city, really, is impacted. that is why it is important for us to have a discussion as a city in as a city government about this crisis. it truly is a crisis. i want to thank the accessory reporter for commissioning this report. my hope is that out of this discussion, we can come up with some strategic ideas for steps that can be taken to address this crisis to make sure that we respond to what is happening to so many residents who have lost their homes or are in the process of losing their homes. again, i want to thank supervisor avalos in olague for being co-sponsors of this hearing -- avalos and olague for being co-sponsors of this hearing. i want to call upon other city officials whose offices are also involved in the foreclosure process to see what we as a city collectively can do to address this crisis. whether it is the city attorney's office, which i know has been looking at this issue for quite some time, whether it is the sheriff's office or the district attorney's office. i want to thank supervisor calling for being a code-sponsor of this hearing. it is important for us to have a discussion about thi

this is without a doubt one of the hardest issues that we grapple with as a city, how to insure that we're able to have a thriving and growing middle class that can live here. having in middle-class society, this is one of the things that has made united states says stable for many years. now, preserving the middle class. of course, to have a middle class in any city, you have to have housing that folks in the middle class are able to access, and once you have middle-class people living and being able to be housed in the city, the jobs will follow. when you do not have housing for your middle class, and your middle class is not living here and not able to live here, it is tough to create jobs, particularly middle-income jobs, because businesses may be hesitant to do business in an area where the work force is not able to be housed, so there is a strong link between housing and jobs. the middle class in san francisco is on the small side. about 28% of the population of our households in san francisco burn between 80% and 150% of area median income, and that number is more than 10% lowe

this is a city that has many thousands of small businesses. asomeone 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 activi

as you heard, this is the latest in a long-running conversation about reconciling our practice of ceqa with our city's wonderful adopted policies, and let's stop confounding those policies with a crazy practice of ceqa. we decided as a city quite a long time ago that we didn't want to use l.o.s. and ceqa. you saw that transportation authority in 2003 initiate an s.a.r. a couple of years ago later the board of supervisors unanimously resolved to ask the planning commission to stop using l.o.s. in its practice of ceqa. so that has been decided. it's taken a long time to figure out how to get out from under ceqa and it looks like this is at last going to be the way. when next fall we, if all goes well, we bring an ordinance to the board of supervisors and adopt it, it will have been 10 years. so it's kinds of nice that this item follows the california high speed rail item. makes it seem like this is moving very quickly. and all things considered, it may be. as someone who professionally promotes the bicycle for everyday transportation for everybody, obviously this is a good thing. in my opinion it's good

as a city, we made decisions. we changed city policy. this area you're talking about today really reflects a trend that has developed over the last 15 years around companies that want to be more virtuous. companies that are not just trying to maximize profit, but do something good for the community. these are companies that have double or triple bottom lines, and there are many examples of these types of companies. the presentation before this item referred to the company's better doing good work by the environment, companies that are employing individuals. disabled individuals and seniors, companies in sustainable practices, as a that many of the types of companies we're talking about have had their start in the bay area. it has been fostered here in the bay area. we have seen and that the rest of the country is catching up to this. there is passed legislation to put benefit corporations on the map. this is a field that i think anyone who observes knows is exploding. we put ourselves out there as a city that wellcome's benefit corporati

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.

resolution that we initially had drafted, but i think they are entirely consistent, and i think we as a city are aiming to move forward with the resolutions of the different bodies to advance the proposal and, as ms. lee said, to do it in a way that is respectful of the communities that would be impacted. >> your anticipation is that if we pass this resolution, you will be signing this letter, which talks in more detail about the program on behalf of this agency? >> the letter actually already went out. that was issued, for some reason, as an unsigned version in your packet, but we issued the letter -- i think there was a deadline to issue that in order to get our comments into the draft business plan. we sent that letter from the department heads about two weeks ago. director heinicke: sorry for the length of this, but would it help the project if we were to endorse the fast start program in its entirety, or would it be better to just leave this as calling for electrification of the caltrain corridor? >> i think it would be no harm in amending it, and perhaps it would make the intent of the

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 as well for their commitment to the families. 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 -- wha

as a body would be advocating the entire fast start program? >> i think it is largely a matter of timing. the decision by the city family to get a resolution, the one before you is an example that would be adopted by all the different relevance of the bodies such as the transportation authority board, the planning commission -- was developed before the fast start proposal crystallized in our formal comments back to the high speed rail authority. they are not meant at all to be inconsistent. i think the fast start is just may be thinking that a slightly more advanced than the resolution that we initially had drafted, but i think they are entirely consistent, and i think we as a city are aiming to move forward with the resolutions of the different bodies to advance the proposal and, as ms. lee said, to do it in a way that is respectful of the communities that would be impacted. >> your anticipation is that if we pass this resolution, you will be signing this letter, which talks in more detail about the program on behalf of this agency? >> the letter actually already went out. that was issued, for some reason, as an

we need to look at what we do as a city and was services we offer. we have 26,000 city employees. fringe benefits for city employees accounts for over 60% of our budget. if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san francisco. in my opinion, it is getting our costs under control but also promoting economic development so we have a financial engine that will continue to promote us year after year. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness in san francisco? >> i am one that thinks mayor newsom did a great job thinking proactively about what we need to do in san fr

as a practicing attorney. i worked in the private sector for a number of years. and then i worked for the citys a deputy city attorney and then became general counsel of the school district of san francisco and through that became involved in politics and at some point decided to run for office. >> you have lived in san francisco for awhile. why did you decide to live here? supervisor campos: i have always felt that san francisco is unique. i have always loved this city. i think that san francisco is -- it represents the best of what this country has to offer. it is a place that welcomes people from all over the world, from all over the country, and is a place that not only tolerates, but actually increases diversity. it is a place that is forward thinking in terms of how it looks at issues, and it has always felt like home. as a gay latino man, i felt this was a place where i could be happy. >> why did you get involved? supervisor campos: i think a lot of the past to do with my being an immigrant. i am very grateful for all the opportunities this country has given me. only in this country cou

city wanted, stock options taxes. with those two things, which allow you to -- [applause] we open up the door so you can converse with us. we are taking a few more steps further. as you know, i am one mayor in a country of mayors. but guess what? the cities are where things are happening? -- are worse things are happening. in my first u.s. conference of mayors, held in d.c. a few weeks ago, i had a chance to do a couple of things, with your advice and support. we announced the city of san francisco, the first city to oppose pipa and sopa. [applause] thank you. we started a dialogue with other cities who had blindly signed on to those things, not knowing what they were about. now we have a conversation going that we cannot use the excuse that just because we are trying to end piracy that we curtail innovation. coming from san francisco, it means a lot to the city. i took advantage of our staff. i went to the president of the u.s. conference of mayors and said, "since we are innovating in san francisco, why not allow us an audience with the rest of the mayors across the country? could we create a task force?" they said absolutely. i get to head the task force for t

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,

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 >> i think a lot of times we look a community and we say, there is this one and this one, and we all have our own agenda, when our agenda is to create great work. if you're interested in that, you are part of our community. >> it is a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> we are trying to figure out a way to create a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of, the same way that you

i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn a

as you know, we're working towards for the first time a two-year budget for the city and county of sanfrancisco that will cover not just the coming fiscal year but the fiscal year thereafter for the timing of the event, and as you were mentioning, chair chu, we would match the incumbrances to make sure we do not have imbalances with the city is fronting cash with a hope for a later reimbursement, so ideally, that is the form it would take from my perspective with whenever reports would be helpful to our office and the board of supervisors and to the mayor in terms of meeting these timelines on a more regular basis in the future. chair chu: thank you. so, mike, how far along are weight in the process? when can we expect to see what that would look like? >> we can share a draft with you ahead of the next meeting. chair chu: thank you. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: many of this was addressed by your comments, but a realistic schedule of what our costs are, so we have some understanding of the cash flows, as chair chu mentioned, would be very important to me with the dda in a couple of w

workers, who are denied the same rights as a city dwellers they work alongside. this other china is coming out of the shadows. this is a story about the frustration of a class long considered separate and invisible to the rest of china, about rising tension between locals and migrants was threatens to undermine chinese society itself. >> of the tension is building up a day-by-day. so many riots and conflicts. some day it is going to explode. >> this is southern china. progressive and capitalist, population, 100 million. 2/3 locals, 1/3, migrants. tension is rising. >> we have a very tiny share of the wealth. our lives have not improved that much. wages are low, inflation is high. we are really just getting by. >> there has been a wave of strikes and protests here. a clandestine meeting in the back of a restaurant. these workers forced a shutdown over conditions at a local factory. >> the hours are long and the work is hard and there is a lot of pressure on us. there is no outlet for our unhappiness. many felt depressed for a long time. the pressure is building up.

we have as a city done a good job of implemented -- implementing ranked joyce voting. i understand there are issues that have been raised, but the fact we can do a better job educating voters does not mean we throw the system out. we have to recognize the system has indeed worked the way it was intended and when we had a runoff system, usually voter turnout did plummet and as a result of ranked joyce boating, we have -- ranked choice of voting, we have more turnout than any other kind of voting system. i know we have a competing measure here before us, item number 12, that would essentially have a runoff system with a september election. i'm understand that has been put forth as a solution to some of the issues that have been raised around ranked choice of voting. i can stand the intent and recognize the thinking behind that proposal, but for me, it's a proposal that has its share of problems and one that i think would be a mistake for us to follow. first of all, i do think at some point you can have too many elections. there is something about voters being fatigued. i

a deal. i think we need to make sure that at the end of the day, we as the city would get as good of a deal as mary alisyn would get for himself. let me say that i do worry about the inclusion of the seawall lot 351. i think we have to be careful that we are not tying the hands of the city on other projects that are going to come down the pike and that need to be decided and analyzed independently of this, and i do think it is important for us that we do not make any unnecessary commitments with respect to any future projects. i am not going to be able to be here for the entirety of the hearing, but i know forward to hearing what everyone has to say and the presentation, and i also want to take the opportunity to thank the staff, the mayor's office, and the port, who i know have been working very diligently to make this a better deal for the city. i think a lot of credit has been made, but, again, i do not think we are where we need to be, and as i said the last time this came before the board, i am not prepared to support this as it is. let-up that we can make this deal something we can suppo

neighborhoods and the city, so this decision puts their economic livelihood kind of on shaky ground, though i am withdrawing item 31 later, and i will explain that in a moment, the issue is how we asity can support all sectors of the music industry in the tough economic times that remain. so i am calling today for a hearing with the support of our president, supervisor david chiu, and i hope i can get supervisors kim and wiener, but this is in the land use and economic development committee about the role they play as an economic driver in san francisco and what the city can do to support local artists, menus, and others. since i brought the issue of the upcoming resolution that we will hear in a moment, i just wanted to set that i have been working with a number of local musicians and arts commissioners, and i have been in discussions also with the national academy of arts and sciences, and the director of the recording academy, as well, but it has been a good process to understand our local artists and how they are struggling today. i just want to add that while i am supportive of other resolutions that we have before us, or, for cybill, on today's agenda, we have the obama summ

before that, as a city boy, i used to go out to be stable once a year. i had no idea about horses. but horses have really distinct personalities and their magical in many ways -- and they are magical in many ways. we are extremely careful with the forces. we have set procedures that are very rigid. the horse can run about a quarter mile -- when we do a race -- that cars can run a quarter of a mile and has to rest 20 minutes. then he can run another quarter of a mile and rest for 20 minutes. then he runs another quarter and that is it for the day. tavis: it is not in my contract, mr. mann. [laughter] >> for us to have eight courses in a race, we need at least 30 two horses -- 32 coursecourses. tavis: -- 32 horses. tavis: if i were to ask you what the takeaway was for the viewer, what is it? what is it you want us to wrestle with? what is the take away? >> a to have emerged from prison, having done a crime he did not commit, is motivated with the intentions for people who put him there. michael smyth is played by michael gambit. in seeking vengeance, he will get involved in buying an

city's housing policies including the planning department's role in a four will housing needs of the city. we looked at the implementation of transit oriented housing. housing in districts that are identified as transit clusters. we also looked at broadly at the affordable housing policies and took a closer look at the inclusion very housing program and its impact on affordable housing production. and we also looked at the finance of affordable housing projects and the management of the inclusion rehousing program. the areas i want to discuss, we would be happy to return to a more in-depth presentation and conversation. the first one is we looked at the regional housing needs assessment that our seven-year targets for the city in meeting housing production goals for various income levels and found that the city historically has had some challenges to meet these production goals for very low, low, and moderate income. i do not know of the supervisors have a copy of the report but on page one of the executive summary, we have a table showing the production goals and the city's ability to meet those goals from 1996--- 1996 to 2000. on page 19, table 1.1 will show you -- give you a feeling for wh

oakland as a city is on the rise in the -- in many ways. this is a city which has the highest concentration of poverty still in the bay area. that property does not just affect us and oakland. it affects the whole bay area. when you go out, you will see these little cards. i am still a school board member at heart. i am going to be asking oakland and east bay companies to join us in three initiatives. you may know that when i started as mayor i asked oakland to come forward to get 2000 mentors for our toughest kids. we are at about a thousand. a thousand to go. we are asking companies, particularly with cuts to the federal government -- my goal was at least a thousand jobs. we are halfway there. consider giving a job. think about your first job. think about young people who may not have people who have traditional jobs in their families, what a different world that opens to them. thinking of my adopted city of new york, where my husband and i live seven years, they had a fresh air fund. there are a lot of kids in oakland who when they come u

rules that balance the desire to have a vibrant food truck seen in sentences go with other needs as a cityve a lot of immigrants that have food trucks in san francisco. they provide in terms of location' in food preferences. they also activates streets and public spaces. we should not be eliminating food trucks. it is about balance. balancing the needs of food trucks, brick and mortar restaurants schools, and consumers. i have been working with a number of different stakeholders on this issue and we are continuing to work. however, and mentioned these items today because of the recent developments in sacramento. i am introducing a resolution to put this on record opposing assembly bill 1678. 1678 is a piece of state legislation that would impose a requirement that no food trucks be permitted to be within 1,500 feet, three city blocks, of any high-school, middle school elementary school, public or private. while this is a well-intentioned bill, it would have a huge impact on san francisco. we have a map, if we can turn that around, showing -- turn that around to face the board -- showing sa

making sure this does not happen again, how we can get to a place like this, we are blessed am proud, as a city family, to have put together a workable concept of complete streets. we are in the process of implementing that. it is clear the implementation is not perfect yet, and the level of communication between implementing agencies these to be improved. we cannot get to a point where one agency thinks the other agency is doing outreach. there needs to be more coordination there that ensures we do not get to the 11th hour. that is not something that is impossible to correct. you are right in asking the question. you are forcing everyone to focus on what we need to correct. i cannot anticipate to you today exactly how the departments are responsible for implementation are going to do it. what i can commit to you is, for any action the board has to take either of prop k funding or federal funds, like the ones being discussed discussed today, i would include in our process and recommendations for approval a review and a set of commitments and time lines for those issues to also be addressed. so

city to put together this good information. a very revealing. the neighborhood center has been developing housing in neighborhoods throughout san francisco for over 30 years. as an affordable housing developer, i am committed to insuring housing that answers the need to the very of -- the first housing population. it is an opportunity for a very realistic conversation about how we as a city prioritize the use of limited resources. we are talking about money, but we are also talking about legislative filming, all of the tools we have put together to make land-use decisions. the data put together that the legislator and the budget analyst did, it is a good starting point for this discussion. the data shows that from 1999- 2006, we have exceeded the market rate of housing goals by 53%. and we're projected to again do that. i am not going to go for the rest of what we had to say. when we exceed goals, but also affects the goals that we have in place for long-term housing. dreamily low categories by the previous goals that were set, those goals were all increased. increased market rate production. you have to increase the goals. thank you very much. >> thank you.