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we have an agreement that protects our financial agreement as a city and we have also learned so much in this process and we are going to continue to keep our city our eye on the ball and make sure we have a secure city. and to thank people around the podium here for different city departments, barbara garcia i , to all of our trade members, to the community coalition, to vince from the alliance, this has been a group effort and a group supporting us today. i couldn't be prouder to be part of it. at that point we turn it back to lou gerardo. [ applause ] . the next person that i would like to introduce is supervisor david campos. we talked about 40 hours of meetings but we didn't talk about the hours and hours of telephone calls and constituent meetings and i would say these fellows put out about over 200 hours in the process. david has been an incredible champion for this campus in particular for saint luke's and the need for this area. i didn't know david before i came to this process and i walk away from this process with great add admiration. >> i want to thank and acknowledge man
we have an agreement that protects our financial agreement as a city and we have also learned so much in this process and we are going to continue to keep our city our eye on the ball and make sure we have a secure city. and to thank people around the podium here for different city departments, barbara garcia i , to all of our trade members, to the community coalition, to vince from the alliance, this has been a group effort and a group supporting us today. i couldn't be prouder to be part of...
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which for us at this point, while we take in some meaningful steps as a city in recent years, those are largely going to take time to phase in. and as a result we have very few assets on hand. we have about $3.2 million in assets in our trust which has been recently established to meet this liability. so, it's the net of those two numbers is the 4.42 billion. ~ the city's current approach to paying retiree health bills is to make payments as they become due. so, to pay these costs on a pay as you go basis. essentially this means that each year retiree are incurring medical costs they have earned in their prior service with the city, and that's the basis that we make the payment. so, in the last five years these costs have increased fairly substantially for the city, up from about $115 million five years ago to $151 million today, just to give you a sense. as always with these numbers, bear in mind that about 60% of these costs fall on the city's general fund and 40% are falling on enterprise funds like the airport, the port, the puc and for that purpose the mta. >> and, so, for planner
which for us at this point, while we take in some meaningful steps as a city in recent years, those are largely going to take time to phase in. and as a result we have very few assets on hand. we have about $3.2 million in assets in our trust which has been recently established to meet this liability. so, it's the net of those two numbers is the 4.42 billion. ~ the city's current approach to paying retiree health bills is to make payments as they become due. so, to pay these costs on a pay as...
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respond also in a permanent way to the transviolence that we have seen here in san francisco as a progressive city as we have. i also want to know note that this thursday ln will be a rally for the purpose of raising awareness of the attacks against the transgender community. the rally will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the district. any of me colleagues wishing to join are welcome to come. lastly i want to acknowledge amazing work by --ella and working with law enforcement to make sure that we have real solutions to this problem. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor campos. president chiu. >> thank you, today i'm introduce support for san francisco application. in june of last year obama announced it which removes people who are brought to the united states as children and to defer their removal by immigration authorities. california has over 100,000 people who qualify for this program. it's estimated there are 44,000 people in our city. the process in addition to application fee is a total of $500 and requires a lot of proof of various identifying pieces of information related to these individuals
respond also in a permanent way to the transviolence that we have seen here in san francisco as a progressive city as we have. i also want to know note that this thursday ln will be a rally for the purpose of raising awareness of the attacks against the transgender community. the rally will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the district. any of me colleagues wishing to join are welcome to come. lastly i want to acknowledge amazing work by --ella and working with law enforcement to make sure that we have...
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you're seeing in the current year as we go on through time will be a remaining issue for us to deal with cleric as a city and think impact on the general fund. a couple of the major items >> just a quick question. do you have another quick copy of this charter i can't do the numbers on here >> i'm sorry. it's printed small. i have unfortunately, one small full sized chart i'll hand over to you. and we're going to get copies of those and we'll also provided you with the pages from the city's 5 year financial plan. but the numbers while we are waiting for them to get here essentially show our need for general fund dollars over and above the budget will be $50 million growing to a hundred and 4 in focus year 2014 and 15. when the mayor's office makes their projection about a hundred million dollars of that is associated with the general growth at the department of public health. it's a significant portion of that deficit. of that amount there are a few things that are really driving those enemies. again, t again, t again, the -- it will match our expenditures from year to year. and we're in the process of r
you're seeing in the current year as we go on through time will be a remaining issue for us to deal with cleric as a city and think impact on the general fund. a couple of the major items >> just a quick question. do you have another quick copy of this charter i can't do the numbers on here >> i'm sorry. it's printed small. i have unfortunately, one small full sized chart i'll hand over to you. and we're going to get copies of those and we'll also provided you with the pages from...
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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
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...
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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. supervisor wiener: what we have here is a very important project and a very important mission and a completely reasonable objection of neighbors who are
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...
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i think there is nothing more important to me than moving forward with a strong voice from the city supervisors asmany of you said supporting our city college. a i've been at the education level as a former president and vice president, and not letting the city step on our toes but this is a gesture of support in the spirit of faculty and community saying we need to support city college and a strongly urge support for the amendments in the resolution as a whole. >> president chiu: we have not yet voted on his previous amendment. i would like to suggest madam clerk, if a motion to amend, is that we are considering and that is embodied in the document that you circulated along with the two additional amendments that he described on page 2 line 24, substituting the word growing for inflating; page 3, line 15, striking the words competing unfunded budgeting. further discussion on supervisor mar's motion to amend? supervisor breed. >> supervisor breed: my comments are not necessarily about the amendment ; is more about the resolution as a whole. >> president chiu: any further discussion on the motion t
i think there is nothing more important to me than moving forward with a strong voice from the city supervisors asmany of you said supporting our city college. a i've been at the education level as a former president and vice president, and not letting the city step on our toes but this is a gesture of support in the spirit of faculty and community saying we need to support city college and a strongly urge support for the amendments in the resolution as a whole. >> president chiu: we have...
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needed to figure out how we invest in smart ways to move us into a truly 21st century city government. from a big picture standpoint as i think you know, colleagues, we spend about $200 million a year on our annual i-t budget, but as our acting cio and our mayor's budget office will layout, we have about a half a billion dollars of capital needs over the next five years. we have about a $200 million shortfall over the next five years and so just as in the ten-year capital context, we have significant shortfalls that we need to find funding for. that is also the same when it comes to our i-t. i want to apologize unfortunately i have backed up meeting in my office and i need to bet back to my office brief. but i just wanted to and i know there is a presentation that the city staff will do. but have two questions and if at some point during the presentation you might be address it that would be appreciated. i really think that this sct plan well captures a lot of our city's needs and has been the product of a lot of work from a lot of departments around the city. ~ ict one thing i had hoped would be in this project we wh
needed to figure out how we invest in smart ways to move us into a truly 21st century city government. from a big picture standpoint as i think you know, colleagues, we spend about $200 million a year on our annual i-t budget, but as our acting cio and our mayor's budget office will layout, we have about a half a billion dollars of capital needs over the next five years. we have about a $200 million shortfall over the next five years and so just as in the ten-year capital context, we have...
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situation with the staffing levels and the current status of our workforce and i think it's embarrassing as a city that we don't fund those. i do want to look at this again, i think it's a real travesty we don't do this as a city. and over time as you replace salary with o.j. to fund those missing short time hours. i think it's like we refund the police department different program but at the same time issue. we're going to have to hire more folks. i think what he have is an issue about the $400,000. we can accept mr. roses recommendations or regret those recommendations. we could also put that amount of money on budget committee reserve florida we needed this money down the road we wouldn't have to have a month to month appropriation issue that were we could then revisit and see if we need to take up mr. roses reputation as well. >> i have a question for mr. rose i want to make sure i understand. if we kit the $466,000. you believe they're going to use less over that time and a supervisor i'm talking about their entire budget they have a many 3 hundred and have $6 million budget and by june 3rd t
situation with the staffing levels and the current status of our workforce and i think it's embarrassing as a city that we don't fund those. i do want to look at this again, i think it's a real travesty we don't do this as a city. and over time as you replace salary with o.j. to fund those missing short time hours. i think it's like we refund the police department different program but at the same time issue. we're going to have to hire more folks. i think what he have is an issue about the...
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and so i just think we're going to have to crack down as a city because of the irresponsibility of therganizers of the event. >>> of the 25 city workers that have been working all day picking up trash, many had to be pulled on their day off and because th wa gathering with no permit, taxpayers will foot the bill, and the one big thing that gave cleanup crews a hard time were these cigar wrappers, leather all over the police, and very time consuming to pick up. >> thank you, lillian. a man who has been shot in oakland, in an upscale city neighborhood during an attempted robbery in rockridge. a man was walking when someone tried to rob him. the guckman shot the man but not taking anything from him. the victim was taken to the hospital. the gunman escaped on foot. >> now details about another shooting. ing a own land man who was shot in hayward has died. the 26-year-old victim was visiting family members at a home on franklin avenue around 10:00 last night. swaitz he was arguing with hen before he was st. >> a cpr clinics w held roanoke park today a week year after an eight-year-old's hea
and so i just think we're going to have to crack down as a city because of the irresponsibility of therganizers of the event. >>> of the 25 city workers that have been working all day picking up trash, many had to be pulled on their day off and because th wa gathering with no permit, taxpayers will foot the bill, and the one big thing that gave cleanup crews a hard time were these cigar wrappers, leather all over the police, and very time consuming to pick up. >> thank you,...
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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
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....
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it is an incredibly important institution i don't want to come off that we as a city don't care about city college or that we should be working to make sure this institution remains viable. it really is a continuing education pathway for so many of our residents. i think it certainly deserves a conversation that we are dedicating to today. >> president chiu: supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. i agree with them is everything that supervisor kim said. i would feel comfortable changing the word " inflating" with "growing." i can't even imagine what would happen if the college were to lose its accreditation. this is why the proposition passed despite of the bad press. i have serious concern about the final result in terms of what it means. i think that if we had a huge surplus, to met all the needs in terms of city services it would be appropriate to provide financial support to city college. it certainly is a totally appropriate use of funding the fact is we are not doing what we need to do in terms of our own budget. we don't have nearly enough heart gardeners and parke
it is an incredibly important institution i don't want to come off that we as a city don't care about city college or that we should be working to make sure this institution remains viable. it really is a continuing education pathway for so many of our residents. i think it certainly deserves a conversation that we are dedicating to today. >> president chiu: supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. i agree with them is everything that supervisor kim said. i would feel...
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i want to make sure that we're looking long-term how to protect ourselves as a city, what kind of ways that we can create our own processes but also our own institutions that can help us do our own management of our own dollars. i've talked about moving toward a municipal bank. there is something i'm still pursuing as an office. i think this -- that we have, on such a worldwide scandal based on how banks have manipulated the market means we have to find local measures to address our own financial solvency and am looking forward on it for years to come. there are a number of speakers presenting on the city side. i would like to invite up, first and foremost, gnawedia from the crorl''s -- controller's office of finance who has been helpful in monitoring the city's finances and the microphone is yours. >> good afternoon, supervisors. [n[nodirector of public finance. thank you for hearing this item and giving us opportunity to present the city's side in terms of how we done the analysis as relates to the libo scandal. mr. clark, could you please turn on the -- thank you. so we have here, w
i want to make sure that we're looking long-term how to protect ourselves as a city, what kind of ways that we can create our own processes but also our own institutions that can help us do our own management of our own dollars. i've talked about moving toward a municipal bank. there is something i'm still pursuing as an office. i think this -- that we have, on such a worldwide scandal based on how banks have manipulated the market means we have to find local measures to address our own...
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decided whether innovation needed to be looked at across every it project we do in the city and wasn't so much a goal as it was, and i approach how we look at itt projects for city government. sustainability we really talked about two key factors. one, attracting, developing and maintaining it personnel and there was a separate working group with the hr, number of unions and a number of city departments. right now looking at how we can strengthen it hiring and retention efforts in the city. and then also it is important for sustainability is how we plan and how we monitor projects as they go along. and that is emphasized in this plan more than the prior one. and then lastly, looking at the resilience of our it sis at thectionv. -- system. that's both from a disaster pre-faredness system and security. preparedness ~ the new itt plan is based around four strategic goals and this provides an overview of the goals and the [speaker not understood]. the four goals are make government more efficient and effective through technology, improve public access and transparency, strengthen security [speaker not under
decided whether innovation needed to be looked at across every it project we do in the city and wasn't so much a goal as it was, and i approach how we look at itt projects for city government. sustainability we really talked about two key factors. one, attracting, developing and maintaining it personnel and there was a separate working group with the hr, number of unions and a number of city departments. right now looking at how we can strengthen it hiring and retention efforts in the city. and...
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i think we're going to have crackdown as a city because of the irresponsibility of the organizers of event. >>> city leaders say saturday's celebration was much larger than usual. >>> one week after eight-year-old's heart stopped while playing baseball, dozens of parents learned how to perform cpr. about 50 parents and coaches participated. they pumped the chest of dummies to learn how to be prepared in case of an emergency. >> it provides a sense of security not only for the players but then the coaches and parents that visit the field every day. >> everybody is still worried about it happening. this is why all these people are here. >> katie: the boy who was hit in the chest with a ball matthew henry has fully recovered. he was brought to the field in a fire truck. when he collapsed, two paramedics happened to be in the stands. >>> still ahead at 9:00, movie lovers hope to keep a bay area landmark standing but city leaders have approved the demolition. how target has kicked in green mode for earth day. and runs in trouble with the law what she did to get her arrested. >>> beautiful
i think we're going to have crackdown as a city because of the irresponsibility of the organizers of event. >>> city leaders say saturday's celebration was much larger than usual. >>> one week after eight-year-old's heart stopped while playing baseball, dozens of parents learned how to perform cpr. about 50 parents and coaches participated. they pumped the chest of dummies to learn how to be prepared in case of an emergency. >> it provides a sense of security not only...
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a process of reforestation and it involves good planning. i will ask the veteran of the department who has the policy group to advise us on what we should do as the city. melanie. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone. it is an honor to be here on behalf of the department with all of to you celebrate arbor day. this is a department of the environment, one of our favorite days. what we support is the climate program. we look at what is our carbon inventory and where is our carbon emission come from. we know it comes from the environment and we are working very diligently to mitigate the carbon sectors. we know that many trees is the answer to reduce the carbon emissions further. in addition it's critical to our adaptation strategy thinking about if we can't ward off, trees will continue to help us with storm waters and they boost property value where they have a robust urban forest. i wanted to mention when i first moved to san francisco, i lived on russian hill, i would sometimes take the cable car and i would often see you and your sister see both of them smiling and the warmth they shared as twins, it brought a smile to my face everyday. as you sai
a process of reforestation and it involves good planning. i will ask the veteran of the department who has the policy group to advise us on what we should do as the city. melanie. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone. it is an honor to be here on behalf of the department with all of to you celebrate arbor day. this is a department of the environment, one of our favorite days. what we support is the climate program. we look at what is our carbon inventory and where is our carbon emission...
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but, in terms of whether we are as a city, let me just say this, that what i see in my district, and especially in a neighborhood like the mission, when i talk to people, people are not talking to me about how it is important for us to reform sequa and how it is important for us to make sure that we expedite and clarify the procedures around negative declarations or what it might be. what i am hearing from people in my neighborhood is about the fact that there is so much development that is happening, that many people are being displaced. and i went to a breakfast that the democratic party had recently, and at that, i don't think that, they are representative in congress and nancy said that there are so many construction so many cranes that crane is the official bird of san francisco. and there is something to be said for that. there is a lot of development, there is a lot of construction there and many good things that happened with that. but with that, there are negative consequences. there are many people who are being displaced and as that displacement is taking place as you have
but, in terms of whether we are as a city, let me just say this, that what i see in my district, and especially in a neighborhood like the mission, when i talk to people, people are not talking to me about how it is important for us to reform sequa and how it is important for us to make sure that we expedite and clarify the procedures around negative declarations or what it might be. what i am hearing from people in my neighborhood is about the fact that there is so much development that is...
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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
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...
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we are here today because of your efforts, and we as a board, we as a city are grateful for the true contributions you have made. thank you, let's give the coalition a big round of applause and i especially want to acknowledge that liaison, paul kumar, i don't see him in the crowd. i think it's fair to say that paul was an integral part to making this happen. thank you paul for your great work. let me talk about saint luke's, in life you come to full circle. i first came to saint luke's when i finished school. i graduated and didn't have health insurance and i was pretty sick and i didn't know what to do. i learned about saint luke's it where people who find themselves in my predictment go. my mom was ill and we had to take her to the er. they saved her life. it's very personal to me. the test for me has always been we want saint luke's to be a world class hospital. this dealen insures that we get that. we have 120 beds. which is a 50 percent increase from the original proposal, but more importantly, saint luke's plays a more important role as part of the larger cpmc system. cpmc by
we are here today because of your efforts, and we as a board, we as a city are grateful for the true contributions you have made. thank you, let's give the coalition a big round of applause and i especially want to acknowledge that liaison, paul kumar, i don't see him in the crowd. i think it's fair to say that paul was an integral part to making this happen. thank you paul for your great work. let me talk about saint luke's, in life you come to full circle. i first came to saint luke's when i...
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rising up in solidarity both locally and around the country. >> reporter: boston, it is a myth as much as a citye as much as an accent. a living organism as much as a slice of geography. whose citizens tend to be so connected to the place that today and tonight lots of them have been phoning home. or the digital equivalent. mark wahlberg tweeting thoughts and prayers with my hometown. comic denis leery, regard for the state troopers and national guard members. they were everywhere. director ben affleck, raised in cambridge over the river, love to our beloved and resilient boston. resilience. after something like this, that is an individual thing. some will feel things getting back to normal ahead of others. a different matter is that of reputation. of boston not wanting to become best known for its worst day possibly ever. consider all the great associations with that name. ♪ >> boston, the band. there's boston commons, boston general, boston college and university, food called boston, baked bean, cream pie, boston chicken. sports teams called boston. red sox. bruins. celtics. of course, a marat
rising up in solidarity both locally and around the country. >> reporter: boston, it is a myth as much as a citye as much as an accent. a living organism as much as a slice of geography. whose citizens tend to be so connected to the place that today and tonight lots of them have been phoning home. or the digital equivalent. mark wahlberg tweeting thoughts and prayers with my hometown. comic denis leery, regard for the state troopers and national guard members. they were everywhere....
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principles to balance -- have a work place balance and that includes men and without the support of the entire city and the agencies we couldn't make this work possible. as you know we do work on domestic violence and human trafficking and for the domestic violence victims psychologically it's difficult to leave a united states -- abusive relationships and it's difficult to leave the situation. we are impressed with programs like the womens' initiative which launches entrepreneurial programs for women and in particular immigrant women. what is impressive after the intensive training they do have the ability to open a business within one year and after five years those businesses are sustainable which is very impressive given the atmosphere that we have today so i look forward to working with the small business commission further. we have heard and will hear from the human rights commission in terms of contracting for women owned businesses. we have taken in voluntarily data and businesses have to select a women owned business or minority business owners and we have asked business owner what is is more advantage us to? and seems it's the minority owned bu
principles to balance -- have a work place balance and that includes men and without the support of the entire city and the agencies we couldn't make this work possible. as you know we do work on domestic violence and human trafficking and for the domestic violence victims psychologically it's difficult to leave a united states -- abusive relationships and it's difficult to leave the situation. we are impressed with programs like the womens' initiative which launches entrepreneurial programs...
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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
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...
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a quick record on the strategy itself. it was in response to the mayor's objective to reduce fatal injuries and increase walking trips as well. as a city we're growing. we will have more transit oriented development which means more pedestrian trips and look at making it safeer and workable and then we have to look at completing safety and action items for the rest of the strategy. this chart shows you the current trend over the last 10 years the severe in the light pink and the fatal in the dark pink and the trend it was on a precipitous decline but now holding steady and on the increase so a lot of concern there and we will talk about that in more detail what is mapping so the key challenges ahead of us we have a great city, very walkable. a lot of people walk and since the inception of the smartphone and walking and driving and taking transit and these issues we're working on, but the key issue that people driving are failing to yield for pedestrians. that's the bottom line and we need to correct that and importantly as well of all the collisions involved with pedestrians in the last few years and this is the area that we looked at
a quick record on the strategy itself. it was in response to the mayor's objective to reduce fatal injuries and increase walking trips as well. as a city we're growing. we will have more transit oriented development which means more pedestrian trips and look at making it safeer and workable and then we have to look at completing safety and action items for the rest of the strategy. this chart shows you the current trend over the last 10 years the severe in the light pink and the fatal in the...
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i think as universal agreement the more we can get to less as a pay as you go and more pre-funding the better off we'll be as a city. it's in everyone's interest. we don't want to be paying in 20 years, 40 year, paying 500 million dollars a year on a pay as you go basis here. we want to solve the issue so future down the road, next generations can pay for more social serves, do other thing we want to do with our budget. we've done a lot to address the issue and we need to acknowledge that with proposition b and proposition c. ~ services as supervisor wiener mentioned, that was a lot of shared commitment across the city and that is the spirit how we want toful so this issue. moving forward we'll be about finding a solution. and we'll do that, i am also encouraged by our discussion so far and look forward to working together to find something that can solve the issue for the city in a responsible manner and also something that works for everyone here in our city government. so, i appreciate everyone's time today and look forward to our continued discussions. and with that, colleagues, i would like to take a motion or
i think as universal agreement the more we can get to less as a pay as you go and more pre-funding the better off we'll be as a city. it's in everyone's interest. we don't want to be paying in 20 years, 40 year, paying 500 million dollars a year on a pay as you go basis here. we want to solve the issue so future down the road, next generations can pay for more social serves, do other thing we want to do with our budget. we've done a lot to address the issue and we need to acknowledge that with...
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san francisco as a city has fought into open date a number of years ago. this is a really serious wonderful challenge particularly in public notification and notification based on user and recipient interest to create data retrieval to use that system effectively. i would strongly suggest that at least you talk to him about what resources he cease because in technological innovation there is a lot more than what the average user has in day-to-day data that has been set up. i actually have a lot of nitty picky details by which i wanted to challenge some of the verbiage of that response. the process has been moved based on what happened on monday and i would want to express my full and unconditional support to move this forward. >> commissioner hillis? >> i just want to quickly address commissioner ooh! -- wu on the character defining features. i think we are open to that. i think what we just generally heard if an if we are going to put a deadline, the community is going to agree to this process. we just want more notification of what is currently going. 85
san francisco as a city has fought into open date a number of years ago. this is a really serious wonderful challenge particularly in public notification and notification based on user and recipient interest to create data retrieval to use that system effectively. i would strongly suggest that at least you talk to him about what resources he cease because in technological innovation there is a lot more than what the average user has in day-to-day data that has been set up. i actually have a lot...
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we work with other city departments to maintain and improve the public right a way. as you know building faces are regulated by city planning. we work with city planning to prioritize street scape projects for funding and work in the planning place of the projects. we work with the public utilities commission on street lighting and especially pedestrian scale lighting. we also work with them on sewer and water projects. when we do repaving a lot of the projects are joined with the puc to make the sewer and water improvements at the same time. we work closely with the municipal transportation agency on transit and traffic operations, on the over head system during construction, and we also work closely with them in planning and design of our street scape projects. we work with the transportation authority to program funding and planning of many of our projects. we work with the department of public health to promote pedestrian safety and active transportation. that is walking and biking. and we also work with the mayor's office on disability for curb ramp improvements. d
we work with other city departments to maintain and improve the public right a way. as you know building faces are regulated by city planning. we work with city planning to prioritize street scape projects for funding and work in the planning place of the projects. we work with the public utilities commission on street lighting and especially pedestrian scale lighting. we also work with them on sewer and water projects. when we do repaving a lot of the projects are joined with the puc to make...