contractors with at least 20 employees and all city contractors with a grant agreement of 50,000 and more to submit an annual equal pay report to the city's human rights commission. the report will include summary compensation information for employees, identify by gender and race. please note that we are aware that 14,000 vendors with the city and county of san francisco in fiscal year 2014 would meet this requirement and the controller's office estimates that 11% of city vendors have 20 or more employees. therefore, we estimate that only 1,540 of the 14,000 vendors that the city employs would be impacted. again, only 1,540 -- 1500 of 14,000 vendors. the legislation creates an initial phase during which the legislation will actually not go into effect or at least the data collecting requirement. during that period the director of the human rights commission is charged with the responsibility of convening a working group to design a data collection system that is best suited to both identify if wage discrimination is taking place at a workplace and to also minimize the administrative

we must strengthen public records access at all city agencies and the sunshine ordinance task force mustven more power. i want to require ali electricitied official and the head of city departments to post their calendars, name of whom they met with, ~ and topics discussed at their meetings along with expense reports all on their city funded websites. we need to better know how our elected officials spend their workdays and with whom they meet with. we also have to reclaim public plazas and all of our public spaces including the sidewalks from corporations and their advertising and also from private business associations so that all citizens have equal access to public space. i want to have every nonprofit that receives city funds on an annual basis audited, especially the hiv and aids groups. i think we must set individual performance goals for each nonprofit. we also have to end the tax exemptions for the profitable tech companies that are raking in millions and millions of dollars. they must pay their fair share. i also want to charge google and all the tech companies that have buses

the civil grand jury was not able to locate a single list niron any of the city's website of all of the city's boards and commissions. there are a handful of different places you can look to find different sets of boards and commissions. the clerk's office maintains every year a list of all of the boards, commissions and advisory bodies, where the board of supervisors makes appointments. that is on the board's website. on our website, we have a memo that lists all of the boards and commissions that are decision-making bodies, rather than advisory bodies, where the mayor or some combination of the mayor and board or board president makes the appointments. and then the city's conflict of interest code, which the board passes every other year, also includes a list of all of the boards and commissions, whose members have to file form 700, with the ethics commission. putting all three together, you can basically find everything, but the point is well-taken from the grand jury there is no easy access list. so they have asked our office to prepare such a list and we're going to do that within

. >> this is directive for all city agencies and infrastructure to really plan foresee level rise in the coming years? >> it was led by the city mayor and administration. we have already acknowledge the sea level rise and that was the reason why he was appointed to the chair because of his focus on the water adaptation to the puc itself. this is a citywide effort and we are not looking at only the obvious structures but the seawall itself as the impacts as the sea level rise and the seismic issue because the seawall is coming into place. >> the baseline number for planning? >> that is the guidance that was approved at the committee two 2 weeks ago, i believe it was. again this is completely as an iterative process, we look at the impact, we look at how to adapt and then at the end of the day it becomes a return on investment question of our public funds. so the options to adapt can be quite varied. for us there may be more limited because of the needs for our facilities to sit where they do sit but pretty amazing consideration have been thought of along mission bay to two of the plan

money is cheap right now, so i think all cities across the country recognize that. carrying over our fund balances, very important to us. and thankfully, most cities, especially houston, we had a hefty balance so when it really got tight on us, we were able to draw down on those. and i will agree as the cfo of the city, that is not a good thing to do all the time. but it's always good to have a rainy day fund because it rained a lot for many cities across the country over the last few years. i think a balanced approach is the order of the day. when you are at the municipal level, you have to remember that you represent people. these are, you know, we can -- we're not like general motors, we can't raise the price of a cadillac when we need more money. we have to be very cognizant of, one, people who pay into the tax base and how it's affecting them because it's all interrelated. if people don't have more money to spend, they can't buy more washers and dryer. if we overtax them, it's just all a vicious cycle. but at the end the the day, cities, i think, will persevere

commitment to insure effective government and operations in the city i've lived and worked if the city all my did you want life and learned early on i have a calling for pun service and san francisco is my home working for the city and county has been challenging i recognize the vast arrays of services that san francisco brings to its citizens is there because of good decisions and i by policymakers and elected officials like users with the help of your aids and staff and also department heads and support staff like me and many of the others in the controller's office we all unit around the same goal to maintain a financially sound do city that ed harrington made a goal for the controller's office many, many years ago and to expand and improve the services we're there as the financial anchor so that we can provide those services to the people that need them i've been fortunate to serve under 6 mayors and dozens of supervisors and the talented managers of the controller's office rec and park department and the department of public health and, of course, the controller's office they and all

all cities across the country recognize that as it relates to saving and carrying over, most cities especially houston when it got tight on us, we were able to draw them down. i would agree that that is not a good thing to do all the time. it's good to have a rainy day fund. it that's not always good to do. it's always good to have a rainy day fund because it rained in cities the last few years. i think a balanced approach is the order of the day. when you are at the municipal level. you have to understand that you represent people, these are like -- we're not like general motors. we can't raise the price of a cadillac if we need more money. we have to be very cognizant, one, of people who pay into the tax base and how it's affecting them because it's all enter related. if people don't have more money to spend, they can't buy more washers and dryers. we don't get more sales tax. if they can't buy homes, they don't get the property tax, if we overtax them, it's all a vicious cycle. but at the end of the day, cities i think will persevere. we'll continue to provide the services at the level that

you, mary and thank you to the san francisco business times for the invitation to speak about the city we all love you i was asked here this morning to talk about what i've been thinking about late i've been thinking about a lot of things and issues in the city and so some of the issues i want to share you with this morning first of all, god help those gientsz they're already talking about what is magneticallyly possible i thought with the home run with the boom gardens let's give month guarantee you do not to the gardens that's been on my mind i saw steven curry and graduating congratulated them for bringing home the basketball cup and thrnd ritual for usa home for usa and the riders cup that's what i've been thinking about that's it mary thank you very much (laughter) you've asked me to talk about the issues of the city and affordability let me first of all, point out and is thank you if you want to talk about affordability it's easy to understand look at the men and women who are serving you this morning in their excellent service they'll tell you what affordability champion it in san fran

because you have bobby washington and the principle and parents and the community all working together along with our city leaders so the safe route to school walk and roll today are in order to show all our communities that walking to school and rolling and bicycling to school is possible and feasible and it's fun how many of you had dunn fun today wow. it's fun to walk to school; right? so we're doing that in many, many schools so today, we did that in 84 schools across the city 84 school of kids walking today that's an all-time record so the safe routes to school works with the sfmta we have the director of sfmta edward reiskin with us to may i make our streets safer we work with the department of public health who runs the program and the director to help and the director is here he's a medical doctor got to listen to him and sf environmentalist and bob anhidone working on clean transportation and the bicycle coalition and leah the director of bicycle coalition who's a partner and their staff working with our staff of walk santa fe san francisco that is the gentleman in the back who helped on the othe

she said you know what, this is all the information that we are going to put out at this time. live in university city, lu ann cahn, nbc 10 news. >>> all right. from university city we now go to dallas where nbc 10's christine madella is standing by. christine, we understand that those nurses have just started with a rally there. what's going on? >> i'll move out of the way so you soon see the nurses rallying. this is the emergency department at texas presbyterian hospital. these nurses just walked out a couple minutes ago. there are brightly colored signs. they came out chanting. listen in. you can hear them cheering. they're far away from the media area. we are not able to do an interview right now. there's one sign that says "we love you," with the name of one of the nurses infected with ebola. you can see the crowd out here next to the emergency department. there's someone leading this crowd. they're doing cheers anden chatting. they're show something of the signs. we have a helicopter up above also taking a look at this rally. this comes after presbyterian hospital has come under strict criticism

five-year maintenance program and no strings attached and we are lucky to partner with google and sf city and allto the projects here that will deliver the real results to the residents of our city and that will make a difference to everyone living in our neighborhoods which this is all about. to the person, or to the family, that use our parks that sun bathe on the lawn when it is sunny in san francisco or at our ball fields and it helps them get on the phone and surf the internet or e-mail when they need to more important than that, is the tender loin rec center has free wi-fi to be able to enable the staff to conduct the operation and able to communicate in the department and sign up the children in the leaks on the internet that they did not have access to before, and the community groups and the people from the neighborhood that perhaps did not have wi-fi access where they live. and now they can come here as they utilize the space and they have the ability to use the internet now and the ability for the community groups to offer the services in the city of san francisco, and again, neighbors

intersection by adapting the urban street guide and the national bike way as the official policy for all city depends those guides will establish a policy guideline for how to best have our streets safer and requires reports it will guide all the future street projects the sfmta drshgz has adapted this and our capitalization here about extend those guidelines to each and every city department because we know that the various student vice presidents are involved in the street design edward reiskin hoped to be here he's out of town but we have a representative from the sfmta division that is here to talk about this legislation sir. >> thank you chair wiener i'm darby watson it's in my job to make san francisco streets and sidewalks safer i'm a section leader and here today to share our experience my staff and i have been lucky enough to participate on the steering committee and working groups for those guidelines those guidelines file a uniform traffic control devise and transportation engineering standards gufks the tactics to make the streets more liveable vested there a peer john updyke to s

they've lived there she's gotten value at a reduced price this is happening, sir all over the city. >> i'm talking about all over the city how many landlords do you have died. >> sir, sir this is where i'll ask the city attorney we'll take dr and take the permit can he have it legalized and take the dr and demolish the entire structure i can't give them that. >> take dr and deny. >> take dr. >> commissioner president wu kate from the city attorney's office there are a couple of options here i'm going to try to lay out and planning staff may have something to offer the commission can't take dr and approve the project or not take dr and approve that the commission couldn't force the owner or the trustee to affirmatively apply for another permit to legalize the unit what will happen is the building permit is ultimately appeal able to the board of appeals there's not an you outstanding notice of violation on the project that this owner has come in voluntarily to try to legalize or try to get rid of the illegal unit but this commission does have the ability in disapproving the permit under

to all city residents, regardless of income. kron 4's alecia reid spoke to san francisco supervisor david campos who pushed the legislation. he says the pill called truvada. also known as 'prep'. will help prevent the spread of h-i-v. this is a path to eliminating any new hiv infections in san francisco. if implemented across the board i'm told this could be a game changer. >> this is specifically focused on hiv. we're not here to replace condoms we want people to use condoms and be responsible. people who are at-risk of contracting h-i-v, that want to protect themselves from getting the virus can take prep, also known as pre exposure prophylaxis once a day. >> it's not only something that can help gay men, transgender men and women. we have also heard from many women who have used truvada prep to have unprotected sex with their partner for the purpose of having a baby. >> there's a lot of controversy about it but i believe anything you can do to prevent a lot of people from being sick and dying, we should do it. it should be av

. >> the city girls are the urban japanese-americans second-generation i got to have all the fun that my poor rule parents adopted to have because they grew up having to work. they are the second-generation of nisei girls and women who'd grew up in southern california who are able to participate in a wide range of things. and this includes a host of other organizations as well. >> your book runs from 1920 to 1950, japanese-americans didn't get citizenship until 1952, or is that the first-generation? >> their children, the second-generation were american citizens by birth. so they were able to participate politically. >> with a total california girls? >> absolutely. and so yes, they were a group that was founded affiliated with the ywca and they had lots of parties and dances and they were very good dancers and very active in social service and community organizing. >> how similar to american society where they? >> i think that it is important to think about why they formed in the 1920s and 30s were a difficult time and certainly for young people they weren't always welcome in extra cr

great city not a suburban on and on classify a ghetto not a gated community a truly diverse city with room for all this place is is is symbol a symbol of a city with a big heart a city with the vision a vision it matches that are of patrons st. francis today, we celebrate the on this place the vision that sees in those who will line up along the arresting can do brothers and sisters it is a vision it that sees in the people that will be sitting at the tables brothers and sisters today, we celebrate that we all our brothers and sisters are in a city where ever we can once in a while we were all the children of god thank you. (clapping.) >> wherever we gasket at st. anthony's i've been reminded i can't forget the most important people yes, we have celebrates and chiefs and elected officials more important people at any gather at st. anthony's is our guest we want to guest to come up and share dell seymour is a long time guests he is resilient and resource full and started his own business a group that he community colleges u conducts tours of the tenderloin i'm honored to have one of 0 our guests de

was one of the very first progressive activists that i met in our city probably about 15 years ago and he was someone who i know taught all of us, mentored many of us. and i learned a lot about leadership from ted's style. we have a lot of a naziing and brilliant leaders in our city and i think i might say many of them frustrate us every day. we agree with them, but they might drive us nuts. ted was not one of them. he was an unbelievably kind, gentle and decent soul. and in a city political environmental, he exemplified humility, humbleness. he was gentle while he was fierce. and i think it's really hard to imagine the tenants world and progressive politics in san francisco without ted gul acson. and i know many of us, we are celebrating our giants this month. but i think we also know that we are all mourning for and celebrating a true giant for tenants and for san francisco who is an incredible champion for san franciscans. so, ted gul acson, rest in peace. and, colleague, i ask that we adjourn on behalf of the full board for ted gul acson, if we could do that without objection. [gavel] >> supervisor yee? >> just really

foot and help you to connect to other in the city please share the website and at could lateral with your friends and family that helps us. we believe that all disasters are local and that preparedness should be too we've created a city 72 city 72 is available to my community interested if positive preparedness and this model >>was recently howard by i did white house for its innovative technologies into disaster preparedness. since the napa earthquake we've seen a dramatic increase in interest and action about preparedness i was recently told today, our number of requests have increased our increasing engagement an facebook has increased 4 thousand percent on twitter we've increased by 4 hundred followers and that doubldz our followers. we we've seen an interest in sf the notification program we ask you to register for that as well >> thank you alicia. now we're going to hear from the city administrator naomi kelly about an update on the lifelines council. good afternoon, everyone. so in april we had the at our last lifelines council we unveiled the departmentscy study many of you participated we kashthd 11 utilities by public and private p

first of all city all wants to reiterate to the public there have been no reported cases of ebola here. like any other, they want first responders to be prepared so starting tonight, 911 dispatchers here in the city will be asking questions to caller who's say they're very sick. questions like, do you have a high fever? are you vomiting? where have you been traveling? >> if there is any -- say an individual had been in west africa and feeling sick in west africa, the dispatcher to ems would say be aware you need to wear protective equipment when you go to this call because it's a possible case. >> last night, the mayor met with numerous department heads to make sure that the city is preparing adequate protocols. >> we have briefings from the public health experts and have been in constant contact with state and federal officials to make sure we understand what the issues are and that we're responding appropriately. >> the city is in the final stages to deal with ebola cases, including new training or retraining first responders. in 1995, a group of men released sarin gas in a tokyo sub