this includes project design as well as construction of existing facilities as well as new facilitiesdesign of the ashbury height the tank as well as the jones tank, as well as the peaks and tunnels, that is approximately $10 million. twin peaks reservoir is coming in at $12 million in the item before you. and in construction, about 38 potential cistern sites, potential cistern sites. we are asking for $68 million to partially fund that. we're working closely with the fire department to be sure we have adequate coverage. i'm joined by the assistant deputy chief as well as our project manager if you have any detailed questions. the last chart in your packet is a very detailed construction chart showing that we want to get construction under way. the reason we're coming before you now is to ask for that funding so we can go through the bidding process. i will be happy to answer questions. chairperson chu: i do have a question about the cisterns. will that be for the repair of existing systems, or the construction of new ones? >> the majority is broken into two parts. there are some repa

this would see electrical and replacement as well as a new roof at cellmark. these have been much needed capital improvements. to front -- to funds that have been obtained in prior years -- we are currently in the process for rate renovations at the bayview opera house, including new bathrooms and landscaping that will build greater access. in have a new commitment from the public utilities commission for an investment in our community arts and education program here. we will be working with them that is -- in key neighborhoods for a total of $600,000. the budget addresses a pending move to the veterans of war memorial. this would be critical for storage for the civic art collection. we were highlighted in the new york times for issues facing our civic art collection long- term preservation and this is part of the solution to make sure have museum great storage for the works we want in the community but need a place to be pure -- conserve it. that will be in the basement of the veterans' war memorial and include administrative offices as well as a public progr

as well as increases to certain required passthroughs back to the state. there have been some changes in the windows are calculated by the state. debt service continues to remain the largest cost in the successor agency budget, and that is relatively flat. project and staffing costs are lower, both because the agency is no longer allowed to do the same range of things that it did before, and because there is a limit to administrative costs that is permitted by ab 26. this next slide is showing you the tax increment that is allocated to enforceable obligations. tax increment, as you will recall, is basically our general fund property-tax that is dedicated to these projects. the board has made the decision to set those funds aside. to the extent that the tax increment request increases or decreases, that does have an effect on our overall fund, because it is a property tax dollar. what this table is showing you, at the highest level, you can see the net tax increment that is available in these project areas. in the current year, the $134 million, and it is i

accrued liability basically says we have 84¢ to pay every dollar promised for all active employees as wellas retired employees for as long as we assume they will work and live. the goal is to get as close to 100% funding in that area as we can. but probably 70¢ to 75¢ on every dollar is generated into the investment return. our job is to make sure that we can capture that investment return. we had a return of over 20 two% netted fees -- 22% near its fees for fiscal year 2011. we lost 22% the year before that. again, we're focusing on both of these numbers, realizing we need to get both of those percentages as close to 100% as we can. the retirement system also administers the city's deferred comp plan. i want to give a brief report on that. as of last month, we had 13,740 two actively contributing employees. that is quite remarkable given that we've had a timeframe where we had employees affected by unpaid furlough days. this is a voluntary plan. they have still persisted in saving and differing monies to the 457 plan. and 50% participation is very extraordinary in this type of voluntary p

later to remember his mothers cry for justice. >> we gather in remembrance of tears, sorrow -- >> as well as the tears of hope. we gather in the spirit of hope and love. we gather knowing that love overcomes hate and hope overcomes the pain of injustice. we gather as a community, a community committed to racial and social justice. we gather with commitments in our hearts. >> this is our time of community renewal. >> we will never give up the fight, the fight for -- >> an inclusive society that treats all people as one. >> vincent chin's last words were, it isn't fair. >> we will fight for fairness in the courts as well as in the streets. >> martin luther king jr. said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. >> people who fight for justice anywhere helps the cause of justice everywhere. >> remember vincent chin, the pain, the whole, the heat, the love, the cries of injustice, the striving for fairness. most of all, remember. >> the struggle for justice lives on. >> today, the bullying, the profiling, all the stuff still going on, i am glad all these students are here, but mrs

as well. if you look at attendance at the academy, there was a time when coming to the academy was risking long lines but that was in the beginning. there was such a pent-up demand for the institution. as we expected and projected, our attendance is settling down to about1.4 million visitors per year, and we expect that level to be characteristic in the coming years. we have attracted over 6 million people since we opened three years ago. i remember the day and i remember the lines, but now it is said to come to the academy. just come on a nice week day in the afternoon, and you probably will not have to stand in a long line. and the whole issue of how to balance the cost of operating this very expensive institution and the money that we can make and the money we can raise is, you might say, and existential challenge. we do not want a smaller academy. we believe all the parts of our current academy are essential to its success. the steinhardt aquarium is is this a the partnership we have with

we would like to the -- advice a person not to stand there, as well as an officer. we would like them to be on the same page. lastly, a man approached two different officers at regarding fights and people being drunk and noisy at the sugar cafe on sellers street. i have spoken with raj about this as well. officers have said that it has become a problem on thursday, friday, saturday night. the next officer that he spoke with was during the day shift and he was begin with people at the metropolitan club. it is the oldest ladies club in san francisco. >> ladies' club? >> [laughter] >> reject the one website and that is what they said. -- we checked the website and that is what they said. >> ladies' club. >> [laughter] >> they have these ladies' clubs internationally and they have reciprocal rules that you can stay at their establishment, but several guests were complaining about sutter street as well as the sugar cafe and the seller and that they will not be coming back. as far as the fights and the noise and the drunk in public ness. there was an illegal after-hours p

we have a lot of active-duty members as well as those in retirement and have seen high rates of cancer. some have succumbed to their illnesses. we are trying to be pro-active in taking part in studies with ucsf for various screenings of cancer. and we have tried to make sure we have done a lot of study in the overall aspect of the fires, so the firefighters -- the fires are out, but the toxins are still present we have looked at whether they need to continue to breed -- where breathing apparatus. -- whether they need to continue to wear breathing apparatus. the committee meets every month and we have met some great people who want to partner with us to do cancer studies. supervisor cohen: have there been any recommendations made to assist the members of the fire department? >> there have been some. again, it is ongoing. one of the things with these studies with the bladder cancer and colon cancer screening, by asking members to voluntarily take part in these tasks, there have been diagnoses of cancer. and at early stages. we feel that is very valuable. if the free screenings were not o

as well as the cranes and other remnants that still exist. the park boundary remains the same as identified in the preferred plan. the new 19th street is a pile- supported structure that provides a little bit of focus. and sea level rise is accommodated by maintaining the site where it is accepting the condition that as c level rises, the site will be inundated at certain times -- as the sea level rises, the site will be in a bid at certain times of year. it will allow interpretation and evolution of the sites rather than just looking at what exists today from world war ii. it looks at the history of the site and how it was built and used overtime and how they rearrange themselves and are reconfigured between the various war efforts and shipbuilding efforts. the historic uses that to replace -- that took place were on the water's edge again. access to the site would be accommodated by an expanded entrance along terry franÇois boulevard as part of an existing access point for the restaurant operation as well as expanded -- an expanded area alo

dcyf is in our second year of 43-year budgeting cycle as well -- of our three-year budgeting cycle as well as planning cycle. we are proposing to continue to focus funding on the department's current priorities, which our children and youth. we want to maintain the integrity and intent of the children's services allocation plan and the current rfp. we must state steadfast in our current funding so that we can maintain continuity of services. for fiscal year 13-14, we also want to continue focusing on the department priority goals of children and youth are ready to learn and succeeding in school, but we will go through a new rfp process. the full board of supervisors approved back in may. this is part of our charter amendment before the department in which we need to have a three-year planning document that would dictate and guide our development. once again, for fiscal year 13- 14, we will go through a new process. this slide shows the total budget to. of notes is the green bark that highlights the school district funds. coming from top down, the purple bar indicates federal, state, a

we're looking at doing the same thing in the philippines as well as elsewhere. and the same thing is true with regards to a strong presence in the middle east. because of the threats in that region, we have maintained a strong presence of troop strength in that area as well. we're building innovative partnerships and trying to strengthen our alliances throughout the world, and the way we are doing this is by developing this innovative rotational presence, where troops will go into an area, exercise with them, provide guidance and assistance, develop alliances, develop their capabilities, and alliances and partnerships for the future. that's the message i delivered to the pacific on this last trip. it's well received. i delivered the same message to latin america. it's well received. thesecapabilities. this is not a question of the united states going around basically exerting our own power and telling these countries we'll defend them. they've got to develop their capabilities to be able to secure themselves for the future. and that's what this proposal provides

thank you for your wonderful work as well. good morning. as they say in little saigon -- [speaking foreign language] did i say that right? ok, i did not screw that up. i want to welcome supervisor jane kim. actually, she is helping me -- welcoming me here. and supervisor carmen chu. this week in, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of our golden gate bridge. i got the comment on what it meant to me. i said to a number of you in the media that one of the reasons that it is not just a great engineering marvel for our country, but it has been a symbol for many people around the world to come to san francisco, and this is just one of those neighborhoods among many where people establish themselves and created little saigon, and i have been very proud to work with all of these small businesses and residents of the tenderloin community and this area for years. mohammed nuru and i spent many years of walking up the street trying to figure out how to improve it. in between our noodles and our sandwiches, we were able to figure out a few things with t

not only do the benefits benefit from this program, but their families as well. as a chinese-american with the immigrant parents, i very much understand the struggles they face to drive in the united states. i am grateful for programs like the chinese newcomer center, its hard-working staff, dedicated volunteers, and enthusiastic supporters, so i strongly urge the board to keep our organization. thank you, and please have a nice day. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the chair of the chinese newcomer service center. our center provides vital services to all new immigrants when they first come to this country, but they continue to return for tax services, for citizenship information, and we provide services to hundreds of people every year. if not thousands. in this increasing digital and electronically connected world, chinese newcomer service center is the only access for many of our seniors in chinatown to outside information. we must restore the funding to the organization. look at today with all the seniors. they hardly venture ou

they support our writer's corps program as well as our street smarts and where it lives program. supervisor chu: there is a program administered by the arts commission that the percentage of construction projects. where is that within your sources of revenue? >> that is actually off budget. it is all off budget because it does not aligned with the fiscal year. it projects, the of the good to be over multiple years. there is a 2% fee on all public develop that goes through that project -- goes to that process. as of this current year, 71% of those contracts went to local arts providers or contractors. the vast majority of those funds are going to local artists. >> will you be speaking about this program later in the presentation or are you not mentioning it in other places? >> i do have a few more points about that in terms of this year's excesses. >> how large is the program? how many people are involved? >> it varies year to year based on the pipeline of projects that come to us. the budget can range depending on the project allocations between this past year and i'm going to --

project to think she got the axe as well as the track being torn down in one nine hundred seventy seven. anyway the question of creating a specific bill ties speed railway is still on the agenda and should somehow be implemented. in countries like france traditional light rail has been used to answer the high speed question the country's t.g.v. the world record for conventional train travel reaching five hundred seventy five kilometers an hour throughout europe the traditional fast rail has been the main way to reduce congestion on highways and airports as regards russia is a handful of routes that already allow for two hundred kilometer an hour traffic the russian railways is working to build new tracks where the average speed will be no less than two hundred fifty kilometers an hour and for these not just any old steel rails will do you have got a high speed rail rails of particular rigidity are required for. that which is achieved through micro awarding steel with various elements like for instance. thirds of russia is located in a very cold climate. for such conditions. temperature

representatives of 15 western and arab nations as well as european -- as well as the european union took part. a u.s. official said clinton proposed a new strategy for syria including a transition of power that would eventually include free and fair elections. the united states is also seeking a u.n. security council resolution to impose sanctions on the assad government. but they will need to get support from russia and china. >>> leaders of china, russia and four central asian countries said they oppose any military intervention to stop the violence. nhk world's susumu kojima reports from beijing. >> reporter: the six leaders adopted a joint statement in beijing on thursday. at the end of the two-day summit of the shanghai corporation. chinese president hu jintao and vladimir putin took part. mahmoud ahmadinejad attended as an observer. the statement declares the shanghai group is against military interference in the affairs of the middle east and north africa. it also rejects any forced handover of power or sanctions and stresses that progrblems should be resolved with dialogue. this

it is unique to other seniors, modeling will as well as other latino seniors. without their help, where would all the other seniors go? i realize that there are these problems outside of the city, and it is particular to san francisco. i am in shock of all of the issues i have heard today as well. i thank you for your attention, and i have great pride in being able to speak in front of you. [applause] >> thank you. the last two speakers, if you could please line up. [reading names] >> i will go first. mayor lee, this is the first time i have seen you in person. i am a volunteer in the mission district. we have been passing liars to inform people about possible new legislation later in the year for improvements in the community jobs program. participants in this community jobs program are people of color, in particular, single mothers, so we feel like there needs to be a genuine, new work training program for participants to be able to work in non-profit communities, such as in the mission district, and also in the future, given the training for service jobs. so

i know they're both on the budget committee as well. thank you to the mayor's office for their work in helping us scheduled a different hearings rescheduling the different hearings. as supervisors, it is our awesome responsibility to ensure the city's interests and the interests of our residents are protected in these agreements. is the second-largest employer in the city now. is the second-largest employer. it is projected they will become the largest private employer after the project is completed. this will have a profound impact on our city and residents for decades to come, especially in the context of job opportunities. after reviewing the jobs portions of the eir and proposed development agreement, a number of concerns have been raised. i have some of the same concerns about the number of jobs with the project over the years. i will not die than to those issues now. i wanted to say that we will do our best to look at those issues today -- i will not dive into those issues today. because this is the first hearing at the board level

part of our general fund budget here, as well as future bond issuances for allison griffiths and for the upcoming two other sites would be part of any overall budget strategy. whether we use funds from the housing trust fund or wheat issue certificates of participation for hope s.f. sites, whether we are to include this as an enforceable obligation, the housing trust fund will provide a stable, nondurable committed source of funding over all for affordable housing, including those projects that need get financing at the hope s.f. sites. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> moving to the additional investments in mid market, the city is continuing to invest in economic revitalization on mid market and sixth street. those funds include $3 million over the next two years for the program that are delineated below, including business attraction and retention, community ambassadors, continuation of the improvements, tenant improvements, completion and operation of the sixth street substation, as well as arts programming and planning, neighborhood community in gateman, and economic development p

involved to promote better working conditions in san francisco's procurement of these times of goods as well as be a model -- have san francisco be a model for other cities as well in terms of how we manage this in our public procurement. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you so much. we don't have any questions from the committee at this time. thank you. next we have daniel maroquin. >> hello, how's it going? my name is daniel and i feel i would be a good advocate on the sweet-free advisory group for several reasons. i'm a san francisco district native born and raised and currently living in district 11 in lakeview ingleside. i'm a state student and some of my experience -- i've recently done an internship for the san francisco living wage coalition. and for the sweat-free procurement advisory ordinance as well. unfortunately karl couldn't make it today but working with him led me to create a group at san francisco state university called the students for economic justice, currently at s.f. state. we found out the students aren't being paid the minimum wage because it's a state entity. we're

traveling southbound in this area as well as northbound as well. nd clear as you connect to the beltway. not seeing any problems for you. however, if you're taking the rails, specifically on the mark train we have two pretty significant delays. let's start with roads on east 870. mechanical problem. right now at 26 minutes. they estimate about 30-minute delay for this train. and looking at the camden south line, train number 841, 13-minute delay right now. i'm back in ten with another look at traffic. >> danella, thanks. >>> today the nine people killed in a moetro crash will be honored. this comes on the third anniversary of the accident. megan mcgrath is live in northeast where the plaque will be unveiled this morning. >> reporter: good morning, richard. you can see down below here the area where this horrific crash happened three years ago was on the straks down below the charles langley bridge here on new hampshire avenue. you can see on the fence some of the cross stickers that have been placed here presumably by some of the loved ones of the v

we'll get his views on europe's plan for a recovery as well as a lot more. >> okay.o if you're just joining us very good morning. a lot has happened at the eu summit and basically it's a case of italy two, germany nil. >> they won on and off the field. >> they won in football and brussels on the summit. >> i was going say the same not true for spain which despite winning at summit saw rafael exit at wimbledon. >> let's remind you what's happened. eu leaders have made something of a break through on measures to save the bloc. 19th summit since the eurozone crisis began. what's going to happen cash for region permanent bailout fund esm has approved it should be able to use to help recapitalize ailing banks directly without increasing budget deficits. officials indicated any loans used to recapitalize spanish banks will not be given senior debt status and both temp sm and esff will be able to buy the debt of distressed sovereign. italian premier mario monti hailed it. >> translator: countries that would like to take advantage sthafblizing intervention should ask for it.

at as well as you can see the ruble is now getting against the u.s. dollar and the euro says a change of four jeans for the russian car as they say if we look at your dollar at one twenty seven twelve for the common currency just as it's five straight days of gains after the asian markets that's still up are running as fast a message is concerned i guess international news is certainly playing is part of china's home values fell to a record fifty four in seventy this is not some chop by the government in may and that's because in in developers are cutting prices to boost the sales on the hang side is enjoying its biggest second day rise of the year with only fourteen shares jumping on the nikkei in japan to see how will street finished up on friday that and it posted its second consecutive triple digit days and this was on the optimism that global central banks would step in to stabilize the markets we had the e.c.b. president mario draghi suggested the center by is ready to easy's out monetary conditions on the bank of england as well they have build

the pieces we are still working on internally and an externally is the management and oversight as well as the community advisory council. we made some changes to the -- to push those out a little bit. we want to make sure that the money's coming from the various departments continue to have some oversight capacity with the hope that it will eventually phase out. there will be a form of a community advisory council. that is part of the continued work we are doing. with the logistics and budget details, the three departments are jointly funding the new office and the director. the seven existing positions will be transferred over into this new office. hsa would be the best agency to provide the back office support. so this new office would not be incurring additional bodies for hr and budgeting. although so be handled through hsa. we continue to be mindful about the state budget impacts and the changes that could be coming down. a final note on the next steps, we are working to develop a director position job description. we will float its common to our interviews, and make recommendatio

i think there were some reporting back to 311 as well as our own internal reporting as far as the maintenance man making the repair and getting into the database. for simple outages, the simple streetlight outages, we are currently looking at and internal metric of seven days to make those repairs. a street light goes out, whether and of off-on, or complete burnout, we're looking at seven days to get it repaired. you heard earlier about the issues of identifying the streetlight and who it belongs to. we have to go through and verify we are not maintaining and other entities street light as well. we are committed to keeping the street lights on in the city of san francisco as well as the rest of the state where we on this street lights. we are looking at capital improvement projects here in san francisco of 23 streetlight circuits and updating more than 1100 street lights. this is where we will be making a $25 million investment over the next five years. this is to modernize the street light system. it's a cornerstone of this initiative, to replace the street lights served by what we call our

this is true for germans as well. if you did a similar kind of case study looking at the way the germans are integrated civically while retaining their german identity, william seifert participating in politics, but is doing it inside of a german group, a german faction and also maintaining close ties with home and the correspondence with his parents and so forth we looked at. so this is a phenomena that is true of the germans as well as the irish in the 19th century and true of other groups as well in this period. any questions in the 19th century before we bump forward a little bit into the 20th century? this is when american politics starts to change and takes on a little bit different character. that intense partisan competition moderates some, doesn't disappear altogether but it diminishes. machines are entrenched and powerful and will persist into the 20th century, that highly organized effort to mobilize voters in urban settings continues, but it gets a little harder and the incentives change. the circumstances

we would like to the -- advice a person not to stand there, as well as an officer. we would like them to be on the same page. lastly, a man approached two different

in march, we held another public workshop on public realm, streets and open spaces as well as ideas for eco-districts in the area. last week we held our third and final public major workshop in the face of the project and we went back to the committee and presented our refined ideas for those topics and -- based on what we heard since we presented them as well as additional analysis. we were at the historic preservation commission giving them an update and these are our current proposals and concepts as we move into the environmental review phase of the plan. we are ready to issue an rfp for environmental review for the plan and the concepts we're presenting will be the core of the project description that will be analyzed. the eir will take 18 to 24 months. in 2014, we hope to be back before you with a draft d.r. and moving forward toward adoption -- eir and moving forward toward adoption. we in november presented a series of land use and urban form principles. ducouer objectives for the plan have not changed. -- the core objectives for the plan have not changed. we're supporting growt

lein and maybe miss brown as well. why do you think that the utilization of the tanf program has decreased? >> i think there are several contributing factors to it. i think it's hard to use and particularly hard to use if you don't think you're going to get a job and you're not going to be able to meet those work requirements. i think some people just opt out for that reason. i think a lot of families are doing things and feel they have to do things in that network sense that make tanf harder to do. they have other people living in their household, they are drawing on their networks in ways, they are engaged in the informal labor market trying to make ends meet and it doesn't mesh well with the tanf program. i think unless they are in a program where they see some movement up through education and training, it also appears that they're not going to be helped to be placed in jobs that would actually dramatically change their situation so i think there's that part of it. the second thing that families tell us is that tan

the obama administration, as well as secretary sebelius, have long been committed to promoting community living and finding new means to help ensure that we support the seniors and people with disabilities and making sure the committee is accessible. approximately three years ago, our nation commemorating the 10th anniversary of the homestead decision. in this time, president obama launched the community living initiative on june 22, does a 9 to reaffirm the administration's commitment -- 2009 and to reaffirm the administration's commitment for americans with disabilities and ensuring the full inclusion of all people in our nation. on the very same day, secretary sebelius set up an interagency coordinating council led by assistant secretary cathy green lake, as well as the director of the office of disability, henry klebold, to look at solutions that address various community living. and to give people more control over their lives and the support they need. now talking about this new agency, we are bringing together the administration on aging, which you may be very familiar with, the o