this is a city that has many thousands of small businesses. as someone who used to run a small business, the city can do a much better job of nurturing that sector. that is part of the life blood of who we are as san franciscans. >> we could do better. are we on the right track? >> i think we are in a transition right now. we have an interim mayor and a new board of supervisors. i do think we have a new tone at city hall to move things forward. we have a lot of challenges we are facing. i am doing everything i can to put us back on track. >> let's talk about the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you happy with the plans for the america's cup? >> i have been a huge fan of the america's cup. i am proud of this board came together unanimously after a fairly contentious debate to support bringing the america's cup to san francisco in 2013. it is estimated it will not only be an incredible sporting event, not only showcase our city and the natural amphitheater of the bay, but it is estimated to bring in over $1 billion in economic acti

a great place to be. how do you balance the needs of your district versus the needs of the city as a whole? i have an incredibly diverse district. it encompasses north beach and chinatown. we have the city's famous hills. we have for the world comes to work, the financial district's, where the world comes to shop in union square, where the tourists spend time on fisherman's wharf , and the wonderful polk street neighborhoods. my district encompasses the ethnic and economic diversity that exists throughout the city. i think my district is emblematic of the entire city. you can find every political perspective you can possibly want in district 3. oftentimes, the interests of my district and the city are aligned. i do not have to think about those differences quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. >> let's talk about the budget situation. we have been faced with some tough budget decisions again, including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. how will you approached these hard choices? >> our budget is one of the very top challenges facing city government righ

i care about the city as a taxpayer, a native san franciscan, a resident of the angle side, mother of two boys. i want to make sure that as the city -- that the city administrator's office is open to everyone in san francisco. i see the city administrator at behind-the-scenes assisting various departments, developing critical services to the citizens of san francisco. we want to make sure that what the board of supervisors and they are put into law works. my career with the city has been cross disciplinary under three different mayors, which i believe will serve me well as a city administrator. within this last year, my role as deputy city administrator and acting, my partner focus has been creating jobs for san francisco. i facilitated rolling out the city's mandatory local ordinance and it's simple, fair, and transparent manner, and i did this by engaging the public works department, the committee- based organizations, unions, and vendor community. this week, i signed the community benefits agreement as part of the mid market payroll tax exclusion, which was the culmination of our w

adding with all come together as a board, as a city. we should come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community. for a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. i know the ed and all of us of asian-american decent feel the legacy. i want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen. and say that this is obviously not just about a chinese- american community or an asian american community. this is about the american dream. the idea that anyone of any background of any color from any part of the globe can come here and sunday be at the very top of what our community is about -- and someday be at the very top of what our community is about.

city that we truly are. so we owe a great thanks to the efficacy effort for bringing this july, to the attention of city officials, and also to this family ases. i believe we have much more to do. as a city, not looking at -- and no, fixes in the last 18 months, we're looking at long-term, how we can put our services in place and how we can support struggling families. i know we are greatly challenged in doing that with our recession and the number of jobs out there for people, as well as our city revenues and programming, but i think that is the work we can do, working together, community, city, and private foundation folks to be able to come up with solutions that can really work. i am pleased to see the story that came out today. i know we have folks from the mayor's office, as well as hsa and the housing authority who are here to explain some of the solutions we have currently. we will be asking questions about that. we'll also hear from advocates as well, about their experience, either being homeless or what solutions they can pose to us, as well as the city. first up, we have someone from -- what was it? from the mayor's office. >> th

as a member of the planning commission for almost eight years, so fewer years than the woman who served for 16, i learned a lot about the impact that land use decisions have on our city as a whole. i supported board legislation that had citywide implications including but not limited to urban agriculture. i worked on the bicycle plan, eastern neighborhoods, market and ocktavia plans, along -- octavia plan, along with japantown, booker t. washington, bird safe building protections and other issues. i tried to continue to support issues that -- and development that encourages economic and racial diversity in the city. i have an intense interest in small scale manufacturing, the viability of commercial corridors, something that i believe is very important to district five. we have upper haight, lower haight, the fillmore, inner sunset. so i believe that small business viability something that's very critical to job creation and retention in district five. and obviously other districts in the city. i hope to work with supervisor mar on some of the legislation that makes it easier for small businesses to survive here in san francisco. some of the issues that i'd hoped to

and i am here with the perspective of a collie, a fellow department- head, but also as someone who is here on the first day that the omi came in to the city as a college graduate, and it has been such an amazing experience to watch her grow through the city's own policies and practices, to now be a mother of two taking on the top job, the top-appointed job in the city of san francisco. and one of the comments she made is how important it is that that legacy move forward for the next generation, her generation of children, and i cannot be more proud of her, and she is someone who knows how to do it because she has done it herself. so i sincerely hope you will confirm her nomination today. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. vince courtney, here on behalf of ramon hernandez and oscar dilatory, laborers union. 30,000 members in northern california. 3000 members in san francisco, the majority of which live in our communities here today. it is with great enthusiasm that we are here today. we are excited about the tone of this administration. we clearly support ms. kelly, i think the best words to describe the labor position is that we a

city in an uncomfortable position of asking for that power. taking it from the event authority to take charge of this and make a cultural festival happen here. so what i am asking, as i have worked with the nonprofit arts community, for the city to take a more -- a stronger stand that they insisted that a cultural festival occur and the organizing happens now. >> and the director of urban music presents. became and met with you, supervisor. we have met with the event organizing committee, we met with the port authority, which have met with numerous people. so far, nothing has been advanced. the point that i want to make right now is that we represent san francisco and the diversity and the population. if there is a need for corporate sponsorship, there is no better way to bring the people of san francisco and let those corporate sponsors know that this is to weaken out reached 2. all of these nonprofit movies work through grants, and we need to have an established skeet and established a budget from the city or from the of that authority so we know which way to protect our activity. are we going to present our work around us festival? we need to know now so we can

much colder as you look west of the city. 30's out in the mountains. a lot of clouds to start. into the upper 50's this afternoon. this is our last mile day before the cold snap arrives -- this is our last mild the day. cold weather will arrive late tonight. we could see some snow in northern carroll county and northern baltimore county. very light accumulations. not much more than an inch. the seven-day forecast -- it will be chilly. temperatures falling into the 30's in the afternoon. a possibility of light snow showers this weekend. >> a man and a teenager face criminal charges after allegedly threatening a woman in carroll county. somebody leaned out of a car and point it would appear to be a rifle at her. todd gori and 870-year-old are charged with assault and reckless endangerment -- todd gori and a 17-year-old are charged with assault and reckless endangerment. millions are still waiting for homes. it was spread cholera outbreak -- a widespread cholera outbreak. >> the ravens are getting ready for sunday's big playoff game against houston and you may be seeing more of jo

as the director. we're having to pay attention to our infrastructure, one of the most important things any city can do. when we are trying to grow a new economy -- and as you know, i have gone around the city selling this idea about how the economy is about tech jobs, but we also have an important infrastructure to take care of. if we do not take care of the infrastructure, these other jobs will not be here. jobs at the transbay terminal, which we are already building, celebrating and historic project labor agreement. we also have a commitment to our growing kids, that we are going to get them there. they are not just going to school to get bored. they have to have those jobs here, and we need them trained and ready for those jobs. so, in this new economy, when we are investing, like our city is, my commitment to the city is making sure we pay attention to infrastructure. we are going to do it right and make sure that our kids know, by fulfilling their educational goals, being exposed to a facility like this, where you are building our labor representatives with the curriculum that the school district has offered to work with the

and ♪ i got the city on a string been sitting on a rainbow i have got a string around my finger what a city life in the city is a beautiful thing, asi hold this strain of if i would ever let this city go i have got the city on a string, sitting on a rainbow what a city i am in city love, city gov ♪ president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, i am peter were field with the library users association. we work for better libraries for everyone. i was glad to hear what supervisor talking about museum preservation and another one talking about honoring many types of music. and historical jon knight cultural society with a famed artist. latinos, african-americans, caucasians, and local community history sits on a san francisco public branch. and has for 30 years, since it was created in 1980 to 1982. the destruction of the mural is imminent unless you and other san franciscans act very soon to say it. i would like to discuss the closed and semi secret process that was created to pronounced this death sentence. let's look at this. one person appointed a leader- facilitator. that one leader appointed everyone of the dozen me

we have a local climate action plan and the big piece around that we are trying to do as a city. buildings are a huge contributor as such. maybe 32. the governor's renewable mandate for the state. the compliant piece we might have questions about that as well if we are go to use the fit cher i feel is effective. >> that would be a question. let me ask it. with the half cent for four years, is there any element of law like that we would be out of compliance with? >> we do not believe so. i think the single biggest thing coming up is the renewable portfolio standard requirement. when we have down times it will cost us more probably to buy green power to meet those standards, and that is in the budget at about $11 million per year, assuming that is sufficient to be able to buy that greener mix of power. so we tried to anticipate and over 10 year its is hard. we tried to anticipate and put the money in that would allow us to be compliant with those. >> those were our tradeoffs. the last slide is how the affordibility looks for our customers. on slide 14. it is a little more affordable

i see it as one of the big thing that we offer. we also have a pretty city. that attracts a lot of businesses. we have certain parts of the city that have really great thinking going on. you see california, as of state. our hospitals attract a lot of minds and attention. -- uc california, sf state. >> it looks like we are just about of time. thank you for being on your district supervisor. we have been talking to supervisor at a loss from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our 11 mr. supervisors. -- we have been talking to supervisor john avalos from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union squ

mabel you know i actually think it's so complicated as a city this size is so complex it's hard hard to say in some ways you mentioned silver age moscow in some ways moscow has returned to its overage character a commercial city an aggressive city a city with a great mix of people who are elbowing their way around and so in some ways this is a moscow that existed before but of course the scale is different is ten times bigger so all the problems become to become times bigger than it would have been one hundred years ago so so more or less so that's that's a huge qualitative difference what in terms of the moscow of the soviet union it's better has worse in a sense there was top down planning that on one level was very effective but there were all sorts of problems with planning with supplies with the problem of population control what were called limits to keep people who would come in and so i think we tend to forget that there was a certain amount of disorder in soviet moscow as well but clearly there is aggressive spirit about moscow that's new and you see it in the cities when you

passed the health care services master plan legislation that, for the first time, requires that we as a city and county think strategically about the short-term and long- term health needs, not only of the city as a whole, but of individual neighborhoods and district. it is with that mind set that i would like to ask you a few questions about how you approach the development agreement and the negotiations. just a general question about the extent to which the health care needs of the city and the differing neighborhoods have been taken into account, the health care services master plan does not expressly apply to this project. it was already in the pipeline before the legislation was introduced. we expressly did not have applied -- it would not delay this project. i was wondering if you have general comments about where the health care needs of the city of the neighborhoods come into play. >> is really important to understand that when we look at this, we looked at the history of the health commission and how they looked at health care needs. i would start with st. luke's and the importance

make sure we announced the initial moves as a signal that while we have other tenants to work with, these two were complex. they needed assurances. i remember as a city administrator with jennifer and monique walking the parameters trying to figure out which offices would be the best. today we're standing on the option we chose would be the best for lozani's for their hopefully permanent home. it will make a great investment. bower will be moving to. pier 50 along with other tenants and other things kept in storage. these are two significant moves. they demonstrate the level of cooperation we have always wanted to have with our tenants at the port. we need to move them in a sensitive way. they are moving to new places. i think when you talk to them and into the details of this site and. pier 50, they're going into better sites that will allow them to grow and serve our city and visitors in great foer ways. i want to thank you for your wonderful stewardship of your companies and employees, working together with the port, our office, our event authority, and organizing committee to make this even successful and do so in a sensitive and smart way. these

a high rate of foreclosures like in the south of market neighborhood, as well. this hearing will be looking at solutions that we could put forward to, as a city, to prevent defaults and foreclosures in the future and ways we can hold banks accountable to doing more work to support homeowners against defaults and that is my submission. >> supervisor mar? supervisor mar: madam clerk, colleagues, i've been working with diverse neighborhood and small arts groups in the city expressing concerns with the lack of commitment to cultural equity in our arts program. i'm directing the city attorney to draft an ordinance to strengthen cultural equity in the arts in san francisco by allowing more flexibility in funding for our four grants programs allowing money raised outside the hotel tax fund to be used for c.e.g. programs. also i've been working with local artists like arts commissioner john cola way and others in challenging the april national academy of recording arts and sciences adopted awards that eliminate musical categories that san francisco artists have relied on, in latin jazz, native american, cajun and hawaiian categories have been impacted. in addition, the p

let me talk about how we decided to have a panel as part of this year is just a summit on the death penalty. san francisco is often known for being a large city, in this case, we have a unique history with the death penalty. during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by a close margin a few years later, and she took the position that she would not bring any death penalty case. and she was reelected with the same conditions as part of the reelection campaign. harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san francisco has not had a jury return a death verdict since 1989, which was 10 years before he said his office would not seek the death penalty. we thought this particular issue wanted a

we have to embrace that as a city. so why do we leverage cloud? one, obviously, from an economical position. a second, because we are able to deliver services more quickly. we have a challenge with our staffing and resources, as you mentioned, but we have to embrace that legacy staff. we cannot merely replace them, as you pointed out. we have to embrace that legacy staff and repurchased them in other areas that we can benefit the city better with those folks. so our decision to recently go to a more enterprise version of cloud computing was leveraging e-mail in the crowd -- that was a major decision. ground-breaking decision for the city and county, but one that we feel will better prepare us for the future and better enable us to implement other technologies to help move the city forward and to help lift the technical maturity within the city. that is what we are charged to do. as an i.t. organization within the city, and to your comment earlier, it is something we face everyday, a challenge we face every day. leveraging legacy. respecting legacy,

hand over rec center operations to private entities saying, what does it say about our priorities as a city when we turn our backs on our most marble citizens. the first grand prix race ran on labor day weekend. it generated $47 million for the city. the mayor's office is trying to find a new organizer for the race after severing his contract with baltimore recent development. it is reportedly over $12 million in debt. the mayor's office included this picture of young that sitting in a risk are. even though council president young and very publicly supported the grand prix and voted to support the race he is entitled to change his political position now. if we are able to revive the event he is certainly entitled to change his political position again depending on what is popular at the moment. >> baltimore rescind failed to set a deadline to pay its debt. no word of negotiations with other possible reason groups. president young did not return our comments about his letter. >> in a session 2012 as lawmakers kicked off, governor o'malley offered an alternative to the proposed increase in th

city's viewpoint. >> reporter: the department of public works issued a banner permit for the event that is scheduled later this month. a spokes person says the banners were approved as a city-wide event with 500 or more partsants -- participants. and they have submitted the forms required for the approval under the code. >>> it has been a an unusually -- an unusually dry winter, but will we see rain in the horizon? clear skies right now. we'll take a look at your forecast for tomorrow morning. @ ♪ going to the bank without going to the bank... that's a step forward. with chase quickdeposit on your smartphone, you just snap a picture, hit send and done. chase quickdeposit. take a step forward and chase what matters. ♪ we just keep on keepin' on ♪ ♪ keep on [ traffic passing ] ] ♪ [ music box: lullaby ] [ man on tv, indistinct ] ♪ [ lullaby continues ] [ baby coos ] [ man announcing ] millions are still exposed to the dangers... of secondhand smoke... and some of them can't do anything about it. ♪ [ continues ] [ gasping ] >>> new details released tonight about using marijuana. ucsf scientists discover that occasional and moderate marijuana use does not affect the lun

and the -- and it also is a priority of the board as it is for the city. the three areas that they're focusing in on which you also identify is kindergarten, kindergarten readiness, absenteism and out of school time. all of the elements that are helpful in gaining some momentum around grade level reading. so if we can have some language to -- add some language to that i think it would be really great to be able to bring all that have work together under your resolution. and how it ties to your summit is up to you but just the work itself in identifying it as work that currently is in motion as of recently would be really great and i just want to thank you for bringing ralph up because he's a great speaker and motivator and this is his baby and i think as a city, whose priority of third grade level reading, it would be silly for us not to participate in his campaign. so, thank you. and i have some language that kind of -- we can add later on. that's pretty extensive. it just speaks to partners and the campaign itself and just what i said. so thank you. pres

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out and not only this discussion relative to this property but different discussions, is that we, as a city, need to find a better way to deal with these issues. and i hope that we have an opportunity to do that because i do believe that it would be important for us to find a different strategy, a different approach, so that there is a more consistent outcome and more systemic result as these matters come before us. but this matter is before us and for me, the overarching issue is the question of whether or not at&t has made its case, whether or not at&t has demonstrated and the evidence supports a finding that this is necessary and desirable. if the conditional use is not granted, is rejected, at&t would have to appeal that and make a showing that in fact there was substantial evidence that in fact there was necessity and desirability here. i don't believe that based on just what has been presented to us by the planning commission, based on the additional evidence that has come from the appellants, including evidence from their expert as well as the evidence from at&t, that a case of neces