this is a city-wide issue and we need to tackle it as a city-wide issue, not district issue. i, too, been a friend of isabelle hughey over four decades and seen her work throughout those decades. not only from the places she worked, but also sitting on various boards and organizations. i hope that we all could ask people to support the lou family in terms of helping them with their financial difficulties to deal with this situation. i think the sherman school is collecting funds, as supervisor mar mentioned. as i mentioned at the beginning of the year, this issue was already important to me. one of the things i never talked about -- actually, my grand to they are got killed by a car, too. so, i started this year really focusing on capital improvements to make our streets as safe as possible. and the other pieces that supervisor kim has mentioned, we need to be more aggressive in this city. it's one thing to try to have traffic calming. but if enforcement is not there, it's not going to work and we just need to raise our level of enforcement. at the same time, when we talk abo

new york city's mayor michael bloomberg is leaving, too, after more than a decade at city hall. >> new york city has never been stronger than it is today, and i think it's fair to say that our future has never been brighter. >> reporter: in the final speech of the term, he said his city today is drastically different from the one he took glover i think it's safe to say that it's clear that the golden age of the suburb is over, and it is being replaced by a new urban renaissance redefining the future. >> reporter: violence, governmental dysfunction, decay. in the 1970s new york lost more than 10% of its population. it was a center of a growing trend of cities around the country where middle class residents were fleeing fast to the suburbs. >> if you want to change the world, run for mayor. >> i, michael r. bloomberg do solemnly swear... >> ly after the september 11th attacks he took over investing . it would be his legacy and inspiration to other metropolitan areas around the country. today crime is way down in new york. perhaps in part due to a tough and controversial policing policy c

we'll be partnering with an often under represented unheard voice in city hall, the city's use. best submissions will be selected for [speaker not understood] for educational costs. i plan to introduce the winning idea here at the board of supervisors so long as it is based on good policy and benefit everyone here in san francisco. by promoting the civic engagement tool, [speaker not understood], my hope is more san francisco residents will be able to interact with our local laws and not only find glaring faults like the one i'm updating today but suggest thoughtful solutions to amour substantive issues to everything we face here in the city. essentially we're presenting an opportunity for our residents to engage with city government in a way that benefits them. i hope you will join me [speaker not understood] that aim to benefit the public good and increase civic engagement here in san francisco. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. ~ >> thank you. as many of you know, december has been a challenging and difficult month in san francisco. as we en

engaged in the hauling of solid waste generated by the city in the course of city operations, pursuant to a contract with the city; and workers performing moving services under city contracts at facilities owned or leased by the city. civil service commissionn12341234 president david chiu: same house same call. this resolution is adopted. item 20: 20.131092[lease termination agreement - literacy for environmental justice - lease no. l-13816 - ecocenter]sponsor: cohenresolution authorizing the mutual termination agreement between the port and literacy for environmental justice for lease no. l-13816, for the ecocenter at heron's head park, located at jennings and cargo way, item 20: 20.131092[lease termination agreement - literacy for environmental justice - lease no. l-13816 - ecocenter]sponsor: cohenresolution authorizing the mutual termination agreement between the port and literacy for environmental justice for lease no. l-13816, for the ecocenter at heron's head park, located at jennings and cargo way, pending item 20: 20.131092[lease termination agreement - literacy for environment

this is inside and outside city government on a creative solution to expand wifi across the city on our parks system. the cost of equipment and maintenance is provided by google as a generous grant to fund this with no strings attached. this is to benefit all of san francisco. google is a member of the advocate organization which is a leading voice for san francisco and is giving the gift to the city on behalf of one of it's members. the department of technology will accept and install the gift to make it available for the city. i'm proud of organizations to bring this wireless organization to residents of our city. this resolution will now make it's way through city process banged in -- back in front of the board of supervisors next year. the committee will authorize the installation by the department of technology which will start next spring and should start by next summer. colleagues, i appreciate your support. speaker: thank you supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar? supervisor eric mar: thank you. i would like to thank you for supporting the water campaign. this is a

, and true of european cities. if you look at paris you see the same thing. you see that maybe one out of five people in the paris metro area lives in the city. and four out of five live in the suburbs. most of those people in the suburbs live in single family houses or very small apartment buildings. most of them take the automobile for their daily needs. so -- and the paris and europe generally are building a tremendous number of highways. in fact they're getting new car ownership rates higher than we are and building more highways than we are. we actually stopped building most of our roads nt in the '60s and '70s. sprawl has become the predominant choice for middle class people throughout the world. it's not just true in ufs and europe. it's -- u.s. and europe. it's choice -- >> hold onto that, i want to get specifically to choice because the people in atlanta this week that we saw stranded on those highways seem to have very little choice about how to get around and their kids had no choice about how to get hom

city the walkability of the city the fact that it's not a huge city and one of the big things i think about salt lake is that it's very close to the mountains you have like a park city which is really close by so you can do lots of different things yeah it's a great quality bush and john are our line producer knows a lot about and he says there's laid out like a grid kind of a grid like you mentioned walkability but i want to get to some of the other top five now number two is san jose california number three san francisco. oh number four seattle washington and number five san diego california now ed given california's financial troubles what do you think it says about the states that three of the top five best cities for economic upward mobility are all located there that seems odd to me you know you would know i think it goes back to what i was saying about technology. and that sort of thing when you're thinking about you know the whole go west young man i mean it's still there you want to go to silicon valley you want to go to seattle you want to go to the shores of california in g

we know when this law has worked our city's contract practices can keep tax dollars here in the city which will do most good for our residents. we know when 14b works we know that san francisco is doing all we can to end discrimination and to ensure that we are not contracting with businesses that discriminate. the hearing that i'm calling for will help us chart a progress in full filling our cities policy on discrimination and we hope in the light of legal adjustment to better award and administer a contract that is better and fair and effective to provide equal opportunities. as san franciscans we all must do a better job and i like -- look forward to working with. you my third item is an environmental ordinance. with recent typhoons and we've all seen an impact of global warning and we have seen our efforts to reducing greenhouse gases and reducing addiction to plastic bottle water. in the 1990s the industry experienced an enormous growth but before that everyone managed to stay hydrated. in 1996, the average public drank 1.6 billion bottled wear -- water per year. today americans

city and county of san francisco ~. item number 3, resolution approving a mills historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between pacific heights, llc, the owners of 2550 webster street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. ~ city and county of san francisco. item number 4, resolution approving a mills act historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between 1019 market street properties, llc, the owners of 1019 market street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. ~ item number 5, resolution approving a mills act historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between brian jackson and thomas ranese, owners of 3769 20th street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute th

city. there was sit-ins and protests by community groups and unions related to the stunt, school closings, and other issue, but he showedded a knack for avoiding and ignoring them and didn't seem to have suffered too much political fallout. as he watched the swinging and clapping singers at the birthday party, he didn't notice a crinkled orange paper banner bobbing in the crowd of rebellers that said history judges the mayor 1 mcfor closing mental health clinics. he got that early on in tenure. as wall street inspired protests swept the nation, it was a fit, and brief highly lucrative career as an investment banker. a staffer for the maw your or museum noticed and told the man holding it to put it away. it lowered into the crowd, and they shook hands and well wishers near the birthday cake. a voice cut through the clatter, causing heads to turn and the banner raised again. mayor, i wish i could do the voice burned into people's memories, but i'm not going to try. the mayor, please, don't cl

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and make the affordable housing possible for more people in this city. thank you. >> i am an organizer and i am here because we are living in a housing crisis, this is ridiculous, like i don't know anybody who can afford, 2,000 for a studio, and i don't know anybody, i don't know if i have met anybody. and so i think that it is really important to acknowledge what the city has made really bad decisions in which the highest bidder has been the one that has been able to develop. in a city that our families have built and my dad was a laborer for 30 years and i have been a community organizer for 20 years and all of these people have the same story and help to create this beautiful city that we live in and so i think that the most beautiful thing about being here is seeing the school district and the office of housing and we need to have all of the departments of the city come together and address this crisis, because it is not fair that kids don't have a place to do their homework and a place to cook and a place to feel safe, you know? and so i think that

our city. having said that we wanted to make a coordinated effort to capture for information to work with the companies who's employees are on those buses and work with the shuttle companies themselves why with them at a higher level coordination but happenstance b will get you into dallas and having conflicts in those muni zones and causing problems for bicyclists or causing buses to stop if the transport lanes without coordination. i know the more recent voices have been identifying those for the purposes of political agenda and rhetoric the buses are symbolic of other things i know our transportation experts and people in the city see this as a contribution to preventing for congestion on our streets. so today, we're here to announce an agreement with the city with the participation of the company's and the bay area council and want to thank them and the corporate leaders announce an agreement for the next 18 months we will have an agreed upon approach to the use of our muni zones with a sha

this is our city. the city of san francisco. voted one of the most walkable cities in the united states. population 825 ,863 and cars community on a daily basis. this is my friend jakiya, a hairstylist and an inspiring photographer and enjoying life and lives in the heart of san francisco. walks to work everyday. this is a story for drivers. this is a story for pedestrian. this is a story for people living paycheck to paycheck trying to make it in the big city. and this is a story about how your life can change in a blink of an eye. >> that day was september 26th 2013. >> i was walking to work and on the end of my block of where i live, i waited for the light to turn green and for the walk sign to come on and as i walked into the crosswalk and not too far into it, i was hit. i opened my eyes and i feel a lot of pain in my head. i barely reached my hand up and there was blood coming out and covering in my hands and i can hear her going, "oh my gosh. it's all my fault." it was really horrific. i couldn't move my neck or anywhere e

san francisco is a great city because of it's multiculturalism in this city. this possess a threat to that diversity, economic strength and even our competitive edge. that's why we have marshalled our resources and invest in our neighborhoods and advance in education and public safety. we are reporting to african neighborhoods and businesses in this strategy in mind. with this strategy in mind. we need to focus on providing people with opportunities, job opportunities. i was proud to work with many of you with a program that employees thousands of youth. our interrupt, predict and organized strategy that is not just decreasing the number of shootings and homicide in our city but helping us organize in this community and providing us with job learning opportunity and get better outcomes for our people and our families . we also recently opened the contract in bayview which will allow small business owners to access millions of dollars in the near future. also we are partnering with non-profits that provide loans throughout the city including fillmore neighborho

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the city accepted the proposal by san francisco. in 2011 the city negotiated. one of the competitors sued along with the groups from the county. in 2012 to allow the review process of the recology proposals to take place. at this point there are no agreements and three lawsuits have been dismissed by the courts or by stipulation. one plaintiff has filed an appeal of dismissal. the legislation in front of you dated january 27, 2014, will do three things. it will state that any landfill agreements resulting from the competitive selection process used here will not be subject to administrative code chapter 21 which is one of the arguments made in the remaining appeal. chapter 21 establishes rules for city and services itself. in the current landfill agreement under the proposal, the city does not buy or pay for the disposal of refuse and the disposable site for san francisco and established charges for disposal that recology in turn in a separate capacity and the city may charge it's customers and the rates for customers must be approved by the director of dpw. al

that post this is due to the city. he told mrs to get out. a few weeks and that the city. this week where you can see the future. it's a tasteful but the deal was it worth it because he had been over the course of the last two years to locate the peace bridge but hope that it was or wasn't leaving the door that leads the stepping stone a performance with which it doesn't feel the miserable from all parts of the city of course this up the muddy just go read this somewhat entertained. this is the springboard with it. all that day visitors. it took me to stay for the great taste experience the band. they spend the whole towns in the bars and restaurants that we hope that this gonna be a button band. all of the key in all sin city center but for this opportunity to debate a good man to put a bomb that's probably the most of the semester but the rest of the most avid and seven at a number of people that shallots. this is like a mom my holiday says but the studies invites you know what's definitely turned a corner has been fast again they gave the money last tomorrow will too. h

our city is a major purchaser of prescription drugs. our department of public health spends over $23 million a year to purchase pharmaceutical drugs for our patient populations. unfortunately drug pricing is often murky and secretive. many have trade secret protected and are subject to other regulatory prohibitions on disclosure. public entity purchaser such as our city essentially have to take the word of manufacturers that we're getting the lowest price even with discounted drugs covered by federal programs. there have been several attempts to increase price transparency in today's cost. the federal 340 b drug price program allows entities like the department of public health to purchase drugs for outpatient care at greatly reduced rates. a 2011 attempt to expand this to inpatient care was devoted by counseling. last year our city took an official support position of senate bill 746 authored by senator leno which would have required health plans and insurers to disclose more information on a variety of aspects of charges and rates inc

city by city we can do this. even though the pg & e and puc will tell you you can't do that in the state. you can do it and germany did it and a book about how germany fought the city. it's called germany em period of -- imperative and how they passed the tariff city by city. it's spread all across europe now and china has just adopted this which is shocking for me that a country would be paying a high rate for home owners feeding onto the agreed. this creates jobs, it's an effective policy and more effective than community choice aggregation. thank you. >> good afternoon. any -- my name is george angle. i'm here to ask you to save my grandmother. my family has lived in san francisco for almost 2 years. as far as we know we are the longest standing property owners in san francisco. currently my grandmother is a deed owner of the property. i subsequently became wear of the building and it became my goal to renovate the building itself and i immediately began to work with a n architect. i began to look for investor

of the city as a whole incurs that is separate from the city. finally we are asked to review and report on policies explored and implemented by other cities either in terms of a tax on soda or other initiatives that have been under taken to address this issue. so that's the overview of the purpose of our report and now amanda guma will walk you through the details. >> thank you to hamilton smith for the work on this. >> thank you supervisors. as several of you have already noted there is extensive scientific evidence that we found in our research on the connection between consumption of sugary sweet beverages and chronic conditions particularly diabetes and obesity. as the american heart association found, maximum recommended consumption of sugars per day, added sugars per day for women is 6 teaspoons and 9 teaspoons for men. the regular drink has 37 teaspoons. diabetes has increased and increase in rate of chronic conditions. the number of american adults of obesity has more than doubled and diabetes has doubled and the percentage for children

system inside and out, coming from outside the city i didn't get the city processes at all. so, to have somebody who really understands it, of how to continue to move the work forward and how to continue to operate a successful and thriving department. so, just lastly i wanted to thank former mayor gavin newsom who appointed me to this position and our current mayor, mayor lee for the opportunity to serve the city and county of san francisco for the past 3-1/2 years. and thank you. best of luck. and i look forward to seeing you in other venues, continuing to support san francisco as a sustainable city. so, thank you very much. (applause) >> we have at least one member of the public that would like to speak, [speaker not understood]. >>> she's wearing a disguise. [laughter] >> to keep the lights off of my eyes. i'm [speaker not understood] and i just want to take this moment to thank melanie since i haven't been able to be at any of her other going away celebrations. melanie, there's one thing i want to say to you and that is thank you for being a champion of the environment

he came to the city back in 1982. this was back when traffic engineering was part of the department of public works. so, he he started in dpw as an engineer. that bureau of traffic engineering and dpw became the department of parking and traffic, lovingly known as dpt in 1990, and bob was there for the first day of operation of dpt. ~ bond he was extremely knowledgeable and professional and well known and respected throughout all of the city's parking and traffic issues, working on litigation matters, on policy matters, on community matters, and developed a significant level of respect throughout the city family not just within dpt and the transportation world, but really across the city for his expertise. he he also was not only working ~ significantly for the benefit of the city's transportation system, but also for the industry and the field that he was a part of. he wanted to make sure that transportation engineering was a class distinct from all the other forms of civil engineering, and to that end became a fello

maintain and create jobs in the city.e to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say about jose wonderful work and thank you for covering the base is. i ran over to college and wondered what happened to terminate limits that's been 10 damn years you're not over this yet, huh? . i was thinking what was the world would it be like. but it is remarkable to go back in time as the mayor was reflecting on some

i am proud to live in a city that respects the right of women to choose and we are proud that our city policies are consistent with protecting that right. we support women's reproductive health rights which include ready access to affordable and legal family planning services including abortion care. it is a fight that has been brought to people from outside san francisco. and my resolution specifically does three things. first, it puts the san francisco board of supervisors on record as opposing the views on the banner and the message that will be portrayed at the antiabortion rally that is scheduled for this weekend. we have seen these rallies before and i think it's important for us as the elected body that sets policy for this city to be on the record underscoring our brief that we have to respect the right of women to choose for themselves what to do with their bodies. the second thing this resolution does is that it urges the city to the extent that there is a legal requirement that these banners be maintained. that any money that the city makes, any proceeds that come from these

americans live in cities. there are small cities in kansas, but they live in cities. city dwellers have to start voting their urban interest. never mind republican or democrat. the interest of cities is the interest of nations. if urban citizens both their interest the national government will be giving them back the resources. it is only because the american government is in the hands of a minority right now that the urban minority is not being well served. worldwide, the majority are in cities, and if we follow democratic practices, in time that means national governments will be controlled by urban majorities, and the national government will work with, not against, cities to get the job done. tavis: detroit, now that we know the bankruptcy is official, but there are other cities that are teetering on being detroit. armed big their cities and small cities that maybe the next detroit. chicago comes to mind immediately. give me some sense of what happened in detroit and how we keep other cities from going the same route. very important example. the bankruptcy of citi

, that brings people to the city. and i have employees that live in the city that need to get to work i have folks that need to get to court and go and go. i need transit. and i want to just say that on market street, i bought a building between polk and van ess where you need the courage and the bullet proof vest to get to work every day and i stayed there it seems to be a great place, twitter finds it to be an ideal location to be but it always wasn't. and what made the difference is the way that market street has evolved. and one of the most important going to collapse. transit is like water, if you put in a block in one place, it will move another place if you give that need another avenue it will take it and as a small business person, thank you for holding this meeting and thank you for helping my people get to work and my clients get to my office and to keep the city alive, thank you. >> thank you. >> next? >> mary lauren hall. swarts, and kaplin of >> i am with the alliance for biking and walking and an organi

a spectacular investment on our cities future. i know rick is here today and rick we're behind you for another successful playoff season thank you. we'll continue to invest in our neighborhood within our 25 investing corridors throughout the city places like gary boulevard in commissioner antoine: district and other districts. i'd like to thank our 2010 and 2011 along with the heads for giving back to the city for the giant team last year. thank you giant (clapping) and in 2013 we brought 3 w if any, to our city thanks to supervisor farrell and in 2014 we'll continue to connect our folks to the cloud. and we'll continue to invest in the quiet machine of our small businesses with our ata assistance program our job squad and on line business portal. we must continue to support our nonprofits they provide vitality in front line services to our resident. and just like many of the clients on low income it's tough to absorb an there in rent so i applaud supervisor kim and supervisor chiu and look forward to working with them for practic

it's letting people understand as we start to shift how cities do change, cities are resilient and cities can come back. the way that pittsburgh came back is very different from the city that my grandfather came to in 1921 from city italy. it's not that same city but it does have the opportunity to be better. >> i think when people think with oakland, the polarization between black and white community, but today oakland is a city that is equally divided between blacks, asians, latinos, african-americans. we're diverse racially and economically and makes it one of the most interesting cities in the world. we won over 20 accolades being one of the most exciting cities to being one of the greenest cities, and portland and oakland are similar, we're both old port cities. oakland is more diverse, we have the best weather. there are some things that people think they know, but when they come, i have walked with many groups, many say i didn't know it was this beautiful. that you have the redwood forests and we have every micro climate for gardeners. and we're a city of innovation. i have very po

is also the city which goldman sachs has chosen to open its cost of city hall but what do you think about this salt lake well i think it's interesting because you know some of the other cities are a lot bigger than salt lake city that are in the in the top that i think it's more about innovation in those cases because all they see is not just about you know the innovation but it's also about lifestyle you know the compactness of the city the walkability of the city the fact that it's not a huge city and one of the big things i think about salt lake is that it's very close to the mountains you have like a park city which is really close by so you can do lots of different things yeah it's a great quality bush and john are our line producer knows a lot about and he says there's laid out like a grid kind of a grid like you mentioned walkability but i want to get to some of the other top five now number two is san jose california number three san francisco. oh number four seattle washington and number five san diego california now ed given california's financial troubles what do you thin

men say only city fools rush in but i can help san francisco fall in city love with you sail, can youfford this day we will let you in if we can't help falling in city love with you like the hetch hetchy flows surely to the ocean sea city how it goes merrily, some things are meant to be take my city hand take my city, whole city life, too for we, president chiu, can can [speaker not understood] can't help fall in city love with you >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is charles [speaker not understood]. i'm here on behalf of lester cab company. [speaker not understood] ellis and polk new year's eve what completely unregulated. the vehicle had no identifying marks and noncommercial plates. so, if the driver had not volunteered to the police that he was in uber service, no one would even know that there was a commercial vehicle involved in that fatality. note also please that there is no regulation to prevent that driver from going to work today with a different commercial ride service. that's a clear danger to the public and you cannot count on a califo

i went to abu dhabi, to masdar city.hat they are trying to do there is create the greenest city in the world. >> you said you went to abu dhabi, which makes me think big oil-producing place. but you also said greenest city in the world. what does abu dhabi care about being green? >> abu dhabi does sit on some of the world's largest oil reserves, but they are trying to think more broadly about energy now. masdar is their first step in that direction. and him >> masdar is a and him >> masdar is a and him strategic, holistic, comprehensive approach to renewable energy, to seriously and in a meaningful way contribute to the advancement of clean technologies. we believe that this is a logical step for a major oil- producing nation to venture into. who knows energy more than us? we are trying to create the home for renewable energy, which is masdar city. >> we are about to get to masdar, the world's biggest experiment in sustainability. this entire thing is supposed to be all of masdar city. it looks like an oasis in the middl

the city must act. starting in march, each household will go through income certification to determine their rent. if anyone's rent has increased because of the certification, i have worked personally with the mayor's office of housing to give residents five years to gradually increase to the appropriate rent amount for that particular household. that has never been done in the city of our history. . the city will need accurate how hold information to make sure there is an appropriate sized unit for every resident after the renovation. i appreciate and admire the volunteer work of the board of the midtown park corporation. they have worked tirelessly over many, many years overseeing midtown. i want to thank all board members for their dedication and time. i'm passionate and committed about making sure the midtown residents, many of them who are friends and people who are not my biological family, but i consider family, people that i care about, who live in midtown. i'm committed to making sure that each

it's to make the city a little bit more ooshlg. 2350shg9 is also about having a city government that the taxpayers can afford. the past 3 years under the assessor carmen chu and now supervisor farrell we have a 5 year adapted plan and made dramatic progress in eliminating our structural deficits. thanks to the wisdom of our voters to confront unfunded pension and retiree health liability. better times will return but we must not be attempted to stray from the path of discipline as we craft our new budget we must invest in services and staffing we can afford over the long-term. and one of the responsibilities is insuring public safety. in 2014 san francisco is one of the safety 0 cities and thanks cohesive still the assistant district attorney thank you for your teamwork (clapping) two years ago alongside supervisor cowen our police department and the partners in the community we launched the ipo strategic interrupt, precinct and ores and we've seen remarkable results. holdings are down 30 percent among lowest in 35 years. (clapping.) but we can do better. we can do better with new po

as our city continues to grow in density, particularly in the eastern half of the city, i think there will be more pedestrians, more drivers and more cyclists on the road and we have to learn how to share that together. new york city has recently announced a zero tolerance campaign to end all pedestrian fatalities by 2021. nothing make these numbers more real than attending the memorial services of the victims who have passed and meeting friends and families who are mourning their loss whether it is ms. mulak, mr. lie, mr. lasi, and ms. lou. there is a big commitment i would like to make to ensure that we are continuing our efforts and i look forward to working with my colleagues. i do want to, if possible, defer both to supervisor avalos and president chiu so that we can talk about this issue. thank you. and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor kim. >> colleagues, if i could without objection, proceed to -- a number of us have had a number of pedestrian facilities in our districts and i know there are others that would like to make comments on this subject. i would like to rec

we are talking about cleansing, of the ethic culture, of this city. so, please, today, look at giving all of that land that you got that is vacant, sitting there doing nothing, rotting away, give it up and turn it over for housing for teachers and all people in san francisco. >> can i go after somebody else? >> i have four minutes? >> cool. >> very short director housing rights committee and i i wanted to first off really thank commissioners fewer and mendoza for bringing this forward and the time has come so thank you very much and i, am really tired and it has been a long, hard day andvy been working on fighting evictions that have been result of speculation and i have been talking to the tenants about the evictions and the rent experiences and counseling them about the rights and talking to them and dealing with the tremendously horrible repair situations that are not getting resolved and it has been a hard week and a hard month and year. and i wanted to go home, you know hours ago, but it is important enough for me to be out here tonight, to tell

we would take over the enemies often so you take over their city capital city believe that he would pertain to our surprise test is not how this works in tribal regions the anbar province is an enormously in its forty miles west of baghdad and it's that sort of symbolic that is so close to the capital but there's no way to really win the hearts and minds of people on the arm bar province just because you may have taken over back to my asbury in india very complicated situation. as secretary c kerry has said that we will not be sending troops into the region. however the us is in salary deliveries of military equipment do you think the us senate has an obligation. i'm now in going forward to help iraq militarily. it's an obligation to help direct militarily i'd use the obligation to protect american national security interest to the extent that sending help hellfire missiles to the iraqi government or selling the loans to the molecule will increase the security the united states that remains the question so you really have to ask yourself one or the interests of united states who would try t

city.e blasio was sworn in after his historic victory in the democratic primary and the general election on a progressive candidate. in his inaugural address, de blasio focused on his campaign pledge to address what he called "a tale of two cities," a growing gap between rich and poor. >> when i said i would take dead aim at the tail of two cities, i meant it. [applause] and we will do it. the faith and the trust that you have placed in me , and we will give life to the hope of so many in our city. we will succeed as one city. we know this will not be easy. it will require all that we can muster. it will not be accomplished only by me. it will be accomplished by all of us. >> mayor de blasio is the first democrat to lead new york in two decades, succeeding the three- term mayor michael bloomberg. we'll have more from de blasio's inauguration after headlines. the civil rights attorney lynne stewart has returned home after a judge approved their release. she served almost four years of a 10 y

it called for data coordinators to be established in city agencies throughout city government. but none of these things after many, many months have occurred and this is why supervisor farrell has moved forward with his legislation. i do hope that all of the agencies throughout the city that have data can understand that we are serious about wanting to modify our open data standards. we are serious about releasing every open data set that we have. this is how we improve our government. this is how we make our government accountable and transparent and colleagues i also ask for your support. >> thank you, president chiu. so, colleagues, can we take this same house same call? thank you. [gavel] >> >> item 32, madam clerk. >> item 32 is a -- >> i'm sorry. looks like there are a couple comments. >> i apologize. i actually wanted to go back to item 29 and rescind the vote. i apologize i need to make a minor amendment. >> okay. supervisor kim would like to make a motion to rescind, seconded by supervisor campos. without objection, the vote for item 29 is rescinded. [gavel] >> supervi

i'm with the "atlantic cities." and even as homicides have continued to fall in new york city, traffic, violence, continues to be a big issue here. 148 pedestrians were killed by cars last year. there's a perception that a lot of drivers don't get prosecuted for criminal activity. do you think the nypd could do a better job of preventing traffic violence on the street? how could they do that? >> we can always do a better job in every area. we're down 6,000 police officers from where we were 13 years ago when this administration came in. we've done a variety of things. we worked closely with the commissioner. they're doing a great job. we have just significantly changed or reformed our accident investigation practices. we now have a coalition -- a collision investigation squad which uses the state of the art technology. but we do have 8.4 million people here. we do have a daytime population that's over 10 million people. so you are going to have a lot of traffic and accidents. some people are saying that some police

welcome to the twenty fourteen time zone by time zone cities around the world welcoming the new year and the planet of course celebrating in style. but then you rush there's only stood united in the face of trials about a mere putin saying he'll fight terrorism to the end in his new year's message to the nation before heading to the city of volgograd where two bomb attacks killed thirty four people. as lobby enters the euro zone at the start of two thousand and fourteen we look at what this could bring for the country based on the ever increasing debts of those already in the club. and our correspondent giving you the chance to become more acquainted with the host city of sochi. what's there to catch the eye in a report from the streets and squares of the winter games capital. eleven am in moscow great tag you with us as we ring in the new year here on r.t.i. matras are with you as we welcome twenty fourteen around the world the new year is making its way toward the u.s. west coast just arriving in denver salt lake city and edmonton up in canada we've seen a spectacular show at the c