chris daly: the tenderloin has a bad rap you know in terms of, some people think it's dirty and it's intersection of a lot of social ills. but i see the tenderloin as one of the vibrant neighborhoods in san francisco. in terms of the activity in the tenderloin, the diversity in the tenderloin, the community initiatives and efforts that happen in the tenderloin. and a rich history the neighborhood and it's identity against a backdrop of an encroaching hospitality district and financial district. jerry jai: those stereotypes were in my mind when i first started, when my experience with the tenderloin started. there were other aspects that attracted me to the neighborhood and that over time i've grown to understand better and appreciate. those are the sort of more hidden aspects of the neighborhood that i think are really interesting and important that people don't hear about as much. jerry: the 2004 census found that there are 30,000 people in the tenderloin. that's 5% almost, almost 5% of the city population. it's an extremely dense neighborhood. there are a lot of people living in th

we met district 6's supervisor, chris daly, while he was visiting residents of an sro hotel now managed by the city. the success at the mission hotel is one example, of halting decades of decline, in the very heart of san francisco. the story of what is now district 6, is just the most current chapter of center city's long history. charles fracchia: districts began in the gold rush and were pretty much a part of all the 19th century. with a few exceptions, you've cobbled together e bunch of neighborhoods, and so districts are largely pretty much disparate areas. they take in a whole variety of different kinds of neighborhoods. in district 6, you've got part of the embarcadero, art of the old wharf area, which was always a very distinctive part of san francisco. and then you've got the rincon hill, which is pretty much gone. and then you've got that corridor all the way down to the mission, which is what we call mixed use place. so you've got that. you go down into the inner mission, which is one of the old historic areas of san francisco as well, centered around mission dolores. which w

i'm supervisor dufty and i'm joined by chris daly and supervisor campos who is a

-- chris daly? he has been absent for how long?urthermore, this will tear us apart and scattered along the island indefinitely, not keep us together as a group, and then make it so onerous, that we have no interest in staying. i expect to move from a 3- bedroom apartment to a 1-bedroom apartment on treasure island. after that, priced us up out of the ybi. why not price have the land to accommodate the residents that are there today. we know we have somewhere to come back to. we can take care of ourselves during redevelopment. furthermore, the cab has failed us. it ignored us and shut us out. each time that i attended a cab, after an over presentation, what to do one resident was on the board, who joined, six months ago? rolling every time he speaks about our concerns. >> thank you. >> commissioners, good morning. tony ganter. for many, it is startling to see the one ring bridge when they approach. are we not comfortable with the historic scale of the building is currently on the island? is this not something to be maintained? and d

i'm supervisor dufty and i'm joined by chris daly and supervisor campos who is a temporary member and sandy fewer and i believe we'll be joined shortly by commissioner mendoza. i want to acknowledge that our committee clerk is joining us from the school district and, madam clerk, you call the first item on the agenda. >> thank you. 0005, blow low achieving schools and the improvement grant. >> i want to welcome supervisor campos and thank him for organizing our discussion today and -- ask that he cannot vene and share this item for us. >> thank you so much. and thank you to the commissioners for from the school board to being here today. and i want to thank the clerk, miss casco having worked with her in a different capacity, it is great to see her here and we're lucky to have her here. i also want to thank the chair of the committee, supervisor dufty, for cosponsoring this item. this item came about because a lot has been said in the last couple of months about what is happening with low achieving schools in the san francisco unified scoot district and specifically what is happening

mayor daly struggling to get 100 new police officers. 179 f.b.i. agents in this case, chris, went around asking questions of people: do i gamble? which i don't. do i do drugs? which i don't. and the most sickening question, am i unfaithful to my wife patti, which i'm not. i'm devoted, love her and i'm faithful. the idea your tax dollars and mine are spent on questions like that should raise questions and they should be posed to the prosecutors persecuting me. >> chris: governor, let's get to the central charge against you in this case, not about whether or not you did drugs or were unfaithful, but whether or not you wanted to sell the senate seat of barack obama after he was elected president. the jury believed you were guilty by a vote of 11 -- excuse me, sir. they believed you were guilty by a vote of 11-1. here are some of the phone conversations you made that the government secretly reco recorded. let's listen. >> i've got this thing. it's [bleep] golden. i'm just not giving it up for [bleep] nothing. i'd like to get [bleep] out of here. objective is get the good gig ove