in short, city workers in northeastern and midwestern cities lived too good. they had it too good. their pensions were too high and salaries were too high and the productivity was not competitive with a free market. the argument that what caused the crisis was liberal spending is also something to consider, right, cities out spent themselves and unions had such a strong powerful grip on city politics and this is what some people argued, that there was no escaping this problem. you can't get away from it because unions are too powerful. they'll go on strike like they did in new york city. there is a transit strike in 1967. there is a transit strike in 1966. sanitation strike, 1967, teacher strike 1967 and 1968 and three major areas of municipal life that bring the city to its knees in some ways, so the liberal spending argument is cities decline because municipal unions are too powerful and cities spend too much and no way to get out of that. the last argument about the cause of the urban crisis is black militants, crazy black people did this. that's the argument, black outsiders, ri

and across to hall at city hall. it is my honor to welcome supervisors mark farrell and christine al-awlaki. [applause] -- olague. >> this is a major grant to make sure that people in the middle of their careers in all neighborhoods get the skills and training need to get all of the high tech jobs center coming here. i called for a hearing recently with the city and school district because i am interested in learning about how public school education prepares students to access these jobs in the growing technology industry in san francisco. it is a very important cornerstone of our economic development efforts. first, we have to attract and create the jobs, and then we have to make sure they go to san franciscans, and that is but this grand and the tech assets initiative will help us to do. i think it was harvey milk that said we have to give them hope. -- s.f. initiative will help us to do. i also want to thank the participants in the program. it takes a lot of initiative and discipline to say, i wanted take on these

most recently, and acting city administrator. inee for city administrator for the next five years, naomi lelly. -- kellyl. [cheers and applause] ayman >> to first and foremost to thank her family who have been part of her life. throughout this time, she even raised a family and keep harlon and kelly out of trouble. [laughter] but also, i want to especially thank the whole board of supervisors for just now voting unanimously to confirm her appointment. [ears and applause --years and applause] they have seen in her the leadership, integrity, putting forth that verse communities of san francisco first, all the time, making good decisions, working in our communities to lift up everybody and to find those rays of hope. she has never been about herself. she has been about everybody else. whether it has been her family or helping several layers of, including me, adopt the right engine thct or keeping is very focused on what we need to do to make sure the city is administered well, she has been in there and she has done that. she is extr

come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the re

and so we need to take action as a city. and the first initial action i think we can take is working on a resolution like this that -- it isn't urging resolution but tied to a lot of people working in our neighborhoods to fight against foreclosures and that work together supporting their efforts in our neighborhoods combined with the recognition -- resolution provides hope for people to come forward and to continue to hold that banks need to be more transparent and accountable to people who want to have a future for our children, one that can guarantee we can have property or education or health care that are often paid for with our homes. i want to thank my colleagues for cosponsoring this legislation -- to resolution. this will be heard in land use committee along with a hearing on the foreclosure study as well and we will have a thorough discussion. i am hoping the attorney general's office could participate as well. there is a lot to share about what is happening at the state level and what the impact can be locally. we c

and grow. what our kids to be proud of the city that they grew up in and love. when you are aware around the city and doing your second jobs to get through school, the members about being here and having your generation create your family here is going to begin today. it is my pleasure to announce this grant today, but to thank all of the collaboration that has gone on. this grant will be done through tech sf, something that we have been talking about since we ever started this conversation with various companies. we want our work force to be included. we won our residents to know these are not just companies that are going to make money because they seem to have found some rich niche here. they are going to do with local talent, invest in our people. that is how you bring a whole city around to welcoming an industry that we are excited about. not only will it happen here in these technologies. i see the same thing happening in the biotech and life sciences companies we are inviting in the mission. even with companies like the giants and how they operate, and may

a lot of cities, a lot of northeastern and midwestern cities are experiencing fiscal crisis in the mid-1960s, which is basically they can't pay their bills. they cannot pay their bills. the urban crisis refers to the fiscal insecurity that's besetting many northeastern and midwestern cities. it refers to the decline in services that rack many northeastern and midwestern cities, decline in police protection, fire, transportation, sanitation. which is related to the inability of cities to pay their bills. and it also refers to the loss of a tax base. the loss of tax revenue. so the urban crisis is a way to talk about these political and cultural fe nophenomena. and i'll talk about that as well as the fiscal insecurity that's really hitting american cities in the northeast and midwest particularly hard. so, you know, in the urban crisis, as a concept, it's an overarching way to think about a confluence of social issues. crime, disinvestment, abandonment. the abandonment of housing. de-population. what will the role of government be in american cities, the role of government in policing, i

i look forward to an ongoing dialogue about the role of nightlife and entertainment in our city. now we know what we always believed that entertainment and nightlife is not just simply about the culture of our city, although that is very important, but also about our economy. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor olague. supervisor olague: i wanted to mention briefly i will be submitting paper work, a resolution that will initiate designation of real property at 301 geary st.. the gold dust lounge. i want to make mention of that. i do want to mention that there are many residents of district 5 who did contact me and they are concerned that another piece of san francisco will be replaced by a formula retailer. erases the larger question -- it raises the larger question. since this is one of the areas that many tourists and it is -- internationally renowned people are always there at the turnaround. people have concerns that sense for miller retailers -- formula retailers are in that area, will people be stepping out of their hotels and walking into an over-proliferation of pharmacies

city. i think you can take this job and run with it. this city needs to be more kid- friendly, more youth-oriented. i think you could have a big input to make sure that what we are doing will be there for you to raise families as well. i want to congratulate all the nominees tonight. all of you who have been participating in this competition for the fellowship have been doing great work. i have been reading through some of the accomplishments that you are a part of. i got to meet some of you, luckily, last month when you participated in youth advocacy day, but you also followed up -- some of you were at the old school cafe with what house representatives about what the youths were looking at in terms of their future, participation in the city. here in city hall, we are serious about having programs that not only help you out, but to make sure you get the support you need to be successful. we want you and need you to be successful. without that, we are literally a soulless city. whether it is being able to traverse on a good muni system,

departments and with city conditions. let me stop for a moment to acknowledge gavin new some and all that he did for our city that allowed me to hit the ground running and build on his accomplishments. a few comic added. -- thank you, gavin. [applause] together we set out to achieve five goals of office. police chief, put some of kids go back to work with new jobs and to local hire program, chart a stable course, to balance our budget despite steep deficits, and tackle pension reform -- one of the most boxing challenges every city in america has faced. we got them all done. [applause] today, one year later, i stand before you even more honored, even more humbled by the responsibility you have placed in me. whether you voted for me first, second come third or not at all, i want to thank all the people of the city for giving me this historic opportunity to serve as short elected mayor. thank you. [applause] as proud as i am about what we accomplished together in this last year, i am here today to talk about the future of our

it will cost money and when we talk to the city, they say it's the state's problem and they say the city to ask for it. that is something that would bring improvement to the neighborhood. >> some of the great changes are, more of the jewels of the district, coming back alive. point to lake muset and the water levels were dropping and now it's coming back. and the park and zoo. we are doing basic infrastructure work in westportal and the tracks and those will be replaced and library will reopen in november and a park just reopened and school will get ada work done. >> westportal play ground went under renovation and that's a boom. >> as much as things change they stay the same. we have taken our infrastructure and improved t >> when i moved here 8 years ago you would walk up the street and seniors and older people and everything would be closed at 9 at night. and within last 4 years there are younger familys and people with kids and dogs and we have new restaurants and night spots that the sidewalks don't roll up at 9. >> i think district has beautiful new restaurants and the theater is v

you can see the insertion and how it steps down the neighborhood from the city and perhaps even more graphically here, for stepping down from the city alcoa building down to our smaller 8 washington shown in yellow and makes the transition from the city to the waterfront. but perhaps it would be best shown in three dimensions. it is a three-dimensional plan as well as the process. the current on global as 84 feet across the entire length and width of all three blocks. it also allows up to 600 dwelling units. our first design began with piercing this envelope through jackson and pacific to create a cree legend between neighborhoods and the embarcadero. the design we have proposed, working with an 84-foot height, proposed two developments with a courtyard separating them, stepping down to the fitness center and eventually to a park on the north. the final revision in this is a step further. the entire street front is along the embarcadero down to under the 84 feet, and steps further down in with the aquatic and recreation center and then steps up away from the neighborhood to be the cit

and we have two cities that are top of our bike use. the city of gronig and the city of shola. over 50 october of of all trips daily made by bike. and for regional use of the bicycle. got some figures compared to a car. then you can see that schoolchildren use the bicycle very frequently for education. and still businessmen use the car a lot. and social recreational reasons. a reason for using the bike and shopping. we like to go shopping on our bikes. come to that later. and when it comes to gender. who's using the bicycle. i'm told that the netherlands is very typical on this. we have more women on bikes then -- than men. and the most intense users are girls from the age of 12 to 18 and th

we have struggled to attract and retain young families. the cityas 3000 more children than it did 10 years ago and has lost more than a thousand children between the ages of 5 and 18. speculation as to the causes of family fights, -- flight, the cost of housing, the education system, the cost of living in general. and quality of life issues like safe streets and neighborhoods. i of the issue of family flight has been looked at, but i wanted to call this hearing to bring everyone together to get the data together in a once in the place and start thinking about and having a dialogue about what we are doing in the future. why does this matter? to me, it is quite simple. keeping families in san and it is is important for a diversion city. having children in our parks endorse goals is important to the vibrancy of our neighborhoods and of our city. i think all of us in city hall want to fight to make sure that that continues. hopefully this is a first step in that direction. and whether out of this comes legislation to be introduced or other policies tha

a city and make it mean and city land-use we have got some land use and we have got things to say land-usering on the entertainment bring it here today city city you know that it is true we need entertainment whinnied in good from you i say city i say city i do not want to find that we do not have entertainment and are not even one dime i say city you know that it is true we need good entertainment and we needed from yeaou ♪ >> thanks. supervisor wiener: thank you. by the way, we have now gone through all the cards. >> hello, i am is small business owner, and we were mentioned earlier. we were trying to put up a nightclub at 43 sixth street. we keep hearing that there has been pushed back from the city. we're fighting this constant battle to put a bar in that location. i wanted to also mentioned that this has been historically a bar in the same location for over 40 years. so i do not know why there is a push back all of the sudden now. as far as our business, we're definitely committed to putting the security there. surveillance cameras, a lot of lights. make the facade lignites so that it

and now, in closing, let me cradle this month's celebration in the history -- in the city of st. francis, with a sense of gratitude and neutral respect. the we black, white, brown, or red, we are all god's children. mavis in vacation -- may this invocation be accepted and the record show that in the city of st. francis, black history 2012 celebrated in truth the contribution, culture, and history of african-americans, and their contributions to this nation and to this great city. let us say a man. -- amen. >> thank you, reverend dyson. ok. with that, we are going to move to the next item on the agenda, which is the singing of "lift every voice and sing," the negro national anthem. it is in your program. the words in your program. we are only going to sing the first stanza. we are not going to sing all three versus of it. in your program. please stand. >> everyone join in with singing the national anthem, "lift every voice and sing," by james weldon johnson. ♪ lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring rang with the harmony of liberty let our rejoicing rise high as the li

my name is naomi kelly, city and minister -- city administrator.elcome to the portola neighborhood. we're celebrating the successful efforts to revitalize san bruno avenue. this city has had a great partnership with the portola never its steering committee, where some of it's never the investments include streetscape improvements, from planting trees and leaves to utility underground in and fixtures and to install office saw improvements and much more. today, mayor edwin lee will talk about launching the investing in iran initiative. joining him is supervisor malia cohen, robert ramirez from the portola neighborhood steering committee, and many department heads, including jennifer from the office of economic and workforce development, ed harrington from the san francisco public utilities commission, regina from the small business office, bevon from sf hope, and revitalizing our commercial corridors has been near and dear to mayor lee's heart since his days as director of dpw and as city administrator and down as mayor. whether it did the dpw commun

and county of san francisco. [applause] mayor lee: wow, welcome to city hall. and thank you, beach blanket babylon. what a wonderful performance. let's give her another hand. that was just fantastic. when i started being mayor of the city, i turned to our protocol officer and said, "you know, charlotte, we are going to do a lot of work this year, but these years forthcoming, as we work hard, i want to also have fun. isn't this fun? all right. [applause] this is our 50th anniversary of the wonderful song, "i left my heart in san francisco." tony, it is wonderful for you to be here and grace us and honor us with your presence. your 17 grammys are just so unprecedented. you just won two more this past week, and what a wonderful career. congratulations, tony. i want to thank our school of the arts. i want to thank our boys and girls choruses. thank you. wonderful performances. it is a fitting tribute that our boys and girls choruses and ouryouth -- our yout are here today to perform because they reflect tony's dedicated career to ensure the future of arts education. we have seen what he has done and see

i think those held orientate me to the inner workings of the commission and the city and things like that. i just wanted to acknowledge them for helping out, and i was wondering if the director had any other comments to make or other commissioners about their service. >> yes, i would also like to thank the past presidents of the commission. they certainly helped me in my duties and the support of the staff along the way with the commission, and that does mean a lot to the staff when they have the backing of the commission. thank you, both mel and reuben. commissioner walker: commissioners, it really has been a pleasure serving with both commissioner murphy and commissioner hechanova. the issues we deal with at this commission are vitally important to the future of san francisco. even as we have possibly disagreed on approaches and strategies, the conversations and dialogue that we have actually had at the commission and one on one has given us solutions that work best for the city of san appearances go. i will miss you. i hope you come back and visit. you have done amazing service to