let me start with you, jessica. >> for us, we have chosen to launch city by city. we feel that is really important because it lets us take the time needed to build up a great community of people sharing cars. that lets us find great cars, educate the owners, educate the renters, and ensure there is the right balance and variety of cars. if you look on the site in san francisco, you will literally see cars all over the place. it is all over the bay area. you are seeing cars sharing happening in places it never had before. we worked with the city to see if there were any ways we could get out the word. we hope to work with existing programs or be added as an additional transportation solution. in general, we like to involve the city and city leaders in our announcement of coming to market, and it has been working really well. >> i know you have community managers all over the globe. what's going on there? >> airbnb goes to network effects. we are all over in -- we are already in 19 cities all over the world. we just provide the tools on line, and local residents thro

city can be. one that our policy makers and american in dade in which you on thank you for being here at spur. [applause] >> thank you. i think we will also year from supervisors got -- supervisor scott wiener. >> this turnout's shows how significant this is to the future of the city. we were with a smaller group earlier. i will stress that san francisco is a city with a dichotomy going on. in many ways, we are a cutting edge city in terms of technology, food, transportation, there are all sorts of things where we are ahead of the curve. we attract a lot of people like you who are forward-thinking and want to do things in a different and more innovative way. we're also a really old school city. the change is challenging. david and i talk about this a lot. we're trying to do things differently. we get a lot of reflexive push back, whether you are talking about cars sharing on streets, or changing zoning to create new housing to make the city more affordable and inclusive. you have those kinds of di

the city needs to recommit ourselves to the values that our city was named after. st.rancis believed in compassion for those who have less -- had less than others. those of us with opportunities have to give back. part of that entails taking care of the most important among us, the folks who have need, including our homeless. >> let's talk about the transportation situation in your district. you mentioned that transit could be better. how is parking and traffic? is there enough muni service now? >> you are talking to the one member of the board that does not only car. i get around my district by muni, bicycle, or hailing a cab. our transit system is truly challenge. our bosses are late one out of four times. -- our buses are late one out of a quarter times. they're still not as clean and safe as we'd like. we can do better and investing in our muni system. we need more taxicabs on the streets. is difficult to obtain a cab. i support the concept of centralized taxi dispatch systems so you know who you can call to get a cab. i am a big believer in pedestrian bicycling as

are for our city. it is also a spending plan. how are we going to spend our money in the coming two years? generally in san francisco, we spend about 50% of our dollars on personnel, all the people who work for the city. about 26,000 of them. and about half on everything else. we also spent about 50% in what we call our general fund and 50% in what we call enterprise fund. as many of you know, and as the supervisor mentioned, we have more than 50 city departments. everything from the mta and the puc to health and human services, police and fire. i like to think of the enterprise departments like the city's small businesses or the city's business operations. we do not mix our home expenses with our business expenses in our home budgets, and we do not do that for the city. so what do we spend our money on every year? we spend our money on our priorities, things like community health, things like social services, police and fire, rec and park, all of those things that are the core services and priorities

he is very familiar with the incredible work that spur does with the city, because of his work as a city administrativor,a lot of us from his vantage point of the mayor's office. i would like to recognize the department heads and elected officials. i know i've seen some of you here. thank you for coming out to support the fund workover our city employees. it is a privilege to me in particular to be here because i have had the opportunity for the last several years to be on the selection committee for the good government awards. it is really a treat. as a human-resources director, i get a lot of bad news. some of that gets in the newspaper. with all due respect to our brethren in the press, it's always a good story to write about bad behavior that may happen in a city department or that a public employee may have engaged in. we are the largest employer in san francisco. it is only natural as some of that bad behavior may fall on our doorsteps. it is refreshing to see some of the wonderful work people are doing, who really personify the ethos of san francisco. i want to celebrate that. on

i've been working really hard with the supervisors to create an investment-friendly city, a city that welcomes job creation. jobs for everybody, not just for downtown folks. i'm not here in the neighborhoods, also, and making sure that our board and i care about the neighborhood corridors. we're out here on events like sunday street's premier out here for all kinds of different reasons, because we care about every single neighborhood in the city. we want all of you to feel the richness of the city. it is not just for downtown. it never has been. i want you to know that and what you to know we listened very carefully. we are getting better. guess what? we still got a deficit. we have a two-year budget process. we are challenging ourselves a little bit more. about $170 million deficit for 2013. having said that, the $170 million is better than what it was six months ago. as our economy has benefited from some good sales revenues, and some of the buildings are occupied, we have a better revenue stream all the time. we knocked it off almost $129 million than what it was a few years ago. i

cities have played this role. in this bidding we're having this conversation in san francisco at -- it is negative beating -- it is fitting that we're having this conversation in san francisco at spur. i think it is off somewhere one of the first cities, i think the only city, and has put together a working group around the sharing economy. we are the epicenter in san francisco. we have a role to help nurture the emerging space. there is a lot of value to be created here. i am really excited to be part of the panel seeing all of these great people next to me. >> the people on the panel are going to tell us about their companies. let's come straight down the line. >> i am a co-founder and ceo of viable, a community marketplace for travel experiences. anybody can offer their services to others as a guide, offering touristrs, sailing ships, cookig class. we have enabled terrorism -- tourism to access parts of the city it had never before accessed. restoring murals for example. we launched in 2011. we have been going

this is the city. even for those who are fluent in english, i encourage you to think about this challenge in a different way -- at some basic level, we know that our schools, something i have heard all our supervisors talk about -- that our schools work best if we have involve parents and good teachers, but when half of the parents are unable to communicate with the schools, is it reasonable to expect them to be able to be involved? on issues of public safety, if your house is being broken into, would you what your neighbor to be able to communicate with police so that officers could come? so much of san francisco is driven by small businesses, and many of these are led by individuals who are english- language learners or limited english proficient. their ability to access the city permitting process and to receive technical assistance would be improved if they had the language assistance, and that would be good for our city goes the economy as a whole. one last thing that i want to say on the importan

i'm the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco. this last year i have had the honor of working with board of supervisor john avalos. mayor ed lee, all of the city departments who are responsible for delivering capital products and co-chairing a local policy hiring working group. last year we were able to put our heads together, work collectively to implement this landmark policy to bring to wherever -- whenever we are implementing our capital projects to make sure that our monies also go to providing local jobs to this communities that are impacted by our capital projects. we work together with a different department head to maximize existing resources and to minimize costs and we have successfully done that. i want to thank all of our department heads here today, department of public works mohammed nehru. teresa sparks from the human rights commission, the public utilities commission. i would like rec and park for hosting here at the playground. this is one of the projects that is under construction and that are hitting its local

city still is done by car. we need to change that, and the only way we will change that is if we get an investment from youth, a cross-section of the city, across social demographics, not just low- income but all youth. the only way we will do that as it we really make muni free for all youth. as one to come up and say that. >> i said that. my name is desmond miller from larkin street services. san francisco is taking a $4 million cut the services. in addition, due to the change, and the serving women, infants, children, and yet, we know said in cisco is taking a cut to services or positive youth -- we know san francisco. we reduce medical care and mental health care to and that of gravity services. we are asking the mayor and board of supervisors to help mitigate the effects of these cuts, and the positive youth especially. again, i am the management of hiv testing and prevention, and you would be eliminating my position as well as those of my staff and our ability to get too specific, targeted a chevy testing

the best ideas are outside the walls of city hall. we've opened our data to developers and credit of 60 applications at no cost to our city government. we also have held hack-a-thons. as we make changes to consolidate and streamline, we must take the time to ensure that these changes are done well and with appropriate stakeholder and community input. thank you. supervisor olague: the san francisco housing authority is one of the largest providers of housing in san francisco and serves over 20,000 people. roughly 20% of the public housing stock in district 5, the policy budgetary and operational decisions made by the housing authority board of commissioners and staff significantly impact resident in my district. similar to the redevelopment agency or the school district, the authority is a quasi-a city department that provides critical public services to thousands of san franciscans. in the interest of promoting transparency, accountability, and integrity of local government, how can you work together to and by the authority more close

sfmta is the lead agency on the city side to make this happen. we cannot do but without support of partner agencies, the san francisco police department, traffic division, department of labor and services, office of risk-management, entertainment commission, fire department, board of san francisco, planning department, department of elections. a lot of people coming together to make this happen. bank you to all the folks behind me and for coming out to make these events possible. thank you for coming out. we will see you on sunday. [applause] >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor campos. president chiu. supervisor chu. supervisor cohen. supervisor elsbernd. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor olague. supervisor wiener. all members are present. >> could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with li

i know you want the city to succeed. if it is successful, you will feel that much more committed to being part of the city. we invite you to be part of that. we do that through s.f. city. my chief innovation officer is here. we are one of the only cities in the country -- i hired a chief innovation officer right from the mayor's officer -- from the mayor's office. he is right on the pulse about technology and how to contribute to the quality of life and our city. one of the ideas i have, i get to start a task force with all of the mayors across the country. all of the other mayors for dissipate, -- participate, hundreds. we get to advise the president and congress as to what our cities need. part of that, i ask them, how about i start a technology and innovation task force for all of the mayor's tax introduced companies like dropbox to other mayors across the country so they can take advantage of technology. they may not have the kind of creative environment that we have in san francisco. i know new york, boston, gainesv

hurwitz: currently, city tunnel 1 and city tunnel number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we fi

i have often said this city can be the city for the 100%. that is, everybody can have a chance to fulfil their dreams and make sure they can have a stable economy for themselves and for their families. i think we're on the verge of discussing things that would invite other members of our city family, our department heads of that work in the tax section or in planning or in land use, to be involved with a discussion, an ongoing discussion that would potentially invite an open up our economy and modernize it even further. i think we're at a task where, quite frankly, a year ago, for example, david chiu and i do not know the outcome might be except that we were in fear that a company called twitter might leave our city and that thousands of jobs will leave us behind. so we took a little risk and suggested that we might be able to revamp our tax code for the benefit of job creation. and little did we know a year later that that invitation has caused over 125 companies to locate themselves in our city, creating thousands of more jobs, creating an

you hang me on a city line. give me the city dime. i'm gonna miss you. maybe -- city i'm a man. doing the best he can. won't you help me sometime. i'm amazed at the way you -- help me sing my song. right the items when they're wrong. and them i'm afraid when the budgets all gone. i'm a man, and i'm gonna. and it seems like i don't even understand. oooh. city i'm amazed. >> thank you, mr. paulson. next speaker, please. >> i am eugene gordon jr.. 1776 constitution, to 2012 exposes the monopoly capitalism and the imperious -- imperialists usa nation and the constant manipulation as required to struggles and protests from the we the people, i need for trust that continue lifetimes to one's death, coming together is that gaming expression stimulation for resolution so brazen to nourish the social culture as if it did not exist. evidencing the class and rank, divide means of exchange for labor and production of basic needs. words that create revolutions, which overthrew the ratifications. not to discuss criminal intent of capital currency and rank divide for the basic needs, the socia

cities across this country and other nations are looking at its cities for solutions to everyday problems. transit is our number one concern because we are a growing economy. we cannot increase roadways and airport runways there. that will not be a part of solutions for the future. you have a good solution. it is going to be affordable, it will be faster, and it will be better. i want to welcome you. as i came here this morning, i ran into a lot of great people. i know they represent a lot of generations of people. i hope, as i think many of you do, i hope to see the trains pulled through all the way from los angeles to our valley, through our peninsula all the way to our transbay terminal. thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor. [applause] i also want to recognize, i appreciated the way you and your staff reached out to ensure that our business plan we are looking at today fully incorporates the service all the way to the terminal. and does not push that to the back of the line. we have tried to embrace that. you certainly have represented the people of discriminative very well. we hav

in 2002, soon after the parcells had been transferred to the city, the city entered an agreement with the redevelopment agency. the agency purchased two parcels at market rate. this is essentially an overpayment. those parcels were not yet entitled. a key tenet was the provision so that any funds left after the city fulfills its obligations would be given to the redevelopment agency to adjust the purchase price. this was a fun dimensional -- a fundamental premise. it was instrumental in the construction of aqaba boulevard. the came forward with the understanding that the purchase price would be adjusted in the future. the transfer agreement included an option to transfer an additional five parcels, should they so choose. in fact, the redevelopment agency exercised the option to purchase an additional five parcels, at a cost of $12 million. the total amount was $17.80 million. at this point, i would like to ask the director of the mayor's office of housing to come to the podium. >> the redevelopment agency -- i was at the agency at the time -- was presented with an opportunity to colla

this is what i love about the city. i also remember as dpw director, they had that watch column that put me in there every two weeks. i was famous. my e-mail, cell phone #, picture. cron watch. the bane of my existence. we have investments in infrastructure. i am helping to put together a number of different asks from the public this november. one of them i think you will respond to positively is reinvestment in our parks. we have done well with the private-partner sector. we will author of another bond because everybody loves their parks. that is half the reason why families want to stay. if we do not invest in our parks, that will be half the reason why they leave, in addition to the schools and affordability of housing. we have other things that will be very important to our infrastructure that we will be talking to the voters about. we will also honor something that i began with mayor knew some. when we do our public bonds, we would do them responsibly under a 10-year capital plan and we will not increase your prope

naomi kelly, at par city administrator -- our city administrator. philip ginsburg, parks and representative. ed reiskin. maria, department of children, youth, and families. louise herera, the city librarian. mohammad nuru, dpw. phil arnold. capt. goldberg. you are from the human services agency? chief hayes white, who gone up from the fire department. karen roy from trout support services. please stand up. the rich in capt., eric vantero. so you have a sense of who we all are. if there is time after, please engage some of us. we will be around, if you want more in-depth conversation. certainly, if you would like meetings with any of us, feel free to contact our offices. we are definitely open to that. thank you. i want to introduce the moderator henry kelly at this time. henne kelly, i'm sorry. >> she is one of the most dynamic richmond activists, a longtime teacher, and acted with the seniors in the district. >> and i work with christine daily at senior action network. >> who knew? >> i am a richmond district resident, i have been for 35 years. thi

cities after world war two. this lasts an hour and 20 minutes. >> so today is a lecture on the origins of the urban crisis. the term urban crisis is in the title of this class. all right? race, class, gender and the urban crisis. we use the hbo miniseries "the wire" as a text to study, or to think about the urban crisis. and also, again, we use "the wire" for the sociological presentation that gives us the post-war american cities and also to ask questions of it because it gives us the window into the post-war police procedural, through fighting crime, or through police and criminals, which allows us to see a great many things. but it also occludes and hides other elements of life in post-war cities as well. so we use "the wire" both for what it does and what it doesn't do. but today's lecture is more or less a historical overview of the origins of the urban crisis. and that comes from the title of a book of a monograph 1995, a book that you read an excerpt from it. he concentrated on detroit. and that's where i

a city for the 100%. everybody gets to live in our city and live with dignity.t is what i am going to be doing in all my years is making sure everyone can be here. [applause] we are recognizing the celebrates the spirit of our african-american experience, the contributions that everyone has made to our great city to make sure it is a diversity. that is why i moved here. it is why you moved here. that is why so many of her friends decided it would make their mark here in our city because of our diversity. this year's theme could be no less important. black women and american history and culture. absolutely. and it is particularly poignant that it highlights african- americans experiences through their patriotism, through their labor, leadership, motherhood, intellect, and artistic expression. all of us regardless of ethnic origin or social and economic background have benefited from the contributions of these women. in the american culture, menino of the historical accomplishments of the african- american women, phyllis wheatley, harriet tubman, leader of undergr

having said that, i am proud to have a city that realizes that fire is a problem in the city. we have many options. there is a lot of redundancy as it relates to fire suppression. we have a low pressure system that sets off the drinking water in the city. we also have the awss, but you are also right in certain parts of the city, anything west of the court or, we now have that capability. throughout the city we have cisterns with supplies of water under the ground and be used to augment in the event of maine failures. we have approximately 177 cisterns that call for repairing and a growing that system or option, i would set. you are right, that is very much a temporary plant for us. we currently have four in various quarters of the city that carry hoses to do above ground water attacks, if you will. the portable water supply system is certainly something we would love to grow in terms of having additional resources, particularly out in the more vulnerable area, like the richmond and sunset district. it is proposed that if we were to have a full-blown water supply system, it wo

the city did not treat you well at this time, but the city honors and was issued today. [applause] -- honors and loves you today. [applause] >> first, i want to thank everybody. as i sit in this room and hear all the fabulous things about me, i think to myself what would have happened, what see what i have occupied had i won? first, i think i would have died from friday. -- died from a fright. my intent at that time was not to win. it was to prove that i as a citizen of san francisco had the right to help govern the city. once i achieved that, i moved on to the next problem. i think i made a mistake. had i run again, i believe i would have one. i think now i would have been an old man, retired with money, maybe through embezzlement -- [laughter] and my life would be easy. my life has been easy because i am loved by everyone. i want to thank you all. he will have smiles, you all sit there in this austere room. and president sitting up there, you never know if they are happier not, but this city has changed quite a bit. let us make it change for the best. let us all work t

welcome to city hall. this is one of those special days that i gets a chance to not only swear in the people, but to also think so many members of our community throughout this wonderful city of barours to hep with how we run the city and what policies and values we set forward. and how all these individuals are going to help all of us make sure that we are connected to all of our constituents. a big thank you to everybody here today. thank you very much. [applause] i want to welcome supervisor wiener, the chief of police, thank you for being here. i will miss other officials, i am sure, because my age and height are always working against me. [laughter] our district attorney, george? you are right behind the bright lights. [applause] we have members of our community -- john burton is here. i have a lot of people giving me some great advice of how the city can be run better. it can always be run better. no matter what i am doing, how hard i am working, there are always people who can help us. whether it is

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the city budget is $6.8 billion a year, a big number. half of that is in the city's general fund. the other half is in the enterprise fund. the way i like to think about that is, if you were a small business owner, you would separate your business expenses from your household expenses. should i stand forward or back? what is the sound issue? ok -- just technology. if you think about your household expenses and business expenses, you would separate them out. that is what we do in the city. all of our business expenses are in the enterprise fund. household expenses are in the general fund. that is our human pass social services safety net, public safety services, fire, police, ems. it is also our streets and infrastructure. building capital projects and improving our streets. it is also recreation and park. so it is all those kinds of things. we also spend money on paying people to do those services. you all know, the spoke work for the city. we have about 26,000 people that work for us, and we spent half of the budget every year on salaries and benefits. so it is a big cost for us.

we talk about the city of san francisco. our mayor, our chief of police, our fire department, our new c.o.a. and then, of course, our illustrious supervisor avalos here who help putt this thing on for us today. but the most important thing we have to remember, we have to remember what happened in the past concerning us as communities and as districts and how important it is for all districts to work together, to help the mayor to help the chief of police to help the chief of the fire department. and what's been happening there's been too much decisiveness between districts -- decisiveness between districts. and by a view is one of the poorest districts in san francisco and we suffered gnome -- enormous economic loss in the past. we have the redevelopment and all the other things coming in, and even emergence got stuff going on where we're trying to pitch in and do a lot more volunteer stuff and that's what it's going to take for all of us here. the money used to flow through san francisco like water. but, you know, they cut

in our city. that is a very good starting and it is my strong intention to make sure more people find that it. 8% means there are 37,000 people still without jobs who are residents of san francisco. i will be working hard. jobs is my number one focus because jobs for youth, for people looking mitt careers, returning veterans, it would be really helpful if the city did everything it can to make sure there are jobs and all kinds of areas from tourism to the medical field to the technology field with which we are partnering up with in a lot of ways. in return, we get companies who are succeeding a little bit better. they joined me this past friday with their school district, with our city college and other institutions to create a target of 5000 summer jobs for our kids. all of you should make sure you talk to the kids aged 16-24 this summer and get into the program. we are creating 5000 jobs for our city departments to have 2500 of them to private sectors like the zynga, at&t, bank of america, wells

now you have the key to our city. we hope to see you back here soon in your city by the bay.his wonderful gift you have given us all these years and thank you so much for letting us honor you today. tony bennett day in san francisco. once again, for the man of the hour. [applause] thank you all so much for celebrating with us today. happy valentine's day. we will see you at the ballpark. but the anniversary of the great earthquake was remembered. >> i would like to ask for a minute of silence. >> let's have a moment of silence. >> they meet for the annual reflating ceremony. he was joined by winnie for an afternoon celebration. we are here to commemorate all that it signifies. at each anniversary the leaders meet to prepare for the next great quake. bob welcome everybody to the anniversary. i got to say, the mayor gets it done. gooa round of applause for our e chief's wife. you look terrific. do we have sydney close five? -- close by. we will pass the microphone to the mayor for a couple of quick words. we have a fire chief and the police chief. >> good morning, everyone. 106

-- in this city. it has lagged behind in the city relented to the region. to create a model for sustainable high-density urban district. there are a number of things that staff has mentioned about how we are proposing to do that. creating a high-density district around the terminal is a huge sustainable goal in itself. it is a very comprehensive approach to the planning this district. we have changes in land use, of course, densities, hyde said. -- heights. we have proposals for expanding the historic district. we have a plan for financing the improvement the plan calls for. it is important to recognize that the density being proposed allowed many of the public amenities to be funded through the plant itself. these densities can create land value capture that the plan itself can pay for much, if not all, of the amenities. at the same time, provide a very substantial contribution to the terminal and the tunnel. it is also a important, i think, there is always discussion and angst and san francisco abou

hall. -- riding to city hall. i do want to go back to something president chiu said. if we meet our objective of 20%, we have to make sure that we are investing more money into our bike infrastructure. we have to make sure a higher percentage of the overall budget is spent on biking. i want to thank the coalition because one of the things they are doing in my district and other parts of the city is working with kids to get more kids on bikes. biking, to really be sustained, we need to make sure the next generation is part of that. the last thing i will say is that we need to take the message of what is happening here in san francisco to influence what is happening in the rest of the region. the supervisors wienr -- supervisor wiener and i are on the commission and we need to make sure that the objectives can be translated. we look forward to working on that. thank you very much. >> hi, everyone. i'm scott wiener, i represent district 8 on the board of supervisors. let's hear it for district 8. we came from the cas