the way they want to run city hall. it was ran their way or it was a highway. and nobody -- there you go again -- i will phrase it again. nobody rocked the boat. nobody paid any attention. it was so real. it was almost make believe because you say that really can't be happening. but you can't get make that kind of stuff up >> gordon smith is the county sheriff now investigating the goings on hampton where one powerful local plan with deep roots here controlled city hall and had five members on the payroll, the city's entired paid work force. the city's former maintenance man lived here for some reason, there are still city vehicles in the yard. his mother, the former town clerk lives around the corner. all five are under criminal cameras. >> it appears they used the pocketbook. >> a personal piggy bank >> and it totalled up over a period of time to be large sums of money. >> what was it all spent on? >> we would like to know but all of that stuff has been destroyed. >> state awediltors made tried to make sense. the more

good morning, everyone well, to city hall. first of all, i want to thank the chief for the introduction and leadership in the department thank the fire commission but today it's all about the firefighters. and i want to indicate to you very strongly my stance with our firefighters. that as we ask them from day one to take on the life threatening risk of savings accountability 0 people and going into buildings and getting on top of the buildings over one hundred and 50 firefighters putting out those disagrees flames in mission bay. or we shared with station 49 celebrating the reobama of businesses because the firefighters did their job over a year and a half going to do so that fire no, the west portal. our board of supervisors appreciate the firefighters we together as part of the city family acknowledge how important the fire department and all it's firefighters so when we ask them to take the risk of running into building and doing all the herselfic things there's a moment when we say we can do something for you. as tom star

so moved, commissioners, that motion passes and pneumanow for the city hall's presentation >> tim fry i want to introduce the city hall fellows that will be presenting to you this afternoon (calling names) the city hall fellows small teams project was the come a time that was concluded in our packets this week the restoration of pass industrial lighting. the fellows team worked with myself and kelly wong of the preservation planning staff and the documents was an anti growth of the reoccurring theme we developed in the eco project many aenths and other industries within the central area were interested in a document it engaged dialog and adaptly reusing those buildings it's a natural candidate for the small teams project and we're curling in the beginning of the project the commissioners comments will be incorporated with the public's comments we'll make public in the support future open the planning department and hopefully, the department of transportation of building inspectors i want to take the opportunity to thank the foelz team and with that, i'll let them present and look forw

i want to start a new show called this week at the city hall. there should be no problem her. and first, the african-americans plaques talking about the boycott. >> next speaker. >> supervisors and ladies and gentlemen, in the auditorium i'm mr. lawrence i've been a city and county resident for 45 years. i want to see it supervisor kim was applied that senator feinstein's kids were in public scott taylor's schools that's not interest true pursue i want to thank the gentleman with the taxi service. very briefly i'm talking to you about the taxi business are that i know some of the supervisors don't want to deal with f it and the public utilities commission is taking over we have rampant law invaders operating as taxis 31 they park in taxi zones and sit in cabs and they're sitting in taxi lots while you sit here doing nothing our income as mrujd and like taking 3 supervisors and divided their income. i'm submitting a letter my 7th in a row now to mayor ed lee and senator feinstein you've given her husband more money and a lot of it exams comes from

here in san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office on disability for future information or to request accommodations at 415-554-. voice, or tty at 415-554-67 99. reminder to all our guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. we thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> heather, would you do roll call, please? >> co-chair chip supanich? >> present. >> councilmember [speaker not understood]? absent. councilmember star laurel, absent. councilmember denise [speaker not understood]? >> present. >> councilmember harriet c. wong? >> present. >> councilmember roland wong? >> present. >> councilmember derek sardoff? absent. >> i'm sorry. [laughter] >> item 1, welcome, introduction, and roll call. item 2, action item: reading and approval of the agenda. item 3, information item: the 2015 - 2019 consolidated plan. the 5 year consolidated plan is a planning document for san francisco's housing and community development investments and it buil

is still here at city hall and try out what is happening with the city hall, you call it city hall and i call it silly hall. >> thank you, any other members of the public that want to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to file this -- we don't. >> madam chair, do you want on continue this to the call of the chair. >> yes, we do, do we have a motion to continue to the call of the chair. >> so moved. >> thank you, without objection continued to the call of the chair. next item. >> item 3, hearing to understand the needs for services for victims of violent crimes including domestic violence whose perpetrators are directly supervisored by the adult probation baptidepartment. >> a couple of weeks agos i asked for a hearing for victims of domestic violence who perpetrators are under the supervision of our adult probation department. dozens of those in active probation have committed violent crimes, and half of them are crimes of sexual assault. and if you add other family members, the number could just to several of thousands. apd is mandated under

because you can take on city hall. this little old town has shown you can make a difference by speaking up. >> people in town say they hope hampton's days as the most corrupt town in america are behind it. but the sheriff says he's still digging and those in town acknowledge there's probably more dirt to be found . us. this is most incredible story. just when you think you've heard everything there's more to this. >> we didn't even tell you about the charges at the local convenience store where somebody wrote up $138,000 of stuff which included beer, cigarettes and soda. >> the convenience store? >> the local convenience store. >> they can't account for this. >> no. >> how can they get themselves back on the clean side of the map? >> everybody in city hall is now gone, all under criminal investigation and that investigation today we are told is still continuing. there is a new team there. there will be a special election held this fall. people are talking about do they want to be a candidate, who are the best candidate

. >> reporter: city hall is a buzz with new on the departure of the city administrator. >> he was given an offer that was too good to refuse. >> reporter: he is running to -- leaving to run the san francisco foundation. a change for oakland that comes after a number of high profile changes. >> i don't have a prese chief. >> reporter: he leaves the tree following theprieveiate administrator. the -- the previous administrator. and other heads are working on a interim basis. the police department also has retention troubles with four chiefs in four years. >> oakland is such an incredible city. it has so much potential. till we could stabilize the leadership in city hall it won't get there. >> reporter: some leaders blame the mayor. >> it is a poor sign. you can't keep your managers and the managers you have do not speak highly of her leadership. >> the city administrator is the one that appoints the department heads. there has to biostable in the -- stability in the city. >> mid-size city there is always turn around. >> reporter: in downtown, residents are also concerned. >> speaks t

they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and --

back to city hall they a list of demands.t the top is a higher minimum wage. >> authorities detonated two backpacks found tonight at the finish line of the boftan marathon. witnesses say a barefoot man dropped off one backpack then took off, running. authorities say there is no indications the bags were a danger but detonated them anyway. last year a pair of bombs inside backpacks killed three people and injured two of 0 more. two brothers injured in the attack walked a warathon course today. they're part of a invitation only tribute. the brothers say returning a year later just may be too emotional for them. >> among those attending today, 12-year-old aaron hern, injured as he waited for his mom to complete the marathon. he says aaron hasn't stopped going since getting out of whiz wheelchair, she writes you have shown love conquers hate. that is the love we have felt more than any hate perpetrators tried to spread. after the pain, many runners do intend to return. >> they meet met as a group of fit people not feeling fit eno

willingness to increase general fund rates so i think we are waiting until city hall figures that out is an appropriate thing we need their commitment before we can adopt a plan that really means anything thank you for the progress that you have made and god speed with the city hall folks. >> thank you. >> so this is one of those items if there's no public comment we want to continue to the may 13th meeting as well. >> i don't have any speaker cards is there any public comment on this item? joan? >> i would like to ask to the chair -- do we still have the charter provision that required that while we depreciate our assets that money be set aside each year in anticipation to repair or replace something. >> it's a good question i'll go ahead and refer to counsel if counsel can answer it on the fly without too much trouble i'd suggest you do so otherwise she will give us a response. >> the charter provision service saying when they were amended by the voters in 2002 they called for these actions to the capital plan and in chapter 16 also requires that funds be set out for the replacement

here at san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 415-554-6789. a voice. or 415-554-6799 tty. a reminder to all of our guest today, please speak slowly into microphone to assist our captioner and interpreter. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you roland. roll call. >> cochair chip supanich, idell wilson, present, councilmember tatiana kostanian, absent. member starlyn lara absent. denise present. wong present, councilmember roland wong? present. councilmember derek zarda? absent. item 1. welcome introduction and roll call. item 2. reading and approval of the agenda. >> item 3, public comment. items none on the agenda and within jurisdiction and each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. item 4, information item. report from co-chair supanich. item 5, information item. report from director of the mayor's office on disability. 92 semi 6. information item: the role of adult protective services in addressing self neglect among elders and a

you might just make it after all city hall ♪ (applause) >> okay. >>> hello, my name is larry juicyonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this -- i know the work they've done and i love what she talked. i feel there is someone who [speaker not understood]. you felt wonderful with this young lady speaking on our behalf. but i think many of us in s-r-os, we don't know it exists. it would be so great if we could have them put in a community calendar, too, in san francisco. and my other thing is because a lot of us go through a lot of different [speaker not understood] being disabled. we don't have a right that we're victims. i think this would be another great agency to work -- people were talking about how people were taking people with disability's money. they were getting sign up for people to leave you alone. property managers, sometimes they don't really -- we put a note to our tenants, s-r-o tenants, somebody go to case manager. case manager sometimes has to be able to do their job. i think being a person with

when james entered city hall in 1912 he brought back to the mayor's office a characteristic of the 1890s and appreciation of ethnic diversity for a brief time from 1912-1916 and came to the city government at appointed experts drawing plans to the center for the water system. expansion of street cars and water services. what this means is that the first broad view of san francisco as a potentially great city came with mayor suit truax in the 1890s. unfortunately suit truax became ill. and this water front teamster strike in 1901 and didn't know how to handle the labor issue properly. mayor recall came on years later and was very sympathetic to the labor and sympathetic to racial minority such as blacks, chinese and japanese. latinos were not considered a minority in those days. they were more or less considered to be equal with the latin ins and the immigrants in general special the latin quarter in north beach, it was the latin quarter. >> next speaker? >> hello, i'm larry edmond. i have this. you can get it at safe way. i got it last night at safe way. this shows two little girls going

live at city hall, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >>> supporters say the decision fosters free speech and providesblic participation in elections. >>> new this morning, the oakland official who only a month ago became the city's top administrator has accepted a new job. fred blackwell is taking the reins of the san francisco foundation, a group that grants money to community organizations across th region. he starts in june. it could hurt mayor quan's re- election campaign. >>> more protests today for uc- santa cruz. 20 students were arrested after rallies held yesterday. [ chanting ] >> a group of protestors got into it with cops in riot gear. they are charged with misdemeanors. the student employees have been in heated contract talks with the university claiming unfair labor practices and intimidation of workers. >>> san jose finally has the money to beef up its police force. but there's just one problem. not enough recruits. the current class is the smallest in decades. the department says it received roughly half the applications it normally gets. hundreds passed basic physicals but background

themselves and lobby and advocate for the things we are supposed to be doing here in city hall. i ask for your support. thank you. >> thank you supervisor breed. supervisor breed has made a motion. second? >> supervisor cohn, supervisor yee. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. i want to thank supervisor campos for bringing this legislation to our attention. as we know there is a crisis in san francisco. i also want to thank supervisor breed for her passion around these issues in terms of those that may actually get hurt from legislation. as we all know with any situation with any group of people, there are usually bad apples and there are also good apples. so, part of and i really appreciate the hardship adjustment piece that is built into language. what i would like to do is add some language to the harsher adjustment piece because what supervisor breed may have pointed out in terms of some cases, there are other instances where people have situations that are not included. so by adding this sentence into this legislation it would hopefully take into consideration other people

protestors gathered in front of san francisco city hall to voice concerns. they held up signs that said democracy is not for sale. >> this is a real loss for democracy and a loss of government by the people for people and of the people basically allowing large billionaires and millionaires mccutcheon is a coal baron to buy our government. >> reporter: republicans call the decision a victory for free speech. democrats say it's more likely a win for the wealthy. it will benefit both sides because it now it means political parties can seek donations from those deep pockets without getting entangled in the law. cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> contributors are still limited to giving $5,200 per candidate and $5,000 per political action committee or pac. >>> new this morning, the oakland official who only a month ago became the city's top administrator has accepted a new job. fred blackwell is going to run the san francisco foundation, a group that grants money to community organizations across the region. he starts in june a change that could hurt jean quan's re- elect

. >> after the shaking stopped, zach and his co-workers moved up to the top floor of the kuji city hallt of crow's nest, with a view of the whole city and the coastline. so if something is going to happen, this is where you'd see it. >> yes. >> and then he saw it, something about the rivers that split the city and normally flow out to the sea. >> the river was beginning to flow in the opposite direction. the water began to change color as well. it began growing from this kind of bluish color to being very murky. >> even four stories up, zach could hear the roaring river. >> it went from just having small debris, like trees and other rubbish that was around the harbor and stuff coming in to boats and vehicles, you know, to much larger and much more substantial things coming. >> cars and things come along? >> yes, picked up along the coast. >> that is getting scary then, right? >> yes. >> of course, zach hadn't seen the footage that everybody outside the country had seen, towns wiped off the map, thousands missing. he couldn't know how bad it was. did your mind turn at all when you were u

[speaker not understood] city hall and the civic center.eaker not understood] the state building, please join us on september 21st. not 21st, 30th. september 30th on tuesday. thank you. bye. >> thank you. i now have louisa cisseros. >>> hello. i have to really bring it down. hello, chair and councilmembers. my name is louisa [speaker not understood], i'm a district 6 commissioner. i sit on the house [speaker not understood] education committee. right here in front of me, i have a draft of a proposal that we have that we've made up in our committee and it's to implement a disability awareness curriculum at the san francisco unified school district. so, we've noticed that there are a lot of young people in high school that do not understand other young people that do have disabilities and we thought about this and we even made some surveys to ask why they don't know about them, why don't they know how to address young people with disabilities. and it was amazing to know that a lot of them just don't know about it because they see this other c

next commission meeting will be at city hall room 400, april 2nd, wednesday. >> thank you. and we have some assignment of disciplinary charges against patrol special officers tonight. can we go forward with that, please. >> sure. assignment district patrol charges on officer white. case no. 2013-2014 to an individual commissioner for the taking of evidence on a date to be determined by the commission. assignment of disciplinary charges filed against patrol officer calvin wiley, case no. 2013-0305 to an individual commissioner for the taking of evidence on a date to be determined by the commissioner. >> another case filed on dale w, 155 to an individual commissioner on the taking of evidence. all of these cases assigned to you, president mazzucco and i will contact the officers. officer wiley said he would be here along with sergeant white. i told him we would contact with the status call. >> thank you. also, we have a new addition. when we do our community meetings we invite the special patrol officers assigned to that district station. this is the second time

back to city hall they a list of demands.t the top is a higher minimum wage. >> authorities detonated two backpacks found tonight at the finish line of the boftan marathon. witnesses say a barefoot man dropped off one backpack then took off, running. authorities say there is no indications the bags were a danger but detonated them anyway. last year a pair of bombs inside backpacks killed three people and injured two of 0 more. two brothers injured in the attack walked a warathon course today. they're part of a invitation only tribute. the brothers say returning a year later just may be too emotional for them. >> among those attending today, 12-year-old aaron hern, injured as he waited for his mom to complete the marathon. he says aaron hasn't stopped going since getting out of whiz wheelchair, she writes you have shown love conquers hate. that is the love we have felt more than any hate perpetrators tried to spread. after the pain, many runners do intend to return. >> they meet met as a group of fit people not feeling fit eno

part of san jose's city hall will soon be a federal patent and trademark office. it's been talked about for years. leaders now see approval of a lease agreement today. the expectation is that it will boost the economy and provide jobs. back in 2011, president obama signed a law calling for new patent offices to speed up the process. offices are also planned for denver and dallas. detroit opened the first satellite office in 2012. >>> right now we want to get our latest micro climate forecast from jeff ranieri. what do you have for snus. >> we have a little bit of cloud cover across the bay. a lot of you may be wondering about the weather at the giants and dodgers game. let's get you to that forecast and check it out. our brand new hd camera positioned right on the field. we just learned about this about a day ago. it's like christmas in the weather center. mainly clear skies. first pitch at 7:15. an a little cloud cover filtering, but at least sunshine for the start of the game. that's going to be on comcast sports net. no major fog like we had this time last nigh

and then secondarily, in looking at other commissions, other commissions that are outside city hall do not allow for audiovisual during public comment. two examples are the housing authority and the health department. so, you're correct that it would set a precedent for all the others outside city hall to do so. >> commissioner andrews? >> well, it seems to me we were talking -- now i'm just getting to the dollars. we were talking about cost. and the $40,000 keeps rattling around in my mind. and i was wondering if we could split the difference in this. at least maybe go back and revisit it and for the cost of -- and if it's about just basically heightening the level of presentation, not to this degree, but a -- an overhead projector and a screen that could cost $5,000 could very well move the needle in some kind of way. and that's why i wanted to hear how many options you've fully explored to ultimately see if you could satisfy this, satisfy this request. >> commissioner, i think i would be willing to go back and explore that overhead projector concept. i know that when we first explor

for a minute but open to the general public and free and also thank the gentleman for setting up city hall. i have one other item looking at the staffing levels at the public health department the general hospital. we have new changes with the health care reform and we want to make sure your staffing levels are keeping up with the demand that will be placed on our hospital. so hopefully, we'll see if the staffing levels are meeting our needs as a city and the rest i'll submit. thank you >> thank you supervisor avalos. supervisor breed >> i have one item i'm introducing a resolution to proclaim april 28th through may second as the public health department so it's spearheaded give us a chance to celebrate the department and sthe the work they do to approve the quality of life for san franciscans to lower than more about what the department does. the dpw will hold event and it's residents and volunteers including project tours and equipment demonstrations and open hours and neighborhood cleaning and greening event. sorry folks we'll not be waving the street cleaning tickets on wednesday the a

getting my mp a and i enjoyed the work that i was doing there and it was nice to liase between the city hall and the residents there. and i enjoy the planning and aspect behind it and another reason that i have lived and worked in quite a few different countries and i have seen how different countries incorporate different forms of transportation and i think that is something that i can bring to the table and i would like to, you know, in closing just bring these various experiences to hopefully improve the developments of the gcac. and that is all thatvy for you today. >> thank you. >> and it is mr. kenahosa? >> yes. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> are there any other candidates that would like to speak? >> seeing none, we will close the candidates and open this up for public comment and is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? please come forward? and it is mr. brian larson from the cac. >> that is who i am. >> and i would like to speak on behalf of brown and i have worked with her off and on coming up on a decade now and both at par and a couple of other smaller community

presentation (clapping) >> it was a little over 7 years ago when we stood on the front steps of city hall with a concern a concern that resonates throughout the firefighter proves that too much of us are dying from this and we line the city hall what the boats of the firefighters. today, we're part of a national champion give toxins the boat that extends from san francisco to washington, d.c. not only for firefighters but every sense citizen of this country. the core of our fountains mission statements is the preventions and early detention of cancer in our active firefighters. we've been successful in offering thirty states cancers in the groups but we have to change our point of view and place a under the influence on ways to prevent cancer in order to do that we have to consider the root of the problem it exists in a multiple dollar corporation in the chemical destroy there's been incentives in washington, d.c. trying to get initiatives passed so households products are under control and in 2012, we had our best shot with the safe chemical act the angle stated that manufacturers would

cross the country but i think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe today. >> that's what i want to hear once you hardy folks have come it together to talk about those san franciscans toss from their you beds one hundred and seven years. the one hundred and 8 years powerful seismic waivers were across san francisco about 7.9 on the scale the san francisco would succumb to a wairj inferior for 74 hours. right now, i'm i i'd like to give you a moment by moment account of what happens o