loss of the city's manufacturing base and the decline of the city itself. high crime and a poor public school system. but there's good news. a recent pew report shows philadelphia's middle class has started to stabilize. but it's a different middle class than it was in the 1970s. few blue collar folks, more professionals today. this is a special episode on philly's rocky middle class and how the middle class has changed over the last four decades and what it's going to take for the middle class to get back to good. we begin our story in south philadelphia, a traditiona trade collar italian neighborhood. >> philadelphia is for reasons as diverse as the people who live here celebrated in equal parts for its cheese stakes, rich history and many, many a rocky movie. here in south philadelphia lies a gem of a restaurant called victor caf eight. cafe. it's as rich in history as the city itself. established in 19 alien by greg de stephano's grandfather. it's as philly as it gets. part of the last rocky movie was filmed here. >> tell me what you like about it? >> y

for withdrawals from the city, if the city controller projects total general fund revenues for the up coming budget year are less than revenues for any current year or prior year, then up to half of the rainy day reserve balance can be in the city budget for the upcoming year. and the second frankly is that the decision making process about appropriating funds from the reserve to the district is now resting with the mayor and the board of super visors so certainly that was the intent of the original language, but that is something that the city has -- you know, the willingness to revisit and change. that's some of the discussion that's taking place now. the possible changes. one is that there would be two separate reserves created so right now instead of having the one plot of funds in the rainy day reserve, that there would be a split of the one reserve into two reserves. one would be for the district and one would be for the city and the city would receive 75 percent of the current balance and the district would receive 25 percent. and then if the say -- if and when the city in any

city moment to moment. city moment to moment. city moment to moment. i want to shurl thank you president chiu. >> hello supervisors. supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and supervisor breed and supervisor wiener. supervisor campos. supervisor farrell pr supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen and i don't know, you hello right in front of me your katie tang i'm a journalist i have no ability to sing but the ability to talk i want to draw your attention to the population of 2 thousand people that live on treasure island that are right now being second by radiation and chemical contamination and as that he is tuesday and led how much ivory how many of you driven past the building that have led paint from the old military building led paint flaking off the buildings lead in paint was made illegal in the san francisco's mold as you know they've moved the firefighters out of the station to the firefighter training center because they were having respiratory conditions interest the mold the san franciscans stand behind the 2 thousand people in treasure island that

and city government in general. so let me pose this question that someone tweeted a couple of minutes ago, the first tweet we got, and it's an interesting one. some might say it's the voice of the silent majority out there who likes to drive. i'd like to be able to support bonds for replacing and expanding muni busses, trains and subways, street paving and parking, but as a driver who is over the city's anti-car policy i will never vote for a bond or tax that even potentially could include more anticar measures. i hope you recognize how strongly drivers feel about this, separating the bonds is the only way i can see muni gets funding. you know, you recognized this in your state of the city earlier this year when you said it's time to get rid of those sunday parking meters. we've got to give motorists a little break here or we're going to have a revolt. >> certainly. the larger backdrop is that almost a year ago we put together a task force to study our transportation needs. they worked really hard. we had experts fr

sort of standardized across the city. at the transit we were reviewing the mayor's office had begun a performance score card for workforce development. so, but we concluded that section 30 as it's now written cannot really be effectively implemented. so, we recommended changes to do away with sort of the centralized planning and budgeting and [speaker not understood] more of a policy function. that defines the goals of workforce development, how these programs benefit the city, the priority for funding allocations, and setting up program performance measures. and one of the things you'll hear, we heard a lot in discussion was about the performance measures, is each of these programs is serving different populations and have different program goals. but in fact, when we reviewed performance measures that departments currently use we found there were a lot of standard measures already. so, one of our key recommendations, then, was to set up a city-wide workforce development planning committee. this committee would be compri

one of a kind city street fairs it's the kind you read about in the city fairy tale i knew in the cityould come a day when the city would really, really thrive and every day one of a kind city street fair money, money, money city money money, money, money money make this city sunny sunny and bring it, let it take wing and that's why i sing and the city's gonna ring and we're gonna make us a king money, money, money city money make it won't you bring and let it take wing and your political office and i hope you'll do great in your running and do it before this thing goes ding [laughter] >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. dr. espinola jackson. that rang right on time. i'd like to say i've come before you many a times requesting the same thing, but you don't do anything about it. you know, there are laws on the books like hud, section 3 of the hud guidelines. but this city has ignored and continues, and you all supervisors, did continue not following the laws of the city and county of san francisco. you know, it really hurts me to come here because i know the health departmen

♪my city.city. ♪i got a sweeter house than the homeless bees up in the trees. ♪and thanks to you ♪city hall ♪you gave the key ♪well i will guess you will say ♪what can make us feel this way? my city, my city. ♪ push i want to say, it is a tragedy, we have lost everything and all of the money is gone away. you got no therapy, and it is going to be the city is skies are gray and it is hard to explain the money is going and housing is going away. and we need some money all that we can do is pray. and city hall we need is a money today. so it is hard to explain. housing going away. how will you make it on your own? this world is aufully big and you are all alone and you have the housing skills and go out and do it they are giving it to you and go out and use it. love is all around and no need to waste it. you are going to make it you might just make it after ll. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please? >> mr. wright, the following information is not only directed to the board of supervisors

the city of miami beach is a city that has been featured in the news frequently. when you hear about resilience, often you will hear about miami beach. miami beach on a sunny day has flooding that sometimes gets up to two feet high. this is surreal, for anyone who has not experienced this. our team went out there and we could not believe it until city officials drove us to places where there was just water in the roads. problem is not the flooding from the rain. the problem is the seawalls are so old, they are pushing the city at high tide. they are coping well now, but they know this can't last forever. we're working with them to redesign the seawalls, to think how you hold up the city differently, but also pay for it differently. rethinking property taxes and insurance rates in one of the most expensive insurance areas in the country. hoboken faces similar challenges. it was on the front page of newspapers for weeks after hurricane sandy hit. at one point, the city had 14 feet of standing water. hoboken is one square mile. teeny tiny. and it is shaped like a bow

no city attorney fees now mr. syncountry if sustained it is contradicting little public documents. according to our website quote the commission provides records in ethics matters unquote unquote and contrary to your mission to practice and promote the highest standards of ethnical behavior in government. the mission goes on to say in order to accomplish that the commission shall enforce the campaign finances and open government laws. the commission shall should is question the action by mr. syncountry has he not experimented your decision making process and the brown acts about president chiu public meetings he defied the task force and took it upon himself to defend the layout then when he lost he brought an appeal on his own all could have been resolved if brought before the commission before litigation. thank you >> i'm pete arrest warrant field the director of the library associations we've had a variety of containments including at least one that was included in mr. grossing man's lawsuit which he won and th

you you know how much our city has changed and the biking has changed our city for for the better i want to share a few examples i remember personally biking here two years ago i was left hand lane i was one of the few women out there biking hold on one second (sirens). i'm not left hand lane biking in san francisco anyway those of us biking make up 2/3rd's of the biking on market street in has a valley and the lower hate more than 10 percent of traffic on our streets 0 o is biking we see literally thousands of people ridding literally as for bike to work. 20 years ago biking honestly was an afterthought in our transportation system today, the city leaders know it's important to keep san francisco healthy just last week we've launched the bike to work program and special thanks to bart that lifted it's blackout on bikes altogether last year. we see employers really recognizing the value of biking their prior tisz inside biking for their staff and the off-street parking be replaced by bart corals and their 0 no dummies it make sense because people biking and walking and taking transit spe

relying on city funds by maybe providing an essential service and in terms of priority has director mentioned we'll be giving priority to those agency with leases expiring within the next 18 months we don't know what the universe are for the agencies. looking at those organizations that meet departmental goal and mandate nate that's why we're looking those it's not a requirement to be funded by city they need to be awe lindsey and priority given to the agency we wanted to look at those organizations because of the real estate issue their forlsz to relocate we're not necessarily look at the organizations witness budget structural go despite the real estate market we said to look at the nonprofit because of the real estate market needed to relocate. we're not going to be prioritizing funds to fill in a deficit those need to be costs of displacement and we're going go to limit the and a half of the funds that concludes our formal presentation we're here to answer any aspect of the reports that you may have >> we have a number of questions let's start off with supervisor mar. >> thank y

syncountry or by the city attorney. i wouldn't touch right now the issue of asking for the material provide by the city attorney but i do think that any material you've got from mr. syncountry must be available to the public which this notice and agenda were published that's right in the law. on the assumption you know something about it i'll go ahead. the attorney-client belongs to the client that's you. doesn't belong to mr. syncountry. there are 24 public records that he refused ultimately to disobey close 4 are disclosed once the lawsuit was filed. at the task force hearings he said when asked have you can you describe the records and mr. syncountry said i haven't read the records and these i haven't counted them okay. so he u serpd your job you were the ones who should have been looking at the records to wave the privilege i can go through this whole list of occasions when this matter could have been brought to you there are at least 7 when the task force acted on them and i when mr. syncountry was responsible to r

you don't want to law the city to accept bond to finance the carbon monoxide and improvement and seismicite of emergency and response facility. i'm here with george the prop a spokeswoman welcome and joined i by the activity and proponent of the measure i'd like to start with opening remarks from each mr. ross one way or another would you like to speak as the proponent >> thank you teaspoonful for having me. my support the prop a and i understand with the mayor the entire board of supervisors progressing and converts and business community and he did sierra club in supporting in it represents a critical investment in disaster response in 1906 san francisco earthquake we r had the woshgs or worse disasters did you that wasn't the earthquake but the 3 days of fires that followed that destroyed 80 percent of the city and left countless dead and the community they bound together and built one the emergency water systems in the world and that water system protected the city for a sirpt by a century later it's deteriorating prop a involvement in taking the system and voovt in the hydrant and p

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attorney and john gibner, deputy city attorney yeah. i don't believe there's an a second and we have a second by supervisor mar and colleagues, can we take those motion without objection and the underlying item can we take that without objection? do so as well thank you madam clerk item 8 >> item 8 is an ordinance to amend the prevailing wage code for work on the on-site assembly that's temporary inhabits delayed and module especially inference for covering the deck ratify materials with conventions and others special events on city property. okay supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. speaker, colleagues this legislation will help insure that workers who are involved in the set up and take down of trade show on city property are paid a living wage. we want to make sure that the people living in san francisco, california live here we have a history of making sure that people are paid a decent wage. this legislation that is endorsed by san francisco labor council says that workers will be paid for take down and set up and others special ev

winn he's the deputy city attorney. colleagues this legislation is frail many years in the making because it is overall on amendment to the local hiring ordinance that was passed in december even if 2010. that ordinance was applying the local hire principle percentages rising every year we're in the year of a pause to do an assessment for workers to get hired for publicly you funded public works projects. this new amendment to the ordinance is actually adding in 2 parts that we will extend local hiring to public and private land for language for prevailing wages as well it follows the same process we had in place for the local hire ordinance and mr. flynn is coming now. it's pretty straightforward the approach but there's many departments that have coverage and we're concerned about how the policy will fit the work they're doing and i wanted to be flexible to make sure we can maximum local resident getting hired but understand the complexities that the departments had to go through. there's 3 well, actually now 2 main p

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but a few cities tried it and other cities liked what they saw. i am sharing work here in washington d.c. and other cities are following suit. as rob was talking about how do we finance and deliver infrastructure? innovative things are happening and we are all encouraged by what john delaney had to say but there mostly happening someplace else. generation ago there was not a big gap and our infrastructure was financed and built and operated in the u.s. versus other industrialized nations. a quite simple model. government collected taxes and allocated funding. private firms designed and built the next project and the government was the operator. pretty standard. in the u.s. this is mostly how it is done except of course we are doing fewer projects year. i will editorialize for a moment. what once existed in all levels of government doesn't exist anymore in both parties to support reasonable level of infrastructure, investment has broken down. these consequences are serious. everybody here understands it and are getting worse every year. i am not go

, any other body in this city. need to appoint somebody who is physically disabled. you have that in bruce wolfe who has an outstanding record on the task force. particularly as the information technology systems of this city are undergoing renovation, you need tech savvy people. you have mr. wolfe, mr. rumold and vice-chair fischer who can meet that criterion. i am stepping aside because after 12 years it is time to allow in some new energy and new ideas. you have that -- you have that in ali winston. i am on the spj society of professional journalists freedom of information committee, and i fully support the nominations of mr. winston and mr. rumold to those seats. thank you. >>> kerry brockton, member of the board of league of women voters. i'm speaking now as a citizen of san francisco. i've also spoken quite a bit about maintaining diversity in san francisco and in our city government. the charter also encourages this as well as the best government practices. what i have observed today in sitting through this

city's expenditures. i do want to mention that the city's audit includes many different components and our audit by [speaker not understood] includes all of the city's funds except for the missing components being audited by kpmg which another person will [speaker not understood] today. for the comprehensive annual financial report we issued a modified opinion as is previously known as an unqualified opinion which is the highest level assurance that you can achieve under an audit. for the second report that i'll go over, there are certain required communications that we have to communicate to the governing body under auditing [speaker not understood]. i'll go over that in just a second. we also have one current one year recommendation from the audit relating to operation for the city. and i will also go over the prior year recommendation that we have in the previous audit and we came back to follow-up on their corrective action statuses. the third report is a single audit report. again, we issued an unmod

the shopping center occupies an entire city block, geary, masonin, and lyon city and has historically been occupied by formula retail uses. it was occupied by sears rob yuck . since r-6 formula retail are all would need commission approximate the department's recommendation is for approval with conditions. staff has not received opposition to the projects. this completes by brief summary of the projects. if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer. thank you. >> thank you, project sponsor. >> just for the commission's benefit and public. the project supersonic sponsor give 15 minutes for combined presentation. >> adam miller sponsor representative. we thought it was good the last time we were in front of you was 2011 and give you the first-round of milestones that we hit at the property before we get into the six conditional uses in front of you. 2013 city target location opened on october 9th and highest volume opening for a city target store in the nation and continues to screed projections for the company so target was very successful using first source and other placements to r

what we're seeing in others cities. one model you've heard we talk about is the community art stabilization trust this is a program that was founded by the kenneth foundation that succeeded with a $5 million non-exit cap that allows for the acquisition of release real estate for the deed restricted use in a 7 to 10 year acquisition to supporting them and helping them set up their capital campaign it's been effective we think with small and midsize organizations that might not have the capacity to enter the real estate market and to create a second marked for the art and crafts it will be capacity to social services in non-arts organizations. the cap model allows for master leasing or shared spaces where numerous non-nonprofits low come together with the cap model for social services. cap as a model has been effective in identifying under utility or below utilized spaces and we do is that potential for the cast to be for organizations as well. another model is the partnership had an as enter departmental focusing on arts

>> deputy city attorney jon givner. so, the board voted to affirm the final mitigated negative declaration which was item 17, and to table the item 18. but you also adopted item 19 and that item should be tabled as well. >> right. >> so, colleagues, if we could briefly go back and recall that item, and supervisor kim, if you first want to make your motion to rescind your motion. >> i will make a motion to rescind. my pool jai for that. second by supervisor campos. without objection, that should be the case. [gavel] >> supervisor kim, if you want to make the motion as provided by city attorney givner. >> [speaker not understood]. >> colleagues, you want to take that without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> now back to regarding the item of mission gay. ~ bay. with that we have [speaker not understood] related to citith agencies. i want to welcome mr. rich from oed. >> good afternoon, ken rich from oed. my office is representing the city. occ, office of community investment and infrastructu

it was said that the city was spending over $20 million in the control of graffiti vandalism in the city. and that money could be better spent towards education for the kids. or for food for the elderly or homes for the homeless. and so there are many, many things we could think of to better use that money. but instead we are becoming reactionary to someone's whim and desire to disrespect our

president and city council. about a year ago my wife and i spent in a place for no housing available. for reasons i don't understand we were placed in separate rooms with separate residents. i understand g ac is not a continual income but both my wife and i were seeing ssi but i lost my grant and subsequentially the details are good much i've been separated from my family since january. i'm at the end of my rope i'm at the last resort. i'm back on the street without the support. i don't know what else to do so i - thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tom from the beach parents. teamwork. teams when i was a young boy my first team was little league i stopped to catch everything a little bit wild on the flow and high school i played football and started 4 years and with the same coach. in this building you have a team the mayors team they brought tax freedom for twitter and gave away st. luke's to get cathedral hill and saw 10 thousand units on treasure island glad that it was not invested in. and oppo

seekers of the city that is transitional. another thing there's a street bigotry it's still with us. let us have transitional housing like shoe box units that can be built to house people to rehab this demographic instead of being the useful throw away population the stigma rests upon us and people are tired of taking care of my ethic groups but we have capacity inside of us so let's us sit at the table we're not. everyone is asking for money let the shoe box units be a demonstration if you're capable physically and mentally 6 months and you've got to be on the way let's us prove ourselves and have rapid reemployment programs and redeny manufacturers you don't have to have people be without shoe box housing >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm to relate a perm experience being a senior and homelessness how sometimes city policies enhances homelessness rather than eliminates it when you was 63-year-old i was compelled to seek early social security retirement benefits. so the significance of that is at the pr

and a tolerant city and an accepting city and so i just want to you know voice my thanks for supervisor weiner for supervisor chair farrell for having this hearing today. and i want to make sure that we can have action that comes out of these series of hearings that we are putting resources where they need to go. and we are actually building all kinds of housing in san francisco and we are looking at our pipeline and be it for housing for family and for the youth and seniors and all of these need to be in the mix. what we have so far is not very dramatic, we need something very dramatic to save our populations here in san francisco and our low income and our communities of color and our queer communities so that we can see san francisco 20 years from now has diversity, i don't want it to be carm el by the sea, that is where we are heading to, that the hearings are putting that movement and the motion into action and so hopefully we can have that come out of this hearing today. and we can have the ideas that are represented that can be brought forward with the ideas that come from the ot

and, so, the corrective action that the city had implemented was to assign all contracts by the city to deputy director of finance and initiation to assist the sister agency in their accounting and financial reporting functions. so, we believe that the finding has been corrected and during fiscal year 2012-13 we did not see similar issues. >> do you actually have an extra copy of the report? i can't read it on my screen. >> yes. we have a copy issued ahead of time. >> the powerpoint? >> yes, the powerpoint and each of the reports. >> thank you. >> um-hm. the second, the second comment that he we had from the previous audit was an informational comment that related to a new pension accounting center and the [speaker not understood] system has to implement during the current fiscal year, fiscal year 13-14 and for the city as a whole the next fiscal year 2014-15. so, we wanted to bring that to your attention because it does require a lot of effort and planning ahead of time. the retirement system is required to implement the new accounting standards because it relates to its pension ben

i know you still have a lot of business in the city. on behalf of our neighborhood, on behalf of our neighborhood activists, on ball of all of us at the city and county of san francisco, i wanted to just take a moment and acknowledge two of my favorite people in my time working in community service and activism and that is ron case and carolyn nest. thank you so much for everything you've done. (applause) >> thank you. thank the board of supervisors. as we all know, we don't do everything by ourselves. we have a lot of help. and i do have to say and i really want to appreciate the effort that the city has brought forward, dpw and other employee station, the board of supervisors, the office of economic development, all have really helped in this endeavor. i do -- i have to say something kind of personal. it's just wonderful to see supervisor chiu sitting at the top up there when i remember sitting with him at a small little table trying to figure out what we can do for the neighborhood. and we stayed back and watched. i feel proud. i fee

that's what i think about spending it all in the city. well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and county of san francisco go that's on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 small businesses in san francisco. they compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs that's the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences there's a statistical appreciation but ufo our strong economy is reflected in the small businesses. while everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons why one of the reasons great 23i7b8 institutions bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this great convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting today's event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a that's a story it c

city you can drive any car. yes we're going to be a star. city you can drive our car. beep beep beep beep yeah. wonder this time where city budget gone. ain't no sunshine when it's away. ain't no sunshine when city budget is gone and it's also gone and it's gone away. wonder this time where it's gone. and i know, i know i know, i know i know, i know leave that district loan ain't no sunshine in the morning and modern to complaint and did you know that ace brown is going to washington, d.c. and he gets around ace brown is leaving town he's going to washington, d.c. he's going to another town riding for the same old beat and going to find a city that's really baby sweet ace brown is going to another town and that's what he's found. i know he'll bring his writing all around. town. >> thank you good night. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, mr. president and city council. about a year ago my wife and i spent in a place for no housing available. for reasons i don't understand we were placed in separate rooms with separate residents. i understand g ac is not a

in another city-wide office, if another city-wide office became vacant, the deputy of that office would continue to run the office until the special election is held. last year the local area formation commission, lafco, studied how other jurisdictions filled vacancies in vacant offices. one unique san francisco's appointment process is the mayor has discretion to [speaker not understood] to fill vacancy. that process let alone the democratic process for how the mayor makes these [speaker not understood]. there are no time constraints when the mayor make these appointments. [speaker not understood], she was not appointed to be assessor until february 2013. and there are no -- there are virtually no other examples of this lack of public process in filling vacancies in many place around the country. the colorado governor makes [speaker not understood] to fill a vacancy [speaker not understood]. the mayor of philadelphia make appointment of vacancies in their city, but there is no other executive office where they have this ability. this will bring us in line with processes for filling vac

facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall.he experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given th

preliminary data show that the aerosol plume from mexico city travels outside the city and rises high into the troposphere. here, the prevailing high-altitude winds can potentially transport the pollutants long distances, even across continents. but it will be many years before molina and her team have definitive results. molina: milagro -- right now we only finish the first phase one, the measurement, the observation stage. and then the next phase is now we are in the process of doing the data analysis so we have all of this tons and tons of data. then all this information are now fit into models. then we are going to present the results to the mexican government. narrator: while the mexican government has recently made strides in reducing emissions with stricter regulation policies and cleaner fuel, mexico city is just one of a growing number of megacities. molina: we hope that by studying mexico city use this as a case study then we can find out how would the future megacities that are coming up how would they influence the atmospheric compositions on a larger regional-global scale

they occupy space all over the city. there's no property tax coming from it, they'd vacate those spaces and move all their operations to the -- >> do you have a list of those spaces and what we're talking about in terms of property tax dollar value? >> i think [inaudible] has that if you'd like her to go over that. >> i mentioned in the remarks that this year and next year we'll be vacating nearly 2,000 square feet of lease space in san francisco and consolidating those -- and relocating those activities to our own sites. that 200,000 square feet will be generating in present value terms, $12.7 million of new property tax revenue for the city. >> has our department of real estate evaluated this site and provided us with documentation for this particular site? do we have that confirmed by the department of real estate that this is potentially the added value of those particular sites? frnths >> mr. rose. >> if i understand what the department is saying, uc occupies leased space. the owners of the leased space are paying p

this city will do so and bill the city interest if the graffiti is not removed the ordinance provides depending with the authority to issue fines up to one thousand dollars and day and suspend applications it requires the box to be removed too. fm the legislation requires an annual hearing by the department of public works to access the is it correct affectionate of underground boxes explaining to you is frequently not visible for technical reasons with other utilities underground but whether will require an assessment to see if it's feasible and if feasible they'll be placed underground. colleagues that is a very basic and common sense measure that will help bring some measure of reasonableness to this process and help address many of the concerns we hear if our xhutsz i ask for your support i want to thank and acknowledge ann debris power that put in an enormous amount of work working with many people in the community. thank you >> supervisor mar. >> thank you president chiu and thank you supervisor wiener for doing a thorough job i feel this process of meaningful community outreach

it is one of the best kept secrets in the city. it is hardly ever crowded. on any given day, you will run into a few locals. , bought a 37 bus to get there without any parking worries. for legged friends can run freely. there is also a patch of grass for the small box. >> it is a great place. it is a wonderful place to have these kinds of parks. that dog owners appreciate it. >> take time to notice of the wildfires that are on the grassland and keep your head out on the lookout for hawks and other bird life. be sure to take your camera and be prepared to take a view of the city will not forget. it has a beautiful red rock formations. you could watch the sunrise over the bay. this is another one of our great lookouts. we are at mount davidson. 928 feet. this is the place for you to bring someone special. to not forget that dogs and enjoy all of the pathways and greenery that surrounds you. it provides a peaceful oasis of open space and great hiking trails. the spectacular view offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise or sunset with someone you love. >> it

, burn a city, you can flood a city, or you can tear the economic heart of a city out. as long as you invest back into the people who believe in the city, it will come back. >> the mayor has talked with detroit about recovery there. motor city needs $2 billion to $3 billion to clear blight. $400 million is ear marked. pittsburgh's never accepted federal government cash. it's taken 30 years to come back from when giant factories like this now long abandoned dominated the city. today, only these old stacks from the u.s. steel homestead work stand in honor of a once great industry that employed tens of thousands of people. the city raised $300 million to develop this charming small town shopping mall on the site, carrying all the big brand names. how has pittsburgh raised the cash? 5.5 billion's coming in just the past eight years. >> we've just seen a real in flux of funds that started with our local companies, our local businesses doubling down on downtown pittsburgh and committing to investing in this region. companies still call downtown home, you couple that with fore