reserve five trains that are most common among carpenters. the apprentices are almost evenly divided among the major ethnic groups in san francisco, and women are better represented, comprising about 10% of this population. due to the large number of older look to see how many local residents were entering apprenticeship programs, even though we understand this is just a slice of the new entrants. this charts as the history of san francisco resident apprentice in takes over the last 10 years. when we compare the number of san francisco resident apprentices coming in between 2000 and 2009 to the number of san francisco apprentices that city billed directly ushered into apprenticeship programs, we found that by 2009, 44% of the san francisco resident in texas could be directly attributed to the city build program. the next slide -- this is the one everyone has enjoyed focusing on. it provides a picture of the overall resident hiring on city and county projects over the last 13 months. the total project hours. 14% were worked by san francisco re

because a lot of carpenters aren't. [ laughter ] and i think the word carpenter gets thrown around ar. and -- >> jimmy: yeah, that's serious. you do the fancy stuff? and do you still do that for -- >> no. >> jimmy: not at all? it wasn't fun? >> no, no, not even for fun. >> jimmy: when the guy comes to the house -- >> but i can -- i can say how i want it done and talk in the right language. >> jimmy: and does that take -- do these guys -- they might be taken aback by the fact -- >> i think they appreciate it that they are working for somebody who knows the difference between good and bad. >> jimmy: i would think so. and they might get the idea that they're going to be -- >> and they expect me to pay for it. >> jimmy: and then you have to pay as well. now this new movie, you play an anchorman. >> i do. a guy who has been in the business for 40 years, a network anchor man who is retired or has been pushed aside for a younger man. and then this ambitious young producer played by rachel mcadams manages to get him back -- he's still got a couple of years to go in his contract and he's a gr

reserve five trains that are most common among carpenters. the apprentices are almost evenly divided among the major ethnic groups in san

i was a carpenter 50 years ago. president peterson: bring the microphone up. >> this involves the horizontal extension and stop work orders. notice of violation not appeal by the permit holders are revoked. planning, threats over the counter under system, approved erroneous -- through its over- the-counter system, proved erroneous plans. based on this erroneous approval, they ever honestly issued the permit based on the errors. we learned that planning had given erroneous approval for the original plans, granting what will essentially -- granting what were essentially in proper permits. we appealed the revision permit for building the extension to the board on the grounds that it is not legal. the zoning administrator issued a decision that the permit history did not support legality. demonstrate the illegality through the permit history city documents, supporting testimony from the family that built it. the owners argued the extension is legal nonconforming and the city lost the permits and records. there is no evi

for example, myself a journeyman carpenter, i have been out of a job for three months. i have been trying very hard to find a job, but there has been no luck with many job applications. i have three kids in my family that need me to support them. every month, i need to pay off my home loans and also the auto loans. with only one job from my wife, it is impossible for me to support a family of five. i really need a job. therefore, i urge the board of supervisors to pass the mandatory local hiring legislation so i can find a job to support my family. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is wu chau chang. i am a member of the chinese progressive association. i used to work in a restaurant. i have been unemployed for five months. i do not even have unemployment benefits. my husband is a construction worker. he is the head of the household. his work ability is very insecure. right now he is unemployed. every month, he has only a few days of work. being the head of the family, he has to bear a lot of stress and depression.

because a lot of carpenters aren't. [ laughter ] and i think the word carpenter gets thrown around ahat he would get for just sitting on his butt, he's compelled to go back and do the lowest rated morning show as a co-host to diane keaton. >> jimmy: so -- it's -- >> he ain't happy about it. >> jimmy: local regis is what are you kind of going for? did you -- did you go and research the role with anchor people? >> no, but i sort of knew, you know, what the references were and, the script was very well written. i knew what i was supposed to do. >> jimmy: you've seen the news, you know what they do. >> i have seen the news. >> jimmy: it is a special skill, though, because sometimes you'll see movies where an actor is playing just a reporter, and it's -- >> yeah, that was assumed. and so diane and i were both asked by the director, roger michelle, to attend anchorman school. which was -- >> jimmy: there is one? >> taught right here in los angeles. and we heard things like, just look into the camera and pretend it's a friend of yours you're talking to. >> jimmy: really? [ applause ] even l

. >> as a carpenter you have to let them know what's expected and they need to know the stuff to get going on the trades. >> the main thing they need to know is how to carry the stuff on the job and the hussle. >> you can't work with the gloves. >> my part is a small part. my part is the best part. the part that really teaches them how to go out and fish rather than go to the fish market. my job is how to teach them to fish when the fish market is closed. >> this requires i thinking. when you go on the job site they will pay you 20-15, dollars an hour you have to think and figure stuff out and get the jobs done in a record time. >> one of the things we try to teach with the construction trades is your attitude going to work. how employers look on new workers and it's about profitability and productivity. it's not how much swings it takes to drive, you know, ita about do you have the right attitude? can you show up on time? can you make the company money? >> 12.5 times 15. >> i don't want you to use the calculator. >> the students go through approximately 420 some hours of training. w

commissioner: we have two agreements with the carpenters? >> we have a joint one, and then each craft has their own one to that common agreement. vice president mendoza: thank you. i have no speaker cards. roll call, please. secretary: [reading roll] that is five ayes. vice president mendoza: we have an action item. a reading a recommendation from the superintendent. thank you. >> ok, i'm here to enter any questions you may have about williams. ok, that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district accepts the report from the independent auditors for the williams oversight visits for school year 2010-2011 of the district's thirty deciles 13 school was based on the 2009 api. vice president mendoza: i do not have any speaker cards. commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: i actually found these reports interesting, particularly the moving up and down. thankfully, more moved up and moved down -- than moved down, but i am wondering about monitoring this process. do we give feedback to the state? it seems to me that the diffe

commissioner: we have two agreements with the carpenters? >> we have a joint one, and then each craft has their own one to that common agreement

if you look at carpenter's, laborers represent the bulk of the hours. both are above 40% participation rate on these projects. a lot of this is opportunities that lbe businesses in san francisco have to participate. we are trying to encourage them to do more. to give a sense of the trades that are more middle -- where we did not have too much representation -- you have a whole set of additional trades that are at 10% or greater in terms of participation. again, i wanted just to give you an illustration that there are san francisco residents in a vast majority of the trades that touch public work in san francisco. there are some here that you can see we did not have very many hours. if you look at the brick tenders, elevator construction, and the field surveyor, we did not have a lot of hours. we spent a lot of time focused on the craft that have opportunities and hours in order to try to make some changes. quickly moving on to the pipeline in terms of how we can influence -- chairperson maxwell: every tall building has elevators. we are not letting them

after ernestine, we have adele carpenter. >> i am rachel and i am here for the same reason as barbara i am a resident here in san francisco and a senior at usf. i will talk about the pacific recycling water project at sharp park, which is not on the agenda. i wanted to bring attention to the fact that this recycling -- recycled water project is going to devote 80% of the water to this golf course, which in no way am i against the use of recycled water. unfortunately, the future of sharp park golf courses on certain. the use of sharp park may soon change, which means the $5 million recycled water pipeline project may be a waste of federal stimulus dollars. furthermore, sf puc has said during their meeting held on september 28, 2010, that redirecting recycled water from sharp park would be difficult. the city should not be wasting stimulus bonds. restoration, species recovery, and building a better part aligned with the public values of not wasting any of our tax dollars and money, and water. the reason why the species recovery is so important and the reason why we should not give so mu

i am a carpenter's apprentice. i am glad you are bringing this up, because it is a big issue. i do not know where to start, because i have a lot of things i have been dealing with. what is the the top of my head is that the contractor -- they are telling me i have to talk to the contractors association as far as changing the bargain agreement as far as how behind the process is. a contractor can come in here, and if they want to hire someone, they have to give a request. they can do of course job and not hire new ones. they're bringing workers from other jobs, and that is giving them credit for having 50% that they are supposed to meet their goal. this did pass. it is a good dana you are talking about this. -- a good thing you are talking about. i got laid off and had no one to back me up, and i thought that was not right. i feel this is a good legislation to pass. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i think the big picture is you do not have enough jobs. we need to work harder to get more jobs. all these people are asking for jobs. that is the big picture. local hiring is gave, bu

that means a lot, maybe not to the planning commission, but it means a lot to union and nonunion carpenters and laborers and engineers. we don't have a lot of good news happening right now. this is exciting for me, and i would kind of like to see some commissioner step up and see if we could increase the density. the knee-jerk reaction is to find a way to reduce the density. it seems like the answer, the green party gentleman earlier was suggesting we do very little or retrofit with the existing, but density is the answer. density is the greenway to live. manhattan is the greatest way to live, and we all live in a tower and everything is centralized and there is large space between the towers. that is actually a greenway to live, greener than 25-foot high house is, as we were talking about earlier. it was almost like we were trying to talk about the project as if it should be in the context of sunset. those are endless two-story houses, that is not the green way to live. i would challenge some commissioner to say maybe we could increase the density. commissioner moore was talking about the

janitors, carpenters, laborers and operators are here, too. thank you to all of you. also to the mayor, he is the one that started the jobs program, here in san francisco. i want to let you know how the program works. the program is done september 30. now we have these four guys coming out of there and we have to give them a chance to go forward. they want to do something good. that is why we have these three apprentices here. more than 50% of these guys are san francisco residents. i do not know about the rest of the projects, but this one we have more than 50% from san francisco. thank you for helping us to make this project go forward. >> thank you. [applause] ok, benji, let's talk about community support. i did not know there was such a robust community of bocce players in our city. we talked to our partners, neighborhood groups, i see the folks from the barbara coast, and jerry crowley, one of the great leaders of san francisco, and they showed us the way to put the community support you need to put a project like this together in a public space. the most fun com

and saturday officers arrested 3 juveniles along with 27-year-old jones of hayward and 18-year-old carpenterm san francisco. >> messerly attorneys are asking for his release from jail now while his appeal for his voluntary manslaughter conviction in the death of oscar grant continues. san francisco chronicle reports that messerly bail hearing is scheduled for december 3rd. earlier this month the judge sentence theed the former bart police officer to two years in prison for shooting grant at the fruitvale bart station on new years day 2009. with credit for time served he could be released in seven months. >> crime baffling as it is senseless. someone killed a swan in san francisco over the weekend. and tonight there's very little to go on. lee is at the palace of fine arts with the story tonight. lee? >> yes. the swans have been swimming in the lagoon since 1915 since the panama exposition. there were 14 at one point condition including some babies. killing over the weekend brings the population to just one. >> i'm the one that pulled her out and her neck was broke clean through. >>reporter:

he was a carpenter and used to make beautiful chairs. he made her a coffin as an airplane.an. some are literal and some are figurative. that's a figurative, and that would be a snail so a chief would get buried in one as a snail. why? >> thank you. >> because a snail or tortoise goes very slowly before it arrives at its destination. >> okay. >> so the chief said he goes very slowly but always gets there. >> oh, come on. >> that would be somebody who loves motor vehicles, someone who is fashionate about cars and this company in ghana is very, very successful. but look at the beauty, look at the detail. it's a celebration of life. >> okay but you said they've been around for years? >> this is the third generation they're doing this and that's the tortoise. >> why would somebody want them in. >> a chief, tortoises go very slowly but they're always getting to where they're going. this idea of a deliberate person so a lawyer might do a tortoise or a chief, and that would be a crab, probably a fisherman. >> okay. >> and there was a beautiful one of somebody had a lot of children,