants. they make the numbers work. our attorneys. heather gould, who made extraordinary efforts to make sure we got to the ground breaking on time. there is a long list of consultants who worked on the project. i am not able to go through all of those. if the mayor does not arrive, we will go through a longer list. i want to thank the city of san francisco for the local funding support. i want to call on elizabeth to went above and beyond on the project. thank you. do not hold your applause. [applause] i want to thank margaret and the rest of the team a

wayne: when i am going to work with a lithographer/printer that i have not worked with befo, it's always time of great challenge. in the collaborative process, one has to find out who you're working with. it's like someone you've never danced with before. maybe they're good for a tango, but not a rumba, you know. lithography is tough. judith will do the chemical processing and the inking of the images, but if i don't draw them right, she can't save me from my own mistakes, and vice versa. what i'd like to do now is i would like to blot it. solodkin: i have certain technical expertise. i like to have intuitions about the artist's work and try to strive for what the artist is after. and as i'm working, i'm moving all the variables around so that i can best achieve those goals. okay. it looks fine except for the fact that that isn't quite open enough. did you blot this? yes, i did, but i should blot it a second time. what happened is i blotted this once... wayne: i try to make the invisible possible to see. everything's a form of energy. not just mental and social energy, but also genes and

but everything works out.t the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> you probably think you know all about the exploratorium. but have you ever been after dark? did you know there was a monthly party called after dark? science mixes with culture and adults mix with other adults. no kids allowed. every week there is a different theme. to tell us about the themes is melissa alexander. tell us about some of the previous themes we have had. >> we have had sex ploration, sugar, red, blue. many things. >> what is the theme tonight? >> rock, paper, scissors. we are having a tournament tonight, but we have also used as a jumping off point to explore lots of different ideas. you can find out about rock, paper, scissors as a game as a reproductive strategy. you can interact with a piece of art created by lucky dragon. you can get your hair cut from a cool place called the public barber's salon. they use scissors only. you can find out about local geology, too. >> that sounds like fun. let's check it out. >> this i

he was there working hard with us. it is only appropriate that we launched this bond program in his district, supervisors got leaner -- supervisors go scott wiener. >> i want to welcome you to the oldest neighborhood in san francisco. i am proud to represent it. it is about to get new road surfacing. i am very excited about that. 17th street is a major thoroughfare for cars and bikes connecting the castro close to san francisco general hospital. it is a very appropriate place to start. when we went in to the campaign , i was proud to work with a great team to pass it. there were a lot of people who said to me to go for it but it will never pass in 100 years. sometimes we failed to get it on the ballot. in 25 years, two different bonds have failed. that is not just in san francisco but throughout the bay area. it has been a very hard thing to do a hard sell. the people of san francisco understand that we as the country have failed in maintaining our infrastructure and investing in that. we see the consequences of that w

she works the same schedule friday through saturday every week. the grievances based on the fact that they inadvertently changed one of her days after she had been working the same schedule for like four months. they put one day in there and she did not know about it and was marked awol. i found out she was as-needed because she explained that she got hired in december and that she would work 1040 hours, at which time she would be separated and would be rehired again in july. the manager explained that to her. the problem with representing her in this disciplinary issue is the fact that she already knows she's not going to have a job at the end of june. and she has to interviewed again. i had to explain to her that, you know, it will be the manager's discretion it the one to hire her back. they could easily say they do not need her schedule or they have enough staff. frankly, as-needed is a way of union-busting. even though these are union dues that pay the members, they paid dues, they have a contract, it is a really hard to enforce it. there are

got to keep working together so we can find a way to make that work. it makes sense. and i also want to just thank the senator of north dakota. now that we're thanking everybody here, i especially want to thank him. he gave a great statement, a statement i wanted to associate myself with, pointing out a lot of the myths in the country about agriculture. one of the myths being we're giving all this money to farmers. really, as the senator so well pointed out, this is -- most of the money goes to nutrition programs. it doesn't go to the farmers and commodities. a lot of americans don't know that, especially people in the east. they assume, oh, there they go, those farmers, they're just padding their pockets, which is just totally untrue. this is a reform bill. we're saving $25 billion. and i agree with the senator from kansas that's a state we can't thank too often when we get to the floor. it is so important for people to hear that and to know that. you work back in the super committee era to come up with a program to save and now you've done even better. it's close to

he was very interested in seeing how the good work with our office -- how he could work with our office. i would love to see how we could support small businesses because they are the heart at san francisco. they provide 60% 07% of the jobs in sanford cisco, and they provide it locally, and they are not going to offshore their jobs any time. i am not an opponent of cleaning up the tenderloin. i love the tenderloin. i love what is right now. i recognize we have a diversity of books that live there and people do not want to see open drug dealing. i do not have a problem with people lit think -- people out on the street socializing. i think that is good. that to me is more -- you know, it is part of the character of the neighborhood. i get to represent one of the most exciting and dynamic districts in the city. it is where change is happening, so i think it is exciting in terms of how we can model what it means to be a smart growth neighborhood, how we can use transit and housing effectively to serve our city and also to do a lot of the new green policies that we have developed over the la

i look forward to working with our mayor, working with city staff, and working with all of our playerso turn this field of dreams into reality and hopefully to hit a real home run hopefully to hit a real home run with it.

>> you worked on infractructre. was there also discussion on transportation >> the priority area is infrastructure. there other pieces like childcare. the other mnoey is deferred. in market it is $1 million. we made a decision about a park, that was a year ago. >> once the financing is available, will you come back to the table? we coulud have started planning. the fees is a mitigation for the impacts. you want the park on its way. it is in the pipeline. supervisioor mar; i will call some names. >> good afternoon. i am with panoramic interests. i wanted to speak about a smaller project that is under construction that benefited from the fee deferral. we have 22%. there is a 3700 square foot lot. we received fee deferrals for the eastern neighborhood fees and it was beneficial. we do not have the deep pockets. it was a benefit not to raise extra money. we can pay for the fees and they are more affordable. it helped get our project and helped it happen. supervisor mar: thank you. >> good day. i am with the residential

i worked at crowells 2000 in 1999 and i am the director over our work force to build a program. that is located here at 1800 oakdale. i am standing because i would love for us to stay here. it is great we have been in the community. we are a grassroots organization. we have started offering ged classes here and it is more appropriate -- we're trying to raise the bar for our participants. they can get the feel of being in a college setting so they can start learning what it is to take their education to a higher level. please for the hunters point family staying here. thank you. >> i do not need three minutes. i will share with my brother. i live and work in hunters point, i play in hunters point, i raise kids in hunters point. and i work for hunters point family. the reason i am here today is to ask that we are allowed to stay here to work with other community-based organizations, they have a proven track record. i'm here representing three of my children. i have one son who is at the airport internship. i have a daughter that just got hired the 21st. she came to matters. family

it is consulting work. no longer agency work. is a different type of business and a lot of agents are now agents, consultants and many publishers. the pending -- u.s. depending - clear up front -- >> thank you for the incredible advice. i published three books and thinking of my fourth book. but what about those of us in the academy? self publishing is not an option for profs. we can't self published. what advice would you have for those in the academy, people need help with -- what advice would you give to faculty who need to be aware of the industry and its changes? >> i work with a lot of professors. i work with university presses quite often. in number of our books are with university presses. the process is similar and pretty much the same. however, how we work with those books are a little different. for example what i was telling you about the one book where in 2004 i retained the rights, that was university press. now we are going back and trying to publish that book as an e-book. the process for those of you who don't kn

but i work and i see these youngsters on the corner, never working their lives, trying to reverse that cycle. that targeted age group, 16 to 24, i am so grateful that i can come to say thank you. i am hoping that those jobs will filter down to the kids that i know. historically there are a lot of programs in the city and it does not touch those kids. thank you to everyone involved. hopefully, we will see those jobs benefit some of those kids the know. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, how are you doing? i am an advocate with transitional educating san francisco. i am also here to speak from personal perspective as well. first, i am really in support of the summer jobs effort. i really appreciate my sisters comments right here that she just made. i am very much concerned as well about the most disconnected young folks. i feel that one of the unfortunate things that can unfortunate things that can happen with these kinds of

if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still do their art. it is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. how could that be? it is the relationship that you have committed to. it is the vocation. no matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. whether it is a large scale or very small scale.