goes outside of the city, captures tooks revenue, and then brings it into the city and spends it on cityervices. richardson's report has been paid for by the opponents of this movement from day one. this area currently pays for all of the constitutionally funded offices. it currently also pays for essential services which will put the city of baton rouge between a 10 and $22 million shortfall. so i didn't understand how a 1 to 2% cut within the city of baton rouge on an $800 million budget is going to be the answer at the end of the day. if we do what we say we're going to do, and pay for what we're going to pay, and we do what we say -- >> can i jump in -- >> i want to know from dr. richardson, if we do what we say we're going to do, will it adversely effect the parish? because -- >> professor richardson why don't you answer the question is it going to bankrupt the parish. >> couple of points. lionel said they are taking our money to send on city services. first most of that is sales tax money. and also people who live in baton rouge shop there as well. you have that problem. the other

this is what makes our city special. you look at all the city's and great cities it depend upon their citizenry to bring out the best of our resident to hear and be those effective conduits. i'm going to ask you to pay attention to the responsibility you occur in our bodies of work but pay attention to issues looish like affordability and housing and people being hurt or the folks on the streets or the need to produce a better health plan and health care. all the things that make our city great no matter if you sit on entertainment or arts paying attention to the quality of life for everyone is important. for me it's about collaborating and you be thinking freely. this need not be your issue but if you pay attention you'll find of the conduits whether you're fire or local business you'll find the conduits that make the collaboration better. thank you for thinking outside the box and thank you for being responsible citizens that take up the cause for all of us. let's go and precede and if i can i would like you all to sta

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

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

our city can do the same. in fact our city has already invested enormous resources to identify how collisions happen and to prevent it. we have already studied and identified the most dangerous high injury corridors and areas in the city and the most dangers driving behaviors. we have information and we need to act on what we know and the incredible data we have already collected. supervisors avalos, he and i are making this commitment to our residented zero traffic fatalities in 10 years. as we ask our residents to absorb residential density and more pedestrians and drivers to share our roads, the city need to step up our efforts to make this work with our infrastructure and to make our city safer. we are asking to create san francisco's vision zero based on a three part strategy focus is on engineering and education and enforcement. we believe this will make san francisco a safer place to walk and bike as we ask san francisco to make this their primary and preferred method of transportation. while engineerin

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

she helped to successfully implement or mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. she helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. she's someone who helped to encourage expansion of our city's outreach efforts to our immigrant populations when it comes to environmental public information. she helped to implement the existing commercial building ordinance with an 82 percent compliance rate. she initiated our city's first drug take back program which has collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted medicine. helped to plan our 2012 green economy forum where we are making sure we're putting people to work and doing well by the economy. and she helped to support the city's bio initiative. we have known me melanie before she even joined. she has been a long time democratic activist and community leader. we know hopefully why you are leaving the department. we know you will continue to be within our community and look forward to your next leadership role so with that i want to thank you melanie. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> floor is yours. >

maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here 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

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

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

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

hundred sixty six we came from iraq i moved to the city and i've really grown to love the city this is a very special place what happens in d.c. doesn't stay in d.c. it has a ripple effect on so many things so it acts as an incubator for so many other things in the entire country and really the world so my love for the city i think really prompted me to do this i have seen the city become more and more divided and really becoming that tale of two cities that i think so many cities have become in this country and i felt like i could stand side in a word inequality came through loud and clear to me your busboys and poets restaurant opened a new street is in the the renaissance harlem area as you know right around from ben's chili bowl you know iconic famous place absolutely. and yet. gentrification is going on in this city like nobody's business there's there's piles of money being thrown into washington d.c. we've got you know defense contractors outside the city in thirty five bedroom mansions and then you've got you know i think would reagan came in office or was a couple hundred l

cities are not out of the woods.hey still have a ways to go despite your accurate report for the fiscal continue of the national league of cities. they're up turn in terms of revenues but their seven years of decline in revenues, so rebuilding programs especially for the quality of life, neighborhood beautification. going back to that is going to be difficult. public safety as well. >> james brooks stay with us. we'll bring th others in the conversation after this brief break. this is inside story. stay with us. >> an exclusive "america tonight" investigative series >> we traveled here to japan to find out what's really happening at fukushima daiich >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join america tonight's michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america >> scholars

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

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

those are 70 miles of streets in this city. they represent 60 percent of the collisions that consider. and your eyes will immediately focus on the tenderloin and south of market. this is not news, but what we have understood is those areas are going to be clear needs for priorities. so now i'm going to hand it over to reynolds and we'll learn more about this process. >> my name is salta reynolds and i work in the sf subdivision. our project is to be the subject matter expert. she showed a slide chart. about that chart is that it really represents one of the first times there is a true collaborative partnership between public health, transportation and finances. you have the controllers office over seen the whole thing, sf streets providing the safety and expertise and department of public health providing a lot of the data analysis. this is something we talk about a lot and a lofty goal that public health and transportation intersect and this project is unique which has made it a better project. we showed you what i call the sa

in the on barre province volusia and ramadi however currently in the two city. these are the lease or at least partially under control of al qaeda the latest infighting is seemingly a continuation of the heightened violence seen in two thousand and thirteen a year that now marks the most bloodshed seen since two thousand and six when the u.s. military still had a presence in the country according to the united nations latest figures last year the violence claimed the lives of about eight thousand nine hundred iraqis i spoke earlier with austin peterson editor at the libertarian republican dot com i first asked him if history is repeating itself in iraq. it's sort of days i mean the idea that we were going to be able to govern iraq in the long term was not tenable everyone knew that we were hoping that iraqis to the security forces will be able to step up and meet the challenge but we have a problem there's a multi-pronged problem here we have a problem of hearts and minds and we have a military problem it's very difficult to defend the on bar province it took it

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

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

commitment to making this city a safer place. we know that you are more likely to be hit if you are a child, if you are a senior, if you are low-income. this is an important public safety issue for everyone and we also know that this is an equity issue. and i think there are three things that our office will be looking at along with several of my colleagues here on the board who i know will be speaking after me about what we can do. number one, we must look at fully investing and funding the pedestrian strategy. this is not just an issue policy. this is an issue of life and death and critical injuries here in the city that are absolutely preventable. there are so many ways to go in the city, but this is the one that is 100% avoidable and 100% preventable. and often made by reckless driving that could have been prevented just by yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk or turning carefully when making right or left turns. i think it's also important as we look at driver education and r. of course street redesigns of our most dange

, 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

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

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the quality of life in this city.we have to have that level of confidence, that level of confidence for contractors to be here for them putting their money in the resources, the hiring goals and training for all the future and present construction workers, men and women and people from all different backgrounds investing in their time that they want to build and be a positive force here. this particular project has so much meaning, mr. gallup to all of us. it's not just a reflection of a great family which i'm very glad to be introduced to but all of these partnerships that we are putting great confidence in the city. san francisco is successful. we have an unemployment rate lower than almost every part of this country. it's because we are putting partnerships together, we are introducing ourselves to different partners, building the right way, designing them the right way. it takes a lot of great confidence and partnerships to do this. and do it in a way in which we respect public lands and get out of it as much as w

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

wouldn't you love some city to love. you better find some city to love. because your city or city i say might look like his. but in your mind you don't know where it is. wouldn't you love some city to love. wouldn't you need some city to love? you better find some city to love. i wanted to also say stick with the city for a thousand years. i just want to wish you a happy new year. golden years. city golden years. i don't say that life is taking you no where. i know you are going to make it there. golden years. stick with the city for a thousand years. nothing is going to stop you in these city golden years. golden years. happy golden new year to you too. president david chiu: next speaker. >> greetings supervisors again. david elliot louis. this comment is about mental health for after hours mental health services. when a mental health crisis happens, it can happen at any time. right now the city has little support for mental health crisis. we have a hotline and police coming out in intervention training. that's an over kill. that's a hammer approach when

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

we are one of the most walkable cities in america. and we are a city of neighborhoods. and it is part of the great attraction, the fact that we are geographickly small means that you can do a lot of what you want to do in san francisco, on foot. which is a great thing. in terms of cycling we are one of the most bicycle friendly cities and it is a fast growing mode of transportation in san francisco and we have seen a lot of growth of creative ways of getting around and we launch the bike sharing a couple of months ago and san francisco has been a leader in car sharing. and a lot of other services are developing to try to make it easier for people to get around the city. but we are also not without our challenges and i made reference, already, and i will and i don't think that i need to talk about the challenges that we have with the muni and despite the fact that we are a very walkable city, in terms of pedestrian safety, we really compare pretty unfavorably to many other major cities in the united states, really the exact opposite of where we want to be. and our bicycl

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 will make this one city. and that mission, our march towards a fairer, more just, more progressive place, our march to keep the promise of new york alive for the next generation, it begins today. thank you and god bless the people of the city of new york. clps. >> bill deblasio giving his acceptance speech as the first democratic mayor in two decades in new york city clps with a very, very forward-leaning pretty boastful discussion about the progressive ideals that he has, promising that they weren't just political campaign slogans, but he promised to really try to change things and make new york very, very different place. we're going to talk a lot more about this and about the man who introduced him. swore him in, bill clinton and what this means for the clintons, not just bill deblasio. stale with us. we'll have a lot more of this on the other side of the break. deblasio. >>> welcome back. we just witnessed the ceremonial swearing in of the 109th mayor of new york city, bill deblasio. it was quite a moment

needs to be doing everything that we can do to the city and the school district. and everything that we can do to maximize the house thating is available, before me, at the budget and finance committee there will be a swap for parcel e, that i will be supporting and i believe that the benefits, that we are providing for working families, to remain in san francisco, and working families and the children of working family to remain, school district students, is so important. and i see that excuse me, the site of the phoenix school is one, that would be a great place to be able to not just provide affordable housing, but to transform a part of san francisco that is experiencing a real crisis, and needs to go, and to have a transformation in another way, the investments that we can may for the affordable housing for families are going to make a huge difference and i hope that you can support that effort. lastly, i do think that the teachers' union and the concern about making sure that we have a real staffing, in the school districts, and around real estate. and to ma

we want them in this city. i want to have these people around and if we support bicycle infrastructure they will continue to come here and thank you and please continue your efforts. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. thanks for having me today. i am michael wong and a five year resident in the year and russian hill and potrero hill and i have experienced a lot of the bike lanes in the city, some not safe like broadway before the tunnel and cutting over to pacific which is a very hard climb but i have been pleased to say that certain parts of the city i have seen massive improvements like market street or eighth street and separate bike way. i am excited if there is adequate money for bicycle infrastructure this could spread to the rest of the city and i will be a happier biker. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello i am amy chin. thank you supervisors for bringing this topic up today. i live in the marina and software engineer in the plaza. as we said we know all of the merits of implementing this bi

let's talk about what they do detrimentally to the city. they block muni city. also i'm sure as you know, they reflect the art of [speaker not understood]. when a muni bus and shuttle bus are on the same street, they are violating the state mandate passed last year. you have to maintain at least a 3 foot gap between yourself and a cyclist. obviously when you have two buses on the same street, you're putting that cyclist in per it. ~ peril. also we know they're raising the rent where the stops are. there was a study completed by u.c. department and [speaker not understood]. the stop at dolores alone rents one way the one closest the google stop. ~ stops. they are affecting things. what do you do to fix this? we need to mitigate the effects these buses are having on the general population. my solution is a terminus. terminus would be [speaker not understood] so these buses could easily get to their destinations. the transbay terminal would be the most ideal location in the city because it's close to the highway. and further is out tacoma bart station would be a go

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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

the second largest city in new jersey is jersey city. and jersey city, too, is starting to become known for its rising star of a democratic mayor. his name is steven fulop, he is 36 years old. his parents were immigrants to this country. he grew up working in their deli in newark. he worked hard, went to college, got himself a great job after college working on wall street. he was working at goldman sachs. but then in 2002, he gave it all up to enlist in the marine corps. he signed up and shipped off to iraq. when he came back, he ran again -- he ran an against-the-odds campaign for city council in jersey city and he beat the incumbent and got himself a seat on the city council. then this past year, steven fulop ran an against-the-odds campaign for mayor of jersey city and, again, beat the incumbent. part of what makes steven fulop seem like a rising star, what makes him a high profile local politician, big things are expected, jersey city like newark is famously corrupt. jersey city is where frank hague ran the mayor's office for 30 yea

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