a community in our city. this industry is not just a cultural lifeblood of our city, but a great contributor to our economy. one of my first acts as a member of the board of supervisors was to request an economic impact report by the city economist to study the effects of entertainment and night life on our economy. when he released last year, that report revealed the entertainment industry, the night life industry generates $4.2 billion in economic activity in san francisco, provides 48,000 jobs in our city, and furnishes the city with $55 a million in tax revenue. and this study did not even include street fares and festivals like outside lands and folsom street fair. so, the actual economic impact is even more positive. * the jobs in this industry are in restaurants, bars, art galleries, night clubs, performance bases and other venues. these are very, very important jobs, particularly for working class and younger people. the legislation i'm introducing today makes several amendments to the police code to strengthen our night life and entertainment sector while also improving the enforcement capacity of the entertainment commis

black history month is a great celebration, but we have to do so much more as a city to really support our african-american community. just this last weekend in my district, we lost another african-american man, a young man named lawrence collins. he was 18 years old. he was someone who grew up his whole life in lakeview neighborhood as it's often called in my district. he was found at the rec center on the playground of the rec senterra round 6:30 at night. i can't imagine a workplace that shows how we as a city have not really made our parks and our communities safe. than someone being gunned down in a rec center. * this young man has been a member of many community-based organizations and gotten support from the city and he's recognized that support over the years that he's gotten. and while we provide individuals with experience and opportunity, we don't provide that type of experience and opportunity at the community level. and we are at great fault as a city for doing that. we have neighborhoods that are in crisis that do not get adequate response. and i just feel that we need to

a tale of two cities in a way. we have some people doing extremely well in san francisco,, and then we have people who are struggling, and i think we as a city collectively need to make a priority ensuring that the needs of the people who are struggling are indeed met, and what you see is you have issues like this one that that problems surface because i don't believe we are doing enough as a city to really address this larger issue, and i think until we do that these issues will continue to come to the surface, and i think what we're doing is very positive, but the reality is that as much as i know supervisor dufty and other agencies want to do all these amazing things they also don't have the resources they need to make those things happen, so i think we as policy makers need to make it a priority that we do address this divide, and that we do deal with the fact that we have a tale of two cities in many respects and i can feel the frustration from some of the folks that spoke today, and while that frustration maybe directed at this committee right now i think it's a frustration that rightly rests with all of us here in city hall, so

on a personal note as a city employee whose same-sex spouse was covered by my health benefits for the past nine years, i paid this for nine years. what that meant is my income was reported as -- my income a little bit over $300 every pay period was increased and it's not reported as null income and social security. or medicare or for the retirement board. so it's not actually reported. i am proud of my 27-year relationship with my spouse. and i have always presented it publicly, whether it was registering as a domestic partner or getting married in a civil ceremony. yet because i sought to insure her i was punished and forced to pay higher taxes than i should v. we urge full support of this legislation it's gos forward to the board. thank you very much for doing this. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisor farrell for coming to our meeting and presenting to the pac. the pac made a recommendation to our general membership to support this legislation, and it was unanimously approved at our general membership meeting january 22nd. so i want to thank you very much and thank you supervisors

group, as a city, the foresight from the beginning to never ask the question. can we extract this equipment from the middle of a busy neighborhood? it should never have been questioned. it never should have been approved. it never should have been considered if there was an engineering and a financial way to do it otherwise. there still are those ways today. and i beg you to consider whatever is necessary to do that so as not to disturb north beach and destroy the businesses there. thank you very much. >>> president fong, commissioners, my name is julie christin son. i'm a north beach resident. i'm here to ask you to approve the matters before you with regards to the pagoda palace and the tunnel boring machines. i've planted a lot of street trees. one of my favorite adages is this that task is when is the best time to plant a tree? 40 years ago. when is the second best time? today. i think we'd all agree that applies to subways as well perhaps. there's a lot of things people want to talk about here today. i think we're a little past the point of discussing the p

know the cultural benefit of not life on our city without entertaining and night life, it would be a completely different city. a lot of us might not like it as much. if you do not have that community building, that tool does not exist anymore. it is not just about that. it is about keeping this city diverse, and having young people that actually want to come here. i cannot tell you how many times i walk home up market street and see a line of young people waiting to get in to hear live music. even though i am an old fuddy- duddy now and i do not stay out as late as i used to, it is important to me to know that young people have things to do today. audrey asked the economic question of me almost immediately after taking office. it benefits us the truth about $55 million in tax revenue. nightlife is the only significant industry in this city that sometimes gets treated at times as it is a nuisance, a problem to be managed. and of course, we have to focus on making sure it is safe and that people are complying with the laws and that we are not having shooting. but when you get so focused on combating the negatives -- every industry has the nega

group, as a city, the foresight from the beginning to never ask the question. can we extract this equipment from the middle of a busy neighborhood? it should never have been questioned. it never should have been

to supervisor chu a resolution commending and honoring her for her distinguished service as a supervisor of the city and county of san francisco in her last day as supervisor. i have a feeling that different colleagues will have things to say, but i think from my perspective, today is a bitter sweet day. we know she is leaving. we know she is not going to go far, and we look forward to her bringing in millions of dollars of property tax revenue so we can figure out how to spend it. but i first want to start by reading some excerpts from this resolution and i want to take a moment and thank her incredible staff, kenny blackstone and soon to be supervisor katie tang with whom we look forward to serving together, who helped to draft what i think is an outstanding resolution. and just a couple points from it. whereas supervisor carmen chu has served the people of the city and county of san francisco with dedication for five years, whereas supervisor chu was happily crunching numbers and keeping the city fiscally sound as a deputy budget director when she was appointed in september 2007. whereas supervis

and meetings to flush through some of that information and one of the biggest take aways for us, as a city we're required to have a tactical interoperatable communications plan. it describes how you interoperate in an emergency or an event within the city as well as regional partners. we don't have that with military and i think that's one of the biggest take aways, we need to really flesh out a document so we have captured who our contacts are, what technology they are going to bring to the table and start that initial planning from the get-go. we also had some technical challenges with land mobile radio. you know, we have the coverage issues, but we were stationed at the san francisco police department command van, i had some very sharp people there who were able to work through a lot of those interoperatability issues so a huge thank you to the police department and also the fire department and sheriff's department were also there able to provide us with otherality gnat communications paths, only channels we were able to use for the exercise. it was a really good team effort by the city

our city has secured a million dollars in state funding to expand and improve our shelter system such as the one i'm living in at providence. this bayview shelter requires approval by the city planning commission. there will also be an opportunity to participate in that process later this year, he he said, and again there will be a public notice. if approved, there will be a competitive bidding process to designate the shelter operator. i was going to offer a name of a church. i know there are many you know here in the city including st. francis of assissi. i would like to offer up saint john's church and mother brown as a parties -- participant for three reasons. one is the brain trust we allow. also the second reason * of course is the teachings of the prophecy by john of jesus christ. and third, an address [speaker not understood] 66 sixth street. i would like to include -- have i run out of time? >> you have 20 seconds left. >>> thank you. you're part of the contract. god told him to obey its term. you personally and all your prosperity have this continuing responsibility that every

city. on a typical 500000 unit that's a difference between paying 2500 a month and 1200 in mortgage. that's the difference between staying in our city and leaving. as city as a state, as a counterwif spent significant amounts of money helping homeowners stay in their homes. on the federal level congress has passed a number of laws reducing the tax burden on homeowners facing foreclosure expanding home ownership counseling, expanding the the federal housing administration to play a larger role for those at risk of foreclosure. obama signed the home affordable refinance program in 2010. locally we've done many things. in january 2008, this board of supervisors established a san francisco fair lending working group, with its number one policy recommendation of whenever possible home ownership should be preserved and foreclosure prevented. this promotes family stability in our neighborhoods and community. second of all, the goal of this legislation was to provide security for tenants in t.i.c. buildings. supervisor wiener as coauthor want to ensure that tenants in t.i.c. buildings which might take advantage of this legislation will be presented. we wan

ling that for happening and i want to touch on what mayor khan said we can never be as successful as a city as we want to be unless we pay attention to the gun have the vls in our city and is no different than mayor khan or any urban mayor across the state or country. we are extremely concerned about our gun violence we have to reduce it. and you already know what we have announced in san francisco the possession the very possession of powerpoint ammuntion or automatic weapon tree has no -- in our streets or inner city and is so we offered our own legislature locally but we also know the very reality is just controlling borders won't help and so we have asked all of the mayors and county administration across california do the same and joined our state legislature and some eight other seniors to support their effort state wide and to support president obama and senior fine fine stein on their national events and i want to take a moment to make sure that we hong hospital members of sandy hook continue keeping them in our minds and but also, that things that are not as announced but every sin

as catholic healthcare west. we've changed our name about a month ago. we have been in the city about as long as did the government. about 1854. we represent a handful of organizations which are still in san francisco operating continually over 150 years to provide all of us service. in our case, its health care at st. francis and st. mary's hospital. our familiarity with the county and government starts from the very day that the sisters of mercy, who came over from ireland, got off on a clipper ship down by north beach. within a day, they got a knock on their door where they were staying. it was members of the san francisco board of supervisors who came to ask them to open san francisco general hospital, which they did. they ran it for four years until a very familiar thing happened, and that was the county board of supervisors had a dispute about how to pay health care bills. the sisters said we've had enough of that and went on to create st. mary's hospital. as you can see, very familiar with how the city works. even then, over 150 years. it is an important issue. we're glad

>> yes, this is in regards to abatement and it's something that as a city we have issues with, too, so i would like an answer. is there a product that would clean [speaker not understood] without damaging reflective coating? i've used different brands with no luck and i end up replacing the sign. so, in your experience [speaker not understood]? oh, okay. >> [speaker not understood]. i've got a sign outside my house at home. somebody tagged my sign. so, i went out there and when i got done, there was no red paint left, just a big shiny reflective piece. so, i called up the city of highland and i said, my sign looks like crap. they said that's fine. you must have one of the old signs. and 3m is putting out a material, it's being used by our city and every one of our "street signs" come down. when a street sign comes down, san beerctionv dino does it, a lot of cities in california are doing it. san bernardino. * when you wipe it off it allows you to wipe the paint off. you don't get the run and such. so we're seeing more and more of it being used in california. you still have to clean it.

city leaders are deciding how to fill an empty seat. it was a full house tonight as richmond residents came to city hall to determine how the vacancy will be filled. >> hill due to his illness was unable to take his seat. >> reporter: gary bell won a seat but a severe sinus infection has kept him from filling his seat. >> since it's been such a turmoil, i think they should have an election. >> reporter: one by one -- >> i have lived in richmond for almost 50 years. >> reporter: the 12 candidates who want the job spoke including martinez who lost the vote by 25 votes. >> hope flip you will agree that an appointment rather than a special election is the right thing to do. now let me explain why it should be me. >> the voters should make the decision, this is the democratic process. >> reporter: before the meeting three city council members told me none of the candidated have needed four out of six notes. if there is a decision within our newscast we will of course bring you an update. reporting live from richmond, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in santa cruz count

happy place today because we see what a team can do in a two way love affair to bring a city and a team together as one. i remember when flying back from detroit on monday as the city flew over the beautiful city in the bay area we all in the giants family wish we could go door to door to blow kirbs to every one of you to return the unconditional love you provided us selling out all 89 home games and all the wonderful fanses, and i see some of you that traveled withed team, road warriors to make road games feel like home games. you inspired us. we know you filled this plaza on sunday when we were in detroit. we know you cheer friday your couches at home, from your neighborhood street parties and then throughout october with the city we lit up the city. it was a washid orange from coit tower to the ferry building to right here at city hall. what can we take away from our 2012 giants? i believe we can take away life lessons. vuch teachable moments for our children and our team did face challenges and whether facing injuries or newly acquired players or facing elimination game one after another. what

obviously this is not as large as the bart system, but it is a good opportunity for us as a city. in terms of the opposition, you have some folks who oppose the project as a whole. i totally respect that opposition. people are entitled to that view, but i think it's important, if you oppose a project just to say that you oppose the project instead of sometimes coming up with reasons to oppose a particular aspects of it. just say you aoppose the project that. is legitimate. i happen to disagree, but i think it's important for folks to say where they are coming from. i am sympathetic to the businesses that will be impacted and every time we do major infrastructure work that in the long run will be hugely beneficial for the city or a neighborhood, sometimes there is disruption and we try to mine minimize that and do everything that we can to minimize the disruption. i believe this plan compared to other proposals does. >> it's using muni funds for expanding muni and improving transit service. and i would encourage the folks who have sent in those letters, i and others have been fighti

but we as a city are certainly very fortunate that we've had the opportunity to have her service. and it's an interesting week, historic week, not only is it the last board meeting or the last week for sheila. i know we have another one of our colleagues who will be leaving. and i think in two days the pope is also retiring. so, i don't know, at some point someone may want to do a study and see if the connection between pope bennedictedict xvith, supervisor chiu, and sheila might be a connection. i want to take this opportunity to thank sheila and we'll certainly miss her. the rest i'll submit. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor carmen chu. [laughter] >> supervisor carmen chu? mr. president, seeing no other names on -- mr. president, forgive me. supervisor cohen would like to be re-referred. >> thank you very much, colleagues. hi, san franciscans. today i'm introducing an ordinance i've been working with with the neighborhoods of the bayview as well as the community department to establish a neighborhood notification requirement for parcel zone pdr1b. i'm sad to say this

a bond for city college. this is a good year to reflect on that and as we encounter the next phase here in san francisco. of incredible growth. thank you very much to everyone that has been a part of that effort. i look forward to working with you. thank you, and happy new year. [applause] >> next i will like to bring an individual who was a professor. an individual who i believe used to be a radio host. and of course is a member of the board of supervisors grounded in family values, supervisor eric mar, district 1. >> thank you, good evening, everyone. happy year of the snake. i am eric mar from the richmond district. i always think of lunar new year and chinese new year because i think nine years ago when this celebration was started. my daughter, i could carry her on my shoulders. and i remember the lion dancers and others. and now she thinks she's a teenager. and i have to keep continuing to encourage her to learn about our heritage and for pacific islanders and people of color throughout san francisco and our history. it's a great opportunity to share that with her and to encourage her to keep learn

city leaders are deciding how to fill an empty seat. it was a full house tonight as richmond residents came to city hall to determine how the vacancy will be filled. >> hill due to his illness was unable to take his seat. >> reporter: gary bell won a seat but a severe sinus infection has kept him from filling his seat. >> since it's been such a turmoil, i think they should have an election. >> reporter: one by one -- >> i have lived in richmond for almost 50 years. >> reporter: the 12 candidates who want the job spoke including martinez who lost the vote by 25 votes. >> hope flip you will agree that an appointment rather than a special election is the right thing to do. now let me explain why it should be me. >> the voters should make the decision, this is the democratic process. >> reporter: before the meeting three city council members told me none of the candidated have needed four out of six notes. if there is a decision within our newscast we will of course bring you an update. reporting live from richmond, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in santa cruz count

at the nine-month mark we'll have a better indication as to whether or not the city attorney will require a general fund supplemental. the rest of the departments, the fire department we believe will be able to close that deficit. the public defender, however, we do not believe that the public defender will be able to close his deficit and this is entirely in the area of sail. -- salaries. as was talked about last week, there are a number of vacancies that the public defender has that the controller's office is now holding vacant because of the existing deficit. so, unless there is a supplemental appropriation of additional general fund money to the public defenders office, we in the controller's office have the authority and responsibility to hold any additional spending until there is such policy from the mayor and the board of supervisors. emergency management will likely be able to close their doctor this deficit with holding positions vacant and some of their operating expenses. so, taken together, all these net shortfall departments represent a shortage of about $51.3 million. and t

of the tougher neighborhoods in the city, he was a positive influence for 21 years, using the sport of track and steel to help teach them sportsmanship and hard work, as a retired city employee, coach rob continues to run his own non-profit track and field. he is currently ranked third in the nation in his age for the 100 meter hurdles, and perhaps his biggest accomplishment was being selected to carry the olympic torch here in san francisco for the 2008 beijing olympic, it's an amazing award and thank you for being such a great teacher and leader and coach to young people in the tenderloin. [applause]. >> thank you very much for this award, my wife and i appreciate it very much. what's really important right now is for us to keep the rec centers open because the rec centers is like a second home for the kids in the community. if they don't have a second home, they'll find a home somewhere else and it won't be rec centers. thank you very much. >> thank you, and congratulations. [applause]. >> and, coach, we agree with that, and i want to conclude the report and the year as we always do with a holiday edition of this month in parks. (music playing). (v

as it seems fit. all of our activities are aimed at bringing those numbers down and making this a safe holiday season and a safe city as we go forward. so, thank you very much. have a good day. (applause) >> thank you, chief. thank you, commander lee, for bringing the expertise and the resources we need to make the city safe. i also want to acknowledge lee melatilo our primary liaison with the police department, formerly from the police department, she also oversees sfmta enforcement, the parking and traffic control officers who are sometimes out there at the busiest intersections making sure people can get across safely. and i do want to reemphasize the point, reading that text message is not more important than your getting across the street safely. so, if there's one take away here, it's please, everybody needs to be alert of their surroundings. if you have a lot of different modes of transportation that come together in our dense little city, we need people to be alert and to pay attention. the chief mentioned some of the data that's guiding the work of the police department. our city traffic engineer ricardo la

the potential liability with litigation, we have two large cases that we continue to work on as a city. one is a disabled access case and the other is the online travel companies. and either one of those cases it was decided unfavorable to the city and county would impact our revenue projections and our surplus projections. and, so, the board of supervisors will be briefed about those particular cases in the future. and then the federal budget issues, the extent to which congress acts or doesn't act on across the board cuts is going to make a difference to us. probably will not be felt for a number of months and may not be felt until the next fiscal year, but those uncertainties have to be noted in terms of our estimates. >> so, ms. zamuda, i don't know if this is an appropriate question for you or to ms. howard. the threat of sequestration at the federal level, have we done some work on thinking about what that impact might be to the city? >> supervisor, we have. it's an an insignificant number. it's approximately $30 million of impact. some of that is on the general fund side, some o

injured if we can get them into lifestyles that are safer, we will be that much more successful as a citying that with gang prevention and motivation and aspiration for the youth getting them jobs as officers in a capacity outside of their uniform that is a wonderful thing. were the to give a shout out to doctor row chair oh, vickier. [spelling?] yes, she is a hero because, she is also trying too make sure that the none-violate lifestyle is taught when people visit the hospital can they get some injury prevention vice and making that are we can prevent those injury and is then of course, there are these culturally competent staff that we have at the hospital through barbara garcia's leadership and the whole commission to make sure that we have competent support, that talk with the patients and their families and make sure that the continuity of healthcare extends from the doctors all the way to the families and those have carol lamb and rachel or kin and thank you very much for our your heroism today. >> (applause) . >> not only do we have a world-class trauma center we will continue havi