>> as i mentioned, the city has three lines that feed into the city. they operate at a much lower pressure although they do have pressure. they operate at 145 pounds. they do not have the same stresses in terms of pipeline stresses. for the city of san francisco the primary concern we have is third-party diggings. contractor dig into the pipeline because the city has a great deal of activity around the city at all times. that is our primary concern for the gas system at large. mr. lee mentioned earlier we reached out to the contractors and escalators in the area. pg&e also reached out to the entire peninsula and is putting out additional as for what we call 811, call before you did. we believe that is the biggest risk to san francisco. we appreciate working with the city and fire chief on eliminating that risk altogether. supervisor mirkarimi: you are likely to take this sensitivity, but try not to, but when you go before the cpuc on rate hikes for capital repairs, this is what i was asking the city, for us to be able to zero in on what we can expect o

or any other city. we discussed objectives, time lines, and what we would do as we move forward. we talked about pipeline shut down practices in the history that were discussed specific to san francisco. we also requested detailed maps of the natural gas pipeline infrastructure within the city and county. on september 16, the following friday after the explosion, several of us went to the mayor and did a site visit where the explosion occurred. following up on that, september 23 we had requested maps officially i am writing, not only at that meeting, that there was a delivery to the fire department maps of the city and distribution lines and transmission lines coming into the city. the main difference was also explained that there are distribution lines throughout the city. the transmission lines, obviously under much higher pressure, causing an explosion or part of the explosion, there are three main transmission lines coming into san francisco. on that day the gas line distribution maps were delivered

but it's geographicic of the city. from the golden gate heights and the little area called the extension triangle and the park and inaudiblee lake shore, lake side. we have a number of distinct -- welcome to the latest addition of the district -- i am jennifer low. today we are focusing on district 7. the district between the lake and zoo. to remain something of a mystery of san francisco. let's find the charm of district 7. >> look at this, it's one of the most unique strips in all of san francisco. we have the unique neighborhoods to make san francisco what it is. they are unique and distinct and have their own characteristics. that's what we love. >> i think the most characteristic in district 7 you have residents that have been here forever. you have generations. i am fourth generation san franciscoian. you have a lot of people that live in san francisco that live in the sunny side and lived out here for years. as a result you have a real concern and care for just basic quality of life and community issues. i think

great city and to be working for it. 21 years ago, when i first started, i did not like the city government at all. in fact, i spent some quality years litigating it. i was challenged at that time and continue to be challenged by various mayors and members of the board of supervisors to come in and make those changes, and today, i'm proud of the staff i have assembled at the general services administration, proud of the 26,000 people i get to work with to deliver services to san franciscans and the people who visit here as well. there is anything i continue reflecting on that amazes me, -- if there is anything i continue reflected on -- if there is anything i continue reflecting on that amazes me, it is the diversity of our citizens. we need to make sure that we treat them equally and make sure that our cultural competence reverberates are around every single department of the city. that is what makes me proud to be part of this government and to continue doing what i can to contribute to it. with that, i am proud to serve with you and serve a number of programs. it would take all day to go

for our city also live in our city. they live in our neighborhoods. they care about the places they work for and they work in. and i think a lot of that, you'll see, as they -- as we go forward, because of all of the work and hard work that they have done. i am so excited today. i'm excited about the valley community, the library is amazing. and that's because community and people had a lot to do with it. the center is really off the hook, real different, so come and see and you'll get a taste of the valley greenway. i have to thank the p.u. crfment but because -- because a lot of property came from the p.u.c. i want to thank the community and the folks that made this lap. it was really a city effort to make it what it is. thank you, fran, thank you, nick. thank you for all of your work. thank you. thank you supervisor maxwell for the leadership. if it weren't for her, we wouldn't be here today and you wouldn't seat library and other things happening. we had references to the public utilities commission. on the face of

it got clear incentives from the city. the city decided it was necessary and went ahead with it. you have a handout that shows a recent project in portland, portland state, 16 stories. the need is absolutely fair. what we would like to see, and as ms. sullivan said, it should not hurt or displace any existing residential, and it should adapt to new use or new construction. we have no view of the merits of one or the other. the resulting in the staff report about the conversion of large hotels. -- there was something in the staff report about the conversion of large hotels. 100 units is not very big. i believe that is the threshold for a large hotel. it is not hard to imagine there are some hotels that are not successful in their current condition and might be better converted to student housing. i think the ordinance or rules already permit them to apply for a lottery for conversion to condo. why should we prohibit student housing as a use for that? we think it does not displace anybody, err on the side of making it more livable. we took the question of affordability seriously. i

council and daily city. i use this as an example to help bridge the gap that we live in. we live in a food desert. we have very little access to good quality, healthy food. one of the things that i'm interested in bringing is with the development in universal paragon, the southern-most part of the city, there's an opportunity for us to first sustain the businesses that have been providing some food supplies as well asfh4jl- parth developers that understand our challenges and that are willing to bring healthy food options to the southeast part of san francisco. so to answer the question on bay vurek i'd like to see a farmer's market specifically designated on the hill. thank you. >> thank you very much. that minute is tough, we know. >> thank you. i'm christine inea. my ideas for bringing fresh produce into district 10 are as follows. one, support the opening of the fresh and easy market in third street on bay view. two, continue to support the redevelopment, which i believe will include a full service groce

in the city in case the city earth shakes, shakes, shakes the ground breaks, brakes, breaks in the city in the city i know you have lots of money i can tell why fix it up all around that would be swell in case the earth shakes, shakes, shakes the brown bricks, brakes, breaks all around all-around in case the earth shakes, shakes, shakes the ground breaks, brakes, breaks in the city. i know you have lots of money you can fix it up the best in the world that would be swell. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. seeing no other member of the public, we will close public comment. motion from supervisor mirkarimi. without objection. forward with recommendations. mr. young, item 11. >> item 11. resolution approving the city and county of san francisco 2010 grant application for the united states department of housing and urban development continuum of care programs and fulfilling the san francisco board of supervisors' review and approval process for all annual or otherwise recurring grants of $5,000,000 or more. >> hello, supervisors. i work for the human services agency housing and homel

city. the probability it's going to take place, yeah, i'm telling you, on one night we had two incidents take place. people living here in the marina, let's say, did it impact you? no, very low impact. but it happens quite often in san francisco. sizing up, looking at incendiary explosive events, primary danger is obvious. biological chemical -- let's get back here. can you see? biological, radio logical event may take place there. biological, thinking about anthrax, plague, don't really worry about prairie dog colonies here in san francisco. botulism. routes, you notice we've talked about that before, how would these agents get into our body system? inhaling it, ingesting, eating it or skin absorption, coming in contact with it. nuclear device, there's different types, there's nuclear dirty bombs radioactive release. incendiary incident, any kind of mechanical or electrical device used to start a fire. different nerve factors. the department of transportation, explosive devices take place,

the issue from the time the city gave mr. jacobson notice was about whether or not on the city side or on the property owner's side. i think that is clear. >> after mr. jacobsen -- we clearly it acknowledged there was a problem. you could see the sewage coming out of the trap. the question is why was it coming out? was a problem with the jacobsen's property or city property? when the jacobsen were notified about the problem, he had a plumber come out and he said that the problem was out in the city lines. there was discussion between jacobson and the city about that. the city said we decided it is on your property. there was a notice of violation that said there was a problem with the house trap, but did not specify the problem. how is it effective? it is my understanding that typically if there is a problem with the house trap, sewage will back up into the house, as opposed to the street. that said, the bottom line here, after all these years, the work has been completed, it has been finalized, it is code compliant, and the

some of the major hotels in the city. we looked at other cities. we got some reports about how they have been able to replace their d.c. cables and go to a non-d.c. cable system to power the city. we are also meeting with pg&e about the possibility that they completely remove oil-based transformers in the city. we believe there is new technology out there that is being tried from other cities. we are looking at that as well, trying to get the best practices from very large urban settings, old settings like los angeles, chicago, new york, and getting their history of transformer explosions. we will do the same thing with gas line explosions. and we will be working with the puc and pga to determine what best practices would be. i wanted to provide you with a few of those highlights. we can produce a more adequate report that will cover the year and a half of meetings we have had. at the same time, i want to let you know these power outages resulting from electricity, we have kept a log, but down the road, we could probably use the services of 311 to

as a city, we need to do better. i have been working with policy makers to draft this ordinance for the construction industry that will save 50% local hiring requirement on the public works. the plan would make real the current goal of 50% local hire ring, and substituting the requirement with a mandate to meet gulf the rise in the next few years. developers and contractors can be awarded incentives, including points on future projects and penalties for failing to meet the goal. the reasons for supporting local hiring are numerous. there are many public works projects that will be in the pipeline. it is important we make sure the dollars we invest in these projects can stay in san francisco and support local communities, so i want to call up representatives from -- we have not rest with the office of economic workforce development common region we have chris from the office of economic work force of -- we have chris from the office of work-force development. after these speakers, i want to talk about the makeup of th

really a city agency. it is a private nonprofit organization. they were actually surprised they were included in the code. i thought it was reported to delete them from this ordinance. with that, i am happy to answer any questions you might have about this matter. supervisor campos: colleagues, any questions? supervisor alioto-pier? supervisor alioto-pier: thank you, mr. shen. just explain to me the following head that you took out, commit to college board, housing board, redevelop an agency, office of citizens complete -- why did we remove those? >> i do not believe they were removed from the code altogether. are you speaking to the part that says they need to file with the ethics commission? supervisor alioto-pier: page 4, it is one of the few changes that you all made. i am curious why. >> the first few pages of the amendment, roughly pages 2 to 7, and corporate question from the ethics commission. they wanted to be able to point people to something in the ordinance that says who needs to file with the

officer of the city. ed lee is here. [applause] thank you, ed. we appreciate it. we are appointing people to various boards and commissions. you are familiar, i am sure of the good work at the asian arts commission and how proud we are to have this remarkable institution that has not yet gotten the recognition it deserves. it is remarkable around the rest of the world people talk about it but not around our neighborhoods. we need to promote this extraordinary institution which has the most comprehensive collection of asian artifacts of any museum of its type in the u.s. it is right there in your backyard, right there next to the migrant building. please talk about it, not just members of the commission. please encourage our students and families to celebrate the remarkable contribution of the asian community which really built this city, in many ways. i am proud that we will be appointing some familiar faces that have done a lot to promote the asian art museum but have never formally been on the commissio

it is a network of 25 cities, 12 in the u.s., 13 in europe, and oakland is one of those cities, but i, of course, wearing my regional hat, have looked to expand what i have been learning through the network and the opportunities that present themselves to the network and to expand that. and where better to bring a cycling delegation than to the city of san francisco, a city very much on the verge of, i think, turning the tide in favor of cycling where there are 40-some-odd, 43-plus projects waiting in the wings for the environmental lawsuits to come to a close. so it is very exciting to have the opportunity for the delegation to come here, and i think the timely honkly, could not be -- honestly, could not be better. they have spent just over a day in the city of oakland doing a bit of a bike tour, meeting with elected officials there and a community open house last night where we had 80 folks turn out to listen to their talk. the other thing, obviously the public support and the public interest in this issue is alive and well and i think it's wonderful to see. i will also say that non

. -- city center. bike safety is an enormous issue that has been tackled successfully in the netherlands. there are specific engineering improvements like signals, mirrors attached to traffic lanes, specific areas of the road protected for cyclists which has led to a dramatic increase in safety. if you look at cycling fatalities in the netherlands, the united states actually has a rate 6 times higher than what you see there. the more investment unit, the saver is for everyone on the road. given the number of bikes on the road in european countries, there are significant theft policies. everything from being able to tag them, track them, and law enforcement who takes bike theft seriously. finally, one important cultural element of the netherlands is just as we spend time in our high schools and with adults engaged in driver education, in the netherlands there is significant education started at a young age, often at the early elementary school years. the last thing i want to mention, there are questions

today's summit will serve as a model for other cities across america. thank you for this opportunity, mr. newsom and latoya cantrell to congratulate daniel homsey of the neighborhood services for leading today's great event and for launching of the neighborhood empowerment net work website empower sf. org. the best of luck, speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. [applause]. >> just amazing that young lady started as an intern in our office 3 years ago and came in and said, i want to make a difference. we should applaud her success it's just amazing. [applause] i would like to introduce your mayor gavin c. newsom. >> thank you very much for coming out. big round of applause for daniel homsey and his hard work bringing this together getting all the staff and volunteers the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other departmenting that are here we are very thankful. daniel has been talking about this for what seems a millennium. you imagine being the mayor's office of neighborhood services how demanding that job is. the calls you get for service. we got

we think it would be really great if the city can also follow suit and provide that in the city, providingh needed child care on site. i also want to let you know that the san francisco child care providers association submitted a letter of support for this legislation. unfortunately, my colleague was not able to be here in person. i just wanted to let you know that, and we want to thank supervisor dufty for his leadership in introducing this legislation. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am lisa. again, we would like to move forward in support of this ordinance. the first time we visited all of the child care facilities in the city, you are right, supervisor dufty, we cannot stuff them into places and after the fact try to fix them up. it is not on a cost-effective, but what you end up with in the end is not the quality we want for the children. we looked comparatively across counties, and we see in san francisco, and we hear from our providers, when we look at the elements of quality in regards to facilities, of programs do not -- our programs do not rank, and access to water

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this is a city that is doing things that no other city in the united states of america could even imagine doing, things that even when we had all the resources in the world and all the capacity, things that cities could not do. this commitment to an acute care, facility, a skilled nursing facility -- what county is having a ribbon cutting on a new nursing facility in this modern age? and what city and county can lay claim to comprehensive universal health care, regardless of pre- existing conditions, regardless of your ability to pay? dr. mitch kastz has been the architect of all of this. thank you for your leadership. there is the old play towline that if there is any hope for the future of those with lanterns will pass them on to others. let me talk about those that carry bright lights, that pass those lanterns on to others. many of them you will hear in just a moment, because they are appropriately on stage and will be recognized for their own work. one is the former mayor, willie gramm, who deserves a tremendous amount of credit for envisioning the bonds that brought us here. i want t

this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also pass around a few sheets. the important thing is that amsterdam is one of the five major economic central's -- economic centers in europe, and we want to stay that way, and we are an attractive city for international business, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. experts like to live in amsterdam, and is accessible from all parts of the world. it is also very important case of cycling. what irony said, 2.2 million and happens, but the last line may be the most important, about 120 kilometers per day traffic jams. that is qu7?) a lot. this distance is not more than 25k. we have a real problem. that is not good for business. for us, it is active transport, really important as a solution for being accessible. ok, does it work? yes. this is the city

and other cities does not always get right. she was a particularly strong voice for that. i most familiar with her through my work with homeless kids. not only did she support that program through her work and the mayor's office of criminal justice, but when she went on to become an employee of wachovia and wells fargo, funding these programs and getting other people to be aware of their programs, not just simply cutting a check, but showing up at our vigils, at job training programs and helping advocate for young people, so she really brings a whole perspective of justice to her work and real sensitivity to young people and making sure that all people are brought to the table and all people and stakeholders are brought forth in the discussion. i also come here representing richard fuentes, my partner. he was the developer for mission economic development agency a few years ago, and he asked me to share with you that agnes was a leading proponent and one of the largest supporters of the program, so she really has her hand aroun

it is part of the city's budget and accountability process. the question we have is what is the industry afraid of. being held accountable to a master plan? planning commissioners have told you earlier they needed this plan in place prior today. so why are they -- why is the health-care industry pushing an amendment to make the effective date 2013? should we be working to put this plan in place as quickly as possible? the work supervisor campos and his staff have done to credit legislation, as alex said before me, to incorporate input from community-based organizations, is solid. the changes alex read just prior to me speak to the substance of the supervisors' work. and the intent of the legislation, just to remind you, is to make sure we are moving projects forward in order to create a framework for planning and health to work together. we are talking about land use proposals. they involve a certain amount of time. as the planning commissioners testified before, they need to be able to move projects and do not have the tools to be able to do

our job is to legislate and work with the city departments and city agencies to run the city better. to be an effective voice for you have basically in city hall. so what i like to say to you is you use us to leverage your goals and objectives as it relates to the city. some of the things that we have done to build the comprehensive view is that working with the neighborhood organizations as they talked about the pta. the supervisors on the pta as well. connecting the dots between the community based organizations that are running the programs that are for the youth, for the adults and taking a look at the goal and the vision of what the neighborhood wants to creates. so instead of being reactive, how do we build what we want to create together and using the tools of connecting the piece. the lower haight and hayes valley and the western addition and the north the panhandle neighborhood, people are working together to do events. working with the cbo. volunteer i volunteering their time in activities that are not just in their block. or just within you know perhaps within their sort o

it could balloon to more than $13 million next fiscal year according to city officials. it has left 100 positions vacant the past three years, and the city staff will drop 20%. seven of the city's ten labor joins have not agreed to some tough measures to save serviceses, including a freeze an pay increases and taking a 5% can cut in pay or 12 furlough days. green slips goute december december 8th and layoffs begin after the first of the year. santa clara, kron4 news. >>> the rain's going to push throw overnight, and tomorrow, we'll be left with a slightly warmer day from start to end. tomorrow morning, it will be a little bit warmer out there than what we saw today but still on the chilly side, mainly in the 40s, mostly sunny as conditions continue into the afternoon. 3:00 hour, temperatures a couple of degrees warmer, but a little breezy at the coast line. a look at what's going on outside with the radar, we're continuing to see a storm track to the north of us. it's moving to the southeast, though, so we're getting clip would all those scattered showers in northern cal

i'm from city college. i would like to thank the supervisors who introduced and are supporting this bill. first and most important thing is i would like you to vote to pass this bill, item 34. one thing that's really important is here you have steve li. he's a student going into nursing. and then he's -- his house gets raided and gets treated like a criminal. and there's something different between criminals and nursing students. i mean, there's kind of like a problem here. the other thing is with the dream act, if -- if a youth comes in, and they're less than 16 years old, then, you know, they shouldn't really be punished, you know, for what their parents do. any parent would want the best for their son. but if the parent doesn't know or the less than 16-year-old kid doesn't know how to address their legal status, the clock's ticking. time runs out. i don't think that the student or the -- whatever should be at fault. one thing that i think is really important is when you have a difference between regular

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) workers performing moving services under city contracts at facilities owned or leased by the city; and (6) workers engaged in the hauling of solid waste generated by the city in the course of city operations, pursuant to a contract with the city. supervisor avalos: thank you. representative from the department? >> good morning, supervisors. this is the annual setting of the prevailing wages for the crafts of labour that will be done -- performed for the city. this is in accordance of charter section 80.7, and various administrative sections -- code sections. supervisor avalos: thank you. i recognize there are a number of contracts that were referred to which included prevailing wages. my main question is, the wages become different as those contracts changed here every year -- year after year. that is what we provide the prevailing wage as? >> we provide them as mou's, the kind of labor, as well as the labor determinations as given by the department of industrial regulations. supervisor avalos: thank you. mr. rose, if you could share your report. >> the prevailing wage rates are se

some residents have to travel across the city. they would have a difficult time if they had to travel and wait 10 or 20 minutes. healthcare services will remain in the areas where they live, and seniors can access services much more conveniently. this will determine that it is equitably distributed throughout the city. large corporations do not like to be held accountable. but is why there is resistance. thank you for your leadership, and thank you for what you did. you have been working on this for a long time. >> next speaker, thank you. it is not working for anyone. the community comes out and says, we are not so happy about this. it is high time we have a master plan for the city. it is not a pitched battle, and we actually have zero road map, a guiding light that provides increased productivity and -- we actually have a road map, a guiding light and provide increased productivity. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i sat on an effort to plan health care killed by the reagan administration. when we were doing the

in kobe, it's a beautiful city but they suffer from pollution problems like many cities do. we have 15 factories in this small area. add the exhaust from cars, trucks and busses. you get the smog that hangs over the cities. the air is too dirty to breathe. here is the most frightening part. you are likely not to notice it. your body becomes accustoms to it after four days of breathing it in. the tiny particles are smaller than a hair. it constricts the muscles in the airway. it incleess blood pressure, heart attack risk and heart disease. you may think health impacts would take years to develop. it's not the case. on days when you have bad pollution in cities, emergency room visits spike over the next 24 hours. it's not just adults at risk, either. babies are being born pre-polluted with more than 230 chemicals in their system at the time of birth. progress is starting to be made. places in china where i visited, they are moving the coal power plants outside the urban areas into rural areas where fewer people are around. in new york, there are new laws on idling busses and t

looking specifically at the city's implementation of a worker pays city-wide, they identified that as two high risk areas that need would further review. for the second audit on here, at this point, and narrowed the scope to those pieces. supervisor mar: thank you. are there any questions or comments? seeing none, let's open up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion on this item? with recommendation, without objection. thank you. could you please call item two? >> item two, ordinance on many of the san francisco administrative code to establish the city's open data policy and require city departments to make appropriate data available to the public. supervisor mar: thank you, and we have jason elliott from the mayor's office. >> good morning. thank you for having this hearing this morning. we are discussing this morning a proposed ordinance, but did of policy that would establish what already exists in the form of the executive director that the mayor -- executive directive that the mayor i

out of the city budget. we have been doing that for 25 years. we have housing on a treasure island that is a no cost police for veterans. -- lease for veterans. in the presidio, 102 units of supportive housing. the city provides rehab funding there. veterans with disabilities. more recently, the city made available a landmark building that has revived substantial rehab funding. in 2012, 75 senior hamas veteran will be able to live out their lives in dignity. i just cannot say enough about the job the city does of stepping up to the plate. it is not just about platitudes and waving banners, it is about getting the job done. we are great -- we are very grateful. >> randy martina's is the president of the city college. randolph will explain, through the gi bill, how they are now funding the gi bill. it is not about where you are from but where you are going to school. because of the high cost of living, they provide more than just about any other city college in the state. >> thank you. but i am also a marine,