i we found practically no one at all in the center of the city. the city was a dead city.was the second time we took seoul back from the communists, we were paired for what we were to find. you never get used to it though. him andyou never get used to it though. all in all, the city had no water, no transportation, no electricity or power. the chinese occupation forces took most of the overhead wire. kids are the ones who always suffer most. they never know what is going on or why. how do you explain to them after they have just the normal family get killed? ♪ >> seoul was in very bad shape as far as food was concerned. there just was not any. the communist who profess to be representative of the working people, seem to take it vantage of them. they lived off the land taking their food, not giving them medical treatment. ♪ >> everyone came back as soon as they could. a lot of them, right out of caves. our first job was to get water for civilians and our troops. >> during the occupation by the chinese, there were many fires in the city. this caused a great deal of damage to

can city college, for instance -- i'm not going to speak for city college. but my observation is they have also other land around city college that can be developed as a parking lot. so, that's my comment. i'm going to go ahead and ask my colleagues to support this sort of framework piece so we can move on and have both the developers and city college come up with concrete solutions. >> chair peskin: commissioner safai, do i see your name? >> supervisor safai: yes. i think these are all good points brought up today. i have been listening as supervisor yee, our districts are bound by this project in this area and it is a traffic nightmare. there's a lot of concern. i know the balboa cac and city college cac and others have reservations about this. but i think some of the reservations aren't necessarily about this particular plan, but

it was an open city. jonathan bender: the open city? wlliam ouseley: how did that book title, about? gangsters, they would come to kansas city for the rest and relaxation. they would check in with lazier, and play golf. this was a notorious city. money floating in. you can imagine it flowed in by the millions. 1933, prohibition is over. the mob is now looking for new vices. gambling is one they got into. during the 30's, they continue to put and prosper. they don't go away because there is no more bootlegging. these other criminal groups involved in bootlegging fade away. cosa-nostra gradually takes over. in kansas city, the group didn't have any resistance or competition. they were the big dog. they got fatter, wealthier, politically stronger. in 1939, pendergast and the new bob boss were indicted and went to jail. reformers took over. they had been fighting for years. they cleared out city hall, everybody. the mob had to surface or go underground. they didn't have the protection of the police. but they weren't going away. they just di

alone could paralyze the city. in london with its eight million inhabitants the government launched an emergency program to build shelters. in a biscuit that brought an engine out it's been a comfortable night. but how much protection could thin corrugated shelters offer against a barrel of steel. on september first nine hundred thirty nine hitler's troops invaded poland. world war two had begun. to. back out in european capitals lights were turned off so that enemy warplanes wouldn't be able to use them for orientation. in paris london and even in berlin no one felt safe anymore. the war many dreaded for so long had finally come. on september third france and britain declared war on germany. later that day u.s. president franklin roosevelt announced. that. he had already sent a letter to germany poland italy france and england. i am addressing this urgent appeal to every government which may be engaged in hostilities publicly to affirm. that its armed forces shall not undertake the bombardment of civilian populati

the cities -- the counties that are adapted to be cities. virginia beach was not a city. suffolk was not a city. all these places have become cities. it is going to be hard time for you to be able to get the votes. the suburbs and the role areas -- politically, people sometimes in thek the strength rural areas as it relates to the suburbs. the suburbs of richmond for andance -- hanover chesterfield are strong. you have judgeships to be selected. i have a one word definition i used for politics. can anyone guess what that is? i said one word would define politics. money. give me something that is a proposition before any tribunal that does not involve money. youquite certain one of could tell you -- to tell me the magic answer. any think of something that does not involve money that the will are discussing politically? have thisg that we silent agreement. you are to be congratulated. every now and then someone thinks they have got it. they say, i have got it. abortion. are you crazy? the whole argument is about where is the money going to come from and how am i going to be

you want people to come through your city, to see your city, to stop at your city. i always complained about a place like san antonio. you don't go around san antonio, you go into san antonio. they have a ditch that you can spit over that they are so proud of they call it the riverwalk. we have one of the oldest rivers in the country, one of the most historic, that we still have as yet not developed to the extent that people can enjoy. tried to stopn, i the circumventing, but i wasn't able to do it. i was introduced as a mayor. once i finished my tenure as governor, i had thought i was finished with politics forever. i did want to be finished with it. unfortunately, i started seeing things take place in the city that i described what was taking place and saw richmond was a city of corruption and inefficiency. a cesspool, i called it. boy, did they come after me for saying that, the leadership. they did. several council members had gone to jail in disgrace. in 2003, i started a petition to have the mayor elected, not selected by the majority of the council members in

and other city agencies. the men and women of the san francisco police department are the finest police officers in the country, but we need more of them. we should not be hemmed in the archaic officer-charter commitment. it's a false summit. and it's not representative of the ever-changing city. these are major commitments and i know i have a limited time to accomplish the goals, but they're what is right for the city of san francisco and i promise to work to see them through. i hope everyone will join me in those efforts and i look forward to working together. thank you, everyone. >> president breed: returning to our agenda. madame clerk. >> items 1 through 11, consent. these items are considered to be routine unless a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president breed: madame clerk, call the roll. >> on items 1 through 11. safai aye. sheehy aye. stefani aye. tang aye. yee aye. breed aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. kim aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those item

we're a city of community and city of leaders who want to work together. with that, i would like to bring up to the podium, a person who needs no introduction. our mayor, mayor mark farrell. [applause] >> mayor farrell: first of all, any deacons in the house? come on, we can cheer! all right. listen, i want to thank maria for all of your hard work on behalf of the city's families and children. i want to acknowledge a number of people here today. first of all, supervisor safai is here. district attorney gascon next to him and our school board members. we have our president. as well as commissioner walton. and as well as our vice president of our school, please give him a hand as well. and i know commissioner haney was coming as well. today is a chance to celebrate the bright future of our city's children here in san francisco. while we do honor the legacy of our late mayor, edwin lee. mayor lee was a longtime champion of children here in san francisco and today, we also will celebrate that. you know, it is our responsibility as a city to uphold the values o

are we gonna be the nanotech city or the biotech city? and i very quickly realized that clusters of economic growth don't happen because a local government official decided that they would. they happen because you create the right kind of conditions. when people ask me, you know, are you gonna be a high tech advanced city or are you gonna be focusing on manufacturing, to me that's a false premise and a false choice. - how's that? - for example, we just finished up a contract at am general, one of our manufacturers, they make hmmwvs. they're also making, or they were making mercedes vehicles, an r class, an suv that sold to the chinese market. so you got american union autoworkers making a german car going to chinese customers, they're sending their goods to asia, not their jobs. that contract wrapped up and now we're gonna retool that same facility, it's gonna be making electric vehicles for a silicon valley based firm that's backed by chinese investment. point is, there are absolutely ways that workers can play a role in a globalized aut

city the thing he misses the most is how cooking. in the book eighty percent of the food traditionally eat in here is healthy. no exaggeration. it's a digest fish and other seafront. they smoke fish. or get nails and if they want to make lanterns we cook them and coconut milk nuts to coon adare . whenever i visit the island after having been in the city i wish i could stay at all weather but oh well i have to go back to work. but oh yes it's a magical place i'm with a lefty its name and crew not. just in spanish it's called christina by yours but it's real name is c. i go out. better c.r.y. don't like a lot of my c.r.y. doored do you misuse some. within. the see this as a she says yes means yes and the cool not which but i come every saturday a little like that. the united states handed the can our over to panama in one thousand nine hundred nine ownership of the railway meanwhile passed to the us companies kansas city seven and me jack products which leases and services terminal equipment like cranes the services operated by the pan

isn't the city about seven hundred people were living in the city or like the first and second class people and it took about twenty one thousand people to construct much of picchu and in country of purchase more than just impressive. such a picture was divided into three areas so then the religious area which is in the center. we have an area where like the house is working and you have the common area the terrorists would seem at. least. until today only seventy five percent of much to preach to are actually excavated so the other twenty five percent are still in process so there's more to come into next year yes. after working for a few hours it finally cleared up the one up which are still is a little bit of clouds but they will also go away. and that's impressive. so when i could show we are standing on a much beach which means the engine mountain and down there is the city i've just shown you all right guys that's it from school and prove. my journey continues i have left paso and i'm on my way to the bavarian forest just an hour away from the city the region is a popular desti

in 2016, our city grappled with crisis seen in a lot of american cities, the dissolution of trust among the community and law enforcement. responding to cries from our community for improvement, mayor lee reached out to attorney general lynch and the department of justice and san francisco entered into an agreement to evaluate the police department and get independent analysis of how we could serve our city. the department of justice presented recommendations and our city embraced all recommendations and to work closely with the justice department. to date we have started more than half of those reforms and huge credit to the police chief bill scott and the men and women of our police department that have embraced the reforms. we have some of the best officers in our country. and we are seeing promising improvements with use of force incidents down 18% just last year. unfortunately, attorney general jeff sessions announced that the department of justice would no longer provide assistance or guidance to departments seeking to improve the trust between the police and the public. but under

curse the city. the god damn city for taking my stop away. but they too would like their 17th street, the 17th street avenue stop too. i think there's a way that we can make alternative -- there's a way we can make alternative 49th and 47th stopping at alternative stops. they stop at the amount of stops that you guys want, which is about half. but they skip a stop. they don't have to pass, but they move ahead because we're skipping stops. i think that's the way to go. now, also, we talked to bart. if we had a steam cleaner for the platform for the passage from the platform station to the elevators on montgomery, powell, and civic center, we could wash it clean. we won't wash the frame and the outside door at the platform because that is bart's responsibility. i think we can do better. i think we can work together and say we need a steam cleaner for the passage and we will do the door for bart. >> thank you mr. gilberty. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon commissioners my name is alex lanceburg and i'm going to speak on another item later

city for. the seventy seven kilometer trip takes around them hour and only runs with days undeterred by the early hours passengers from many countries have come along for the ride the scotian is one of numerous tourist attractions in panama. this is the task will be yet panama city's old town for example a unesco world heritage site the architectural splendor of panama as colonial past still shines bright here the buildings were commissioned by newcomers from spain and later from france and north america the days when trans road through the quarter are long gone. in the heart of the city on last summer your dress polish really in resplendent white is the impressive iraq at the drop metropolitano. the old town is panama city's number one tourist attraction. in. recent years the state and private citizens have been investing in the renovation of its many dilapidated buildings. gentrification is pushing up rents in casco and changing its character a problem faced by many old towns around the world

demands that cities build and the benefit to cities is going to be primarily from whatever tourism dollars that they would get for people visiting the areas where the games take place. ok and so if you look at this upcoming olympics what do you think that they should expect in terms of you know how much they're going to spend i mean it seems like it's going to be as extravagant as as ever professor. oh it is they've they've built the main arena where the opening ceremonies and a lot of the premier hockey and skating events are going to take place that was one hundred million dollars and they're going to knock that facility down after the olympics are over so that's basically one hundred million dollars for a facility that's going to be used at most about a month between the regular olympics and the paralympics and it's good it's a tremendous amount of expenditure for a region of korea which is which is not well developed right right amazing you're going to tear the thing down a professor at our lunch in the university of calgary school of public policy told a group of people there that wer

no city was spared. not even rather a category a city which was both a treasure trove of architectural masterpieces and a center of christianity. i am. the attack of july nineteenth nine hundred forty three targeted the capital's train stations and air bases bombs went astray and fell on residential neighborhoods. there were at least one thousand five hundred casualties. the americans had to face the facts precision bombing was simply not always possible. in france stray allied bombs cause nearly sixty thousand deaths. there were twelve thousand deaths in belgium. and nine thousand in the netherlands. collateral victims of a new form of warfare. by now churchill himself worried about the consequences of mass bombing but his concerns were swept aside by the supreme commander of the allied powers general dwight eisenhower. the bottom line was that nothing was to be allowed to delay allied forces from retaking western europe from the nazis. by the end of the summer of nine hundred forty four the allies had

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but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city?i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom,

in 2014, city voters set a goal that 50% of all future housing built in the city should be affordable housing of some kind. including not-for-profit subz dieed housing, renovated s.r.o.s and inclusionary affordable housing and new market rate projects. this will include middle-income housing as well as lower income housing. but the fed proposed central soma plan falls far short of that 50% goal. it only proposes that 33% of all future use soma housing will be affordable. that is not enough. if soma doesn't achieve the 50% goal, there's no hope that the r*els -- that the rest of san francisco ever request. it will take direct city intervention to acquire those sources and hundreds of millions of city sources to build them and development of middle income housing. the missing mid is vital to maintain the social and cultural diversity. otherwise, we may back very divided societies of just the well-to-do and the poor. we can't let that happen. south of market's location next to an ever-expanding downtown san francisco is both a terrible curse and great blessing. that market growth, the ma

this was a city a team of underdogs and theyerer able t bowl. for this city inyears. but now they want the it to be a lot sooner than 57 years. >> they don't want just one and done. >> eagles quarterbacks nick foles and carson wentz also spoke to the crowd and got them fired up. >> i don't think words can describe what's going on here today. i'm never seen so many people in one spot sellcelebrating in unity one thing. to be a part of the philadelphia eagles, it's one of the greatest things i have ever done in my life. from the moment i got here, i knew this was a special place. a special locker room a special organization, special coaching, and some seriously special fans. i knew it wouldn't take long until we were standing up here and here we are today as world >> you know what? there were a will the of chants for nick foles as carson wentz as the mvp of the regular season, which he would have been if he didn't get hurt. >> there's so much love for both. two great quarterbacks. it will be interesting to see what happens next year. today's parade still causing some tr

for the city. is there a way to incorporate a feed into the television itself, you know, when you watch cnn or something else, you've got the ticker tape that goes on the bottom that can update with tweets or other comment? it seems very standard for, you know, current media, but it might be much too complex or incompatible with our current city systems, but i think it's worth asking the question. >> i'd be glad to reach out to them with that question. >> thank you. any public comment? >> hi again. it's mark bruno, and the real reason i came tonight was i just wanted to familiarize myself with the ethics commission, because i have an ethics complaint that was filed in september. i won't refer anymore with regards to the complaint execute with reference to this executive director's report. i think one of the things the ethics commission must consider for the sake of the public, people who might be filing ethics complaints, and in my case, it was a conflict of economic interest at the board of appeal

we work, we live, we city hall. i have a point about city hall. i've been to some of your city halls, and they are beautiful, but that doesn't mean the energy inside them is buzzing. to attract young talent to work for mayors that is then going to reshape policy in the way we need for the future, create an environment they thrive in. they only work at amazon and google because it feels good. they want to work at city hall, and the reason they do, mill len y cherish meaning over material goods. show them you're mission driven. they will join. i think even though some city halls look nice and some don't, until we have that buzzing environment that the smartest, youngest, most talented individuals of this country want to go work for, you have not fully succeeded. >> an exclamation point on this with mayors across america. i do think that probably now is the time to think about redesigning the spaces that we work in and how citizens interact with us, and i think that possibilities are just really infinite in how we reconnect physically and in realtime

the most immediate concern for manchester city is that there quadruple is now just manchester city isowjust a treble. and it could be down to a double if they don't beat arsenal in six days' time in the league cup final. all good things come to an end, but a very special evening that breathes life into the fa cup in many ways. wigan from league1 into the fa cup in many ways. wigan from league 1 very close to the top of league1 from league 1 very close to the top of league 1 beating the from league 1 very close to the top of league1 beating the mighty manchester city. but still a few things the fa will want to have a look at around this time. it is what the fa cup is all about. thank you very much indeed. so, then. they turn at the winter olympics is just turning into day 11 as things stand in pyeongchang. day ten was a day where doping once again became an issue with news of that and highs, lows and the odds tumble the team gb, our sports correspondent, and swiss. the first ever bronze medal in mixed doubles curling. from delight to a doping controversy. ba rely delight to a doping co

how do integrate these smart city concepts into cities that are highly urbanised and populated ?irst generation smart city for instance or even other cities like shenzhen, what we see is that there is a great wealth of knowledge and a shared intelligence where people want to actually create start—up companies that will actually help bring people from the slums and give them jobs then give them aid at a place to live, what we are seeing is that in these first—generation smart cities, there has been that kind of opportunity for people to grow within the cities. so that is smart 1.0. what about 2.0? 2.0 city is one we start to see, well, if the first generation was all about big companies, big infrastructure, technology and the economy, very top—down government riven, the second generation is all about people power, all about what is in it for me? what is it for my culture, what is in it for me on the street? what about the third generation? they start to the environmental aspects. we are all aware of the climate change agenda, keeping a lid on temperature rising. what we see isa on

deputy city attorney john gibner. there's three versions as supervisor kim said as the childcare related measure. one pending on the board and one on today's agenda. neither of those have any provision you would describe as a poison pill. there is one that was circulated for signatures, i believe the department of elections has concluded it qualified for the ballot and would be on the ballot. that has a provision in it that says it conflicts with any other measure on the same ballot -- that will affect the same subject matter. doesn't specifically speak to child chair or specifically speak to gross receipts or commercial rents taxes. my office's policy is not to advise on interpretations of measures that are circulating for the ballot. i understand the disagreement between the supervisor. if the bottom line though in terms of the ultimate impact is that if that measure, the measure that has been placed on the ballot through signatures and the measure that is item 1 today, the gross receipts tax dedicated housing, if b

small liveable enjoyable city. and many of cody's tours start off it down square at the birthplace of amsterdam and the thirteenth century local fisherman down to the river and settled in a village they called. this square is also home to the seventeenth century royal palace recently this was not a real house this was the mayor's office in amsterdam and if you look at it that's why it's not an oppressive building you comparative or saw a windsor castle it's not impressive at all but originally this was the largest civic building in europe and it celebrated the power of the republic. in the seventeenth century amsterdam rose to become a key center of international trade amassing unimagined whirls this is when the world famous can now ring area it was developed a small plant was drained using a system of one hundred sixty. canals in concentric arcs today the urban ensemble is a unesco world heritage site often the houses along the canals were commissioned by wealthy merchants many were calvinists which is why the hou

>> yeah, these are the city-wide. >> yes, i know it's city-wide. >> so basically, the city staff that does this looks at patterns of collections, they look at economic trends, they look at any changes in the law, and they attempt to build the revenue forecast around those patterns of growth. you know, this is any governmental entity has to have a model for doing revenue projection. and you know, it will take into account things like population, business activity in the case of a local government, the value of real estate. real estate sales. so all of these things get worked in. san francisco, where we have a fairly vibrant tourist industry, that becomes a big component of it. >> i know that. they have that revenue projection, i was at that meeting. do you have -- does daas have revenue projection? >> i would say there is a local government revenue projection that is done by the city. and then when we build the hsa budget, we also look at revenues that are much more tied to our actual programs. so when you have social services programs that have federal and state funding, we have to be

i don't know if we table it or discontinue it. >> deputy city attorney. >> deputy city attorney john jon givner. if you table it to the chair, it's best to amend the date as supervisor safai did with the charter amendment so the clerk doesn't file it after the march deadline. >> per that recommendation, i'd like to amend the date like supervisor safai did on the m.t.a. measure so our intention is to continue the discussion as it relates to the november ballot measure. but of course, as i said last time, if anyone wants to reach out to our office to learn more and gain a better understanding of what this would do or suggestions you you have, please contact my office. colleagues, after public comment, i would like to have you make a motion to that effect. >> thank you, any other colleagues wish to comment on this item? right now? let's take public comment. any memples the public wish to comment, please come forward. waw to line up to the right. -- if you want to line up to the right, you have two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm co-chair of the [inaudible] coalition. i'm he

they are the descendants of many of the people named in this great city, helped to build this city, so thank you for leading on that. i also just want to add a couple of words to sharon hewitt's passing. sharon was actually one of the very first people i met on my first day of work at the housing authority. we battled every day. some of you might not believe, but i might have rubbed sharon the wrong way a few times, and she let me know about it every step of the way, but one of the proudest things i was involved in with her and president breed and i had this in common was we were both trying to build a recording studio. i was building a recording studio in sunni -- sunnyvale, and president breed was building another one at the same time. she went out of her way to prove how tough she was, and she went out of her way to prove it on a daily basis. but once you won her over, she was your mentor for life. i was proud to have been -- worked with her on the front lines out in sunnydale with daily gun shots and people diing. she was a front line person, and she had no fear. she would get in t

it surpasses anything i could imagine. >> i love this city, man. i'm in love with this city, man.verybody that came out here today. >> the support, the love here between the team and this city, it's indescribable to the rest of the world. >> and after the parade came a mass exist out of the city. some waited hours to get home. on the left you seen lines wrapping around waiting for trains. on the right, fans walking across the ben franklin bridge to get to new jersey. >>> right nowt a 11:00 street cleaners are rounding up the trash left behind by the crowds and clearing out barricades trying to get center city running normally by the time you head to work tomorrow. we're bringing you live team coverage tonight of the post parade travel mess and of the cleanup but we'll begin with drew smith with a parade recap, drew. a day philadelphians will never forget. >>> yeah, jackelyn. this was not a dream. this actually happened. a huge celebration right here with the eagles making a promise to their beloved fans. >> hungry dogs run faster and that's it. >> reporter: a celebration worth wai

then north through the city on broad.e not sure if it will go around city hall to the left or right, but it will likely go left to pack into dilworth park, ending at the philadelphia museum of art for a huge celebration there. let's go live to the museum. "action news" reporter dann cuellar, dan, the word is that a couple of million people are making their own parade plans. >> that's pretty much what everyone is saying. the die has been cast. the order of business set for center city and making the eagle parade set for thursday. without telling anyone for fear of jinxing the game or giving bill belichick a heads up, looks like the city had a head start. >> we did it, baby. >> with passionate eagle fans running on high octane after the superbowl win the city is moving full speed ahead with the championship parade. >> i'm happy they won. everything is coming together for thursday. >> construction crews at the art museum were honored to be building the stage where the parade will culminate. the city began putting miles of ba

dozens of customers throughout the city are waiting for their morning deliveries. like many small businesses in germany it's invested in diesel powered delivery vehicles which are cheaper to run due to years of tax breaks for diesel a ban on day use would hit the company hard eyes of industry. if a ban on diesel powered vehicles covers the whole city then we have a problem in principle we'd have to shut down. remember we can't deliver our products by public transport so we'd have nowhere to go. next under all this. design of blames the sheer volume of traffic in german cities and has some of the country's worst it's in a city absorbs over four hundred thousand commuters every day this busy stretch of road in central stuttgart is called the nec a troll crossing and it's become something of a household name in germany that's because with an average of almost seventy thousand vehicles passing through in both directions every single day it's now one of the country's absolute hotspots for air pollution. last year the monitoring station at the nec atoll crossing measured

from north philly and center city which was the meeting point is being like it was going to center city around city hall was the big ground zero for the celebratory activities. this is historic. for a lot of people, this is still sinking in. it is our time, it is our turn. it finally happened for the city to bring home a super bowl championship. >> nbc 10 is the official station for the winning super bowl eagles. we've got crews here and in minneapolis. >> we have such a great coaching staff. we've dreamed about this moment. there are plenty of kids dreaming about this. to be here with my daughter, my wife, my family, my teammates, the city. i've never seen this in all my life. with all the adversity and injuries and losing our franchise quarterback and the world champs. an incredible group of men. this is an amazing feeling. >> we've got the best players in the world. it is a resilient group. i love the coaching staff. looking around. it's just unreal. the city is always about the eagles. we did it, man. we did it. we brought it home. are. >> it is going to come down to one stop. we're

the giants are partners with the city. even when they got turned down for stadiums, they didn't abandon the city and move to santa clara. they stuck it out and shrugged it out. they deserve this approval, but more importantly, the people of san francisco deserve your approval. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> president breed, supervisors, my name is shelly carol. i'm a neighbor in south beach and i've been attending meetings since jellies years and years and years, and people have said everything that i would like to except i would like to reiterate, support the project. i'm a season ticket holder. >> are there any other members of the public who would like to give public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. this hearing has been held, and is now filed. this matter is now in the hands of the board of supervisors. we will reconvene as of board of supervisors out of the committee of the whole. with that, i would recognize supervisor kim. >> thank you so much, madam president. i w

their hair out. >> i want to go back to the berkeley city they lowered the city's tax rate on recreational pot from % wn to 5%. what was the thinking behind d that, ayou other cities thinking of following suit? >> tax rates e ashigh as 40% in cannabis in california, when you addnd state local sales, plus regulations in the new supply chain. f when tnal bill comes due, it's higher than the cannabis available on the reet, whic sort of props up the black market, which is what we don't want to do underroposition 64. as i have been saying, taxes and regulations are going to be bad before get better, and we're starting to see locals think aboute adjusting th regulations to allow those to thrive. it takes a 2/3 vote to change taxes at the state level, so it's going to be hard to move things at the state level. s so a bumpy start. david downs of the san francisco chronicle, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >>> moving on to local politic richmond is home to a chevron oil refinery that employs 1200 people. but last month, richmond join other california cities and counties to sue big oil c

city and county of san francisco. of that, we lease from private properties only 4%. of our portfolio. this has been an issue that is concern of the board of supervisors as we brought leases forward as to what is the constitution of our portfolio. this really tells the big story. we're at 4%. we had a discussion with many of our peer organizations across the country. we found an average range when you look at aggregate portfolio, there is a lot of land in the portfolios nationwide, they range from 1-4%. new york city, austin, texas, right at 4%. so we feel we're in line with the peer cities in terms of how much is leased and how much is owned. to try to address that concern that the board has raised, are we at the right mix? we believe we are. now we'll dive deeper. how do we break down the 1.8 million square feet? 55% of it is leased for office uses. 45% is leased for other types of use. that could everything from supportive housing, ground leases and building leases, clinic uses, other special public uses. so less t

darkness city's. starting march tenth. this is d.w. news live from berlin no end to the fighting in syria a brief truce in eastern huta collapses after just a few hours leading to a resumption of violence in the rebel held on clay the u.s. lashes out at russia for its involvement but the real losers tonight the civilians who have received no way and remain trapped also coming up is it the death of diesel environmentalist celebrate a court ruling in germany giving cities the right to ban diesel cars from their streets but who will pay the city governments the all of industry or the millions of motorists who are still driving diesel car. if it's good to have you with us tonight the war in syria rages on along with the war of words surrounding it's a top u.s. general accusing russia of quote behaving like an arsonist and a fire fighter in syria washington is convinced that moscow was playing a destabilizing role in the conflict u.s. army general joseph botha lashed out at russia after a temporary truce collapsed a truce that was ordered b

it's onerous for taxpayers and for the city, frankly. i think that there is many good reasons to try and do that again to finally retire the payroll tax in the future. >> thank you. >> supervisor fewer? >> yes. thank you very much. i just have one question. you mentioned that there is the pass-through for the proposed commercial tax is limited. limited at what are the limits sort of? can you just -- just a layperson here. >> sure. essentially what happens when anybody is faced with a tax is -- or any business, for example, is faced with a tax is they try to say, well, can we get our customers to pay for it? can we get our suppliers to pay for it? and you have to do a lot of statistical moulding of economic data to get a reasonable estimate about how much someone who is charged the tax can get away with passing it on in the case of the commercial real estate their customers. what we know from economics is that your ability to do that really depents about how sensitive you are to rents. if you are as a customer highly sensitive to rents, s

the city. the city is a special place that tolerates everyone. and many muslims who live in the city, eat only halal meat. it's important for us to eat halal and fresh meat that has frozen food that has been in the freezer for months. the city should be proud and support a small business. abiding by all the rules and regulations should be a priority for our city leaders. the track record of the oakland location is great. they have full-time health inspector and the place is very clean and well maint maintained. i'm one of their biggest customers. supporting organic stores, this type of business should be supported as well. with regards to the environmental impact, i am a licensed chemical engineer in the state of california and it's commonsense to me there is no such environmental impact. it's a very small business as you have seen in the picture, family owned, many of the employees will be hired from the city itself. we're not talking about a huge slaughterhouse that slaughters thousands of an