they asked us not to include the word fet in coffee, so we finally got over the -- they asked us not to include the word at the -- teh word fee in coffee. they got over that period went up to have a lot of repeat customers and -- enjoying a great coffee and a great experience. thank you. >> thank you, peter. and thank you all for your patience, for waiting out here. we are now going to cut the ribbon and invite you in. we will be giving tours, and we also have a taste of san francisco waiting for you inside. we are now going to get the business to cut the ribbon. >> the regular meeting of the transbay joint panel is called to order. madam secretary, please call the role. secretary: i'd like to know that we're running -- conflict -- the mayor can we do the next one? >> we continue to make good progress all around in the program. our construction documents are 100% -- 100% of them are still on schedule to be delivered by the end of the year. since the bulk behalf we're doing now is involved construction, you hear more about our construction progress in a moment, but in the meantime, i

he asked us not to reveal his name for security reasons. >> in the first place it is forcing christians to become much more vocal. with their faith. they are being bolder in sharing the good news with others. in many of the countries we have seen the domino effect as people calling out for more freedom. it is not a democracy as we would think in western european terms. islam will probably be the predominant religion. christians say there is true freedom you can experience apart from political freedom. we are finding christians to be bolder in sharing their faith. we are finding more people going to internet sites and making inquiries. the whole unrest is simply made the world more unstable for them and so they are beginning to ask more questions. >> the bible league international works with believers on the ground delivering scriptures an training materials to find out more about their work and this interview, check out our website cwnews.org. >>> up next, miracles from inside china you won't see anywhere else. the amazing revival taking place in china's country side. >> welcome back to

a successor mayor. >> the first time i became aware of the process as when my editor and myself asked us how the process would work. we quickly became tongue tied and did not have an answer. you went to the clerk of the board of supervisors to ask, the difference supervisors, the city attorney's office how it would work, and no one really had the rule book on it, so they had to figure it out. >> just seven days after gavin newsom was elected to the office of lieutenant governor, on the member 9, the board of supervisors began to grapple with the responsibility of choosing an interim mayor. >> colleagues, i am concerned about the transition to successor mayor, in term mayor, for the city in -- and county of san francisco. we need a collaborative process. the earlier we get started, the better. >> with all these are the questions about procedures, there was an extra twist. the city office recused his office. >> the city administrator recused himself from the beginning. he is running for mayor himself, so he did not want to have any ideas of conflict of interest. santa clara county will be

we actually wanted to honor him and he asked us to honor the program that helped him today.e are sad to lose a dedicated volunteer at our office, we are very excited about his new employment opportunity. he asked us to honor these very special people today and i wanted to have them come up together as a group and talk about the importance of this program and how our city supports employment readiness and connection to employment in san francisco. on behalf of the office of district 6 and the board of supervisors, we want to commend you for your work and doing the action of all we talk about as policymaking everyday. [applause] >> my name is barbara allen and i may supervisor with the works service development agency under the direct your of the agency director and my supervisors. we appreciate that. my staff works with a single adults and non custodial parents who are re-entering the labour market. our unit consists of trainers, group employment preparation, life skills trainers, job ready as trainers, job skills trainers and our minister of staff. on behalf of my staff and

>> we needed to protect -- perfect the process so that once the board asked us for that process, we could actually have something in place that was well tested that we could provide to them. >> mayor newsom would be sworn in as lieutenant governor in early january. so the board of supervisors had barely two months after the november election to select an interim mayor to complete gavin newsom's term. but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >> although it was obvious we would appoint an interim mayor, there was no time line for the two to occur. we looked to outside counsel for answers. they researched those questions. while they researched the legal angle, we began the research on the parliamentary level. at the beginning of the calendar year 2010, we started to craft a generic process for a successor for mayor. being a parliamentarian of the board, i have been working on the process itself. i have been working with two one and parliamentarians in the city. we did some role-playing and tried to contemplate all of the different variables

now, on the balance, as supervisor chu has asked us to vote on this. supervisor wiener: just a point, i am fine with adding the approach -- the additional language. i think it is appropriate to encourage dialogue with recon part and ggnra -- rec and park and ggnra. for clarification, if we could indicate where those three results would go, just for the benefit of the clerk in knowing how this is being amended. i would suggest that those three go right before the final result in the current version, which indicates that the resolution should be sent to a number of people, so they should be right before that final period supervisor chiu: that is the motion we will be considering. if you could call the roll on that motion. >> chu aye. cohen aye elsbernd aye aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the motion passes. supervisor elsbernd: just on the item itself, the reason why i will continue to vote no -- i think what just happened is a think what just happened is

so we have -- mtc has asked us to ask the board to revise the initial product report to resend the fundsill able to go back to the mtc for the balance of those funds, the 7 $6 million available to us, and we plan to do that in 18 months. we will be speak -- seeking reallocation of those funds. >> are there any questions? is there a motion to approve the updated project report and to authorize the executive director to authorize changes to ab1771? approved. all those in favor? opposed? passes unanimously. >> item 13 has been approved without any member of the public wishing to address you on that item. you are scheduled to go into closed session at this point on the calendar. i have not received any indication that a member of the public wants to speak to you about items on the list. about items on the list. >> ok.

they asked us to come in with some new street trees, so we will be working with dpw on that. this is an image from the arborist report. you can see in yellow, those are the trees on stillman street. the various conditions of those trees. lighting, we have done a lighting analysis. we are proposing to supplement some of the high pressure sodium lights that caltrans has under the west approach with led lights in key areas. this is the entrance from third straight -- third street. that is a critical location because buses will be coming and going, during the tiger terminal, so we need to have that well lit. on the left is the existing conditions. on the right is the proposed. the next slide is another key area which is also on stillman street, near second. this is a secondary exit. we want to provide adequate lighting. it is also where the ac transit administration offices are. skindell. -- schedule. caltrans will continue to lease the error out for private vehicle parking. we will continue to negotiate least negotiations with caltrans and then we will complete the seismic analy

and the japanese embassy heard of our band and asked us to play music to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ship from japan to come to the united states. we also play in small groups at the cliff house hotel lobbies and restaurants sometimes and we get donations from people and we were able to raise $20,000 for our marching band uniforms and we are able to put the marching band for the first time in over 30 years from public school. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, board. i'm the instrumental music director at george washington high school. i'm here actually on a different capacity. i'm here representing aim and in the very large shoes of dan ryan whose name i know you all know as a great arts advocate who we lost in february. and he very much wanted to see music reinstated at lincoln and told that that would be the case this upcoming school year and there's been a decision made for that not to happen so we're asking to you please look at that and reinstate music at lincoln high school so those students and my colleagues have a place to play. thank you.

the charges read against him by the judge who is in court, and then he will be asked to enter a plea. his lawyer tells us he will plead not guilty and it is likely that he will ask for bail. we don't know what, of course, will happen as of yet. other than that, his defense attorney is not saying much about what's happening with this case, and in fact, the defendant has not yet been brought to the courthouse. he is being charged with criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. here is what the alleged victim, a chambermaid, said to police about what happened. she went into this luxury suite. this is a $3,000-a-night room. she went into it yesterday, thinking it was empty in order for her to clean it, when she said she was assaulted by mr. strauss-kahn. she says he was naked, dragged her into a bedroom and then a bathroom, tried to force himself on her sexually and she was able to finally get away and call the hotel. she called police, but by the time authorities got there, mr. strauss-kahn had already left the hotel, and police are examining all kinds of videos and cameras around that h

every year, the school asked us to do fund raising. a more fund-raising we do because of budget cuts, every year the list they give us to provide supplies because of budget cuts do not allow enough supplies, and the list keeps getting longer. we also provide fruits and vegetables as healthy snacks, because of budget cuts do not allow that any longer. as a parent, i would like to ask the school district to please stop the budget cuts for our children's education and also laying off teachers and principals. thank you. i also have 273 letters from parents also asking to stop the cuts for our children's education. >> i am going to call the last names, and i am not going to be taking any more cards after i call these last names. [list of names] >> [speaking spanish] hello, my name is angelica. i come from cesar chavez elementary. i am worried -- [speaking spanish] >> the thing that worries me is that my daughter had a problem. i spoke to the principle, but the principal said it was nothing. i have a social worker who works with me, sir she p