we are part of that community as well. just like the guard, we have an interest in protecting our friends and neighbors. sustainment is, it's important to us and we'll maintain it especially on the region side. we're able to have these long-standing relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the on-going efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. >> just to follow on that, the navy squadrons that provide fire fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. one benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in the squadrons. you may have people who have been there for 6, 7 years and have seen multiple fires. that mutual trust is absolutely essential to this capability. >> a couple things that come it mind real briefly, we're talking about wild and land fires primarily but rest assured amongst the group here we're always thinking in an all rest capacity. cal fire's mission is we are the state's fire department. we are thinking about a

that is alongside the report you're getting on the fund-raising as well as the economic impacts. to similar comments made at the outset of this issue, it's certainly not my office's place to try to recast the agreement. the words are what they are on the page and we're frankly moving ahead to implement the agreement the board approved last march and again in september. we have been trying to do this in what everyone talked about as the san francisco way in terms of upholding the considerationses around workforce and small business that we already heard about today as well as through the environmental review process and really creating a sustainable event that becomes a leader. all of that obviously requires resoartiones, but i realize -- we realize very acutely that it requires smart application of resources. we never looked at our $32 million as a blank check to write $32 million of checks. it is an amount to be fund raised and endeavored to be feud raised in best practices and best efforts. but we want to do this in an efficient way. so, on the screen here is a slide sort of lo

and as commissioner lee stated, the rents go up as well. it would make it more difficult for these types of establishments to open in the city. and so, in the city that has dot coms and tourists as the primary residents and having food and drink available especially since the demographic is getting younger all of the time, for a longer time, would be beneficial to the city over all. and i do know that some there has been some optician to these other ruds. that they are being looked at to be changed to be dissolved and no longer be ruds. so then, polk street would stand out as being one of a kind, you know. just to be as lenient as you possibly can. and still satisfy the residents for what they need is my comments on that. >> okay, okay, thank you. we very much appreciate that feedback, commissioner and i do i think that we have a similar objective and i don't think that we disagree. >> anybody else? >> i was going to make a comment about they are looking to dissolve, in the mission, the rud there as well. i mean, i was just wondering if they

entertainment is really bunched up and as you know it is very much in your district and so, as well as supervisor campos and supervisor weiner it is bunched up where is visit ors come and plans allows it and so when i do put it in that form, i am sure that we will see quite a bit of it in your district. and as far as inside and outside, and again, this is anecdotal but i am 99 percent sure this is right, is it typically is outside, it does not mean that it is outside of the sphere of influence that a club has to control. and definitely parking lots as you know, the parking lot legislation was informed by that information. that these for the most part are things except for where you see the 16 suspension, that happens, you know, within positive control or there was a nexus that was solid to the nightclub. but not necessarily inside. we don't have much patience, i certainly don't, for things that happen inside of a venue that are very violent that include, assaults and weapons, and so what i will do tha. >> that is not perfect but that is what i know. >> i want to acknowledge that the nu

how do we craft the rates that are going to lead to customers setting in as much as possible as well as having money left over to build out. next time we meet, i want to encourage we meet again as a sflafco with the public utilities commission that we get an actual vote the not to exceed rate moving forward and that would give us some certainty about how we move forward for a planned build out. we also heard a lot from commissioners about a plan if not outlined if not planned for the build out and we could not wait longer than the next meeting between if we can have a joint meetings by the end of april to have a report on more concrete build out plan. i think part of that should also look at the different scenarios by the next meeting. clearly, we really want to have a great deal of certainty about how we get to our build out as quickly as possible. there has also been discussion about how we bond. i know we have discussion about a billion dollar bond. do we have really that type of bonding capacity. it would be good to have perhaps the controllers office does a lot around the financi

i strongly support this as well. i'm calling for a hearing on a related note to look at the challenges of the vacant store fronts that are throughout our city and the basic practices of keeping the corridors and striving throughout our city. they represent failed businesses but will is create the perception that an entire district is abandoned. we can focus on large companies and bring these sorts of businesses to san francisco. however it's a small business sector that creates the greatest number of jobs in our city and lends character and vitality to our neighborhoods. in the richmond district, areas like the inner clements street corridor. yet vacant fronts still exist in this area. they have pop ups to use for these store fronts. that's temporary usage to encourage foot traffic and encourage people to come to targeted neighborhoods. we need to look at strategies like that. today this hearing that i'm calling would look at strategies our city has implemented for filling vacant stores around our cities and keeping

of the body of an as well as over chavez has to be embalmed and put on public display for years to come as latin america mourns of the loss of its loud as a voice will social justice. and a north korea scraps is a non-aggression pact will solve the in a response or two more u.n. sanctions are blaming seoul and washington for ruining nuclear does all of them and conducting boardgames. it's two pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t live with me to bomb would say have you having a wonderful in the states so far so first to egypt the northern city of port saeed way army and police units are desperately trying to protect government buildings from angry and to government protesters who have been on the rampage a since sunday it's rather the planned funeral for one of the seven people who have died could have fanned the flames of dissent even more. is in the embattled city for us. there are ten scenes here in egypt's coastal city of post sayit as the clashes continue into the night time standing right in front of the front line here we've witnessed excessive use of tear gas and by

including the rhine white, hiv reductions as well as the cdc reductions you've heard about earlier as well as direct nutrition program that supports low income moms. and on economical and development a similar situation our best estimates based on the way those formulas are described this would be a $335,000 reduction to the city. this includes those public safety grants that are provided by the department of the justice that includes domestic violence and persecution related fund. those funds typically pay for equipment for the police department, fire department, sheriff's department and other. on energy and transportation the big impact is potentially on central subway >> thank you i'm sorry i know this is about the sequesterer and the impacts because - so under back to public safety under the federal d o g grants that was already award and it was anticipated. it's not potentially new grant revenue for the city? >> that's right in the current year those are grants that have been awarded. each of those grants are received by a number of different agencies many of them are with the ci

as an area outside the property as well in terms of clean up on civic structures. so we're taking that sort of scientific approach in terms of the analysis that's going to happen and we're running it as a project and we want to find out because you could have a community that's saying, fine and great, you are getting rid of the graffiti and in 6 months it's completely different. >> you are going to monitor the area for two years? >> yes, for two years, then we'll do post-audit. i'm hoping to be able to do two audits on this area as opposed to one year. how are we doing for time? any other questions? >> i might have missed this in the beginning, but i was curious, how do you guys get funded for this program. >> capital city clean up is a city of edmonton program. it started in 2005 as a litter reduction program and when our bylaw changed in 2008 our city council was very thoughtful in determining they needed to put their mouths were. basically they were going to require the property owners clean their graffiti, then they needed to put some effort into cleaning their

a second system just offshore beginning to impact the british isles as well as bringing another dose of windy and wet weather to the iberian peninsula. 10 degrees in london. 14 in paris rising up to 18 degrees in lisbon and 15 in vienna. check out what's happening in warsaw. double figures. moscow around the freezing point but that's a big improvement and just in the space of 24 hours. should be feeling the benefits of that. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >> north korean military leaders are raising the stakes in their ongoing show of defiance against south korea and the u.s. they are vowing to scrap the >>> british police have gotten some help from a comic super hero. a man dressed as batman handed over a criminal suspect then vanished without revealing his identity. police say the man showed up in the wee hours of the morning last week at a police station in the central city of bradford. he brought in a man suspected of theft and fraud. the super hero is a bit chubbier than the batman of legend. police say the caped crusader told them i've caught this one for you a

i want to make sure that i think both emily but also nancy goldberg for your interest as well not only interest but your work as a native san franciscan to do everything that you have been doing to end this too. i am privileged today to recognize a number of individuals who have been strong, strong advocates, people who have gone way beyond the duty but also deserving of recognition for all their advocacy work. the first person i would like to introduce is these year's recipient of the abolitionist the word for advocacy, staff attorney with with the asian pacific legal advocacy services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. apl (applause) we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. she is a founder and executive director of freedom house. she is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, -- em. (applause) we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, department heads, the human rights commission we wanted to make sure that future generations of children are part of the solutio

i want to appreciate the organizing committee folks for being here as well as mr. barkley, presentations from our departments, mike martin from economic workforce development. donna levitt from [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] from office of contract compliance and the controller. the status report is really to make sure we are living up to our commitments as a city around applying the standards for workforce development small business inclusion. it seems like as a city we need to actually strengthen our effort to do communication about the agreements that we're making. i want to thank mr. barkley for his presentation and the numbers are correct in terms of workforce and small business inclusion. it seems like the event is having that impact. there are a number of people who spoke at the podium today from the public were able to express how their businesses have been impacted, improved, and a lot of employment occurring because of the america's cup event and that's really great to hear. it seems like on the workforce side that there's still a lot

the sale of beer and wine is very critical to our store business, as well as something that our customers have come to expect from us. we respectfully request your support in the transfer of this license. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> sir. >> if we could now hear from the police department. >> rich vancorw representing the san francisco police department. whole foods has brought an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 20 that is off sale beer and wine in the type 86 that is structural tasting license for 2001 market street. in the calendar year, july, 2011 through july of 2012, there were 21 police calls for service, which generated 5 police reports. premises is located in plot, 403, that plot recorded 428 police incidents for 2001 and located in the high crime area, the premises is located in 0203, and applicant currently in undue concentration area. and there were no letters of protest or support. no opposition from mission police station and the alcohol liaison unit recommends approval and the following conditions recommended t

there have been a number of allegations regarding potentially inappropriate permit expediting as well as violation of campaign finances law and i have given the clouds of allegations we should not support the item in front of us today. if he is appointed i look forward to working with him, in particular around issues that impact my district and the neighborhoods and the northeast. but what i want to say is the neighborhoods that i represent have not felt that the port commission has been as responsive as it needs to be on all issues relating to the neighborhood. i asked before the appointment was moved forward today to consider pointing someone who is a bridge to our neighborhoods. i do hope we'll be able to see that from this particular appointee and others. i will not be able to support that appointee today. >> i have known murphy for some time. i'm supporting him today because i know that he's genuine in a desire to be a public servant, to work with young people. he's had trials and tribulations in his life and my commitment to working with him in my community and investing in time

for the country's elections with them as well as you say and they'll be no attempts to influence their choice. amongst the crowds you know we've been there quite a lot over the last few days and one of the most popular chance is with chavez and i thought other people are saying when he was sworn in in the national assembly that was very emotional crowd support for him and he announced that he has to continue the revolution he was very emotional he was in tears as he took the presidential sash and he said that the sash that he was taking belonged to. well lead is thousands of venezuelan mourners gathered to pay their respects to the commandante on friday while there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington is going to chicken reports. communities of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of. the venezuelan leader enjoyed tremendous popular support in his country as well as the whole region he won four presidential elections and had ruled venezuela for fourteen years so you see this liberation process not only on the venezuel

luke's hospital as well as city-wide. we see a lot of great improvements in the term sheet that show the hard work of all the negotiators involved. you know, we're optimistic about the framework of the proposal and we're also very eager to hear some more details about the health care element. and specifically how they're going to ensure that families get the care they deserve. so, for st. luke's, we have some questions around what are going to be the exact mix of services that are going to be provided at st. luke's and how will specialty care be included to attract a diverse pair mix as well as to ensure the economic viability of st. luke's. what is the exact scope of services in scope of excellence and how are they going to be utilized to provide not just outpatient care, but in-hospital patient care, what type of specialty care will the centers of excellence be providing for patients. and there is a question around the term of the option to add 30 beds at cathedral hill. is there a requirement after the 30 beds are buil

be a tool for lower levels of management but some of them have to rise it is commissioners levels as well, we agree that is correct. >> and practice what we can do as part of karen's and 'em medical yo's updated is spring some of those updates to the issues as part of their report. >>> thank you. >> yes, commissioner? >>> i have a question i see here that we are going to do work on the existing digesters. >> that is correct. >>> what amount of one is set aside for had a. >> we have $50 million is the aside in the ssi p to ensure that our current ones will function until we get the new ones up and running and we will demolish them after the we get the new one and is so we are saying it's three roof and is we had emergency contract moving forward this is not to do seismic um, grade this is merely to stabilize them so they don't fail under their weight and create a nightmare for those citizens that live across the street. >> it's curious that we are doing this now that we are planning to put the new ones in. >>> it should have been done a long time ago i was curious why it's shown here. >> o

and i'm proud to say the california and pacific campuses in district 2 as well as the st. luke's and david's campuses all are going to see significant improvements in connection with this agreement. and pedestrian safety improvements are going to happen throughout those areas as well as the new cathedral hill campus are going to see significant improvements throughout the neighborhoods surrounding them. and lastly, to touch on the issue of long-term health care financial issues, now as the chair of our budget committee i think this is an incredibly important issue. this year alone we're spending about $790 million on health care as a city and county of san francisco. it's a huge part of our budget. and as we start to attack the issue of our $4.4 billion unfunded health care liability as a city, i think keeping the reigns on the financial impact to the city of any health care related field, in particular this one was very important. and proud to announce that we did deliver protections for city of san francisco. and i think even more important, though, i think we have all l

come to us for a loan and we think there is potential for one, we will provide business advising as well as a loan. to give you a sense of who we reach, we are really seeking to lind to traditionally underserved communities. for example, 35% of our borrowers are hispanic or latino. 22% african-american. 60% free mail, and 30% immigrant. -- 60% female. types of businesses -- we will make loans as small as $500 and as large as $100,000. they can range from home-based very small businesses like child care, people selling in the flea market, on up to janitorial, landscaping, restaurants, dry cleaners, and in some cases, small manufacturers. we sometimes bridges of it in even larger transactions if we think there's community benefits, we might wind collectively with the city's working solutions fund or with another lender. so far, -- and we work throughout the bay area. we work in four bay area counties, said francisco obviously being one of the importance, but also said the clara, san mateo, alameda. we have laid out over $15 million to bay area businesses with a medium loan size of about $7

in real time as well as over time to show trends in traffic. and i think basically what i would like to speak to today is the importance of somebody who is going to be in charge of the data because what we found is that you can have all of this data, but if you don't have somebody looking at it and somebody utilizing it, then it's pointless and it's just hanging out there. so, i think this is very important, to have somebody kind of organizing different departments as well as just kind of, you know, facilitating the communication between the government as well as -- between the government and the people that the government is serving and are presenting. and having this information out there, such as what motion loft -- sorry -- on having the information out there about, you know, like where you can go find places to hang out at parks or knowing like when your car is going to be towed, crowding information such as what motion loft is providing, it does a great service to the people of the city and then we found that data like motion loft can be

that is concern among the region as well as with the folks back in washington. guys. >> eunice, thanks very much for that. italy sparking a lot of chatter on the social media website, as well, about whether they're doing enough on human rights. the latest data shows pmi fell last month. there is also swelling in india's service sector as the services pmi came in at 54.2 in february down from 57.5 the month before. analysts say there's still, as well. it's stilly a bright spot in its economy. ross. >> meanwhile, here we are, an hour and 15 minutes into the trading day. there's a lot of green on european stocks. only about 25 stocks in negative territory. the ftse and 1100 yesterday was down 0.5%. right now, we're up nearly 11%, 6,403. banks, resources doing particularly well today. so despite continuing negative news, these markets wants to keep line up. xetra dax 1.6%. the ibex up 1.4%. even the ftse mib up around 2%, 300 points higher. gilt yields backing up, steady at 4.74. ten-year spanish yields, 5.03% is where we stand. so just still under that 27, 26 basis

this is going to attract people both locals who really look for this kind of culinary excitement as well as travelers and visitors to the city. we just finished san francisco beer week in february where thousands of people came to the city simply to try what we have to offer along these lines and this bar with the manager who has proven himself to one the finest establishments in oakland in walnut creek i think is really going to be a large step to putting this neighborhood and this city on the map for people who may never really think about, you know, san francisco and this way and it is another way to attract people to talking about us and keeping us on the cutting edge of being a world class city. so thank you very much. thank you, mr. shapiro. next speaker please? >> any member of the public who would like to speak, if you could please come up. >> good morning, supervisors my name is (inaudible) and i have lived in san francisco for 61 years and i would like to remind everybody that this used to be a family neighborhood i wonder how many of you remember the downtown bowl and used to

. >> i would like to thank the sfgtv as well as the clerk of the board, mr. victor young, do we have any announcements? >> question, silence all phones and papers should be submitted to the clerk, items after today will appear on the march 14th, supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> could you call number one. >> resolution to authorize, recreation and park department to retroactively accept the expend the cal recycle tire derived product, grant in the amount of $150,000 from the california department of resources recycling and recovering from the purpose of tdp materials for the various cities park sites for the period of june 2, 2011 through march 31, 2013. >> my name is tony maran and i am with the capitol division, the item is a recommendation to accept and spend the grant in the amount of $150,000. >> this is administered by the california resources, recovery, i am sorry, resources recycling and recovery department. they promote the purpose of materials that are derived from recycled tires, from recycled tires. the park has been awarded $150,000