and jeffrey asian pacific islander elementary initiated at welcome of the ram to 2005 it's my greatyone in mandarin. >> all right. right. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> first of all, everybody welcome to the kickoff of our wonderful chinese new year the year of the ram i'm so happy to joined by former mayor willie brown give willie a hand (clapping.) supervisor christensen is here thank you julie for being here and sxhaifshg thank you for being here did i miss any other supervisors or rams here gosh what a wonderful kickoff this just gets more eloquent every year i want to say thank you to the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for their leadership we're going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian presiding officer's you saw their display along with the chinatown youth center the youth fair with their we have displays you'll be seeing repeated and more eloquent during the parade how about those the rams for the chinatown community children's center weren't they wonderful i look forward to seeing them march throughout the parade with

school be here on the launch of the 8th sample which license number our calendar of the year of the ram we're exciting to join our organization of chinese-americans our family associations through the consolidated benefit haven't associations and president is here and eddy from the chinese chamber and, of course, our united states panama canal's who has been the wondrous celebration to this designed stamps that honor our cultural and honor the license number in charge new year not only the chinese but the korean and vietnamese and all the cultures that celebrate the license number in charge year i also want to welcome our nuttiest members of the board of supervisors our sprilg who represents district 3 (clapping) and i know she shares the same fascination of anita and i and others here of the expended design that make making and several other artists have put together to kind of view the latest intertwines with the levitated stamps i want to thank and congratulate the united states postal service those are times they ask the public's assistants because the great organizations but they a

the rabbit the dragon the snake and last year the year of the horse today, we'll decade the year the ram competitive forest stoomg it's one of the wonderful colorful stamps ever issued i love the colors on the stockrooms work with the all over the cam our director was giving an illusion for the tray of togetherness filled with dried fruit and candies and other treats for a new beginning to the new year starting today, this lovely illusion will be carried on letters and packages for millions of businesses and americans don't forget their forever stamps and like mayor ed lee says you got to buy a lot of them they're out on sale and in every city in the city of san francisco as you see them we'll hope the year of the ram brings you good health and great joy and bound also prosperity wu6d i'd like to ask mayor ed lee and our other honored gifts along with cam to come up as we join together in celebrating and dedicating the year of the stamp of the ram and in doing so i want to wish you a very happy new year>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) i'd like to introduce claudine changing

the rams head group calls the incident an isolated one.uehlhauser has since been released on bond. back to you. >> thanks, nikki. >>> you might want to check ahead if you're flying southwest airlines today. and this timity ea not because of the weather -- this time it's not because of the weather. it's because some of the planes have been grounded because of some missed inspections. about 80 flights were canceled because of this yesterday. up to 19 more flights are expected to be canceled today while the inspections of the backup rudder system are completed to about 90 of their planes. >>> los angeles area is celebrating a stadium deal which could clear the way for a return to the n.f.l. -- turn of the n.f.l. to the region for the first time in two decades. it's a $2 billion plan backed by the rams. there are still hurdles. it's unclear if the rams will actually move back to southern california rather than stay in st. louis because a rival deal is in the works of course to keep them in missouri. >>> 6:36. time to congratulate our facebook

with cam to come up as we join together in celebrating and dedicating the year of the stamp of the ram and in doing so i want to wish you a very happy new year>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) i'd like to introduce claudine changing the past national president of the chinese-americans during her team of the president as the chinese-american in the early 1990 she launched a national caption to advocate for the issues of the stamps honoring and celebrating the chinese-american communities good job since here release the license number 2345r stham has continued for all of her assistance and valuable expertise over the years for the license number in charge stamp series the postal service is enormously grateful give her a hand i can actual we couldn't have done it without you (clapping.) currently mr. chiang that the president of the asian pacific islander foundation in san francisco on organization that is dedicated to promoting a difference cultural and heritage of the community and celebrating the asian pacific islander community every year ladies and gentlemen, please join

the ram was not sure why they were here and looked distraught. the parade is about to kickoff. mayor lee will be here and san francisco police officers will do the dragon dance. it will be a quick parade about 30 minutes. the bigger parade you are used to seeing is still a few weeks away, this is a mini parade to kickoff the first day of the new year. >>> thank you, amy. the in addition's largest retailer is giving a raise to 500,000 workers. >> wal-mart c.e.o. posted that workers and sam's club will benefit with a race ensuring they get $1.75 more than the federal minimum wage. in april workers will earn $9 an hour is by next february that will bump up to $10 an hour. >> retirement could seem like a long way up but good news for seniors getting to the age. more are able to retire on time giving us the best numbers since before the recession. that is according to a new career building report. it found that 47 percent of workers age 60 and older are able to retire when they want. that is more than the 34 done when surveyed in 2010 but half admit they will work half time after re

reflected in the written versus that's going to be presented going to be finalized and as director ram stated the commissions action is finally not altered but when a by whatever in the the minutes the minutes are a representation of the whole and commissioner richards. >> i agree for clarity we it is not going to hurt us to continue the minutes for two week. >> so da today is january - >> commissioners a we have a motion and a second to continue to february 5th on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places on item 4 commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you as a matter of the public record and available to the public in hardcopy as well as only line is spurs white paper that answers or comments on my questions by the commissioners and the public concerning the vacates and the unit in san francisco and the percentage of full-time resident in our newer condominium units this w

so today we're celebrating the year of the ram which is really fitting because the ram is known for some very important characteristics that apply to our park volunteers. they're generous, a strong sense of community and a special affinity for beautiful things. we welcome 184,000 hours of volunteer time including you so our profound gratitude for being here today and let's go clean. thank you everybody. >> all right. are we ready to go clean? are we ready to go clean? >> yeah. >> so we have one more event before we go clean and that is the fire works and the mayor and the team here will go down the stairs and go over there and light the fire works, but a couple of things i want to say before we go down there the first is someone who i forgot to acknowledge who has been with us not just in person helping us, but making sure that they write a check to support these events. walter wong and his company. please give him a big hand. he makes sure events go smoothly. when we need anything and can't find it we call on walter and he makes it happen and please a big hand for walter and his contrib

. >> may i ask a followup question director ram you mentioned in the previous too cycles we've added permanent positions and this ongoing project team is an interesting innovation but the performance went down in the time you added the temporary staff today feel there you go more hope in the project team and adding the temporary staff seems like the natural solution but the metrics didn't go up. >> part of project team is they've been on board for 2 1/2 months part of it is the size and number of projects keeping it the same that the large projects take an awful lot of time we have to look at the small project and the team is a model for other parts of department specialized teams that specialize on only projects and staff was doing one thing for moreal standpoint was not great but we reinventing that we need to look at the performance awe paralyze the metrics so the metrics are being looked at correctly he appreciate those comments the numbers are not good we looked at them at face value. >> i hear a lot from developers small medium and large the complaint around the boogy think we

flush enough the department s can increase its capacity i want to reinforce something that director ram said about short-term rentals and appropriating you know stacking up reinforcement it is a need to make sure you've got people power so this is good allocation the second thing i want to she was is the value and this is leading to the next section in the agenda data and information analysis a critical and quiet sometimes forgotten function for the city so there's a relatively small information analysis group that does all the number crushing and the report preparation and the housing and the inventory and requests. inform the mayor's office and the office of economic development the entire city goes to collect it's data and the analysis office does a report one of the first places they pick up the phone and call a that's a place to make sure that there's sufficient capacity and grow capacity to take on the interesting questions you've raised in every weeks commission matters with newspaper articles mr. richard comes up with and frankly curiosity it someone has to do the analysis and t

this is a welcoming in of the entire year of the ram and let's ram through a wonderful year for everybody. thank you very much. [applause] >> all right. give our mayor another big hand please. so i know you noticed these three guys out here and i know you know what they represent. does everybody know what they represent? who is the green? >> [inaudible] >> comp post. who is the black? >> [inaudible] >> all right. who is the blue? >> [inaudible] >> recycle. okay. so i want to thank our partner for the clean team, but also leading the nation in this rheology and has been instrumental in making sure that all the stuff that we try to get rid of it goes to the right place and reused and by their leadership san francisco has been able to increase its rate almost up to 80% now. 80%, so we have to go that 20% and that 20% is the hardest to get to, and so you see these guys out here and they're here to remind you to recycle and put it in the right place. all right. give them a hand please. [applause] as we go from district to district it's always our honor for us to ask the supervisor of the distr

we are ushering in the year of the ram. people gathered in san francisco's china town to watch a precession of dancers and real-life lambs. but will big celebration is in two weeks. rain or shy, the chinese festival and parade is march 7 starting at 6:00 p.m. >> so many different cultures celebrating. gathering at san jose city hall to ring in the new year a special performance using special chinese instruments. >> up next big arrival of whenlevi stadium. our house, we do just about everything online. and our old internet just wasn't cutting it. so i switched us from u-verse to xfinity. they have the fastest, most reliable internet. which is perfect for me, because i think everything should just work. works? works. works! works? works. works. you heard of the new dialing procedure for for the 415 and 628 area codes? no what is it? starting february 21, 2015 if you have a 415 or 628 number you'll need to dial... 1 plus the area code plus the phone number for all calls. okay, but what if i have a 415 number, and i'm calling a

happy year of the ram. happy valentines day as well. to all of the children there is a lot of kissing that goes on today but i have a lot of love for chinatown and all of the volunteers serving the community and the people. thanks to the sponsors as well. [speaking foreign language] thank you. >> all right. other supervisors all you get to say is a chinese new year blessing. we will start over here. >> you want to go? >> no, go ahead. >> hi

>> eiko -- i go ram because the post office says ram, and i never cross the post office. >> the correctnswer is ram. >> also, i would like to solve the puzzle -- the game show we hastily assembled right here on this set when we come back. ♪ >> last night here in new york, quite a show with rudy giuliani speaking at a fancy pants dinner. former economic reagan advisor talks to us about that dinner last night. tell us about what you saw and heard, and how you enjoyed it. >> the dinner was great, i had salmon. it was a little under done. other people had steak. it starred scott walker from wisconsin. he spoke for a little bit and then everybody started asking him questions. there were a couple of soliloquies, as you mentioned. rudy giuliani and some others. it was great. it was loads of fun. >> are you a supporter of the scott walker's now or not? >> i don't endorse. if i thought for a moment my endorsement would give him any credibility or get him any votes, i might consider endorsing a candidate, but really all it would do would be sever my relationship with everybody else. >> you are a

community begins to clean up their house and get rid of the old things to get new things the year of the ram means will steadyness and success and collaboration but will be solid direction i want to present that he kind of leadership i know our new supervisor julie christensen will be representing that kind of strong community for this district and the whole district of district 3 coverage including chinatown that is a wonderful time we're collins avenue only the holidays but a great combol symbol of that we've worked for four years be it lead by department of public works and also our wonderful police department i know that captain lazzaro and his staff as a conversation on in this district is safety everybody's safety during the holidays streets are filled are families and children timing to shop and buy new things and make sure we patries all the local shores the jr. idea years ago came from the merchant that was led and bias and benny to place a few more merchandise there but keep a high-level of safety this is a very, very busy corridor as you can see and that's not the last time the ho

what will the year of the ram bring? one well known trin he's astrologist predicts a bad economic year. it doesn't look good for those lacking for new relationships or having babies. we'll forget about that and celebrate the new year. >> will it also bring some rain? we've seen some rain on the chinese new year parade. >> i hope it defies everything the models are showing and we just get tons and tons of rain coming our way. we're going to have to wait and see. you can see we have that cloud cover continuing to roll into downtown. some thick fog at the immediate coastline. we'll take you outside and you can see a lot of the bay area impacted by clouds moving in at the coastline. temperatures in the upper 50s to about 60. 59 in the peninsula and up to the north bay low 60s. the joef all trend does show sunshine but you're going to have to wait for it. we should have sunny skies and will see temperatures 69 for the north bay. this area has brought us the fog pattern. the dry and warm weather will move to the south. as we h

director ram i neglected in my comments the other question i noticed the number of projects that are approved but not been built and probably have discussions on those as we move forward i this think we have a policy after a certainly amount of time with the conceiveness it would be great to have reasons why they're not moving forward. >> that will be part of the discussion when we come back. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move to that to item 7 review the past events of the board of appeals and historic premise. >> good afternoon aaron starr in contrast to last week's there's no land use committee hearing and at the full board this week did signed ordinance reasonable accomodation ordinances and article 2 and urban forest plan and the zoning amendment for portland all received their second reading to the mayor's office and the office conversion landmark this supported by supervisor cohen has the interim controls for the mc district west of octavia it passed no introductions. >> next and the board of appeals met last time and 3 items to brief the commission the ap

>> that ram, sexy ram, i don't do as much work as i used to.uxedo in that ram truck. david: should tell everybody, jeff left the television business went into focusing on fixing things up with your home and other people's home. he knows what he is talking about. i'm sure you would love one of those trucks. >> i may be too old now. fancy trucks. david: never too old. liz: we still like the dog that barked on cue. that wearing of "50 shades of grey" outfit. david: oh, liz, you brought it down to "50 shades of grey"? >> not sure where she is going with that one. liz: look at that. david: jeff flock, we'll let you go. thank you very much. >> okay. see you guys. liz: earlier today, maria bartiromo spoke with tough guy bar consultant and bar rescue host, such a cool show, john taffer on advise for those looking to get into the bar and restaurant industry part of our fox business rewind. >> go into the business because you love the business, not because you love food and beverage. you have to love the business. second, build it for your customer, not

it was a huge success, director ram was one of the speakers. we have over 100 attendees, it was sold out, we had 31 people on the wait list and more that wanted to come. the sessions ranged from how san francisco can engage in the international place making movement to how we can use city government to support the use of our public spaces and it ended on a high note of talking about innovation and how we can drive that innovation down into the communities. so there will be further follow-up, the recordings are available or will be available shortly and i think we're doing, we're going to do a little synopsis video of the day. so thank you. >> commissioner johns. >> the last weekend in february, last day of february, first day of march is the san francisco museum and historical society's annual history expo over that two day period at which we will gather approximately 50 organizations concerned with san francisco history at the old mint. we anticipate having around 4,000 people come through so i recommend that anyone who is remotely interested

happy year of the ram. happy valentines day as well. to all of the children there is a lot of kissing that goes on today but i have a lot of love for chinatown and all of the volunteers serving the community and the people. thanks to the sponsors as well. [speaking foreign language] thank you. >> all right. other supervisors all you get to say is a chinese new year blessing. we will start over here. >> you want to go? >> no, go ahead. >> hi everyone. i am scott wiener from the board of supervisors and here to wish you a happy new year and thank you to everyone that made this happen and have a great one. thank you. >> this is julie christensen the supervisor for the district. congratulations. all of you picked the best place to be today. it's a beautiful day so happy new year. happy valentines day. have a good day in chinatown and thank you to the chamber and to ed and rose for putting on a party and inviting all of us to be here. thank you norman. [speaking foreign language] >> any other supervisors? that's it? okay. are we ready? >> [s

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