the first economic and trade seminar here in our beautiful city. city hall in san francisco. housekeeping items. you'll notice on your chair there is a little box. we're having simultaneous interpreting. you will find these. insert into the box, turn it on, put it on your head and did not to get out of this room. if you leave, leave it on the chair, we will pick it up afterward. if you have a problem, there is a little room and they can take care of it for you. problems with their headsets, there is a little room, someone will take care of it for you. restrooms to my left. and please, turn your cell phones off. ok? thank you. i want to say this event would not be possible to do without the general sponsorship of the mayor's office. thank you, mayor ed lee. also the ministry of the commerce of china, supported by the governor's office. thank you so much. the lieutenant governor is here of course. i would like to mention that we do have some honorable mentions in here. first of all, my boss, hon. ed lee. mayor of san francisco. i would like to add our first chinese mayor in san

[speaking spanish] >> when my beautiful city was even more beautiful. >> if i could i would ask all the questions in spanish for your ease, but so everyone can understand, it is probably better that i do it in english. i live in caracas for a certain time, but back in the 1970's, when it was a fabulous city, and i enjoyed my stay very much. i have a number of questions for you. my first question is in january when these events took place, how long have you lived in san francisco? >> three years. i moved to san francisco december 12, 2008, so i was exactly two years in december. >> you said you turn to our free medicine in this troubling moment because she was your friend and neighbor. is that correct? a >> yet. -- >> yes. >> did you have other friends to whom you could have turned to? did you have friendships and form a community during those three years, or were you isolated? >> no, i am not that social, but i have a few friends, spanish speakers in my class. i create a class for toddlers to share my acting skills with other kids, and i built a friendship with at least three mothers in

here is how looked looking out the beautiful city. we have had some heat, it has been nothing like folks in the midwest have had to endure. temperature today 81. another 91 degree day. -- are high to bridge right now 81 degrees. of the at the met part country. louis almost 100 degrees. see that boundary? where there have been nasty storms. nothing in the far west. today you can see the line that damage at the same time, that will be coming our way out into the atlantic. that is our own gordon. storm gordon -- not our gordon. you can see it moving away. if you are heading to the not be concerned about any tropical storms are whether. is moving -- it is way out in the middle part of the atlantic. 76 degrees after only getting up to 82 degrees. e go through tonight and early tomorrow morning our again inres once washington may be a bit below 70 degrees. into the afternoon, that line of leftover may fire up enough to give us the rest of some thundershowers. as we get through later on tomorrow, we will get some northwesterly winds. morning

it is so closely tied to what makes san francisco such a beautiful city, and so closely site -- tied to what makes san francisco -- what makes people want to come to san francisco and live in this city. it is important to what we do and many of the businesses that exist here on an ongoing basis. we have 16 million visitors a year. that is in no small part due to the activities associated with the night life and this city. that is not lost on all of us. one of the things that i think it's important to the mayor and myself as i sit here today, and i know that you guys are going to be focusing on, i looked out and i see so many pieces of the city family here engaged in this conversation. i think it is really a measurable thing that you have the chief of police introducing today's conversation and today's forum with you in addition to having the board of supervisors as civil the understand the work that you and why it is so important. having individuals like -- one of the board members spoke earlier about having oewd focusing on this. all this matters when you're trying to work collaborat

lee and the san francisco recreation park in rec commission in naming this new wonderful and beautiful city facility the betty ann ong chinese recreation center. we also thank the people of the city and county of san francisco, the petition-signers, and everyone involved in urging that the center be named after betty. it is a tremendous privilege to the new center that it be named after betty, and our family does not taken lightly. in so doing, it is an honor and a tribute not only to betty and her legacy, but also for all the other victims and heroes who died on september 11. betty ann ong ann foundation would like to thank everyone for their generosity in supporting our fund-raising effort to fully equip the center. and now i would like to take these last few minutes to thank some very special people. i would like to thank and acknowledgement chiu, elaine, and all the past directors and their ancillary for their tremendous dedication in serving the community of san francisco and to the new director. as our foundation has gone through our grass-roots fund- raising journey these past six mo

this time it's san bernardino, the beautiful city known for the mountains and a mountain of debt. to file for bankruptcy since june, it sounds bad, but dagen, you said that going bust in this case is pretty good? >> you've got to do what it takes if you with a nt to get rid of the liabilities, if you want to cut the payouts in retirement to workers, if you want to right yourself, if you've got to go bankrupt. so be it. it's a warning sign for municipalities across the country of the damage it can do. the people in the towns, maybe till keep people and keeping them from getting drunk on debt. nobody is scared about california one of the best performing municipal band categories in the country this year, second only to-- >> if this is good news, imagine, you get three limits and this is the third bankruptcy, but it's good news. do you agree with that? >> no, i will say this, that california, and muny bonds are doing good in california for technical reasons. >> what about bankruptcy. >> first of all, it's an untold damage done to that city for many, many years, and much higher intere

i asked for their help to save our garden in our beautiful city.ver asked for a budget for the garden because they paid for everything. administration in golden gate park killed this garden. thank you. >> is there any other public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. sitting before you listening and handing out these awards and commendations, what strikes me is the people that work for recreation and parks department are extremely deceived. i heard a gentleman stand up and say he was from los angeles. he talked about san francisco's core values and the recreation and parks department. well, unless you are a complete idiot, there are no core values for this city or recreation and parks department. its core values were resolution 633-01 which basically said that our culture and what we embody to the most valuable was equestrian activities, and you have taken that, scrunched it in a mall, and rooted in the trash. we are hijacking the city and we will do what we want to do. unfortunately, you can fool some of the people some of the time, most of