that's what the transit project center is doing. the development of the tower, has committed to build i am improvements with the transit center and you will see mission square which will serve as the primary entrance to the square. it will allow public access and providing a meeting and resting place for travelers and workers and residents in the area. the workers in the tower will have direct access to the rooftop that will allow benefits to work in the neighborhood. we congratulate them to the project and welcome them to our community. [ applause ] i would now like to introduce the man who has been essential and continues to be vital to the project, ed lee, our mayor of san francisco. mayor lee firmly believed and supported the project since it's inception when he was at the department of public works and then as a city administrator. for that, i'm profoundly grateful. without your support we would not be here today. thanks to the plan to promote transportation and development. another infrastructure for sustainable development. m

i have been dreaming about this tower and the center for over 6 years. now, this is all going to be reality. i hope not for long we'll all gather here to celebrate the opening of the tower and the center. i have always loved san francisco. it's an incredible city. it's dynamic at the same time, it's gentle, it's an incredible place. we have designed the tower appropriate for this city. the tower will be a dynamic, elegant and very gracious. it will be building appropriate tower for this great city. now that it seems to be the tallest tower, but west of the mississippi, what a marvelous marker for this place. when you see it as a distance, this tower, you will know that the center is at it's space. when you arrive in san francisco from los angeles or san diego, you will be in this tower. so it's a marvelous combination to have the gateway to the city and the tallest building next to each other. it's an extraordinary combivenlths combination for the center, a new place for the city. the tower will raise into sky and we have designed it to be as delicate as

visitors information center. it was a freudian slip because it improved tremendously and it couldn't be in greater location. so all the visitors that come to san francisco from the airport stop right there and come here for information on things to do in the city. it's tremendous for me to be the general manager because i have concierge but the volunteers and the people here are an extension of concierge and giving information for all the visitors that come in and make this a world class city and really visit all the areas, the restaurants, the attractions and everything else this city has to offer. i want to thank again san francisco travel because they are the ones who market tourism, no. 1 industry in san francisco and again i want to thank you. i want to thank the volunteers. as mayor lee has said, you are the ones that truly breathe live into this city. and you give out information with just such authentic and hospitality to all the visitors around the world. they go back and tell their friends and tell them

this mostly centers around the family centers. so this is about child development. just a little bit more about our race to the top challenge money. that is a federal award we were given a grant for 3 had the $3 million. we are target our sites for children. we also are working in calibration with 5 other bay area that have received race to the top money. it's for efficiency and also that our families move around the bay area we want all the families to when they move they'll believable to assess the child development programs. we're also collecting a lot of data altogether and sharing assessors and the evaluation data and that's pretty exciting. harvey dunkin' is coming next week because we're the race to the top site is exciting. we're trying to promote school readiness this money is given us to so we can do qualify improvement services. they wanted us to build this high quality setting in the neighborhood where we have the lowest schools. but all our schools about benefit from the funding there. so here now john walked out - but here's our sustainability. we do h

this is effecting decreased hours as recreation and senior centers. we're really trying to avoid institutional facilities. i know my chimes are ripping here but d s p.s. go we're mandated by law and they're using this for an excuse to lay people off. your technology coordinator lost his job and that might not be legal >> good morning. i'm a student at city college. i want to voice my opinion on the accreditation related to city college. i wanted to give a little bit of my story are city college has given me a second chance out of high school i wasn't prepared to go straight into a four-year but the city college has provided that he with that. i'm on track. and i've bend so much and if we continue to put education, you know, aside, you know, a lot of people, you know, have the are smart and capable, you know, we're going to be i guess not giving them the opportunity to succeed. and some of the city colleges are producing some the leader and many of my peers are going on to higher institutions. so, please keep city college in mind >> good morning, mr. c

institutions in the city of san francisco including the air film festival the arab culture and committee center but also with the tamp pais public library to have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of san francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. (applause). . thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight it's always a pleasure for you go to welcome the community into city hall - because you remind us our purpose in government so to serve and you you certainly bring life and culture and community into our very state halls and bring life to us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant, those who are under served t

i love the fact that we are doing a tournament here at the center.hen i was in eighth grade i played on a basketball teechl. team. i have to admit i wasn't very good at it. i always aspired to be an nba player. regardless of playing in college or nba, i expect many of you have be leading us because of the leadership skills you are learning on >> this is smack in the middle of the tenderloin neighborhood where there are 50,000 people within walking distance. you see the kids that are using what's provided, but there is so much opportunity for this to be a stronger, more welcoming, healthier, cleaner, safer place for the people in this community to play. there are going to be new green areas, a full-size basketball court, outdoor fitness equipment, community gardens, a brand-new clubhouse. it's going to be a much more welcoming spot for a neighborhood that really needs it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 19

center here in san francisco. we have on call personnel for both gas and electric and our generation facilities who have responsibilities upwards of about 80 people each and every day, have to be available, available to come in on any notice. we have back-up facilities that can operate out of walnut creek in many cases, we also have a major back-up facility in san ramon where we can duplicate everything that we have in san francisco. in terms of back-up facilities, in terms of our ability to operate if something goes wrong we can bring up our emergency centers and that's for our corporate emergency center. pg&e actually operates over 70,000 square miles. we have 19 division and 55 districts and every one of those districts has an emergency room or what's often referred to as a storm room and any one of those can open up and handle any other location's facility so we in essence have at least 55 sites we can go to and try to operate from, but certainly with respect to the command structure and how we operate, we wan

for the center. the reason san center also braiting in bay view sudden fran and we have locations in marin and east palo alto as well. at renaissance we provide comprehensive services that attend to the business needs of entrepreneurs through start ups, launch and growth of their businesses and we do that through different services. we take a bird eye's approach and offer classes, workshops. we have technical assistance, one-on-one consulting. we own a building in the south of market neighborhood and we rent office space on a sliding scale that comes with supportive services. we're very nice landlords. we don't hook people into long lease focus it's not a good space for them. we let them move out. we have the bay view assistance center and loan packaging. last year through the center reason san packaged 16 loans totaling $591,000. people starting businesses tend to be feel isolated so we provide them with the communities through all these approaches. last year renaissance soma and bay view searched 8

the centers aren't required to meet the same standard as other childcare centers. bay area senator wants to change that. mary ann favro joins us in san jose with the changes he's proposing. >> reporter: well a lot of parents take advantage of this service offered by their gym. they can go in, get a workout for about an hour or so and the gym will take care of their kids. well those childcare centers they are not required by the states to do criminal background checks. that may soon change. >> trish sha bower considered putting her three-year-old child in the center at the gym until she checked it out. >> they have too many children in the facility. i would rather him monitored per person, eight to 10 kids, not like an abundance of 30 kids and there's one supervisor. >> she brings her kid to a state licensed day care center. the employees here must be 18, have a criminal background check and meet specific child to staff ratios. the state does not require the short term drop off centers like the ones you find in a gym to meet know of those rierts. >> if you're caring

and our small and big rec centers. and also when there's a limitation to be fulfill compliant we do the barriers that are necessary for saesht. those complete my presentation but i'd like to show you some of the facilities we have completed so far. i have some photos. i'm going to be switching - let me just close here i'm going to need a little bit of help here. we need the power point again, the images. okay, here we go. okay. those actually is one of our structures i think at a park. and you can see here that we we have rubber surface in the play ground areas that way it's assessable. it's assessable for children with all abilities too. this is an area that actually is a gathering area and as you see everything is the pavement is smooth. we have concrete and it's a good area for the praj of traffic. we make in our board in front of the clubhouse we set up picnic area and all the picnic areas will allow a wheelchair to be allocated and you can see the traffic from one side of the play grounded to the other one. right

kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of

not just because i am a former director of one of the most incredible arts cultural center in the city, but more importantly, the city owns four community cultural centers that play a vital role in preserving the arts and providing a space for affordable community arts, and they are in a really tough situation. and i know that they -- in this particular capital plan -- are on the deferred maintenance list yet again. and i just wanted -- i realize there are some additional funding, creative funding from the mayor's office on disability for a-d-a improvements, to the mission latino cultural center, as well as soma. and i think one of the things that may not have been mentioned in this report is the additional puc money that's coming on board to support these cultural centers, and also not clear about the specific plans around the bayview opera house. and, so, i know we're being asked to approve this report today, but i think there are some small adjustments that i'd like to see made, and i'd like to see some prioritizing of these cultural centers rather than there being in the deferred m

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center in manhattan, the san bernardino city hall, the pacific design center in los angeles and us embassy in tokyo japan and another project in washington. mr. pally has over 200 degrees for design excellence. he was list is as the no. 1 architect and greatest achievement in architecture. he has formulated conceptions of his design. the aesthetic qualities of a building should grow from characteristics of each project such as location, construction technology and a purpose. the tower is a marvelous expression of mr. pally's -- commitment. please welcome cesar pally. [ applause ] >> this is a very important day for me today. i have been dreaming about this tower and the center for over 6 years. now, this is all going to be reality. i hope not for long we'll all gather here to celebrate the opening of the tower and the center. i have always loved san francisco. it's an incredible city. it's dynamic at the same time, it's gentle, it's an incredible place. we have designed the tower appropriate for this city. the tower will be a dynamic, elegant and very gracious. it will be building appropri

breed when we were in her office just because of her experience in the african-american cultural center and the challenge of maintaining our facilities, the mode of streets and we have a large backlog. if we're not able to fund our good repair, renewal needs, renewal needs on a regular basis, the backlog grows. the purple line at the top shows the backlog growing at a faster rate than what our capital plan recommends, which is the red line. the reason for that is that when the capital plan makes its recommendation typically during the budget process, we funded renewals at about 33% of what we're recommending. so, that's one of our challenges, too, if we were able to better fund those, if we're able to commit to fully funding our renewals, then we would see this red line and the red line actually crosses in about 20 26, we would be funding our annual needs and address the city's renewal backlog. so, than is' what this graph is showing here. the line on the bottom is basically showing what's recommended in the capital plan. ~ the next graph, i guess, you know, further illustrates that poi