my name is michael and i'm here to lend my voice in support of christine johnson's nomination. i have had the pleasure of working with her. i run the office at the hunters point shipyard. christine just has an incredible capacity to be able to intake information and as others have said, to ask the right questions. but one thing i did want to say, her commitment is just way aboveboard. i think in the years that she served on the cac, she may have missed three meetings out of hundreds of meetings. so again i just wanted to lend my support. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor. brook solomon with rdj enterprises. as a firm, working in and for the southeast, we have had the distinct pleasure of working with and witnessing commissioner johnson's engagement with elected officials, department heads, community leaders, community members, families in an effort to address land use issues in the bayview. and the successful result of those efforts in tandem with her finance background, we're wildly excited to endorse this recommendation to the seat for commissioner johnson and strongly

we're speaking on christine johnson, but also to uplift sonia melara and gwyneth borden. christine has been an asset not just to the southeast neighborhood, but she is more than just an african-american woman and representative, she is a representative of the entire san francisco. she is a representative of a generation that struggles to be in between folks that are currently holding power and folks that are looking to assume some more responsibility. she has risen to the occasion. i personally asked her to meet and confer with labor and the mayor's office as my representative and kept me attuned to what was going on. what was most impressive, she was able to use her financial prowness to help bring enlightenment on a labor issue, a labor dispute which ultimately resulted in a peaceful resolution. so i'm happy to add my name in support of miss christine johnson and hope that you move her forward. thank you. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. and thank you, supervisor cohen for your comments especially as a representative of the district that i know miss johnson has been wo

. >> i would like to make a motion to amend item 4 to approve christine johnson to the planning commission. >> okay. any objections? seeing none, amendments are passed. >> and then make a motion to send forward with positive recommendation a motion approving christine johnson to the planning commission. >> okay. and seeing no objections, motion passes, congratulations. [ applause ] >> thank you. madame clerk, could i have item no. 5. >> item no. 5 is the charter amendment for the november 4th, 2014 election to provide retiri health care benefits to employees who transfered from the redevelopment agency or the successor agency. >> so supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. yes, colleagues, so thank you again for allowing me an opportunity to come to this committee. and present to you a hearing item today. this is a proposed charter amendment, a narrowly crafted resolution to transition approximately 38 employees who were formerly employed by the redevelopment agency. and as many of you know in 2012, there were in 2012 we were all reeling from the governor's decision to abolish the redevel

. >> item no. 4 is motion approving or rejecting the mayor's nomation of christine johnson for the planning commission for a term ending june 30, 2018. >> christine. >> good afternoon chair yee and supervisors tang and campos, thank you for having me today. i'm honored to be nominated for the planning commission and before you to present my desire and present my qualifications to serve. i came from the east coast ten years ago and i'm now proud to call san francisco my home. in that time i have not only built a personally life for myself, but a civic one. i'm a district 6 resident and the majority of my efforts have been addressed to addressing the challenges and opportunitis in the southeast portion of the city. i have served on the hunters point shipyard cac and currently serve as the chair on community investment -- [speaker not understood] i have taken on these responsibilities over time in addition to a full-time career in public finance because i'm deeply committed to working in whatever capacity i can to make sure this city is a vibrant and hospitable place for everyone who wants to

. >> item 66 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination of christine d. johnson to the planning commission, for a four-year term ending june 30, 2018. >> same house same call, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 67 is a motion confirming the mayor's nomination of, and appointing, sonia melara to the police commission, for the unexpired portion of a four-year term ending april 30, 2018. >> same house same call, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 68 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination of rodney fong to the planning commission, for a term ending june 30, 2018. >> same house same call, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 69 is a charter amendment (fourth draft) to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to: 1) extend the children's fund for 25 years and increase the set-aside from three cents to four cents over a four-year period; 2) extend the public education enrichment fund for 26 years; 3) create an our children, our families council and require preparation of a children and fami

>> they're not in mine but christin ayers with a rare discovery in one fremont home that has people wondering could there be more? >> reporter: mindy johnson loves a good mystery. >> i like puzzles and mysteries. so it was rice up my alley. >> reporter: it's one of the reasons why she's a doe sent at fremont's historic patterson house. the former home of a prominent family now turned museum. in january, mindy and her colleagues stumbled across this. >> lifting up the sheet, up here was this portrait of this very lovely woman. and well, who is she? >> reporter: it was as workers here at patterton house were packing away their annual christmas decorations that they found the painting in the last place they would have expected. >> it is the classic story. you know. treasure found in the attic. >> reporter: no one knows how long she was sitting there in elegant 1920s era daily reclining -- lady reclining in a chair painted by a man called john koch. >> find out that he was quite a well-known painter. beginning in the mid '30s. >> reporter: but would take a trip to the pbs show antiques road show to find out this may very well be the earliest p

christine king ferris. thank you for being with us today. this day, of course, would not be possibly without your parents and certainly would not be possible at all without president lyndon johnsoncl [ applause ] again, as we gathered n the rotunda under the gaze of president lincoln we recall the gettysburg address when the great emancipator harkened back not to the constitution but to the declaration of independence. ours was a new nation, he said, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. that is the promise of america and in making that promise come true that was the dream of dr. martin luther king, jr. and coretta scott king. a century after the gettysburg address, a century later, dr. king stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial and called our nation to act on those words to reassert the vision of our founding fathers. a year later, dr. king stood as an honored guest as president johnson signed the civil rights bill into law. 50 years later, here we are, the law stands as a pillar of fairness, justice, and equality and enduring testament to the sole force of dr. king and coretta scott king. the civil rights act transformed ou

. >> christine and i are thinking the same thing, good for woody johnson. >> we have a long road ahead>> absolutely. >> make sure the sacrifices on the battlefield. >> veterans are coming back with a different brand of injuries. have a great day, everybody. lot of news to cover. let's get you over to "the newsroom" with ana cabrera in for carol costello. >> hello, ladies. the ladies show today i like it. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning, thanks for joining us. i'm ana cabrera. glad to have you with us. let's start with news just in on the strength of the economy, and moments ago we learned 288,000 jobs were added last month. now that pushes the unemployment rate down two notches to 6.1%. this is now the lowest unemployment rate we've seen since september of 2008. joining us to discuss, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans and alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. christine, we start with you. break down these numbers for us. how significant is this?

johnson, columnist for the national memo and author of "divided, the perils of our growing inequality" and brian murphy, an msnbc contributor. david, how did new jersey come to this? >> well, when christine whitman, another republican was elected office in 1994, she stopped putting money into the pension plan so that she could finance tax cuts. and as you just heard the governor say, there have only been two years in the last 17 that they put money in. chris christie got elected and got votes by saying i will see to it that we put in the necessary money, an extra $600 million for seven years, that his office said would be sufficient to provide people with the benefits they earned for their retirement. >> now, he was very clear in his rhetoric there in the past that he did consider this to be benefits money earned by these people. and he has now decided, even though they earned it, but they're not going to get it. >> as the tour guide for the real world, this that world, it looks like he never intended to keep that promise to put $600 million in. because as soon as -- even in -- legislators complain about this all the time when he made his state of the state address in january, he was alr

christine king ferris. thank you for being with us today. this day, of course, would not be possibly without your parents and certainly would not be possible at all without president lyndon johnsoncl [ applause ] again, as we gathered n the rotunda under the gaze of president lincoln we recall the gettysburg address when the great emancipator harkened back not to the constitution but to the declaration of independence. ours was a new nation, he said, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. that is the promise of america and in making that promise come true that was the dream of dr. martin luther king, jr. and coretta scott king. a century after the gettysburg address, a century later, dr. king stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial and called our nation to act on those words to reassert the vision of our founding fathers. a year later, dr. king stood as an honored guest as president johnson signed the civil rights bill into law. 50 years later, here we are, the law stands as a pillar of fairness, justice, and equality and enduring testament to the sole force of dr. king and coretta scott king. the civil rights act transformed ou