adachi has to appeal to the board of supervisors. i do not believe he will have the support. >> [inaudible] school construction bonds. do you worry about asian communities may not approve it -- thinking together -- two things? >> i have not had a chance to review the school bond proposal. there are several government structures, so they can place things on the bonds without our authority. i will say, with a lot of bands, the asian community has always been concerned about the quality of schools. you talk to any asian family in general, they hope that schools improve because it is their kids getting into it -- education. if they believe the school board will increase the opportunity for their kids to have a better education, there is no doubt they will vote in favor of it. but if they believe the school bond will not do that, that they would be the first ones to say no. that is the way i think i. the school district will have that obligation to convince them that this is good for them. we have challenges in our school district, as you

adachi has to appeal to the board of supervisors. i do not believe he will have the support. >> [inaudible] school construction bonds. do you worry about asian communities may not approve it -- thinking together -- two things? >> i have not had a chance to review the school bond proposal. there are several government structures, so they can place things on the bonds without our authority. i will say, with a lot of bands, the asian community has always been concerned about the quality of schools. you talk to any asian family in general, they hope that schools improve because it is their kids getting into it -- education. if they believe the school board will increase the opportunity for their kids to have a better education, there is no doubt they will vote in favor of it.

. -- from adachi. let's attack the public workers, let's attack their retirees. that is what you are doing. you are fraudulently telling the people the problem in this country and in san francisco is the public workers have too much benefits. the average pension is not that high for the average worker. do you know who it is time for? the bureaucrats that you support in the city. these other officials, they have high benefits in their pensions, but the average city worker does not, yet, you are going to attack them and make them pay even more than they are paying. san francisco is one of the wealthiest cities in the world. why are public workers being blamed? why is this ballot proposition being put forward? you are basically shells for these billionaires and corporations who want to put it on the public's back. that is what we're doing today. i would urge all public workers and retirees to go to their unions to demand that they fight both propositions. commissioner kim: thank you very much. >> good morning. my name is richard. the only thing i have to say about t

adachi does not consider vested rights and therefore will be litigated. in that litigation, there is a great chance in my opinion that the proposal will lose. i am not the city attorney, but if you ask the city attorney, as we have -- and we have that assurance -- that if you do not consider the vested rights, there will be potentially successful litigation against it, so i wanted you to know that. that is a point i continue to make. it takes a little time to understand the, but it is one where if you understand the world of public pension improvement reform, and that is why we have such heated debates in oakland and in san jose. very heated. the first thing the unions say is they will sue if we tried to logos on us without consideration, and now, everything is being settled. if you go into the details of the settlements, you will so i am speaking to in my lawyer had on. i also think our proposal is important to consider because we have employees agreeing to pay into their health-care trust fund for the first time. they have a date certain to pay andin, s

adachi, say that. probably because of this, more one saying how is that. the only people who speak the truth are children and people who have had too much to drink. that's called wisdom. you think about it. i am going to share one more thing. i will speak briefly on the concepts of that. if i asked you right now, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you would have considered yourself at risk? could you raise your hands. and there was probably a lot of pain with that, huh. in the book i wrote. i interviewed 60 role models and all of them were at risk astronauts. it made us who we are. i have scars. i have a doctorate, but also scars. wisdom comes from making mistakes. i have made a lot of mistakes ladies and gentlemen. i am going to speak about collaboration. i am going to talk about the role of expectations. i will speak to the value of hope. because when you're in an ugly situation. hope means so much. it's a global concept. in the research i do with resilience of children. close your eyes. bear with me. go ahead and hope them. i am not going to take you thr

adachi says that his plan would save the city more money.t takes a bigger bite out of many employees' paychecks. adachi says he is open to a compromise, which he has drawn up. >>> in washington, d.c. another day has passed without any progress toward a deal on our nation's debt. republicans and democrats met again with the president to try to hammer out an agreement. tara merger in reports mr. obama said today there is one thing he will not accept. resolve will. >> reporter: president obama sat down with leaders again on monday trying to make a deal on the deficit. >> and we're going to meet every single day until we get this thing resolved. >> reporter: if the government's debt ceiling isn't raised by august 2nd, america could default on its bills. president obama insists an agreement can be reached before then if republicans are willing to give a little. >> the basic proposition is it's my way or the highway, then we're probably not going to get something done, because we've got a divided government. >> reporter: democrats are pushing for

city and county has a great san francisco public defender and we want to express our thanks to jeff adachi for his support of ctla over the years and for his gratitude for being here today. thank you for your taxi and have a great conference -- thank you for your attention and have a great conference. [applause] >> i also want to acknowledge the public defender, past-present president of the california lawyers association. thank you for being here. now, we have our 50th anniversary tribute to "to kill a mockingbird." how many of you have read the book? seen the movie? i think everybody has seen it. well, this tribute features not only a great clip from "to kill a mockingbird" but atticus finch himself played by julian lopez-morillas who is one of the finest actors in the bay area. so let's go back to memory lane and enjoy this performance. >> ladies and gentlemen, gregory peck. >> never seems as fresh and wonderful, as good and evil as it does when seen through the eyes of a child. trying to capture that is remarkable and perhaps that is why one look and the last few years has been so warm

adachi get in a fight. here we go. you are gone. we better stop that trend. cheryl. >> i was just go to ask cheryl. her viewpoints on use with guns and whether the gun buy backs will work. do you have friends, thank you for bringing that up. >> i know people with guns. i wouldn't. i don't want to get involved with that. i just leave them alone with their guns. i don't get involved >> i say that to say, the idea if someone is carrying a gun, we might consider them dangerous. if they got that one, they can get another one. >> we have to consider, this is going to be a long process. this is not a one stop drop, if am i rackateering. i am going to take a couple of guns i don't use and use others. the major thing we have to look at is prevention. we have so many different levels of things we have to use. we can't just say, okay. drop your gun off, you're cool. that's not a shot at the program. we need that problem. but we need these other programs and dealing with the parents and families. we just first grader at cleveland. i worked at cleveland. he probably found

doctor adachi, thank you very much. >> all right. my name is is an swan right. according to a 2001 survey. 84 percent said they were satisfied with high school safety. 22 percent said they were not. >> my name is matesh. whether students were asked if they felt safe on their way to school. 43 percent said no. they do not feel safe riding the bus. >> my name is daniel, i live in san francisco. when youths were asked where they carry weapons, 77 percent said it was for protection. >> hi, my name is scott, i live in oakland. 66 percent of youths surveyed believe it is never right to carry a gun to school. >> my name is bianca. when asked if they believed it was a good idea to have are a gun 17 percent students said yes and 40 percent said it was sometimes okay. >> 61 percent of the same 8 thousand students said lack of jobs is a more serious problem than fights in school. they also felt violence was a problem. >> according to the juvenile justice community assessment and referral center. 1147 juveniles were arrested between july 2007 and january 2008. of these. 122