but, there's an area to the north of oklahoma city, and to the south of oklahoma city, for about moore, you go 35 miles or so to the north that might as well be one heavily populated city. the suburbs have kind of all grown together and these storms are forming 25-30 miles west of the oklahoma city area. that is very bad news. >> very bad news. in fact, just to the west of it, the town of eucon is going to be in the path. a lot of people live near the interstates. some people may be trying get home on a farm or a ranch along the interstate and that is where it's going. >> interstate 40 goes through the entire state, and these things running right across that line, one of the things that we were concerned about earlier was, rick, the fact that these things are forming in that particular area. this is the same pattern that happened last time. last monday when we were watching the storms. is there something specific to that area, 30 miles west of oklahoma city? >> the only thing to be honest with you that is specific of this is that it's may, the peak of tornado season and this is tornado

we're already an expensive city. residents, visitors, everybody tells me it's expensive to live in the city, not just housing cost, but fees and access to things and i'm very sensitive to that. i want everybody to enjoy what we have. i want to get to the part that we can sustain these things without putting more financial burden on people. i think everybody is being taxed pretty high in our city, whether it's fees or permits or paying for muni and other parking and others. we're at a point where people are kind of sick and tired of being harangued for every penny that they have. with that sentiment, we're trying to make sure that all of our fees and current processes are keeping that in check, that we don't put more burden on the public. and that goes for every agency, whether it's rec and park or muni or the late effort to increase fees that maybe somebody thought hadn't been increased in 25 years adds to everything else. we should try to be more innovative and creative and that is why we're working with technology

city, population 600,000. a category ef-3 to ef-4 tornado touched down. as you mentioned, it looked like a bowling ball rolled through the town. you can see the devastating path. we saw earlier the helicopter from kfor, our affiliate in oklahoma city buzzed closer and you could see people desperately trying to lift debris up, no doubt trying to save individuals, calling for help inside. just for some perspective because when you talk about 1 150-mile-per-hour winds, a lot of people who haven't experienced that don't know what that means necessarily. >> jake, look at this. >> absolutely devastating. >> those homes are missing. there's literally right through the middle of that town nothing left of those homes exempt maybe a wall or two. i see slabs right on the left side of the screen. there are literally just concrete slabs left, all of the walls completely gone. ff th ff. >> this is a suburb of oklahoma city, moore, oklahoma, that you're looking at right now. live pictures after a huge tornado anywhere from o

we now have over 40 cities that have joined us. in 2011 we partnered with gray area foundation on a series of hack-a-thons, 10,000 attendees, and created nearly 30 applications all being powered by open data. now in 2012 we have our legislation that you heard about. as you heard, we announced the chief data officer. we have a network of open data coordinators within each agency. and these coordinators, their primary responsibility is to provide insight, is to provide transparency into the data sets that they manage. and that's really important. we want to make sure that you guys have a clear understanding in our community about the data that we manage so you can tell us where we should be going next in terms of opening up our data sets. we also are doing some structural changes so that open data is really the default position for our city. we're making sure that data belongs to our city, not the vendor. and second, we're making sure that any software that we buy or build hatx a public api or some equivalent. we don't want to be hel

one thing the city of san francisco or big cities or federal, right, the other smaller cities, smaller cities have smaller budgets. having a structure to support all this open data takes a lot of money. so, when these small cities are thinking about this, they should think about a way of somehow equalizing because they are putting into having these open data team, right? so, what does make sense? this is kind of an open question to get your point of view. >> do you want to take that, shannon? >> i think that there is actually quite ah few examples. we can probably talk to this more with smaller cities that are making open data efforts. but what i would say is that it's proven more than the value of the investment. the return that we've gotten just by opening up the data has actually given back more. so, that would be my short answer to it, but i think you probably have more experience working directly with some of the cities. >> so, i grew up in a small city so i care about small cities a lot, 15,000 people, southern illinois. i'm a card nastionv fan. -- cardinals fan. i should say tha

and welcome to san francisco city hall. on this momentus occasion, we are going to have and celebrate the unveiling of the adolf trotro bust. and so we will begin with the present mayor of san francisco, mayor ed lee, talking about one of the former mayors of san francisco adolf trotro. >> all right. thank you, ellen. >> you are very welcome. president lee. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to city hall. and thanks for as a various departments that are here, i understand that we have three representatives from our counsel general offices, certainly our counsel general from germany, from israel and russia. thank you very much for being here. former supervisor clint is here, i can see him in the crowd thank you for being here as well. our chiefs from the fire and police department are here. members of our commissions are here as well and thank you very much. my good buddy, leonid, mucupkin has been an advisor to me for many, many years previous to my being mayor of san francisco. and he is always been giving me great advi

i just came back from the international city cities of cork ireland, paris, france. they marvel at how well we have done things here in our great city and keep it going and remake it. they also have a sense that anytime their members come here, they are experiencing a huge amount of warmth from people who serve them. i know the quality of our hotels is one of the main stays of why we are such a really and successful tourist center for all over the world, not just in san francisco or california, but all over the world. these workers who have in past years probably didn't have such smooth negotiations in the past, we are reminded of that through some couple of decades where everybody struggled, but it's quite apropos that we have stressed the important collaboration of talking with people and making sure we understand their needs and necessities early on that not only are they going to have wages but a health plan and pension for years to come. when you have hotel workers, working class people who can take care of their family and themselves and have contributed in the

city engineer is with us. from the department of emergency management along with other people from the department of emergency management and i'm introducing all of these people because it wasn't just the fire department alone. it took a lot of work from the department of technology to the department of city planning, i saw brian strong here early and ken rich from the mayor's office. a whole host of people, and we have john green who is our department captain, who earlier this morning gave a very special blessing upstairs in the dining facility to all the members at station 1 and for blessing this building and all the work done here. few other folks that i would like to acknowledge, local 798, the men and women presented by tom o'connor behind me, thank you, tom. as well as some of his members of the executive board here, thanks very much to local 798. there is two retired deputies here. i have seen this happen. i'm grateful they came back because it's this early phase, he got us where we are at today. thank

i want the residents and visitors in this city to feel that they have a safe city to invest in and i want a city that is reflective our successes. a sound, a safe and successful city. these are the principles that i would like the budget to reflect. and that we have very successful sectors of our economy that are helping us perform this. i want to keep investing in those things. i think the big number, the big word this year is less about deficit, although we will make those gaps reach balance, but it's also where we really invest to make this city more safe and successful while we're making it economically sound? that is what is going to guide me and i hope that the public will understand and appreciate that because in the end it's their quality of life i would like to pay attention to. >> i would like to introduce your budget spouse as you described him, supervisor mark farrell who is also the chair of the supervisor's budget committee. supervisor farrell you were really the person who is going to be spearheading this lengthy, rigorous, difficult process through the board of superv

making us the largest employer in the city. today we have already more than 800 thousand square feet in san francisco and we expect 1.8 million square feet by 2016. that is tremendously exciting for us. we continue to grow and higher the talents that this city brings and enable and people that want to join our mission and are passionate about not what we are just doing about technology but our broader things and -- san francisco stands for power and passion and the need that makes technology go. we are powered with the community and leadership and other departments that share our vision for the future. also as the mayor mentioned we are extremely passionate about giving back to the city. right from the beginning we had a one one model from the beginning. that's the one percent equity and one percent of our product giving back to the community in the form of free donation to non-profit and we've given $40 million in grants and 445,000 volunteer hours and today as i travel around the world i meet many of our 18,000 non-profits to

have the right to live in the city and that we are looking at city policies to help enable that to happen. the phenom of secondary units in the excelsior, district and district 11 is known as a place that has a high level of single-family homes, up to 57% of the housing stock are single-family homes, but at the same time we could have as one in three single-family homes that have a secondary units. a unit that has not necessarily been authorized by the city and people are living in them, often families with children, often district 11 has the most children in the whole entire city. often immigrants, people who are very transit-oriented and speak limited number and we have to make sure that they can continue to make contributions to the city and can take part in the educational system and provide service and we have homeowners in the district who have struggled to maintain their mortgages and pay the mortgages. we have the highest level of foreclosures in district 11. in the past four months, up until april of this yeah, we had 51 foreclosures and we know that many use the second unit inco

how can city hall make life better? whether public safety, education, parks, keeping families in town, that is my priority and i will continue to make sure that is reflected in our budget. thank you for coming out today. if you have additional questions of district two or 3, shoot me an e-mail, stop by the office on wednesdays, 10 a.m., 1 p.m. we will have budget meetings for the next month and a half. . if you have additional comments let you know at this point i would like to turn over to my colleague and it great supervisor from district 3, supervisor david chiu. (applause) >> i want to thank all of you today for participating today. what i want to do so the next two minutes is summarize what i heard from my constituents and feedback that we heard in different months. you heard the district 3 has the least amount of open space in any district of the city ; making sure we get the north beach club house open , making sure we have adequate staffing at joe dimaggio -- public safety. , t you've heard from folks today arou

we started by making sure that the city employees and city vehicles have to pay the meter when parked. before this changed, the city vehicles parked for free at meters with no time limit. and we also reserve on the free reserve spaces that some city and agency enjoyed for years. and mta we are one stepfather to ask all of our employees who part in our lots to pay when they drive to work. these as you might imagine were not popular steps in the city government but they were important for the acredibility and putting their own house in order before askinging san franciscoan to manage their parking. and another core part of our strategy, with the parking management was addressing the issues that happened when people can't quickly and easily find a space. in other words, reducing the easy to find a parking space to reduce the amount of circling and double parking that we see, there are two main strategies and one is simply providing better information, and there is high, and low tech ways to do that, and you can see it on the street and trying to get the people, guide them to the availabl

the city can move forward with this? we need to look at our business case regarding what we can do with our city's dark fiber, especially strands that we are not using. we're currently leasing some of our fiber. we brought in $500,000 in leases and i think we can bring in more. to create free wi-fi in public spaces and in addition to this ordinance i am introducing a companion hearing request to discuss the strategy and status of public wi-fi and look forward to exploring these issues at a hearing in the near future. >> thank you, mr. president. >> i have two more items. my second item i am introducing a resolution for the top of broadway district. there is a short stretch of proceedway that has been historically plagued by a number of challenges that include safety issues caused by rowdy and often out of town crowds attending night clubs and bars there. too many vacant storefronts and proliferation of liquor licenses and lack of diversity of businesses that serve our neighborhoods. these conditions have sadly kept many

of this great city. the mayor said he wants to support ourcy city and respect them and pay a great deal of attention. and the mayor has come through of what he's done. may i present mayor ed lee >> i know charlotte is incredibly overjoyed with this wherever we have to greet and visit our cities and others mayors we immediately within minutes can appreciate the change and there's so much going on with this city. the commissioner looked at two relaxed during the invest. and barring also known as comments us. i want to thank you for your visit here. although he's been here before this is his first official visit. his commencemee emt our staff c together and challenge great information about technology. health care, transportation are changing industrial areas like we've done in mission bay. literally we're looking at how we have progressed and at the same time paying great respect to our roles as environmental leaders in the world. i know san francisco and barring also known as are joining many other intern

oh, my city sunny really want to see you city. i really want to be with you city. and i really want to make it safe for you city offer it doesn't take long oh, city in the long run. oh, hot i didn't, hot i didn't oh, my sweet city oh, make it safe today. because i really want to see you. >> thank you walter. anyone else please come forward >> supervisors daniel i came in here for the juvenile issue but since this is on the table. my heart goes out inform the folks in boston. i think we need to show constraint here. we know in america sometimes fear drives government to bring laws quickly and it really it steels the liabilities away from the people based on the treat. so i want to share with you let's not, you know, move so quickly with any ideas that's a slippery you slope that may infringe on people's rights. of course, we need plans and i'm not no strategy type of person who deals with security but i deal with common sense. after 1945 the japanese were put in concentration exams and the government can offer react. so let's use caution and reason. because if you'r

capital city clean up brings cities together to create safe, clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. our motto is a clean and safe edmonton is a shared responsibility and we work on the premise that we can't do it alone, that we need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcement. just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. when did capital city clean up start? it was launched in 2005 as a pilot program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. basically businesses were asked to adopt a block in their area and were responsible for litter clean up in that area and the program had such a huge success that they expanded the program in 2006 to include a residential component for litter pick-up. we now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each h

they are smart enough to do that, but they want to get going at city college. >> do you see the city in this budget cycle actually carving out a dollar amount? >> here is what we're doing, because i don't think it is always to be measured by the amount of money you give for bailouts. i have been paying personal attention to their accreditation program. i have had interim chancellor scott in my office and i had the state chancellor, who is in charge of accreditation in my office, on the phone, on a monthly basis. i have worked directly with our controller, and a team of people from our controller's office, to pour over the economics. because part of the challenge was that their accreditation had to do with two broad areas: their economic stability, but also the way they governed themselves over many, many years and when you read the accreditation report, it didn't happen overnight. it happened over many, many years of decisions that didn't pay attention to a number of factors. and so recovering from that takes more than just financial investment. it takes a concerted partnership, with

this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port. we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports where america's cup will entertain a million, international visitors within a few months. walk down a couple more blocks to piers 15, 17, where we are going to see a half a million kids come to go all the way down to what we know that will be the next site of the warrior's arena and down to the ballpark and th

we have six centers in the city. ree e them are in richmond and sunset area and we serve in total close to 300 children [speaker not understood] in the city. in richmond and sunset we have close to 120 kids. so, we have been serving the community to serve these families. we have head start program, by the way. when we have nationwide connection they work the head start program. i want to share one thing. we feel very, very gratitude to be in san francisco. because every time when we connect with those people nationwide, statewide, we couldn't believe how much resource we have in san francisco, how much we invest in early childhood education. so, that's a gratitude i really want to share with you, with all -- with the mayor, with supervisors, and all the departments. thank you for the support to our children and families in this community. [speaker not understood], i would like to share some comments, how do we do better here. i would like to see the community that we can continue invest in early childhood education a

go to union city? okay. go to union city. so i set off to a union city but didn't go on my own because it is the clannish place. professor shows up and says hi, tell me about your schools, not sure what the reception would be, but i have outage for guy, a guy sitting over here who came with me and said he is a good guy and gordon is somebody the district knows well and trusts well. i spent some time looking at those preschools and i knew up through a grade reading and math test scores were really good so i was in one of the schools that has preschool through eighth grade program, i am going to duck into a classroom and see what they are like and i was impressed by what i saw. the nice thing about being a professor is these things called sabbaticals. you spend a year doing stuff away from home. why not come back here and spend a year and see what is happening. and in great school systems. to their credit superintendent, top administration, the mayor, school board all said it is a great idea. bring your hands. they all said we

the key to the city. (clapping) >> this is truly an honor to be here in front of you from the front office of the owners to the coaching staff and mark jackson can't be understated how much of an impact he's had on our team and might have and all the teammates you didn't see the other players making plays and others making plays. the practices that we went through and making each other better from day one. you know, last fall right after labor day the martha ford training camp and everyone showed up early commented to the task to what coach jackson with the vision of this happening. with the success we had this year it's only going to get better (clapping) >> we're excited about the process we have a great summer league team to prepare for next year. we have our sites set on bigger things go and the support you guys have shown us is amazing. i grew up in the nbc and i've seen a lot of fan bases and this is the best fan base so far (clapping) so keep those yellow shirts crisis - as i represent the entire w

for various parts of our city. my city unfortunately chose not to enact that. so, with the fact there are no ordinances against it, fall completely out of the purview of the police code enforcement to deal with it. and that's kind of what i was trying to get across when we were talking about permission if it doesn't violate a local ordinance or state ordinance or any other, you know, legal piece, then we don't have any purview to deal with it. so, yeah, that is certainly a great tool to have. every time i bring it up to my city, by the time we get the city attorney involved, arts board involved, everybody else involved, they decide it's too much work to do that and we'll just see what happens. >> one more. let's hear from the san francisco arts commission. >> her statement frightens me. i'm an arts person. this is san francisco, we're in a unique situation in that we really do -- our whole city lich on creativity. and we like to encourage it and also manage it at the same time. the street smarts program that i mana

employment in the city. if we are going to deliver the services that people want to maintain the support of the citizens of the city. thank you. (applause) >> good morning mayor, supervisor farrell and supervisor chiu and department representative. i am amy chung representing elderly -- our workforce programs and b top programs today. we look upon these public hearings as precious moments when our seniors can directly look at all of you in the your eyes and let you know that they really exist, and exist in a major way in every one of our districts in san francisco and mayor thank you very much for always listening to our seniors and to the providers who provide them services. many of us in the senior center, anderson and nutrition programs have come to various staff to talk about the infrastructure of senior services is breaking up in san francisco. we are an elderly city and county-- 19%, we don't even have enough money to support the services that we are providing to the seniors now, not talking about the

you pay taxes and this is how the city receives funds, the funds the city uses to operate. about 33 percent are from for property taxes. 13 percent for business-related taxes. importantly about 20 percent, one out of every five dollars that we get, comes from the state or federal government. what that means is that when the state or federal government makes a change or makes us a policy choice or a funding decision they have a direct effect here in san francisco. this is really trying to show you - we've done a lot of work over the last few years trying to do a better job planning. in predicting how much money we think we are likely to take in and how much money it will cost to operate city government. what this slide is showing, in the black bar, the darker one, it shows you how much revenue we projected taken over the next five years and essentially it is showing the revenues growing we are predicting by 13 percent over the next five years at healthy revenue growth, we are seeing the economic recovery play out here. we are projecting 25 percent growth to keep pace with in

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u

>>> good morning, city officials. my name is eric wu. i am a member of the san francisco youth commission. the youth commission is a body of 17 young people ages 12 to 23, that advises the mayor and the board of supervisors on issues that affect the young people in san francisco. one of our priorities is actually the summer job plus program and supporting that and expanding that. currently there's still a significant population of job-seeking young people in our city that are currently unemployed and we hope that the city will collaborate with our -- with the nonprofit organizations and the private sectors in bringing more jobs to young people this summer. last summer, s.f. summer job plus program was extremely successful. we brought over 5,000 jobs to our young population. and this summer we hope to bring 6,000 jobs to our young people. and on behalf of san francisco youth commission and the young people in san francisco, i would like to thank the mayor and all those who have worked and collaborated in bringing jobs to the young people

this highlights the city's overall need even if preparing our cities sewer line. i was briefed to replace our city structure over a one hundred years old. with that any other items madam clerk? >> no other items. >> with that meeting is adjourned

and for those two constraints the city does not... and we are well within both. and based on the interest rate we are expecting the debt service to be approximately $20.3 million for a term of 20 years. >> just a quick question for you. what are you building in your models right now? >> our practice is to assume a 6 percent interest rate on tax exempt geo bonds. most recently we issued the bonds last summer, for the general hospital and with the emergency response as well. the cost on that is 2.71 percent and so there is a healthy. >> okay. conservative assumption. >> thank you. >> and the other thing that i would like to mention is the resolutions approved the form of documents including the official statement, which is the offering of memo who end up producing the securities and the city's disclosure in the appendix a in thofficial statement. it was last repaired in march of this year which the mayor's budget office and the controller's office and on a number of other departments to update the city's financial condition, and disclosure, and government and other

city, and a city that invests in our success and i mean success for everyone. this is a city where everyone who has come here either by immigrant families or by their own economic success, they want to start a family here, invest in a small business or invest in somebody else's business. everyone deserves to be successful in our city and we tried very hard to also break down barriers that prevent people from the successful. and so these are very broad things that i have learned in working with the government of san francisco for over 23 years; i am privileged to work with members of the board of supervisors who are very enlightened about our communities and today we focus on district 8 and 9, supervisor wiener and supervisor campos have enclosed polly some love issues that arise not just within their districts but for the whole citywide effort. and of course i want to give the victim was a supervisor mark farrel who is chairing the budget meetings this year we will cover .all the different districts. i want to express my appreciation to all the department heads

city departments. >> thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is waynn hiroshimi, i'm actually a native san franciscan. i want to share the rec and park has done such a phenomenal job with the parks. it was my backyard. it's my children's, it's my grandchildren's backyard. [inaudible]. when i retired i said i was going to give back to the community. for the last four years [inaudible]. i've had the opportunity to work side by side with the apprenticeship group which is really [inaudible]. and their excitement and how enthusiastic they are about doing this kind of work. not only that, but what i appreciate about them is they have come into areas in the park where i don't think they would normally be or would not be addressed by one of the gardeners that we have. [inaudible]. resolving the situations that may come up. thank you. >>> [inaudible], and i'm involved [inaudible]. most recently i've been working on the lawn bowling greens [inaudible]. to say the least. and for a number of ye

of the welcoming of the city. so we're going to get going. i want to thank the department heads but we want to give the bulk of this time to all of you. and want to thank the office of the - the ambassador and they're here tonight to help people whose language is not the first language by to make sure you tell us what's the most and highest propriety. this is important to us. last year and the years in the past we've listened carefully and we've had a more sensitive budget and that's our part. is a let me turn this over to supervisor representative districts 5 (clapping) >> hi i'll be brief like the mayor i can about how we allocate our resources. members of the board we look at what's most important to allocate our revenues the type of programs and i want to highlight a few things i'm going to be paying attention to. the department of health and family has said that the population in district 5 of children has decreased and therefore the amount of funding for districts 5 is decreasing. i have some real concerns a

it is time i think for our city to think more creatively about what city hall can do to support city college . in this time of need we held a hearing of the budget committee last week where we started to think about in-kind support, whether the electricity or water bills, but also in-kind support for elections of the trustees of the college board system. also other ideas for how we can be more supportive. my hope is, after this resolution, i hope that is passed . overwhelmingly here at the board and we can put our heads together i know the mayor and the controller and others also sat down with the former chancellor and others last year at this time to come forward to provide some economic and management support as well. but my hope is that we continue to move after we have acted on this resolution. first that the resolution calls the college to use as much funds to the ballot opposition prop a, to use resources for classroom use and acknowledges is amended that achieving accreditation , is so critical for the institution and a healthy, adequate reserve is also critical. in short the

my interest in this area is i am a retired city employee.multi-modal with the exception of bicycles. you won't catch me on a bicycle. but otherwise i walk many, many places in the city. i take muni, but i also drive. so, i'm on the streets quite a bit. anyway, i'm not asking for the job myself, but, anyway, i'll ask you to consider becky as a [speaker not understood], yes. >> i'm sure i heard you incorrectly, but were you implying that san franciscans are cranky? [laughter] >>> no, no, no. >> i just want to alert you -- >>> i'm a born and bred san franciscan. >> i knew i didn't hear you correctly. >>> i've only lived here 45 years. i'm just a transient. sorry. [laughter] >> thank you, jim. >> you're not cranky. >>> as an avid pedestrian, i frequently get cranky out there. my name is ed catch mayor. my primary interest in this committee is i walk on average 25 miles a week in -- on the streets of san francisco from very -- it's a great way to keep in shape and it's a great city to walk in. the climate is usually good for that. i'm also a form

we've been doing sewer for the city.re looking at a brand-new rebuild of all watt systems in san francisco and we haven't had a home that's been other than mental. >> they staff over 900 people. the puc is in two office locations. >> you know, this is such a great place for a building. if the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc represents, wouldn't be a dramatic idea? >> so, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. we wanted this building to be a lead platinum building which is very few buildings in san francisco that achieved this mark. >> leadership and energy environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live and work. i like to think of it as designed for human and environmental health. lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. indoor air quality, energy, water, materials and resources, and sustainable sites are the five categories for the lead. you can go for severa

we work closely with the whole city family. i feel the day was a success. we have people at the city emergency operation center; we had the department operations center open, a lot of planning, all the city agencies, came together to make the day success. we open the subway early and ran extra buses to get participants to the start of the race; we were part of the regional security plan that covered all of downtown including underground stations. we had our pcos and service supervisors deployed to key locations that we could manage traffic on the street and make adjustments on the fly as needed. we get everybody to the race and back using 75 extra buses and extra rail service; we had very little in the way of problems during the day. we always learn things from these events. some small adjustments were made but overall it was a successful day not just for transportation that for the whole city. the event went rather well. finally the last item i was going to note, director heinicke noted, the 2013 biennial report to measure residents opinion on city service