community, as a city. what happened when the 49ers won those super bowls year after year? that was a huge deal for our city and our community in san francisco. what happened with the world series this year when the giants won for the first time in over 50 years? incredible. everybody was celebrating. and that is a huge deal for our community in san francisco, but i think, economically, not only jobs in terms of construction of stadiums and what have you. economically, you know, for those people who do not believe or do not really fully appreciate what type of economic drivers the sporting events and teams are, go down to soma during a giants game. come to the marina when the blue angels fly in town. what it does to the local streets and bridges. come to district 3 and district two and districts 6 and 10 when the america's cup comes to town and see what type of influx of economic activity these events drive to us. i think that is something that is not talk about enough. both the community aspect, the intangi

we do not have a response as a city about that crisis. we have people losing well -- wealth. as the faults in foreclosures are happening, property values are going down. we do not have a response for that is -- as a city. in the meantime, we are making decisions that would provide greater wealth to people are already getting wealthy. investors, people who are investing in twitter and other companies, or commercial real estate buildings and interest that own those buildings in the mid-market area. that is a major concern of mine. i think of the haves and have- nots and the have mores and the have almost everything. the almost everything havers are getting more and more, and we are taping their way with decisions like this. i worry about being able to call at the increasing disparity in wealth if we approve things like this. do we lose our ability to call out the widening disparities of wealth by actually approving wider disparities in wealth in san francisco? that is a big concern of mine. 65% of the workers who work for twitter right now do not want to leave san francisco. the

the reason it's hard for sacramento is it's a capital city. if we, as a city have the majority of our government jobs and when california can't balance a budget and has to layoff people, it affects the whole state but as a capital city, when you start furloughing our workers, they don't come downtown and they don't shop at the shops. so there's a double whammy in terms of california and sacramento. the last spart strange. last year we got up and done legal fees and sathe we're going to come up with a proposition. proposition 22. it precludes and prohibits the state of california to take money from the city. that passed overwhelm glifment this year we thought we were going to benefit from it. the state said hmm, let's just eliminate redevelopment agencies now. so because they couldn't take money, because of this proposition, they decided to eliminate redevelopment which pavegly was a loophole she nan gans to take money from the city balance them. those are the things that make it difficult for us as mayors. >> in addition to mayors being blamed for thing

the compassion as a city that we have for our homeless and what we are all going to invest in our children, as well as taking care of our seniors. this will be a testament of what we stand for as a city. the city named after st. francis. thank you for being here. i look forward to future events here when the building is up and future projects in the city. thank you. >> the district supervisor of district 6, we know them pretty well. >> this is actually district 6. >> i know. [laughter] >> having been raised in the chinatown community development center and now being done the board of supervisors, it is an honor to be here today. moments like this remind me how opportunities come from times of disaster. this is an opportunity for us to not only build community and address the needs of san francisco, particularly for our seniors, but it is also an opportunity to build communities across the asian american and african american community as well. this came to us because of a natural disaster through the fall of the central freeway which is affordable -- i am excited that the mary helen rogers

good, solid, business relationships that respect what they are doing and what we as a city are doing. that is what we are establishing with the giants to help them be successful as a business in addition to a great sports team. i think -- i take the same philosophy in meeting with gen york. yes, i have brought him into the office. we have had a good discussion, and we are talking about my 49ers, our 49ers. he lives in the city. so i. we began by asking what we're trying to do here. there are economic realities coming to their, and what i want to do is make sure that the york family feels very welcome in san francisco. they are part of our history, part of our callers, if you will, when we are talking about sports. i think he felt that there was no politics involved. it is something back has a history of being and we want to talk to him about the opportunities we can do together, so look for --

this young man here has decided to retire after 25 years as a city and county of san francisco employee, 23 and a half of which he spent at the port. i have to share a story about when john worked with dpw, he was the in house, for city hall, and he became the mayor's personal plumber by fixing the shower in his personal office. so he could jog -- the mayor, that is -- at launch. john worked his magic and fixed it for the good mayor -- i hope the good mayor still jogs. do you happen to know? anyway, that is how he got his start, and from there, he moved up to the port and work on an old tugboat -- i did not know we had a tugboat, so that was news to me -- until it was the commission. -- until it was decommissione d. he worked at the port's for maintenance yard, which is now with a giant ball park sits. john worked on the old divers and cut the steam systems operating so that the files could be driven down. remember how long -- how young he looks for some of this. it is pretty amazing. he was here when the embarcadero had a half-dozen railroad tracks and the sea wall lot still had cars o

i would like to think that we as a city are better than that. i joined the save lyon-martin community group a month ago. in the last month, i have seen thousands of people, patients, community members like myself, other supporters who have come out and done everything they can to support this clinic. emotions are high. i have seen people crying at the prospect of losing this critical resource. some of us have been fighting with each other over how best to save this clinic. but i have not seen anyone turn their back on lyon-martin. and that is why we are here today, to ask that you, supervisors, not turn your backs on the clinic, that you not turn your back on the committee that is in such critical need -- on the community that is in such critical need. i think that we as a city are better than that. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please? >> hello, supervisors. thank you for your public service and leadership on this issue. i am brian, the executive director of housing and san francisco, and hopefully i speak for my othe

that is something we need to keep in mind as we continue to do gramps, particularly our city grants. i know we as a city do not fund capacity building, and that is important for our nonprofits that provide unique services. lastly, i want to concur with supervisor mirkarimi m. think the outpouring of support from the community for moving much quicker than the city has been raising close to $300,000. i think that is amazing and speaks volumes about why we need to do our part as well. thank you everyone for coming today. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: we will go ahead and motion to continue this to the call of the chair, this hearing. thank you, everybody who participated here today. stay tuned as to what transpires of we the next few weeks. we will stay in touch. we are on top of this. thank you again to the consortium. thank you to lyon-martin health clinic. thank you to the department of public health. i think we have a bit of business. i am going to entertain a motion to rescind the boat on item 3 -- the vote on item three. motion to rescind the vote on item three. instead of it to date certain,

as there were before the start of the recession. >>> creative criminal tried to rip off a business by posing as a city worker. one problem, though, he doesn't quite grasp how california government employees do business. greg mills shows us the imposter. >> see if you know this man in a cell phone video. krona police want him, saying he posed as a city official who ordered $1500 worth of printing supplies from this corona business. >> first called me up on the phone, said he was steve nolan city councilman. >> he knows this man isn't steve nolan. he has been in the printing supply business for 15 years, he knows how cities operate. they always use a purchase order. >> this case it was, this is a special deal. we are going to do it this way and money is coming from a cashier's check from the city. i'm going, wait a minute. cities don't issue cashier's checks. >> then there was the bogus city officials actual ordering, including meeker toner, that's magnetic ink used for making checks. >> i figured this guy is going to forge checks and forge id's and identification and stuff like that. so i notified the police. >

the announcement that we have -- we are ready to go as a city police spent the time doing this. we covered all the bases. we warned everybody that we could 41. what we created today are a family of contractors who know how to do city work. they have hired people who are ready to go on the job and be ready for them, not only on this project, but for the hundreds of projects that have come through the pipeline that i get to see from a planning perspective for the next 10 years. we made the promise to our public that when we find these things, not only will we get these projects on time, but we will get the people involved and the communities involved in making sure these projects get built and get build with our sweat and tears. it's no longer promise time. this is action time. we have the websites and we have the plans to hand out free we have fulfilled all the conditions upon which we will make this ordinance successful. we have the whole city family working together. there's no reason why they're big gaps any further. the people behind me have put in several hours. you know i wa

city staff that the board unanimously supported the proposed bid. there was a signing ceremony that was held here in city hall that was pretty exciting as well. and what followed that was really a series of negative stories in major media outlets where the event authority -- major representatives of the event authority were criticizing the city for its bid, and that the bid fell short. maybe one of the more

dorsey has told me and told the sfbaycitcitizencolumnist.or that those remarks are coming from him as a city employee, said they are not to be reflected in any way of the city attorney's position. regarding the appointment to the ethics commission, i wish to reiterate my strong support for allen grossman. he has been immensely helpful to the task force in a couple of areas, one of them dealing with the ethics commission, and i think he would be an outstanding member of the ethics commission. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here to support allen grossman. i work for the ethics commission for over nine years. one of the commission's most important duties is protection, and during my time there, i was compelled to expose repeated violations by staff with limited by a license, the commission has not been receptive to such whistleblowing. since i have witnessed crimes being committed to the fulfillment of the agency's mandate, once i tell you today that it is imperative that the of what may be a dedicated, independent, demonstrated advocate for good government, not a play along, g

city staff that the board unanimously supported the proposed bid. there was a signing ceremony that was held here in city hall that was pretty exciting as well. and what followed that was really a series of negative stories in major media outlets where the event authority -- major representatives of the event authority were criticizing the city for its bid, and that the bid fell short. maybe one of the more compelling quotations was that the city was holding on by its fingertips. really, that type of press coverage continued up through the 31st, and representatives of the team went back to new england to visit rhode island officials, and there was a sense that other competitors, other cities were really in the running. that was the backdrop against which we -- first, the mayor knew some and later with city staff, reached out to the event authority to take advantage of the delegation of authority that the board had offered in its resolution. i will get into some of the details that counsel is going over earlier. the mayor had a series of exchanges with the ceo of oracle least management. during those exchanges, and i was not party to t

it is important for us as a city in terms of our cultural vibrancy but also as a matter of public safety for youth to have nightlife opportunities. if they do not, we know that trouble ensues, because there's not much for them to do. tonight, at this joint commission meeting, we will be hearing from youth about what they need in terms of entertainment outlets, and i look forward to that discussion. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor mirkarimi. president chiu. supervisor chiu: 90. first, i want to add to the comments about kamen beach. he is someone i know that many of us knew and have worked with -- comments about cameron beach. he was one of those rare individuals who knew every single bus and rail line in the city, every route, stop, schedule. i know that he will be greatly missed by all of us who care about public transit, and we want to keep his wife and daughter in our thoughts. i'm introducing a piece of legislation as one of our boards representatives to the disaster council that is relevant to a post-9/11 reality. in recent years, since 9/11, there have been m