and i believe you're probably going to see another spike in hybrid medallions, but you do need incentivized drivers who don't have a medallion down the road for them to still service that very important community. i've given a suggestion previously, and i'm going to bring it again to you. you need to work with the para transit coordinating council and the broker to subsidize the time and gas that is aped expended by the drivers who actually have a good heart. but it's not economically feasible to do so because the medallion -- the price of the medallion holders are being paid by the companies won't be there for ever. that's going to sunset like everything else is sunseting. and i believe if we subsidize those rides 5, $7 a ride, so, there's work being done on the front side and backside that is not being compensated for and with the para transit being limited to $2, some of that work for people who actually have a good heart and see the value in doing that are being disincentivized by taking the medallions away from the drivers. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. >> [speaker not un

we have to get to incentivizing business to get in there. i have and investing in neighborhoods strategy. we will use the loan program to incentivize that. i think we will get a lot of bang for the buck. scores of companies are lined up to get help. the loans will go fast. the board has devised us there will be more to come if those businesses get activated. it will be producing a lot more jobs. >> you are listening to the commonwealth club of california radio program. mayor ed lee is discussing the future of san francisco in his first elected term as mayor. san francisco is one of the most expensive cities in the united states. now we have a huge rental bubble going on. what is the city doing to promote affordable housing? >> we have a big setback when redevelopment was eliminated. i complained with 10 other big mayors. the governor had to do it we were doing the right thing. we never got criticized for anything. that redevelopment agency used tax increments, which borrows from future tax increases on property they declare to be redeveloped

specifically incentivizing the drivers to do -- to want to drive these cars and to do a great job. we have tried to submit proposals to [speaker not understood] several times that outline how we can provide all the drivers with health care. i think that would be a really nice deal for drivers who have families who need to get some kind of security and deserve to have it. and we've never received any kind of response from her whatsoever. so, i like the proposal. i think it needs to be fleshed out. and also it has to do -- i want to touch on the issue of investment from the companies that have currently controlled the medallionses. we already have a loyal clientele at arrow checker. we have invested money for advertising, we invested money in the cars, we invested money in the drivers. and to all of a sudden have all of the rent medallions we have jeopardized, it's very difficult to continue to make plans, continue to operate as a business when we have very little security as at any time we can lose [speaker not understood]. i think before this kind of thing is voted on we need to ha

believe that, furthermore, that the uncapping the conversion condo conversion cap will further incentivizeting rental housing stock, thus leading to -- exacerbating the affordability problem in san francisco. furthermore, the the fee, we have questions about the fee, for bypassing the conversion lottery. it's set as high as 20,000 but as low as 4,000. this is substantially lower than the in lieu fee that the mayor's office of housing has set forth of construction for bmr units through new condominium construction which is as low as 175 -- as high as 175,000 per unit. we're afraid that this fee -- the small scale of this fee could create a competition between condominium developers, thus incentivizing condo existing condo developers to choose the cheaper option and lessening the mayor's office of housing or housing funds coffers in terms ever funds for affordable housing. so we have serious concerns about the way the fee was calculated and would like more information on that. regardless, the last thing i want to say is -- sorry. >> chair wiener: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name

states to adopt this program and incentivize them by providing them with additional resources. but you're right, it's a great program, we need to do more of it. >> we support -- california has some of the best gun prevention, gun violence prevention laws in the country. we still have to do more and it still has to be funded but it has led the way and will continue to do so. we can learn more but, yes, we would encourage our legislators to do more. >> the majority of the mayors in the state of california have joined too. we all signed the same letters and we're sending them back to sacramento and washington, dc we are talking about additional strategies we can use to join up because it isn't -- again, if we don't talk about it, if we don't join, this is why we formed mayors against illegal guns as a national effort. >> i want to jupbld underscore the costs associated. in california for every gun they take out each year there's 33 guns that should be taken out. it will not succeed unless more money is put into it. we would need to spend i think it's $50 million to deal with that

a good deal of work happening in the background like the transition of the different payroll tax incentiv incentives. the tax and treasures office is beginning their implementation but the basic concepts are we we need to help business prepare for a transition. so in your binder is a - is information that we've put together so that if i go to a business association that i hand this out to walk them through. some of this i'm going to highlight on some of this. let's go to the first slide. next thank you. so as your well aware that now we have a 1.5 percent payroll for businesses in the city that have payroll over $250,000 i should say 2 hundred and 50 thousand one dollars. of a business is under 2 hundred and 50 thousand they don't pay the payroll taxed. so the grois receipts will phase over a 5 year period starting the tax year of 2013 so next year. and this phase is is to low both businesses and the city to have a smooth transition so that if for any reason the gross receipts is not bringing in as much money we are operating as a deficit but it the gross receipts is coming in a herself w

this will set up a market driven process to incentivize the construction of ocean-based wind turbines 10 miles or more off the coast of ocean city. it is as divided to provide maryland with jobs, healthy air, and more stable energy costs. the vote was 86-48 and they're expected to take up the measure next tuesday. laura newman seemed stunned when she was chosen as the new anne arundel county executive. she was sworn in this morning replacing the disgraced john leopold. lowell melser join us now from annapolis with the very latest. quite she beat out 15 other republican candidates, some with a lot of political experience last night here in anne arundel county. nobody really knows who she is. who is laura newman? >> the name is unknown to me. >> the the more you of all? >> a little bit considering what has happened in the past. >> last time they elected a new can executive. >> the one no one knows anything about. -- last night, the elected a new county executive. she was sworn in this morning replacing the disgraced former executive john leopold. >> my mission is one of excellence. we h

if you're in uniform, the geneva convention is designed to apply to you, right, because that incentivizes people to stay in uniform so we can distinguish you from civilians. that's the whole point of the geneva convention. once you get out of uniform, then the geneva conventions don't apply. if you're going to violate the rules, you do not get the benefit of the rules on the other end. the same thing is true of of civility. if someone is willing to have a civil conversation with you, be perfectly civil. if somebody is going to be a piers morgan type, if they're going to be a bully, a thug -- because these folks are thugs -- if they're going to do that, then don't treat them civilly. that doesn't mean do an alex jones and start shouting randomly like a crazy person. what it does mean is that you need to say things to them to force them back into the mode of political discussion. if you'll notice what happened with piers is i led off the interview. i did say he was off the rails. then he said why did you say that, and i said it's because you're a bully, and you stand on the graves of the ki

it was created to incentivize quality improvement. that is one of the goals of the program. we are seeing fundamental shifts in how the market now is being created where plans were paid 14% on average overpayment. coming down, strong incentives to include, this is a sign that we can reduce payments on average. we can create high standards. we can see beneficiaries respond with 10% growth last year. projected and on track, through 2013. comparisons are very helpful to explain how the programs were put forth. >> while you were responding, had another question on a card that is related in might be helpful to people. can you talk about how you decide what the criteria are? .. we have shifted the criteria to emphasize less about the process and how fast the plan answers the customer service to the outcome measures and the beneficiary satisfaction measures so in the last couple of years we have shifted the standard more to emphasize quality of care measures and beneficiary satisfaction measures but we are making judgments on what it means to be a four-star, five-star plan and our

aid that we give think -- through the financial aid that we give that either require or strongly incentivize schools to do more of those kind of programs. >> and i think we're always looking for differentiators. you know, what does differentiate one student from another? be their all taking relatively the same classes, done well on their gpas, so one would think that could be replicated elsewhere in terms of how you, in fact, support students in what they do beyond their classroom work. >> i would like -- so as we're looking for whoever has the next question, if you'd just raise your hand, the connection between employers and universities in a very real way to create either work study opportunities or exinternshipships, are there ways that we can encourage of that? aaron mentioned kind of institutional incentives from the federal government. my cousin goes to purdue, and my sister went to georgia tech. and for six months out of the year she would work for exxonmobil, and she got a job offer right away afterwards as an engineer where their plant -- with their plant. so that model of kind of w

. >> the video claims they food was used to comers them or incentivize them to jump on the pontoon. once they were on there they took off, went for a ride. >> they weren't scared at all. maybe they haven't learned yet they need to be scared of humans. >> i'd be worried once we got out into the water they would be scared and jump. >> no, these guys were gentle and curious and kind. they didn't freak out and jump in the water. >> that same day steve had another encounter. a pelican got really close to them, so he took one of the fish and he fed it to the pelican. >> one bite. that's how we do it. >> fish are like flopping around. >> all the same day. >> the same day. >> what? this is the same day. >> he claims the pontoon was early in the day. later they went out to fish. >> a relationship with nature. >> he doesn't need to fish, just sits on the edge of the water and the fish dive up into his lap. >> so i've got two dash cams for you. the first one, see this red car come and pass the car. get out of shape on the slippery roads. >> this girl got lucky twice in the span of maybe three

, and community clinics to find innovative payment models and health care delivery systems that incentivize quality over quantity. effectively implementing the affordable care act will save us effectively implementing the affordable care act will save us money, by removing the hidden tax of hundreds of dollars paid monthly by all of our state's insured citizens. we can do this, for the health of our family and the health of our economy. when we make our health care system more efficient, we lower the cost of doing business in our state. the states that get this right will have a clear advantage in recruiting and retaining the jobs of tomorrow. this session, we must make sure washington gets this right, first.[applause] we must also protect the quality and choice that we expect from a health care system that works. washington women need the freedom and privacy to make the health care decisions that are best for themselves and their families. that's why i look forward to the legislature sending the reproductive parity act to my desk, which i will sign. let's get this done. [applause] for wash

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and i think that's a good idea, but i do think it's important to make sure that we try and incentivize everyone to provide excellent service for people who use wheelchairs. but i'm just worried about this legislation in particular, pretty specific to how if you look at the section 1110 subsection d, it doesn't really refer to a record of service to passengers in wheelchairs. i'm worried about limiting in terms of our ability to create a path for other companies that maybe aren't currently providing service to people in wheelchairs but would like to. >> yeah, i think it was a point well taken. i think it was mr. gruberg who made the comment on behalf of green cab. the intent was absolutely to look at the performance of the cab companies and to send the ability to provide the service to those who have a demonstrated performance in doing so. so, the legislation does specify that as a way to do that. i don't think it precludes the consideration of other factors. and it's something that i don't know that we had contemplated so much, but we can certainly explore how we would deal with the si

we'll incentivize businesses and incentivize investment and take this country forward into more economic prosperity. i don't think that's what we're going to hear but that would certainly be a breath of fresh air for the american business community. neil: he will talk about the need for more revenue, the need more more taxes. enough already. we gave you that. we'll not give an inch more. are they right to take that stance? >> they have to take that stand. i think we're to the point we can't borrow anymore. we can't tax anymore. if we tax anymore, we have the highest corporate tax rate. most people that the are running subchapter-s corporations, small businesses are now paying close to 50% if you're in a state like california, new york, you're paying more than 50% in tax. the top 5% pay over 50% of the income tax revenue in this country. this has to stop. the president has to stop this. and i don't think, i think he understands government. i don't think he understands that a vigorous government requires a vigorous private sector. the only way you will get a vigorous private sector if the

the moment we citizen kane for alternative relationships to exist in the incentivize and normalize and more than that once we change the definition of marriage to be not about kids, the asian definition of marriage was about children. now hollywood concept of marriage is to people who love each other. once you're their year after a marriage. the fundamental principle is the same. arguments that we can use and the other side to that, we constantly run from this command i do not understand it. they run from the incest argument, the at the head of two brothers want to get married, why can't they. this is where the left its into moral indignation. how dare you compare a, sexuality the incest. you're saying the principle behind them is the same. of the definition of marriage is to people who love each other that it is any two people love each other. so don't get -- there are ways to fight that. on the general level i think that the marriage issue is a more difficult one. that is a matter of education. it is interesting. when i was 19 and i had my syndicated column, was 17th and 18th and 19t

i think this is a great way to ince incentivize us to get rid of guns. >> no question, every gun off the street is one less potential murder or suicide or accidental shooting. >> reporter: the gun buyback program was so successful, less than three hours into the four-hour event, they were out of money. some got vouchers, the others told to hit to the santa clara county fairgrounds for their gun buyback program. if you are wondering, those who turned in a handgun got $100, $200 for a rifle and $300 for an assault weapon. nbc in palo alto. >>> two men seriously burned after an electrical explosion at a warehouse in san jose. fire officials were called in around 9:00 this morning. three men were working on an electrical unit in the back of the building when it exploded, causing the fire. one man was critically injured, another suffered serious burns to the hands and face. an investigation isunderway. >>> a 49er arrested for driving under the influence. the team responds. >>> after three years of waiting, a bay area library opens is door today. why the grand opening took so long. >>> i'm

he says having information in the window incentivizes restaurants to stay clean and allows diners to make an educated choice of where to eat, without having to ask. >> even if all restaurants did have that information on hand at the restaurant itself, people are still not going to ask for it. that's an awkward moment in a restaurant many you don't want to start out that way. >> even if you do -- in santa clara county, sometimes the answer is hard to tell. >> better go home, cook yourself. >> very telling. we reached out to the managers at all of the restaurants in our investigation. most were unaware of the law. all said they will now educate their employers and our reporting has also prompted action from santa clara county. here are details. >> after our story first aired earlier this month, the county updated its website to now include whether a restaurant has been closed and when it reopened. so a little clearer for customers than it was before. but one county supervisor is pushing for more to be done. >> it's really a econoquestion bui account akt. you really want to know is ther

better incentivized productivity and innovation, rationalize proficiency, and use contract-based and other tools in the tool kit to incentivize and reward contractors for effectively managing costs, successfully managing their supply chains, and indirect expenses and actually delivering promised capability. promote real competition instead of just checking the blocks. nothing drives costs down and enhances quality more effectively than competition. so the department has to make sure that competition, or the option of competition, is brought to bear on a program throughout its life cycle at both the systems and subsystems level. to the extent that the department has been recently successful with some of its large, high-profile procurements, it's because it's been able to leverage competition aggressively. improve how the department acquires services. military departments that have already started diving into this area have already found massive opportunities for savings and efficiency easily amounting to billions of dollars. this initiative should not only continue, it should expand t

go back to the question that marty posed earlier, which is in effect this idea that in order to incentivize people making the decision to seek treatment that the fear of a felony conviction or possible state prison sentence could play a positive role. you talk to a lot of people charged with crimes who are trying to make the decision of what decision to make, what is the primary motivation you see coming from them. how do they decision make on dispositions related to drug possession as a felony? >> i think that for a lot of people it does have to be a personal decision and they have to come to it themselves. i don't think they necessarily are thinking about whether whether or not they'd be convicted of a felony or misdemeanor. i will also say that sometimes you'll meet someone in county jail and they're ready to get treatment, they're ready to get help and because of the lack of resources, they have to sit in county jail and wait for a bed to open up or wait for there to be an opportunity for them to access treatment. and one of the things that this bill would do ideally would be to divert

about a two-way folsom street, which i know the community has been waiting for a long time and incentiving affordable housing and industry use and office space while embracing the entertainment corridor on 11th street which you will be hear more about with plan's presentation. i am very interested in a conversation that came out of long-term negotiations -- not long-term, the yearlong negotiation s around prop c with inclusionary housing in exchange for reduction of overall impact fees elsewhere. i just wanted to know this is completely voluntary. i do know that within the community, one of the top priorities is building more affordable housing. it's not to say that they would like to do that at the expense of transportation or the expense of open space, but i know that we have certain needs that are a bit of a priority over others. an example i will give in other policy we made an exception over surplus property, where we decided to potentially pause or suspend the sale of that parcel, because the neighborhood decided that open space was a greater priority over giving to the affordable ho

increasingly done and the city policy makers encouraged the department of building inspection not to incentivize, where the permits are not clear by reducing the number of units on a three-hour report. instead the department of building inspection referred the owner to the planning department to make the mergers the official way when the records are not 100 percent clear. this is not surprising given that the building is zoned for two units and when mr. hyman rented his unit the building consisted of three rental units all being rented to tenants. >> i would like to ask mr. hyman to give a statement about how this merger will effect him. >> hello. my name is ralph hyman and i have been hiv positive for over 20 years and i have lived at 227 douglass since june of 2007 i have the flexibility in my job because of my condition and the side effects of other health conditions resulting from that forces me to work at home and i go home when i need to due to fatigue. moving two effect my life, with an increased financial burden it would be hard for me financially to find a similar living situation espec

should do is create enterprise zones that jack kemp talked about, low tax, rates and so forth that incentivized business to come into these bombed outlaces whe there have been tremendous job losses unless you see all these mortgage forecsures. we need real economic growth and some employers who create jobs. not the government. >> rick, is this just another government make work program? >> it is so not rich. i'm going to say something to you i rarely say. you are absolutely wrong. my hometown of youngstown, ho o you have seen this in action. this has really happened. they did exactly what the president has suggested here. they tore down all the urban blight. they created parks. they created commercial buildings. they've improved residential. and they have come so far. three years ago, forbes called them one of the greatest dying cities in america. today the president is talking about them in the state of the union. they have turned the corner. this actually worked. i'm happy to take you all with me to see it. >> morgan, could this not only turn communities around, but really create jobs? >> you

the intent of this active service provision was to incentivize the people in the ground floor with a business to create a lot of windows to create an active use and the incentive was that they could avoid a conditional use permit. by doing so. as mr. sanchez will probably tell you he sees no reason that this use needs a conditional use permit, except for the fact that code seems to say and he admits that it is unclear, that there is a conditional use for a active frontage which is not present by virtue of the name of the use. mr. sanchez and his department advised the board of supervisors the language was unclear. unfortunately they did adopt it the way that it is. and we are stuck with a very unclear interpretation. but i ask you to look at the intent of why there is a conditional use permit if you don't have active windows allowing and encouraging the public? as to some of the statements made by mr. williams, first of all, vocal point offers services to the general public and so it can't be administrative services as he alleges in his brief because administratives services by defin

so you're incentivizing them even more to perhaps worsen their already existing problem. that true? >> if a customer or i call them patients, walk through the door, and this patient is 400 pounds, do i either ban him from the door and say, no, sir, this isn't in your best interest, you should leave? or do i give him the burger with a smile on my face and pat him on the back and send him to his table? >> but you do neither one of those things. you give it for free. >> exactly. i do -- i've chosen a third route. and that is, yes, i'll give him his burger, so i'm not slapped with a discrimination suit. but what i'm going to do is, i'm going to give him his burger along with a lesson. i serve burgers, i serve fries. and i serve food for thought. >> sir, i don't know. there's a lot of ways to get this message across. i can't imagine that your way is going to work. i'm not saying i know the right way. but this just seems dangerous. >> as mark twain said, all things in moderation, including moderation. i don't preach moderation. that's a tired mantra. i tell people, they have to

. >> the sequester, it was designed to be a poison pill that would be so awful, it would incentivize everyone to hold hands and make a deal but they didn't make a deal and they punched each other in the nose and they're looming over the march 1 deadline cobbled dignitary over the christmas break. looming on march 1, it's a huge crisis, enormous spending cuts and could result to a hefty drag to g.d.p. for the following year, $85 billion in cuts for the first year. what happened as a result of that, congress went on vacation. they'll be out of town until a couple of legislative days before that. i think that gives you all the information you need have about where we're going on the sequester. voices on left and the right are saying let's just have they is querst and get it over with. it's a meat cleaver, not a scalpel but it's a spending cut for those folks on the right who want to see spending cuts at all. >> we might agree that everyone gets embarrassed when they leave town with business to be done but who gets the blame here if the sequester happens, the big cuts happen, people are

so you're incentivizing them even more to perhaps worsen their already existing problem. that true? >> if a customer or i call them patients, walk through the door, and this patient is 400 pounds, do i either ban him from the door and say, no, sir, this isn't in your best interest, you should leave? or do i give him the burger with a smile on my face and pat him on the back and send him to his table? >> but you do neither one of those things. you give it for free. >> exactly. i do -- i've chosen a third route. and that is, yes, i'll give him his burger, so i'm not slapped with a discrimination suit. but what i'm going to do is, i'm going to give him his burger along with a lesson. i serve burgers, i serve fries. and i serve food for thought. >> sir, i don't know. there's a lot of ways to get this message across. i can't imagine that your way is going to work. i'm not saying i know the right way. but this just seems dangerous. >> as mark twain said, all things in moderation, including moderation. i don't preach moderation. that's a tired mantra. i tell people, they have to

he said having information in the window incentivizes restaurants to stay clean and allow diners to make an educated choice of where to eat without having to ask. >> even if all restaurants did have that information on hand at the restaurant itself, people are still not going to ask for it. that's an awkward moment. you don't want to start out that way. >> even if you do. >> you don't trust people. >> in santa clara county, sometimes the answer is hard to swallow. >> that or go home and cook yourself. >> we reached out to manage many at every restaurant you saw in the report. most were unaware of the law. all told us they will educate their employees. denies said it is reminding each of its restaurants in california. and they said they've been revamping the program for about aier so no changes yet. she added inspectors will be reminding restaurants of the law. >> an eye opening report. thank you. >>> if you have a tip to her or anyone else, give us a call or send us an e-mail directly to the unit. >>> tomorrow night the investigative unit will be back. two patients received the same trea